Chapter 33: Shangguan (1)

Words like these spread quickly, and they were as lively as the scandal of "Concubine Jing strangled the Qian family and poisoned the prince". %D7%CF%D3%C4%B8%F3 Lin Yuan was so angry that she dropped all the peony pots in the Yuzhao Palace.

In the waves surrounding Concubine Jing, the voice of the court rose again.

It's August. When Empress Zhaorui was newly mourned, Prime Minister Zuo proposed to delay the establishment of the queen. But now more than five months have passed......

It's time too.

Inside and outside the palace, people's hearts fluctuate. For several days in the morning, the court was discussing the succession, and the courtiers had different opinions and disputes. In the face of the red-eared courtiers who were arguing below, Tuoba Hong was very quiet, and he did not mean to take sides for a few days.

His silence made the dispute increasingly difficult to reconcile.

Until one day, when he had a tired face, and Jing Zhaoyin was refuting Qi Yushi's support for Concubine Jing on the grounds that "Concubine Jing is not virtuous", he was deeply bored and said, "It's not a way for you to continue arguing like this." Concubine Jing's matter involves the private affairs of the harem, and the conclusion has not yet been reached, so don't take it out at will! The word is far away, and the face of the royal family is gone! ”

The crowd shut their mouths. Lord Jingzhao Yin Liu arched his hand upward, and continued: "Your Majesty, even if Concubine Jing is upright and has never done anything immoral, but the harem is under her management, and there have been many incidents and turmoil, which shows that Concubine Jing has no ability to take charge of the palace. ”

Lord Liu's courage has become bigger and bigger.

Takubahiro frowned. After a while, he waved his hand and said, "Whether Concubine Jing can take the back position or not, I have to decide." Today, you have been arguing for half a day without progress, and you have dispersed. ”

With that, he walked away.

The court gradually evolved from a heated battle of words to a stalemate and dullness. And the report of the northwest battlefield is still coming continuously, one day the soldiers on the border of Xia failed to attack Loulan City, and the vanguard generals were captured, so the court hurriedly discussed the war, and did not care who to choose as the queen.

What happened after the establishment can be described as twists and turns.

Finally, on the day of September 15, the queen mother came to court again after ten years. She sat on the left side of the emperor's dragon chair and said to the officials below: "It is a state affair and a family affair of the emperor. Let the mourning family be the master, do you have any objections? ”

All the officials said that they did not dare.

The Empress Dowager raised her hand slightly, and the first and fourth grade ceremonial officials stepped forward and announced: "The Yellow Clothes of the German Association and Wang Hua must be in the palace pot." Fangliu annals, mother ritual with the style in the family state. Bingling Fan to inherit the Xu, give the name and be in the right position. Zi'er Guifei Shangguan clan, the daughter of Shangguan Yue, the minister of the guard and the general of Shangzhu State, is the daughter of Gao Hong, Zhong Xiang Qili, who is diligent and thrifty in Lanye, and shows sincerity and filial piety in Jiao Yan...... I hereby accept the Empress Dowager's mercy and order Bao Lier to be the queen. ”

The Queen Mother decreed, and everyone in the audience knelt down to accept the decree. After reading, there was a moment of stagnation in the hall, and then Prime Minister Zuo took the lead in kowtowing and shouted: "The Queen Mother Shengming!" Minister's Order! ”

Then all the courtiers behind him followed and kowtowed, chanting the Empress Dowager Chitose. After the cries calmed down, a scholar of the Hanlin Academy stepped forward tremblingly, knelt down and said, "The Empress Dowager of Qiqi...... Is it ...... to make Shangguan the queen in such a hurry? Somewhat sloppy? ”

Unlike Concubine Jing, who has the highest voice inside and outside the palace, no one has supported the Shangguan family for more than half a year.

After the empress dowager suddenly made an order, the courtiers were all caught off guard and shocked.

This concubine of Daqin, who once favored the harem, left the palace after giving birth to twin princes, and it has been more than three years now. In the past three years, the situation in the capital has been turbulent and the situation has changed suddenly, and the forces of the harem court have been reshuffled again and again. Chen Xiu was promoted from a Hanmen martial artist to the vanguard general of Beisai, the only son of the right prime minister and the Changning Emperor Ji made a marriage, constantly accumulating power and often competing with the left prime minister, the remnants of King Muwu were deep-rooted and difficult to eradicate, and they made chaos in the capital several times. In the harem, Concubine Jing recovered from her illness, the six princes, Emperor Shujia, and Emperor Yuanrong were born one after another, and the Zhaoyuan Lin family soared......

In this intensive area of brutal struggle, three years is enough time to change too many things.

Few people already remember Chang and Guifei, a figure who quit the court prematurely.

However, as the daughter of the general of Shangzhu Guoda, Shangguan Li will not have no attention at all. Naturally, there are many well-intentioned people who deliberately suppressed the supporters of the Lishangguan clan.

The one who took the lead in doing so was the right prime minister.

He groaned slightly, and stepped forward and said: "Queen Mother, what Scholar Zhang said is reasonable, Lichang and Guifei are the queen, and it is indeed a bit hasty. Moreover...... The concubine has the name of domineering. ”

The queen looked as usual, and the emperor on the side said calmly: "The right prime minister, Zhang Hanlin, Empress Zhaorui has been dead for more than half a year, during which the courtiers have been discussing the candidate for succession, urging me to establish the queen as soon as possible." Today, the Queen Mother only promulgated the decree, is it still hasty? ”

Empress Zhaorui's mourning period was in the past, so the Queen Mother directly issued a decree to canonize Shangguan as the queen, not the imperial concubine.

"But what you say about the noble concubine is ......," Tuoba Hong said, his voice paused slightly. In fact, regardless of the others, this is the biggest obstacle to establishing the Shangguan family as the queen.

As the daughter of Shangguan Yue...... Although all the men of the Shangguan clan were on the battlefield in Beisai at this time, and no one stayed in the capital to speak for Shangguan Li, Tuoba Hong was not worried about the obstruction of the ministers. After the Shen family was destroyed, the most powerful in the DPRK and China were the Xiao family and the Shangguan family. Even if those ministers had the heart, they didn't have the courage to oppose it again and again.

And Prime Minister Zuo was dealt with by him half a year ago.

When Empress Zhaorui died, Prime Minister Zuo was dumbfounded with his granddaughter Yuanrong Emperor Ji, who had exchanged his daughter's life for his daughter's life, and Tuoba Hong's son-in-law. The conditions discussed before were all nullified, and the Xiao family did not have a grandson who could ascend the throne, so Tuoba Hong reluctantly agreed to Prime Minister Zuo to let him be prime minister for the rest of his life until he died of old age.

But he didn't agree to let the Xiao family have another queen.

Long before the courtiers competed for the successor, Tuoba Hong and Prime Minister Zuo fought to tear down the roof. Prime Minister Zuo knelt on the ground and hugged the emperor's thigh and cried bitterly: "Son-in-law! The Xiao family is about to fall! ……”

Takubahiro pulled him hard. In the end, there was no way, and another thing suddenly came to his mind.

So he said to Prime Minister Zuo: "Uncle Yue, who said that the Xiao family would fall?" The Xiao family is the hero who supported my ascension to the throne, so naturally it should be prosperous for a hundred years, and my court is inseparable from the loyal service of the prime minister! You see, now there is a tricky matter to rely on the Xiao family, the Shangguan clan is about to become the queen, and Shangguan Yue is fighting in Beisai again, and he has outstanding military achievements. In the long run, won't the arrogance of the Shangguan family get higher and higher in the future? Although Shangguan Yue is shrewd and never works against me, the military general clan always makes people feel uneasy......"

Prime Minister Zuo understood in seconds, he immediately wiped his tears, kowtowed, and said: "It is taboo to form a party for personal gain in the court, and the party is the same as the other. The emperor can rest assured that the ministers will definitely do their best and die, and will not let Shangguan Yue offend the prestige of the royal family......"

He understands that the current Xiao family is no longer the Guozhang clan that used to call for wind and rain. As the daughter of the queen, she didn't even leave a prince and died, not to mention that the Xiongnu were in a fierce war, and now they are fighting with the Xia Kingdom. The military generals in the war-torn years crushed Wenchen in life, and the Xiao family had long been unable to compare in front of the Shangguan family.

The emperor refused to let the Xiao family have another queen. Not only that, but the emperor also prepared Lichang and the concubine to be the queen - this was made up when Empress Zhaorui was not dead.

The Xiao family is no longer what it used to be, and the current emperor is not the emperor of the past. With the Military Aircraft Department, with General Chu, General Chen, the Right Prime Minister and a large number of royalists, Prime Minister Xiao Zuo had no power to change the emperor's decision.

This is simply the worst situation, he and Shangguan Yue have been fighting for thirty years, and they have not died since the first emperor's dynasty. Where should the Xiao family go in the future?

Although he is the prime minister, when he is old and dead, won't the Xiao family go downhill? Although it is still a big clan, the ordinary big clan is completely different from the big clan that controls the court.

Now the emperor's intention is to let them contain the Shangguan family.

Prime Minister Zuo hurriedly agreed with great gratitude, as long as it is useful to the emperor, the Xiao family has a future. One day, if it is really useless, it will definitely be kicked away.

So since the death of Empress Zhaorui, he began to follow the emperor's orders to do things. When the courtiers proposed to establish Concubine Jing, he openly opposed it, and delayed the matter for half a year on the grounds of Xiongnu and relatives.

It was to prepare for the return of Empress Shangguan.

Prime Minister Zuo really wants Concubine Jing to be the queen, that woman's father has long since died, and there is an empty shelf left in the mother's family, so won't she be at your disposal when the time comes? But how dare he disobey Tuoba Hong's orders.

Now the Empress Dowager has personally come to the court and promulgated the decree of the queen. Prime Minister Zuo knelt at the front, bowed his head and said nothing.

The emperor closed his eyes slightly, as if in thought. After a while, he raised his eyes and said to the right prime minister: "Concubine Changhe was young and vigorous in the past, and she was indeed a little domineering. ”

"Your Majesty!" At that time, another squire stepped forward and said: "What the emperor said is good, the concubine is just young and vigorous, and now the concubine is the mother of the three sons, and she has long been much more stable, how can she be like before?" Moreover, people are not saints and sages, Chang and Guifei are not as good as the virtuous and famous, and the rest are doing very well. The concubine Qianwu entered the palace in the second year and served the emperor for nine years, with rich qualifications. And the concubine has two sons and a daughter, who are meritorious and social. ”

Say goodbye again: "The ministers received the decree of the Queen Mother and welcomed the Empress Feng back to the palace." ”

"But the emperor ......," the right prime minister wanted to say more.

Tuoba Hong waved his hand and said, "That's it." After Empress Shangguan returned to the palace, Concubine Jing, Wei, Zhaoyi, Zhao, and Zhaoyuan Lin helped the queen. After that, he glanced at the crowd: "What do you think?" ”

"Your Majesty." The right prime minister immediately closed his mouth, knelt down and took the order: "In this way, even if Empress Shangguan is not as virtuous as Empress Zhaorui, there are three concubines and six palaces to make up for it." ”

"In this way, the Ministry of Rites and the Sixth Bureau are ordered to jointly organize the post-sealing ceremony." The Queen Mother nodded and said, "Send Prince Cheng as the canonization envoy again, go to Kaifeng, and take Empress Shangguan back to the palace with a phoenix." ”

Moments later, the emperor ordered his retreat.

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