It was almost noon, but in the deep dormitory, the tabernacle hung low.

Behind the dim and dark brocade curtain, the emperor's face was obscure—but Empress Wei knew that he was looking at herself, and she waited and waited, and when she didn't see the emperor answer, the queen spoke again: "At the palace banquet last night, the father of the concubine and He Shangshu have repeatedly prevented His Majesty from dripping blood with King Qing to recognize their relatives!" Before that, there were also Zhu Qin who sacrificed her life to clean up the aftermath for you, but you didn't pay attention to it! ”

"You're saying that I've been to blame for all this?" When the queen said this, Emperor Duanhua behind the scenes finally spoke up, his voice was hoarse, and his tone was cold, "So what do you want me to do now?" ”

Empress Wei coldly swept her eyes left and right: "All go out!" ”

These palace people are all close servants of Emperor Xianjia who were selected by Emperor Duanhua during his lifetime, although everyone now knows that Emperor Duanhua will not end well, but they don't dare to leave because of the queen's reprimand, and they all bowed their heads deeply when they heard the words, and hesitated.

"Stand down!" After Emperor Duanhua gave a faint order, everyone saluted and came out.

"Here's how it is now." Empress Wei watched the door of the palace close behind her, and then she calmed down before she spoke, "Although the person sent by Zhu Qin failed to kill people for you, let alone destroy the corpse, but because Zhu Qin is also dead, the person who impeached you for attempting to murder the emperor's grandmother is also dead without proof - the biggest trouble at the moment is King Qing!" ”

Speaking of this, the queen straightened up and looked at Emperor Duanhua through the brocade curtain, her eyes were full of determination, "Please also ask Your Majesty to issue an edict!" ”

This is as it should be - in fact, it is difficult to save Emperor Duanhua's imperial road.

Therefore, Empress Wei's request is not over, "And it is passed on to the crown prince, and since then he has retired to the deep palace, not asking about the affairs of the previous dynasty!" ”

Behind the curtain of the "......" brocade, Emperor Duanhua was silent.

"Your Majesty, this is the best choice for our family of three at the moment!" Sensing the emperor's hesitation, Empress Wei raised her eyebrows and said sharply, "The first emperor was famous in Weijiahai during his lifetime, and as the queen mother said, everyone knows that the first emperor favored you the most during his lifetime!" In order for you to succeed to the throne, I did not hesitate to pass on my only son-in-law to Uncle Suhui! And now you gave birth to King Qing with the warm mother concubine who accompanied the first emperor the most before his death - no matter how this happened, the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty have already seen the result, even if they temporarily let you go last night under the secondment of the imperial grandmother and Gu Xiang! ”

"But now the night is over, and the hour is nearly noon!"

"Outside the palace gate, there are already a lot of people, waiting for news!"

"After a while, if you don't have an explanation for them, they will definitely rush into the palace to explain!"

"The concubine is here to say something very rebellious: with the prestige that His Majesty has established in the country in the past two years since he ascended the throne, it is no longer enough to suppress this matter!"

"Now that the Su family has fallen into the ground, that person Lu Hehao is also ready to move!"

"And the imperial grandmother is fueling the troubles - Your Majesty, if you, the emperor, want to do it again, it's very difficult, very difficult, very difficult!"

"And if you don't pass the throne to the crown prince before the ministers force the palace, then the prince will inevitably be affected by you, and it is almost hopeless to ascend the throne!"

"If the new monarch is not the crown prince, but the concubine Lu Hehao or King Su, whether it is you, the concubine, or the prince, what will happen to you, Your Majesty, please think about it!"

"But if you offer to abdicate now for repentance, you can at least gain the understanding of some of your courtiers and preserve the last dignity!"

"When the time comes, the crown prince will inherit the throne, you are the biological father of the prince, and of course the emperor, can the prince not honor you?!"

This will be a critical situation, and Empress Wei also confessed, "You don't have to worry about what the concubine or the Wei family will do to you after the crown prince ascends the throne - because of what happened last night, you have already ruined your reputation!" Even if you become the emperor, it is impossible to compete with the prince for power, and the concubine and the Wei family, why can't you be tolerated? The concubine has never been a narrow-minded jealous woman, and His Majesty and the concubine are husband and wife, don't you have any trust at all?! ”

"Even if Your Majesty doesn't trust the concubine, please think about it: you only have one male heir now!"

"What will happen to him if he can't ascend the throne?!"

"Do you want to watch your bloodline be cut off forever?!"

The queen took a deep breath and said in a deep voice, "Time is urgent, I hope Your Majesty will make a quick decision!" ”

At about the same time, Lu Hehao, a servant, was also kneeling on the Qingxi Palace, and calmly explained: "...... The prince has the Wei family, and the king of Su has the Su family, both of which are after the six valves in the sea, although the momentum is not as good as before, but it is also an unfathomable family! Compared to them, the grandson has nothing, but please ask the imperial grandmother to think: If the crown prince or King Su ascends the throne, will this world still be the world of the Lu family? ! ”

Lu Hehao sneered slightly, "The prince has not tied his hair in the year, and King Su is nominally the prince's uncle, but in fact, how many years older than the prince?" No matter what their talents are, age is their biggest problem - especially King Su was basically taught by Su Zhiyong, and his feelings for the Su family can be imagined! ”

"Princess Su is the righteous daughter of the imperial aunt of the Jin Kingdom, and when she was in the boudoir of the eldest princess of the Jin Kingdom in the past, her status was very embarrassing!"

"Even if Ah Xuan and the others read it for the sake of the imperial aunt of the Jin Kingdom and give her a certain amount of support, how can they compare with the Su family?"

"From the point of view of the public, once King Su ascends the throne, the Su family will definitely be the dominant family, and then King Su will either become their puppet, or he will have a fight with them!"

"Even if King Su can win in the end - but the imperial grandmother, please do the math, since the Xianjia Dynasty fought for the crown, the royal family and the court have been undercurrent, although with the support of the princes, it has never harmed the people. However, it is not a long-term solution! His Majesty Emperor Taizu had a difficult time starting a business, how could the sacrifices of the two uncles of Suhui and Xiangjing be neglected? ”

"At that time, I am afraid that even if King Su can monopolize the power, the world will not be able to say that there will be thousands of holes, so that the twenty years of hard work of the first emperor will come to naught!"

"From a private point of view, Princess Su is the pearl of the imperial aunt of the Jin Kingdom, but her temperament is innocent, and she is not suitable for the mother's world!"

"Even if she and King Su's marriage is a happy relationship, first, they are still young now, and second, King Su has never ascended the throne!"

"There is still a Miss Su Liu in the Su family who has never been out of the cabinet, and that is the niece of the queen mother-let me ask the queen mother if she will want the Su family to have another high-ranking concubine in the future, and even, the next step?!"

"Even if the queen mother doesn't think so, what about the Su family?"

"Many years ago, they tried every means to get the queen mother and King Su to seize the prince, is it just for the good of the queen mother and King Su? Don't the Su family want anything in return?! ”

Lu Hehao said hesitantly, "At that time, the fate of Princess Su can be imagined!" And the imperial aunt of the Jin Kingdom, how should she deal with herself?! ”

He was satisfied to see that the Empress Dowager's face became more and more gloomy - the Empress Dowager actually didn't care much about Princess Su's life or death, after all, there were many of her granddaughters and granddaughters.

Princess Su due to her embarrassing background, a few years before leaving the cabinet, under the persuasion of the eldest princess of the Jin Kingdom, began to participate in the palace banquet.

It shows the estrangement of Princess Su.

But the Empress Dowager can't help but consider the mood of the eldest princess of the Jin Kingdom - among her biological children, such a person is still alive!

If you haven't experienced it yourself, you can't understand what kind of life is worse than death for a white-haired person to send a black-haired person.

In particular, the Empress Dowager has sent away a full ten black-haired people so far - if the eldest princess of the Jin Kingdom is also ahead of her, the Empress Dowager feels that she might as well go to see the ancestors of Darui first!

So in the eyes of others, in the overall situation now, Princess Su seems to be nothing.

But in the consideration of the Queen Mother, this granddaughter is a key point that cannot be ignored!

"Let's talk about the prince." After Lu Hehao violently shook the Empress Dowager's plan to support King Su's accession to the throne, he continued, "If the crown prince inherits the throne, with the queen's personality, he will definitely try to retain Gu Shao, so as to use his prestige to balance the rest of the people, so as to ensure that the prince can smoothly govern in the future!" ”

"Such a queen's maiden family, and Hongzhou Gu, who was born in Gu Shao, are not worried about the future, but what are the benefits for the younger generations you care about, grandmother?"

Not only is it not beneficial, Lu Hehao sneered slightly and reminded the Empress Dowager of one thing, "Before, because the Song Lu clan participated in the murder of the emperor's aunt of the country, his children were also involved in the official sale into slavery - Jiang Nantang is now extinct!" And everyone knows that Gu Shao and Song Ying, the head of the previous generation of Jiangnan Hall, have a good relationship! Song Yuan, the previous head of the Jiangnan Hall, was once regarded as a parent by Gu Shao! After Song Yuan's death, after Song Lu's assassination of Princess Wei in the name of his mother-in-law Pang Shi, Gu Shao immediately entered the palace to intercede for him, which is an example! ”

"Of course, even if Gu Shao regrets his old friends and descendants, he definitely doesn't have the courage to retaliate against you!"

"But Ah Xuan and his wife, whether they will be angry or not, it's hard to say!"

"After all, Brother and Sister Song are the concubines of Jiangnan Tang, but in this matter, they have always stood by and watched Jiang Nantang, but they only went back to the Song Mansion once, and they didn't even come to intercede with you once, and they didn't even say anything about asking your subordinates to be merciful!"

"My brother and sister did this, of course, because she was not treated well in the Song family, and she was unwilling to make you sad for the blame of this mother's family. But—"

"Gu Shao was born in a family, and he is the most particular about the same qi and branches, after this incident, his impression of Brother and Sister Song can be imagined!"

"Everyone in the world knows that Ah Xuan loves his wife and daughter, and he once rebelled against His Majesty for wanting to kill Brother and Sister Song, but do you know if he will be harmed by Gu Shao because of Brother and Sister Song in the future?"

Although this is unlikely, because Gu Shao is not a madman - no matter how good he is with Song Ying, the tragedy of the Song family is not caused by Song Yixiao, and the Song family is not good to Song Yixiao, Song Yixiao is unwilling to take the risk of offending her husband and the Empress Dowager to speak for the Song family, is it not a matter of course?

How could Gu Shao be irrational enough to face a marquis for this?

But the Empress Dowager must also take into account that if one day, Gu Shaoquan is in the opposition, and the Yanhou Mansion has become an ordinary nobleman because of the loss of his protection from the eldest princess of the Jin Kingdom, Gu Shao is not troublesome to deal with at all, and the effort of his hands can make his heart happy, and he can't say that one day on a whim, he will discipline his unfilial granddaughter for his old friend?

And the younger generations that the Empress Dowager cares about are not only Jian Xubai, Lu Hehao said again, "There is also Uncle Qiu!" ”

"Uncle Cousin has a straightforward temperament, and when he fought for the prince in the previous dynasty, he offended His Majesty's descendants!"

"The prince is now old and can remember, he has been exposed to it since he was a child, do you know what he thinks of Uncle Qiu?"

"After all, although you have always been very fond of the prince, the great-eldest grandson, the prince has not had much contact with you, and there is Empress Wei, the biological mother, who is pointing by the side, coupled with the Wei family's support, do you think the prince will definitely read it for the sake of flesh and blood and give the Qiu family a way out?!"

The Empress Dowager heard this with a pale face, and suddenly spoke: "You said that it was not good for the crown prince to ascend the throne with King Su, just to recommend yourself!" But I don't know if the mourning family supports you to ascend the throne, what are the benefits for the country and private? ”

Lu Hehao had a slight smile on his face, but his eyes were solemn: he knew that his next answer would directly determine whether he was qualified to win the unique throne!