When Yu Feng went to the domain, he arranged a secret chess, Chen Xiang took the lead in finding out the truth about the Empress Dowager's supervision, even if he was on the precipice of fighting for power with Qin Xiang, he thought twice, and finally made up his mind to determine the truth to the Son of Heaven, which surprised the Son of Heaven.

Under the question, Chen Xiang actually got the persuasion of Gu Yuwen.

The Son of Heaven immediately sent an edict to Gu Yu and asked, "How did Gu Qing know that Ci'an Palace has the right to supervise the government?" ”

Gu Yuwen knocked on his knees: "Wechen is not sure, but the saint has discussed with Wechen to let the Qin and Chen people control the Ministry of Rites, Wechen thinks so, but after that, it is still Wei Shangshu and Wei Shilang to take office, Wechen has doubts, secretly paid attention to the people who have dealings with the King of Chu, and finally let Wechen get a chance, among the cronies of the King of Chu, there was a former friend of Wechen in Mingshan Academy, although there has been no contact for many years, but can not withstand Wechen taking the initiative to get close, after a drunken, inadvertently revealed that the King of Chu once said that there is the Empress Dowager as a guarantee, and the officials of the Ministry of Rites will not change, Weichen thought about it, he suspected that the Empress Dowager had obtained the secret edict of the first emperor's supervision, with all due respect, the first emperor was sick and bedridden for a long time, and it was really strange that he did not leave an edict to pass on the throne, and it should be a constraint to avoid the reuse of relatives by the Holy Lord, and the Duke of Chu and the Weiguo Mansion obviously acted according to the attitude of the Empress Dowager, and it was inevitable that the first emperor had already known, so it is not difficult to infer the matter of supervision. ”

This analysis not only did not make the Son of Heaven dissatisfied, but regarded Gu Yuwen as a capable minister, but the Son of Heaven was also anxious for a period of time, and secretly moved, wanting to make the Empress Dowager's supervision of the government public on a small scale, in order to brainstorm, but there was still hesitation, Gu Yuwen knew the truth with clues, which actually lifted the dilemma of the Son of Heaven.

But Gu Yuwen asked again, according to him, Chen Xiang is more loyal than Qin Xiang, Qin Xiang is ambitious, whether he knows about this matter, he should think twice.

The Son of Heaven is already suspicious, but in fact, he is also quite wary of Qin Xiang, and has never taken it seriously, and the Chen family is his mother's clan in the end - his wife can be replaced, but his mother can't be changed, and the wife clan and the mother's family are close to each other, and there has never been a difference between the powerful and the powerful.

So Qin Xiang, who was hidden in the dark, used all his strength on the path of "reforming the imperial examination" - he proposed that although the imperial examination was the policy of the first emperor, it was indeed beneficial to the selection of good talents, but there were still imperfections, such as the only way for students from poor families to enter the imperial examination, while the children of the family could still enjoy the grace, so there should be restrictions on the admission of the imperial examination, it is better to provide it completely to the students of the poor family, and limit the participation of the children of the family.

On the surface, it seems to be to strive for more opportunities for poor students, but in fact, once it is implemented, the children of the family will be able to enjoy the grace and grace justifiably, and the opportunities for entering the poor families are very few.

Qin Xiang wanted to use this advice to win a large number of families to pursue him and increase his power.

But Gu Yuwen hit the nail on the head and broke through his sinister intentions, secretly.

The reason why the Son of Heaven did not abolish the imperial examination system that the first emperor had so hard to promulgate was precisely because the imperial examination could cultivate a group of fresh blood, which was completely used by the emperor, how could Qin Xiang be allowed to disturb his selfishness? Gu Yu's opinion once again made the Son of Heaven deeply convinced.

As for Chen Xiang, the family's influence on the family is far less than that of Qin Xiang, although he reined in the precipice in time and looked at the Yan family behind the Empress Dowager, but he couldn't watch the Qin family become powerful, so he also echoed Gu Yuwen's advice.

In this way, Prime Minister Qin's advice was shelved by the Son of Heaven.

Qin Xiang is not a person who is blind-eyed, although Gu Yuwen is careful, Chen Xiang's words and deeds are not much taboo, and he was soon found out by Qin Xiang, in his opinion, Chen Xiang and Gu Yuwen were originally one party - if it weren't for this "Gu Biting Jin", Zhuo Shangshu would have become Zuo Xiang a long time ago, with him and Qin Xiang's eyebrows, the Zhongshu Province has a unified opinion, which is enough to affect the holy judgment.

Qin Xiang suddenly hated Gu Yuwen even more.

However, Chen Xiang has shifted his attention to the Yan family - although the Yan family was a prominent family in the Eastern Ming Dynasty, and there were many queens, but they were not in charge of the army, and their power was not great, so it was said that when the first emperor, the brother of the Empress Dowager Yan was just holding the title of Yongchang Hou, and the children of the clan also had many local experiences, and they had not even entered the six departments, let alone the position and the middle book.

But after the death of the first emperor, Yongchang Hou's eldest son is also the nephew of the Empress Dowager, but was awarded the Hanlin Bachelor, although it is only a five-grade, but in the future, most of the Jinshi who enter the imperial examination will be trained in the Hanlin Academy, with the emperor's emphasis on the selection of the imperial examination, this institution is bound to become the highest group of scholars, the Hanlin Academy was born, and will undoubtedly become synonymous with the Son of Heaven in a short period of time, so as the highest official of the Hanlin Academy, the special status of the bachelor's position is obvious to all, how can the Yan family take hold?

The Son of Heaven must rely on the outstanding talents selected by the imperial examination to replace the old nobles, but he cannot let the empress dowager with the power of supervision and administration to envelop the "rookies".

With the Empress Dowager here, the Weiguo Mansion is as stable as a rock, but the Empress Dowager alone is not worried, of course, she has to attack her family.

Chen Xiang saw that Qin Xiang's plan was frustrated, so he shifted the spearhead.

He fought several tough battles with the Yan family, and the victory was inseparable.

Qin Xiang didn't understand why Chen Xiang was competing with the Yan family, so he just stood by and watched, and the Son of Heaven was angry and gritted his teeth at Qin Xiang's sluggishness.

But Qin Xiang soon got Qin Ziruo's message, and he was enlightened, and immediately showed his sincerity to the Son of Heaven.

So the Son of Heaven knew that Qin Ziruo had made great progress, and his opinion of this girl was raised to a higher level.

But Qin Xiang is so treacherous, although he understands that the Son of Heaven is not in charge of power at this time, his family is one step away from the power of the government and the opposition, although he turned the spearhead in time, he still did not relax his targeting of Chen Xiang.

After all, the Son of Heaven is already in the dragon chair, if Qin and Chen can still make friends on the surface when they are in the hidden mansion, then at this time, the two families have become a strong and weak situation, and it is not far from your life and death.

When Qin Xiang did this, he secretly calculated, and pushed the Chen family in front and directly fired at the Yan family.

The Empress Dowager was suddenly plotted, and her two nephews who had been trained in the local area coincidentally fell into the trap, one was bullied by the people, and the other was investigated for corruption and malpractice.

However, the Empress Dowager did not panic, and carried out self-help in an orderly manner, but the charges of the two nephews were not implemented.

But it has not been completely cleared, and the situation is very stalemate.

Although Wei Guogong is in charge of military power, but military position, unless he decides to coup d'état, he can not use military power to threaten civil officials, although Su Xun is from the literature, but he is not experienced enough and is still young, since the emperor has changed hands, even the qualification to serve the emperor has been deprived, similar to leisure, it will naturally not have any impact on Wenchen. Although Su Ke is a civil servant, the second master is a typical noble scribe, who has never participated in the party struggle in the court, and his role is limited. Su Yi is both civil and military, and once became a cabinet bachelor with the same name as Yu Feng, but at this time he was also snubbed by the Son of Heaven, the third master is not as loyal to the country as Wei Guogong, and he has Yu Feng's will, for the problem of the Empress Dowager, he is at a loss, so he can only manage the connections in his hands and not let the Yan family's crimes be implemented.

The Empress Dowager also knew that the fourth master, Su Ming, was a "rookie", and he was a concubine who only recognized his ancestors and returned to his ancestors not long ago, and his ability was even more limited.

But the Empress Dowager is not a weak woman, otherwise the first emperor would not have assured that she would be in charge, and at this time, Yu Feng handed over the secret information of the Chen family who was secretly spying on Tianchawei, so that the Empress Dowager saw the hope of "breaking through"-

Chen Xiangyan's eldest daughter Chen, that is, the former emperor's concubine and the current queen mother, is actually a concubine!

After Chen Xiang became famous, he was actually a scum who spoiled his concubine and killed his wife.

At the same time, Chen Xiang's favorite concubine was also pregnant, and the two gave birth to a daughter within ten days, in fact, "each gave birth to a daughter" This statement is not very accurate, because the wife gave birth to a "demon fetus", the fetus is actually "two heads and four hands and four legs", and it was still a live baby when it was born, which made Chen Xiang panic, and immediately drowned the eldest daughter of the child, and claimed to have died - if it was just that, it would be okay, after all, this was too terrifying, For other families, it can probably only be like this.

But Chen Xiang was bewitched by the concubine, not only drowned the eldest daughter, but also let the wife die of a "postpartum blood collapse", and used this as a threat to force the wife's family to allow the concubine to be corrected - according to the etiquette law, in addition to the royal family, if the concubines of ordinary families want to be corrected, they must win the approval of the mother's family.

If the wife's family objects, then Chen Xiang will announce that the wife gave birth to a "demon fetus", which will make it difficult for the daughters of the in-laws to marry.

But Chen Xiangzheng's wife's family is not easy to handle, and he bites back, claiming that if Chen Xiang tears his face, then they will definitely say that Chen Xiang's concubine killed his wife and did slanderous things.

In the end, Chen Xiang's father came forward to calm the matter and put the concubine to death, but the daughter of the concubine became the daughter of Chen Xiang's wife, and the one who "died" became a concubine.

Then Chen Xiang married another girl, who was also a sister-in-law, and the two families were still in-laws, and the two sides were reconciled, and no one mentioned this old case again.

However, the eldest son of the main wife's eldest son knew the personnel back then, and he hated the noble concubine who forced his biological mother to death, and he has always been angry with the "sister-in-law" Empress Dowager Chen.

This eldest son is now serving as a senator in the middle school.

When the Queen Mother was in her early teens, she thought of a way, so that the Queen Mother was infected with a serious disease, and the elders in the family had to endure the pain to send the Queen Mother to her ancestral home to recuperate.

After reading Yu Feng's secret advice, the Empress Dowager sneered: "No wonder this is the case." ”

This made Aunt Ru on the side keep it in mind, and secretly informed Wei Zhao, so that she could know about the prince through Wei Shangshu.

Of course, it is impossible for the Empress Dowager to turn over the old case, even if it is proved that the Empress Dowager is a concubine, she cannot be deprived of the honor of being the biological mother of the Son of Heaven, and there is no solid evidence to use the old case to attack Chen Xiang, even the father of the wife who died unjustly, it is impossible to stand up and prove it.

However, the Empress Dowager understood that Senator Chen and the Empress Dowager, the brothers and sisters of the "One Mother Compatriots", were actually separated from each other.

That's where it works.

Although Chen Xiang's stepfamily later had two sons-in-law, there were many deficiencies compared to Senator Chen, that is, Chen Xiang, whose connections were not as broad as the eldest son, Senator Chen was actually the pillar of the Chen family, but because the Queen Mother had the opportunity to give birth to a prince, for the sake of the family and his own power, Senator Chen had to give in and assist Jinshang.

The Empress Dowager's plan was to encircle Senator Chen and divide the Chen family.

I have to say that the Empress Dowager does have a unique vision, in fact, Senator Chen has a grudge against his biological father and the Queen Mother, although his biological mother gave birth to a "demon fetus", but he is normal, obviously this is not the responsibility of the mother alone, if it is not for the greedy concubine, and Chen Xiang spoils the concubine and kills his wife, the biological mother will not die, with the hatred of killing his mother, how can Senator Chen and the Queen Mother be filial piety to brothers and friends? Helplessly, although he assassinated the Queen Mother, Xu is Queen Mother really had a heavenly protection, and she still let her get rid of her ancestral hometown and was elected as the prince's side concubine, and later she was registered as a concubine.

Because of family pressure, Senator Chen had to do his best for King Qing.

But at this time, the Empress Dowager stretched out a friendly palm to him, giving him another choice.

In fact, Senator Chen did not think that the Son of Heaven had the ability to eradicate the Patriotic Mansion and take back the power.

He's actually been on the sidelines.

This is also the main reason why when the Son of Heaven was still fighting for the storage position in the Qiandi, the Chen family did not do their best.

Not to mention that at this time, Qin Xiang had completely torn off the mask of his loyal ministers and revealed his face of power desire, even if the Chen family could defeat the Empress Dowager and Wei Guogong, they would be with the Qin family in the blink of an eye.

Once Senator Chen had a better choice, he immediately rejuvenated old grievances and new concerns, why did he have to die for the son who killed his mother?

If you can get the support of the Queen Mother, maybe it will be a different kind of anger, and you won't be so aggrieved.

After Senator Chen swayed for a short time, the trend towards the Empress Dowager became more and more obvious, and the Yan family had more respite.

This made the Son of Heaven very dissatisfied with the Chen family, so Qin Xiang couldn't hold back and fell into the well.

At present, the situation in Jinyang seems to show that the three families of Chen, Qin, and Yan are fighting, and it is really like a mess, and the Weiguo Mansion, which was originally placed on the cusp of the limelight, has become an idler.

But another son of heaven, Xinchen, did not neglect the Patriotic Mansion because of this.

This is the yellow pottery that has now entered the Beijing Guard.