Chapter 3533 Li Bushang’s “handle”?
Nan Yan looked down and couldn't help laughing. She carefully stood up and covered her daughter with a blanket, then put on some clothes, got out of bed and walked to Zhu Feng.
"How's it outside?"
"fine."
Zhu Feng said it softly, but he was still worried that the sound of their conversation would be heard by his daughter, so he waved to Nan Yan, and the two of them simply left the room and went to the side room to rest.
Nan Yan helped him in, then said with a smile, "The Emperor dotes on Xin Ping too much. What father, let alone His Majesty the Emperor, would make room for his daughter?"
"That's all."
Zhu Feng waved his hand, took off his coat and handed it to her. Ruoshui and the others had already brought hot water and a towel. He bent down to wash his face, took the towel and rubbed it on his face and hair before saying, "Look at her. Even if Li Bushang didn't dare to wrong her these days, she must be very scared. Let her have a good rest."
Nan Yan laughed and said, "When she came back, she asked if the emperor didn't love her anymore."
Zhu Feng glanced at her.
Nan Yan immediately snatched the towel from his hand and threw it back into the basin, then instructed Ruoshui and the others to bring the hot porridge and vegetables from the kitchen. Zhu Feng had barely eaten or drunk anything since yesterday, and hadn't slept a wink. He was already starving and had lost his appetite, but Nan Yan still dragged him to the table and stuffed a bowl of mushy chicken porridge into his hands.
Zhu Feng stirred the porridge with a spoon and asked, "How did you answer her?"
Nan Yan smiled and said, "I only said a few perfunctory words to her. She has grown up now. There are some things that do not require adults to teach her in a rigid manner. She should learn to see with her own eyes, and more importantly, with her heart."
Zhu Feng nodded.
Nan Yan picked up some food and put it on his plate with chopsticks. Then she asked, "Your Majesty, what's going on outside?"
Zhu Feng sipped his porridge while speaking, "Xiahou Jiu is dead. Thousands of his men were killed by the Taining and Fuyu guards, leaving only over ten thousand men escaping. I didn't send them after him. The stragglers in the city have been cleared out. The civilians were frightened all night, but Cui Yuanmei has sent people to appease them, so nothing serious will happen."
Nan Yan looked solemn and asked again, "What about the Yue Kingdom?"
Zhu Feng said, "Currently, Doubei Town is still sealed off, and we don't know what's going on inside yet. But judging from last night, Chen Wenxiao definitely killed his uncle and his brother. When Li Wushang returns to Daluo City and ascends the throne, he'll become a key official with the merit of supporting the throne. He'll also be a problem for us in the future."
Hearing this, Nan Yan frowned.
It wasn't because Zhu Feng said "trouble", but because——
Li Wushang.
She said, "Since the Emperor knew Li Bu Shang's true identity from the first time he met him, why didn't he reveal anything to me all these years?"
Zhu Feng glanced at her.
That look was filled with clear contempt: "Back then, did you have the ability to hide your emotions?"
“…”
Nan Yan was choked by him.
Although this made her angry, it left her speechless.
Indeed, back then, I was just a female official in the Shangbao Palace, who was in danger of losing her position every day and suffered injustice at his hands every day. How could I have the ability to hide my emotions?
Zhu Feng drank his porridge while saying leisurely, "With someone like you, if you show even a little bit of yourself in front of Li Bushang, all the efforts of the past ten years will be wasted."
Nan Yan muttered, "The Emperor is too contemptuous."
Zhu Feng snorted softly and said, "Even recently, I've given you quite a few hints, but aren't you just the same? You're so stupid you don't understand anything, right?"
"hint?"
Nan Yan frowned and tried hard to recall, and suddenly an idea flashed in her mind.
She remembered that when Xiahou Jiu started to mobilize troops, Zhu Feng had analyzed the pros and cons of Xiahou Jiu's mobilization with her. At that time, she had talked at length about how if she were Xiahou Jiu, she would not rashly send troops. On the contrary, she would choose to communicate with the Yan State and pay some price to clear the obstacles to her ascension to the throne, namely the uncles and nephews of the Chen family and some other hostile forces in the court. In the end, Xiahou Jiu might replace the Chen family.
At that time, Zhu Feng's evaluation of what she said was - most of it was good.
At that time, Nan Yan was still a little confused and didn't know where she had made a mistake, but now, she finally understood.
The fault lies with the people.
The person who implemented all this was not Xiahou Jiu, but Li Bushang.
The only mistake in Nan Yan's analysis is that the person who should replace Li Wu Yu should not be Xiahou Jiu, but Li Bu Shang, because Xiahou Jiu cannot sit firmly on the throne, and Li Bu Shang, as a descendant of the Li family, can replace him with legitimacy.
He did not inform Yan State, but used his special status in Yan State and Chen Wenxiao to clear his two major obstacles.
Thinking of this, Nan Yan took a deep breath.
She said, "Although I knew that this child had a lot on his mind, I never thought it would be like this."
Zhu Feng said, "He is determined to become an emperor. If he is simple-minded, then even if I release him, he will not be able to sit firmly on the throne."
Nan Yan said, "But, I'm always a little worried about him. Wouldn't it be easier to control someone else if I could train him?"
Zhu Feng shook his head and said, "It is very important to have a legitimate reason."
Nan Yan's heart skipped a beat.
She immediately understood that Zhu Feng was talking about himself.
Back then, he replaced his nephew's throne through the Jingnan Campaign, but what followed was many years of instability in various places. He spent a lot of effort to quell the rebellion. The mountains of Yue are high and the roads are long. If such a thing really happened, I am afraid that Yan State would be unable to reach it.
Zhu Feng added, "There's another reason why he's the only one who can do this—he's been with Jian Ruocheng, reading Confucian classics and serving as my Jinyiwei, learning court etiquette. Even if he doesn't want to, he's been influenced by what he's seen and heard. After returning to Yue, he'll definitely spread the prestige and culture of our Great Yan Dynasty far and wide."
Hearing this, Nan Yan couldn't help but smile.
Said: "No wonder Li Bushang said that the emperor was 'raising him', and he really was 'raising him'."
Zhu Feng sighed softly and said, "Do you think it's that easy to train a qualified monarch?"
Nan Yan nodded, but a heavy weight still weighed on her heart, making her feel uneasy. She said, "But he's so worried, and now the emperor is releasing him back to Yue. Isn't he afraid that letting a tiger go back to the mountains will cause trouble in the future?"
Zhu Feng glanced at her and said, "No."
He said these two words lightly, as if he was casually talking about the weather, but Nan Yan knew that this matter was definitely not that simple. A man like Li Bu Shang would definitely not be made to behave himself by just a few words of intimidation from Zhu Feng.
Could it be that Li Bushang still has some leverage in his hands?
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