When the queen mother heard this, she didn't care much, and immediately set off to go to the Son of Heaven's bedroom, before leaving, she glanced back at Li Xin, and her voice was a little desolate.

"Hou Ye Li, do you want to go together?"

Li Xin nodded silently, got up and said, "Niangniang goes first, and the minister will arrive later." ”

Empress Xie carried her long skirt and left the side hall with broken steps, while Li Xin stood in place for a while before stepping away and walking in the direction of the Son of Heaven's bedroom.

When he walked to the door of the Son of Heaven's dormitory, Empress Xie had already entered, and the Marquis of Jing'an closed his eyes, let out a long breath, and waited at the door of the dormitory with his hands down.

After a long time, there was no movement in the dormitory.

Then, a group of old men with gray beards also appeared at the door of the Son of Heaven's dormitory, they first glanced at Li Xin, and then they all stood beside Li Xin with sad faces and waited quietly.

It is the five Zaifu of Shangshutai.

Today's Shangshutai Zaifu is very different from the Zaifu ten years ago, ten years ago, when the Son of Heaven succeeded to the throne, most of the Zaifu of Shangshutai were former ministers of the Chengde Dynasty, such as Huan Chu Zhangqu, and now the Zaifu of the Chengde Dynasty either died of illness or died of old age.

In the ten years of the Taikang Dynasty, Li Xin existed as a lonely minister in a sense, except for the Chen Guogong Mansion, he basically did not interact with any other officials, whether it was a civil minister or a military general, so he knew each of these five Zaifu, but he was not familiar with any of them.

Although Li Xin can be called a high and powerful person in the Taikang Dynasty, but on closer examination, his status may be high, but in terms of weight, these five ruling ministers are the real powerful people, because in a sense, Shangshutai jumped from the division of the Son of Heaven.

And Li Xin, the authority is only in the army, at most he is a military department secretary, and if he is a serious military department secretary, he will also be controlled by these five old men.

In the end, it was the old minister of the Chengde Dynasty, and the Zhongshu ordered Ram Shu to cross the crowd, walked in front of Li Xin, and bowed his hand slightly: "Hou Ye Li." ”

Li Xin glanced at the old man and returned the salute: "Zhongshu Ling is polite." ”

In terms of official character, Li Xin is a little higher than these five old men, but in terms of power, he is much inferior, and Ram Shu has a very high rank in the imperial court, so he can be regarded as Li Xin's elder.

The Chinese scholar glanced at the dormitory and sighed slightly.

"Hou Ye Li arrived first, do you know what happened?"

Ten years ago, that is, in the eighteenth year of Chengde, the five Zaifu of Shangshutai were also called into the palace like now, but the Son of Heaven at that time lived in Changle Palace, and now the Son of Heaven lives in Weiyang Palace.

Now that the scene has reappeared, this Chinese scholar has a very bad premonition in his heart.

Li Xin looked left and right, and found that the six Shangshu were also coming one after another, among which the two Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Officials had already arrived, he glanced at Ram Shu, and asked silently: "May I ask the Zhongshu Order, who are you who summoned you to the palace?" ”

"Go to the inner court and Grandpa Xiao."

Ram Shu is already in his seventies, and he said with some difficulty: "Just now, Gonggong Xiao sent someone to Shangshutai and asked me to wait at the gate of Weiyang Palace, I don't know what the specific thing is." ”

The father-in-law Xiao in his mouth naturally refused to be Xiao Huai, but Xiao Zheng, the eunuch of the inner chamberlain.

Li Xin nodded, and then glanced at Ram Shu.

"I was also from Gonggong Xiao's palace, not long before Zhongshu Ling, let's wait here together."

The Xiao Gonggong in his mouth and the Xiao Gonggong in the Ram Shu's mouth are not the same person.

Ram Shu glanced at Li Xin, then nodded helplessly, turned back to his position, closed his eyes and rested.

Gradually, there are more and more people at the gate of Weiyang Palace, in addition to the six Shangshu and other big Jiuqing, there are also six waiters, as well as Xiao Jiuqing, etc., all arrived at the gate of Weiyang Palace and stood outside the palace gate with their hands down.

Li Xin, as the secretary of the Ministry of War, naturally all stood behind him after the officials of the Ministry of War arrived, and Ye Luan, who was the squire of the Ministry of War, stood near Li Xin and quietly lowered his voice.

"Chang'an, what's wrong...?"

Ye Lan is different from Li Xin, Li Xin is on a temporary post in the Ministry of War, just playing tickets, and he doesn't really want to do things in the Ministry of War, but Ye Lan is different, although he is separated from the Ye family and set up a separate Ningling Marquis Mansion, but after all, he was born in the Ye family, and this background is destined to make him unlikely to be in charge of the army.

As a military general, if you can't be in charge of the army, you can only do things in the Yamen of the Ministry of War, so Ye Lan, the squire of the Ministry of War, is a serious waiter, and he has to go to the Yamen of the Ministry of War every day to order Mao, no accident, for a long time in the future, he will not beg for food.

Li Xin's face did not change, and he said in a deep voice: "I don't know. ”

At this, he paused.

"But looking at the current situation, it should be His Majesty who summoned the ministers......"

Ye Luan's face changed.

"...... so fast"

Li Xin looked in the direction of Weiyang Palace and let out a long sigh.

"yes, it's fast."

In this way, it didn't take long for all the officials above the third grade in the capital to arrive, they waited at the gate of Weiyang Palace for about an hour, and the sky was completely dark, at this time it was still snowing outside, and there were not too many people standing in the eaves of the palace gate, so many officials outside now have snow white in their hair and clothes.

Finally, Xiao Zheng, a big eunuch dressed in red, appeared in front of everyone, his face was heavy, and after glancing at the ministers at the entrance of the hall, he bowed slightly.

"Your Majesty, please enter the palace."

With that, he turned and walked in.

Several Zaisuke glanced at each other, and then took the lead and walked in.

At this time, the head of the family who had already arrived at the scene, such as Xuantong, the general of the left battalion of the forbidden army, Hou Jingde, and other generals, also communicated with each other and walked into the Weiyang Palace.

Li Xin's face was expressionless, his hands were in his sleeves, and he walked towards the Weiyang Palace with the officials of the Ministry of War.

The ministers were brought into the main hall of Weiyang Palace, and stood according to the usual position of the court, and Li Xin stood in the position of the secretary of the military department, with an expressionless face.

Xiao Zheng, who was dressed in red, first glanced at Li Xin, and then led the five Zaifu of Shangshutai to the Son of Heaven's bedroom in the apse of Weiyang Palace.

This is an inevitable thing, if the Son of Heaven dies, then all the things that will be handed over to the throne will actually have to be worried about by several Zaifu, including the funeral of the Son of Heaven, as well as the various etiquette rules of the new emperor's succession, all of which must be handled by several Zaifu and people from the Ministry of Rites.

Therefore, at this time, several Zaisuke are definitely going to face the king.

As for the other people present, that is, they came to be present to testify, and basically they did not see the Son of Heaven.

The five Zaifu followed Xiao Zheng to the apse for about an hour, and the red-clothed eunuch Xiao returned to the main hall of Weiyang Palace again, he walked in front of Li Xin, and then took a deep breath.

"Master Hou, Your Majesty summoned you over."

Hearing this, Li Xinli had mixed feelings for a while.

To be honest, the death of the Son of Heaven at this time is a good thing for him from a political perspective, after all, from now on, the biggest constraint on his head may disappear.

But from a personal emotional point of view, he will still be a little unacceptable for a while.

The Marquis of Jing'an nodded silently.

"Father-in-law Xiao will lead the way."