Power in the World: After Eternal Age

Spring is warm, flowers are blooming, warblers are singing and swallows are singing, Feng Yuan is leaning on the edge of the lotus pond in the imperial garden, watching the goldfish in the pond playing in the water.Her lazy demeanor fascinated Li Yi who was standing in charge of the guard in the distance.

The palace maid came to report that Feng Xi, the king of Changli, begged to see his empress.Seeing her elder brother visiting, Feng Yuan was overjoyed, and quickly ordered the maid to bring him in.

Feng Xi entered the imperial garden, prostrated himself on the ground beside the lotus pond, and said in a loud voice: "Your servant Feng Xi kowtowed to see your empress, and your empress will be a thousand years old!"

Feng Yuan said reservedly: "Aiqing is flat! Left and right, give me a seat!"

After Feng Xi was seated, Feng Yuan waved her hands lightly, and both left and right immediately retreated.Only then did Feng Xi say: "Brother, if you enter the palace today, can you find your sister?"

Feng Xidao: "Your Majesty, my minister Feng Xi was puzzled when he heard that your Majesty is trying to protect Prince Tuo Bahong, so I came here to ask your Majesty for advice!"

Feng Yuan smiled and said: "The prince is the flesh and blood of the emperor. What I do is really a concern for the great Wei Jiangshan community. Why is my brother puzzled? There are no outsiders here, but my brother just said it's okay!"

Feng Xi stamped his feet and said: "Your Majesty, you are so confused! In the deep palace, how many people are favored by the emperor? Now the Empress Dowager suspects that the prince Tuoba Hong is not the emperor's own, and wants to expel him from the palace. If the prince is expelled, then Li Guiren is bound to fall out of favor. If Li Guiren falls out of favor, the empress can monopolize the power of the harem. With such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, how can the empress be soft-hearted and save Li's mother and son at the expense of her own foundation?"

Feng Yuan smiled and said: "Brother, you entered the Jue Changli King, the emperor's grace is so great, why did you come?"

Feng Xidao: "I'm ashamed, my brother is able to have today, thanks to the blessing of my mother!"

Feng Yuan nodded, and then asked: "Brother, the emperor can make you king of Changli, how do you think the emperor treats his sister?"

Feng Xi immediately understood, but he said unwillingly: "Madam, although you are favored by the emperor, you have to share equal shares with Li Guiren. What's more, Li Guiren has been favored by the emperor because of giving birth to dragon sons, and the empress has already fallen. Lost this great favor Opportunity, what a pity!"

Feng Yuan sighed lightly and said: "Brother, I secretly thought that the world doesn't understand me, but my brother can understand my sister's heart. But I don't know, my brother doesn't know how to use retreat as a way to advance!"

Feng Xi was suspicious and looked at Feng Yuan in surprise.Feng Yuan said slowly: "Brother, it is not the benevolence of my wife to try my best to help Concubine Li! To keep the prince Tuo Bahong, one is for the successor of the Great Wei Dynasty, and the other is that I can also borrow the prince Ta Bahong is on the throne!"

Feng Xi was surprised, and hurriedly asked Feng Yuanxiang to express his feelings.Feng Yuan looked around and said mysteriously: "Brother, the emperor is no longer the emperor's grandson Tuoba Jun that my sister knew when she was young! In today's world, the world is peaceful, the common people are rich, the emperor's ambition has faded, and he is addicted to sensuality. The emperor's dragon body is already weak, and it may not last long. If the emperor dies and has no children, other clans will fight for the throne."

"No matter who wins the world, is there a place for Feng Yuan to live in the palace? If the prince is here, if the prince succeeds after a hundred years, if Feng Yuan is the empress dowager, who in the harem will compete with this palace?"

Hearing this, Feng Xi was suddenly enlightened and greatly admired.He admired for a while, then said hesitantly: "Your Majesty, although this plan is clever, it's just that the Li family is more expensive because of the factors, so your Majesty is slightly inferior!"

Feng Yuan snorted coldly, and sighed softly: "Brother, my sister really has no choice but to feel sorry for Li Guiren. Brother, you also know that most of the laws of this dynasty follow the Han system. 'The palace rules have been passed down to our royal family of the Great Wei Dynasty."

"Although the current emperor, who has read Confucian classics and has a benevolent heart, intends to abolish this palace rule, but the emperor is also a filial son, and he will obey the Queen Mother Bao's words. If the Queen Mother Bao is not here, the emperor will definitely abolish this palace rule." , Li Guiren is determined to be superior to me in the palace."

"If the Empress Dowager Bao is here, she will follow the ancestral system. If the crown prince kills his mother, Li Guiren will die! Brother, don't worry too much, the palace is confident. If you talk to the Empress Dowager Bao, you will make the prince Tuoba Hong the crown prince. The crown prince is established. If the emperor wants to protect Li Guiren but fails, the Queen Mother will kill him. If Li Guiren is given to die, when he is dying, according to the ancestral system, she can make a last word to explain the future. Li Guiren will definitely feel that I saved him in the past For your kindness, the prince Tuoba Hong must be entrusted to my upbringing. In this way, I will use the belly of Li Guiren to give birth to the prince, but Li Guiren will end up in the disaster of death even though he gave birth to a son!"

After Feng Xi heard this, he was both surprised and delighted. He never expected that his sister who had been separated since childhood would be so powerful, and her scheming was far beyond his control.

Feng Xi hesitated for a moment and said: "Your Majesty, this plan is very clever! It's just the palace regulations of this dynasty. Although the mother of the crown prince is bestowed with death, after the crown prince ascends the throne in the future, he will be the queen mother, not necessarily the one who will be raised by him. I heard that the current emperor The seven empresses are all pregnant. Among the seven, if another prince is born, since the crown prince has already been established, it is impossible for the prince to become the successor, but his mother is very likely to be the empress dowager. The empress dowager With Li Guiren alone, how many other empresses can An Neng guard against?"

Feng Yuan showed a strange smile, turned her head and asked back: "Brother, if I am the empress, then after the emperor's death, who can be the honor of the empress dowager?"

Feng Xi said in surprise: "My lady, even though I have countless concubines, I may not be able to become a queen! My lady, do you know the palace rules of 'casting gold figures'?"

Feng Yuan smiled and said: "Brother, I live in the Forbidden Palace, how can I not know my dynasty's ancestral system? Since the founding of Emperor Daowu in this dynasty, if you want to establish a queen, you must choose someone with deep blessings among the concubines. The prosperity of the country. The ceremony of hand-casting a gold figure is very grand, and the emperor ordered all officials and important members of the royal family to watch it according to the ancestral system. If the concubine fails to hand-cast a gold figure, the candidate for the queen will be disqualified."

The criteria for selecting queens in the Northern Wei imperial palace were very strange, and often the emperor's most favored person could not become a queen.Hand-cast gold people, "the one who succeeds is lucky, and the one who fails will not be established." If you fail, you will lose the queen's throne.

In the history of the Northern Wei Dynasty, there were three emperors who wanted to establish a queen and asked the selected concubines to cast gold figures by hand. Two of them failed because they failed and missed the throne of queen.

Back then, Mrs. Murong cast a gold figure to become the queen, and she succeeded in one fell swoop.However, Mrs. Murong was not the first candidate for empress selected by Emperor Daowu.

The first candidate for the queen was Mrs. Liu who was later bestowed to death.Because the prince born to Mrs. Liu was established as the crown prince. Before that, Emperor Daowu liked her very much and asked her to take charge of the harem affairs. In fact, she was an empress without a name.

What Emperor Daowu didn't expect was that Mrs. Liu failed to cast a gold figure by hand and did not ascend the throne of queen.Emperor Daowu couldn't break the rules he set to lose his prestige, so Mrs. Liu never became the queen.On the contrary, Mrs. Murong, whom Emperor Daowu didn't favor very much, cast a golden figure with her hands, and she succeeded in becoming Emperor Daowu's queen, and Mrs. Liu was bestowed to death by the crown prince because of the prince.

Emperor Tuobasi of the Ming and Yuan Dynasties wanted to establish a queen after he became emperor. He favored Mrs. Yao very much, so he wanted to make her the queen, but the hand-cast gold figure also failed.Before Feng Guiren, the royal family of the Northern Wei Dynasty stood up three times and failed twice.How could Feng Guiren be sure to succeed in one fell swoop?This is exactly what Feng Xi is worried about.