Chapter 146 Intimidation

As expected, the Empress Dowager declined Yun Fenghuang's request to see her.

Empress Dowager Ji did not decline politely, but her attitude was very cold, Yun Fenghuang brought the topic to the concubine of Jin, and she let Yun Fenghuang leave on the excuse that she was tired.

"The Ai family wants to help you, but the Ai family has never done these things." The last Empress Dowager Qu really wanted to help, but she was a concubine of the palace before, and she slept with King Duan of Fuyang by accident. The kind of concubine who only got the title of concubine after pregnancy, one can imagine her background. Now that she is the empress dowager, she is nothing more than a famous name. When it comes to the experience of hosting the middle class and handling palace affairs, it is not as good as Yun Fenghuang.

Empress Dowager Qu racked her brains, and finally said, "Why don't Aijia help you to ask Sister Yuan, or Your Majesty?"

"Don't worry, empress, it's just a concubine's business. How can you ask your mother, the Empress Dowager, and Your Majesty personally?" Yun Fenghuang hurriedly dissuaded, "I'm here today to see you."

She didn't count on Empress Dowager Qu at all, it's just that the Empress Dowager has been giving her vegetarian meals these days, and today the Empress Dowager, Empress Dowager Ji, and Empress Dowager Yuan all went there, so it's not easy to leave Qu Queen Mother.

So he chatted with Empress Dowager Qu and said some homely things, and then he resigned.

On the way back to Lanzhou Yeyu Pavilion, Qingdu and Qingren said sadly: "Mother, those who can give us advice in this palace are not willing to speak up, and those who are willing can't give advice, so what should we do?"

"Who said that those who can give us advice are unwilling to speak?" Yun Fenghuang smiled when he heard this, and said, "Isn't this the only way to greet the elders?"

Qingdu and Qingren looked at each other, both quite puzzled.

But Yun Fenghuang didn't mean to explain to them on the way, and after returning to Lanzhou Yeyu Pavilion, he asked Zhu E to go to Chunfengyuan and invite Cui Jieyu over.

She said "please", and when Zhu E arrived at Chunfengyuan, her attitude was quite respectful.

However, no one in the Chunfengyuan would believe it, and they all persuaded Cui Lian to pretend to be sick at night, or to decline politely, anyway, don't go to see the real concubine—who knows if the real concubine wants to kill them all?

"I don't believe that this lowly servant girl has only entered the palace for a few days, and she really thinks that she can cover the sky with one hand in the six palaces?!" Cui Lianye was angry in her heart. The highest is Jieyu, but after a while, she was demoted to Jieyu, Yun Fenghuang was conferred the title of real concubine—now she sends a second-class maid to pass a message, and she has to go to see her, the real Fengshui takes turns change.

According to his temper, he would not go through this life no matter what.

But the fact is that Yun Fenghuang's status is now higher than hers, and if she doesn't go if he orders someone to summon her, it will be a violation of the palace rules.

This newly promoted concubine concubine is recognized as a troublemaker even if she is unreasonable, let alone when she is justified?

I'm afraid that if Cui Lianye dared to find an excuse to refuse to go, then he would dare to set the fire on Cui Wan's head when he turned around!

Thinking about the recent news from home, Cui Lianye's face changed for a moment, and finally got up with a sneer, "Even if Lanzhou Yeyu Pavilion is a dragon's pond and a tiger's lair, is it possible that this palace is still afraid?! "

Order left and right to dress up for herself, and go with Zhu E.

"Sister Cui." A moment later, the second concubine sat down in the main hall of Lanzhou Yeyu Pavilion. Yun Fenghuang seemed to have no grievances between the two of them, and ordered someone to serve tea with a smile on his face, and pretended to be affectionate " "Sister" called so that Cui Lianye's eyelids twitched, "To tell you the truth, I invited my sister here today because I have something to ask."

Yun Fenghuang directly talked about the promotion of the concubines, "...the empress has already agreed, but unfortunately, she fell ill in a hurry, so she ordered my palace to preside over this matter. I thought, This palace is young and has little knowledge, and this kind of matter involves all the sisters in the palace, it is better to invite my sister to discuss together."

"The real concubine is serious." Cui Lianye said indifferently, "The empress is smart and astute, and everyone in the six palaces knows it! It's rare for a mere concubine to advance to the throne, but it's rare to beat the empress, right? But why do I need to point fingers?"

Yun Fenghuang's smile remained unchanged: "I've heard about Cui's sister Gao Jie for a long time, since that's the case."

She turned her head and said to Qingdu, "Then cross out Cui Jieyu, lest ordinary people like me, like me, tarnish Sister Cui's purity."

"..." Cui Lianye's face was livid, she could be noble herself, and she didn't care about being promoted, but Cui Shi couldn't.

When all the concubines in the six palaces were promoted, Cui Lianye alone was left behind. Those who knew said that she hated the real concubine who was being favored, but those who didn't know thought that the emperor could no longer bear it with Cui Shi, even Cui Shi who was in the harem The concubines have been left out in the cold!

When the time comes, how can that screwdriver, who is used to stepping on the low and worshiping the high, not join forces and attack Cui when he is in trouble? !

"My lady, don't be like this." Suo Xingqing did not immediately agree when he heard the words, but persuaded him softly, "Maybe Cui Jieyu is just being humble? After all, this promotion is for the blessing of the loving mother, the empress dowager. Cui Jie Yu is not someone who is unrighteous and unfilial, how could she disregard the health of the empress dowager's body?"

The implication is that if Cui Lianye dares to refuse, it is unrighteous and unfilial, disregarding the health of the empress dowager's body!

"...Unknown real concubine... What orders does the empress have?" Cui Lianye was silent for a while, with a look of humiliation on her brows, but she still compromised, and asked in a low voice.

Yun Fenghuang smiled and said: "Sister Cui is from a great family, and she has been in the palace for many years, so you should be very clear about the affairs, rules, and old practices in the palace?"

Before Cui Lianye could answer, she pointed to Qingdu Qingren beside her, "Although these two people in this palace are sensible and considerate, after all, they have not been in the palace for a long time and have no experience. So, please sister Cui, please help and give them advice? "

... On the way back to the Chunfengyuan that day, Cui Lianye's servant was furious: "The real concubine is so crazy! It's okay to force the empress to teach, but she doesn't even bother to learn, and only teaches the empress to teach the two court ladies!"

In the eyes of the valet, this is clearly an intentional humiliation of his master!

"What do you know?" However, Cui Lianye didn't have any anger on her face at the moment. She said calmly, "Since Concubine Zhen helped the queen, this is the first time she has been alone. Concubine Zhen is young and her family background is not high. How can a person take care of such a thing? Naturally, she must take this opportunity to cultivate the people around her... As for herself, she doesn't want to be lazy, but she has to free up her hands to do other things. "

Now the low-ranking concubines may still be in a daze, but all the concubines know that although the Ji family is still sitting on the phoenix seat, there are not many days left.

The successor, Zheng Guifei thought, Yun Fenghuang thought, and the others...who wouldn't?

It's just that some people feel that they don't have that hope, and they have given up their minds early, such as Wei Hengyan; some people are still struggling to weigh...

In short, the one who has an advantage on the bright side is naturally Yunfenghuang.

So this time when the concubine was promoted, how much she wanted to do it beautifully, and those who had fixed their eyes on the successor wanted to make her look ashamed!

Cui Lianye thought about it for a while, and then told the servants: "Look at the other people, and see if Concubine Zhen will invite others to Lanzhou Night Rain Pavilion?"

Of course this is for sure.

In Yun Fenghuang's plan, although Wei Hengyan and Yi Xing'en and his like will be right-hand men, the concubines who entered the palace during the emperor's wedding cannot all be given up.

First of all, although these people are not favored by the emperor and the Queen Mother Yuan, they are well-born, and their own knowledge, talents, and family background are all worth holding in their hands; Waiting to see, Yun Fenghuang felt that he should stay.

After all, letting these people who will never be treated sincerely by Chunjia occupy high positions is better than letting the little goblins in the future sit on an equal footing with him, right?

Therefore, after forcing Cui Lianye to help her teach the Qing people in Qingdu, she changed the venue and asked someone to invite Lu Jieyu. past.

"The empress personally agreed to be named the Sixth Palace." Lu Jieyu and Jia Jieyu's attitude was much better than Cui Lianye's, mainly because they have been lingering in Jieyu's position since they entered the palace. When Huang was still Jieyu, she had given them some flair, but now that she was promoted to real concubine, they didn't dare to do anything wrong again.

That's why Yun Fenghuang didn't save their face this time, and she calmed down with Yan Yuese, "It's just that the empress fell ill before the specific Jin entitlement was discussed. I asked for instructions when I paid my respects to the Empress Dowager and the three empress dowagers. What the empress dowager and the three empress dowagers mean is that since the empress dowager has given her consent, then this matter should be up to me to decide."

"The promotion of the six palaces together is to pray for the health of the empress dowager's phoenix body."

"But the two younger sisters are extraordinarily busy. If they are treated the same way as those who don't work, and the younger sisters are tolerant and don't say anything, I will feel uneasy."

This was telling Lu Jieyu and Jia Jieyu clearly, work hard, and you will get preferential treatment when you get promoted later.

Otherwise, the promotion was proposed by Yun Fenghuang, and if she can raise it, she can press it!

No matter what Lu Jieyu and Jia Jieyu thought in their hearts, they cooperated more and more on the scene——Yun Fenghuang's operation spread to the ears of Queen Mother Yuan, who sighed and said: "The Jiang family is very good at teaching. daughter."

"It's said that the concubine's concubine sister was also brought up by the aunt's mother. She is like her own daughter. There is no difference at all." Zhan Liu comforted her euphemistically. This is because the real concubine is smart enough to listen to her and persuade her. Otherwise, no matter how hard Jiang's words are, I'm afraid it will be beyond the reach of the whip."

In fact, she was also very depressed. If it hadn't been for Yuan Niangniang's disobedience, it would be Yuan Niangniang who proposed to be promoted to the sixth palace at this moment. Originally, Chunjia's harem was not much larger than that of the previous emperors, and there was a legitimate reason for the emptiness below her knees. Reasons to fill the palace. The seats of the concubines have already reached the time when they need to be moved on a large scale.

If Yuan Niangniang was more sensible, she would never have imagined that Empress Dowager Yuan would also remind her.

Helpless, the master couldn't help her up, and the master and servant of the Empress Dowager Yuan could only watch as Yun Fenghuang took the opportunity to rise to power—to change her bad reputation of being cruel, cruel and narrow-minded, the worst thing to do is to change her mind and become a good person like dough from now on. Don't fight back and scold and don't fight back; the middle policy is to slowly and gradually influence the subtleties; the best policy is to share interests.

Among the Ming emperors in the history, some killed their fathers and brothers and seized their wives, some ungrateful and usurped the throne, and some killed their uncles and slaughtered their brothers and killed their brothers... However, because of their ability to govern the country and create a prosperous world, they finally fell into the evaluation of a wise king.

Is it because the people of the world have to know the nasty things they have done?

No, it's just that compared with those nasty things, they bring more benefits to the world, so they are also Mingjun.

This is what Yun Fenghuang is doing now. Because of her performance since entering the palace, the previous dynasty knew that this real concubine is a ruthless person, but this time the six palaces will be promoted together, and everyone will benefit, even if it is impossible. I am grateful to her from the bottom of my heart, and I will have to say a few good things about her in the future.

In addition, the pretense of the beating was to protect the health of the loving mother, the empress dowager, and the foreign court had to say that she was filial.

This is much smarter than Yuan Niangniang's thought that changing his son is "being low-key and low-key". It can also kill two birds with one stone, build up momentum, and better fight for power with the queen.

Both master and servant of Empress Dowager Yuan knew the truth, but who told Yuan Niangniang not to live up to expectations?

You can only watch other people's children seize the opportunity to ride the wind.

Empress Dowager Yuan felt overwhelmed, and sighed: "Forget it, since the real concubine did it, don't report this matter for now. Left and right Ai's family are impatient to listen to such trivial matters."

After saying this, I remembered something again, "By the way, where is the imperial concubine?"

This time Yun Fenghuang proposed to be promoted, and she was the first to say that she would be excluded, because first, she just skipped two grades, and second, she had to say that this move was purely out of filial piety to Queen Mother Yuan, not for her own benefit. But there was another person she didn't mention, but she also tacitly assumed that it was impossible to advance to the throne, and that was Concubine Zheng.

It's impossible for Empress Ji to step down now and make way for her?

So according to the unspoken rules, Concubine Zheng should take the initiative to decline.

And Concubine Zheng did exactly that.

However, it is also impossible to say that she will not give her anything if she proposes it.

Mrs. Yuan became interested and asked, "How does Concubine Zhen plan to compensate Concubine Gui?"