Lord of Fortune

After the triumphant division returned to the capital, Emperor Chongde greeted them personally at the gate of the city.Empress Ding, the mother of a country, came out to meet the army with Emperor Chongde.

At the gate of the city, Emperor Chongde, who was dressed in the dragon robe of the Ming emperor, and Empress Ding, who was dressed in a phoenix robe, stood side by side, waiting for the return of the army.Emperor Chongde was in his prime, had been in power for a long time, and was known for his prestige. Just standing there gave people the urge to worship him.Empress Ding is dignified and majestic, with a smile on her lips, she looks noble and kind.

Someone saw it and sighed: "As expected of a queen, this kind of demeanor is incomparable to ordinary concubines."

When Empress Ding first married into the palace, few people favored her as a second wife.Later, when Emperor Chongde was established, there were countless people who opposed Empress Ding.However, as time passed, Empress Ding used her efforts to win the respect of quite a number of ministers. They felt that it was fortunate that she was the one who established Emperor Chongde at the beginning, not anyone else.

During the waiting time, the emperor and empress chatted a few words from time to time, and they seemed to have a very good relationship.

"The harmony between the emperor and the empress, and the stable position of the middle palace are the blessings of the country." The one who said this was naturally Qingliu from the middle of the court.

These Qingliu are the natural supporters of the eldest son.Perhaps in the past, they were critical of Empress Ding in every possible way, but now, not to mention that Empress Ding herself is impeccable, even for the sake of the Seventh Prince, these Qingliu will no longer embarrass Empress Ding.

Some people have a good impression of Empress Ding, and naturally some people don't like her, such as fans of other princes and concubines.

However, these people wisely kept silent - the small actions they made before annoyed Emperor Chongde, and recently Emperor Chongde beat them many times in the open and in the dark.At this juncture, they had better stop offending Emperor Chongde.

Queen Ding is in a good mood.Although her life was a little bit sad when she and Han Mengqin were pointed at a few days ago, but now, all grievances have been made up for.

This time to welcome the triumphant teacher, Emperor Chongde gave her enough face and promised to marry Chu Chen and Han Mengqin after Chu Chen returned. It was the loudest slap.

Empress Ding recalled the recent actions of some people jumping up and down in an attempt to win over Chu Chen, a hint of sarcasm curled up on her lips.

When her eyes fell on Chu Chen who was approaching with the army, pride flashed on her face again.She knew that Chu Chen would not let her down, whether it was character or talent.

It can be said that Emperor Chongde had heard of Chu Chen for a long time.

Ever since Chu Chen was framed by others, and he started his career as a soldier, Emperor Chongde began to pay attention to Chu Chen.He really recognized Chu Chen after Chu Chen made some achievements.Chu Chen has proved with facts that he can do well no matter whether he takes the imperial examination route or joins the army.

However, at that time, Emperor Chongde did not expect that Chu Chen would be able to make it this far—in the critical situation at the border, Chu Chen would be able to stand up and turn the tide, and truly reversed the situation.

When Chu Chen stood in front of Emperor Chongde, there was only one thought left in Emperor Chongde's mind: This young man is more outstanding and calm than he imagined, and he is worthy of being the empress' valued person!

This was the first time for Chu Chen to face the saint, but he was not nervous at all. He seemed neither humble nor overbearing. Emperor Chongde asked him several questions in a row, and he talked eloquently and easily.

Finally, Emperor Chongde said casually: "I don't know if Chu Aiqing is married? I happen to have a few princesses waiting in my boudoir..."

Hearing this, some people who wanted to win Chu Chen over were instantly remorseful.Everyone can see Chu Chen's benefits.Now even Emperor Chongde wanted to recruit Chu Chen as his son-in-law, so they couldn't compete with Emperor Chongde, could they?

As for Chu Chen rejecting this situation, they never even thought about it.Being able to marry the royal princess is a great thing.No matter how good Han Mengqin was, her status was embarrassing after all, and she couldn't compare to the royal princess Jingui.

However, to everyone's surprise, Chu Chen declined Emperor Chongde's kindness, and said firmly: "Although I am not married yet, I already have a fiancée. I can only appreciate His Majesty's kindness."

When Emperor Chongde heard the words, he feigned anger and said, "What are you talking about? Could it be that my princess is not as good as your fiancée?"

Chu Chen said earnestly: "Weichen's fiancée is naturally not as noble as the princess, but in Weichen's eyes, she is the best. It is precisely in order to be worthy of her that I work so hard, please Your Majesty. "

Just when everyone secretly lamented Chu Chen's boldness and felt that Chu Chen would definitely be severely punished by Emperor Chongde, Emperor Chongde actually smiled: "You boy, you really did not live up to my expectations of you."

Whether poor or rich, Chu Chen can always stick to his heart, which is very rare in the eyes of Emperor Chongde.He couldn't help but admire Chu Chen a little more.

"Then tell me, which family's woman is the one who made the marriage contract with you? If the other party's status is suitable, I will reward you with a grace and marry you personally!"

As soon as Emperor Chongde's words fell, Chu Chen's eyes lit up: "Reporting to the emperor, it is Han Mengqin, the daughter of the Empress Empress, who made the marriage contract with the minister. The minister and Qin'er grew up together. At this point, I am convinced that there is no room for anyone between Chen and Qin'er."

"You said you have a marriage contract with Qin'er, so have you ever exchanged Geng Tie with her?"

"No, but..."

Before Chu Chen finished speaking, he was interrupted by Emperor Chongde, who seemed a little annoyed: "This is not easy. I once promised the queen that Qin'er's marriage will be decided by her. Although I am very I am optimistic about you, Aiqing, but if the queen does not nod, I have no way to betroth Qin'er to you. Although the verbal engagement between you and Qin'er was made by the queen, it is hard to say whether the queen still likes you now."

Hearing this, Chu Chen looked at Empress Ding eagerly: "Uncle... Empress Empress..."

Empress Ding couldn't help laughing when she saw his anxious look.It can be seen that Chu Chen must value Han Mengqin very much, otherwise, he would not be like this.

"I can be regarded as watching you grow up. In the future, you should call me your aunt as before." Empress Ding looked at Chu Chen: "I once swore that I would find someone who will be good to Qin'er." Only the person who will betroth her will marry her out. If it was you before, I wouldn't worry about it. With the bond between your mother and Bengong, and the friendship that you grew up with Qin'er, you can't be wrong. Waiting for Qin'er. But now, you have become a marquis and general, what kind of noble girl can't you marry? Qin'er is probably not good enough for you anymore."

Chu Chen became anxious when he heard the words: "I have never thought about it that way. No matter what status I am, in my heart, Qin'er is the only wife I have."

Empress Ding showed a smile on her face: "Don't worry, just listen to what I have to say. Although you and Qin'er's identities are somewhat mismatched, I believe that you are a person who values ​​love and righteousness. Therefore, Bengong I didn't deny your marriage contract with Qin'er. But you have to be clear that Qin'er may not be able to bring you any help. Even so, do you still want to marry her? In the future, you won't blame her for this, right? ?”

"I have never thought of getting any benefits from Qin'er." Chu Chen said solemnly: "I have worked so hard to make achievements in order to become Qin'er's reliance. If you can get Qin'er as a wife, I guarantee that I will I will regard Qin'er as my life, and I will never disappoint Qin'er."

"Okay, since that's the case, then I will trust you for now." Empress Ding liked Chu Chen, so naturally she would not deliberately make things difficult for him.In fact, she has never doubted Chu Chen's character.She asked more now, just to further confirm Han Mengqin's position in Chu Chen's heart, but the result made her very satisfied.

Not only Queen Ding, but also Emperor Chongde was more satisfied with Chu Chen after listening. He has always liked people who value friendship.

If Chu Chen had not entered into a marriage contract with Han Mengqin, Emperor Chongde would definitely recruit Chu Chen as his son-in-law.However, Han Mengqin is now like a half daughter in the heart of Emperor Chongde, and even many real princesses are not as caring as Han Mengqin.Therefore, Emperor Chongde actually didn't regret it very much, but was very happy that Han Mengqin could have such a good home.

"Since that's the case, I will marry you and Qin'er. You can fight on the front line without any distractions, and Qin'er is also a credit. Qin'er previously donated tens of thousands of winter clothes to the Zhenxi Army. And when you disappeared During that time, Qin'er was afraid that something bad would happen to you, so Qin'er worked a lot in order to collect supplies and send reinforcements to search for your whereabouts earlier. You are now like this, and Qin'er's love for you is not in vain."

Chu Chen didn't expect that Han Mengqin's handwriting was actually there when the reinforcements arrived, and a soft light flashed on his face: "Qin'er...she is naturally the best. When she encounters difficulties, she never Resign to fate, and will find ways to solve these difficulties. She is the most resilient woman I have ever seen."

"Yes, in this respect, she looks like a queen." Emperor Chongde held Queen Ding's hand with emotion.

Although there are countless concubines in his harem, only Empress Ding is the one who really thinks of him wholeheartedly when encountering a problem.As for the other concubines, they always harbor a lot of selfishness in their hearts.

Empress Ding smiled back: "Your Majesty, let's welcome our hero into the gate quickly, don't stand at the gate."

"The queen is very right, let's chat while walking." Emperor Chongde glanced over the Ximan king, quite satisfied, Daqi hadn't won such a victory for a long time, it was really exciting.

The captive offering ceremony was quite grand, and all the people were cheering for Daqi's victory.Although these years, due to the continuous border violations of the Western Banners, Daqi has caused countless losses in terms of personnel and property, but the wealth of the Western Banner Palace is enough to make up for these losses.

After the ceremony of offering captives, King Ximan was granted the title Marquis of An Le. His Hou Mansion was located in a relatively remote location in central Beijing. The former owner of the Hou Mansion was ransacked for crimes.

The surroundings of Anlehou Mansion are heavily guarded.If Marquis Anle is willing to live peacefully with his tail between his legs, Emperor Chongde doesn't mind letting him be an empty-handed Marquis and live peacefully.If he refused to settle down, then Emperor Chongde would just kill him once and for all.

If An Lehou still had at least an empty title, his sons and daughters would have nothing.An Lehou has six sons and four daughters, and they can only live in a small house with him.

An Lehou's daughters are all beauties with exotic charms.An Lehou dedicated his eldest daughter to Emperor Chongde. Although Emperor Chongde accepted it, he didn't dote on this alien beauty very much. He even told Empress Ding to secretly guard against this alien beauty.Emperor Chongde became the king of a country, what kind of beauties have you never seen?He accepted An Lehou's daughter just to see what An Lehou wanted to do.

With the precedent of the eldest daughter, it is not incomprehensible for An Lehou to send his second and third daughters to the fourth and fifth princes as concubines respectively.The fourth and fifth princes felt that they were imitating Emperor Chongde, but when Emperor Chongde learned of this, his thoughts towards them became more subtle.However, the fourth and fifth princes are especially unaware and complacent.

On the contrary, the Sixth Prince could see some clues from the attitude of Emperor Chongde. When Marquis An Le intended to offer his youngest daughter to the Sixth Prince as a concubine, the Sixth Prince resolutely refused on the grounds that he was not allowed to take a concubine before he was married. .An Lehou's youngest daughter is one year older than the sixth prince, so it is reasonable to match the sixth prince, but it seems very inappropriate to match the seventh prince. After all, the seventh prince is only 11 years old this year, and is five years younger than An Lehou's youngest daughter. .

An Lehou thought it over and over again, and finally made his mind on Chu Chen.

It's a pity that Chu Chen was not at all interested in the beauties who came to his door: "In this life, I will only have one wife, Qin'er, and I will never take concubines. Those who want to send me concubines should save themselves."

After Emperor Chongde personally issued a decree to marry Chu Chen and Han Mengqin, some officials and officials changed their strategy and tried to give their concubine daughter to Chu Chen as the second wife. Chu Chen was really annoyed.

After the sacrifice ceremony and the celebration banquet were over, he simply confessed to Emperor Chongde, and returned to his hometown in a chic manner with the intention of bestowing a marriage.

At that time, the Jiang family flattered Han Mengqin on the surface, but secretly spread rumors to slander Han Mengqin.Since they have chosen to stand against Han Mengqin, the Wu family will not allow them to go back on their word.

The people of the country were immersed in the joy of the border victory, and temporarily forgot about Han Mengqin's suspected embezzlement of charity funds.They didn't remember this until the Jiang family reminded them again.

"Although we won against Ximanzhi this time, we still need to give us an explanation as to whether Miss Han has been corrupt or not."

Because many people were influenced by the capital, they gritted their teeth and donated a sum of money that was not cheap to them.That’s all for the rich. For those who are not well-to-do, they don’t have much money at hand. Donating a dozen or twenty copper coins probably means that they will have to live in tight clothes for quite a while. Food.

These people also have the lowest tolerance for corruption.If it turns out that Han Mengqin is indeed corrupt-no matter how much she has corrupt-corrupted, their impression of her will be minimized!

Not long after, Chu Chen, who had just been named Marquis of Wu'an, came back.Along with him, there was actually a well-known upright official.

This upright official, Master Dou, is old-fashioned, and his eyes are the most unruffled.This time Emperor Chongde sent him here precisely to investigate whether Han Mengqin was corrupt.

When the people heard that the person in charge of the investigation was Mr. Dou, they immediately felt relieved.

In the previous dynasty, a prince who was favored by the late emperor was embezzled, and was discovered by Mr. Dou.One case was reported to the late emperor, the late emperor wanted to turn the big matter into a small one, and if the small matter was turned into a small matter, Lord Dou would die and rebuke the late emperor and the prince, and made the late emperor and the prince feel ashamed.With such a person, you don't have to worry about who he will cover up.

Don't say that Han Mengqin is just the queen's daughter, even if Han Mengqin is the queen herself, if she is really corrupt, Lord Dou will never let her go.

When Lord Dou first came, he was very wary of Chu Chen.He knew that Chu Chen was Han Mengqin's fiancé, and he was afraid that Chu Chen would cover up Han Mengqin.

However, after a period of investigation, his attitude gradually softened—Chu Chen was frank and frank, and had no intention of interfering in this matter at all.Han Mengqin's reputation in the local area is also quite good. Even Lord Dou couldn't help but be moved by what she did.

"Leaving aside the matter of corruption, Han's daughter is really an admirable woman. If she is really innocent, this officer will definitely investigate this matter and return her innocence."

"Then I will thank you sir on Qinqin's behalf." Chu Chen said.

However, the process of investigation was not smooth. It seemed that there was a force in the dark that was obstructing Mr. Dou.Lord Dou is not one to admit defeat, the more someone tries to obstruct him, the more he has to investigate clearly.

In the end, Mrs. Yongning Hou became anxious, and she came up with a stupid move—“invite” Master Dou to the mansion to “expressly hint” and tell Master Dou that this is the territory of their Jiang family. If Master Dou still wants to If you leave safely, don't antagonize the Jiang family.

The Xu family of the Marquis of Yongning and the Wu family are related by marriage, and now the Jiang family and the Wu family are in an alliance relationship.Although the Jiang family led the matter against Han Mengqin this time, the Marquis of Yongning also got involved.They understood that if Han Mengqin was allowed to tide over the difficulties this time, it would be even more difficult to bring down Han Mengqin in the future.

In the eyes of Mrs. Yongning Hou, such a threat is the most direct and effective, and she has used this method to deal with many people in the past.

It's a pity that Mrs. Yongning Hou doesn't know about Master Dou's temper, nor does she know that Master Dou doesn't eat oil and salt, and doesn't eat soft and hard things.Her coercion and lure made Lord Dou believe that she was framing Han Mengqin.

After careful investigation, Master Dou publicly announced that Han Mengqin was innocent, and the origin and destination of every payment on her bill was clear, and there was no ambiguity.Not only did she not take the money raised by everyone, but she posted a lot of money herself!

This result surprised countless people.

"How is this possible?" Jiang Niannian paced back and forth anxiously in the room: "How could she be able to guard a treasure mountain and not take any of it? Is she a saint?"

You know, even if the Jiang family didn't lack money, after raising the money, they still took [-]% of it and left.After all, organizing this event itself is a labor-intensive thing.If they don't take any money, they are doing good deeds at a loss.

"The matter has come to this point, the most important thing is not whether Han Mengqin has been corrupt, but to pick us out!" Mrs. Jiang said angrily: "That stupid woman of the Xu family didn't even find out what Master Dou is like, so she just picked us out!" To do this kind of thing is really more than success than failure! Now Lord Dou must have suspected us!"

Mrs. Jiang's prediction was right, Mrs. Dou had indeed suspected that she had gone to Jiang's and Xu's.However, he not only suspected that Mrs. Jiang and Mrs. Yongning Hou had teamed up to frame Han Mengqin, but also suspected that Mrs. Jiang had embezzled the money she had raised.

Han Mengqin has never been a passive character. Since Mrs. Jiang wanted to ruin her reputation, she simply used the same method to deal with Mrs. Jiang.Han Mengqin has never embezzled any charitable funds, so she is naturally not afraid of being investigated. As for Mrs. Jiang, who has swallowed part of the charitable funds, please ask for blessings...

Not long after, Lord Dou revealed what Mrs. Jiang had done, and he was very angry: "I thought the governor's wife was a good person, but I didn't expect that I corrupted the money, but instead slandered others for corruption, It really opened my eyes!"

Corruption of charitable funds raised is different from embezzlement of public funds.

If public funds or tax money are embezzled, if it is serious, Governor Jiang's official position can be directly removed.However, what Mrs. Jiang embezzled was the raised money, so Mrs. Dou and the court could not take any substantive punishment on her, at most they would condemn her on a moral level.

The overwhelming evidence is enough to discredit the Jiang family.

Recently, wherever Governor Jiang and Mrs. Jiang went, they would have strange eyes.Not long after, Emperor Chongde made a decree and found a random reason to demote Governor Jiang.On the bright side, what Governor Jiang committed was not a big deal, but anyone with a discerning eye can see that Governor Jiang violated Emperor Chongde's taboo.

While Han Mengqin was digging a hole for Jiang's family, Queen Ding also tacitly made up the knife.

When Emperor Chongde was hesitating about how to deal with the Jiang family, Empress Ding said: "How the Jiang family targets Qin'er has nothing to do with the court. The concubine thinks that the emperor should not punish the Jiang family because he loves Qin'er. But ——The concubine heard that the Jiang family and the Wu family are very close, and the concubine felt very worried. The Wu family has been acting out of control recently. If there is Jiang's help outside, I'm afraid..."

This remark strengthened Emperor Chongde's determination to severely punish the Jiang family.

While dealing with the Jiang family, Emperor Chongde did not let go of the up-and-down Marquis of Yongning. He came down with an imperial decree and directly lifted the title of Marquis of Yongning.

The Marquis of Yongning originally only had an empty title and no real power, and now even this glamor is gone, so everyone in the Marquis of Yongning naturally had a hard time.

The Jiang family was also having a difficult time. Although Governor Jiang was only demoted to governor, people with discerning eyes could already see that Governor Jiang had lost his sacred heart, so he naturally lost a little respect for him.The Jiang family blamed all of this on the Yongninghou's mansion, and they really hated Mrs. Yongninghou.

Just when the Jiang family and the Xu family were miserable, the local upstart Marquis Wu An took out the marriage decree from Emperor Chongde, and publicly announced that Han Mengqin had become his fiancée, and the marriage date was set for the next year. He will arrange their marriage in person, and the empress will add makeup to Han Mengqin.

As soon as the news came out, Han Mengqin immediately became the most envied girl in the area.

In the past, when Chu Chen was still the son of the prefect, although all the ladies envied Han Mengqin for being cared for wholeheartedly by Chu Chen, they were still able to restrain themselves.Now that Chu Chen has become a marquis, he can even marry the princess and princess, but he is still devoted to Han Mengqin. They really have no choice but to envy and hate him.

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I just got jet lagged in the past two days, tidying up the dormitory and so on, I didn’t care about the update, and I can resume the update after that. (as daily as possible)

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