Mrs. Wang did not know what Wu and the Wu family were doing.
When he entered the palace and heard what the imperial concubine said, he was so angry that he gritted his teeth. You idiot, you are trying to hold her daughter back now.
Her daughter has no children. Although she has a high position, she is struggling in the palace. A childless concubine will either be buried with her or die of old age in a side palace. Even the maids and eunuchs will look down upon her.
Now that the queen is gone, the imperial concubine is assisting in the palace affairs. What could happen? Her daughter will not be stepped on?
He called me stupid a few times.
The imperial concubine looked down upon this sister-in-law. Her son was only that old, so she was anxious to invite him to be the crown prince. She jumped up and down without stopping. When she didn't get her right, she hooked up with Concubine Wu Hui again, thinking that she didn't know.
"My eldest brother has more than one son, Zhang Jie, and he is still in his prime. It is not impossible to have ten or eight sons in the future. Moreover, my eldest brother is not the only one in my Zhang family. My second brother and third brother also have more than one legitimate son. In terms of status, It’s much higher than Zhang Jieshu becoming a direct descendant.”
When Wu heard this, she felt secretly resentful.
She couldn't admit this. Without the support of the imperial concubine and the dowager, her son would be nothing in the future.
"I don't know about this. Jie'er is just a child at heart. My mother-in-law loves him just because she wants to scare him and doesn't want to do anything else. I, a woman, am not that capable of Fang Qingzhuo's affairs."
"You are incompetent? Your brother who has joined the Shibo Division is also incompetent. Who dares not to listen to him because of his status in the outside world? Who dares not to listen to him? They all think it is the signal from the Marquis of Xincheng, and others dare not disobey him."
Concubine Zhang felt that the Wu family would only hinder her and would not help her at all.
He didn't want to listen to her sophistry, so he dismissed her.
Mrs. Wang comforted the imperial concubine distressedly for a long time before she calmed down her anger. "Don't worry, I will watch over them and I will not let them ruin your affairs."
Concubine Zhang's expression was indifferent: "Now there is a vacancy in the palace. Based on my understanding of the emperor, he will not bring someone from outside to be the queen, but will only promote someone from the inner palace."
"Then..." The imperial concubine has a chance.
Her daughter has no children, has a high status, and has been with the emperor for a long time, so she is the most suitable candidate for the throne. Even if she gives birth to a dragon son in the future, she will not pose any threat to the current crown prince.
"The emperor's character is hard to fathom. He hates the women in the harem most, as well as the powerful civil and military ministers who use their power to bully others."
Although she has a high position in the harem, she has not seen the emperor once or twice a month in these years. As a concubine who has no children and is old, she is naturally not as favored as the young and beautiful concubine.
She had taken countless fertility drugs over the years, but they were of no use. She gave up.
If her status can be raised, no one in the palace will dare to step on her when the new king takes over. If not, please don't lower her status. She just wants to die of old age in the palace peacefully, that's all.
Over in the East Palace, the prince understood the reason and called the second son Zhang Shi and the third son Zhang Fu into the palace and scolded them.
Now that the Marquis of Xincheng was away, it was not easy to call his wife to reprimand him, so the two brothers took the blame.
The two of them had a headache when they recalled that Mrs. Wu had manipulated Zhang Jie all these years, acting like a young marquis in the house, looking up at people with his nose raised, looking domineering at such a young age.
Their former eldest sister-in-law came from a noble family and was very knowledgeable about etiquette. As expected, this Wu family came from a small family, and before she had done anything, her tail was already sticking up to the sky.
After being scolded by the prince, the two brothers felt depressed in their hearts.
Fang Qingzhuo knelt down at the gate of the East Palace. Not only was he reinstated to his original post, he was also promoted to the rank of seventh-rank general of the inner nine sects.
The nine gates of the capital are divided into the inner nine gates and the outer nine gates. Originally, Fang Qingzhuo was just the eighth-grade gate officer of the outer nine gates and had no soldiers under his command.
Now that he had registered his number in front of the prince, he was immediately promoted to the inner nine sects and became a seventh-grade general commanding two hundred soldiers. His official rank was promoted two levels.
This shocked Mr. Fang.
I thought that this son was going to be trampled to the bottom because of his bad temper, but I didn't know that the result of being trampled to the bottom would be to make him rebound.
It also rebounded quite high. It reached the seventh level.
Look at the man who came to congratulate you. He was secretly and openly envious of his son for being registered in front of the prince.
Mr. Fang was dumbfounded. He didn't know whether he should teach his son how to be diplomatic and accommodating, or whether he should stand firm and continue to be upright.
In the book school, Fang Qi brushed off the wilted cabbage that had been like frost on cabbage for the past few days, feeling very energetic.
"Your father has been promoted and is still an official at the inner city gate. Will your family move into the inner city?" Two good friends, Huo Nian and Gu Yu, were very reluctant to leave.
After being chased by dogs and making their pants wet together, the three of them have become good brothers who share blessings and hardships.
Now the brothers are moving into the inner city and won't they be with them?
"My family also has a house in the inner city. If your family lives in the inner city, we can travel frequently, but you can't come to Boya Book School anymore. The inner city is too far from the outer city." Huo Nian was very reluctant to leave.
Gu Yu pursed his lips, "My shops are all in the outer city. How about I let my father buy a house in the inner city? I want to be with you too."
Fang Qi didn't want to let go of his two good friends. He patted his chest and said, "Don't worry, I asked my grandfather. My grandfather said that even though my father was promoted, it was only ten kilograms of rice a year. It was not enough to eat.
My family can’t afford a house in the inner city.”
"Ten kilograms of rice a year, so much?" This was Huo Nian. He was running around the village and already knew how much harvest he could get from working hard on an acre of land.
"Ah, it's only ten stone meters, so little?" This is Gu Yu.
Fang Qi looked at this, looked at that, and nodded: "Well, it's very small. It's less than a stone meter in more than a month."
"My family owns a restaurant. I know it costs less than one stone or one tael of silver."
Your father is so pitiful. It's not as expensive as my father to buy a jar of wine. Gu Yu used to envy his good friend's father for being an official, but he doesn't envy him anymore.
"Yes, my grandfather said that we can't afford a house in the inner city. He also told me that my father's salary used to be 80% of the rice and 20% of the salary. Now there is not enough food in the north, so he only gets 30% of the rice and 70% of the salary.
I have money. I also heard that money will not be paid in winter, but pepper will be given to offset the money. My family still has to use money to buy rice."
Huo Nian let out a sigh of relief. Fortunately, his family had a village and rice to eat, so he didn't need to buy it.
I talked to my sister about it when I got home and I was very happy.
Huo Xi looked at him funny, "No matter how hard it is, sister, I will never let you have nothing to eat."
Huo Nian hugged his sister and laughed: "It turns out that you only get a small salary for one year as an official."
"Then do you want to be an official?"
Huo Nian tilted his head and thought for a while, then nodded: "Yes. Nian'er should be a person of high status and not let others bully us."
The child has now remembered this belief in his heart. Huo Xi didn't know whether it was good or bad. She looked at him for a long time.
I also remembered what Fang Qi said about military attachés having to pay their salaries with pepper. It seemed that firstly, money was really needed to build the city of Peiping, and secondly, there was indeed an overflow of pepper in the ship treasury.
Although Nian'er was implicated this time, Wu Youcai was not innocent. After scaring Nian'er, he couldn't do nothing.