Chapter 82: The Empress Dowager

"Du Langu has already entered the palace to file a complaint!" Gu Jue listened to the servant's report and calmly said to the queen in Woxia Tower, "This master has never paid for the noble concubine, and this time he will definitely have a good time with the noble concubine." But if my predictions are correct, whether you believe it or not, the noble concubine murdered Qian's mother and daughter, His Majesty will choose to smooth things over."

Gu Zhen's face was ashen, and he shouted: "This is your good idea?! Your Majesty has sent the Imperial City Secretary to investigate thoroughly. If you find out the clues, the consequences will be disastrous!"

"Even if His Majesty finds out the clues, it is impossible to reveal them." Gu Jue said, "Auntie, you still don't know Your Majesty well enough... With His Majesty's current prestige, the Crown Prince can make a decision with one word! There is no need to obey the orders of the former court and the harem. All kinds of discussions and disputes. Since your Majesty has not done so far, it can be seen that your majesty actually wants to establish a virtuous person... and, with your majesty's wisdom, can you not understand the benefits of establishing a son? So as long as the tenth prince or the twelve princes show that they can suppress Even the noble concubine can't recover from the abilities of the brothers!"

"Of course, neither the Tenth Prince nor the Twelfth Prince has this ability."

"At least not yet."

"Fortunately, the prince in front of the imperial concubine is not a very intelligent master."

"Now the reason why the Tenth Prince and the others are at a disadvantage is that the aunt is no match for the imperial concubine."

Gu Jue calmly said that the queen is not as good as Yun Fenghuang, "Over the years, your majesty has valued all the princes in Xuanqing Palace, but the princes in front of my aunt, only the ten and twelve princes have received a little attention from your majesty. Thinking about it carefully, how many things have the princes of Xuanqing Palace done to make His Majesty look differently? Not to mention those filial and sensible actions, everyone knows it, and it must be the noble concubine who taught it privately and sent people to spread it... …has nothing to do with their own talents.”

"But what Your Majesty wants is the Lord of the East Palace, the Crown Prince, the future master of Wanli Rivers and Mountains."

"It's not about asking for a son who is filial and obedient and will cooperate."

"So until His Majesty is disappointed with the tenth and twelve princes, or in other words, with all the princes in front of my aunt, he will never let aunt have an accident. Otherwise, what will happen if the princes in front of my aunt are involved?"

"If it weren't for this, His Majesty would not have taken the time to go to Zezhi Tower in his busy schedule that day."

Gu Jue sneered, "No one found Princess Zhaoqing's hairpin for the question given by the imperial concubine that day... If it wasn't for His Majesty, auntie, is it true that no one found it?"

Gu Zhen said with a sullen face, "You have said so much, what exactly do you want to do?"

"My niece just wants to conform to the holy will." Gu Jue said calmly, "Your Majesty wants the most outstanding prince, not the one who has a wise concubine behind him to guide his speech and behavior, but the one who is himself outstanding...In this case, Then let's help His Majesty and give His Majesty a reason to forbid the noble concubine and the aunt to meddle in the affairs of the younger generation. After all, His Majesty has no aunt in his heart, and he doesn't care about his aunt's feelings. But His Majesty still cares about the noble concubine, and for no reason, he rashly refused to let the noble concubine give advice Princes, how can noble concubines let it go?"

"The biggest advantage of Xuanqing Palace is the noble concubine, while the biggest advantage of Yanfu Palace is orthodoxy."

"If my aunt and concubine are banned from the game at the same time, in the final analysis, our side will win."

"..." Gu Zhen was silent for a while, and after a while he sneered and said, "Are you sure His Majesty will go according to your plan?"

Gu Jue said confidently: "Of course your majesty will. Auntie, don't you understand? My niece just did what your majesty wanted to happen. So, even if your majesty senses that someone has arranged for it, you won't say it. At most, Just take care of my niece and daughter in private."

She was even sure that Chunjia would not kill her, "My niece is about the same age as the emperor's heirs. Even if His Majesty noticed the niece, how could he put it down personally? She cares about her figure with her niece? It must be left to the emperor's heirs to be sharpened. Just It seems like the Empress Dowager and common man Ji Sheng didn’t know that the young imperial concubine was not a good traitor? Was it difficult for them to kill the imperial concubine at that time? They just thought that the imperial concubine was still useful.”

"My niece is also very useful now, not to mention Your Majesty, even if the imperial concubine knows that my niece is plotting against her, I'm afraid she won't be willing to kill her!"

Gu Zhen was silent for a while again, and said: "You have calculated so much, and the plan is for a fair fight between you children? But are you sure that the prince on my side is the opponent of Xuanqing Palace?"

Gu Jue said calmly: "Auntie, in all fairness, is it the imperial concubine who protects the children more, or you who protect the children more?"

With Imperial Concubine Min in Xuanqing Palace, it naturally made the heirs in the other palaces a little bit afraid, not to mention that the imperial concubine always protected the weak, which caused the imperial heirs under her knees to be confident and bold, but in fact they were probably not good at intrigue.

Because basically there is no chance to practice...

On the contrary, the princes under Zhonggong's knees belonged to those who were bullied by Xuanqing Palace and grew up.

As for the battles between peers, once the Xuanqing Palace lost the protection of the noble concubine, it would actually have less actual combat experience.

After all, it was others who let them in the past.

"This is just an optimistic estimate." The Queen said coldly, "It does not represent a definite result."

Gu Jue said, "Yes, of course my niece has other plans."

But she didn't want to tell the queen about this, she just said, "Auntie, we don't have much time to chat now. The imperial concubine is not a fool, no matter whether she has evidence or not, she is criticized on this point, no matter whether she really doubts us or not, she will Immediately drag us into the water. Presumably after a while, people from His Majesty's side will come to invite you to confront them."

"My niece and daughter don't say anything superfluous, just a few words: If the imperial concubine is present, no matter how many proofs are presented, the aunt can just deny it, and if she can't deny it, she will cry for injustice. You can relax your mind, but His Majesty will not allow you to bear the burden of murdering the wife of a close minister. Female charges. At least not for now."

"If the imperial concubine leaves, only you and His Majesty are present. Your Majesty will ask again, and you can tell me clearly, but the person who came up with this idea, let alone the niece, it's not that the niece wants to pick herself out, but It is you, as the master of the Sixth Palace, who has been reduced to listening to the words of such an older child as your niece, what does your Majesty think of you?"

"Don't worry about how His Majesty will get angry at that time, you just remember that you did this just to let the imperial concubine stop helping the children in front of her to get sidetracked!"

"The competition between the princes should be resolved by the princes themselves... What are the elders in the middle?"

"If you say that, even if His Majesty speaks harshly, he must agree in his heart!"

"Otherwise, why would he not do anything and arbitrarily decide this matter, and save the undercurrents in the front and back?!"

After Gu Jue finished speaking, he breathed out lightly, and said cautiously, "My aunt may suffer a lot of grievances during this trip, but you must hold back. Remember, today, the imperial concubine will suffer more than you!"

After all, the entire Xuanqing Palace faction was supported by the imperial concubine alone.

Once the imperial concubine is forced to stand by...

Thinking of this, Gu Zhen suddenly felt that this niece seems to be quite pleasing to the eye?

Just the next moment, great loss and shame surfaced in my heart: How should I say it? I always feel that I have lived my life in the palace for decades...

...In the evening, the sky was gloomy and it began to rain.

The Empress Dowager came out of the house when she heard the sound of raindrops beating on the banana leaves, and leaned on the railing to enjoy the rain scene in the courtyard.

The attendant was afraid that she would feel the cold, so he hurriedly took out the cloak and said, "Your Majesty, it's cold in the mountains, you'd better put it on."

"It seems to be lively again today?" The Empress Dowager didn't refuse, seeing the waiter tying her belt, she suddenly asked, "I heard that the noble concubine has suffered a disadvantage?"

"It doesn't count?" the waiter said, "It is said that both the empress and the imperial concubine were scolded, but the most unlucky thing was that Du Langu, who had a good wife and daughters. It wasn't the empress who did it, but the servants were worried that the mistress would not be able to accommodate them. The imperial concubine calmed down and didn't care about their lives, acquiescing to Mrs. Qian's disposal... In panic, she simply refused Doing non-stop, poisoning the mistress and the concubine's daughter as revenge. Alas, the imperial concubine didn't expect to choose such a person as a reward? Otherwise, with her shrewdness, how could she choose such a temperament to embarrass herself? "

"But no matter what, Du Langu should hate the imperial concubine."

"The empress is the most unlucky. It has nothing to do with her. Because of the empty-mouthed accusation of the imperial concubine, your majesty not only made people go away, but also scolded the empress..."

This waiter has been with the Empress Dowager for many years, and he has been serving since the time of Shizong, so he naturally speaks more casually. At this moment, he couldn't help saying, "Although this emperor is unambiguous in politics, he is far worse than the first emperor in the harem." It's far away. How much did the late emperor respect you? Oh, and the current empress is not the wife of the emperor, but she can't compare with you at that time."

The first emperor she was talking about was of course Shenzong.

When the Empress Dowager heard the words, she also showed reminiscence, but in the end she only sighed, and said lightly: "It's also because Mrs. Gu is too honest... these days, honest children will suffer in the end."

She said meaningfully, "The Ai family didn't understand this truth until later. This Gu family is a fool. I'm afraid I won't understand it in this life."

The waiter listened and asked in a low voice: "Do you want us to help this Mrs. Gu?"

"Help her?" The Empress Dowager smiled, with a strange expression on her face, "No, it's not helping her, it's helping Aijia herself."

She said slowly, "Everyone knows the concubine's temperament. After suffering such a loss, it is impossible to let it go. This Xiaoyun family is really smart to be honest... It's a pity, her background..."

The Empress Dowager seemed to have thought of something, sighed, and said, "Xiao Yun is the best at ingenuity, and the palace may not be stable for the past two days. Let people look at you, don't call Xiao Yun too complacent. Since it is a rule handed down from ancient times that there is a direct descendant and no direct descendant, one should follow the rules honestly, Xiao Yun... why bother?"

Yun Fenghuang didn't know that the Empress Dowager, who had been out of touch for many years, had clearly helped and advised Xie Kuo with all her heart, but she didn't stand by herself. After all, the Empress Dowager had nothing to do with the empress.

Even the relationship between the Empress Dowager and the Central Palace is not very harmonious.

She never expected that at this age, to put it nicely, she is concentrating on caring for her life, and to put it bluntly, she would choose the queen unwilling to be lonely when the empress dowager is waiting to die.

But because he didn't know about Gu Jue's private counseling, starting from the two lives of Shanyuan Temple, the mother and daughter of Qian died not long after they left the Taoist temple. In the eyes of master and servant Yun Fenghuang, the most suspicious , or the Empress Dowager.