Chapter 150: Inside and Outside the Palace Walls
There is naturally a reason why Gao Pragmatism is so affirmative, and the reason is very simple to say.
Wang Xijue Wanli returned to his hometown to serve his father because his father was seriously ill in ten years, which experienced the death of his father and kept the system, and then failed to recover as soon as possible because of the previous high pragmatic obstacles, etc., which was delayed for almost five years.
For Wang Xijue, who was born in the thirteenth year of Jiajing and is already fifty-four, although he still has more than 17 years of eunuch career, the wasted five years are real after all, and he will definitely think about "making up" in the next time.
And just like Gao Shipra will burn the "three fires of the new official" after taking office, Wang Xijue will definitely burn the three fires of the new official, not only to burn, but also to burn a look, so as to be worthy of his name of Wang Taicang.
In this way, Gao Pragmatic believes that Wang Xijue, who has attached great importance to his reputation since he was a child and is quite "good at making amazing words", will definitely seize this opportunity after arriving in Beijing, in order to build up his momentum. Although the situation is different, he will definitely remember the grand occasion of the high arch resurrection, and strive to "make a big news" himself.
However, Gao Situ, who was like a god, was only half right this time: Wang Xijue hurried and rushed to Beijing on the afternoon of the third day after Gao Shishi's rescue, and then did make a big news - but not for the "slander case" and its aftermath, but for another bigger event.
Wang Xijue arrived in Beijing in the afternoon, and the next morning he went to the next morning: Please ask the emperor to correct the country as soon as possible!
In the text, Wang Ge Lao used his world-famous writing to try to let the emperor know the importance of the early Zhengguo capital.
In fact, where does Wang Xijue need to say more about the importance of "Zhengguoben", I don't know how many people have mentioned this matter in the past few years, and the truth has long been explained clearly in various songs, and the emperor must be clear even if he is a piece of wood.
So reasoning is one thing, although he is in Suzhou, Wang Xijue, who is well aware of the situation in Beijing, of course does not expect his face to be so big, and the emperor admits it as soon as he opens his mouth, so he is not only reasonable, but also points out a clear way to the emperor.
According to Wang Xijue, the emperor's "problem" now is that he wants to wait for his son-in-law to be born, which is completely understandable for him as a courtier. But no one knows when the son-in-law was born, and the country cannot be hung for a long time, after all, the emperor's eldest son Zhu Changluo is already six years old, compared to the emperor himself, it will be a little late to study in the pavilion.
So what to do? The most critical problem now is to solve the "difference between the concubines", and this point is solved in Wang Xijue's opinion.
What's the solution? Let the emperor's eldest son worship the queen as his mother, and be raised by the queen temporarily.
Of course, with a scholar like Wang Xijue, he must find some evidence when making suggestions, so he gave an example in Shuwen, saying that the queen of Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty, the queen of Emperor Ming of Tang, and the queen of Liu of Zhenzong of Song Dynasty all raised the sons of concubines as their own sons. Therefore, if the emperor instructs the empress to raise the eldest son, the eldest son will be the son-in-law.
Not only that, Wang Xijue also considered that the emperor did not like the biological mother of the emperor's eldest son, and proposed another point: In this way, the emperor's eldest son's biological mother would not have to respect the title, so as to suppress the imperial concubine.
Wang Xijue deserves to be Wang Xijue, and Xueba deserves to be a Xueba. If you follow his set, it looks like everyone is happy!
One point that is particularly important here is that the Xin School has always advocated the emperor's eldest son as the crown prince, while the Shi School seems to be a little undecided in this matter.
Most of the officials of the Shixue School, influenced by their pragmatic stance, have been low-key in supporting the emperor's statement that he was "waiting for his concubine to come".
However, Wang Xijue's hand directly shook the position of most officials of the Shixue School - the difference between the concubines and the concubines is established, is there any problem with the eldest son of the emperor being the crown prince? No, yes!
Gao Pragmatic originally stayed at home and waited for Wang Xijue to make a move on the "Slander Case", who knew that he was indeed a powerful person, and instead of following Gao Pragmatic's baton, he opened up a second battlefield and burned the fire to the battle for the country.
Moreover, Wang Xijue's hand-to-hand salary has another effect, that is, to expand the existing dispute between Gao and Xu within the Shixue School - Xu Guo's original intention was also to think that the Guoben should be corrected as soon as possible, mainly because he was suppressed by Gao Shishi at the last Chongyang Conference, so the officials of the Shixue School who had the same ideas as him had to follow him and die down, but their thoughts were not completely wiped out because of this.
Wang Xijue's actions, Xu Guo's officials must have wavered, and Gao Shishi himself is still in a state of "self-suspension", so it is difficult to suppress them, which is convenient for "different opinions" to engage in tandem.
In this way, even Gao Pragmatic couldn't sit still, and had to follow Wang Xijue's baton in turn.
Of course, Gao Pragmatic knew that Wang Xijue's hand was also his army, forcing him to take the initiative to "go out and see things", so he would definitely have a reputation damaged to a greater or lesser extent, so although Gao Pragmatic couldn't move, it was best not to move like this.
Gao pragmatic locked himself in the room and thought about it for more than an hour according to his habits, and finally made a decision.
He himself was still closed, but he sent someone to contact the palace.
However, this time he did not want to face Jun, nor to find Princess Yongning, or even to connect with Huang Mengyu and Chen Ju, but to contact Emperor Zheng and Concubine Zheng.
Of course, Princess Yongning still has to play an important role. If you read the book carefully, you should remember that this book said before that the place where Emperor Zheng's concubine lived was in Yikun Palace, and Yikun Palace was only separated by a wall from Changchun Palace where Princess Yongning lived.
Of course, this arrangement was decided by Zhu Yijun, which originally meant that his favorite Concubine Zheng and his sister Princess Yongning, who he was particularly concerned about, got along well. It's just that because of Gao Pragmatic's friendly attitude towards the queen, Princess Yongning is not very willing to get close to Emperor Zheng's concubine, so the two actually didn't have much contact before.
In fact, Princess Yongning herself is also friendly with the queen, and she has a negative view of Emperor Zheng's concubine, thinking that it is because of her that the favor that should belong to the queen is taken away - in fact, there is some misunderstanding here, Zhu Yijun's attitude towards Queen Wang has not changed much, but relatively speaking, Queen Wang's "queen attributes" are a bit strong, and there is less interaction between ordinary couples, it is difficult for Zhu Yijun to completely spoil her.
This is the specialty of Emperor Zheng's concubine, and she can give the emperor this feeling of "love" between young men and women.
Princess Yongning was very happy to get the news of Gao Shishi, but when she saw that she was going to ask her to find Concubine Zheng, she was a little unhappy. After reading Gao Shishi's letter, he realized that this matter was very important, so he had to put away his unhappiness and go to Zheng Guifei to "chat".
Concubine Zheng Guifei is one of the two daughters favored by the emperor in the palace, and because the queen is too wife-like, she seems relatively bland, because she is almost in a state of "sole favor".
Sole favor is of course a good thing for her, but this good thing must also be said separately, on the other hand, the sole favor means that in addition to the emperor's favor, her relationship with other concubines is not much better. And because of the influence of the concubines, the eldest princesses who stayed in the palace would not have a good impression of her.
To put it simply, she has almost no friends in the palace.
In these palace fighting dramas, for love, for glory, and in order to compete for the emperor's unfathomable favor, the concubines of the harem wasted their youth and beauty in this endless struggle, and the harem was the tragic position of the struggle.
The conspiracy and betrayal in the Huating brocade tent are deceitful under the carved beams and paintings. With the so-called "palace fight" as the theme, the Forbidden City, which is shown to readers and audiences, is such a stage for the cruel struggle of harem women.
But the essence of the so-called "palace fighting drama" is actually just a mental calculation in the modern workplace dressed in an ancient costume. The real forbidden palace in history, the fine net woven by strict palace rules, imprisons everyone in it, and in fact, it cannot tolerate the so-called conspiracies and tricks that seem gorgeous but are actually clumsy in the "palace fighting drama".
It is true that what is staged in the Forbidden City is not a "palace fighting drama", but for hundreds of years, the lives experienced by the concubines living in the harem are still another cruel cage.
"Gong Dou Drama" only says one thing correctly, that is, in an autocratic dynasty, the emperor's absolute will to power dominates everything, so the power of the harem depends entirely on the unpredictable monarch's heart.
In this labyrinth of power with golden tiles and red walls, everyone imprisoned in it has to prostrate and bow under the imperial power, lose themselves, and become prisoners in the exquisite cage in the hands of the emperor.
Fat powder decorates the faces of the harem prisoners, Jin Cui decorates the heavy shackles on his hands, and behind the gentle and obedient is the self-suppression of human nature.
This is the truth of the survival of women in the palace.
In the imperial era, the Forbidden City was a perfect cage built with the absolute will of the imperial power, and behind the enviable magnificence was the mold of repressed human hearts and the decay of power. Just as the shackles are worn for a long time, they will sink into the flesh and lock into the bone marrow, and those trapped in them can neither escape nor know themselves.
Every harem woman has this fear, so they want to be favored for a long time, but they are also worried that it will be lost at any time, so they also expect to have other sustenance other than the emperor.
Children are naturally an important sustenance, but the royal family's children's affection is limited, and not all of them can be like the Empress Dowager Li raised Zhu Yijun in person - not to mention that when the Empress Dowager Li raised Zhu Yijun, Zhu Yijun also lived alone in the same palace and would not live with his mother, so this kind of sustenance is also flawed.
At such times, people will naturally crave friendship - even the ubiquitous "surface girlfriends" in later generations are better than no sustenance.
Therefore, when she learned the news that the eldest princess of Yongning took the initiative to visit Yikun Palace, Concubine Zheng Guifei, who was painting with great boredom, couldn't help but be overjoyed, threw away her paintbrush and came out to greet her in person.
Princess Yongning is not highly pragmatic, her acting skills are indeed not outstanding, and she is even far worse than Concubine Zheng Guifei, at least Concubine Zheng's surprise and affection look the same as the real thing, and she stepped forward to take Princess Yongning's hand and kissed a "Sister Yongning" affectionately, which also seemed to be no jerky, as always.
In contrast, Princess Yongning looks much more reserved, although she has been smiling, but the greetings between the two sides are not on the same level, often Concubine Zheng said seven or eight sentences happily, and Princess Yongning could only smile and reply one or two sentences. If you let people who don't know see it, you still think that Princess Yongning's status is higher than that of Emperor Zheng.
The two chatted for a while, and Princess Yongning finally found an opportunity to talk about business, mentioning that Wang Xijue arrived in Beijing and asked the emperor to correct the country's capital as soon as possible.
Concubine Zheng Guifei's face changed at first, and then she quickly showed her skills in expression management, and immediately recovered her calm demeanor, and waved her hand to drive the palace maids and eunuchs out, and then reminded: "Sister Yongning, according to the ancestral system, these things are not something we can discuss." ”
Princess Yongning smiled slightly according to Gao Shipra's reminder: "How can there be any discussion?" I just heard the news and mentioned it in passing. ”
Concubine Zheng Guifei actually knew for a long time that there was some unclear relationship between Princess Yongning and Gao Shishi, and the source was very reliable - the emperor said it. It's just that the emperor also knows the taboo in the end, but he only vaguely mentioned it a little, and didn't say it in detail.
But that's enough, with Concubine Zheng Guifei's cleverness, I can't guess why Princess Yongning knew about Wang Xijue when she was in the palace, and even clearly knew what Wang Xijue said in today's recital - it is impossible for Princess Yongning to buy the celebrant supervisor, right? That's not Yongning, that's probably Taiping.
The source of this news can only be high pragmatism. As for how Gao Pragmatic passed the news to Yongning so quickly, Zheng Guifei didn't bother to care about this at all.
How big is Gao Pragmatic's power and how deep her influence is on the emperor, she has been very clear since she was coldly faced by the emperor last time.
This person is the object of her determination not to offend if she can. She knows that as a concubine in the palace, she must have this consciously, especially this is the Ming Dynasty, and it is the Ming Dynasty that the harem will never allow interference in politics.
Even recently, she has always wanted to find an opportunity to say good things about Gao Pragmatic in front of the emperor - the reason is very simple, with Gao Pragmatic's power in the palace, he must be able to know if he speaks for him in front of the emperor.
If we can take this opportunity to change Gao Shishi's view on the "national capital" issue, it will be really good news. With his high pragmatic influence on the emperor, as well as his strong factional strength in the outer court, as long as he is willing to express his support, not to mention that his imperial concubine is becoming more and more secure, and even Chang Xun can be the crown prince!
The only trouble is that it is difficult to find opportunities, and the emperor also abides by the ancestral system most of the time, and does not mention the affairs of the outer court in front of her, and it is not convenient to praise Gao Pragmatic.
But Princess Yongning is here...... Concubine Zheng Guifei's heart suddenly moved.
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