Chapter 8: The Imperial Maiden

The Queen Mother and the Emperor, they have all begun to doubt...... Through the Feng Huaien incident, they began to doubt themselves! Began to be suspicious of the third prince and the fourth prince!

The Queen Mother still looked at her with a pair of cloudy eyes, and the sharp light in those eyes almost overwhelmed her. %D7%CF%D3%C4%B8%F3

"The mourning family is old and useless." The Queen Mother sighed slightly, took her hand and said, "Queen, the mourning family knows that you and your father are very loyal to the emperor. The mourning family can't last long, and the mourning family hopes that you can serve the emperor with your heart, persuade him at all times, and assist him to become the first emperor of the ages. Can you do it? ”

Shangguan Li's fingers trembled. Finally she knelt down: "The daughter-in-law obeys the instructions of the queen mother." ”

The Queen Mother nodded lightly and said, "You stay here to serve the mourning family." The emperor is still kneeling outside? Let him step aside, the mourners don't want to see him. ”

Tuoba Hong left Changle Palace in despair, leaving Queen Shangguan alone to serve the Queen Mother. He then wanted to go back to Jianzhang Palace to summon the group of courtiers who were clamoring for the establishment of the East Palace, so he walked a few steps with his feet up, and stopped in annoyance. In the end, he ordered to drive the Jade Zhao Palace.

Lin Yuan had already learned about the disputes in the court. If Tuoba Hong was angry about this, Lin Yuan was a poor person in the middle of it, whose fate was as shaky as duckweed. The rise of the five princes is unstoppable, and her own six princes have long been pushed into the corners. Even, because the six princes had a quiet temperament, the courtiers who supported the five princes in the court used this as an excuse to attack and destroy the six princes as "quiet and weak" and "decadent and incompetent".

Such a fallacy was born - any child who is quiet and noisy is a sign of unproductiveness.

The six princes had better grades than the five princes in Confucianism, and they were ignored.

Tuoba Hong came to Yuzhao Palace to find Lin Yuan, which was quite a bit of sympathy. He has always been close to Lin Yuan, and he does not shy away from court affairs, holding her arm and sighing with her: "In my heart, Qiqi is the person who is talented and the most suitable for that position. However, most of the officials are superstitious about ghosts and gods, and they are convinced of the spirit stones that fall from the sky, and I have nothing to do. They played an admonition and asked me to immediately set up the East Palace at the time of the Dragon Boat Festival...... Yuan'er, what do you say about this! ”

Spirit stones? Lin Yuan sneered in her heart. This kind of trick can even be elegant!

"I also want to belittle them all, but I have to take into account the ...... of Xiliang" Tuoba Hong frowned sadly: "Yuan'er, you don't know, if the civil and military officials just believe in gods and Buddhas and are blinded by spirit stones, but the so-called spirit stones ...... I speculated that eighty percent of it was a nonsense made up by Feng Huaien, and he would do whatever it took to support the five princes! The important thing is not the spirit stone, but the west beam! Feng Huaien's move was to deceive everyone with spirit stones on the surface, but in fact, he was blackmailing the military generals with military power. If I refuse to appoint the Five Princes, Xiliang will immediately lose his loyalty and even rebel! ”

"These courtiers are ambitious. The five princes are not yet five years old this year, and they are in a hurry to support them, but they are greedy for future success. This has been the case in all dynasties, and I am not exempt from vulgarity. And they also picked a good time, the body of the king of Xiliang is not cold, I don't look at the face of the monk to see the face of the Buddha, no matter how angry I am, it is not good to belittle the old department of Xiliang! ”

The more Tuoba Hong spoke, the angrier he became, and he even felt that the dead King of Xiliang was afraid that he was involved in this scheme. As soon as he died of illness, Feng Huaien and other generals provoked a dispute over the storage position, Feng Huaien and others were his former henchmen, and they did this because they were not instructed by King Xiliang before his death.

"Rebels and thieves should be punished in their hearts." Lin Yuan was silent for a long time, and spit out eight words in a low voice, which surprised Tuoba Hong.

She raised her head to meet the emperor's eyes, and suddenly burst into tears, tears crossed her pale face without a trace of blood, and looked extra pitiful: "Your Majesty, the concubine is an inner palace woman, where do you know this." It's just that the concubine is also the biological mother of the six princes! Now King Zhao is only ten years old, the fifth prince and the sixth prince are four or five years old dolls, and the concubines dare not have the ambition to take the heir, and the concubines are just distressed...... I feel sorry for my child, who is only so young, and I have to get involved in the dispute of the prince. ”

Tuoba Hong's heart softened for a while, turned around and took Qiqi into his arms, and comforted: "Yuan'er, don't be afraid. Someone in the court attacked and annihilated the six princes, saying that he was not a suitable heir, and I have heard these remarks! Don't worry, in my heart, Qiqi is the best prince of the Great Qin Kingdom, he is talented, sensible and capable, I see all of this! They want to cross the five princes to be the East Palace, and I and the Queen Mother will not easily agree! ”

Due to his busy political affairs, the emperor soon left. Lin Yuan held Kiki in her arms, and the two shrank together in the corner of the bed.

"Kiki, do you want to be the emperor?" She asked softly.

Tuoba Qi's small hand grabbed her thin fingers, and then nodded vigorously: "Yes!" Not because I want to be an emperor, but because I don't want to die! I know that my brothers and I will only be emperors in one of us, but the rest of us will not be qualified to live well if we have lost our thrones. ”

Lin Yuan closed her eyes. She is tired, and the ambitions she once had have long since passed away with the wind.

She just wants to live.

***

Because of the matter of the five princes, the emperor quickly snubbed Wen Jieyu, the biological mother of the five princes. Later, he went in and out of Yuzhao Palace every day to visit Lin Yuan, taking pity on her seriously ill body, and her parents and children were criticized again.

Lin Yuan knew in his heart that the emperor kept saying that he would not establish the East Palace, and even said that he liked the six princes the most, even if he wanted to establish them, he would also establish the six princes, but these were just nonsense words to coax women.

This time, everyone supported the Five Princes, which was obviously different from the last time. Last time, it was just some ministers who echoed Yun Zhaoyi, but now, it is the soldiers of Xiliang who support the five princes on the grounds of spirit stones.

If there is really no way to refute the ministers, or if the cost of such refutation is too great, Tuoba Hiroshi may really comply.

And unlike King Zhao, who is virtuous and virtuous and unsuccessful in his studies, the fifth prince is a child who likes him very much.

Sure enough, on April 25, Fan Yu, the princess and the county lord went to Jianzhang Palace to say goodbye to the saints, and left the palace overnight. At dawn on the second day, the emperor issued a decree summoning all the princes to listen to the government, and asked the ministers to discuss the election of the position of the East Palace.

Lin Yuan didn't know what Fan Yu in Jianzhang Palace said. On the evening of the 25th, Fan Yu came to visit her in the Yuzhao Palace, and said goodbye to her: "Lin Niangniang, I wish you to take care." ”

Lin Yuan was so sick that she couldn't get out of bed, her face was thin and gloomy, and she was described as withered. She stared at the girl in front of herβ€”although she was only thirteen years old and short, the fan jade with the woman's hair in a bun really looked a bit like the emperor and the princess. She was dignified, her hands folded in the sleeves of the vermilion court dress, and her complexion was beautiful and noble.

"Princess, you've grown up." Lin Yuan said hoarsely, and then smiled bitterly: "I saw the shadow of a phoenix in you...... It's a pity that I won't live long, take care of the word, this palace will return it to you. ”

"The mother laughed." Fan Yu Zhanyan chuckled: "If you are really critically ill and dying, you won't sit here and gossip with me." Lin Niangniang, don't I know you well enough? You're going to live a long time, it's just a strange poison, where can I get you? Erchen went to Xiliang, here to thank Lin Niangniang for her help back then, and also begged Lin Niangniang to take care of Erchen and Xiliang in the future. ”

Lin Yuan sneered when he heard this: "You think too highly of me." I'm always underestimating you. ”

Fan Yu's eyes flickered slightly. Then she took a step closer, knelt down again, and said, "Niangniang, everything I have done is a last resort. I have nothing, and my husband is like that when I get married...... Maybe in the future we will be on opposite sides, but please forgive me, mother. I'm just here to get back what I deserve, I'm the Elder Emperor Ji of the Great Qin Kingdom......"

Lin Yuan looked at her fixedly.

Fan Yu gasped, not daring to look her eyes. Eventually, she got up and left, whispering, "I'm leaving, maybe I'll be back later." Niangniang, in fact, the person you should deal with most now is not the Five Princes, but the Empress Shangguan. Queen, her father is Shangguan Yue, and she has two sisters-in-law......"

Her voice was finally inaudible. After she stepped back, Qiqi ran out of the warm pavilion with a piece of cane sugar and climbed onto Lin Yuan's bed: "Mother, that one just now, is it my big sister?" Her appearance is a bit similar to Sister Ning's, but her expression is very different. ”

"yes, it's different." Lin Yuan pulled her lips and chuckled: "Changning is a truly delicate emperor, but she is not. ”

Fan Yu has nothing to do but go to the Three Treasures Palace, and she came to Yuzhao Palace to see her old friend, which is nothing more than something to ask for.

Lin Yuan was so sick that she was dizzy, but her eyes were still pointed. At a glance, she saw the unusual piece of ink jade on Fan Yu's waist.

If I am not mistaken, it is not a jade pendant, but a tiger talisman of Xiliang, which can mobilize all the soldiers and horses under the command of King Xiliang.

The king of Xiliang was sick like his son's, and his heart was weak. In his last days, his condition must have been very serious, and Fan Yu had already obtained the Tiger Talisman when she had left for Beijing two months earlier. In the end, the king of Xiliang was seriously ill and could not be a director, and the people who mobilized Feng Huaien and other generals were not estimated to be the king of Xiliang, but the emperor of Huaikechang.

Everything Feng Huaien did was to follow her orders.

It seems that it was only at this time that Lin Yuan suddenly understood the reason why she insisted on asking for a rich city to be used as Tang Muyi.

A prince with great ambitions needs the support of a fief in the future, and this principle also applies to Fan Yu.

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