Chapter 3: The Royal is the most ruthless person ()

When he came to the Cining Palace where Empress Dowager Cisheng lived, after Concubine Wang Gong gave the Empress Dowager a gift, Zhu Changluo was carried over by the Empress Dowager and started teasing with a smile.

Concubine Wang Gong sat down at the lower head, looking at the empress dowager who was holding her son and smiling happily, trying to see something, but she really couldn't connect it with the scene she guessed. She didn't know how to speak for a moment, but she didn't know how to express the words she had thought of in advance.

"You came for the Emperor's affairs, are you?"

Empress Dowager Cisheng looked at Zhu Changluo with a smile on her face, who was opening her eyes wide and she said softly without raising her head. She seemed to have known what Concubine Wang Gong was thinking.

Of course, she would never guess that Zhu Changluo was also extremely concerned about this matter, and no one would care about a baby who had just been born.

"Mother, the emperor hasn't been to Jingyang Palace for more than ten days." Concubine Wang pursed her lips and answered truthfully.

She was not trying to compete for favor. She was not the conflict between the empress dowager and the emperor. As the empress dowager's confidant, she certainly knew very well that she was now worried that the worst situation would happen.

Empress Dowager Cisheng still did not look up, but suddenly said something inexplicable: "Wang Guoguang, the Minister of Personnel, was dismissed by the emperor! Pan Sheng was unable to enter the cabinet either. He was impeached by the censor Lei Shizhen, and the clerk Wang Jiguang and others, and he has retired."

"Ah!" Concubine Wang stood up suddenly and screamed without realizing it. Her face turned pale in an instant. The situation she didn't want to see happened.

Everyone knows that Wang Guoguang, the Minister of Personnel, relies on Zhang Juzheng; and Pan Sheng was the one who was elected to the cabinet before Zhang Juzheng died, and these concubines Wang Gong knew very well. Now these two people who were almost at the center of the power of the Ming Dynasty were actually dismissed by the emperor in an instant. This is an extraordinary event. Anyone who knows the inside story knows what this means!

Concubine Wang Gong finally realized why the emperor had not been to Jingyang Palace for more than ten days.

Empress Dowager Ci Sheng frowned and whispered: "Sit down! Pay attention to your current identity! You are now a concubine Gong. You must always pay attention to your words and deeds and not lose your sense of responsibility. Look at what you look like now? What are you afraid of? The sky cannot fall! Even if the sky falls, there is still the Ai family to bear it."

"But Queen Mother, the Emperor... Queen Mother, are there no solution?" Although Concubine Wang Gong sat down, his voice was sad and pitiful, and his face was full of anxiety.

If it were before, she would stand on the side of Empress Dowager Cisheng without hesitation. Even if the empress dowager deposed Zhu Yijun and established a new emperor, she would not have any objection. But now the situation is different. Not only is she the emperor's concubine, she also gave birth to the emperor's eldest son! Now the empress has no son, and her son is the first heir to the throne! She is one of the people who least want the empress dowager to have a quarrel with the emperor.

Compared with Concubine Wang Gong's grief, Zhu Changluo was now confused. He really couldn't understand why Concubine Wang was so sad after the empress dowager said something that seemed irrelevant to him. Could it be that she had anything to do with that Wang Guoguang or Pan Sheng?

I'm afraid things were not that simple, Zhu Changluo began to think deeply.

"I hope Jun'er can think clearly about what he is doing! Could it be that he thinks that the Ai family has reached the point where he can slaughter? Oh, it's ridiculous. The Ai family wants to let him understand that killing a Zhang Taiyue will not cause an irreversible blow to the Ai family! Do he think that if a few ministers are removed, the Ai family will have no choice? It seems that my son has forgotten that the Silijian and Zhu Piquan are in the hands of the Ai family. If the Ai family does not nod, no one can do it if the ministers are appointed! He can remove Wang Guoguang from the Minister of Personnel, but the Ai family can still promote Li Guoguang, Zhang Guoguang, and Zhao Guoguang!"

After looking at Concubine Wang Gong, the empress dowager with a solemn look on her face at this time continued, "Since the Ai family can let him be this emperor, they can still depose him! Humph! It seems that my son has forgotten that he was making trouble in the palace two years ago. If he hadn't been kneeling outside the Ai family for a whole night, the Ai family would have deposed him!"

"Queen Mother!" Concubine Wang Gong knelt down and said in tears: "Please give me kindness. After all, the emperor is your biological son. Even if he makes a mistake, he is still young and don't know anything. Perhaps he was urged by several censors. Please ask Queen Mother..."

The stone was shocked! Zhu Changluo was already shocked. He didn't expect that this seemingly simple little thing became so complicated because of Zhang Juzheng's death.

From the short conversation between the Empress Dowager and Concubine Wang Gong, Zhu Changluo can almost guess what happened. A very old-fashioned story, a cruel reality, a royal mother and son fighting for power! Such things have emerged one after another in history. The most famous ones are Wu Zetian of the Tang Dynasty and Empress Dowager Cixi of the Qing Dynasty. They are probably famous because they were all winners in the end!

Zhu Changluo could imagine that Zhu Yijun probably didn't want to be a puppet emperor with nominality and took advantage of Zhang Juzheng's death to seize power. Empress Dowager Cisheng, who tasted this kind of peak power, was unwilling to hand over the power and fought with his son around imperial power.

At this time, Zhu Changluo fully understood why in history, he and Concubine Wang and Concubine Wang were not favored by Emperor Wanli. Anyone would probably make the same choice as Zhu Yijun. As the absolute confidant of the Empress Dowager Cisheng, Concubine Wang and Concubine Wang were not sentenced to death after Emperor Wanli successfully seized power. It was a great grace, and she still wanted to be favored? It was simply a fantasy.

But, isn’t this causing me any trouble? Zhu Changluo has the desire to die!

"Can'er, do you know why the Ai family designed their own son to make you pregnant with a dragon seed?" Empress Dowager Cisheng looked at her former personal palace maid and called out the name she gave her personally.

"Isn't the Queen Mother trying to make it more convenient for Chan'er to monitor the emperor?" Although Concubine Wang no longer cried, her tone was still very sad.

Empress Dowager Cisheng sneered, then looked at Zhu Changluo in her arms, and said, "If the Ai family asks you to monitor the emperor, will you have to ask about your menstrual period and give medicine to the emperor who came to the Ai family to pay tribute to the palace on a specific day? What the Ai family wants is this child!"

Concubine Wang Gong's face turned pale again, and she fell to the ground in an instant, kowtowing her crying and kowtowed: "Please beg the Queen Mother to be kind, don't make things difficult for Luo'er. If the Queen Mother has something to do, even if the Cicada is asked to do it, it is not worth mercy to die, but Luo'er is still young and is your grandson, please... "

"Shut up! Who do you think of the Ai family? How could the Ai family hurt their grandson? Not only would it not hurt, the Ai family might have great benefits to my only grandson, which is to let him ascend the throne in advance!" Empress Dowager Cisheng interrupted Concubine Wang Gong's words and said unquestionably.

"What?" Concubine Wang Gong looked puzzled and couldn't believe it.

With a "Wow!", Zhu Changluo was so shocked by the Queen Mother's words that he couldn't help but scream.

"Ha..." Empress Dowager Cisheng laughed: "Chan'er, look, the grandsons of the Ai family have agreed!"

"Empress Dowager, the cicada doesn't understand."

"Don't understand? Then the Ai family will tell you." Empress Dowager Cisheng looked at Concubine Wang Gong and said, "The Ai family was guarding against this situation at the beginning! After all, Jun'er was the eldest son of the emperor. If he deposed him and changed the youngest son of the Ai family, Lu Wang, to be the emperor, would not comply with the rules of ancestors. There would be too many troubles and constraints at that time, so the Ai family would make you pregnant with Longzi. As a result, you really did not disappoint the expectations of the Ai family and gave birth to the eldest son. If the emperor continued to make trouble like this, the Ai family would depose him and change Luo'er to the emperor. This is legitimate and in line with the rules of ancestors."

I'm afraid you will feel that I am still in my infancy and are more controllable! The angry Zhu Changluo added a sentence in his heart unwillingly.
Chapter completed!