Chapter 314: The Jade Empress Dowager
Fushou Palace, the palace of the Jade Empress Dowager, is actually another power center in the palace that is not weaker than Taiping Palace. In the first two years of Emperor Xuantong's accession to the throne, Fushou Palace even surpassed Taiping Palace.
When Prince Uogawa stepped into the Fushou Gate, he saw a group of small Taoist children playing in the square in front of the huge Fushou Palace. Located in the back garden of Fushou Palace, the Feixian Palace, faintly see the warped cornices, there are fairy sounds curling, fairy fragrance fluttering. Where is the harem here, and it is almost inseparable from the Taoist temple.
His heart was full of irritability, and Prince Uogawa really wanted to turn around and go back. He is a dignified prince of a country and an important minister of the country with countless military achievements, but now he has become someone else's mallet -- pointing and fighting, which really makes him extremely breathless.
As soon as he hesitated, a little eunuch from Fushou Palace came over with a smile and asked for peace. Prince Yuchuan sighed in his heart, but still walked towards the Fushou Palace, and asked in a low voice: "The Queen Mother Ke'an?" ”
The little eunuch glanced at the unscrupulous and noisy Daotong Dao Gu, lowered his eyebrows and said softly: "The Queen Mother ordered someone to smash a complete set of gold-inlaid ruby jewelry, and sent someone to send a lot of rewards to the Feixian Palace, and also ordered someone to pass on the concubine Niangniang. ”
"The concubine is here?" Prince Uogawa knew that this noble concubine, who was deeply favored by the emperor, was not favored by the queen mother.
The little eunuch shook his head and replied: "The concubine Niangniang's head stroke is committed, and the emperor sent Li Siquan's father-in-law to reply in person, saying that he would come to the Empress Dowager to ask the Empress Dowager for her guilt when the concubine's illness is cured." ”
Ha! What a sick man! It's just an excuse. Prince Uogawa has a bottom in his heart, and the queen mother must be even more angry at this time, so he still walks slowly, and then walks slowly.
The little eunuch said respectfully: "Lord Heavenly Master is in the palace, the prince may have to wait for a while." ”
Prince Yuchuan nodded, he usually rewarded silver barley and silver horns, but now the ghost made a fool of himself and stuffed Zhang Bailiang's silver ticket into the palm of the little eunuch's hand. The little eunuch was slightly startled, looked up at Prince Yuchuan, but saw His Royal Highness the Prince nodding with a smile, so he pinched the silver ticket tightly and quickly held it. Bow back again.
Fushou Palace spent a lot of effort to renovate before the Empress Dowager Jade moved in, and the decoration was definitely the first part of the palace. Prince Uogawa walked slowly as if he were visiting Fukuju Palace for the first time. He walked for almost two quarters of an hour, usually on his feet. Until someone comes and pleases.
This is Feng Tianshi who appeased the Empress Dowager Yu, as for how to appease it, whether it was with his mouth or something else, who cares? Prince Yuchuan suddenly figured it out, and the Jokhang Empress still accepted male concubines. His mother put away a face and a head, what happened?
Prince Yuchuan did not meet Feng Tianshi, but only saw an eight-person sedan chair carried out of the Fushou Hall and left along the corridor in the direction of the Flying Immortal Palace. It's also good, it's one thing to figure it out, and it would be better for him not to meet.
After a while, Prince Uogawa entered the main hall and walked to the main hall of the queen mother's bedroom. As soon as he saw his mother, Prince Yuchuan hurriedly saluted, knelt on the ground respectfully and said, "The son has seen the queen mother. ”
The beauty on the couch of the first beauty in the main hall hummed lazily. Softly said, "Get up, give me a seat." ”
Prince Uogawa kowtowed to the Empress Dowager Yu, got up again, and sat down in the chair brought by the palace people. He raised his eyes to peek at the queen mother, and saw that the queen mother's face was more delicate than the peach blossom, leaning on the pillow with confused eyes, and a blanket embroidered with Tai Chi gossip on her knees.
The Empress Dowager Yu, who has been promoted to a great-grandmother, is well-maintained, especially after being moistened by rain and dew again, she looks younger. In her fifties, she inadvertently revealed a charm in her grace and luxury, which is even more coveted than many women in their thirties.
Prince Uogawa only peeked at the queen mother. He didn't dare to look at it anymore, and waited for the queen's orders with his eyes down in a proper manner. When he returned to Beijing this time, he was keenly aware that the relationship between the imperial brother and the queen mother was not as concentric as when they were competing for the throne in the past. The queen mother sometimes complained about the royal brother. The royal brother also seems unwilling to blindly obey the queen mother.
This time, the soft-eared royal brother was once again defeated in the tenderness and sweetness of the favorite concubine, how could he not annoy the queen mother? Prince Uogawa's heart moved, and he asked tentatively: "Queen Mother, since the son returned to Beijing, he has never had a meal with his mother and imperial brother. I wonder if the queen mother would like to stay with her children for dinner today? ”
The Empress Dowager Jade opened her watery apricot eyes slightly. A smiling expression swept across her face, and she said slowly: "Your imperial brother, now you only spoil that fox child, where do you remember that there is a queen mother and a brother?" Come on, go and call Kunshan, let's have fun ourselves. ”
Prince Yuchuan said with a smiling face: "The queen mother is angry, the royal brother is filial and sincere, how can he disobey you?" With a fake sigh, he added, "It's the son's retainer who is useless, and he has betrayed the trust of the queen mother and the imperial brother." The bandits in Yuchuan County are indeed the power of the sons and daughters to clear and suppress, and they can't be blamed on the head of Zongzheng Shangshu! ”
"Humph!" Empress Dowager Jade sneered, "Whether you are incompetent or useless, your own brother, your imperial brother should protect you more." Those foreign ministers...... When the court leaves them, there will be no one to govern? According to the mourning family, Cheng Engong is also a general who has led soldiers, and he also knows the military, how can he not be in charge of the military department? ”
"It's nothing more than ......" The Empress Dowager Jade raised her green jade hand, looked at her red nails, and said lightly, "It's just that someone ignored the ancestral training in vain and had a mind that shouldn't have been!" ”
It's nothing more than the queen relying on you, the queen mother, and you want to use the hands of the queen's brother to control the military department! Prince Uogawa secretly slandered himself, but with a smile on his face, he neither approved nor opposed.
The Empress Dowager Jade glanced at her second son, and anger came out. The reason why she fully supported her eldest son's struggle for the throne back then was for the sake of the eldest son's control. Unexpectedly, not only did the second son become more and more cunning and unfilial, but even the eldest son dared to go against himself after having the help of the fox fox!
Laughing angrily, the Empress Dowager Jade asked with a pleasant face: "The county lord of Tongcheng has both talent and appearance, outstanding virtue, if I can marry Emperor Qin, it is my blessing to the country, and it is also the blessing of your husband and wife." Have you told your daughter-in-law about this? ”
Among the many daughters, only the county lord of Tongcheng is the concubine, and she is naturally more favored by Prince Yuchuan than the concubine. This daughter has a gentle and obedient temperament, and is extremely filial to her father, and she is deeply favored by Prince Uogawa and his wife.
Don't look at Prince Yuchuan's ruthlessness to Princess Xin, in fact, he is reluctant to marry his daughter to Qin State. But...... Since the change just now, this bend in his heart has suddenly turned around.
So Prince Yuchuan smiled respectfully and said: "Since she was born as a royal daughter and enjoys the royal honor and wealth, she naturally has to be loyal to the country and the monarch." The boy in Tongcheng has always been filial and never disobedient. Please also rest assured that the queen mother. (To be continued.) )