The Empress Dowager Zhang's actions are getting slower and slower, she is in her sixties after all.

At this time, there were subtle changes in the palace.

The Empress Dowager Zhang's henchmen, who have always been in power, began to waver.

Because the Empress Dowager Lian'er has been suppressed by the Zhang family, if the Empress Dowager dies one day, then the Empress Dowager will have a certain amount of power, and at that time, the Empress Dowager will definitely suppress the Empress Dowager's people.

The Queen Mother Lian'er's mother's family is a force that cannot be underestimated in the court.

The second master of the Sun Mansion is a first-class official, and then there is Zhou Daqing's father, who has long been a first-class official.

Not to mention the other juniors of the two families, these two first-class masters should not be underestimated, and the weight of their speech in the court is very heavy.

The reason why the Empress Dowager's henchmen were shaken was that the Empress Dowager wanted to give her maiden granddaughter Zhang Yuan to the Emperor Zhenge as the queen, but judging from the emperor's speech and demeanor, although he did not express his dislike for Zhang Yuan, he never mentioned her in front of outsiders in private.

But if the relationship is good, then I will care about it or something, at least ask my father-in-law what she is doing, right?

The emperor never greeted Zhang Yuan once!

This Zhang Yuan is a little domineering in Zhang's style, sometimes the emperor is participating in the cabinet ministers to discuss things, and she also sends people to call the emperor over.

Her things are all trivial things, such as calling the emperor to eat watermelon in the summer, she asked people to buy snacks from outside the palace and ask the emperor to eat them, or let the emperor accompany her to enjoy the freshly blooming flowers or something.

Of course, if the emperor likes her, the emperor will gladly agree to these things.

At first, the emperor was afraid of the face of the empress dowager, and reluctantly agreed to play with her.

In recent months, it has been different.

The cabinet ministers headed by Lord Yang observed that whenever a father-in-law came to speak for Zhang Yuan, they obviously saw the frown on the emperor's forehead, and the emperor was unhappy!

Although the emperor was not happy, he still found a reason to say that he was very busy now and was asking the minister for advice on how to deal with state affairs.

Although the emperor is not in power, he has been involved in the ministers' handling of state affairs, and he has been learning.

Now, as he grows older, as the Empress Dowager gets older, he is slowly making some suggestions of his own.

And these suggestions, in the eyes of the cabinet ministers, feel that the emperor is becoming more and more mature, and some of the suggestions are still very insightful, and four or five out of ten times have been adopted, so they will do what the emperor says.

Originally, when the Empress Dowager Zhang was there, the opinion of the emperor Zhenge did not count at all.

Of course, he was still young at that time and had little experience, which is understandable.

And now it's different, now the Empress Dowager Zhang's spirit is not good, she often gets sleepy, she pushes state affairs to the cabinet ministers to deal with, and the emperor's opinion at this time is particularly important.

The ministers know very well in their hearts that the emperor is in charge of the government and has entered the countdown.

The Empress Dowager's current mind is completely devoted to the emperor's wedding.

The Empress Dowager has already consulted with the ministers, and feels that the emperor is not too young, and that the emperor looks much more mature than his age.

That doesn't sound like a problem.

But why not let the emperor delay until he was seventeen years old to remarry? Wasn't it more mature at that time?

chose to let the emperor get married a year in advance, and the ministers knew the way of this.

That is the Empress Dowager Zhang, afraid that she will suddenly not be able to get up from bed one day, so the matter of electing the emperor will fall into the hands of the Empress Dowager Lian'er.

At that time, the Queen Mother Lian'er can say who she identifies as the queen, and that is who it is.

Is the queen mother the emperor's mother, the marriage of the children of the people or the words of the matchmaker of the parents, the first emperor Ji'er is gone, if the queen mother also falls, then only the queen mother Lian'er is in charge.

Therefore, the Empress Dowager, as Brother Zhen's grandmother, wants to elect the emperor as soon as possible, make decisions for Zhang Yuan, and make profits for the Zhang family!

Now the Empress Dowager is not in good health, her movements are slow, her thinking is not as good as before, and she is also sleepy.

This gave the Empress Dowager Lian'er and the Empress Dowager's party a chance, and Lord Sun and Lord Zhou began to move in the court.

Under such circumstances, the Empress Dowager felt a lot of pressure, and she had to do this big thing, that is, to elect the queen for the emperor.

So when the emperor Zhen brother was sixteen years old, the palace began to elect for the emperor.

The Queen Mother Lian'er was not calm in her heart, because she didn't know where Guanya had gone.

Originally, on the way back from a trip with Guanya, the Queen Mother Lian'er had already told Guanya that when the emperor was seventeen years old, she would come to the northern capital, and then enter the palace after the election.

But now the Empress Dowager is in charge, and the emperor's wedding has been advanced, a year in advance, which caught the Empress Dowager off guard.

It's not that the Empress Dowager is shrewd, it can only be regarded as a coincidence.

After the Empress Dowager elected the emperor in advance, her reason was that her body was getting worse day by day, and she hoped that in her lifetime, she could see the emperor's wedding, and it was best to see her great-grandson.

Moreover, after she is gone, the emperor will be able to take power in person, and at that time, she can close her eyes with confidence.

There is a saying here that only after the emperor gets married, can he handle some things independently like an adult.

Such a statement is unwritten, but it is generally believed that way.

In the folk, only after a man gets married, can he treat him as an adult, and he can handle some things as an adult independently.

Therefore, the reason for the Empress Dowager is very sufficient, and the Empress Dowager Lian'er can't refute it yet.

For this reason, the Queen Mother Lian'er also specially summoned Ma Ya and talked to her about Guanya's whereabouts, and Lian'er hoped that Ma Ya could let Guanya return to the northern capital.

Ma Ya has been perfunctory, which shows that Ma Ya still does not agree to Guanya entering the palace.

Ma Ya did not agree to Guanya entering the palace, and Lian'er had no way of knowing where Guanya was now, and she couldn't notify Guanya.

Not only was Lian'er talking to Ma Ya, but the Empress Dowager Lian'er also asked Ma Ya to talk about the emperor's wedding.

Ma Ya just smiled faintly in front of the Queen Mother, indicating that she was a folk girl and it was inconvenient for her to participate in the emperor's wedding.

After the emperor chooses who to do, it all depends on the Empress Dowager Zhang and the Empress Dowager Lian'er to discuss, they are the emperor's elders, this is their family matter, and outsiders cannot interfere.

Ma Ya said that she was just a maid before, and she couldn't talk much about this matter, after the emperor's election, this is related to the country!

The Empress Dowager Zhang was relieved when she learned from the side that Ma Ya was unwilling to participate in the election.

She believed that since Ma Ya said so, she would not kill him halfway.

If Ma Ya really participated, the Empress Dowager would panic, because she didn't know what tricks Ma Ya would use to treat her!

So after Ma Ya left, the Queen Mother was very pleased.

Without Ma Ya's participation, there is no news of Guan Ya, Sun and Zhou are scratching their ears and cheeks, and there is no way, in their opinion, only Ma Ya and her people know the whereabouts of Guan Ya.

Guanya has not been without news in the past two years, Guanya can write to them, and the letter will pass through Sister Hua's hand to Zhou Daqing's hand.

Zhou Daqing took the letter back and read it in the hall of Zhou's house.

The content is nothing more than thinking about her great-grandfather and grandmother, thinking about her family, and thinking about her great-grandfather's body in the letter.

Every time Guanya writes a letter, their Zhou family is like a New Year.

And the Zhou family wanted to write a letter to Guanya, so Ma Ya told Zhou Daqing that this matter was unnecessary, because Guanya, who was thousands of miles away, knew everything about the Zhou family.

Ma Ya told Zhou Daqing that although she didn't let Guanya come back, Guanya was still the young lady of the Zhou family, and this would not change.

Now that the emperor is going to be elected, how much they hope that Guanya can come back, but Guanya can't come back, they don't know where Guanya is.

Only Ma Ya knows about it.

Sister Hua also knows that Sister Hua can tell them?

Don't even think about it!

Guanya's letter was not sent by mail, but by the people of Gongru Villa.

Gongru Villa is Ma Ya's people, they deliver the letter to Ma Ya, and then leave.

Whatever Guan Ya writes in the letter, Ma Ya will read it, and after Ma Ya reads it, the letter can be transmitted to the Zhou family through Sister Hua.

Of course, sometimes it happens that Ma Ya will also hand it over to Zhou Daqing directly, saying that our daughter has a letter.

Zhou Daqing took the letter in a hurry, as happy as a child.

If the Zhou family wants to inquire where the letter came from, it is more difficult than waiting for the sky. There aren't many people who actually come into contact with Guanya, and it is impossible for the letter to be delivered directly here by one person.

There is a turnover station in Gongru Villa halfway, so when Guanya's letter is delivered to Ma Ya or Sister Hua, the person is not the same person.

When they saw Ma Ya, they still had the same attitude, that is, Ma Ya didn't want Guan Ya to marry into the royal family, and the Sun and Zhou families had to give up.

Who made Ma Ya a princess Wan, people have the right to arrange their own daughters.

The Sun and Zhou families gave up, but they didn't do nothing, they had to think about themselves.

They are different from Ma Ya, what else does Ma Ya have to say now? Brother Zhen of the emperor was sent to the palace by her, and it can probably be guessed that it is the son of Brother Ma Ya.

Ma Ya is out of the matter now, as long as the emperor has always been Brother Zhen, as for who the queen loves, Ma Ya doesn't want to care about this idle matter.

The queen also has to listen to the emperor, doesn't she?!

Therefore, Sun and Zhou decided that since they could not let Guanya participate in the election for the queen, they would destroy the wishful thinking of the empress dowager.

This strategy is that if his family can't get the throne of the queen, then the Zhang family can't think about it.

If Zhang Yuan is made the queen, it will definitely be unfavorable to the Sun and Zhou families in the future, there is no doubt about it.

After the election of the emperor's brother, the matter is finally going to be put on the table.

Now, the Sun family has also proposed a candidate.

This candidate, of course, is the daughter of a minister's family who has close contacts with Sun Zhou's family, and he belongs to their party.

If it is placed in the first two years, the Empress Dowager Zhang is sixty percent sure that Zhang Yuan will win.

But now it's different.

The power of the Queen Mother Lian'er is also gradually growing, and she wants to choose the queen for Brother Zhen on the grounds that she is Brother Zhen's biological mother.

The Queen Mother Lian'er chose the daughter of the tall adult.

Lord Gao only has four officials, and the Queen Mother Lian'er chose his daughter, the reason is that Lord Gao is their person, he can't afford to make big waves, and he has to rely on Sun Zhou and the two families to listen to the Queen Mother Lian'er's words in the future.

Of course, after the emperor's election, it is impossible for just two young ladies and other girls.

As for the other young ladies, in the eyes of other people, they can only be concubines, and they can't be compared with Zhang Yuan and Miss Gao.

Here's the problem!

The problem is that the power of the Empress Dowager is now deteriorating, and she used to be able to cover the sky with one hand, but now many of the ministers of the court and the central government are steered by the wind or simply stand by and watch.

Whoever is chosen, it is not too late to go to the house to meet the horse.

In Ma Ya's words, they are all old foxes who are cunning and rudderless.

Naturally, the power after the emperor's election fell between the Empress Dowager Zhang and the Empress Dowager Lian'er.

There is no doubt that the Empress Dowager Zhang thinks that Zhang Yuan is suitable, the two of them have been getting along for several years, and they get along harmoniously.

The Empress Dowager Lian'er's opinion is that Miss Gao is virtuous and beautiful, and it is impossible to interfere in the government without telling her family background, she said that Zhang Yuan is good in all aspects, but she is a little willful.

This has the meaning of-for-tat.

The two are at loggerheads.

But things have to be settled.

The important ministers of the court are also anxious to scratch their ears and cheeks, one is the emperor's grandmother, the other is the emperor's mother, and both of them have the right to mention the emperor after the election.

These two people can't hold each other now, how can this be good?!

As an outsider, their ministers can't participate in this, after all, this is the emperor's family affair.

But things have to be solved, they can not be involved, they can make suggestions.

Therefore, after the deliberation of several of their impartial cabinet ministers, who are mainly in charge of the state and society, they felt that it was most appropriate for the emperor to choose this matter himself!

The reason they put forward was that the first emperor Ji'er was not satisfied with the queen that Emperor Fu Kang had chosen for him.

Now let the emperor choose for himself, so what is he not satisfied with?!

Although the two queens were not satisfied with such a suggestion, but the matter reached a critical juncture, if the emperor was allowed to resign from the election, then the Zhang family would definitely not do it.

But who the emperor chooses must be checked by the two of them.

In other words, whoever the emperor chooses, it must be counted if both of them are satisfied, otherwise it will not be counted!

For example, if the emperor chooses the queen mother, the queen mother is not satisfied, and the emperor chooses the queen mother, the queen mother is definitely not satisfied.

That is to say, if any of them are not satisfied, the queen elected by the emperor will also be yellow.

So who played a decisive role in the post-election process?

This person is Wang Fei, who is often called by the Empress Dowager to scold him, the old eunuch next to the emperor.

He gave the emperor an idea, that is, the emperor was not chosen between the two queens, but among the daughters of the third-party ministers.

Who is more suitable?

This person is Miss Qian, the daughter of Lord Qian.

Wang Fei analyzed to the emperor's brother Zhen, and the daughter of this rich family is more suitable.

Lord Qian's grandfather and father were all old ministers under Emperor Fu Kang, and Lord Qian has always been loyal to the royal family, and the Qian family is non-partisan and relatively neutral in the court.

Wang Fei's idea is certainly a good one.

But who can know about his past friendship with Lord Qian in private?!

What kind of friendship?

That's the friendship of money!

In the DPRK and China, there are only interests, and only when the two countries have common interests can it be called friendship.

Wang Fei received five thousand taels of silver from Lord Qian, saying that he wanted the prince to take care of her daughter, and said that he would thank him afterwards.

They talk to each other, they are all smart people, and they don't need to say it on the surface.

What kind of care can cost five thousand taels of silver? That's too big, isn't it?!

But they knew it in their hearts.

Because they are fighting for the position of queen for their own people, they are destined to be unable to win, one party is satisfied and the other is definitely not satisfied, and this matter cannot be frozen like this.

If the Queen Mother Lian'er is not in a hurry, but the Queen Mother is in a hurry, her body can't consume the Queen Mother Lian'er!

At this time, Lord Qian made such a huge amount of money, and promised to thank him afterwards, so it is conceivable that Lord Qian was beating the queen for her daughter.

Neither of the two queens can be queens, so if Lord Qian finds the emperor's most trusted eunuch Wang Fei, then his daughter's chances of winning will of course be greatly improved.

Lord Qian is now a third-grade official, if her daughter is selected as the queen, the benefits will not be a little bit, not only will she get a generous reward from the emperor, but will Lord Qian's official also have to mention the premise?

The official who promoted the national abbot, no one can say anything about this, everyone knows it in their hearts.

Lord Qian bet the treasure on Wang Fei, so he must spend a lot of money.

Because there are many concubines and concubines, there are many families, if other ministers also come to join Wang Fei's door, and the price is higher than that of Qian Da's family, then Wang Fei will definitely not accept his silver.

No one is stupid, of course, whoever gives more silver will suggest whose daughter should be the queen in front of the emperor!

So Wang Fei, who has always wanted to make a difference, first of all, on the issue of the election of the emperor's brother Zhen, he can be regarded as showing his skills.

After the emperor looked at all the beauties to be selected, he circled the Qian family.

The emperor's decision was highly praised by the cabinet ministers.

They feel that the emperor's choice is very mature! After such an election, no one can be offended, he neither wants the Queen Mother's people to be the queen, nor the Queen Mother's people to be the queen, he chose the daughter of a very weak Qian family to be the queen, which makes all parties very comfortable.

The Empress Dowager Zhang and the Empress Dowager Lian'er saw that the emperor had decided on the Qian family, and after weighing the pros and cons, they both felt that although they didn't catch it, the other party didn't get the benefits, so they acquiesced to the emperor's choice.

Of course, the emperor also chose Zhang Yuan and Gao's family to enter the palace as concubines, which is not a big thought.

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