However, now that Prime Minister Cui's faction is gaining momentum, they do not take the royalist faction's overtures to heart.
The royalist faction has always been on the side of the queen. Now if they want to turn to Cui Xiang's faction, it depends on whether Cui Xiang's faction is willing to accept it.
The court is now divided into four parts. The faction of Cui Guifei's father, Cui Xiang, is now gaining momentum. The royalist faction, which originally stood on the side of the queen, is now weak and is wavering between Cui Guifei and the queen. Again.
In addition, the Jin Yiwei who are under the direct control of the emperor are considered to be on the emperor's side. There is also the general Qi Yinglang and General Qi who are guarding the border. It is not clear yet, at least apparently they are on the emperor's side.
Shi Jiang definitely doesn't need to consider Prime Minister Cui's faction. They are natural enemies and there is no possibility of reconciliation. Either Concubine Cui will die or the Queen will die.
Shi Jiang could win over the royalist faction, but most of them were stubborn old men. Even if they were on Shi Jiang's side, they would probably make it difficult for Shi Jiang to use his fists.
As for Jin Yiwei, Shi Jiang had already tried to win over Yun Jin. Although Yun Jin openly rejected Shi Jiang's proposal, it still left a way out. Yun Jin was not unmoved by her proposal.
But General Qi is far away at the border, beyond his reach.
Nowadays, apart from the title of queen, Shi Jiang really doesn't have any leverage to compete with Concubine Cui.
In this world, with his original situation, it would be impossible for Shi Jiang to rebel against him and become the emperor.
However, no one is optimistic about herself as the queen now, and it just so happens that Jiang can use this to secretly develop her own power.
Therefore, after Shi Jiang returned to Fengyi Hall, he asked for punishment and copied the Diamond Sutra a hundred times behind closed doors.
It turns out that the Yanguan from the previous dynasty was quite critical of the Queen's beating of her uncle.
After hearing the news, everyone immediately stopped talking.
After all, the queen has already asked for punishment, what else does she want?
Especially for Concubine Cui, it was really uncomfortable to hold her breath in her heart.
Therefore, the matter of the Queen beating her uncle has been revealed.
However, Shi Qian, the newly appointed county head, still had to get married when she should.
Even if she was unwilling, the uncle wanted to enter the palace several times to ask the queen to take back her life, but he was blocked by the queen because she was in seclusion.
In the end, Shi Qian still wiped away her tears and got into the carriage and followed the Liang envoy away.
Nowadays, the entire imperial court can be said to be dominated by Concubine Cui's faction.
Several times Yang Jiong wanted to do something, but Cui Xiang refuted it.
Yang Jiong was so angry that his back molars were almost broken, but he could only smile to appease Xiang Cui.
However, as soon as he returned to his residence, he secretly lost his temper without letting anyone know about it.
Without the empress in charge, Concubine Cui became domineering in the harem.
In just half a month, Concubine Cui married three or four concubines in the harem who were favored by the emperor.
In fact, one of them has been pregnant for more than two months.
When Yang Jiong learned about this, his eyes seemed to be bleeding and his teeth were cracking.
"Ms. Cui, you went too far to bully me."
When he learned about this, Shi Jiang lowered his eyes, the tip of his pen was not affected at all, and he copied the Diamond Sutra calmly.
It's not yet time, but after a while, she can tell Yang Jiong that the palace maid is pregnant.
After all, if I could hide this matter by myself, I couldn't hide the fact that the palace maid was pregnant in ten months and gave birth to a child.
Sure enough, in the following days.
When Concubine Cui saw that she had abandoned those concubines, the emperor did not blame her, so naturally she became even more unscrupulous.
After the trouble, all the concubines and maids favored by Yang Jiong would have trouble.
Yang Jiong really had no choice. He couldn't feel it before. With the queen here, how could such a thing happen?
If Concubine Cui continues to trouble her, how many women in her harem will survive?
So, one morning, Yang Jiong sneaked outside Fengyi Hall.
"Zitong, help me think of a solution."
After sneaking into Fengyi Hall, Yang Jiong went straight to Shi Jiang and affectionately shouted to her for help.
Shi Jiang cleverly dodged the claws extended by this scumbag and faced Yang Jiong.
"I didn't know that Your Majesty was coming, so I hope you will forgive me."
"Zi Tong is not polite, Zi Tong, you must help me. That old thief Cui is really bullying others too much."
Yang Jiong told Shi Jiang everything about what Concubine Cui had done during this period, like pouring beans on her.
He only hoped that the queen could look past his eyes and step forward to help him deal with these matters.
Just like before, whenever there was something inconvenient for him to come forward, the queen would come out and handle the embarrassing things for him.
After hearing Yang Jiong's words, Shi Jiang couldn't help but harden his fists.
If the situation hadn't been inconvenient, she could have punched this scumbag's head in with one fist.
After clenching the fists in his sleeves, Shi Jiang suppressed the anger in his heart, lowered his eyes and sighed, and said resentfully.
"Your Majesty also knows that my concubine is now in the harem, serving as the queen in name only. Concubine Cui must not give up until she removes my concubine from the position of queen. My concubine and your majesty shared weal and woe in the past, and this friendship between me and my concubine is
I have always kept it in my heart, so I secretly hid a palace maid your majesty favored in the Fengyi Palace, hoping that your majesty’s bloodline could be given birth to safely.”
As Shi Jiang said this, he called the fat palace maid beside him to come forward and motioned Yang Jiong to take a closer look.
"Qiyue? Why are you here? You're not...!?"
Yang Jiong looked carefully, and after seeing the face of the palace maid clearly, he immediately exclaimed, then thought of something, and immediately stopped speaking, with a look of shock and anger on his face.
"Ms. Cui, how dare she?"
Qi Yue is the maid in Concubine Cui's palace, because Concubine Cui always calls Yang Jiong to accompany her because she is pregnant with the Dragonborn.
How could Yang Jiong be so honest? After drinking some wine, he became more interested. Cui Guifei was unable to sleep with her, so he naturally asked Qi Yue, who was waiting on her that day, to accompany him.
Originally, he planned to give Qi Yue a beauty title early the next morning.
Unexpectedly, when he woke up, Concubine Cui said that Qiyue had committed suicide by jumping into the well.
This made Yang Jiong lose his appetite, so he stopped checking Qi Yue's whereabouts.
Now it was discovered that Qi Yue was actually in the Queen's Fengyi Palace, and looking at Qi Yue's belly, she was probably three months old.
Yang Jiong could figure it out after just a little thought. He was probably the one who planted the child in Qi Yue's belly that day.
But Concubine Cui said that Qi Yue jumped into the well, and she was afraid that it was because she favored Qi Yue that she would do something evil to Qi Yue.
However, I don’t know what method the queen used to save Qi Yue.
Yang Jiong stepped forward excitedly and reached out to touch Qi Yue's slightly bulging belly.
With a face full of gratitude, he said to Shi Jiang: "Thank you Zitong for helping me. I hate that evil woman of the Cui family. She is so jealous that she cannot tolerate others. Sooner or later, I will have her whole family of Cui family buried with my son."
Speaking of this, Yang Jiong's face showed a sinister look.