Quickly wear salted fish, she won by lying down

Linlang has been favored for so many years, and she is still favored even at her old age. This makes Master Sun Er very dissatisfied. He wonders if Sun Linlang has cast some kind of spell on the emperor, so that the emperor can always favor her like this?

How could Master Sun Er know what the emperor was thinking? The emperor's thoughts were actually very simple. He was just old and felt that he had nothing in common with those young and beautiful women. So although he favored them, the one who could really have the say was still Linlang. This was also the reason why Linlang had not fallen out of favor even though she was old.

People have psychological needs in addition to physiological needs. Physiological needs are very easy to satisfy, but it is a bit difficult to satisfy psychological needs. It is often said that they cannot understand the emperor's heart. That is, Linlang knows what he likes and dislikes, and can speak to his heart - how could he know that Linlang actually doesn't know either, and only learned it through surveillance.

Because Linlang's words always touched his heart, even though the emperor no longer slept with Linlang, he would still come to see her and talk to her.

Especially when I am troubled by the affairs of the harem and the previous dynasty, talking to Linlang can always relieve some of my worries.

Of course, it was probably because he had some troubles, and after telling Linlang about them, Linlang could sometimes think of some solutions, which were good and helped him, making the emperor like to come to Linlang and let Linlang help him solve his problems.

Yes, the emperor actually began to ask Linlang about government affairs, which was something Linlang had never expected.

Perhaps the emperor was annoyed by the previous dynasty, the harem, and the struggle for the throne between the princes. He really wanted to ask other people's opinions to see if others could help him solve some problems and make him feel more relaxed, so he did this. After all, the emperor would not feel at ease if he asked the ministers of the previous dynasty, so he came to ask Linlang. He probably thought that Linlang was a woman in the harem, so it would be okay to ask, because Linlang could not affect the previous government anyway. Moreover, once it was discovered that Linlang was suspected of interfering in politics, he would not ask her anymore. In serious cases, he could even send her to the cold palace, which was easy to solve.

This was probably the reason why the emperor came to ask Linlang to solve his troubles. He felt that Linlang was someone he could control, so he could ask, but the ministers of the previous dynasty were not people he could control, so he could not ask.

Don't think that the king is the leader of his ministers, as if he can solve the problem whenever he wants if he sees a minister is unhappy. But in fact, it is not so. The ministers have complicated relationships behind them, and it is not easy to deal with any of them. If he deals with them forcefully, he will leave a reputation as a tyrant.

As for dealing with the concubines in the palace, he doesn't have to worry about this aspect at all. After all, he has dealt with the concubines in the palace. Unless she has a strong background or is the queen or something like that, the ministers of the previous dynasty will not care. In this way, it is obvious that when he has trouble, it is much more convenient to ask Linlang to solve it than to ask the previous ministers to solve it.

The emperor needed Linlang so much, how could she fall out of favor? This was also the reason why others tried their best but could not gain favor. They had no idea how Linlang had coaxed the emperor to always favor her. After all, the emperor asked Linlang for advice, and he certainly couldn't let outsiders know because he still had to save face, so he dismissed his attendants and did it quietly. People who didn't know thought that Linlang was so old, but the emperor still had an appetite and slept with Linlang. In fact, it was not the case at all. The emperor just asked Linlang how to solve some difficult problems.

And Linlang also created a lot of convenience for herself through this matter.

Although Linlang did not intend to use this incident to build up her own power, at least it could allow some forces that had not taken sides to reach some key positions.

She didn't need anyone to help her, as long as the people who came up were not on the side of other families. The emperor naturally didn't find out that Linlang was secretly planning. After all, Linlang couldn't make friends with ministers outside, so how could she secretly plan?

Every time he got rid of some garbage and asked Linlang which people were suitable, he collected the information of those officials and showed it to Linlang. Linlang herself didn't know the situation of each person at all, so she definitely couldn't get those who had defected to the Sun family's eldest branch to go up. After all, every time Madam Sun came to see her, there were people in the hall, and they were not talking in private. In other words, the two of them were interacting openly. In this way, there was no need to worry that she would secretly contact ministers outside through Madam Sun, and then use her opportunity to be his adviser to support some ministers who were in her favor to take office.

Yes, the emperor was still cautious, so he sent secret guards to keep an eye on Linlang, to see if Linlang could take advantage of his favor for her and do something small.

But obviously, Linlang didn't do anything tricky and was still very honest.

Of course, Linlang was indeed very honest. She did not place anyone who clung to her family’s influence in the position. She only placed some people who had no affiliation.

Linlang was not stupid. She naturally knew that the emperor would not believe her if he asked her for advice and would keep a close eye on her. In this case, how could she dare to do anything tricky? She could only provide advice honestly. It was already a risk to place some neutral people there.

As for the person who clings to her family, it would be easy for the emperor to find out. If she places the person in a key position, the emperor would find out immediately and might even suspect her motives.

Unless that person is extremely capable and the position assigned to him is particularly suitable, Linlang would generally not recommend someone who has close ties with her to a higher position.

However, it is difficult to find someone who is particularly capable and would cling to the eldest wife of the Sun family. After all, capable people would probably not bother to do so. Only a very small number of people are capable. Most of these capable people have no background and are slow to climb up on their own. So they want to cling to the eldest wife of the Sun family to see if they can climb faster.

Therefore, even if Linlang wanted to place her own people in important positions, she couldn't find suitable people. She also didn't want to place some trash in key positions just to build up her power, so it was appropriate to find a neutral person.

Outsiders don’t know all these twists and turns. They just think that Linlang is so old, but she is still favored. They don’t know how she did it.

Although the emperor was so old, he was still shrewd and capable, and he handled the affairs of the court in an orderly manner. In fact, it was not the emperor who was capable, but Linlang. After all, she was in control and had managed state affairs before, so she was familiar with these things. Naturally, no matter what troubles the emperor had, she could come up with simple solutions. Then, in the eyes of outsiders, it seemed that as the emperor grew older, he not only did not become incompetent, but became more and more capable.

No one was surprised. They just thought that the emperor was getting older and more experienced. He had lessons to learn from whatever happened, so he could easily solve many problems. In fact, it was not the emperor who solved them, but Linlang. (End of this chapter)