"That's nonsense, Your Majesty. When I was pregnant with you, Concubine Rong murdered the heir to the throne. The evidence is irrefutable. Are you being worthy of me and yourself by doing this?"
The Queen Mother's eyes were red and she looked heartbroken.
"Mother, please calm down. I've been dreaming about my father for the past few years. He told me that he felt guilty towards Concubine Rong. As a son, I must get to the bottom of this matter.
I didn't expect that Rong Jieyu was indeed wronged. No wonder my father felt guilty. I compensated Rong Jieyu on my father's behalf and posthumously conferred her the title of Imperial Noble Consort. What's wrong with that?"
Emperor Yongxi brought up the previous emperor, what else could people say?
The Queen Mother gritted her teeth. This evil son was really going to piss her off to death.
What kind of sinful debt did she bear?
"Someone, bring the witness up."
As soon as Emperor Yongxi finished speaking, two eunuchs brought Nanny Gong forward.
The Empress Dowager's eyes widened as she stared at Matron Gong in disbelief and glared at Emperor Yongxi, "This is Matron Gong, your Matron. What are you doing, Your Majesty?"
Emperor Yongxi looked at Ji Kang, who said, "Reporting to the Empress Dowager, I was ordered by the Emperor to investigate the matter of Concubine Rong, but I discovered that Madam Gong was almost silenced, so I saved her."
Ministers: “…”
We are all smart people, so how could we not see that the mother and son were looking away?
But it wasn't too big a fuss.
Even if the Empress Dowager is not the Emperor's biological mother, she is still the Emperor's biological mother. If the Emperor has evidence, it will definitely be unfavorable to the Empress Dowager.
What good will it do the emperor to bring disgrace upon the empress dowager?
The ministers frowned, and they disagreed with Emperor Yongxi's approach.
Mother and child prosper together and suffer together.
The empress dowager did not have a good reputation at the beginning. She was caught adultering, divorced, and gave birth to a child in the palace. However, she was just a concubine at the time. Empress Yuan was still alive, and the empress dowager was pregnant with the emperor's heir, so the court officials did not oppose it so strongly.
When the emperor was one year old, Empress Yuan died.
Another year later, the Queen Mother became the next Queen.
It took the empress dowager three years to rise from a fifth-rank concubine to the empress dowager.
It was too fast for the court officials and concubines.
However, Emperor Yongxi was named Crown Prince when he was only one year old, so it was normal for the Empress Dowager to be named Empress because of her son's status.
If Concubine Rong was wronged, then the Queen Mother deliberately wanted to eliminate Concubine Rong.
After all, Concubine Rong was one of the late emperor's favorite concubines.
Compared with Concubine Li, her position is not high, so she is naturally easier to deal with.
When the empress dowager entered the palace pregnant with the royal heir, she first took action against Concubine Rong to establish her authority.
At this time, the Queen Mother was so angry that she almost fainted.
She didn't expect that things that happened many years ago would be dug up.
Concubine Rong had been dead for more than 20 years, and she had already passed away, but her son wanted to dig it up to make her angry.
Evil son, evil son, evil son...
The Queen Mother kept cursing in her heart.
After so many years, she had completely forgotten about Concubine Rong.
Now when Emperor Yongxi mentioned it, she thought of the woman with a similar temperament to her.
Rong Jieyu was as beautiful as a flower, but there were many beautiful concubines in the palace.
The Empress Dowager was not the most beautiful one in the late emperor's harem, but Concubine Rong was born with a pure and elegant beauty and was very charming.
I, the daughter of the Empress Dowager, am even more pitiful because I am a concubine's daughter. No matter how hard I try, I am not as good as my elder sister. I finally waited for the chance to be selected and wanted to enter the palace to compete with my elder sister.
However, he was eliminated by his elder sister and had to marry a scholar from a poor family.
How could the Queen Mother accept this?
Why is her elder sister a phoenix from birth, but she is just a wife from a poor family?
Even if my ex-husband worked hard to get promoted, he was only a fifth-rank official, and that was the result of the Jiang family's efforts.
The empress dowager disliked everything about her ex-husband. He was not as handsome as the late emperor, nor as noble as the late emperor. Even if he had some talent and learning, how could he compare with the late emperor?
The Queen Mother was unwilling to accept this, and when she learned that her husband had an orphan cousin, she magnanimously took her in, and then deliberately took the cousin to the banquet to raise her heart.
She made a lot of efforts to win over the late emperor and make him sympathize with her.
Every time he entered the palace to attend a palace banquet, he never missed the opportunity to see the late emperor.
However, she would not have been able to succeed without the help of the Prime Minister's wife.
But after entering the palace, she saw Concubine Rong, who was younger and had a better temperament than her.
The Queen Mother suddenly felt a sense of crisis, thinking that Concubine Rong made her look like a crude fake.
In addition, she was pregnant and could not sleep with the emperor. If this went on for a long time, the late emperor would not be able to see her again.
So the Queen Mother, with the help of the Prime Minister's wife, framed Concubine Rong.
After Concubine Rong was banished to the cold palace, the empress dowager had forgotten about her.
However, she did not expect that the late emperor would visit Concubine Rong in the cold palace while drunk. If she had not threatened her elder sister with her pregnancy and deliberately had a miscarriage, the late emperor would probably still be thinking about Concubine Rong.
So the Queen Mother had someone secretly set a fire and completely eliminated Concubine Rong, and only then did she feel relieved.
When Nanny Gong told all these things, the Queen Mother was furious, but she couldn't do anything to Nanny Gong in front of everyone.
Nanny Gong also became disheartened. She had done so much for the Empress Dowager and had been serving her since she was a member of the Jiang family for decades.
But the Queen Mother wanted to kill her.
The ministers were in an uproar!
Unexpectedly, the Queen Mother plotted against her ex-husband in order to enter the palace.
After entering the palace, he plotted against Concubine Rong.
After becoming the empress, she suppressed the concubines and gave them infertile drugs.
No wonder in the late emperor's harem, since the empress dowager entered the palace and gave birth to Emperor Yongxi, only Concubine Li gave birth to the sixth prince, Prince Hai, and no more children.
Even the Queen and Lin Puyu were plotted by the Queen Mother.
So scary!
"Your Majesty, the cold palace nanny has something to report."
A message was announced, causing everyone to pause.
Even the Empress Dowager was puzzled as to why the servants from the cold palace came to join in the fun at this time.
Suddenly, the Queen Mother's heart skipped a beat. Could it be that the arson was seen by the people in the cold palace?
The Queen Mother thought it was impossible. When she first entered the palace, her father also gave her people to protect herself.
By relying on her connections in the palace, she avoided her elder sister and had someone set fire to the cold palace.
At that time, all the guilty concubines and servants in the cold palace were burned to death.
There is no way there are any survivors.
"pass"
When Nanny Leng came in, no one recognized her. She was the Empress Yuan's former second-class maid and the apprentice personally taught by her wet nurse.
Ji Kang asked, "What do you have to report?"
Nanny Leng knelt down and said with tears in her eyes, "Dongzhu, the second-class maid of the Empress, greets the Emperor."
Everyone was stunned.
The Queen Mother widened her eyes in disbelief. Ever since she became the next Queen, the people around her elder sister, the Queen Mother, were either subdued by her or sent out of the palace.
If it weren't for the late emperor, she would never leave anyone alive.
"Didn't you die of illness?"
Nanny Leng looked at the Queen Mother and said, "I didn't die of illness, I just faked my own death to escape. The Queen was just ill, but the old Duke couldn't wait to transfer the Jiang family's connections to the Queen Mother. How could the Queen not be disheartened?"
The Queen Mother deliberately revealed how she and the late Emperor met, knew each other, and fell in love before Empress Yuan's deathbed. You deliberately angered Empress Yuan and caused her more trouble. Don't blame her for replacing your son.
boom!
Everyone was shocked again!
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