A crisp sound of "pop" echoed back and forth throughout the room. The white porcelain pieces kept jumping on the ground, making a crisp sound like the collision of small jade.
Everyone in the room was kneeling on the ground. Even outside the room, almost no one knew why the people in the room suddenly became so angry. Based on an instinct, they quickly knelt on the ground, trembling slightly, and A look of fear.
Human beings are sometimes great. They can use their pride to express their arrogance as the spirit of living things. They can despise everything and even abandon their own lives for the sake of their own dignity. But they can also use a humble attitude to express their arrogance. Surrender, a kind of cowardice, a kind of fear to express one's own cowardice and protect one's own life.
And almost everyone in this room uses such a humble gesture to express a kind of obedience. The purpose of this is very simple: to allow oneself to obey the object to eliminate the anger in the heart, even if the source of the anger does not come from oneself.
The anger in the eyes of the old man in bright yellow clothes slowly calmed down. He looked at the kneeling people below and kept kowtowing. His whole body trembled slightly with fear. He also felt an unknown irritation in his heart. He raised the Piao Astronomy Network. Tell me carefully what is going on? Clean up by the way. "
"Your Majesty, the news just now is indeed correct." A thin, male-female voice was particularly harsh in the silent room. He stood not far in front of the emperor and respectfully handed over a secret letter. : "According to the reports from the young men, at the gathering of Confucian scholars just now, Prime Minister Li Mi has been elected as the person in charge of this matter. I don't know if Mr. Li Mi was tied up by something, so he never reported this to His Majesty. It¡¯s the information the young men risked their lives to send.¡±
Just the right distance, not too far but not too close, so that it gives people a close but not offensive distance. The tone of the voice is also well controlled, with a hint of anger and haste, a hint of sincerity and concern, and a vague sense of warmth in the language. His attitude determined his position very well, but it also gave him a clear tendency. Being able to grasp such details so well, it is no wonder that he became the most favored eunuch around the emperor.
With a slight "hum", he took the secret letter handed over to him, opened it and looked at it carefully. The dark and incomprehensible expression could not be seen clearly under the dim light. He threw the secret letter in his hand on the desk. He rubbed his temples, and a tired look appeared on his face.
"Your Majesty, this is the ginseng tea that has just been brewed. It can refresh your mind. Now is the most important moment for the country. You must not hold on." The sobbing tone coupled with the respectful ginseng tea handed over, It made the hesitant emperor feel a little warmer.
Putting the tea on the desk, and seeing the eunuch standing aside respectfully, the emperor couldn't help but feel warm in his heart, and couldn't help but ask: "What do you think of Li Mi's performance this time?"
With a look of horror on his face, the eunuch knelt down on the ground with a bang, kowtowed to the emperor several times in succession, and said with a little horror: "The Taizu has said that eunuchs in the harem are not allowed to interfere in politics. Anyone who violates this will be punished with a stick. If you are a slave, you will be punished." dare."
"What's all the fuss about? I just want to hear your opinion. Let's just treat it as a casual chat. We can't talk about whether we are involved in politics or not. There is no need to make a fuss." The emperor waved the Astronomy Network impatiently. "
"The servant is up." With a grateful look on his face, the eunuch hurriedly got up, arranged his clothes, looked at the emperor and said, "I think Prime Minister Li Bi's actions this time are It is human nature, although Li Mi is deeply favored by the emperor, but he was able to reach the stage of prime minister because of their own efforts. Once he leaves the Li family, he will become a tree without roots."
"What has become a tree without roots? If he is really loyal to me, then I can completely make him the founder of a family again. Huh." The emperor slapped the table angrily and said: "It seems that he is not the same. You are not of the same mind as me."
Although he knew that what the emperor said was angry, the establishment of a noble family was the result of the joint efforts of dozens of generations, and the foundation of these noble families was not actually the royal family but the mutual entanglement between the noble families, the eunuch still nodded and said: "But Li Bi and I was not as farsighted as His Majesty, so I took the wrong step this time.¡±
"Does it seem that this dynasty's national policy of emphasizing Confucianism is wrong? Although Li Mi once said that there are three checks and balances, one is still the dominant one now." The emperor took another sip of ginseng tea and murmured to himself: " Do you think I should suppress Confucianism and promote Buddhism?"
"Your Majesty, you must not do it." The eunuch quickly knelt on the ground, kowtowed deeply several times, raised his already red and swollen forehead and looked at the emperor.?? said: "Buddhism emphasizes self-cultivation and worshiping the Buddha. If once they respect Buddhism, then all the people will only have the Buddha in their hearts, and then there will be an emperor? Taoism pays more attention to governing by doing nothing, but all Taoist priests also have only one thing in their hearts." Cultivation, pursuit of the great road, disregard of royal dignity, and regardless of whether Buddhism or Taoism has no ability to govern the country, although Confucianism takes the common people of the world as its own responsibility, it still pays attention to respecting the imperial power, so the orthodox status of Confucianism cannot be changed."
The emperor looked at the eunuch in front of him in surprise. He did not expect that the eunuch would say such a thing. After looking at it for a while, his face became indifferent and he said coldly: "How can you know this? Who taught you these? Yes? Say."
Seeing the emperor's expression change instantly, the eunuch's back was soaked with sweat. He kowtowed to the emperor several times and said, "I have followed the emperor since I was a child. I often listen to the discussions of the courtiers in the court, so I have many I have a little desire to learn, and I also think what I said makes sense."
"That's it." The emperor looked at the eunuch kneeling on the ground, and said with a look of satisfaction on his cold face: "I didn't expect that a little eunuch like you also has a positive attitude. You are right. Get up."
Wiping the sweat from his forehead, the eunuch slowly calmed down. Seeing the emperor still looking at him with vigour, he said bravely: "According to my opinion, this time the matter must be truly successful. We must firmly grasp the general power in our hands. As long as we have an army, everything will be under control."
Nodding, the emperor took a sip of tea, looked at the eunuch and said, "Do you doubt Tan Daoji?"
"I don't dare. It's just that I feel that even Prime Minister Li Bi is showing signs of instability this time. Then His Majesty should hold on to the military power more firmly." The eunuch's eyes showed a trace of excitement, and he looked at the emperor and said: "Minion I think we should pay more attention to the Taiwei."
Standing up, the emperor began to walk around the desk uneasily, his face uncertain.
Suddenly stopped, the emperor looked at the hunched eunuch with a humble posture, and said hesitantly: "Okay, I will appoint you as the supervisor of the army, and watch over the Taiwei for me."
With a look of surprise in his eyes, the eunuch knelt down on the ground with a bang, and kept kowtowing, making a muffled sound of bang bang. While kowtowing, he said: "I obey the order, and I will definitely do my job well."
"Okay, get up." The emperor suddenly lost interest, waved his hand and said, "Don't interfere this time, just be my eyes."
"I obey the order." The eunuch raised his head and suddenly saw the broken porcelain pieces on the ground. Suddenly, a high-pitched voice shouted outside: "You slaves who deserve to be killed, if you don't come in and clean up this garbage, once your majesty lets you If something unexpected happens, can you bear the responsibility for your life?"
Several hurried footsteps came from outside, and several eunuchs and maids walked into the house with panicked expressions on their faces, cleaning the whole house in a hurry.
"Okay, now is the critical moment. Don't delay here any longer. Go and run your errands." His Majesty the Emperor sat on the chair on the desk, picked up the memorial on the desk and read it slowly.
"I will take my leave now. After I leave, I am afraid that someone will not be able to serve Your Majesty. I feel that Xiao Dezi is a loyal and honest person with smart hands and feet, which is not as good as"
"Okay, okay, I'll do as you say." The emperor waved his hand impatiently.
The eunuch kowtowed, with a look of reluctance on his face, and turned around and walked towards the door. The frightened and humble look he had just shown flashed away, and an arrogant look appeared immediately, and he walked proudly.
The other eunuchs and maids all made way for the eunuch from a distance with panicked expressions on their faces, and said hello with trembling voices. Seeing the frightened and uneasy expressions of the eunuchs and maids in front of them, an indescribable feeling of heroism appeared in their hearts.
The emperor glanced at the eunuch who walked out, smiled coldly, took out a piece of paper from the desk, wrote a few words, and handed it to a figure who appeared in the darkness behind him.