Chapter 163 The Empress Dowager Moon’s Choice in the Confrontation at the Ancestral Temple (3)
"Your Majesty does great things, and you will be rewarded for your merits and punished for your mistakes. If you are a sinful concubine, you don't have to expect to be favored by the Holy Family." Meng Xinzhu looked at the Queen Mother's raised brows and couldn't help but smile, "I want this.
Value does not leave a shadow in the emperor's heart forever, nor does he expect the emperor to seek any so-called justice for his concubine. The value he wants is that the emperor will know why his concubine died, and the emperor will also understand what to do.
It is worthy of the life I paid for my concubine. My concubine's death will not only bring sadness, but also excitement. The emperor will make my concubine's death worthwhile. Queen Mother, do you think this kind of value will be possessed by me?
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The Queen Mother stared at Meng Xinzhu for a long time. Of course she understood the meaning of Concubine Zhu's words. This was the Imperial Ancestral Temple, and the Emperor would not know what they talked about specifically. But as the Queen Mother sent the Emperor's favorite concubine to death, how could the Emperor do that?
Let her go at will? She will inevitably ask why she did this, and how will she explain it to the emperor? With her status as the princess of the Wei Kingdom, and the current development of the situation, the emperor will naturally think of the relationship between Wei and Yue. If she knows
Concubine Zhu was killed because she defended her country, and the result can be imagined.
"It seems that the Ai family has really underestimated you!" The Queen Mother sighed softly and stood up, "Concubine Zhu, you are smart enough, courageous enough, and thoughtful enough. You know what the emperor wants, and you will not let yourself become
His obstruction. You can see that the Ai family is worried about the affairs of the two countries of Yue and Wei, and you are betting on whether the Ai family will arouse the emperor's determination to destroy the Wei!"
Meng Xinzhu raised her eyebrows. It seemed that the Queen Mother was very aware of Hongde Longqiu's ambitions and her own thoughts. So what exactly did she want to do?
"Do you think the Ai family called you here today just to ask about your concubine's political affairs?" The Queen Mother turned around and looked at the memorial tablet again, "The emperor is the son of the Ai family, how could the Ai family not know his personality, no matter what he did?
If he dotes on you, he will not risk his life for the sake of a woman, regardless of the interests of the country. What's more, since he dotes on you, he will never let you bear the reputation of being a concubine who interferes in politics. And you are also a smart person, since you understand that the emperor
If he has his own thoughts, he will not embarrass him for Jade Concubine."
"It turns out that the Queen Mother knows."
"The Ai family not only knew this, but also knew that the emperor had already started to act, so Wei was very uneasy." The queen mother thought of the black pearl in the brocade box. It was not a treasure, but a sign that Wei's country was in trouble. It was Duan Zhe who asked her to
signal sent.
Meng Xinzhu raised her eyebrows again. It seemed that news from the Wei Kingdom had been passed to the Queen Mother, but why didn't the Yan Clan intercept it? Is it any wonder that there was a problem with the palace's protective net? Or maybe Hongde Longqiu let it go on purpose?
"Concubine Zhu, you were right to bet that the Ai family would not arouse the emperor's desire to destroy the Wei Kingdom. But the Ai family also knows that even if no one provokes the emperor, the emperor will not let the Weiguo go." The Queen Mother
Close your eyes, "The Ai family really regrets it now. They should have dissuaded the late emperor from making Long Qiu the emperor. If Long Hao were the emperor, the life of the Ai family would be easier. He is not as domineering as Long Qiu, and his heart is not as good as Long Hao's."
Qiu Da, he is also more filial to the Ai family than Long Qiu and Long Run. If there is a dispute between the two countries, the Ai family can speak out."
"Long Hao is indeed not as powerful as Long Qiu, but I would like to ask the Queen Mother, if today's situation is reversed, and the Wei Kingdom does not let the Yue Kingdom go, then can the Queen Mother also have a say in the Wei Kingdom? Yue Qiang's
At that time, the Queen Mother asked her son not to do anything to your son in the name of his mother. But when Wei Qiang came, in what name did the Queen Mother ask them not to do anything to your son?" The Queen Mother was startled, "Your son is filial to his mother, but his nephew may not be so.
I am also filial to my aunt. Alas, the palms and backs of my hands are full of flesh, and it hurts no matter how I cut them. When Long Hao was threatened by Weiguo, did the Queen Mother still think that he was more suitable to be the Moon Emperor than Long Qiu?"
The Queen Mother staggered and looked at the Bamboo Concubine. Yes, the palms and backs of her hands were full of flesh. On one side was her motherland, the country where she gave birth and raised herself, and on the other side was her son, the flesh and blood of her closest relatives who had fallen from her body.
Whether it is a son being swallowed or the motherland being eaten, it is a sad thing. "Zhu Fei, don't you hate it when the emperor destroys Ye?"
Hate? Meng Xinzhu can’t hate. I wonder if the real Concubine Zhu can? But when she saw Concubine Zhu for the first time, she just sighed for her own life, for Eunuch Chen and the others, and for Emperor Weimeng.
The doting exclamation did not show the hatred for the emperor's subjugation of the country! But now is no longer the time to know her thoughts, she is the Bamboo Concubine!
"I only have sorrow, but no hatred." Meng Xinzhu did not look at the Queen Mother, but just looked at the spiritual tablet, "I am sad that my father betrayed the trust of the people and failed to shoulder the responsibility for the country. Ye was not destroyed by the moon, but by the moon.
The king destroyed his country because his father had lost the support of the people and the foundation of the country. If the emperor did not let the people there live a better life than when my father ruled me, I would hate him after he obtained Yedi.
However, when I returned to Yezhou to visit my relatives, I saw that the people in Yezhou were living and working in peace and contentment, and when I saw that the people there were devoted to the emperor, what else do I need to hate?"
"But the people there were once the people of Ye, and Ye is your motherland!"
"Yes, Ye is the motherland of my concubines, but it may not necessarily be the motherland of the people. The so-called country is for the ruler, not the people. When the ruler treats the people well, the people are your countrymen. When the ruler treats the people badly,
The people will become people from other countries."
The Queen Mother raised her eyebrows, "You are really open-minded!"
"Because if you think about it, your heart won't be bitter." Meng Xinzhu stared into the Queen Mother's eyes, "Since you can't change it, it's better to accept it calmly. The Queen Mother has lived in the palace all her life and has seen a lot of struggles for imperial power. You must have foreseen it.
A dilemma will arise. The late emperor did not care about the fact that you were the princess of Weiguo. He still appointed you as his empress and your son as the new emperor. The late emperor felt that the empress dowager was the current Qing'e, and he could fully trust him.
Empress. He believes that the empress will make the right choice in such a dilemma."
There were tears in the eyes of the Queen Mother, and Meng Xinzhu couldn't help but lament that the Queen Mother was really hard-working. Her son wanted to annex her motherland, but she also knew that her motherland also had the appetite to eat her son.
"Concubine Zhu, do you know why the Ai family brought you to the Ancestral Temple?"
Meng Xinzhu looked at the spiritual tablet in front of her, "At first I felt that the Queen Mother was killing her concubine, but now it seems not."
"You are right. The Ai family is very aware of the affairs between the two countries, and they have always been conflicted. When I first married to the Yue Kingdom, it was because the Ai family and the late emperor were in love. But the Ai family's father had a
An ambitious man, he hopes to use the late emperor's friendship for the Ai family to make the Ai family a pawn of the Moon Kingdom. On the one hand, it is love, and on the other hand, it is family affection. The Ai family is really a dilemma. The late emperor also knows the fate of the Ai family's father.
But he still loved the Aijia." The Queen Mother began to look around the Ancestral Temple, "Right here, the late emperor said some very pertinent words to the Aijia. His love moved the Aijia, and his righteousness moved the Aijia. He
She ordered the Ai family to admire her. From then on, the Ai family gave up her identity as the princess of the Wei Kingdom. The Ai family was only the queen of the Yue Kingdom and the queen mother of the Yue Kingdom.