Emperor Zhengde of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 115 Once entering the palace, it is as deep as the sea
Chapter 114 Once Entering the Palace, Deep Like the Sea
The eunuch in attendance hurried forward and said to the Queen Mother: "The Queen Mother doesn't know something. Now, the treasury has started to be in surplus again, which is the result of the emperor's reform of the tax rate."

"What? Why doesn't the Ai family know?"

Empress Dowager Zhang's eyes widened in surprise.She remembered that the silver left by Emperor Hongzhi was already stretched. Although there were only a few million taels of silver, it was already Daming's last savings.

She never thought that her son would have such courage. It was really not easy to enrich the national treasury in just half a year.

"Auntie, Auntie, look at these gold bracelets, aren't they beautiful?" Zhang Xuan happily held a pair of gold bracelets and showed them off in front of the Queen Mother.

"Well, it's really pretty, you are richer than the Ai family now!"

Although Queen Mother Zhang is the mother of a country, she lived frugally all her life and never bought any luxury items, not to mention gold and silver jewelry, even copper products.

To be honest, when Zhang Xuan dangled those gold bracelets in front of her eyes, she was indeed a little envious.

"Look how beautiful you are, get carried away!"

Seeing that she was getting carried away, Queen Mother Zhang tapped her forehead lightly, a little annoyed.

"Auntie, Xuan'er loves you too!"

The Queen Mother looked at Zhang Xuan and said secretly in her heart: "If the civil servants in the court can be silenced, the Ai family will take the time to send her to Zhu Houzhao's bedroom. If she gives birth to a child for Zhu Houzhao, then the mother will regard the child as the most precious thing." , then this girl will be the queen."

However, the cabinet alone is very sad.

On the same day, the two beautiful girls in the palace were rewarded.

Those beautiful girls who didn't get the silver taels were all disappointed, they didn't get the favor of His Majesty, and they didn't get the silver, so what did they use to bribe those eunuchs?
However, this one is much luckier than that Liu Ruyue, at least he didn't wear any hat for His Majesty.

Liu Ruyue was deprived of the title of beauty, and many beautiful women were panicked, so Zhu Houzhao could only secretly send someone to give them some silver taels.

Harem.

There was a women's warehouse, and there were many women in it, and they were grounded in it.

In fact, to put it bluntly, there are some concubines who have been thrown into the cold palace.The cold palace is not cold, but many unfavored concubines are locked up inside, and there are special guards.

Liu Ruyue was first sent to death row by the Queen Mother's order, but considering that this matter has not been confirmed, she was first imprisoned in the cold palace of the harem.

She was imprisoned in the cold palace and finally calmed down.

She sat on a cold bench, trying to calm herself down.She knew that she must not panic at this time.

What the hell is going on outside?
The love poem was not written by her at all, she just read it casually.

Why did the Queen Mother bump into her?
Liu Ruyue felt a little regretful in her heart, she shouldn't have read it out at that time, if she hadn't read it out, the queen mother would not have heard it, and what happened today would not have happened.

However, she thought about it carefully, and she didn't feel a chilly feeling behind her back.
It is said that the palace is as deep as the sea, but the water in this palace is really deep.

"Someone must be plotting against me!"

Thinking of this, she unconsciously looked around, but no one paid attention to her.

This is the innermost courtyard of the harem. Basically no one comes in on weekdays, just dozens of concubines who have been relegated to the cold palace. Now they no longer expect to be favored by His Majesty, and they simply look very disheveled. sloppy.

Occasionally, some people would speak wildly and incomprehensibly. Some people would even smirk when they saw someone, and then simply unbutton their clothes, not knowing what to do.

"Who is going to assassinate me, this person must have great energy."

"Moreover, this kind of handwriting was imitated when I wrote it before."

Liu Ruyue racked her brains to think about it, but she couldn't think of anyone. Ever since she entered the palace, she had never written a single word.

Just as Liu Ruyue was racking her brains, the door was opened.

As the iron lock was taken down, a bright light shone in.

Liu Ruyue looked up and saw Ouyang Jing walking in.

When Liu Ruyue saw Ouyang Jing, it was like seeing a savior. She flew towards Ouyang Jing, hugged Ouyang Jing's leg and cried loudly: "Auntie, save me, save me! I was really wronged."

Ouyang Jing said with a cold face, "The Empress Dowager did not wrong you. Even if you didn't write that poem, you shouldn't read it out. For this, the Empress Dowager should put you to death."

As soon as Ouyang Jing finished speaking, she saw beads of sweat dripping from Liu Ruyue's forehead.

"Auntie, please, teach me, I really don't want to spend my whole life here, even if I go out of the palace."

"No, you can only stay here for the time being, and you can't go anywhere. The Queen Mother is angry now, and no one can mention this matter. I can mention this matter before the Queen Mother, but I can't guarantee that the Queen Mother will be released. about you."

Liu Ruyue seemed to have grasped at a life-saving straw, her eyes began to shine, and she quickly kowtowed three times to Ouyang Jing.

"Thank you for your aunt's life-saving grace. Even if I am a cow or a horse, I will repay my aunt's life-saving grace."

"Okay, then I will explain this matter to His Majesty, but you have to remember that before anyone asks about this matter, you must insist that you did not write it, and you must not be beaten into a trick by those men , if you confess, no one can save you."

Liu Ruyue nodded desperately. She knew that Ouyang Jing was also doing it for her own good. Only by explaining this matter to His Majesty could she be cleared of her guilt.

After Ouyang Jing said some comforting words to Liu Ruyue, she left the harem.

sunset.

The entire palace seemed extremely quiet.

The emperor travels unimpeded all the way.

Carried by the guards to the Palace of Compassion, the Empress Dowager was there just now.

"The queen mother is healthy!"

"The emperor is free."

"I've seen my cousin." Zhang Xuan also came over to greet him.

After the queen mother sat down, she said, "Zhao'er, the beauty you just conferred was dismissed by the Ai family, and she was thrown into limbo."

"Oh, I just heard about this. I don't know the whole story yet. I would like to ask my mother to explain it in detail."

As Zhu Houzhao spoke, he picked up the teacup on the table and took a sip of tea.

At this time, Ouyang Jing also quietly walked into the Palace of Compassion and Ning, and stood beside the Queen Mother.

Ouyang Jing is the emperor's personal bodyguard, in charge of His Majesty's basic necessities of life. Although she is not Zhu Houzhao's concubine, she is already very favored.

"None of the beautiful women who entered the palace satisfied Aijia, and I don't know when those girls from Jiangnan will come in? That wild girl, reading a love poem in her room, made Aijia arrest her." It's right."

Hearing this, Zhu Houzhao frowned slightly and said, "Queen Mother, do you remember what poem she read?"

The queen is very curious, is this testing her memory?

She waved her hand and asked the maid to bring over the poem copied from Liu Ruyue's hand, and asked Zhu Hou to take a look at it.

After reading it, Zhu Houzhao immediately burst out laughing.

(End of this chapter)