Chapter 157: Temple Debate

The hall fell into dead silence again.

A few days ago, in front of everyone, especially in front of the Empress Dowager and Chun Jia, the Secretary of the Imperial City presented pieces of evidence to drive Ji Sheng into the abyss bit by bit, which was already jaw-dropping.

Although the life of the emperor's heirs in the palace was difficult, it was always an open secret, but it was an unheard-of method to make trouble known to everyone, and it was very rare in all dynasties.

It turned out to be better now, the majestic empress was also among the victims, and the finger was pointed at Lu Qidao who didn't specifically mention his father, and none of the foreign ministers would have thought of it at all...

Dead silence, dead silence.

Even Chunjia didn't make a sound immediately.

Everyone is not a fool, and it is clear at a glance who they are targeting.

The regent came out with a cold face: "Your Majesty, the Ji family is insane. In the past, when Ji Sheng, a commoner, was the crown princess, he had the intention of plotting against others. Otherwise, why should he protect Sun Yong? According to the policy, the whole family of the Sun family should be copied and beheaded, so as to avoid endless poisoning!"

"As the saying goes, if there is an aunt, there must be a nephew. The queen is Ji Sheng's niece, and she has always been good to Ji Cheng. This is a well-known thing in the imperial confinement. How could she not know about Ji Cheng's actions? ? After your majesty's wedding, concubines have conceived one after another, including the former noble concubine, concubine Zhenxishu, and Mrs. Chunke, all of whom had miscarriages."

"It would be too false to say that these were all done by the common man Ji Sheng."

"After all, the common man Ji Sheng has entrusted the palace affairs to the queen since she entered the palace. Although the concubine goes to Mianfu Palace to pay her respects from time to time, in fact Ji Sheng has not been in charge of the specific affairs for a long time. If this is the case, how can he instruct the palace people to attack the concubines? ?”

"Therefore, the empress is the source of many inexplicable miscarriages of your majesty's heirs!"

"Now that I say what I say, I am also deeply hurt by it... Hehe, who knows if I accidentally hurt myself when I was thinking about ways to hurt others earlier, so I have resentment in my heart, and I can't see my concubine pregnant?"

Empress Ji didn't explain her innocence, she just smiled casually: "The Prince Regent has been talking non-stop for a long time, Baohui Palace must have received the news?"

"Your Majesty, the Regent, this is a big matter. In Xiao Wang's opinion, I'd better send someone to Baohui Palace to have a look." Hearing this, King Zhou's eyes flickered, and he came out and said, "It really involves the innocence of the mother of a country." , not to be ignored. Otherwise, how can you convince the public?"

The regent glared at him immediately.

The King of Zhou didn't realize it, he laughed and said, "Xiao Wang has been in the feudal state for a long time, so he doesn't know much about temple affairs. But whether the empress is virtuous or not, this should not be considered a purely state matter, after all, it is also a family matter. Xiao Wang also boldly said Already... If there is something wrong, I hope His Majesty and the Regent will not take offense!"

As he said that, he bowed his hands to the regent above Danchi and in front of him to show his apology.

The regent had a sullen face, knowing that he was attracted by Chunjia, and specially passed the ladder to the queen, but it is true that whether the queen's conduct is improper is not only a state matter, but also a family matter of the Gongxiang family.

King Zhou is senior and old, with this attitude, even the regent would not be able to do anything to him on the spot—otherwise not only the clans present would attack him, but also the clans that didn’t arrive on the way , would also feel that the regent is too domineering, and more and more wants to side with Chunjia.

Fortunately, the regent is not alone, and some clansmen whom he has attracted stand up against the king of Zhou, saying that the queen's mother honors the world, and when the book is established, it will be discussed seriously in the temple. How can it be the same as ordinary people marrying wives , let the clansmen dictate?

The most important thing is...he didn't say anything important, because at this point, a servant came in to report that the people who searched Baohui Palace had returned, and indeed found something, and wanted to bring it in for everyone to judge.

The regent's faction were all surprised, and asked: "Who went to search?! When did you go?!"

The regent Wang YouQi caught Chun Jia's sneer, "Your Majesty is really good at it. The Empress only mentioned Lu Chongyi. Your Majesty even prepared the people who searched the palace and the evidence. It's really hard work, Your Majesty!"

This is almost an obvious ridicule, but in front of so many courtiers, the royalists such as Yi Guogong are already full of anger. If Chunjia hasn't spoken yet, he will definitely go forward and scold them for their innocence. Courtesy and offense.

"Uncle Wang misunderstood." Chunjia raised her hand, lifted a little of the crown, looked at the door, and said softly, "I just allowed the queen to defend herself today, but I don't know how the queen will defend herself. How could I know how to talk to Lu Chongyi?" Does it matter? It's just that when the queen made the request, the women in the apse listened and went to do it immediately."

The regent sneered: "The concubines are against each other, how can you believe it?!"

"If it's just a concubine, of course I won't be able to convince the public." Chunjia was very calm, "But Aunt Dongxing and the others are all in the blood of my father-in-law's Xiang family, so how could they cheat on this kind of thing?"

"Aunt Dongxing's granddaughter is exactly the figure in His Majesty's palace, and she is pregnant." The Regent reminded everyone coldly, "How could Auntie not love her family and favor her Majesty?"

Chunjia said calmly: "Aunt Dongxing is partial to me, I admit it. After all, we don't mention Zhaorong's relationship. Is there any problem if my aunt loves my grandnephew? But even though the husband and wife are one, but it involves important matters of children and heirs, why does Uncle Wang think that, Will the aunt help the queen to cover it up? You must know that when the things that the common man Ji Shi did came out, the aunt was the most sad, and once fainted in front of all civil and military officials."

"It's fine for Uncle Wang to doubt others. To doubt my aunt would be too disappointing for my aunt."

"That's right!" Arriving before anyone could hear, an old woman in simple clothes held the waiter's hand, walked in with her head held high, glanced at the regent, and said lightly, "Ruoji, do you think the old lady in this palace Confused, you can't tell the difference between your own people and outsiders, and you regard the queen born in the Ji family as more important than the blood of my father-in-law's Xiang family?"

The regent is usually polite to these aunts and cousins ​​of the same clan, but now he will definitely not be polite. Hearing the words, he said coldly: "How could that be? But let me be blunt, although my aunt is the blood of the Gongxiang family, after all Married for many years, she is the wife of the Wei family. Presumably my aunt is now more concerned with the future of the Wei family than anything else, right?"

It is impossible for you to know that the emperor's heir was harmed by the queen, but still favor the queen, regardless of what happened to Gongxiang's blood.

But it may not be impossible for you to open your eyes and talk nonsense for the future of the Wei family that Chunjia promised you!

"The Wei family is all right, so what should I worry about? It's the royal family, there has been movement in the past two years." Princess Dongxing sneered, and said, "I don't say anything about the specifics, I just persuade If I send you a sentence: You are also so old, why do you have to fight with the juniors all day long?"

The regent said coldly: "My aunt is older than Gu, so why don't you go to the muddy water in person? But how can you say that Gu is not?"

The aunts and nephews fought back and forth, but in the end it was Chunjia who persuaded them.

Chunjia persuaded them because: "Since my aunt has already searched the palace, I should show the evidence and let everyone see if Lu Chongyi has been wronged."

The regent actually didn't want to agree, but under the watchful eyes of everyone, if he insisted on refusing, it would look like a ghost.

The most important thing is that Taichu Palace is Chunjia's residence, and the people here only obey Shengjia's orders.

Chunjia asked for evidence, and they immediately brought it up.

Empress Ji has always done things safely, and this time it is similar. The wrongdoing will definitely not wrong Lu Qidao - at least in terms of evidence.

But then Lu Qidao who was brought over was almost hysterical crying for grievances.

She insisted that although she was always in front of Ji Sheng when she was young, and would go to Mianfu Palace when things happen after becoming a concubine, her relationship with Ji Sheng is far from close enough to share such secrets: "Besides, concubine Why do you want to murder the empress? A concubine in the palace is neither considered favored nor her family background is very good, even if she gives birth to a prince, she may not have a great fortune. Do you still want to hate the palace?!"

"Besides, the middle palace comes from a noble family, and after entering the palace, it is the mother's honor. A concubine like this can't even stand up to being courteous and courteous! Where did the concubine get the ability to do this kind of tricks on the queen?!"

This would make more sense if it were another concubine, but Lu Qidao, Empress Ji didn't even bother to use her brain, and said directly: "You are the righteous daughter of the Marquis of Qingping, and Marquis of Qingping was born as an old servant of Ji Sheng, a concubine."

So with Ji Sheng and Ji Sheng's close servant, there is a chance to find out how civet cats harm people, and because of the close relationship with Ji Sheng and Ji Sheng's close servant, there is a chance to get in touch with the queen who has a lot of contacts with Ji Sheng... Anyway, Ji Sheng The queen just decided that, except for Lu Qidao, it is impossible for anyone else to use this method to harm her!

As for what the regent said just now, he suspected that the reason why Empress Ji was recruited was because she accidentally harmed herself when she wanted to harm others.

Empress Ji vetoed it straight away, the reason being that if she had known that she was infertile and the reason for infertility, why would she sit and watch the miscarriages of the concubines all these years and be helpless?

After all, as the main palace, any heirs born to concubines are her children.

The concubines are fine, the key is the concubines, the childless queen has the priority of custody, especially at that time when the Ji family was powerful, even if the pregnant concubine had the main position, could it be that the queen couldn't grab it if she wanted to?

The reason why she watched so many concubines happily conceiving miscarriages, was because she didn't know anything!

There are quite a lot of people who believe these words, but they don't believe that if Empress Ji really knows the situation, she will save those concubines. Instead, he believed that if she had known earlier that she would not be able to have children, she would have foolishly allowed Chunjia to have no children? He has learned from Yun Fenghuang a long time ago, and he has raised the heirs of the two birth mothers with humble backgrounds under his knees, right?

Some even selfishly disapproved of Chunjia's destruction of the Ji family, and secretly suspected that the queen was actually tricked by the emperor.

Because the civet cat obstructed the offspring was exposed by Chunjia, which means that Chunjia knew about it in advance. So how far in advance did he know? Judging from Chao's betrayal at the beginning, this man is very good at forbearance.

Maybe the emperor knew about this method not long after he ascended the throne, and then secretly used it on Empress Ji...

Now arrange for the queen to jump out and bite Lu Qidao.

This kind of conjecture is supported by reality: Chunjia's concubines and concubines who were pregnant before she came to power had to be Concubine Shu and Yuan Niangniang.

And both of them are from the family standpoint to support Chunjia.

Like the empress, the former Concubine Xin, Mrs. Yaoning, the former Zhaoyuan, Kang Jieyu, Lu Qidao, Jia Pingye... There was no movement at all!

Kang Jieyu's twins were after Chunjia came to power, the former imperial concubine, and they were conceived on the eve of Chunjia's taking office.

In this case, Pian Chunjia's argument is that the emperor has his own destiny, so those who don't agree with him mean that they don't have that blessing to give birth to an emperor's heir; I can't get pregnant.

If you think about it more darkly, maybe the former noble concubine and Kang Jieyu's pregnancy had the emperor's intentions in it: the former was because of the uncle of a great cavalry general, and the emperor wanted to use Zheng Gu, but he didn't want Zheng Ju to intervene in the palace. If there are too many, then of course the former noble concubine cannot stay, and if the former noble concubine's child can be born smoothly, it will be the eldest son of the emperor!

With such an heir gone, how could the Zheng family let go of the culprit?

Kang Jieyu is the daughter of the Ji family. When the relationship between the emperor and the Ji family was tense, the two princes she gave birth to would make it easier for the Ji family to calm down: without these two children, the Ji family might fight with him alone. ;With these two children, especially the age gap between the two children and the eldest prince by a few months, Ji couldn't help thinking of being gentler, and then pushed one of the two children to the top position...

... In short, no one now thinks that the Queen's defense today is her own meaning and her own rhetoric.

The regent also thought so, he stopped talking to the queen, looked directly at Dan Chi, and asked Chunjia: "What about your majesty? Your majesty also thinks that an unfavorable Chong Yi needs to be bold enough to murder the middle palace?! What's the benefit of her harming Zhonggong herself?!"

"It's not just that there is no child in the middle palace." There was silence in the hall. Chunjia thought about her words and didn't answer for a while. At this moment, Empress Ji said quietly, "Your Majesty has been on the throne for nearly ten years, and he has a son this year... all these years I'm afraid there are too many concubines who have had their children killed. It should be said that before His Majesty took charge, the most troublesome thing for the palace was that His Majesty had no children."

That's all, but she went on to say, "Who can benefit if your majesty has no children? Doesn't the regent know it? I have no children, and your majesty has no children. Lu Chongyi will not get any direct benefits."

"But who told her that her adoptive father had a adoptive daughter who was the regent's second concubine and gave birth to the regent's youngest son?"

Chaotang was silent for a breath, and the next moment, the discussions erupted!