His Majesty summoned the left and right ministers to discuss whether the army would continue to fight, or return to the court. His Majesty's idea is to let the army continue to fight, and take advantage of Jingguo's invasion to fight Jingguo, and if Ningguo sends troops to help in the war, he will be subdued together with Ningguo.

Seeing that His Majesty insisted, the left minister did not object, he was a traitorous minister, how could he do something against His Majesty's wishes? The right minister despised the left minister, and yesterday he was still shouting about the class teacher, but today he will not insist, what a wall-to-wall grass.

His Majesty sat on the upper seat, and he could see the expressions of the two below clearly. He asked Zhang Xiang: "Right Xiang, what do you think?"

The right minister respectfully bowed back: "Your Majesty Shengming, if you don't take the opportunity to subdue Jingguo and Ningguo, when the army returns, the border will be in danger." ”

His Majesty nodded: "The two of you are responsible for the rear defense of the army, and you take a charter out and present it to the court the morning after tomorrow." ”

The two ministers were busy.

His Majesty stood up, walked in front of the two and said, "The concubine has been drugged. ”

The two of them were shocked, and they hurriedly asked, "Who is it?"

His Majesty glanced at Zuo Xiang, and Zuo Xiang suddenly said: "Huang ......"

"I asked several eunuchs from the concubine to be interrogated, and one of them was a eunuch named Xiao Linzi, who was recruited by the queen, who asked the second master of the Huang family to arrest his family, threatened him with drugs, released his family after the fact, and gave him a lot of silver. ”

Zuo Xiang asked: "How long has the concubine been drugged?"

His Majesty rejoiced, "Good luck." Xiao Linzi was found out after only a few days of medicine, and I asked the imperial doctor, who said that because the concubine had eaten and vomited recently, she vomited and ate, and there was not much toxicity in her body. ”

The right minister knelt down: "Your Majesty, please save the minister's daughter." At that time, the minister didn't want her to enter the palace, and the concubine had been killed......"

Zuo Xiang advised: "Right Minister, what you said is ugly, Your Majesty spoils your daughter like a jewel, and the person who harms your daughter is not Your Majesty." ”

The right minister glared at the left minister: "It's your Huang family's people, your heart is so ruthless, even Your Majesty's dragon son is harmed." ”

Hearing this, Zuo Xiang also knelt down: "Your Majesty, the minister doesn't know, and it's not the Huang family anymore." ”

His Majesty hurriedly advised: "Don't quarrel with the two Aiqing, help me think of a way to solve the queen." ”

"Get up. ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty. ”

Zuo Xiang hesitated for a moment and said, "Your Majesty, it's better not to move the queen now." The army is fighting abroad, and the court cannot be turbulent at home for the time being. ”

His Majesty said dissatisfiedly, "I don't want to tolerate that poisonous woman for a day. ”

Zuo Xiang thought in his heart, it is not for you that she became a poisonous woman.

The right minister had the same opinion as the left minister this time, and he also advised His Majesty: "The queen has two princes, as well as the Huangfu and the eldest princess, if you move the queen now, it will attract their actions." ”

"I'm still afraid that they won't make it?"

Zuo Xiang continued to persuade: "Now that Your Majesty has grounded the queen, the concubine has strengthened protection, and when the concubine gives birth to a dragon son and the army triumphs again, the emperor will be overjoyed." ”

"What do I have to be happy about?"

"One is happy to unify the three kingdoms, the second is to add a dragon, and the third is to be a high concubine. ”

Your Majesty thought about it, now is indeed not a good time to abolish the queen, and wait until the concubine gives birth to a child.

"Okay, just listen to Aiqing, don't move the queen first. ”

"Your Majesty. ”

The left and right ministers have the same purpose, and the two have tacitly and never made eye contact. They went out of the palace gate one after the other, and went their separate ways, one left and one right.

The guards are accustomed to the discord between the left and the right, and some people understand that the left is jealous of the right.

Now the most embarrassing mansion in Youzhou is no longer the Huang Mansion of the Duke of Enguo, and the Zhang Mansion is behind, powerful, backer, and favor, so it is only about to be knighted. People with vision in the capital have long been optimistic about the Zhang family, and they turned around and thought of a way to make friends with the Zhang family.

Zhangfu also has two concubines to be married, one is ten years old, one is eight years old, and there is a six-year-old sister-in-law named Zhang Cheng.

Zhang Youxiang's wife, Yang, is his cousin, and he has been a childhood sweetheart since he was a child, and the two have a very good relationship. The Yang family did not have children for a long time, so he persuaded his husband to accept a noble concubine and have a child, but Zhang Youxiang refused.

Yang persuaded her husband: There are three unfilial pieties, and no queen is great. The daughter also needs a brother to support her in the palace.

Zhang Youxiang was still in Yangzhou as a magistrate at that time, and he told his wife that he would not accept noble concubines, but only concubines and children. The Yang family opened his two maids and gave them to Lord Zhang as concubines. After Lord Zhang took two concubines, one of the concubines soon became pregnant with a child, and gave birth to a daughter after October. This child was born weak and difficult to support, so Master Zhang was sent to the countryside, and the daughter went within two years. The two concubines each gave birth to a daughter.

Mrs. Zhang's Yang family was desperate, she ate fasting and chanted Buddha every day, and talked about the Zhang family to add children as soon as possible. Just as she was trying to persuade Master Zhang to take a concubine who could give birth to and raise a concubine to go home, she became pregnant herself.

The whole family carefully served the Yang family, and Master Zhang told her: "The daughter of the Zhang family is stronger than the boys of other people's families, and there is no need for Mrs. to give birth to a boy." The old man is also at the age of knowing the destiny of heaven, and this child, whether it is a man or a woman, will no longer take concubines. Even childlessness is providential, and it is not forced. ”

The Yang family gave birth in October and had a son, and the Zhang family was pleasantly surprised. As a wife and concubine, it is not when there is no way to do it, and it is not that you want to take a noble concubine back and have children. Master Zhang named his belated son Zhang Cheng, hoping that he would have a successful future when he grew up.

This son is the lucky star of the Zhang family, and after his birth, Lord Zhang was promoted to the prefect of Yangzhou. Later, after sending the concubine Wan Concubine to the palace to be favored, he was promoted to three levels in a row, and in just a few years, he became the right minister of Youzhou. Everyone thinks that it is a matter of time before the Zhang family pays homage to the prime minister.

Tang Zhongbo, the left minister, recognized Zhang Tianyang, the right minister, as the father of Empress Zhang and a scholar of Mrs. Zhang. Zhang Tianyang rarely showed his face in the Zhang family, he hid in the Zhang family and hung the name of a scholar, and was personally taught by Mrs. Zhang. Later, Zhang Tianyang returned to his hometown after completing his studies, and went through the county examination, the government examination, the hospital examination, and the township examination to enter the Beijing examination. After winning the jinshi, he entered the officialdom, and the eldest daughter was also recruited into the palace, and was later sent to Renzhi County, Yangzhou. Zhang Tianyang never mentioned that he knew Mrs. Zhang, and Tang Zhongbo naturally didn't mention it.

Tang Zhongbo has never known the relationship between Zhang Tianyang and the Zhang family, and only two people in this world know, that is, Zhang Tianyang and the prince.

Zhang Tianyang always remembered what Mrs. Zhang said to himself: The relationship between us does not need to be mentioned to others. The queen and I are both companions. In the future, if the crown prince wins the throne, you will find him to tell you about your background. If the Zhang family causes trouble, you will be far away and can leave a pulse for the Zhang family.

Zhang Tianyang saw that the queen collapsed and the prince's situation was getting worse and worse, so he tried to send his daughter into the palace, trying to let his daughter protect the prince in the palace, and if he could give birth to a boy and half a girl, he could also become the prince's help.

Unexpectedly, Queen Huang controlled the harem and found someone to assassinate the prince, but the emperor pretended not to see it, and the daughter of the Zhang family could not protect the prince. Zhang Tianyang looked for the prince, told him about his relationship with him, and asked the prince to contact him if he had anything, and he would try his best to help him.

When Zhang Tianyang was in charge of the household department, the officials in the court and the central government knew that he liked silver, and His Majesty also knew that he liked money. His Majesty thinks that a courtier who loves power, money, and sex is a person of temperament and easy to control. The left loves power, and the right loves money, both for their own use.

Once His Majesty jokingly asked, "Right Minister, why do you like mundane things so much?"

Zhang Tianyang replied: "Let Your Majesty smile, the minister has been poor and scared since he was a child, and he loves these yellow and white things." ”

Therefore, His Majesty rewarded him mostly with gold, silver and jewelry, and the lower officials gave him gold and silver. The rich merchants of the world who wanted to pay tribute also gave him a lot of silver tickets. As for the royal merchant family in Yangzhou, I don't know how much dividends are distributed to him every year.

He gave all this money to the prince to use to raise his private soldiers.