Fortunately, little Mrs. Tao now has a son and everything is ready. Although she felt sad for a while after hearing the news, she cheered up again by stroking her belly: "Since you are not allowed to enter, you don't need me to handle the etiquette. It's nothing." … As long as your husband is happy!”
These words were passed from Mrs. Tao to the Duke of Qin. The Duke of Qin was very satisfied with his grandson-in-law's understanding and generosity, and specially rewarded little Mrs. Tao with something, which was both a comfort and a reward. This matter was privately reported to her husband by the Jiang family except Qiu Yilan. Although she complained a few words, it didn't cause much trouble, because the funeral ceremony for Queen Mother Ye followed.
Empress Dowager Ye, who had lived in the Ganlin Palace for more than thirty years, no matter whether she was in the harem or in the harem, among the younger ones, it was not until the news of her death came out that they were surprised that there were actually two empress dowagers in the current Dynasty of Darui.
Therefore, everyone knew very well that if Empress Jiang truly respected the Empress Dowager Ye, she would not have kept her in Ganli Palace for so many years, and only occasionally let Lord Duanrou visit her. Now that he is suddenly going to war to take care of her funeral, there is a high probability that he has another agenda.
This plot is not difficult to guess - the Queen Mother Party teamed up with Xue Chang and took advantage of the emperor's poisoning and the discovery of General Ruan's tomb to severely deceive the Queen Mother Party. At this juncture, it was time to take advantage of the victory and pursue the victory, and there was still the intention to hold a grand funeral for Queen Mother Ye. Obviously, the funeral itself could be used as a battlefield to further attack the Queen Mother's party.
Sure enough, on the first day of condolences, Empress Jiang cried like this in front of the ministers. Empress Dowager Ye said: "... You just said that Weisang was smart and filial, and had the appearance of the late emperor. But you entrusted me to Dali Sheji, and he died like this in the blink of an eye! Poor this child Now that I haven't officially been canonized, I have lost my great-grandmother... Wuwu... Queen Mother... you are so cruel!"
Empress Jiang's cry almost made her purpose clear, and the Queen's party stepped forward to answer the question with understanding: "Empress, please express your condolences! Since Empress Dowager Ye preferred His Highness the Seventh Prince to inherit the great treasure, His Majesty also agreed earlier. The seventh prince is the crown prince, why not make the seventh prince the crown prince in front of the soul and tell the world, so as to keep the Queen Mother’s spirit alive in heaven?”
One person raised his head, and everyone agreed. In the past few days, Xue Chang also persuaded several close confidants in the Neutral Party, such as Cheng Jin, to follow suit.
I originally thought that although most of the ministers had expressed their stance, the Queen Mother's party would also oppose it. Unexpectedly, after hearing this, Queen Mother Gu, who was present in person, calmly said: "That's right! The Ai family also feels that Lao Qi has profound blessings and is a capable person, so he is the heir apparent!"
The Queen Mother's words made the entire hall stunned for a long time. Even Xue Chang and Qin Guogong were stunned. After a long time, Queen Jiang asked uncertainly and tentatively: "Then the daughter-in-law sent someone to draft the decree?"
"No need!" Queen Mother Gu waved her hand and calmly asked her confidant to hand out a letter of edict, "The Ai family has already been written by someone!"
"Mother, my wife wants to see it first, is that okay?" Queen Mother Gu's attitude changed so quickly, which surprised and disturbed the majority of the queen's party. Queen Jiang blurted out in a hurry!
Empress Dowager Gu looked at her with a half-smile but not a smile: "Why do you think the Ai family is so confused that they don't even know how to draft a decree to establish the crown prince?" She then reminded, "The prince is the crown prince, and the decree to establish the crown prince is not stamped with a jade seal." But it doesn’t work!”
These words made the entire Queen's party, except for a few people, look a little uncomfortable - Empress Dowager Gu had been the regent for her son since the emperor was young, so of course the jade seal was always in her hands. Later, Empress Jiang rose up, but she always used only the phoenix seal and the emperor's private seal.
In other words, although the decree issued by the Queen and the decree issued by the Queen Mother are both called Yi decrees, in fact, strictly speaking, the decree issued by the Queen Mother is the orthodox one.
However, the Jiang family was powerful, and the people below knew that the Queen's orders were often exceeded, but they did not dare to disobey them.
Now that Queen Mother Gu said this, Queen Jiang was at a loss for words for a moment, but she was still worried that Queen Mother Gu would pretend to agree and not come up with a messy decree. Even if she failed to succeed, it would destroy the atmosphere in which she was crying just now, so she rolled her eyes and said: "Mother, thank you for your hard work." Come on! Establishing a crown prince is a big deal, how about asking Prime Minister Xue to read out the decree?"
I believe that with Xue Chang's ability, if something goes wrong with Yizhi, he will definitely be able to smooth things over while preventing Queen Mother Gu from achieving her goal - even in full view of the public!
Empress Dowager Gu glanced at her and agreed with a sneer - so Yizhi handed it over to Xue Chang and read it out. The seventh prince Chu Weisang, who was only 16 years old, surpassed the six brothers above him and received the instruction in front of Empress Dowager Ye. His Royal Highness, the Crown Prince of the Ruiben Dynasty, can move into the East Palace immediately after the funeral of Queen Mother Ye!
This imperial edict prepared by the Queen Mother in advance not only praised Chu Weisang to the extreme, and clearly appointed him as the crown prince, she even proposed to follow the example of the previous dynasty and give Chu Weisang the opportunity to form a team in the East Palace after he moved to the East Palace. right!
If people like the Queen's Party and Xue Chang didn't understand why Queen Mother Gu was acting so abnormally before, after hearing this decree, they would never have imagined that Queen Mother Gu saw that she had failed to cultivate two princes in a row, and her own side was also at a disadvantage. He simply changed his strategy and openly poached!
You must know that Chu Weisang has been used by the Queen's Party through the mouth of the Emperor and Queen Mother Ye to make him the crown prince. It is impossible for the Queen Party to support other princes in a short period of time! Under such circumstances, Queen Mother Gu gave him the power to form his own team and encouraged him to take advantage of the opportunity to stand on his own feet. One can imagine her intentions!
Ever since Chu Weisang chose a different approach from his brothers and worked hard to show his intelligence, we knew that he was not someone who would settle for mediocrity!
Is this kind of person willing to let it go when he gets a chance to stop being a puppet and become a real king
It's just that Chu Weisang currently has no ability to stand on his own. If he wants to stand on his own, of course he can only balance between the Queen Mother's Party and the Queen's Party - just like Xue Chang did at the beginning - and if he wants to balance, the Queen's Party will support him . position, but it is impossible to obtain the benefits imagined in advance, and the Queen Mother Party has gained a chance to breathe and survive!
"What a useless white wolf!" Queen Jiang was so angry!
However, seeing Empress Dowager Gu acting as if there was no one around and looking at Chu Weisang's kind eyes below, the queen had to endure it. "I'm afraid that if we make a fuss at this time, we might be following the old woman's will! It will also make Weisang separate from us... It's just the old woman." You are so underestimating my Jiang family. You have already lost and are still trying to make a comeback with the help of Weisang! Do you think our Jiang family is dead?"
... Facts have proved that Queen Jiang's confidence is justified. That night, Chu Weisang found an opportunity to find Queen Jiang and cry: "What Queen Gu's grandmother did today was clearly to deal with her son! Please help me, Queen Mother!"
Seeing the frightened and well-behaved concubine lying down at the foot of the steps, Queen Jiang felt better, but her face was still gloomy: "Her edict also reminded me! It is true that after the prince moves into the East Palace, he should have his own Team!"
"What Grandma Gu Huang said is wrong. My sons are young and ignorant. Now that I have a team, it is a waste of money for the country. It is better to serve my mother and gain more!" Chu Weisang became more and more frightened after hearing this, and made a trembling request. , "I also beg my mother not to dislike my son and minister, but to allow my son to show his filial piety!"
Empress Jiang thought for a while and felt that this concubine was already a prince after all. If she wanted to support him as an emperor in the future, if she beat him too much, even if there was no reluctance in the first place, gaps would appear, so she called him up in a gentle tone and smiled. He said: "Don't say that. I am a female, and I can't teach you much about the important matters of the country. The matters of the team were given to you by Queen Gu Mu in public, how can you refuse?"
When Chu Weisang heard that the queen had indeed asked him to set up a team, he immediately requested without hesitation: "My son, I owe everything to my mother. I also ask my mother to make the final decision regarding the team!"
Seeing him so neatly and neatly hand over the power given by Queen Mother Gu, Queen Jiang finally felt better. She asked with a smile: "Since they are your team, I can't let me pick them all. You have to name a few people yourself." ?”
"I think Jiang Hanlin, who helped me prepare the ceremony for the princess' descent, is very good. However, Jiang Hanlin is in the Hanlin Academy. I don't know if he will...?" Chu Weisang pondered for a moment and then mentioned a person. .
Queen Jiang smiled and said noncommittally, "Is there anyone else?"
"I'm stupid. I only know one person, Jiang Hanlin." Chu Weisang felt that the atmosphere in the palace had completely relaxed now, so he smiled shyly and said, "I really can't say anything about the others."
What he meant by this was obviously that he was very good-except for Jiang Yashuang, whom Empress Jiang personally appointed as his assistant before, he didn't have any cronies or confidants!
Empress Jiang smiled: "I know, please go down. In the past two days, the funeral affairs of your Grandmother Ye Huang have to be taken care of. Please take care of yourself... We will talk about this after your Grandmother Ye Huang is buried together with your Imperial Grandfather." Bar!"
"Yes!" Chu Weisang agreed obediently, bowed again and left.
After leaving Beique Hall, he looked at the snowy scene outside the hall, and then he dared to raise his hand to wipe the cold sweat on his head.
A gust of north wind blew, and Chu Weisang couldn't help but shiver - just after walking a few steps, there was still snow piled on the branches in the snow, but there was a faint green under the lights in the corridor.
Although the ice and snow have not disappeared...but it is indeed spring.
It won't be long before the wind and snow in front of you will fade away.
Spring, when everything wakes up and flowers bloom, has quietly arrived...
Chu Weisang's eyes gently swept over the buds on the branches, but he said nothing. He just tightened his cloak and quietly disappeared between the towering palace palaces.
It was also this night, thousands of miles away, in Shazhou City.
Mr. Leshan held on to the city wall and looked indifferently at the firelight at the end of his sight. At such a distance, the firelight almost illuminated half of the sky. Even though there was no lighting on the city wall, the faces of him and several people behind him were still visible. , is also clearly illuminated.
The shouts of killing were so loud that they shook the sand on the city!
The Shazhou City behind them would have been thrown into chaos by such a loud noise if it weren't for the teams of soldiers roaming the streets and alleys enforcing curfews.
The group of people ignored the excitement and anxiety of being held down behind them, and silently looked at the Zhenxi Army camp in the distance.
It was well into the middle of the night, and the fire was still blazing into the sky, and the shouts of killing were still loud, but Mr. Leshan keenly heard some changes, which made his calm face surge with excitement!
Soon, several cavalry galloped out from the direction of the military camp and ran towards the foot of Shazhou City!
"The Western Barbarians attacked the commander's tent at night, and the General of Zhenxi was hit by a stray arrow and was captured by mistake!!!" The sound of horse hooves as dense as drums came from far to near, and everyone on the city held their breath and concentrated, not daring to relax at all! !
It wasn't until the messenger loudly announced the news that he was going to deliver that the people at the top of the city burst into laughter!
Mr. Leshan, who was as indifferent as he was, couldn't hold back. He raised his arms and scratched the void hard. After a long pause, he suppressed his excitement and asked sternly to the people below: "Now are the Western Barbarians?"
"Generals Han and Zhao arrived in time and drove the Western Barbarians out of the camp - but it was difficult to find the general in the dark, I'm afraid..."
It’s better if you can’t find it, and it’s normal if you can’t find it!
There is a blood feud between the young master and Kuang thief for killing his father, and there is also the hatred of the children of the Ruan family... How could he be satisfied with a level of revenge like giving Kuang thief a knife? ! Mr. Leshan sneered in his heart and thought to himself: "If the Western Barbarians caught Kuang Thief, he would definitely not hand it over to the Young Master. The Young Master should have sent someone to do it under the slogan of the Western Barbarians... Hey!" He cleared his throat and ordered the people around him. , "Go back first! After dawn, we will leave the city immediately!"
How could he not go over and help the young master with his last hit at this time? The knife he made up was the most severe and painful!