It didn't take much effort for Hai Xiya and Xie Wenzai to convince General Wednesday.

When they came home in the evening, they couldn't stop smiling on their faces. In addition to joy, there was a bit of surprise in their expressions, but they didn't say much.

Haijiao pestered the second uncle Hai Chang'an for a long time to inquire about it afterwards, and only then did he know what was going on.

He quietly told his sister Haitang: "It turns out that the Zhou family has long wanted to have a relationship with Master Tao Yue Tao!" I just haven't been able to find a chance. They will always take care of Uncle Xie, in fact, it is also because they know that Uncle Cousin and their group of exiled officials were all quietly greeted by Lord Tao and were arranged to come to the northwest! ”

Empress Dowager Zhou refused to posthumously crown Concubine Tao Hui, and the Zhou family was actually a little uneasy. It's just that the Queen Mother insisted, and it was not good to persuade her to be a brother. But they were not dissatisfied with the Tao family, and even a little ashamed. As border generals, they are not good at interfering in the affairs of the imperial court, and because of the face of the Queen Mother, it is inconvenient for them to take the initiative to show goodwill to the Tao family, but they will still do something in private to express friendship to the young family members of the Tao family.

Xie Wenzai would greet Tao Yue and let himself and a group of friends be exiled to the northwest, mainly because he knew that his cousin Hai Xiya's wife's maiden family was in Chang'an, and she had a lot of connections and could provide him with shelter. It is impossible for them to stay in a big city like Chang'an, but as long as someone takes care of them, they can go to those border towns with relatively good conditions, and their lives will not be too difficult.

But Haixiya was just a low-level petty official at that time, although the Yue family was capable, but they didn't mean to help, or the Zhou family secretly did something, Xie Wenzai and others were able to stay in the guards around Chang'an and do some not heavy work. When no one in Beijing pays attention to these exiles, they can go back to Chang'an to recuperate.

Haixiya thought that it was Xie Wenzai's meritorious work during the war that he won the blue eyes of the Zhou family, but he didn't expect that the Zhou family had actually taken care of them secretly from the beginning. It's just that their side is in a difficult situation, and Haixi Cliff is a lowly official, so the Zhou family didn't alarm him, but just passed the news to Tao Yue in private.

Tao Yueming didn't say anything on his face, but when someone in Beijing said bad things about the Zhou family in front of the emperor, he would never join in the fun, but would advise the emperor: be respectful to the queen mother, even if it is for outsiders to see, you can't let the subjects of the world feel that the emperor is an unfilial person; It is better to be tolerant of the meritorious heroes who have the merit of support, so that more courtiers can be loyal to the emperor. Besides, the border generals only need to focus on military affairs, once they start to meddle in the affairs of the DPRK and China, they will get a bad head, and other generals will follow suit in the future, can the royal family still have a peaceful life?

The emperor also listened to Tao Yue's words, no matter how much dissatisfaction he had in his heart, he still did the superficial work of the Empress Dowager Zhou and the Zhou family, and the bad things were all done by traitors, and they had nothing to do with him.

It can be seen that Tao Yue's overtures to the Zhou family are well known and reciprocated.

It's just that the Zhou Tao family is hindered by the queen mother and the emperor, and the relationship only ends there. They didn't have a friendship on the surface, and the two families met in social situations, and they were polite to each other, but there would be no more contacts. Besides, Tao Yue's career has been dull for many years, and now he is just a little Jiuqing. No matter how long the Holy Favor is, he doesn't have much real power! Since Tao Yue couldn't help the Zhou family with anything, and his attitude was still cold, the Zhou family no longer actively contacted him.

Until now, he has become the chief minister of the peace talks.

As soon as the list of officials for the peace talks came in, the Zhou family first exchanged ideas within themselves, and unanimously agreed that they needed to pick up their "friendship" with Tao Yue again, and they must let the other party know how important this peace talks were, and how much impact the results of the peace talks would have on the military and civilians in the northwest and the people of the imperial court. In any case, they cannot allow Sun Ge's old henchmen among the officials in the peace talks to control the outcome of the peace talks. Sun Ge Lao advocated the policy of abandoning the border, so that the northwest was about to lose control of the two states of Gua and Sha, and the Zhou family had no way to trust his people.

It's just that the Zhou family and the Tao family have had a weak friendship for many years, how can they get closer to Tao Yue? Many years ago, a little "friendship" was not good, and he always came up with things, but Xie Wenzai and the three former exiles stranded in the northwest were very good messengers.

Even if Hai Xiya and Xie Wenzai didn't go to General Wednesday, General Wednesday had already been instructed by his father and brother to persuade Xie Wenzai, Cao Gengyun and Lu Bainian to go to see Tao Yue. Hai Xie and the others took the initiative to come to the door, and the general was particularly pleasantly surprised on Wednesday.

If this time it is really through Xie Wenzai and his entourage to get closer to Tao Yue, not only will the peace talks be inclined to the results of the Zhou family, but also get an ally who is in front of the emperor and is quite favored, it will be even more joyful!

As for letting Empress Dowager Zhou change her mind...... On Wednesday the general himself did not think it was a big problem.

In the past 30 years, the Zhou family has been privately persuading the Empress Dowager Zhou, and the Empress Dowager Zhou has long had the intention of turning around. It's just that in the early years, the emperor was dissatisfied with the Queen Mother, and many times he just pretended to be filial and concerned in front of people, but in fact he didn't have much true feelings at all, so the Queen Mother was also a little annoyed. She felt that she was not biological, and she really didn't have sincerity, if she promised to let the emperor respect her biological mother as the queen mother, wouldn't he even be more and more unwilling to do superficial work? Then how much dignity does she have left in the palace? So the Empress Dowager Zhou asked her mother's family not to mention the matter again.

When Empress Wu's mother and son died tragically, Sun Guifei did not receive any punishment, and was even expected to be crowned, the queen mother was even more dissatisfied with the emperor, so she simply closed the palace door to concentrate on worshipping the Buddha. The emperor rarely came to greet her, and she rarely saw outsiders, and even Cheng Enhou and his wife didn't see her a few times a year.

However, it is no secret that the Queen Mother is getting older, and the Zhou family has been suppressed by Sun Ge Lao over the years. For the sake of the future of her parents, the Queen Mother has long intended to repair the relationship with the emperor. After the death of the sixth prince, the emperor fell seriously ill, and the queen mother, despite the opposition of Sun Guifei, forcibly took the emperor back to Cining Palace to take care of him until he recovered. Afterwards, the relationship between the emperor and the empress dowager improved greatly.

The queen mother recommended the maids around her to be a virtuous concubine, and the virtuous concubine also gave birth to the eighth prince, so that the emperor no longer had to worry about the emptiness under his knees. There are virtuous concubines and mothers and sons who said that although the queen mother still rarely sees outsiders, and she refuses to accept the daily greetings of the harem concubines, she has a much kinder attitude towards the emperor, and the number of times the emperor visits the queen mother has also increased, and there will always be a few times a month. Even if there is no one, the emperor will send someone to send a gift of filial piety. The mother and son can barely be called harmonious.

On Wednesday, the general confessed to Haixiya and Xie Wenzai that Concubine Xian had actually spoken to the Queen Mother a long time ago, persuading her to take the initiative to re-mention the matter of chasing the seal, but every time the Queen Mother invited the emperor to speak, when the atmosphere was just right, Sun Guifei always had to make something to lead the emperor away, and afterwards there would be rumors that the emperor connived at Sun Guifei's nonsense, and the Queen Mother was so angry that she didn't want to speak anymore.

But if you think about it carefully, why did the Queen Mother bother to find an opportunity to bring up this matter again? All you need to do is say it when the Emperor comes to greet him. She is willing to nod her head, can the emperor not be grateful for his mother-in-law's kindness? Even if there is Xiaoxiao behind their backs to provoke the relationship between their mother and son, there is still a virtuous concubine.

The Zhou family had already planned to send a letter to Cheng Enhou and his wife, asking them to enter the palace to persuade the Queen Mother again. Don't care about what kind of trouble Sun Guifei has made again, hurry up and tell the emperor that sentence first, and then the things will be easy to do.

The Queen Mother opened this mouth, and it was convenient for the Zhou family to have a relationship with Tao Yue. With Xie Wenzai and them pulling the strings, I believe that Master Tao Yue Tao will be willing to become a friend of the Zhou family.

The reef is confident about this.

He sighed to his sister: "I didn't expect Concubine Xian to already want to be in her head." With her coming forward to persuade the Queen Mother, how much trouble we have saved! ”

Haitang blinked: "Concubine Xian sounds good, it seems that the Queen Mother trusts her quite a bit." ”

Haijiao paused and lowered his voice: "Regarding Concubine Xian, in fact, there have always been rumors that she was actually a married woman before entering the palace......

Begonia's eyes widened.

What?!

Happy National Day~~~~ There are three more on the shelves today~~~~

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