The wedding between Prince Ying and Sheng Minglan was held soon, and it was grand, even grander than when Prince Ying married his wife.
The reason is also simple. When Prince Ying married his concubine, the official Zhao Shu was still a vassal prince, so he could only hold the wedding according to the prince's specifications.
Now that Zhao Shu has become the emperor, Prince Ying has also been crowned king, and he still has the potential to be a prince. Naturally, he cannot be careless when he gets married again, so the scale of the wedding will be very grand.
On the day Minglan came out of the cabinet, Mrs. Sheng cried so sadly that even Sheng Hong squeezed a few tears.
Wang Gang was very ordinary, he just prepared a big gift for Minglan, which made Lin Sushuang and Sheng Molan very angry.
Sheng Molan even came to Wang Gang to settle accounts.
"Third brother, your biological sister is me, Sheng Molan, not her, Sheng Minglan."
"What do you know? After Minglan marries Prince Ying, the blessings and misfortunes of the Sheng family will be tied to her alone." Wang Gang said.
"She's just a side concubine, but she's not a main concubine either." Sheng Molan said disapprovingly.
Wang Gang ignored Sheng Molan. He knew that the current official Zhao Shu was a short-lived ghost. After being the emperor for a few years, he left Hexi. Prince Ying would inherit the throne and became the famous Song Shenzong.
In other words, as long as nothing happens to Minglan, she will be the imperial concubine in the future. If she can give birth to the eldest prince, she can even become the queen.
Wang Gang did not want to curry favor with Minglan, but he felt that she would be trapped in the harem for the rest of her life after marrying Prince Ying. She had more or less his own reasons.
King Ying asked to marry Minglan. In addition to Minglan's beauty, part of the reason was that King Ying wanted to marry Wang Gang.
Unlike others, King Ying had been to Gyeongju, had contact with Wang Gang, and knew his potential and the network behind him.
Wang Gang seems to be just a fourth-grade official with no power, but in fact he has a very deep network of connections.
Just because of Gu Tingye's friendship, Prince Ying had to look at Wang Gang differently.
Coupled with the Chamber of Commerce behind Wang Gang, that is a huge fortune.
How could Prince Ying let go of a minister with such potential?
The Queen Mother insisted on recruiting Minglan into the palace before, and she also did not want him to get too close to Prince Ying.
It was precisely because Wang Gang had figured everything out that he felt he owed Minglan and wanted to make up for it, so he prepared a thick dowry for her.
After Minglan got married, she went back to her parents' home once to say everything was fine, but then she never came back again.
It’s not that I don’t want to, it’s that I can’t.
I don’t know if Minglan was lucky enough to get pregnant within three months of marrying Prince Ying.
Her pregnancy was so serious that even the officials were alarmed and sent a lot of supplements. Minglan was also banned by King Ying, and she was able to raise her baby in the palace with peace of mind.
This is King Ying's first child, which means a lot to the royal family.
If Minglan gives birth to a son, it means that Zhao Shu has an imperial grandson, that is, he has a third-generation heir, which will be very helpful to the stability of his throne.
It is very likely that Prince Ying will be granted the title of Crown Prince because of this child.
Therefore, Minglan's pregnancy immediately became a national treasure and was strictly protected.
Wang Gang was worried that she would take too many supplements and cause difficulty in giving birth, so he found a famous doctor to regulate her health.
For this reason, Lin Sushuang was angry with Wang Zhengzhang for several days.
Because Sheng Molan had been married for several years and had a difficult childbirth, and was unable to conceive again.
Wang Gang really couldn't stand the troubles at home, so he took Hai Chaoyun to live in the Earl's Mansion.
Minglan was pregnant, and Hai Chaoyun actually felt uncomfortable because she had not given birth to a son or a half to Wang Gang until she got married.
Although Wang Gang thinks this is his own problem, he has been reincarnated for several lives and has never been very good at having children. It seems that God has his own will and his descendants are not destined to be important.
Wang Gang also saw a doctor. He and Hai Chaoyun were fine, but they just couldn't get pregnant.
The Hai family also talked to Hai Chaoyun about this, asking her to marry Wang Gang a concubine without having to abide by the rule that only those who were 40 years old were allowed to take concubines.
Wang Gang finally refused and later devoted himself to work.
He, the right minister of the Ministry of War, is not without work. Although the Ministry of War has no military power, it still shoulders the responsibility of weapons development.
In other words, Wang Gang can use his power to research black powder openly.
He specially found craftsmen and allocated large sums of money every year to specialize in the research of black gunpowder.
It's not that he doesn't want to study it, it's just that he really doesn't understand.
In the imperial court, the battle between the emperor and the queen mother has become intense.
The emperor also carried out his own plans just like in the original work.
Zhao Shu first tried to clear the name of his biological father and wanted Feng to make him emperor, which touched the bottom line of the Queen Mother.
Zhao Shu inherited the throne through adoption from his late emperor Song Renzong. Zhao Shu's move was tantamount to wanting to recognize his ancestor and return to the clan, denying Song Renzong as his father.
Song Renzong was no longer his father, so naturally the Queen Mother could not be her mother.
This made the Queen Mother unbearable, thinking that Zhao Shu had turned against him, and with the encouragement of some ministers in the court, the Queen Mother had plans to change the emperor.
Changing the emperor is not just a matter of change. It is not only a political game, but also requires military cooperation.
Today, most of the military power in Bianjing City is in the hands of Gu Tingye and the emperor's brother-in-law Shen Congxing.
Soon Gu Tingye was the first to suffer misfortune. Because of a small mistake, he was bitten by the Queen Mother and was sent out of the capital.
As for Shen Congxing, he was punished by the officials and lost his military power because he spoiled his concubine and killed his wife.
Seeing that the time was right, the Queen Mother launched a mutiny with the intention of taking the imperial city.
After Wang Gang received the news, he immediately asked his relatives to hide in the cellar and be protected by Master Liao. He took a big gun and rushed to Prince Ying's mansion.
Sheng Minglan's pregnancy was already full term and she would give birth at any time. Wang Gang was worried that something was wrong with her, so he came to protect her.
Sure enough, because of the mutiny, Minglan had fetal abnormalities and her amniotic fluid broke.
When Wang just arrived at the palace, he found that there was no midwife or doctor at Minglan.
"Third brother, it hurts so much." Minglan lay on the bed and wailed in pain.
"Where's the midwife? Didn't the prince already find the best midwife?" Wang Gang grabbed a maid and asked.
"My lord, please forgive me, but I don't know anything." The maid was so frightened that she became paralyzed.
As soon as Wang Gang heard this, he realized something was wrong. He exerted slight force on his right hand, and the maid screamed in pain.
"If you don't tell the truth, believe it or not, I will break your arm."
The maid couldn't bear the pain anymore and shouted: "The midwife and the doctor have all been detained by the princess."
Wang Gang narrowed his eyes and thought that it was indeed the case. There were a lot of troubles in the backyard of the palace.
"Where are they?" Wang Gang was too lazy to talk nonsense. He asked where the midwife was, then rushed over with a gun.
The midwife and doctor were locked up outside the palace. Fortunately, they were not far away. Princess Ying sent a large number of guards to guard them.
Wang Gang went straight to the door and shot the guards away one by one.
The midwife and doctor were still alive, but their hands and feet were tied and they couldn't move.
Wang Gang untied them and then took them to the palace.
But when they ran to the gate of the palace, they found Princess Ying blocking the way with a large number of people.
"These people are rebels, and I will kill them all." Princess Ying was determined to kill people and silence them. She had no other choice now.
Wang Gang snorted coldly and threw his spear directly, piercing through the bodies of the three guards and nailing them to Princess Ying's side.
Princess Ying was so frightened that she collapsed to the ground.
Wang Gang said coldly to Princess Ying: "Don't think that I dare not kill you."
The palace guards were frightened by Wang Gang's murderous intent and took the initiative to make way.
Wang Gang walked directly into the palace with his midwife and doctor and came to Minglan.
At this time, Minglan had no strength to cry, she had lost consciousness, and her breath was like a thread.
Wang Gang quickly asked the doctor to treat him and save the person first.
"The mother's physical strength is not strong enough to support delivery. I need to give her acupuncture to stimulate her vitality, but it may have an impact on the baby." After checking Minglan's condition, the doctor looked embarrassed.
"I'll try my best to protect you, sir. If anything happens, I'll take care of it." Wang Gang said without hesitation.
When the doctor heard this, he felt confident and quickly gave Sheng Minglan acupuncture. It was inconvenient for Wang Gang to stay in the room, so he had to wait outside.
The chaos in Bianjing became more and more serious, and many rebels rushed to the minister's house.
As the eldest prince of the official family, Prince Ying was naturally the target of the rebels.
Now that King Ying was not in the palace, he went to the palace to protect Zhao Shu after the rebellion.
Otherwise Princess Ying would not dare to treat Sheng Minglan like that.
A group of rebels soon rushed into the palace and wanted to capture King Ying.
Sheng Minglan's yard was naturally also a target for the rebels.
Wang Gang stood guard in front of Sheng Minglan's house with one man and one gun, and he had the aura that if one man was in charge, no one could stop him.
The rebels thought that Wang Gang could quickly solve the problem by himself.
But the reality is that the body has fallen to the ground at Wang Gang's feet.
The Queen Mother's order was to capture Wang Ying's family and keep them alive so that the rebels could not use their bows and arrows.
Wang Gang didn't know how many people he had killed. When a baby cried in the house, King Ying and Gu Tingye had already brought people back to support the palace and suppress the rebellion.
"Sir, the pregnant woman is dying." The doctor's scream made Wang Gang's heart skip a beat.
