Chapter 261: Marquis of Shouning
The first month should have been extremely festive, but because of the family affairs of the Prince Regent's Palace, no one in the front and rear palaces was in the mood to celebrate the festival.
Even the birthday of the Queen Mother was affected to some extent.
After the king regent handed over the note of being disrespectful to his stepmother, there was another small disturbance, and it was the empress dowager who intervened.
I don't know if he has some feelings for Gong Xiangxiao or has other ideas. In short, the empress dowager said in front of the monarch and his ministers: "The eldest son of the regent king was raised by the empress dowager and the first emperor Xiaozong. Pure filial piety and courtesy, will definitely not do anything disrespectful to the elders. How can you convict him arbitrarily because of the blood and flesh of His Majesty Shenzong? Please think it over with your lords."
This is clearly to protect Gong Xiangxiao.
Yun Fenghuang from the harem sneered when he received the news, thinking that his father, Xiangxiao, might not be willing to accept this favor now.
Under the watchful eyes of everyone, Chunjia would definitely give the empress dowager a face, so he ordered this matter to be put on hold for the time being, and after the court was over, the uncle and nephew went to Qingci Palace to pay their respects to the empress dowager, and then we would talk about it.
Later, the uncle and nephew went to Qingci Palace, stayed for a long time, and left after lunch time.
Chunjia went back to the Huanhua Palace to eat, and Yun Fenghuang personally served him vegetables and asked what they had said to the Empress Dowager.
The key is what is the intention of the Empress Dowager coming out to speak this time?
"After all, the empress dowager is the regent's aunt. At the time when Emperor Xiaozong had no children, he couldn't help doting on the son. At that time, the empress dowager often teased the son." Chunjia said casually, "Don't look at the regent later. Turned against the Ji family, and didn't have much contact with the empress dowager or the common man Ji Sheng, and only went to the palace during the New Year or when something happened, but after all, they have been together for many years, and there is still a little bit of friendship."
Otherwise, the Empress Dowager would not choose the regent between the regent and Chunjia.
For Shenzong's wife and children, no matter how entangled with each other, they are a family that has lived together for many years.
But Chunjia, who occupies the throne now, is a complete outsider.
Yun Fenghuang heard this and served Chun Jia a bowl of soup to warm him up.
Chunjia didn't care too much, Shenzong's wife and children didn't treat him as one of his own, and he didn't actually take them too seriously.
In terms of guilt and compensation, there are some, but most of them are aimed at the three eldest princesses.
But even so, he still planned the marriage of the three eldest princesses with calculations.
So whether the Empress Dowager is eccentric or the regent rejects it, Chunjia doesn't care.
Now he took a sip of the soup and continued to talk about the business: "The empress dowager really feels sorry for the son this time. Even if he can't keep his position as the son, she doesn't want him to have the reputation of disrespecting the elders. I just talked with the regent The king has already promised her that he will be renamed Shouning Hou on the grounds that the son is ill and cannot bear the responsibility of the son."
Moreover, the Empress Dowager did not agree to let Gong Xiangxiao guard the tomb of Concubine Dou, she blamed the Prince Regent in front of Chunjia: "Ms. Dou died young, and the one who is most worried about before she dies must be her young son. As a result, it has only been a few years, and you let her only son stay in front of her tomb. What are you doing to make the Dou family restless under the nine springs? Besides, the eldest son is only so young, and he is following the emperor Let’s grow up together, Yun Wen Yun Wu, what can’t be done to serve the court, you have to drive people to guard the tomb!? It’s hard for the Prince Regent’s mansion to be so tight that they can’t even arrange for the servants to guard the tomb of the concubine Yuan, and need labor The eldest son of the dignified clan?!"
The regent reluctantly refused: "Xiao'er has never done anything serious, what can he do for the court? He has a bad temper, and he is not the kind of person who can calm down and do things. Don't help me more when the time comes." The busier you are, the more trouble your mother and His Majesty will take care of him."
"The son is also the grandson of the Ai family. If the Ai family has an old bone, who do you worry about if you don't worry about your grandson?" The Empress Dowager snorted and said, "As for the emperor, what do you say, the emperor?"
Chunjia took the line of harmony and generosity, so at this moment, she naturally smiled and promised that she didn't care about the trouble Gong Xiangxiao would cause her.
He has the confidence and ability to be a good cousin.
The Empress Dowager said, "If you send it, what else can you say?"
What can I do if Gongxiang sends it?
Now that he is fighting against Chunjia, he has to unite with the Empress Dowager, but now the Empress Dowager is standing with Chunjia, no matter how he opposes it, there is no result, so he can only reluctantly agree.
However, he also made a request, that is, Gong Xiangxiao is young and inexperienced, and it is not appropriate to rush into important matters. It is better to start with idle jobs and low-quality jobs first, so as not to cause big troubles for the court when the time comes.
Even if the Empress Dowager and Chunjia vowed to support him, it would not be a good thing after all.
The Empress Dowager did not object to this, and Chunjia agreed.
But the Empress Dowager also made another point, that is, Gong Xiangxiao will go to the position of the eldest son and become a marquis, and most of them will go to other places to take office, so the marriage must be arranged immediately.
Otherwise, would it be possible to let Shenzong's grandson go to another place to marry a woman with a low lintel?
The regent had something to say at this time: "Why should the mother worry so much about that evil? As long as the son and wife are virtuous and sensible, it doesn't matter if they come from a lower family background. Concubine, is she a noble lady from a famous family?"
"The virtuous concubine is just a concubine, can she be compared with the main palace? Which of the emperor's two empresses is not from a high-ranking family?" The empress dowager said lightly, "As for the Dou family, the Ai family didn't want their son to marry a low-ranking son because of the example of the Dou family. Daughter of the family, if the blessings are shallow and you cannot bear the blessing of marrying a family member and noble son, you also come and go at a young age, isn't this tormenting the prince for nothing?"
The regent bowed his head and thought for a while, then said: "Actually, Xiao'er doesn't have to leave the imperial capital. There are also many idle jobs in the capital that can be tempered."
"Uncle Wang, it's better to listen to the emperor's grandmother on this matter." Chunjia smiled from the side, and said, "After all, the matter between your father and son has been quite serious these two days. How can there be no discussion in the imperial capital? Let the prince go to another place to avoid the limelight, so as not to keep the royal family from being gossiped."
The Empress Dowager looked at Chunjia with complicated eyes, and said to the regent: "That's what Aijia means. The prince is also this big, and it's time to save face. You let him stay in the imperial capital, and he will listen to those who don't." Yes, how can he think about it? So you father and son are really going to claim revenge? Why don't you let the child go outside for a walk, maybe he will think about it and come back to apologize to you?"
The regent took advantage of the situation and said: "If that's the case, his marriage is not in a hurry. After all, he is still full of misunderstandings about the child. Even if the child forces him to marry a famous lady, I'm afraid he will have doubts and even hate the house and the black woman." If you don’t get close to your first wife, wouldn’t it be unbeautiful if you become a pair of resentful spouses? The left and right men are not as short-lived as women’s youth. Let him go out to experience it, and then discuss marriage, and it will also make those high-ranking families break their hearts instead of pure love. Look at his clan status."
...So the matter was settled like this, Chunjia said to Yun Fenghuang: "You pack up some things and send them over when someone leaves the imperial capital. After all, they are the blood of Shenzong."
He said that it was Shenzong's flesh and blood rather than his own brother, which shows that he didn't really see Gong Xiangxiao very close in his heart.
Yun Fenghuang thought about it, so there is no need to pay too much attention to it, just make sense.
Thinking of the behind-the-scenes of Gong Xiangxiao's series of actions, he lowered his eyes slightly and said, "By the way, the Empress Dowager did what happened to Xiao Daiyu?"
Chunjia smiled and said, "Can we still ask about the fault of the Empress Dowager for this kind of matter? It can only be left alone. The people around Xiao Daiyu have all been dismissed."
Moreover, you have finally obtained the Imperial City Secretary in a legitimate manner.
Yun Fenghuang silently added in his heart, even though there must still be a lot of people who love the regent, and there are still a lot of sand, but in name, the Imperial City Secretary has since returned to the previous style of not being responsible to anyone except the emperor, and the regent will not be responsible in the future. If you want to use Huangcheng Secretary, you have to be careful, once you are discovered, you will be criticized.
Besides, Chunjia is not stupid, she will definitely do some cleaning and tidying up, and use it completely for her own use.
She thought to herself that Qi Jiulu dared to trick Gong Xiangxiao into playing tricks in the palace, and this must be her support.
Apart from a little embarrassment, this incident is actually beneficial and harmless to Chunjia.
So even if Chunjia could see that there was an inside story, she probably wouldn't want to get to the bottom of it, so as not to let the Regent find out his flaws, so how could he be willing to hand over the Secretary of the Imperial City?
"It's just that what did he arrange for Gong Xiangxiao to leave the imperial capital?" Yun Fenghuang was perfunctory to Chunjia, while thinking to himself, "No matter how much Gong Xiangxiao is ignored by the regent, he is still the eldest son in the name of the eldest son. Day, there are more or less places that can be used... What can his temperament and methods be used for if he is sent out now?"
Maybe it will drag Qi Jiulu to continue to help him with advice, lest the grandson of Shenzong go to other places and meet arrogant and bold madmen, and be tricked around.
If it was an ordinary staff member, it could be said that he would rather be the head of a chicken than the tail of a phoenix, considering that he would not be able to compete with those big bosses in Cuiyuan, and he was in the eyes of the prince, so why not let the prince set up his own family and live happily with himself.
After all, the Marquis is certainly not as good as the Wang Jue, but judging from Gong Xiangxiao's previous situation, he was tremblingly under the hands of the Regent and Concubine Lu as heirs, and he may be abandoned at any time, and there is nothing wrong with it.
Why don't you take the time to make a fuss, relying on the sympathy of all parties to get a title, isn't it better than looking at the face of your half-brother in the future?
But Qi Jiulu has already joined the Dingbei Army, and his future is not bad, so he doesn't intend to give up the management of the Dingbei Army and go to help Gong Xiangxiao.
When Concubine Xian was full of doubts, Qi Jiulu was walking quickly through an extremely long corridor.
He has almost recovered from his injuries now, but after all, he was damaged too much before and still needs to be taken care of. As he walked faster, he felt a dull pain in his chest. It's just that Qi Jiulu is a stoic person, so he didn't realize it. After passing through the corridor, there is a small courtyard. The spring flowers are not yet open in this season, and there are some flowers that are not afraid of the cold, such as narcissus, with a faint fragrance, which is quite quiet.
In this quiet place, there stood a figure of Angzang who was out of tune with the environment, sitting upright with his knees on his knees, his eyes slightly closed, as if he was taking a nap.
"The last general, Qi Jiulu, pay my respects to the general!" Qi Jiulu stepped forward, bowed his fists and saluted without looking sideways, and said in a deep voice, "General, all the things that were explained a few days ago will be completed in the end, and the son will leave soon." Beijing!"
Hearing this, the man let out a faint "hmm" without opening his eyes, and only said slowly: "You did a good job, but it's not clean enough! I'm afraid that the man in the palace is now suspicious of you." gone."
"The general will know." Qi Jiulu maintained a bowed posture and said, "However, with the benefit of getting back the Imperial City Secretary, I think that person will turn a blind eye and not rashly reveal this matter. "
After a pause, he continued, "Besides, the last general has something to do with the palace. Even if he is suspicious, he will only think about this relationship, and will never think of you, the general!"
"Speaking of which, the general has never asked." The man didn't open his eyes until now, but his eyes were shining brightly. If Yun Fenghuang was present, he would definitely be able to see that there is a gap between his brows and Gu Zhen's. Similar, it was Uncle Zhaowu Gu Fangshu who was supposed to guard the territory in the north!
Gu Fangshu stared at the heroic Qi Jiulu in front of him. His eyes were already sharp, but at this moment he deliberately added a little pressure, looking like a sharp blade, and said slowly, "What do you have in mind for that empress in the palace?" ?”
Qi Jiulu was silent for a while, and said calmly: "It's just the attachment when I was young. At that time, Mo Jiang's parents were still strong, and all kinds of affairs were not on their shoulders, so they couldn't help but have all kinds of thoughts floating around. Now that the two elders are worried and sick, how can Mo Jiang ignore them? Continue to be confused?"
This answer did not satisfy Gu Fangshu: "Then if one day, you don't need to think about all kinds of worldly things, and you even have enough status to meet that empress again, what should you do?"
"..." Qi Jiulu thought for a while this time before saying, "At the beginning, the general never abandoned her, she was the one who abandoned the general first. Therefore, once we parted that day, there will be a difference between the monarch and his ministers. The general will naturally treat each other with courtesy."
Gu Fangshu smiled and said, "The private meeting at the Mid-Autumn Festival last year is also called treating each other with courtesy?"
"At that time..." Qi Jiulu was interrupted when he opened his mouth. Gu Fangshu said: "The general knows that someone is plotting...but the question is, why were you plotted?"
Qi Jiulu pondered briefly, and then knelt down on one knee to plead guilty: "The general has resentment in his heart, so he lost his sense of proportion, please punish the general!"
Gu Fangshu squinted his eyes and didn't speak for a while, then sighed softly after a while, and said: "You should understand why this general always favors you in the battle between Luo Tieyi and you...you can just do it yourself !"
With that said, he got up, raised his hand and patted Qi Jiulu's shoulder twice, then turned around and left without haste.
It wasn't until his back completely disappeared at the end of the corridor that Qi Jiulu, who was still in a bowed posture, straightened up little by little, with cold sweat dripping from his forehead.