Chapter 52: The Salted Fish Eating Melons 24
Judging from the current situation, Li Siniang's situation is okay, after all, she is not favored, so there are not many people who have interests with her, and there are few people who target her, so that she can at least live a peaceful life.
At most, it is necessary to pay attention to the show girls who came in at the same time as her, and to prevent them - once Li Siniang gets the opportunity to sleep, the first people who will not be able to get along with her are not those old people, but these newcomers, especially those who have not yet got the opportunity to sleep, may have resentment, and then find trouble with Li Siniang, Linlang is mainly concerned about these people.
In fact, the most powerful fight in the palace and outside the palace is still the battle for the big position, and the fight between the women in the palace is nothing.
As the princes slowly came of age, and the queen had no sons, the battle for the throne began.
In fact, the queen had a son before, but she didn't stand it.
The ostensible reason is that the child was young and died of a cold disease, but the queen always suspected that her son was killed by someone, so over the years, she has been looking for the truth.
This is understandable, even if she really died of illness, the queen lost her only son, and she couldn't accept it, in order to find an outlet, she felt that someone else killed her, and then it was normal to find the truth with this as the goal.
It is precisely because the queen has been looking for the truth that she will manage the palace very strictly, otherwise she will have a son, and it is estimated that her energy will be on taking care of her son, and she will not have so much time to manage the harem.
also said that judging from the news that Linlang let her flying monitoring bee find out, the queen's suspicion is really not groundless, because the queen's son, although it is true that he was sick because of the wind cold, but the cause of death was by no means the wind cold, but was chronically poisoned.
It was already cold, and it was not good for a while, coupled with chronic poison, weak physique, and poor immunity, so I hung up.
There was even more than one murderer.
This is also normal.
In the case that the queen has a son, and other people give birth to sons, even if they are ambitious, they basically don't have to fight, because the emperor generally does not have a son.
If you really want not to set up a concubine, you will generally abolish the queen first, as long as the queen's son automatically loses the identity of the concubine, you can set up other princes as princes.
Otherwise, if the queen is still there and does not set up a concubine, the ministers will have something to say, which is more troublesome.
But at that time, the emperor did not reveal the intention of abolishing the queen, that is, the emperor was not disgusted with this concubine, and appointed the other party as the prince, and the emperor did not object.
And this is obviously not what other concubines with children want to see, because many people obviously don't want to be crowded in a palace with other emperors and concubines after the emperor's death, but want to be the queen mother, enjoy a palace alone, and the scenery of the second half of their lives.
In this way, it is clear that the empress's son must die.
Therefore, it is normal for someone to do something in the queen's medicine during his son's illness.
In fact, they had long wanted the queen's son to die, but before the age of seven, the queen's son lived with the queen, and the queen was strict, so naturally no one did anything about it.
After the age of seven, the queen's son was older, and he could not continue to live in the harem, so he moved to the prince's office, so these people had a chance to start, which is also the reason why the queen's son died later.
Since the queen's guess is true, Linlang feels that if she has the opportunity, she will reveal this to the queen, the reason why she did this is because those few harmful concubines, their sons, after Linlang's observation, there is no good thing, and their mother and concubine are really in the same vein, and then it is not a good thing for the world to really let such a prince take the throne, she still wants to stay in this place, naturally she doesn't want to see such a prince ascend to the throne, and then the world will be in chaos, so that her life is not peaceful.
Since they don't want them to take the throne, they naturally have to tell the queen about the good things their mother has done, so that this matter can be exposed.
Poisoning the emperor's heir, those concubines will definitely not survive, and if they commit a crime, it will be impossible for those princes to take the throne, after all, a prince whose mother concubine is a murderer cannot be the emperor in the future.
Of course, there is no need to worry that the queen can't deal with those concubines and princes, as long as she gets the evidence that those concubines harmed her son, she has the ability to clean up those concubines and make their sons unable to take the throne, and then she doesn't have to worry about those princes taking the throne and causing chaos in the world and damaging her peace.
And now it seems that the time is almost there.
The daughter of the third aunt entered the palace.
Of course, it doesn't mean to give the evidence to the third aunt's daughter and let her give it to the queen, when the queen owes her favors, so that she can soar in the palace.
This is indeed a shortcut that is easy to develop, but Linlang is not very clever when she sees the daughter of the third aunt, so don't let her do such a thing, lest she leak the news, startle the snake, and let those concubines clean their tails, which is not good.
Moreover, it is too dangerous for her to tell the queen, and once it is known, it is easy to attract death.
And Linlang naturally didn't want to hurt the third aunt's daughter.
So Linlang said that the third aunt's daughter entered the palace, considering that the third aunt's daughter only sealed a talented person, mainly because the above seat was filled by those old people and concubines, the old man did not make mistakes, and was demoted to the cold palace or given a white silk, the emperor did not let the old man vacate the seat for the newcomer, so the newcomer's position was lower, and they could only wait for the old man to make a mistake or pass away before they could go up.
The reason why this is so is because the emperor of this dynasty is not the kind of person who does what he wants, he is more obedient to the rules of the number of concubines established by his ancestors, and he doesn't intend to like anyone, so he seals people in high positions, regardless of whether the high positions are full or not.
In the past, there were emperors like this, obviously there were a number of concubines of all levels, but people didn't care at all, often there were more than a dozen concubines, not to mention the number of concubines below the concubine position.
Since the emperor of this dynasty is not the kind of person who does what he wants and abides by the rules, if the old man does not make a mistake or dies, once the seat above is filled, the position of the newcomer will be very low, and he will have to wait slowly before he has the opportunity to go up.
Linlang saw that Li Siniang's recent performance was not bad, and she didn't do anything bad, even if she wanted to please the emperor, it was also within the scope of healthy competition, so she wanted to help her.
In this way, she will not be favored in the future, but if there are a few vacant seats above, maybe she will have a chance to rise a little higher.
With such a high position, even if she is not favored and cannot bring any glory to the family, at least, her treatment in the palace can be better.
If there are several vacant seats, and she can't be promoted, then there is no way, anyway, she created an opportunity for her.