Chapter 100 Yuan Shi

Seeing Chen Jing stunned, Yun Fenghuang slowly said: "The loving mother, the Empress Dowager, has always been partial to Concubine An, her niece. After all, Concubine An was raised by her as a daughter. She has no children, so how could she not treat Concubine An as if she was her own child?" Just to talk about feelings, Fuyang Yuan's feelings for the Queen Mother are the most profound. In the past, Yuan's muddleheaded crimes committed serious crimes, so that the family was implicated. Over the years, how could the loving mother Empress Dowager hide her strength and bide her time? Let Concubine An be content with raising a princess by her side? Concubine An is just a cover, or rather, it's just a pretext."

"She has been silent in the harem for these years. If His Majesty suddenly thinks of her and adds some kindness, people outside will always speculate. Could it be that His Majesty has softened towards Yuan Shi?"

"Or maybe His Majesty remembers the love back then?"

"In this way, the loving mother Empress Dowager will make a move outside the court to push Yuan Ke to become an official. Compared with doing so directly, the resistance will be much smaller."

She took a sip of tea and said lightly, "Besides, what the Yuan family committed back then was not a trivial matter, confusing bloodlines... If it hadn't been for the loving mother, the empress dowager, who retreated swiftly and made your majesty merciful, I am afraid that no one in this family would be able to stay. !"

"Even though the loving mother Empress Dowager intends to support Yuan Ke...but I don't know, after many years, is Your Majesty willing to give Yuan's children another chance?"

"This Concubine An was sent out to throw stones to ask for directions."

"If Your Majesty is not even willing to raise Concubine An to raise a princess, then don't mention the matter of Yuan Ke again, but it will be embarrassing for nothing, and it will be even more detested by Your Majesty."

"If His Majesty approves Concubine An..."

"Your Majesty, if that's the case, then why do you speak for Concubine An?" Seeing Concubine An's meaningful smile, Chen Jing couldn't help but said, "Without your help, His Majesty probably wouldn't agree to this matter. Now, if Yuan Ke really succeeded in becoming an official, this...doesn't it add more variables for no reason?"

He said, "Even if it's for the marriage of the third prince, why can't we do it ourselves? His majesty just didn't let Princess Weihe marry the third prince, but he didn't say that he would marry the third prince. Shangxin, isn't it a good intention of your noble mother and concubine to feel sorry for him?"

Yun Fenghuang glanced at him, and said slowly: "If this palace comes from such a noble family as the empress, it is natural that I don't want my loving mother, the empress dowager, to come back from the ashes. But who are the important ministers that this palace can use in the court now? It is nothing but Yin Qu , at most the 21st brother who is still in court. The other important ministers are not disrespectful, but at a critical moment, who will stand by our side?"

"This..." Chen Jing hesitated. Although he wanted to say a few words of flattery, he also knew that in the past two years, Chunjia's loyal courtiers kept their distance from Xuanqing Palace.

Not only for Xuanqing Palace, but also for Yanfu Palace, they are unwilling to be contaminated.

This is also human nature, if Jane is in the heart of the emperor, and hooking up with the harem, isn't this courting death?

Chunjia is not the kind of emperor who is easy to fool, who would dare to think of joining hands with the concubine while gaining his reliance... Will he be polite?

"Master Deng actually respects your mother very much." Chen Jing racked her brains for a moment before uttering a sentence.

He himself feels guilty, just such a...

Yun Fenghuang nodded instead: "He loves Meng'er very much, so he has indeed become more docile to me in the past two years. But that's all. Chen Jing, I will teach you to be good, affection is very important, Many things that were originally impossible can be resolved by relying on affection. It's like my majesty may not approve of many of my actions over the years, but because I am the one who did it, he just turned a blind eye It is absolutely impossible to change someone else."

"But don't take affection too seriously."

"At critical moments, it's really hard to say which is more important, love and interests, and righteousness."

"Sometimes it's just a thought."

"Deng Chengzhai likes Meng'er, and Meng'er is pregnant now... But in his status, is it rare for a beautiful wife and concubine?"

"It's only been a few years since he married Meng'er, how long has he been with His Majesty?"

"I haven't entered the palace yet, no, when I was still an ignorant child, he entered the palace to accompany the emperor to read."

"Among His Majesty's six companions, he is the most trusted by His Majesty, even surpassing Yun Qike, Duke Yi's son-in-law."

"Such a person, when I have the same opinion as His Majesty, can certainly be more respectful to me. If one day, my thoughts are not in line with His Majesty's plan, do you really think that he will stand on my side because of Menger? side?"

The noble concubine sighed, "I have served His Majesty for so many years, but I can't make His Majesty completely obey my orders. Meng Er... that child is not this kind of material, she doesn't have the ability to win over Deng Chengzhai. At most, under Your Majesty When he didn't make a clear statement, he pretended to be confused and put us on the sidelines... that's all, there can be no more."

Otherwise, wouldn't Chunjia be a waste? The confidant who has been wooed and cultivated for many years abandoned him just because of his wife and children?

Don't forget that at this time, it's about why a man has no wife!

"All in all, our palace is single and weak in the temple." Yun Fenghuang said slowly, "Yes, the Gu family has also declined greatly in the past two years. But Gu Zhen is the queen, and this is their biggest card. Ten The prince and the twelfth prince are also counted as sons. What does this mean? As long as the tenth prince does not make a big mistake, most of the courtiers will support him. If it is based on Lixian, the third prince also has a considerable advantage. After all, in an uncertain election When it comes to someone, according to the principle of having a son and no son and no son, it is the most error-free, because this is the ancestral rule. Even if it is a concubine or second son who succeeds to the throne, it will not be easy to pursue."

After all, being a courtier is not intentionally against you, but just following the rules from ancient times to the present.

You can only blame yourself for not living up to expectations, for not being born as the eldest son, right?

"There are also clans and relatives, and in this world, after all, the eldest is the most important."

"So even though the Gu family itself is in decline, they haven't won over many powerful officials to speak for them. With the righteous name of the middle palace, above the temple, the palace basically has no hope of winning..."

She didn't intend to win in the temple earlier, because this is where she is weak and where she is not so good.

After all, the imperial concubine's idea was that the mother and son would impress Chunjia in private, and let Chunjia deal with the opposition from the temple...Chunjia would definitely be fine.

Besides, she is good at coaxing Chunjia.

As for now, "Yuan's clan will be wiped out only by one Yuan tree, and it will be difficult to achieve success in a short period of time. In this way, there is no need to worry about them being overthrown. After he recovers, he can help to contain the support of Zhonggong in the temple. "

After all, the collapse of the Xingning Bofu had a lot to do with the Gu family. The benevolent empress dowager, Concubine An, and Yuan Ke, the remnants of the Yuan family, could accept temporarily joining forces with the queen to deal with the noble concubine, but it was absolutely impossible to tolerate the queen's son becoming the East Palace!

Because that means that they will never have the chance to avenge the Yuan family, not to mention, they will even be driven to death.

At critical moments, they would rather and only choose the imperial concubine.

This is also the reason why the loving mother, the empress dowager, put aside her grievances and used her dark son who had been silent for many years to come to Lanzhou Yeyu Pavilion to find her noble concubine.

She knew that the imperial concubine would not reject her.

As for the refusal just now and the proposal to arrange Yuan Ke's daughter for the third prince...these are just bargaining.

No matter what the final price is, in short, this tacit transaction must be carried out.

Chen Jing listened, her mood was a little shaken, and she couldn't help but said: "The loving mother Empress Dowager... When did you order Concubine An? Could it be that the sixth prince was canonized as King Shu?"

"How is it possible?" Yun Fenghuang glanced at him in surprise, and said, "If it's just Concubine An, it's fine. Yuan Keqi's relationship is so important, how can he plan to do it in such a short period of time? It's likely to be heard Twenty-one brothers and the others will start as soon as they return to court."

Because the son-in-law and the eldest princess who have been released for several years will return to the court, which means that the battle for the country will officially begin.

The advantages and disadvantages of the noble concubine and the queen have been exposed in all these years of confrontation.

Not many hidden cards left.

The next step is mainly to see how everyone plays cards.

The loving mother empress dowager is the most hopeful only when she enters the game at this time.

In peacetime, the empress and the noble concubine cooperated with each other to settle the empress dowager and the Yuan family with great difficulty, so where would she be given the chance to stir up trouble again?

A layer of sweat broke out on Chen Jing's back, and she was very panic and confused for a moment: the master is so powerful, and the opponent is also very powerful, can our family really continue to serve the master?

Will it be the same as the predecessor, because of incompetence and negligence, being kicked out by the master and replaced by a capable newcomer?

He resigned with a heavy heart.

And Yun Fenghuang bargained with the loving mother Empress Dowager for a while, and in the end she still dressed up, so she went to Xingxintang to persuade Chunjia: "Concubine An is making a fuss at the moment. I can't bear it anymore."

Chunjia smiled lightly when she heard the words, and said, "Ah Huang is soft-hearted, and you pitied her earlier. It's just that she..."

He didn't want to say more about Yuan Niangniang, he just said, "That's all, let the queen deal with it, she can't make any trouble."

Yuan Niangniang's rank is too low, and Chunjia is too lazy to pay more attention.

As for the imperial concubine in front of him, the emperor had thoughts in his heart, guessing her reason for coming.

"It's fine to put it aside, but now, isn't the birthday of the loving mother empress dowager approaching?" Yun Fenghuang said softly, "The concubine has been thinking about giving her birthday to the loving mother empress dowager for the past two days. It’s very emotional.”

The birthday of the loving mother Empress Dowager is indeed approaching, and it will only be a few days away.

In the past two years, Chunjia will do a lot for her to show her filial piety.

But at the beginning of this year, the loving mother, the Empress Dowager, took the initiative to say that she would not do it this year. The reason was that it was too much to celebrate after years of celebrations.

It's just that rumors spread in private that the reason why she didn't agree to hold a birthday banquet this year was mainly because Princess Xincheng wanted to marry far away in autumn, and she was afraid that the front and rear palaces would be too busy, but she was very grateful.

Even Yun Fenghuang himself knew in his heart that this was just a way for the Empress Dowager to buy people's hearts, but in fact he felt very satisfied.

She also wanted to concentrate on preparing for the marriage of her niece and daughter, instead of finding time to celebrate the Queen Mother's birthday when the day was imminent.

At this moment when the imperial concubine mentioned this matter, Chunjia, who was busy with government affairs, also thought of it, and felt a little bit sad: "The days are so fast? I thought there was still some time."

"Isn't it?" Yun Fenghuang sighed, "The concubine has prepared birthday gifts for the empress dowager in the past two days, and at the same time taught Xincheng... I often look at Xincheng's face in a daze. She looks so big, why did she turn her head and see that her grown-up niece is about to leave the court and become a wife?"

Leading the emperor to lament the passage of time, she got to the point and said that Concubine An should be given a child, "I was impatient since I was a child, especially when I was young, and I had a lot of trouble with Concubine An at that time. Unhappy, I didn’t feel anything at the time, and thought I had been wronged. Looking back now, I feel that it’s not easy for each other.”

These words couldn't impress the emperor, Chunjia just smiled and said, "Why do you always talk about her? Didn't you say that the mother's birthday is still a letter?"