Chapter 7 Why don"t I still pretend to be a fool?
The meaning of Zhong Yehan"s words couldn"t be made anymore clearer. That is, you may come up your ideas, and if the idea is wrong, the emperor will bear the consequences, you will have no responsibility towards it. As soon as this statement came out, the ministers started talking one after another.
Official Situ Ximen was the first to come out: “Huang Shang (Your majesty), this old minister thinks that it is too risky to take back the military power of Zhenhai w.a.n.g (Hu Feiying). Huang Shang you also know that Hu Feiying"s elite soldiers have been working under him for a long time. It can be said that in the eyes of those generals and soldiers, there is only Zhenhai w.a.n.g and no Emperor. If the Emperor withdraws his military power by force, it will cause Hu Feiying to rebel, so we only have to wait for Hu Feiying to retire.
As far as this old minister knows, Zhenhai w.a.n.g is also in his sixties this year. In a few years, it should be time for him to return to his hometown. When that happens Huang Shang can retain his post and leave it open for a member of the court to take; that way the court will be able to recover the military power justifiably.”
Official Sima Handun swung his fat body around and came out to oppose him: “Huang Shang, this minister thinks that official Situ"s opinion is too weak, Huang Shang can directly push his orders, let Hu Feiying go to the capital King, then just cut off his military power in the imperial court, with the people there, let"s see how he will rebel!”.
The Calvary General Sun Dinghai said:” Official Han"s words are wrong, actually Hu Feiying is not that terrible, the terrible thing is that he has 300,000 generals and soldiers. If the Emperor does anything to Hu Feiying, then the soldiers in the south will definitely hold the flag up for Hu Feiying"s son to rebel, so that the emperor will not be able to seize the military power, but will give it to the other side as ammunition.”
Zhong Yehan listened carefullyto the opinions of each official, frowning and nodding his head frequently.
When the officials finished, he said: “These are your views. Zhen will consider it carefully but Zhen cannot and will not make a hasty decision. Let it go for the time being. Tomorrow Tianqing Khan will enter the city, and all the princes will follow Zhen out of the city to welcome him. After all, he is also Zhen"s family, and the scene outside is not too good.”
All the ministers bowed with their hand to the floor: “Officials abide by all your orders.”
After Zhong Yehan announced the close of morning court, he turned towards the Head Eunuch Xi Lu at his side: “go to Yin Junw.a.n.g"s Palace and tell him to come see me and to bring his concubine along.”
“The slave is going!” Xi Lu said shook his eunuch"s special whisk and went out of the palace to relay his order. Going to –
Zhong Yehan took along with him several small Eunuchs to the Empress dowager"s Yongci Palace to greet her. This had been Zhong Yehan"shabit for the past few years, going straight to Yongci Palace after morning court, unless an emergency happened, this move was unshakable.
Zhong Yehan paid his greetings to the Empress dowager and spoke with her for a while. At this time, the eunuch came in and reported that Yin Junw.a.n.g had brought his concubine along with him to pay his greetings to the Emperor and the Empress Dowager.
This was Xi Ruoxuan"s first time entering the palace. Everything here was so strange and wonderful. This ancients architecture is really awesome. Creating a beautiful garden outbof the back yard. Built in the middle of the curved lake was a stone bridge. With a pavilion at intervals.
Sitting in the pavilion and looking out onto the lake, the sh.o.r.e was full of graceful willows, that swung gently with each breeze that blew by.
Ripples disturbed the surface of the water, sometimes with a fish jumping out, sometimes a dragonfly fleeting on the surface, a good Yangtze river scene.
Xi Ruoxuan immediately became full of poetry, murmuring indiscriminately: “The spring breeze blows green a thousand miles south of the Yangtze river sh.o.r.e, suddenly, the crisp sound of the Pipa is heard on endless hills and rivers with no way out, but past enchanting willows and flowers in bloom lies another village.”
Xi Xiuxuan did not understand Tang Dynasty poetry at all, in the past when she used to recite poetry, she always memorized half, hence the verse became like this. But, for Zhong Langyu who rarely heard good poetry, this was like the voice of a G.o.d. He stared at Xi Ruoxuan in a daze, asking himself, is a genius or a fool?
Xi Ruoxuan looked at the strange expression on Zhong Langyu"s face and knew he was very surprised very surprised a fool could recite such ancient poetry, but it"s better if I still pretend to be a fool; if he treats me as a normal person, then he a lengthy bunch of rules will suddenly come out, I"d better be a fool who is free and happy!
“YuYu, my pee is in a hurry to come out again. Is there a place here where I can pee?” Xi Ruoxuan brought out an image of a fool, which broke Zhong Langyu"s thoughts of his wife being a genius completely: “You, why do you have so many troubles, ah! Can"t you just hold it in for a second? This wait for a while, this is the Empress Dowager"s Palace. If you show yourself a complete fool here, the Empress dowager will hold you accountable.”
“But, but, Xuanxuan can"t help it, if I don"t pee again, I will directly just let it stream into this lake o!” Xi Ruoxuan deliberately teased Zhong Langyu, thinking, this Zhong Langyu person is also quite funny sometimes, although he looks down on me, he is still kind. Even if I will make myself look despicable, let him receive some small punishment!
Zhong Langyu sweated in haste: “Fast! Hurry back and go to the eunuch"s room for convenience.” Zhong Langyu said and pulled and Xi Ruoxuan, running backwards. He knew that he couldn"t let his w.a.n.gfei pee on herself; doing just that was a big disrespect to the Empress Dowager.
Xi Ruoxuan pretended to feel anxious: “Ai-ya! Don"t pull me, if you pull me it will come out.”
Zhong Langyu was so scared beads of sweat formed:
“My grandmother, my ancestor, can"t you hold it for a while!”
When Xi Ruoxuan saw that he was really anxious, she made a ‘xi-xi" laughing sound: “Now it"s gone again, I tried hard and held it back, let"s go!”
Zhong Langyu"s nose crooked. This, aren"t you playing with me! But in the facing a foolish concubine, he could only sigh after a long time. Father ah father, when can this son drop this stupid wife?
Zhong Langyu and Xi Ruoxuan gave their greetings to the Emperor and the Empress Dowager.
This time around, Xi Ruoxuan there was nothing wrong with Xi Ruoxuan"s presentation, hers even having some finer details than Zhong Langyu"s. For example, she said: “Long live the Empress Dowager. Long live my Emperor!” Talking of the Emperor and the Empress dowager, they were shook, saying to themselves, this silly thing when was she taught by Zhong Langyu to speak in such a manner.”