As soon as Lin Xiangyu entered Xianyang Palace, Queen Zhou personally picked it up. The two of them made a noise, so one hugged the prince and the other hugged the princess, and came to the inner room together.

As soon as I entered the hall, I saw that it was empty, and more than half of the original furniture had been missing. Lin Xiangyu asked with a smile: "Is my sister almost finished, how does it feel to live in Kunning Palace?" ”

Queen Zhou said with a smile: "My sister never dreamed that she would be able to live in the main palace one day, which is all thanks to my sister." If my sister wants to live in Kunning Palace, then it won't be my sister's turn. ”

Lin Xiangyu hurriedly waved her hand: "Sister said that she laughed, my sister was born from a low background, where is she qualified to live in Kunning Palace." My sister and mother are more precious than their sons, and living in Kunning Palace is the right thing to do. ”

Referring to the value of mothers and children, Queen Zhou sighed: "My sister doesn't know, in fact, what I love the most is my daughter." It's a pity that our Daming has never paid much attention to the princess and treated her harshly.

Even the princess and the concubine are not allowed to be buried together, this is the most excessive, and the other messy rules and regulations cannot be counted, and it is simply angry to death. ”

Lin Xiangyu said with a smile: "What is this, sister, don't worry." Not only does my sister love the princess the most, but her majesty also dotes on our smart little niece.

His Majesty has long said that for the princess of Chongqing, there is no need to be bound by the law, and she can be treated as a princess of the Han Dynasty. Your Majesty has already thought about it, Jinan Mansion has beautiful landscapes, Lingquan is in the world, close to the capital, and it is an excellent fiefdom.

When the princess became a parent, he knighted the horse, and then divided the Jinan Mansion into two, half of which was given to the horse as a fief, and half was given to the princess as a Tang Muyi. ”

Empress Zhou was stunned after hearing this, and was stunned for a long time before asking: "This is too deviant, how can it be implemented?" ”

"This sister doesn't have to worry, Your Majesty never lies, and never talks nonsense without being sure. Since he dares to say it, he will definitely be able to carry it out.

Besides, my sister will give birth to a daughter in the future, and she will be treated like this. Even His Majesty the fief has thought about it, and he will choose a place near the sea in Denglai to build a beautiful princess's mansion, with mountains, lakes and hot springs, and also facing the sea, with beautiful scenery. My sister can't wait to give birth to her daughter. ”

Queen Zhou was overjoyed when she heard this, so she put her mind at ease, and hurriedly put the Chongqing princess in her arms on the ground, and instructed: "Girl, kneel down quickly and kowtow to your aunt, your aunt is better to you than your own mother, you will remember it in the future, and you must be filial to your aunt." ”

"That's it, that's it, girl, get up."

Empress Zhou was overjoyed, even happier than Kunning Palace. The two of them chatted about private matters for half an hour before happily coming to the Queen Mother's Cining Palace. Everyone worshiped the Queen Mother and sat down in turn.

Today can be said to be a coincidence, before everyone said a few words, Queen Qian, Concubine Wan Chen, and Princess Yu came together to ask the Queen Mother for peace. After the salute, everyone sat down again.

The Queen Mother sat on the main seat, looked around at everyone, and sighed in her heart: Today, the most powerful women in the Ming Dynasty are all here. It's just that the six people in front of him, three on the left and three on the right, form two distinct factions.

On the right side, the three women are: Queen Qian, the daughter-in-law she hates the most; his favorite daughter-in-law, the princess Wang; Concubine Wan Chen, who gave birth to the second son of the emperor and the third son of the emperor.

On the left, the three women are: the second biggest winner among Xuanzong's concubines, Xuanyi's concubine Wu; Zhou, the crown prince's biological mother, who was forcibly put on the throne by the new emperor; Holding the new emperor in his left hand and the crown prince in his right hand, he seems to be pure and gentle, harmless to humans and animals, but he can represent the princess of Qi who made a heavy promise to the new emperor at will.

With Empress Dowager Sun's years of experience in palace fighting, it can be seen at a glance that the rightists are visible to the naked eye and cannot fight the leftists.

Fortunately, Concubine Wu and Princess Qi both hated the palace from the bottom of their hearts, and they were unwilling to enter the palace to live if they were killed, otherwise they would make the alliance between Queen Zhou and Princess Qi fools after a while with Queen Qian, who had no prospects.

Seeing that the Queen Mother didn't speak, Queen Zhou took the initiative to speak: "Queen Mother, the Emperor Taishang is far away in the north, and there is no intimate person around to take care of her, so the ministers are very worried, so they prepared four clever palace maids and a few capable attendants, and wanted to entrust the imperial court delegation to bring them to the Emperor Taishang, and asked the queen mother for permission." ”

When the Queen Mother heard this, she glanced at Queen Zhou in surprise, and when she saw Queen Zhou's face as usual, she couldn't help but wonder in her heart. Although he had long wanted to send some palace maids to the emperor, he was always worried about public opinion and did not dare to act. After all, the Emperor Taishang lost his teacher and humiliated the country, was trapped in the enemy camp, and he hurriedly sent the woman over, so that what the people of the world think, the minister of civil and military affairs must be overwhelmingly ridiculed.

After thinking for a while, the Queen Mother didn't dare to nod easily, looked up at everyone, and saw Princess Qi holding the prince there, just quietly teasing, and ignoring everyone. Then he asked: "Princess Qi, tell me, should you agree to Queen Zhou's proposal?" ”

Empress Dowager Sun and Concubine Wu are both mothers-in-law, and the relationship between their mother-in-law and daughter-in-law is very strange. Empress Dowager Sun doesn't like Queen Qian, who is her own son, but she likes the first princess Wang of her concubine Zhu Qiyu. treats the Wang family as his own daughter, but he doesn't want to deal with Queen Qian.

Concubine Wu has similarities with Empress Dowager Sun, she doesn't like her own son's first princess, Wang, but she dotes on Princess Qi very much, and only treats Princess Qi as her daughter-in-law, and she doesn't want to deal with Wang at all.

As soon as she heard that Empress Dowager Sun had a problem with her precious daughter-in-law, Concubine Wu immediately answered: "The Empress Dowager said that she laughed, my daughter-in-law is still a little girl, what does she know." This kind of major event, the Queen Mother's cadres can be arbitrary. ”

When Wang Shi on the side heard this, his face suddenly became very ugly: Concubine Wu has endured it for so many years, and she has been treated so coldly by herself, and now she finally stops. only admits that Princess Qi is a daughter-in-law, and wherever she likes to go, she should not exist at all.

But now that Concubine Wu is the concubine of Emperor Xuanyi, her position is second only to the Queen Mother, and the Wang family can no longer afford to provoke her, so she can only sulk on the side and watch how the Queen Mother makes a move.

I only heard the Empress Dowager Sun smile and said: "My sister is joking, now Princess Qi is in charge of the affairs of the house, and she handles the inside and outside in an orderly manner, which is better than my daughters-in-law combined." Just let her talk about it, and I'd like to hear what the young people think. ”

Lin Xiangyu didn't wait for the concubine to continue to speak, and then replied: "The queen mother has an overreputation, and the concubine is young and ignorant, but the concubine and her husband are well trained, so they barely manage the palace."

As for the matter of sending palace maids, the bitter cold and the rude people of the Yuan people, if there are not a few intimate people who know the cold and the heat to serve the emperor, it will not only lose the system of my great tomorrow dynasty, but also make hundreds of millions of people worried.

It was reasonable for the concubines to think that they should have sent palace people over a long time ago. It's just that according to the courtesy, there is no younger brother and sister who wants to give a woman to the eldest brother, so the concubine has never dared to propose. Today, my sister proposed to send the palace maid to Wara, and the concubine thought that it was the words of loyalty and patriotism, and asked the queen mother to know it. ”

Hearing this, Empress Dowager Sun nodded: "I have always been too pedantic and did not dare to give people to the emperor's side, for fear of triggering a discussion." It was Empress Zhou and Princess Qi who dared to take responsibility, and I was very relieved and comforted.

Jin Ying, go, take the pair of jasper Ruyi in my treasury, one for Queen Zhou, and one for Princess Qi. ”

When the two heard this, they hurriedly knelt down to thank them. Empress Zhou summoned the four palace maids who had been prepared, as well as Ma Liang and other brocade guards, to show the Queen Mother.

The Queen Mother saw that the four palace maids were all delicate and beautiful, and knew that they were the type that Zhu Qizhen liked, so she nodded in approval.

The specific things were arranged by Queen Zhou. After all, no matter how high-sounding the reason given by Princess Qi is, the queen mother will personally arrange a woman for the emperor, and the impact will not be very good, and it will easily lead to the impeachment of the ministers. Since Empress Zhou is willing to take responsibility, the Queen Mother is also optimistic about it.

After talking about the right thing, after a while, everyone dispersed. The concubine and Lin Xiangyu still took the prince and princess back to the palace.

As soon as Lin Xiangyu returned to the room, before he finished drinking a cup of tea, Zhu Qiyu walked in with a face full of loess and dust.

Seeing this, Lin Xiangyu was about to smash the teacup in her hand while making a gesture, and shouted coquettishly: "Where did the earth donkey come from, how dare you trespass into the princess's boudoir?" ”

Zhu Qiyu hurriedly defended: "Don't smash the princess, don't smash it, it's me, it's me, I'm Zhu Shoumen." ”

Lin Xiangyu came over and said with a smile: "It turned out to be His Royal Highness the King of Qi who was a concubine, where did you go to roll?" ”

"I didn't roll, I really went to Zhu Shoumen. Ling's husband, in order to guard the gate of the Jingshi, personally went to Yuantu City outside the Desheng Gate and dug a trench. ”

When Lin Xiangyu heard this, she rubbed her husband with a painful face: "It's really a sin, seeing that the emperor has pitted everyone, the emperor has to dig the trench himself." Let's go, the slave family personally serves the husband to bathe. ”

Zhu Qiyu smiled: "It's also a good thing, I can eat at least three more bowls of rice." ”

Lin Xiangyu hurriedly instructed Twilight to prepare dinner, while she did her best to wait for Zhu Qiyu to bathe and change clothes comfortably.

After a night of silence, the new envoy of the imperial court set out early the next morning. This mission is completely different from the two previous missions.

The previous envoys Chen Kui and Yang Shan were all diehard loyalists of the Emperor. Huang Pu, who was sent this time, was a close confidant of the new monarch, and the task he was tasked with was also to divide the war and delay the return of the emperor to Beijing.

Moreover, the four palace people brought by the mission were all close associates of Empress Zhou, and they were all canonized as nobles and went to serve the emperor.

There is also a very special figure in the mission: Jinyi Wei Ma Liang, who is the favorite male pet of the Emperor Taishang, and was also added to the mission by Queen Zhou very intimately.

More importantly, in order to reward Ma Liang for his tireless work and loyalty to serve the emperor outside the Saiwai, Empress Zhou gave four famous prostitutes from the Jiaofang Division to make concubines for Ma Liang and accompanied Ma Liang to Warat.