On October 12, the newlyweds entered the palace and first went to the Qingxi Palace to meet the Empress Dowager.

In order to save them the trouble of going to Huiyi Palace one more time, the Empress Dowager Su went to the Empress Dowager in advance to speak.

"Since the emperor handed over this matter to you, you can do it, why bother to let them come to mourn for a while?" The Empress Dowager was a little unimpressed by this, and said to the Empress Dowager Su at this moment, "You are the first emperor in the middle palace, and you have long been familiar with this kind of thing, can there be anything that is not thoughtful?" It's a long time since the mourning family doesn't ask about this kind of thing, and the eyesight may not be as good as yours! ”

"What did the Queen Mother say?" Empress Dowager Su said respectfully, "As the saying goes, there is an old man in the family, if there is a treasure, you are the pillar of our royal family, and the daughter-in-law is familiar with how to do it, if you don't have your help, I can't say that there is still no one in my heart!" ”

The Empress Dowager heard what she said, and only smiled faintly: "This old bone of the mourning family is just a shame in this world!" What kind of pillars are they? Now the pillar of the royal family should be the emperor! ”

"The emperor is naturally wise and powerful." Empress Dowager Su said with a smile, "The queen mother should reward her daughter-in-law with a face, so help take a look!" ”

Only then did the Empress Dowager say: "You have said so, then let's take a look at the mourning family." ”

Then the Empress Dowager and Empress Dowager Su talked about some gossip - basically around the discussion of the marriage of the eldest princess of Changxing - after a while, the people from the outer palace came in, saying that the newlyweds had arrived and were waiting outside.

When the Empress Dowager heard this, she and the Empress Dowager Su straightened their skirts slightly, and gently spit out the words: "Xuan!" ”

Between the dresses, a line of beautiful mermaids entered.

The first one was a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl, with dark clouds and sideburns, her cheeks condensed with fresh snow, wearing a deep coat of blue and blue water, looking like a half-opened lotus standing in the pool.

The next four people also have their own merits, or charming, or beautiful, or delicate, or elegant.

All five of them entered the palace, and bowed down to the Dan Qi: "Concubine wishes the Empress Dowager all blessings and peace!" ”

When the Empress Dowager called, she bowed to the Empress Dowager Su again, "May the Empress Dowager have a long and happy life!" ”

After the ceremony, the Empress Dowager said: "Raise your heads and let the mourning family see!" ”

The five of them confessed, and then they raised their heads slightly, but they all lowered their long eyelashes, and their eyes only looked at the hem of the Empress Dowager's skirt, and they did not dare to look at the Empress Dowager seriously.

"You're careful!" Seeing this, the Empress Dowager bowed slightly to Empress Dowager Su, "This rule is well taught." ”

"These are the daughters of official families." Empress Dowager Su said humbly, "It turns out that she is also a well-informed lady, but the daughter-in-law just mentions it slightly!" ”

The Empress Dowager smiled, glanced at her a few times, and said, "It's all good, Yuguo!" ”

Yuguo understood, and asked the little palace maid to take out the prepared rewards and bring them to the five people one by one.

The five of them were busy and thankful - the Empress Dowager was already a little uninterested, so she said: "It's done, you go to see the queen!" ”

After these five people were sent out, the Empress Dowager saw that the Empress Dowager Su still had no intention of retiring, she lifted her eyelids, tilted her head slightly, and asked, "The one who started is what you value the most?" Whose family is that? ”

"It's He Shangshu's granddaughter, and her name is Qin Wan." Empress Dowager Su smiled and said, "It can't be said that the daughter-in-law values it the most, but I think that her grandfather is the emperor's confidant, so let her rank before the daughters." The position is also the highest: it is the third grade Jieyu - after all, it is the hero! ”

The Empress Dowager seemed to be smiling: Although Emperor Duanhua asked the Empress Dowager Su to preside over the selection this time, he never regarded the Empress Dowager Su as his own.

Now that the Empress Dowager Su is the best for this He Qinwan, although Emperor Duanhua will not suspect that He Qinwan is the Empress Dowager's person, I am afraid that he will instinctively alienate this new He Jieyu.

And He Jieyu is He Wenqiong's granddaughter, she doesn't look bad, but she is not favored after entering the palace, what will He Wenqiong think?

Even if Emperor Duanhua is not fooled, it will not be a loss for the Empress Dowager Su, and she will give the He family a favor left and right - anyway, there are no juniors of the Empress Dowager Su in Emperor Duanhua's harem, and the Empress Dowager Su doesn't care who has to be favored.

However, the Empress Dowager and Emperor Duanhua are already disgusted, even if they see Empress Dowager Su's calculations, they are happy to see it, let alone remind Emperor Duanhua.

Taking a sip of tea, the Empress Dowager asked everyone outside her confidants to retreat, and said, "In my opinion, although He Jieyu is good, I am afraid that Jiang Cairen is more in line with the emperor's intentions!" ”

Jiang Shuyun, a talented person, is the elegant and dignified one, ranking fourth in the team of Fang Cai, and the penultimate place, she was only awarded the talent from the fourth grade, and He Qinwan's third grade Jieyu is three levels behind.

This level three is not an ordinary gap - Jieyu can live alone in a palace, she is a serious concubine, but talented people can only live in a side hall and belong to the palace concubine class.

"Does the queen mother think that Jiang Cairen can best win the emperor's eyes?" When Empress Dowager Su heard this, she chuckled and said, "My daughter-in-law thinks that Concubine Xue is more likely to please the emperor!" After all, the emperor's earlier favored concubine Cui is the type of concubine Xue who is delicate and gorgeous with a little temper. ”

He also said, "It's a pity that the two of them have a little worse family background, and this share is really not high." Of course, when they meet the queen and go to bed, they will be promoted sooner or later, and it won't be bad for a few days. ”

The Empress Dowager said lazily: "There are people who are emperors on the left and right, and whoever enters the emperor's eyes is her blessing, let's just give a reward when they come to kowtow." ”

- Emperor Duanhua used to like Cui Jianlian's beautiful and a little temperamental, but now?

Even if the Empress Dowager didn't know that Gu Shao and Emperor Duanhua had said that Cui Jianlian had something else to love, just based on Cui Ziyu's sins this time, Emperor Duanhua's impression of the Cui family must have plummeted all the way, and how much hope could there be for Xue Concubine, who was similar to Cui Jianlian?

is that Jiang Cairen, although his appearance is not the most beautiful, but he has a bookish atmosphere, dignified and elegant, but he does not reject the alienation of thousands of miles away. Looking at it, I feel that this is a woman who is gentle and elegant in the scholarly family, who has been influenced by the teachings of the sages and sages and learned that Shudali is gentle.

When Emperor Duanhua didn't suffer in his early years, he could still condone Cui Jian's pettiness. son, after frequent setbacks in the hands of Dai Guo and others, he didn't even want to raise his own daughter too much, let alone indulge other people's daughters!

Just looking at Empress Wei's trust and liking in the past two years, you know that the queen has always been aware of the overall situation in front of Emperor Duanhua, and has never said that she is making a fuss. The emperor, who has been hit one after another during this time, how can he not be more fond of Jiang Cairen, the type who is empathetic when he looks at it?

"I don't know if this Jiang family is the arrangement of the Queen Mother?" The Empress Dowager thought so in her heart, and she didn't mean to break it, she just said, "People have already seen it, there is nothing else, you can go back first, Changxing is about to fall...... I'm busy, too! ”

Empress Dowager Su got up and retired with interest.

It's just that although the Empress Dowager and Empress Dowager Su have their own opinions on Emperor Duanhua's next favorite, Emperor Duanhua has not had time to take care of the new harem at this time.

Because he was in trouble in the previous dynasty - Jiang Muying said a prophecy: the courtiers were very dissatisfied with his direct disposal of Liang Guogong and Yuan Xuepei, and when he was in the previous dynasty, they collectively expressed their opposition!

In fact, they were not even satisfied with the emperor's disposition of the Song Lu clan and the Cui family!

But this point of Emperor Duanhua was all pushed on the head of the Empress Dowager, saying how much my grandmother loved my little aunt, you all know, now that the imperial grandmother is asking for this, I, as a filial grandson, do not want to refute, you have any opinions, go to Qingxi Hall to talk to my imperial grandmother!

Of course, my imperial grandmother is old, and if you make her angry in the process of admonishment, you will bear the consequences!

The Lu family has been destroyed, the Song family is withered, and the Cui family's influence in the court is also very limited - so the ministers hesitated, feeling that there was no need to offend the empress dowager for the Cui family and the Song Lu family's mother and son, after all, this kind of old man is really not easy to mess with.

So they targeted Liang Guogong and Yuan Xuepei, and asked Emperor Duanhua to take back the previous holy decree, pull these two out for public trial, and the three divisions and the emperor discuss their crimes and punishment results!

In fact, this request is very legitimate, after all, the state has national laws and family rules, Liang Guogong and Yuan Xuepei committed a crime, according to the law, they should go through the process of three divisions: take people, go to prison, verify, interrogate, and pronounce sentences......

Like Emperor Duanhua now, he didn't look for Gu Shao, and went directly to the Qingxi Palace to pinch the Empress Dowager, and then went to draw up the holy decree, oh no, in fact, this holy decree should be called the middle decree, because it didn't pass through the Zhongshu Gate at all, and went directly to the edict.

Such a contrary to the rules, of course the courtiers will not do it!

If the emperor did this once, twice, three, four, and five times, then what else would they do with these ministers who had worked so hard to enumerate?!

The emperor is in charge of everything, and the rest is the messenger who obeys the order - the palace slaves can do this, and their ministers will not be set aside in the future!

So right now, the court is in a hurry, and they are asking Emperor Duanhua to retract his intentions and do things according to the rules!

The fierce, even the meaning of the words, I want Emperor Duanhua to issue an edict and review his mediocre behavior of not taking the law of the courtiers into account!

Even Gu Shao, the head of the hundred officials and the biggest reliance of Emperor Duanhua, didn't come out to suppress at this moment - after all, he also wanted to be a scholar, a scholar doctor who ruled the world with a scholar doctor, instead of being a slave who obeyed the emperor's orders in everything.

What's more, in the current situation, if he stands on the side of Emperor Duanhua, the reputation he has accumulated in this life will be finished, and he will definitely be recorded in the history books as a minister who only cares about flattering the monarch, and he will also offend his colleagues in the country. Even if the Hongzhou Gu clan is quite profound, they can't afford to make such an enemy!

And Emperor Duanhua, can you keep him?

In the noisy and angry court, Emperor Duanhua always just looked at it expressionlessly, and in the end, everyone said that they were tired, so he said in a somewhat tired tone: "Zhu Qing's words are also reasonable, but Liang Guogong is my brother......

A minister came out and said: "Your Majesty thinks of brotherhood and wants to open up the net, which is also human nature!" It is Your Majesty's kindness and generosity! But the law of the country cannot be abolished, Your Majesty is the Son of Heaven, and he should be an example for all people, how can he do such a violation of law and discipline? It will be spread out like this, but where will the holy reputation be?! ”

"In that case, then let the secretaries discuss this matter together!" Emperor Duanhua seemed to be persuaded and stood up, "Let's go here today." ”

The ministers didn't expect them to win so easily-they thought that Emperor Duanhua was so arbitrarily ordered, and this time the emperor would not change his mind if he didn't kill a few courtiers in the palace.

"Your Majesty just misses brotherhood too much." Gu Shao knew Emperor Duanhua's thoughts, and sighed for the emperor and said, "As long as we are sympathetic to Your Majesty, Your Majesty will be as good as you!" ”

The ministers gave Gu Shao face, so they echoed the words, but as for what he thought in his heart, only he knew.

And when Gu Shao returned to the house, he also sighed, "Your Majesty wants to know how many people in the court support him, what method is not good, but you want to use such a method?!" ”

This kind of obviously unruly behavior, even if the faint monarch and tyrant are in power, there may be a whole family who is not afraid of death to come out to oppose it! What's more, it's far from being the Duanhua Emperor who is not Jiwei?

This is simply sent to the door to slap the ministers in the face!

Gu Shao sighed, and couldn't help but feel a sense of powerlessness in his heart, "Can I really fulfill my trust to the first emperor, assist such a master, and continue the prosperity of Da Rui?!" ”

A person like him who can support the overall situation alone, in fact, is not afraid of the emperor's waste, the emperor is a waste to shrink in the harem all day long and not go to court, he can also take care of Darui well; What I'm most afraid of is that the emperor is obviously not good, and he has to point fingers everywhere, how can I get this?!

When he was confused, the old servant came to report: "The Wei family sent someone at the back door, saying that there is something important to discuss with the master, does the master see it?" ”