Xuanming Hall.

In February in the imperial capital, the delicate flowers. Pistil has been revealed, clustered in every shade of green or above. Not yet to Weiweiwei, but already colorful.

The east wind sends the freshness of spring and mud, the palace walls and so on, but still lingers in the winter chill. Such a chill, and with a pulse of spring is because of the Xuanming Hall in the charming new music, court musicians with skillful techniques, playing the intoxicating music, and courtesans bright and sweet voice, seemingly without, seemingly without, leisurely out.

Song blowing blowing into the wide square in front of the temple, two purple robes and gold crowns of the old man drooping eyebrows and eyes, look resolute kneeling under the alabaster railing, holding a tooth tablet, kneeling posture upright.

These two people in the left side of the body fat, fair skin, fine eyebrows long eyes or open and close, although because kneeling for a long time look slightly tired, however, staring ahead of the gaze calm as before, this is the master Duanmu awake. Wei dynasty government actually presided over.

The old man on the right side is tall and thin, with an emaciated face, and although his clothes are purple and vermilion, it is still hard to hide his scholarly atmosphere, and it is Situ Wei Yu.

Slightly behind them in the position, is a step after the arrival of the lieutenant Liu Sihuai, tall and sturdy lieutenant, although the age of a man, sideburns only a little frost, thick eyebrows and tiger eyes is not difficult to guess between its look is how Heshang Wei. But at the moment, Liu Sihuai has converged all the sharpness, only silently kneeling behind the Duanmu wake up.

After three people, a black pressurized piece of the court officials, just like a big dynasty also seems to be.

In addition to the Ming Pei Hall and Fu Feng Hall, and the Jiang Nan Hall, which needs to take care of Sikong Song Yu Wang, who has been bedridden since the beginning of spring, the hundred officials are basically all here.

Despite the silence, however, there was a wordless oppression outside the temple at the moment.

Little by little, it pressed into the middle of the great hall.

Just one hour passed, and another hour ...... remained silent in the hall.

Instead of Shen, Su two families arrived with Liu Sihuai, together with the participation of kneeling Palace Shen Xuan for this is no way thing, Duanmu wake up and Wei Yu has brought 80% of the civil and military, for the state of affairs of the hundred officials kneeling in the Palace, the Shen family Su family, but not in its own, spread the word out, the whole country to think that the Shen family Su family cowardice or recklessness in the country are light, this is history to leave a reputation for cowardice and confusion, but also the most important thing. This is the history of the great thing that left the name of cowardice and confusion.

In order to hundreds of years saved family reputation is not in their own hands disgrace, these two families although for the saint will be kneeling Palace forced to not think, at this moment also can not help but come over to do a show.

To the third hour, the sun has slanted, kneeling in the Palace of the people, has appeared to be unwell, or fainted on the ground, or rely on colleagues can barely support the situation. However, the door of the Xuanming Hall, is still closed, as if no knowledge, also do not realize.

As if the people in the temple is addicted to the beauty of the concubines surrounded, completely unaware of the temple has been full of civil and military long kneeling to ask for orders.

Until the day is almost dark, there is a scarlet robed chamberlain holding a silver silk duster, gathered his hands in his sleeves, crossed the duster between his elbows, sweating profusely out of the temple, hurriedly rowed to the side of the alabaster railing, whispered "The gentlemen also please go back, the Holy ...... Sage went to the Mingguang Palace to visit the noble consort lady! "

The location of Mingguang Palace is close to Huishu Palace where the Empress Dowager resides, and quite far away from Xuanming Hall. His Majesty chose to go to Ming Guang Palace at this time, with clear intentions.

Duanmu Sheng and Wei Yu looked at each other, and their eyes were full of bitterness ...... The sound of the chamberlain s words was light, but it took a day for the hundred officials to kneel in the palace for someone to come out, and at this moment, they are all listening with bated breath. Liu Sihuai, Shen Xuan, Su Pingzhan and others all heard it clearly and couldn't help but let out a long silent sigh.

The scene was silent for a moment, but Duanmu Sheng still shook his head and said in a deep voice, "There's no harm in it, we'll just continue to wait for His Holiness to return!"

Seeing that he was determined to consume, the chamberlain couldn't help but say anxiously, "The night is deep and the dew is heavy, the old master is already old, why is this necessary? His Holiness has already said before his departure that he will be settled in Ming Guang Palace today!"

"Then the old man will wait until tomorrow morning when His Holiness returns to the temple to declare it!"

"What if His Holiness were to stay at Mingguang Palace for a few days?" The chamberlain shook his head and said, "His Majesty's mind is already made up, why are the Imperial Master and the princes so bitter? I'm not hiding it from you all, His Holiness just heard that all the princes are here with all the officials, and is ...... very unhappy!"

But Duanmu wake is iron heart, let the chamberlain how to persuade, is not allowed to leave. In the kneeling palace people, Duanmu awake official rank and as a valve of the Lord, on the seniority of the long, on the age is also one of the largest people. He does not go, those who want to go can not afford to lose this face, so they have to accompany the kneeling.

So to the middle of the night, the field has fallen more than a dozen people. Duanmu wake's body shape is also hunched up, occasionally look back because of physical exhaustion fell colleagues, gaze pathos but insisted on ...... Shen Xuan really can not see past, and Su Pingzhan make a wink, weng son-in-law mind unanimity, Su Pingzhan will move the knee forward, gently pulling Duanmu wake's sleeve, said in a low voice "Duanmu brother, I have a word, can you Listen to it?"

Perhaps because of the long kneeling under the physical strength has reached the limit, Duanmu awake staggering, do not have the heart to pleasantries, hoarse voice "Su Xian Di if you want to persuade the old man to stop, but the old man can not follow the order."

"We are kneeling in the palace here for nothing more than peace and quiet in Yanzhou." Su Pingzhan of course is in order to persuade Duanmu waking managed to step down before opening his mouth, but Duanmu waking since the first refused, he will change the rhetoric, said, "but the saint insisted on not listening, and now it is even far away from the Mingguang Palace to avoid, is it like this a consume a few days, let the land bandits sit up to not?"

Duanmu Sheng sighed.

He had guessed what Su Pingzhan meant.

Sure enough, Su Pingzhan's voice was even lower "The hundred officials are here, so it is clear that the hearts of the people are available. His Holiness plainly does not ask about political affairs, why not ......?"

"Is it only possible to decapitate the people first?" Duanmu Sheng looked at the dark Xuanming Hall and said in a daze.

He is also the head of a valve, the status of seniority in the scholars, and Shen Xuan, Su Pingzhan are equal. However, he is not as indifferent to Wei as Shen and Su. Even though the Duanmu family is also suspected by the saint was greatly suppressed, so that the outstanding sons and daughters do not dare to show, but Duanmu wake up is a sincere hope that the Wei can continue to continue.

This has to do with the fact that Duanmu woke up from the end of the first emperor on the auxiliary government, the world of Wei in recent decades is basically his hand in the management.

The world is Shin's world, at least in name.

But the actual caretaker of this world was Duanmu Wake.

From the late emperor Yi Zong, still young Duanmu wake up in the family support on the road to the heavy minister, began to replace the slack monarch governance of this great world career.

Decades of dedication, even if Duanmu wake is not completely clean and self-contained, many times he had to compromise on the common interests of the clan as well as the needs of the Duanmu family, however, for their own life's work of the dynasty, and how can there be no feelings? Since Xizong, to the present, three generations of monarchs, none of the diligence of the government, each long years in the harem, the day banquet, only ask the wine and meat forests, beautiful people such as jade, do not care about the gods and the countryside.

The imperial study in the dust accumulation of several feet, the master of the house has long been accustomed to the study in the lights all night long, all night staff.

He assisted two generations of monarchs, and was accustomed to making annotations with a vermilion pen.

Mediate between the complicated scholar clan, clan, common people, in the heavy burden, in the stormy weather, struggling to maintain the functioning and continuity of Wei it seems that this kind of maintenance has become a habit. Even if you know that kneeling in the palace in this way will certainly make the emperor think that this is the clan in the palace, leading to the Yanshou City incident on the valve reading the increasingly serious suspicion of the emperor was angry and choose to oppose to the end.

But ......

Duanmu Wake was still counting on the what-ifs.

He didn't want the Great Wei to decline, much less to perish.

He hoped that His Holiness would come to his senses and understand what is urgent and what is slow ......

After all, even the crown prince face the saint has failed, even if Duanmu woke up privately begged to see the saint begged, the result is nothing more than the same.

Kneeling Palace.

It was the only way he could think of, emergency or fluke.

All in all, Duanmu Wake was desperate at the moment.

Jinxiu Duanmu is like the Fengzhou Wei Clan, a house of literary prosperity, without talents that specialize in martial strategy.

Otherwise, if Su Pingzhan could think of decapitation, how could Duanmu Sheng not think of it?

But just as His Holiness was not at ease with the Liu family, Duanmu Sheng would not be at ease with the Liu family leading the Donghu army to attack Yanzhou.

So the general must be replaced.

But the only people who can replace the Liu family to command the Donghu army are the Shen and Su families who are reliable. Because if you replace the generals from the common people, what if they learn from Royston Lu? Although the Liu family trained Donghu army will not go along with the mutiny, but if this person deliberately commanded the Donghu army to lose in the hands of Royston Lu to do the step of advancement?

Even though his family was brought under control, doing so in today's situation would inevitably chill the other ministers of the commoner clans in the court!

Once people's hearts are scattered, how can we rely on the scholarly clans alone to maintain this huge dynasty?

Not to mention that if it is not the same origin valve read the main general, even if the army with the East Hu hit Yanzhou ...... that time may not be able to hold down the line, at that time, with the Liu family with the army and what is the difference?

However, Duanmu woke up to discuss with Shen and Su in private, but the two families all pretended to be confused.

After all, in the opinion of these two families, even if Yanzhou is recaptured, so what? The world is already in chaos, and the country has no bright masters, so it's just a matter of dragging it out for a few more days, so it's better to save some effort.

The most important thing is that the saint is clearly old and confused, the year before when the scholars teamed up to change the reserves, the saint still has a point of clarity, backed down.

Now what time is the saint still intends to let Yanzhou temporarily fall in the hands of Royston Lu so as to drag down the Liu family ...... This kind of old fool of the saint is the most difficult to serve, but one accidentally he was furious directly under the decree of the death of you, you are against or not against? If you do not, the Shen family will immediately be pushed into the limelight, not to mention the Western Liang army has not yet found a reason to enter the Central Plains it! If you don't rebel, are you just waiting to die?......

Besides, the world is in chaos, there is nothing wrong with letting the Liu family weaken a few points ......

In short, Duanmu woke up can not persuade the Shen family Su family to send people to lead the army, he led the people here to kneel in the palace, both kneeling to the saint to see, but also kneeling to the Shen family, Su family, kneeling to the full dynasty of the civil and military to see.

At this moment, listening to Su Pingzhan loosened his tone, Duanmu awake but still not much joy, tiredly said, "Then Su virtuous brother intends to a few times ......"

The words did not finish, but heard Su Pingzhan said faintly "Brother Duanmu misunderstood, my intention is to say that the Yanzhou matter, we deal with it on our own, why bother His Majesty? Do not you know that over the years, His Majesty has been living in the harem for a long time, and seldom asks about foreign affairs, which has become a rule?"