The majestic sister-in-law of the Red Chamber

Lin Tian and Situ Meng, who were busy in the palace without touching the ground, had no idea that there were already such a large group of people behind their backs secretly preparing to provoke trouble. The news of the three palaces with different surnames caused them quite a headache.

Although each family did not make any big moves, they kept making small moves in private. Although the Dongping County King did not intend to rebel like the other two families, he lived a life of luxury and corruption all day long, not only building palaces wantonly , and even built a wine pool and meat forest. A large-scale draft is held every year in the fief, and the number of people in the backyard of his palace has far exceeded that of the emperor by several times.

The taxation of the fiefs under his rule has been raised time and time again, and corvee is often collected in various names.

As a result, those overwhelmed people had to drag their children and daughters to leave their homes and flee to other places. The land of the Dongping County King became more and more desolate, and the Dongping County King turned a blind eye to all of these. Not only that, but also every year. Such an excuse is to ask the court to increase the appropriation.

Although the king of Dongping County is getting old day by day, his brain is still not completely confused. In order to stabilize his rights and status, he supports those concubines to fight heartily with the concubines who have been crowned princes by the court. It must be a miasma and the people are in dire straits.

Although Lin Tian and Situ Meng sympathized with the poor people under the rule of Dongping County King very much, they knew very well in their hearts that the current state there was what the emperor wanted to see most!If those people were completely forced to rebel by the King of Dongping County, then the imperial court would be able to issue an order to withdraw the feudal vassal in a logical manner, which would not only appease the hearts of the people, but also completely solve the cancer of the king with a different surname.

Compared with the king of Dongping County, the king of Xining County is much quieter. Although he secretly colludes with the Huns, because he guards the northwest, he still knows the cruel characteristics of the Huns very well. Therefore, with the Huns The only relationship with them is that they can trade with them on food, tea and even salt, and they are still very strict about weapons and pig iron.

It's a pity that he doesn't know, what he didn't dare to do, a certain prince in the court, the governor of Liangjiang, Ga Li, and the Zhen family, all worked very hard.

The King of Xining County has successively obtained a lot of little girls for careful training over the years, and the best of them have become high-level espionage personnel. Unfortunately, the most outstanding concubine daughter of the year originally wanted to be sent to Prince Zhongshun. However, the mansion was directly killed by Lin Tian by mistake.

Afterwards, an orphan girl who was acquired by his subordinates was also in good condition in all aspects. He gave it to the leader of the Huns and wanted to use her to get more information about the Huns. Unfortunately, before he really saw the leader of the Huns, he was arrested Small tribes who came to avenge the Huns were killed.

Not only that, before in the capital, many trained women were sent to the backyards of nobles or officials in the name of Lord Jing'an. At the beginning, they got a lot of useful information, but in the past few years it has been rumored Less and less news came out, and there was almost nothing that was really useful. Many people even died inexplicably in the backyard battles.

All kinds of unsatisfactory things that happened one after another made Xining County King very irritable. However, after careful investigation, he found that there was indeed no one who deliberately intervened to get rid of these people. It was really just a struggle in the backyard. Sacrifice!

After all, these women did not have a strong and tenable identity, so almost all of them entered the high-ranking households as concubines. Being completely marginalized, no useful information can be detected at all, and what's more, the mistress directly disposes of it quietly with various means, and they can't find anything wrong.

The plan to train women to become eyeliners has basically failed, and the Xining County King's body has deteriorated even more after these blows.

Compared with these two, the oldest king of Nan'an County is the one with the best health among the three of them. After all, this old guy's dream of becoming an emperor has not yet come true. They all follow a doctor, and even specially recruited many doctors who are good at health-care to develop various health-care medicinal diets and decoctions for him.

Although the place where he kept his private soldiers had already been discovered by the Death Squad sent by Lin Tian, ​​but after all, it is not the time to completely tear his face, so the court did not intend to startle the snake, but sent people to monitor it from a distance. If there is a large-scale change in the number of these private soldiers or any other changes, they will send news back to the capital as soon as possible.

Compared with the unsatisfactory situation of the king of Xining, the life of the king of Nan'an these years has become more and more comfortable, and his deployment has become more and more detailed. He even feels that the throne is beckoning to him.

You know, these years, the sales of private salt produced by his seaside salt farms in Guangdong and Guangxi are extremely good. Although for those private salt dealers, the profit is not as high as before, the benefits are still not cheap. Basically, none of their original comrades were willing to let go of this money-making business.

"Hehe...Situ Meng, Situ Meng, since you have sabotaged this king's good deeds several times, then this king will give you a huge gift this time, and it depends on whether you can handle it!

Hehehehe... You are not afraid of anything, you are always looking for trouble for me!Don't you just like that person if you are not a lover?This king just told you not to fulfill your wish, so that you and that girl from the Lin family will never be able to do it!

This king wants to see how you can marry a woman whose mother is mad at her in an open and honest manner!Filial piety and love, it's up to you to choose, hahahaha..." The king of Nan'an lit the secret letter from Beijing and threw it into the brazier, with a cold and wild laugh.

In the capital city, in the imperial palace, under the leadership of Concubine Zhen, all the concubines and concubines in the house set out for the Empress Dowager's Compassionate Palace. On the other hand, she also sent someone to notify all the concubines in the harem except the empress. To the Empress Dowager.

Although those high-ranking concubines don't know what kind of medicine is sold in the gourd of Zhen Tai Guifei, but this face should be given to her. After all, although the Supreme Emperor is dead, there are still many left for this woman whom he has spoiled for half his life. A life-saving good thing.

All of a sudden, all the concubines in the palace gathered from all directions towards the Empress Dowager's Palace of Compassion, and when the Queen heard the news, they all had already arrived in the Palace of Compassion.

"Sister Empress Dowager, Wanfu Jinan!" Concubine Zhen Taigui saluted the Empress Dowager with a smile.

"See the empress dowager, the empress is a thousand years old!" All the concubines knelt down at the same time, respectfully saluting the empress dowager.

"Let's all get back together! I don't know what the hell is going on with you all making an appointment to come to Ai's house today?"

The empress dowager looked at these concubines with a gloomy face, and she didn't even bother to say the most basic seat grant, because these people were obviously not good people under the leadership of Zhen Taigui, and the empress dowager had already had clever servants around her They went to the queen and the emperor to deliver the news.

"Sister Empress Dowager, we also know that you don't like to make noise, but there's really no other way, so we can only come to you to judge!" Concubine Zhen Taigui said, without waiting for the Empress Dowager to speak, she said nothing. Politely sat directly on the chair next to her, shook the handkerchief in his hand, and said:

"Originally, this matter has nothing to do with me, but these nobles and regulars all ran to me and complained, and they were also forced to die, so there is no other way. Please come to me.

After all, sister, the threshold here is too high, that is, only those who are above the main position are eligible to come in on the [-]th day of the new year to pay homage, and their low-level concubines are not even qualified to step into the gate of your Compassionate Palace! "

"Concubine Zhen, what do you mean?" The Empress Dowager looked at Concubine Zhen with annoyance. You must know that since the return of the Supreme Emperor, she no longer needs to act according to anyone's face. With so many people coming, her good mood was instantly shattered by her aggressive posture. When she looked at this woman who had oppressed her almost all her life, her eyes were about to burst into flames.

"Sister, what can I mean! I just want you to hear the sufferings of these low-ranking concubines, and let you, the biggest master of the harem, help them decide!" Zhen Taigui said with a smile on her face. , and then looked at the nobles with different surnames who came out of the palace, and said, "Don't you want me to take you to the empress dowager to avenge your grievances? Tell me about it!"

"Empress Dowager, you have to decide for us! The Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Bureau of Shangyi used the excuse of holding a wedding ceremony for Prince Zhongshun, and withheld all the concubines' quotas. Seeing that the bride is approaching, but the New Year's Eve None of the new clothes were made for the concubines, not to mention those things like silk flowers and red silk, all of them were transferred to not the palace!" A little Chang was signaled by a nobleman who came out of the Nan'an County palace. , the first to complain.

"Yes, it is said that all the embroiderers from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Shangyi Bureau have been transferred to embroider Princess Zhongshun's wedding dress and all kinds of common clothes! It is said that Miss Lin is not satisfied with it. After all, the wedding is just around the corner In the first month, but she wants to repair and renovate the entire palace! All the people from the House of Internal Affairs have been dispatched to help, not to mention, even a lot of eunuchs and maids have been drawn from various places in the palace..."

"Yes, yes, the Miss Lin family is not only arrogant but also ruthless. Any woman who gets close to Prince Zhongshun will be killed by her! Back then, my poor concubine was married to Prince Zhongshun by you, the queen mother." She covered it up shortly after returning home, although the concubine had no evidence, but the Miss Lin family deliberately ran to the palace to see my concubine sister..." A nobleman from the Xining County Prince's Mansion added fuel to the side.

"Yes, yes! Don't you think it's strange, Empress Dowager? At the beginning, you married two concubines to Prince Zhongshun, but both of them had accidents at the same time, and you know that your niece was later accused of marrying you. who?

It means that the marriage was given to Prince Zhongshun's long history!Therefore, the so-called restraint of wives and concubines is simply a rumor, and all of this is just a dazzling story fabricated by Miss Lin's family to monopolize Prince Zhongshun!Empress Dowager, you must not be fooled by that vicious woman! "