After His Majesty's funeral, the officials who were unwilling to participate in the struggle for the throne have taken their leave, and the affairs of the court and the central government are still going on in an orderly manner. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

How many people are talking about the great achievements of the former emperor Li Qian and the eldest princess of Huanji, the Tang Dynasty is still as stable as Mount Tai without an emperor, the surrounding small countries dare not do the slightest move, and the affairs of the court have not fallen, even this year's drought in the north, with the efforts of a group of officials, in addition to the loss of crops, the casualties are not more than one-tenth of previous years.

And Empress Dowager Zeng is still locked up in Cining Palace, Huan Ji entertains her with delicious food and drink, but she has lost contact with the outside world, she thinks about what she did wrong every day, and regrets her recklessness every day.

Huan Ji inquired about the affairs of the imperial court every morning, and studied the candidates for the new emperor in the afternoon.

Concubine Xian is not bad, there are no major incidents in the harem these days. The main reason is that the concubines who have no heirs are sent to the family temple, and Huan Ji is in charge and releases more than half of the palace maids and eunuchs in the palace.

After doing these follow-up things, the second thing Huan Ji did was to lock up Concubine Ming.

Hu Dehai personally read out the edict, "The eldest princess of Huanji issued an edict that Mingde Palace will be renamed Mingjing Palace from today, and Mingjing Palace shall not enter and leave without permission, nor shall anyone visit, and food, clothing, housing and transportation will be the same as usual." ”

Huan Ji issued a decree similar to that of Empress Dowager Zeng.

Concubine Ming was stupid at that time, knelt on the ground, did not get up to receive the order, and did not cry.

Hu Dehai waited for a while, and saw that Concubine Ming did not accept the order, so he had to say: "Concubine Niangniang, get up and accept the order." ”

Concubine Ming woke up at this time, she pulled Hu Dehai and cried: "How can this be the case, doesn't the eldest princess support the second prince?" ”

Hu Dehai said again: "The concubine will take the order." ”

Concubine Ming had no choice but to accept Yi's decree, and after receiving the decree, she also said to Hu Dehai: "Please ask Gonggong Hu to help pass on a word, just say that the concubine wants to see the eldest princess." ”

Hu Dehai only needs to answer and help her pass on this word, but as for whether the eldest princess will come, he can't guarantee it.

Concubine Ming was also locked up, and the second prince went to ask Huan Ji in person after learning about it.

The second prince knelt on the ground and cried: "I beg my aunt and grandmother to let go of my mother, she has had a really difficult life for her sons all these years." Erchen and his mother are grateful to their aunt and grandmother, if it wasn't for their aunt and grandmother back then, Erchen might have been gone long ago. ”

Huan Ji glanced at him and asked, "If you let Concubine Ming go, what about the Queen Mother?" ”

The second prince was choked and speechless, yes, if he let his mother go, what about the eighth brother's mother?

The second prince saluted and said: "The son is embarrassed by his aunt and grandmother, please ask his aunt and grandmother Haihan, and the son will retire." ”

Hu Dehai has been with the first emperor for thirty years, and he also knows a little about Huanji, and when he saw the second prince withdraw from the main hall, he sighed unconsciously.

Huan Ji smiled: "Even you can see my intentions, but he doesn't understand." ”

Hu Dehai hurriedly knelt down and said, "The slave doesn't dare to speculate about the meaning of the princess." ”

Huan Ji smiled: "Don't hurry up, I'm not the emperor, you don't have to be careful with me all the time." Just because I came to live in the palace, when I finish dealing with the affairs of the new emperor, I have to go back to Qingzhou. ”

Hu Dehai got up and said with a smile: "Look at the clumsy minion, why can't the princess stay?" ”

Huan Ji smiled: "You see that the first emperor is a year older than me, and now I am still healthy enough to kill a tiger, he is so tired that he sleeps in the imperial tomb, and I want to live for two more years, watching my youngest son and grandchildren marry and have children." ”

Hu Dehai's mouth opened wide in fright, and he was sweating profusely when he saw the winter sky.

It took Hu Dehai a long time before he could hold back his words, "Your Highness can't say such things again, in case others listen to it, it's terrible." ”

But he thought in his heart: "It is said that Princess Huanji is bold and dares to say anything, and she really dares to say anything." The first emperor was right, so she didn't look down on that position. ”

Huan Ji nodded in response: "I won't talk about it in the future." ”

Huan Ji saw that Hu Dehai didn't reply to him, thinking that he was still thinking about the second prince.

continued: "I'll be honest with you, I never thought about making the second prince the emperor, just based on what happened after the death of the first emperor, he is not a good emperor. As for Concubine Ming, I think that if he doesn't want the throne and is bent on seeking stability for Concubine Ming for the rest of his life, I will simply give him a king and let him take Concubine Ming out of the palace to live. And you saw it. ”

After hearing this, Hu Dehai said in his heart: "The second prince is indeed too disappointing. "Not to mention anything else, just the death of the first emperor, the second prince lost his qualification to be the emperor.

Huan Ji said: "Don't talk about them, you can talk about other princes, the new emperor still has to be chosen." ”

Hu Dehai was surprised in his heart, the princess chose the new emperor, and she asked him, so she was not afraid that he would leak out.

But he didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly said: "The first emperor has a total of twelve princes, four princesses, and the princesses are all married. In addition to the eldest prince who has been demoted to a concubine, there are also the nine princes and the eleventh prince who died young, and now only the seventh, eighth, tenth and twelfth princes are still in the palace, and the other princes have all married and established a mansion outside the palace. ”

Huan Ji took a pen and wrote, "Let people send me all the seventh, eighth, tenth, and twelfth princes, and I want to see these children with my own eyes." ”

Hu Dehai immediately went to do it, and within an hour, the four princes all received the side hall of Daming Palace, where Huanji temporarily lived.

The major event of moving the prince's residence was spread all over the palace and outside the palace in less than two hours.

The palace and the government and the opposition are boiling, could it be that the princess of Huanji wants to assist the little emperor to ascend the throne, and there is the eighth prince of the Empress Dowager Zeng, and Princess Huanji actually put him among the candidates.

And the Empress Dowager Zeng, who stayed in Cining Palace, didn't know this.

Huan Ji personally took these four children for a few days, and the eighth prince was a little arrogant because he was the queen mother's sister-in-law, and he also liked to bully the seventh prince who was the adopted son of the queen mother.

And he ignored the house arrest of the Empress Dowager Zeng. It is estimated that he should not know very well, and I have to say that this child was raised by the Empress Dowager Zeng.

In the same year as the seventh prince and the eighth prince, his biological mother died in childbirth, and he was raised by the Empress Dowager Zeng.

On weekdays, he can only endure when he is bullied by the Eighth Prince, and his patience is very good at a young age, but his mind is very heavy. Huan Ji didn't evaluate him, and had reservations, just to make people pay more attention to him.

The tenth prince is five years old, born to the concubine of the virtuous concubine, and is raised by the virtuous concubine herself on weekdays, the child is very kind, and the other princes in the palace are very friendly.

The eleventh prince is three years old and is the biological son of Concubine Xian, who also gave birth to two princesses before, one is the second princess and the other is the eighth princess, the eighth princess died young, and the second princess has married. (To be continued.) )