Sixth Story: Extra 2
Prime Minister Zhao got two notes. Looking at the two notes in his hand, his face turned green and white, which was a bit weird.
The few lines on the first note are what he said to his old wife yesterday. He just said those words casually. Now he has forgotten what he said in detail, but it recorded nothing on it and it’s not that bad.
The second chapter on the note was a few vague words of dissatisfaction with the Queen Mother when he met one of his subordinates yesterday…
Was this leaked by his old wife? No, absolutely not, his wife is always concerned about him and she also said bad things about the queen mother when she agreed with him, how could it be possible to reveal this?
His subordinate is not even better. He only mentioned a few vaguely, but the subordinate directly said a lot of ugly things…
Then, when he was talking, there were actually people from the queen mother among the servants around him. ?
Prime Minister Zhao thought of this floor and suddenly sweated like rain.
Prime Minister Zhao’s family background is average. Before he became prime minister, he was always excluded by Prime Minister Qin. Therefore, his family was not rich and he had few servants around him. Although he has become a prime minister now, he has not added any servants because of the short period of time. As a result…
Among his original servants whom he respected, there were actually the queen mother…or the emperor’s people?
Prime Minister Zhao was shocked and scared for a while—if all his past actions fell into the emperor’s eyes…
Fortunately, he never did anything against the law! When Prime Minister Zhao was afraid, later he was glad and after being glad, he was afraid—although he had never done anything against the law, he also accepted things from Prime Minister Qin’s family because he did not dare to offend Prime Minister Qin. When he was poisoned, he guessed that the prince could live for a few more days. A few days ago, he had signaled his subordinates to target the queen mother…
He worked so hard to achieve the position of prime minister and naturally he hoped to be below ten thousand people. I found out that the current saint is not in good health and he is even more ambitious… As a result, the appearance of the queen mother broke all his fantasies. How could he be calm?
Now all of this may fall in the eyes of the people above… Prime Minister Zhao can’t wait to go back and terminates all the servants but he immediately rejected his idea. Those servants are the emperor or the queen mother. Man, where can he terminates?
Not only can he not terminates but he originally thought of expanding the yard after becoming prime minister, recruiting more servants and other ideas and he must immediately put an end to it.
Someone asked him to help him run the relationship before saying that it was a matter of gratitude afterwards, and he also refused…
Prime Minister Zhao thought about a lot of things in an instant, and then he thought of his position.
The emperor made him prime minister, and he should still trust him, and the two notes this time should be a warning to warn him not to think about it.
Prime Minister Zhao made up the cause and effect almost instantly. He took a few steps forward and threw the paper bag note into the brazier. Then the old god stood on the ground and made up his mind not to care about the Queen Mother’s affairs.
Anyway, it is impossible for the empress dowager to rule for a lifetime. Even if the emperor does not survive the empress dowager, in another ten years, the prince will be able to get married and govern.
Seeing Prime Minister Zhao burning the note, someone immediately stepped forward and burned the note in his hand. The sweat on his head was more than Prime Minister Zhao.
What was written on his note was not his conversation with others, but a matter he was struggling with these days.
His brother-in-law accidentally murdered in his hometown, and his wife took his famous post to suppress the matter. He has quarreled with his wife several times over this matter, but because the brother-in-law’s murder is known to others It was also harmful to him, so I subconsciously concealed it, but I didn’t expect to see it on this note now…
If this matter is made a big deal, then he will be miserable! The emperor and the empress dowager are really powerful. Fortunately, he was given a chance to make a change… When he returns, he must have his wife and brother to be disposed of and then take care of the errand.
Someone went up and burned the note, and one after another, others stepped forward and burned the note. The courtiers who didn’t receive the note looked at them puzzled and wanted to know what was written in the note, but they kept silent.
Shen Xinyu had more things in her hands than she took out, but she didn’t take them out completely. For example, Mr. Zhang, who wanted to be a co-minister who was questioned by her before, did not receive a note. .
This is not for anything else, it is entirely because some ministers are not easy to control and cannot be fooled.
Now she just needs to maintain an unpredictable appearance and stabilize most of the courtiers. When they settle down and gradually get used to her acting under the curtain, naturally there will be no more turbulence.
Of course, she can also kill the chicken to warn the monkey… For example, one of the powerful courtiers who opposes her objection actually committed a lot of illegal things in private, she can completely let people find out about the matter and then bring it to justice .
Mu Ling didn’t do much this time, but Shen Xinyu still completely controlled the court after spending a month, at least no one would deliberately hold back or oppose her when the court was in power.
At this time, Shen Xinyu was able to handle political affairs with ease under Zhou Chen’s guidance. Of course, this was not because of her amazing learning ability but because she could listen to other people’s opinions.
Shen Xinyu never felt how powerful she was. If King Zhao hadn’t suddenly ascended the throne, she would have always been the obscure Princess Zhao who accompanies King Zhao to farm the land.
She knows her own shortcomings, is willing to listen to the opinions of the courtiers, and can make the right choice after consulting with Mu Ling, which is enough.
It was at this time that Mu Ling began to teach Shen Xinyu a lesson, telling some things she thought Shen Xinyu should know.
It is difficult for a dynasty to change the world, and it is even more difficult to change people’s ingrained ideas. Mu Ling, who had seen revolution in Guo Lianyun’s world, knew very well that Shen Xinyu couldn’t do all of this, so she naturally wouldn’t force it, she just He said things like encouraging commerce to increase taxes, and going to sea to fill the treasury, and then encouraged Shen Xinyu to reward innovative craftsmen, such as improving agricultural tools and improving textile machines.
The throne of the Zhou Dynasty has been passed down for ten generations. Among them, there are good emperors, but there are also emperors like Zhou Zhao who are not very capable, so that there are many problems in the Zhou Dynasty now.
Although many Mu Ling saw these problems, they couldn’t think of a solution, so they could only give Shen Xinyu an idea to fill the treasury. After all, the treasury is full, and there is money in hand, so there is no need to be so afraid of many things.
If you have money in hand, you can allocate enough money for disaster relief when a famine occurs. If you have money in your hand, you don’t have to worry about lack of food and grass when someone invades. If you have money in your hand, even rectifying military affairs will go a lot better
. At these times, she was worried and fearful of lack of self-confidence, and the objection of the courtiers would also make her feel that she was wrong, but as time went by, she found that although the things she had to do were not particularly smooth, she was also developing in a good direction. , she slowly calmed down.
It’s just that after a long time, Shen Xinyu felt the beauty of power, but she couldn’t help being irritable, but she still couldn’t figure out what happened to her. In the end, it was Mu Ling who reminded her.
“Power is a good thing, you can pursue it, you can try to control it, but you must not be controlled by it.” Mu Ling smiled and looked at Shen Xinyu.
“What am I doing is it wrong?” Shen Xinyu asked subconsciously.
“Have you been happy recently?” Mu Ling asked. She has been with Shen Xinyu for five years and has never left, which means that Shen Xinyu is actually not happy, and she feels that Shen Xinyu is even more and more uncomfortable now. feeling of happiness.
She was immersed in power and cared too much about gains and losses but she forgot what she wanted most.
Shen Xinyu recalled that she cared too much about the ministers’ words recently, and wanted to do better and better, but neglected a lot of things…
That night, Shen Xinyu went to Prince Zhou Zheng’s place, intending to check Zhou Zheng’s homework.
Since Zhou Chen was poisoned, no heirs were born, which made him love Zhou Zheng even more. When Shen Xinyu went, the emperor in the wheelchair was teaching the prince his homework.
“Emperor, you are in good spirits today.” Seeing Zhou Chen, Shen Xinyu’s face was filled with joy. Zhou Chen’s body went back and forth a few years ago, and if he was not careful, he would get sick.
“Mother, the son’s health is much better, and mother should take care of her health.”
“Grandmother, are you free today?” Zhou Zheng also smiled and looked at Shen Xinyu. He had a very good relationship with Shen Xinyu when he was a child. Shen Xinyu was the regent, but under the guidance of Zhou Chen and his wife, she never had any grudge against Shen Xinyu.
“Yeah, the grandmother is free today.” Shen Xinyu sat down and looked at her grandson lovingly.
In fact, she has had a pretty good life now. If it wasn’t for Mu Ling, she would have been buried somewhere by now…
Thinking of this, Shen Xinyu instantly felt extremely relaxed.
“I’m leaving.” Mu Ling said.
Shen Xinyu was surprised, but not surprised, Mu Ling would leave, she already knew about it: “Thank you.”
“No thanks, you must be well.” Mu Ling said.
“Grandma, who are you talking to?” The little prince looked at Shen Xinyu curiously.
“It’s nothing, the grandmother suddenly remembered someone.” Shen Xinyu said.
Shen Xinyu had a meal with her son and daughter-in-law, but suddenly said on the way back to her bedroom: “Stop, I won’t go back to the palace for the time being, I will go to the cold palace.”
“Yes, the queen mother.” Immediately someone said.
After Zhou Chen ascended the throne, he released many ministers who had been arrested by Zhou Zhao, but he did not bypass the precious concubine and the third and fourth princes.
Because of the murder of the precious concubine and the third prince, Zhou Chen, who was completely destroyed, hated the precious concubine and the third prince no less than Shen Xinyu. At that time, he even wanted to lock these three people up and make them suffer for the rest of their lives.
But he is also worried that the wildfire will not burn out and the spring breeze will blow again. Although he does not care much about the precious concubine and the fourth prince, he does not dare to ignore the third prince…
When Zhou Chen has not yet ascended the throne, the third prince was already killed by a glass of poisonous wine but the precious concubine and the fourth prince survived and were finally locked in the cold palace.
Shen Xinyu never wanted to see Precious Concubine before, but she came today. After Mu Ling had left, she planned to say goodbye to her past completely.
Qin Zhener’s punishment was too severe at the beginning, and now the whole person even gives the impression that she is not a ghost or a ghost, but what surprised Shen Xinyu the most is that she has new wounds and bruises on her body at this moment.
Qin Zhener was brought in front of Shen Xinyu by two eunuchs. She was a little dazed at first, but after seeing Shen Xinyu’s appearance, she suddenly rushed towards Shen Xinyu, made a long mouth and made a sound of “Aah”, and even said out of the action of wanting to bite Shen Xinyu.
Seeing Qin Zhener like this, Shen Xinyu suddenly didn’t understand why she came here.
“Qin Zhener, do you regret it?” Shen Xinyu didn’t even get off her chariot, and looked at Qin Zhener condescendingly.
Qin Zhener was stunned. When she recovered, Shen Xinyu had already been carried away, and she was sent back to her room by the eunuch guarding the cold palace. She was beaten and kicked as soon as she entered. .
Although the life in the cold palace was bitter and lonely, and even though he could only eat leftovers, no one was hungry. The fourth prince, who lived with Qin Zhener in the cold palace, was tall and build.
Although he had a lame leg, he could still lift Qin Zhener up easily. Now, he grabbed Qin Zhener and threw her out: “Dead woman, what did you see when you went out? Does the emperor have any way to let me out?”
“Ah…” Qin Zhener was speechless and could only shrink into a ball.
“It’s all you, if it weren’t for you, how could I have a lame leg? How could I be locked in this damn place, it’s all your fault, why don’t you die?” The fourth prince said to Qin Zhener again with punch and kick.
Ever since he was imprisoned with Qin Zhener and learned that his leg was broken by Qin Zhener’s design, the fourth prince’s attitude towards Qin Zhener has undergone earth-shaking changes. In the past few years, he beat and scolded Qin Zhener endlessly.
If he hadn’t worried that Qin Zhener would be alone when he died, he would have killed Qin Zhener long ago!
Listening to her young son’s various insults, Qin Zhener’s eyes welled up with tears, does she regret it? Of course she regretted it.
After she entered the palace, she despised Zhou Zhao and Shen Xinyu, and felt that only she was worthy of being the most honorable woman in the world, and she even paid a lot for it, but in the end it was all in vain…
If she didn’t do it, it would be absolutely impossible., will it fall to the point where it is now?
Leng Gong was left far behind, and the emotions in Shen Xinyu’s heart gradually settled down-tomorrow, it would be a new day.
In the tenth year of Yuanhe, Emperor Yuanhe abdicated and became the Supreme Emperor, and the Prince Zhou Zheng ascended the throne. The Queen Mother, who had been under the curtain for ten years, accompanied the Taishanghuang to the southern palace to recuperate. She never returned to the capital in her life till the Empress Dowager died in later year.
During Empress Dowager Shen’s regency, because the upper-level officials were all clear-cut and effective, so that the politics was clear and bright, showing the rule of ZTE and this was pushed to a climax during Zhou Zheng’s reign, and the prosperous era lasted for a whole hundred years.
The Empress Dowager Shen did not record much in the history books of later generations, but her evaluation was so good that many people would study her specifically. Germination and the development of technology have laid a good foundation…
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