Reborn as King again

I announced that I would make Zhou Ling the empress, and then I began to make people busy with the canonization ceremony. My decision caught the Jia family by surprise. From their point of view, Li Yi was already the crown prince, and Jia Wanru's status in the harem was no different from that of the queen, and the queen mother was no different. At the beginning, she turned to Jia Wanru, no matter how she looked at it, the position of queen was none other than Jia Wanru, but now that Zhou Ling was killed, the cooked duck just flew away, how could the Jia family give up.And Taishi Xia was also very surprised when he learned that I wanted to make Zhou Ling queen, but he didn't say anything, and became neutral. It seemed to him that whether it was Jia Wanru or Zhou Ling as queen, it had no effect on him.What gave me the most headache was He Wenyan. He told me about the legacy of his ancestors in the court every day, thinking that Zhou Ling, who had not given birth to a son and a half for the royal family, was not qualified to be a queen at all. In the end, I simply ordered He Wenyan Stay at home for a few days until the queen canonization ceremony is over, and then let him go to court.

Jia Fan's influence in the court seems to be stronger than when I was reborn. Today he led some of his party members to seek an audience in the Imperial Study Room, saying that he would dispel my idea of ​​making Zhou Ling the empress.

Jia Fan's attitude in the imperial study was very clear. He believed that Zhou Ling came from a humble background, lacked knowledge and maternity demeanor, and was not suitable to be a queen at all.

After listening to Jia Fan's words, I sneered and said, "Could it be that Prime Minister Jia thinks that your daughter Concubine Wan must be the queen?"

Jia Fan immediately expressed panic, and he couldn't help muttering in his heart. After all, everyone has seen my love for Jia Wanru all the time. How could it be possible that he suddenly changed his temper and went to canonize Zhou Ling? The ones with the ability come first, then Zhou Lingben is just a new prince, and if he is suddenly conferred the title of empress, it will cause criticism."

"Whose criticism?" I said calmly: "I will kill anyone who criticizes. I tell you, I like Zhou Ling, and I want to make Zhou Ling queen. If people can’t save themselves, what’s the point of being an emperor?” As I said that, I picked up a memorial and threw it in front of Jia Fan, saying, “Prime Minister Jia, please take a look at what Master Yan, Minister of Dali Temple, gave me a few days ago. memorial."

Jia Fan picked up the memorial from the imperial table, opened it and read it, his face turned pale when he saw it, he stared at me with wide eyes and said: "Your Majesty...this...this is..."

I was still calm, and said to Jia Fan with a smile: "I have been suppressing this matter, just for the sake of Concubine Wan. If Prime Minister Jia still wants to lead all the ministers to put pressure on me, the matter in the memorial I will definitely investigate to the end." I paused, and continued: "I don't think about anyone except Zhou Ling, Prime Minister Jia, you should think about it clearly." This means that even if Zhou Ling can't be the queen, he Don't even think about being a daughter.

The memorial said that Jia Liang, the eldest son of the Jia family, robbed the daughters of the people on the street, and the daughter of the Wang family was finally strangled to death by Jia Liang. The Jia family wanted to give money to settle the matter, but the Wang family only had one daughter. How could it be possible to let it go, they looked at the Jia family when they were high-ranking officials in the capital, and the government didn't care about the case of the Wang family at all. It happened that a relative of the Wang family was working as a servant at Lord Yan's house in Dali Temple, so they asked the servant to tell Lord Yan about the matter, and After the case of He Wenwu before, Mr. Yan was still a neutral faction on the surface, but in fact he was doing things for me, so he wrote a memorial to me about Jia Liang's strangling of the Wang family's daughter, and I will take this matter now. Talk to Jia Fan.

I said: "This matter has to be handed over to the minister of Dali Temple. Once a person enters Dali Temple, he will never come out alive. Prime Minister Jia, can you bear it?" Jia Liang is Jia Fan's eldest son and Jia Wanru's elder brother. I arranged to join the Imperial Forest Army in [-], and now I am a fifth-rank junior commander, and he is well-versed in the Imperial Forest Army. Although the Jia family has party members in various departments, they have no military power. This Jia Liang’s career in the Imperial Forest Army has just started. With the Jia family taking care of everything behind them, sooner or later they will take over the power of the Imperial Forest Army, but now that this kind of thing is going on, let alone staying in the Imperial Forest Army, they have to pay for their lives.

Jia Fan's hands holding the memorial trembled a little, he said: "This is something made out of nothing, Your Majesty, do you really want to..."

"As long as Prime Minister Jia, you don't interfere with my succession, I will turn a blind eye." I interrupted Jia Fan.Originally, Jia Wanru was the most popular candidate for empress. If even Jia Wanru's biological father, Jia Fan, promised me to canonize Zhou Ling, then other officials would have nothing to say. , it is Yi'er who will inherit the great line."

I have already said this, Jia Fan should also know how to retreat in the face of difficulties, otherwise let alone Li Yi's position as the crown prince, I will not be able to keep his eldest son Jia Liang's official career Threatening his life, what else can he do.Now there are other ministers in the Imperial Study Room, I just let Jia Fan read the memorial alone, if Jia Fan is still here to meet with other ministers with me, then I will definitely expose the matter on the memorial in front of everyone When he came out, his son Jia Liang would surely die. In the end, Jia Fan had no choice but to say a few symbolic words and leave under the astonishment of the officials.

Zhou Ling, who has been living in Fengyi Palace, is also uneasy. He doesn't understand why I suddenly want to make him a queen. The interns on duty say something more.

Fengyi Palace, the queen's palace, I haven't stepped into it since I was reborn, but when I put Zhou Ling into Fengyi Palace, I would come to see him almost every day, comfort him, and make him feel at ease. Everyone thinks that I miss Zhou Ling, the new young master.Zhou Ling felt that everything was unreal, and once he couldn't help it, he asked very puzzled: "Why does the emperor want to canonize the humble minister as the queen?"

I thought for a while and said, "Because I like you."

Zhou Ling was slightly taken aback after hearing this, and then smiled. That smile once again made me feel a sense of discordant familiarity, and he said: "Apart from appearance, what does the emperor like about my humble minister? I don't think I have done anything to make the emperor feel so familiar." favorite thing."

"I think it's love at second sight." I laughed and said, "Do you still remember that when we talked for the second time, you were wearing a red dance dress and squatting on the ground crying? At that time, I thought you were different from others, so I liked you. You." Thinking back to that day, Zhou Ling blushed, and felt embarrassed to ask further.

A few days before the empress canonization ceremony, one day, I went to Fengyi Palace to visit Zhou Ling as usual, and when I entered the main hall entrance, I saw my mother, Jia Wanru and a group of palace people just present, and Zhou Ling knelt tremblingly in front of the mother.

The queen mother must not like Zhou Ling, because Zhou Ling's background is not good.But when I first became emperor, I made three chapters with my mother, and she could not interfere with my appointment as a queen, so when I decided to make Zhou Ling my queen, my mother did not express any opinions. Later, some ministers wanted to talk to my mother, hoping that my mother would come later Convince me to give up, but my mother always complains that she is sick and sees no one, so why did she come to Fengyi Palace today?

I went up to say hello to the queen mother, then helped Zhou Ling who was kneeling on the ground trembling, and asked softly: "They made things difficult for you?" "No," Zhou Ling shook his head quickly, afraid that I might misunderstand, He explained: "Just as I greeted you, the emperor came, and the empress dowager and concubine Wan just arrived."

"The emperor thinks that the Ai family has bullied your beloved?" The queen mother was not angry at my misunderstanding, she just said: "In order to make him queen, the emperor punished the ministers who opposed him, punished them with threats , some even demoted officials, so many loyal ministers were offended by you, so today Aijia just wanted to see what the person who made the emperor angry and become a blue face looked like. In the Palace of Huan, Mr. Zhou who is wearing a peony-shaped dance skirt is so thick and thick," the queen mother's tone made it hard to tell whether she was happy or annoyed: "Mr. Zhou is indeed a man of great power, no wonder the emperor will do it for him. So much."

I felt that Zhou Ling's body trembled slightly after listening to the mother's words. I took his hand to express comfort, and told him that with me by his side, he didn't need to be afraid. I said, "Why does the mother say that? You Have you forgotten what you promised me when I first became the throne?"

The queen mother sighed, and said: "The Ai family remembers, but..." The queen mother said, pulling Jia Wanru, who had been crying so hard behind her, to her front, and said: "The Ai family couldn't bear the pleading of the concubine Wan, so I brought her to Fengyi Palace, let her beg for help. She came to beg Mr. Zhou herself."

After hearing this, I was a little puzzled, Jia Wanru asked Zhou Ling?What do you want?Begging him not to be queen?I saw that Jia Wanru knelt down, crying and said: "Your Majesty, Mr. Zhou, I beg you, can you not engage in the queen's canonization ceremony, my concubine..."

I interrupted Jia Wanru, and my voice was a little cold: "Concubine Wan, you have always understood the truth, why are you so confused now, who do I like, who do you want to be canonized, what does it have to do with you? What right do you have to beg the future empress here? "Jia Wanru looked at me with almond-shaped eyes, it was the first time that I didn't show her affection so much, she felt that Zhou Ling was not as simple as she imagined.

Jia Wanru immediately came back to her senses, and continued to cry: "Your Majesty, my concubine has never done anything to make you angry or embarrassed for so many years, why do you treat my concubine like this?"

"How did I treat you? I ask myself how well I treat you." I looked at Jia Wanru who was kneeling on the ground begging bitterly, and sneered in my heart. This is just the beginning, and you won't be able to stand it. How will you face my torment from now on? right?My dear Concubine Wan.I continued: "Could it be that Concubine Wan feels that I must find you to be my queen?"

"Concubine, concubine doesn't mean that!" Even if Jia Wanru thought so in her heart, she couldn't say so, she always thought that the queen was already in her pocket, and I treated her with the etiquette of a queen, Li Yi She was also crowned prince, how could she let Zhou Ling who suddenly ran out take the throne away, Jia Wanru shook her head and said: "Your Majesty, the concubine is not coveting the position of queen, but...but you have named Yi'er as the crown prince." Prince, but now you want to make Mr. Zhou the queen, what about Yi'er? You obviously love Yi'er the most. Mr. Zhou will have his own prince in the future. Isn't it embarrassing for Yi'er to be the crown prince? "

What Jia Wanru said is correct, this is why many ministers objected to my making Zhou Ling the queen. The prince should be the queen's eldest son. Before, they all thought that Jia Wanru must be the queen, so when I canonized Li Yi as the prince, they all agreed. No objection, but now I want to appoint another person as the queen, then Li Yi, the prince, is not worthy of his name. If Zhou Ling regenerates a prince in the future, it will greatly threaten Li Yi's status. There must be another bloodbath.

The queen mother also said: "Emperor, the queen mother is also worried about this. You have made Yi'er the crown prince, but Yi'er is not the son of Mr. Zhou. What do you want Yi'er to do in the future?"

"This is easy." I had already thought of a countermeasure, and said: "I love Yi'er very much, and Yi'er must inherit the throne in the future, but I also like Zhou Ling, and I can't think of other candidates for the queen besides him, so I Decided to adopt Yi'er under Zhou Ling's knee, wouldn't it be the best of both worlds?" I planned to do this from the beginning, I wanted to separate Jia Wanru's flesh and blood, and let the child born to her and King Rui be handed over to another strange man to be raised , Let her have unspeakable suffering, and the pain is too much to live.

"Your Majesty!!" Jia Wanru couldn't believe that I would do this. She pulled my dragon robe and burst into tears, and said, "No, Your Majesty, how can you separate my concubine from Yi'er? You are obviously the most beloved concubine." Yes, why are you so cruel?" I dote on Jia Wanru very much, whether it is the sincerity in the previous life or the superficial skills in this life, I have deeply satisfied Jia Wanru's vanity and let her enjoy my love. He also brazenly talked about that King Rui in his heart.

And how did the queen mother know that Li Yi was actually the child of Jia Wanru and King Rui? She thought my method was very good. It could not only stop the mouths of the ministers, but also can make a queen without shaking the crown prince. Jia Wanru comforted her and said: "Concubine Wan, why doesn't the emperor love you? Why are you so confused? The emperor did this for you, for Yier's sake. Could it be that you hope that Yier will have other younger brothers and Yier when he grows up?" Fight for the throne?"

"No, queen mother, this concubine is Yi'er's biological mother." How could Jia Wanru let the child born to her and her beloved be handed over to others like this, she cried and said: "Chenqie can't let others raise Yi'er! No way! Definitely not!" Jia Wanru's cry was very desolate, her son can no longer recognize King Rui as his father, and now he can't even recognize her as his biological mother in the future, can she not cry miserably.

"Concubine Wan, Yi'er is over four years old, and has moved to live in the East Palace long ago, and you often visit him, how could he not know that you are his biological mother? This is just a formality, so that he can keep his crown prince. Yier will understand you." I smiled and comforted her and said, "Besides, you are still young, and you can have another son in the future. If you really think about Yier, you should let go." It is not easy for Wang to give birth to a son, because King Rui does not come to Beijing every year. She misses the person she loves by taking care of Li Yi. You can't go to the East Palace to visit Li Yi casually, she still misses it.

"No! Your Majesty, you can't do this, Yi'er is so young, he can't leave me!" Jia Wanru shook her head vigorously, tearing my dragon robe with both hands, with great strength, as if she had lost her mind, Seeing that something was wrong, the queen mother felt that Jia Wanru's emotions were too agitated and would hurt others, so she quickly asked someone to pull Jia Wanru away, but Jia Wanru was still crying and refused to leave Li Yi. Go back to Baoge Palace, so that nothing will happen again.

After the queen mother sent Jia Wanru away, she was a little suspicious: "Why did Concubine Wan suddenly become like this?" Then the queen mother comforted me and said, "It is estimated that Concubine Wan loves Yi'er too much, and she won't be able to accept it for a while. The emperor, don't blame me. Concubine Wan, after all, she is not much more than a mother."

"I understand. I will announce to the imperial doctor immediately and prescribe some tranquilizing medicine for Concubine Wan, and the queen mother will also help me comfort her." Of course I will not blame Jia Wanru, separating her and Li Yi is just the first step That's all, the days ahead are still long.