The emperor is reborn, the cute queen is upgraded

Chapter 98 Warning
When the eldest princess swallowed a foreign object and got stuck in her throat, and had difficulty breathing, everyone was in a mess!The wet nurse only saw that the eldest princess was eating the cheese cake brought back from Feng Palace, so she reported it to Concubine Zhen.

Concubine Zhen's first reaction was to send someone to Funing Palace to report the matter to Empress Dowager Xu!She suspected that the queen wanted to kill the princess!He is still clever among the palace people, so he ran to invite the imperial physician!That's why Empress Dowager Xu came to Fanhua Pavilion and began to denounce the queen for being vicious, and decided that Si Luoyun was the murderer who killed the eldest princess!

As a result, Si Luoyun's remarks that she didn't regard Concubine Zhen and the eldest princess as a threat at all were louder than those five slaps!Everyone mocking Concubine Zhen in their hearts feels so good about herself!

The emperor quickly decreed to convict the people who took care of the eldest princess. After all, it was a royal princess who died. No matter whether she was valued by the emperor during her lifetime, those who neglected their duties should not be spared lightly!
Concubine Zhen neglected her duties in taking care of the eldest princess, disrespected the empress, cursed the princess and the prince, was punished for several crimes and demoted to be a court lady, and was thrown into the cold palace but survived!
The death of the eldest princess and the fate of Concubine Zhen undoubtedly sounded a wake-up call for the concubines in the harem!At the same time, they saw clearly that the real favored woman in the harem was the empress!
Maybe it's because people are used to concubines and concubines who are favored by the emperor, and most of them respect and love the empress who is the main wife.After all, the empress will not change easily, but the concubines in the harem are always new... It is indeed rare to see an emperor like Dugu Ye who exclusively favors empresses!
No matter if he favors the empress or concubine, anyway, the emperor's heart is now on a woman. If other women are unfavorable to this woman, they have to think about the consequences!Besides, this woman is the queen of the head of the harem!
Empress Dowager Xu didn't expect that she would be used by Concubine Zhen, she really vomited with chest pains!In fact, if she hadn't wanted to suppress Queen Si too much, she wouldn't have lost her way if she didn't check for a while!

All in all, the fact that the Xu family is declining day by day and that King Chen is about to return to the capital is too much for the Empress Dowager Xu!
When the emperor cut down the vassal, the Empress Dowager Xu was the first to oppose it!This means that Crown Prince Shang's son-in-law, King Chen, cannot keep Chen Guofan's land either!There is no longer a country, no more ministers, and I can only be an ordinary royal prince and county king!
But the harem is not allowed to interfere in politics, and the only Xu Shangshu of the Xu family also stood on the side of the emperor for the long-term consideration of the family!After all, King Chen was young and he was far away in Chendi, so it would be of no benefit for the Xu family to oppose the reduction of feudal clans in order to support King Chen!
The advantage of Xu Shangshu's support for the emperor's reduction of the vassal was that he kept his position as Minister of the Ministry of Punishment. Although at the beginning his purpose was to make Xu Meiren favored, but later Xu Meiren died of illness in the palace, and Xu Shangshu had no way of turning back.

The reason for the decline of the Xu family is definitely not as simple as the deliberate suppression of the former emperor!
Back then, Xu Guozhang and Xu Empress were too complacent, thinking that the first emperor could become emperor only because of the Xu family's support!They didn't take the majesty of the first emperor seriously, and the father and daughter repeatedly offended Long Wei in the court and harem!The first emperor was angry, but he endured it all the time in order to stabilize the court and the regime!

It wasn't until Xu Guozhang died of illness that the late emperor began to suppress the increasingly arrogant Xu family!Relying on the power of Xu Guozhang and Xu Empress, there are many outlaws in the Xu family, which just gave the late emperor something to catch!
When he arrived at Xu Shangshu's place, he already knew how to be a minister with his tail between his legs, but the Empress Dowager Xu still couldn't turn the corner!
After the incident between Concubine Zhen and the eldest princess, the rumor makers who slandered the queen for persecuting the harem concubines and killing the emperor's heirs were also arrested by the government one after another!

After nearly two months of investigation, the officials in charge of investigating the case drafted a memorial and handed it to the emperor's desk!When I opened the memorial, there were more than 20 dignitaries who were involved in the false rumors!The instigator of the rumors is the Xu family!

In this harem, only the Empress Dowager Xu and the Empress can summon family members and clansmen to the palace at will!Even a high-ranking concubine like Concubine Liao Xian doesn't have this kind of privilege!

When the female family members of the Xu family visit the Queen Mother Xu in the palace, they will naturally hear some anecdotes about the harem.Sometimes at various banquets of the official family or the aristocratic family, in order to show the extraordinaryness of the Xu family in the eyes of the Tian family, they would casually tell a few "secret stories" in the palace!
The Xu family had always been envious of Empress Si's position, and finally sent a beauty Xu into the palace, but died of illness before the new concubine system was implemented!And the cause of illness and death was more or less related to Queen Si punishing Xu Meiren to kneel!In this way, when the female family members of the Xu family talked about the concubines in the palace, it was inevitable that they would covertly pour sewage on Queen Si!After being polished and disseminated by other female relatives present, those false rumors spread among the people were formed!

After reading the memorial, the emperor sneered and wrote down two imperial edicts!

An imperial decree ordered Xu Houzhao, Minister of the Criminal Ministry, to suspend his duties and go home to reflect on the crime of lax management of the clan!

Another decree is to punish all those involved in the spread of rumors!Officials, the husband cuts the official rank three, and the woman controls the mouth twenty!For civilians, men will be punished with a cane twenty times, and women will be punished twenty times with palms on their mouths!

With the imperial decree, there will be another lively scene in Shangjing!
The emperor mainly wanted to punish those in power. As long as the ordinary people were not bribed to fabricate and spread rumors, those who were caught would be dragged to the Yamen to beat twenty boards, and those who were not caught would secretly rejoice!

But there are also many "civilians" without official positions in official and aristocratic families!The emperor's slap and slap really beat the aristocratic family, nobles, and officials so badly that they didn't dare to lose their temper!Who made such a group of idiots come out of your family!Things can be eaten indiscriminately, but can words be said casually?Hitting you is light!The emperor didn't take the opportunity to raid your house, destroy your family, kick your whole family out of Beijing, and return generations of descendants to no longer be employed as officials, etc., you should call "the emperor's sage"!
Many officials just brushed it off because of the broken mouths of their wives!After being downgraded, the original position can no longer be held, and there must be room for the newcomers sent by the emperor!Therefore, there was another wave of divorces in Beijing, a wave of sending female family members to temples, a wave of concubines, and a wave of families leaving Beijing...

The Xu family, Bi family, and Xing family were more severely affected by the disaster!The first one is a tumor that both the former emperor and the current emperor wanted to dig out, and the latter two are the relatives of the two new concubines who were elected to the palace last year...

The emperor ordered Bi Cairen and Xing Guiren, who had just recovered from a serious illness, to kneel outside the gate of Fenggong Palace for two hours, and then restrained for another two months to copy scriptures for the deceased eldest princess!If someone knelt down and died like Xu Meiren, she would be reduced to a court lady after death, and the mat would be dragged outside the palace without burial!
No matter how chaotic outside, Fenggong Palace is still quiet and peaceful.

Si Luoyun has been pregnant for more than eight months, and will give birth in less than two months.Therefore, the palace people will never bother the empress with outside affairs.

After the Eldest Princess left, Concubine Liao Xian might feel very depressed and uncomfortable, so she occasionally went to Feng Palace to chat with the pregnant Si Luoyun.

Concubine Liao Xian kept a distance from Empress Si before. On the one hand, she felt that Empress Si's words and deeds were different from ordinary people. It would be bad if she accidentally got a glimpse of some secrets!On the other hand, there is no real friendship and complete trust in this harem woman. Concubine Liao Xian doesn't quite believe that Empress Si is a simple person, and she is afraid that she will accidentally cause some trouble.

But on the night of the eldest princess's death, Concubine Liao Xian saw the amazing side of Empress Si, and she agreed with Si Luoyun, the empress of Dayan, from the bottom of her heart!

Si Luoyun has always had a good impression of Concubine Liao Xian. When she was in the Chen Palace, she felt that the only "good person" in the harem was the Liao family.Concubine Liao Xian has been acting as an agent of palace affairs, so she should walk around frequently. Si Luoyun welcomes her very much.

Concubine Liao Xian likes the lively Dugu Ruyi very much, she hugs her every time she comes, with a bright smile on her face.

"Put her down quickly." Si Luoyun looked at Fu Bao giggling coquettishly, wriggling in Concubine Liao Xian's arms like a caterpillar, and said to Concubine Liao Xian with a smile, "This little thing is heavy, no matter how tired you are." Don't let her wrinkle your dress either."

"It doesn't matter." Concubine Liao Xian lovingly touched Fu Bao's face, "The second princess is so cute, I can't hug her enough."

Si Luoyun shook her head and just smiled, looking at Dugu who was being fed cheese by a wet nurse.

Hu'er has been quieter than her elder sister since she was born, and she is slower than Fu Bao in learning to speak.Si Luoyun thought that Hu'er would be more delicate than her sister, but the wet nurse and the palace servants said that Hu'er was very sensible, but Fu Bao was more delicate, and would cry when things went wrong.

Si Luoyun sighed to Concubine Liao Xian: "Sometimes I feel that Hu'er is like an older brother."

Concubine Liao Xian also looked at Hu'er, who was eating obediently, she couldn't hide the envy in her eyes, "Your Majesty is so lucky, it seems that I will have a younger brother or younger sister for the Second Princess and the First Prince."

All the concubines in the harem are sterile, but the queen gave birth to a pair of lovely twins, and she is pregnant with another, how can it not be enviable!
Si Luoyun knew that Concubine Liao Xian was barren, so she had some sympathy for her.Originally, I wanted to raise the eldest princess by the side of Concubine Liao Xian. It is better to be raised by such a concubine mother than to be taught astray by Concubine Zhen!It's a pity that the child's life is poor!

"I heard that those outside the palace who spread rumors about you, empress, have all been punished, and they have finally returned your innocence." Concubine Liao Xian said sincerely after handing Fubao to the wet nurse, "Although rumors can't hurt people, they can. Destroying people's reputations and making ignorant people blindly believe. I think the punishment in the emperor's will is very wise!"

Si Luoyun also heard Chun Xiao mention a thing or two about what happened in the past two months. The emperor never said anything in front of her, for fear of affecting her mood and causing her to be angry again!

Listening to Concubine Liao Xian's praise of the emperor's wisdom, Si Luoyun covered her mouth and smiled, "Yes, the emperor is wise."

Concubine Liao Xian looked at Empress Si's increasingly bright face, and couldn't help blurting out enviously: "The emperor is really kind to your empress."

The smile on Si Luoyun's face deepened, and she stretched out her hand to caress Fu Bao who was munching on cheese like her younger brother, and said with downcast eyes: "Flowers don't have a hundred days of redness, and people don't have a hundred days of happiness."

Who knows that one day a person who makes the emperor's heart is on the cusp will suddenly appear?
"By the way, I heard that the Empress Dowager Chen Si and King Chen are going to Beijing ahead of schedule." Concubine Liao Xian thought of what the palace people had said yesterday, "The emperor originally ordered King Chen to return to Beijing in October, but for some reason he summoned him ahead of time. its back."

Miss is coming back?Si Luoyun was slightly taken aback, but then she was overjoyed again!
"The son sees the queen mother." Dugu Ye, who was dressed in brocade and white robes embroidered with dragon patterns, looked extraordinarily handsome. With a stern expression, he bowed slightly to the Empress Dowager Xu who was seated there, "I don't know what the queen mother summoned her son for?"

Empress Dowager Xu, who was obviously old and haggard, no longer had the domineering arrogance of the past, but she still looked aloofly at the emperor.

"Your Majesty, sit down." Empress Dowager Xu pointed to the wide and large chair beside her.

"Thank you, Empress." Dugu Ye sat down with her robe lifted.

After Mammy Huang served the fragrant tea, Empress Dowager Xu waved her hands and ordered the palace servants in the palace to retreat, but He Baoquan was the emperor's personal servant, and the emperor had to speak to drive him out!

"The Ai family wants to have a few words with the emperor, so let He Baoquan go down and rest for a while." Empress Dowager Xu looked at the emperor and said quietly.

(End of this chapter)