45. Return to Beijing

Five days later, the holy decree of the capital arrived in Yanzhou.

After receiving the holy decree, Xu Jinhe let out a long breath, and her husband finally succeeded.

She still remembers that when she was six years old, she met a wandering Taoist on the road, saying that she was a noble person, and the family laughed at that time, just when the Taoist casually said something good and obedient to ask for some money, the daughter of the duke's family, isn't it very expensive?

Later, when she grew up, she married King Heng, and her husband was a talented prince, and she was content with him, and she was dead set on him. Her father, Pei Guogong, also took a fancy to King Heng's talent, so he married Concubine Jing. In his father's words, the current emperor was not a prince in the past, and he didn't sit firmly in the world later? Since he is a talented prince, it is possible to do anything.

So when she accompanied King Heng to Yanzhou for the first time, although this strange place was desolate, she was not discouraged, she believed that her husband had the ability to govern this place well, and sure enough, he spent ten years to transform this place, making Yanzhou leap into the best of the states of Daqi, rich and stable until the capital.

But her husband was never satisfied with the status quo, he hibernated in this land, but he was always preparing to return to the capital, until now, he succeeded.

She also succeeded, what awaits her is the position of the future mother in the world, and she will become the most noble woman in the entire Song Dynasty.

On the morning of the same day, Xu Jinhe summoned the stewards of the palace to arrange the specific matters one by one, and then passed the word down, ordering the courtyards to step up the consolidation, and after a while, they officially set off ten days later.

After explaining to the people, she specially ordered Qiu Gui to go to Zishao Garden for a trip and took special care.

Since the experience of sending money in the garden, Qiu Gui and Zi Peony Yuan have become warm, or rather, Xu Jinhe and Xia Wanyin have become warm, but Xu Jinhe is hindering her status as a princess, and also hindering the other two courtyards, and it is not obvious that she has anything to do, let Qiu Gui run errands to care, and when she enters the palace in the future, of course she has to cultivate her own usable people, Xia Wanyin is a usable person, so she must take care of it first.

And Zi Peony Garden, naturally, was flattered. Because it is just the identity of a concubine, the people in a courtyard have always lowered their eyebrows and pleasing their eyes in the palace, Xia Wanyin was better when she was favored before, but since there was Wantang Garden last year, Song Chen has never come here to spend the night, as a concubine, Xia Wanyin is naturally really out of favor, and she is even more cautious for a while, and she does not dare to come out of the atmosphere.

But now it's different, with the princess's care, their treatment is obviously much better, and they can raise their heads when they go out and walk.

The arrival of Qiu Gui this time shocked everyone's hearts.

These backyard women don't know much about the business in the front yard of the prince, but when the news of the recent news in Beijing comes out one by one, of course the people in the palace will also have speculation and discussion.

I heard that their prince will be the next person to be the dragon chair, if King Heng becomes the emperor, then Xia Wanyin, who is a concubine, will naturally be able to enter the palace, I heard that the harem has always been a queen and four concubines, the queen must be the princess, and the two side concubines in the palace should also be promoted to the concubine position, what will happen to Xia Wanyin, who was born as a concubine?

Qiu Gui said privately that since the princess likes Mrs. Xia, the future harem affairs will naturally mention Mrs. Xia, as a person from the palace, at least she will be a nobleman, if Mrs. Xia can compete to give birth to an heir, a concubine, and a concubine are not impossible.

Xia Wanyin was moved fiercely, as the Oiran of Linglong Fang, there were not a few nobles who wanted to marry, but she had not been tempted, she felt that with her appearance, only the best men in the entire Yanzhou were worthy, and the best men in Yanzhou City, except for King Heng, who else would there be?

Later, she won the bet, she entered the palace, became his woman, and impressed the people who sneered at her in the market, she was actually satisfied, she never thought that she would have a higher status.

Harem concubines, accompany the emperor, that is the dream that women all over the world will have!

But this dream that belongs to her is about to come true.

Different from the joy of Purple Peony Garden, Yin Mei Garden was a little sad.

Li Jiaoyun is a native of Yanzhou, her mother's home is in the prefect's yamen in the city, as a lady in the scholarly family, she is gentle and dignified, she has not had a dream about marriage before, but helplessly, her father sent her to the Hengwang Mansion and became a side concubine. She admits that King Heng is very good, and he is a man who is easy to make women fall in love, but what is the use of falling in love, she is just a concubine, she once loved him with all her heart, but in exchange for an unsatisfactory fate.

She was full of hope to give birth to a son, but was adopted by others, if she hadn't had a daughter later, she really didn't know how to survive in the future? Her own flesh and blood were in front of her, but she couldn't raise him, and she never dared to care for him lightly when she saw him being raised by others.

Because she was only a concubine, she had no right to fight with his wife. Moreover, there is no way to fight at all.

Later, Xia Wanyin entered the mansion, Song Chen gave her less thoughts, her life was much better than before, Danweiyuan no longer stared at her everywhere, she took her daughter, and even the living space was a lot more spacious. She felt a lot more comfortable in her heart.

So seeing that she is going to the capital where she is unfamiliar with her life, and she is still facing the turbulent deep palace, what should she do? A man loves her, her hardship is worth it, a man no longer loves her, or has never loved her, then she is just wasting her days in this life.

If she has a choice, she would rather marry a cloth cloth, not any wealth and glory, and would rather share the joys and sorrows of coarse tea and light rice, as long as her husband treats her sincerely, enjoys the respect that a woman deserves, and does not want to be a victim of power.

Compared with other courtyards, Wantang Garden is much simpler, Chu Xue's letter was sent with the holy decree, she explained the things to bring in the letter, Ruyue is a careful one, naturally she doesn't have to worry about it, except for some items, Chu Xue also specially specified that she would take Qijing back to Beijing, there are also people in the palace of the capital, naturally the people here don't have to go, except for the few who have served the master closely, they basically have to stay. Now that it is time to employ people, Chu Xue has been with Qijing for a few days, and thinks that she is intimate and stable, which is very good, so she deliberately confessed, for fear of pulling her down.

In this way, on the side of Wantang Garden, except for Ruyue, Qijing and Jinyu, Huixin, there are no extra people in Beijing, and when the qiē is finished, the brigade of Yanzhou Hengwangfu will set off.

Because Song Ning was there, worried that this little girl would be unwell due to the bumpy road, the group slowed down, and after ten days of tiring travel, the Hengwang Mansion in the capital finally ushered in all the masters for the first time.

Since he took over the government, Song Chen has been even busier, but despite being busy, he has handled all official affairs in an orderly manner, and there are no shortcomings, after all, he has been preparing for so many years, and his vision has never been short-sighted in his fiefdom, so when the major events of the whole world are in front of him, he is still not in a hurry and in an orderly manner.

This finally made Emperor Jianhe, who was still sick, a little relieved. This kid is really worthy of a big responsibility, he is secretly glad that the Song family has finally had a successor, and it is not too late to make amends.

On the second day of the family's arrival in Beijing, Song Chen led the whole family into the palace to say hello. Due to the rebellion of the abolished prince, his heirs and their families were also exiled, so the palace has been clean for a long time, at this moment, when he saw Song Chen's children, Emperor Jianhe smiled, enjoyed a good family fun, and his spirit seemed to be much better.

So after Xu Jinhe returned home, he discussed with Song Chen, and let the children enter the palace every day to ask the emperor's grandfather for peace, seeing that the father and the emperor were indeed in a much better spirit with the children, Song Chen also nodded and agreed, so for a few days, Emperor Jianhe, who had moved to Funing Palace, had the company of his grandchildren, and seemed to be in a much better spirit.

But the good times didn't last long, and a month later, in the early morning, after a criminal department official hurriedly visited Song Chen, Song Chen was rarely silent.

Xue Yuesheng, the only aboli□□tionist at large, was arrested.

In fact, as early as after the first assassination, Song Chen sent someone to investigate Xue Yuesheng's bottom, because he knew that with the mind and courage of the abolished prince and the auxiliary ministers around him, he would not do anything to assassinate him first, so there must be an accident, and Xue Yuesheng was exactly this accident.

In fact, before the prince sent someone to assassinate him, Song Chen didn't have a chance of defeating the other party so quickly, but the prince's sudden attack made him see this opportunity.

So he took advantage of the shock of everyone, and quickly directed the second assassination and the raid on the capital Chu Mansion and Cao Qian in the prison, of course he didn't want Chu Lin and Cao Qian's lives, but just took this opportunity to implement in his father's heart, the prince killed people and killed his siblings.

But after the matter was completed, he also kept thinking, who is this Xue Yuesheng?

instigated the prince to murder himself, if he had an accident, with his father's character, he would definitely investigate strictly, and it would not be difficult to find out who was ruthless, and if the prince was deposed because of this, who would be the biggest winner?

Among the seven brothers, in addition to him, there is another one who is good at strategy, and it is the old King Sining.

Combined with the information detected, Song Chen was 100% sure of the mastermind behind Xue Yuesheng.

King Ning.

A good trick, the praying mantis catches the cicada, and the yellow finch is behind.

After the palace change, Song Chen actually knew where Xue Yuesheng fled, the vast world, it was not difficult to allow a person to hide and hide, but it was a pity that King Ning was too ruthless and wanted to kill people, and as a result, Xue Yuesheng took the initiative to surrender to the imperial court, wanting to expose King Ning's misdeeds.

In this way, the Criminal Department was originally chasing fugitives, but it brought out a major case, and another prince was involved, which was beyond their ability, so it was natural to report it.

Song Chen's silence lies in the fact that he thought that with his father's methods, he could mercilessly kill the rebellious ministers and thieves, but his father's illness this time, he found out that his thunderous father also had a fragile side, and the betrayal of his two sons this time had already hit him hard.

But the Criminal Department already knew that it was no longer something he could suppress if he wanted to.

After a moment of silence, he ordered: "Summoning the Dali Temple, the Imperial History, and the Criminal Department Shangshu to come to see the king, the crime of rebellion needs to be tried by the three divisions." ”

His men were ordered to withdraw.

Funing Palace.

Emperor Jianhe, who had been moving here for many days, couldn't help but sink his brows when he saw Song Chen, the head of the Three Law Divisions who came to see him.

After retiring from the palace, Emperor Jianhe calmly asked, "People are so together, what's the big deal?" ”

Pei Jing, the secretary of Dali Temple, paused and reported Xue Yuesheng's surrender in detail.

Surprisingly, Emperor Jianhe didn't get angry immediately, but just asked lightly, "Can you find out?" Is what he said true? ”

The three ministers looked solemn and said in unison.

Emperor Jianhe turned to Song Chen, who was standing on the side, and said, "You come and listen, what should I do about this?" ”

Song Chen had already expected his father to ask like this, so he said his opinion indifferently: "King Ning installed his staff to instigate the prince's rebellion, fratricidal, and vainly attempted to kill the king and usurp the throne, which is already an unforgivable felony. ”

Emperor Jianhe didn't seem to show surprise, but asked further: "If the Ning Wangfu is abolished, how should the southeast be secured?" ”

"The military power is returned to the imperial court, and the imperial court is stationed in the imperial court." Song Chen replied firmly.

Emperor Jianhe stared at him for a long time, and after a long time, his eyes finally became gentle, and he nodded: "Do as you say, Ming'er will draw up a will, in my name." ”

"Yes." The crowd was ordered to withdraw.

cut down the feudal domain in his name, and punish the son in the name of the father.

Another son......

Could this be the retribution for killing his brother back then?

Emperor Jianhe laughed sadly and coughed violently.