"Why does Qi'er hate Dudu Xiao so much?"
In the former court and harem, those who flattered Xiao Chu called him Nine Thousand Years old, and those who hated him called him Xiao Yangou. A concubine like Wan Qilan maintains her own status, even if she wants to flatter him or hates him from the bottom of her heart. He will not go too far on the surface, so he calls the other party more of the factory owner and the governor.
"Because he's not a nice guy."
Zongzheng Qingqi said without hesitation, as a great businessman, the other party did not try to persuade his father when he was obsessed with alchemy. And punish it.
Looking at her son's childish little face, Wan Qilan felt a sense of loss, yes, once upon a time, that one standing on the city wall of Dingfengguan, pointing to the vast grassland in the northwest, told her confidently, waiting for him When he grows up, the boy who will replace his father and guard the country for the people of the great merchants has already transformed into an appearance she doesn't recognize.
He has become cold-blooded, cruel, and insensitive. Everyone in and out of the palace knows his reputation, and even the threat of ordinary people to stop their children from crying at night has become that if they are disobedient, the governor Xiao of Dongchang will send Jin Yiwei to arrest them. They were all dragged to the Torture Division.
Zongzheng Qingqi was a little puzzled, was there something wrong with what he said? In the palace school, other imperial nephews and some companions said that, and even the Tai Tuo veiledly expressed his dissatisfaction.
Therefore, seeing the melancholy in Shangmu Concubine's eyes at this time, Zongzheng Qingqi was a little puzzled.
"You say Dudu Xiao is not a good person, so has he ever done anything rebellious and rebellious?" Wan Qilan knew that she had lost her composure. He took his hand and sat down on a round stool beside him.
"When his father was obsessed with alchemy, eunuchs interfered in politics, which was against the ancestral system." Zongzheng Qingqi thought for a while and said loudly.
"That's what your father ordered."
Wan Qilan replied softly.
"But... but..." Zongzheng Qingqi didn't expect his concubine to give him such a reply. It sounds reasonable, but the reality is completely different.
No matter how smart he is, he is only a ten-year-old little prince now, and he has mostly studied the Four Books and Five Classics. The Tai Tuo dare not teach more about matters above the court, and can only explore by himself.
But even so, Zongzheng Qingqi also knew that Xiao Chu's behavior was wrong. As an eunuch, even if his father was in a daze and entrusted him with the affairs of the court, he should remonstrate and refuse.
"He arrested Master Li Yushi. Li Yushi was loyal to the great businessman and his father. Xiao Chu shouldn't have falsely accused the other party and sent him to prison just because of his own personal grievances."
Zongzheng Qingqi thought, even if it was the emperor's order to let the eunuch Xiao Chu intervene in the government, but it was not the father's order to frame Zhongliang, right
Such an unfaithful and unrighteous person, how can he be worthy of his father's trust in him.
Of course, even though Zongzheng Qingqi didn't say anything, she still resented her father in her heart. If it wasn't for the fact that the other party was old and foolish, disregarding right from wrong, and pampering a treacherous sycophant like Xiao Chu, there would be no peace in the court now. Sadly, there was a miasma of smoke.
"It was your father who ordered Li Yushi to be imprisoned."
Wan Qilan's tone was still tepid, even though Zongzheng Qingqi was full of false fires in her heart, she couldn't get angry with such a mother and concubine.
"But that's because of Xiao Chu's slander." Zongzheng Qingqi felt that she was about to be led into a ditch by her concubine, but the little prince who knew her position still stuck to the bottom line and was determined not to be led astray by her concubine.
Otherwise, according to what the mother and concubine said, Xiao Chu was right, it was all the father's fault.
"Even if Xiao Chu slandered Li Yushi, it will only be useful if your father listens to it."
Wan Qilan squeezed her son's hand, thinking in her heart that her son has been studying hard these days, and his thin fingers don't feel as sensual as before when he pinches them. This time, his son should bring a few more confidants with him when he returns to the front hall.
But thinking about it in his heart, he didn't stop talking.
"Besides, you said that Governor Xiao slandered Li Yushi, how do you know that what he said was slander?"
The concubine's rhetorical question made Zongzheng Qingqi stunned: "Isn't Li Yushi a loyal minister?"
Since Li Yushi is a loyal minister, Xiao Chu who arrested him and put him in prison is naturally a villain.
"How do you know that Li Yushi is a loyal minister?" Wan Qilan continued to ask.
"Everyone says that?" Zongzheng Qingqi thought nothing of it.
The Taifu said that, and the accompanying reader said that, and the other party was able to remonstrate with death when the father was addicted to alchemy, hoping that the father would stay away from villains, be close to virtuous officials, and respect the government. Isn't this what loyal officials do?
"Just like everyone else, is this what the grand master in the palace school taught you?"
Wan Qilan sighed, shook his head slowly, and looked at the disappointed mother and concubine, Zongzheng Qingqi was a little flustered, he tugged on the sleeve of the concubine, not knowing what he said or did wrong.
"In the eighteenth year of Chengqing, the second son of Li Yushi occupied the fertile land, causing four deaths and nine injuries to the villagers of Taohua Village..." Wan Qilan told the crimes of Li Yushi's family in a soft voice. If Xiao Chu was present, he would be surprised. The crimes mentioned are almost the same as what he threatened Li Jinzhong in the cell at that time.
"Li Jinzhong's worship of the censor not only did not become a role model for the people, but connived at his descendants to do harm to his neighbors. He even took advantage of his position to erase the criminal evidence for the descendants who violated the law. Such Li Yushi, Is he really the loyal minister that everyone praises in your mouth?"
Zongzheng Qingqi was dumbfounded when she heard what her mother and concubine said, and she was immediately immersed in the shock that Mrs. Li, who was praised by the Taifu and companion readers, was actually such a person. Why do women in the palace know so many things outside the palace.
What's more, if Li Jinzhong wants to be a loyal minister, and wants to keep his legend in the history books, he will definitely hide the deeds of the unscrupulous descendants of the Li family well. .
Wan Qilan, a woman who used to be invisible in the deep palace and seemed to rely on the power of the Wanqi clan to protect herself wisely in the struggle between Concubine Jiang and Concubine De, is it really as simple as she shows
"Li Jinzhong was afraid of offending your father, so he only dared to point the finger at Dudu Xiao. Isn't he betting that he will remonstrate with death? As long as your father doesn't want to be a foolish emperor in the history books, he will never kill him. It seems that Loyal and loyal, but actually a hypocrite, such a person is worthy of the emperor, do you feel wronged for him?"
Wan Qilan sighed, and said earnestly to her son: "If today he dared to point his nose and scold your father for being stupid, then I would respect him a bit, but he dared not blame the culprit, but he did not dare to accuse the culprit. The governor scolded him for no reason, and for what happened today, it can only be said that he deserved it himself."
"But... but Xiao Chu... Xiao Chu, he really did what Li Yushi said... intervening in the government as an eunuch? This is against the law of etiquette."
Zongzheng Qingqi's mind was confused, and he always felt that he was taken into the ditch by his mother and concubine.
"Didn't the mother and concubine say before that Dudu Xiao is in charge of politics, that's what your father asked for." Wan Qilan touched her son's head, with a little worry in her eyes, as if she was worrying that her son's head was not good Make it seem like.
"Can... can..."
Zongzheng Qingqi stammered, unable to speak.
Xiao Chu's involvement in politics was requested by his father, he framed Zhongliang, but Zhongliang was not loyal at all, and he was not good at all, and what the concubine mother said was right, Xiao Chujin slandered, but someone had to listen to his slander, in the end, The most problematic thing is that his father is not successful
What role does Xiao Chu play in it? His father forced him to intervene in politics, and slandered him because his father liked to listen. Could it be that he is still a pure and innocent water lily
Zongzheng Qingqi felt that there was something wrong with one link, but he couldn't get out of the maze that his mother and concubine had woven for him.
He still thinks that Xiao Chu is not a good person, but his position at this moment is at least not as firm as when he first returned to Yanyunxuan.
In order to prevent the prince from getting too close to the mother clan, the only few times a month for each prince who has reached the age of six to be alone with his biological mother are not long. Zongzheng Qingqi stayed at Yanyunxuan for lunch, and after Both of them tacitly avoided the topic of government affairs, and when the time came, Wan Qilan had to send the emperor away.
It's just that when Zongzheng Qingqi left this time, there were two more servants beside her. One of them was the big palace maid who served Wan Qilan, and the other was her special servant in Yanyunxuan's small kitchen. Mammy who makes cakes.
As the concubine's master, Wan Qilan wanted to arrange a few servants for her son, and this small request was fine.
Seeing her son's figure going away, Wan Qilan concealed the faint sorrow in her heart. Now that her son loathes Xiao Chu so much, her original plan may become more and more difficult to carry out.
Hey, I can only take one step at a time. I hope that the people she arranges around her son can play their role.
"Ma'am, there's a letter over there."
The old nanny next to Wan Qilan came over with a slender hairpin. Wan Qilan folded the hairpin at random. It turned out that the golden hairpin was hollow, and with her movements, the paper strips wrapped inside were exposed.
"Haizi handover, see you at Bibo Pavilion."
Bibo Pavilion used to live in the late emperor's noble concubine, but that noble concubine offended the late emperor for some unknown reason. From then on, Bibo Pavilion was sealed up, and that noble concubine couldn't bear the blow of falling out of favor, so she hanged herself in Bibo Pavilion. Women in the palace thought that Bibo Pavilion was bad luck, and would rather live in a palace with other concubines than move to Bibo Pavilion. As time passed, it would become like a cold palace.
And because there were rumors in the palace that after the death of the noble concubine, the grievances would not disappear, people could often be heard crying in the Bibo Pavilion in the middle of the night, and gradually, everyone began to avoid the Bibo Pavilion. The soul of the imperial concubine is entangled.
Wan Qilan burned the note into black ashes, but she didn't expect that person to contact her. It seems that the matter she asked him to investigate before has already begun.