The four sobbing princesses came forward and greeted the Empress Dowager Chen and the emperor one by one. Prince Lu also looked at his aunt and brother with a wry smile and helplessness, and stood aside honestly. .
Empress Dowager Li's face became a little more ugly. The few words of refutation she had just thought of were suddenly blocked back, and the situation was a bit deadlocked for a while.
The four princesses were sobbing and crying heartbrokenly, and everyone didn't know how to speak.
When Zhu Yijun was discussing with Gao Pragmatic before, although he was angry, he actually didn't feel anything, at least he didn't feel the same way. But now when he saw his sisters crying, his eyes were red and swollen, and his sense of responsibility as an older brother suddenly took over, and he gritted his teeth and said: "In the past, when the emperor was taking the imperial examination, he asked me to take good care of my younger brothers and sisters. I never expected that such a strange news would happen today! What a good, good, bad dog slave who deceives his master!"
It was the first time that Queen Mother Li saw her son unable to restrain his anger in front of her, and she couldn't help but flinch. She subconsciously looked at Zhu Yijun, only to realize that there was no grown-up child in her eyes. At this time, there were two mustaches on her lips, and even more He looked resolute, as if... he had really grown up?
Gao Pragmatic was the most observant. When he saw that Empress Dowager Li was in a trance, she thought she was distracted. He immediately knew that the opportunity was not to be missed. He took Zhu Yijun's words and said: "What the emperor said is absolutely true. The Cisheng Empress Dowager therefore the old slave is the former emperor's old slave." He has always shown special care and trust to him, not only entrusting him with the seal of the Supervisor of Ceremonies, but also entrusting him with important matters such as the selection of his son-in-law. However, he does not want mosquitoes to fly away from the mountains and seabirds to lose their gulls. This thief is really not enough to trust him. "
He cupped his hands towards Zhu Yijun and said: "Your Majesty, this thief has failed the late Emperor's expectations and the Queen Mother's deep kindness, and brought the eldest princess into misfortune. How can we not punish him severely? Please put an end to it, Your Majesty!" He said, quietly giving Zhu Yijun a look.
Zhu Yijun recalled the details of the discussion between the two people before, nodded quickly, and said to Empress Dowager Li: "Mother, my sons and ministers also thought this was true. Besides, this person was punished by the imperial examination for corruption more than ten years ago, but because of this Huang Kao was kind-hearted and missed his old relationship. Seeing that he seemed to be repenting, he transferred him back to the Supervisor of Ceremonies. After that, there were queens who carried on Huang Kao's legacy and believed in it, even grass, trees and animals should be grateful for it. Who would have thought that he would How dare you do it again!
Queen mother, there is a way to heal the disease, the Buddha saves the destined people, the old slave has a way to die, please kill him for the queen mother! "
At this moment, Empress Dowager Li finally heard some clues - Do you want to put all the blame on Chen Hong?
She couldn't help but glance at Queen Mother Chen and the emperor.
Empress Dowager Chen did not understand the full meaning. She only knew that the emperor and Gao Pragmatic meant that Chen Hong should take the blame alone and that it had nothing to do with Empress Dowager Li. Therefore, she naturally looked calmly and Empress Dowager Li could not see anything at all. question.
As for Zhu Yijun, now that he has reached this point, he is no longer allowed to advance and is not allowed to retreat. Naturally, he has a determined and uncompromising look on his face.
Empress Dowager Li felt confident, but she still lacked a ladder to climb down, so she pretended to hesitate and said: "But after all, he is an old friend of the late emperor, and since the emperor was in power, he has neither merit nor hard work. If blood is spilled today, Five steps would inevitably cause outsiders to say that the Ai family does not care about the old people, and that the emperor's methods are ruthless, but this is a bit..."
Zhu Yijun thought to himself: Sure enough, the queen mother wants to talk about this, but she is right in pragmatism. Killing with poison is killing, and killing with a knife is killing. The method of killing is not important. As long as the person who deserves to be killed is killed, it is me. It’s worth selling!
So he immediately nodded and said: "The Queen Mother's considerations are indeed thorough. In this case, let's just leave his body intact."
Empress Dowager Li sighed in her heart, glanced at her son with complicated eyes, nodded slightly, forced out a smile, and said: "That's all, let the emperor die."
Done!
Zhu Yijun was extremely excited and said quickly: "Thank you, Queen Mother!"
He couldn't help but be excited. Although on the surface, it seemed that Empress Dowager Li had given the emperor the power to make a decision in the end, in fact, from the moment these words came out of Empress Dowager Li's mouth, the authority between mother and son began to change. , like a seesaw, the importance of the two sides has been reversed.
This is not a confrontation between two armies. If you lose, you lose, and if you win, you win. The victory or defeat will not seem so obvious, because they are mother and son, and their authority is essentially "imperial power."
It's just that in the past, when Emperor Zhu Yijun was young, most of the imperial power was actually controlled by his mother. As Zhu Yijun grows older, there will inevitably be a transformation process in the authority between the two, and today's incident is an opportunity to accelerate the transformation.
If Zhu Yijun loses, this conversion process may be temporarily suppressed. Empress Dowager Li will continue to rely on inertia to have the final decision-making power, and Zhu Yijun can only make decisions on matters that are inconvenient for her to intervene.
But once Zhu Yijun wins, the "maternal authority" that Empress Dowager Li relies on to suppress her son will have to give way to the real "imperial power" - which actually means that Zhu Yijun takes back the complete imperial power that belongs to him. From now on, no one can replace the emperor. Regent.
Gao Pingshi also let out a sigh of relief, and put his heart in his throat back into his stomach.
Despite his extremely tough performance today, which was quite as majestic as when he was debating with Zheng Song in Annan, the situation was actually completely different.
When he was debating with Zheng Song, he had already overwhelmed the situation with a large army, and Zheng Jun had no power to resist. He had already overwhelmed his opponent in terms of momentum, and his opponent did not have the strength to lift the table. What was he afraid of?
But today is different. In today's battle between mother and son, there is actually no hard standard of strength to compare. What the two sides are comparing is momentum and psychology!
The reason why Gao pragmatic encouraged the emperor to come in person, invited the Empress Dowager Chen to suppress the battle, and even praised the emperor's proposal to let his younger brothers and sisters come to "support" was actually based on this point.
However, Gao Pragmatic knew in his heart that Queen Mother Li's situation was different from Zheng Song's. She had the ability to flip the table!
This strength comes from blood - no matter what you say, you are the son of the Ai family! Besides, you, the emperor, are supposed to set an example for the world. If you have the ability, can you force a mother-in-law of the Ai family to kneel down to you?
Gao Pingshi knew that as long as Queen Mother Li could think of a way to retreat in order to come in, let alone kneel down, if she said a few soft words as if Zhu Yijun was forcing her, Zhu Yijun would have no choice but to give in - if he dared If you don't retreat, you will be inundated by mountains and seas of bullets tomorrow!
Hai Rui's "Public Security Shu" can be written by any official in the world!
Hai Rui was so angry that Jiajing's shameless demands for power almost went to heaven. Can Zhu Yijun, who is young, energetic and yet thin-skinned, be able to withstand a large wave of "security violations"? Don’t even think about it! At that time, I am afraid that I will have no choice but to issue an edict to prove my innocence.
Fortunately, Queen Mother Li's political skills were limited after all, and she was used to being strong in front of her son, so she really couldn't think of such a way. In addition, she didn't realize that today's retreat would actually give up the imperial power.
Gao pragmatic swallowed quietly, coughed slightly, and reminded Zhu Yijun: "Your Majesty, please issue the decree."
