Five-year enthronement three-year simulation

Chapter 109

"... Your Majesty, an hour ago, the second prince and Cheng Guogong had been imprisoned, while Concubine Wan was in Yeting, and all the remnants of the rebel army were taken down. The palace is now jointly controlled by the imperial army and the frontier army. Garrison; the Ninth Princess ordered that the former court temporarily rest for a few days, and the harem will be temporarily managed by Concubine Yi; Your Majesty and the Empress will also set off from Yuanzhou in the near future and rush back to the palace as soon as possible."

While reporting the news in detail, Yuxi sneaked a peek at Concubine Ying's expression, and said in a hesitant tone, "However... due to the previous battle, the towers were damaged, and the Ninth Princess asked for repairs to appease the people. Therefore, the matter of conferring rewards should be postponed accordingly, and we will make plans after His Majesty returns to Beijing..."

"It doesn't matter. It is well known that Xu Xieling of Taipusi's Machang helped put down the chaos, so there is no need to rush." ​​Concubine Ying took a sip of her tea and said calmly, "Besides, I asked my father to make this move. It wasn’t for that little reward at all.”

"Your maidservant knows that the enemy of the enemy is your friend," Yuxi said with a low voice, laughing, "The second prince's rebellion this time, if it succeeds, will be a hindrance to the empress... Why don't you just join hands with the ninth princess and kill him?" Get rid of it, and you can also be a favor, it really kills two birds with one stone!"

Concubine Ying looked at her eldest maid, and was a little relieved that the other party was quick-witted, and said slowly: "Because of Zhao..." She paused, and said, "Because of the marriage of the third princess, I have been with me all the time." The palace is quite discordant, and I even discovered clues that Rui Lanxuan submitted a bank note to Yide Palace earlier... Although I hid a lot of clues in time, it still caused her to be more vigilant towards the palace. This is just the right time Given a good opportunity, helping her would actually make the Ninth Princess less wary of Yide Palace, and it would be more convenient for the palace to do things."

"Your Majesty really has great wisdom," Yuxi hurriedly said, "Broad-minded, understanding body and taking care of the situation, it is really the demeanor of the former Emperor Dezhen!"

Concubine Ying was very comfortable being flattered, she smiled and gave Yuxi a look, and shook her head lightly, "Emperor Dezhen's fame has lasted through the ages, from abandoning her concubine in the cold palace to ascending the throne as emperor, it is enough to be called a legend that cannot be reproduced. Is it possible for a small person like Bengong to compare?" He paused here, his tone full of longing, "If Bengong can be like her, and be honored in the south, then there will be no regrets in this life..."

"Your Majesty, why do you need to belittle yourself?" Yuxi poured a cup of new tea for her, and sighed, "Everything that happened now is clearly going according to your plan——the former crown prince was murdered by Concubine Wan, and died in the south of the Yangtze River many years ago. Passed away; the second prince's treason was exposed, and he was about to be imprisoned in the court for life; The Sixth Prince, who has been hiding his powers and biding his time for many years, is now able to compete for the position in the East Palace!"

"Sixth prince? Heh... Yuxi, you are thinking too simply."

Concubine Ying shook her head with a sigh, and knocked on the celadon teacup with her long armor, making a crisp crashing sound, "The crown prince has not yet stood up, but it is the ninth princess Mingtan, who is not only in the middle of the court, Now she still has the military merits of 'leading troops to suppress rebellion' - but if she was a man, she would have been in charge of the East Palace long ago, so how could it be Minghui and Shen Ruofu's turn to struggle?"

"...!"

She spoke clearly enough that even if Yuxi is a maidservant in the palace who is ignorant of political affairs, she can understand it at this moment, and her expression changes slightly, "Your Majesty means," she hesitated for a moment, and tentatively said in disbelief, "Your Majesty All the actions now are not intended to let the ninth princess rest easy after the change of dynasty, but to let her be, to be a princess?!"

"Presumably most of the officials in the previous dynasty thought like you, and only thought that His Majesty was accumulating power for the ninth princess and keeping her safe for the rest of her life." Cold fingertips, "But I am so holy to Your Majesty, and I treat men and women equally, how can I be a traditional and old-fashioned king?"

——The meaning in her words was not cryptic, but it was too shocking, and Yuxi was already stunned on the spot, unable to speak a word for a long while.

The princess ascended the throne, and the heroine ruled the world?

Isn't this against the laws of nature!

"Your Majesty, how could Your Majesty plan this way?" Yuxi had heard about the rumors of divine punishment that Princess Xuanji failed to ascend the throne, and immediately looked at Concubine Ying in fear, trembling slightly, "No matter how shocked the Ninth Princess is, she will never die." Yan, she is only a woman after all..."

Even in the Tiancheng Dynasty, where the folk customs were open, there were many deep-rooted constraints on women: they could not study, they could not take scientific examinations, and they could not show their faces too much. Naturally, they responded to the ridicule of "long hair but short knowledge". Comparable to men in governing the country?

Even her master is afraid of the world's lingering publicity, and fears the knife-like writing in the history books—even if Concubine Ying really has the heart of an empress and yearns to rule the world like Emperor Dezhen, she can't. Not trapped by reality, he just wants to help the sixth prince ascend the throne as a puppet, while he himself regents behind the scenes, so as to satisfy his ambition...

But right now, the empress is telling her personally that His Majesty actually wants Princess Yonghui Mingtan to inherit the throne?

How is this possible?

Yuxi was beyond shocked, but Concubine Ying had obviously expected the former's reaction.She sneered, turned her head to look out of the window, and took a panoramic view of the row of new and spiky light green spring buds on the branches, and said inexplicably: "I didn't expect that Bengong would be like Shen Ruofu after so many years." , going round and round, she still lost to Gu Ying's Kunning Palace..."

The capital city in the early spring still carries a bit of the coldness that has not dissipated in winter.The bursts of spring breeze blowing over the eaves and palace walls are not as cold as imagined, but make people grit their teeth involuntarily, and cannot resist the wind that was hooked up from the bones and remained in the depths of winter. The cold air came down.

And with the cold wind, Concubine Ying's thoughts gradually drifted away, the smile on her lips disappeared without a trace, recalling all the sadness and helplessness when she first entered the harem and lost her son--

She was also one of the victims of the Wanning party.

Emperor Ming Yi is a king who knows what he should do, and he has never favored anyone.Even the empress Gu Ying, who came to the Huai Ling County Prince's Mansion in person to ask for a marriage, has only received his respect for so many years, and there is no half-hearted love between a man and a woman.

In the early years, when Ming Yi first came to the throne, in order to stabilize the imperial power, he held a wide selection of drafts, and even shared the rain and dew with the concubines who entered the palace.Concubine Ying is one of the lucky ones. She gave birth to the third princess Mingzhao, and a few years later she gave birth to another son, the seventh in line.

But it's a pity that the Seventh Prince was born at an untimely time, just at the time when the Wanning Party was at its most arrogant.The eyes of Shen Zhu and the two are smaller than the tip of a needle, and they simply cannot tolerate the emergence of new children in this palace, let alone the prince who is more threatening than the princess—so, the little seventh prince is less than a month old, just like Wen Jieyu before. Silently and silently, she slipped tires three times, and died in her infancy strangely.

This incident dealt a heavy blow to Concubine Ying, and it also made her truly see what is meant by a "deep palace that eats people".After that, concubine Ying began to yearn for those monstrous powers after being seriously ill for several months due to the loss of her beloved son, and walking steadily around the gate of hell...

If you can have enough ability and status, you can stop being bullied and ridiculed, and you can protect what you want to protect.

Therefore, with such thoughts in mind, Concubine Ying painstakingly studied the medical skills her mother taught her during her lifetime, and even did not let go of those strange poisons that caused the latter to be expelled from Baicao Valley.She tried her best to hide herself, lived in the small Yaohuaxuan with Mingzhao, never showed her face in front of the emperor, and lived a life of humility, just to plan in the dark and wait for the opportunity——

She did succeed, too.

If Xu's mother is still alive, or if her brother, Mr. Zhuli, has been to Kunning Palace, he will recognize it at a glance: the leg disease that caused the third prince's vision to be unwell, the symptoms are not the same as those they tested outside Baicao Valley. Small farmers, exactly the same!

To poison the third prince silently is the first link in Concubine Ying's plan, and it fully demonstrates her ambition: I wonder if there is any power in the world that is more attractive than that in the hands of the king of a country , Even more so that people dare not follow?

She will be the second Empress Dezhen!

The emperor strictly abided by the ancestral precept of establishing a heir and not establishing a long-term successor. After the death of the former crown prince, the person who is most likely to become the heir apparent is Ming Jing.So Concubine Ying would of course choose him for her own big plan, so as to avoid future troubles.

Even though she didn't know enough about poison at that time, she didn't poison Ming Jing successfully, but only caused him to suffer from unhealed leg disease...but that was enough.

Because the handicapped cannot be king.

Although Baicao Valley suddenly took the initiative to enter the palace to have an audience, expressing its willingness to cure the third prince's leg, it also scared Concubine Ying very much; but fortunately, after many years, the emperor gradually gave up Li Mingjing's intention to be the prince. Concubine Ying was really relieved.

The first plan went well beyond imagination, so it was natural to move on to the next step.

After that, she waited patiently for many years, and finally she waited for a good opportunity: Prince Qiangmi and his envoys came to court to pay tribute, intending to marry Princess Tiancheng in order to seal the friendship between the two countries.

Although Qiangmi was once defeated by Tiancheng, after all, today is not what it used to be. It is no longer a small country that can be destroyed with a wave of hands; It is inevitable to pick a princess to go and kiss——

The third princess Mingzhao is not favored, and her age is roughly compatible with Prince Qiang Mi, she is simply the best choice for her family.

And as her biological mother, if Concubine Ying can understand the general situation, take the initiative to take this hot potato, and express her willingness to let her daughter marry, she will definitely be appreciated by the emperor, and she will rise from a little nobleman to the sky in one step!

Facts also proved that she made the right choice.

After Ming Zhaoyuan got married, the emperor immediately decreed that she should be promoted to Concubine Ying, and by chance, she got the heartfelt love of the Seventh Princess' biological mother, Noble Jing.As for being reprimanded by the Ninth Princess face-to-face for selling a daughter for glory... Heh.

For a proud girl like Ming Tan, even if she wants to pick up the stars and embrace the moon, there will always be people scrambling to deliver them to her, so how can she understand the suffering of these people?

Yuxi is right, Concubine Ying really has the style of an empress.She is a ruthless woman, she may regret and miss Ming Zhao who married a foreign race, but she will never regret every decision she makes.

If she is not promoted to the concubine position, how can she approach the emperor logically? With the song "He Chun Tai Ping Le" that she played at the annual banquet that year - this is the favorite song of Ming Yi's mother and Empress Dowager Duanci during her lifetime. The first song - after arousing the other party's interest, then maintaining the mask of knowing and understanding, sending soup and vegetables to Tianhong Temple many times, taking the opportunity to prescribe medicine...

Your Majesty is concerned about the country and the people, and works day and night, but the headaches are more frequent, what's so strange?

Thinking of this, Concubine Ying sneered, not at all feeling timid or disturbed by her regicide.

In her opinion, half of the reason why the Wanning Party was so rampant back then was attributed to Ming Yi.

Because this emperor is really ruthless, not only indifferent to the concubines in the harem, but also has no affection for the princes and princesses except Ming Yan—it is because of this indifference to the death of their children that makes Concubine Wan and Ning The concubine became more and more unscrupulous, causing her seventh prince to die at the hands of Shen and Zhu before he even had time to get his name!

Even though Concubine Ying appreciates Ming Yi's sageness and admiration of Ming Yi's determination to make Princess Ninth the emperor, she has to admit that she still harbors resentment towards him after so many years, that's why she chooses the chronic oddity of "shaking teeth". The poison caused the emperor to suffer from a splitting headache, and he would die from the poison several years later, ending this suffering.

At the same time, it was as if the heavens were helping her: Song Guipin, the biological mother of the sixth prince Ming Ye, was demoted by the emperor because of her fellow party after she revealed that Concubine Ning had murdered Wen Jieyu for the third time. In order to agree, his son was also adopted under the name of Mr. Jing.

To Concubine Ying, this could be said to be a sleepy gift of pillows, and Ming Ye was logically included in her plan for taking power.

——There are many obstacles to becoming an empress on her own, and she doesn't have enough connections, so what will she use to lead the civil and military officials?

However, to support a puppet emperor and then regent behind him...wouldn't it be much easier?

Although unlike Ming Tan, who was educated as an empress dowager since she was a child, Concubine Ying's political literacy has always been far superior to that of ordinary people, and of course she is enough to hold power behind Ming Ye.

So what about humble birth?So what if the family background is not obvious?

Before entering the palace, Emperor Dezhen was also just the daughter of a small official, so what is the difference between her and Xu Chenbi?

As soon as she thought of this, another gust of chilly spring breeze blew outside the window, and the chill gradually brought Concubine Ying's thoughts back together. She glanced at the ashes piled up in the charcoal basin, and was shocked to realize that she had actually remembered it for so long.

——Looking at the current political situation, the second prince who can fight the Ninth Princess has fallen, who else can control Ming Tan's edge?

Concubine Ying gave a low laugh, touched the cup of tea that was already cold, raised her hand, and threw it out of the window without hesitation.

I really don't know... How many days are left for me to continue hiding in the dark?