It's Hard to Be the Concubine of the Red Chamber

What the truth of the matter is is not important to many people. To Tu Mingjun and the Queen Mother, perhaps they will pay attention to whether the real murderer has been traced, but to Yuan Chun and the Queen, what is the truth? It doesn't really matter.Even Yuan Chun dared to say that even for An Pin, the biological mother of the eldest son of the emperor, she was indeed sad that the eldest son of the emperor died early, but since it had become a fact.Then the cause of death of the eldest son of the emperor may not even compare to the benefits she can get from it.

Therefore, what Yuanchun and the queen had to do was to collect some useful evidence.Then, as long as he gave a symbolic suggestion that he thought was correct, to show that he had really put his heart into it, the client could then throw all the evidence to Shengshang.

"To be disrespectful, I may be a little sentimental about the matter of the eldest son of the emperor, but this sentimentality does not make me take the responsibility that I should not have to bear for him." In front of the queen, Yuan Chun was also frank, completely She didn't hide her selfishness, and even urged the queen to be more selfish.

In this matter, whether it is the Queen or Yuan Chun, they are all outsiders. They want to find out the so-called truth, and it is more for their own interests.The queen wanted a virtuous and dignified name, and Yuan Chun wanted to pull himself out of this situation, and even thought that he could use this opportunity to eliminate dissidents.

Whether it was in the dream or now, neither the eldest son of the emperor nor Concubine An had any friendship with Yuan Chun, and Yuan Chun couldn't commit himself to dying for them.In the final analysis, Yuan Chun is just a selfish person who protects his shortcomings.

The queen is not a saint, and she is not even considered an extremely smart person. Yuan Chun's suggestion is actually suspected of shirking responsibility, being lazy and slippery, but after thinking about it, the queen finally did what Yuan Chun said.

From the kindness and resentment between Concubine An and Concubine Yang, to the incidents that Concubine Jiang made during her lifetime, to the imperial physician's determination of the possible gender of the imperial heir in Concubine Wu's belly, and the news that Concubine Zhou and Concubine De could be pregnant, and this safe The empress reported their performance during the pulse time, and then analyzed it.

Later, Yuan Chun even made up the rumors in the palace about what happened to Concubine An's house.

Coupled with the imperial physician's judgment on the emperor's eldest son's initial illness, it can be said that this does not form a complete chain of evidence that is not rigorous.

At least according to modern judgments, such a chain of evidence is not enough to determine a crime.But so what, the biggest difference between feudal dynasties is that this is the rule of man rather than the rule of law.In other words, as long as Tu Mingjun thinks who the murderer is, then even if there is no evidence, Zhiping's Jinkou Yuyan, he can directly convict the crime.

Even if the evidence submitted by the Queen and Yuan Chun is still mixed with too many of their own subjective assumptions, preferences, and even selfishness, as long as Tu Mingxun is willing to believe it, that's enough.

At least this time, the Queen and Yuan Chun are indeed on the same side.It is not clear whether the concubine De is pregnant, and she was born as a concubine. Although her father's official position is not low, just relying on the fact that she is a concubine can completely limit her future prospects. After all, there are still concubines in her natal family It's hard to say how much resources she can get with her brother and sister born to her aunt.There are two pregnant women left, whether it is Concubine Wu or Concubine Zhou, one of them must take the responsibility this time.

For the queen, it may not be a big deal for Yuan Chun to support Prince Yizhong.After all, even if Tu Jinghuai is already a prince, he is not a prince after all, and he does not have the right to inherit the throne. Even if he is favored again, it will not bring too much substantial harm to the queen.But the children born to Concubine Wu and Concubine Zhou are not the same. They are the princes and concubines who are born in the right and proper name.It's fine if it's the emperor's concubine, the left and right are female dolls, they don't have the right to inherit, and they will marry off in the future.But if it is a prince, with the birth of these two people, the extra prince they have is really too big a threat to the queen.Therefore, even if this incident is not enough for Tu Mingjun to overthrow them completely regardless of the forces behind them, as long as it can make Tu Minghun hate the two children born by these two people from the bottom of his heart, it is enough .

As far as Yuan Chun is concerned, no matter which of these two people, as long as they give birth to the prince Di Ji, they will always be given titles and promotion points.Now among the top three concubines, only myself has a title and favor but no heirs.Now I can still rely on my title to barely stand out among the three, but waiting for the two to give birth to a child, I probably have to be the last to accompany them.She is not reconciled, how could she be reconciled.

The one who strikes first is strong and the one who strikes first suffers disaster. In this way, Yuan Chun naturally wants to be the one who strikes first, so before the two of them climbed on his head, Yuan Chun would rather take this opportunity to strike first.

Even in order to ensure that the development of the situation did not go beyond control, Yuan Chun deliberately remained indifferent, did not ask any more questions, and only let Tu Mingxun make his own guesses, as if he was not interested in the truth at all.

"The empress and my concubine once said that there are several possible reasons, nothing more than for the position of concubine An or the eldest son of the emperor. However, concubine and concubine An are not the same, and they never like to take the initiative to provoke others. In the palace After all, the status is always more respected than others. Moreover, the concubine has no sons and no merits. Although I have Brother Huai under my knees now, everyone in the palace knows that Brother Huai is not the prince, but the son of the deposed prince. In the human world, the concubine does not think that there are people in the harem who are willing to risk the power of the world to attack brother Huai. It can even be said that the situation of brother Huai is much safer than the situation of the concubine. So it is natural for the concubine to think about it this way. I don't worry that the same thing will happen to me, and the concubine and Anping are not in harmony on weekdays. Even when Huang's eldest son was born, she was poured a bucket of dirty water, and now it is naturally none of my business. Hanging up high. The reason why the concubine would discuss with the empress before was only because she had the name of being an assistant to official affairs and got along well with the empress, so the onlookers clearly put forward some opinions. To be honest, I don't care about the reason." Yuan Chun said frankly, without any guilt at all, as if she didn't have the slightest selfishness in her handling of the matter this time. It's best not to ask about the concubine's identity, because this time it's a matter of my own harem, and the concubine is still in it after all, so I'm afraid it will be biased when I think about it, so it's hard to give opinions."

Yuan Chun pushed the matter cleanly in front of Tu Mingxun, and he was unwilling to intervene at all, trying his best to show his innocence.However, behind the scenes, she was actually more willing to communicate these things with the queen.Then the Queen will convey the various inferences to the Holy Majesty.

After all, in this matter, Yuan Chun and the queen are on the same front, but Tu Mingjun may not necessarily think the same as them.

--split line--

After all, Tu Mingxuan's means were limited, and he hadn't had much contact with such things before. Even with the evidence of the queen and Yuanchun, it took a while to find out the truth.

The initial cause of this incident, in fact, was the entanglement between Concubine An and Guiren Yang during the Qianqiu Festival before. Concubine An took advantage of her higher status at that time and mocked and felt sorry for Guiren Yang a few times.Although it is said that Yang Guiren is a bit short in terms of position, but she can't stand it because she has a lot of money and wealth.As the saying goes, money can turn ghosts, if Yang Guiren is really determined to teach Concubine An a lesson, as long as he has a lot of money to clear the way, he can always do it.

If it is said that Yang Guiren is domineering, An Concubine's family is no worse than her. Seeing that she was so sweet and pampered and generous, she climbed onto the big boat of Concubine Zhou.

You must know that Concubine Zhou is the daughter of the right servant of the household department, and the importance of the household department among the six departments is self-evident, which is really not low in terms of background.Not to mention, Concubine Zhou's family also held power in the Ministry of Officials.

The Ministry of Households is in charge of money, and the Ministry of Officials is in charge of the evaluation, appointment and dismissal of officials. In this way, it is easy to make a stumbling block for Concubine An's family.

As for the first illness of the eldest son of the emperor, nothing was really found out. The news that the queen got was probably because the people in her palace might have been negligent before and after An-pin went to bed. This does not hinder her idea of ​​posting Concubine Wu.

But you have to be forgiving and forgiving. It's not a good thing to involve all the high-ranking concubines in the harem for one thing. To Yuan Chun, it seems that he is too conspicuous.Therefore, the queen only talked to the first beauty surnamed Liu in Anpin Palace.

This beauty Liu went to Anpin Palace just the day before the eldest son of the emperor fell ill.This is actually nothing, many people in Anpin Palace are willing to go to her place to stay for a while every day.Among other things, at least the proportion of the charcoal basin in Anpin Palace is much stronger than that of these nobles and beauties.

The reason why Liu Meiren was involved was that although Liu Meiren's family was only a commoner, since Tu Mingxuan ascended the throne, after all, he was a relative of the emperor. Liu Meiren's younger brother married the daughter of a minor official in the Ministry of Rites.As we all know, Concubine Wu's family is in charge of the Ministry of Rites.

At that time, when many drops of water turned into ice, Liu Meiren picked up a piece of ice from nowhere, and slipped it into the eldest son's swaddle when no one else was paying attention.

You must know that the eldest son of the emperor was just a baby under one year old at that time, and his body was so delicate that he couldn't stand the slightest chill, wouldn't it be sick if he was so cold.And Liu Meiren is also smart, so she only picked up a small piece of ice. When Huang Changzi's nanny found out that the baby was crying, the piece of ice had already turned into water. People just thought that maybe the eldest son of the emperor had wet his urine again, so he didn't take it seriously.