Chapter 157 The dust is settled and everything is over

At the celebration banquet, Li Ye met Ling Xiao again. The woman, who has been dreaming for a long time, is sitting quietly on the high platform at this moment, with a dignified and decent light smile on the corners of her mouth. Her eyes are far away. Although she is smiling, it makes him feel inexplicably sad. Obviously, it is in front of her, but it is so unreal and unreachable to reach.

"Today is the day when General Li's triumphant return to the court. I'm very relieved." Outside the palace wall, the whole country was jubilant. Inside the palace wall, hundreds of officials congratulated. As soon as the emperor opened his golden mouth, the whole hall was solemn. A simple sentence had set off an uproar in everyone's hearts, but it was also expected.

"Hangtray, my emperor, long live." Long live the sound of the mountain vibrates in the banquet hall for a long time.

Li Ye, the young general who became famous after defeating Wuhuan, is now dressed in a military uniform, with a solemn atmosphere. The corner of the cold and hard robe is even stained with dark red blood. What is completely different from this cold temperament is that the water-like gentleness flashes in his eyes.

The queen died, and the noble concubine was ill. At this moment, she, Zhaoyi Ling, was the only one sitting on the throne with the emperor. Today, she is a woman who stands side by side with the king of a country and temporarily responsibilities as the mother of the country. She is very luxurious, but because of this, she has a sense of distance.

Li Ye thought, about this is the so-called high place is cold. I don't know if she feels it. When his mind moved, he immediately recovered, put away all the things that should not be, and buried deep in the corner of the heart that never saw the light.

Although it defeated Wuhuan, the Qianxi Dynasty was also greatly damaged, and it would take several years to recover. During this period, there must be no more waves and fight again, so even if Feng Yuqi has found evidence of Rui Wang's death, he still can't take action against Xie Xiang's party.

However, this is not urgent. Feng Yuqi secretly collected the criminal evidence of the Prime Minister's party members and cultivated his own power, and Li Ye was his most powerful and most reliable subordinate, regarded as a confidant and even a friend.

However, Li Ye is well aware of the truth that accompanying the king is like a tiger. Even if the origin of many years ago was there, while supporting the emperor, he acted low-key and introversion, and never forgot because of pride. What's more, he never took this road to become famous.

He just wants to be able to stand beside her and shelter her from the wind and rain, and no one dares to bully her. Although, this has long become a luxury; although, he has long lost the possibility of standing side by side with her; although, they have never had tomorrow.

However, he found another way to protect her - to protect the person she wanted to protect. What's more, only when she becomes strong can she rely on her when she leaves that person one day. Of course, he would rather never have that day.

When the rumors of "the rabbit is dead and the dog is cooked, and the birds are full of the bows" are rampant, the trust between the kings and ministers is getting higher and higher, and the cooperation is becoming more and more tacit. Even with the help of Li Ye, Feng Yuqi resisted the pressure from all directions and promulgated the new policy that had been mentioned a few years ago but was suppressed by Xie Xiang's party.

The core of the new policy is to recruit the sons of heaven and strengthen the centralization of power. At the same time, it also means that it weakens the power of the family and affects those who have vested interests. It is difficult to implement it. However, Xie is no longer in those years, and due to the participation of the new general Li Ye, the situation in the court is no longer what it used to be, and I don't know when the situation of the Prime Minister has disappeared. Even if the voice of opposition is still very loud, it can no longer give people a thunderous shock, let alone affect the overall situation.

In addition, the new policy benefits scholars all over the world. Once it is implemented, it is supported by mathematicians, and Feng Yuqi easily accepted the hearts of these people. With the injection of more and more fresh blood, the Xie officials in the court were gradually cleaned, and the emperor's authority became stronger and stronger invisibly, and Li Ye was unconsciously powerful, but he was different from Xie Xiang in those years - behind him was the emperor.

The imperial power is gradually concentrated, and the time is ripe. It's time to take action.

"Go and invite the queen out." Feng Yuqi gave an order, and a servant answered and left.

In Ling Xiao's astonished eyes, the queen in a bag of coarse cloth lifted the curtain, and the corners of her mouth even smiled, and her face was even more beautiful. Even if it was a Jing hairpin skirt, it was difficult to hide her grace.

"Ling Zhaoyi, the emperor will leave it to you in the future, and this huge harem, this burden will be carried by you." The queen took Ling Xiao's hand with tears in her eyes, but her smile was sincere and bright, with a faint sense of relief.

"I've been tired of it for a long time. The endless struggle is just that for him, it's always hard to give up..."

"It's okay..."

When the queen walked out of the palace door, she only left these two intermittent sentences. Ling Xiao didn't figure out what was behind the sentence "It's okay". However, she could feel that the queen left with gratification, full of desolation, but she was free and free and wanton that could never be compared with each other in the past.

After experiencing so much and feeling that kind of peace, how can she have the courage to live such a life? She is already the second person, and the queen is dead at the moment of seeing the sun again.

That's all. Just do the last thing for him.

There is nothing more sensational than the news that the deceased queen suddenly appeared in front of the descendants. The next day, the descendants, who had always been neutral, reported to the children and officials of the United clan to praise the benefits of the new policy, and impeached Xie Xiang one after another, listing dozens of his crimes. The headline charge was that he secretly harmed King Rui on the battlefield!

The emperor was furious and ordered a thorough investigation. With the help of Li Ye and the descendants, this thorough investigation was particularly vigorous. In less than half a month, it was found out that Xie Xiang's crimes were all true.

Xie Xiang, who used to be superior, was sent to prison in an instant, and there was no way to fight. And the emperor continued to issue an order, but anyone who is close to Xie should be subject to strict investigation. Once there is an illegal act, he will never indulge.

However, if you can take the initiative to confess and metabolize the crime, you can be pardoned. In this way, there are naturally more and more crimes on Xie's head, and it is even difficult to write. Among them, of course, there are many falsely people, but up to now, whether it is true or not, what is the matter?

The important thing is that the emperor is determined to eradicate the Xie family, which is the general trend, and it is difficult to turn around.

This matter involves a wide range of things. Everything in the past has now been pulled out, completely liquidated, and the Prime Minister's party has been wiped out. With Xie Xiang's own Ling Chi, the family was cut off by the whole family, and the Xie family, a century-old family, was uprooted, and the court pattern was reshuffled.

After the dust settled, the descendants resigned from all the rewards given by the emperor and took the initiative to decentralization. At the moment when they saw the "first" queen appear in front of them, they knew that in addition to remembering the emperor's kindness, what was more important was to act cautiously and weaken the power, so as not to follow in the footsteps of the Xie family. The young emperor is not as simple as they thought.

And the queen volunteered to practice and prayed for the emperor and the country. The foreign relatives, who have already been slighted, have completely no threat, and there is no possibility of sitting up again.

And Xie Guifei, the sad and lamentable woman who was honored by the family and tired of her life, was also implicated after the fall of the Xie family. All the things she had done in the past were pulled out and given to death. In the end, the funeral was still held with the ceremony of the noble concubine - the emperor left her some dignity.

Zhaoyi Ling was canonized as the new queen of the Qianxi Dynasty, the mother of the world. The concubine Lin Jin became the noble concubine Xuan, and the beauty Lu was in the Yilan Palace - the next day, she was "reborn" next to the pavilion outside the palace like the former queen. The rest of the concubines pressed and didn't mention it. The former sisters now have their own endings.

Since then, the war has calmed down, the court is Jingqing, everything has settled down, the emperor's love, the world is peaceful, but the emperor's health is getting worse and worse, and over the years of hard work has become a disease.

Despite criticism, the queen began to help the emperor deal with government affairs.

Before his death, the emperor left an edict to let the infuriating prince born to the queen ascend the throne. Li Ye was the regent, and Ling Xiao was the Empress Dowager.

Under the rule of the empress dowager and the regent, the Qianxi Dynasty became richer and stronger. Fifteen years later, the emperor was in power, and the empress dowager died in the bedroom. She was buried in the mausoleum with the former emperor, forty-five years old.