"The arrow is on the string, I have to send it, not to mention that it has come to this point, there is no way back!" Meng Yan turned his heart sideways and said heavily.

"yes, it's come to this point, we can't help but back down!"

"Even if the knife is on the neck, you can only hold on!"

"!"

"Emperor Taizu has long had a testament, the harem is not allowed to interfere in politics, and now that the saint has been in power, the queen mother has no reason to interfere in the government, so she will not interfere in this case openly, but she will definitely hinder it secretly." Sai Xiaoyu Road.

"That is to say, in addition to guarding against the East Factory, we also have to deal with the pressure from the harem at any time."

"Yes!"

In the study, the three of them were silent for a while.

At this time, there was a sudden sound of firecrackers outside, and the three of them all raised their heads slightly, understanding that the old year was gone and the new year had arrived.

"Uncle Guo, Uncle Sai, maybe we think too much, the relationship between Jiao Lanrong and Empress Dowager Sun is not so close......"

Guo Nu and Sai Xiaoyu glanced at each other, what they said was a bit self-deceptive, they all knew in their hearts that it would be nice to be so simple, but this was not the case!

"My lord, can I speak?"

"Say it, if you don't say it anyway, he'll find out soon!" Guo Nu thought for a moment and nodded.

"Uncle, there was another queen before Emperor Daxing, do you know?" Sai Xiaoyu organized his language a little and asked.

"I know, it's Queen Hu."

"Empress Hu was deposed because she had no children under her knees and retired to Chang'an Palace. Eat fast and read Buddha, law name: Jingci, although Queen Hu was abolished, but the queen's character is known to the world, so it is different from the general concubine, the treatment is good, after Queen Hu converted, she should eat fast, and her favorite food is all kinds of pastries made by Bai Xinyuan in the imperial dining room, therefore. Summoned from time to time. The relationship is very close, and Bai Xinyuan's wife often goes to the palace to accompany Empress Hu......"

"Bai Xinyuan's wife was sick, and Empress Hu personally went to ask Empress Dowager Zhang to order the Tai Hospital to send a doctor to diagnose and treat her, but unfortunately. Madame White is still dead......"

Of course Meng Yan knew. For a woman who has taken someone else's place. She must always be on guard against the one who has been robbed of her position.

Although Empress Hu may not be a threat to her, a woman will never relax her vigilance against her rival.

But Bai Xinyuan is just a master in the imperial dining room who thinks he makes pastries. Just because of her close relationship with Empress Hu, she had to arrange someone to monitor him, and this woman's suspicion was serious enough.

And when Jiao Lanrong married Bai Xinyuan, her son had already ascended the throne as the emperor, and she had also become the queen mother, and Empress Hu had no chance to turn the tables at all, and it was a little puzzling that she still wanted to do this.

What's more, Empress Hu is also dead now, what else is there to make for Empress Sun?

"The government and the opposition all know that the Empress Dowager Sun's position as queen back then was not right, and there are also quite rumors among the people that the current saint is not born to the queen grandson, but the son born to a pregnant woman in the palace who is holding pretending to be a dragon son, so he ascended to the throne of the queen!" Sai Xiaoyu's tone did not have the slightest respect for Empress Sun.

These royal secrets, there are indeed similar descriptions in the history of later generations, but the truth is not known, for the issue of the emperor's heir, I am afraid they are very cautious, and there is no record that the emperor has been replaced.

That is, the stories in the wild history and novels, which are spread falsely, and then the common people are just chiseled and attached to them.

is the tanuki in the Bao Gong case for the prince, which is also a wild history romance written by later generations, and there is nothing in the official history at all.

"Uncle Sai, this should be an unfounded thing, right?"

"Uncle, the situation in the palace is very complicated and dirty, many things don't want to be what you see on the surface, some people are here today, and they may not be able to see it tomorrow." Sai Xiaoyu sighed.

"Is there such a thing?"

"If you don't believe it, your uncle can ask your lord, he knows this matter best." Sai Xiaoyunu said.

"Stone, this is the royal secret, what I said to you today, you must not leak half a word to the public!" Guo Nu said solemnly.

"Don't worry, Uncle Guo, my mouth is tight!" Meng Yan nodded, usually the more he knew about these secrets, the less likely it would be to end well, would he not be clear?

"When Emperor Daxing was alive, he heard such rumors in the palace, and he became suspicious, so he ordered me to investigate secretly, at that time the prince had been born, and I was still on duty in the East Palace, and Wang Zhen was a colleague......" Guo Nu slowly arrived.

As Guo Nu continued to speak, the more Meng Yan listened, the more unbelievable he felt.

The emperor was suspicious, and he had few friends in the palace, and the relationship between relatives was weak. This kind of thing, for anyone who is a father, has to be clarified, not to mention that it is also related to the inheritance of the royal bloodline, of course, this kind of thing is also very cautious to deal with, once it is made public, it is amazing.

What's more, Concubine Sun Guifei had already been promoted to the queen at that time, and she couldn't investigate this matter with great fanfare.

"I suspected that the prince's nurse, a woman named Qiao Niang, she loved the prince very much, and cherished her life, but later found out that she was not, he entered the palace after the prince was born, because his child died, so he cherished the prince unusually." Guo said angrily.

"And then?"

"Later, I secretly investigated the people around the queen, especially the kind of people who hadn't been seen in public for several months and disappeared."

"Is there anyone suspicious?"

"There are two, but it was later confirmed that they were not, one was born with a serious illness and someone took care of it, if it was a pregnancy and childbirth, this could not be hidden, and the other was dead and hanged, for unknown reasons."

"Later, I expanded the object of suspicion to the concubines and palace maids who had been favored by the saint, but without the permission of the saint, I had no authority to investigate the living notes of the saint at all, so I could only inquire secretly, but Emperor Daxing suddenly fell ill, and then died, and my investigation was shelved, and then the new emperor ascended the throne, I was promoted, and I was in charge of Jinyi Wei Nanya, and the investigation was meaningless!"

Yes, the new emperor ascended the throne. Even if the truth is found, the dust has settled, even if the emperor is not born to the queen, as long as it is the emperor's bloodline, no one will object to being the emperor.

Moreover, the common people and the court are not willing to accept another turmoil for the sake of a so-called truth.

"Stone, in fact, the judge did this for me, and he knows more about the situation than I do." Guo said angrily.

"Uncle Sai?"

"I was also on duty in the palace at the time, and I was very inconspicuous, so no one would notice me, so I had the opportunity to help the adults investigate such secret matters. But according to my investigation. There is indeed a doubt about the date of the birth of the Holy One today! ”

"Why didn't you tell me that?" Guo Nu was a little surprised.

"My lord, these are just my guesses, and they can't be used as evidence at all, so naturally I can't say it to adults."

Uncle Sai said. Isn't the Holy One a full-term person? ”

"Uncle is really thorough. Exactly. Everyone knows that the saint was born on November 11 in the second year of Xuande, but Empress Dowager Sun was diagnosed with pregnancy on June 23 in the second year of Xuande, less than five months later. The crown prince was born! ”

"How many months was the queen diagnosed with pregnancy?"

"For three months, the concubines who have been favored by the saint, as long as they don't come to the moon, the imperial doctor will enter the palace to check the pulse until it is confirmed whether she is pregnant."

"During this time, are there any other concubines or palace maids in the palace who have been diagnosed with pregnancy?" Meng Yan asked.

"Uncle immediately got to the point." Sai Xiaoyu exclaimed.

"I also secretly checked this, after the death of Emperor Daxing, it was much easier to check the living note, so I secretly bought the eunuch who recorded the living note, and checked which concubines or palace maids Emperor Daxing favored during that time!"

"Lao Sai, why didn't you sue me about this?" Guo Nu was surprised that Sai Xiaoyu had done so many things behind his back.

"At that time, the adults were no longer interested in this matter, after all, the new emperor had ascended the throne, and it didn't matter if the truth was true or not." Sai Xiaoyu Road.

Guo Nu's face was sneering, it was true, at that time he was promoted, and he was busy controlling Nanya, and it was difficult to scruple about some things, and when he thought that there was still such a thing to be done, he found that it had long lost its meaning, and naturally forgot about it.

"There's nothing wrong with the queen grand's pregnancy, she can't take a leave of absence at this point, because she has to ask for a pulse every ten days and a half months, and I asked the doctor who diagnosed the pulse of the queen at that time, and the pregnancy is true." Sai Xiaoyu Road.

Meng Yan also nodded, this queen was very favored at that time, and she was a concubine, how many people in the palace were staring at it, and the old empress dowager Zhang was still alive, she wanted to get a fake pregnancy, and she definitely couldn't fool her.

So, this pregnancy must be real.

"I checked the living notes of Emperor Daxing in the first and second two months and the month of the month, and found that in addition to Sun Guifei, there were a total of seven favored concubines, Concubine Zhang, Concubine Li, Concubine Lan, Concubine Tang Jieyu, Guo Meiren and Song Xuanzhi, among the seven people, Tang Jieyu was diagnosed as pregnant, but she had a miscarriage soon after, and the remaining six did not move."

"So, in those three months, only Empress Dowager Sun was able to get pregnant?" Meng Yan was surprised.

"Yes!"

"Uncle Sai, how many times did Emperor Daxing favor Empress Dowager Sun in three months?" Meng Yan asked.

"Seven times!"

"The frequency is high enough, no wonder you can win the lottery!" Meng Yan muttered, Emperor Xuanzong was so fond of Empress Sun, no wonder she could conceive a dragon seed.

"The grandson was diagnosed in three months of pregnancy, and then the child was born in less than five months, that is, about eight months before and after, which according to common sense, it takes about two hundred and eighty days for an average woman to give birth from pregnancy, Uncle Sai, can you give me an accurate number?" Meng Yan asked.

"Let me think about ......"

"In this way, Uncle Sai, you sue me that the imperial doctor diagnosed that her grandson was three months pregnant, so what was the menstrual period before the month she became pregnant?" Meng Yan asked.

"This ......" Sai Xiaoyu was embarrassed, firstly, the living note may not have recorded this, and secondly, so many years have passed, this is not easy to check, and this is also a woman's secret, it is really difficult to find.

Meng Yan smiled bitterly, this is indeed difficult to determine, this alone cannot explain anything.

The three months of the diagnosis of the doctor will generally be pushed back, can not be accurate to which day, how many days, before and after there is a one- or two-week error, although the pregnancy in October, that is the lunar calendar, postponement and premature birth for one or two weeks are normal.

According to this calculation, the day when the queen gave birth to the emperor was actually not a premature birth, but only slightly earlier.

At this time, there were no concubines or palace maids in the palace who were pregnant with the queen during this time period, so it could not support the rumors of the so-called "son of the palace".

"What's going on with Tang Jieyu's miscarriage?"

"There is no evidence that it was Empress Sun's hands and feet, but there are records that after Tang Jieyu was diagnosed as pregnant, she took the fetal medicine prescribed by the imperial doctor!" Sai Xiaoyu Road.

"Who prescribed the tocolytic?"

"The original hospital of Tai Hospital sentenced Zheng Santai." Sai Xiaoyu Road.

"Where's Tang Jieyu?"

"I ascended to heaven with the Emperor Daxing!"

Meng Yan was silent, and the emperors of the early Ming Dynasty implemented a cruel and inhumane funeral system, mainly the imperial family, which was not completely ended until after the death of Yingzong, that is, the current emperor Zhu Qizhen.

This is also the only great good thing that this ill-fated emperor did for posterity during his twenty-three years of reign. (To be continued......)