imperial dream

One day, the emperor asked Yang Yun: "Would you like to be a noble concubine?"

Yang Yun didn't speak, and after a long time he said: "In the harem, neither the concubine nor the king can make decisions."

The emperor nodded and thought to himself: the queen has always been the master in the palace, he just suggested.After all, he suspected that Liu Xiangji's death was done on purpose, but he didn't have time to investigate.He knows better that with Yun'er's current status, it is impossible to compete with those who oppose it, not to mention that all laws in the harem are jointly maintained by Lin'er (Concubine Miao Jie), Queen and Yixin (Concubine Zhou Shu), which is quite fair.If one wanted to raise Yun'er to the position of noble concubine, the only feasible way would be the memorial of the former officials.

In April, the opportunity finally came.The emperor accidentally learned about Yang Yunyouxi from Song Yuyi.

Song Yuyi is the emperor's confidant, and the emperor secretly instructed him to pay more attention to Yang Yun and keep quiet.Therefore, when the doctor Song found out that Yang Yun had a happy pulse, he quietly told the emperor about it. The emperor was very happy, so he paid close attention to the contact with Yang Yun.

He found out that Yang Yun didn't know about it, and seeing her ignorant, the emperor got a lot of unexpected pleasure, so he decided to keep it from her, and see if she would find out by herself one day.

But the emperor decided to ask the officials of the Ministry of Rites of the previous dynasty to raise Yang Yun to the position of concubine.

In fact, the Empress Dowager didn't know that the Yungui people were happy. One morning, some court officials suggested that the Yungui people, Yang Shiying, should be promoted to imperial concubine.

This move surprised the Queen Mother, looking at the emperor again, she immediately understood that this was ordered by the emperor.Empress Liu didn't speak, but just waited for everyone to discuss.

Feng Shilang of the Ministry of Rites was the first to stand up and say: "Your Majesty, this matter should not be discussed in the court. In the harem, there is a queen who presides over it. If the Yang family is so virtuous, they will raise it."

As soon as this remark came out, some cronies of the Empress Dowager naturally stood up to oppose it.

Zhao Shangshu of the official department said the most terrifying words: "Your Majesty is the king of a country, and the affairs of the palace should not be mentioned in the temple. It is not wrong for the emperor to favor anyone, but enough is enough. The Xuanzong of the previous dynasty caused the chaos in Anshi because of the Yang family. My Song Dynasty must learn from history. Now the nobleman Yang has an elder brother as the general of the frontier, the emperor thinks twice. Yang has no merit, so he cannot be promoted to imperial concubine."

Afterwards, many officials agreed, but there were also voices of opposition.In any case, the emperor never expected that this powerful minister would say such a thing. Besides, he wanted to wait for Yang Yun's fetal position to stabilize before announcing the happy news. Let's take a look before talking. After a while, he saw the officials began to scold him. During the battle, the emperor watched the excitement with a smile.

The queen mother said helplessly: "How does the emperor plan to stop it?" In fact, she also wanted to see the emperor's ability to handle affairs.

The emperor looked at the queen mother and said, "Let's see."

Guo Huai walked up to the Empress Dowager and said, "Your Majesty is hungry, why don't you go out and eat something?"

The queen mother also smiled and said: "Okay, Ai's family will go eat something before coming back." Then she patted the emperor and left.

The emperor understood that the empress dowager intended to let the virtuous, to test her ability to deal with affairs and tolerance. After all, she made a rule not to insult or beat the ministers in the court, and waited for a while.

Prime Minister Ding was also watching the battle. He found that the emperor was the same as him, and thought to himself: The emperor has matured, let's just wait and see. The queen mother left, presumably because he listened to his persuasion.

The emperor found that everyone was scolding Zhan, only Prime Minister Ding was not, so he said: "Ding Aiqing."

"The minister is here."

"Persuade."

"Follow the order." Prime Minister Ding stepped up a step and said, "It's the emperor's word of mouth, everyone is not allowed to insult, please be quiet."

Everyone stopped, and it was quickly quiet.

The emperor stood up, walked in front of Prime Minister Ding and said, "The matter concerning the Yang family can be dealt with by the queen. Only the state affairs are discussed in the court. If the family of the ministers have any objections, I will see you in the imperial study after leaving the court."

"The ministers wait to obey the order." Seeing that the queen mother is not here, all the ministers think that the queen mother has the intention of letting the virtuous, so who else dares to disobey the order?

The queen mother came back to see that the emperor's ability to deal with the chaotic situation in the court was maturing, so she felt relieved, at least she lived up to the entrustment of the late emperor.But seeing the emperor compromise so much, he couldn't help but suspect that he had other plans.

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After retiring from the court, Empress Dowager Liu asked the queen to pay more attention to the emperor's actions, and later found out that the Yungui was pregnant, but she didn't know it.

The empress then called the four concubines, and after the ceremony, the empress said: "Master Yungui is pregnant, I hope everyone will be fine and don't go to Cuiyunxuan indiscriminately. If there is an accident with the fetus, I will definitely not spare anyone lightly."

Concubine Feng Xian said, "Why haven't you heard of this?"

"Yes." Concubine Zhou Shu, Concubine Miao Jie and Concubine Li De said at the same time.

"Oh, the people of Yungui don't know it yet. The emperor deliberately concealed it. Presumably there is a reason for it. Don't expose it. When it's time to announce it, you will naturally announce it to the world." The queen said.

Concubine Li De said: "There are women like this. I remember that the concubine knew about it when she was pregnant with the fourth princess."

"After all, she is the cousin of the emperor's childhood sweetheart. It's normal for the emperor to be more playful. I guess the emperor likes her." Concubine Zhou Shu thought to herself: It's rare to see the emperor so happy, so it's okay to let him play.

"That's right, we are also happy to see the emperor happy." Concubine Miao Jie also thought that the emperor suppressed herself too much, so that's fine.

"Then we don't need to be explicit." Feng Xianfei said understandingly.

"Yungui is someone the emperor likes for the time being. If anyone secretly does something that hurts the emperor's heir, no matter how high his status is or who his background is, I will definitely not forgive him lightly." The queen said seriously, she knew that the emperor didn't like her, but The queen mother often told her: The emperor's heir is the most important thing. No matter who will inherit the great line in the future, as the new emperor's aunt will be the only empress dowager. The emperor's biological mother is only the empress dowager. The Song Dynasty does not allow two queen mothers.So for her, she just needs to keep the position of queen in her lifetime.

"The courtiers and concubines would like to obey the imperial edict." The four noble concubines all saluted. They knew that no one was stronger than the queen's backstage.

End of this chapter