At three o'clock in the morning, the sky was full of frosty moon. After Yang Yanzong left the Sixth Prince's Mansion, the Sixth Prince and his staff also came out of the outer study not long after.
Ji Yan was anxious and waited for a while. He slowed down his pace and waited for Mr. Fang and the others to leave with the maid holding the lantern. He hurriedly said, "Father, do we really want to give Yang Yanzong the positions of Deputy Commander of the Left Guard and Commander of Zhenxi?!"
How can that be? !
Once Yang Yanzong obtains these two positions, he will have the identities of a local military and political official and a military officer in Beijing at the same time, and the latter has a high level of authority. He will leap from being a subordinate of the Six Princes' Mansion to becoming one of the core members of the Six Princes' circle of influence. In other words, he will be able to stand on his own to a certain extent and give back to the Six Princes' Mansion. This will be a qualitative leap in terms of status and power.
But how can this be possible? Ji Yan gnashed his teeth in hatred. If he had known that Su Er Niang had such ability, he would have married her without saying a word. Now, he had a strong ominous premonition that things were out of control and might backfire.
No, it’s not a possibility, it’s a certainty!
Yang Yanzong is a cruel and ruthless person who will never let go of any grudge. Once Yang succeeds in taking power and has time to spare, he will definitely counterattack him.
How could Ji Yan sit idly by and watch a minor illness like scabies turn into a serious threat? !
But for no reason, the Sixth Prince would never listen to him. He frowned when he heard this and said, "If it weren't for Yang Yanzong, we would have missed the opportunity to take on the position of Deputy Commander of the Left Guard."
Among the Southern Army and the Governor's Office, the Sixth Prince's Palace has the weakest power and manpower. After competing all the way, they are now at a disadvantage. It can be almost expected that the position of Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Left Guard will be won by Pang Weixin of the Seventh Prince's Palace.
Now that there is such a great opportunity, no one would miss it. There is no need for further discussion. Just now, almost everyone in the outer study said the same thing. After the Sixth Prince inquired in detail and pondered over what happened in the palace to Yang Yanzong, especially the day before he left the palace, he finally decided that he would personally bring Yang Yanzong to the palace to meet the emperor tomorrow.
The Sixth Prince could guess his son's thoughts. He stared at the prince for a long while and said slowly, "Once the arrow is shot, there is no turning back. From the moment the Sixth Prince's Mansion joined the fight for the throne, every step is like treading on thin ice." Over the years, there have been so many dangers and difficulties. One opponent fell, and new opponents stood up. "The court is strange and the situation is unpredictable. If you are not careful, you will lose everything."
By then, the whole mansion will be overturned.
Therefore, we must strive for everything we can, and personal grudges must never outweigh the interests of the group.
As the Sixth Prince spoke, he couldn't help but frown. He really didn't understand how the Crown Prince ended up handling his relationship with Yang Yanzong like this. They were obviously blood cousins, so shouldn't this be the most stable and trustworthy helper?
There were obviously many better and gentler ways to deal with the situation at the beginning, but in the end it turned out like this.
The Sixth Prince felt a little disappointed, but fortunately it only flashed by. Training an heir was not easy and he had spent a lot of energy on it. After all, the Crown Prince was young and could still be taught.
After the Sixth Prince gave him a few lectures, Ji Yan did not dare to argue any more. He muttered for a long while, "Dad, this man is very cunning and rebellious. I am just afraid that if I praise him too much, it will do more harm than good in the future."
In the end, he tried his best to fight for it, and winked, signaling Ji Ye, who was waiting not far away, to speak.
Ji Ye paused, but he could only come up from the corridor and bowed: "Please think twice, father."
Ji Yan's words contained too much subjective emotion, so the Six Kings only listened to 30% of him. However, his concerns did sound somewhat reasonable.
"Perhaps."
The Sixth Prince stared at the direction where Yang Yanzong left, and then looked away for a while. Of course, he had his own considerations. The Sixth Prince said without any nonsense, "As long as his foundation is still in the Sixth Prince's Palace, he will not be able to turn the tables in the short term."
The judgment of the Sixth Princes could not be said to be wrong, and could even be said to be very insightful, but no one expected that Yang Yanzong actually reached an agreement with the old emperor in private.
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The next day, the Sixth Prince and Yang Yanzong went to Yangdu and went straight to the palace.
The Six Princes and others are not permanent members of the court meetings. They are always the ones stirring up trouble behind the scenes. But of course, if the princes of the royal family want to attend the court, they can do so at any time.
On that day, the grand court meeting in the Minguang Hall was filled with sparks and sharp verbal battles. The six princes personally stepped forward and angrily accused the old emperor of being mean and ungrateful, and of being heartless and ruthless. This was not the behavior of a benevolent monarch and was contrary to the teachings of Taizu and Taizong, and it undermined the credibility and prestige of the Ji royal family!
Anyway, the parallel sentences were well-written and the words sounded impeccable on the surface, but their meaning was quite fiery. Immediately, a stone caused a thousand ripples, and the followers of the six kings immediately came out one after another, and the mood was very excited.
The old emperor was so angry that he fell backwards. The leaders of the Four Kings and Seven Kings' parties were startled and immediately realized that the Six Kings were aiming at the position of Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Left Guard, so they rolled up their sleeves and took action!
The Fourth Prince's Palace was fine. Like the Sixth Prince's Palace, it had no advantage in the competition for the position of Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Left Guard. In that case, it didn't make much difference which side got it. After weighing the pros and cons, they were unwilling to let the old emperor keep the Left Guard Camp firmly in his hands. After a few words, their attitudes gradually became subtle.
The three parties of the Seventh Prince's Mansion, the Royalists, and the Sixth Prince's Mansion were arguing fiercely, but when it came down to it, the old emperor did not do a very decent job. Everyone was well-informed and it would have been fine if an ordinary doctor had killed him, but Su Ci and Yang Yanzong had the strong support of the Sixth Prince's Mansion.
The dispute finally came to an end with the old emperor angrily retiring from court.
However, the Six Kings Party and the Four Kings Party privately analyzed that if they continued in this way, there was a high possibility that the Six Kings' Palace would eventually succeed.
Ji Yuanhao said: "The post of Deputy Commander of the Left Guard falls into the hands of the Sixth Prince's Palace or the Seventh Prince's Palace. It doesn't make much difference to Your Majesty."
On the contrary, the drought in Northeast China has continued for two years, which the rulers are very wary of. Just like every time there is an earthquake, the emperor often has to issue an edict of repentance. This is because the emperor is the son of heaven and these disasters are sent by heaven, which are often interpreted as God being dissatisfied with the current actions and sending down natural disasters.
Under such circumstances, the old emperor would definitely not want the Sixth Prince's Mansion to take advantage of the situation to damage his reputation.
Therefore, the Sixth Prince's Mansion has a high chance of achieving its wish in the end.
Ji Yuanhao's analysis hit the nail on the head, and everyone in the outer study nodded. However, when Ji Yuanhao thought of Yang Yanzong, he narrowed his eyes slightly.
This person is coming up now?
I’m afraid he will be a very troublesome person in the future. I just don’t know whether it is a benefit or a disadvantage for him?
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The turmoil in the court had little impact on Su Ci, nor on the women of the Su and Yang families.
Sweeping snow and clearing ice, transplanting flowers and trees, and decorating the whole place from top to bottom, Su Ci is busy preparing for the wedding.
Qiuxiufang had already delivered the wedding dress. Two ladies with shiny hair were pulling open the bright red and golden wide-sleeved wedding dress. The housekeeper smiled and congratulated the owner and asked him to inspect it. Chen carefully looked at the workmanship and was very satisfied. She pushed Su Ci and said, "Quick, Ci'er, go and try it on. If it doesn't fit, I'll make changes now."
Su Yan took the wedding dress and pulled her sister into the inner room. The two women wanted to help, but were politely declined by the sisters.
Just give it a try.
The Su and Yang families were willing to spend money. The wedding dress was made of plenty of gold thread, and it took several embroiderers more than a month to cut and embroider it at the same time, finally completing this exquisite golden phoenix that seemed to be about to flap its wings and take off.
Even Su Ci touched it carefully. It was simply a folk handicraft. She didn't dare to use force for fear of destroying someone else's hard work.
Inner shirt, middle shirt, petticoat, outer skirt, and finally a palm-wide waist belt with bright red embroidery. Her slender waist was less than one hand's width, and her cheeks were reflected in the bright red shirt and skirt. Su Ci's small face was only the size of a palm, and her pair of pretty eyes looked watery and affectionate when she glanced over here. Even a girl like Su Yan couldn't help but exclaim.
Her sister is so beautiful!
She put her arm around Su Ci's shoulders and clenched her fists: "Sister, if that Yang guy and that old woman Yan dare to bully you, come to my house and I will beat them to death!!"
She doesn't care about harmony and unity. She only has this one sister in her life. If anyone makes her sister suffer, she will fight to the death! !
Su Ci burst out laughing and couldn't help but lean her head on her sister's shoulder. "If only I were a man, I would marry you."
Who is better than her sister? there is none left.
The two sisters hugged each other, giggled and whispered a few words, enjoying the warm moment. However, the silence did not last for three seconds. The two sisters heard the sound of the door curtain being lifted and the voice of Aunt Bai talking. Aunt Bai was rarely in a good mood. Chen responded lightly and asked the two sisters in the room in a gentle voice: "Is it okay? Do you want to change it?"
She lifted the curtain and came in to take a closer look at the waist, chest, back and other parts. They were neither too fat nor too thin, just the right size. So she went out to give a few instructions and asked the two women who were responsible for altering clothes to follow Aunt Bai out.
Chen had to stay in the outer room to entertain the manager of the embroidery workshop and settle the final accounts. She told the two sisters to take off their wedding dresses carefully and put them away in the camphorwood box with a big red double happiness sticker next to the phoenix crown. They were asked to be careful not to damage them. Su Yan said "Oh" in a loud voice, and then pouted after agreeing.
Of course, she was not pouting at her mother, but at Aunt Bai and Su Rong.
Su Rong and Yang Yanxin's marriage has also been settled, and the wedding will be held not long after Su Ci's marriage.
The main reason was that Yang Yanxin was not young anymore, and Yang Yanzong considered that after going through the calm before the storm, there would probably be no peace afterwards, and he might not be able to spare the time to properly arrange and celebrate a wedding in the short term.
In this case, we will try to move the wedding date forward. Finally, we set it on the ninth day of the second lunar month, which is about ten days away from the twenty-seventh day of the first lunar month for Su Ci.
With these objective factors in mind, even though Chen was somewhat unhappy, she still started to make arrangements for Su Di's sake.
It was just that time was so extremely tight, but everything else was fine, because Chen had just put all the things in the room to prepare for her daughter's wedding, like wedding silks, wedding flowers, paper-cut wedding cakes, new cloth, wood and so on. There were extra of them, and quite a lot of them, so it wasn't a big problem to give some away.
The Su family was not a wealthy family, so they could collect the dowry by making several trips to Suiping City.
The only thing Su Ci had custom-made was her wedding dress. She had it tailored and the style selected and fine-tuned two months in advance. Chen would come to check on the progress and propose changes from time to time. Several embroiderers worked together for more than a month before they finally finished it.
If Su Rong placed the order now, it would definitely be too late. Fortunately, the embroidery workshop had ready-made sample wedding dresses, so Chen took Su Rong to have a look. She picked out the one she was most satisfied with and brought it back on the same day. The mother and daughter stayed in the room these days to make changes, and some places could only be made beautifully by the embroiderers in the embroidery workshop, so they saved them and waited for the embroiderers to finish their work and come to deliver the goods. Today was the perfect day to make the changes together.
Compared to her sister's indignation, Su Ci shrugged her shoulders. She didn't care.
It's really unexpected that she and the original heroine are sisters-in-law. She complained in her heart, what a sin Su Rong has committed, the plot has gone so off track and she still can't escape the clutches of Yan's family. Life is really like a drama.
But this time is a little different. If she can catch her husband, with Su Rong's cleverness and agility, she should be able to live a better life than in the original book, right?
But it was none of her business anyway, so Su Ci just let it go and took off her wedding dress. Her sister folded it carefully as if she was holding a golden egg, and then carefully put each piece into the large camphor wood box. Then she carefully carried the two boxes, one large and one small, and moved them back to Su Ci's room in the backyard.
She was very strong and could carry two at a time. When she went out, she scared the housekeeper. The housekeeper pointed at Su Yan with her eyes wide open and couldn't speak for a long time. Su Yan didn't care. She carried the boxes and strode out after swinging the curtain, which made Chen very angry.
Su Ci couldn't help but smile when she heard the noise. She lay on the windowsill and watched Su Yan walk into the backyard leisurely - leave the matter of marrying a son-in-law to her sister, and she could get married too. Anyway, the two families lived very close, and her sister was more suitable to stay at home than her.
Okay, just be happy!
On the second night, Su Ci saw Yang Yanzong who had just returned home. He came over without changing his clothes. He put down a small box and asked Su Ci, "Is there anything else you want?"
Su Ci tilted her head. Was he asking her what wedding gift she wanted?
She looked at him carefully. He was thinner, and the lines on his cheeks were more striking, but he was in excellent spirits. It was obvious that although he was busy, things outside should be going very well.
Su Ci thought about it and said, "No."
Yang Yanzong's face darkened and he said, "Forget it." He was leaving!
Su Ci burst out laughing and reached out to grab him, "Hey, don't go," she glared at him, "You stingy guy!"
It would be really disappointing if a man specifically asked you what wedding gift you wanted, and you thought about it and said no. Well, Su Ci certainly understood this.
But she really couldn't think of anything she wanted. She opened the small box and took a look. There were a lot of golden jewelry and rings inside. Her father and mother had spent the past two months preparing for it. They had prepared everything they could think of, the best and most exquisite things, from wedding dresses and farms to every stitch and thread.
However, Su Ci smiled and shook Yang Yanzong's arm for a few times, "I don't want anything else! It would be great if you can protect me if anything happens at home after marriage!"
She sighed, half-seriously, and looked at him with her beautiful big eyes. Yang Yanzong snorted and put his arm around her, thinking something was wrong. "If you listen to me, I will protect you."
This is his wife. If he doesn’t protect her, who can he protect? Whether at home or outside.
Su Ci smiled and winked at him, "You said it, I will remember it!"
"Remember it."
Su Ci even stood on tiptoe and kissed him on the cheek.
When she is well behaved, she is really well behaved and cute.
Yang Yanzong was tempted and wanted to kiss her back, but just as he moved, he heard a whistle on the courtyard wall - Su Di came into the house and hurriedly took off his armor, and was heading to the backyard with Chen.
Yang Yanzong had no choice but to leave first. Today was not a suitable day for him to be discovered staying in Su Ci's boudoir.
Su Ci opened the door to welcome her father and mother, accepted their earnest advice and advice, and by the time she saw them off, it was already three o'clock in the morning.
She lay in bed, quite alert, but couldn't fall asleep for a while, so she opened the window and looked at the cold stars in the sky.
She holds her chin with her hand. Are they married?
Now she finally feels a little more personal and realistic, but she is still quite calm.
Su Ci thought that her mentality would probably not change much before and after marriage. At most, she would raise a child, and she would like the child very much if she had one.
As for Yang Yanzong, he was nice to her and she was nice to him, but if they were not so nice in the future, that was it, and she would not feel too sorry.
She is not opposed to and can accept marriage, but she is not overly obsessed with it either. She just takes a normal attitude.
Anyway, she was sure that she would be happy.
If there is someone who really wants to make her unhappy, then they will be unhappy together!
Thinking of this, she felt relaxed both physically and mentally. Pre-marital syndrome was simply out of the question. She looked at the stars for a while in the cool breeze and felt a little sleepy. So she happily closed the window and went to sleep!
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