After the Lantern Festival, Empress Shen's Kunren Palace received a lot of letters from officials and relatives requesting to meet in person, and she chose a day to meet collectively.

The husbands of these officials are all the remnants of the Gao family, most of them are vassals of the East Palace, of course, they were not the only Queen Shen in the past, and they have never been the power of the Yuguo Mansion, but with Gao Qiong's conviction, the once invincible Song State Mansion collapsed, and the crown princess Gao entered the Zixu Nunnery again, seeing that the Gao family no longer has any hope of resurrection, Queen Shen actually took the initiative to regard these old Gao family parties as her own camp, and this time the old party was completely liquidated, the minor crimes were demoted, the heavy crimes were dismissed and even exiled, and the power of the East Palace was drastically reduced, almost precarious.

Empress Shen did not go to Cining Palace again this time, begging the Queen Mother to point out the "clear road".

She couldn't trust the Queen Mother anymore.

Therefore, the prince is her only son, but not the only grandson of the queen mother, compared to her Di'er, the king of Zhou Qin Xun is closer to the queen mother, the king of Zhou has been married and established a mansion, and there is such a powerful Yue family as the Jin State Mansion, not to mention that Emperor Hongfu actually left a secret decree, intending to hand over the military talisman to Cining Palace for moderation!

Empress Shen suddenly realized that Taisun's strongest enemy might not be the King of Qi, nor the two milky children of the Eighth Prince and the Tenth Prince, but the sixth son of the Emperor, Qin Xun, who was already full of wings before he knew it!

"Niangniang has to be the master of our courtiers!" An official's tone was impassioned: "The grandson did accept bribes, but how many of the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty were really two-sleeved?" It is clear that Zhao Lanting slandered the emperor by improving the grain chief system, intending to cut off the arms of His Royal Highness Taisun with such a tacit so-called crime of the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military affairs, Zhao Lanting is bound to have a bad will, and the mother can no longer be tolerated! ”

Empress Shen thought that she had sent people to the Taishi Mansion several times in the past few days, but the Gu family had closed the door and disappeared!

Could it be that Zhao Lanting is really two-faced and scheming? And Gu Shi saw that the momentum was not good, and he also saw that the wind made the rudder and was ungrateful?

What is hateful is that her sister-in-law is remote in Fenyang, at this time, she can't detect the movements inside the Taishi Mansion at all, even though she can forcibly summon the Gu family into the palace, but Queen Shen is self-aware, she actually doesn't have any handle to coerce the Gu family, and even if she has a handle, the Gu family has obviously been

was included in the wings of the Empress Dowager Shengde, and Empress Shen may not be able to threaten it.

But she was not sure whether Lan Ting had "betrayed" at this time, and her words were still a little twisted: "Zhao Ji should not advise to improve the grain chief system, for the sake of the society and the people's livelihood, and wait for Mo to slander the government because of the words of chasing the wind and catching shadows." ”

Clearing the lawlessness is a national policy, is the Hongfu Emperor's governing program, this is very powerful as the lord of the six palaces Empress Shen still knows, of course, she can not adopt the shallow cognition of these officials, but also think that corruption and bribery is the tacit practice of the Manchu civil and military officials, so the emperor's crime and punishment are unfair, but Empress Shen can not sit back and watch the foundation of the East Palace be completely shaken, especially can not sit back and watch even if her eldest grandson Kecheng is unified, the military and political power will fall into the hands of Cining Palace and cabinet ministers.

Empress Shen decided to persuade Emperor Hongfu to withdraw the secret decree.

So on this day, Emperor Hongfu heard the news that his wife was kneeling in Kunren Palace.

Soon after the beginning of spring, the wind was cold, and the sweat on the head was dripping down, and he barely stumbled on the threshold of the imperial study, and hurriedly finished his words before Emperor Hongfu was angry: "Niangniang is kneeling in Kunren Palace to wait for the crime, and the slave maid knows that it is because Niangniang sent someone to the Qianqing Palace to know, this matter did not make the six palaces frightened, and the emperor must not be in a hurry." "Because it seems that the grandson is going to do evil again, and this time it is still against the Empress Dowager Shengde, the emperor still has angina pectoris, and after taking the pills of Danyang Dao Changjin Feng, he has just improved after being in bed for two days, and he can no longer be angry, how can he think that Empress Shen would make a fuss at this juncture and kneel down to wait for the sin.

But to the surprise of Gao, Emperor Hongfu did not be angry this time.

Because of tiredness, because of worry, because I can also feel that this time the turmoil may not be able to calm quietly, Emperor Hongfu after a pectoris is very clear that he does not wait for me in danger, he can't leave a mess, he can't leave his responsibilities to his grandmother and courtiers, no matter how difficult the decision is this time, but it seems that he can only face it.

He needed time, whether he tried to correct his grandson again or made up his mind to choose another virtuous one, he could not be completely destroyed by his heart disease at this time, and he could not safely hand over the burden on his shoulders, because he was not sure which of his children and grandchildren would be able to carry this heavy responsibility.

His mother-in-law is right, it is not a good plan for the harem supervisor to take care of his life and assist the government, it is only a strategy that should be considered when he is the most helpless, and sure enough, his monarch has not returned to the sky, Cining Palace has become a thorn in the eyes of some people, and his secret order cannot guarantee the peace of the world at all.

This time he needs to judge calmly in person, whether his wife and his eldest grandson are worth his repeated appeasement.

Emperor Hongfu didn't look at the paperweight this time, he stood up with his seat: "Go to Kunren Palace, I will see what kind of crime the queen is responsible for kneeling and asking for punishment." ”

Qianqing Palace and Kunren Palace are not far from each other, and Emperor Hongfu is slowly walking over this time.

Along the way, he inevitably recalled the past, the shy and nervous woman he saw when he first saw Empress Shen, his face was flushed and almost at a loss, but at that time he was not sure that this simple and timid woman would become his wife, because of the failure of a game, she became his wife, and his mother-in-law warned him: "No matter what, the Shen family is destined to be a person who lives and dies with you, and I hope that the two of you can trust and rely on each other, especially you, even if you inherit the great unification in the future, you can't forget the morality of sharing weal and woe." ”

In the years when he was walking on thin ice, Shen did not give up, did not complain, did not cowardly, and sometimes Shen was even stronger than him, and at that time he was glad that Shen was his wife.

When Di'er was born, they were ecstatic, and when Di'er died, they were in pain.

So he has always been able to understand and understand the queen's feelings, because he is the same.

But the world is so difficult, he has to choose between selfishness and social integrity, as a husband he can forgive his wife everything, but as a monarch he cannot forgive some of the queen's behavior.

But Emperor Hongfu suddenly fell into confusion, because he no longer remembered the queen's boudoir, and even delusionally felt that he had never asked about the queen's boudoir, he suddenly blamed himself, because as a husband, this is really too undeserved, he even knew that Lan Ting's wife Gu's boudoir name was called Chungui, because on the day of the Ciqing Palace's dangerous change, Lan Ting did not pay attention to the loss of his daughter-in-law's name when he was in a hurry.

This is the real loving couple, unlike him and the queen.

When Emperor Hongfu stepped into the two Zhu doors of Kunren Palace, he sighed silently.

(End of chapter)

The eldest granddaughter-in-law of the Shoufu family