422 Old Tricks
Empress Dowager Cui had already planned it, so she let Cui Zhen and Zhao Yao cultivate a relationship, and then cook raw rice and mature rice!
With the fame and status of the Cui family, and the relationship between Zhao Yao and Cui Zhen as the foundation, this time she wants to make Wang Linzhi's daughter even worse than she was at the beginning!
"You remember, the position of the queen is actually nothing at all, this woman, after arriving in the harem, the battle has just begun.
Cui Zhen pursed her lips and smiled, "I know, didn't Gu Ming's aunt be abolished back then?" Not only did he never give birth to a child, but he watched the emperor favor Concubine Wu Hui alone.
But their Cui family daughter will definitely not be as incompetent as the Wu family girl, she has been favored for 20 years, and she is actually on the verge of falling out of favor in old age.
It's really hard to know what to say.
However, with the lessons of her failures, her path is wider.
"Auntie, don't worry, I will definitely persuade the emperor and remind him which is closer and farther."
Empress Dowager Cui kindly touched Cui Zhen's head, "Yao'er has always been filial, and you have always been a good boy who knows the general situation, if you don't say these things, he also knows." ”
The implication is that she should not go too far, that is the emperor, not the object of teaching a lesson casually.
Cui Zhen winked at her, "Don't worry, the teaching grandma at home has also reminded me countless times that the most important thing in being a man is my duty and remembering my position." ”
Empress Dowager Cui nodded with satisfaction.
As soon as Cui Zhen lived in Shou'an Palace, she lived from summer to autumn.
It is said that during this time, Zhao Yao ruthlessly rejected many of Gu Yue's twists and turns in front of hundreds of officials.
Empress Dowager Cui's smile gradually increased.
She was really angry before, and she actually thought of bringing the Cui family to fight against the Gu family and the eldest princess's mansion, no wonder her good third uncle would directly reduce the part of the expenses allocated to her by the Cui family by more than half.
She was really confused by Zhao Tong's dead ghost!
actually wanted to influence Zhao Yao from the government and politics, a cautious person like him must think that she wanted to seize power, right?
It's good now, as soon as Cui Zhen enters the palace, the interests of the Cui family are the same as hers.
She is a little grateful to Zhao Tong at this time, if he really married Cui Zhen for Zhao Yao, how can she be the queen mother now?
Empress Dowager Cui is laughing almost in a dream!
When people are proud, they are easy to get carried away.
Empress Dowager Cui knows this truth, but she also has self-confidence, she must be the one who will not get carried away!
Thinking about the grievances she suffered back then, now she will definitely find it slowly, the same, from Gu Ming.
As soon as Empress Dowager Cui was happy, she summoned Gu Ming to the palace, and enthusiastically insisted on keeping her in the palace.
When Zhao Yao was in front of those palace maids, he treated these two ladies equally, and when no one saw it, he was naturally closer to Cui Zhen.
Although Gu Ming is also beautiful, no, it should be said that she is more beautiful than Cui Zhen, but after all, she is too young to be as empathetic as Cui Zhen, nor is she as good at coaxing him as Cui Zhen.
When Empress Dowager Cui knew the news, she felt that her breath was smooth.
But she was too happy, and the day after Gu Ming returned from the palace, there was a matter of Yu Shi starting to impeach Cheng Engong for embezzling ink.
This matter has to start from the time when Master Cui San took charge of the treasury for Emperor Changsheng, and from that time to now, a total of nearly 10 million taels of silver have been embezzled!
In fact, some of them went into Emperor Changsheng's private treasury, and even Zhao Tong's uncle embezzled a lot when he was the prince, but now there is no proof of death!
When Empress Dowager Cui learned the news, she took the initiative to ask Zhao Yao to copy the Cui family.
Wang Shenyuan took people there, and only copied 30,000 or 40,000 yuan of family property in Cui's house.
Many officials began to intercede for the Cui family.
Zhao Yao retained the title of Duke of Cheng'en, and only exempted him from the errand of minting money.
But the next day, Master Cui San fell ill in bed and died within a few days.
To be exact, Master Cui San is angry!
The nearly one million taels of silver he put in the two courtyards were turned over by Gu Yue in the name of catching thieves and handed over to the treasury.
"The emperor has the protection of heaven and the will of the people, so no matter what you do, it will be very smooth." Gu Yue said.
Zhao Yao was very happy, and rewarded Gu Yue with a lot of things.
As soon as Master Cui San died, his son Cui Hongfei attacked Jue.
This would have been a pretty good thing.
Cui Hongfei's marriage was decided by the Empress Dowager Cui and married the daughter of the Ministry of Works.
Empress Dowager Cui is very optimistic about this nephew.
The eldest princess of Yongfu and Wei Ming, who had not returned to Beijing for many years, returned to the palace, claiming that the Cui family treated the eldest princess Anding harshly and wanted to take people out of the Cui family.
The Cui family naturally disagreed, and the two families fought the lawsuit from Zongzheng Temple to Dali Temple, but no one dared to draw conclusions.
Choi Jin began to build a grass hut in front of her father's grave.
This matter was spread by the Cui family, and Cui Zhen suddenly became a person of filial piety.
In a blink of an eye, time changed from late autumn to midsummer, and a cowherd accidentally broke into the grass house of Miss Cui's family, and as a result, he bumped into a woman who was giving birth inside, and was chased and beaten by the Cui family's subordinates, and was bumped into by the Gu family's quadruplets who asked the son of the Beijing Shi family to cool off.
After asking for a long time, the next person just squeaked and refused to say, and then everyone kindly invited a doctor to help deliver the child.
After the good deeds of the sons were done, they reacted, how could there be a woman who had a child in the grass house of filial piety?
After sending someone to investigate, someone actually identified that the woman who gave birth was none other than Cui Zhen.
This matter was spread widely, which made the Cui family lose face, Cui Hongfei wanted to sink Cui Zhen's mother and son into the pond, and she confided that this was Zhao Yao's child.
The Cui family actually gave birth to the emperor's eldest son!
The eldest princess of Qingyang angrily broke into Cui's house, pointed at Cui Zhen and asked if it was true.
The eldest princess of Qingyang is now more and more vigorous, and Cui Zhen is very cooperative to ask what to answer.
Mother is more expensive than child, she is not afraid of anything!
The eldest princess of Qingyang didn't say a word, and directly brought Cui Zhen's mother and son to the palace, and asked Yue Yao if she was the father of the child.
Zhao Yao saw the murderous appearance of the eldest princess of Qingyang, and said with a righteous face: "I have never done anything like that at all!" ”
The eldest princess of Qingyang directly ordered someone to beat Cui Zhen to death in front of Zhao Yao, and asked people to send the child to the Cui family.
Cui Hongfei made a straight face and blew the person away, but the people of the eldest princess's mansion left the baby behind.
Cui Hongfei told outsiders that the child had been drowned, but he was secretly raised by him.
But in this way, the Cui family's reputation is a little bad.
What made the Cui family feel even more wronged was that the eldest princess of Qingyang died after returning home.
It is said that he was angry with the Cui family.
At this time, Zhao Yao wanted to protect the Cui family again, and he was embarrassed to open his mouth.
Poor Zhao Yao, Xu was stupid by the methods of the eldest princess of Qingyang, and it didn't take long for her to fall ill and she couldn't get out of bed.