[Red Mansions] The Road to Empress Dowager

Wang Fu bowed and said: "Go back to Master Xing. Today, when the saint went to the court meeting, he suddenly said that the Empress Dowager Xiaoxian entrusted him with a dream last night. Those who are the sons of men can't afford to be kind. We should be grateful for the seven years of nurturing and kindness of the concubine Shugui. The saint's mother is filial. The Empress Dowager Xian will also be grateful for the kindness of Concubine Shugui."

Xing Xiuyan couldn't help being stunned, and thought to himself: What nonsense, that guy didn't sleep for a few days ago, so he slept for a day later. Don't scare her.

Xing Xiuyan looked at Wang Fu suspiciously, and Wang Fu smiled again: "But the sage is busy with court affairs and has neglected filial piety. Now he regrets his mistake and has decreed to respect the concubine Shugui as the Empress Dowager Xiao'an. There are also nine princesses by his side. On behalf of the sage, make filial piety to the Empress Dowager Xiao'an, and record the nine princesses under the name of the Empress Dowager Xiao'an as the first princesses. Where is the East Fifth School where An Gong and Princess are studying!."

Xing Xiuyan couldn't help crying and laughing.

Tu Yuanyi is a bit like the Chinese manufacturing industry in later generations. One day, all foreign pretentious things will be turned into Chinese cabbage.

Queen Mother or something, don't play tricks on me!I treat you as a jade cabbage and you are a jade cabbage. I say you are a Chinese cabbage, and you are a Chinese cabbage.

Wang Fu glanced at Xing Xiuyan's eyes, and said again: "Originally, the day after tomorrow is the Qianqiu Festival of the Empress Dowager Xiaoning, and a grand banquet was prepared in the palace, but the Empress Dowager's phoenix body is slightly ill, and it is difficult to support the palace banquet. The saint had to order to postpone the celebration The banquet will be held after the Empress Dowager's phoenix body recovers. Also for the Empress Dowager's speedy recovery, the Empress Dowager is invited to serve the soup and medicine in person to show a model of female virtue. Palace affairs are temporarily assisted by Concubine Wu Ping, Li Fangyi, and Zhao Fenyi."

Queen Mother, don't you want to pretend to be sick, you are shameless, why do you celebrate the Qianqiu Festival when you are sick?

This also took away Empress Yang's palace power. Originally, she was the only one in power. Now let her see clearly that she is the empress, and everything depends on whether it is of value to him.He didn't care about the harem because he was thinking of the lessons of his previous life. As the lord of the country, he was useless in the affairs of the harem, and he still had a mentality of not wanting to be looked down upon by the woman he loves.

But when he really got serious with the harem, no one could be his opponent.

Xing Xiu's face was not much better, but Qingxuan and Lan Jiu who followed beside him were complacent. Lan Jiu took a silver key to Wang Fu and said, "Your father-in-law said it so clearly that what happened in the palace is so clear. Talented people don’t even know about it.”

To say that Lan Jiu's power is definitely not as great as Wang Fu, he is Zhao Gui's apprentice, but he didn't care about Lan Jiu's reward, and said with a smile: "Thank you, Master Xing, for the reward, thank you, Aunt Lan Jiu."

Xing Xiuyan made him go, and Wang Fu also left joyfully. Only then did Qingxuan laugh wildly, and Lan Jiu couldn't hide her joy.

Qingxuan is the liveliest of the "maids in the dyeing room", she couldn't help laughing and said: "The sage is really wise and powerful, and it is well known that the queen mother is ill. Didn't you invite all the famous doctors from the imperial hospital away a few days ago? Are you ill? How can we still hold the Qianqiu Festival? You have to trouble the empress to take care of her sickness."

Xing Xiuyan said: "You little hoof, you can also talk about the Queen Mother's master?"

Lan Jiu smiled and said, "Cairen, the Empress Dowager Zhou and the Ninth Princess are overjoyed, should we also send gifts?"

Xing Xiuyan smiled and said: "You want to give away my things to others, and then you will be rewarded yourself?"

Lan Jiu was sold as a palace maid at the age of four, and she was trained/educated since childhood, and she is only 16 years old now.Zhao Guite chose her to follow Xing Xiuyan because she was good at literacy and accounting, had a clear relationship with characters, and was clever in handling things.

Lan Jiu said with a smile: "Master, let's treat it as a reward to slaves."

Xing Xiuyan smiled and said: "Okay, let Zi Yue and Xue Jue prepare a gift for the Queen Mother Zhou and the Ninth Princess, and you take someone to send it."

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Although Empress Dowager Liu was angered before, she was only 40 years old, so of course she was not seriously ill, but she did not expect this situation to happen today.

She claimed that the disease was just for people to see, to show that she was being bullied by the pampered and spoiled Xingcai, and she was guilty of disobeying the Empress Dowager with Shangqi disease.

It was also because I heard that she was in a coma for five days before waking up. After the emperor came back, he stayed in the Luoxia Pavilion for three or four days and didn't even go to the morning court. How could she stand on the commanding heights of public opinion if she seemed to be a little sicker than Xing Cairen?

What did the sage mention about his birth mother, Empress Dowager Xiaoxian, at the Great Court Meeting?The empress dowager Xiaoxian was originally a concubine Yu, who was posthumously named empress dowager after Tu Yuanyi ascended the throne.

He also mentioned the virtue of concubine Shugui's nurturing grace.

Doesn't this mean that Empress Dowager Liu neither gave birth to him nor raised him?

Since ancient times, which empress dowager wants the empress dowager of the two palaces?It is said that this dynasty ruled the world with filial piety, Jia Amnesty couldn't even live in the Rongxi Hall because of filial piety, and seeing that Jiao Zhongqing loved Liu Lanzhi but couldn't surpass filial piety, so filial piety is the queen mother's magic weapon.

But there was an emperor who dared to slap the queen mother in the face directly, and he slapped him so hard.

Tu Yuanyi's ambitions are in all directions, and the women don't worry about other things except setting up a skynet for Xing Xiuyan.He knocked on the door of the harem a little, but there was nothing serious about it.

He hadn't thought about what happened to Empress Dowager Liu, as long as he didn't interfere with his government and monarchy, so Empress Dowager Liu's life was neither good nor bad.

In fact, Empress Dowager Liu played around in Tu Yuanyi's previous life, and in Tu Yuanyi's present life she was quite honest, but she had long been dissatisfied with Tu Yuanyi.He was mean and ungrateful, and the government didn't take much care of Cheng'en Gong's mansion. Even her niece was only granted a small ceremony when she entered the palace, and the sign was only turned over once and then thrown away.

To be honest at the beginning, she really hoped that Prince Lian would succeed, even though Prince Lian was the adopted son of Empress Xiaoyi, not her son of Empress Xiaoning.But Prince Lian is well known for being virtuous, kind and filial, and he will make her his empress dowager after he succeeds.

Empress Dowager Liu dropped several celadon vases for decoration, but Empress Yang was not in her room, only her own daughter ran back to cry.

It turned out that this morning, the princesses were studying at the five princess schools in the East with the companions selected from the families of the princes and ministers.

Li Rong, one of the eunuchs of the Taiji Palace, brought a group of people to the East Fifth Institute to proclaim the decree.It even alarmed the Shangshufang where the princes and grandsons go to school not far away.

A group of the most honorable sons and daughters of heaven in the Great Zhou Dynasty were all watching, and then Li Rong read out the sage's canonization decree for the nine princesses, a series of literary praise adjectives, and finally the golden book was "Yumei and Princess Dechang ", giving the princess a guard of honor, a chariot for walking in the palace, and serving eunuchs.Finally, the chariot carried her back to Ci'an Palace to dress up and go to Taiji Palace to thank her.

The princes and princesses are still young, they are all bald, and there is no ceremonial guard yet, but now only the nine princesses are enshrined, and they are still remembered as the first princesses under the name of Empress Dowager Xiao'an.

Originally, the tenth princess, Tu Shu, always looked down on her humble birth mother, who was only a month older than her, but now her status is higher than hers. Of course, there is a difference between a princess with a golden book and a princess with a bald head.

"Queen, you have to make the decision for Erchen! Where will you put Erchen's face in the future? Erchen don't go to school anymore, so as not to be ridiculed by others!"

The tenth princess lay on the Empress Dowager Liu's lap and cried so hard that she couldn't catch her breath.As soon as she thought of her apprentice being welcomed on the carriage and going back to make up to thank her, and then those noble ladies and companions were the first to cast strange glances at her, she felt that the sky was dark.

Originally, she was of high seniority and status, and she was the eldest sister in the princess school, but now she has become a joke.

There is only one princess born in the same year, and this is the face of the tenth princess who is the lifeblood of Empress Dowager Liu.

Empress Dowager Liu couldn't help feeling sad, she entered the palace when she was young to serve the old saint who was twenty years older than her, and she couldn't compete with Concubine Zhen at the time.After Empress Xiaoyi died of illness, she was able to become Empress because Concubine Zhen Guifei did not come from a very righteous way. It was the old sage Nan Xun Yujia who served the old sage when he was in Zhen's house.

In the Great Zhou Dynasty, there were queens with low backgrounds, but it was an exception for a woman who was not married to the emperor or entered the palace through an orthodox draft to be promoted to a noble concubine.

"Shu'er, it's the queen mother who hurt you!" Empress Dowager Liu wailed.

"Queen, I want to ask Brother Huang, why did you treat me like this, oh..."

However, this is not over yet. One day later, at the court meeting, there will be a censor impeaching Cheng Engong for his lax housekeeping, which caused his relatives and servants to do harm to the village and occupy a hundred acres of land.Originally, a hundred acres of land was really nothing in the noble family, but the emperor was furious, and severely reprimanded Cheng Engong, who was already in his 70s, in front of all the officials of the Daming Palace.

Tu Yuanyi demoted Cheng Engong's first-class public to third-class public, fined his salary for one year, and ordered Jingzhao Mansion to punish Cheng Engong according to the law. The relatives and servants of the three people directly involved in the case were publicly sentenced to serve with a dog's head in front of the people of Kyoto, and blood was spattered on the spot.

In addition, the father of Empress Dowager Liu, who is over 70 years old, was asked to kneel at the gate of Shangyang Palace and think about it for an hour.

This incident caused quite a stir in the whole court, Cheng Engong's mansion was disgraced, and even Empress Dowager Liu was in the palace.

The promised queen mother is the ultimate boss of the women in the harem?Do you still have a face to pretend to be sick?This is really sick.

Although this aroused criticism from the government and the public, it felt that the emperor was mean and ungrateful and did not respect the elderly, but seeing the emperor's face was very bad, it was obvious that Cheng Engong had touched his bottom line, and everyone didn't want to be the first bird to help Cheng Engong's family.

Empress Yang wanted to be thankful that her natal family was prudent, her father and brother both had talents, and her former apprentice Yuan Yi accepted their love, so seeing that there was nothing wrong with her natal family, it did not happen to Yang's natal family.

Empress Yang wanted to stay in the Ciren Palace to serve her illness, but she was deprived of the power of palace affairs and temporarily handed over to Concubine Wu Ping.

Concubine Wu Ping looked at the phoenix seal that the queen had to send Jia Yuanchun's female history, and she was not without pride.

She thought that if a person lives smoothly for a long time, his patience will decrease, which is exactly the case with Queen Yang.But thinking that she was not a grand concubine, if the prince pampered her for a few more nights at that time, Mrs. Yang would get a cold or something.

After giving birth to the eldest prince, Yang's body has been weak all the time, and she was about to go back then, but she did not expect to survive, and she is very dependent on the prince.As soon as the prince came to the throne, he appointed Yang as the empress to take charge of the harem. She thought that she could make a concubine Hui, but she didn't expect to make a concubine Ping whom she was ashamed of.

Mrs. Yang is really stupid. She thought that the embarrassment of the empress dowager's serious illness caused Xing's pressure on human relations, etiquette and dignity, so that the saint could not speak.

If there is etiquette in the harem, who is the concubine Wan Gui of the previous dynasty and the concubine Zhen Gui of this dynasty? When will they be able to suppress them when they see a queen?The emperor only insists on his own identity and doesn't want to tear up with the harem. He is really serious with you, who can stand it?It's still useful to keep you as you, what old love is there?

Concubine Wu Ping said: "This concubine was in charge of palace affairs in the first place, but there are many things that need to trouble Jia Shanggong."

Jia Yuanchun (the word "Yuan" in Yuanyi's taboo) said: "Your Majesty sees that slaves are the blessings of slaves, how dare you call them troublesome? The slaves and others have ordered to sort out the past palace account books and send them out soon. When we go to the empress's palace, if the empress has any inquiries, the slaves and servants will speak up."

Concubine Wu Ping had heard of Jia Yuanchun when she was in her boudoir. Jia Yuanchun was one year older than her. At that time, Duke Rong Jia Daishan was still there.

It's a pity that as soon as Rong Guogong passed away, Jia She was a dandy, and because his original wife was the Shi family, he was still the daughter of Shi Taifu, and he only attacked first-class generals. It plummeted.

Rong Guogong died to observe his filial piety, Jia Yuanchun missed the general election, and she had long been accused of being married to Prince Su as a side concubine.In the next year, Jia Yuanchun entered the palace in Xiaoxuan and followed Empress Xiaoyi. Empress Xiaoyi died of illness before giving her to her adopted son, Prince Lian.Later, he followed Concubine Zhen, but Prince Gong was three or four years younger than Jia Yuanchun, Concubine Zhen was a little disgusted and never gave it to him.

When the sage ascended the throne, there was a decree for court ladies over the age of 22 to leave the palace. At that time, Jia Yuanchun was just in line, but she went to curry favor with the queen and stayed.However, what Concubine Wu Ping didn't know was that Jia Yuanchun also informed the sage that Qin Keqing, the only surviving flesh and blood of Prince Yizhong, wanted to win the position of concubine, but Tu Yuanyi did not want to achieve the purpose of gaining power through the harem in this life, so he did not take over this trouble.

In Concubine Wu Ping's view, Jia Yuanchun was a "family slave with three surnames".

Concubine Wu Ping smiled and dismissed Jia Yuanchun first.