After the imperial meeting, Haman, the Minister of Rites of the Northern Qi Dynasty, stayed in the Deqing Palace and did not leave.
At noon, they had dinner in Deqing Palace. In the afternoon, eunuchs from the harem came and brought Haman and other Northern Qi envoys to Kunde Palace to meet the Queen Mother.
At this time, Minister Ha no longer had the arrogance of those Qi people in Hongde's seventh year.
In the seventh year of Hongde's reign, an official from the Ministry of Rites in the Northern Qi Dynasty dared to look directly at Emperor Chen in the court and made some offensive remarks.
At this time, Shilang Ha was probably instructed by the Northern Qi court and behaved in a very gentle and thrifty manner.
It was already afternoon when he was brought to Kunde Palace. The Queen Mother had just woken up from her nap, and His Majesty the Emperor was sitting next to her, chatting with the Queen Mother.
At this moment, the mother is kind and the son is filial, which is quite harmonious.
Haman walked up to the Queen Mother, knelt on the ground respectfully, and said, "Haman, my foreign minister, pays homage to the Queen Mother."
Empress Dowager Sun is about to be forty years old at this time. Due to proper maintenance and pampering, she still looks quite young, like a woman in her early thirties.
Since the Queen Mother began to slowly transfer power, the relationship between mother and son has gradually improved. Now, His Majesty the Emperor has basically taken over the entire state affairs, so he has become extremely filial.
After all, the Holy Dynasty governed the world with filial piety.
As an emperor, he must lead by example.
For this reason, although the Empress Dowager Sun has basically decentralized power now, she still has a certain say in the court, and...as the emperor's legitimate mother and the emperor's biological mother, she...
Very high status.
Empress Dowager Sun was telling the emperor interesting things about the eldest prince Li Wang. She said that the eldest grandson fell in the imperial garden yesterday. Concubine Hui had to take charge of the eunuchs and maids who led the eldest prince. Unexpectedly, the three-year-old emperor
The eldest son actually interceded on behalf of the eunuchs and maids, saying that he had fallen down.
This incident quickly spread in the palace, and everyone said that the eldest son of the emperor was kind.
The Queen Mother was talking about this matter to the emperor. She pulled her son's sleeve and said with a smile: "People say that you look old at the age of three. The eldest grandson of the Ai family will not be bad when he grows up."
The emperor smiled.
"It's hard to say. It still depends on the day after tomorrow before it can become a rough jade."
The emperor knew in his heart that the harem had too many twists and turns.
Regardless of whether his eldest son is really benevolent and took the initiative to pardon the palace maid and eunuch, or someone taught him, or simply this matter was fabricated...
None of this matters.
The important thing is that this is a trivial matter that should not have spread throughout the Forbidden Palace, let alone his mother.
Now that it has spread here, the matter itself is already weird.
However, the emperor favored Concubine Hui and liked his eldest son very much. Even if he figured out the key, he would naturally not mention it to his mother. He responded with a smile, and then said: "Mother, today the Northern Qi faction
The envoy from the Northern Qi Dynasty has come to court. On behalf of the Queen of the Northern Qi Dynasty, the envoy from the Northern Qi Dynasty has given you a thousand-year-old Baishan ginseng. He is waiting to meet you outside the Kunde Palace."
Empress Dowager Sun glanced at the emperor, nodded and said with a smile: "The emperor and empress of the Northern Qi Dynasty are of the same generation as the Ai family. Since you have sent something, it's not a good idea to see her. The emperor will let her envoys come in."
As a result, Haman was able to enter the Kunde Palace and kneel down to greet the Queen Mother Sun.
Empress Dowager Sun looked at the envoy Qi who was kneeling on the ground, and raised her hand indifferently: "Your Majesty, please get up."
Mr. Ha stood up respectfully and held the gift box in his hand in front of him: "Your Majesty, this is a gift from my Majesty, the Empress of Daqi."
Empress Dowager Sun nodded slightly, looked at the eunuch serving in her Kunde Palace, and said calmly: "Since it is sent by your noble envoy from thousands of miles away, the Ai family will not accept it. Guo Tan, please accept this gift before you go."
From the Ai family's warehouse, take out the Ai family's night-light pearl and give it to the envoy of Qi, who will take it to Yandu and give it to the queen of Northern Qi."
This Guo Tan was the eunuch in charge of Kunde Palace. He nodded immediately after hearing this. He first accepted Haman's gift, then went to the warehouse to take out a huge luminous pearl and handed it to Haman.
At this moment, Minister Ha had already stood up. He bowed to the Queen Mother and said, "Thank you very much, Queen Mother, for your generous gift. I told the Queen Mother that the purpose of giving gifts to the Queen Mother is for the sake of good relations between the two countries, and we will become brothers from now on..."
Before he could finish his sentence, the emperor frowned and said coldly: "Shilang Ha, this is my mother's palace. Imperial affairs should not be discussed here!"
Haman was stunned, gritted his teeth, and was about to finish his words.
"Empress Dowager, the two countries have been fighting against each other for decades, so that the people of the two countries are fighting with fear every day, and the common people are all involved in the war, making people's livelihood difficult..."
The emperor was angry.
When he was about to stand up and speak, the Queen Mother gently patted her son's sleeve to signal him not to be impulsive.
The emperor then took a deep breath, sat back in his seat, closed his eyes and remained silent.
Shilang Ha breathed a sigh of relief, finally raised his head and finished speaking.
"Your Majesty, now I wish to become a brotherly nation with your country, and we will never violate each other..."
Empress Dowager Sun smiled and looked at the Minister of Rites of Northern Qi in front of her.
"Your Majesty, if your emperor wants to marry his daughter again, you can come and ask the Ai family. The diplomatic relations between the two countries are a matter of court. The Ai family has not asked for it for many years."
Empress Dowager Sun glanced at her son, then looked at Haman, and said softly: "These court matters should be left to the emperor to decide. If your envoy has anything to do, just ask the emperor."
Haman looked up at Queen Mother Sun and blinked.
Empress Dowager Sun said softly: "Guo Tan, send the noble envoy out on behalf of the Ai family."
Eunuch Guo did not dare to neglect, stood up, walked to Haman, and invited the Northern Qi envoy out of Kunde Palace.
After Shilang Ha left, Queen Mother Sun turned to look at her son and laughed softly: "My son was just worried that the Ai family would interfere in national affairs and force you to make peace with Northern Qi, right?"
The emperor sighed and said bravely: "The queen is aware of everything."
Queen Mother Sun lowered her head, took a sip of tea, and then looked at the emperor quietly.
"You and I, mother and son, are one and the same. We have nothing to hide from each other. If mother really wanted to get involved in political affairs, you wouldn't be able to really govern yourself at the age of sixteen."
The word "filial piety" can overwhelm so many things.
King Qin Zhaoxiang in another world did not truly take charge of power until his mother died of illness at the age of sixty.
Emperor Xiaowu, who was as powerful as Emperor Xiaowu, only came to power after the death of Empress Dowager Dou.
Of course, this is because there are powerful political forces behind these two old mothers, but the word filial piety still accounts for most of the factors.
It is true that Da Chen's filial piety is not as restrictive as that of the Qin and Han Dynasties in another world, but when the emperor was young and the Queen Mother Sun was in power for several years, as long as this woman is willing, she can definitely establish her own political team in the court.
, keep talking.
The emperor bowed his head respectfully and said, "What mother said is that my son has no other intentions. He just doesn't want his mother to worry about court affairs."
Queen Mother Sun held her son's hand and sighed slightly: "The Queen Mother is in the harem and doesn't go out much, but she is not deaf or blind. You won the battle on the bank of the Huaihe River. The Queen Mother is aware of these things."
"However, if it is up to my mother to make the decision later, my mother still hopes that you can sign this alliance."
Empress Dowager Sun's eyes were calm, and she sighed softly: "What the Ai family said has nothing to do with court affairs. It's just that as a mother, I don't want the emperor to live too tiredly in this life."
The emperor was silent for a while, then lowered his head and said: "Mother, my son is not tired."
Queen Mother Sun shook her head again. She let go of the emperor's hand and said, "The Ai family is your mother. No matter what you do, the Ai family will support you, but what about the ministers in the court?"
"They may not think so."
"If you continue the Northern Expedition, let alone whether you can win or not, the result will be at least ten or twenty years away."
"And in these years, my son has been arguing with those ministers endlessly."
Queen Mother Sun straightened the emperor's hair and looked at her son with some pity.
"Look at you, you have only been in charge for a few years, and you are already looking exhausted."
"Mom, I really can't bear it. You have to live so tiredly all your life."
The emperor was silent for a while, then raised his head and looked at his mother.
"Mom, many people have died on the front line."
"Even now, people are dying all the time."
The fists under the emperor's sleeves were slowly clenched.
"I, the great Chen people, can die in service to the country. What does it matter if my son is tired?"