Concubine Gao is very depressed, since she has been regained her favor, she has been cautious, why are she surrounded by pig teammates.

Take the palace maid just now!

When no one was around, the palace maid said this to herself, in fact, it was still very useful to be a concubine.

But the bad thing is that the palace maid said it in front of so many people.

There are many palace maids and eunuchs in the noble concubine's bedroom, who knows which palace maid and eunuch are spies from other palaces? Who knows if they have been bought by someone else?

Therefore, even if she liked the palace maid very much on weekdays, the noble concubine still expelled her from the palace gate.

At least, she can save her life after leaving the palace.

Otherwise, with her character, if she hadn't had her own protection, she wouldn't have known to die hundreds of times.

At the same time, the noble concubine also has her own difficulties.

Although now the noble concubine has been promoted to the imperial concubine, and she is also in charge of the affairs of the six palaces.

But the noble concubine was very sober.

The more this time, the more low-key you have to be.

At this time, the people who pay attention to themselves are not only the other concubines of the harem, but also the queen and queen, who are afraid that they are also secretly observing themselves, waiting for them to make mistakes.

So at this time, the noble concubine should be even more cautious.

Now the noble concubine does not dare to have other ambitions, she only hopes that her second prince can grow up safely, and then marry a wife and have children, and take herself to Borneo with her.

Speaking of the second prince, the noble concubine thought of it.

The crown prince Zhao Hao is only one year older than the second prince Zhao Han, and he is already engaged.

Does that mean that the second prince is also getting engaged?

It's just that Zhang Lingyang has never mentioned the marriage of the second prince to Concubine Gao. Although Concubine Gao was very anxious, she didn't dare to mention this matter to Zhang Lingyang.

I was afraid that Zhang Lingyang would be too attentive and mistakenly think that he coveted the queen's throne.

But if you don't mention it, Concubine Gao is worried that the daughters of good families will be picked up by others.

You must know that the third prince Zhao Xu and the second prince Zhao Han were born in the same year.

If the noble concubine doesn't express her position first, I'm afraid that the biological mother of the third prince, Cao, will be the first.

When the time comes, I can only choose the rest of the women that others pick!

Where would the noble concubine be willing?

If there is a way, care is chaos, and the noble concubine is in this mood now.

If you want to mention the marriage of the second prince Zhao Han to Zhang Lingyang, the noble concubine is afraid that Zhang Lingyang will misunderstand that she covets the queen's position.

But let the Cao family take the lead, and the noble concubine is unwilling!

Concubine Gao is very conflicted now!

At this time, Zhang Lingyang suddenly issued a holy decree!

But it's not about the marriages of a few princes, it's about a few older princesses.

In February of the sixteenth year of Tai'an, Zhang Lingyang suddenly decreed that Zhao Hai, the princess of the Yan family, should be named the princess of Pingyang, and he was assigned to marry Sun Yuanqi, the grandson of the Ningguo Mansion, as his wife.

He also decreed that Zhao Xi, the second princess born to the He family, was the princess of Yiyang, and was assigned to marry Jiang Haoming, the grandson of the Zhenguo Mansion, as his wife.

But this only refers to marriage, and the real marriage will not be officially completed until the princesses are fully adult in three years.

Whether it is the eldest princess Zhao Hairpin or the second princess Zhao Xi, they were born in the same year as the second prince Zhao Han and the third prince Zhao Xu, and they are already 14 years old this year, and they are all at the age of marriage.

And the reason why Zhang Lingyang chose these two is mainly because among the nobles of the Great Zhou, the family style of the Ningguo Mansion and the Zhenguo Mansion is the most positive, and Zhang Lingyang also ordered Jinyiwei to investigate the personalities of Sun Yuanqi and Jiang Haoming before issuing the order.

After learning more about it, Zhang Lingyang was relieved to give his two palm pearls to the Zhenguo Mansion and the Ningguo Mansion.

Zhang Lingyang did this without the consideration of improving the status of the powerful.

Whether it is the Zhenguo Mansion or the Ningguo Mansion, although they have full right to speak in the court, this does not mean that the entire elite class has a good status in the court.

Otherwise, the former Anguo Mansion would not have taken the route of foreign relatives.

Otherwise, many children of the powerful would not have become children who have nothing to do every day.

Isn't it precisely because there are not many routes they can take in the DPRK?

Of course, it is also related to the spoiling of the elders in the family.

In fact, many children of the powerful still performed very well when they were young.

Especially those powerful families with relatively upright family style, the children of the family can all be literate and martial.

But so what?

Although since the founding of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the emperors of all dynasties have flaunted their use of both civil and military affairs, in fact, they still feel that the civil and military are cheap, and the children of the powerful have no other way out except to join the army.

Although they can participate in the imperial examination, the scholars are very exclusive to them, even if they are selected as jinshi and become officials, they will inevitably be harassed by their superiors and excluded by their colleagues, and the result is still nothing.

Besides, not every powerful family is like the Ningguo Mansion and the Zhenguo Mansion, allowing the children of the family to fight on the battlefield, and then bringing back altars of ashes, and the last generation of the white-haired people to send the black-haired people indifferently!

Easier said than done!

The vast majority of people can't do it, and the same is true for the homes of the powerful.

Therefore, from the founding of the Great Zhou Dynasty to the current Tai'an period, except for the Ningguo Mansion and the Zhenguo Mansion, which still uphold the family atmosphere at the beginning of the founding of the country, the rest of the powerful families have long since degenerated step by step in the decadent life of generations.

For example, Wang Guowei's Anguo Mansion is located, in fact, when Wang Guowei's grandfather was in his generation, the family atmosphere was still very upright.

But back then, Wang Guowei's grandfather took the children of his family to fight in the western frontier, but he brought back thirty-five jars of ashes, including the ashes of Wang Guowei's father and two uncles, which made everyone in the entire Anguo Mansion wear linen and filial piety, and complained.

So since then, Wang Guowei's grandfather died not long after out of guilt.

And the old lady responded to the requests of her young eldest grandson Wang Guowei, so she developed Wang Guowei's lawless temperament, so that in the end she became a cocoon and bound herself.

The same is true of the Dingguo Mansion.

During the time of the first emperor, Jiang Cheng, the Duke of Dingguo, led his family to fight against Wara, and it was also the last battle between Da Zhou and Warat.

Although the Great Zhou achieved a brilliant victory in the end, the war was not slowed down for 20 years.

But the war at that time was not so beautiful for the Dingguo Mansion.

Because of one of Jiang Cheng's younger brothers-in-law and two sons-in-law and three brothers-in-law, both of them died on the battlefield, so in the end, Jiang Cheng's youngest son Jiang Wuyang, who was still a minor, became the prince of Dingguo Gongfu.

It is also because of this that Jiang Cheng no longer restricts Jiang Wuyang from practicing martial arts in the future, so that Jiang Wuyang also developed a lawless temperament.

Although the old tree of Dingguo Gong Jiang Cheng later blossomed and gave birth to several sons one after another, Jiang Wuyang had already recuperated at this time, and it was a little late to restrain him again.

is also the same, in the end, Jiang Wuyang caused the later disaster, and was finally sent to the western Xinjiang.

All of this is not uncommon in the Great Zhou.

So many times, in the face of these powerful families who have shed countless blood and sweat on Da Zhou, Zhang Lingyang is still willing to give them a chance.

Even if they make mistakes, as long as they don't touch Zhang Lingyang's bottom line, Zhang Lingyang will turn a blind eye.

When Jiang Wuyang, the prince of Dingguo, committed a capital crime, Zhang Lingyang gave him a chance to live.

But there is a bottom line in everything.

What Wang Guowei's father and son did before touched Zhang Lingyang's bottom line, so without hesitation, Zhang Lingyang directly cut off the heads of these two people......