The cooperation between Zhou Guifei and the crown prince can be traced back to two years ago.

However, at that time, there was no deep cooperation. At most, it is to provide the prince with information about the palace. She rarely touches the emperor's information.

Substantive cooperation began a few months ago.

In the first month of this year, Zhou Guifei went home to save her relatives and learned about the current situation at home.

In order to repair the provincial family's hospital, the family now owes a large amount of debt, and life is very difficult at present.

Although there was a large house there on the surface, it could neither be used for food nor clothing.

There are only about a dozen people left, and the daily food and clothing are all calculated and calculated. Creditors often come to the door to ask for debts, so that my father often goes out to hide debts.

Although he claims to be favored in the palace, he is just a false name. The family has become like this, and others think that they are deliberately pretending to be poor, and they want to rely on their status in the palace to repay their debts, and they will not pay back the money.

Wu Guifei's family also spent a lot of money in Xie Gai Provincial Hospital. The family was also very uncomfortable for a while.

However, there are several officials in Concubine Wu's family, who often go up and down, collude inside and outside, and sell their official positions, so the Wu family quickly eased up.

Jia Guifei's family was originally rich, and the family's business was prosperous, and this time she repaired the provincial family's courtyard, not only did not owe foreign debts, but also made money.

Now the Jia family's shops, opera gardens, etc., are all making money every day. Not only is the provincial hospital not idle, but it has also become a money-making industry.

Zhou Guozhang has a straight temper, he never likes to engage in crooked ways, and some people come to him with money to ask him to do things, but he also refuses.

Although the family has some fields and two shops, they owe too much debt and cannot make ends meet.

At first, Concubine Zhou was very happy about the emperor's request for each family to repair the provincial relatives' courtyards. is almost grateful to the emperor.

Now she realizes that she was naïve. This is a secret trick of the emperor to take this opportunity to weaken the financial resources of the concubines' families.

It turned out that the emperor asked the major families to train the government soldiers, and later it was suspected that it was a ploy by the emperor to weaken the major families.

Although there is no evidence, it is a fact that through the battle of North Ventura, the major families suffered great losses in terms of human and financial resources.

Seeing this, Concubine Zhou was completely disappointed in the emperor.

Now that the emperor's dragon health is not good, sometimes good and sometimes bad, it is time to plan for his own future.

At present, the emperor does not say anything about the matter after the establishment. The imperial concubine's health has not been good in recent years.

Wu Guifei seems to have fallen out of favor, only Jia Guifei is still more favored.

With the Jia family's financial resources and power, she will be her strongest opponent in the future.

What Zhou Guifei values is the position of the future crown princess. The realization of this goal will be pinned on the crown prince in the future.

"No matter what Xia Bingzhong does, King Jin has been in the northwest, so it must be related to King Jin."

Zhou Guifei's judgment was right, the emperor sent Xia Bingzhong to the northwest, which was indeed related to the King of Jin.

"Even if there is something, you shouldn't be there that long. Could it be that his father told him to observe something there? ”

"Prince, don't you think that since you came back from Northern Vancouver, the emperor has been a little cold to you?"

"When my father summoned me, I didn't think there was anything obvious cold, right?"

"The emperor called you to North Ventura last time, just to train you and accumulate prestige. If this is the case, after you come back, you should also be asked to do something else, to make some preparations for taking over the reunification in the future, to accumulate experience and experience, but what important things have you done in the past two years since you came back? ”

With this statement, the prince's thinking is a little cheerful. It seems that in the past two years, his father really hasn't asked him to do anything important.

In the past, when my father reviewed and dealt with some government affairs, he often called him by his side, and sometimes he would talk about why a certain thing was handled this way. In the past two years, there have really been few such things.

Could it be that my father was disappointed in me and wanted to set up another crown prince?

As soon as he thought of this, the prince couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat.

"Mother, do you mean that my father has the intention of appointing another prince?"

"I didn't say that, but the emperor used to praise you often, but in the past two years, I have rarely heard him praise."

"King Jin is in the northwest, and Xia Bingzhong went to the northwest. The king of Chu is in Zhili, did Qiu Shi'an go to Zhili? If he went to Zhili, he might be secretly investigating the King of Chu. ”

The prince seems to have found his way.

"You mean, the emperor told them to secretly observe the performance of the kings of Jin and Chu to see how capable they were?"

The prince did not answer directly, but he already had the answer in his heart.

"Don't speculate too much, the abolition of the crown prince is related to the unification, if you are not careful, it will cause turmoil in the court and the palace, shake the country, even if it is the emperor, he will not act rashly. It will definitely be cautious. I think you should put more effort into the major families. ”

On the side of the three feudatories, they are now on my side, and the rest of the major families will probably be optimistic.

"In fact, these families are not so concerned about who will inherit the throne in the future. As long as they ascend the throne in the future, it does not harm their interests. ”

"This matter, the prince thought about it more simply. Some families will sit idly by, while others may not. ”

"Which family is the mother talking about?"

"It's not any one, it's which one. For example, the Jia family. The Jia family is not a family. In addition to the Rongning Second Mansion, the Wang family, the Shi family, the Feng family, the Chen family, the Wei family, the Niu family, the Chen family, the Liu family, and the Ma family. I'm close to them now. ”

At the beginning of the founding of the Dade Empire, it was the four kings and eight princes who set up the basic support of imperial power, and these twelve families were originally called the Twelve Pillar Kingdom.

Except for King Beijing, who has no intimate contact with him at present, the other three kings have already expressed their support for themselves through Song Kuan, Li Gan and Han Qi.

Among the remaining eight princes, there are still some forces left, and there are only six left. Both Rongguofu, Ningguofu, Zhenguofu, Liguofu, Qi Guofu and Zhiguofu.

Among these six, Rongguofu and Ningguofu are the most prosperous, and among the two mansions, Rongguofu is even better.

"What the mother concubine said is extremely true, and now the Jia family does have some power."

"Isn't it just some forces? Now Rongning Erfu is prosperous, making money every day, and has strong financial resources. There is Jia Yuanchun in the palace who is favored, and Wang Ziteng outside who has been repeatedly reused. Jia Wang Xue Shi four families, the same breath and branches. Rongguofu is currently flourishing in talents, with a number of talents such as Jia Min, Jia Lian, Jia Qiang, and Jia Yun. ”

"These are not counted, Feng Ziying, Chen Yejun, and Wei Ruolan's outstanding sons are all Jia Min's old subordinates, Niu Jizong, Liu Fang, Chen Ruiwen, and Ma Shangde have all inherited Jia Min's favor in Wendura, so to speak, they are all characters who are the only ones who look forward to Jia Min."

"And the most important point, I wonder if the prince has found out?"

"What is it?"

"In the drill of the government corps, everyone has suffered heavy losses, both people and money. Only Jiafu, Fengfu, etc., not only made great achievements, but also gained a group of talents. Repairing the provincial family's hospital, other people's families were greatly damaged, but only the Jia family took advantage of the situation and benefited from misfortune, not only was it not weakened, but its financial resources were even stronger. ”

"What do you mean?"

Zhou Guifei not only sighed secretly.

This idiot, it's all about it, and you still don't understand? Is it any wonder that the emperor is disappointed in him?

"There's a very key figure in this."

"Mother concubine mean Jia Min?"

Finally got the hang of it.

"Yes, it's Jia Min. If Jia Min is on your side, it means that these families are on your side, otherwise it ....... ”

Will Jia Min be on my side?

The prince not only remembered the scene under the red stone stone when he was evacuated from Undura.

At that time, after he left Chang'an, Jia Min looked contemptuous of himself.

Every time he thinks of this scene, the prince is like sitting on pins and needles, like a fish in his throat.

"This, Jia Min and I have always been estranged, and I am actually only a one-sided relationship with him. I don't have a deep friendship, and if I want him to stand by my side, I'm afraid it will be ....... ”

"Jia Min and Chang'an seem to be closer, right?"

"Chang'an trained soldiers, out of Jia Min's disciples, Jia Min had a life-saving grace for her, and gave her the merits of recovering South Wendula, Chang'an is very grateful to Jia Min."

"Now, I think it's time for the prince to think about Jia Min."

"Now Jia Min has no official position, he has left his homeland, there is no news, even his family does not know where he is."

The prince actually knows no less about Jia Min and even the Jia family than Zhou Guifei, and the pursuit of Qin Keqing is actually due to his instructions.

Grabbing the handle of the Jia family is also something he has wanted to do for a long time and is already doing.

This idea actually came from Song Kuan and Luo Qihua.

Although the prince didn't know if there had been communication between the two of them, the two of them coincidentally gave him this idea, which was true.

"Although Jia Min has no official position or position, if the emperor is interested, wouldn't it be easy to open Chrysostom and give him an official position? Jia Min embarrassed the emperor so much, and in the end, didn't the emperor still use him as the deputy head of the Zongren Mansion? ”

"The emperor loves Chang'an very much, if Chang'an goes to ask the emperor again, isn't it just a matter of saying that Jia Min is used?"

"The mother has a point."

"If Jia Min is used for you, it is naturally the best policy. If it can't be used by you, it won't be used by others, and it's the best policy. If it is used by others, it can be ....... ”

"Hmph, what can he do? Those who follow me prosper and those who disobey me die, after all, he is just a concubine of a noble family, how much storm can he rise? ”

"At the beginning, he even dared to openly oppose the emperor's war, what else did he dare not do?"

"Hmph, since you can't use it for me, don't blame me for being rude. Although Jia Min is not here now, his big family is in our hands, and we are not afraid that he will not be obedient when the time comes. ”

"If only the prince could think like this. In the future, the crown prince will ascend to the throne, which is my greatest wish. ”

"Don't worry, the mother concubine will not treat the mother concubine badly in the future."