The ministers begged me to ascend the throne

Chapter 171 The Smart Queen Xie
Duke Zhen said calmly, "I know you are my own sister."

"Since you know, then what did you do?" Empress Xie couldn't control the anger and unwillingness in her heart anymore, "You know why I asked Xie Shi to go to Yangzhou to quell the chaos, but what did you do?"'

Facing the younger sister's anger, Lord Zhen said calmly, "Tell you, will you still let Xie Shi go to Yangzhou?"

"Of course!" Empress Xie said very firmly, "I will not let Xie Shi spoil the emperor's plan!"

"And then?" Duke Zhen asked back.

Empress Xie was stunned by Duke Zhen's rhetorical question, "What then?"

Duke Zhen looked at Queen Xie and said nothing.

Empress Xie was slightly taken aback, and then realized what Lord Zhen Guo said just now, and her face became even uglier.

"Brother, I am the real sister of your first mother!" She gritted her teeth and said, "I am the first daughter of the Xie family, and Xie Wan is just the concubine daughter of the Xie family!"

Duke Zhen who was yelled at still looked as usual: "She is your sister."

"She's not, she's not worthy!" Empress Xie said with a distorted expression, "What qualifications does a concubine have to be my sister!"

In front of Duke Zhen, Empress Xie never concealed her jealousy for the first empress.

"She is the concubine of the Xie family, but she is also your eldest sister."

"She is not." Empress Xie sneered, "She is a concubine with a low status, what qualifications does she have to be my sister!"

"No matter how much you deny it, it won't change the fact that she is your elder sister." Duke Zhen frowned slightly, and said with some dissatisfaction, "Also, her status is not lowly. Your queen." Duke Zhen always knew where his little sister's pain was, and he said the last sentence on purpose.

Sure enough, Duke Zhen's last words stabbed Empress Xie severely, and her expression instantly became ferocious.

"If it wasn't because I was young, how could Xie Wan, a lowly concubine, be qualified to marry the emperor and be the queen of the world?"

"If it wasn't for her, our Xie family would not be able to marry the Zhao family." Duke Zhen said indifferently, "Then our Xie family would not be able to produce a queen, and you will not be a queen now."

"Without a big sister, the Wang family would marry the Zhao family, so the current queen is Concubine Shu's sister, not you." Duke Zhen said, "It was the big sister who asked the emperor to marry you as his successor before she died. Without a big sister, There is no place for your current empress."

Empress Xie hated people saying that she was the queen because of Xie Wan, she said with a sullen face: "So, I still have to thank her?"

"You have to thank her. Without her, the emperor might not marry you as his successor..."

"Impossible." Empress Xie interrupted Duke Zhen, "Without her, Xie Wan, the emperor would marry me as queen. I am the first daughter of the Xie family. Without the help of the Xie family, their Zhao family..." said Here, Empress Xie didn't say any more.

"You want to say that without the help of our Xie family, the Zhao family would not be able to establish the Great Zhou, right?" Duke Zhen finished what Queen Xie had left to say.

Empress Xie said coldly, "Isn't that so?"

Duke Zhen laughed and said: "I'm here to tell you solemnly that without the help of our Xie family, the Zhao family will succeed in establishing the Great Zhou sooner or later, it's just a matter of time."

"Impossible, without the help of our Xie family, how could the Zhao family..."

Duke Zhen interrupted Empress Xie and said, "It was our Xie family who begged to cooperate with the Zhao family, not the Zhao family who begged to cooperate with our Zhao family, understand?"

Empress Xie couldn't accept this situation, she said in disbelief: "How is it possible..."

"Back then, my father liked the late emperor's ability, and he cooperated with sister Zhao before the Wang family and the others. Otherwise, the Wang family would cooperate with the Zhao family, and the queen would belong to the Wang family." Zhen Guogong said, "Will we thank the family, or have Without the Wang family and them, the Zhao family will be successful! Cooperate with our Xie family, but let the Zhao family succeed in advance!"

"You underestimate the Zhao family, and you overestimate our Xie family!"

"This...how is it possible..." Empress Xie always felt that it was because of the help of their Xie family that the Zhao family was able to successfully establish the Great Zhou.

"You were too young at that time and didn't know anything." Duke Zhen took a deep look at Empress Xie and said, "The Zhao family doesn't owe us the Xie family!"

Empress Xie sat on the chair in a daze.

"When you were young, it was normal to know nothing, but now that you have been a queen for several years, you still don't know anything." Zhen Guogong shook his head and said, "My eldest sister has known this for a long time, so marrying The Empress has been doing her best to be the daughter-in-law of the Zhao family."

He added, "If it weren't for the eldest sister, there would be no queen like you, and no Duke of the town like me."

Empress Xie couldn't accept that she was obtained by Xie Wan.

"You have always thought that you are the first daughter of the Xie family, and that your status is more noble than that of the elder sister. You feel that you are wronged as the first daughter to be the successor, and you feel that your son is wronged by the crown prince." Zhen Guogong said to the younger sister's thoughts. It's clear, "You always think that I help the prince and not my son because I don't take you little sister to heart."

"Is not it?"

Duke Zhen didn't expect Queen Xie to be so brainless, and was furious.

"Okay, have you ever thought about what will happen if I help your son instead of helping the prince?"

"What will be the consequences?" Empress Xie said indifferently, "My son is justified."

"How old is your son?" Duke Zhen laughed angrily at Empress Xie's words, "I'll leave it at that today. If there is no crown prince, it will not be your son's turn. The emperor will immediately appoint the acting king as heir. What do you think?" Can your son be compared with Dai Wang? Do you think you are more favored than Concubine Rong?"

Zhen Guogong's last words stabbed the deep pain in Empress Xie's heart again, "How can the Yu family compare with our Xie family?"

"Yes, the Yu family is not as good as our Xie family, but the Yu family is the mother family of the emperor." Zhen Guogong said, "The emperor can live without our Xie family, but he cannot live without the Yu family, because the Yu family and the Zhao family have blood relation!"

Queen Xie did not speak.

"Concubine Rong and the emperor grew up together, and the two have a good relationship since childhood. If she hadn't married our Xie family back then, Concubine Rong would be the queen now." Duke Zhen said again, "Your Majesty loves Concubine Rong more than you should." I know better. You have been married to the emperor for so many years, have you ever fought for the favor of Concubine Rong? If there is no crown prince, Concubine Rong's son Dai Wang would have been the heir apparent, and it's your son's turn!"

Empress Xie said stiffly: "The prince must be the son of the legitimate son, not the son of the bastard."

"Do you really think that the emperor cares about the concubine?" Seeing that Empress Xie was still confused, Lord Zhen decided to talk to her carefully today, "The prince was able to be established as the heir at the beginning not because he was the eldest son, but because he was the eldest son. It’s because he’s the son of my eldest sister!”

"Impossible!" Empress Xie felt that Zhen Guogong's words were too absurd, "The reason why the crown prince was established as the heir is because he is the eldest son. Since ancient times, the crown prince has always been the eldest son, and it is impossible for him to be a bastard. When the Great Zhou Dynasty was first established, it was impossible for the emperor to break the rules and appoint a bastard son as the crown prince."

"Do you think the emperor cares about the rules of the world?" Lord Zhen Guo saw that Empress Xie had been married to Emperor Wu of Zhou for so many years, yet he still didn't understand Emperor Wu of Zhou's temperament at all.For the first time, he felt that the younger sister was as stupid as the younger brother. "For so many years, have you ever cared about the worldly rules in what the prince did? Yushi used to remind the emperor to pay attention to the rules. Do you think the emperor has heard of it?"

"If I hadn't helped the crown prince, the acting king would have been the crown prince long ago." Duke Zhen said angrily, "Once the acting king becomes the crown prince, do you think you can continue to be the queen?"

"If it weren't for the eldest sister, Concubine Rong would have been the queen long ago, and you will never be able to be the successor. Don't think that you are wronged to be the successor."

Seeing that Empress Xie was still a little unconvinced, Lord Zhen had no choice but to give another dose of strong medicine, "Compared to Concubine Rong, you are nothing."

"Brother!" Empress Xie stood up angrily, staring at Duke Zhen with red eyes.

"Don't say it's you, even the eldest sister doesn't have the status of Concubine Rong in the emperor's heart." Duke Zhen saw it clearly, "Because of her virtuousness, the eldest sister has gained respect from the emperor."

"You... mean that I can't compare to that bitch Rong Guifei, nor can I compare to that lowly concubine Xie Wan!"

Hearing Empress Xie still say the same thing, Duke Zhen's face became a little ugly: "That's right, in the emperor's heart, you are not as good as Concubine Rong, nor as big sister!"

Empress Xie pointed at Duke Zhen angrily, and shouted hysterically, "Get out, get out!"

Lord Zhen stood up, his tone became cold: "Little sister, I didn't expect you to be as stupid as Xie Shi!"

"roll!!!"

Duke Zhen did not forget his duty as a courtier, and after bowing to Queen Xie, he withdrew.

After Zhen Guogong left, Empress Xie angrily grabbed the teacup on the table and slammed it on the ground.Then, the table was overturned.

Jiang Chuan and the others stood outside the door and saw that Queen Xie was so angry, they were too scared to go in.

When Empress Xie got angry, her expression was terrified, and she was completely devoid of her usual dignity and propriety.

After smashing around, the anger in Queen Xie's heart lessened a little.

When the Seventh Prince came back from school, he saw that Empress Xie had smashed Zhaoyang Palace into a mess, so he hurriedly asked with concern: "Mother, who made you angry?"

Queen Xie gritted her teeth and said, "Duke Zhen!"

Hearing Empress Xie call his uncle "Duke of Zhen Guo", the Seventh Prince knew that Empress Xie was very angry with his uncle.

"What did Uncle do to make you so angry?"

After he finished speaking, he called Jiang Chuan and the others in and asked them to clean up.

"Queen, let's talk in the study."

After getting angry, Empress Xie regained her composure, nodded and went to the study with her son.

The seventh prince personally brought a cup of hot tea to Empress Xie, "Queen, drink some tea to calm down." What did the uncle do to make the queen so angry.

Empress Xie picked up the tea cup, sipped a few sips of tea gracefully, and said coldly: "I never thought that in the eyes of his Duke Zhen, I would be so unbearable as a queen. I didn't expect that in the eyes of his Duke Zhen, I This direct sister is actually inferior to that lowly concubine Xie Wan!"

"Queen, what did uncle tell you?"

Empress Xie told the Seventh Prince what Duke Zhen said to her, "Duke Zhen thinks I'm not as good as that bitch, Concubine Rong, nor this lowly concubine Xie Wan!"

"How can uncle say that?"

"It seems that it is impossible to count on Duke Zhen." Empress Xie felt chilled, "I am his own sister, yet he treats me like this!"

Zhen Guogong returned to the Zhen Guogong's mansion with a bad face.Seeing this, Xie Shi was about to laugh at him, but Duke Zhen cast a cold look over him, and he shut up in fright.

Seeing his father's ugly face, the eldest son of the Duke of Zhen's mansion hurriedly asked with concern: "Father, did you quarrel with your aunt?"

"I thought highly of her. I didn't expect her to be as stupid as Xie Shi." Lord Zhen always knew that Empress Xie was jealous of the first empress, but he didn't expect that Empress Xie hated the first empress to the bone, and hated to the point of losing her mind. .He always thought that Empress Xie was a smart person, but after what happened just now, he found that Empress Xie was a person who couldn't figure it out.

"My aunt is as stupid as my uncle?" The eldest son of the Duke of Zhen asked in surprise, "What did my aunt tell you to make you think so?"

Zhen Guogong told his son what Queen Xie had quarreled with him before.After hearing this, the son of the Duke of Zhenguo's mansion had a very complicated expression on his face.

"Auntie she..."

"It is estimated that she and the seventh prince will hinder us in the future." Duke Zhen sighed helplessly, "We must not let her know what we do in the future."

"Father, what you said to aunt was a little too much. You know that aunt most cares about comparing her with eldest aunt, and comparing her with Concubine Rong."

"I said this to let her recognize her own position." Zhen Guogong said, "Besides, I'm not wrong."

"You're right, but with my aunt's pride, she can't accept it."

"She has to accept it if she can't, because it's the truth." Duke Zhen sighed heavily, "We spoiled her."

The eldest son of the Duke of Zhen's mansion comforted: "Father, my aunt is not a stupid person, she just can't accept what you said. When she calms down, she will understand your painstaking efforts."

"I hope she can really understand my painstaking efforts." Zhen Guogong understands Queen Xie's temper, and knows that she will not understand his painstaking efforts, and will only think that he, a big brother, will not help her, a sister.

At this time, in the imperial study room of Chengguang Hall.

Sun Kui summoned Empress Xie to Lord Zhen Guo, and Lord Zhen Guo reported to Emperor Zhou Wu about leaving Zhaoyang Palace with a gloomy face.

"After Zhen Guogong left, the empress made a big fuss."

When Emperor Wu of Zhou heard this, he said with a half-smile, "In front of Lord Zhen Guo, the queen does not hide her temper."

"Your Majesty, aren't you curious why the Empress Dowager quarreled with Duke Zhen?" Sun Kui was very curious.

"I can think with my toes why they are arguing."

Sun Kui hurriedly asked, "Do you know why they quarreled?"

"What else can it be for? Of course it's because of Xie Shi's going to Yangzhou to quarrel." Zhou Wudi said, raising the corners of his mouth with an inexplicable smile, "The empress thinks that she is very careful."

"What care can Empress Empress have?"

Emperor Wu of Zhou did not answer Sun Kui's question, but said: "Duke Zhen is a shrewd person, Xie Wan is also smart, but the queen is not." He stood up and said, "The queen is a person who thinks she is very smart. "

Sun Kui followed behind Emperor Wu of Zhou: "Your Majesty, what you mean is that Empress Empress is a smart person."

"Yes."

Sun Kui: If the empress knew that the emperor said this about her, I don't know how she would feel.

Emperor Wu of Zhou said as he walked towards the dining hall, "There are not many women in the harem who are smart."

Sun Kui said silently in his heart: Your Majesty, Liang Zhaoyi must be smart in your heart.

(End of this chapter)