The emperor Zhao Xu, who was bedridden, had woken up.
He was extremely weak and his face was as pale as paper.
Fortunately, the old doctor Sun Qi, who was specially recalled to serve as an official, served the officials of the three generations of the Song Dynasty.
He had a full understanding of Zhao Xu's physical condition.
Therefore, after being served by the pharmacist and fed with the decoction prescribed by Sun Qi, his complexion looked better and he regained a little strength.
After feeling better, Zhao Xu tried hard to speak, but the brain tissue after the stroke, especially the brain tissue related to language, had become necrotic.
Therefore, his lips opened and closed, but he could only make a vague sound.
Zhao Xu wanted to reach out and ask the people around him for paper and ink to write on, but he couldn't use his hands at all, and he couldn't even lift his wrist joints.
He can no longer communicate his will to the people around him by writing with ink on his hands like he did at the beginning of the month.
But he refused to give up.
Don't even want to admit this fact.
Still working hard and trying harder.
During his 19 years in power, he never wanted to give up the power for a day.
As long as he has a breath left, he will desperately hold on to the power in his hands!
Empress Dowager Gao and Empress Xiang saw the official family in this state.
Tears fell in big drops.
"Guanjia..." Queen Xiang walked to the emperor's bedside, opened the Buddhist scripture in her hand, and then asked someone to help Guanjia up, gently hugged her husband, and showed him the Buddhist scriptures: "Look,
This is the prayer sutra copied by Brother Liu for you..."
After Zhao Xu, who was seriously ill, saw the words in the Buddhist scriptures, he finally put in a little effort. He raised his eyelids and tried to open his eyes wide and read the Buddhist scriptures.
Look at the upright characters on the pavilion.
Then, Zhao Xu took a deep look at Queen Xiang.
In his opinion, the Queen must have found someone to copy this Buddhist scripture in the name of Sixth Brother.
A son is better than his father, and although his sixth brother's character is considered good among his peers.
But it is never so neat and tidy, nor can it be written so well.
And why did Queen Xiang do this?
Doubts in Zhao Xu's heart immediately arose.
Do you think I can no longer recover?
So, the queen couldn't wait to hint that it was time to establish a heirloom?
Just like my father nineteen years ago?
Zhao Xu remembered what happened nineteen years ago.
The late emperor, who was bedridden, could not speak or walk like he is now, but he was better than him. At least he could still write and direct the government through writing.
Zhao Xu remembered clearly when he went to visit.
The late emperor did not look upon him well, and even showed obvious alienation.
Because……
At that time, there were already ministers requesting to establish the throne!
Therefore, when Zhao Xu left Funing Hall, he had a very ugly look on his face.
This was noticed by the then Prime Minister Han Qi.
Han Qi then pulled Zhao Xu to a private place and said to him: "May the great dynasty never leave the official family!"
Zhao Xu remembered it very carefully. At that time, he nodded and said: "This is the duty of being a son of man!"
But Han Qi shook his head and told him: "That's not the case!" Then Han Qi looked at him with deep meaning.
At that time, Zhao Xu immediately understood the meaning of Han Qi's glance.
From then on, he stayed at Funing Hall and stayed there day and night.
Even so, when the late emperor was dying and Han Qi and Wen Yanbo finally agreed to establish the throne after repeated requests, something went wrong.
At that time, Wen Yanbo took a pen and paper and asked the late emperor to write and confirm the holy intention.
For the first time, the late emperor wrote: Make the king the crown prince.
But the late emperor had three sons, all of whom were crowned kings, and all of them could be honored as great kings.
Han Qi, who was watching from the side, had no choice but to ask his superiors for clarification.
The late emperor had no choice but to comment: King Yingxu.
I thought that the matter would end here, but who would have thought that when Han Qi and Wen Yanbo announced that Zhang Fangping, a Hanlin scholar, had arrived in front of the imperial court in accordance with the system and drafted the establishment document, another problem arose.
When the late emperor wrote the confirmation, he only wrote: Tomorrow the system will be reduced and someone will be made the crown prince.
However, the prince's name was not written clearly, and Zhang Fangping could not identify it at all.
In desperation, Han Qi could only bite the bullet and continue to push forward, and then he got the clear holy intention: to establish King Ying and the Great King as the crown prince.
Only then was the establishment of the reserve confirmed!
At that time, Zhao Xu was in front of the emperor and witnessed everything with his own eyes.
He clearly saw the late emperor's unwillingness and struggle.
I also heard Han Qi and Wen Yanbo whispering when they left the palace.
"Did you see what the official family looked like just now? Life has reached this point, and even father and son are like this?!"
"This is how national affairs are, there is nothing we can do about it!"
Thinking of this, Zhao Xu laughed at himself in his heart.
"I am no different from the late Emperor!"
But in the face of power, what kind of father and son are there?
After thinking this way, the dissatisfaction in Zhao Xu's heart disappeared.
Of course, he still felt uncomfortable in his heart.
After being the king for nineteen years, Qiankun's arbitrary officials will never give up their power until the moment they die or the moment they die.
This is human nature!
Alienated humanity after being swallowed up by power!
At this time, Zhang Maoze's voice came from outside the curtain.
"The Empress Dowager, the saints, and the governors handed the letter under the inner east gate. Please come inside to see the holy bow!"
Empress Dowager Gao and Empress Xiang looked at each other.
Then, Empress Xiang and the female official in charge of medicine put down the official house again.
Then, Empress Dowager Gao said to Zhao Xu: "Official family, I and the Queen will stay away from the palace for now, and then come to visit the official family after the ministers ask questions!"
Zhao Xu nodded.
So, Empress Xiang bowed to her husband and followed Empress Dowager Gao to retreat to the side hall behind the east pavilion of Funing Hall.
The emperor of the Song Dynasty ruled the world together with the scholar-bureaucrats.
As the other half of the masters of the world, the scholar-bureaucrats have always kept their eyes wide open, vigilant and guarding against all relatives, ministers, and military ministers who dare to interfere in state affairs.
Find one and fight one by one!
No tolerance!
On this point, the old party and the new party agree!
During the Zhiping period, the emperor and empress were at odds, and the Cisheng once stayed behind the curtain to listen to politics. What was the result?
Prime Ministers Han Qi and Wen Yanbo used an unprecedented tough attitude to force Cisheng to withdraw from the curtain and return to power.
Empress Dowager Gao and Empress Xiang both experienced this matter.
Especially Empress Dowager Gao, she clearly saw how the prime ministers and officials forced Ci Sheng back to Bao Ci Palace.
Queen Mother, Queen, want to hang the curtain? Yes!
Just follow the story!
what story?
The story of Zhang Xian hanging the curtain and raising Renmiao!
If not, the whole world will fight against it!
Therefore, since the founding of the Song Dynasty, there has never been a situation where foreign relatives are powerful, internal ministers are powerful, and military ministers are domineering.
The civil servants and officials tamed all these domineering and arrogant forces in the Han and Tang Dynasties.
With the illustrious military exploits performed by the minister Qin Han, the civil servants could not even give him the title of full-time military governor.
With the achievements of military general Di Qing, he was still unable to protect his beloved general in front of civil servants.
With the exception of Empress Zhang Xianmingsu, no one has ever been able to take power away from the emperor in all the years since the Song Dynasty was founded.
However, Zhang Xianming Su was able to hold great power because the emperor was young and could not control the government, so he listened to the government behind the curtain in the name of the queen mother and exercised the monarch's power in place of the young emperor.
Therefore, when the Ren Temple gradually grew, the voices inside and outside the court asking Zhang Xian to withdraw his curtain and return to power could not be suppressed.
When Empress Dowager Gao walked to the door of the banquet hall, she suddenly turned around and asked the empress: "I heard that the fifth daughter of the emperor fell ill with a high fever last night. Thanks to the empress, she had issued an edict to the Imperial City Secretary and ordered the minister Liu Weijian to be the concubine of De.
There are always orders outside the pavilion, so the imperial doctor Qian Yi can enter the palace as quickly as possible to administer medicine to the princess?"
"This bride was invited by Sixth Brother, and she had no choice but to make a contingency plan!" Empress Xiang quickly bowed down and apologized to Empress Dowager Gao: "I was negligent and did not ask for the order from the empress, but it is the bride's fault!"
Momentary negligence?
Empress Dowager Gao didn’t quite believe it!
However, the Xiang family of Empress Xiang, the Gao family of Empress Dowager Gao, and the Cao family of the late Empress Ci Shengguang Xian Cao have been friends and have been married to each other for generations since the Zhen Temple.
Otherwise, Ci Sheng would not have chosen the Queen.
Therefore, Queen Mother Gao did not care about this matter.
She just wants an attitude towards the queen.
So, Empress Dowager Gao helped her up and said to the queen, "The queen did the right thing in this matter!"
"Now that the officials are ill and old, the princes and princesses can only rely on the queen to take care of other matters, big and small!"
"In the future, if something like this happens again, the queen will have the power to take charge of the Sixth Palace and deal with it by herself. There is no need to ask for orders from me anymore!"
The alarm bells in Queen Xiang's heart suddenly rang loudly.
As a queen, she knows very well that there is never free food in this world.
Now, Empress Dowager Gao gave her the power to take charge of the Sixth Palace.
Use the power of the Sixth Palace in exchange for her not interfering in foreign affairs?
If things go by this way, Queen Xiang probably doesn't even want the title of having the power to control the Sixth Palace.
but now……
Thinking about Brother Six, how he was holding me yesterday.
Queen Xiang raised her head like a female leopard guarding her cubs, facing her concubine directly.
"I'm telling you, your empress..." Queen Xiang replied in a non-committal tone: "Is there such a thing as a girl being in the hall while a wife is in charge?"
"Now the bride is only thinking about praying for the blessings of gods and Buddhas, that the official family will recover soon, and that the sixth brother will grow up healthily..."
"Besides this, there is nothing else to think about!"
Empress Dowager Gao looked at Empress Xiang in front of her, and at the look on the face of the daughter of the Xiang family, she finally sighed: "In that case, the empress can just take care of her sixth brother!"
