Chapter 489

On October 12, the newlyweds entered the palace and first went to the Qingxi Hall to pay their respects to the Dowager Empress.

In order to spare them the trouble of having to make an extra trip to Hui Yi Palace, Empress Dowager Su came here to speak to the Empress Dowager ahead of time on this day.

“This matter since the emperor entrusted to you to do, you do it is also, why still want them to come here to grieve for a time?” The Empress Dowager was a bit unimpressed by this, and now said Empress Su, “You are the late Emperor’s center court, this kind of thing has long been familiar with, can there still be any incomplete place? But is the mourning family long not ask this kind of thing, eyesight also may not be compared to you!”

“What did you say, Empress Mother?” Empress Su respectfully said, “As the saying goes, if there is an old man in the family, there is a treasure, you are the backbone of our royal family, daughterinlaw, no matter how well done, if you do not help to keep an eye on the heart of ah can’t help but still seven up and eight down without a landing!”

The Empress Dowager heard something in her words, and only smiled faintly, “This old bone of mine is just a disgrace in this world! What kind of pillar is it? Nowadays, the pillar of the royal family should be the emperor!”

“The Emperor is naturally brilliant.” Empress Su smiled and said, “Mother will take this as a reward for her daughterinlaw’s face, so she will help take a look!”

Only then did the Dowager Empress say, “If you’ve said so, then I’ll take a look.”

Next, the Dowager Empress and Empress Su made some small talk basically a discussion centered around the marriage of the Eldest Princess Changxing and after a long time, the palace men outside reported in, saying that the newcomers had arrived and were waiting outside.

The Empress Dowager sniffed, and Empress Su slightly straightened her dress, gently spitting out words, “Declare!”

Between the rustling of clothes and skirts, a line of beauties entered the room.

The first is a fifteen or sixteen year old girl, dark clouds piled temples, cheeks condensed new snow, wearing a sky water turquoise curved train deep clothes, look like a halfopen water lily standing in the pool pavilion.

The next four, too, had their own distinctive styles, either charming, clear, delicate, or elegant.

Five people have entered the temple, to the courtyard under the Ying Ying worship, “Concubines congratulate the Empress Dowager all the blessings of the Golden Peace!”

When the Dowager Empress called up, she again paid homage to Empress Dowager Su, “May Empress Dowager be blessed with a long life!”

After the salute, the Empress Dowager said, “All raise your heads and let me see!”

The five people said sin, this is slightly tilted his head, but are light hanging long eyelashes, eyes only look at the Empress Dowager’s skirt under, and do not dare to really with the Empress Dowager to the eye.

“You paid attention!” Seeing this, the Dowager Empress nodded slightly to Empress Su, “This rule was taught well.”

“These are the daughters of the government.” Empress Su humbly said, “Originally, they are also wellinformed and wellmannered ladies, and her daughterinlaw is just giving them a few pointers!”

The Empress Dowager smiled a little, swept a few eyes underneath, and said, “All good, Jade Fruit!”

Jade fruit will understand, told the small palace maid will be prepared to take out the reward, one by one served to the five people in front.

The five were busy thanking again the Dowager Empress, already somewhat disinterested, said, “It’s done, you guys go see the Empress!”

After these five people were sent out, the Dowager Empress saw that Empress Su still had no intention of retiring, ruffled her eyelids, slightly inclined her head, and asked, “The one who beats the head is the one you value the most? Whose family is that?”

“It’s He Shangshu’s granddaughter, her bosom name is Qinwan.” Empress Su smiled and said, “It can’t be said that the daughterinlaw values it the most, but she was thinking that her grandfather was the emperor’s beloved, so she was ranked before all the daughters. To the status is also the highest: is the third grade Jieyu after all, after the meritorious ministers!”

The Empress Dowager smiles but not laughs: although the Duanhua Emperor let Empress Su preside over the selection this time, he never took Empress Su as one of his own.

Now the Empress Dowager Su is the best for this He Qinwan, Duanhua Emperor, although not to suspect that He Qinwan is the Empress Dowager’s people, I’m afraid that will instinctively alienate the newly promoted He Jieyu.

And He Jieyu is He Wenqiong’s first granddaughter, she is not bad looking, but she is not favored after entering the palace, what will He Wenqiong think?

Even if Emperor Duanhua doesn’t fall for it, it’s not a loss for Empress Su. She sent a favor to the He family anyway, there are no Empress Su’s juniors in Emperor Duanhua’s harem, and Empress Su doesn’t care about who’s favored and who’s on top.

However, the Empress Dowager will be with the Duanhua Emperor already look at each other, even though she can see that Empress Su’s calculations, but she is happy to see it, not to mention to remind the Duanhua Emperor.

Sipping her tea, the Dowager Empress let everyone outside of her inner circle retreat and said, “In my opinion, although He Jieyu is good, I’m afraid that Jiang Cailian is more to the Emperor’s liking!”

Jiang Cailian Jiang Shun Yun, is the elegant and dignified one, in the ranks of the party in the fourth, is the penultimate, she was awarded the talent is only from the fourth grade, and He Qinwan of the third grade of Jiyu, a full three levels of difference.

This three levels is not an unusual gap Jieyu can live alone in a palace, is a serious consort, but the talent can only live in the side hall, belonging to the palace concubine class.

“Does Empress Mother think that Concubine Jiang will be the most pleasing to the Emperor?” Empress Su smiled and said, “My daughterinlaw thinks that concubine Xue is more likely to please the emperor! After all, the concubine Cui, who the Emperor favored earlier, is the type of concubine Xue that is delicate and voluptuous with a little temper.”

He also said, “It’s a pity that both of them have poor family backgrounds, and this position is not high enough. Of course, after they have met the Empress and served her, they will be promoted sooner or later, and I don’t think it will be so bad for a few days.”

The Empress Dowager lazily said, “Left and right are all the Emperor’s people, whoever gets into the Emperor’s eyes is her good fortune, we just give them a reward when they come to kowtow.”

Duanhua Emperor used to like Cui Mirei’s kind of woman who looked beautiful and had a little temper, but now?

Even if the Empress Dowager didn’t know that Gu Shao had told the Duanhua Emperor about Cui Jianren’s other love, based on Cui Ziyu’s sins this time around, the Duanhua Emperor’s impression of the Cui family was bound to plummet, so how much could he expect to favor concubine Xue, who was similar to Cui Jianren?

On the contrary, that Jiang Cailian, appearance, although not the top beauty, but a body of a book breath, dignified and elegant, but did not reject people outside the alienation of the high distance. Look at let think, this is the family of books, by the saints and philosophers teachings to know books and manners of gentle women.

Duanhua emperor early years have not suffered when, can still indulge under CuiMiRen make small sex. Afterwards, after frequent setbacks at the hands of Dai Guo and others, even his own daughter did not want to raise too pampered, not to mention the indulgence of other people’s daughters!

Just look at the Empress Wei these two years to please his trust like to know, the Empress in front of the Duanhua Emperor, but has always been the understanding of the overall situation, never said that the splash and fuss. This period of time one after another hit by the emperor, and how can not be more favorable to the Jiang talent this kind of look on the understanding type?

“I also don’t know this Jiang, is it the Empress Dowager’s arrangement?” The Empress Dowager thought so in her heart, and did not point out the meaning, only said, “People have seen, nothing else, you go back first, Changxing is about to fall … think you are also busy!”

Empress Su had the sense to get up and retire.

Although the Empress Dowager and Empress Su had their own views on Emperor Duanhua’s next internal favorites, Emperor Duanhua had no time to worry about the newly promoted harem at this time.

Because he was in trouble in the former dynasty Jiang Muying’s prophecy came true: the courtiers were very dissatisfied with his direct disposal of Duke Liang and Yuan Xue Pei, and collectively voiced their opposition during the court!

In fact, they weren’t even happy with the Emperor’s disposition of Song Lu’s and also Cui’s family!

But this point Duanhua emperor all pushed to the dowager empress dowager head, said my full grandmother how much love I that little aunt, you all know, now the imperial grandmother asked to do so, I as filial grandchildren, do not want to refute, you have opinions, go to the Qingxi Palace and my imperial grandmother to talk!

Of course, my royal grandmother is old, if you advise the process, her old man angry out of something, the consequences will be borne by themselves!

The Lu family has been destroyed, the Song family is dying, and the Cui family’s influence in the court is very limited so the ministers hesitated and felt that there was no need to offend the Empress Dowager for the Cui family and the Song and Lu family, after all, this kind of old man is not very easy to mess with.

Therefore, they aimed their spearheads at the Duke of Liang as well as Yuan Xue Pei, requesting Emperor Duan Hua to withdraw his previous imperial decree and pull these two people out for a public trial, where the three judicial departments and the emperor would discuss their crimes as well as the results of their punishment!

In fact, this request is very legitimate, after all, the state has the law of the land, the family has the rules of the family, Liang Guo Gong and Yuan Xue Pei committed a crime, in accordance with the law, should go through the process of the three divisions: to take people, go to prison, check the evidence, interrogation, sentencing …

Like Duanhua Emperor now, with Gu Shao are not looking for, directly to the Qingxi Hall and the Empress Dowager pinch a fight, went to draw up a holy decree, oh no, in fact, this holy decree should be called the middle decree, because it did not even go through the Zhongshu Menxia through, is directly to the Imperial Prison.

So against the rules, of course, the courtiers did not do it!

If the emperor once so do smooth hands, two three four five times so do, then also want them to these hard work out of the minister to do what?

The emperor did everything himself, the rest is to comply with the orders of the mission this thing the palace slaves can do, they are not these ministers in the future will be hollowed out!

So right now the court is simply a pot of trouble, have asked the Duanhua Emperor to withdraw the intention, according to the rules of doing things!

The more intense ones, even the meaning of the words, but also want to make the Duanhua Emperor to issue a sinful edict, review his own not put the courtiers and the law of the country in the eyes of the dimwitted action!

Even Gu Shao, the head of the hundred officials and the biggest dependence of the Duanhua Emperor, did not come out to suppress at this moment after all, he also wanted to be a scholar, the son of heaven and the scholar who ruled the world together, rather than being a lackey who obeyed the emperor in everything.

Moreover, if he sided with Emperor Duanhua in this situation, the reputation he had accumulated in his life would be over, and he would definitely be recorded in the history books as a sycophant who only cared about fawning over the emperor, and he would also offend his peers in the whole country. Even if the Hongzhou Gu Clan was quite rich, it could not afford to make such enemies!

And Emperor Duanhua, can you protect him?

The clamor and anger of the court hall, the Duanhua emperor but always just expressionless look, to the end, everyone said tired, he only said in a somewhat weary tone, “The words of all the ministers are also reasonable, however, Liang Guo Gong is actually my younger brother …”

A minister at the bottom came out and said: ”It is only human nature for Your Majesty to be mindful of brotherly love and want to be lenient! It’s your kindness and generosity! But the law of the land cannot be abolished, Your Majesty is the Son of Heaven, you should be the example for all the people, how can you do such an illegal act? How can you break the law and violate the rules? If word of this gets out, what will happen to your honor?

“Since that’s the case, let’s have the ministers discuss this matter together!” Emperor Duanhua seemed to be persuaded and stood up, “Let’s stop here today.”

The ministers didn’t expect them to win so easily they thought that Emperor Duanhua was so dry and dictatorial with his decree, and that the emperor wouldn’t change his mind this time until he crashed a few ministers in the hall.

“His Majesty is just too mindful of brotherly love.” Gu Shao, however, knew what Emperor Duanhua was thinking, and sighed as he rounded up for the emperor, “As long as we sympathize with His Majesty on this point, His Majesty will readily accept good advice!”

The ministers give Gu Shao face, so they have heard the words and agreed, as for what they think in their hearts, but only they know.

And Gu Shao returned to his home after the court, also fell on his feet and sighed long, “His Majesty wants to know how many people in the court support him, with what method is not good, but to use such a method?!”

This kind of obviously unorthodox move, even if a fainting ruler and tyrant was on the throne, there might be those who were not afraid to kill their entire family to come out and oppose it! Not to mention Emperor Duanhua, who is far from powerful.

This is simply sending the door to the face of the group of ministers!

As Gu Shao sighed, a feeling of powerlessness couldn’t help but well up in his heart, “Can I really fulfill my trust to the late emperor and assist such a lord to continue the prosperity and purity of Da Rui?!”

Like him such a person to support the whole situation, in fact, not afraid of the emperor waste, the emperor is waste to days shrink in the harem does not go to the court, he can also put the big Rui managed to have a sound; most afraid of is the emperor obviously can not, but also to go around pointing fingers to do the Lord, this also how to get?

While he was confused, the old servant came to report, “The Wei family sent someone at the back door, saying that there are important things to discuss with the master, the master see or not see?”