little emperor of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 20 Red Pills
The empress dowager issued a decree in a rage, even though Wanli was reluctant, he understood that the abolition of the empress was difficult to achieve.But in my heart, I couldn't resist this kind of energy, so I had no choice but to remain silent and act as a silent resistance.His small thoughts could not escape the eyes of Empress Dowager Li, and he sneered, "Ai Jia understands your thoughts!"

Turning around, she told the mother in charge, Zhuzhen, "Go to Chuxiu Palace and tell Concubine Zheng, saying that it is the order of the Ai family. The queen is the queen, and the concubine is the concubine. If you can know that everyone is safe with each other, then that's fine. If you dare to regenerate The Ai family has a lot of means to deal with her! There will be an Ai family in the inner palace for a day, and the tricks of these seductive masters will be cleaned up as soon as possible!" Zhuzhen promised to take the order, leaving the ashen-faced Emperor Wanli in a daze locally.

By this time, Wanli could no longer hear what the Empress Dowager said, and Wanli was really an idiot.The meaning of the queen mother is very clear, as long as she can't think of abolishing the queen, the queen mother will not embarrass Concubine Zheng.Thinking of the empress dowager's tricks, Wanli absolutely believed that what the empress dowager said was not a lie.It seems that the matter of abolition is over here.

Seeing that the emperor did not speak or refute, he knew that he had given in.The queen mother suppressed her anger and calmed down a little, "Furthermore, the eldest son of the emperor is six years old, and he should have reached the age to study in the pavilion." Mentioning this matter, Wanli's heart skipped a beat, and he could already guess what the queen mother would do next. say what.

Go out to study?Queen Mother, you have a good plan.What it means for the prince of the Ming Dynasty to study in the pavilion, you should know better than anyone else, the queen mother.Wanli wanted it, and so did Queen Mother Li.There was an unwritten unspoken rule in the royal family of the Ming Dynasty: When a prince leaves the cabinet, it is tantamount to recognizing him as the prince.

Empress Dowager Li tried the emperor's intentions for a while, and she knew that there was no rush for this matter after seeing the reaction.The son is always pushed by the emperor for fear of future troubles.The form is not important, the content is the key.Empress Dowager Li is a smart person, so naturally she doesn't do stupid things.

"After all, your son is your own. Pass the throne to whoever you like, and the family will never interfere! It's just that the dignity of the royal family is important. The emperor's grandson is growing up, but he is not allowed to invite teachers to give lectures. Wouldn't it make everyone in the court The officials and even the people of the world saw the joke! The emperor can ignore it, but after a hundred years of mourning, how will you go to see your father?"

Going out of the pavilion to study has turned into a teacher's lecture. Wanli finally breathed a sigh of relief for the queen mother's obvious concession.Wanli is not afraid of the strict principles. His teacher Zhang Ju is just following the path of others so that others have nowhere to go, but Wanli is following his own path and letting others talk about it.A teacher and an apprentice are wonderful.

Wanli didn't bother to care about what other people said.It's just that the word filial piety really crushes people.The Empress Dowager raised the banner of the First Emperor, and even though Emperor Wanli was full of reluctance, he no longer dared to refute it.Reluctantly, he had no choice but to fight with the mud again, trying to get over it first.

"What the empress mother taught me is that it's not that the son doesn't let him study, it's just that the son is worried that the eldest son of the emperor has just recovered from a serious illness, and his body is not yet in good health. It's better to raise him for another two years. By then, the third son of the emperor will also grow up. Why don't the two brothers study together? Isn't it good?"

Even the empress couldn't be fooled by this reason, let alone the aging empress dowager. "The two grandchildren are four years apart. If we wait for the third son to grow up, wouldn't we miss the age of the eldest son? They are both father and son, so why favor one over the other?" The queen mother really hated it!The words that didn't save his son at all made Wanli's face feel hot, and his heart was full of anger.

"The Ai family said, you don't care who you set up as the prince. But the emperor's eldest son is imperative to study! If the emperor doesn't want to, he must go his own way, so the Ai family has to open the ancestral temple and worship the heavens." Sin, to thank the world." The queen mother is so rude, isn't she more shameless than anyone else?Then make a fuss in front of the people of the world, and see how you, the emperor, explain it.

Now that this is all said and done, what else can Wanli say?Fortunately, he didn't leave the pavilion to study, so he nodded and agreed to invite a lecturer for Zhu Changluo to enroll in another day.So far, the battle in the inner palace caused by Zhu Changluo's reading problem has ended.

There was no Ying family in this battle, and the queen mother seemed to have the upper hand and won a big victory, but she didn't let the little bit of family affection between mother and child remain.Although Wanli made concessions, he protected Concubine Zheng from the queen mother's wrath, and at the same time made it clear that he wanted to make the third son of the emperor the crown prince.Taking Zhu Changluo's study as a condition in exchange for the queen mother's promise not to take a position in the selection of the prince in the future can be regarded as a loss and a harvest.

"Why doesn't your majesty understand? The eldest son of the emperor is the one chosen by Emperor Sejong in heaven. It's against the heavens to act so stubbornly! The Ai family has worked so hard, it's all for the good of the emperor." Looking at the emperor Looking away from the back, the queen mother beat her chest and stamped her feet, her face turned pale with anger, the old lady was really angry.

The queen was silent, but the frown on her face had undoubtedly revealed her thoughts.Empress Dowager Li stretched out her hand to support the queen and stood up slowly, looking forward with misty eyes, and said meaningfully: "Silly boy, there are some things that cannot be rushed. Look at the emperor... just too impatient."

In the past few days, no one in the harem has been happy, not even the famous Chuxiu Palace. "Brother, are you serious?" Concubine Zheng's face was flushed with anger.

"It's absolutely true!" A round ball with a fat head and big ears was sitting on the Taishi chair wiping sweat.This person is Zheng Guotai, the commander of the Wucheng soldiers and horses who took office in Xinke, and Zheng Guifei's elder brother.

It is said that this guy was not so fat before.When Zhang Ju was an official, Zheng Guotai lived in fear every day.The reason is the same, Zhang Juzheng is not a habitual person.Even the emperor has to act according to the face of his face, not to mention why can't he be like this, a cat and dog who eats everything delicious.

But it's different now. Ever since Zheng Guotai, who has been the commander of the five cities and has the power to dispatch 30 imperial troops, is always smiling everywhere.This body swelled up like an inflated ball.

Concubine Zheng Gui didn't pay attention to her brother's change in body shape. Right now, she focused all her attention on a piece of paper handed over by her brother. After reading it several times, her ugly face became even uglier. She frowned and said in a low voice, "Upward!" What do the ministers say?"

"Don't mention it, now the crowd is so angry that they are all aggrieved for the eldest son of the emperor. There are also several censors who are jointly repairing the table, and want to start the present, and ask the eldest son of the emperor to be the crown prince." Zheng Guotai, who continued to wipe his sweat, took a peek. His younger sister's face, and one more important thing he didn't dare to say, while all the officials sympathized with what happened to the eldest son of the emperor, they unanimously aimed their guns at Concubine Zheng Gui, which meant that they could say anything ugly.

Concubine Zheng frowned and kept walking back and forth in the palace, her heart was in a mess.She had already heard about this bullshit inspirational book, and when Emperor Wanli came back with a dark face, she felt something was wrong.Before she could ask a question, the Bamboo Nanny of the Compassionate Ning Palace sent another Yi order, reprimanding herself, almost pointing her nose at her demon concubine.

The Compassionate Ning Palace is not the Kun Ning Palace, let alone the Yonghe Palace. The Empress Dowager could not be offended by Concubine Zheng, so she could only bear with her anger and quietly suffer from being dumb.After crying, making trouble and hanging himself three times, Wanli comforted him in every possible way, and promised himself that the third son of the emperor would definitely be made the crown prince in the future. Only then did Concubine Zheng smile through tears, and the two reconciled.

The emperor made a promise with a golden eloquence, which was just for fun.Concubine Zheng knew this very well, so she forced Wanli to make a written statement that day, clearly stating that Zhu Changxuan, the third son of Lihuang, was the crown prince.The words in black and white are the most authentic, the secret pavilion carefully hidden by Concubine Zheng Gui.But Concubine Zheng didn't know that this secret edict she relied on as a pillar in the future eventually led to her final defeat. It can be said that she lifted a stone and shot herself in the foot.

Although there is a secret edict, it does not mean that everything will go smoothly.For some reason, Concubine Zheng Gui felt so depressed these days that she couldn't lift her spirits up, her heart was like a heavy stone, and she always felt that something would happen in the past few days.Sure enough, today, when her elder brother suddenly asked to see her, the news from the previous court was like a stone hitting her head!

Looking at the page in her hand, Zheng Guifei hated and was angry!I thought it was a wimp, but I didn't expect this kid to be so treacherous.I tried my best in the palace, but I didn't expect to let this boy stir up trouble under my nose, repeatedly making me miserable.But this kid is only six years old, does he really have such a big plan?
"Sister, what should I do about this matter? You have an idea." Angrily staring at the fat and fat brother, Concubine Zheng was so angry that she couldn't speak.

If you compare people, you will die, if you compare goods, you will throw them away.A compatriot from the same mother just gave birth to such a brainless material!Concubine Zheng filed her silver teeth a few times, "Brother, how many times have I told you that this is in the palace! There are palace rules in the palace, you have to call me empress here! Now the queen mother doesn't like me, she is staring at me. Let me find my fault. If you are so careless and careless, if you violate the rules in half, and if you commit crimes in other people's hands, the emperor can protect me, but I can't protect you!"

After a scare, Zheng Guotai's sweat, which had just disappeared for a long time, broke out again.His lips trembled and he couldn't speak.Concubine Zheng gouged out this hopeless elder brother with great disappointment, and suddenly remembered a person, and her eyes lit up.How could I forget him!

"Brother, what did Uncle Gu say about this?"

The Gu Shushi that Concubine Zheng was talking about.His surname is Gu and his first name is Xiancheng.People from Wuxi, Jiangsu.In the fourth year of Wanli, he took part in the provincial examination and passed the No. 1 Jieyuan examination.Three years later, he took the Jinshi examination, and was selected as an official without accident.Because of mediocre grades, he was assigned to the household department as a principal, and has been mediocre, not bad until now, and is still a sixth-rank principal.

If you want to talk about how Concubine Zheng knew him, it would be a long story.In short, it can be summed up in a poem: Lang rides a bamboo horse to grow green plums around the bed.

The Gu and Zheng families were family friends in their hometown of Wuxi.Later, Concubine Zheng's father, Zheng Xianzong, moved his family to Datong Mansion in Beijing. Since then, his official career has been prosperous.

Gu Xiancheng is from a family of medicine in Wuxi, although he has little wealth, compared with the current Zheng family, it is already very different.Gu Xiancheng lived in Gu's house when he came to the capital to rush for the exam. At this time, Concubine Zheng had already turned into a stunning girl.As soon as the two met, it was like the golden wind meeting Yulu, and it was like Pan Jinlian meeting Ximen Qing. Unfortunately, after a few days of concubine love, everything changed because Concubine Zheng was going to enter the palace to wait for election.

"Mountains have trees and trees have branches, do you know if you feel happy?" Zheng Guifei will never forget the night before entering the palace. The evening wind entered both ears and heart.

Since then, Gu Xiancheng has become a non-staff member of the Zheng family.Father Zheng didn't know that Gu Xiancheng still had such ambiguous entanglements with his own daughter, he just thought it was an old good relationship in the family.The Zheng family has plenty of money, and they don't care about raising one more person.In fact, Zheng Xianzong discovered a few years later that he had found a treasure.

Gu Xiancheng is a person who doesn't look like a mountain or dew, but has a full belly.Since having him, the Zheng family's big and small affairs are all decided by him.Concubine Zheng's day-to-day favors are all thanks to her behind-the-scenes planning.What's even more strange is that Gu Xiancheng hasn't married a wife until now, and only Concubine Zheng knows it.

As soon as his sister brought up this quarrel, Zheng Guotai suddenly realized, and slapped the pig's brain with his fat hand, "Look at me, I'm so busy talking, I actually forgot the big things." He took out a kit from his arms and handed it over.Concubine Zheng took a look at her elder brother, stretched out her hand to take it, and asked, seemingly intentionally or unintentionally, "...Did he say anything else?"

"You don't know about him. You usually only say one sentence in ten sentences. It's boring to death. Dad is right. This person has to marry a wife if he should. He is not too young, so what's the matter with holding back like this?" What's the matter? Let me tell you, sister, some people in the court call him Eunuch Gu." Zheng Guotai scratched his head and laughed out loud.

Concubine Zheng was so angry that her elder brother Xiancheng said so vulgarly, and kicked this idiot brother out of the palace with a stomp.

There is no one in the middle of the night, so open the kit.A bottle, a note, and a strand of hair.Concubine Zheng's face suddenly burned.This friend, did you send your hair indiscriminately?What if people know about it?Feeling ashamed and annoyed, Gu Xiancheng's handsome face appeared in front of his eyes, and his emotions were flooded for a moment, and his intestines were knotted.Reason told her that this thing could not be kept, but after comparing it on the candle for a long time, after thinking it over and over again, she sighed, and finally put it down.

Opening the note, it turned out to be a simple painting.In the painting, a man is outlined with a few strokes, holding a flower in his hand, and the petals fall into the stream below and go with the waves.The white paper and clear ink are vivid and vivid. It can be seen that this person has a deep foundation in calligraphy and painting.

"Ask the flowers without saying a word, for whom will they fall, and for whom will they bloom? It is three points of spring, and half follows the flowing water and half enters the dust." Concubine Zheng has a tacit understanding, and she can understand it at a glance.Thinking of Gu Xiancheng's obsession with himself, his heart is full of tenderness.He couldn't help but reach out to pick up the lock of hair and put it in his arms.

Staring at the small bottle in his hand, he hesitated for a moment, finally gritted his teeth and pulled out the stopper, three blood-red pills rolled out! "Hongwan lovesickness blood?" After an exclamation, Concubine Zheng covered her mouth in surprise, her heart suddenly jumped!

There is a line of small characters on the back of the painting, on which it is clearly written: the eight characters must be broken, and tigers are a danger. Concubine Zheng's beautiful eyes widened suddenly. Looking at the painting, she looked at the red pill in her hand, which was as red as blood. It seemed that he understood what Gu Xiancheng meant.

　Concubine Zheng's adultery has appeared, where is your recommendation?Favorite it there~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
　　


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