Queen Zhao sat on the phoenix chair, watching the princess of Thailand go out of the palace gate, with a touch of deep thought in her eyes, Princess Dingguo turned out from behind the screen, looked at the figure of the princess Li Cuiying who had gone away, and said: "This princess of Thailand is really getting more and more disagreeable, and when she entered the palace, she didn't go to Fengyi Palace to meet the queen first, but went directly to the Jingtai Hall of Concubine Liu Gui's mother, without any rules." Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Empress Zhao didn't seem to care: "Concubine Liu's mother and son are favored, and there are no children in this palace, how can they look at this palace in their eyes." ”

Princess Dingguo said thoughtfully: "Queen Mother, every time this Liu Guifei Niangniang has a disease, it is Xuan's Huang Fang Concubine who is sick, why are you waiting to see the princess of Thailand again?" ”

Empress Zhao didn't have any expression on her face, and said lightly: "I don't know very well, but when I talked about Concubine Huang just now, she looked panicked, and I think there is still something going on." ”

After thinking for a while, Empress Zhao called: "Green basket, you go to Jingtai Hall to find out, what is Princess Tai doing today." ”

I saw a very beautiful woman coming over and saluting in front of Queen Zhao: "Yes, Niangniang." And he went out.

Princess Dingguo sat down next to Queen Zhao's head, and the palace maid had already re-taken a new teacup for her and filled it with just palatable tea, she picked up the cup and took a sip, only felt a little hot, so she called the palace maid: "Forget it, or don't want tea, let's go down, give me a bowl of white fungus red dates and honey soup, and then ask Master Hao in the kitchen to make some chilled sour plum soup and mille-feuille cake." The palace maid took down a few loads of tea and walked out of the palace.

After a while, the chilled white fungus red date honey soup was served, and Princess Dingguo drank half a bowl, and then she felt cooler and less hot.

Empress Zhao looked at Princess Dingguo and frowned and said: "Dingguo, you have been most afraid of heat since you were a child, and you eat a lot of cold food in summer, but eating too much is not good for your body, so you should endure some mouths." ”

Princess Dingguo smiled indifferently: "It's okay, Queen Mother, just ask the imperial doctor to prescribe two medicines to regulate it later." It's such a hot day, how can you stand it if you don't eat some cold food. ”

Empress Zhao still couldn't help nagging: "But if you don't eat, how can you just eat these, your internal organs will not be able to stand it." ”

Princess Dingguo just smiled and called out coquettishly: "Queen Mother." The latter word dragged out the voice as much as possible, and sprinkled coquettishly.

Empress Zhao said: "Then let it be, the queen mother doesn't care about you." ”

While the two were talking, the palace maid named Green Basket came back: "Queen Mother." ”

Empress Zhao: "Green basket, how is the investigation?" ”

The green basket half-hung her head and said respectfully: "Queen Mother, after the green basket went to the Jingtai Palace, she found Ping'er, who has always been good, but Ping'er is just a rough palace maid, and she can't enter the palace, but she just said that the princess of Thailand was smiling when she went today, and she was also smiling when she came out, and she seemed to be in a good mood, which was not common in the past." Liu Guifei also sent it out in person by Aunt Qingfang, the most favored personal palace maid, which is also a common thing. Lu Luo sent a jade bracelet to Ping'er, asking her to ask the reason why Princess Tai went to Jingtai Hall today, and Ping'er responded, saying that she would reply in two days. ”

Empress Zhao saw that the jasper bracelet that Lu Luo had been wearing on her wrist was indeed gone, and her wrist was empty.

"You did a good job with the green basket, purple yarn, take a pair of mutton fat white jade bracelets and reward the green basket, go down." The purple yarn came out in response and retreated with the green basket.

Empress Zhao turned her head slightly to look at Princess Dingguo: "Dingguo, what do you think of the princes of our Great Zhou?" ”

Princess Dingguo naturally knows what the queen mother is asking, how? Who can get to the throne!

Princess Dingguo thought for a while and said: "The eldest brother is domineering and domineering, but his mother Liu Guifei is very favored, his grandfather is Liu Nianhe, the secretary of the Ministry of War, his uncle is the general of Sanpin Xuanwei who is stationed in Yongzhou, and his father-in-law is Li Mao, the general of Huwei. ”

Princess Dingguo paused for a moment and continued: "As for the second emperor brother, his mother Concubine Jiang Defei is still favored, but he himself is often unsmiling, and has a serious face all day long, so he is not very well treated by his father, and the father-in-law of the second emperor brother, Xu Guogong, has some connections in the court, and his protégés are almost all over the court and the opposition. The second emperor brother is gifted and intelligent, heroic, and handles things in an orderly manner, and he is very close to many people in the court, so in my opinion, he probably still has some ideas in his heart. ”

Empress Zhao listened to her daughter's analysis, seemed to be quite interested, and asked, "What about King Xin?" ”

Princess Dingguo said with a smile: "The third emperor brother is easy-going, everyone in the palace is close to him, the mother of the third emperor brother, Concubine Li Xian, is also the same as him, easy-going, the two mothers and sons are very favored by their fathers, in recent years, the father has many things to do with him, and he also does a good job, so that Long Yan is happy." Moreover, Li Jun, the grandfather of the three emperor brothers, also has many cronies in the court, and they have formed their own faction, and they have been openly confronting the Thai king's faction above the court, advocating the establishment of the three emperor brothers as the crown prince. ”

After Princess Dingguo finished speaking, she looked at Queen Zhao and asked, "Queen Mother, what do you think of what I said?" ”

Empress Zhao said, "And what about your fourth emperor brother?" ”

Princess Dingguo didn't know why: "The fourth emperor brother has always had no quarrel with the world, but he just stayed in his mansion honestly, and he didn't have any supporters, so he really had nothing to say." ”

Empress Zhao smiled: "Otherwise, your fourth emperor brother is quite famous in the literary world, and the students of the Great Zhou Kingdom are very close, he presided over the Shangjing politics in his mansion, recruited a large number of Qianqian students, since the opening of the past two years, he has recommended a lot of talents for the country, and your father and emperor praised him!" Empress Zhao said with a smile.

Princess Dingguo saw that Empress Zhao seemed to have the intention of promoting King Hui, and couldn't help but say: "But the queen mother, the fourth emperor brother is not like the sixth emperor brother, he is the prince with the mother concubine." ”

In fact, Princess Dingguo's words were to remind Queen Zhao that King Hui's mother, Concubine Guo, was still there, and of course King Hui would not be able to adopt the queen. Even if the queen promotes King Hui and uses the strength of her queen and the strength of her mother's family to help King Hui ascend to the throne, I am afraid that the future queen mother will still set up her own biological mother. In this way, although Queen Zhao and herself, the eldest princess, contributed the most, they did not get much benefit.

Princess Dingguo didn't know what Princess Zhao said, but seeing that she was already forty-seven years old, it was impossible to have another sister-in-law, not to mention that the emperor only came to her Fengyi Palace on the fifteenth day of the first month of the month, and even if she came, she would just have dinner with her and say a few words, and rarely stay to sleep.

With such a low probability, Queen Zhao herself knows very well that it is difficult to get pregnant.

Take 10,000 steps back and say, even if you are lucky enough to get pregnant, with your advanced age, you have to say whether you can give birth smoothly, and what if you are born a princess? After all, I gave birth to two princesses, maybe my physique is the life of giving birth to a daughter, Queen Zhao thought resignedly.

Also, even if it takes a lot of hard work to give birth to a prince, there are already these princes who have been adults for many years, and since they left the palace to build their own mansions after they became adults, they have begun to continuously strengthen and expand their own power, and they have established a deep father-son relationship with the emperor in their respective growth processes.

On the one hand, there is an adult prince with a strong backing, and on the other hand, there is a little baby who has just been born, even if she is the queen, she is not sure that she can bring them down one by one, and most importantly, she can't afford to wait.

In the past year or two, the emperor's health has been getting worse and worse, and he has fainted several times this year, an average of twice a month, and the last month has been the third time. Empress Zhao once invited the imperial doctor to ask in detail, and the imperial doctor said that the emperor was a heart and blood problem, which could not be cured, and only medicine could stabilize the condition, and this disease could not be stimulated.

Liu Guifei, Jiang Defei, Li Xianfei, including Concubine Guo, these concubines with princes, when the emperor is still alive, they dare to be disrespectful to their queen, if the emperor dies, whether their prince is the emperor or a prince, they can rely on it, when the time comes, how should they deal with the former queen, the queen without the prince?

In the past, Gong Meiren died early, Queen Zhao adopted Murong Zhi, who was only nine years old, and became King Kang when she became an adult, Queen Zhao could not be said to be ungrateful to her, but King Kang did not like the beauty of the country, and lingered in the beauty nest all day long, among the flowers, the warbler Yanyan was around her, and the book was not easy to read, and the things explained by the father and the emperor could not be done well, which made the emperor very unwelcome, but reprimanded the queen for this mother-in-law.

Empress Zhao deeply felt that the six princes were a mud that could not support the wall, so she was restless and worried all day long, but recently, he found that King Hui seemed to be good, so he gave up King Kang in his heart and concentrated on observing King Hui, perhaps, he can be used by me.

Therefore, for the worries of Princess Dingguo, Queen Zhao only said one sentence, she got up and paced to the flower stand, looked at the rouge begonia that was blooming brightly, and turned her back to Princess Dingguo and said: "King Kang, there was also a mother in the past." ”

When Princess Dingguo heard that, she looked directly at the back of her mother and was stunned.

Two days later, one night, Queen Zhao was about to go to bed, and the green basket came in to report back to the princess of Thailand that day to Jingtai Palace: "Yu Niangniang, the slave maid has inquired clearly, it turns out that the princess of Thailand is pregnant when she enters the palace this time, and Liu Guifei Niangniang specially summoned her to the palace." Also, I heard that Concubine Huang of the Thai Royal Mansion is seriously ill, and the eldest grandson of the emperor is sick in the palace. ”

Empress Zhao raised her hand and waved the green basket back: "Well, you did a good job, the palace knows, go down!" ”

"Yes, sis!" The green basket bowed and retreated.

This night, Queen Zhao didn't sleep well, and she kept thinking about the fact that Princess Li Cuiying of Thailand was pregnant.

The emperor also told Empress Zhao that he wanted to establish a prince and asked her opinion, but Empress Zhao deduced at that time that she didn't understand the affairs of the court, and the harem was not allowed to interfere in politics, so she only felt that all princes were good.

The emperor was very satisfied with Empress Zhao's attitude, and told her his thoughts that he used to love the eldest emperor, after all, it was his first child. However, in recent years, I have often received secret reports from Eagle Guard, which show that the eldest prince Murong Xiao was ferocious and killed many slaves and maids in the palace, which outsiders do not know, but it is only circulated in the palace of the king of Thailand, and the princess of Thailand has issued a gag order, and no one dares to go out and talk nonsense, unless he doesn't want the head on his head. In addition, in the past two years, many officials in the DPRK and China have written to impeach the prince for being tyrannical and domineering, doing a lot of things to bully men and women, and buying and selling official positions. For these, the emperor was disappointed.

The eldest prince is unbearable, and the second prince should have been considered, but unfortunately the second prince has never been very close to the emperor, but the third prince is more pleasing in the eyes of the emperor, so he began to cultivate the third prince.

The three princes finally lived up to the emperor's expectations, everything was brilliant, everything was proper, it seemed that the emperor was interested in the three princes, but the three princes were all good, but they had no heirs. He has been married for ten years, and there are more than 20 concubines and concubines, but none of them gave birth to a son, which is very inappropriate in the emperor's opinion, the heir of an empire has no heirs, how can the thousands of generations of the Great Zhou Dynasty be passed on?

It is conceivable that the emperor's heart is very contradictory now, the two favorite sons, the third prince is very good, but he has no son, although the eldest prince is not very good, but these evil deeds can be changed and corrected, and he already has a son, and now, soon, he will have a son-in-law. The emperor has favored the eldest prince for more than 30 years, if he promised in front of the emperor that he would change his evil deeds and have a son-in-law, what would happen to the emperor?

In fact, no matter who the emperor likes, Queen Zhao doesn't care, she only cares that she doesn't have a biological mother, but respects her as her biological mother, and will respect her as the queen mother's prince in the future, whoever can do this, she will promote whom, she now takes a fancy to the four princes, it seems that Concubine Guo will die soon!