For Concubine Xiao Shu's methods, Queen Wang is actually very clear, it is nothing more than pretending to be weak, deceiving Li Zhi to care, changing tricks to complain to Li Zhi, usually giving some gifts to those concubines, and rewarding those maids and maids, don't underestimate these maids and maids, they are all the eyeliner in the palace, and the news transmission and information collection in the palace all depend on them.

Pretending to be weak, Queen Wang knew that she couldn't use it, all she could do was to buy people's hearts with money, and Xiao En Xiaohui could not be ignored, so he sent a letter to his father, asking him to come to Chang'an to see himself, in fact, he wanted his father to send him some money.

These concubines in the harem don't seem to have a place to spend money in the palace, but they spend a lot of money up and down, and they are generally beyond their means.

Originally, the queen's family background was better than her, and the Taiyuan Wang family was definitely above the Lanling Xiao family, but because of the assassination of the Nanzhao envoys, the Taiyuan Wang family plummeted, and now it is basically in a situation of lingering, she asked the family for money several times, adding up to more than 1,000 yuan, and more than 1,000 yuan was basically used in the harem There is basically no reaction, she roughly calculated, since Concubine Xiao Shufei married Li Zhi, the gifts given to the concubines and the rewards to the maids and maids, not to mention more than 6,000 guan, how can her 1,000 guan be compared.

Xu Jingzong secretly sent a thousand yuan each to the palace maid Xilai and the maidservant Liu Juan, these two are only the lowest level in the palace, when have they seen so much money, they heard that it was given to them by Wu Meiniang, they were even more surprised, and Xu Jingzong's request was very simple, tell him all about the competition between Queen Wang and Concubine Xiao, and as soon as there is news in the future, let Xilai take the opportunity to go out of the palace to buy vegetables to send the letter out.

On the spot, Xilai told Xu Jingzong a piece of news, Concubine Xiao Shufei had another quarrel with Queen Wang, although it was just a trivial matter, but Queen Wang had already sent someone to send a letter to Taiyuan.

As soon as Xu Jingzong heard the news, he immediately felt as if the opportunity was coming, so he began to wait silently, and ten days later, Wang Renyou, the father of the queen, came to Chang'an and asked to enter the palace to see the queen.

Wang Renyou's official position is very low, the current Luo Shan Ling, how big an official is Luo Shan Ling, it is Luo Shan's county order, Qipin, it stands to reason that this kind of person should not even know where the door of Taiji Palace is, but he can enter the palace, because his daughter is the current queen, and people are invited by their daughter to enter the palace, who dares to stop it, Li Zhi is not easy to stop if he does not have a valid reason.

Wang Renyou saw his daughter in the queen's dormitory, and saluted his daughter, no way, the ancient order of etiquette is heaven, earth, king, parent, teacher, the king is second only to heaven and earth, the king here represents the royal family, including the prince and the queen, so Wang Renyou wants to salute his daughter.

After the two sat down, they began to chat, first chatting about family life, and then chatting about family life, the queen was embarrassed to ask her father for money, why, because there was no money at home, when chatting about family life, Wang Renyou said that the situation at home is getting more and more difficult, because last time they assassinated the Nanzhao envoy and framed Li Hao, which caused the people to boycott their Wang family's goods, and their Wang family's business has plummeted since then, which is not only that, in order to pay a huge fine, they borrowed a lot of money from Li Hao's bank, At the beginning, they overestimated their ability to repay, only borrowed for five years, and had to repay 20,000 yuan a month, but now their business is so difficult to do, and the price of grain has plummeted, and the land and business are not profitable.

Hearing these tragic experiences of the family, how could Queen Wang bear to ask her father for money, thinking that she was bullied in the palace, and her family was also bullied by Li Hao, Queen Wang suddenly felt so sad that she cried, Wang Renyou loved her daughter very much, saw her daughter crying, and hurriedly asked, only to learn that although her daughter was a queen, she was not happy in the palace, and there was a Concubine Xiao Shufei who had been competing with her for favor, and her daughter had been at a disadvantage.

How could Wang Renyou bear to watch his daughter suffer, first comforted his daughter not to cry, and after a while, he said firmly: "Don't worry, my father can't let you be bullied, I will go to your uncle after I go out later, and let him give you ideas, he is now a Chinese scholar, and he can't ignore you." ”

Queen Wang said with concern: "Dad, in the harem, I'm afraid that my uncle won't be able to intervene, if he refuses to help, you don't have to embarrass him." ”

Wang Renyou nodded: "Don't worry, Dad knows the importance of it, Dad will leave and go to find your uncle." ”

"Daughter sends father."

"Don't, stay good, don't send it." Wang Renyou said, and walked outside the palace under the guidance of the inner attendant.

After Wang Renyou got out of the imperial city, he went straight to the house of Liu Zheng, Liu Zheng is the uncle of Queen Wang, and he was just promoted to Zhongshu Ling this year, and the original Zhongshu Ling Ma Zhou has gone to Shangshu Province to do Shangshu right servant shooting, this is a promotion, the right servant shoots this position, and the eldest grandson Wuji has also done it.

Wang Renyou didn't hand over the post, but he still entered Liu Zheng's mansion smoothly, after all, Liu Zheng was his eldest brother.

The two sat down in the living room, began to be polite, and began to greet each other, anyway, they all said some clichés, and after a long time, the clichés were almost over, Wang Renyou led the topic to Queen Wang, and he had something to say, saying that Liu Zheng could be a Zhongshu Ling, more or less stained with his daughter's light.

Liu Zheng did not deny this, he was able to sit in the position of Zhongshu Ling, and he was indeed stained with the light of the queen, and then Wang Renyou began to say how difficult it is for the queen to be in the palace now, how deceitful Concubine Xiao is and whatever, Liu Zheng is the uncle of the queen, and after listening to it, I also feel very uncomfortable, there is a good saying, there are people in the court who are good officials, and there are people in the palace who are big officials, although the queen cannot interfere in the government, but there are things, others will look at the queen's face and give him some face by the way, if the queen falls, He estimated that he would not be able to do this book order for long.

Wang Renyou saw that the foreshadowing was almost over, so he began to beg Liu Zheng to let him come up with ideas to help, although Liu Zheng had already guessed the purpose of his visit, but when Wang Renyou said it, he still sighed silently, he was a foreign official, no matter how long his hand was, it was impossible to reach out to the inner courtyard of the palace.

Wang Renyou doesn't follow, he is such a daughter, how can he bear to watch his daughter fall out of favor in the palace, even if Liu Zheng said that he couldn't do anything, he also asked for a request, because since the last incident, Taiyuan Wang's connections in the court have been almost eradicated, and now the eldest grandson Wuji also ignores their family, the biggest official he knows now is Liu Zheng, this is his last straw, how can he let go, seeing that he can't beg hard, he is ready to kneel.

Liu Zheng was taken aback when he saw this, hurriedly held him up, and dissuaded him repeatedly, Wang Renyou refused, as long as he didn't agree, he had to kneel, Liu Zheng felt a headache, and had no choice but to agree to try to think of a way first.

At this moment, the porter came to report, Xu Jingzong handed over the post to ask to see, and also attached a gift list, the gift was a little cold, a jade Ruyi, no, people sent jade Ruyi to come to one-to-one send, this goods to send one, if not too poor or too stingy.

Xu Jingzong is a little waiter in Shangshu Province, and he actually came to ask to see him for this Zhongshu order, which is a bit interesting, Liu Zheng had nothing to do anyway, so he asked the housekeeper to bring Xu Jingzong to the living room, and Wang Renyou saw that Liu Zheng wanted to meet guests, so he avoided it first.

After Xu Jingzong saluted, Liu Zheng invited him to take a seat, Xu Jingzong thanked him and sat down, and said with a dry smile: "Lord Liu, in fact, Xia Guan has been waiting outside your mansion for a long time. ”

"Oh?" Hearing this, Liu Zheng asked suspiciously, "Then why didn't you hand over the prayer post earlier, and wait outside the door, today is very poisonous." ”

Xu Jingzong said with a smile on his face: "Xia Guan saw that Wang Renyou, the father of the queen, had entered your mansion, and Xia Guan was afraid of disturbing the reception of Wang Da County, so he waited outside the door for an hour. ”

"Ah, that's so." Liu Zheng was slightly moved when he heard this, and said, "Xu Shilang has a heart." ”

"Lord Liu is polite, the lower officials should be." Xu Jingzong asked seemingly casually, "I don't know why the county commander came to Lord Liu?" ”

"This ......" Liu Zheng frowned slightly when he heard this, not very happy, feeling that he was a little lenient, so he said perfunctorily, "I haven't seen you for a long time, and I talked about some short things in my parents." ”

"Oh." Xu Jingzong nodded, and suddenly sighed loudly, "It's not easy for Wang County's order, it's not easy for good things to happen from heaven, my daughter became the queen, but I never thought about it...... Alas......" He stopped talking, and shook his head with a sigh, the standard appearance of selling Guanzi.

Liu Zheng frowned again when he heard this, and asked, "Did Xu Shilang hear any news?" ”

Xu Jingzong laughed dryly twice and said, "It's all gossip, and it's not accurate." ”

Liu Zheng raised his eyebrows when he heard this: "Regardless of whether it is accurate or not, can Xu Shilang share the gossip, this official is very curious." ”

"Since Lord Liu is interested, how dare the lower officials be stingy." Xu Jingzong smiled and said, "Xia Guan heard that the queen is falling out of favor in the harem, and the concubine Xiao family is a collection of thousands of favors, and the concubines and concubines are widely gathered, and the maidservants only recognize the concubines, not the queen!" ”

"There is such a thing!" Although Liu Zheng had just heard what Wang Renyou had said, he still had to pretend to be surprised.

"Exactly!" Xu Jingzong said, "Lord Liu, Queen Wang is your niece, we are all people in the officialdom, so we naturally know that it is an excellent thing to have a queen's niece, Lord Liu, forgive the official for talking too much, for the sake of your official career, you have to help Queen Wang." ”

Wang Renyou, who had been hiding outside the living room and eavesdropping, suddenly felt close to Xu Jingzong when he heard this, this is a good person, a very good person.

Liu Zheng smiled embarrassedly when he heard this: "Xu Shilang said that he laughed, the affairs in the palace, how can this official be able to intervene in this little ability." ”

"That's just as well." Xu Jingzong nodded thoughtfully, "Unless you can find that person's help, there is really no way." ”

"Who?" Liu Zheng and Wang Renyou asked in unison when they heard this, and Wang Renyou had already appeared at the door of the living room.