Chapter 381: Incompetent Excuse
No one knows her preferences better than the emperor.
Even the vases on the rosewood antique shelf in front of the window are of the style and color that Jiang Xinyue likes. The vases are filled with pink and white bouquets, which are tender and lovely, and pleasing to the eye.
In the past, I had only seen the exclusive favor of the emperor in books or on TV. Now I have experienced it myself. Jiang Xinyue touched the expensive mulberry silk bedding under her buttocks and felt it was pretty good.
No wonder everyone in the palace wants to compete for favor, because only by gaining the emperor's favor can you enjoy the top life.
Jiang Xinyue herself relied on the emperor's favor to get to this position. She didn't want to be both a king and a queen, enjoying the good things the emperor brought her while spitting on him for being so good to many people.
She leaned on the emperor's chest: "Your Majesty, I know that you let me be the queen and I have to bear a lot of pressure. I remember your kindness to me and my children. I will definitely work hard to be your queen and will not let you down."
She is so considerate and will not think that everything a man does for her is what he should do, and she deserves to enjoy his efforts.
So, people are mutual.
It is because his Yue'er understands him, knows his difficulties, loves him, and chooses to walk side by side with him when he is unwilling to be the queen.
How can he not offer the best to her?
Emperor Xuanwu hugged him with emotion, feeling warm in his heart: "Little fool, I let you be my queen because I want you to be. You are the one in my heart, and I want to thank you for appearing in my life. Everything I do is what my heart desires, you don't need any pressure, and I don't need a perfect queen. I just want you to be happy, to be with you day and night, to sleep with you in life and to be buried with you in death, this is the best situation in this life."
He will take good care of his country, and he doesn't need Yue'er to be sensible and put herself in a difficult position.
If he wanted a perfect queen at the beginning, then Queen Zhu would be the best candidate.
But he just fell into the hands of Jiang Xinyue, who was not so sensible, not so reasonable, not so virtuous, and even a little jealous.
At the beginning, he was just fascinated by her beauty, but now he really can't leave her.
The queen is not only the queen, but also the woman he loves the most. What does the family, the country and the world have to do with women?
If he chooses Yue'er as the queen, will Dayan be destroyed?
Forgive me for being frank, that is just an excuse for the incompetent.
He asked himself if he was a wise ruler. There were so many officials in the court who passed the imperial examinations and were trained by so many aristocratic families. They could not stop the succession of dynasties. So what does the rise and fall of the country have to do with a little woman? It's
still the incompetence of the superiors and officials!
The collapse of a country is because it is rotten in its roots. Dayan has been prosperous for too long, making those court officials numb and forgetting the principle of being prepared for danger in times of peace.
In a prosperous era, corrupt officials are rampant.
After these termites have eaten away Dayan, they will feel guilty and shift the blame for the rise and fall of the country to other people, and royal power and women are always eternal topics.
Therefore, whoever impeaches Yue'er in the future, he will investigate, and he will find out the truth.
And the person who harmed Xiaotuanzi this time, he doesn't believe that a small nobleman has such a great ability.
He will definitely find out the person behind the scenes and eliminate the trouble forever.
"Found it, Your Majesty... Found it..."
Noble Cheng probably never thought that there would be a day when he would be remembered by the emperor so much. The people of the Suspense Department searched for half a month and turned over all the places in the palace where the body might be hidden, and finally found Noble Cheng buried in the dense forest near the Yanxi Palace.
The weather in April and May was not too hot, and Jiang Xinyue had to put on an extra shawl when she got up in the morning, so the degree of decay of Cheng Guiren's body was relatively good.
But no matter how good it was, he had been dead for half a month, and corpse spots and corpse odor had already appeared on his body.
Jiang Xinyue wanted to go and check it out in person, but the emperor thought that she was already four or five months pregnant and did not want her to see such a scene. He
always felt that if she saw it, the sweet and soft little princess in her belly would also see it.
And the smell was not good, it would be even worse if she vomited.
So Jiang Xinyue could only rely on the news sent back by Tang Shiliang to analyze who Cheng Guiren's accomplice was.
"Noble Cheng died of a stabbed throat. The coroner from the Suspended Mirror Department said it was probably a sharp weapon like a hairpin. The wound was very deep. She must have been stabbed without any protection and died on the spot. The emperor has ordered people to check for hairpins of the same size as the wound." The
clothes and accessories worn by the concubines in the palace were all made by the Clothing Department and the Treasure Department. The emperor deduced that the one who killed Noble Cheng must have lived in the palace for a long time and infiltrated the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Those who were not favored were excluded, and there were not many concubines who had been favored and were still alive.
And those who made the emperor suspicious were even fewer.
He locked on the suspect and focused on investigating that one, so he soon got clues.
Jiang Xinyue frowned: "Zhang Wanrong? Is she so brave?"
Tang Shiliang thought for a while and said: "Zhang Wanrong's father is a doctor in the Ministry of Works. In this selection, Zhang Wanrong's concubine sister was also selected. She is the girl who aspires to be a chef. The queen said that she is ambitious, so she kept her name. It is said that this concubine sister and Zhang Wanrong did not get along when they were in the palace, and they quarreled with each other."
Now that the concubine sister has entered the palace and is quite loved by the queen, it is unknown whether she holds a grudge.
Jiang Xinyue was really speechless about Zhang Wanrong.
She chose the chef sister because the chef sister could not display her cooking skills at home. She felt it was a pity that such a good gourmet was delayed, so she let her enter the palace, right?
Since the girl entered the palace, she has hardly ever left the kitchen. The chief steward Gao in the kitchen is her man, and even Gao said that the girl is a cooking genius. If she were a man, he would definitely take her as his apprentice.
Jiang Xinyue asked him to just train this apprentice. Who said that important positions in the palace can only be
held by men? In Jiang Xinyue's opinion, the competent will take the job.
Women can also hold up half the sky, and there is no need to wait until the future. As long as there are women who are willing to display their talents and have the courage to break the shackles of the world, she will provide them with opportunities.
This is the stage she should provide for women as the queen.
What's wrong with Zhang Wanrong?
What's bothering her?
The bloody smell in the Ministry of Punishment was about to overflow. The eunuchs and palace maids who had been punished were lying on the ground. They were all from Zhang Wanrong's palace.
Everyone in the Suspension Department was secretly discussing that the emperor and the empress were not the most cruel, but only more cruel, one more cruel than the other.
It seemed that their interrogation methods were still too gentle. They had to learn from the two Langmie to improve their efficiency in handling cases.