Chunjia was extremely angry and laughed back: "The Eighth Prince is not my flesh and blood? Did the Yuan family do it? So, none of the loving mothers, empresses, and concubines involved today are innocent?!"
Gu Zhen was also startled, but he breathed a sigh of relief: We finally caught up!
Because not long after receiving the news, her grandfather went to court with the officials early in the morning. Empress Dowager Yuan's attacks came so fast and fierce that Gu Zhen was so dizzy that she was unable to fight back... She was really afraid that the people below would not fight back. Awesome, before I was ready, I was taken care of by the Queen Mother first.
Then such a good opportunity was wasted.
"Your Majesty, please think twice. The turmoil in the palace has just passed, and before the full cause and effect has been fully investigated, there have been continuous changes in the harem, so that the loving mother the empress dowager, the queen empress, and the noble concubine are all involved. It is impossible to say that it is a conspiracy and deliberate instigation. Right or wrong!" At this time, most of the ministers came out. The implicit meaning behind their words was that they hoped that the emperor could suppress the matter and investigate it clearly before discussing it.
After all, when things have developed to this point, everyone can understand that today's court meeting is no longer simple, but is jaw-droppingly complex!
The key is…
Something happened the night before yesterday!
The dignified emperor personally went to the city wall to boost morale before repelling the rebels. He also used thunderous means to deal with a bunch of ministers, and even caused the entire family of a powerful minister like Zheng Ju to be imprisoned. At this moment... the quarrel was about the harem. The dispute between wives and concubines, mother-in-law and daughter-in-law
It even went so far as to doubt the bloodline of the emperor!
The courtiers came out to stop him angrily. If they didn't stop Chunjia, Chunjia would go crazy. They all felt that the Empress Dowager Yuan, the empress and the imperial concubine were too ignorant!
The Queen Mother raised Chunjia, the Queen was the main palace, and the imperial concubine relied on pampering to make her pampered more than once or twice... It is understandable that these three people are incompatible with each other.
The problem is, forget about the usual commotion, the emperor is willing to let it go, tear it up and down, and the left and right things are ruined in the palace, not involving the front, then the ministers will give the emperor face and just pretend that they don't know.
After all, Chunjia was not the kind of emperor who would be arbitrarily manipulated by his ministers.
When are you still joining in the fun
There is simply no sense of the overall situation that a clan wife should have!
However, on the one hand, they secretly rejected the queen mother, empress, and noble concubine in their hearts. On the other hand, the officials also began to suspect that someone was obstructing them and causing this chaos.
Because the current Queen Gu Zhen seems to be quite impulsive, and Concubine Min Yun Fenghuang doesn't have a very good reputation for general knowledge. But as the elder, the empress dowager, the loving mother, everyone still trusts her, and they feel that the empress dowager is definitely not the same as the empress and noble concubine, neither light nor heavy.
But what happened this time was that the Queen Mother's natal family brother Xing Ningbo came out to sue the imperial concubine.
Maybe... the Queen Mother was deceived
The ministers had one thought after another in their minds, but no matter what, they dared not continue to remain silent and let things develop.
Otherwise, we still don’t know who will come and what kind of shocking “insider story” they will reveal!
"Even my prince's bloodline is suspected, why should he think twice?" Chunjia sneered, and asked people to call in the "farmers of Wannian County", "What's going on with stealing a dragon and turning into a phoenix? Let me tell you. explain!"
The visitors were indeed dressed as farmers. They looked like a pair of brothers. They were very young, around twenty, and fairly well-dressed. They bowed cautiously and clumsily, and then said cautiously: "In reply to Your Majesty, common people... common people. My wife was related to a person from the Wannian County Government. The year before last... no, at the end of the year before that, the Cao Min's wife gave birth to a son. He was not yet one month old. A relative from the County Government went to the house to ask if he would be a wet nurse for the noble man. … The reward is very generous…”
The two farmers grew up in the countryside and rarely saw dignitaries. What they said now was stammering and a little confused.
In short, the monarch and his ministers listened patiently for a long time before finishing the story: According to the opinions of the two farmers, the elder brother's descendant is prosperous, and he only reached the crown this year. He already has three sons and one daughter. Basically, he has been married since he was fifteen years old. , the fate of having children has never ceased. Because of this reason, the family's financial situation was still good, but it was inevitable that they would become somewhat strapped.
So after hearing from relatives that they would be well-paid as wet nurses for noble people, the couple agreed without much thought. They immediately weaned their baby, who was not yet one month old, and planned to go and concentrate on breastfeeding the little noble lady.
But not long after the wife left, she asked someone to come back and take the child away. It was because the noble man was soft-hearted, and he couldn't bear to hear that her biological flesh and blood was not yet one month old, so he specially sent a message to take him over and raise her together.
This is certainly a good thing for farmers.
But who knew, not long after, the wife came back with bad news, saying that her son was dead!
Of course, the farmers and their families are very sad, but it’s okay when the sadness is over. After all, it was not uncommon for children to die young at this time.
The children of wealthy families were carefully protected, but there were too many to support.
What's more, ordinary farmers carry it carelessly
Moreover, the nobleman is said to have pitied them for losing their young son, and even gave them some benefits.
Such a peasant family, although they are a little confused that the child does not look weak and is brought to the nobleman by his mother, even if the milk must be kept close to the little nobleman first, staying in the nobleman's house is not better than just being able to feed him at home. It’s good to drink some rice cereal, but why don’t we have it all
But think about those children who died young from wealthy families... maybe this is fate.
Because of the current rules, it is impossible for a child who died before full term to have a grand funeral or enter the ancestral grave. The farmer's wife said that she had asked the servants of the noble family to find a secluded place to bury them, and the family did not pay them back. thing.
A few days later, the farmer's wife returned with a generous reward.
The family was naturally very happy when they saw this, but within a few days of their joy, the wife accidentally slipped and fell into the water while going to the river to wash clothes in the evening, and she was gone!
Of course, they didn't have any suspicions about what happened here. Mainly, this kind of thing was common in the countryside.
They think it might be their fate.
The farmer and his wife were married and had several children. Of course they had a deep relationship, so after his wife passed away, he never remarried and raised the remaining children alone.
"But in the past two years, the children of the grassroots have disappeared one after another!"
"Even the grassroots themselves, if they hadn't been worried about the young children and stayed in the village and seldom went out, I'm afraid..."
This farmer claimed that since his wife passed away, his family has always been exposed to various dangers. The house alone has caught fire three or four times for no reason. They woke up with a start, and the whole family was basically in shock.
There are also various similar dangers, such as snakes and insects that no one knows but are colorful and venomous that are known to be filled into the house.
And his children will be doomed if they make the wrong mistake just a little bit.
As of now, all the children under his knees are no longer alive.
Of course, the village would become suspicious, and they suspected that the farmer's family had committed evil and was destined to have no heirs.
But the farmer's family thought hard and couldn't remember anything bad they had done. Finally, they thought of the child who was hastily buried, and wondered if the baby died early and the funeral was carelessly written, so they were filled with anger.
So they went to the relatives' house in the county government to inquire about the place where the child was buried. They planned to dig it up, express their condolences, and then carefully choose a geomantic treasure place to place it.
Who knew that when I got to the place and dug it open...it was actually empty inside!
"Not only is it empty, but that small coffin cannot be used by people like Cao Min!" The two farmers told each other, "I have never seen that wood before! Listen! People say that Tao is golden nanmu that only noble people can use! It looks like a trace of golden light is embedded in it... There are also many burial objects, including silks, satins, jewelry, etc. The strangest thing is... "
The two brothers looked confused for a while, and their voices were slightly lowered, "Look at those things buried with you... Look, they are all for girls!"
Whether it was the color and pattern of the clothing or the style of gold, silver and jade, especially the set of spinning wheels made of red gold, it directly confirmed that the tomb owner must be a girl!
After all, no family has such a thing for their son's burial.
After discovering this and not finding the body of their son, the family certainly would not give up, so they went to the Yamen to report the case, asking the government to help find the body of their child, and at the same time, they also reported the truth about the situation in the tomb. Their idea was that although they didn't know why those valuable objects appeared in their son's grave, the person who took them out must not be someone they could offend.
In this case, they'd better be honest and don't take advantage.
Not only cannot they take advantage, but they must also prevent others from taking advantage and framing them.
So filing a lawsuit is the best solution.
Then Wannian County Magistrate conducted an investigation and concluded that the person who hired the farmer's wife as a wet nurse was Concubine Yuan Xian!
And many of the things buried with him were traced to Yuan's head!
When things got here, it was not difficult to come up with a sensational inference.
Being able to be a county magistrate in Gyeonggi Province is certainly not an ordinary person. The county magistrate knew that this matter was serious, so he suppressed it and did not spread it. He may have planned to find a suitable opportunity to report it to Chunjia privately. But these two farmers received a tip from someone this morning that the county magistrate was likely to kill them for the royal reputation, so that if they didn't want to kill the whole family, they would come to the imperial capital and go to the palace gate to complain and describe their grievances!
Tao is today's emperor, who is wise, mighty, and loves his people like a son. He is their only savior!
Anyone else would have made this matter completely rotten and unknown to the public for the sake of Tianjia's face!
The two brothers heard the horror and came in great panic...
"So that's it?" On the throne, Chunjia's face was expressionless and her tone was indifferent, "So, the eighth prince is not of my own blood. Concubine Yuan Xian only gave birth to a princess...?"
The two brothers trembled and said: "Your Majesty, the common people don't know, the common people... the common people just don't want to die! Please help your majesty! Please help your majesty!"
If we only look at the current situation, these two farmers really know nothing and are being taken advantage of.
I was just frightened, and I really thought that my only chance of survival was to run to the gate of the Imperial Palace and scream to meet the Holy Spirit.
Chunjia didn't know whether to believe it or not, but he didn't embarrass them anyway. He asked a few details and didn't care about their incoherence. He waved his hand and asked the Imperial City Secretary to stay and "get settled" first.
Then he glanced coldly at the ministers.
Gu Zhen was underneath, his eyes lowered and his heart pounding.
"Are these two people arranged by me...?" She was confused and a little panicked, "Are the people under me... so powerful? They even prepared such complete things for burial! But how is this possible... Then What's going on? Could it be that Gu Shao... No, no, Gu Shao doesn't have this ability!"
Even she, the queen, was not capable of arranging everything in such a short time, let alone Gu Shao.
Gu Shao's orders would be difficult to pass out of the palace.
But if it wasn't Gu Shao, then who was it
It's impossible that the Yuan family really did something to confuse blood lines, and happened to catch up with this farmer brother to expose it
Gu Zhen vaguely felt that something was wrong, and had to doubt Gu Shao, who had never suspected it before: "Could it be that... the idea of using the Eighth Prince to attack the mother-in-law Empress Dowager was not Gu Shao's own idea, but someone asked her to bring a message to me Palace? Then... Then I ordered my subordinates to do it before. Could it be that I want to hold the vat for this person? "
As for who might do this, it was none other than Empress Dowager Yuan or Concubine Min.
No matter who they are, they are all enemies to Gu Zhen!
Does the enemy have any good intentions in doing this
For a moment, sweat appeared on her forehead, and she thought quickly about the possible tricks she might have fallen into
... At the same time, in the harem and Huanhua Hall, Yun Fenghuang was also surprised: "All the things buried with her belonged to girls, and they were traced to the Yuan family? Who did this? They actually went together with me. ?”
Chen Jing whispered: "I don't know. Although His Majesty is still looking calm now, his expression... I glanced at the corner and felt my heart tremble! No one dared to say anything at this time, so they just listened to His Majesty's questions. That’s it.”
"With all these things happening together, who can avoid it?" Yun Fenghuang said lightly, "Our Majesty has a good temper. If he were the late Emperor Xiaozong, I'm afraid he would be furious by now!"
It is said that the late Emperor Xiaozong was an extremely pure and filial emperor. He was very gentle and elegant when he was young, just like Chunjia when he was not in charge.
Perhaps this was the reason why the Ji family chose Chunjia among the many distant vassal kings.
With the example of Xiaozong, I think Chunjia should also be able to handle it well.
But Chunjia's gentleness is only superficial, but it is very deep inside.
Xiaozong was just the opposite. He was really elegant and almost soft in temperament. Such a temperament would make him angry at every turn... This shows how aggressive the Ji family was at that time.
So much so that there were rumors two years before the imperial ban, saying that the reason why Xiaozong did not live long and died before even giving birth to a son was because the emperor was so angry and cruel with the Ji family that it hurt his body. Only then can you live forever.
Yun Fenghuang retracted his untimely distraction and said slowly: "This is a big matter, and it is related to the royal bloodline... I'm afraid the clan members will also come forward. I originally planned to go there in person to soften the Queen's cheeks, but now I see Come on, it’s better not to show your face.”
She pinched her forehead in distress. To be honest, the start of the war was too sudden.
Totally unprepared.
No, I should say, completely unprepared.
In her estimation, it was only when she was about to give birth or was giving birth that similar attacks, calculations and traps would come in waves.
Because that was when she was at her weakest and most helpless.
Otherwise, why would Yun Fenghuang be thinking hurriedly about how to dig a hole for Empress Dowager Yuan and Empress Gu Zhen, so as to trap them before she gave birth
It can only be said that she really miscalculated this time.
He misjudged the enemy's thoughts and fell into a passive position.
Maybe he even misjudged the enemy
"The queen only thought of using the Eighth Prince's bloodline to make a fuss after being reminded by Gu Shao. The arrangement of Wannian County this time is definitely not something she can do. She doesn't have enough time and her skills are not enough." Yun Fenghuang pondered, "It's not me... Is there anyone else who thinks there is an opportunity to take advantage of Concubine Yuan Xian's failure to give birth to the eighth prince in the palace?"
She was startled, and a meaningful smile suddenly appeared at the corner of her mouth: The mantis stalks the cicada and the oriole is behind, Queen Mother Qu, well done! ! !