The ghost king and princess of Feng Qingtian

Chapter 44 Two Ruthless People
Only Yun Yuhong and Bai Ziyu were left in the room.The clever ghost, the miserly ghost, and the crybaby consciously stood outside the house and kept guard, so that no one else could get close. Bai Shu went back to the room to prepare medicine. Inside, Yun Yuhong, the old man, Mr. Ning and Bai Ziyu sat down at the table .

Bai Ziyu said first: "I would like to thank the eldest princess for her rescue in prison, and the kindness of the Golden Palace as a witness."

Yun Yuhong looked at Bai Ziyu, and found that his expression was a little less friendly and a little more distant than before, so he couldn't help frowning.Is it because she concealed her identity, or because she is a princess, the difference in identity gave him an idea?

Yun Yuhong saw that Bai Ziyu didn't speak, and everyone else was a little embarrassed, but Mr. Ning broke the silence and said, "The eldest princess must be here today for something important, right?"

Yun Yuhong nodded, and narrated what happened in the palace in the past two days, and at the end, she sighed softly.Bai Ziyu couldn't help feeling a little distressed when he heard that Yun Yuhong had run into a wall in his ancestral home and was restrained everywhere in the palace, and he looked at Yun Yuhong with more concern.The old Taoist yelled in his heart, Bai Ziyu, you idiot, don't be fooled by her, she is so fragile, if you weren't here, she would have jumped and started cursing.But he only dared to talk about it in his heart, but actually put on a concerned look.

After receiving Bai Ziyu's gaze, Yun Yuhong felt a little better, and said to Bai Ziyu, "I just came back, and I only know that the five great families and the four major armies are powerful, but I don't know how to divide the power in Beijing. Can you give me some advice? One or two."

Mr. Ning picked up a cup of tea and drank it down, swallowing the words that came to his lips.These Yun Yuhong had arranged for him to inquire about it earlier, and he was going to talk about it just now, but it was obviously useless now.

Bai Ziyu nodded and said, "I have just returned to Beijing, so I don't know too much about these things. Originally, the relationship between the five great families and the four marquis mansions was not close. Mo Yunguo's family is dominant, and half of the officials in the court were born in the Zhou family academy, which made the Zhou family unparalleled for a while. The late emperor began to reuse the Liu family. With intentional help, the development was rapid, so the officials in the court gradually divided into the Liu faction and the Zhou faction. But because the Liu family had a daughter in the harem and a prince, they overwhelmed the Zhou family. At that time, my grandmother passed away, so the Zhou family married their daughter into the Bai family. Later, the late emperor was dissatisfied with the faction that the generals were also involved in these parties, so he sent all four marquis masters to Guarding the frontier and ordering not to return to Beijing unless summoned, the situation was brought under control. Unfortunately, in the later years of the late emperor, there was also a dispute between princes and heirs. The Liu family naturally wanted to protect the prince at that time, who is now the emperor, so Still marrying Jingwuhou and Jinghuihou, the first emperor saw that things were not going well, so he tried his best to reject all opinions, and appointed the prince's neutral Jingyuanhou's daughter as the crown princess. He also chose the daughter of the Yu family from the five great families who is now Concubine Shu, and the daughter of the Zhou family, who is now Concubine Hui, are side concubines. It is a pity that the current emperor has not learned this way of checks and balances from the previous emperor."

Speaking of this, Bai Ziyu glanced at Yun Yuhong, seeing that she was not unhappy, and then continued: "After Qianzong ascended the throne, at the insistence of the Queen Mother, he first made the daughter of the Liu family a virtuous concubine, and then he was afraid of the daughter of the Liu family. The situation is lonely, and the daughter of the Jingwuhou family who is close to the Liu family is appointed as the concubine De."

Yun Yuhong also sighed in her heart, the late emperor still loved his son, and when he was dying, he had already paved the way for Qianzong.First, he found the Jingyuan Marquis Mansion, which was neutral but had military power. This was Qianzong's backer and a force he could hold in his hands.And the Liu family is powerful, so use the Zhou family to suppress it. One Zhou family is not enough, so add the Yu family, so the Zhou family daughter and the Yu family daughter are appointed as side concubines. Qianzong only needs to balance the Liu family and the Zhou family. The two families, and then find a way to take the other family for their own use, and this court Qianzong will be able to play around.It's a pity that the first emperor missed the queen mother and let her stuff two members of the Liu family into the palace at once, and the balance was broken again.However, the Zhou family looked down on and was not close to the Yu family who started as a businessman, so they continued to strengthen their ties with the Bai family of Yasukuni Marquis, and were tied together with the Bai family.The Yu family also thought about it, and simply got together with the Zhang family and the Dong family who were not taken seriously by others.Hou Jingyuan couldn't get extra support from Qianzong, and was isolated by other families, so he naturally wanted to find another backer, but at this time, the Bai family offered an olive branch.In today's situation, Emperor Qianzong has to bear the main responsibility. He failed to withstand the pressure of the Queen Mother. The Liu family could not suppress it. He also left him, and the courtiers were divided, forming cliques for private interests, and what was more serious: the Liu family had two Wuhou support, and the Zhou family now also had two Wuhou support.Yun Yuhong couldn't help but imagine that a few years later, in order to fight for the throne, the two major families and the four major Wuhous caused a big battle in Moyun's country.

Mr. Ning added: "Actually, this alliance of interests is not unbreakable. I heard that the relationship between the Hou family of Jingwu and the Liu family has not been very good recently." Hou Weiwei didn't want to fight.

Bai Ziyu snorted coldly, "The four great Marquises and the five great families are all a group of villains who are greedy for profit and forget righteousness, and harm the country and the people. If these people gain power, Mo Yun will not be far from the ruin of the country." Did you scold yourself too?
Yun Yuhong continued: "That's right, so I absolutely can't let these families gain power." You really don't even care about Jingyuanhoufu?

The old Taoist interjected next to him: "You two have killed relatives righteously for the sake of the country and the people, I admire you." Mr. Ning stared, the Taoist priest must have fallen asleep and was confused, why did these two kill relatives righteously?

Yun Yuhong nodded: "If they can repent a little, I will give them a way out."

Bai Ziyu said: "It is said that things must be reversed when they are extremely extreme, and that when they are extremely prosperous, they must decline. The Bai family now has no general style, and its decline is inevitable."

The old man looked at Mr. Ning, I, the old man, eat more salt than you eat rice, I just said what these two people think, the old man is right, these two people are two ruthless people.Yun Yuhong ignored Lao Dao and Mr. Ning, but looked at Bai Ziyu.

What Bai Ziyu thought was: If you really have the determination and courage to not be swayed by family affection and sweep away the evils, I will help you.

What Yun Yuhong thinks is: If you can really let go of this so-called bondage of family affection and act from the perspective of serving the country and the people, then you will live up to the importance I place on you.

At this point in the matter, Yun Yuhong's goal has been half achieved, and the other half seems to be at the wrong time and cannot be carried out.

At this time, there was a voice at the door. It turned out that Mrs. Xiao had sent someone to invite the eldest princess to eat in the old lady's room.

Mrs. Zhou didn't want to see Yun Yuhong earlier. Although she is a princess, the status of a princess in Moyun Kingdom is really not high. In other words, no princess can stay in Moyun until she is 16 years old. People can't feel awe of the princess, and because Yun Yuhong destroyed Mrs. Zhou's plan as soon as she appeared, Mrs. Zhou hated Yun Yuhong from the bottom of her heart.But when she heard that Yun Yuhong left Bai Ziyu to talk, she felt that she had to ignore it, so she sent someone to say that she failed to welcome Yun Yuhong, and she wanted to apologize to Yun Yuhong, and invited Yun Yuhong to have dinner with her.

Yun Yuhong thought that he had "lived in the residence of the Marquis of the Kingdom for a long time", so he wanted to know more, so he took everyone to Mrs. Zhou's Rong Anxuan for dinner.

On the way here, the miserly ghost secretly told Yun Yuhong that Bai Ziyu had been wronged and injured again these few days, but no one paid any attention to him when he returned home, and lived in a remote small courtyard on the east side arranged by the housekeeper. Treated like a bastard.Regardless of whether the stepmother was not surprised, his father didn't ask a question, and his own brother didn't take the initiative to look at him, nor did he show any kindness to this brother. Bai Ziyu didn't look like a member of this family at all.

Yun Yuhong had expected this situation long ago. In the prison, Bai Ziyu said that he had been abandoned by his family.And look at this family, the grandmother is not close, the stepmother is not close, the father is close but ineffective, the younger brother is close but too young, and they didn't grow up together, and they can't be close. The grandfather who was close to him valued the interests of the family most. For these, the descendants had to stand aside.It is not easy to be born in the royal family, and it is also not easy to be born in these aristocratic families.And Bai Ziyu's dissatisfaction and indifference towards the Marquis of Jingguo just now in the hall probably gave up on this home.

When the group arrived at Rong Anxuan, Uncle Bai and Second Master Bai who had gone out in the morning also came back. Except for Old Master Bai and Brother Bai Ziqi and Bai Zilin brothers who were at the border, all the members of the Bai family were present. Young and old, Yingying and Yanyan, stood all over the room.

Mrs. Zhou is a fair-looking, kind-hearted and gentle person. Unfortunately, Yun Yuhong has seen too many "kind" people, and she has long been immune to such pretense. In her eyes, this is a shrewd, capable, ruthless person. Old lady, her fighting power will never be weaker than that of the Queen Mother.

After seeing the ceremony, everyone took their seats. The servants came up and set the dishes and chopsticks. The female relatives sat at two tables, the men sat at one table beside, and Yun Yuhong sat beside Mrs. Zhou.

In terms of age, Mrs. Zhou is the oldest among the people present, but in terms of status, Yun Yuhong is the most respected. It stands to reason that Yun Yuhong must have touched the chopsticks before everyone can start eating, but Yun Yuhong is not busy eating.She raised her eyes to look at a thin and small boy on the man's table, and waved to him, "Why is there a child who looks like my fourth brother, come over and have a look."

Mrs. Xiao hurriedly called: "Ziren, come here, the eldest princess is calling you."

Bai Ziren came in front of Yun Yuhong, and said softly, "I've seen the eldest princess." She shrank like a child who had never seen the world.

Yun Yuhong smiled and said: "What a good boy, he really looks like my fourth brother, very likable, how old are you?"

(End of this chapter)