After the morning court session, Prime Minister Yang was invited to the Cining Palace.
"This old minister greets the Queen Mother."
"Father, please don't be polite."
The empress dowager's eyes fell on Prime Minister Yang's gray hair and the deep wrinkles on his face, and her heart ached. Her father had grown old.
"Is the Empress Dowager well?"
Prime Minister Yang also looked at his daughter. She looked fine, but her expression was not right.
"Father, how can I be at peace?"
The Queen Mother spoke with resentment, "Father, do you know about the extermination of the Yong'an Earl's Mansion and the Yang family's slandering of Concubine Zhuang and the Emperor behind their backs?"
Prime Minister Yang's expression turned serious. "Oh, is that true?"
"Father, do you really not know?" The Queen Mother's tone of questioning was a little softer.
"The Yang family is full of gossips, so there must be one or two useless children. I will go back and investigate thoroughly. If anyone slanders the emperor and the prince's mother, I will punish them severely."
Prime Minister Yang looked like he was ready to sacrifice his own family for the sake of justice.
The Queen Mother sighed, "Father, what will the future hold for the Yang Family? We now have two Dukes in each of our families, and our disciples are spread across the government and the country. Isn't that enough?"
Prime Minister Yang looked at the Queen Mother with a touch of sadness in his eyes, "Queen Mother, I am old. The Yang family is supported by me now, but how many more years can it last? Once I pass away, how can the Yang family stand up? The Emperor is kind to the Yang family now, but will the next Emperor tolerate the Yang family?
When I, an old minister, sent the Empress Dowager into the palace to clear all obstacles for her and the Emperor, I created many enemies. If one day the Yang family loses the Emperor's favor, all four enemies will rise up, and the Yang family will be in danger."
"Father, you're worrying too much. The Emperor is the grandson of the Yang family and has always respected you. Even the next Emperor will be my grandson. As long as the Yang family behaves themselves, I won't touch them."
The Queen Mother was confident about this, as she knew very well what kind of person her son was.
My son can be called a benevolent monarch. As long as the Yang family does not rebel, my son will not touch the Yang family.
As for her grandson, the empress dowager believed that she had treated Concubine Zhuang well, not to mention her grandson.
When my grandson comes to power in the future, he will not go against the Yang family for no reason for her sake.
Of course, if the Yang family extends their influence further and further and threatens the imperial power, the empress dowager will not dare to guarantee it.
She advised her father, hoping that the Yang family would hold back. The emperor was already unhappy with the matter. Did they really have to fall out and ruin their relationship?
Prime Minister Yang secretly cursed his useless son for his incompetence. Although he did not instigate this matter, he knew about it, but he did not expect that the emperor would find evidence against him.
In front of the Empress Dowager, Prime Minister Yang naturally spoke kindly, and the father and daughter's eyes were red as they spoke.
After leaving the Cining Palace, Prime Minister Yang went to see the emperor, who was also a kind elder and a loyal minister.
But after leaving the palace and returning to the carriage, Prime Minister Yang's face darkened.
Bei Lingyao was amazed at Prime Minister Yang's acting skills. If this happened in modern times, he would be doing a disservice to his acting skills if he didn't win eight or ten Best Actor awards.
After returning to Duke Cheng'en's Mansion, Prime Minister Yang called his eldest son Yang Chengye over and gave him a scolding.
Then the father and son pushed the whole thing onto Yang Chengye's second son. When they were enforcing the family rules, Yang Chengye accidentally beat his second son to death.
Bad news came from the Yang family.
Bei Lingyao was stunned.
Even a tiger won't eat its own cubs.
In order to dispel the emperor's suspicion and let the emperor expose the matter, the Yang family actually beat one of their sons to death.
Bei Lingyao was watching with her spiritual consciousness, but she just thought that the Yang family was putting on an act and never expected that the Yang family really beat someone to death.
Looking at the grieving Prime Minister Yang and Yang Chengye, Bei Lingyao began to doubt whether she was wrong. Maybe it was really an accident and not intentional.
When the news reached the harem, the Empress Dowager and Emperor Jiahe were also shocked.
The Queen Mother fell ill and felt extremely regretful, thinking that she had killed her nephew.
Emperor Jiahe quickly asked the imperial physician to come to the Cining Palace and sent Zhang De to the Yang family to express his condolences.
Bei Lingyao is still in confinement, so she doesn't need to go to the Cining Palace to take care of the sick.
But except for the queen who was under house arrest, all other concubines went to the Cining Palace.
Emperor Jiahe drove the concubines away. When he saw them, he thought of their families.
The Yang family lost their son, and Emperor Jiahe could no longer pursue the matter.
But Emperor Jiahe would not let go of the families of other concubines so easily.
After returning to the Yangxin Palace, he ordered a public trial of the case of the Yong'an Earl's family being exterminated.
This case shocked the entire capital, overshadowing the death of Duke Cheng'en's second son.
No one thought that it was Lady Yong'an who did it.
It’s not that I can’t think of it, but that I feel it’s impossible.
In addition to giving birth to two sons for the Earl of Yong'an, his wife also had a married daughter.
In everyone's opinion, the person Lady Yong'an should hate the most is the concubine who exchanged her child.
He didn't show much hatred towards Lin San.
Although two sons died, there was still a married daughter. It was impossible for the wife of the Earl of Yong'an to destroy the entire Earl of Yong'an's Mansion.
Lin San's motive is actually greater.
After all, for the past nine months, Earl Yong'an had been beating his son Lin San whenever he was unhappy, and treating Lin San as a punching bag.
After the injection, let the doctor treat it, and then continue the injection.
Concubine Zhuang was beaten for nine months during her nine-month pregnancy.
Lin San was sent away only after Concubine Zhuang gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl. It is said that Earl Yong'an wanted to remove Lin San from the family tree that day.
It was only because Lin San moved out the old lady of the Earl of Yong'an and even suspected the old lady's death that he was not expelled from the clan.
Of course, there is a folk legend that it was done by Concubine Zhuang, and many people believe it. After all, the Yong'an Earl's Mansion is a stain on Concubine Zhuang.
Even if the prince's mother is incompetent, doesn't the emperor have it?
So when the news came out that Lady Yong'an was the real murderer, everyone was in disbelief.
The daughter of Lady Yong'an, who rushed to the scene, fainted and was sent back to the Yong'an Mansion. Her in-laws didn't want her anymore and didn't dare to keep her.
Who wouldn’t be afraid of having a mother who destroys her husband’s family?
Even the family of Lady Yong'an was implicated.
Emperor Jiahe issued an edict to revoke the title of Earl of Yong'an and the Hefu?.
From then on, the Yong'an Marquis's Mansion officially withdrew from the stage of the powerful in the capital.
The wife of the Earl of Yong'an was beheaded.
The daughter of Lady Yong'an committed suicide immediately after waking up.
Lin San became a beggar and homeless.
But that’s not all.
In the Yangxin Palace, imperial decrees were issued one after another.
The slander and defamation against the emperor and Concubine Zhuang implicated many of the concubines' families.
Those who were found to have committed serious crimes would have their property confiscated and be exiled.
Although the Yang family was not held accountable for losing a son, the rift between the emperor and the Yang family deepened.
After Bei Lingyao came out of confinement, the empress dowager recovered from her illness, but she was old and had suffered a mental blow from the illness, so she lost a lot of weight.
Bei Lingyao often brought her twins to the Cining Palace to visit the Empress Dowager.
Only when she saw the twins, a boy and a girl, did the Queen Mother feel truly happy.
"Noble Concubine Zhuang, you have taken good care of Mu Yao and Qian Tong. From now on, please bring them here to pay respects on the first and fifteenth day of each month. You don't have to come every day. I plan to build a small Buddhist temple to worship Buddha and pray for the Great Xia, so that the royal descendants can grow up safely."
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