Chapter 396 Warning to the clan members
Those who are not convinced and always want to replace her and help their daughters to take the position should also weigh their own weight, otherwise they will end up like the Huang family and cannot blame others.
She is a person who will not recognize her relatives when she gets ruthless. Don't blame her for not caring about family affection and face.
Jiang Yankun looked at the beautiful hairpin flower small regular script and couldn't figure out whether it was written by his daughter or a ghostwriter.
But the meaning must be his daughter's.
He glanced at the clan members gathered in the Jiang family's reception hall. They probably all knew that the young could not control Jiang Yankun, so those who came were all older people, who could be regarded as the elders of the clan.
"Yankun! Huang Xicai from the Huang family has come to my house. He said that he sent his daughter to the palace to help the empress, but the empress was wrongfully accused of poisoning the concubine, poured poison and was kicked out of the palace. Is this really true?"
"How can this be done? She is young and her behavior is too extreme. Now she has a good look, and the emperor loves her a lot. If she gets old and loses her beauty in the future, and the emperor stops doting on her, won't the family send a girl to help her maintain his favor?"
Yan Kun, you have to speak up about her. She is too vicious and no man likes her. Now she is favored and no one will care about her. If she falls out of favor, it will be brought to the fore and it will affect the reputation of His Highness the Crown Prince!"
"The family has made great efforts for her to become the empress. She behaves like this only because she thinks that the little girl from the Huang family was sent to the palace at our instruction. Is this a show of power to us old guys?"
"That's right! It's outrageous."
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These people are talking at the same time, expressing their dissatisfaction with Jiang Xinyue. If it were the old father Jiang in the past, he would have turned into a super spray and sprayed them to death.
Knowing that her daughter is now in favor, but still sending the little girl to the palace, these old guys know whether it is to consolidate the favor or to seize the favor.
If you really want to help Sister Yue consolidate the favor, shouldn't you wait until she loses power, really loses favor and has no hope of recovery, and then send a young, beautiful and capable concubine to the palace to help her regain the favor of the emperor?
It's nothing more than seeing that she is in power now, loved by the emperor, and all the concubines in the harem are submissive. Her son was also made the prince, and she is the one who is loved by everyone.
Sending her own daughter to the palace at this time is to use her daughter as a stepping stone, and want Sister Yue to pave the way for their daughter. Once the emperor is really seduced by their daughter, Sister Yue's position will be in jeopardy!
What do you mean Sister Yue became the queen because the family made a lot of efforts?
When he had not participated in the imperial examination and was not an official in the capital, when did the family look up to their branch?
It's not that the family is willing to help Sister Yue, but after Sister Yue was favored, the status of the Jiang family rose with the tide, and they all got substantial benefits, so they would listen to Brother Yanxi and help Sister Yue with all their strength.
If their sister Yue had been a little noble after entering the palace and had not brought them any benefits, would they help Sister Yue?
Not at all.
So, it was obviously a mutually beneficial cooperation, why did they say that they were the one who made selfless contributions, and if Sister Yue did not meet their expectations, they would be repaying kindness with enmity?
He went over these words in his mind, and his anger finally subsided a little.
After the teachings of Master Jing, he is no longer the spraying Zikun of the past, but the reasonable scholar Jiang.
"What you uncles are saying is right. I, Jiang, can have what I have today without the support of my family, but we have to make it clear, so that no one will be arrogant in the future and ruin the reputation of the Queen Mother and the Crown Prince. What do you think, uncles?"
"What do you mean?"
"If there is anything you don't understand, just say it."
"It has been more than three years since the Empress entered the palace. She has risen from a noble to the mistress of the harem. To my shame, as a father, I have not been of any help at all. Instead, it was the Empress who helped my incompetent father, rise from the Shaoqing of the Honglu Temple to the Zhengqing, then to the Shangshu of the Ministry of Punishments, and now to the Minister of the Inner Cabinet. It was all because the Emperor loved the Empress that he promoted me. She is extremely dangerous in the palace. If we are not careful, we will be doomed. Today, I make it clear that I will not allow anyone to hurt my daughter under any excuse."
He has been an official for many years, and his awe-inspiring official power frightened people away. Naturally, those who had a guilty conscience did not dare to look him in the face.
Jiang Yankun snorted heavily: "The cases I solved can circle the city. Don't play tricks in front of me. If I break through this layer of window paper, everyone will be embarrassed. If you want to continue this glory and wealth, just like before, be on the same side with the queen. If you have other thoughts that you shouldn't have, the Huang family will be a lesson for you. I, Jiang, always put the queen and the prince first in everything. Anyone... remember, I'm talking about anyone who dares to damage their interests. The queen doesn't need to take action. I will expel those with ulterior motives from the Jiang family tree."
Those old men who regarded the clan as their life were so scared that they dared not speak.
It was their unanimous decision to make Jiang Yankun the new clan leader. Now it's too late to regret.
After leaving the Jiang family's gate, several old men were still standing together discussing what Jiang Yankun had just said: "What does he mean? What do you mean he didn't help the Empress?"
Before the late Empress passed away, the brothers Jiang Yanxi and Jiang Yankun wrote a letter back to their clan, asking them to send rare and expensive clothes to the late Empress's family in the name of Duke Cheng and send them to the Zhu family. However, the clothes were stained with a knockout drug that could knock out a yak. Wasn't this helping the Empress?
"Are you stupid? You don't understand this? What he meant is that he, as a father, has done nothing to help the Empress. Instead, it was the Empress who favored him that allowed him to enter the inner cabinet. We in the clan have done even less to help. Let's not take advantage of our age and use morality to kidnap the Empress!"
"He has made a lot of progress. He didn't point at us and scold us for being old. With such progress, the Jiang family may be able to go further."
"Go home and ask your family to arrange marriages for the girls! Judging from what Yan Kun and the Empress mean, even if they let them enter the palace, it will only make the Empress unhappy. You will end up losing more than you gain. Don't let all the outstanding girls in the family get hurt."
"All we want is wealth, glory and promotion. As long as Jiang Xinyue is in power, she can promote the young people in the clan and let the Jiang family assist His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. If we fight among ourselves, others will be the only ones who will be proud."
"That's right. Yankun has been very restrained and didn't scold us. It shows that he still has a sense of family reputation in his heart."
Jiang Yankun himself didn't expect that after he stopped scolding people, these old men actually took the initiative to think well of him.