Chapter 287 Few Candidates

The news that the King of Jin was infected with smallpox spread to the former court. Although it was not easy to say, Chunjia, who was still calm at first, looked gloomy for a moment. Finally, he first insisted on going to take care of his son himself, but fortunately left and right tried their best to stop him, and now someone sent a message to Sui'an consort and Xie Shiba outside the palace, asking them to spread money and silk, and do good deeds everywhere to pray for the king of Jin.

The noble concubine had been in the palace for several years and only had fifteen princes as her own flesh and blood, so she couldn't take it too seriously, so Chunjia didn't think much about it at the moment, only thought that the noble concubine was going to the doctor in a sudden illness, sighed, and asked people to follow her private Curry took a sum of money and sent it to Princess Sui'an's house: "Fifteen is also my heir."

The servants did not dare to remind him that the third and tenth princes were also sick on the couch, and the emperor did not say that he would do good for these two sons.

Only continued to say cautiously: "Your Majesty, the imperial concubine is currently investigating the Hegong thoroughly, and...and...seems to be suspicious of the Zhonggong!"

Chunjia frowned and said, "What's going on?"

"It is said that the imperial concubine felt that the smallpox incident earlier was caused by a mistake in the veil specially embroidered by the empress for the empress dowager, but in fact, it was the third prince and the third prince in front of the middle palace who first got sick. Ten princes. These days have passed, and something happened to His Royal Highness Prince Jin. I suspect that the source of His Royal Highness’s illness is not the pimple marks on the veil..." The servant said this with trepidation, after all, although the imperial concubine did not say it clearly, The meaning inside and outside the words is to doubt the queen.

"The noble concubine may be in chaos if she cares about it." Chunjia's heart sank, not because she really suspected Zhonggong, but because she felt that things were a little out of control.

Because everyone knew about Yun Fenghuang's ambitions before, but at least she was unilaterally coveting the posthumous position, coveting Qingci Palace, but there was nothing wrong with Zhonggong. There is no real conflict between the two parties, so even if they don't like each other, they can still be polite after seeing each other. There are even many things that can be negotiated.

In this case, as long as the emperor restrains the imperial concubine and controls the power and right and wrong of the imperial concubine to a certain extent, he can achieve the tempering of the future East Palace without causing the conflicts between the empress and concubines to be irreconcilable. Suppression will inevitably ruin one party's reputation.

But if King Jin's smallpox is related to Zhonggong, or in other words, as long as Yun Fenghuang confirms that there is a relationship, will the two parties still be able to coexist in the future?

The emperor's thoughts changed, and he said slowly, "Since the pimple marks on the veil were discovered, the Sixth Palace has been quickly closed. How can there be any possibility of contagion? It seems that the culprit deliberately did it to provoke the relationship between the palace."

When these words were conveyed to Yun Fenghuang, she sneered a few times, and said to the visitor: "I understand what your majesty means. But I only have the flesh and blood of King Jin. After going through such difficulties... Even if I am not good, if there is any matter, it is directed at me, so why involve innocent children? And this is not the first time, back then, it was not I who was favored by His Majesty When she was in the palace, Concubine An was pregnant twice before and after, and now she is still empty in her knees? I originally thought that I had been childless for many years, but finally God gave me a prince. No less than the heir of a favorite concubine!"

The palace servant who was in charge of delivering the message did not dare to make a sound, and after waiting for a while to see that the imperial concubine had nothing else to say, he left in a cold sweat.

It was only half a day later that Chunjia heard the imperial concubine's reply, and knew that Yun Fenghuang was really angry and did not intend to follow his hint and compromise.

This is also what he expected, after all, Yun Fenghuang has never been the master who swallows his anger, when has she not let others swallow his anger? That was normal time, not to mention that it was her own flesh and blood who suffered the loss now.

The emperor's love for King Jin is not very deep yet. To be honest, if the child is really gone, he will not feel any grief, but he is afraid that the imperial concubine will not be able to bear it and will do something out of control.

No, it should be said that based on his understanding of Yunfenghuang, Yunfenghuang will definitely make a big disturbance in the middle palace.

When this concubine entered the palace in her early years, she had put on a posture that she was not afraid of death. If she suffered from the pain of losing her son, what would she not be able to do?

Chunjia was silent for a while.

If it's someone you don't like that much, just change it ruthlessly. In that case, no matter how ruthless Yun Fenghuang is, he is sure that she will not make any trouble.

But he also really likes the noble concubine, if the noble concubine loses a child because of this disaster, why can't he still stab her in the wound? Although she is unreasonable, but...he is the emperor. If he doesn't even have the ability to pamper his concubine once, what is he doing?

"...Let someone sort out the situation of the princes and children in the temple, and submit it up." The emperor thought for a while, and ordered slowly.

No way, he couldn't bear the imperial concubine after all.

It is impossible to abandon her because of such a thing, so right now I can only prepare for the worst, that is, after the death of King Jin, Yun Fenghuang insisted on settling accounts with Zhonggong, and he had to consider changing the queen...

At that time, not only may the queen be changed, but the three sons-in-law now may not be appropriate.

After all, not to mention the king of Chu, the tenth prince and the twelve princes were brought up by the empress, and they are still very attached to and trust Gu Zhen.

After replacing Gu Zhen, they are too young to do anything now, how can they not resent the concubine when they grow up?

Chunjia attached great importance to the Tenth Prince and the Twelfth Prince because they were legitimate sons, and their backgrounds were suitable to be established as heirs. For the two princes themselves, in fact, he has no special love. Even abandoning everything and only talking about the child himself, what he loves most is Qin Wang and Zhao Qing, the two children he cares about and gets along with the most.

So once the ten princes and twelve princes are not suitable, the emperor will not be reluctant to replace them.

"There hasn't been any additions to the palace for some years, so it's time to add more daughters." The emperor thought to himself, although he has many heirs, but there are not many princes who are suitable as heirs.

Those whose birth mother is a noble daughter must be ruled out, so the second, third, seventh, eleventh, and thirteenth princes will be eliminated first; the birth mother's city is too deep, and it will be difficult for her to resist as an heir if she takes filial piety and self-respect in the future The prince is also not considered, so the ninth prince and the fifteenth prince are not appropriate.

Only the sixth prince and the fourteenth prince are left.

However, the sixth prince was once the heir of Concubine An, and even now it is recorded under the name of Concubine An. Later, he was raised by his loving mother, the Empress Dowager. Afterwards, this is also the prince who has the closest relationship with the Yuan family, and Chunjia will not consider it.

The fourteenth prince's biological mother, Qu Hongzhuan, was an authentic daughter of a poor family. The problem was that she was Yun Fenghuang's direct descendant.

Not to mention that setting up the fourteenth prince is to fuel Yun Fenghuang's arrogance, simply considering that Qu Shi has been bowing to serve the concubine since entering the palace, if the mother is more expensive than the son in the future, I will ask the concubine to be a low-key little girl with her... Chunjia wanted to give Qu Hongzhuan a little bit.

In short, if the ten and twelve princes are not suitable to be kings, the other princes are not suitable either.

The emperor was busy with the government affairs of the previous dynasty and didn't notice it. Now he is thinking about it secretly, just frowning, let the left and right remember it. When the epidemic is over, he will add some newcomers to the palace in the name of the empress dowager.

There are too few candidates for the crown prince, which is not good for the country.

Yun Fenghuang didn't know at all, because what she said, the emperor was thinking about changing the queen and changing the family, she only said that Chunjia was determined, not to mention that now she just suspects that Zhonggong murdered King Jin, even if Zhonggong really did it , Maybe Chunjia will also help with the aftermath.

After all, except that Gu Zhen didn't please the emperor, everything was in line with the emperor's requirements for the empress.

She knew that it was impossible to kill the queen at the moment, but it didn't matter, she could keep the account first, and then take it out when it was almost time in the future, so as to give Zhonggong a fatal blow.

"How are the third prince and the tenth prince doing now?" Yun Fenghuang pondered for a while and called Chen Jing to ask him, and then he learned that the two princes under Zhonggong's knees had a very serious illness yesterday. Whether to eat or drink, he knelt in the direction of the Taimiao, praying day and night for the protection of the ancestors of the Gongxiang family.

The ancestors of the Gongxiang family really had that ability, how could Xiaozong die of depression back then?

The noble concubine sneered a few times in her heart, and sincerely hoped that the tenth prince would just die.

Gathering her mind, she said slowly: "The third and tenth princes were the first to get sick. At that time, the sixth palace had already sent the waiters who had been in contact with the middle palace to remote palaces. As a result, the thirteenth prince is now the same as the fifteenth prince. It’s still infected... Zhonggong has to give me an explanation for this matter! You sent people to Yanfu Palace to spread the word, and the left and right empresses are not accompanying the two princes in person. She clears up my doubts for this palace!"

Because of the Third Prince and the Tenth Prince, Yanfu Palace has become a place that everyone can't avoid at this moment, but after the imperial concubine gave orders, they still arranged for people to go there.

The queen was anxious, she heard that the imperial concubine had sent someone here, and she would feel better after being in a daze for a while, so she asked the reason in a hoarse voice.

Knowing that it was for Xingshi to inquire about crimes, she almost fainted from anger: "I wish I could trade my life for Bing'er and Xiaoshi to have nothing to do with each other, how can I care about other things?! How did King Jin get sick? The imperial concubine doesn't ask. Ask yourself how to take care of the Xuanqing Palace, don’t ask the people who serve the King of Jin, but come to ask this palace?! You must know that the veil that discovered the acne marks was the one made by the imperial concubine herself!!!”

But after scolding the person who came, Gu Zhen calmed down a bit, and felt a little sad, "Although the imperial concubine is not a thing, Jin Wang is really young... and the thirteen princes are all innocent children... I don't know what it is... Who is so insane?!"

She didn't dare to say it, because she actually suspected that it was the handwriting left by the loving mother, the Empress Dowager.

After all, not everyone is able to do such tricks in the palace without leaving a clue.

Of course, the remnants of the Ji family are also possible, although the third prince is also included in the trick, but the third prince is also Chunjia's blood.

Those who survived the Ji family must be full of hatred for Chunjia, and it's really hard to say whether they will feel sorry for the third prince.

"If it's the remnants of the Ji family, it's fine. They and His Majesty, no, it should be said, they have a deep hatred with the entire royal family now..." Gu Zhen sighed deeply, and thought, "If the loving mother, the Empress Dowager The reason for this is very clear. Not only did she want to murder the heirs of the emperor, but she also wanted to provoke the relationship between the palace and the imperial concubine...Before, the reason why she left the palace, the palace and the imperial concubine, both contributed in private ...Now, she is here for revenge."

As for Empress Dowager Yuan and Chunjia, although they are not direct mothers and sons, they love each other like mothers and sons, how can I bear it...

Gu Zhen is no longer naive when he first entered the palace. Of course, he understands how fickle people's hearts are in the face of the supreme status and power.

She used to think that she was a good person, but when she heard that Gu Liman, the biological mother of the twelve princes, had gone, why didn't she breathe a sigh of relief?

For Empress Dowager Yuan, as long as Chunjia is safe and sound, it is probably not unacceptable for the emperor's heirs to die. Because Chunjia is not old yet, she can have more heirs.

Of course, this is only the Queen's suspicion. After all, the epidemic does not distinguish between high and low. Yanfu Palace is only one Taiye Pond away from Taichu Palace. Isn't Queen Mother Yuan afraid that Chunjia will also be unlucky?

"No matter what, the noble concubine... I can't let the noble concubine really hate me." Gu Zhen pondered for a moment, and asked people to go to the Xuanqing Palace to tell the noble concubine her doubts.

Anyway, it doesn't matter whether the Empress Dowager Yuan did this matter, the key is that she can't be regarded by the noble concubine as an enemy.

Chunjia felt a headache after imagining Yun Fenghuang's reaction after the death of the King of Jin, let alone the queen.

She is not deep in the city, but she is not stupid, okay.

As long as the imperial concubine doesn't target her, she won't bother to care if Queen Mother Yuan is wronged or not.