After the whole family was swept away, I lay down flat

Chapter 918 Dispute
Haitang just wanted to sigh.

It has only been a few days since the palace coup? The royal family, military commanders and cabinet, who once united to fight against the rebel king, have actually begun to fight for their own interests.

Right now, the Ji Wang and his son, who had just rebelled, have been brought under control, but there are still many clan members with ulterior motives watching in secret; the Sun family has only been surrounded and has not yet been convicted and dealt with, and the whereabouts of some of the commanders of the imperial guards whom they bribed are still unknown, and no one knows what conspiracy they are plotting in secret; the Sun faction members outside the Sun family are also fine, who can be sure that they will not suddenly rise up and attack?

There are so many problems that have not been solved. The late emperor's coffin has not yet been buried in the imperial mausoleum. How old is the new emperor? It's still a long way to go before the wedding. Why are the people around him so anxious? !

Haitang whispered, "What's so good about arguing about these things? The palace coup has only been quelled, but the main culprit and the instigator behind it, as well as the imperial guards involved in the rebellion, have not yet been interrogated and dealt with. There are still so many unstable factors in the former dynasty and the harem. They don't want to stabilize the situation as soon as possible and let the new monarch ascend the throne smoothly. What's the point of arguing about the queen candidate in a few years? Even if the result is reached now, who knows what the situation will be like when the new monarch gets married in a few years? Maybe by then the new monarch will have grown up and have a sweetheart, and he will want to marry his sweetheart as queen, and he will have no interest in any of the current queen candidates."

Hai Jiao sneered, "Whether the new emperor is interested in those daughters or not, since the late emperor has already chosen someone for him, he will marry them anyway. The only question is which daughter will be the queen and which one will have to be a concubine. However, I also think that you are right, little sister. There is no point in arguing about these things now. The daughter of the university scholar was also a popular candidate for the queen in her previous life. Even though she was older, she had a good reputation and a prominent family background. However, she was ultimately eliminated because other civil servants who also wanted their daughters to be queens discovered her family's handle and made a scene, which greatly embarrassed her parents and brothers, and even caused her to lose her qualification to enter the palace."

The candidate for the wife chosen by the late emperor for his successor was not bad, but the new emperor was still young after all. By the time he was old enough to get married, the ladies of the famous families in the capital had been reshuffled, and a large number of beauties with both talent and beauty had emerged, and none of them was inferior to the daughter of the university scholar. The advantages that the latter originally had gradually disappeared, and when a scandal broke out in her family, she was eliminated. How could the late emperor have predicted what would happen that day?
Haitang was curious: "What kind of scandal happened in her family? How could such a popular candidate like her not even get a chance to be a concubine?"

Hai Jiao said, "It has nothing to do with her. It was her brother who was in love with a girl from the Sun family. He wanted to marry her in a formal way, but his parents opposed it, so he had to give up. But her brother insisted on not getting married, and the girl from the Sun family also insisted on not getting married, and they never stopped communicating privately. Later, the Sun family fell, and the Sun family members scattered. The father and brother of this girl from the Sun family had committed a crime and were both imprisoned and exiled. The girl from the Sun family was supposed to be exiled with them, but she disappeared. Later, someone exposed it, and outsiders knew that it was the talented young master of the Grand Secretary's Mansion who secretly hid his sweetheart in a separate courtyard at the foot of Xiangshan Mountain. He usually used the excuse of studying in the mountains and leaving home, but he was actually hanging out with this girl until he was caught in public."

It was not a big deal for a talented and romantic man to hide his adultery in a golden house, but the girl he was hiding was the daughter of a convicted official, who should have been exiled. That was a big problem. He broke the law knowingly and protected the family of the convicted official. How could the court let him off easily? With his family background, if his parents and elders had made good arrangements, he might have a chance to get away. But he hid his actions from his family and was caught in public. His sister was also a hot candidate for the queen and was being watched by the families of many competitors. It was very difficult for him to get away easily.

Obviously, the romantic scholar paid a heavy price for his love, and his sister was also implicated. How much did the royal family suffer from the Sun family? How could they allow a woman whose brother was married to the Sun family in disguise to become the empress? What if she gave birth to an heir to the throne in the future, gained power, and helped the remnants of the Sun family to make a comeback? The royal family dared to take this risk, and the new people who came to power in the cabinet were unwilling to give the Sun family this opportunity!
Haitang sighed: "It seems that this grand councilor's daughter will be eliminated sooner or later. The title of queen may very well fall to Zhou Xuejun?"

"There was no Zhou Xuejun in the previous life, so the candidate has to be reconsidered." Hai Jiao said, "Now that Zhou Xuejun is here in this life, she is probably the only one. No one else can compare to her, not to mention the daughter of the Zhang family. She will be too old in a few years, and the power of the Zhang family will be declining day by day. Now Concubine Zhang Gong has offended Concubine Xu, and she still wants her niece to be the queen? It's better to dream!"

Haitang pursed her lips and said, "I wonder if the brother of the grand scholar's daughter has had an affair with the Sun family's daughter? Now all the members of the Sun family are surrounded. If they are to be punished and imprisoned, the daughter of the family will most likely not escape. Could that talented scholar be trying to hide her again?"

Hai Jiao seemed to be thinking about something. "It's hard to say. I can send someone to check it out. If it is true, I will just report it quietly and let the cabinet officials give up the idea first, so that they don't have to argue with the ladies in the palace."

The marriage of the new emperor has not yet been decided, and the other people who have been granted marriages will also be implicated. The marriage decree has not been issued yet, so what should the young men and women who have been granted marriages do? Could it be that since the higher-ups have not been able to reach a conclusion, everyone below will follow suit and not get married?
Haijiao felt that there was really nothing to argue about. The new emperor was young, Empress Dowager Zhou was old, and Imperial Noble Consort Xu had no experience in assisting the government. After the new emperor ascended the throne, the cabinet would definitely be in charge of state affairs. Since the civil officials already had great power, why not give way to the military generals in the marriage of the new emperor? They were all meritorious officials who supported the emperor and saved him. Could it be that General Zhou could not get a reward? If they were worried that the head of the harem was a daughter of a general, which would affect the new emperor's emphasis on military affairs over civil affairs, then the civil officials could just send a few more daughters into the palace as concubines. The new emperor would have to take concubines sooner or later. With three thousand beauties in the harem, are you afraid that there would not be a few places for the daughters of civil officials?

Haitang just thought that her brother's idea was a bad one. Xinjun is still a child!
She tried to change the subject: "After the late emperor is buried, the new emperor will hold a coronation ceremony, right? Then when will the enthronement ceremony for the Grand Empress Dowager and the new Empress Dowager be held? To be honest, now that the crown prince has become the new emperor, his biological mother is still the Imperial Noble Consort, which sounds weird. Empress Dowager Zhou should have been called the Grand Empress Dowager long ago. There is no need to wait for the new emperor to issue an order. The people below should change their name, right?"

Hai Jiao laughed and said, "Isn't this familiar to everyone? Besides, there are limited rooms in the harem. There are so many concubines and imperial concubines from the previous emperor's reign. It's already crowded enough. Now the concubines and imperial concubines of the late emperor have to squeeze in. I don't know how to arrange them. The ladies in the palace are now unwilling to move out. Instead, they suggested that the concubines and imperial concubines of the previous emperor could leave the palace and live with their children. The Empress Dowager rejected it directly, and now the palace is still in turmoil! The cabinet is arguing over how to deal with Concubine Sun, and the palace is full of resentment. I don't know when everything will be settled."