Empress Dowager + Spoiler

Gu Xizhao was silent for a moment before saying: "But the Jiang family's sacrifice is not completely useless, at least the courtiers will no longer suspect us of the identity of the former royal family."

Marquis Changping nodded, "I also considered this at the time. I was afraid that Princess Mingshao's investigation would continue secretly and would involve more. I had no choice but to push it out and push the Jiang family out."

Gu Xizhao raised her eyebrows, "Father made a decisive decision."

Marquis Changping smiled. Regarding Princess Mingshao, he was a little proud. After all, he only lost one Jiang family, and he also solved his worries.

Based on her father's current arrogance alone, Gu Xizhao already knows in her heart that whether it is a violent attack or outsmart, even without her, her father will lose.

In order not to arouse the suspicion of others, Changping Hou and his wife did not stay in the palace for long, and left the palace after lunch.

As soon as she left, Gu Xizhao sent secret guards to thoroughly investigate the court officials her father mentioned. Some of the names in this series of names were familiar to Gu Xizhao, and some of them had never been heard, but for the sake of caution, Gu Xizhao still Ask the dark guard to check it out.

After talking about it today, Gu Xizhao can't guarantee that her father trusts her 100%, but she at least understands one thing, the reason why her father wants to "bring the emperor to order the princes" is not entirely because he wants to be A virtuous emperor, but a strong attack does not have a complete chance of winning.

And once it fails, all the efforts of the Xiao royal family for so many years will be in vain, and there will be no possibility of revival in this lifetime.

Even so, Marquis Changping's hole card should not be underestimated. After all, there is still the variable of Xiwan. Once Hou Zhen of Changping forms an alliance with the Gu family, the situation may be reversed.

Under the thousands of troops, the role of these civil servants in the court is not very important. In other words, the chess pieces arranged by the Marquis Changping in the court are not to be taboo except to scare the snakes and add obstacles to the Marquis Changping. What really needs to be worried about is the Gu family in the northwest Army, and the secret alliance with Xiwan.

That day, Gu Xizhao sat alone in the gazebo in the backyard for an afternoon.The more she knew the truth, the more flustered she became.She remembered the conversation when Zhao Jin handed her the Sandalwood Token.

——Are you not afraid that my brother will also have a different heart?

——If so, then Dazhao may have really run out of luck.

At that time, Zhao Jin trusted her father and brother in every possible way, and was worried that Prime Minister Cai Jun and others had different opinions in life.Fortunately, she felt pity for the little fool at the time, and accepted the sandalwood order for her.

What's wrong with this world?

Gu Xizhao couldn't help but looked up and looked outside the palace wall, "Brother, you think you gave the little fool a peaceful and prosperous life, as long as she is not arrogant, extravagant and slutty, even if she is mediocre, this great country will not collapse. Now You see, the peaceful and prosperous world is just an illusion, and the waves of internal and external troubles below are turbulent, even you, the wise king in the eyes of the world, have not seen it."

The merits of the peaceful and prosperous age belong to you.

The crime of ruining the country in the future is the little fool's fault.

The emperor, the little fool, was really wronged.

She is distressed.

Outside the gazebo, Zhao Sansi looked at her from a distance, while Chan'er and Zhu'er were secretly anxious. Since the emperor and empress had a fight in front of them that day, these days, the empress has never seen her again. In addition to the honey-oiled oil in the past, the queen often looks preoccupied, and the little emperor agrees to accept the concubine, these palace people are really rushing to the front for their own empress.

Seeing what people are thinking right now, the little emperor has stood here for so long, and he has not seen anyone recovering, so he is naturally anxious. Chan'er pondered for a long time before opening her mouth cautiously, "Your Majesty, It's probably because Madam is not feeling well, so the empress is a little worried, and this servant is going to go..."

"Don't bother the queen." Zhao Sansi raised his hand to stop her, and took another look before turning his gaze away, "The queen has lost weight these days, let the imperial dining room prepare more meals for health, so as to make up for it."

Chan'er and Zhu'er looked at each other, and hurriedly agreed, "Yes. Your Majesty will be very happy if she knows that the emperor cares about her so much."

Zhao Sansi turned around, "Don't tell the queen, and don't tell her that I've been here."

"emperor……"

"You don't need to be too polite, just stay here." Zhao Sansi stepped forward, took two steps, and then turned back to look at the gazebo, just in time to collide with Gu Xizhao's eyes, she momentarily Not knowing how to react, Tao Huayan bent subconsciously.

She loves the Queen so much.

So, seeing her, her eyes wanted to smile.

Gu Xizhao still didn't move, and smiled at her.

Zhao Sansi stood there for a while, then turned around again, this time striding out.

The queen does not believe that she is a powerful emperor, but she believes that her queen is a powerful queen.

Gu Xizhao watched Zhao Sansi's bright yellow clothes disappear around the corner from a distance, and then she looked away, only to realize that it was already dark at some point.

I don't know how long that little fool stood there.

Chan'er and Zhu'er didn't know that their eyes had exchanged secretly, although they really wanted to tell their master the fact that the little emperor had been here, but neither of them would dare, in Changning Palace, the person their master asked them to be loyal to It was the little emperor, not her.Even if the two of them are her personal maids, it is still the order of the little emperor.

Gu Xizhao didn't ask anything, just pretended she didn't know about it.

In this way, another half month passed, and the Mid-Autumn Festival was ushered in.

Although the wives and young ladies of various families still remember the Mid-Autumn Moon Appreciation Banquet held by the Queen’s Empress last year, and they are determined to treat the Queen’s palace banquet invitations with caution in the future, but this year, as soon as they received the invitation post from the Queen, these The wife and miss of the family are still very happy.

Because going to the palace to attend the queen's banquet this time is for the purpose of accepting concubines for the emperor.

The ladies raised by these aristocratic families in the imperial city are used as a foil for power, and the highest branch that noble girls in the imperial city can climb is the imperial palace.

Whether these ladies are willing or not, they can't break free, only they have a choice, and there is very little room for them to choose.

All poor people.

Gu Xizhao knew that when these girls entered the palace, they just walked from the cage of the aristocratic family into the cage of the palace, and she had no intention of embarrassing these girls.But in this life, even if it is not for oneself, it will take some roads that have to be walked for one person.

Just like that year's New Year's Eve, such a cowardly little fool was able to kill the mother in the palace for her. From then on, I don't know how many midnights I will wake up from the nightmare sweating profusely.

Although Gu Xizhao already had candidates in mind, in order to avoid people's eyes and ears, besides Lin Wanqing, seven other girls were reserved.

Three days after the Mid-Autumn Festival, Gu Xizhao presented these quotas to Zhao Sansi, and it happened that Cai Jun was also there, so she took the initiative to say: "The emperor has always trusted the prime minister, since today is such a coincidence, why not stay and discuss together. These The Misses of the family are all good, and I am too confused to choose which ones to choose, so I decided to reserve eight spots."

Cai Jun glanced at Zhao Sansi, seeing that she didn't speak, he agreed, and said: "The empress's vision is not bad."

Gu Xizhao smiled, took out the red quota register from the tray, and handed it to Zhao Sansi, "These girls and concubines have made notes, and the emperor said he was busy that day, so he didn't go to the imperial garden to see it." Let the artist draw one by one for you to take a look at, and I'm afraid of wasting time, but the appearance of these girls, the ministers and concubines have memorized them one by one, so they can tell a thing or two."

As he said that, Gu Xizhao pointed to the first name and said: "The first one, the emperor probably still has some impressions, is Lin Wanqing, the daughter of Mrs. Lin, the servant of the household department. She lived in the palace for a while before, and now I haven't seen this Miss Lin in the past two years, she looks even more outstanding. The second one is..."

"Queen, stop talking." Every time she said a word, Zhao Sansi's heart ached. Even though she knew why she did this, Zhao Sansi still felt that it was cruel for the Queen to smile so generously for her concubine. Cruel to her, cruel to the queen herself.

Gu Xizhao heard the words, immediately pursed her lips, raised her hand to touch the pearl hairpin on her head, and said with a smile: "Then the emperor will see for himself first."

Zhao Sansi scanned down ten lines at a glance, then closed the quota register and handed it to Gu Xizhao, "I will leave this matter to the queen, and the queen will decide who will be left behind."

Gu Xizhao clenched the quota register, and after a short while, said: "Since the emperor has handed over to the concubines to decide, then the concubines will speak up. Although the eight concubines appreciate it a little, but the most important thing is The third lady of the Lin family, Li Yiyi, the niece of Li Yanzhi, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, and Lan Xiang, the younger sister of Shaoqing of Dali Temple, is also the niece of General Cao who was stationed in the southeast to fight against the Japanese.