Honghui is reborn in Legend of Zhen Huan, I will protect my mother

"You are so confused! Although I don't know what's going on outside, I know that Concubine Rou is not favored. The one who is favored is her concubine sister, the current queen. Why do you have such an idea?"

"When Imperial Concubine Rou married into the palace of the current emperor, you were still young, so you didn't know how favored she was! If she hadn't acted on Prince Zhao in a moment of vain, her position as the wife would still be very secure. Even if the current empress had caught up with her, she would have given birth to a legitimate son, but he died young due to bad luck!"

He regretted it deeply afterwards, but how could he have imagined that the current emperor would show no mercy to Concubine Rou?

No, it should be said that he had a bad premonition as early as when the current queen ascended the throne and posthumously conferred the title of Concubine Rou on his original wife. However, the development of the situation was beyond his control. He could only pray with a fluke mentality that the His Majesty still had some lingering memories of the deceased Concubine Rou.

"You know everything that happened afterwards. This is retribution. I'm afraid that the sudden demote by His Majesty last year was because of this. It's just that he was just trying to curry favor with the rich and powerful, and he didn't collude with anyone. Otherwise, the whole Zhen family would suffer!"

Wen Shichu hesitated to speak, and after a long while he finally said, "What about Huan'er...what about the young lady?"

Zhen Yuandao himself did not quite believe it and replied: "Your Majesty is very clear about gratitude and resentment. Even if he is angry, he will not take Huan'er's life. But forget about gaining the emperor's favor. Just live a peaceful life for the rest of your life."

Wen Shichu returned to the Wen Mansion with a heavy heart, and then asked his apprentice to deliver a letter to Sui Yuxuan, explaining the whole incident in detail. After that, Zhen Huan fell seriously ill and settled down again. No news from Sui Yuxuan was heard for a while.

But she refused to accept her fate: "Even if the emperor's favor is gone, at least I need to have a child. Otherwise, how can I survive in this life? Let His Majesty calm down first, and then we can make plans in the future."

No one cared about what happened in Shuiyuxuan, and the sticking pole department had withdrawn long ago. In the end, no one knew the secret!

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In early July of the second year of Yongzheng's reign, in order to rectify the administration of officials and reduce corruption, Emperor Yongzheng Yinzhen ordered the implementation of the "fire consumption tax to the public" and at the same time implemented the "anti-corruption silver" system.

Similarly, this time, one place was selected for implementation before spreading to other provinces.

However, not many people openly opposed this time. Everyone wanted to use the fire consumption to make up for the local deficit, and they also wanted to increase the salary in a fair and open manner. Oh, no, it should be said that the salary for maintaining integrity.

All the civil and military officials in the court and the local officials thought that the Emperor had finally calmed down and stopped tormenting them like before. However, they did not expect that before they could relax for long, the Emperor started to act aggressively again.

In mid-July, Emperor Yongzheng wrote "On Factions" to strongly resist the practice of forming factions for personal gain. He demanded that all civil and military officials in the court should not form factions in private, let alone collude with each other, and that the princes should not have private relationships with court officials, and should only handle official business impartially.

At the end of July, Emperor Yongzheng reprimanded Prince Lian in person, saying things like "he is controlled by a woman", "he says one thing in front of you and another behind your back", "he has no intention of serving the country, but is always scheming for personal gain", etc. He said a lot of unpleasant things, but in the end he still saved his face and did not reprimand him in front of everyone.

However, the wife of Prince Lian, Guo Luoluo, lost all her face and dignity. First, an imperial decree promoted Hongwang's biological mother, Zhang, as a concubine. Then, the old wife of the clan affairs office was ordered to come to the house for "teaching". At the end, she was specifically assigned two maids from the palace of the emperor's father, Concubine Hui, saying that the rules were not good and needed to be learned again.

After several humiliations, Guo Luoluo was so angry that she spat out a mouthful of blood. Not only did she curse endlessly in the Lian County Prince's Mansion, she also kept complaining in the An County Prince's Mansion, "I am the fish on the chopping board, I am afraid that I can't even keep my head in the future!"

Someone advised her to give in, but she just sneered: "I have never given in my life, I would rather die than surrender, it's up to him to kill me or chop me up!"

"Stop talking now. What if His Majesty divorces you and sends you back to your parents' home?"

"That's absolutely not possible!" Guo Luoluo pointed in the direction of the mansion and cursed, "Zhang and Li, you seductive women, I would rather die than allow them to occupy the Lianjun Palace and replace me! Yinsi can only be buried with me for the rest of his life, and he can never leave me!!"

"Then don't offend His Majesty too much. The Emperor is a man who holds grudges very much! The reason you are in this situation today is because you offended His Majesty and the Empress many times in your early years. Now the situation has changed drastically. You can no longer offend whoever you want as you please. Your family is in trouble too."

No matter how reluctant Ren Guoluo was, she had no choice but to lower her head and accept the two maids. She lived in seclusion for half a year. But that is a story for later, so let's not talk about it for now.

On the eve of the Mid-Autumn Festival in August, Emperor Yongzheng officially decided that concubines dowagers could leave the palace to be taken care of by their sons.

Not only that, Honghui also issued two oral decrees. One was that princesses who were married to princesses from outside the Great Wall were allowed to build a princess's mansion in the capital and could live in the capital for half a year every year, and still live outside the Great Wall for the remaining half a year. The other was that concubines who were fifty years old or above could live in the princess's mansion of their biological or adopted daughter for two or three months every year.

As soon as this oral order was issued, the kings who were still feeling grief over the experience of their Eighth Brother suddenly smiled happily. They all hurried to submit memorials requesting to support their biological mothers. Then, within ten days, all the concubines who met the requirements left the palace one after another.

Concubine Hui, Concubine Rong and other concubines who had only one son moved into the palace smoothly. However, there was a problem with Concubine Yigui. Prince Heng and Prince Fu vied with each other to request that their biological mother live in their own palaces, and neither of them would give in, which caused quite a stir.

"Sister Dowager Concubine, you are so enviable. I don't have any children, so I can only watch you sisters happily leave this world..."

"..." Concubine Yigui had a hard time. Both sons were filial, but the key was who should she choose? If she chose the fifth son, the ninth son would be unhappy. If she chose the ninth son, the fifth son would feel uncomfortable. How could she keep both sons balanced?

The front court and the harem had been making trouble for four or five days, and even she, who was so straightforward, became impatient, so she simply set a rule that they would live separately for half a year, and only then did she barely calm down this unnecessary dispute.

In addition to this, one of the kings made a fool of himself, and that person was Prince Xian!

How do you think he made such a fool of himself? Ha! He actually submitted a petition to support the Empress Dowager in the palace on the grounds that "the Empress Dowager gave birth to two sons, and I should take care of her together with my brother until the end of her life." He even said confidently, "Didn't my fifth and ninth brothers each take care of Concubine Yigui for half a year? I am not greedy, so I only need half a year, and you, my brother, will take care of the remaining half a year!"