Chapter 117: And Then?
Empress Lu Qingyao is not the first time to come back to the National Teacher's Mansion as a guest.
As for the reason is ready-made: to visit her daughter, by the way, to play driving games together, of course, now it has developed to learn to drive with Qin Feng and Qin Feng, and aspire to be a professional female driver.
But the most critical reason is that she can't say it clearly. That is to use his daughter as a bond and strengthen his personal relationship with Qin Feng. Only in this way can he ensure that his position in the harem is stable and that his children can be successfully established as princes in the future.
The crux of the matter is that although this queen can be called both good and beautiful, gentle and virtuous, but her family background is not prominent, and it is competent to be the wife of a wealthy family or the chief official of a county, but it is relatively insufficient to be the main family of a prince, or even the queen of the world.
As early as when Zhao Yuanjin was still a prince, the patriarch of the local clan mentioned this matter, and asked to marry him with full support for his uprising. Fortunately, Zhao Yuanjin still remembered the old love, and Lu Qingyao gave birth to his eldest son and daughter for him, and there was nothing immoral, so he barely kept the position of the main room.
Later, when Zhao Yuanjin entered Xiangyang, Hong Chenxuan, the head of the first wealthy family in Jiangnan, made such a request, and the then Duke of Chu was very moved.
However, at that time, Qin Feng had already made a marriage contract with Zhao Xinyue, so with his quiet support, it was still not possible at this time.
However, now, after the concubine of the Hong family entered the palace, she gave birth to a prince smoothly, and she has a strong family background, coupled with Zhao Yuanjin's favor, she has once again thought about the position of the lord of the harem.
Zhao Yuanjin ascended the throne and became the emperor, and the harem was naturally as beautiful as a cloud, and those junior concubines with grades were not only younger, but also stronger than one by one, and any one of them could easily beat Lu Qingyao, and her usual attitude towards her was inevitably a little sloppy and disdainful.
So this lonely queen in the palace had no choice but to come to Qin Feng.
"So, how does the Queen plan for me to help?" Qin Feng groaned.
Lu Qingyao secretly glanced at his face, and said cautiously: "Concubine...... The eldest son of the emperor still lacks a mentor, I wonder if the national teacher is willing to agree? ”
Qin Feng thought about it and didn't answer immediately, in fact, because of Zhao Xinyue, he already knew the queen's predicament, and he also understood the key to the problem: it was because Zhao Yuanjin had not established a prince for a long time that the other harem concubines had always had hope.
Mother is more precious than son, if Lu Qingyao's child can be made the crown prince and have the future emperor to rely on, her position is naturally as stable as Mount Tai.
"Husband-sama,"
Zhao Xinyue saw that he was silent, and immediately became unhappy, hugged him from behind and said coquettishly: "My mother is not stable to sleep in the palace every day, and I have to be sued and said cool things behind my back, the woman of the Hong family gave birth to a child a few days ago, and my mother gave some gifts for people to send over, but she was returned untouched, I was really angry!" ”
"Even if it's for other people's sake, you should help your mother say something."
The word "bewitching jian" was actually what Qin Feng had told her before, and the little princess felt that it was indeed a very accurate description to describe those women in the harem. Speaking of which, the father also has a great responsibility, and he forgot his wife for the sake of beauty, what is the difference between him and Bo Xinglang?
"The women...... Have you already become so arrogant? Qin Feng frowned slightly.
"But no, the woman surnamed Hong is still talking unscrupulously behind her back, saying that the phoenix seat in the harem will belong to her sooner or later, hum!" Zhao Xinyue said angrily.
"Yue'er......" Lu Qingyao glanced at her daughter with a little embarrassment.
Qin Feng sighed in his heart and said, "Okay, I shouldn't have stood by and watched this matter. But I still want to ask you, what price are you willing to pay in order to make the eldest son of the emperor a prince? ”
"Of course, it can be at any cost." Lu Qingyao said without thinking.
"Are you sure?"
"Of course...... Eh......"
Lu Qingyao was taken aback, her beautiful eyes looked at Qin Feng, and she said in her heart, how could he ask such a question? Could it be that you want to ...... How can this be? She is Xinyue's mother, how can she ......
But thinking of her difficult situation in the harem, the increasingly strange emperor, and the eldest son of the emperor who was trembling on thin ice, her mind was shaken again.
If this is the only way to completely stabilize your position, let your children get a great position, and reign over the world, no matter how you look at it, it is worth it. And the other party is a genuine immortal, and he is actually not a loss.
"Well, the national teacher will do whatever he says." The queen's voice was imperceptible, and her beautiful face was already full of red clouds, and she was incomprehensible.
"Okay."
Qin Feng's expression straightened up, and he said in a deep voice: "My requirements are three: first, since the eldest son of the emperor worships me as a teacher, then no other teachers are allowed, especially Wenchen; Second, I suggest that the national policies promulgated by the emperor should not be changed in the slightest after the eldest son of the emperor ascends the throne in the future; Third, after the eldest son of the emperor ascends the throne, he must maintain vigilance and suppression of civilian forces, and for this reason, it is best to let him go to the local area for a few years to experience and familiarize himself with the social conditions and public opinion at the grassroots level, so as to ensure that he will not be deceived and deceived by those civil servants and corrupt Confucians. ”
"If you think it's feasible, tomorrow I will go to the emperor and say that the emperor's eldest son will be the prince. How is it? ”
The reason why Qin Feng proposed these conditions was, of course, not entirely to worry about the Zhao family's country, but to ensure that his interests in this world would not be affected. After all, if there are major changes in the Chu court in the future, he may not have time to start anew and support a new dynasty.
Therefore, shaping the eldest son of the emperor into a monarch that he is satisfied with, and trying to avoid the disastrous situation in which the civil power dominated in the last years of the Ming Dynasty in the main world, has become something that Qin Feng is very concerned about.
To be realistic, if Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty was not so incompetent and was fooled and lame by those corrupt Confucian literati groups, as long as the civilian forces were one-third of the Manchu Tartars, the Ming Dynasty would not have died so aggrieved. led to the sinking of China, the total decline of Chinese civilization, and the subsequent centuries-long history of darkness and humiliation.
Therefore, even in a different time and space, Qin Feng instinctively has no good impression of Wenchen, and if there is a chance, he must be severely suppressed and controlled.
Lu Qingyao bowed slightly: "The harem can't interfere in politics, so I can only tell the emperor's eldest son about these things in private, of course, I can guarantee that he will not refuse." ”
"Very well, then that's it." Qin Feng said.
"Well, and then what?"
Lu Qingyao looked at him fixedly, her heartbeat involuntarily accelerated, expecting him to say the final conditions.
Qin Feng said: "What else?" I'm done with my conditions. ”
"That's it?"
"That's it." Qin Feng was a little surprised, and didn't understand what the queen was thinking in her heart.
"Good...... All right. ”
Lu Qingyao finally realized that she had misunderstood Qin Feng's meaning, and suddenly felt embarrassed and embarrassed, and became more and more embarrassed.
"What are you talking about, Queen Mother?" Zhao Xinyue interjected and asked suspiciously.
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