In February of the 11th year of Hongfu, after the public discussion of the court, the grandson Qin Yu was abolished.

The decree declares that the dust has settled.

When Empress Shen heard the bad news, she sat on the ground with tears in her eyes, she originally only had a few silver threads, but her hair was frosty overnight, and the people in Kunren Palace were all shocked, but how much comfort was deaf to the queen.

"Zhao Lanting is a gang of rebellious ministers and thieves, and the emperor actually listened to the words of the rebels!"

There were bursts of mournful tears from Kunren Palace.

Yuan Ji and his party lost a crucial battle for the court meeting, seeing that the good hope of taking power and regency was disappointed, and was shocked to find that after this battle, it seemed that they had lost the emperor's favor even more, and the loss was heavy, and there was no need for anyone else to lobby, Yuan Ji had realized that he wanted to keep the status of the court from being shaken, at least he could not lose the battle of Lichu.

"Xu Jin and Zhao Lanting must be the main and auxiliary King Zhou, and King Zhou also has the Ningguo Mansion and the Jin State Mansion to help the situation, and now it can be described as hot, we can no longer take it lightly, in the future, the King of Zhou will inherit the unification, and there will be no place for us to stand above the court!" Wu Zhimi after a period of angry pacing and wandering, finally stood in front of Yuan Ji, he and Yuan Ji is the same science jinshi, and for the township party, after so many years of ups and downs, interests have long been tied, it can be said that one is prosperous and one is lost, but he and Yuan Ji have an essential difference, Yuan Ji has the foundation of the family, but he is from a poor family, he has more than a hundred times more efforts than Yuan Ji today, if in the end the gray hand over the position, a lifetime of hard work is tantamount to waste.

Neutrality is like withdrawing from the power field, and there will never be a day when he will return to the top with his foundation.

"The key is to choose the main and the secondary, the key is to choose who to assist?" Yuan Ji squinted the corners of his eyes slightly, and the light in his eyes wandered.

"The emperor's decision to abolish the prince is to completely eliminate the division of military and political power into clan relatives and important ministers, and he wants to establish a long monarch to unify the power, so under the crown prince, the king of Qi is the elder, and the mother family of the queen of Qi has come to make friends with Yuan Gong." Wu Zhimi put forward his own opinions.

"The Duke of Wei is subordinate to the King of Qin, and only the King of Qin and the King of Zhou have the strength to compete for the throne." Yuan Ji hesitated.

"The Duke of Wei may not be subordinate to the King of Qin!" Wu Zhimi lowered his voice: "Although the King of Qin is famous for the noble concubine, but the noble concubine is known to be harsh to the King of Qin, although the Duke of Wei seems to be subordinate to the King of Qin, but he instigated the King of Qin to take the lead in admonishing the abolition of the prince, how can he not worry that the King of Qin will anger the emperor?" How can this be supplemented by the wisdom and prudence of the ministers? Wei Guogong is clearly attacking the east and west, and the idea is still that the relatives are in power, but the positions of our courtiers and relatives have never been different, and if the emperor has abandoned the idea of auxiliary government, we can no longer insist on it. ”

Courtiers, more than their relatives, should understand that when they "can't do anything", they should immediately decide to retreat and withdraw.

Yuan Ji still couldn't help but regret at this time: "Xuan Zhutang is not a relative, and he should follow the general trend of the courtiers, this time Zhao Lanting is really stupid to advocate the abolition of the reserve!" ”

In the Jiang family, which had already taken off the plaque of the Marquis of Anlu Mansion and recaptured the Danshu iron coupon, the head of the family, Jiang Chen, heard the news of the dethronement of the grandson, but his face sank like water: "I have been planning hard for many years, but I didn't expect to be a drooping child like Zhao Lanting

After picking up the cheap, he stepped on the shoulders of my Jiang family to defeat the descendants, but he cleared the obstacles for King Zhou! ”

All the sons of the Jiang family have iron and blue faces, especially the eldest son Jiang Minghou, the green tendons on his forehead are bulging, and he slammed his fist on the corner case: "It's no wonder that we didn't see through Zhao Lanting's plot early in the morning, he had already had a plan to abolish the reserve, let's compete with the mussels and cranes of the descendants, but let him enjoy the benefits of the fisherman." ”

"It's not necessarily true that he had a plan." Jiang Chen lifted his eyelids and glanced at his sons: "The person we underestimated is the Gu family. ”

"It's just a female streamer...... Jiang Liu muttered half a sentence, and was scared back to his throat by Jiang Chen's roll of the eyes.

"Don't underestimate the female streamers, the reason why my sister can enter the palace depends on my aunt and his wife Gong, and the foundation of our Jiang family's rise to the top also depends on the fact that my sister gave birth to ten princes after entering the palace." Jiang Chen didn't care much about his youngest concubine, and continued to sum up the lessons of this fiasco: "The Gu family could only rely on the queen at first, but she was not willing to be just a chess piece played by the queen, she was planning to please the Empress Dowager Shengde, climbed the Jin State Mansion, and became the righteous daughter of the Yi family of the Jin State Mansion, the righteous sister of the Princess Zhou, she had something else to rely on, in order to really gain a foothold in the Taishi Mansion, she turned the spearhead and turned back. ”

"Father thinks that Zhao Lanting was instigated by the Gu family?" Jiang Ming said kindly.

"Zhao Qian, the old fox, has to take a fancy to the eldest grandson who can inherit the ancestral business, how can he be a faint character? I have now thoroughly tasted why Zhao Lanting gave up the Jin State Mansion to let the Xiao Shen family interfere in his marriage, at that time, the emperor did not have the idea of abolishing the prince, he alienated my Jiang family is to show sincerity to the emperor, to marry the Gu family, seeing that the orphan daughter of the Gu family is very wise, but he played with Queen Shen in the palm of his hand, so he took advantage of the situation...... Regardless of whether the emperor is abolished or not, with the Gu family mediating in the middle, Xuan Zhutang can be invincible! ”

"But are we going to have to do it with a penny?" The green tendons in Jiang Ming's thick forehead became more and more violent.

"How can I let go of the person who killed my sister." Jiang Chen sneered: "I will let Zhao Lanting and the Gu family pay for their blood debts." ”

"But now even the Ten Highnesses are named and the concubines are ......"

"No matter how the jade is recorded, no one can erase the blood of the Jiang family in the body of the Ten Highnesses!" Desire has become an obsession for many years, Jiang Chen firmly believes that there is a chance to turn around when he is still alive, when he was a child, he experienced a situation that was a hundred times more difficult than this time, it was obsession that made him never sink in a desperate situation, and how could today's setbacks make him intimidated? He will definitely not admit defeat: "Ah Wei is lost, the Jiang family is still there, and a new war will start with the suspension of the storage position, and the Ten Highnesses are still there, and we still haven't withdrawn from the war." ”

"Then how should we maintain our closeness to the Ten Highnesses?" The sons of the Jiang family couldn't see the way forward at all, and in fact, they were still worried that Emperor Hongfu would settle accounts and cut down the roots after the autumn.

"Now the hidden sting we need has disappeared from the emperor's sight, no one should contact His Royal Highness Ten anymore, we just need to be secretly close to one person."

"Who?"

"Wei Guogong."

"Even when the Jiang family was in full swing, Wei Guogong never took care of our ......"

"But now the situation is different, the battle for the prince has begun, the camp has changed, now it is the duel between the long monarch and the young monarch, it is the fierce battle between the courtiers and relatives, the country has a long monarch, when the courtiers, the young emperor is in power, and it will depend on the relatives! Wei Guogong is the head of his relatives, and in his opinion, the Jiang family is no longer a threat, the Zheng family can join hands with the Jiang family, and the Jiang family must also obey the Zheng family. ”

"Isn't the Duke of Wei the King of Qin?"

"It was never King Qin." Jiang Chen is confident that this time he is looking at the fire: "We must first help the Eighth Prince and the Duke of Wei to win this battle!" ”

"Then my aunt's proposal to go to Fenyang to find someone is also unnecessary, right?" Jiang Liu's attention is always paid to these details.

But Jiang Chen responded to him this time: "Why is it not necessary? It is true that the aunt can't force Zhao Lanting to divorce his wife, but she can confirm Zhao Lanting's charge of disobedience and unfilial piety, don't look at the public opinion at this time as if it doesn't hurt Zhao Lanting and the Gu family, they are still too tender, they haven't learned the world's strength to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, when they are in decline, when they lose their trust in the emperor, the gossip in the past can become a sharp weapon to seal their throats with an arrow, and they will one day pay the price for disrespecting customs and rules. ”

On this day, the Mansion of the State of Wei, in the evening, ushered in a disguised visitor, Cheng Enbo Luo.

"Don't blame the virtuous nephew, the old man really can't help but celebrate with the virtuous nephew that the grandson was abolished is such a happy thing! The virtuous nephew can rest assured that the old man's guarantee has gotten rid of his ears and eyes, and no one can detect that the old man secretly crossed Chen Cang to the Guogong Mansion. "Luo Kun is high-spirited and happy.

Zheng Xiu smiled slightly and raised his wine glass to Luo Kong.

In the deep palace, Concubine Zhuang also immediately rushed to Yongning Palace to offer hospitality, but Zheng Guifei was weak and weak on the soft couch, as if she had just woken up from a hangover, and her beautiful eyes were still worried, she listened to Concubine Zhuang's flattering and grateful words, but she threw an empty lamp on Concubine Zhuang with great impatience: "Don't tell this palace, who cares about the success or defeat of the palace, the son of the palace is gone, just look at everyone can feel the pain of the loss of the son of the palace, even the little cub who was born, the palace also wished that he would not die well." ”

"!" Concubine Zhuang, who was shocked, couldn't help but stare at the concubine like crazy.

Princess Qin in the Qin Palace, she was very worried.

"The father has high hopes for the emperor's eldest grandson, but now because the emperor's eldest grandson has committed a crime and decided to abolish the prince, the father must be sad and sad in his heart, His Royal Highness should comfort his father, and don't force his father to punish the emperor's eldest grandson again, His Royal Highness should be more considerate of his father's treatment of the emperor's grandchildren."

King Qin smiled: "The princess said very well. ”

Then he went to Jiang Cairen's residence, Jiang Cairen had already prepared a table of wine banquets, raised his glass, and smiled: "Your Highness's wish has been fulfilled for many years, and it is worth getting drunk today." ”

"It's not time to have a drink." King Qin took the wine glass.

None of them noticed the invisible man in the room, standing straight, with a pair of cold and ruthless eyes, carefully observing Jiang Cairen's words and deeds.

-- At the end of the second volume --