May 15 of the second year of Yonghui.

Tai Chi Palace.

Tai Chi Hall.

Afternoon.

After Li Zhifang finished lunch, he hurried into the study, thinking that he had finished approving the recital earlier, so that he could have some free time.

But he never thought that as soon as the jade chariot entered the Taiji Palace, he saw his uncle Changsun in the court dress from a distance, but he held the official hat in his hand.

With a long sigh, he had to turn his head to De'an, who was following him:

"Find someone to inform Ryan and tell him that I can't go over now......"

Li Zhi paused, looked at the eldest grandson Wuji kneeling in front of him, and corrected with a long sigh:

"No...... You tell him that not only for now, but for fear that he will not be able to get over today. ”

……

A moment later.

In the Imperial Palace.

Inside the back garden.

After receiving the report from Qinghe sent by his brother, Ruian immediately sighed and nodded to indicate that he knew, and then Qinghe went back to Mingde'an.

On one side, Wen Niang approached gently:

"What?

But what happened? ”

Ryan shook his head, gently shook Wen Niang's hand and said:

"Uncle Yuan has finally made a decision......

Presumably, during this period of time, the Lord must be too busy to make the trip.

You still took the time to pass the word to my sister!

Don't tell her to wait over there. ”

Wen Niang nodded, and asked again:

"Uncle Yuan......

Sure enough, did you still give up the eldest son? ”

"Hmm.

Looking at it like this, I'm afraid it's a sacrifice.

Nor is it surprising......

What a person Uncle Yuan is, for the sake of the Tang Dynasty, he can still distinguish the urgency of such matters. ”

Ryan shook his head and said:

"Besides, the Lord had no intention of doing anything to him......

I just hope that through the Honglu Temple case, he can teach him to see the crisis he is in now. ”

When Wen Niang heard Ryan's words, she was also gloomy for a while, and sighed after a while:

In the final analysis, in this Tang Dynasty, those who are truly and completely loyal to the Lord and the Tang Dynasty are afraid that if Uncle Yuan is the first, there will be no one to talk about the second......

But in the end, he still has to be ......"

"No, it won't."

Ryan said categorically:

"Know more about the nature of the Lord.

For him, Uncle Yuan is more like a gentleman who must make a contribution better than his merits on the road to becoming a king, but he is not a mortal enemy. ”

Wen Niangruo nodded if she didn't understand, and then thought about it again before saying:

"That'......

What about after defeating Uncle Yuan?

Won't the Lord kill him? ”

"This is natural."

Ryan said categorically:

"For the lord, although the Tang Dynasty is important, it is still important because it is the first emperor and Empress Wende's mother......

What he hoped for more was Uncle Yuan's approval.

Because the first emperor and Empress Wende are now gone, the only one who can represent the two of them agree with the Lord is Uncle Yuan.

What's more, Uncle Yuan has loved the Lord since he was a child, and he is no less than anyone else.

Therefore, the Lord will never kill Uncle Yuan.

On the contrary, only if Uncle Yuan lives, the Lord will have the desire and belief to work hard.

So Uncle Yuan will definitely not die, and he can't die. ”

Wen Niang thought about it, but after all, she didn't say anything else:

After all, although she is in this Taiji Palace, she has been in the Taiji Palace for a long time, and she knows Li Zhi quite well.

But with someone like Ryan who has been by Li Zhi's side since childhood, she can only be regarded as knowing Li Zhi quite well.

After being silent for a while, Ryan changed the topic and asked Wen Niang:

"How?

How many times have you been today? ”

Such brainless words, if they were replaced by someone else, they would naturally not understand.

But for Wen Niang, she immediately understood:

"The one over there in the Qianqiu Palace, twice, and the Wanchun Hall more, four times.

But this is still a small head......

The latter ones haven't figured out which side to start with, and there are at least six more times. ”

"After only a few meals a day, did you poison more than a dozen times?"

Ryan snorted coldly:

"Those crazy women, they really want to die!"

Thinking of this, he didn't pay attention to it, but turned his head to Wen Niang and said:

"Don't make a fool of yourself, collect all these things, and then give them to the Lord when they are used by the Lord in the future."

Wen Niang was stunned, but she immediately understood:

"That's right......

This kind of thing is the best thing to use when you keep the general ledger after the autumn. ”

Ryan smiled faintly and nodded:

"Just see how many people you can get rid of."

Wen Niang said:

"You can rest assured, I will find Master Li and ask him to go and grasp the origin of these things, grasp them one by one, and prepare them.

I'm just waiting for my sister to use it on the day after the seal! ”

"I'm afraid I don't have to wait until that day!"

Ryan said.

Wen Niang was stunned:

"What do you mean?

Isn't my sister going to be blocked? ”

"Sealing, naturally, is to be sealed, but it can't always be done in one step.

So most likely, the lord wants to take advantage of this Honglu Temple case to make a deal with Uncle Yuan. ”

Ryan said lightly:

"As you know before, my sister once set up a plan to secretly cross Chen Cang on the plank road......

I'm afraid that today, the Lord is willing to give up the rare opportunity to see my sister, and I want to stay and deal with Uncle Yuan......

That's all there is to it. ”

When Wen Niang heard this, she was surprised and delighted:

"So......

So the matter of my sister's concubine is already decided? ”

Ryan smiled confidently, reached out and shook her hand, put it in his palms, patted it lightly, and said:

"We've been following the Lord for so long......

When has he ever seen something about Sister Wu, he wants to do it but still can't do it after all? ”

Wen Niang was delighted, and only leaned her head on Ryan's shoulder, and said with tears in her eyes:

If so......

That's great, that's great! ”

She was so happy that her voice trembled slightly:

"Sister is waiting for this day......

But it's too long......

It's been a long time......"

Ryan let out a long sigh:

"yes......

Really waited too long. ”

The two sighed for a while, and Wen Niang wiped her tears again and said:

"That'......

If you want a concubine, should my sister go back to the palace to be safer?

It's a big deal. ”

Ryan thought for a moment, but shook his head and said:

"No......

It may not be that fast!

In the final analysis, Uncle Yuan is still reluctant to ask his sister to be named more.

So most of them will use excuses to prevaricate. ”

Wen Niang frowned, as if she was a little dissatisfied:

"Then what else is there to blame?"

Ryan thought for a moment and said:

"Right now, the Lord has only His Royal Highnesses Chen, Yong, Xu, and Qi on his side, and in terms of it, the number of princes who can inherit the country is too small.

In addition, there were examples of the willful and reckless Princess Datong Anchang before, and the bold and rebellious Princess Gaoyang......

I'm afraid that Uncle Yuan will also propose to the lord and ask him to promise that unless Sister Wu gives birth to a prince, he will not be a concubine? ”

Immediately, Wen Niang was displeased and said:

"Is it possible that if you give birth to a daughter, you are not a child of the Lord?"

"But that's not the problem......

In fact, the master once said about it! ”

Ryan turned his head again.

Wen Niang was stunned and said:

"Princess?

What did he say? ”

The master said that if you talk about it, in fact, the one who wants my sister to give birth to a boy the most in this dynasty is still Uncle Yuan.

If you think about it, His Royal Highness King Chen is cowardly and incompetent, and his background is not high, and he is not very smart, so it is difficult to teach him to be a good assistant......

How to inherit the heir?

It was Uncle Yuan who taught the queen to get King Chen as his heir.

Because he also held that in case the other three kings did not succeed, then he took advantage of the queen's noble background, set up a way to help him straighten, and then set up several ministers for him to help him become the king after a hundred years of the lord......

But this kind of thing is still too risky after all, and for Uncle Yuan, the odds of winning are really not big.

As for His Royal Highnesses Nayong and Qi Wang, there is no need to mention it. ”

Wen Niang also nodded and said:

"Isn't it?

Often, I always hear that Uncle Yuan looks down on these two highnesses, and he always doesn't have a good face to see him every day. ”

"Although Uncle Yuan is good at power, he is really not a despicable villain.

It's the adults around him, who are inherently selfish, but they are not scoundrels.

It is natural to look down on the two kings of Yongqi. ”

Wen Niang thought about it for a while, and then said:

"Isn't there still His Royal Highness King Xu?"

Ryan shook his head and said:

"As for His Royal Highness King Xu......

That's even more unlikely.

If you talk about it, Your Royal Highnesses Chen, Yong, and Qi just don't please Uncle Yuan.

But this His Royal Highness King Xu ......

That's a stab in Uncle Yuan's heart. ”

Wen Niang was stunned for a moment and thought of one thing:

"Could it be his mother's ...... back then"

Ryan nodded and sighed:

"Uncle Yuan can endure anything else, but the only thing that can't be endured is the Zheng family, the mother of King Xu, who almost lost her life in the last year.

So over the years, openly and secretly, although Uncle Yuan couldn't bear to be too embarrassed because he was the blood of the Lord, it was also clear that there was no family affection.

Although he also arranged people around His Royal Highness King Xu, and taught His Royal Highness King Xu all along, he thought that his sister killed his mother Zheng......

But in my opinion, what my sister thinks about the motives of Uncle Yuan to do this, why is it not to teach His Royal Highness King Xu to dig his own way to die, and why not to teach His Royal Highness King Xu to know what kind of person his mother is and regret and depressed......

It's all good things my sister said for Uncle Yuan.

Uncle Yuan did this, but I was afraid that it would be as the master said:

It's nothing more than because Uncle Yuan was angry with His Royal Highness King Xu because of his mother Zheng's affairs, so he simply set up this plan to teach his sister and His Royal Highness King Xu, these two people who were the most troublesome and hated each other in the Tang Dynasty's court, and finally lost both, so as to gain the benefit of a fisherman. ”

Wen Niang was silent, and sighed for a while:

"So......

For Uncle Yuan, or his sister is not what he likes, but the child in his sister's womb, if it is a boy, is what he wants......

Isn't it? ”

Ryan nodded.

Wen Niang sighed:

"In that case, I'm afraid that the Lord designed it like this before, and took advantage of my sister to expose the opportunity of the eldest grandson Chong to test Uncle Yuan, so publicly......

The purpose is to use this matter to negotiate a deal with Uncle Yuan. ”

Ryan nodded.

……

In fact, they guessed right.

On the night of May 15 in the second year of Yonghui.

sub-hours.

After four hours (eight hours), except for Wang De, the inner chamberlain, and De'an, the inner chamberlain, there was no fifth person, and no fifth person knew the content of the conversation, let alone recorded in the annals of history, such a secret game of monarchs and ministers after the closure of the palace, in the end, Li Zhi did not reveal his true face, in the end he still fulfilled one of his wishes:

After all, he still succeeded in teaching his uncle eldest grandson Wuji to agree that once his favorite palace attendant Wu Meiniang gave birth to a male fetus in the future, he could immediately be enshrined as the head of the nine concubines and the position of Zhaoyi.

Yes, his dream will still come true after all.