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How to deal with the Empress Dowager Youqin is simply a problem of a century.

From Emperor Tianhe to Emperor Nianping, and even Concubine Wei Gui, the strongest king of Gongdou at that time, they have never been able to find a way to completely break the situation.Because for a flexible and extremely ruthless person like the Queen Mother, there is no other way except for the violent suppression of power.No matter when and where she is in any mood, she can behave on the surface, at least, you can't catch her fault, and without evidence, there is no way to completely defeat the other party.

Even Concubine Wei's painstaking efforts to bury the thread for many years, using her two sons as the final blow to her emotional weakness, seemed to have only brought the empress dowager a few days and nights of distress.And what did those words say?What doesn't kill her will only make her stronger.

Now that the Queen Mother has no son to restrain her, she is almost invincible.

Chi Ning really couldn't think of a good way, so he had to ask Wang Yang Wang Shoufu, the No.1 who had been fighting on the front line against the Queen Mother.

But to be honest, Wang Yang actually didn't have any good ways to suppress the Queen Mother. His method has always been very simple, which is to use strength to fight.

During Emperor Su's time, the queen mother was still just a queen, and she couldn't be a monster. She had already trembled and tried her best just to keep her position as queen.

During Tianhedi period, Tianhedi was the only biological son of the empress dowager after all. The empress dowager could fight with her daughter-in-law Qian, but she couldn't really ignore her son's likes and dislikes.

During Emperor Nianping's period, let's not say that Emperor Nianping was a psychopath and couldn't be deduced by common sense. He only said that he had Prince Wenchen as his hostage.

"But the times are different now." Wang Yang sighed.

Emperor Nianping was paralyzed, the crown prince was young, if the queen mother didn't shake up again, it would be a pity for her forbearance for so many years.A word of "filial piety" can become a big killer and make everyone shut up.

Difficult, it is too difficult.

"If it doesn't work, we can only bring up the old thing again." Wang Yang is not very sure about this matter. This is the only handle he caught on the Queen Mother back then. I didn't mention it at the beginning because I thought it might be used in the future. As expected, this is the most likely to succeed in the current plan, "but... I'm not sure how much the bad debts from the past can be used for."

"How?" Chi Ning humbly asked for advice.In this matter, his and Wang Yang's interests are completely consistent, and there is no need to worry that the cabinet will cheat the supervisor.

"The Empress Dowager had a lot of trouble with Empress Qian, you know?"

"I've heard it a little bit." Chi Ning replied very well.But more than he knew, he and his two senior brothers had eaten melons in the front row for countless times.What can be seen by the foreign court is, after all, only the tip of the iceberg.Those who live in the palace all year round are the ones who feel the most about the struggle between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law between the empress dowager and the empress.

It's also because the Queen Mother has always been able to cover up, so she didn't turn this secret known by the entire harem into a secret known by the whole world.

Before talking about the struggle between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, I have to talk about how Queen Qian became a queen.

At that time, Emperor Tianhe was only Prince Wenheng, and Emperor Su and Concubine Wei Gui, the idiots who had brought countless disasters to others, were still doing evil everywhere in the palace.In the love story of his old husband talking about his youthful madness, the only thing Sudi remained sober was that he was always unusual to his prince.When Emperor Su himself was young, he had suffered enough from his father's pampering his concubine and destroying his son. When he finally became the emperor himself, he swore to God that he would never let such a disaster happen to his son.

It can be said that the reason why Empress Dowager Youqin's position as empress was so stable, on the one hand, was due to her maturity and prudence, not leaving any loopholes for the enemy to attack, and on the other hand, she gave birth to Emperor Su's first son, Wen Heng. .

Most of the respect that Emperor Su gave to the Empress also stemmed from the importance he attached to Wen Heng, the first prince.

The crown prince Wen Heng has reached the age of choosing a concubine, Sudi is more concerned than Queen Youqin.But Daqi's selection of relatives by the royal family has always been the same way - the eunuchs have to go to the folks to select good family sons. It can be said that there is not much room for Emperor Su to play.

Of course, it's not impossible to operate at all.

For example, when electing a princess, Emperor Su sent out all the eunuchs he trusted in one breath. It can be said that he cast the net everywhere and focused on fishing. Emperor Su divided everyone into different constituencies and provoked the eunuchs. subtle competition.In name, Eunuch Zhang, who is in charge of the internal official supervisor, is still the chief executive of the selection of the crown princess, but in fact, the entire selection of concubines is doomed to be unable to be controlled by the internal official supervisor because of the legitimate end of the parties.

This is Emperor Su, a miraculous figure who did not go to court for several years in his later years, but stayed in the lap of beauties, but still held great power.

Just because of this set of checks and balances, he played sneakily.

Almost every big eunuch with real power left behind one or two "insiders" during the final selection process, and Zhang Jingzhong was no exception.The struggle of the candidates soon became fierce, and the war was on the verge of breaking out.

In the end, it was Sun Wang and Qian who insisted on "choosing three".Zhang Jingzhong is most optimistic about the Sun family, and the Qian family was selected by the governor of the East Factory at the time. Lan Jieting was not the No. Stuffed in his "own man" Wang.

It is an unspoken rule to hand over the names of the three of them, Sun Wang and Qian.Nominally speaking, the ranking of the three should be selected regardless of the front and back, and the empress and the crown prince are invited to decide.But in fact, "Sun Wang Qian" itself represents the order and position recommended by the internal officials.

They mainly recommend the Sun family, who Zhang Jingzhong thinks is the most suitable concubine for Prince Wen Heng, calm and generous, and treats others generously.

Just as Emperor Su and Empress Youqin had already nodded and agreed to the arrangement, and on the eve before Sun's concubine was about to be canonized, a scandal suddenly broke out that Sun fell asleep at night while paying tribute to his grandfather.

But to be reasonable, Sun's grandfather passed away ten years ago, and Sun was only a little girl of three or five years old. She couldn't stay up all night, isn't it common for her to fall asleep at night?

However, some people wanted to find trouble for nothing, and made trouble, which made the Sun family miss the position of the crown princess.

Eunuch Zhang lost face, and had to suppress his anger and re-election, this time the order of playing became "Wang Qiansun".The Sun family is still in the "choose three", and will still marry the prince, but it has changed from the prince's main concubine to the prince's side concubine.And Zhang Jingzhong and Lan Jieting reached a consensus in private, and felt that it would be good to choose the Wang family, which is the favorite of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, who is beautiful and intelligent, charming and bright.

But because of this consensus, they were once again reported, saying that the concubine selection was unfair and tricky, and they had to be re-elected.

It's about the prince, and everyone is watching.

Even though the facts proved that there was no gold and silver transaction between Zhang Jingzhong and Lan Jieting, Concubine Xuan still went back a bit. In the end, the three people were reported, but the order changed again, becoming " Qian Wangsun".

This time, there was nothing wrong with it.

Qian's family became the rightful concubine who was "respected by all" and "recommended by the supervisor of ceremonies and the supervisor of internal officials".Zhang Jingzhong felt that the Sun family who was the most suitable to be the crown prince and the Wang family who was the crown prince's personal favorite became the crown prince's side concubine together.

The matter seems to be over here, but it is not, the queen mother has disliked her daughter-in-law Qian Shi since such a mess, because she thinks that the vested interest is Qian Shi, so it is difficult to guarantee Qian Shi Innocence in the previous two incidents.And the Queen Mother doesn't like a scheming daughter-in-law.

That's a bit of a double standard.The Empress Dowager fought hard with Concubine Wei, but did not allow her daughter-in-law to be scheming.But no matter what, the matter of choosing a concubine laid the fuse for the future struggle between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law.

The real opportunity for the outbreak was that the crown prince's side concubine Wang was pregnant first, but then miscarried.

The Empress Dowager accused Qian Shi of being unfavorable in nursing and being jealous, and even vaguely accused Qian Shi of intentionally causing Wang Shi to have a miscarriage.On the surface, Qian did not dare to contradict her mother-in-law, but in private, she was full of resentment. She felt that the real problem was the struggle between the Queen Mother and Concubine Wei. It was the Queen Mother who failed to protect her daughter-in-law and gave Concubine Wei an opportunity. .

This is a Rashomon who says that the public is right, and the mother-in-law is right. No one can be sure who is right.But in short, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were completely torn apart.

After Emperor Tianhe ascended the throne, the two people who were both promoted completely started a war.

The empress dowager and the empress had several collisions over the power to manage the harem.Chi Ning said that the queen mother was really energetic. She was already actively seeking the power of the previous dynasty, and she was not willing to give up control of the harem.

If there are too many collisions, there will definitely be times when you miss.

The contradictions that had been firmly controlled by the empress dowager in the harem finally escalated again and spread to the outer court.To be precise, it is the families of both parties.

Daqi has always been stingy when dealing with the issue of his relatives.But relatives are relatives after all, they have no actual political influence, but at least from the perspective of the lower class than them, this title is still loud enough, and there are also a group of small people who only follow their lead.

On this day, the newly promoted head of state fought with the queen mother's nephew and younger generation.

Not many people know what the cause was. They only know that the conflict between the two families escalated again and turned into a street fight.The scene got out of control for a while, and even Fu Yin, who rushed to persuade the fight, was frightened.

"Others don't know what it is for, but I do." Wang Yang narrowed his eyes with a smile, and his protégé happened to be the unlucky Lord Fuyin.

"Just know?" Chi Ning raised his eyebrows.

"Well, there is some solid evidence."

Although it is said that quarrels should not be overturned, the queen mother is really too difficult to deal with, and this is the only record and evidence of her outrageous behavior, and it is still a family member, which is really rare.

"We can use this..." Wang Yang asked Chi Ning to come over and muttered for a long time.

Chi Ning hesitated, not because he felt that he could not use the Queen Mother's family, but: "For so many years, the old lady has never cared about this old thing, do you think it is more likely that she has forgotten it, or This is actually one of her tricks, just waiting for the 'destined person' to drill into it?"

The most frightening thing about women in the harem is that they can set a trap and wait patiently for decades, just to wait for someone to come out and trap themselves.

Wang Yang also fell silent.

It's hard for others to say, but the Empress Dowager may really keep such a trick. It doesn't matter if she is not fooled or not.

"Then what do you say?"

What can Chi Ning know?When he walked out of the cabinet, Chi Ning felt that he was going to be bald at a young age.He didn't give up and asked Yuan Jun again, what would happen if he took advantage of the Queen Mother's natal affairs.

Mr. Yuan directly gave a terrible result.

With Yuan Jun's growing affection for Chi Ning, the future that Yuan Jun can see belonging to Chi Ning is already very vague, and he can only give vague directions such as good or bad.

It's very sad.

Chi Ning and Wang Yang chose to stand still because of their naturally cautious personalities, but there were already people who couldn't wait.This is a group of people who neither support the crown prince's enthronement nor want Emperor Nian Ping to wake up. They feel that the evil wind advocating the crown prince's enthronement in the court now comes from the Queen Mother's instruction, and the Queen Mother must be killed.

These people have real hearts. They not only exposed the old affairs of the Empress Dowager's natal family, but also asked for instructions on when the bones of Emperor Tianhe could be buried in the Emperor's Mausoleum.

After Chi Ning obtained the bones of Emperor Tianhe from his elder brother Jiang Zhiwei, he immediately asked Yuan Jun to confirm that there was no problem with the bones, and sent them to the Queen Mother's palace to reunite the mother and child.The old queen didn't know whether she didn't trust Chi Ning, or she just wanted to spend more time with her son, so she invited the immortal master from Zuowangxinzhai to enter the palace, and a total of 49 people came to read the rebirth of Tianhedi's bones The Sutra of Reincarnation needs to be recited continuously for ninety-nine or eighty-one days in order to save the souls of the dead.

This is something everyone knows, but someone wants to die, stepping on the Queen Mother at this point.

Sure enough, the queen mother was angry.

She first cleaned up the only people left in her family by means of thunder, and then when the cabinet and the supervisor of ceremonies were discussing matters, she walked into the hall with Sudi's dragon-headed crutches like a soldier, beating drums.

Looking down at the officials, the Empress Dowager pointed out the troublemaker in court, and asked him bluntly, what was his intention to bully her orphaned grandson and widowed ancestor.

The evidence, of course, is that the other party secretly contacted Empress Qian's family.Who would have thought?Empress Qian's family turned against each other, and they all became the queen mother.Chi Ning and Wang Yang looked at each other, and they already understood that the empress dowager's trap is here. The Emperor Tianhe has gone, and no matter how many grievances and grievances Empress Qian and the empress dowager have, they have naturally become a community of interests, and it is impossible to fight again. down.Maybe even the appearance of discord is just for others to see, they have joined forces long ago.

As soon as the queen mother makes a move, she will know if there is one.

This is ironclad evidence, and it deviates from the most basic social moral concepts. The opponent's faction has been uprooted, and no one in the entire court dares to stand up and say a word or two.Because once you open your mouth, you may also bear the unrighteous name of bullying orphans and widows. Civil servants have the same name and cherish feathers, so how can they have nothing to provoke such shame?

Even Wang Yang found his protégés who were governors all night, and together they destroyed the traces of their investigations as much as possible, so that the matter could not be found out again.

And above the court, no one dared to question Prince Wenchen's ascension to the throne.The process of Emperor Nianping's abdication has entered the countdown.