Chapter 196: Legend of Zhen Huan 66
Chapter 196: Legend of Zhen Huan 66
Although Princess Chaogui has been married, there is already a prince in Khorchin who has taken a fancy to her princess status. After all, the emperor's princesses are still underage. Although Princess Chaogui is the emperor's sister, they would like to get one as soon as possible. Of course, cooperating with the court to make money by wooling is the top priority of Khorchin.
Even the Khorchin princes said that it would be fine even if the princess stayed in the capital with her husband. Such an enthusiastic attitude touched the emperor greatly, and at the same time he felt very proud. After all, he had no choice but to marry his younger sister Princess Chaogui before, but it had only been a few years, and the offensive and defensive situation had been reversed, and now it was Mongolia that was making demands on the court!
So the emperor became even more grateful to Yi Xin. Although she only made a light contribution, the huge impact she brought to the court and the people of the world was already evident.
Yi Xin and Hui Fei were also very satisfied, because although it was only the second time they sold woolen clothes, in just a few months last winter, many clever girls had benefited a lot from knitting sweaters. This year, more people have joined in, and they will probably earn more than last year.
Yi Xin directly told Concubine Hui that as long as a woman earned more money, her status in the family would naturally improve. If she could also learn to read and understand, then men in the world would completely lose the opportunity to lock up women in the four directions.
Concubine Hui felt that this was a very sharp remark. She even said self-deprecatingly, "If I hadn't been to the cold palace, I probably wouldn't have understood what Your Majesty said. So, Your Majesty has used another method to help me open my mind."
That's right, Concubine Hui only felt that she had only become wise today and had seen clearly many things and principles in this world. For this reason, she respectfully performed the ritual of three kneelings and nine kowtows to Yi Xin, which made Yi Xin a little flustered.
In the past, the emperor only felt that he had a bad reputation, but because of wool, the emperor listened to the news brought back by the Flying Guillotines from the people. Many people felt that the emperor was a good emperor who could bring good lives to ordinary people. Coupled with this time's achievements in expanding territory in Junggar, the emperor felt full of energy for a while, and he looked ten years younger both physically and mentally.
When the emperor was happy, he liked to work even harder on government affairs. The court officials were too embarrassed to say anything openly, but secretly they wanted to cry and beg the emperor to let him rest for two more days.
When the Fucha family passed the news to Yi Xin, Yi Xin found it very interesting and turned to tell Concubine Hui. Concubine Hui calculated the emperor's schedule and thought it would be good for her to be an official outside. She felt sorry for her own father who had to get up before 3 a.m. and be busy, and couldn't sleep in the middle of the night.
But after leaving Yi Xin, Concubine Hui completely let go of the emperor's indifference to her.
Only then did Concubine Hui realize that she entered the palace not only because of her appearance and family background, but more importantly, the emperor needed a smart person to check and balance Concubine Hua at that time. That's why she was able to, as a noble lady, bypass so many concubines in the palace at that time and get a share of the power to assist in palace affairs from Concubine Hua at that time.
It's a pity that she was so stupid at that time that she failed to understand the emperor's true intentions. She suffered so much torture from Concubine Hua and had no ability to fight back, which caused her to suffer a lot of blame.
Of course, this is Concubine Hui's understanding of the harem after she transcended the concept of love between men and women, and she also deeply realized how correct the words of her aunt were on the eve of her leaving home.
At this moment, Concubine Hui just wanted to find a suitable opportunity to talk to the emperor again about banning foot binding. After learning that the emperor's reputation among the people was getting better and better, she felt that such an opportunity would come soon, and she became even happier. So she turned around and added a lot of clothes, books and writing materials to the various orphanages in the capital. Now she was not afraid that someone would embezzle these things, because at least the engaged princess had someone outside the palace to keep an eye on these matters.
The life of Concubine Xi was not so easy after her title was changed. First of all, E Min had not fallen yet, and her father Zhen Yuandao was still charged with disrespecting the emperor and sympathizing with the rebels. Even though her father's coffin had been buried in the Zhen family's ancestral tomb by the emperor, Yun and the two sisters Zhen Yuyin and Zhen Yurao were still guilty.
Concubine Xi was always thinking about the downfall of Guaerjia Ying's family, but she didn't take advantage of their misfortune because of her own reputation. However, she secretly told Guaerjia Ying that she was infertile, which made Guaerjia Ying heartbroken. She rushed directly to the cold palace and beat the deposed empress just like Concubine Hua beat Concubine Duan.
The deposed queen was no pushover. Although she vented her anger over the new queen in the palace, she was still able to hit the target with one blow when facing a small character like Guarjia Ying who was not even a minion.
The deposed queen looked embarrassed and shouted at the back of Guaerjia who agreed to leave: "You are a Manchu family of Guaerjia, and you have a good face, but when you entered the palace, you worshipped the wrong leader and followed the wrong master. Everything you have encountered today is due to your own stupidity!"
"No matter how embarrassed I am today, I am still the mother of the country, second only to the emperor!"
But the deposed queen had never expected that Guaerjia would be so unbearable. She thought she would face more intense revenge from Guaerjia, but she didn't expect that after Guaerjia returned, she would become sick due to depression.
There was one less person making noise in the palace, but only a few newly appointed concubines and court ladies felt that the sky was clearer and the air was better. Everyone else had their own fun and had nothing to do with the Guarjia concubines.
But Guaerjia's agreement reminded the concubines in the harem of the deposed queen, especially Concubine Xi. She knew that the emperor was watching her actions, so even if she wanted to retaliate against Guaerjia, she only dared to mock him.
But if some extraordinary means were used to deal with the deposed empress, the emperor would probably have no objection. After all, the deposed empress had used an old dress of Queen Chunyuan to get rid of the position of concubine that she should have obtained long ago.
Who doesn't know how to kill someone and destroy their heart?
Concubine Xi felt that she was really kind-hearted, so she specifically ordered Xiao Mingzi, the steward sent to her by the emperor, to do something. She asked Xiao Mingzi to monitor the share for the deposed empress and never allow anyone to deduct it. She even spent her own money to buy extra meals for the deposed empress when she was in a good mood.
Then he asked Xiao Mingzi to find a young eunuch who knew how to raise pigeons in the cat and dog room, and gave him money to let the flock of pigeons fly over the main hall of the cold palace from time to time, making sure that the deposed queen saw them.
After these two actions, he did not survive for more than three months and died due to a severe headache.
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