Chapter 423: The Only Chance

At this moment, Gu Zhen discussed with Yun Fenghuang, regardless of whether the loving mother Empress Dowager will not be able to live in the palace at that time, this year's loving mother Empress Dowager's birthday must be celebrated with a big banquet.

"Your Majesty will definitely approve of your filial piety." Yun Fenghuang said slowly, "I will try my best to help you when the time comes."

Gu Zhen said: "Your Majesty will of course agree, but I don't know if the loving mother Empress Dowager herself...will refuse?"

This has a criminal record. In the past, when the Ji family was in power, in order to weaken the presence of the Empress Dowager Mother and the Empress Dowager Mother as much as possible, there had always been only one Shengshou Festival, which was the birthday of the common man Ji Sheng.

Later, when the Ji clan fell, the Son of Heaven could celebrate the birthday of the loving mother, the empress dowager, but the loving mother, the empress dowager always had various reasons to refuse...

So far, the birthday of Queen Mother Yuan has basically not been celebrated in a big way.

Now that Empress Dowager Yuan has returned from the palace, her humble and kind attitude is even better than before. The probability of her refusing this matter at this moment is very high.

Therefore, the queen hoped that Yun Fenghuang could persuade Chunjia to insist on congratulating Queen Mother Yuan on her birthday.

"Your Majesty, it's not that the concubine is unwilling to help, but do you think that the loving mother, the Empress Dowager, was poisoned a few days ago, and now she is much better, but she has been living in seclusion, maybe it's because the poison is not clear?" Yun Fenghuang Listen, my heart was moved, it was just why, "If you force her old man to attend the banquet, there will be troubles at that time, how good is that?"

She looked around and saw no one was idle, and lowered her voice, "Your Majesty wants to ease the relationship with the empress dowager, I can understand it. But you also know that the master may still have some affection for His Majesty." .For people like concubines, that's really... You have good intentions, but she may not be willing to reciprocate the kindness! At that time, she will come to a phoenix body that violates harmony. You said that the imperial doctor can still say that she is in front of us. Pretending? It’s our fault that it’s so necessary!”

Gu Zhen didn't expect Queen Mother Yuan to do this at all, so he couldn't help but froze, and said, "Why is this? Your Majesty must personally intervene on such a big matter as the Shengshou Festival. Even if she doesn't give us face, won't she also give it to Your Majesty?" face?"

"Who knows what her old man thinks? This concubine is planning ahead." Yun Fenghuang said softly, "In short, I would like to advise my mother that one thing more is worse than one thing less. We want to mention it to His Majesty. But If she doesn't like it herself, let's forget it."

But the problem is, my grandfather taught me to kneel down and confess my mistakes in public while celebrating her birthday, so as to force the "lovely and amiable" loving mother, the empress dowager, to forgive me and Mrs. Gu!

If there is no such birthday banquet, if you go directly to plead guilty, you will be considered as threatening the loving mother empress dowager!

Gu Zhen is in trouble.

"If the empress must do this." Fortunately, Yun Fenghuang said again, "I have some ideas, but I don't know if it will be self-defeating."

The queen hurriedly asked: "But I don't know what you think? Tell me quickly."

Yun Fenghuang said slowly: "Earlier, I brought it up to congratulate the Empress Dowager on her birthday. It was probably because of the excitement in the harem, and then I invited the relatives of the Empress Dowager's natal family to come...but none of the officials congratulated the Empress Dowager together. It's better this time So he proposed to bring the courtiers along. Such a loving mother, the Empress Dowager, who is a bit ambitious, must not be able to show her old age and frailty on such an occasion, otherwise, no one in the audience would follow someone who doesn't know when... The nobleman of...does something?"

"...But if you do this, what if she wins people's hearts?" Gu Zhen looked at her suspiciously.

The noble concubine can't deliberately let the Queen Mother Yuan grow her wings?

Yun Fenghuang said, "Your Majesty, if the Empress Dowager's loving mother wins people's hearts, what's wrong with it? Don't forget that the Empress Dowager's greatest reliance is not the lineage of King Fuyang, nor the identity of the Empress Dowager, but It's Your Majesty! Your Majesty's respect for her and never letting go of her is her biggest bargaining chip! Let's just talk about the incident of her being poisoned at the New Year's Eve banquet. You said that if your Majesty hadn't left the palace and left Beijing at night to rush over , What is she? Even if there is a problem, she is just following the rules! This is a smart person, who knows what His Majesty is most taboo, and the difficulty of seizing power, the most worrying thing is someone plotting the Gongxiang family's country! "

"So when she left the palace to go to Fuyang County, although His Majesty was reluctant to part with her, he still didn't say anything to keep her."

"Because Yuan's act of confusing the royal blood violated His Majesty's taboo, His Majesty did not want to give people the misunderstanding that he would relax the bottom line because of the loving mother Empress Dowager, so he sent this one away in tears!"

"Now that she's back, the gifts from all the families are not accepted, let alone people."

"Does she really don't want to? From the perspective of my concubine, in the final analysis, it is to ease His Majesty's heart!"

"If this girl really doesn't do anything in the future, then forgive me, you and I will never do anything to her in this life."

"After all, she is His Majesty's adoptive mother, and she is His Majesty's most respected elder, not one of them!"

"So instead of telling her to curl up in the mansion to be a glamorous elder and make His Majesty think about it all the time, it's better to give her a chance..."

The noble concubine turned her head to look at the queen, and said calmly, "We are in the deep palace now, so many things we can't worry about, do we still have to think about her all the time? Take this opportunity, give her a chance to show her status, and encourage her Let her make a mistake, and then... destroy her good impression in His Majesty's mind in one fell swoop, what's wrong?"

The queen was silent, feeling ups and downs, feeling that she was not wronged at all for being suppressed all these years...

She collected herself and said: "I know, but this is not a trivial matter, you let me think about it."

Yun Fenghuang knew that she would definitely have to talk to her natal family before making a decision, so she didn't urge her: "The concubine will resign, so I won't disturb your mother."

Walking out of the Chongchang Palace, the imperial concubine just smiled slightly.

Of course, she came up with this idea with ulterior motives, but...

Whether it's the queen or the Gu family, no one can guess her real purpose!

As a result of Gu Zhen's discussion with Gu Shi, he felt that the imperial concubine might have other plans, but the main target was still the Empress Dowager Yuan.

This is also understandable, after all, the relationship between the noble concubine and the Queen Mother Yuan is not very good.

The noble concubine is also the kind of master who likes to strike first, even if the queen mother did not do anything to the Xuanqing Palace after she came back, it does not prevent the noble concubine from thinking about how to get rid of the queen mother...

"Didn't Your Majesty tell you to give the phoenix seal to Concubine Shu and De Concubine before, and after the concubine recovers, the phoenix seal is in the hands of the concubine again?" After the old master Gu thought it over, he asked Gu Zhen, "In this case, this banquet will be held for a while. Let the imperial concubine and the others worry more, and you will continue to complain about your illness, less hands-on, less worry, and less trouble. If something goes wrong at the banquet, it has nothing to do with you."

Even if Chunjia wanted to be punished, it would be the imperial concubine and the others who would be punished along with her.

In this case, it was not the Queen's business alone, Concubine Min herself would have left enough excuses.

Naturally, Gu Zhen agreed with all his heart, so he planned to wait until he arrived at the palace, and use the excuse of being tired from the journey to call him sick.

However, before departure, there was a new battle report from the Northland. Wang Shi and the main force of Weihe royal court had a decisive battle. Wang Shi won a complete victory and captured several wives and children of Xifa.

There is no doubt that this is a great victory.

The ruling and opposition parties were elated, and Yun Fenghuang was happy that the names of Xie Wuzheng and Xie Xiaoyu were both on the victory report, and they had contributed a lot.

She specifically asked Yin Qu for advice, and Yin Qu said that if these credits were accumulated, if they were not discounted, when Xie Wuzheng and Xie Xiaoyu became filial piety and became an official, the settlement would be enough for the seat of governor of the previous state.

Such an identity already has a weak influence in the temple, rather than the kind of existence that is regarded as deaf and insignificant.

"Just don't be too optimistic, empress." Yin Qu reminded Yun Fenghuang again, "There are only so many important positions and vacancies in the court. There has always been one carrot and one hole. Empress covers the sky with one hand in the harem, and in the front court, in normal times. Naturally, no one dares to disrespect the empress. But if the position that the empress's brothers have obtained is the foundation for others to live and work, then...the empress also knows that no one can be intimidated by people who can get into such a position. "

It's impossible to obediently give way just because you are a concubine.

More likely, it was a desperate fight.

After all, that is the accumulated income of a person's whole life or even several lifetimes, who would be willing to quit?

Yun Fenghuang frowned slightly, this is the disadvantage of being humble.

Everything has to be started from scratch.

If it was a descendant of the Yun family or the Yin family, the elders had already arranged various compromises and exchanges, and the superiors would naturally follow suit.

But are they brothers and sisters...

Just like what Yin Qu said, no matter how much you call the wind and rain in the harem, if you go to the other side, you won't be defeated without a fight.

Slowly exhaling, Yun Fenghuang pinched his brows, mentally prepared for the fierce battle ahead, and asked about the recent situation of Xie Wuzheng and Xie Xiyu: "They have accumulated so many credits, and I see that many of them are military exploits. , but I don’t know if it’s okay now?”

"...Here." The visitor hesitated for a while, seeing the concubine frowning, he hastened to speak faster, "Returning to the concubine, the son-in-law and the eighteenth son are both recovering from their injuries, luckily their lives are safe!"

Yun Fenghuang was just asking habitually at first, but in her mind, her two brothers are considered clever, especially Xie Wuzheng.

Moreover, the army also knew that the relationship between Xie's children and him should be taken care of?

In this case, as long as these two brothers pay attention to themselves, what big things can happen? After all, Guochao is now fighting with the wind!

As early as Xiaozong's time, Guochao had defeated Weihe. What's more, it is now, after several years of civil strife in Weihe?

"What the hell is going on?!" The imperial concubine's heart sank, she subconsciously sat up straight, and asked in a deep voice.

"Your Majesty, please calm down. This is because the son-in-law and the eighteenth son... are eager for revenge. There have been several battles, and they have taken the lead, so they have suffered some injuries." Heal. Originally, the chief general meant that they should not participate in the event, and that it would be prudent to concentrate on taking care of their bodies. But both the son-in-law and the eighteenth prince refused, and insisted on going into battle with injuries...so..."

There were tears in Yun Fenghuang's eyes, he choked up and said: "I understand."

She thought to herself, why are you so eager for revenge!

It's fine with Xie Xiaoyu, but it's not like Xie Wuzheng doesn't know who the real enemy is!

How could you rashly risk yourself?

After all, there are still children like Xie Xiaoyu, Xie Fuwang, and Xie Li left in Sifang.

Dafang can only thank Wuzheng.

He also promised Princess Sui'an not to take a concubine, not to have a concubine and not to continue...

The reason why they are so desperate is that these two brothers are also in a hurry, eager to make their way to the top, so that they can contribute to the battle for the crown prince in a few years' time!

After all, with the background of the Xie family, how could it be possible to miss this opportunity to obtain military exploits and want to quickly enter the imperial court?

"Then what are they going to do now?" Yun Fenghuang calmed down, and asked in a deep voice, "This credit is about the same, do you want to come back to the Imperial Capital for recuperation? If so, I will find some reasons for them..."

Because both Xie Wuzheng and Xie Xiyu have been defeated, before joining the army, it can be said that they wanted to avenge their family members. After they were disarmed, according to the rules, they had to go back to guard the hut immediately.

But the person who came said: "The son-in-law and the eighteenth son said that Wei He has not yet been destroyed, so we should not give up halfway because of a little pain."

Yun Fenghuang smiled wryly, and understood, although the current credit is not small, but... still not stable enough. The predecessors of the Xie family did not work hard to give them a noble background. Now, Xie Wuzheng and Xie Xiaoyu must work harder, otherwise, where will King Jin come from for reliable support in the future?

This is the only chance left, Xie Wuzheng and Xie Xiaoyu must maximize their benefits no matter what.

If Wei He's matter is not resolved for a day, even if they are suffering from pain and pressure, they will never leave.

"..." The noble concubine sighed softly, and said slowly, "I know."

The hands in her sleeves were clenched subconsciously, and she turned her head and told the Qing people, "Fifteen is now three years old, and I can't continue to let him play. Clean up a room in the Nuan Pavilion, and from now on, I will Teach him yourself!"