Speaking of the history of the Song family in Gangneung, it can be traced back to the founding of the previous dynasty. The Song family was a well-known family in the south of the Yangtze River in the previous dynasties, and it lasted for hundreds of years. The government of the previous dynasty was divided into princes of the opposite sex, and the Song family was one of them, exaggerating to say that the people of Jiangling in the previous dynasty only knew that there was a Song family but did not know that there was a royal family.

As the saying goes, the tree is a big trick, and the Song family naturally knows this truth, and the children of the clan are all cautious in their words and deeds, and act in a low-key manner.

But this move did not dispel the suspicions of the previous emperor, and in the end, he fabricated the charge of rebellion against the Song family, and wanted to behead the Song family. It happened that Zheng Qiaochu, the founding emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty, was dissatisfied with the tyranny of the previous dynasty and the villain's calamity to the country, and in the name of "Qing Jun's side", he went straight from Dingzhou to Beijing.

Three months later, the major event of changing the dynasty was completed, and even if there was a reason for the decay of the previous dynasty's regime, there was also the Song family in it.

The Song family secretly gave a lot of grain and grass when Zheng Qiao first rebelled, and after the change of dynasty, he took the initiative to pay the taxes in the Jiangling area, and made a lot of contributions to Zheng Qiao's early pacification of the Jiangnan area. On the contrary, the Song family is regarded as the hero of the new dynasty, Zheng Qiao won the world at the beginning, and no one in the Song family in the Jiangnan generation can stand out.

Xu learned the previous lesson, after Emperor Taizu pacified the Great Zhou, the Song family took the initiative to hand over the military power, and set up the ancestral training, and the Song children could only enter the imperial examination for generations. Taizu thanked the Song family and set the daughter of the Song family as the crown princess for the crown prince, and this Song girl was the Empress Xiaomin of Gaozu.

If Empress Xiaomin gives birth to a prince, she can at least ensure the prosperity of the Song family for a hundred years. It's a pity that this Empress Xiaomin died of illness two years after entering the palace. Only one princess remains.

Later, Gaozu married the daughter of the Xinyang Wang family as the queen, posthumously crowned Empress Xiaomin as the Empress Dowager Yiren, and buried him in the imperial mausoleum after a hundred years.

I don't know if it's because of Empress Xiaomin, the second queen of Gaozu didn't want to see the Song family. After his son succeeded to the throne, the Song family was suppressed for many years. But the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, and the Song family knows how to keep the light and keep it obscure, starting from the previous dynasty. The Song family has been operating in Jiangnan for 100 years. Throughout the Great Zhou, it is one of the few remaining families that have lasted for hundreds of years.

is now the Song family, which has been lonely for a hundred years in the eyes of outsiders, and there are countless people with titles on the gold list of descendants and side branches, and their status in the hearts of Jiangnan scholars is still quite high.

After Empress Xiaomin, the Song family still produced several imperial concubines, and Concubine De was one of them.

Concubine De's name is Song Shuyu, and she was the only girl in the Song family's room at that time. If it weren't for the fact that she was a little younger. The delay of entering the palace for three years has given Chen Guogong's Mansion a head start, and it is really hard to say who the queen's seat is now.

Concubine De was pregnant when she entered the palace, and gave birth to three princes the following year. After three years, there was another five princes, which shows that the favor has not faded for several years. And the fifth prince has been smart since he was a child, and he is quite loved by Emperor Yufeng, and he is not far behind the crown prince.

It is not uncommon for a child in this palace to be expensive by the mother and a mother to be expensive by the child.

What is "expensive"? Naturally, it is valued and loved by the emperor. Emperor Yufeng treats the young son and the prince almost equally, and the people in the palace don't know how much, but no one dares to touch the scales of Emperor Yufeng at this time, and everyone is holding this young son.

But feelings are the most uncertain, since Concubine Jin entered the palace, she took away a lot of Emperor Yufeng's thoughts from Concubine De. Later, Concubine Jin was favored. Empress Chen used the thin royal heirs as an excuse to recruit the Hou** Palace, and later supported Zhuang Concubine to compete with it, coupled with the birth of the six princes, the crown prince gradually grew up, and Emperor Yufeng spent less thought on the five princes than before.

Concubine De came from a scholarly family and had a very high temperament. Naturally, I don't care to do things that compete for favor. Concubine Jin and Concubine Zhuang are compared, and new faces appear in the palace every year, and Emperor Yufeng's thoughts about her are much lighter.

Take advantage of your illness and want your life, since the people in the palace will naturally not show mercy. In the autumn of the eleventh year of Yufeng, the fifth prince fell into the water, and although he was still hanging after being rescued, he had a high fever for several nights, and he became a fool after waking up. In the winter of the same year, Concubine De's old illness relapsed, and she finally passed away without surviving that winter.

That year completely changed the trajectory of Zheng Rui's life, he and his third brother avoided everyone's attention, and only lived in the Chongwei Palace of their mother's concubine, and easily did not leave the palace.

After the death of Concubine De, Emperor Yufeng saw that Zheng Rui was stupid, but he had the heart to support him and Prince Jing, and the previous treatment must be very different. The palace is all watching the dishes and serving the dishes, and Queen Chen has never paid attention to such things, and even deliberately ignored them, so their lives are naturally not easy.

After he fell into the water and was stupid, many people tried it openly and secretly, but they all returned in vain. Prince Jing was told by Concubine De since he was a child, and over time he developed a taciturn temperament, and after Concubine De passed away, he became more loyal and docile.

One is loyal and honest, the other is not mentally minded, after observing for a while, Xu felt that the two brothers were not too threatening, and the prince Ke from Concubine Xian became a thorn in the eye of Queen Chen.

Zheng Rui spent six years in the palace like an invisible person, and finally waited until the wedding of Prince Jing before moving out of the palace with Prince Jing.

Fortunately, Princess Jing is only from a scholarly family, the Xiao family has few heirs, and Princess Jing has no children except for two elder brothers who have received an idle errand. The Xiao family is not well-connected, whether it is for Empress Chen or Concubine Xian, it is a good thing.

Therefore, at that time, after Empress Chen and Concubine Xian's men and horses were watching the Three Princes' Mansion for half a year, they found that there was nothing suspicious, so they withdrew one after another.

The Jiangling Song family is very low-key, and when Concubine De is still there, she has little contact with her. Zheng Rui thought that the Song family had already given up on the two brothers, but he didn't expect that the Song family, which had been silent for more than ten years, would send hundreds of secret guards into the Three Princes' Mansion.

How much weight a prince can have depends not only on the emperor's attitude, but also on the strength of his mother's family. Chen Guogong holds a heavy army in the northwest, and the ruling prince is one of the four founding princes, and his connections are almost sprinkled all over the government and the opposition, and it is because of this that the virtuous concubine has the courage to compete with Empress Chen.

At that time, Concubine De asked the five princes to pretend to be stupid to save their lives, and told the three princes to forbearance and retreat, if there was no support from the Jiangling Song family, the three princes would only avoid their edge in desperation, and Zheng Rui might have to pretend to be stupid in his life.

When he is weak, he can only keep himself alive, but thinking of the death of Concubine De and the humiliation he has suffered over the years, if he has the strength to fight, how can Prince Jing and Zheng Rui be willing.

It is no secret that Concubine Xian and Empress Chen are secretly competing with each other, but they have not yet made trouble in the open. The snipe and the clam compete for the fisherman's profit, and their plan has already been formed, waiting for just a chance to hit with one hit.

The former prince is a very mediocre person, but this kind of temperament has won the eyes of Emperor Yufeng, and everyone holds him, but he has also developed a fatal flaw - arrogance.

Because he learned to ride and shoot since he was a child, and learned some martial arts, the prince reduced the number of guards by half when he toured the south. In fact, it doesn't matter, after all, it is a private visit to Weifu, and its whereabouts are still very secret.

But the prince went to Jiangnan to inspect, and the Song family has been operating in Jiangnan for hundreds of years, which place can be missing the eyeliner of the Song family?

On that day, the crown prince rose, and he only took the book's name guards to swim in the lake, and King Jing received the news, and secretly let the spies on the side of Concubine Xian know about it. King Jing had prepared an ambush early, and if Concubine Xian didn't plan to make a move, he would let the prince take his life first.

Anyway, the prince died violently, and the one who benefited the most was the Xian Concubine's faction. As long as this matter is kept secret, even if there is no evidence, Empress Chen will directly point at Concubine Xian.

Fortunately, both the ruling prince and the virtuous concubine were big-hearted, and they really assassinated the prince, and the people on King Jing's side secretly helped the virtuous concubine again.

After the prince's violent death, it was precisely because there were no clues that Chen Guogong was even more guilty of the party of Concubine Xian. Later, Empress Chen succeeded King Jing and Zheng Rui to her name, but it was also expected by King Jing and others.

And Concubine Xian's life is not very easy, the third party who appeared inexplicably when assassinating the prince made them a little frightened, even the joy of the prince's violent death could not wash away this uneasiness. Then Empress Chen succeeded Prince Jing and Prince Ke to compete with him, and the Duke of Zhiguo speculated whether the third party would be Concubine Li's person.

Although Concubine Keli is from the family of military generals, her thoughts are very deep, and even Concubine Xian can't find anything out of her mouth.

When the crown prince was still there, Concubine Xian and Concubine Li were on good terms, but it was just to unite to resist Empress Chen. After the prince's violent death, Empress Chen immediately decided to succeed the two princes under her name, but if Concubine Xian and Concubine Li joined forces, it would be really unfavorable to King Jing.

But it was precisely because Concubine Xian suspected that Concubine Li wanted to take advantage of the fisherman, so she naturally did not dare to cooperate with Concubine Li, and there were many disagreements between the two.

Next, it was to take advantage of Empress Chen's momentum to pull King Huai to their side, and this was the matter of Zheng Rui entering and leaving King Huai's mansion through candles.

These are all things that Zheng Rui has calculated, he has pretended to be crazy and stupid for so many years, and he sees it more clearly than ordinary people. And the person he hasn't seen clearly so far, except for the current head of the Song family, his maternal uncle Song Yue, there is only this Gu San girl.

What is the reputation of the third girl, even if she has not seen her, Zheng Rui has heard of it. is tricky, pungent, arrogant and willful, even her stepmother dares to scold, and the famous ladies in Beijing often disdain her when they mention her.

The first time Zheng Rui saw Gu Qingwan was in Jingguo Temple. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )