Chapter 81: On the Benefits of a Faint King

How to arrange?

Is Chao's turn to be arranged by Ben Gong?

This is Chunjia's person!

Yun Fenghuang was slandering in his heart, but his face showed embarrassment, he glanced at Chunjia, and said: "Empress Dowager, my concubine has been in the side hall just now, but I don't know much about it. It just so happens that Chao is now under Injured, this... I'm afraid it's not easy to ask for a while, so I can only go first, um, treat her first?"

Empress Dowager Ji nodded, and said: "That's the reason! She came all the way from the north, no matter what the reason is, she definitely didn't let her get hurt in the Taichu Palace, and she would be tossed. In short Heal the person first now, and discuss the rest after the injury is healed."

"It's just that since the person who is attacking her at this moment is related to my Ji family, whether it's the Ai family or the queen, it's not suitable to touch her."

"That's why you..."

Speaking of this, I also took a look at Chunjia, "Emperor, as I said before, Concubine Shu's death was decided by Concubine Xian after she personally interrogated Chao Shi. Now Chao Shi is injured, but I don't know whether he will be taken care of by Concubine Xian ?”

Chunjia thought for a while, then said in a low voice: "Mother Lao asked me, if Mrs. Chao is all right, she should be interrogated by the virtuous concubine without delay. But now Mrs. Chao can't answer for the time being. She is an outsider, so she can't live here In the palace? It’s not easy for the concubine Xian to take care of her outside the palace, so let the Secretary of the Imperial City watch over her.”

"That's fine too." Empress Dowager Ji said warmly, "Since the emperor has his own ideas, then the Ai family will stop talking, and go back to Mianfu Palace first."

Chunjia didn't mean to send her off, but just bowed: "I respectfully send my mother off."

Empress Ji blessed the emperor, took the Empress Dowager's arm, and left with her.

After leaving Taichu Palace, Empress Ji turned slightly pale, and said in a low voice: "Auntie, is Your Majesty planning to...?"

"What are you panicking about?" Empress Dowager Ji shook her head and said, "He won't abolish you, at least not this time."

Empress Ji bit her lip: "But what Chao said..."

"It's just to put pressure on our Ji family." The Empress Dowager Ji sneered and said, "Don't worry, as long as he wins enough this time, when the time comes, you will hand over a few scapegoats in your Yanfu Palace. I will admit it. Don’t even think about it. At the beginning of the new year, the loving mother, the empress dowager, promised those successors openly and secretly. If the middle palace is vacant right now, Ouyang Yanran and other officials can still work together to kill our family?"

"It must be busy fighting internally, and it's too late to help my daughter-in-law win!"

"Chunjia is deeply afraid of us, how could he give our family such a chance to breathe?"

The queen mother breathed out slowly, and said cautiously, "So, the Ji family really has no room for change, otherwise, even if you want to ask yourself to be deposed, Chunjia will not agree."

Of course, this does not mean that Empress Ji can do whatever she wants, because the emperor just wants her to occupy the back seat and give herself time to take her time. But he didn't care that Empress Ji didn't get the treatment she deserved due to her status as a queen—even being bullied and teased by her favorite concubine.

Empress Ji was silent for a while, and said: "We are closely related to our family. Even if my post is safe for the time being, how can I feel at ease when my family is in crisis?"

She asked in a low voice, "Auntie, that Chao family can't stay!"

"Ai's family thought the same way before, but you just saw that the Chao family was almost wiped out before all the ministers walked out of the palace." The Empress Dowager Ji said lightly, "Son Chunjia, we all underestimated him too much. This lowly servant girl, Jingyou, was wined over by him early in the morning, and she just waited for a backhand blow today, not to mention the big votes of our Ji family, and then ended the court meeting, and hurriedly charged us with the crime of "silencing the mouth" ...From now on, as long as the Chao family is in danger again, no matter who did it, we will have to take the blame..."

"That's why, not only can Chao Shi not be killed, but she has to try to prevent others from killing her, and then frame us."

"..." The queen pursed her lips, and said suddenly, "Auntie, your majesty ordered all the ministers to discuss Ji's crime, although it is to give Ouyang Yanran and other old thieves a chance to incriminate them, but it also gives us a chance to breathe. Why didn't you try to overturn Chao's previous accusations?"

The Empress Dowager Ji glanced at her: "Is the evidence so perfect that it can be easily overthrown?"

If there is room for overthrow, Ye Guogong and those people are not easy to eat, and the court will chase after them and push them down.

How could it be possible to acquiesce to Chunjia's fate?

"The court's decision is of course based on ironclad evidence." The Queen said in a low voice, "But who will decide the battle between us and His Majesty?"

But winners and losers.

Therefore, "the common people are stupid, how can they know what is right and wrong? Your Majesty sees our Ji family as a traitorous minister who is in trouble for the country, and is a stumbling block that hinders the first emperor Xiaozong. But in our Ji family, for the sake of the country these years, we have worried Isn’t there enough? Before Emperor Xiaozong, he listened to the words of alienation and regarded his flesh and blood as enemies; now His Majesty, with a low family background and limited vision, will inevitably follow the footsteps of Xiaozong... In the end, I, the Ji family, have been wronged Yes! Full of loyalty and blood, but not recognized by the incompetent king..."

Empress Ji's eyes were cold, "It's fine for the people to listen to these things in normal times. But what if... when they need us?"

Empress Dowager Ji was thoughtful.

When the aunt and nephew were muttering in the phoenix carriage, Yun Fenghuang followed Chun Jia into a side hall.

"Did you do Chao's injury?" Chunjia sat down, dismissed the idlers, took a sip of the tea offered by Yan Yin, and asked.

Yun Fenghuang didn't hide it either: "The concubine was in the side hall and heard people say that Mrs. Chao mentioned the death of Concubine Shu, thinking that Mrs. Ji's wolf ambition would definitely murder her, so I asked people to arrange for Mrs. Ji's relatives to do it in advance. It came out like that... just to remind everyone."

Chunjia asked curiously: "How did you convince that person to do it?"

The natal cousin of the queen's natal sister-in-law——can be selected as the imperial bodyguard, even if the sex.

Even if he really believed what his family told him to kill Chao Jingyou, how about doing it in Taichu Palace in broad daylight in front of some of his colleagues? Isn't this just for fear of living too comfortably at home!

After such things are done, even if Chunjia is not in charge and the Ji family is still in power, it will be difficult to keep him.

Let alone now?

"The concubine didn't tell him to make a move?" Yun Fenghuang covered his mouth and chuckled when he heard the words, and glanced at the little servant beside Yanyin, who smiled shyly at her, only listening to Concubine Xian He said slowly, "The concubine was just tricked into a corner to knock him unconscious, then took his weapon and wounded Chao Shi, and then threw it back on him... Anyway, both Chao Shi and Luo Xun, who rescued him, said yes. He did it, and he had no evidence to prove that he was not there, so who could it be?"

Chunjia sighed and said, "I guess it's the same."

He also glanced at the little servant.

This time, the little maid couldn't laugh anymore, and subconsciously knelt down on the ground: "Slave——"

"Forget it, since it's the concubine Xian's order, just do it." Chunjia stared at him for a moment, and noticed that the smile on Yun Fenghuang's side was a bit forced. After weighing it in his heart for a moment, he hummed softly and said, " Just not next time!"

Although it is beneficial for Xiao Nei to serve Yun Fenghuang's order this time, the most important thing for a person in front of the imperial court is to be loyal and obedient, and the most important thing is to only listen to the emperor's words.

The little servant's move was somewhat overstepped.

Chunjia naturally wants to beat.

This is also because the person who spoke was Yun Fenghuang, and he was present, he had to show face to this concubine, so he lightly revealed it.

If Yun Fenghuang was not in front of him, or if the servant had followed other people's orders, Chunjia would definitely not be so easy to talk to.

As an emperor with eight years of experience as a puppet, Chun Jia cared a lot about the loyalty of his servants.

"Your Majesty, I am also afraid that if I don't do this, Chao's life will be in danger in the future. Ji's power is too strong to be guarded against." Yun Fenghuang then explained a few words, "I should have reported this to His Majesty before doing this, but If that's the case, I'm afraid some people will suspect that His Majesty ordered... the concubine's body was killed first and then played later, please don't take offense at Your Majesty!"

Chunjia was secretly annoyed at the little servant, but she was reluctant to say serious things to her favorite concubine: "I love my concubine because I think about it, how can I take offense?"

He didn't want to talk about this matter again, so he immediately changed the topic, "By the way, how do you plan to arrange the matter of Concubine Shu?"

Yun Fenghuang thought to himself, Bengong would like to use this matter to abolish the queen, and then live in Yanfu Palace by himself?

But she knew that Chunjia would definitely refuse.

First of all, the queen cannot be discarded at this moment; secondly, even if the queen is discarded, the person who is suitable to sit in the back seat in this person's mind is probably not himself.

Who told her that she didn't have a group of fathers, brothers and uncles who could serve as the emperor's right-hand man and who would devote themselves to death?

Chunjia can give her a high-ranking concubine other than the queen, and give her the honor and favor that are not inferior to the queen, and even favor... But for the queen, he still chooses based on family background and the situation of the previous dynasty.

He didn't say this directly, but he has emphasized this point many times in his words and deeds.

Perhaps because of the ups and downs in his life, this emperor has always been calm and rational.

He is not the kind of master who loves someone and puts everything aside.

He also wants mountains and rivers, and he also loves beauties—if you think about it carefully, Mingjun is such a virtuous person.

Yun Fenghuang felt sorry again, how could Chunjia not be an idiot who doesn't know the difference between grain and wheat? Or a willful and reckless king?

It may be because everyone in the world is looking forward to the Lord of Zhongxing, and she is the only one who secretly prays for the rebirth of Jie and Zhou, so she is not strong enough. Anyway, so far, Yun Fenghuang feels that it is unlikely to replace Empress Ji, so she presses regret and thinks about her words: "This matter , His Majesty said earlier that he has a close relationship with the Cui family. Of course, the queen should not be innocent. But now is not the time to abolish the empress. If it is aimed at the Cui family, it will inevitably distract the previous lords... No, let’s start from the Queen’s side?”

Chunjia said, "You mean Ji Muzi?"

"Now she is praying for the blessings of the two empress dowagers, and she is the biological mother of the second prince and the third prince, so she still can't." Yun Fenghuang said, "Isn't there still Xue Jieyu in the palace? It's just that she entered the palace last year. I haven't served His Majesty a few times, so I don't know if His Majesty is willing or not?"

The Xue family, where Xue Xiaoge was born, is the Yue family of the Marquis of Minyang. It is one of the oldest families among the many in-laws of the Ji family. With the support of the Ji family, its own power is also a leader in the discipline party.

If it can be eradicated, not only will Yu Ji's vitality be seriously injured, but it will also deter all members of the Ji party!

...This is not a sorry for Chao Jingyou's exposing by the court.