Dawei Fanghua

Queen Mother Guo left the East Hall of Tai Chi Hall and took a sedan chair to the north.Passing by Zhaoyang Hall, Zhaoyang Hall was the palace built by the Ming Emperor for his empress.She couldn't help but look up and glance at the two cast bronze dragons and phoenixes that were more than 20 feet high.

But she never felt that these magnificent things belonged to the queen, or had ever belonged to the queen.The queen who can be killed with just one word lives without caution and consideration. It would be ridiculous to think that she owns this palace.It is even more unlikely that these things belong to the Empress Dowager. After listening to the court meeting in Taiji Hall for a while, everyone knew what was going on.

The Guo family does not belong to her either.She is the only one left in the family, but her uncle's family has flourishing branches and several marquises, and the Guo family is now very prosperous.

Emperor Cao Fang was not born to her. She had never given birth to any children.

So she is very self-aware: everything she has now is because of her status as the Empress Dowager of Wei.And other things only play a role in protecting this identity.

So when she heard Qin Zhongming's words, "At least their life in Yongning Palace is clean and comfortable. The country has raised them until they are old because of their legal royal status. You take them out to do tricks, and they will soon become old and yellow. Who will take care of them?" Aren’t their lives getting worse and worse?” In fact, I felt quite emotional at that time.

This is probably the reason why Queen Mother Guo was deeply impressed by Qin Zhongming and wanted to meet this man.

At this time, people gathered around Queen Mother Guo and arrived at the palace at the south end of the West Garden. She entered the palace and took a bath and changed clothes. Then she retreated to her left and right sides and sat down quietly to write an article.

But the people around her have not finished leaving, and there is only one person left, namely Zhen, who is wearing a Taoist robe. This is a fake Zhen, whose original surname is not Zhen. Of course, she is also a fake Taoist priest and a real widow.Mrs. Zhen is not from the palace either, but she grew up with Queen Mother Guo and has a good relationship with her.

Mrs. Zhen was fine in front of others, as there were no outsiders around her, but she was very unrestrained in front of the people she had grown up with, and she did not regard Mrs. Guo as the Queen Mother.Zhen opened her mouth and said: "The man today is really handsome. I deliberately asked him to come over and take a closer look. He also has a nice voice."

Queen Mother Guo was not angry, she just smiled and said: "You really don't care about reputation?" She made her attitude clear immediately without having to lower her face to preach.

Mrs. Zhen had an indifferent expression: "I have not always kept my integrity since I became a widow, but what's the use? If you put your mouth on other people's faces, someone has said anything unpleasant. Anyway, there must be something wrong with the widow. So I still pretend to be pretentious. What? You can pretend to be more, you are His Highness."

Empress Dowager Guo said, "Just help me grind the ink."

After Mrs. Zhen helped prepare the things, Queen Mother Guo unfolded the silk and slowly began to write.She had taken a bath and changed her clothes. She was dressed very elegantly, looking like she was quiet and nourishing her nature.

However, because Zhen mentioned Qin Zhongming, Guo felt the complicated mood she had felt at that time again.

The school affairs office is supposed to be an agency that handles affairs for the royal family. Qin Zhongming also said that he was not afraid of being stupid, and he tried every means to make suggestions and seek benefits for her when they first met.At that time, Queen Mother Guo was indeed very tempted subconsciously. She had a desire to try to use it for herself, as if there was an invisible greed that was tempting her.

But she soon calmed down and felt a bone-crushing fear.Greed is like the inner demon, making people fear and yearn for it, and she is very nervous.

Ever since she last heard about Yongning Palace and noticed Qin Zhongming, Guo had known about him intentionally or unintentionally and learned about what he had done.To be able to do this at such a young age, he is indeed a young man with extraordinary talents.Just like Zhen said, he is very handsome. How could Empress Dowager Guo not be tempted by such a person who wanted to be loyal to her.

It was just fear that stopped her, so she rejected Qin Zhongming's suggestion on the spot.That strategy was profitable, how could she not understand?It's just that on purpose.Taiji Hall was the most talkative place. Empress Dowager Guo was always careful about her words and deeds when going to court, and she shouldn't have said the following words, "I understand your kindness."It's just that she was a little emotional and dizzy at the time, so she couldn't help saying that.You will have to pay more attention to your words and deeds in the future.

Empress Dowager Guo looked calm and pious. While thinking about irrelevant things, she had already filled half a piece of cloth with words.

At this time, she came back to her senses and suddenly felt a little strange. Although she had just met Qin Zhongming for the first time today, she always felt that she had known him for a long time. She even felt a sense of trust that could not be explained. Friendly feeling.

...Qin Liang returned to the school affairs office with fifty bolts of silk, and distributed some of the silk to Yinci and Wu Xin each with five bolts, and the rest who participated in refining the salt had two bolts.The rest he planned to take back to the Wang family and put in the courtyard where your king lived.

It's a pity that the huge courtyard is empty. It's safe to store things because the Wang family has many servants.

I think back then, he spent a year or two studying the terrain, training soldiers, making plans, going into battle himself, and finally made meritorious service, only to be rewarded with dozens of bolts of silk.This time it only took more than ten days, and the Queen Mother had dozens of horses at her disposal.Sure enough, things like official position and money are easier to obtain if you are close to the center of power.

Qin Liang felt from Empress Dowager Guo's attitude today that it would be possible to hire another prefect. After all, it was only a fifth-grade flat tune.Once you become a prefect who controls "military, political, personnel and financial affairs" and hold sole power in the local area, you will definitely be able to cultivate a group of confidants in three to five years.Then think of ways to operate the official position, and that will be a new stage of career planning.

No matter what, becoming a prefect is a crucial step.Not to mention that Qin Liang was only in his twenties. Even in the entire Wei Dynasty, as long as the ancestors of the families were prefects, their descendants would be in a different class and their career would be different.Of course, that's not what Qin Liang cares about.

Qin Liang didn't want to have to deal with the school affairs office for the time being. Once he was transferred, whoever wanted to care about this place of right and wrong would be in charge.The organization was already in trouble and couldn't accomplish much. Because of its reputation, a lot of people were watching, and even the Queen Mother warned it.

Qin Liang left the government office before the next shift in the afternoon.

He was busy with a lot of things recently, such as asking Gao Rou to share money. After all, the school office still had some work in progress and needed additional funds; and preparing gifts for the Queen Mother also took a lot of effort.

After finishing his work, he doesn't need to rush in the past two days. He can wait and see the situation.

Qin Liang returned to Wang's house happily.He came to the northeast courtyard and walked around, but did not see Wang Xuanji.In fact, if Wang Xuanji came, she would probably meet her on Langwu.Qin Liang guessed that she had been hiding somewhere, waiting for him several times.

Wang Xuanji has not been here for at least ten days, and Qin Liang felt a little empty for a while.Although Wang Lingjun accompanied him, Qin Liang also did not want to let go of Xuan Ji.

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(Thanks to the crimson leader of the book friend "Big Beard Deng".)