Chapter 25 The Hot Di Renjie
Di Renjie's mansion is in Shangxianfang, and there is at least two quarters of a horse journey from Feng Huan Nun in Nan City. He must race against time and then return to Feng Huan Nun Nun Garden.
If time is delayed for too long, Shangguan Wan'er should have noticed something is wrong even if she is a fool. He is a foolish monarch, not a donkey, and he can still fight in the flower room for one or two hours in a row?
Yang Yao found the carriage parked at the intersection and ordered the groom to run towards Di Renjie's mansion.
After galloping on the horse for two quarters of an hour, Yang Yao finally got off the carriage at the door of Di Renjie's mansion according to the address drawn by Wang De.
Di Renjie's mansion is not spacious, probably the size of acre of land. For a lost person like Yang Yao who traveled through time, it was a luxury house. But among the powerful officials of the Tang Dynasty, no matter the size of the house, the gate and Zhu Zhu were all very ugly, which shows that Di Renjie was indeed relatively honest.
Yang Yao went up and knocked on the door. The door opened, and it was the servant of Di's mansion.
These days, Di Renjie offended the popular auxiliary minister Pei Yan. The so-called poverty in the downtown area is no one to ask about it. Except for Di Renjie's close friends, no officials in the court dared to come to the Di family.
The servant of Di's mansion looked up and down at Yang Yao and asked politely, "Who is your lord?"
Yang Yao whispered, "I am Wang De, an eunuch in the provincial eunuch. He is the secret order from the palace and pays homage to Duke Di."
When someone came from the palace, the servant immediately went in to report it. After a while, he came out and took Yang Yao to the lobby of Di Mansion and met Di Renjie who was idle at home.
Di Renjie heard the news that he was the eunuch Wang De, but when he saw that the current emperor was going out for a patrol in a low dress, he was so frightened that his face changed drastically. He immediately shouted, "Di Fu, close the gate of the backyard immediately, no servants are allowed to enter."
Di Renjie gave instructing confidentiality measures and respectfully took Yang Yao into the backyard. Then he knelt down to Yang Yao, "Di Renjie paid homage to the emperor, but he never welcomed him. I hope the emperor forgives his sins!"
Yang Yao hurriedly helped him up and said kindly, "Duke Di, I am here abruptly, what are you welcome?!"
Di Renjie invited Yang Yao to sit down and serve tea in person. Then he asked, "The emperor suddenly arrived at the humble house. What kind of sage do you have?"
Yang Yao didn't have much time to delay, so he could not make any more polite comments, greetings, and said straight to the point, "Duke Di, I secretly left the palace for a visit this time, and I will return immediately, so I won't go around the corner. Before the death of the emperor, he issued a verbal order to me, saying that Di Gong was a loyal minister who supported the Tang Dynasty. If I reached a critical moment, I could come to ask for advice. Now I have really reached a critical moment and have to take the liberty to come."
Di Renjie looked at Yang Yao silently for a while, and could not judge the emperor's true intention for a while. He casually said, "The emperor has just ascended the throne and is at the time of great success. What crisis is there?!"
Yang Yao played the role of a filial son, a tyrant monarch, a wife-loving madman, and a mama-boy man. He had already practiced the acting skills of the actors of the actors, and immediately put up the golden signs of the ancestors and clans, "Di Gong, the Empress Dowager arranged for Shangguan Zhaoyi to come to Zhenguan Palace and confiscated my jade seal. Now I cannot issue an edict or interfere with personnel appointments, and can only be a puppet emperor in the palace. I am worried day and night, worried that the foundation of the ancestors and clans will be destroyed in my hands!"
Seeing that the emperor even revealed such a private secret matter in the palace, it can be seen that the emperor was indeed coming with full sincerity. But Di Renjie obviously had his own thoughts and would not be easily influenced by Yang Yao. He pondered, "Sir, I will say something provocative. Since the emperor ascended the throne, he has neither attended court nor abandoned military and political affairs. He valued the regent minister Pei Yan, and all the officials transferred by Pei Yan were allowed to report, which led to Pei Yan's power over the court and the trend of forming cliques in the court. All kinds of absurd actions were probably to leave the ancestors behind. The Empress Dowager confiscated the emperor's jade seal and came to take over the government in person. In my opinion, it may be a blessing for the Tang Dynasty."
Seeing that Di Renjie was indeed old and even more arrogant, Yang Yao had his own political philosophy, and could not fool him with just a few words. Fortunately, he came here in person today. If Wang De was sent to pass the message, he would probably be immediately perfunctory to leave the house by Di Renjie in a few words.
This time I visited the door, it was so right!
Yang Yao hurriedly said, "It turns out that Duke Di is still resentful that I support Pei Yan in the court and demoted Duke Di's official position? I have some difficulties and have no choice."
Di Renjie twisted his long beard and said, "I just heard that what is the difficulty of the emperor? He can ignore the ancestors and ancestors, appoint treacherous ministers outside, and be arrogant to the Queen Wei inside!"
He pointed out that Yang Yao was a foolish monarch without any affection. It seems that what Yang Yao did these days really disappointed him, so he said such words of beheading.
Facing the experienced Di Renjie, Yang Yao could only exchange hearts for his help, "Duke Di! I will tell you today. Before the death of the late emperor, he knew that the empress dowager was too powerful. In order to protect the Li Tang Dynasty, he appointed Pei Yan as the minister of the regent as a pawn to restrain the empress dowager. Using Pei Yan to restrain the empress dowager was the oral order of the late emperor to me in private. There was a hungry wolf Pei Yan in front and a tiger mom Empress dowager behind. I was trembling in the middle, as if walking on thin ice! I must be a fool, and I must hide in the harem to abandon military and political affairs, otherwise I might have been deposed by the empress dowager and Pei Yan long ago."
Di Renjie's eyes flashed and said slowly, "Master, I will say another pretentious saying, "Last Emperor, has the Master of the Emperor guarded too much against the empress dowager? The Master of the Emperor does not know the major military and political affairs, and the Queen Mother ruled the world for 20 or 30 years, the Tang Dynasty warship is now under the helm of the empress dowager, which may be more beneficial than the Emperor of the rule. In a few years, the Emperor of the Emperor will truly become the emperor of the Tang Dynasty. When he can take over the major military and political affairs, the Empress Dowager may have already been buried. I believe that the Empress Dowager will take over the world of the Tang Dynasty and return the political emperor to the Emperor after the Empress Dowager is buried in the heavens!"
In Di Renjie's mind, the tiger mom Wu Zetian is obviously more suitable to take charge of the world than Yang Yao. If an ordinary family encounters a prodigal son, his mother can also take charge of the family business. It is important to have a military and political affairs related to a country, and of course the empress dowager will be in charge of the rule. This is the consensus of his father Li Zhi and Di Renjie, and Yang Yao cannot deny it.
In history, Li Xian was just a mud that could not be supported by the wall. With Li Xian's ability, he was obviously unable to be competent for the emperor, the easiest and most difficult seat in the world.
After Li Xian ascended the throne for the second time and became the real emperor, he was poisoned by his wife and daughter in less than five years. He was exiled by the tiger mother for more than ten years. Perhaps for Li Xian, a useless man, it would be a blessing in disguise. If Li Xian had the real power of the emperor for the first time, he might have been assassinated by his wolves and naughty children many years in advance.
If Yang Yao is not a time traveler, he would not have to find the traitor within two years and complete the game tasks, and would also choose to quietly be a puppet emperor in the harem. But now, time is tight, and he must have a way out in the cracks between Tiger Mom and Pei Yan!
Today, we must convince Di Renjie to stand on his side!
Chapter completed!