Chapter 156 Cui Xiaofu summoned (Part 1)

Zhang Huan rushed back to Xuanyifang with a quick horse. He galloped to the gate of Pei Mansion and turned over and got off the horse. However, he saw Pei Ying running out of the door. As soon as he saw him, he complained: "Where have you been? The fifth brother said he would take you to dinner, but he couldn't find you later."

"Pei Mingyuan went to Xuepu by himself, so he didn't care about me. Later, I went to Yongjiafang to see Li Laodao and the others."

Zhang Huan gently held her hand, feeling the coldness of her hand. Knowing that she had been waiting for her return, she felt a little moved, and she laughed in a low voice: "What? Have you missed me after not seeing you for a long time?"

"Smile, who misses you!" Pei Ying's rosy little mouth pouted slightly, "Today, Changsun Yiyi came, and someone helped you find some information about Miss Cui. Do you want to ask about Miss Changsun's situation or Miss Cui's situation?"

"How is she now?"

"She, who is she? I don't understand." Pei Ying's beautiful eyes rolled, and she smiled with a sly smile in her eyes: "Oh~, I understand, you want to ask Miss Changsun, um! She is very strong and her face is redder than before..."

"Forget it, I won't ask you anymore." Zhang Huan said angrily: "Where is the eunuch from that palace? I will enter the palace first, and I will settle the score with you when I come back."

Pei Ying laughed 'pu' and walked up to hold Zhang Huan and said in a sweet voice: "There are no people in the palace? I pretended to pass on the orders of the Queen Mother to coax you back."

As soon as she finished speaking, she saw several horses running from the street. She rushed to the front and jumped onto the horse and proclaimed loudly: "The Queen Mother's decree is here! Zhang Huan, the governor of Liangzhou, received the decree."

Pei Ying and Zhang Huan looked at each other in surprise, and laughed loudly at the same time. The eunuch was laughed inexplicably, his face darkened and shouted: "Zhang Huan received the order!"

Zhang Huan pulled Pei Ying for a moment and signaled her to avoid it first. Pei Ying immediately walked into the door, leaned behind the door, and looked here secretly.

"The Empress Dowager has an order to make a countermeasure to Zhang Huan, the governor of Xuanliang Prefecture, enter the Linde Hall, and move forward immediately. I will be proud of this!"

"My minister Zhang Huan obeys the order!" Zhang Huan stood up and bowed to the eunuch and said, "I'll go change my clothes now, please wait for a moment."

After saying that, he took out a thick golden leaf and quietly stuffed it to the eunuch. "I was so rude just now, please ask my father-in-law to take it to drink a glass of water and wine to suppress his shock."

When the gold was bought, the eunuch felt a sudden sank in his hand, and he couldn't help but feel overjoyed. The power of the king fell, and the expenses of the palace were also very tight. The eunuchs had a meager income, and no one was willing to bribe them in normal times. Their situation was very embarrassing. Today, he received a legendary bribery, which was the first time this eunuch had in his life.

While nervous and happy, the eunuch hurriedly said, "Go! I'll wait for you here, don't worry, you can change it slowly."

When Zhang Huan walked into the mansion, Pei Ying pulled him to the inner courtyard. Pei Jun prepared a separate courtyard for them. Although Zhang Huan and Pei Ying were not married, the Pei family agreed that they had already gotten married under Yan Zhenqing's auspiciousness, but it was a national tragedy, so it was not good for Zhang's wedding to celebrate.

Pei Ying helped Zhang Huan take off her outer clothes, took a set of fine soft armor from the box, put on his underwear, and tied his straps to him while reminding him: "Cui Xiaofu is Cui Yuan's real sister after all, and now you have defected to her father again. It is hard to guarantee that she will not do anything extreme for the interests of the Cui family. Although it is unlikely, Li Fanyun is not here, so you should be careful."

When Zhang Huan saw the little wife in front of him chattering, his heart couldn't help but feel warm. Seeing a few strands of black hair on her cheeks, he pushed the strands of hair behind her ears lovingly. Pei Ying tied the robe one by one, then smiled and said, "If you see Cui Ning and say hello to her for me, I will say that I really hope to be sisters with her."

Zhang Huan was surprised. When she was about to ask again, Pei Ying smiled and pushed him out of the mansion, "Go quickly! The Empress Dowager is waiting for you to be loyal!"

With the company of several personal soldiers, Zhang Huan and the eunuchs rushed towards the Daming Palace with the Xuanzhi eunuch. Pei Ying looked at his back and disappeared. Then she sighed softly, leaned against the door weakly, and remembered Changsun Yiyi's words in her mind, "Cui Ning has been living in the palace these days, and it is rare to see her."

I wonder if he will come back tonight? Pei Ying murmured to herself, her eyes full of melancholy.

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Another new Dragon Martial Army has been replaced in the Ming Palace, with about 2,000 people. The General of the Central Army is Guo Ju, the son of Guo Ziyi. This is the result of Cui Yuan and Pei Jun reaching a compromise.

The new emperor was young, and the owner of the Daming Palace was actually the Empress Dowager Cui Xiaofu. She reviewed memorials on behalf of the emperor, and the decrees that should have been issued by the emperor were changed to the Empress Dowager's imperial decree. Before the emperor became an underage, Cui Xiaofu was actually the supreme ruler of the Tang Dynasty.

However, Cui Xiaofu, like the Li family, has no real power. All real power is in the hands of Cui and Pei. When she first ascended the position of empress dowager, she had fantasies that Zhang Liangdi had allocated a lot of power, and that she was the daughter of the Cui family, and Cui Yuan should use it more.

But the fact was not what she thought. Cui Yuan not only refused to decentralize power, but instead took her power more and more. Even her idea of ​​building a study in Zichen Palace was rejected without hesitation. He only said, "The Queen Mother's responsibility should be to cultivate a new emperor, and to manage the inner palace well, and it is not advisable to interfere too much in politics."

However, Pei Jun persuaded him a few times, and Cui Yuan reluctantly agreed to let Cui Xiaofu understand some political affairs. So some insignificant memorials were sent to the inner palace one after another, mostly inherited from the royal titles, and some places were in good weather and well-behaved. However, even such memorials that had no practical significance were copies of the reputation copied by the Secretariat of the Central Secretariat. The original copy had been issued after being transferred and approved by the two prime ministers.

Cui Xiaofu has been silent all the time. The empress dowager in this form is definitely not what she wants.

At this moment, the nominal supreme ruler of the Tang Dynasty was sitting in the side hall of Linde Hall to review a memorial on the seventh day of the first lunar month.

The memorial was written in the prison in the hall. When was the drum beat, when was the court, what clothes she needed to wear, what crown she wore, what seat she sat, what seat the emperor sat, who was the first to speak, who was the last to speak, all the details were clearly written. At the end of the memorial, Cui Yuan also wrote a line of postscripts, 'The Queen Mother's duty is to listen to the affairs of the court, and the state affairs will be discussed and dealt with.' This is actually a warning to her not to take the opportunity to exercise power.

With a 'bang!', Cui Xiaofu slapped the pen in her hand hatefully. This was not what the empress dowager in the empress dowager was. This was clearly a puppet wearing the empress dowager's robe.

She stood up and walked to the window in a depressed mood. The flowers and trees outside were withered, their eyes were covered with bleakness, covered with snow. After looking at it for a while, her depression slightly calmed down.

At this time, her eyes fell on a bronze mirror next to the imperial desk. The light of the bronze mirror shone with people. In the bronze mirror was a woman full of mature charm. There were no traces of years left on her face, and her skin was as white as a girl's cream and elastic. Her figure was slim but plump, and her temperament was elegant and luxurious.

Cui Xiaofu sighed softly. She was only over thirty years old. Did she be the queen mother who had been in her 18 years? She suddenly hated Cui Yuan. He was his father and brother, but she was so cold and ruthless that she did not give her any chance.

However, no matter how much hatred she hated, she still admired Cui Yuan's methods. It was his cruelty and ruthlessness that made no comment in the court that Cui would replace Li. This is a very sensitive topic today when the Li royal family is declining day by day.

At the same time, Cui Yuan also saw her growing desire for power, and this desire for power is by no means the unity of the two forces in the Cui family. On the contrary, if she gained power, she would weaken the Cui family's status to a certain extent, so he firmly controlled the power in the court and did not give her any chance.

What Cui Xiaofu's biggest headache is that there is no important minister in the court who supports her. In the past, there were a few followers from the Dragon Sect. After the death of the Li clan, almost all the ministers in the court were either Cui Dang or Pei Dang, and the barriers were clear.

In the past, the empress dowager relied on her father and brother to take power, but Cui Xiaofu's relative was Cui Yuan. Cui Xiaofu sighed helplessly. She couldn't help but pick up her pen and wrote two names on the plain paper in front of her: Duan Xiushi and Zhang Huan.

These are two powerful figures who have risen in the recent Longyou Incident. Duan Xiushi is a veteran of the four dynasties, a strong leader of the royalist party, and the only legacy left by Li Shi.

Not long after Li Shi passed away, a letter of loyalty was sent from the cold north bank of the Yellow River to the Daming Palace. The first and last one expressed his firm loyalty to the Empress Dowager. Unfortunately, his situation was also not good. First, his general led his army to surrender to Pei Jun, and then the food was in a desperate situation. Finally, he took advantage of the troubles of Longyou to occupy Lingwu County, but he had a rare opportunity to breathe. Wei Yan wrote to the cabinet every few days to impeach Duan Xiushi and gained his own troops. He had ulterior motives and tried to drive him back to the Xishoucheng City.

This is his only supporter. He must take advantage of the New Year ceremony to give him the title of Shuofang Jiedushi so that he can stabilize his life in Lingwu. However, he is helpless in the court. Who can help her realize this wish?

Cui Xiaofu's pen couldn't help but make a heavy stroke under Zhang Huan's name. This newly rising prince of the Tang Dynasty was his former collaborator. He relied on him and ascended the position of the empress dowager as he wished.

Unfortunately, he refused to stay in the capital and finally married Pei Jun's daughter, which disappointed Cui Xiaofu for a while, but Li Fanyun advised her that Zhang Huan's ambition was not about the princes, and he would sooner or later turn against Cui and Pei.

In terms of eliminating the affairs of aristocratic families, their goals are the same. As for the distribution of power after Zhang Huan ascended the throne, it is still a very distant thing. What is important is that he is the only one who can help him.

She received a secret report from the eunuch who was responsible for purchasing items outside early in the morning. Zhang Huan had already entered Beijing this morning. Cui Xiaofu's pen slowly wrote down the third name on the plain paper: Cui Ning.
Chapter completed!