Chapter 1045: Whose House Does the Flower Fall?
After Zhou Tianqi returned from northern Xinjiang, he was praised and supported by hundreds of civil and military officials. The previous one-sided situation suddenly changed, even if Zhou Tianqi himself did not fight for the crown prince, almost one-third of the courtiers supported Zhou Tianqi.
Among them, the Liu Xiangfu, the Lin Xiangfu, the Lu family and the Zhao family, which are important families in the court, did not express their stance and remained neutral.
Liu Xiangfu has always supported the second prince Zhou Tianming, but now although the second prince has married the third lady of the Liu family as a side concubine, he has no chance to take the throne. A year ago, on the twenty-eighth day of the lunar month, without alarming the people of the capital, a ceremony was simply held, and Liu Fangyao was carried directly into the Second Prince's Mansion.
Liu Qingyuan originally wanted to marry Liu Fangyao to Zhou Tianhong, and bet half of the treasure on Zhou Tianhong, but now it is completely hopeless. The Nine Emperors are still young, and the Liu family is not in a hurry, just waiting to watch the tiger fight from across the mountain.
Lin Zhihuai has always been loyal to the emperor and remains neutral. Although Zhou Changan suspected that he would be as biased towards Zhou Tianqi as Lin Wan'er, Lin Zhihuai did not do that, never showed any intentions, and did not easily stand in line.
The eldest daughter of the Lu family married the third prince, and she was married on the eighth day of the first lunar month. The second daughter will marry into the Seven Princes' Mansion ten days later, although they are all side concubines, but the battle for the crown prince's position, whether the third prince wins or the seventh prince wins, they are all the sons-in-law of the Lu family.
And the Zhao family has never cared about these things, they are busy with the family affairs of their two children these days, where is there any spare time to manage the position of the prince in the end.
However, although these four families did not express their position in the court, Zhou Chang knew in his heart that the courtiers who supported the third prince Zhou Tianzheng were all manipulated by the Lu family behind the scenes. And most of the courtiers who supported the Seventh Prince Zhou Tianqi were manipulated behind the scenes by the Liu family.
Everyone knows why the Liu family wants to help Zhou Tianqi, the reason is very simple, the Liu family and the Lu family have been singing against each other for so many years, of course, they are unwilling to let the Lu family succeed. If the Lu family takes the throne, the Liu family will never have a chance to turn over.
Lin Wan is not in a hurry, it doesn't matter if Zhou Tianqi is the prince or not, the one who laughs last is the real winner. Zhou Tianhong has been the prince for so many years, isn't it also abolished now?
No one can figure out Zhou Changan's thoughts, although Zhou Tianhong has died down on the surface, he has not stopped plotting secretly. Although Zhou Tianming has already embraced the beauty and no longer thinks about the throne, but the Nine Emperor Sons are growing up day by day, and in a few years, who knows what it will be?
Everything is fake, only the military power in the hands is real. Without military power in hand, even if he becomes an emperor, he is only a puppet emperor.
Lin Wan has a feeling that it has been three years in the world for a month in the mountains. In the short two months before and after the Spring Festival this year, all the big families in the capital seem to be joining in the fun, rushing to do happy events around the New Year's Festival.
I don't know who spread it, saying that the Si Tian supervisor of the imperial court has calculated that all the good days in the past two years have been concentrated in these two months, and the next auspicious day may have to wait for another year.
First is the birthday banquet of the second queen mother of the lunar month, and then the wedding of the eighth prince of the lunar month, followed by the second prince marrying Concubine Liu on the 28th day of the lunar month, the eighth prince of the first month marrying Miss Lu as the side concubine, and the seventh prince marrying Miss Lu as the side concubine on the 18th day of the first lunar month.
The wedding of Liu Jinfeng, the eldest son of Liu, and Meng Yujiao, the eldest lady of Meng, was held on the third day of the first lunar month, because of the low profile of the second prince, the Liu family did not make a big deal of it. I only heard that Liu Dagongzi was drunk on the night of his marriage and called his wife's name wrong, so angry that Meng Yujiao returned to her parents' house the day after her wedding. Liu Jinfeng apologized for a long time, and then took his newlywed wife back to Liu Xiangfu.
The wedding of Zhou Tianxing, the son of King Ning, and Qin Lingru, the sixth lady of the Qin family, is scheduled for the fifth day of the first month, which is the first happy event in the Ning Wangfu, and it is very grand, and the people of the capital say that the silver in the Ning Wangfu and the Hubu Shangshu Mansion is more than in the treasury. Frightened, Ning Wangfu and Hubu Shangshu Mansion hurriedly tried to find a way to quell this rumor, however, the more the rumor was suppressed, the more crazy it spread.
As a result, the wedding of Qin Wenru, the second son of the Qin family, and Ma Yuefen, the eighth lady, no longer dared to be too extravagant and wasteful. Mrs. Ma hurried back to the capital from Shandong, and the dowry she brought was relatively low-key, and the wedding of the two families was scheduled for the thirteenth day of the first month.
The Yin family of Kyoto Prefecture ran to the Wang Yushi Mansion every day in the eldest lady of Wu, just for the marriage of Wu Qi, the eldest son of the Wu family, and Wang Biyun, the eldest lady of the Wang family. However, Mrs. Wang didn't let go at first, saying that her granddaughter was still young and was not in a hurry to get married at this juncture. But the Wang family is not in a hurry, the Wu family is in a hurry! Wu Qi is already not small, if he does not get married this month, he will have to wait another year, and the Wu family cannot afford to wait.
In the end, the eldest lady of the Wu family personally promised that after Wu Qi married Wang Biyun, there would be no concubines and intercourse for at least three years. As for three years later, if Wang Biyun gives birth to an heir, the affairs of their husband and wife will be decided by their husband and wife.
So, Mrs. Wang was reluctant to give up her granddaughter, and finally didn't insist anymore, and the two parties set the wedding on the 28th of the first month.
The marriage of Lin Ruiqi, the third son of Lin, and Li Xinlian, the second lady of the Li family, is scheduled for the twenty-third day of the first month, and the two families have completed all the procedures, just waiting for the day to pick up the new daughter-in-law and enter the door.
The Zhao family insisted on marrying Xing Han and Zhao Jing'er in the capital, so Xing Taishou Xing Dewu and Xing's wife Meng Xiangqin also hurried to the capital after the New Year's Festival, renovated the Xing family's old house, and set Xing Han and Zhao Jing'er to marry on the 26th of the first month.
And the wedding of Zhao Mingjin, the eldest son of the Zhao family, and Tong Xinyan is also scheduled for the same day, and the Zhao family plans to double happiness, marry a daughter-in-law, and marry a daughter, without delay.
Lin Wan thought about it, she had to rush back to attend the wedding of her third brother and Li Xinlian on the 23rd day of the first lunar month; she couldn't miss the wedding of Zhao Mingjin and Tong Xinyan, Xing Han and Zhao Jinger on the 26th of the first lunar month; and finally the wedding of Wang Biyun and Wu Qi on the 28th of the first lunar month, if she didn't go, Wang Biyun would definitely complain about her for the rest of her life.
Therefore, Lin Wan planned to set off from the Medicine King Valley on the nineteenth day of the first month and arrive in the capital on the twenty-second day of the first month, and the time was just right.
However, Lin Wan deliberately ignored the eighteenth day of the first lunar month, the day when the seventh prince Zhou Tianqi married Lu Manting, the second lady of the Lu family. Although Zhou Tianqi said that he would never marry Lu Manting, but in the face of the double pressure of Lu Qishan and Zhou Changan, what can Zhou Tianqi do?
Although Lin Wan has poisoned Lu Manting, Lu Manting has been born these days. However, Lin Wan is not heavy, and the Lu family's power in the capital is so big, it is not difficult to find a famous doctor to relieve Lin Wan's poison.