There are a total of six candidates, and several favorite concubines invariably ignore Queen Qian, Concubine Wanchen, and Xing'an in front.

Qianxue and Suxi chose Ruan Lang, and Ning Xiang chose Cao Jixiang.

Lin Xiangyu chose Chen Xiang.

Zhu Qiyu saw that the favorite concubines had been chosen, so he asked with a smile: "Then you all tell me the reason." ”

Qianxue was the first to reply: "Ruan Lang is very old, but he has no ambition. When you are old, you will have the opportunity to know the secrets of the palace. If you don't have a will, you have the motivation to change your court. ”

Zhu Qiyu nodded, and looked at Ning Xiang again.

Ning Xiang said with a smile: "Cao Jixiang participated in the Battle of Luchuan, and he has just gone to quell the southeast civil rebellion. Every time he took advantage of the opportunity to supervise the army, Cao Jixiang was recruiting elites and raising the dead. This is not a peaceful master.

Besides, since the husband had long been convinced that Cao Jixiang would rebel, the slave family felt that it was definitely right to choose him. ”

Zhu Qiyu nodded, and finally looked at Lin Xiangyu.

Lin Xiangyu gave seven words with a smile: "The husband is a big liar." ”

Zhu Qiyu looked weak-hearted, and scolded weakly: "What are you talking about, Concubine Ai, the widow is upright, the ice is clear and pure, how can you slander people's innocence out of thin air." ”

"Don't brag about yourself, did you say that the concubine won?"

Zhu Qiyu spread his hands helplessly: "Hmph, you won, I'll let you slaughter, just ask for it, be satisfied." ”

Ning Xiang asked curiously, "Sister, why Chen Xiang?" ”

Lin Xiangyu looked at Zhu Qiyu: "Husband, do you allow the concubines to expose your old background in 1510?" ”

"Expose it, you are all my daughters-in-law, husband and wife, and there is nothing to hide."

Ning Xiang also urged on the side: "Sister, speak quickly." ”

Lin Xiangyu cleared her throat and smiled at Ning Xiang: "You good husband, he said that he didn't install a cronie eunuch in Nangong, yes, he didn't install it, Xing'an, Ruan Lang, Chen Xiang, and Cao Jixiang actually asked the emperor to take the initiative to go over."

Chen Xiang is indeed not a close confidant eunuch of his husband.

He is just a close eunuch of the eunuch who is close to the husband.

It is true that the rumors were not instructed by his husband to spread them. In order to avoid being exposed, after the husband ascended the throne, he never had any contact with them, an inner court force, and it was all up to them to understand the situation and act on their own. ”

Ning Xiang was a little confused, and pondered for a long time before continuing to ask: "Then whose cronie is Chen Xiang's cronies and eunuchs?" ”

Lin Xiangyu replied: "It is written in the book that in the fifth year of Yongle, the British Gong Zhang Fu led a large army to quell the Jiaozhi rebellion, and the beauty of Jiaotong was returned, and he was selected as a eunuch, Fan Hong, Wang Jin, Ruan An, Ruan Lang, etc.

These people formed several forces in the inner court, among which Fan Hong became the eunuch of the Xuande Dynasty, who was once the first eunuch in the inner court, and was later replaced by Wang Zhen in the Orthodox Dynasty. After that, he followed the orthodox pro-expedition and died in the civil fort.

As a result, Fan Hong's power was disintegrated.

Ruan Lang's strength is the worst, but after his husband ascended the throne, he was promoted, which made a slight difference.

And Wang Jin and Ruan An have always been highly used, with a large number of disciples and grandchildren, and their power in the inner court is intertwined and omnipresent.

Wang Jin's original name was Chen Wu, and he was later named Wang Jin by Xuanzong. Therefore, many of the eunuchs surnamed Chen, who are not too old in the palace, are under Wang Jin's name. And Chen Xiang is just one of them. ”

Lin Xiangyu glanced at Zhu Qiyu and saw that he did not add any additional opinions, so he continued: "In the last years of orthodoxy, the power of the inner court has formed a situation in which Fan Hong, Wang Zhen, Jin Ying, Xing'an, Wang Jin, Ruan An, Cao Jixiang and other great eunuchs are multi-legged.

It's not what you think, it's dominated by Wang Zhen's family.

Among them, the three forces of Fan Hong, Wang Zhen, and Jin Ying have all been wiped out.

Among the remaining people, Wang Jin is the inner court force that really follows her husband. ”

Qianxue asked curiously: "Why, Wang Jin's family is because they have never been able to become the biggest inner court force, so they speculate on Fujun?" ”

Lin Xiangyu shook her head: "It doesn't count or not, there must be a speculative component, but there are also feelings in it."

Speculation without emotion is not guaranteed, and even if the speculation is successful, if it is not done well, it will be a dead rabbit and a dog, and a bird will be hidden.

For example, we chose to follow our husband at the beginning, and refused to marry to be a first-class wife, isn't it also a kind of speculation.

It's just that the husband's methods are too clever to turn our sisters around. Unconsciously, imperceptibly, we were really tamed by our husbands, and we didn't fight, fight, or make trouble, and An An became a sex slave to him.

Hmph, my husband is the biggest liar in the world. ”

When Zhu Qiyu heard this, he thanked him and said: "Shame and shame, I will not give up, it all depends on the love of all the mothers." ”

Ning Xiang still asked the bottom of the question: "Sister, don't talk about him left and right, do you want to talk about the feelings between your husband and Wang Jin?" ”

Lin Xiangyu said with a smile: "The Sun family is jealous, except for our queen mother, she has never let any of Xuanzong's concubines have children. Therefore, the husband was rejected by him, so he never lived in the palace, and was raised by Xuanzong in the eunuch's house when he was born.

As you know, Xuanzong gave Wang Jin two palace maids as wives. The emperor sent eunuch women, which was unprecedented in the Ming Dynasty, and was buried by the officials at that time.

Actually, it's just a matter of hiding people's eyes, those two palace maids were sent to take care of our husband.

The husband lived in Wang Jin's house for seven or eight years before moving to the palace of the king of You, which is the emotional bond between the husband and Wang Jin. ”

Qianxue, Suxi, and Ningxiang suddenly realized.

Qianxue complained: "Husband is really a big liar, and he deceived us so hard. I still wonder why my husband has always been able to gain the upper hand in the inner court struggle.

The husband originally had the full support of Wang Jin's faction, and later he must have secretly taken over the Fan Hong faction. One person has two big forces in the inner court, which is of course powerful.

Emperor Gongrang is so pitiful, he can't be cheated until he doesn't know his mother in the future. ”

Zhu Qiyu said with a smile: "Emperor Gongrang may not know his own mother, I currently have three points of belief that Emperor Gongrang was snatched from the palace maid by the Sun family."

Gong asked the emperor to send Xing'an, Chen Xiang, Cao Jixiang and others to investigate, let's wait and see the results. ”

Qianxue smiled: "You are trying to force Gong to make the emperor rebel step by step." ”

Zhu Qiyu spread his hands: "I don't want to, if the emperor is willing to move his family to Fengyang, I am also willing to be a brother and a friend."

Didn't you see that the civil and military officials are now crying and shouting to send your sisters to the Huanyi Bureau.

You think that going to the Huanyi Bureau is just doing hard labor? Don't be stupid, you have to be a sex slave.

You follow me, but I'm just playing with you. But when it comes to the Huanyi Bureau, I don't know how many people will be played, so I will tell you in advance that among these people who play you, there are also quite a few eunuchs.

In a word, if I die, you will wait to experience hell on earth. ”

The favorite concubines were all frightened again, and Qianxue hurriedly replied: "That's not good, what does the husband want to eat now, can you stew a little hen, put you with an old ginseng, the slave family must raise you for nothing." ”

Zhu Qiyu shook his head: "I want to eat fish." ”

……

Nothing was said all night.

Early the next morning, when Zhu Qizhen had just woken up and was still feeling groggy, Xing'an and Cao Jixiang hurriedly ran in.

Zhu Qizhen scolded angrily: "What are you two tossing early in the morning?" Yesterday, Chen Xiang went to the duty of the celebrant to be the celebrant supervisor, and it is time for you to go today.

What are you doing when you don't go to the celebrant to help me keep an eye on it, and run here in a panic? ”

Xing'an hurriedly replied: "Emperor, it's not good, please see the hundred officials, two or three hundred people, all kneeling outside the Yongtai Gate." ”

When Zhu Qizhen heard this, he immediately became energetic: Yongtaimen? Isn't that already on my doorstep?

"Then why did they ask for a meeting?"

Xing'an replied: "It's still those things after the selection of the concubine, and the emperor doesn't say anything." The cabinet scholars and the six books did not dare to come up with ideas.

The ministers invoked the emperor's previous decree that all matters that could not be decided by the cabinet scholars and the six books were decided by the emperor. ”

With the previous incident, now Zhu Qizhen is also afraid of being poisoned, so the prevention measures have also been improved.

Most of the time there are no people in the dormitory. Only when it is time to eat, there are palace people who enter to set the meal. Then in the evening, some palace people entered to clean.

At other times, palace people are not allowed to trespass.

And the concubines, without a call, are absolutely not allowed to enter. Even Queen Qian and Queen Zhou must be passed through the communication before they can enter.

So when there were only Xing'an and Cao Jixiang around him, Zhu Qizhen dared to say anything: "Unless my brother is sick, he will never get up again, and I dare to make the decision to choose a concubine for him."

If not, wait for revenge afterwards.

Compare hearts to hearts, if anyone dares to touch the idea of my sixteen concubines, I will definitely kill their whole family.

My younger brother has fifteen favorite concubines, and I have sixteen favorite concubines, all of whom are people who have the same disease, so why bother to do things desperately. ”

(End of chapter)