I'm really not King Jing of Zhongshan

Chapter 417 The Responsibilities of the Son of Heaven

"Mr. Jia, there are really not enough people."

Regarding his mother, the Empress Dowager Jia, Liu Sheng did not intend to beat around the bush. He only expressed his reason and intention for the rumors in the market to be fermented in a straightforward sentence.

It's just that even though Liu Sheng has been so straightforward, Empress Dowager Jia still couldn't react for a while.

"The Jia family is not rich, so what does it have to do with that crossbowman?"

"Do you want to force a meritorious official to change his family and abandon his ancestors and ancestral surnames in order to make my Jia family prosperous?"

"If you think about it, Huang Ponu would be an upright husband; now that he is prominent, he must be thinking about renovating the ancestral hall and reorganizing the ancestral mausoleum."

"Asheng..."

"—I'm afraid it's inappropriate for the emperor to do this?"

"Whether it's about love or reason..."

In the middle of the conversation, he changed the blurted "Asheng" to "Emperor" without a trace, and said with doubts, the brows of the Empress Dowager Jia, who were not often stretched, were completely knit together.

In fact, the most comfortable and comfortable life or state experienced by Queen Mother Jia was the period when she was no longer favored by the first emperor after giving birth to her two sons, Liu Pengzu and Liu Sheng.

During that time, Empress Dowager Jia gained a certain status in the palace by virtue of her son's preciousness and the birth of an heir for Emperor Liu Han;

With children, and there are two sons, one big and one small, the Empress Dowager Jia no longer has to continue to look forward to Tian Ziqi's luck, and instead focuses on the education of the two sons.

At the same time, Empress Dowager Jia has passed the three-year period of being "favored", and Tianzi Qi has changed his target, which just makes the hostility towards Empress Dowager Jia from all directions in the harem gradually dissipate, and transfers to another newly favored person.

During that time, the mother was not bullied because of the value of her son, and she was no longer hostile after losing the favor of the emperor. At the same time, the Empress Dowager Jia, who had a son and had hope, couldn't even mention how comfortable she was.

But after that, everything went in a direction that Queen Mother Jia didn't like, or that Queen Mother Jia couldn't control and couldn't cope with.

——First, the youngest son Liu Sheng repeatedly stood out, which attracted the attention of the eldest son Liu Rong and his mother Li Ji;
Although in the end, the eldest son of the emperor and Li Ji did not do anything specific to the mother and son of the Empress Dowager Jia, but the empress dowager Jia was unwilling to go through that worrying day again.

——What if Li Ji became a queen?
——What should I do if I become a queen mother?
——What if the eldest son of the emperor sits in the world?
Worrying like this - every one of these is enough to make people not think about eating and drinking, but they can't think of any solution, and they can only sigh helplessly. Empress Dowager Jia is no longer willing to have it.

Fortunately, later on, Li Ji and the eldest son of the emperor lost power, Li Ji died strangely, and the eldest son of the emperor was made king.

Just as Li Ji was about to breathe a sigh of relief, the situation took a big step in a direction that was extremely out of control and the Empress Dowager Jia was extremely unable to deal with it.

——The eldest son was adopted to the former deposed queen, the youngest son became the crown prince, and the Queen Mother Jia herself became the queen of Tianziqi...
To be queen?
The Empress Dowager Jia never thought that one day she would become a queen who lives in the Jiaofang Palace, with a phoenix head and a naked body, and the mother of the world.

But everything at that time was not under the control of the Empress Dowager Jia at all—the emperor gave an order, and the Empress Dowager Donggong acquiesced, and the matter went through all the procedures in a very short period of time with unprecedented super-high efficiency.

Jackie became Empress Jia...

From that day on, the entire life of the Empress Dowager Jia has actually been out of her own control and pursuit.

Once upon a time, Empress Dowager Jia's lifelong wish was to give birth to a son and a half daughter for the first emperor, and the stepmother would live in peace in the palace for more than ten or twenty years with the help of her son;

After the funeral of the first emperor, he followed his eldest son to become a certain queen dowager, and enjoyed three to five years of good fortune. This life will pass smoothly without any disease or disaster.

It's just that after the younger son became the prince and she became the queen, the Queen Mother Jia was completely confused.

——Wish completely lost the possibility of fulfillment.

In this life, instead of being able to live "peacefully and peacefully", I have to bear some accusations that I have never thought about, and I have never been able to shoulder them.

For the sake of her son—in order not to hinder her son, Queen Mother Jia began to learn.

Start to learn from my best friend, the former queen: Mrs. Bo, to learn to be a queen who has no real material, but can still pass the face.

Just learned a trifractal, the first emperor is gone.

Empress Jia became Empress Dowager Jia again, and lived in the Changle Palace of her mother-in-law, the current empress dowager.

Regarding this series of identity changes and the responsibilities imposed on her by the identity changes, the Empress Dowager Jia was actually in a state of 'repeatedly at a loss', and was in a state of being at a loss every time.

But this is the fate—the fate has such a "doom", and the Empress Dowager Jia can only force herself to continue learning.

It's just that she is gentle by nature. After studying for so many years, the Empress Dowager Jia still couldn't understand: Why do you have to take into account so many dark aspects when you are in power, and you must think of everyone as bad.

You Qi couldn't figure it out: Why did you have to take your own son with you when you became a queen mother, and you had to think about the worst...
"Queen, I'm afraid I misunderstood the meaning of the emperor..."

Empress Dowager Dou knew nothing about the embarrassment hidden in Empress Dowager Jia's expression.

——The current Empress Dowager Dou has really become what she calls a 'blind old woman'.

But after all, it is also a woman who has been in the harem for many years and has been living in the palace since the reign of Emperor Taizu Gao. She can even be said to be a political figure.

From the very beginning, she was an ordinary maid beside the Empress Dowager Lu, to Emperor Xiaohui, who was given to the acting king Liu Heng to enrich the harem;
Then when Liu Heng, the king of Dai, came to succeed Datong, the mother became the empress because of her son, and the emperor Taizong Liu Heng died, and the son took the throne and became the empress dowager himself.

Today, it can be said that it took decades, starting from the reign of Emperor Taizu Gao, step by step from the humblest and most humble maid in the harem to today, sitting on the position of the empress dowager.

Regarding Empress Dowager Jia's worries, or in other words, Empress Dowager Jia's incompatibility with her status, Empress Dowager Dou was all aware of it.

But in this regard, Empress Dowager Dou's position is to stand on the sidelines and raise points from time to time.

Because only in this way, the Empress Dowager Jia can become the strongest support of the emperor in the future, not the most helpless trouble for the emperor.

If you can't even endure this tribulation and accept this change, then in the future, the real "Mother Yi Tianxia" will definitely bring disasters to the world.

——The Empress Dowager Dou, she knows that her destiny is limited.

In this last and limited time, what Empress Dowager Dou wants is to leave another qualified empress dowager for the Han family, and to leave a foundation for generations of wealth for her clan.

Apart from that, Empress Dowager Dou has nothing else to ask for...
Thinking of this, Empress Dowager Dou couldn't help showing a little seriousness on her face.

Seeing this subtle change in her mother-in-law's expression, Empress Dowager Jia also hurriedly sat up straight, adopting a posture of 'sit upright and listen attentively'.

—Even if the mother-in-law couldn't see it, the Empress Dowager Jia still did it.

Because the Queen Mother Jia understands: Next, the mother-in-law will teach herself how to be a good queen mother and how to share the burden of the world and the country for the emperor's son.

Empress Dowager Jia may be weak;
But for the sake of her son, Queen Mother Jia, it is not impossible to make changes...

"The crossbowman was named a Marquis, and he was also named a Marquis together with a group of generals. This is a good talk that will surely spread throughout the world."

"Everyone in the world will be full of praise for this man, and at the same time feel happy about it—a crossbowman can be a marquis, and a halberd warrior? A knight? How about a shield?"

"At a time when all the people in the world are praising the matter of 'the crossbowman's appointment as a marquis', the princes and relatives of meritorious officials will definitely take action."

"Especially some noble relatives who have just appeared to be in the middle of nowhere, and are unwilling to do so, and still have a little energy now, and will definitely try their best to recruit this person as their 'Zhongxing' reliance."

"But now the Han family should recruit this person into the clan and become the clan's helper. In fact, it is the queen mother's family..."

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"I think back then, my Dou family was not rich, only me, the queen who lived in Jiaofang Palace, and my elder brother Dou Changjun and younger brother Dou Shaojun who were taught by the gentlemen in Shiqu Pavilion."

"For this matter, Emperor Taizong and Empress Dowager Bo spent a lot of time thinking - sending people to find and check my Dou's family tree, and follow the family tree to find branches and next-of-kin."

"Finally found the first and second veins of the branch, so that my Dou family has a male Ding Sanwu who can rely on and be useful."

"And when the Empress Dowager lived in the Jiaofang Palace, Emperor Xian Xiaojing also tried to talk to me about this matter."

"But when I told the late emperor that Jia's family had been passed down through generations, and after the end of the Qin Dynasty, there was no way to find other branches. The late emperor could only shake his head and sigh, and put the matter aside for the time being."

"It's just that the late emperor still cared about this matter until he was seriously ill and on the verge of dying..."

As she said so, feeling the obviously disordered breathing of the Empress Dowager Jia, the Empress Dowager Dou couldn't help but sighed again, and then gently took her daughter-in-law's hand.

After another moment of silence, he continued: "Since Emperor Xiandi made great progress, this matter has always been the top priority in my heart."

"It's just that I've been thinking about it for a long time, but I can't think of a good solution."

"——My Dou family is distinguished because of me. If I marry the Empress Dowager's family again, it will attract criticism from inside and outside the court, and it will also be detrimental to the ancestral temple and the community;"

"With the exception of my Dou family, the families of other nobles and nobles do not have a suitable marriage partner for the Empress Dowager."

"Because most of these meritorious relatives are the descendants of meritorious princes in the first dynasty of Emperor Taizu, even if they marry into the Empress Dowager's family, it will only bring endless troubles to the Empress Dowager and the emperor, and will not bring the slightest help."

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"Looking at that crossbowman Huang Ponu again, he is suddenly very lucky. If a noble relative comes to ask for mercy, he will definitely respond in a hurry."

"It's just that in the future, the noble relatives who have won Huang Ponu will still not provide much help to Huang Ponu, but will only brazenly show off when they get into trouble: My virtuous son-in-law, so-and-so general, so-and-so Marquis Huang Ponu."

"Since this is the case, instead of letting this Huang Ponu renew the life of a certain meritorious family, it is better to let his 'family' of the Queen Mother."

"After all, the Jia family really needs such a person—the Queen Mother's family needs such a person who can speak up in the court and has the confidence to speak up."

"Although the Empress Dowager's family does not have many men, women of the right age can always be found?"

After analyzing the internal and external causes of this matter, mainly Liu Sheng's purpose, Empress Dowager Dou fell into a long silence.

In fact, this incident was also a matter of a little discomfort and a little displeasure for Empress Dowager Dou.

——Liu Sheng's move is undoubtedly to help his mother's family: Jia's stand up;
why?
The core reason is to check and balance the relatives of the Dou family who are now in full swing, and have lost the two sea gods of Dou Changjun and Dou Guangguo, and are gradually developing in the direction of "domineering".

The emperor supports his own mother clan to check and balance his own family. It is only a ghost that the Empress Dowager Dou can feel comfortable!
But the discomfort in the heart is the discomfort in the heart. After forcing herself to calm down, the Empress Dowager Dou was still able to praise and comfort Liu Sheng from another angle.

Because this is the duty of the Son of Heaven.

——If one family is powerful, help the other family to stand up to check and balance;

——If there is a general with high merit, he will help the other general to be prominent in the world;

——A certain minister has the power to help another minister to divide power and check and balance.

In the final analysis, the responsibility of the emperor is nothing more than checks and balances.

As long as the strengths of all parties can be kept in a stable state of checking and balancing each other, and fighting without breaking, it is enough to keep the power decision-makers in a long-term stable state.

If you do this, even if you have no achievements in other aspects, you can already be regarded as an emperor above the passing line.

The rank of the Empress Dowager Jia obviously still can't figure out such a complicated and tricky thing;

Hearing Empress Dowager Dou's analysis, she only looked at the other side of the imperial couch with great hesitation, and did not say a word from the beginning to the end, only smiling at Tian Zisheng who was by his mother and grandmother's side.

"So, this Huang Ponu is going to be my Jia family's son-in-law..."

I don't know if I have figured out the deep meaning hidden in Empress Dowager Dou's words and Liu Sheng's move;

Just uttering a murmur, the Empress Dowager Jia finally took a deep breath, and then forced out a stiff smile with strong anxiety.

"In that case, the queen mother will make the decision."

"If the queen mother thinks it's okay, then this is the case. In the past few days, I will find my brother to talk..."

Seeing the reaction of his mother, Empress Dowager Jia, even though Liu Sheng felt helpless, he could only look at his grandmother, Empress Dou, beside him with a smile.

——The Empress Dowager Jia is not suitable to be a queen mother, not even a person in power;
But parents and parents, there is no way to choose.

Even if you are the emperor, it is the same...
"Um······"

"After a few days, I will recruit Wei Qihou into the court to see if I can do something for the Queen Mother."

"—Dou Ying has become more and more outrageous in recent years."

"If you don't call him into the palace again, and give him a blow, the former great general will probably become another rich man..."

(End of this chapter)