"Mingke's Hanlin quota has been decided?!" Sheng Sleeping Crane and Sheng Weiqiao were both taken aback when they heard this!

Although when they came to Chang'an, they guessed that there would be a battle between the Meng clan and the King of Gaomi in the spring of the coming year, but they didn't expect that this battle would be fierce until the New Year had not passed, and the rankings that could enter the Hanlin Academy were all booked!

"You have been in Nanfeng County for a long time, so you don't know the situation in Chang'an. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info" Tu Ruchuan narrowed his eyes and whispered, "In the middle of the year, the Empress Dowager was sick for a month, and the wives of Zheng Guogong, Marquis Wu'an, and Marquis Chengyang, as well as Chongxinbo, entered the palace together, and served for two months. ”

Sheng Weiqiao's face was complicated and said: "No wonder these two times I met the Queen Mother, I always felt that the Queen Mother looked a little tired and not very energetic." ”

After all, the Empress Dowager Meng is around seventy years old, as the saying goes, life is rare in seventy years, this age is to be old and strong, and people who rely on her should consider taking precautions, not to mention that the Queen Mother is not very healthy?

Once Empress Dowager Meng has three strengths and two weaknesses, Emperor Xuanjing, who has been thinking about the two Shu Niangniang for more than ten years and doesn't even care about the severance of heirs, will not care about the Meng family as much as Empress Dowager Meng.

It's no wonder that after the Queen Mother fell ill, the Meng family would be like a great enemy, and the three younger brothers and daughters-in-law all entered the palace to serve the illness, not to mention the four rooms of the housemaster, and Chongxin Bo simply went into battle in person.

"For the Meng family, this is not the most fatal. Tu Ruchuan looked at Sheng Weiqiao deeply and said, "The key is that in autumn, when the Son of Heaven and Shu Zhaoyi were playing in front of the palace, they accidentally fell down the steps and woke up in a coma for a long time!

Sheng Weiqiao and Sheng Sleeping Crane glanced at each other, and their expressions became solemn: If it's just that Empress Dowager Meng is not very good, it's only the Meng family who is anxious, but if even Emperor Xuanjing is ...... This is a major event that the government and the opposition cannot ignore!

After that, Zheng Guogong personally entered the palace and had a secret conversation with the Queen Mother all day long, and the Queen Mother decided to succeed the Son of Heaven. Tu Ruchuan said that he had revealed the news when he took the initiative to come to the door last time, "Of course, the two Shu Niangniang in the palace are unwilling, but this time the Queen Mother is very resolute, and even found out the matter of the little prince who was strangled by the nurse more than ten years ago, and directly threw the words, so that the Son of Heaven could choose between giving the two Shu Niangniang to death and Li Jihou." The Son of Heaven had no choice but to agree to succeed him. ”

He knew that the Sheng family brothers and sisters had not long been in Chang'an, and they were only afraid that some things that were familiar to Chang'an people were not clear, so he briefly said about the little prince, "About sixteen years ago, it is said that after the abolition of the Wen family's sister Xiao Wen's family was fortunate to have the son of heaven, so she was pregnant and gave birth to a little prince." ”

However, the two Shu Niangniang heard the news and made a big fuss, and in the end, the little prince's nurse didn't know why, and accidentally strangled the little prince in the cradle...... Afterwards, the Queen Mother wanted to ask, but was stopped by the Son of Heaven, and it was over. ”

Sheng Wei Qiao Xin said that Emperor Xuanjing was really ruthless, she had heard of it in her early years, when the Shu sisters were favored, they forced Emperor Xuanjing to give the pregnant concubine a decoction of Luozi Anyway, the child was still in the belly, and he didn't land this unlucky little prince, but he was born and took a living photo!

As the biological father, especially the Son of Heaven who does not have a son and a half daughter under his knees, he can actually make such a hand, it can only be said that Emperor Xuanjing has been fascinated by the Shu sisters and doesn't know anything!

However, although Emperor Xuanjing agreed to establish a succession under the threat of Empress Dowager Meng's thorough investigation of the death of the little prince, the Shu sisters did not stop, Tu Ruchuan said: "The two Shu Niangniang in the palace are unable to resist the Empress Dowager's mother, and after Concubine Mo threads the needle, there is a meaning of moving closer to the Gaomi Palace. After all, if the Son of Heaven has no parents, according to the current situation in the court, he will probably pass the heir from the Gaomi Palace. And there are only two male heirs in Gaomi Palace, and it is difficult for the prince to succeed as the eldest son, so unless he is a step-heir, there is only one choice. ”

"Rong Qing drunk?" Sheng Weiqiao was very surprised, since he heard that this little prince was injured in Bishui County, although he almost met him in the Zhao Mansion, but Sheng Weiqiao has always only regarded this as an ordinary clansman, and now that Tu Ruchuan said it, it suddenly turned out that this person was so close to the throne!

She couldn't help but ask curiously, "Uncle Shi, there doesn't seem to be such a rumor in Chang'an now?"

Tu Ruchuan said: "Well, this is for a reason, the Shu sisters are afraid that this will anger the Queen Mother, so they dare not publicize it." After all, although they are deeply favored by the Son of Heaven, the Queen Mother usually cares about the Son of Heaven, although she doesn't like them, she has to give them some decency, but this kind of thing to the Gaomi Mansion is equivalent to targeting the entire Meng family. The Queen Mother can't tolerate it!"

"Two to ......"

He groaned for a moment before continuing in an almost imperceptible voice, "It is said that the Gaomi Royal Mansion also has some disputes about this matter, as if the Princess Gaomi does not agree. ”

"Princess Gaomi disagrees?" Sheng Weiqiao said in surprise, "What does the princess disagree with?"

She thought to herself, this princess couldn't have agreed to let Rong Qing get drunk and succeed Emperor Xuanjing as the crown prince, right?

You must know that the Meng family and King Gaomi have been fighting for power and profit for so many years, and there is no possibility of shaking hands and making peace, but the two sides have always been evenly matched, and it is rare that Emperor Xuanjing's pair of sweethearts are willing to fall to King Gaomi, this kind of opportunity to come to the door, a fool will refuse!

If it is an ordinary family's adoptive, the child's biological mother is reluctant to give up the child, which is also understandable.

But King Gaomi, what should I say about the situation faced by King Gaomi's faction?

Win or die, or it's better to live than to die.

In this case, how could Princess Gaomi, who was born in a scholarly family, not know to take care of the overall situation?

As a result, Tu Ruchuan really said: "Princess Gaomi does not agree to let the second son succeed to the Son of Heaven!"

“…… Could it be that the princess wants the princess to succeed?" Sheng Weiqiao was stunned for a moment and asked.

She remembered that Rong Qingdrunk returned to Chang'an with a serious injury, but instead of recuperating in the Gaomi Palace, she lived in a foreign house.

"It's not very clear. Tu Ruchuan groaned, "Princess Gaomi was originally magnificent, talented and beautiful, and she was the most prestigious noblewoman in Chang'an, and she was selected by the first emperor as the princess of Gaomi. Speaking of which, after she married into the royal family, she was originally very commendable, and she had always been generous and generous to King Gaomi's side concubines and concubines, as well as the concubines, and she was not jealous. ”

But since the epidemic in the palace that year, Princess Gaomi Xu was hit by the pain of losing her son, and she was sick for more than half a year before she got up and didn't say anything, and her temperament has changed greatly since then, not only has she never participated in any banquets, but she doesn't even show up in front of people. Therefore, Her Royal Highness the eldest princess has no way to speculate about the consideration of this princess, and as for me, I have never seen this princess at all, let alone say. ”

Sheng Weiqiao's eyes showed surprise, and said: "I heard my brother relay Uncle Shi's information before, I thought that this princess was jealous by nature, and in the name of the epidemic, she eradicated the side concubines and concubines and concubines!

That's weird!

Since Princess Gaomi is so sad for those people, eighty percent of those people's deaths were not done by her, so who is it?

It can't be that King Gaomi has nothing to do by himself, killing the side concubine, killing the concubine, killing the concubine, killing the concubine, and playing with the children, right?

If it weren't for these couple, how could someone else doing such a thing in the Gaomi Mansion end up as a "current epidemic"?

Is it really an epidemic?

But when will the epidemic die, the side concubine will die, the concubine will die, but the children born by the concubine and the concubine will be safe and sound, and the lord of Deping, who happens to live in the palace, has also lived well until now?

Or is there such a coincidence in the world?

She was thinking about it, but she heard Tu Ruchuan say in surprise: "In the epidemic back then, it was not only the side concubines and concubines who had accidents, but also the third son of Princess Gaomi, the concubine of King Gaomi! Princess Gaomi was heartbroken, it is estimated that it is mostly for this biological flesh and blood, right? After all, although the princess was recognized as generous in the past, she has never taken any of her concubine children to raise them personally, to be honest, even if she is not jealous, how much affection can this child who has not grown up with her?"

"There was also a little prince born to Princess Gaomi who died in the epidemic?" Sheng Weiqiao heard this, and couldn't help but look at Sheng Sleeping Crane, who hadn't spoken for a long time, and said in his heart, this person didn't mention it at that time?

Sheng Sleeping Crane's long eyelashes drooped slightly, his eyes were dull, he couldn't see what he was thinking, and said with a flat expression: "We don't have anything to do with Gaomi Palace, so when Uncle Shi told me before, I mainly remembered the affairs of the Meng family and others, and I think I missed this paragraph." ”

As he spoke, he looked at Tu Ruchuan, "By the way, Uncle Shi just said the quota of the Hanlin Academy?"

Tu Ruchuan patted his head and said apologetically: "I just talked about it, but this topic is far away." It's a shame that He'er brought it up, let's get down to business! The two Shu Niangniang deliberately fell to the Gaomi Palace, and the Queen Mother realized that she had stepped up the matter of establishing a successor for the Son of Heaven. In the past two days, Her Royal Highness the eldest princess has heard the news, the empress dowager has already given the fourteenth lady of the Meng family to Qin Tianjian and asked them to choose the date after the book!"

sighed again, "I don't know what the Gaomi Mansion will do, but it is estimated that even if the Princess Gaomi changes her mind and nods, the little prince returns to Chang'an with a serious injury...... If you think about it, the court will not agree to succeed such a prince for the Son of Heaven. ”

"So now the Meng clan and King Gaomi seem to be fighting fiercely for the matter of Bishui County, but in fact, they are all aiming at the position of the prince!"

"Mingke Chunqiu is in such a hurry, how can he not be concerned?"

Sheng Weiqiao was puzzled: "But Uncle Shi, this newly promoted Jinshi, when he talks about brilliance, he actually can't touch any power. Even if the two sides are fighting fiercely now, as for dividing up all the places in this year's Hanlin?"

"Niece and nephew, you only saw that they fought fiercely in the court, but did you forget that the hands of these two sides had already reached out to the army?" Tu Ruchuan said kindly, "The victory or defeat in the court may not be able to determine the final result, so how can they not take precautions and strengthen themselves before they completely tear their faces?"

In a world that is still calm now, maybe a war will break out when you turn your head?