Changsheng: Peak at the Beginning

As for dealing with the Queen Mother, Yi Xin already had some ideas, and she had no intention of leaving the matter entirely to Dong. After all, Dong also needed her "handle" so that both parties could cooperate with peace of mind.

Yi Xin said to Xizhu, "When the Empress Dowager entered the palace, she became a maid for Empress Xiaoyi. In order to have a child through surrogacy, Empress Xiaoyi also suppressed the Empress Dowager. Later, the Empress Dowager was promoted to the throne because she gave birth to the emperor and escaped from Empress Xiaoyi's control. It seems that she has ascended to the throne overnight and has lived a life of luxury. But who says that luxury does not come without suffering?"

Xizhu thought for a while before she understood Yixin's intention, but she was more optimistic about the Dong family's surrender to Yixin. She had previously thought that Yixin wanted the Dong family to secretly poison the queen mother, which was a serious crime!

But Yi Xin asked their Dong family's people to use other more covert means. She smiled and followed Yi Xin's words and said, "Yes, the Empress Dowager's eldest son has become the emperor and has earned her the honor of being the Empress Dowager, but her youngest son, whom she has loved for decades, is still imprisoned in the imperial mausoleum. We should talk more about the Fourteenth Master in front of the Empress Dowager and let the Empress Dowager help the Fourteenth Master escape from the sea of ​​suffering as soon as possible."

Xizhu passed the news back to the Dong family, and everyone in the Dong family breathed a sigh of relief. They originally thought that Yi Xin wanted to use them to harm a concubine in the palace in order to get hold of something against the Dong family, so that they would feel at ease to cooperate.

I didn't expect that he really was born into the Fucha clan, and he looked down on the concubines in the harem and directly attacked the empress dowager!

Others don’t know, but how could the Dong family not know what kind of people the Empress Dowager and the Queen are?

Everyone in the Dong family agreed that Yi Xin had big plans and was targeting the Queen Mother directly, so the next step would be to target the Queen.

The Dong family acted quickly. They did not go to the Empress Dowager's Shoukang Palace immediately. Instead, they asked someone to encourage their daughter-in-law, the Fourteenth Concubine, to show her face in front of the Empress Dowager as often as possible.

The Fourteenth Lady was also a wonderful person. She never asked the Empress Dowager to plead with the Emperor to make peace and have her husband return from the imperial mausoleum as soon as possible. Instead, she served the Empress Dowager even more attentively, and even her children often went to see her.

So the Empress Dowager was coaxed into submission by the Fourteenth Concubine during the day, but at night she always thought of her youngest son who was still suffering in the imperial mausoleum, and she would inevitably go to the Emperor to test him.

But the emperor was already dissatisfied with the empress dowager's excessive partiality. Now that he saw that the empress dowager no longer cared about his excessive favoritism towards Concubine Wan, she only wanted him to release her beloved youngest son, and preferably make him a prince and use him in an important position.

Every time the emperor left in anger, the empress dowager was always furious at the emperor's hurtful words. However, she could not ask the imperial physician for help after the emperor left, otherwise the emperor would think that she was pretending to be sick in order to force him to return to Beijing in order to get his youngest son back.

So after several such incidents, the Queen Mother's health became increasingly weak.

In November, Yi Xin quickly found an opportunity to announce her pregnancy. It was not that she did not want to wait for three months, but the Chinese New Year would be approaching by then. Although announcing the pregnancy news would be double the joy, it would also double the hatred she would attract.

Besides, the Ministry of Internal Affairs now has the help of the Dong family and the Xia family, so she still has room and is confident that she is not afraid of those dirty tricks.

The emperor was the only one outside who knew about Yi Xin's pregnancy. That day, he finally remembered Yi Xin and turned over Yi Xin's green card. When the eunuch came to deliver the oral order, he happened to meet someone from the Imperial Hospital who came to check Yi Xin's pulse. So the young eunuch from the Jingshifang took advantage of the joyous atmosphere to receive a red envelope from Yi Xin. When he turned around and went to the Qianqing Palace with Zhang Deshun to announce the good news, he received another reward in front of the emperor.

To be honest, the emperor was not very happy about Yi Xin's pregnancy. Even if he searched among his three sons, he could not find one that could be raised.

The reason lies with the Fucha family behind Yi Xin.

The emperor was wary of in-laws, even though the title of in-laws no longer existed in this dynasty. However, the power of the Fucha family was an objective fact, so he had to think more about it. After all, when he was in the palace, he was afraid of Nian Gengyao, so he gave Hua Fei, who was still a concubine, a bowl of safflower to abort the five-month-old child who was obviously the ancestor of the prince, to her.

Even though he is now the emperor, his mind is not broad-minded, and his tension about power is even twice as much as when he was a prince.

Just like when he wanted to choose someone to check and balance Concubine Hua, he didn't dare to pull Yi Xin out to do the job, and only dared to choose Concubine Shen who was from the Han Army Banner. The reason was that Concubine Shen was from the Han Army Banner, while Yi Xin was from the Manchu Army Banner, the Bordered Yellow Banner. Even if Concubine Shen gave birth to a prince, as long as the Fifth Prince was around, Concubine Shen's child would not even have much chance of ascending to the throne.

And Yi Xin's child will definitely be pushed to the throne. This is the most essential difference between Concubine Shen and Yi Xin.

So the emperor pretended to be happy and gave Yi Xin a generous reward. He also hurried to the Yanx Palace to visit Yi Xin. The Second Court sent a message to the Queen early in the morning, promoting Yi Xin to the position of Concubine Jin, and directly exempted Yi Xin from paying respects in the future, just to put Yi Xin on the fire. He even secretly hoped that Concubine Hua would take action against Yi Xin, and it would be best to let Yi Xin die and keep the child. Perhaps he could give Yi Xin's child to someone else for adoption, so as to dilute the mark of Fucha on the child.

Yi Xin leaned softly on the emperor's chest, but she felt that the emperor was not very happy. She immediately remembered what Xizhu had reported to her about Concubine Hua's miscarriage. She got so angry that she didn't care about anything else. She directly asked the system for a Xiaoyao Pill that nourishes the kidneys but eliminates sperm. She gave the emperor the pill while he was drinking tea.

After confirming with her own eyes that the emperor had indeed taken the pill, Yi Xin felt relieved. As soon as the emperor left, she turned around and sent a message to Fu Cha, first telling her the good news of her pregnancy, and then mentioned the emperor's attitude, suggesting that Ma Qi should not step down in a hurry.

Even Sang'er noticed the emperor's attitude, let alone Xizhu. Xizhu was worried and racking her brains to find a topic to comfort Yixin, but unexpectedly, she was comforted by Yixin instead.

"You may have misunderstood one fact: perhaps the other women in the harem regard me as an enemy, but in fact my only enemy is the emperor."

Sang'er didn't quite understand, but Xizhu understood it after a little thought, and felt more and more that the Dong family had done nothing wrong.

Yi Xin became a legitimate imperial concubine. Xia Changzai and An Yingying in the Yanxi Palace were under her jurisdiction. The small kitchen in the Yanxi Palace was finally under her control. This was a huge improvement in terms of food. Even if the Queen and Concubine Hua wanted to send something harmful in, it would not be easy.

Based on these two points, Yi Xin finally gave the emperor a good look. At the New Year's Eve banquet, she pretended to toast the emperor with a glass of honey water and said a lot of auspicious words, which really made the emperor happy for a while.