The imperial sedan chair of the Empress Dowager Huayang walks through the Xianyang Palace.

It didn't take long.

The group came to the palace of Madame Zheng.

Seeing Mrs. Zheng's palace, the Empress Dowager Huayang's heart moved, and she suddenly thought of what happened at the Yao Meiren banquet last time.

The relationship between the Empress Dowager Huayang and Madame Zheng has always been very 'close', or to put it more accurately, Madame Zheng has always been dependent on the Empress Dowager Huayang in the harem of Xianyang.

Because the reason why Mrs. Zheng was able to become Yingzheng's concubine was the decision made by the Empress Dowager Huayang, who had just ascended the throne at that time, and had no power in her hands, so she could only let the Empress Dowager Huayang take the throne.

And this is one of the reasons why for so many years, Mrs. Zheng has only been the 'wife' of Yingzheng, not the 'queen'.

Because of this thing.

Although Mrs. Zheng has been nominally Yingzheng's concubine for so many years, she has basically been constrained by the Empress Dowager Huayang in the harem.

It was not until Fusu was born that this situation was alleviated to a certain extent, but it did not have any substantial impact, because the influence of the Empress Dowager Huayang did not come from the identity of the 'Empress Dowager', but from the rights of the 'Chu foreign relatives'.

The Empress Dowager Huayang is the backer of the 'Chu Foreign Qi One Line', and the 'Chu Foreign Qi One Line' is the support of the Huayang Foreign Qi One Line, and the two complement each other.

Therefore, as long as the forces of the 'Chu foreign relatives do not collapse' one day, then Mrs. Zheng will always be suppressed by the Empress Dowager Huayang, and there will never be a day to emerge.

So Mrs. Zheng really began to turn over, which came from the rise of Yingzheng.

The appearance of Mojun made Ying Zheng knock down the two mountains of Lü Buwei and Chang Yu in just two or three years, and pressed the 'Chu foreign relatives and a line' to the ground and blasted the hammer.

The power of the 'Chu foreign relatives lineage' has been greatly reduced, and it has been forced to lead to the restriction of the power of the Empress Dowager Huayang, because Madame Zheng can gradually regain a little voice in the harem.

In addition, not long ago, Fusu was trusted by the King of Qin and obtained the right to 'supervise the country'.

On the other hand, he is old and frail, and he is about to die.

All these factors add up.

It does not seem incomprehensible that Madame Zheng blatantly 'violated' her orders at Yao Meiren's banquet and challenged her position.

Originally, the Empress Dowager Huayang really thought so.

But then after the banquet ended.

The Empress Dowager Huayang gradually sensed that Mrs. Zheng's reaction at that time seemed to be something wrong.

First, according to the Empress Dowager Huayang's understanding of Mrs. Zheng all along, Mrs. Zheng is not a stupid woman, on the contrary, she is very smart and good at forbearance.

And at Yao Meiren's banquet, Madame Zheng was obviously a little too 'naïve', and in that case, making that kind of blatant 'disobedience' to herself would not bring any benefit to Madame Zheng herself except that it would make her dying, an old woman, resentful.

This is not a move that a wise woman can do.

Second, Mrs. Zheng's reaction at that time was a little too intense, in the final analysis, at the banquet of Yao Meiren at that time, the Empress Dowager Huayang just asked Fusu to be by her side and eat with her.

Even if Mrs. Zheng was unwilling, there was no need to react so excitedly.

At that time, Mrs. Zheng gave the Empress Dowager Huayang the feeling that it was not so much that she was resisting her, but that she was 'afraid' of something.

There was a moment of silence.

The Empress Dowager Huayang slowly raised her right hand and asked her subordinates to turn around and walk towards Mrs. Zheng's palace, and just when the Empress Dowager Huayang's imperial sedan chair had just come to the palace of the Empress Dowager Huayang, she suddenly noticed something unusual.

"Why are there so many guards here today?"

"Back to the Empress Dowager, Mrs. Zheng's palace was burglarized a few days ago, and the murderer has not been arrested so far, so additional people have been sent nearby in recent days."

The reply was a guard stationed in front of Madame Zheng's palace.

"Thieves? The dignified Xianyang Palace can still be robbed, what are you all eating? Empress Dowager Huayang was obviously a little displeased.

"The Empress Dowager forgives her sins." The defenders apologized so quickly that it was as if they had been rehearsed beforehand.

"Humph! Our family has no right to deal with you, so when this case is solved, you will go and ask the king for your guilt! ”

The Empress Dowager Huayang snorted coldly, but she did not continue to pursue it.

In fact, this matter was not really taken to heart by the Empress Dowager Huayang, and the reason why she opened her mouth to ask for the crime was just to put on an attitude.

In fact, the Empress Dowager Huayang knows better than anyone that it is impossible to solve a case like this.

Wouldn't there be any burglary in the palace?

No.

Quite the opposite, actually.

In the real palace harem, there are often countless cases of all kinds large and small, but under normal circumstances, for the sake of the emperor's face, most of these cases will be suppressed and then closed.

And the vast majority of these 'cases' in the harem come from open and secret battles between the harem concubines, framed and framed.

Of course.

There are also some real thieves who commit crimes.

After all, this is a world of martial arts, and many of those heroes on the rivers and lakes are proud of committing major crimes in the palaces of various countries.

Although the vast majority of them died on the way to 'commit crimes', there will always be one or two who succeed.

In either case, the chances of such a case being solved are slim to none.

After asking casually, after the transmission, the Empress Dowager Huayang also walked into Mrs. Zheng's palace.

The sudden visit of the Empress Dowager Huayang was undoubtedly a rather unexpected thing for Mrs. Zheng, but at the same time, Mrs. Zheng also felt a trace of panic in her heart.

After all, in the past, if there was something, the Empress Dowager Huayang always directly summoned Mrs. Zheng to Huayang Palace to meet her, and the situation like today's Empress Dowager Huayang took the initiative to come to the door is the first time Mrs. Zheng has met her.

The Empress Dowager Huayang's opinion of Mrs. Zheng is very accurate, that is, Mrs. Zheng is a smart person.

Smart people don't think highly of themselves.

Therefore, Mrs. Zheng knows very well that the real reason for the Empress Dowager Huayang's visit this time is absolutely impossible because Fusu has obtained the right to 'supervise the country' and her status has risen.

"Could it be that the Empress Dowager also noticed it?"

Mrs. Zheng felt a little uneasy, she was not a timid person, but the impact involved in this incident was too great, so big that even Mrs. Zheng felt a little frightened.

Since Yao Meiren's banquet returned, Mrs. Zheng found that she had been watched openly and secretly.

This kind of surveillance made Mrs. Zheng quite uneasy.

However, this uneasiness does not come from the surveillance itself, but from the surveillance, which means that her previous guess is at least eighty percent more likely to be true.

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