A pair of plain hands quietly stretched out and gathered the memorials on the ground into one place. "Don't clean it up!" Yang Guangda shouted. The moment he saw the owner of the hands, all the resentment in his heart turned into grievances. He rushed up and tackled the opponent again
He kicked the memorials that had been gathered together, and while kicking, he shouted an order, "You are not allowed to pick, I order you not to pick, stop, these are all waste!"
The owner of the hand refused to obey the order, squatted on the ground, moved forward a few steps, and gathered the scattered memorials again.
"I told you not to clean it up!" Yang Guang roared and kicked the memorial away again, and the owner of the hand went to pick it up again. He kicked again, she picked it up again, kicked it again, and picked it up again... Finally, Yang Guang and the owner of the hand picked it up again.
Both were tired, and the two of them sat on the carpet panting, looking at each other and smiling bitterly.
"Who, who called you?" Yang Guang turned around and looked around, looking for the next target to vent his anger. Several eunuchs immediately shivered with fright, and pressed their heads against the wall of the imperial tent like frightened mice.
"Your Majesty, don't blame them. If it was a state matter, I shouldn't have come. But my husband is so angry that it's a family matter, so I have to come!" The owner of the hand replied gently, as if he was sitting down in front of him.
It's a child who is angry.
Yang Guang has always respected and loved his wife Xiao. His wife was born in the south with the surname Xiao. Regardless of her bloodline, character, appearance, and intelligence, she is a one-in-a-million talent. After so many years of marriage, no matter how happy the life is, she is always on tenterhooks.
No matter how good the life was, the two of them had always supported each other. In the days when the Jin Palace pretended to be frugal in order to win the heir, Mrs. Xiao never complained about the hardships of life. When she entered the imperial palace, Mrs. Xiao was not overly happy.
And forget the duty of a wife.
"Alas!" Yang Guang sighed helplessly, reaching out to push away the memorial beside him. He didn't want his wife to see the contents of certain memorials. In order to show their loyalty, some local officials who were as stupid as pigs, based on the gossip among the people,
Rumors gave him a lot of "hard advice".
Empress Xiao smiled and moved her body, using her hands and feet to gather the surrounding memorials to her side. She picked them up one by one and placed them in piles. She tried her best not to let her eyes glance at the memorials, which would cause political problems in the harem.
People criticized her because her husband was already very annoyed, and she didn't want to cause him another trouble.
"Alas!" Yang Guang sighed again, turned sideways, and gathered the memorials near his arm into a pile.
"Come here, Your Majesty, take a rest!" Empress Xiao gently warned her. Her hands moved faster, clearing the carpet between the two of them.
The couple smiled at each other, both seeing care in each other's eyes. The two tired bodies slowly came closer, closer, and finally leaned together, forming support for each other.
"Your Majesty, why are you so angry?" Empress Xiao put the memorial at her feet and comforted her in a low voice.
"They are making up rumors based on rumors!" Yang Guang straightened his body and tried to make his wife lean more comfortably. "I can tolerate it if they make other rumors. There are some things that I can't do at all, but they seem to have seen it all with their own eyes.
It’s clear and logical!”
"Rumors only stop with the wise! Your Majesty, ignore them. As time goes by, they will naturally subside!" Queen Xiao stretched her shoulders and used all her tenderness to feel the solidity around her.
"They said I was a pervert, a slut, obsessed with beauty and neglecting government affairs, and..." Yang Guang shook his head helplessly, "And because I was greedy for Zhang Lihua's beauty, I killed Gao Ying!"
"Pfft!" Queen Xiao couldn't help laughing, "Well, there is no real evidence for these things. Even if His Majesty really likes a woman, it is His Majesty's private matter. What does it have to do with them?"
She had a beautiful smile, and even though she was no longer young, it still made people feel that the tent lit up for an instant, and then everyone's vision slowly returned to normal.
"Are you not angry at all?" Yang Guang asked in surprise.
"Zhang Lihua has been dead for more than 20 years. Even if she had not died then, she is still an old lady over sixty years old with chicken skin and gray hair. Why am I arguing with her for no reason? As for the sisters in the palace, Your Majesty
No one knows who I am addicted to and who I don’t like better than me, so why should I listen to outsiders’ gossip?” Empress Xiao looked at the flowing clouds outside the window and replied quietly.
My husband is not a lustful person. If you insist that he is addicted to beauty, he may be the most addicted to it. He said he liked the scenery of Jiangnan, so he took him to Yangzhou. He said he couldn't get used to living in Chang'an, so he took him there.
Luoyang. I didn’t want to be separated from him for too long, so I went on an expedition to Goryeo, and he stayed with me. Maybe this was a bit too indulgent, but civil couples still pay attention to love and affection. The emperor of the Sui Dynasty was gentle to his queen.
Just one point, does it have to be a crime?
"Although you are a woman, you are much smarter than those officials!" Yang Guang praised with a wry smile, stretched out his legs, used the tip of his boots to pull back the memorial that he had just tried to push away, unfolded it, and pushed it to his wife
Under my nose, it was a memorial written by a minor official from the Confucian family in Qufu. This person kept saying that he did not believe the folk rumors, but he advised the emperor to be diligent and love the people, stay away from the harem, and set a moral example for the people of the world. Obviously, in his heart, this person
People have regarded all those rumors as facts.
"This is His Majesty's private matter. They are far away, so naturally they cannot see clearly. Out of his loyalty, Your Majesty should not pursue it further!" Empress Xiao glanced at the memorial as quickly as possible and suggested with a smile.
"How can I pursue it? If I really demote him, all the scholars in the world will think that I don't know what is good or bad. But if I keep this stupid guy, he will not know how to trouble me in a few days!" Yang Guang threw the memorial into the air again,
Watching it slowly fall and float to the corner of the tent. "If I really go back to the harem less often and go to court a few more times to make the rebels die down, I would be willing to agree to him. But I'm afraid it's me.
Even after doing this, the rebels are still unappreciative!"
"If someone rebels, it is natural to suppress them with equal emphasis. Without the troops of the imperial court, how could the thieves put down their weapons on their own!" Queen Xiao shook her head and smiled. She probably felt that some officials' ideas were too wishful thinking, and there was a flash in her eyes.
There was a bit of ridicule.
"I said the same thing, but some people just want to put unrelated things together. To be honest, even if it's state affairs, some people are far less knowledgeable than you!" Yang Guang also shook his head and moved the memorial he had just compiled over.
, spread out one by one on the ground.
"Look at them, these are our officials of the Sui Dynasty. Look, they don't worry about the bandits and bandits everywhere, but what are they worrying about? Look at this, look at this..." He
Pointing with his fingers, he showed each copy to his wife to look at carefully. "Look, it's such a big pile. There's another pile over there. Some of them are about serious things. With a first-grade official position and a top-ranking nobleman, he spends all his time pestering a fifth-grade person.
General. I don’t know if they have too little time to do or if they feel that the days of being an official are too long and they need to go home and rest for a while!"
Empress Xiao didn't want to get involved in politics, but she didn't want her husband to continue to be irritated. She had no choice but to follow Yang Guang's fingers and scan the memorials on the ground. After scanning, her curiosity was immediately aroused. Her eyes were spread out.
There are more than a dozen memorials. Except for one saying that the local floods have caused relief from the imperial court, and one saying that the banditry problem is serious and the government's campaign has failed. The rest are all centered around whether or not a fifth-grade general named Li Xu should be rewarded.
Write.
"Has this General Li offended many people?" Queen Xiao looked sideways at her husband and asked in surprise.
"He has only been a general for less than three months. Who can he have the opportunity to offend?" Yang Guang replied dejectedly. He felt ashamed that the civil and military officials of the Sui Dynasty made him lose face in front of his wife.
"He, was he born into the Li family in Qinghe or the Li family in Longyou?" Queen Xiao was worthy of the blood of Emperor Wu's family of the Southern Qi Dynasty. The second sentence was close to the point.
"It would be great if he came from the Li family in Qinghe or the Li family in Longyou. At least there would be someone to take care of him!" Yang Guang continued to shake his head and smile bitterly. It is difficult for anyone in the court to be an official. He has heard this proverb before, but now it seems that it is.
Such good advice.
"Then what extraordinary thing did he do?" Queen Xiao continued to ask.
"When the army retreated last year, he went in the opposite direction and rescued Xue Shixiong at the Mazhai Water. This year I sent him to the Mazhai Water and successfully brought back Yu Wenshu and an army of 300,000! I just wanted to reward him, but
He suddenly became a heinous gangster in the mouths of the ministers!"
"Your Majesty said that, I understand a little bit!" Queen Xiao's eyes turned, and her eyes were as lively as water.
"What do you understand? Tell me!" Yang Guang asked while collecting the open memorials.
"This person has made too many achievements, and the ministers are upset, so they should not be favored by him!" Empress Xiao specially used a word to describe women to describe the thoughts of the ministers. This word was used so appropriately that she even hid in the tent.
Several eunuchs in the corner couldn't help laughing.
"Get out of here!" Yang Guang raised his head and scolded with a smile. His wife's words were such a relief. All of them looked upright and upright, but in fact they were not as open-minded as a group of jealous women.
"No one is allowed to spread what I said today, otherwise, don't blame me for being rude!" He added loudly to the backs of the eunuchs. He turned back, stretched out his arms to hold his wife in his arms, and laughed while
Asked: "Then what do you think I should do?"
"No, no one can speak for him!" Queen Xiao looked around alertly and found no signs of courtiers around her. She softened and lay comfortably in her husband's arms. "He was born.
Hanwei, the humerus ministers around you must not like him. But these people have never been in harmony, so they won't all unite to deal with a young boy!"
"If they all impeach one person, I really won't be too embarrassed. At worst, I can give him a false position and let him go home to wait for his vacancy. This will satisfy the officials and save myself trouble!" Yang Guang picked out several other memorials.
, unfolded one after another in front of my wife's eyes. "Look, these are praises for him. They almost praise him as the reincarnation of his grandson and the rebirth of Wu Qi. If I don't put him in high regard, I will be ignorant and ignorant!"
"Is this person really that powerful?" Empress Xiao couldn't believe the words in the memorial. She sat up a little straighter and looked at Pei Ju, Pei Yun, Wang Anzhi, Yang Jingde...a lot of civil servants she was familiar with and unfamiliar with.
They are all trying their best to prove Li Xu's contribution.
These civil servants almost unanimously believed that Li Xu made the first contribution in both Eastern Expeditions. Especially in the last one, without him, it would have been impossible for the 300,000-strong army to return west safely.
"I understand, this is taking advantage of the opportunity to share favors!" Empress Xiao smiled and said another term specifically used by women in the harem. (Note 2) (To be continued)
