Chapter 285: Companions
The reef had no idea about the death of the Six Princes.
In his last life, when he became a secret agent of Jinyi Wei in the capital, it was already several years later.
At that time, the battle for the throne between the eighth prince and the prince of Ji Wang had become white-hot, and the Sun family seemed to be powerful, but in fact it was already going downhill, and the Jinyi guards began to spy on their henchmen with secret agents.
The emperor was very dissatisfied with the Sun family's strong support for the return of the prince of Ji. It's just that his illness worsened at that time, and he was unable to hold the power of the court, and no one among the hundred officials could compete with Sun Ge Lao, and the clan was still behind King Ji's son, so that he was unable to overpower the opposition and made his youngest son the eighth prince a prince.
However, there is no contradiction between the prince of Ji and the Sun family. The main reason is that the relationship between the concubine Sun and her husband is not good, there are disputes from time to time, and there are no heirs for a long time; And King Ji has another favorite concubine, but this concubine lost the child in her womb twice in a row because of the Sun family.
Because he has no children under his knees, King Ji has a lot of dissatisfaction with the princess and the Sun family, and always hopes that the Sun family will give in.
But the Sun family spent so much effort to support the prince of Ji, who the emperor didn't like, just so that the emperor and grandson with the blood of the Sun family could become the future prince and even the king of a country? If the heir of King Ji is not the grandson of the Sun family, then wouldn't their years of hard work be in vain? !
The Sun family can only continue to support King Ji to restore his status as a prince and establish a prince, while persuading Princess Ji to change her mind and at least give birth to a son for her husband!
When neither the prince of King Ji nor the princess of King Ji could satisfy the Sun family, the Sun family and their henchmen naturally inevitably mentioned the six princes born to Sun Guifei.
This is the grandson of the real Sun family, and he has always been close to the Sun family, and his age is more appropriate. If it weren't for his early death, why would the Sun family go to great lengths to promote an unreliable prince of King Ji? This is either a biological prince, or it is not as reliable as a biological one.
Look at the Empress Dowager Zhou's promotion of her concubine to be the emperor, and how did the emperor treat the Empress Dowager Zhou and the Zhou family? There is such an example, and the followers of the Sun family are not less worried that King Ji will turn his face and deny people in the future.
Not to mention that at that time, King Ji and his wife had not yet given birth to an heir with the blood of the Sun family, even if the princess of King Ji really had a son and was made the heir, who can say for sure what will happen in the future? Maybe King Ji is really on the throne, so he will cross the river and tear down the bridge! Didn't Emperor Deguang become the emperor and refuse to appoint the queen's concubine with the blood of the Zhou family as the prince? When the prince of Ji sits on the throne, who can guarantee that the grandson of the Sun family will not follow in the footsteps of the prince? Being a father is not grateful, is it possible that a son is a good person who knows how to repay his kindness? He hasn't recovered his status as a prince yet, and he already dislikes the daughter of the Sun family.
There was a lot of discussion within the Sun family's faction, but no matter who mentioned the Six Princes, they just regretted that he died too early, and no one said that he was murdered. Even people who are not used to seeing Sun Guifei and the Sun family are at most talking about "karma" behind their backs.
"Sun Guifei killed other people's heirs, and her own heirs must not die well, this is God's punishment for her evil deeds."
This is the most accepted statement.
The outside world generally agrees that the six princes died in an accident, but it is impossible to say how this accident came about. Most people think it is providence, and some people, especially the Sun family, suspect that someone has done something deliberate. However, because there are not one or two palace concubines and princes that Sun Guifei once persecuted, and there are countless people offended by the Sun family, it is not easy to lock this suspect.
The Sun family was suspicious of the Zhou family, but they felt that the Empress Dowager Zhou would not take such a big risk for the descendants of her deceased sister, and their eyes and ears in the palace did not find any changes in the Empress Dowager Zhou; Then they suspected the Liu family, but Concubine Liu Shu was dead, the Liu family had decayed, and the most prominent person in the family had gone to the border to become an official, and it was impossible to reach out to the palace; Then they suspected the clan, because at that time, the six princes were already the only heirs under the emperor's knees, and as soon as he died, the emperor had no queen, and he was likely to succeed the clan, among which King Ji and King An, the two princes who had fought with the emperor, were the most suspicious. It's a pity that the Sun family didn't find any evidence, and later chose to support the return of King Ji's son to the sect and formed a cooperative relationship with King Ji's mansion. The doubts that had existed were naturally gone.
Haijiao only knows so much about the death of the six princes. It was the first time he heard today that Concubine Sun Guifei had believed that the murderer was from Cining Palace and related to the Wu family, and it just so happened that in the years when Cining Palace was closed and closed, she took in the three survivors of the Wu family.
Hai Jiao remembered the news he had heard in his previous life, and when he looked back at Mrs. Gui's remarks in the Zhenguo Mansion, he felt that something was very wrong.
There is Sun Guifei in the palace, but there are also Sun family members outside the palace, all of which are equally risky. Empress Dowager Zhou suddenly sent Gui's mother and daughter and Wu Ke out of the palace, naturally it was not for no reason.
Sun Guifei threatened to search Cining Palace, which is probably true. And Sun Guifei claimed at that time that the murderer of the six princes was related to Cining Palace, and he was a member of the Wu family, and it would not be an excuse made up by Huangkou and White Fang.
Did Concubine Sun know that Empress Dowager Zhou took in the three members of the Wu family in the palace?
- She may not know about Wu Ke's existence, but the Empress Dowager Zhou sent someone to return home to pick up the mother and daughter of the Gui family into the palace, but it is not necessarily a secret. In the years that Sun Guifei was in charge of the palace power, she only needed to ask the person who guarded the palace gate, and it was not difficult at all.
She insisted on taking people into Cining Palace to search, did she really find any clues?
So, did Mrs. Gui really participate in the revenge against the Six Princes, or did there be another person who lived in Cining Palace and was related to the Wu family who did this, and Mrs. Gui knew who it was, but kept silent?
Hai Jiao's head hurt when he thought about it: "Didn't the Wu family survive these three people?" Can there be someone else living in Cining Palace again? ”
Haitang remembered someone: "Concubine Xu Xian...... Concubine Xu Xian fled to Cining Palace during the fire in Kunning Palace! ”
Hai Jiao immediately retorted: "How can it be Concubine Xu Xian?!" Although she was sent to the palace by the Wu family, she was neither a servant of the Wu family, nor had she been a messenger in Kunning Palace for a few days, so how loyal could she be to Queen Wu? She still has a husband and children outside the palace, and if something happens, she will only want to escape from the palace. If it weren't for the strict curfew of the palace at that time, she would have fled home a long time ago! She was forced to stay in the palace and become a palace person, it was just an expedient measure, and it was impossible to risk losing her head to kill the six princes for the sake of the Wu family. Besides, if she really did this kind of thing, could Empress Dowager Zhou still make her the emperor's concubine? Can the emperor still make her son a prince? ”
The survivors of the Wu family are all suspected of killing the six princes because they can't get rid of it, even if the emperor Jia'en posthumously crowns the Duke of Wu Wen'an, they can't live in peace in Beijing, so they can only hide in Tibet under the protection of the Empress Dowager Zhou and the Cheng'en Marquis Mansion, and now they have fled to Chang'an. Before Concubine Xu Xian gave birth to the Eighth Prince, she was just a little palace concubine from the palace, which card is it? How is it possible to get the emperor's forgiveness?
Haijiao didn't think much of Xiaomei's guess, but Haitang reminded him: "When Concubine Xu Xian fled to Cining Palace, she had just entered the palace, and it was impossible to know the road at all. And so many people in Kunning Palace failed to escape from the fire, how could she, a little nurse who had just arrived, escape? I doubt it...... She may have had a companion at the time, and it was that person who showed her the way! ”
Hai Jiao was stunned, and immediately reacted: "You mean...... Among the palace people around Empress Wu, some people fled to Cining Palace with Concubine Xu Xian, and then stayed in Cining Palace? After Empress Dowager Zhou sealed the palace, others didn't know that she had added a new person to the palace......" he pursed his lips, "If this person is Empress Wu's henchman, then it is not surprising to take revenge on Concubine Sun and the six princes." ”
(End of chapter)