In addition to Xiao Shaoke's uncontrollability, Da Lu also anticipated that if she killed Xiao Yuanjin and the emperor really chose to bury his son with him, the Lu family and other court officials would be willing to accept the "brother succeeds the younger brother" rather than "father succeeds the son".
Since the emperor already has a healthy son, the second prince, and the second prince is about the same age as Xiao Shaoke, "the younger brother succeeds the elder brother" is indeed more likely to cause turmoil in the court than "the son succeeds the father". It is inevitable that the court officials will oppose it. Even the military generals who hold heavy troops in various places can use this excuse to "clear the court."
As for the Lu family, even without considering the adverse impact on the court, the Lu family believed that Lu Tong, the head of the Lu family, would choose the son inheriting the father's throne rather than the younger brother inheriting the elder brother's throne between the two options.
After all, for him, the idiot Little Lu is much easier to control than Big Lu.
Now the elder Lu is firmly superior to Lu Tong, but if the younger Lu becomes the empress dowager and rules the country on behalf of the young emperor, then Lu Tong will definitely be able to easily rely on her rich political experience and natural elder status to completely marginalize the younger Lu and truly hold power from then on.
Just as Da Lu had said before when she was silently criticizing the emperor, many people in this world consider things first from the perspective of interests rather than family affection.
This is true for her, her brother Lu Tong, and her niece Xiao Lu.
If that time really comes, even if she, the empress dowager, is not killed by her own family, she will definitely be forced to stay away from the political center because she is already the "Grand Empress Dowager".
This is not what the Lu family wants to see.
With a sigh, Mrs. Lu put down her teacup and silently called her most trusted nanny to give her some instructions.
The nanny took the order and left, while Mrs. Lu sat quietly on the couch for a long time without moving.
Meanwhile, Madam Lu was extremely excited. She repeatedly ordered her trusted maid, "Quick, send someone to tell my father!"
Xiao Yuanjin had suddenly left the palace before, catching her off guard. She didn't have time to send a message to the Lu family to ask them to organize a sure-fire assassination. She felt sorry about it for a long time, but she didn't expect that Xiao Yuanjin would be so suicidal and even planned to leave the palace frequently afterwards.
The Lu family has wanted Xiao Yuanjin's life for many years. Now that they finally see the opportunity, Mrs. Lu is so happy that her mouth is grinning from ear to ear.
However, her joy and excitement were soon shattered by the message sent back by the Lu family.
"Why! Why not?!" Little Mrs. Lu was so angry that she swept the entire set of tea sets on the table, and the teapot, teacups and other items rolled all over the floor.
Little Mrs. Lu was still not satisfied, so she picked up a thin-necked porcelain bottle and smashed it hard on the part of the floor where there was no carpet.
The porcelain vase shattered into pieces. Little Lu was happy for less than a second before a piece of broken porcelain flew towards her.
She screamed in fear and subconsciously took several steps back, but the broken porcelain was blocked by her skirt and did not scratch her skin at all.
Xiao Lu first breathed a sigh of relief, but then her face twisted in an instant and she became furious again.
She wanted to kill Xiao Yuanjin, but Mrs. Lu got there first and sent a message to the Lu family, ordering them not to act rashly.
She threw a porcelain vase to vent her anger, but a piece of broken porcelain from the vase pierced her, scaring her so much that she screamed.
Little Mrs. Lu, whose wish was not fulfilled, felt that everything was going wrong. She cursed under her breath and smashed several pieces of porcelain.
Although she did not mention anyone by name, everyone who heard her knew that she was scolding Da Lu, who had ruined her plans.
The palace servants were trembling with fear, but no one dared to get involved in the game between the aunt and nephew. For the sake of their own lives, they could only pretend to be deaf and blind.
Not long after Xiao Yuanjin left the palace to learn the erhu, the Mid-Autumn Festival of that year arrived as scheduled.
Just like the Dragon Boat Festival, to show concern, the palace sent out news early, inviting Yu Zizhen, Fang Huaiying and Chen Hushan to attend a banquet in the palace on August 15th.
Yu Zizhen was busy settling the two families she had just recruited. In her heart, she was actually very reluctant to go to the palace for the banquet, but no matter how reluctant she was, she had to consider the overall situation and cooperate with Da Lu.
As for the two families she had just recruited.
The Hao family was originally servants in the mansion of a second-rank official. Because the man in charge of the family was quite talented in business, he was released by his master to run the shop on his behalf.
It took him twenty years to be promoted from a small manager of a caravan to the head manager of all the shops of his master's family.
If his newly married daughter-in-law had not been favored by the second son of the master's family, and the mistress of the master's family had not wanted to sell the entire family far away in order to avoid a scandal that would affect her son's future and marriage, he would not have been sent directly to the matchmaker with his family at such an old age.
Most people in his family, including his old wife, were dissatisfied with his daughter-in-law who "brought trouble", but the head shopkeeper and his youngest son did not blame his daughter-in-law for this.
The second young master of their master's family had a unique taste. There were many young girls around him, but he didn't like any of them. And those who he liked were all married women.
Although there was a custom in the Great Qi Dynasty for the master to reward his maids to his servants, and even the servants who received the reward would be proud of it, but that was the master rewarding his own woman to his servants, and after that, the master would no longer have that kind of relationship with his maids who were rewarded.
This is completely different from the situation where the second young master of their master's family only targets married women.
He was not hunting for beauties, he was deliberately trying to cuckold the woman's husband.
He liked to see those women who were unwilling but had to obey and endure humiliation, liked to see the husbands who dared not speak out but swallowed their anger, and even more liked to see those newlyweds who were originally in love and sweet but ended up sleeping in different beds because of his strong intervention.
The more pain the other party suffered because of his forceful intervention, the more he could feel the twisted pleasure of being above everyone else and controlling other people's emotions.
As one of the brides he had his eyes on, the daughter-in-law of the head shopkeeper was not like the other maids in the mansion, who were either weak in character or had various concerns.
She had a strong character. Even though the other party was the second son of the main family and her master, she resisted without hesitation, made a noise, and preserved her innocence.
Perhaps this was related to the fact that she was not a born child of that family, but a fierce merchant girl married from outside by the youngest son of the big shopkeeper.
After receiving the system prompt, Yu Zizhen, who was planning to find someone who was good at business to help him accumulate wealth, immediately changed back to his original appearance.
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