Celebrate Christmas with two chapters in a row.

Chuxiu Palace.

Lan Concubine ignored Tang Wufu's dissuasion, "Master, Niangniang, there is smoke and fire there, how can you let your feet on the ground!" Personally stepping on the bottom of the flower pot, ticking and ticking to the small kitchen to look at tonight's dishes, saw only one piece of sea bass soup, the others are the common dishes of chicken, duck and fish and fresh fruits and vegetables, then nodded with satisfaction, and then returned to the dormitory, because it was a little sweaty, Xingzhen quickly asked Anqian to help him wash his face, feeling that he was really refreshing to remove his makeup, Xingzhen sat idly under the window and thought about things, the warm wind was urging, and he couldn't help but start napping, in his dream, With incense is sleepwalking in his previous life, he was in a daze for time, heard Xiao Zhuzi clapping his hands outside, Xingzhen was a spirit, knowing that it was Emperor Xianfeng who was coming, and hurriedly prepared to get up, the emperor really lifted the curtain and came in, Xingzhen went down to meet the emperor, his expression was a little unnatural, can it be natural, his dream in his previous life was wearing big flower shorts, in the food stalls of the night market, eating meat with Erlang's legs, drinking in a big bowl, and playing games loudly.

"The concubine has lost her honor, please forgive the emperor." Xingzhen hurriedly stayed to give gifts.

Emperor Xianfeng waved his hand, "It's okay," with a gloomy expression, he sat on the kang, and Anqian was not interested in the Biluo spring tea he sent, and motioned Anqian to put the tea cup on the coffee table, watching the mist rising from the tea in the azure bowl after the rain was silent.

Xingzhen guessed a little why Emperor Xianfeng's interest was so low. What else can there be, it's always a matter of the south, a big thing for Hong Yang's traitor, Xingzhen got up and sat back on the kang, and saw a copy of "Three Hundred Tang Poems" spread out on the small few in front of her, and secretly praised in her heart: Anqian is really beautiful!

The approving look gave one to Ann Qian, who was serving refreshments, and Ann Qian knew it, smiled slightly, and stood aside with her hands down.

Xingzhen spoke: "Your Majesty, what's wrong?" Why are you so sullen today? ”

"It's a matter of the previous dynasty, the suppression of bandits in Hunan is unfavorable, and the situation in northern Hunan has been completely eroded, where do you say I can be in a good mood." Emperor Xianfeng said a few words sullenly, picked up the tea with his hand, and found that he didn't have any appetite for tea, so he put down the bowl and sighed.

Under normal circumstances, the concubines will persuade the emperor to relax, or dance and sing a song to help the emperor Longyan be happy, but I didn't expect Xingzhen to do the opposite, "Oh" for a while, just like a child, picked up the "Three Hundred Tang Poems" in her hand and watched it with relish.

The emperor was suddenly a little depressed, why didn't Concubine Lan persuade me to make me happy? Looking up at Lan Concubine, she was looking at "Three Hundred Tang Poems", and couldn't help but ponder for a while, and asked, "Lan Concubine, what are you looking at?" ”

"The concubine is reading Bai Letian's poems, Bai Letian's poems are easy to understand, but they have a sense of meaning, your majesty," Xingzhen moved "Three Hundred Tang Poems" to the small coffee table, and pointed to the poem she was pretending to read with her index finger, "This is the poem, endowed with the ancient grass to say goodbye, and the concubine has to test the emperor." Xingzhen winked playfully, "What are the two couplets in this poem?" ”

Emperor Xianfeng was amused, "Concubine Lan, this is too simple, right?" Exactly, the wildfire burns inexhaustibly, and the spring breeze blows and grows! ”

Emperor Xianfeng chewed it carefully, feeling that these two poems had an indescribable charm, looking at Xingzhen and smiling with other meanings, he said a little angrily: "Lan'er, if you have anything to say, just say it quickly, I wonder about it." ”

"The emperor must first forgive the concubine's sin of false words, otherwise the concubine will not dare to speak." Xingzhen was not stunned by the emperor's change of attitude, and continued to smile heartily.

"You're not guilty, but it's okay to speak." Emperor Xianfeng waved his hand with interest.

"The concubine had the courage to say, in recent days, the concubine has seen that the emperor is really worried about the long-haired rebels in the south, and the concubine has racked her brains to think of a way, try, help the emperor to relieve your worries, think about it for a few days, and finally came up with a stinky leatherman's idea, ready to say to the emperor that you can have fun, if you blame the concubine for interfering in politics, the concubine will not dare to say it."

"Oh?" Emperor Xianfeng raised his eyebrows, picked up the half-warm Biluochun, skimmed the tea foam with the lid, and began to ask with interest, "You talk about it, what you say is reasonable, I have a reward, what I say is unreasonable, I should also listen to it as a joke, and then I will pass, let's talk at home, the foreign minister is not here, I will not cure your crime." ”

"Concubine, I realized it from here," Xingzhen raised the "Three Hundred Tang Poems" in her hand, "Your Majesty, you said, when this long-haired bandit was raging, what else was the most troubled besides Huguang Limin and officials?" ”

Emperor Xianfeng pondered for a moment, took the bowl in his hand and thought for a while, "That's naturally the local gentry." ”

"Ah! It is the gentry, these years, the gentry in their hometown without bad fields, buy countless properties, long-haired bandits cross the border, chickens and dogs do not stay, the gentry will be wiped out if they resist a little, do you say that this gentry can not hate the Taiping rebels? But a thief is a thief, and when the thief crosses the border, the gentry can still rely on the land and property! This is the wildfire that burns inexhaustibly, and the spring breeze blows and grows! ”

"What do you mean?" Emperor Xianfeng finally sat up straight, put down the bowl, and stared at the woman who was talking and smiling freely opposite him.

"Why don't the local gentry, if they hate the hairy thieves so much? The treasury is now empty, and there is an untold amount of silver buried under their Zhuangzi waiting to be moldy, and they themselves do not want to cheapen those thieves for nothing! Give them a name, let the local gentry run a group practice, and protect their hometown! Such a wildfire of long-haired rebels, your emperor, you say, can he burn the gentry in the south? As long as the traitors don't want to take root and occupy the place to be the king of the south, the gentry will be the same as our court, and they will be inseparable from Hong Xiuquan's rebels! ”

"Besides, the south side is full of Han people, and the two sides are fighting, and we are full of people who just watch them fight, and we are not afraid of anything." Xingzhen said vaguely, but Emperor Xianfeng understood it at once, I'm sorry, isn't it the basic ability necessary for politicians to talk about people when they see people, and talk nonsense when they see ghosts? It's just a stopgap measure, and everyone will understand my mind later! Xingzhen thought so in her heart and explained.

Emperor Xianfeng listened, the wrinkles between his eyebrows slowly dispersed, and the smile on his face became more and more cheerful, and at the end of the listen, he couldn't help but pat the table, and laughed: "Lan Concubine, Lan Er, Ai Concubine!" That's a great idea! It's hard for you to come up with it, but it's good that I came to you today, otherwise how would I know about this Tang poem? ”

"But I'm afraid that the dragons will have no leader, and they will go their own way, so I'm afraid that they will be broken by the long-haired rebels." Emperor Xianfeng was worried about another thing.

Xingzhen continued to look at Tang Shi and didn't look at the emperor, as if nothing happened, she said casually: "It's simple, the emperor is looking at that minister is free, and whoever he calls to go through it will be over." Xingzhen was in a cold sweat all over her body, and she was poor and dagger, and the chatter of a night was just for this sentence to work!