The Child Emperor

A few months ago, when Han Ruzi was taken away by Yang Feng in the middle of the night, Wang Meiren was full of expectations and fantasies about the future, but now, all of these have disappeared. For her, there is only one thing that is important.

That is to let the son live.

Han Ruzi was taken aback. Strangely, his first reaction was not "not being the emperor", but what his mother called him, "You called me by my name."

"Well, I'm your mother, so I naturally want to call you by your name."

"So, the Queen Mother still wants to abolish me?"

Wang Meiren shook her head, "I begged her to do this."

"Why?" Han Ruzi was at a loss. If it had been earlier, even before the palace change, he might have happily accepted his mother's decision, but now, he likes being the emperor a little bit, compared to a few months ago. In his puppet state, he feels that things are getting better, a group of "hard-fated people" are willing to be loyal to him, and the palace gate order, which he has only met once, strictly implements his will...

"You heard what the Empress Dowager said, I don't want my only son to die in the palace."

"Her words may not be true, besides... I will not let the Queen Mother kill me."

Wang Meiren smiled again, and raised her hand to gently wipe off a piece of dust on her son's face, "Of course, my son is so smart, how could he be killed casually?"

Han Ruzi suddenly came to his senses, "Mother, did Yang Feng bring Cui Hong's conditions to make the king of the East China Sea proclaim the emperor?"

Wang Meiren shook her head, "Cui Taifu didn't have the guts, he asked Yang Fenglai to sue for peace, as long as the Queen Mother didn't pursue the Cui family's crimes in this palace uprising, and returned him the position of Chief Sima of the Southern Army, he would be willing to serve the Queen Mother. As for the King of the East China Sea, Taifu Cui never mentioned this nephew at all."

The king of the East China Sea must have been very disappointed after knowing this, but Han Ruzi was even more disappointed now, but this was his mother's request, and he had never opposed his mother before, so he could only bow his head and remain silent.

Wang Meiren was so gentle that her heart ached a little. Her son bowed his head in the same way as when he was a child. She took a step forward and whispered into his son's ear: "The queen mother will definitely fight with the Cui family to the death. Whoever becomes the emperor will be the victim. The king of the East China Sea Self-righteousness will not end well, you just sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight, and you will have a chance in the future."

"Opportunity?" Han Ruzi raised his head in surprise.

"The court of Great Chu is rotten to the root. Luo Huanzhang is right. The disputes inside and outside the court are all about housework. I don't want you to get involved. In the future, you will not only be the emperor, but also a clean emperor."

"But...but..." Han Ruzi wanted to say that he would never have the chance to be emperor again.

"There will always be opportunities, and I will stay in the palace to help you create opportunities."

Han Ruzi was shocked, and he didn't care whether he was the emperor or not, "No, mother, you have to leave the palace with me. I'm not the emperor, and you don't want to stay with the queen mother, she...she is very dangerous."

"It doesn't matter, as long as I don't fight for anything, there will be no danger. Don't worry, I won't risk my life to give you a chance. I'm just here to watch for you. Once the opportunity comes, someone can notify you immediately."

"No, no, I will never be the emperor, as long as my mother leaves the palace with me."

Wang Meiren's face turned cold, "You are not a child anymore. I begged the Queen Mother to abdicate this time. You should cherish it."

Han Ruzi didn't dare to oppose his mother any more, "When... let me abdicate?"

"It's not clear, it should be soon, anyway, remember my words: don't trust anyone, and don't offend anyone."

Han Ruzi nodded, and began to seriously consider the life of not being an emperor, "What about those 'hard-fated people'? They only saved me but not the Queen Mother, will they be retaliated against?"

"You underestimated the queen mother, she is still fighting against a group of servants, but if you are worried, I will find a way to send them all out of the palace." Wang Meiren laughed again, "You are doing very well, even eating as a mother! Surprised, you are a good emperor, but the timing is wrong, no good fruit can grow on a rotten tree, you have to wait for the tree to germinate again."

"What if...you can't wait?" Han Ruzi asked cautiously, for fear of offending his mother.

Wang Meiren was not angry this time, and said with a smile: "If God doesn't give you a chance to become emperor again, I'd rather you be an ordinary person, with no worries about food and clothing for the rest of your life, with your wife and children by your side."

Han Ruzi felt that he was going to cry, so he forced himself to hold back, "I really hope that my mother and I..."

"No." Wang Meiren refused very simply, "Even if there is only a small chance, I will stay in the palace to watch for you. And I also want to learn. In the past, I thought it was too easy to be an emperor, so I followed the Queen Mother." I can learn a lot around me.”

Han Ruzi was a little frightened.

Wang Meiren stroked her son's cheek and said with a smile: "Silly boy, I want to learn the queen mother's art of controlling ministers, not the way of killing people, and I don't believe that Sidi was killed by the queen mother."

"What about Emperor Huan?"

Wang Meiren's smile gradually disappeared, Emperor Huan was also her husband, but she had no impression of that man, "Don't ask too much, be careful after leaving the palace, it is a good thing that you can gain the allegiance of your servants, but you There are many people who are offended.”

"It's not that I want to offend..."

The door opened again, Yang Feng walked in, looked at the mother and son, was silent for a while, and said: "The Queen Mother, please come over."

The queen mother sat alone on the couch, staring blankly at something in front of her. Yang Feng motioned for Beauty Wang to leave, and there were only three people left in the room.

Han Ruzi stood in front of the Empress Dowager, since he was about to be abolished, he didn't intend to behave like a son of man again.

"Tell him." The Queen Mother said coldly, without even moving her eyes.

Yang Feng came to the emperor and said, "Your Majesty knows that he is going to abdicate, right?"

"Yeah." Han Ruzi's impression of this eunuch also deteriorated. Yang Feng valued only the emperor, and once he abdicated, he probably would never have anything to do with him again.

"Your Majesty has to write an abdication edict. Do you have to write it yourself, or should I draft it for Your Majesty?"

"Please, Mr. Yang, make it up." Han Ruzi didn't want to argue, and after agreeing to abdicate, his heart began to sink, but after the initial shock and confusion, he felt relieved and left the palace, which was exactly his original goal. The only regret is that my mother can't go out together.

Things are going well, Yang Feng bows respectfully and backs away.

The Empress Dowager finally turned her attention to the emperor, "Beauty Wang thinks you won't be able to survive the ensuing chaos, and would rather keep you away from the throne, what do you think?"

"I trust my mother." Han Ruzi said.

"Wang Meiren thinks that you still have a chance to become emperor again, but I want to tell you that this is impossible. No matter who wins or loses, the Cui family and I will not allow a deposed emperor to become emperor again."

"I have no extravagance."

The queen mother waved lazily, indicating that the emperor could step down.

Han Ruzi turned to leave, then stopped, "Can I ask a few questions?"

The queen nodded.

"Whose person is Jing Yao?"

"You are about to abdicate, and you still care about this kind of thing?"

"I have doubts in my heart and panic."

The Empress Dowager sneered disdainfully, "Of course Jing Yao is mine. He is in charge of Baoxi as the Central Superintendent. He has reached the peak of eunuch power. What benefits can he gain by joining the Empress Dowager? Knowing the Empress Dowager's After the conspiracy, he kept trying to inform me, but was shut out by Zuo Ji, so he had no choice but to pretend, Prime Minister Yin Wuhai was able to escape from the Palace of Qinzheng, and the officers and soldiers were able to enter the palace, he owes a lot to him."

"In that case, it would be superfluous for me to send the sword out of the palace."

"That's not true. Jing Yao is loyal to me, but he doesn't dare to act rashly. If we wait any longer, the traitor may really kill me."

"Luo Huanzhang is really a strange person." Among all the rebels, Han Ruzi was the most incomprehensible to this master of national history, "Sometimes he wants to rebel, another moment he surrenders, and another moment he says it's useless to kill the empress dowager and the emperor , the ministers outside will immediately elect a new emperor, and stop the rebels from killing people, saying that they don’t want the world to be in chaos.”

The queen mother nodded to Yang Feng and asked him to explain to the emperor.

Yang Feng was not in the palace before, but he knew Luo Huanzhang very well. He bowed and said, "Luo Huanzhang is a famous Confucian in the world. He thinks he is pleading for the life of the people in the world. No one stands firmer than him. It is a pity that his eyes are high and his hands are low. This kind of person At the beginning, he was full of fighting spirit, but once he found that things were not as expected, he would be disappointed. For him, things could be done in one fell swoop, or he would accept his fate. There was no other choice. It's just a little chaos, which doesn't help; when he is willing to accept his fate, the little chaos becomes a big chaos in his eyes, so he wants to stop it."

"At the beginning, the fighting spirit was high, and when things went wrong, he was willing to accept his fate..." Han Ruzi looked at Yang Feng, and felt that these words were a reminder to himself.

Yang Feng has nothing to do with him anymore, Han Ruzi shook off the thought, "After I abdicate, do I want the King of Donghai to be the emperor?"

Yang Feng did not answer.

Han Ruzi asked again: "Cui Hong controls the southern army, and the king of the East China Sea proclaims himself emperor. How could the queen mother defeat the Cui family?"

Yang Feng made a gesture of invitation, "Your Majesty knows enough."

Han Ruzi knelt down suddenly, kowtowed to the Queen Mother, got up and said, "Thank you."

When Han Ruzi left the house, the queen mother said, "Maybe it was a mistake to let him go out of the palace. This kid is threatening me and asking me to take good care of his mother."

Yang Feng bowed, "His threats are not to be feared." After a pause, he said again: "The queen mother really wants me to leave the palace?"

"Introducing Cui Hong to the capital is a serious crime you committed. Expelling you from the palace is already the lightest punishment. Besides, there is no one in the palace that you can be loyal to. Go out and catch your hopeful."

Yang Feng also knelt down and kowtowed, "Please allow me to say a wild word in front of the Queen Mother: I was the one who brought the child into the palace, if I leave the palace, I will spare no effort to bring him back."

"Okay." The Queen Mother yawned.

Yang Feng got up and exited the room.

The queen mother sat alone for a while, reached out and knocked on the table twice.

The Meng brothers and sisters came out of another warm pavilion.

"You didn't catch Chunyu Xiao?" the queen mother asked.

Meng Che took a step forward, "Meng E saw that there was a fraud ahead, so she insisted on going back to the palace, but the palace really changed."

This is something Prime Minister Yin Wuhai didn't mention and didn't know about it. A large number of officers and soldiers killed the swordsmen guarding the gate, but the swordsmen in Cishun Palace were killed by guards, so Luo Huanzhang's persuasion was more effective. That's why Bu Hengru didn't dare to kill anyone, and finally knelt down and begged for mercy.

"Your sister is in a hurry to come back. The person to save is not me, but the emperor." The queen mother stared at Meng E, "You have long been loyal to the emperor, this is your decision alone, or the decision of your brother and sister. Shared thoughts?"

Meng E knelt down immediately, "It was my decision alone, and my brother didn't know it at all."

Meng Che showed surprise, and then sighed. He had already seen the sign, but he didn't expect his sister to do it.

"In that case, the younger sister will leave the palace, and the older brother will stay." The Queen Mother waved her hand and ordered the two to leave.

Meng E also kowtowed, Meng Che hesitated to speak, now is not the time to speak to the Queen Mother.

There was really only one person left in the room. The queen mother was so tired that she recalled a sentence inexplicably and murmured: "I am a widow."

These words brought her a certain magical power, and she was ready to set off more bloody storms.

(End of this volume)