Reborn to marry the emperor, I just want to confuse the emperor and seize the throne

The Queen Mother also talked about the positions of other concubines. "Those who gave birth to the emperor's heirs were given high positions. I will naturally not let the few who are favored by the emperor suffer any grievances. It was also the emperor's intention to promote Zhu Liangdi to the third rank Zhu Guipin..."

The Queen Mother had no idea what happened to Zhu Zhenzhen outside the palace.

When Jiang Fenghua heard this, she did not expect Xie Shang to make this decision. She did not hear clearly what the Queen Mother said next. She was just wondering why Xie Shang still wanted to confer the title of noble concubine on Zhu Zhenzhen.

The Queen Mother asked again, "Queen?"

Jiang Fenghua responded, "The Queen Mother has decided on the position of the Young Lady of the East Palace. I have no objection."

The Queen Mother smiled and said, "Now we have arranged palaces for them. I plan to let Concubine Tang and Concubine Song help with the affairs of the harem. The Queen will come to assist me after the Queen successfully gives birth to a prince and the ceremony of coronation. Ruan Ruan is pregnant and it is not suitable for her to work hard. Now in the entire harem, only Ruan Ruan is pregnant with the heir. What I and the Emperor value most is the baby in the Queen's belly."

Jiang Fenghua understood what the empress dowager said, thinking that she wanted her to just focus on taking care of her pregnancy and was not going to hand over all the power of the harem to her. What was the point of her being the empress? Being the empress without power was like being the mistress but not having the power to run the household. When the emperor lost interest in her, he could kick her away at any time. By then, she wouldn't even have a place to cry and might even be called stupid.

It seems that she still has a long way to go to seize power.

Without Concubine Su to trip her up, Cheng Langjin also became arrogant.

Jiang Fenghua kept smiling, "I am not feeling well right now, please let the Queen Mother make the decision!"

Empress Dowager Cheng was very satisfied with her obedience. "There are only a dozen ladies in the harem. I plan to let the Ministry of Internal Affairs arrange the selection. I have informed the Queen, so the Queen doesn't have to worry about it."

"Yes." Jiang Fenghua only had one word left to say. Now she finally understood why Xie Shang had so many women in his harem in his previous life. It turned out that it was all because of the Empress Dowager who took the trouble to select women for him.

She knew that the Queen Mother simply didn't like the fact that her son favored a certain woman, but Xie Shang was not under her control, so she could only disgust the woman.

The Queen Mother spoke to her for a while and then left.

After the Queen Mother left, Hong Xiu and Nanny Wang went to Jiang Fenghua's bedroom again. Both of them were filled with worry and anxiety. Nanny Wang said, "Now the ladies of the other palaces are busy moving to other palaces. Only our Chenxi Palace is quiet. According to the ancestral system, the Queen should move to Kunning Palace."

Nanny Wang pondered for a moment and continued, "I have been in the palace for seventeen years. I have read all the books about the empress's enthronement ceremony in the Great Zhou Dynasty. There is no such thing as the emperor wanting to remarry the empress. The empress is your majesty's legitimate wife, and they were married according to the rules."

Hong Xiu said, "The ceremony for the queen's coronation has also been postponed, and there is no exact date for the coronation. How long do we have to wait?"

Jiang Fenghua thought: Xie Shang is now preparing a wedding for her, and he is the only one who is moved, and she just needs to cooperate.

In his previous life, after abandoning his wife, Xie Shang held a grand ceremony to crown Su Tingwan as queen. In the end, they completed a whole set of wedding ceremonies. Only then did people know what it meant to be the envy of others.

Jiang Fenghua said, "What's even worse is that the Queen Mother came to Chenxi Palace to undermine me."

Nanny Wang's eyes were filled with worry. "Your Highness, are you saying that you have no power in your hands now, and that all the power in the harem is in the hands of the Grand Empress? The Imperial Household Department, the Imperial Kitchen, the six Shanggong Bureaus, and the twenty-four departments are all in your hands? According to the rules, these are all under your control, the Empress."

Hongxiu was a female official in the Chenxi Palace, so she naturally knew the importance of this matter. The Internal Affairs Department was in charge of all the income, expenditure, purchases and other matters in the harem, so the people who worked here were naturally rich, and everyone was trying their best to get in.

Once the queen loses the power to manage the Imperial Household Department, she cannot arrange her own people to come in, and may even be able to allow concubines from other palaces to take advantage of the situation and insert their own people there.

The Jingshifang also fell into the hands of the Empress Dowager. Given the Empress Dowager's temper, I'm afraid she will arrange for more women to compete for the Emperor's favor.

Other departments are also important, including Shang Gong, Shang Yi, Shang Fu, Shang Shi, Shang Qin, and Shang Gong. Each one is very important.

In the past, when Concubine Su was acting as the Queen, she promoted many people from various palaces to become her people.

Hong Xiu said, "When Your Majesty was still the Crown Princess, she could still be the master of the Eastern Palace, but now that she is the Queen, she has no power at all."

Jiang Fenghua was still calm when he saw the two people's sad faces. "It's not a bad thing that the Queen Mother is so eager to fight for power. This family is not so easy to be in charge of."

Nanny Wang thought for a moment and said, "Your Majesty is right. Ever since Imperial Concubine Su was locked up in the cold palace and Empress Cheng regained the favor of the late emperor, the power of the harem has completely fallen into her hands. However, she has managed the harem in a mess. Now that the Empress has become the Empress Dowager, I don't know if she can still manage the new emperor's harem well."

Jiang Fenghua said calmly: "The most important thing now is indeed the child in my belly."

However, Xie Shang was very concerned about remarrying her, and she couldn't see through Xie Shang's recent behavior. From the time she fainted until now, Xie Shang had been acting like an affectionate husband.

Hong Xiu said, "But the emperor really dotes on the queen. No matter how busy he is, he will always make time to come to the Chenxi Palace to have meals with the queen and play with the eldest prince and princess. Now the whole palace is saying that the emperor really loves the queen. Besides, the emperor is not an ordinary man in the world, he is the Son of Heaven."

Jiang Fenghua always insisted on not believing in the deep affection of an emperor. Once a woman is immersed in love, her brain is almost unable to think. A life filled with honey will make her feel satisfied and at the same time let down all her defenses. However, once the day comes when the sky falls and the earth collapses, a brain filled with honey will not help her at all. She cannot bear to be defenseless, so she will not let her brain be filled with honey by Xie Shang.

Jiang Fenghua firmly believes that people must be useful in order to be used by others. If they are too stupid, they are not even worthy of being chess pieces.

At the beginning, Concubine Su was also favored by the late emperor, but in the end she was just a pawn in the hands of the late emperor.

At this moment, she was thinking about another thing. After Xie Shang returned to the palace, he secretly summoned Censor Zhu. In the entire imperial study, only Xie Shang and Censor Zhu were there, and Lian Wuxin didn't even serve them closely.

From the moment Xie Shang showed her Zhu Yushi's memorial, he had already believed Zhu Yushi's words. Xie Shang was sure that the Zhu family would not rebel against him so he believed Su Xuan's accomplice whom he had found.

That's why she let Zhu Zhenzhen enter the palace and didn't mind what happened to Zhu Zhenzhen in Hengyang City.

He probably wanted to use Zhu Zhenzhen as a chess piece and imprison her in the palace forever. Her body was already dirty and he would not touch her again. That day, Xie Shang even asked Nanny Wang to give Zhu Zhenzhen a contraceptive pill. This shows how unfathomable the mind of this emperor was.

It turned out that when he asked her to drink the contraceptive pill, he had no intention of getting rid of Zhu Zhenzhen. Xie Shang kept Zhu Zhenzhen and prevented Zhu Yiyi from entering the palace, which meant that he would not indulge Zhu Yushi.

What she wanted to know was what Zhu Yiyi would do once she knew that she had no hope of entering the palace?