Most of the people in the court were very surprised when the regent made such a statement. They all looked at Ouyang Yanran, wondering if this veteran who was resurrected by Chunjia himself had switched to the regent so quickly
But seeing Ouyang Yanran's face sullen, she immediately came out to retort, saying that her granddaughter was of humble talent and appearance, and it was thanks to the emperor that she chose her by his side. It was a blessing to be the concubine Rui, but it was absolutely impossible to be the empress!
At this point, he changed the subject: "On the other hand, Mrs. Yaoning, the daughter of Uncle Zhaowu Gu Fangshu, is rumored to be cheerful, noble and elegant, and worthy of the middle palace. Moreover, Uncle Zhaowu has been guarding the border for many years and working hard for the country, so he canonized his daughter as his successor." , it is also a reward for the important ministers of the country, showing His Majesty’s benevolence and compassion for his ministers!”
"Although Mrs. Yaoning is good, she is the one who entered the palace during His Majesty's wedding. She has been a concubine for many years. She has not given birth to an heir, has no special achievements, and her position is not the most noble... She will be his queen. , but it’s inappropriate.” Someone from the Regent’s side came out to object and put forward a new idea, “In fact, why do we have to choose among the concubines for the successor?”
"It is unethical to take a concubine as your wife. It is better to hire a lady from a high family who is in the boudoir and to be in the middle palace!"
Although this suggestion was clearly intended to end Gu Zhen's hope of becoming the queen, it was reasonable and reasonable and actually received support from many courtiers. Some people actually did not want to block Gu Zhen's path to the queen, but sincerely felt that Chunjia's current harem Here, there is no one suitable to be a queen.
The virtuous concubines, who have neither the emperor's favor nor the means to choose, are of too low a background; the newly promoted concubines De, Rui, Xie, Mrs. Manya, Mrs. Yaoning, Yin Zhaoyi, and Luo Jieyu have sufficient status, but they are either even All the virtuous concubines are unable to suppress her, or they have no sense of presence in the palace.
As for the others, it’s okay not to mention them.
So it would be better to do the same as when Ling Zi entered the palace as a queen at a young age, and choose a person with sufficient talent, appearance and ability from the family who is qualified to be a queen to enter the Yanfu Palace.
For a time, the opinion in favor of letting Chunjia marry the virgin girl prevailed!
The regent stood up again and suggested that parents should make the final decision on marriage matters. Although Xiaozong had been abandoned because of his madness, Xiaozong's mother and Chunjia's direct grandmother, the Empress Dowager, was still there. It was appropriate to ask her to make the decision on such matters. : "Although there are still two empress dowagers in the palace, they are all wives and concubines of King Fuyang, not Xiaozong's concubines. Now they are lying on the bed again and cannot even go to Fuyang County to be supported by the current King Fuyang. They must be Those who are unable to pay attention and have no qualifications to pay attention to this matter. The Queen Mother is still here, so she can keep an eye on His Majesty."
Then he said to Chunjia, "Your Majesty has always been pure and filial, and I doubt he would offend the Empress Dowager."
"I will discuss it with the imperial grandmother, and put this matter on hold for now." Chunjia nodded slightly, and the uncle and nephew looked at each other, with undercurrents in their eyes.
Although the court meeting failed to decide on the successor, it was brought up in public. After the court was dismissed, there were naturally few people talking about it. The news spread quickly. People who were qualified to be the queen had ambitions and unconsciously decided to support the regent this time. Wang—and Uncle Zhaowu’s Mansion is about to get into a quarrel!
"You bastard! You bastard!!!" The old man's beard and hair were flaring, and he was furious. He stomped his cane vigorously, pointed at the middle-aged man not far away and yelled, "What did I tell you again and again? Ah?! What did I say? ! Today, the city is deep and has abandoned the regent and the four Luo families. How could we know that they would not plot against us in the same way?! Therefore, ignore what their mother and son say about good flowers and good rice. In short, we will do nothing! "
"We'll wait until Zhen'er sits on the throne of the queen and raises a prince who is not of the Ji family's bloodline!"
"What about you?!"
"You actually collected the criminal evidence of those four families and sent it to His Majesty. Now it's better. Even if those four families know that all this is His Majesty's plan, the first thing they hate is my family - why are you so stupid?! I The lintel of the Gu family is not as good as those four families. You and your nephews have no future. You can't even take over the Dingbei Army. You dare to get involved in such a thing. You are trying to kill my whole family. brute!!!"
"Father, don't listen to Feng Yu's anger. When the time comes, eldest brother will beat me again. I'm doing this for the good of the Gu family!" The man knelt down to apologize and said with a playful smile, "It's because our family has no one who can do it since eldest brother." You are a talented person who has truly made meritorious service to the imperial court. Are you saying that if you don’t do anything right now and are just making excuses with His Majesty, will you end up well in the future?”
He pursed his lips in the direction of the Regent's Palace, "Speaking of which, the eldest brother has always been on the Regent's side. What happened? When the Regent Princess Yuanfei passed away, he quietly married the Lu family. It's good for the eldest brother. He's catching up. Then I asked him if he wanted to take Zhen'er as his concubine? But he was not happy, so wouldn't this be the time when Zhen'er entered the palace?"
"If you ask me, our family should not have continued to support him at that time!"
"What the hell is Lu Chuncao? He's just a eunuch. He's a dignified regent and the biological son of His Majesty Shenzong, but he still has the nerve to call himself father-in-law! It's just a disgrace to the Gongxiang family..."
Before he could finish his eloquent words, he was kicked down by his father, pointed at him and said bitterly: "The reason why the regent refused to accept Zhen'er has long been explained to your eldest brother in private, although I don't know why. , but since your eldest brother doesn’t mind, he’s obviously been convinced! After all, their friendship was built by fighting together in the army, and it’s not as reliable as the two-faced one today?!”
His second son shouted: "Then you still agree to let Zhen'er be the queen?!"
"Aren't you afraid of following in the footsteps of the Ji family?!" Mr. Gu said angrily, "The Duke of Ye is the one who advocates the successor of Xiaozong. Without him, there would be no current emperor! Not to mention his daughter and granddaughter. Now we have the status of mother and son, husband and wife - but with such a big family, he will slaughter it as soon as he wants, and even frame the regent after the slaughter. With such a hearted master, he came to ask in person, and it is impossible for us to drag the family away. Take me out of the Imperial Capital, your eldest brother is out of reach on the border, if you refuse, do you think he will let us go?!"
"Can our family compare with the Ji family? Emperor Shenzong was wise and powerful, and gave the Ji family a lot of dignity, but he never gave them military power." His second son said matter-of-factly, "Not to mention Emperor Xiaozong, who strongly supported The regent's experience in the Dingbei Army was to take care of the Ji family with the help of military power. However, the late emperor had a long life and left before he could take action... Your Majesty wants to destroy my Gu family, so you are not afraid of the Dingbei Army coming to the imperial capital. ?!”
Old Mrs. Gu said happily: "You think he doesn't dare? You know, when he came to the throne, he was just a young man with newly tied hair, an orphan and a widower. Every move he made depended on Ji's face, and the regent hated him for taking advantage of him. After you have obtained the throne, why do you still want to join forces with him and even hand over part of the Imperial City Division in exchange for your uncle and nephew to conspire against the Ji family?"
"And after the Ji family was destroyed, why didn't the regent ask your eldest brother to immediately send his troops south to support him on the throne?!"
"This is the heir who has been adopted by Xiaozong in full view of the public. He is the emperor who has great righteousness!"
"As the saying goes, if a king wants his subjects to die, they must die. Even though your eldest brother has been in charge of the Dingbei Army for many years and has great control over the army, if you want to bring them to the imperial capital to join in the struggle for the throne, do you think how many people are willing to be serious? Life is too short for you to do such a dangerous thing to gain wealth?"
"Not to mention the state capital on this road, do you think they won't stop you?"
"He Chunjia has never done any evil but has a good reputation. The Gongxiang family has not done much to abuse the people so far. In the final analysis, the hearts of the people in the world are still towards them - and if there is a real trouble, do you think the regent is famous? Can he prevail because of his own sake? Everyone knows that he is just Shenzong's concubine, and Xiaozong, who is Shenzong's legitimate son, has a deep kindness to him!"
"In the end, he wanted to take away the throne of Xiaozong's heir. Isn't this repaying kindness with enmity?!"
"Otherwise, when Chunjia had nothing, why would he dare to talk to the regent, Lion, and ask the Imperial City Secretary to take advantage of him?! Although this emperor is young, he is very smart. He knows that his only bargaining chip is his righteous status. , and used this bargaining chip very well... To be honest, the Regent somehow persuaded the Empress Dowager, otherwise, the outcome of the two uncles and nephews would be clear at a glance! "
His second son shrank his head and felt a little regretful: "Then... Then let Zhen'er be the queen?"
"Do it, why don't you do it?" Old Mrs. Gu hummed, "Anyway, your eldest brother still doesn't know about this matter. If I make the wrong choice, I will end up with you in the future. Your eldest brother has a deep relationship with the regent. , and has not agreed to surrender to His Majesty, the one under his knees will be fine after all!"
"...Dad, my son is also your son. You can't favor one over the other!" His second son was dissatisfied and shouted, "Before, my son didn't dare to make the decision. When I asked for your instructions, you said that the opportunity must not be missed and he would not come again. There is no reason not to take the back seat! Now you are saying that His Majesty may not be able to win in the end, so let's let Zhen'er fight for the back seat, which may involve the family... You are old but the child is still in his prime, you My grandson and the others are even younger, can they do the errands that require their heads?!"
Old Mrs. Gu angrily kicked him again and cursed: "You don't want to take any risks. You just want to achieve success. Do you think of so many good things?!"
After thinking about it for a while, I felt something was wrong, "Don't change the subject here! I have already accepted the olive branch extended by His Majesty after buying and selling. Are you going to go back to the Regent? Wouldn't this offend both sides and make both sides angry?" Are you looking down on me?! Why don’t you think about doing your best to help His Majesty—that’s not what I want to tell you!”
"Why didn't you listen to my instructions and go to the trouble of offending those four families?!"
His second son reminded weakly: "It's not what you just said. Anyway, we are all surrendering to His Majesty, so why not go all out? Even if the lintels of those four families are higher than ours, what can they do to us with Your Majesty here? And to put it bluntly, His Majesty can rest assured that our family is not from a first-class family precisely because of those four families above us."
"After all, the graves of the Ji family have not yet been dried. Do you think His Majesty can choose a powerful daughter from a top family to be the queen, as suggested by those idiots in power today?"
"Then he might be the second one of the Ji family. By the way, Your Majesty, the two empress dowagers in the palace can accommodate them?"
Mr. Gu said happily: "You are stupid, but you are not an ordinary stupid person - His Majesty Xiangzhu also wants to see something. Since this matter is a promise given by His Majesty, he can solve it without us taking action. Otherwise, why bother with us?" Talk about this condition? Your move is just the icing on the cake, the key is!"
"How much do you think His Majesty will miss you if you do this? That one is indeed a wise king, but among the wise kings of the past and present, among those high-sounding kings, how many of them are not thick-faced, heartless, ruthless, mean, and unkind?"
"If you do nothing and just wait for His Majesty to help Zhen'er come to power, and now the regent is trying to stop it, we can make a fuss about the concubine Xian's doting on the Sixth Palace, and unite with the four families to take down the little Yun family. It’s cooked.”
"It's okay now. Those four families have no hope of becoming descendants anyway. Even if we tell you a flower, do you think they will listen?"
"Who can't clearly see Xiaoyun's status in His Majesty's eyes now? As for Zhen'er's status in the palace, even if she becomes the queen, do you think she will be her rival? The daughters of the four families will not help Zhen'er. I will keep her in check - if you do this, the most proud person in the harem will be the virtuous concubine!"
"She also has the eldest prince under her knees, how dangerous is this?!"
His second son muttered: "Isn't the eldest prince a concubine? As long as Zhen'er becomes queen and has a prince in his name, what does the eldest prince mean to him?"
"Idiot!" His father couldn't bear it anymore and kicked him down again and cursed, "What did I just say?! Your Majesty has the appearance of a wise king - have you ever seen a few wise kings who can be controlled by their ministers?! There are rules for establishing heirs. Do you really think he will comply?!"
His second son didn't bother to get up and asked hurriedly: "What will our family do now?"