frightfiction Chapter 699 The Tragic Concubine 6
Chapter 699 The Tragic Concubine 6
The emperor's face successfully darkened, and Jiang Chunxi pretended to be nervous and asked: "Your Majesty, are you angry?"
"Your Majesty," Jiang Chunxi hugged the emperor's arm and said coquettishly, "It's all my fault. Please don't be angry with me. What's more, what I said is the truth!"
"Back then, those officials in the court dared to force you to choose another queen. After the queen gives birth to a legitimate son, they will dare to force you to appoint a crown prince. Once the crown prince is really chosen as they wish, won't those officials become even more arrogant? They won't take you, the emperor, seriously at all."
"After all, the crown prince has been appointed, so the emperor is naturally different in their eyes. Compared with supporting an adult emperor like the emperor, they probably want a young emperor to sit on the throne! Isn't that what the civil officials of the previous dynasty did? Otherwise, they wouldn't have caused the previous dynasty to perish, right?"
"The demise of dynasties throughout history was not always at the hands of civil officials, but there are very few examples of dynasties being destroyed by rebellion by military generals."
The calamity caused by the foreign relatives of the previous dynasty does not refer to the political infighting among the civil officials. Rather than saying that the previous dynasty was destroyed by the calamity caused by the foreign relatives of the previous dynasty, it is better to say that it was destroyed by the political infighting among the civil officials.
As for why Jiang Chunxi said this, it was naturally to kill everyone equally. Anyway, her mission this time was very simple, which was to make the dog emperor have no descendants. Therefore, she naturally wanted to have some fun for herself, and do whatever she wanted. After all, the queen was not a good person either.
The emperor's face darkened even more: "You are right. Compared to me, the emperor, the officials in the court would probably prefer to support a young emperor to take the throne, so that they can have better control."
"Chun Xi," the emperor then stood up, "I still have things to deal with, so I won't have dinner with you."
As soon as he finished speaking, the emperor hurried outside.
Jiang Chunxi smiled and looked at the cup of tea that the dog emperor had drunk: "Someone, come! Take down the cup that the emperor had drunk from."
Yes, Jiang Chunxi had just drugged the dog emperor, ensuring that he would have no children or grandchildren.
The emperor left Jiang Chunxi's palace and came to the empress dowager's palace.
"Mother, you must not let the Queen give birth to a prince," the Emperor said with a stern expression, "If you let the Queen give birth to a prince, I, the Emperor, will probably have to give way to my son, and I won't even know how I died."
The Queen Mother's expression was also stern at this time: "You are only afraid of the military power in the hands of the Jiang family, but you forget that the harm of civil officials is no less than that of military generals. The Queen's father is the head of the civil officials, and his hands are a bit long, otherwise he would not have forced you to choose another Queen. If the Queen gave birth to a prince, then the next step will naturally be to force you to appoint a crown prince."
"Now that the crown prince has been appointed, you, the emperor, will naturally become an eyesore. After all, the queen is now in charge of the palace. If she wants to attack you, is she afraid that she won't find an opportunity?"
To be honest, the empress dowager was extremely scared at this time. She was so focused on preventing Jiang Chunxi from giving birth to a prince that she missed out on the empress.
In fact, Jiang Chunxi's words would definitely be useless to a normal mother and son, but the Queen Mother and the Dog Emperor are not normal people. After all, they are the father and grandmother who can harm their own flesh and blood!
"The power of the palace can no longer be controlled by the queen alone," the emperor said with a sullen face, "If we let the queen control the power of the palace alone, wouldn't it be like allowing her to develop her own power unscrupulously and let her dominate the harem?"
"Then find someone to help the Queen manage the palace power," the Queen Mother said, "How about Concubine Shu? She is the daughter of a second-rank military commander. She is the best person to restrain the Queen."
In fact, the best candidate should be Jiang Chunxi, but the empress dowager hates Jiang Chunxi, so how could she be willing to let Jiang Chunxi take charge of the palace?
"Alas!" The Queen Mother sighed slightly, "In fact, Concubine Jiang is the best candidate to restrain the Queen, but you also know that Concubine Jiang can't keep the child in her belly. After Concubine Jiang has experienced the pain of losing her child, how can she have the energy to take charge of the palace? So for now, Concubine Shu is the best candidate to restrain the Queen."
The Queen Mother knew her son too well, so she immediately stopped him from saying anything.
The emperor swallowed the words that were about to come out of his mouth because of the queen mother's words: "Then I will listen to you, mother. But I can't let you get pregnant with the dragon heir queen..."
"Hmph!" The Queen Mother sneered, "Then destroy the Queen's fertility. I'll take care of this matter. Wuxin, why do you have to worry about it?"
The Emperor: "Then I'll trouble you, Mother."
"Why are we being so polite to each other?" The Queen Mother smiled like a loving mother. "By the way, have you had dinner? If not, please stay and have dinner with me. You know, we haven't had a meal alone for a long time."
Since the Empress Dowager said so, the Emperor naturally stayed and had dinner with the Empress Dowager and her son.
The next day, the Queen Mother summoned the Queen to her palace.
"Your son pays his respects to the Queen Mother." As the Queen entered the Queen Mother's palace, she bowed respectfully to the Queen Mother.
"Hurry up, there is no need to be so polite between you and me, mother-in-law and daughter-in-law." The Queen Mother said kindly:
The queen smiled and stood up: "Etiquette cannot be abolished. I cannot rely on my mother's favor to forget the hierarchy."
As she spoke, the Queen came to sit on the chair below the Queen Mother and said, "By the way, Mother, is there anything you want to tell me to do?"
"I think the Queen has been very hard-working in managing palace affairs over the past year," the Queen Mother said with a smile, "so I plan to let Concubine Shu help the Queen take on half of the palace power so that the Queen won't have to work so hard. After all, the most important thing for the Queen now is to get pregnant as soon as possible and give birth to a legitimate son for the Emperor."
The Queen almost couldn't keep the smile on her face: "Your Majesty, you still care about me. Since you have considered me like this, I will sort out the account book as soon as possible after I go back and send it to my sister, Concubine Shu."
The Queen knew very well that since the Queen Mother had said so, there was naturally no possibility for her to refuse. In that case, why should the Queen make the Queen Mother unhappy?
"I knew the Queen would understand my painstaking efforts," the Queen Mother said with a smile, "You really didn't disappoint me."
Just as the Queen Mother's voice fell, the maid in her palace was serving tea to the Queen.
"This is the new tea from the Yuqian Longjing tea that was just offered to the emperor this year," the empress dowager said. "The emperor asked someone to send it to me first. I guess the empress doesn't have it yet. The empress should quickly taste the new tea this year."
"Yes," the Queen took a sip of tea from the cup, and then a cold light flashed across her eyes, which was only a momentary flash. When she put down the cup, she had a smile on her face again. "This year's new tea is really good. Mother, can you give me some tea leaves to take back?"