Chapter Ninety-Eight: Concession
At this time, the Empress Dowager was still worried about Zhao Yi's face and did not shout out what Zhao Yi had done. WwW is worth your collection. LWXS520。 COM
When the lamp was in hand, Jiang Xian spoke with the Empress Dowager, who couldn't eat half a bowl of white porridge anymore.
"Grandmother, at this time, what is the use of you holding the phoenix seal?" She persuaded the Empress Dowager, "Even the Empress Dowager Cao complied with the emperor's wishes in this matter, and also helped the emperor arrange all the people who covered the shame, so why did you go to this troubled water? In the end, you can only end up offending everyone." ”
"The things of this world cannot be ignored just because we have offended people. The Empress Dowager disagreed, "Baoning, if the son of the Fang family becomes the eldest son of the emperor, I will go to Huangquan, how can I have the face to meet your grandfather." ”
Jiang Xian couldn't help muttering in his heart when he heard this.
You want to see him, but he doesn't necessarily want to see you?
When he was alive, he was the most favored of An's.
If it weren't for the fact that An's person is honest, I'm afraid that your position in the middle palace would have changed a long time ago!
Thinking of this, Jiang Xian sighed faintly in his heart.
Is it only her heart that is so narrow-minded that she can't tolerate others to be sorry......
"Although Empress Dowager Cao said that she has a bad temperament, she is the queen mother who has been a regent after all. Jiang Xian gently persuaded his grandmother to use the seal, "If you think this matter is inappropriate, don't send someone to ask Empress Dowager Cao, she may have no choice but to agree." And then there is King Jian, he is a veteran minister for several generations, and he is well-informed, rather than making trouble with the emperor and then looking for King Jian to come forward to persuade the emperor, it is better to discuss with King Jian in advance. She finally reminded her grandmother, "As the saying goes, your arms can't twist your thighs, and the emperor is now." But the thighs. ”
The Empress Dowager was thoughtful. But early the next morning, King Jian was urgently summoned into the palace.
Jiang Xian and Bai Su hid in the East Third Institute and did needlework.
Both of them were not in a good mood, and Jiang Xian was even more distracted with a needle and thread.
In her previous life, King Jian once told her that Empress Dowager Cao brutalized the royal heirs, and if she was allowed to continue to listen to politics, she was afraid that the Zhao family's country would be surnamed Cao in the future. And later, he gave him all kinds of support because she was raising Zhao Xi wholeheartedly.
May he walk the talk.
Bai Su was worried about Song Xianyi. She whispered to Jiang Xian: "Something like this happened. What do you think Empress Dowager Cao will do with Song Xianyi?"
Jiang Xian said: "Maybe give her a low-level title and let her take care of that child, right?"
Bai Su sighed and said, "What do you say she is not doing well?" I want to get along with the emperor...... I used to think she was a smart person, but now it seems that she is nothing more than that! Is there no one in this palace who does not want to be a concubine for the emperor?"
"Yes!" Jiang Xian smiled, "You and me?"
"Phew!" Bai Su took the handkerchief and shook Jiang Xian and said. "Why don't you have a threshold for speaking now?
Jiang Xian laughed with her.
The atmosphere in the room was finally better.
After King Jian left, Jiang Xian immediately went to see the Empress Dowager.
The Empress Dowager was pale and leaned on the pillow of the big kang near the window.
The results of the discussion with King Jian are self-evident.
Jiang Xian felt a little heartache for his grandmother. Lightly took the teacup in the hand of the palace maid and put it in the hand of the Empress Dowager, and comforted the Empress Dowager in a low voice: "The emperor is still young, as long as he can give birth to the eldest son, what does it matter if the child is raised in the palace?"
The Empress Dowager closed her eyes sadly. said: "Forget it, I have already handed over the phoenix seal to Fang Ling and asked her to take it to Wanshou Mountain, I don't care about this matter." Let them go! I've figured it out. They are all afraid of offending the emperor, and I will only make people feel that they are relying on the old and selling the old by standing up here alone. Disrespectful for the old!"
That being said, when the palace officially announced that Song Xianyi was pregnant with the emperor's dragon heir and moved into the Yiyun Pavilion two days later, the empress dowager couldn't help crying when she saw the congratulations written by those ladies who thought they were smart.
Jiang Xian and the Empress Dowager Bai Su thought of ways to coax the Empress Dowager for several days, and the Empress Dowager's mood gradually improved, thinking that Jiang Xian said that the snow had been falling for several days, and the hundred-year-old plum trees in the imperial garden had bloomed, and they decided to invite a few ladies into the palace as guests and hold a plum feast or something. Jiang Xian and the others naturally clapped their hands, helped to come up with ideas, set menus, and write invitations, so busy for several days, the Empress Dowager really didn't think about it, and went to the imperial garden with Jiang Xian and the Empress Dowager to see the plum blossoms.
At this time, Li Qian and Cao Xuan were sitting in Yuzao Xuan in Kunming Lake, learning how the ancients fished in the cold and snow.
“…… At that time, when Zhen Guogong called me to talk about it, I also felt good. Li Qian looked at the wind and snow with his hands in his sleeves, shivering from the cold, helping the two of them to watch the little chamberlain of the fishing rod, picked up the Jinhua wine warm on the red clay stove next to him and sifted a glass to Cao Xuan, who was sitting opposite, and continued, "My father said that if the court is staring at the Queen Mother, the Queen Mother is holding her breath in her heart, and she is unwilling to give in to the emperor - you have also seen how the Queen Mother treated the emperor when the emperor was in Wanshou Mountain. Now the top priority is to ease the relationship with the emperor's cabinet elders, and leave Qingshan here, so that he is not afraid of running out of firewood, and he will talk about it later. ”
Cao Xuan doesn't know?
Otherwise, Li Changqing would not have let Li Qian come to talk to him about it.
He looked at the snow falling more and more outside, his face was ashamed, and he said in a low voice: "Originally, the Queen Mother was going to marry you and Miss Bai......"
"This time and that time!" Li Qian looked completely unconcerned, "At that time, it was the Empress Dowager who raised the Li family, so naturally it was better for the Li family and the Bai family to marry." Now that my family and the Empress Dowager are advancing and retreating together, the emperor looks at the Empress Dowager's sake, and it is already good that he has not liquidated our Li family, so how can he value the Li family? The Li family is only possible to marry the Bai family because of the favor of the Empress Dowager. As he spoke, he smiled narrowly, "You can't be so troubled by this, right?"
"How come!" Cao Xuan glanced at him unhappily, picked up the wine cup and drank it all, "I just feel a little sorry for you!"
As Li Qian said. The reason why the Li family was qualified to marry the Bai family before was because her aunt wanted to reuse the Li family, but now his aunt is down, and the Li family who followed his aunt has no future in the eyes of others, not to mention the marriage with the Bai family, it is to marry a five-grade and six-grade official in the capital, others will think that the Li family is lucky, and people like Jiang Zhenyuan, the prince of Zhenguo, look down on the Li family even more.
The marriage with today's upstart is a gesture of the Cao family to submit to the emperor and ask for peace with the cabinet.
The candidate for marriage can only be him who represents the Cao family.
The Li family is not qualified at all.
If the Li family is pushed out, it is not a request for peace, it is a slap in the face of the emperor and the cabinet.
So the person who married the Bai family can only be him.
As for him, he can marry anyone.
As long as you can make the emperor feel at ease.
However, because the Bai family was proposed by Jiang Zhenyuan, the prince of Zhenguo, it is worth treating with caution.
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