Chapter 8 Within ten steps
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"'I want to eat meat', what does this mean?" Donghai King was confused and looked at the people in the room one by one. Finally, he looked at the emperor and suddenly understood. The son changed the content of the "Lianhuang Edict" on his back. He instantly kicked Jingjian out of his heart, rushed over, and shouted: "You dare to fool me!"
Although Jing Yao was old, his hands and feet were very nimble. He hurriedly hugged King Donghai and shouted loudly: "King King Donghai respects himself, this is the palace!"
King Donghai was shocked. He knew that he had made a big mistake and his attitude immediately softened. "I'm sorry, I...please forgive me for a moment..."
Han Ruzi nodded slightly, indicating that she didn't care.
"Is this really that note?" Jing Yao was still confused.
"Your Majesty left a lot of ink treasures yesterday, and you can tell the truth and falsehood of a pair of handwriting." Yang Feng carefully put away the note. The Empress Dowager had already believed that the opinions of others were not important.
"How did you get it?"
"Mr. Yuan took the initiative to hand it over to me." Yang Feng said calmly.
The Minister of Rites was "smarter" than expected. Jing Yao was angry but did not dare to be angry. He said with a blushing face: "The fasting will end soon. Your Majesty has many days to eat meat. Why tell the little things to the outside ministers?"
"It's hard for me to find someone to talk to in the palace." Han Ruzi walked back to the bed.
Jing Yao and Zuo Ji looked at each other, but they didn't know how to answer this sentence. They stumbled a few times and said in unison. The King of Donghai stared at the emperor until he heard Jing Yao's urging and said goodbye stiffly.
Yang Feng stayed in the same place and did not move. The three people who had retreated to the door stopped again, not wanting to leave the emperor alone to the treacherous and sloppy Zhongchangshi.
"According to the will of the Empress Dowager, from today on, I will serve Your Majesty." Yang Feng said.
The three of them did not stop and left in a hurry.
Yang Feng walked to the bed and said, "You are very smart and have not really written any secret decree. You are also very lucky. The Queen Mother is magnanimous and thinks this is just a child's nonsense and doesn't want to pursue it too much."
Han Ruzi looked up and asked, "I almost harmed many people, did I?"
"Your Majesty is too worried. Everyone has a way to protect themselves, both inside and outside the palace and in the court. Those who need His Majesty's protection are those who are not worthy of protection."
Han Ruzi remembered the two eunuchs who were beaten, and their way of protecting themselves was to scream.
After finally meeting Yang Feng, he wanted to ask some things clearly: "What are the benefits of being an emperor? King Donghai wants to be an emperor so much, you don't agree. I have never thought about this before, but you have to push me up. I heard that my grandfather, Emperor Wu, was angry and bleeding thousands of miles away. When I arrived at me, I didn't even dare to admit my biological mother."
Yang Feng took a step forward, some words that should not be said, but some of the emperor's qualities touched him, and Yang Feng was willing to take a risk, "Do you want to know what the emperor is?"
Han Ruzi nodded hesitantly.
"Emperor Wu bleed thousands of miles away, but there were thousands of miles away. The army of Da Chu never exhausted the whole world. Moreover, Emperor Wu also had troubles around him. The prince of three Yi and the important officials were killed seven times, and the inner palace was extremely favored and deposed. Emperor Wu encountered at least five times in his life, three times in the way in the condom, once in the court, and once in the palace."
Han Ruzi's eyes lit up, "Mother has never...I've never heard of these stories."
"This is not a bedtime story." Yang Feng's tone became stern, "I'm telling you a truth."
"No matter how powerful the emperor is, there will be times when he is not satisfied?" Han Ruzi guessed.
Yang Feng said coldly: "I am telling you what a real emperor looks like. The most real one is not the so-called well-educated scholars claiming."
Han Ruzi thought for a while and murmured: "The emperor has no control over a thousand miles away. Within ten steps, the emperor is no different from ordinary people, so the emperor's power is only ten steps away, within a thousand miles... And I am trapped within ten steps."
This child is very smart. If the situation is slightly better, Yang Feng is sure to train him to become a wise king, but the current situation only allows him to talk about it on paper.
"How can we break the dilemma?" Han Ruzi asked with a look.
Yang Feng shook his head, "There is no way, the times, the momentum, and many heroes from ancient times to the present have been unknown for life because they were born at the wrong time. Your Majesty should rest with peace of mind."
When Yang Feng retreated, he didn't have to serve the emperor at night, let alone do everything he could to teach the emperor.
Han Ruzi was lying on the bed, someone came into the room, blew out the lights, and fell on the couch by the window.
"Ten steps away, within a thousand miles." Han Ruzi figured out Yang Feng's words, thinking that his "time situation" would arrive and when it would arrive. Suddenly, Yang Feng's heart moved. Some words were not clearly stated. Since there were ordinary people within ten steps, why couldn't he do something within ten steps?
He looked sideways at the blurred figure on the chair and found that he had been looking at the Queen Mother and Quan Huan these days, ignoring too many details around him, "Cough... what's your name?"
It was quiet in the darkness. The new waiter seemed to have learned from the lessons of the first two eunuchs and was unwilling to talk to the emperor. After a while, a woman finally spoke: "My name is Meng'e, is there anything wrong?"
This voice was cold and neither called himself a "slave" nor respected "Your Majesty". It seemed even more rude than Jing Yao, who came to provoke a military officer.
Han Ruzi met a tough opponent in his first attempt at "within ten steps". He tried hard to recall the appearance of this palace maid, but he could not remember that there were too many people coming and going these days, and they all looked the same, which was really difficult to identify.
"How are those two people?"
"Which two people?"
"The two people who were beaten because of me."
Meng E in the darkness was silent for a while, "They deserved the sin."
"If I have any sin, my sin will be greater."
"There are differences in high and low, and there are differences in high and low. Since the master and slave are divided, there will be no same sin."
Han Ruzi originally wanted to win the favor of the palace maids around her, but the other party was speechless. Meng E didn't move, as if she was asleep immediately.
The next morning, Han Ruzi finally saw Meng E's true face. She looked about twenty years old and was not much taller than the thirteen-year-old emperor. She was not ugly in appearance, and she was absolutely not beautiful. She looked dull and was no different from other people in the palace. Han Ruzi didn't remember when she started serving her.
The young emperor was not defeated by this failure, but instead made up his mind to pay attention to everyone "within ten steps", but he should avoid mistakes when writing "secret edicts" and never implicate others anymore.
Soon he discovered that the eunuchs and palace maids around him were not the same as the same. Behind his dull expression, everyone's little things were hidden: the old eunuch holding a crown glanced at the palace maids holding a dress from time to time, and the palace maids holding a dress quietly paid attention to the companions holding a dress box... Meng E was also in the chain of mutual monitoring, but her status was slightly higher, and no one dared to look at her.
Yang Feng did not participate in these mini games. He was waiting outside the door and no one watched it. When time came, he escorted the emperor to pay homage to the empress dowager and attended the ceremony, almost inseparable from him.
At first, Han Ruzi thought that these people were full of conflicts with each other. On the way to meet with officials of the Ministry of Rites, he suddenly realized that the eunuchs and palace maids were actually their own masters and fearing each other.
The Minister of Rites did not come today, and a minister took his place. He kept a distance from the emperor at all times. Try not to speak without opening his mouth.
The afternoon fasting was normal. Yang Feng did not kneel at the door, and was guarding outside the door according to the rules, never coming in to disturb the emperor and the King of East China Sea.
King Tokai was very surprised by this. He waited for more than an hour before speaking, "It's really strange that no one monitored us."
Han Ruzi didn't say anything and didn't look back.
King Donghai coughed twice, and finally couldn't help but say what he said, "It's not that I told you about the secret, it's that you are too uncautionary and reveal your weakness. But your move is bad enough, 'I want to eat meat', you want to try whether the Minister of Rites is trustworthy, right? Well, you're so cautious, so cautious."
Han Ruzi's last little trust in Donghai King had long disappeared, but this person was within ten steps. He didn't want to have a dispute, so he said: "Anyway, this matter can't be done no matter what."
"If you are more courageous, maybe the Minister of Rites could take action yesterday, but you wrote 'I want to eat meat'. Of course, the ministers will not take it seriously. Only by taking risks can you gain something. Like you, you will never be able to survive."
"I didn't think of 'leading', and now it's no worse than before."
"You will lose your head at any time now!" King Donghai felt incredible about the emperor's calmness, but when he thought that his earlier threat had not had any effect on the emperor's brother, he felt relieved. "I understand what you mean. Your mother and son were really... so miserable. Without a king or a master, he was worse than ordinary royal children. If you want me, the Queen Mother must hate you mother and son very much, and she wouldn't even want to meet you."
"Have you met the Queen Mother?"
"I have seen her before, she is not a simple person..." King Donghai pressed his voice even lower, "As long as she is there, the father's eyes will never look at anyone. It is said that she can - witchcraft."
Speaking of the word "witchcraft", Donghai King was frightened first, knelt honestly, and murmured: "Maybe she can hear it when we talk here, otherwise she would have been injured by her own witchcraft, so she hid and dared not see anyone."
Han Ruzi didn't believe in witchcraft very much, so she turned sideways, looked at the King of Donghai and said puzzledly: "Why did the Queen Mother ask you to be my servant and allow us to get along alone?"
"To humiliate me and the Cui family." King Donghai said angrily, without any concealing his anger towards the Queen Mother and his covetousness for the throne.
Han Ruzi didn't think so, and even suspected that King Donghai was pretending to be stupid. Anyway, if he was King Donghai, he would not be in a hurry at all. Since the Cui family is a big family, they would never easily surrender to the Queen Mother, and King Donghai still has a chance.
"We have to find a way to deal with the Queen Mother. This time we send a message to our Cui family." King Donghai couldn't guess the emperor's idea and made new suggestions excitedly.
"No." Han Ruzi simply refused, "I don't want to deal with anyone, especially the Queen Mother. If I stay on the throne for a short time, it's my life."
Han Ruzi turned around, Donghai King looked at him in surprise, and after a moment, he showed an extremely angry expression.
There was an extra dish for dinner, and it tasted quite meaty after it was put into the mouth. Han Ruzi was surprised. He was still fasting and could not touch meat. After chewing a few bites, he found that it was mushrooms. It seemed that his complaints were of some use.
After the meal, Han Ruzi took every opportunity to talk to the eunuchs or palace maids around her, but she gained little. They were confused by the change in the emperor's personality and soon became alert. They did not answer as much as possible. When they had to speak, they had to think about it again and again. Those words did not seem to be said to the emperor, but they were like hopes to convey to someone who was not present.
What everyone feels from the emperor is not intimacy, but pressure.
Yang Feng went in and out, heard some conversations, and did not object, nor did he take the opportunity to make suggestions. He was like a half-hearted herder, occasionally coming to see if the cattle and sheep were still eating grass, and then he went to do his own business.
All day long, Han Ruzi was exhausted, and all the gains were just a few answers, and he was still deserted within ten steps.
While lying in bed at night, Han Ruzi recalled her experiences all day and found that she was not gaining nothing. At least she learned one thing: there was not only the power of the empress dowager in the palace, but there was a surging tide around him.
But this was not helpful to the current emperor. He could not control the situation within ten steps, nor did he find a "moment" that was beneficial to him. Until he was about to go to bed at night, a small thing gave Han Ruzi some confidence.
He was about to fall asleep at that time, and suddenly the voice of the palace maid Meng E came from the window, "I asked, those two people were sent to heal and cannot die."
Han Ruzi's sleepiness suddenly disappeared. He cared about the life and death of the two eunuchs, but it was not as good as he always cared about. He was happy because someone finally answered his question head-on, and a pool of stagnant water within ten steps finally moved a little.
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