"The Ai family has stewed white fungus and snow pear soup for you. It's the best thing to drink in autumn. Aunt Hui will serve it quickly."
The emperor looked at the pear soup placed in front of him and was very flattered. What happened to his mother today? Why did he suddenly care about him? Since he became the emperor, the two of them had very little time to talk.
In his heart, he thought that the Queen Mother had always favored Feng Minyi as the emperor. Feng Minyi was braver and more decisive than him, and now he was very popular among the people.
"Mother, why do you have to work so hard to do this? The imperial kitchen will also send pear soup in the next few days."
"They simmered it and Aijia simmered it so deliciously. I simmered it for two hours and almost drank it."
The emperor picked up the soup bowl and drank it all in one gulp. The queen mother looked at it with a kind smile on her face.
"Did you hear about the competition between Yi'er's Jing Guards and the Regent's Flame Army?"
Sure enough, after just a few words, she started mentioning her youngest son again. Is this where she comes to show off?
"heard."
"Although Yi'er lost, he also won several times in the middle and last two games. It seems that he has really inherited your father's heroic and fighting side."
The Queen Mother deliberately mentioned Feng Minyi in front of the Emperor. She did it on purpose, just to arouse the jealousy in the Emperor's heart. Feng Minyi was simply trying to make her angry to death. She could only let their brothers check and balance each other.
The emperor's sword is the best.
"Yes, Yi'er has been better than me since he was a child, and the queen mother also likes Yi'er more. He came back from the frontier fortress and was very popular with the people. The queen mother would prefer Yi'er to be the emperor."
Such words showed that the emperor was very jealous of Feng Minyi. He was jealous of his bravery and courage, jealous of having a woman like Wang Yiyao by his side, and jealous of his brother who would fight for him through life and death.
As the emperor, he had nothing but Gao Zhan, who had accompanied him for many years.
"The emperor is angry at his mother for favoring Yi'er. You are both my sons, and you are all equally outstanding in my heart."
The emperor would not believe such words. He already knew that Feng Minyi had a quarrel with the Queen Mother because she did not want to marry the princess.
She felt frustrated in front of her youngest son and came to herself to find comfort in her heart.
The emperor has long seen through the Queen Mother's appearance, but she is his mother and queen, and the face between mother and son still needs to be maintained.
The emperor's jealousy has been piling up in his throat over the years, but he still persists until now. The Queen Mother's words just now aroused the fluctuations in his heart, but he did not complain and pretended to be calm. This is
A necessary skill for a king.
"Mother, Yi'er is my biological brother. I know you because he went to Qi State to be a hostage for many years, so you love him more. I don't blame you."
The Queen Mother really didn't expect that her eldest son would become so eloquent.
"The emperor is really older than Yi'er, and he understands the queen's painstaking efforts better. Do you have a favorite candidate for the queen in our great search? Tell the Ai family quickly."
The emperor was very dissatisfied. It was beyond his control that Feng Minyi wanted to take care of his post-election affairs again. This time he definitely couldn't listen to them all and had to make his own decision.
"I think Ji Qing, the eldest daughter of Prime Minister Ji Lun's family, is a suitable candidate. I was lucky enough to meet Prime Minister Ji once at his home last year. She knows a little about poetry and calligraphy, and is very gentle and virtuous."
"The Ai family has heard of this Ji Qing. She is well-educated and well-behaved. It would be great for an ordinary family to marry her as a wife. But since you are the current emperor and her father is the prime minister, I am afraid it is not suitable."
"Queen Mother, what do you mean by this? Wouldn't this help you better control the power in the court?"
The Queen Mother did not hope that the emperor would marry the daughter of any prime minister. If they really joined forces to dominate the government and overthrow the power of the regent, how could she have a good life? Besides, Mr. Ji was very upright and stubborn.
He has long been dissatisfied with the regent's control of the government, but he does not have military power, otherwise he would have rebelled long ago. Now that the emperor wants to marry his daughter, could it be that the two of them have already discussed it in private?
"The emperor is young after all, and his thoughts on these things are too simple. This Lord Ji has a first-class official position, and her daughter becomes the queen. When another prince comes out, you, the emperor, will be in danger."
"Mother, I am too worried."
"My family is worried, isn't this what the king of Qi was like back then? His queen was the daughter of the prime minister of the dynasty. When the prince grew up, his father-in-law supported his son to ascend to the throne. He had to give way to the virtuous, and in the end the government
It will be controlled by my father-in-law’s family.”
The emperor didn't say anything. His current situation was no different from that of the king of Qi back then.
"Then what does Queen Mother mean? Do you have a suitable candidate?"
"That's not true, but the meaning of the Aijia is to appoint a powerless and innocent daughter as the queen, which can avoid a lot of involvement from the previous dynasty. It seems that the previous dynasty has nothing to do with the harem, but in fact it is just one thing.
It’s about moving the whole body.”
The emperor was very unhappy when he heard the Queen Mother's opinion. She just wanted to be a puppet forever and never pose a threat to the regent. This was the best.
"I don't agree with the mother's suggestion. The queens of the emperors in the past dynasties were not from the most noble families. Why did I choose to marry a powerless person when I came here?"
The two were in a stalemate over the matter of appointing a queen, and neither one was willing to compromise. Aunt Hui stood aside and did not dare to interrupt. After all, this was not something she could deal with.
The emperor pretended to be reading the memorial, while the queen mother suppressed the fire in her heart and drank a few sips of tea.
At this time, Gao Zhan came in and said, "Your Majesty, King Donglin has asked to see you. He said he has something important to report to you."
When the Queen Mother heard that Feng Minyi was coming, she planned to leave, so she just happened to use him to persuade the emperor. Humph, she came at the right time.
"My sons and ministers go to see their mother and queen, and to pay homage to the emperor."
"Get up, Yi'er, help the queen mother persuade your imperial brother."
Before Feng Minyi had time to talk about her own affairs, the Queen Mother expressed her demands first.
"Mother, my sons and ministers will first report the affairs of the general to the emperor's brother, and then we will talk about other things."
The angry Queen Mother immediately put down the tea bowl in her hand and her face turned down again.
None of these two people are easy to deal with.
"Brother Emperor, this is the military salary expenditure for the last quarter. Please take a look at it."
The emperor was already forced into such a situation by the Queen Mother. The appearance of Feng Minyi at this time seemed to aggravate his anger. He did not raise his head. Gao Zhan immediately went to retrieve the memorial and put it on the desk, but the emperor did not turn over it.