The heroine Jiangshan

Chapter 198 The Messy Truth ([-])

In the Daqing Dynasty, there was once a female emperor.

Although the history of this empress has been deliberately ignored by later generations, so that even many scholars are ignorant of it, she did exist for a short time.

However, this empress did not ascend the throne because of her talent or ambition. As the only daughter of the previous emperor, her succession was the expedient result of the endless wrestling among the major forces at that time, and it was only a formal transition for her successor to take the throne.

This girl who turned from a princess to an empress only left a faint shadow in the history of the Qing Dynasty, and then disappeared without a trace.Regarding her life after she abdicated, there is actually no record in the official history, leaving only unlimited imagination for future generations.

The courtiers of the Qing Dynasty never worried that the Yun family dynasty would have the ancient situation of "the hen wakes up the morning", where the queen mother, empress monopolizes power, and even the princess seizes the throne.Since Taizu, it has been established that concubines do not choose high-ranking daughters, but only choose good family sons, which limits the monopoly of foreign relatives to the greatest extent.And the actual status of the princess of the Qing Dynasty was far worse than that of the prince, even worse than that of ordinary noble girls.

But there are always exceptions.Before Yun Ruochen, it was not that there were no particularly outstanding royal princesses.

It is said that the eldest sister of the first emperor Yuanqi, the eldest princess Zhaoning, is a strange woman who does not give up her eyebrows.Since she was a child, she didn't like red clothes and preferred armed forces. She was proficient in bows and horses when she was in her teens, and she was excellent at archery.It's a pity that this Princess Zhaoning personally put on armor to fight against the enemy when the rebel army broke through the capital, defending the imperial city, and finally died under the sword of the rebel army.

Some old people in the palace privately said that Princess Zhaoning was deeply in love with the first emperor's siblings. One of the reasons why the first emperor favored Princess Huarong was that Princess Huarong's appearance was three points similar to Princess Zhaoning.

Of course, this is just one of the countless rumors in the palace, and not many people will take it seriously.

These are just various episodes accompanying the dramatic rise of Princess Huarong.What really caught people's attention was Princess Huarong—now she was Princess Jianguo.

It sounds a bit weird. In the past, there were only princes who supervised the country, but now even the princess can supervise the country?If the discussion between the government and the opposition can really become real, let alone the palace, the capital will be submerged.

Xihua Palace, Huxin Pavilion.

"Princess Jian Guo. Such a scary name."

Zhao Xuan pulled the corner of his mouth, and the chess piece in his hand lightly landed on the vertical and horizontal chessboard, with a "click", it just locked Yun Ruochen Baizi's retreat.

Yun Ruochen supported his chin with one hand, held Baizi in the other hand and thought for a long time, then suddenly sighed and said, "Oh... I lost, I lost."

"You really have taken up all the other people's territory, and you still laugh at me..."

Yun Ruochen gave Zhao Xuan a coquettish look, dropped the chess piece and stretched.I haven't relaxed for a long time!It was rare that Zhao Xuan came to the palace to play chess with her to relieve boredom, but this guy was not polite at all, he killed too hard.

Probably because he had nothing to do all day to play with Chu Qingbo and learn from Chu Qingbo's cunning chess moves, right?Well, it must be!

"Is this also called ridicule?"

Zhao Xuan shook his head and drank half a cup of tea. "This tea is good."

"We Jianing are getting better at making tea." Yun Ruochen turned around and smiled at Ji Jianing, Ji Jianing hurriedly pursed her lips and smiled, "Princess, don't tease Jianing, Mr. Ye is the expert."

"Speak carefully? When did he start studying the tea ceremony again?"

Zhao Xuan was amazed, Ye Shenyan's monkey is very good at cooking, but the tea ceremony...doesn't suit him at all.

Yun Ruochen smiled: "He's an expert, messing around. It's boring in the palace."

In fact, it was Ye Shenyan who stayed in the palace almost day and night in order to protect Yun Ruochen. Of course, most people would not be aware of his existence.

Although he doesn't have the aptitude to become a brilliant warlock, Yun Ruochen taught him the technique of stealthing wood and stones and Ye Cong taught him lightness kung fu to a good level, so it's no problem to come and go freely in the palace without disturbing anyone.

Sometimes at night when Yun Ruochen was reviewing some documents in the bedroom, he would show up to accompany her, make tea for her, and make some snacks for her—there was a super small stove specially set up in the inner hall of Chonghua Palace, just for him to make snacks of.

The celebrity is Hongxiu Tianxiang who reads at night, but she has a future husband who cooks tea and soup, which is not bad.

"There are a lot of things to deal with recently, right?"

"Not a lot, but a lot, a lot, a lot."

Yun Ruochen smiled wryly and said: "In order to play this game of chess with you, Brother Xuan, I have to stay up at least an hour longer to review the memorials tonight. Fortunately, I am in good health now, otherwise I really can't handle it."

"Really?" Zhao Xuan was a little worried: "We still have to take a good rest. It happened that my family's merchant ship was delivering goods to Beijing. I chose some nourishing things and spices for you."

He entered the palace today for this reason, at least on the surface.

To put it more deeply, it is to see how she has been in charge of the country for a month.This is the concern among friends, and also... the communication of interests among allies.

They can no longer have the pure feelings they had back then, and they both know each other well.However, on the surface, everyone is still willing to pretend to be close friends, laughing and joking, playing chess and having fun, trying to paint a little bright color for the cold profit transaction.

They are all people with strong minds, and after the initial sentimentality, they don't waste too much thought on the changes in their relationship every time.Otherwise... why did you go early?

So Yun Ruochen knew what Zhao Xuan was here for, but still accepted his gift with a natural smile.There are so many good things on the list.Although there is no shortage of anything in the palace, she is still very grateful for Zhao Xuan's kindness.

The chess game started again, and this time the topic became more and more serious. Ji Jianing walked away consciously, and signaled Xia Hong and others with her eyes to serve outside the pavilion.

From a distance, Ji Jianing saw that the expressions of the princess and Duke Song became much lowered, and the speed of playing chess slowed down, knowing that they had begun to discuss some important state affairs.

As Yun Ruochen's confidant, Ji Jianing was actually helping Yun Ruochen handle some documents and memorials.Because of this, I felt the heavy pressure on the princess's shoulders.

What outsiders saw was her powerful prestige as "princess of the prison country", but Ji Jianing understood that Yun Ruochen had gritted her teeth and put the title of prison country on herself.

That day, she voluntarily stepped into the trap and overthrew the queen, just to fight for a name that was just and reasonable.

After the incident slowly passed, Ji Jianing gradually realized many truths from Yun Ruochen's few words.

In fact, Yun Ruochen had just rushed back to Chonghua Palace at that time, and when he saw the queen's people making a big show of trying to snatch Yun Yao, he knew that someone was behind the scenes.

Even if the big business men behind the queen wanted to hold Yunyao in their hands, they would not let the queen choose such a critical moment of internal and external troubles to come forward.Therefore, the queen's actions must not be the true intention of Beishang, but instigated by traitors.

But such a good opportunity to attack, why did she let it go?
Not only would she not let it go, but she would do what that person wished to make things worse, even bigger.

Kill, kill a lot of people.Not only to kill, but also to call everyone in the palace to watch her kill.

She obviously could have a thousand ways to deal with the queen and her people secretly, but she insisted on being insane and covered herself with blood from body to heart.

Because only in this way can we gain prestige in the shortest possible time.

From the moment she rescued Yun Yao, she had already made up her mind to come from the dark to the stage and grasp the real power.

If you don't take power, it will be too late... because the enemy's next provocation will only be worse!

She wants to establish her prestige, abolish the empress, sweep away the ghosts and monsters in the six palaces, so that her father and emperor can recover from illness and her younger brother can grow up safely.

Then, she will join forces with Xu Heng, the supervisor of ceremonies, to take back the other half of the power that originally belonged to the inner court from the cabinet, and fight against the foreign ministers!
They forced her...

Forced her to turn over her cards and turn against them!

The elders of Liuge were negotiating in the palace that day, and outsiders didn't know what they talked about with the emperor. They only knew that after they returned, they closed the door to thank the guests and rested for many days without going to court.

Immediately afterwards, the two elders, who were already suffering from some illnesses, received the paperwork to become officials.The emperor rejected it, and then handed it over again. After several times, the emperor approved them to return to their hometowns for the elderly.

These two are both veterans of the Northern Shang Gang and the mainstay of the Northern Shang Dynasty.

Once they leave, the "Northern Business Gang" will inevitably lose power.Numerous middle-level officials and disciples begged them to stay, but neither of them saw them, and they wanted to leave.Before the appointment of the crown prince, they had dragged their families back to their hometown.

Only a handful of people know why they left.Mr. Gu Ge would rather bear the stigma of Shilin and be said to be impersonal than to see off these two former colleagues, because in his mind, it is simply absurd that these two people can retire safely and safely. Disgrace to civil servants.

Traitor to the court!
In fact, it was Yun Ruochen who was negotiating with the elders that day, not the emperor.

No one could have imagined how she could hold so many things in her hands.The queen's letters with the outside of the palace, piles of valuable supplements, gold, silver and jewelry in the queen's palace, together with the list, are all there, and all the clues point to the officials of the Beishang Group.

There is collusion between the harem and the imperial court, which is a royal taboo.Based on this point, the queen was deposed, not wronged at all.

But compared to the evidence that Yun Ruochen presented next, the Queen's matter is nothing short of trivial.

The several extremely secret evidence presented by Yun Ruochen showed that this joint invasion by foreign enemies had an internal response!
The Hu people's allied forces went south to attack, and the Northern Business Group, which had been impacted by the southeast forces, was once again taking the opportunity to rise.The weak emperor collapsed in a panic, the princess was busy taking care of the emperor, but the queen went to grab the prince...

It was a rough but effective treason plan - that's why the emperor said coldly that day, someone wants to rebel!

Although there is no direct evidence to prove that the Northern Shang Dynasty was a "traitor" who colluded with the foreign invasion, their close relationship with the Queen is already a firm matter.Moreover, foreign enemies invaded, the treasury was empty, and it was necessary to collect food, grass and horses from the Northern Merchants, which gave the battered Northern Merchants a chance to turn around... As vested interests, they have suspicions that cannot be removed.

Yun Ruochen's request was very straightforward - if the people from the Northern Shang Dynasty did not retreat from the imperial court, the evidence would spread all over the streets and alleys of the capital tomorrow.Do you want to retire honorably, or are you dragged off the court by your beards and drowned in a mouthful of saliva?
The bosses have no choice.

(End of this chapter)