Huang Chen was an emperor to Tang Ning, but to Zhao Man, he was a father. It was indeed a cruel thing to learn that his father was a cold-blooded, ruthless and terrible person.
Tang Ning stayed with her for a whole day, and her mood improved a little.
In the next two days, Tangning deliberately collected some secrets from the previous era. With his current identity and status, it was not difficult to collect such information.
After sorting it out, Tang Ning unexpectedly discovered that there were indeed some things that happened before Emperor Chen ascended the throne that he didn't know.
The court is in a state of flux, and within a year or even half a year, there may be a major reshuffle.
A year ago, the Tang family was at its peak, and Prime Minister Feng and the Jiangnan Party were firmly in control of the government. But now, only a year later, the Tang family has completely declined, Prime Minister Feng has resigned and returned to his hometown, nearly half of the officials in Jiangnan have been lost, and the situation in the court seems to have changed.
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This was true a year ago, and the court more than twenty years ago was completely different from today.
Even the Tang family was not the top wealthy family in Beijing more than 20 years ago. Those powerful families were divided among the three princes and fought fiercely in the court.
More than twenty years ago, Chen Huang, like Zhao Yuan, was still an extremely marginalized prince. In terms of status and power behind him in the eyes of the late emperor, he was far inferior to Zhao Yuan.
Such a lineup, even if the Tang family is included, will obviously not be taken seriously by the other three princes.
Tang Ning could see from some clues that the Tang family was probably not the only one who helped Chen Huang at that time.
When he was still a prince, he married Xiao Jue's sister. Not long after he succeeded to the throne, he successively brought Concubine Zhang Xian, Concubine Fang Shu, and Concubine Tang Hui into the harem.
From the process of Emperor Chen's ascension to the throne, Tang Ning not only saw the shadow of the Tang family, but also the Xiao family, Zhang family, Fang family...
Tang Ning was finally able to put aside some of her influence on Zhao Yuan. It's not that like a teacher, like a disciple, it's a family gene. Twenty years ago, Emperor Chen inherited the throne with the help of several father-in-laws. Twenty years later,
Zhao Yuan eventually embarked on a similar path to him.
In addition, Tangning also discovered other things.
Not long after quietly joining the Tang family, the third prince, who was active in the court at the time, was demoted to a commoner and expelled from the capital due to a serious political mistake. His fate has never been known since.
In the next year, the names of the powerful and wealthy families in Beijing that originally belonged to the other two princes were wiped out one by one for various reasons. Until September of the next year, the prince accidentally fell into the water and drowned, and the second prince, King Su, was infected with the disease.
He was seriously ill and died suddenly in the house within half a month.
This is what is recorded in history books about this Black September.
In the autumn of the 16th year, Prince Rui drowned and Prince Su died of an illness. The emperor was so sad that he died in Yonghe Hall on the 26th.
The Crown Prince, Prince Su, and the late emperor passed away one after another. After Emperor Chen succeeded to the throne and the period of national mourning passed, he married the legitimate daughters of the Tang family, the Fang family, and the Zhang family. Among them, Concubine Tang Hui was the most favored.
Before he ascended the throne, he already had two concubines. One was Xiao Jue's sister, the then Princess Qin, and the other was Concubine Yang, the mother-concubine of King Huai. Concubine Yang was just a commoner's daughter. Emperor Chen wanted to marry her at that time.
, seemed to have a very unpleasant quarrel with the late emperor, which shows that he still liked Concubine Yang very much at that time.
However, after ascending to the throne, Concubine Tang Hui received unique favor, and even the queen wanted to give her three points.
When Emperor Chen was still King of Qin, he and the Queen had a son, but he died a year before he ascended the throne. After that, the Queen was diagnosed as infertile by the imperial doctor. All the concubines in the harem went to great lengths to give birth to a son.
Scheming.
Among them, Concubine Shu did not fight, and Concubine Zhang Xian and Concubine Tang Hui fought the most fiercely. But no one expected that Concubine Yang was the first to become pregnant. After that, Concubine Yang accidentally miscarried, Concubine Zhang Xian and Concubine Tang Hui became pregnant at the same time. Another year later, Concubine Yang
The concubine became pregnant again and gave birth to King Huai.
Then, Concubine Yang died of illness, and King Huai was adopted by the queen. Then the queen died of illness, and the harem was dominated by Concubine Zhang Xian, Concubine Tang Hui, and Concubine Fang Shu. The balance continues to this day.
There are not many descriptions of the dispute over Queen Chen's palace in the information. The Tang family, Fang family, and Zhang family all helped Emperor Chen and participated in the fight for the rightful son. After the incident was completed, it was normal for them to compete for their own interests.
After learning about this period of history, Tang Ning destroyed these materials.
There is no doubt that the Tang family contributed the most to Chen Huang's rise to power. However, judging from the current situation, Zhao Yuan was Chen Huang's best choice to take his place.
…
Inside the royal study.
After Chen Huang finished reviewing the memorial, he leaned over and fell asleep for a while, but suddenly woke up at a certain moment.
Wei Jian hurriedly stepped forward, took out a handkerchief, wiped the cold sweat on his forehead, and asked with concern, "Your Majesty has another nightmare?"
Chen Huang leaned on the chair, his chest heaved and panted slightly. After a while, he calmed down and murmured, "It's been more than twenty years, and they still refuse to let me go?"
After he finished speaking, there was a sound at the door of the royal study, and Zhao Yuan walked in with a soup cup.
Zhao Yuan brought soup to Emperor Chen every day, and then drank it with him before going to Chongwen Hall to study.
Chen Huang picked up the spoon, took a sip of the soup, looked at him, and asked, "Is "Zizhi Tongjian" difficult?"
Zhao Yuan nodded and said, "It's a bit difficult, but Yuan'er will work hard."
After he finished speaking, he looked at Chen Huang and said, "My mother said that my father often has nightmares these days. I put some Polygala in the hall. The imperial doctor said that it has a soothing effect. After drinking the soup, my father will not have nightmares."
It’s a nightmare.”
For more than 20 years, he had been having this nightmare that he often had, and he had tried all kinds of methods to no avail, so how could a mere Polygala be effective.
Emperor Chen still smiled and asked, "Yuan'er has been out of the palace less these days, and you haven't seen the little girls from the Zhang family, the Wang family, and the Bai family, right?"
Zhao Yuan sighed leisurely and said, "Studying is important..."
A smile appeared on Huang Chen's face and he said, "These three little girls are all good. After two years, my father will decree that they all marry you, okay?"
Bada.
The spoon in Zhao Yuan's hand fell into the bowl, he raised his head and said in disbelief, "But, is it okay?"
Chen Huang patted him on the shoulder and said, "As long as you want, there's nothing you can't do."
…
Emperor Chen felt that Zhao Yuan had a hard time studying, so he specifically asked him to take one day off every three days. After Zhao Yuan left the palace, he stayed in the Tang family for a while, and he didn't know whether to go to the Wang family, the Zhang family, or the Bai family.
There was also a eunuch in the palace who came out of the palace with him. The imperial court had drafted a preliminary method to streamline the tax system. Emperor Chen asked him to take another look with King Huai to finalize the matter as soon as possible.
Tang Ning browsed through it. She originally wanted to go to Prince Huai's Mansion and discuss several places with Prince Huai. When she was about to walk out of the mansion, she suddenly thought of something. She walked back and asked Xiu'er, "Xiu'er, what day is today?"
Xiu'er thought for a while and said, "The sixth day of the lunar month."
"It's the sixth day of November..." Tangning murmured, shook her head, turned around and walked back.
You can find King Huai anytime, but not today. He saw from the information two days ago that today is the death anniversary of Concubine Yang.
The capital, outside the city.
Every emperor in the past dynasties would choose a geomantic treasure place for himself as his imperial mausoleum. The imperial mausoleum of the contemporary Emperor Chen was selected twenty years ago. The late empress and Concubine Yang were buried here.
Nanshan, among the imperial mausoleums, in front of a certain mausoleum.
King Huai carefully cleared away the few weeds next to the tomb, and wiped the stone tablet in front of the tomb spotless.
After doing this, he walked to another tomb and did what he had just done again.
Then, he stood quietly next to the tomb. After an unknown period of time, a middle-aged man came from behind, put down the food box in his hand, and placed several plates of pastries on the stone steps.
He stood in front of the mausoleum, touched his slightly plump belly, and said with a smile, "These are the foods she used to like. It has been more than 20 years, and I don't know if her taste has changed."
King Huai looked forward and said, "It has been more than twenty years..."
The middle-aged man said, "Twenty-two years."
"It's been twenty-two years." King Huai looked away, smiled somewhat self-deprecatingly, and said, "In twenty-two years, all the people who didn't deserve to die have died, and the people who deserved to die are still living well in this world. What kind of world is this?"
