The queen knew that Jiang Yi had a younger brother who was granted the title of Marquis of Cheng'en, but she didn't know much else.
Starting her investigation through this younger brother, the Queen learned a lot about Jiang Yi and his family.
The queen knew that Jiang Yi had a distant relationship with her family. Ever since Jiang Yi became the Imperial Noble Consort, the people in the Jiang family naturally wanted to use Jiang Yi to gain more benefits.
This is normal. There is an old saying that goes, "A poor person living in a busy city is ignored by everyone, but a rich person living in a remote mountain area has distant relatives."
Not to mention that these people are Jiang Yi's immediate relatives. Seeing Jiang Yi gaining power, they naturally want to take advantage of him.
However, the Jiang family was of too low a status and had no way to pass on information to the palace.
The Jiang family could only watch the fat sheep hanging in front of them, but they couldn't eat it.
Fortunately, Jiang Yuan was later granted the title of Marquis of Cheng'en, and the mansion built by the emperor for Jiang Yuan was just outside the palace, which was much easier than getting close to Jiang Yi.
So the Jiang family went to visit Jiang Yuan with great eagerness, and Jiang's father went there every day, hoping to cultivate a relationship with his son.
However, Jiang Yuan had an instinctive resistance to Jiang's father. When he saw Jiang's father, he was like a mouse seeing a cat. He was so scared that he quickly hid in the cupboard.
When the emperor heard about this, he had someone warn Jiang's father and forbade the Jiang family to go to Cheng'en Marquis' Mansion again.
It would be useless to go. Although Jiang Yuan now has the title of Marquis of Cheng'en, he himself has no real power and cannot bring any real benefits to the Jiang family.
Because of this, Jiang's father and his second wife, Zhu, had a fierce quarrel.
Zhu felt that Jiang's father was useless and couldn't even take care of his own children.
Jiang's father said that it was because of Zhu that he did not dare to get close to his two children in the past. He also said that it was because Zhu treated Jiang Yuan too harshly in the past, which made Jiang Yuan not close to them.
In her early years, Zhu married Jiang's father as a second wife to a merchant. In the beginning, she was very gentle and considerate to him. However, in recent years, Jiang's father was too cowardly. He had no ability and was suppressed by Wu'an Hou. He had been like that for many years.
Naturally, Zhu was no longer as accommodating to Jiang's father as she was at the beginning.
After hearing the news, the queen came up with an idea.
The current emperor is wise and powerful, and even the empress dowager cannot get any good out of him. The queen is not sure if she can really do anything to Jiang Yi under the emperor's command.
Even if she could, how to deal with the aftermath was a problem.
She didn't want to follow the empress dowager's footsteps, but there were only a limited number of people available in the palace. On the other hand, there were many people available in the Jiang family.
Father Jiang is Jiang Yi's biological father, and he has a natural suppressive power over Jiang Yi, and Father Jiang does not like Jiang Yi.
But since Jiang's father is a stranger, it's not easy for him to do anything.
However, the daughter Jiang Die that Zhu had brought with her earlier was three years older than Jiang Yi and was not yet married.
Although Jiang Die was the daughter of Zhu and her deceased husband, Zhu proposed to change Jiang Die's surname to Jiang when she first entered the family, saying that she would be Jiang's father's biological daughter from now on.
Father Jiang was deeply moved by this, and Jiang Die was sweet-spoken. Compared to the humiliation brought to him by Cheng, Father Jiang treated Jiang Die even closer than his own children.
Under such circumstances, Jiang Die was used to being superior to Jiang Yi in everything.
Now Zhu wants Jiang's father and Jiang Yi to strengthen their father-daughter relationship, also for the sake of her own two children.
Jiang Die is not young anymore, but she has not yet settled down at this age, simply because she is too picky.
However, at this age, even those families that she looked down upon before are not willing to marry her.
But it would be different if you could establish a relationship with the imperial concubine in the palace.
Over the years, the Queen has seen many people like Jiang Die who have a high opinion of themselves. Such people are the easiest to use.
So the queen asked someone to invite Jiang Die into the palace.
The Queen took Jiang Die to see Jiang Yi on the pretext of caring about the royal heir. Before coming, the Queen was a little nervous because she knew that the Emperor valued Jiang Yi and was afraid that the Emperor would see through her thoughts and dislike her.
But she thought about it for a moment and realized that even if she saw through it, at most her plan would fail.
But she did nothing, and the emperor could not convict her.
After all, she was born in the Fuguo Mansion and was bestowed upon the emperor as empress by the late emperor.
The emperor was also there when the queen brought Jiang Die over.
The queen wore a kind smile on her face. She saluted the emperor and when it was Jiang Yi's turn to salute her, she hurried forward, shook Jiang Yi's hand and said, "Since you are pregnant now, there is no need to worry about these empty formalities."
He added, "My sister seems to be recovering well, so I am relieved."
She looked up and said to the emperor, "Sister Jiang is pregnant with the emperor's first child. This is of great importance, and I am naturally concerned. I haven't seen Sister Jiang much before, so I didn't know what to make of her. Now that I see her, I'm finally relieved."
The emperor said, "The queen is thoughtful."
He looked at Jiang Die behind the queen, with obvious confusion in his eyes.
The Queen then hurriedly said, "This is the eldest daughter of the Jiang family, the elder sister of Jiang Meimei."
Jiang Yi also looked at Jiang Die, with a look of obvious unfamiliarity in his eyes. "It's been a long time since we last met, and I hardly recognize you."
Jiang Die's heart tightened.
She used to rely on the fact that she was loved by her stepfather and mother, and often targeted Jiang Yi and his sister in private.
At that time, she felt a deep sense of pride in her heart.
So what if they are father and daughter? They are still no match for her, who came later.
Her stepfather loves her much more than he loves Jiang Yi and his siblings.
Because of the rumors about the Cheng family, she also felt great contempt for Jiang Yi and his sister.
Unexpectedly, the situation has changed and Jiang Yi has now become the Imperial Noble Consort.
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