Chapter 240 [Cabinet deliberations]
Deep in the palace, Changchun. In the palace, His Majesty the Emperor sat quietly on the chair, looking at the note that had just been presented overnight, his expression was cold and his eyes were extremely strange. Concubine Shu was wearing a white gauze, graceful and charming, and gently beat him on his shoulders behind the emperor.
"Do you know what happened to the beloved concubine?" The emperor put down the note in his hand, pulled Shufei's hand, held her in his arms, and asked softly.
Concubine Shu said carefully: "Master, I dare not interfere..."
Before she could finish her words, the emperor smiled faintly and said, "There are only you and I here, and you don't need to take the bullshit etiquette in the palace to heart. Over the years, if I hadn't talked to you, I wouldn't be able to hold on."
Shufei Shui Lingling looked at the emperor with her eyes, and she showed a look of pity. She gently stroked the emperor's face and said softly: "The Lord is the strongest man in the world, the son of heaven, nothing can defeat you."
The emperor smiled, gently stroked Concubine Shu's waist, and whispered: "I... am not actually a good emperor!"
Concubine Shu looked surprised and said anxiously: "Master, you...!"
The emperor shook his head gently and said, "No need to say about my beloved concubine, I actually know myself. When the late emperor was there, the aristocratic families did not dare to be arrogant. Even the cabinet would have to act according to the face of the late emperor, but when it came to me...!" He smiled bitterly and shook his head helplessly: "The power of the aristocratic families is far beyond what I think. I am the emperor but cannot control my ministers. What good emperor is? They fight each other and fight for power and profit, but I can only watch... The beloved concubine, do you know that just tonight, something huge happened!"
Concubine Shu frowned slightly and stared at the emperor.
"Ximen Leizang set up a banquet in the name of celebrating his birthday, and invited ministers in the court, and all the cabinet members were present...!" The emperor looked cold: "But he expected that Ximen Leizang would be brave and secretly colluded with the black flag of Wei State and set up a trap, intending to kill important officials in the court in one fell swoop..."
Concubine Shu shook her delicate body, her face lost its color, and she said in a lost voice: "How could this be?" Her heart sank, and she thought of Han Xuandao and Han Xuanchang for a moment, and knew that they must go to the banquet. Ximen Leizang set up a trap, these two people...!
Her originally warm body suddenly became cold.
The emperor sighed softly: "The beloved concubine doesn't have to worry about her family... Ximen Leizang is dead!"
"Diet?" Shufei was stunned and asked quickly: "The important officials in the court..."
"A few died." The emperor whispered: "But all the cabinet members survived, and Han Xuandao and Han Xuanchang were not surprised..." The emperor frowned slightly: "The memorial said that Han Mo was also involved in this matter!"
"Xiao Wu?" Concubine Shu's heart, which had just been relieved, raised again: "What's wrong with him... what's wrong with him?"
"Han Mo was sneaking into Ximen Mansion with the assassin..." As soon as the emperor finished speaking, Concubine Shu's expression changed drastically, and her face turned pale. She immediately said: "Master, Xiao Wu... Xiao Wu. I can't do such a rebellious thing, it must be a misunderstanding..."
The emperor smiled and said, "Don't worry, don't worry, although Han Mo sneaked into Ximen Mansion with the assassin, he was not an assassin, but a hero."
Concubine Shu blinked her beautiful eyes and looked at the emperor in confusion.
The emperor chuckled softly and said, "If it weren't for Han Mo this time, our Yan State would have suffered a catastrophe... If those people really died in this incident, our Yan State would have had civil strife, and Wei and Qing would have taken the opportunity to launch an attack on our country. At that time, even with Xiao Huaiyu, our Yan State would have been unable to resist."
Concubine Shu seemed to understand something, and sighed: "God bless me, Yan Country..."
The emperor smiled and said, "I said that my beloved concubine is my lucky star. Now that Han Mo has arrived in Yanjing, he has become my lucky star. This kid, a few days after entering the West Flower Hall, actually took the West Flower Hall to do such a big thing, which really did not disappoint me..."
Concubine Shu also has a kind heart and understands the key points. "The emperor said, Xiao Wu... Han Mo has mixed into the assassin, is he... a merit?"
"That's how they do business in the flower hall." The emperor said calmly: "As for the details, the memorial was not reported in the memorial!" A cold look flashed across his eyes: "Ximen Leizang was so stupid this time that he almost put my Yan State in danger. The century-old family was ruined because of his stupidity...!"
Concubine Shu lowered her head slightly and remained silent.
The emperor stood up with Concubine Shu, held Concubine Shu's hand, and walked to the window. The cool breeze outside the window was blowing, and the small pond was blown by the wind, causing ripples.
"Those guys in the cabinet..." the emperor said lightly: "They are already discussing how to deal with the Ximen clan, which is good, so that I won't bother!"
"Master..." Concubine Shu held the emperor's hand gently and looked at him gently.
The emperor smiled slightly and said softly: "Forget it, I'm going to rest."
Concubine Shu frowned slightly, and she wanted to speak but stopped.
"What's wrong?" The emperor asked when he saw that Concubine Shu's expression was strange.
Concubine Shu finally said, "Master, you haven't been to Yongchun Palace for a long time!"
The emperor frowned, looked quite unhappy, and snorted coldly, saying, "My dear, I am in a bad mood recently, don't make me feel even more uncomfortable!"
Concubine Shu hurriedly knelt down on the ground, "Master, I am wronged. Please punish me!"
The emperor helped Concubine Shu up and sighed, "You are a kind person. You understand my thoughts. Why do you want to mention Yongchun Palace today?" Suddenly, he understood something, his expression became cold, and he said, "Is she here?"
Concubine Shu pondered for a moment, and finally nodded, "I dare not hide it from the emperor. Concubine Xiao did come to Changchun today. She has quite a lot of complaints about me and I am!"
The emperor's expression was even colder, with a gloomy look in his eyes, "Self-super is from the Xiao family, she is becoming more and more presumptuous. Her harem was messed up, and she still had to come here to act wildly. I can't allow her to continue so presumptuous anymore..."
"Suppose you are angry!" Concubine Shu hurriedly said: "Concubine Xiao is afraid that she will be like this because she misses the Lord. The saint must not be angry because of this, as it will hurt the dragon's body..."
The emperor sighed: "The beloved concubine is open-minded and has to speak for her when she reaches such a field? I don't know her temperament, she is arrogant and domineering, and she is even more unscrupulous in the harem. If she weren't the Xiao family...oh, forgot, I won't mention her anymore!"
"That Master tonight..." Concubine Shu looked at the emperor carefully.
The emperor took Concubine Shu's hand and said lightly: "I won't go anywhere tonight, I will stay here. I want to see what tricks she is going to play... I am not without dragon power!"
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The cabinet meeting office is located in the Thirteenth Hall of the East, a very solemn and low-key yamen. Whether day or night, it is very vigilant. It can be said that among the dozens of yamen in the Thirteenth Hall of the East and the eight eighth Hall of the West, the cabinet meeting office is the most vigilant.
As the name suggests, the Cabinet Seminar is a place where cabinet members use to discuss national affairs. However, if there are any matters that the imperial court cannot solve, they will be discussed in the Cabinet Seminar and then make a ruling.
The cabinet has always been composed of nine seats, but the Ye and Wu families were destroyed. Ximen Leizang, one of the members of the cabinet, had also committed suicide by rebelling and committing suicide. So that night, the cabinet was only six cabinet members, Xiao, Su, He, Han, Fan, and Hu.
The cabinet discussed overnight. After discussion, the cabinet members quickly made a series of decisions, and issued several orders overnight in the name of the cabinet.
The first order was to immediately arrest a group of officials of Ximen in Beijing, all of which were detained and imprisoned, waiting for processing, so as not to make any big mistakes from the Ximen clan.
Fortunately, there were not many officials in Beijing from the Ximen clan, and the officials from the Ministry of Justice and Dali Temple quickly controlled the situation.
The second order was issued by the Ministry of War, and issued overnight. A group of city garrisons were mobilized from Yichun County and Donghai County near Wu County to immediately enter the territory of Wu County, and cooperated with the Wu County City garrisons to control the situation in Wu County. First of all, the Ximen Zhi clan must be controlled, and any military rebellion of the Ximen clan must be forced to suppress.
The Wu County of the Ximen clan is already weak and is no more powerful than the extremely wealthy Bozhou County. In terms of equipment and the strength of the aristocratic army, Wu County can easily be controlled.
The third order was sent to the Donghai Pacification Army commanded by Han Xuanling, and ordered Han Xuanling to immediately lead the East China Sea Fleet into the Wujun waters and take over the command of the Wujun Navy to prevent the Wujun Navy from changing.
As the two major maritime armies of Yan State, the naval fleet of Wujun naturally cannot be compared with the Donghai Punishment Army, so it is easy for the Donghai Punishment Army to control the Wujun Navy.
Although this has invisibly made the Han family's Donghai Punishment Army bigger, the only one who can deal with the Ximen family's maritime fleet is the Donghai Punishment Army. Moreover, the members of the cabinet are indeed worried that the Ximen clan will escape by sea power. Once the Ximen clan really escapes, it is undoubtedly a future for Yan State. However, as long as the Donghai Punishment Army takes action and cooperates with the land army, the Ximen clan will have no place to escape. After some discussion, although some people in the cabinet are unwilling to give up, they finally passed this resolution.
There is one thing that everyone in the cabinet has maintained absolute consistency.
This time, the Ximen clan will be uprooted and all the people will be caught in one go!
Chapter completed!