Reincarnation of Soul Cultivation 2

The Zhen family has been working hard to keep their base, so it can be said that the whole Jiangnan has temporarily calmed down.

Although Zhen Yingjia is the head of the Zhen family and the center of the Zhen family's party, the ultimate protection of the Zhen family is the old lady Zhen and the two princes in Beijing.As long as they are intact, there will be no major changes in the Zhen family's power.

However, two years after Zhen Yingjia's death, Mrs. Zhen, who had been bedridden, couldn't hold on anymore and died on the bed.

It's not that Lin Jing has done anything, it's probably because her fate has come.

So the Zhen family ushered in another big change. Even though the emperor personally ordered to appease the Zhen family, even though the members of the Zhen family did not defect to other forces for the sake of the two princes, the Zhen family still had a lot of changes from before. Big difference.

In the emperor's place, the Zhen family without Mrs. Zhen is no longer a family that needs the emperor's special care.To the emperor, the current Zhen family is just the ordinary family of the concubine's natal family and the prince's natal family.

If the Zhen family did something too outrageous again, the emperor would probably not tolerate the Zhen family like a saint.

The Zhen family lost their biggest amulet.

It was also the bad luck of the Zhen family, because before the old lady Zhen died of illness, a major incident had just been discovered in Beijing—the prince committed suicide after failing to plot against him, and the emperor fell seriously ill in anger.

The Zhen family hadn't discussed what to do to support the fifth prince, and the old lady Zhen died of illness in her dream, so the Zhen family didn't have time to do anything for the time being.

Then the emperor dealt with the matter vigorously and resolutely after he recovered from his illness.

Attached to the rebellious prince, the officials who participated in the rebellion will naturally not get well.

But on the day of the prince's rebellion, the eldest son's forces who wanted to take advantage of the fire, and the third prince's forces who wanted to wait for both the prince and the eldest son to suffer, and the third prince's forces behind the yellow bird, did not benefit.

Under the emperor's fiery eyes, the eldest son of the emperor was imprisoned in the palace, and the third prince was reprimanded and demoted, and also placed in confinement.

The forces possessed by these two princes were also dealt with one after another by the emperor, and then they were completely broken up.

Because the fifth prince is not very powerful in the court, there are almost no first- and second-rank officials who look up to the fifth prince and the Zhen family, so the fifth prince cannot participate in major events of conspiracy or counter-rebellion. He is slower than the other princes in responding One shot, did not have time to enter the palace on the same day to suppress the rebellion, and was not punished by the emperor.

Arguably this is a good thing.Of the princes who participated in the seizure of the heirloom before, only the fifth prince is now innocent, with no stains on his body.

As long as the emperor has the heart, he can make the fifth prince the new prince.Then the great event of the fifth prince's seizure of the heir apparent will be considered a success.

In the eyes of many officials surrounding the fifth prince, the emperor was partial to Zhen Guifei and the fifth prince, the mother and son.Now that the other princes can't do anything, it seems logical that the fifth prince will be established as the prince.

It's a pity that the officials who supported the fifth prince had just stated in the court that they hoped that the emperor would appoint a prince again, which immediately aroused the emperor's vigilance.

In the past, the fifth prince was the beloved son of the emperor's favorite concubine, and he didn't have much power in the court. Compared to his elder brothers, he was just a little pitiful, so the emperor favored him a lot.

Now that the emperor found out that among the princes who participated in the seizure of the heirloom, only the fifth prince was left clean and free from dust, he immediately felt uneasy and dissatisfied with the fifth prince.

I feel that the fifth prince is petty and only cares about money, how can he be made a prince?

On the day of the prince's rebellion, he wanted to protect the fourth prince who had been following him, so he completely concealed the rebellion from him.Therefore, the fourth prince was not disposed of by the emperor.But because the fourth prince has always acted with the prince, the emperor doesn't like the fourth prince very much, and treats the fourth prince coldly.

Now the emperor doesn't like the fifth prince anymore, so the fourth prince who was coldly treated by the emperor was pushed out and used him to fight the fifth prince to maintain the balance of the court.

At this juncture, Mrs. Zhen passed away, and the entire Zhen family had to keep their filial piety behind closed doors.

The Zhen family lost a piece of amulet, so they no longer dare to do whatever they want, now is the critical moment for the Fifth Prince.

The only enemy of the fifth prince is the fourth prince who was inconspicuous in the past. As long as the fifth prince is promoted to the position of prince, the Zhen family will be considered a great success.

However, the Zhen family had a lot of scruples because of their filial piety, so they couldn't personally go to the battle to ask and cheer for the fifth prince.

But the Zhen family can't do this, and the followers of the Zhen family in Jiangnan don't have any scruples.

In their view, the crown prince, the eldest son, and the third prince, the most competitive opponents, have all fallen.Now in the court, there is only the fourth prince who is not outstanding and unpopular to compete with the fifth prince. The success of the fifth prince is just around the corner.

So they all waved their flags and shouted for the fifth prince, and wrote to the emperor to say good things for the fifth prince.

These officials were able to be won over by the Zhen family in the south of the Yangtze River. Naturally, they were not people with long-term vision, and they did not understand the emperor's true character.

Their behavior of waving the flag and shouting made the emperor angry.

The older the emperor was, the more sensitive he was to this kind of struggle for power.So many officials in the south of the Yangtze River spoke for the fifth prince, which made the emperor feel dangerous, and felt that the fifth prince was already planning to rely on the officials who supported him to fight against him, the emperor.

Now the fifth prince and the fourth prince are fighting in the court, maintaining a certain political balance, the emperor naturally cannot dispose of the fifth prince at will.

But for those Jiangnan officials who don't open their eyes, the emperor will not be soft.

The emperor secretly instructed those confidantes he arranged in Jiangnan, including Lin Ruhai, to ask them to impeach certain officials in Jiangnan.

For Lin Ruhai and the others, this couldn't be easier.Those people were originally their hostile factions, but because those people were attached to the Zhen family, and the emperor was particularly tolerant of the Zhen family, they couldn't move, so they endured until now.

In fact, those people are covered in braids, and there are a lot of them when they are caught. It is a breeze to impeach them.

In fact, the Zhen family was lucky. It happened that at this season, the old lady of the Zhen family was gone, and the whole family had to observe filial piety, so there was no time to wave the flag in front of the emperor.The emperor didn't intend to deal with the Zhen family this time either, but just wiped out all the Jiangnan officials impeached by Lin Ruhai and the others.

The officialdom in the south of the Yangtze River has undergone a major change.

Without the help of those henchmen, from now on, the Zhen family would have a hard time living in Jiangnan.

In the past few years, nothing major has happened to the Lin family.That is to say, after Daiyu was seven years old, Jia Min found a female husband for her to teach her some skills that women should learn.However, Daiyu didn't like female red embroidery or the Fourth Nvshu, instead she liked to study seriously with her husband with her younger brother.

Lin Ruhai is an open-minded person, otherwise she would not have invited Jia Yucun to enlighten her when she was a child.

Anyway, Wang Juren was old and frail, past the age of worrying about men and women's defenses, so Daiyu continued to study.

After Lin Jing was five or six years old, she also began to attend classes all day. In addition to going to school to do homework, she also practiced calligraphy and read miscellaneous books other than the imperial examinations to increase her knowledge.

The life of the Lin family is good, and Jia Min's life is comfortable, so he still has time to care about the affairs of his natal relatives.

Jia Min often corresponded with her mother. Before she knew that her natal family wanted to send Jia Yuanchun, who was a female official in the palace, to the prince's back house, she felt a little bad.Did the Jia family not end here?Can you gain a foothold in the court only by offering your daughter to flatter the prince?

But Jia Min is a married woman and has no control over her family's affairs, so she just kept silent about it.

The prince's rebellion happened before, and it made Jia Min sweat for her mother's family. I wonder if Jia's family sent Jia Yuanchun to the prince's backyard?Will the Jia family be implicated by the deposed prince again this time?

Fortunately, at this time, Jia Min received another letter from Jia's mother, saying that the Jia family had no help in the palace before, so they had to ask their old relative Zhen Guifei to arrange Jia Yuanchun's affairs.Who knew that Concubine Zhen didn't want the Jia family to completely surrender to the prince, so she secretly made a hindrance, so that Jia Yuanchun was still doing her female history well.Concubine Zhen also sent word to the Jia family that she planned to point Jia Yuanchun to the fifth prince as a side concubine.

The second Duke Rongning has such a great name, but the Jia family has no right now, only the leftovers left by Jia Daishan made the emperor have a good impression of the Jia family, and ordinary people dare not provoke the Jia family.

In this case, the Jia family is nothing but a wall. As long as they can rely on the nobles and let the Jia family regain support and power, then the Jia family doesn't care who they are clinging to.

Originally, I wanted to cling to the prince, but that was because the prince was the heir apparent, the future emperor, and clinging to the prince was the most beneficial.

The situation is different now, only the fourth prince and the fifth prince are competing in the court, and the other princes are either incompetent or still young.Compared to the obscurity of the fourth prince, the fifth prince will be more favored, not to mention the fifth prince's biological mother is the favorite concubine Zhen Guifei in the palace.

From the Jia family's point of view, the fifth prince born out of Concubine Zhen Gui is much more likely to be crowned prince than the fourth prince.

So even though Concubine Zhen had tripped the Jia family before, if she really pointed Jia Yuanchun to the fifth prince, the Jia family would be happy.

In Concubine Zhen's opinion, Jia Daishan had once been in charge of the army and served as the admiral of the Nine Schools, so he was very powerful in the army.Even though Jia Daishan's children and grandchildren no longer hold military power because of avoiding suspicion and switching from Wu to Wen, their Jia family still has a lot of love with the powerful officers of the military.

Now the fifth prince has the support of many civil servants, and also needs the support of some noble military officials, and the Jia family is the best medium.Through the Jia family, some military forces can be recruited for use by the fifth prince.In case of an emergency in the future, the fifth prince will not be unavailable.

After Concubine Zhen reached a tacit understanding with the Jia family, Concubine Zhen planned to order Jia Yuanchun to be her son as a side concubine.Even Jia Yuanchun himself was mentally prepared for this.

But no one expected that the emperor, who was watching coldly, suddenly intervened. He directly ordered Jia Yuanchun to be the fourth prince's side concubine.It caught everyone off guard.

Not only Concubine Zhen Gui and the fifth prince were very upset, but felt that the emperor deliberately embarrassed them.

Even the fourth prince is not happy.

Before the Jia family wanted to send their granddaughter to the prince's backyard, the fourth prince also knew about it.

At that time, the fourth prince didn't have any bad feelings towards the Jia family. After all, when Jia Daishan was alive, Jane was in the heart of the emperor, and under the arrangement of the emperor, he had been a martial arts master for the deposed prince.Therefore, the Jia family is close to the prince, and it is understandable for the fourth prince to send their daughter to the prince's backyard to deepen their relationship.

Who would have thought that things would be messed up by Concubine Zhen Gui, once the abolished prince failed and died, the Jia family would change course and give their granddaughter to the fifth prince instead.

Such a grass-headed and soft-boned character disgusted the fourth prince, who had always been upright and tough, and his impression of Jia's family was bad from then on.

Originally, the fourth prince hated the Jia family's way of doing things in his heart, but he didn't expect this matter to have anything to do with him.Whoever thought that the emperor would make a fortune, so he gave Jia Yuanchun to be his side concubine.The fourth prince was also very unhappy.

The fourth prince has an upright temper, and it can be said that he has some cleanliness, and he is easy to blame the people around him.If he is an official in the imperial examination, he is more suitable to be a strong imperial censor, but he is a prince.With his temper, how could he like Jia Yuanchun as his concubine?In his thoughts, there was even a feeling that the Jia family took Jia Yuanchun's daughter Xu Sanjia.Therefore, the fourth prince not only thinks that Jia's family is a fool, but also thinks that Jia Yuanchun drifts with the crowd, has no strength of character, and has a bad character.

As for the Jia family, they were actually not very satisfied with the fact that the emperor pointed out Jia Yuanchun to the fourth prince.

The fourth prince was born of an unfavored concubine in the palace, and was never very eye-catching among the princes.What's more, his temperament is too tough and stubborn, and he is not appreciated by the emperor, and he has never been trained and supported by the emperor.When the fourth prince followed the abolished prince, he handled some practical matters such as disaster relief, building dams and water control, which allowed him to accomplish a lot of things, and at the same time offended a large number of bureaucrats.Among the officials, the fourth prince is not very popular.In the eyes of many officials, the fourth prince's temperament is too tough and stubborn, he is easy to hurt others and himself, and he is not smooth enough in handling affairs, so he is not suitable for the position of emperor.

In the current situation, all the courtiers felt that the emperor was worried that the fifth prince would dominate and the court would lose balance, so he promoted the fourth prince, who was originally not particularly ill, and used him to balance the court.

No one thinks that the fourth prince will succeed, even if it is not the fifth prince, it can be those little princes who are still young now.

If the fifth prince succeeds in the future, then the fourth prince who is now fighting against him may not end well.

There are many people who think this way, including the Jia family.

In this way, Jia Yuanchun was pointed out by the emperor to the fourth prince, how could the Jia family be happy.