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During the Lin Mansion's night banquet, in the Cuiwei Palace of the Yanfu Palace, in the Spring Pavilion of the huge back hall, a mother and son were sitting silently facing each other at a table full of dishes. The night wind blew through the cracks in the window. When he came in, he blew the candlelight on the candlestick and flickered, illuminating the faces of the mother and son, which flickered brightly and darkly, giving them a slightly gloomy look.
"Your Majesty, why don't you eat? You and I are reunited as mother and son, and now you have ascended the throne as the emperor. I am very happy that your father knows about it under the spring. Mother is not good at drinking, so you can have a few drinks with your father's spirit in heaven to celebrate. Yes." Shen Akui, the new Queen Mother and former Princess of Liang, said.
"Mother, how can the child eat? How can the child drink wine? How can the child have an appetite? You have personally experienced the arrogance, domineering and rudeness of that guy today, right? In front of you, he humiliated me and sent me to greet you. Huang Jiang, Queen Mother, forced him to kowtow to him in front of you. Hey, it’s so majestic. It’s okay to show off your power in front of me, but also in front of Queen Mother. It’s really abominable. And tonight, The queen mother clearly asked him to come to the palace for the banquet, but he refused to come and forced his sister to send someone to explain some reasons. It is really rude. Where did he take me? Where did he take the queen? I can't bear it. I really can't bear it anymore." Guo Kun's face was distorted with anger. He stood up and talked ramble, then paced back and forth and roared like a wild animal.
"My father was right before he died. Lin Jue is a man who is very scheming and good at winning people's hearts through fame and reputation. As long as he is around, I, the emperor, am just a puppet. My father asked me to deal with it well and find a way to deal with him." .I used to think that my father was a little too worried, but now it seems that his last words were all good words. And what Lu Zhongtian said that day was also right. He said that Lin Jue was a tiger and wolf. A thief who steals the country will eat me sooner or later. What they say are all good words. I think my father and Lu Zhongtian have been heroes for a lifetime. It is no accident that they have such the same views on Lin Jue. These days Over the past few years, Lin Jue has done whatever he wants and never asked for my opinion. All my opinions have been ignored by him. He doesn’t have me at all in his heart, and there is no distinction between superiority and inferiority at all. He himself has said, He is only loyal to Zhou Dynasty and not to the emperor. Although that is to Guo Xu, but now think about it, if he treats Guo Xu the same way, doesn't he treat me the same way? Damn it, Lin feels that he is a wolf and an ambitious man through and through. Man, he is the fierce tiger and wolf beside me." Guo Kun waved his arms, roared loudly, and cursed fiercely.
"Kun'er!" The Queen Mother finally couldn't help but frowned and shouted. "Why are you so impatient? What's the use of this? You should be calm and collected when things happen, instead of being irritable and impatient like you. What big thing can this do? I If the Liang Prince's Mansion looked like you, wouldn't they have been driven out and killed by the late emperor long ago. How could we still be here today? Your father has been dormant in Hangzhou for twenty years, have you ever seen your father look like you do now?"
Guo Kun was startled, then stood still and turned to look at his mother, spreading his hands and saying: "Mother, isn't what my son said right? Isn't the current situation obvious? Although I have ascended the throne as emperor, what power do I have in my hands? ?Does anyone listen to what I say? It's all Lin Jue's decision. He is the real emperor, I'm just a puppet. If so, what am I doing as an emperor?"
"What a bastard! If you sit on the throne for just one day, you are the Lord of the Great Zhou Dynasty and the Lord of all the people. No one can take away the throne of emperor as long as he does not believe in Guo. Did Lu Zhongtian take it away? He even He didn't dare to proclaim himself emperor until the last moment, because he knew that the world belonged to the Guo family, and proclaiming him emperor would only expose his ambitions and incur opposition from the people of the world. In the end, his ascension to the throne was just self-comfort at the end of the road. Your brother-in-law The same is true. He is a very smart man and he will not steal your position as emperor. You don't really think that he wants to depose you as emperor, do you? If you really think so, then the Ai family will treat you badly. So disappointing. How could he do this? That is a taboo matter. If he wants to be the emperor, why should he make you the emperor? He must bring his troops to conquer the entire state capital of the Zhou Dynasty and destroy the establishment of the Zhou Dynasty. A new country. If he did that, he would be able to ascend the throne and become emperor, instead of doing what he does now." Queen Mother Shen Akui had to say some basic words for her ignorant and violent son.
Let him understand some basic facts.
"But Queen Mother, even if he doesn't want to be the emperor, in fact, what is the difference between him now and being the emperor? What does it mean for me to be restrained by him in front of the emperor?" Guo Kun yelled, squeezing his neck.
"You are still saying such stupid things. The Ai family has made it very clear to you that when you are in your position, you are the emperor. No matter how powerful anyone is, they are ministers. You don't want to be the emperor? Doesn't that suit others' wishes? You have obviously disappointed him. You shouldn't do it. There are a lot of people. How many children are there in the Guo family? If he grabs a lot of them, he can make anyone with royal blood as the emperor. Does it have to be you? Any one. If the heir of the Guo family is the emperor, the people of the world will not object. Hehe, he can even let his wife, the daughter of the late emperor whom you named Princess Anguo, be the emperor. In that case, he will have everything he can hold on to. It’s in hand.” Queen Mother Shen Akui said in a deep voice.
Guo Kun exclaimed in astonishment: "How is it possible? The emperor needs orthodoxy, how can anyone be the emperor? Lu Wu... Lu Wu is a woman, how can he be the emperor? Isn't this a joke?"
"Who said women can't be emperors? Didn't Li Tang have Wu Zetian as the empress? And she did a good job. Aren't the men who are officials still bowing to their subjects? Orthodox? Lu Wu is the daughter of the former emperor, she is the orthodox. Guo Xudu is more qualified to be the emperor than you. It is a coincidence that you are able to ascend the throne of the emperor now, and it is not because you are more qualified than others. If he really deposed you, let Lu Wu become the Great Zhou As the empress, no one can criticize her. At most, it is just a debate about the superiority of men and women, but the superiority of men to women is limited to common people. There is no such thing among the royal family. The only daughter of the late emperor was made the emperor. , on the contrary, it will win the hearts of a large number of old ministers and common people. Kun'er, think about it carefully." The Queen Mother scolded her coldly.
Guo Kun was shocked and broke out in a cold sweat. He had not thought about these things in detail at all. In fact, his talent was not enough to think about it so carefully. Only when his mother said these words did he let It was like a wake-up call to him.
"Mother, does Lin Jue really want to do this? Doesn't it mean that no matter what I do, I can't save it? What should I do? Should I let him press on me step by step and eventually destroy me? Replace it with what he wants to establish Anyone?"
"Kun'er, calm down, you must calm down. Do you know that back then, your father and I planned one thing for fifteen years. Although it was said that we failed in the end, we almost succeeded. If it weren't for the short-lived San The prince was poisoned to death. The situation must be very different now. There is no need to talk about that matter. The Queen Mother just wants to tell you that you must keep calm. You must be careful when seeking skin from a tiger. It will not work if you are so impatient. At least for now. Come on, Lin Jue doesn't seem to have any intention of abolishing you. The Aijia just feel a little confused, why did the relationship between Lin Jue and you take a turn for the worse? Didn't you do a good job before? He also trusted you a lot, why did he change like this? quick?"
"Mother, it's not because of the person who was placed next to him that he found out. Shen Tan... this idiot, he arranged for Sun Dayong to be by Lin Jue's side. He was originally just to control Lin Jue, but in the end, that guy was actually grateful to him. I confessed to Lin Jue. It made Lin Jue wary of both me and Shen Tan. I tried my best to save it, but there was nothing I could do. Then Shen Tan no longer agrees with me. It is obvious that he is afraid. I think so Is it because of this incident?" Guo Kun said solemnly.
"When did this happen? Did you place spies around Lin Jue?" the Queen Mother said in shock.
"That was very early on. When Lin Jue was in cahoots with bandits and asked Shen Tan to help him get armor and weapons, his father said he would take this opportunity to restrain him, so he asked Shen Tan to get close to him and have a relationship with him. It was to win his trust. It wasn’t because I thought what kind of situation Lin Jue would be at that time, but because Lin Jue’s teacher Fang Dunru and Na Zheng were reused by the court at that time. Through Lin Jue, I could get more inside information. .And...and we have the news about Lin Jue's connection with the bandits in Funiu Mountain, and we can use this at any time and anywhere. After all, through Lin Jue, we can implicate Fang Dunru and Yan Zhengsu, and we can either coerce or win over them. Only But later he had to betroth the girl to Lin
After sleeping, we can no longer use this matter to coerce Lin Jue, as it will implicate our palace. However, it is still necessary to monitor Lin Jue and know whether he is loyal to our palace, so this line has not been broken, but in fact there is no right He does something."
Shen Akui slapped the table and sighed: "You father and son both lack strategy. How could you do such a thing? After Lin Jue took Wei'er, he immediately evacuated the people around him. How could he still do it?" Keep it forever? That has no effect. After he married Wei'er, he had to make plans for the palace, so why should he be monitored? It's simply stupid. You are like this, and so is your father. Lin Jue knows Of course this incident will dishearten us, and of course it will alienate us. Anyone who knows these things will also be angry."
Guo Kun smacked his lips and said, "What's the point of talking about it now?"
The Queen Mother said: "Yeah, it's really useless to say this. But just this matter, I'm afraid it won't be that much. After all, you didn't do anything detrimental to him, you just put an ear and eyes in there. I'm angry. Inevitable, but Lin Jue will not treat you like this just because of this incident. Did you do anything else to him? "
Guo Kun waved his hands hurriedly and said: "No, no, I greeted him with a smile, but I was nothing more than a slave. How dare you offend him?"
The Queen Mother frowned and said: "You really haven't done anything bad to him? You have such a restless temper, why would you do nothing? You know your son better than your mother, don't hide it in front of your mother. Mother is here I’m helping you, not harming you.”
Guo Kun murmured: "I...I...even if I do something, he doesn't know."
"What on earth did you do?" the Queen Mother said angrily.
"I... that night, he went to see me in the old palace. I had a showdown with him, trying to get a promise from him. I thought, if he refused to give me a promise, I would kill him without stopping. Anyway, he If he wanted to take my position, it would be like taking my life, regardless of the consequences. So I arranged people around the waterside plank road of the Old Palace to prepare to kill him. But I didn't do it, and he didn't know about it. Ah." Guo Kun finally confessed the matter.
Shen Akui stood up in shock, widened his eyes and shouted: "What? You...you actually did this? He didn't attack you, but you started to kill him first? Kun'er, you are simply too It's disappointing. It's over, it's over, it's over. If you do this to him, there's nothing you can do to save the situation. It's so stupid, so stupid. The Ai family can't believe it."
"Queen Mother, he doesn't know. Why should Queen Mother be so worried?" Guo Kun shouted.
"How do you know he doesn't know? Ah?" Shen Akui yelled angrily, her voice became sharp, and her expression became extremely angry. Guo Kun had never seen his mother become like this. Disappointed and angry, like an angry old she-cat.
"I... I guess he doesn't know. If he knew, how could he spare me?" Guo Kun murmured.
"Do you think he will spare you? Lin Jue is such a shrewd person. Even if he knows, he will pretend not to know. He is waiting for you to continue to make mistakes, and then destroy you in one fell swoop. He wants the world to see clearly that it is you You acted first because you were ungrateful, do you understand?" the Queen Mother shouted coldly.
Guo Kun crossed his hands and said: "Then... what should we do? So he knows?"
The Queen Mother took a long breath, thought for a moment and said: "Originally, I thought there was room for reconciliation, but you are so stupid that you want to kill him, so how can you reconcile? It seems that we can only make final preparations. Kun'er, starting from now on , you have to follow his wishes everywhere, and you must not have the slightest emotion. You must let everyone see that you are a puppet, a puppet controlled by Lin Jue. Secretly, we can accumulate strength and wait for the opportunity to give Lei Lei a chance. hit."
Guo Kun was confused and said: "Can the queen speak more clearly? I don't quite understand."
The Queen Mother said: "I will teach you. I want to think more clearly. I will explain it in detail tomorrow. By the way, ask your sister to come to the palace tomorrow and say that I want to see her. It's getting late, and the Ai family has rested. Remember, don't If you want to be the emperor if you don't show any emotion, from now on, you will listen to the advice of the Ai family. Unless you don't want to."
