Duanrou Guifei and the Queen Mother have always been at odds, Emperor Ming Jing knows it, and even he acquiesces to it.

In the court, the Su family and the Wang family have always been suspicious under the control of Emperor Mingjing. If he is in the harem, the queen mother and the concubine are like a family, and he is really uncomfortable.

Moreover, he also wanted to know why the fourth prince died early in Cining Palace.

According to the secret guard, the Queen Mother has been taking good care of the four princes, and after coming out of the Chengqian Palace to the Cining Palace, until her death, the four princes have never left anyone, and there is no such situation in the palace of the queen at all.

"Did you find anything out of the concubine?" Emperor Ming Jing asked.

Su Zhiwan chuckled, "As a noble concubine, the concubine has no ability to find out what even the emperor can't find." ”

Unfolded the paper in her hand, glanced at the blue grass covered with blood stains on her body, and Su Zhiwan said again, "The concubine only knows that a palace maid who has been tortured must not have the kung fu to explain the cause and effect of the whole thing clearly." ”

Looking at the blue grass like this, I'm afraid I'm about to faint to death.

I don't even have the strength to speak, where can I be clear and logical?

Emperor Ming Jing was stunned, he did not deny the fact that the concubine said.

However, it was the dark guard who interrogated the blue grass, and it was his people.

How could it be ...... betrayal

The secret guard, since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, is a dark sword that belongs to the emperor alone. Collecting information, assassination, etc., etc., some of the emperor's orders to issue holy decrees in the open are all completed by the secret guards.

Secretly cultivated by the first generation of leaders, and then passed down from generation to generation, it has been passed down to this day, and it is already an extremely large force!

It is precisely because of the secret guard that when the emperor travels in ordinary times, he does not have to be afraid of suddenly popping up a thief and accidentally losing his life.

The first purpose of the Secret Guard is to be loyal to the Emperor, and the second purpose is to protect the Emperor.

If even the Dark Guard betrayed......

Although Emperor Ming Jing believed in his imperial methods, and also believed that there was no problem with the secret guards left by the first emperor, once there was a shadow in his heart, some things would easily take root and sprout......

He remembered the tragedy of the succession, and he remembered that his mother endured humiliation in order to help him ascend to the throne.

He also remembered that when the first emperor was dying, he was not there......

He remembered that the jade plate commanding the secret guard was given to him by his mother, and it was given to him by the current Queen Mother......

There are also secret guards who have been quietly covering up for the Queen Mother all these years......

No wonder the Queen Mother has always wanted to train an emperor by herself, from the queen to Ning Jieyu, she has always wanted a prince to keep by her side.

Is this because he was raised in the Cuiying Palace since he was a child, and he didn't treat her well enough?

Or do you want a next emperor who is close to the royal family?

Even want to take advantage of the prince's young age to simply come to a curtain to listen to the government?

So where did she leave me?

Emperor Ming Jing thought of the time when Empress Ming Xiaoyuan was still there.

The Queen Mother has always disliked the exclusive favor of one palace, and Emperor Mingjing knows it.

At the beginning, although Emperor Ming Jing was amazed and pleased with Empress Ming Xiaoyuan, with his temperament, he definitely did not want to be favored by the harem.

His love for Su Zhixian was forced out by the Queen Mother!

At the beginning, he became the emperor, and basically the Wang family and the Su family, who had the greatest contribution in the previous dynasty, were in the harem, and the queen mother was blowing the pillow wind.

Emperor Ming Jing has always been an emperor with clear rewards and punishments, and the first way to divide the previous dynasty after ascending the throne is to add officials to the Wang family and the Su family, as long as they are talented children of the Su and Wang families, they will all be reused.

At that time, the Su family and the Wang family were in the limelight, but the Su family chose to fall silent and look honest.

And the Wang family probably wanted to suppress the Su family's idea, but they were still not satisfied, so they were bent on drilling camps to take advantage of the tricks, and by virtue of the dragon's work, they changed the law to seek rewards, and wantonly seized power in the court, hoping that the officials of the entire Ming Dynasty were from the Wang family.

The queen mother in the palace is also trying to seek benefits for her mother's family, if not, the Wang family does not have a noble and age-appropriate girl, I am afraid that there would have been one more palace concubine surnamed Wang in the palace.

The Empress Dowager's behavior, Emperor Ming Jing at that time was only face-saving to the Empress Dowager, and he was not even active in going to Cining Palace to ask for peace.

The queen mother doesn't like the harem to be alone, and Emperor Mingjing knows it.

However, during that time, in the court, it was the Su family who was dedicated to the stability of the dynasty, loyal to the royal family, and did not ask for any rewards, and it was Su Zhixian who had been comforting and supporting Emperor Ming Jing behind his back, and accompanied him through the days when he first ascended the throne.

Emperor Ming Jing didn't think that there was anything wrong with pampering a woman he liked as an emperor.

In this regard, Emperor Ming Jing has competed with the Queen Mother many times, venting all his dissatisfaction with the Wang family on her.

There was a month when the Queen Mother and Emperor Ming Jing did not have a good face for each other.

In the end, it was under Su Zhixian's persuasion that Emperor Mingjing relented.

This cold mother-son relationship came to an end with the silence of the Wang family and the death of Su Zhixian.

After Su Zhixian's death, Emperor Ming Jing learned the news of the Queen Mother's chanting day and night from the secret guard, and then slowly became close to the Queen Mother......

In the past, he had never doubted the loyalty of the secret guard, but today, when it was suddenly mentioned so inadvertently by Concubine Duanrou, Emperor Ming Jing suddenly began to doubt it......

Su Zhiwan quietly looked at the unpredictable look on Emperor Mingjing's face, and secretly laughed in her heart.

What governs the country with filial piety, and what filial piety is greater than the sky.

encountered a problem related to imperial power and his own life, how could Emperor Mingjing remain silent like this.

In the final analysis, the emperor is the emperor first, and then the son.

Just like Emperor Mingjing is the emperor first and then their father to the princes and princesses.

The Queen Mother stared at Su Zhiwan and said, "It may be the result of the interrogation person, based on Lan Cao's words!" ”

Su Zhiwan smiled, her eyebrows and eyes were crooked, quite moving, "If it is really as the Queen Mother said, then this confession is even more unbelievable, just by speculation, you can put the charge on the head of the concubine, and the master behind this scene can be punished!" ”

Saying that, Su Zhiwan knelt down and said, "This is to force the concubines and the emperor to have a dislike!" Look at the emperor's wisdom! ”

Emperor Mingjing was stunned and remembered the situation in the court now.

is in a critical period of the reform of the imperial examination system, and the Su family did not express its position......

If Su Zhiwan is determined to spread the word and let the Su family continue to be silent, I don't know how long the reform of the imperial examination system will last.

That's what the mastermind is all about?

Thinking of this, Emperor Mingjing said, "Get up, concubine, if you are not guilty, I will naturally not wronged you." The voice changed, "If the evidence is conclusive, I will naturally deal with it impartially!" ”

Su Zhiwan stood up simply and said with a smile, "That's the case!" ”

From the very beginning, Su Zhiwan knew that as long as the Su family behind her was still there, as long as she was still the sister of Empress Ming Xiaoyuan, Emperor Ming Jing would not be able to touch her!

It can only be said that Pei Yunruo is still too young, if he just wants to rely on these little cleverness to bring her down, I'm afraid it will be a fool's dream!

In the original book, the reason why Pei Yunruo was able to kill the stupid Su Zhiwan was also based on revealing Su Zhiwan's life experience.

With Pei Yunruo's means, who haven't gone through many storms now, how could he bring her down!

Seeing that Su Zhiwan was about to be gently let go by Emperor Mingjing, the queen asked sharply, "Dare to ask the concubine, why is my emperor still fine in Chengqian Palace, and he died when he was taken to Cining Palace?" ”

Maybe what she wants to ask is not the noble concubine Su Zhiwan, but the queen mother who sits in a high position and holds a rosary!

Su Zhiwan said, "This palace doesn't have the ability to know about Cining Palace, I'm afraid I can only answer for you by the Queen Mother." ”

The Queen Mother sighed and said leisurely, "The death of the four princes is also extremely heartbroken for the mourning family, and the queen is also mourning......

When the queen heard this, her eyes turned red, it was her own child who died, and she was only a year old, so how could she mourn and change?

The queen mother knows that she is not going to be ugly with the concubines in the harem today, and I am afraid that from now on, she will have to be charged with taking care of the emperor's heirs.

Although no one will sanction her, her reputation for doing well since she entered the palace will no longer be there.

After all, it is a fact that the fourth prince died in Cining Palace.

"On the night of Chinese New Year's Eve, after the mourning family heard the news of the recurrence of the fourth prince's condition, they quickly found the imperial doctor and the mourning family behind Mother Wang to diagnose and treat the fourth prince." The Queen Mother paused, rolled the rosary in her hand a few times, and said, "The imperial doctor said that it was an ordinary recurrence of the condition, and there was nothing to be done!" Mama Wang said, the four princes have been poisoned! ”

At this time, Mama Wang, who had been standing next to the Queen Mother, stepped forward, stood up, and said, "It is indeed a strange poison!" Does the emperor still remember the first emperor's concubine? ”

Emperor Ming Jing naturally knew that the woman that the first emperor was infatuated with back then, a woman who he never forgot even after his death.

Concubine Rou's flying fan dance, I'm afraid, as long as anyone who has seen it with their own eyes, it is impossible to forget it.

The same goes for Emperor Mingjing.

"The concubine Niangniang back then, just like the four princes today, died of the wind and cold." Mama Wang smiled, the folds on her face squeezed into one place, and said bluntly, "But who believes that Concubine Rou died of the wind and cold?" ”

No one believed that Concubine Rou died because of the wind cold, and naturally the four princes could not die from a simple wind chill.

The queen's expression was a little sluggish, and she said sneeringly, "Do you know what kind of strange poison it is?" Where did it come from? ”

Mama Wang shook her head pityingly, "The slave doesn't know what kind of poison this is, she only knows that the woman who once possessed this strange poison was the concubine of the first emperor." ”

Only the concubine of the first emperor would hate and poison the concubine Rou Niangniang, who favored the sixth palace at that time, and let the concubine Rou Niangniang die quietly from a wind chill......