Biography of Concubine Shujia

Chapter 175

The Hall of Mental Cultivation, the Emperor's Sleeping Hall.Mu Yunlan's hand touched the forehead of the sweet sixth prince Mu Jing who was sleeping in the gauze tent, and after helping the child wipe off the sweat from his forehead, he continued to shake the fan in his hand.

These days, he brought Mu Jing by his side and restricted Mu Jing from contacting his mother and concubine, the child still felt uneasy.During the day today, he even carefully asked if his concubine mother did something wrong, and he could be punished on behalf of her concubine.

When Mu Jing was born, Ten Niang was already No. 1 in the Inner Palace, Concubine Shu who was the first of the second rank and four concubines.When he remembered, his mother and concubine had already become a first-class noble concubine, and his elder brother had also become a county king.From childhood to adulthood, his journey has been smooth and smooth, and his mother, concubine and elder brother have paved a beautiful road for him.But as an emperor, as a father, he always felt that his youngest son was too immature.

Mu Jing's character is not like Mu Yao's, he is a bit black and white, and his methods are fierce. He is also like a piece of land that needs to absorb nutrients urgently, and can accommodate many things.There is still a lot to learn.

Ever since Mu Jing was enlightened at the age of three, he had intentionally or unintentionally brought his son by his side, and did not interfere with Mu Yao's upbringing of Mu Jing.He hoped that his future successor could guard this country well.

It's not that he doesn't know his own physical condition, he even knew it earlier than Shi Niang and the others. In the 24th year of the palace in Los Angeles, he vomited blood in a fit of rage, and summoned the imperial physician for diagnosis and treatment.At that time, Zheng Taiyi, the doctor of the imperial hospital, said bluntly that his life expectancy might be compromised.You need to recuperate and recuperate, otherwise you will become sick from overwork within ten years.He concealed his physical condition, and avoided Xin Yin's pulse diagnosis during Fengyang's personal expedition.Afterwards, Doctor Zheng was transferred to the empress's house by him, and he was allowed to retire when he reached the age.

He thought that he still had ten years left, so he could arrange things slowly, and he was not in a hurry for Mu Jing's upbringing, he wanted to be steady and steady.But this time, he was careless and fell into the hands of his son and the eldest princess.

The big girl's methods are indeed poisonous, and she can deal a cruel blow to herself, the emperor.But he miscalculated her hatred for him.

This time he struggled to wake up, and he knew it in his heart.Minxian told him the truth when his body improved slightly.In three to five years, it turns out that time is so short.

Afterwards, he brought Mu Jing with him and taught him day and night.And isolated their mother and son from meeting frequently, just to cultivate the perseverance in his character and put aside those weaknesses and dependencies.

He suppressed Du's family and raised Liu's family; he summoned Shun Chonghua to accompany him, and made concubine Jia cold.All these piles are teaching by precept and example.Teach your son the way to be a king. As a king, you should avoid acting on your emotions, avoid letting power go, you must know the way of checks and balances, and know how to have the world in your heart.He taught his son little by little these imperial mind tricks.I just hope that in the future these six sons will be able to carry the great power of the country and carry forward the foundation inherited from his father and brother.

Speaking of which, when he felt that he was about to die before, all he could think of was Jinger's mother and concubine; but when he came back to life, he could only be the emperor of Daliang, and he couldn't act emotionally, and couldn't just think about his children's private interests. Affection.

Mu Jing is still so young, and his mother concubine Jia Guifei is a capable woman, and she is gradually getting used to handling government affairs.He is afraid that in the future, his mother will be strong, and he is also afraid of the dictatorship of his relatives, so he will suppress the Du family.He didn't want his son to follow his old path and confront the mother clan.He was suppressed by his mother, the empress dowager, and had to rely on the regent to distribute Xiao's power.Only then caused the later tragedy, the bloodbath of the Regent's Palace.

He allowed his third son, Mu Yao, to cultivate his influence, because he knew that his third son was upright and could entrust his youngest son and the country to him.But the third son is still young after all, so he can only put the eighth brother next to the two of them as regent, and at the same time guard against Concubine Jia and the Du family. In this way, the youngest son's position can always be secured.

He is such a person who is always scheming and tempting.He knew that Concubine Jia's breezy eyes were a little hurt, but he couldn't be soft-hearted.

He hardened his heart and separated the mother and child.Teach Mu Jing to get close to his uncle and brother, and gradually distance himself from his mother and concubine.

These days, when he summoned the eight kings to enter the palace, he often avoided Mu Jing, and Mu Jing respected and loved his uncle Wang more.Everything was going in the direction he expected, but something happened to the old lady of the Du family, which broke his arrangement.As for the strikers, he squinted his eyes slightly, some people stretched their hands too far, and they couldn't be dealt with.

The old lady passed away the day before yesterday, and the imperial concubine took her eldest son, daughter-in-law and eight daughters back to attend the funeral.And the royal family is willing to give such a great honor to the Du family, just to appease the Du family's mood after the old lady was implicated.He suppressed this matter, not because he didn't move those people, but because he didn't have the time.

When the old lady had an accident, the men of Du's family who worked in Beijing took Ding You's book.The two people in the south also signed up for the papers and wanted to return home for the funeral.But he wasn't sure, he still wanted to see the situation in the south.

Knowing the plan of Mu Yao and Concubine Jia, he transferred Xin Yin to Nanluo and sent the eight kings to Nanming.Firstly, it can keep the influence of Nanluo Thirteen Commanderies, and secondly, it can separate the distance between the eighth younger brother and Mu Jing.

It has to be said that Du Shiniang is a smart woman who can take care of the overall situation.She will seek her own interests, but at the same time will not harm the interests of the empire.

Indeed, compared to Xin Yin, the eighth younger brother is more suitable for Zhen Nanming.The prince of Lijing has a fief, and Nanming has a vast land and few people, and he is recuperating.I'm not afraid that after the Eight Kings have a heavy army in their hands, they will have another heart.

But compared to these benefits, he was more at ease in handing over the secret guard to his younger brother.The brothers have shared joys and sorrows for more than 30 years, so they are naturally more trustworthy than their sons.

His younger brother revealed his intention to leave the capital in the early years, but at that time the world was in war, and the court and the secret guards couldn't do without him, so he didn't mention it anymore.

This time there is such a good opportunity, and in order to show his loyalty, his younger brother may enter the palace to ask him if he receives a letter from Yao'er.

Therefore, the younger son is already asleep, and he has not yet fallen asleep.He was just waiting for his younger brother to come and listen to how his younger brother persuaded him to agree.

He knew rationally that he had to let him go this time, but he couldn't calm down in his heart.

The Eighth King sat quietly in the study of the palace for a long time, feeling uneasy after all.Today, when he went to Du Mansion to express his condolences, he was not without shock when he saw Du San's eyes that saw through everything.

The old lady left uneasy, although his imperial brother sent someone to finish it off, but the Du family is not vegetarian after all.

A few days ago, the old lady ate a few pieces of lotus root and crab cakes, and died of diarrhea and vomiting.On the surface, the old man is old and can't restrain it. It is normal to lose it after a few days of tossing.But others don't know about the symptoms of the old lady, but he is in charge of the secret guards, and he knows about secret information and secrets.That was a clear sign of food poisoning.

Although crab roe itself is cold, it will not kill people.I'm afraid, the old lady ate two small persimmons after eating the lotus root and crab cakes.Crab and persimmon are incompatible with each other, and vomiting, nausea and diarrhea are not too big a problem for ordinary people.But the old lady is in grade after all, and the old man was tortured to death.

This harmful method was hidden, and the girl who coaxed the old lady to eat persimmons also disappeared afterwards.The emperor directly granted the old lady a first-rank order, just to suppress this matter.

Du Xianyu is such a shrewd person, how could he not know the emperor's plan.But so what if you know, in this world, the king wants his ministers to die, and the ministers have to die.What's more, it was just pressing the murderer who killed his mother.

Du Fu was angry, so he had to pretend to be grateful to the emperor.

He could understand Du Mansion's reaction, but he was afraid of Concubine Jia who was guarding Du Mansion and not returning.Her specious words, her strange eyes, and the content of her message to the princess all made him terrified.

He thought of Concubine Jia asking her to meet her alone, of her alluring eyes, of her provocative words, and for some reason, he thought of the Queen Mother, the Holy Mother Empress Dowager.

His mother and concubine died of dystocia when she gave birth to him, and she was also a concubine in the palace of the Holy Mother Empress Dowager. He was adopted by Xiao Shi when he was born.His sixth brother was raised by his mother, the empress dowager, who was the empress Xiao, and was named the prince early.But he was raised by Concubine Xiao at that time, and he regarded her as his own mother and concubine.

It wasn't until she passed away that he realized that what she loved most in her life was always her two sons.For the sake of her son, she could kill the regent and herself.

Ten years after Yanhe, the first emperor died in the palace of Yang Meiren, who was his favorite in his later years, and Yang Meiren was forced to be buried by the empress.The late emperor's death was strange and hasty, like a bottom line that cannot be touched, and there were many discussions in the palace.Although the sixth prince was raised under the empress' knees, he was named the prince early.But there is no inheritance photo, which makes the elder brother in front of him dissatisfied.

The younger brother of the first emperor, King Liang Jing led Xiao Guogong's power to suppress the second and third princes and others, and supported the 8-year-old crown prince to succeed to the throne.In the second year, the little emperor changed his name to Zhaokang.

The Xiao family is powerful as the descendant family, and Xiao Empress tried to listen to the government behind the curtain on the grounds that the emperor was young.Surrounded by powerful enemies outside, King Fengyang is covetous inside, and the clan does not dare to allow foreign relatives to rule. Under the stalemate between the two sides, King Liang Jing, who suppressed the rebellion, was elected as the regent. The 25-year-old Regent Uncle began to act as a temporary junior. Emperor Regent.The regent uncle vowed that he would only return to the emperor after the young emperor got married.

Although the empress dowager categorically refused, both the empress dowager and the Xiao family agreed with the clan's proposal.

The regent began his career as a regent. Although Uncle Wang was young, but as the vassal king of Liujing, he held the elite guards of the girders in his hands, and used fierce methods in the court to suppress Xiao's arrogance.In the end, Xiao Shi was forced to withdraw his edge and submit to others.

The empress dowager and the empress dowager became dirty because of the regent, and their attitudes towards the uncle regent were completely different.The Queen Mother, the Empress Dowager, hated the Prince Regent very much, and her only thought was to restore the Xiao family to its former glory; and the Queen Mother, the Queen Mother, was very grateful to the Prince Regent for saving the lives of their mother and child.What the Holy Mother Empress Dowager thinks of is just to hope that her son's country will be stable and continuous.

The affairs of the regent dynasty were busy, and they sometimes stayed overnight in the palace.Because he had a bad relationship with the queen mother, the regent respected the young queen mother very much.

The two will discuss important matters in the court, and the Empress Dowager also intends to help her young son win over the Uncle Regent.After coming and going, the two are together.

After the queen mother heard about it, she didn't beat her niece.Because she wanted her niece to suffer the consequences, and when things got out of hand, she wanted to knock both of them off the cloud at the same time, and wanted to restore the respected status of the Xiao family.

The emperor was raised by his mother, the empress dowager since he was a child, and the empress dowager would use him as a tool for power and profit, and would have feelings for him, so he kept hiding it from the emperor.The people in the palace were frightened by the regent's majesty, so naturally they didn't dare to talk too much.

The eighth prince, who is much younger than the emperor, was not yet six years old after the emperor ascended the throne, so he has been living in the palace of the Queen Mother.

In the sixth year of Zhaokang, the first New Year after his imperial brother's wedding, the eighth prince who moved to the prince's house sneaked into the mother's harem, wanting to surprise the mother.

The eighth prince remembered that he hid in his mother's wardrobe and fell asleep without knowing it, until he was woken up by the sound of clothes being torn, slapped and quarrelling.

He didn't dare to move, because the people in the room were the angry voices of his queen mother and uncle regent.

"You are confused. My Daliang royal family once predicted that the twin stars will appear, and the emperor's star will decline. Where are you going to put Lan'er?" The voice of the regent uncle asked with a suppressed voice.

"It's not twins. Besides, it's the child of the two of us. You've been childless for half your life, and that woman insulted you so much. Don't you want your own child?" The queen mother's voice was full of charm that was different from usual.

"Ah Cheng, if it wasn't for my aunt's childlessness, why would I enter the palace as a concubine and be separated from you?"

"Don't say any more, I'm incapable and can't protect you. I've watched you suffer for so many years. But the child can't stay. As I said, your Lan'er is my child, and you listen to the king's arrangements." Regent Uncle said firmly after a long silence, "You rest, the king is back."

He remembered that day, he held his breath and curled up in the closet until he passed out.Later, she slipped out of her palace while the Queen Mother was changing clothes.

Before long, the queen became pregnant.Then the emperor killed the regent uncle in the queen's palace.After the regent and part of the Ouyang family and the Xiao family were uprooted, the emperor was in charge, and the queen was also deposed as Mrs. Zhaoxin and thrown into the cold palace.

On the first day of the first lunar month of the second year of Xijia, the eldest princess was born in the cold palace. Her elder brother died at birth, and the queen mother also died of blood collapse after giving birth.The Empress Dowager felt sorry for the loss of the Eldest Princess, and wanted to raise her herself, but she was lingering on the sick bed, and finally entrusted the Eldest Princess to the Empress Dowager.

Six months later, the Holy Mother and Empress Dowager passed away, and before she died, the secret guards were left to him, and the niece Xiao who stayed by her side was pointed out to the emperor as the successor according to the mother Empress Dowager's intention.At the same time, I left a message, hoping that the emperor and his mother, queen mother and aunt would treat the eldest princess well.Even if the eldest princess knows her life experience in the future and makes irreversible mistakes impulsively, the life of the eldest princess must be saved and she must not be hurt.

The eldest princess was brought up by her mother, the empress dowager, and her mother's empress dowager's ambitions were all imposed on the eldest princess.The eldest princess's temper was raised in a weird way, out of season.Because of the death of her mother, the emperor did not summon the girl very much.

Later, the eldest princess married Northwest, and when he sent her out of Beijing, he was already the Eighth Prince. Seeing the face that grew longer and more like the Queen Mother, he vaguely understood the life experience of this eldest girl.

He fought against the older princess several times, and he became more and more sure that the eldest princess was her and his daughter.The eldest princess is the flesh and blood of that cold-hearted and tyrannical person, and some fundamental things are innate and cannot be changed.

He also finally understood to whom his imperial brother's forbearance and promises for so many years were made.

The Holy Mother and Empress Dowager did her best for the emperor's throne, and even used her flesh and blood to paralyze the uncle of the regent king, but secretly helped the emperor Zhou Xuan in the family, and finally brought down the regent king and the Ouyang family in one fell swoop.The emperor was grateful to the queen mother, but he couldn't do it by asking him to treat the eldest princess who looked like the queen mother, so he had to ignore it.

These things should have been discarded by him the moment the eldest princess died.But on this night, his memory returned.

He is not the uncle of the prince regent, nor does he want to be the uncle of the prince regent, to touch the string in his brother's heart; but the concubine Jia Jia forced him to touch the immovable bottom line.

The reason is that the Du family needed him to go to Nanming, and besides being afraid of his imperial brother's suspicion, he also wanted to go out and build this Yujing city that had trapped him for more than 30 years.

At that moment, the Eighth Prince changed into night clothes, and was going to visit the Palace of Mental Cultivation at night, and chat with his brother.

No one knew what happened in the Hall of Mental Cultivation that night, and no one else knew what the two brothers talked about.

But what they didn't know was that Xiao Tuanzi, who was sleeping soundly in the group tent, heard the secret that no one in the palace knew.This cruel and bloody truth shocked his young heart greatly.Later, this little group grew up and became a more cunning emperor than his father. When he was in charge, he successfully took back all the rights from his brother and ensured that he was fine. .This is a later story.

In August of the 27th year of Xijia, the old lady of Du Guogong's mansion passed away.The Du family carried the coffin back to Lingfeng, their hometown in the northwest, to observe filial piety for the old lady, three years for sons and daughters-in-law, and one year for grandchildren.

All the officials of the Du family who were officials in the dynasty returned to their hometown Ding You, except for Du Ziqing, who was decreed by the emperor to seize his love because he was guarding Nanming.

The fifth princess, who married into the Du family, entered the palace to bid farewell to her father, mother, concubine, and returned to Lingfeng with her son-in-law.

For the first time in the past hundred years of the Du family, the whole family left the capital and withdrew from the Yujing political circle.

Because the Du family and Dingyou withdrew from the central governance circle, the forces in the south and in the middle of the court underwent a major shake-up.The power in the Nangong Army was handed over from Du Zicheng to Zhennan General Mu Xinyin, and the emperor married his adopted daughter, Princess Nanzhu, to Zhengyipin Zhennan General.

And Nanming, who had just captured and was still in governance, was rewarded by the emperor to the eight kings as the fiefdom of the eight kings.The eight kings left behind their eldest son and youngest daughter, and took the princess and other children to leave the capital to guard southern Xinjiang.As a minister stationed in Nanming by the imperial court, Du Ziqing was promoted to a higher rank and became the second-rank governor of the south.

After the Du family left Beijing, Ze Wang's lineage in the court became more and more low-key.

The Liu family behind the Eighth Prince and the Nalan's family of the Seventh Prince came from behind and started a new round of fighting.

In the harem, Tong Xuanshi, a newly promoted girl, was favored during the time when the imperial concubine was closed to observe her filial piety. She entered the palace in September.After more than two months of solid favor, he became a nobleman, only under the trinity of the princes and princesses, he was in the limelight for a while.

In December, Shun Chongrong of Linzhi Palace passed away due to illness. The five-year-old Eighth Prince was ordered by the emperor to be raised by the Tong family. Charger".

The sixth prince and concubine Jia, Queen Mother of Ze, kept their filial piety in the palace, and gradually the emperor's favor was no longer what it used to be.Because of Yu Chongyi's virtue, the eighth prince was favored by the emperor, and because of the eighth prince, Yu Chongyi had a good relationship with the Liu family.However, Gu Fangyi, who was raising the seventh prince, would rather be disliked by the emperor than restrain the seventh prince and not allow him to associate with his natal family.As a result, the Nalan family was suppressed by the Liu family, and their talents withered.

In June 28, the Liu family completely suppressed the Nalan family, and the Nalan family collapsed like a mansion.The power of the Liu family expanded, and their posture was arrogant, trying to provoke and suppress Prince Ze's lineage.

Unexpectedly, he misjudged the situation and was overthrown by the lineage of Prince Ze, who kept a low profile.

The family of Prince Ze, concubine Jia Guifei, the Chen family branch and the Lu family branch seized the handle of the Liu family and sued the emperor on the grounds that the Liu family poisoned the old lady of Du Guogong's mansion, disregarded human life, and embezzled military pay.

The emperor originally wanted to suppress this matter, but after seeing the case of embezzlement of military pay, he let go and ordered the three divisions to interrogate the Liu family who was an official in the court.

King Ze was in charge of the Ministry of Punishment, but he didn't shy away from it. He even tortured the Liu family with the royal guards left to him by the eight kings.The Liu family recruited several major crimes including intercepting and killing Wei San's food and grass in Nanluo Neihai, embezzling military pay during the Fengyang battle, forcing the palace with the eldest prince and five princes, and poisoning the old lady of the Du family in an attempt to stir up suspicion between the Du family and the Nalan family.

After receiving the Liu family's confession letter from King Ze, the emperor shook his hands and said harshly to King Ze, "King Ze's methods are really good!"

Regarding the emperor's anger, King Ze only said personally, "If my son and minister don't do anything, others will force our brothers to death, as well as our mother and concubine."

The emperor smashed King Ze's request to deal with the Liu family, but was extinguished by the sixth prince and Yipang.Under the appeasement of his youngest son, the emperor finally decreed that the Liu family should be taken over.

The men of the Liu family were killed, and the women were given safflower and distributed as slaves.The aristocratic Liu family that started to grow in the second year of Xijia was finally completely overthrown after continuing to have 26 years of glory and wealth.

In October of the 28th year of Xijia, the aristocratic Liu family and Nalan family withered.There are only three families left in Yujing, Lu, Chen, and Du, and the emperor's control over the court is becoming more and more powerless.

Du Zicheng, Du Zitian, Du Zitian and the fifth princess' son-in-law, Du Runjin and other third-generation men who had completed their filial piety, returned to Yujing.

Du Zitian still returned to Gyeonggi Daying to be his commander, and Du Zicheng also returned to Nanluo to take charge of the military administration. The first-rank general Mu Xinyin was transferred back to the capital by the emperor.After returning to Beijing, Mu Xinyin was promoted to a higher rank, and Ren Zhengyipin led the internal guards, responsible for the command and dispatch of the emperor's personal guards.

After the ups and downs, Yujing, who finally calmed down gradually, has gradually come to an end in 28 years.

(End of this chapter)