Chapter 554: The Argument
The postmaster took the letter and immediately arranged for a fast horse to go to the capital.
This day was the fourth day of the twelfth lunar month.
There was only half a month left before Xiao Yu and Gu Fei's wedding.
The postman took the letter and traveled 300 miles a day. After seven days, he finally arrived in the capital.
The letter was delivered to the palace, and Han Kuai delivered it to Queen Zheng.
Queen Zheng read the letter and was so angry that she grabbed the letter and went to the Qianqing Palace on a sedan chair.
The emperor was reviewing memorials. When he heard that Queen Zheng wanted to see him, he raised his hand and said, "Let her in."
Queen Zheng came in and saluted, saying aggrievedly: "This Qi Wang Mansion really doesn't take me seriously. How dare they refuse to accept the imperial edict!"
Then he presented the letter from Eunuch Liu.
The eunuch took it and presented it to the emperor. The emperor read the letter with a gloomy face, and his face became uglier.
This Qi Wang Mansion is really bold. It even refused to accept the imperial edict.
Queen Zheng was full of grievances, "Your Majesty, please make the decision for me."
The emperor looked at Queen Zheng with dissatisfaction. If he had known that Xiao Yu had fallen in love with a peasant girl, why would he have gone to the trouble of granting a marriage?
It made him look petty.
It was all the Queen's bad idea!
Queen Zheng felt that the emperor's eyes were cold, and she quickly lowered her head, "I'll take my leave."
After Queen Zheng left, the emperor said to a eunuch in the corner, "Go and get the intelligence sent by the Zhuyiwei spies in the Prince of Qi's Mansion in recent times."
He still felt something was wrong. Could it be that the Prince of Qi had planted spies in the palace and knew that he was going to grant a marriage, so he took the initiative?
If the Prince of Qi dared to plant spies in the palace, he would do everything he could to kill the Prince of Qi!
The eunuch left quietly, and soon brought a booklet.
It contained some daily life in the Prince of Qi's Mansion compiled by the Zhuyiwei, and the emperor was usually too lazy to read it.
If there is something important, the Red Guards will report it separately. .
The emperor flipped through it and it was clearly written that the Qi Wang Mansion arranged a marriage for Xiao Yu on November 20th. More than ten carriages went out of the mansion early in the morning.
The arranged marriage was with a farmer named Gu, who fled from famine in Xiqin County. His family had a daughter who was born with a beautiful appearance. During the Lotus Festival in June, the woman appeared and attracted a crowd of onlookers. The scene was out of control for a time, and the prince Xiao Yu rushed into the crowd to rescue the woman.
After reading it, the emperor thought about it. November 20th should be the day when Eunuch Xu returned to Beijing.
He remembered that he talked about the marriage with the queen at night.
This means that the Qi Wang Mansion did not arrange the marriage after receiving the news, but had planned to arrange it long ago.
After all, there are still many procedures to go through before the big arrangement.
So it should not be that someone tipped off the Qi Wang.
Also, this prince is obsessed with beauty and wants to marry a peasant girl as his concubine. The King of Qi actually agreed. It seems that he thinks highly of the Prince of Qi's mansion.
This father and son, one loves wine and the other loves beauty, so there is no need to worry.
However, the prince of Qi dared to disobey the imperial edict, which slapped the queen's face, and also slapped him, the emperor's face.
Miss Zheng has been sent to Ping'an City. She is nominally the queen's sister. You can't let her come back, right?
The emperor snorted coldly and threw the memorial, "Eunuch Xu, you go to the queen's palace to convey my oral order, just say what I said, and let her draft another imperial edict."
"Isn't the prince of Qi going to get married on the 19th of the twelfth lunar month? Order him to marry Zheng's daughter as the prince's principal wife."
"Since the girl of the Gu family has been decided, you can take her as a concubine."
"Marrying a peasant girl as the principal wife is not a loss of dignity for the royal family!"