What Empress Dowager Gao couldn't understand was that Zhao Yan broke into the inner palace very domineeringly, but did not mention the seizure of power at all, but said that there were several things to discuss with her, which made her even more unable to guess what Zhao Yan thought in her heart, and after thinking for a while, she said: "Say it, listen to the mourning family!" ”

I saw that Zhao Yan did not speak immediately at this time, but signaled the surrounding palace maids and chamberlains to retreat, but these people were all confidants of the Empress Dowager Gao, and they didn't know whether to retreat for a while, until the Empress Dowager Gao thought about it for a while, and also nodded to those palace maids and chamberlains, and then these people finally turned around and left, and only Zhao Yan and Empress Dowager Gao were left in the entire hall.

Seeing that everyone else had left, Zhao Yan raised his head again to look at the Empress Dowager Gao, and then smiled slightly: "Before discussing these questions, Erchen wants to ask, where is Your Majesty now?" ”

"According to the rules of my Great Song Dynasty, if Your Majesty is too young after ascending the throne, it will naturally be handed over to the Empress Dowager to raise, so Your Majesty is naturally there for the Queen Mother." Empress Dowager Gao said with a natural face, after Zhao Ji's death, Empress Xiang naturally became Empress Dowager Xiang, and Zhao Maid's biological mother Zhu should have been respected as the Empress Dowager, but Empress Dowager Gao thought that Zhu was from a humble background, so she was only canonized as Concubine Zhu, and she usually did not treat Concubine Zhu very much, and even the support of Zhao Maid was taken away by her from Concubine Zhu and handed over to Empress Dowager Xiang to raise.

"What a rule!" Zhao Yan said sarcastically when he heard this, "If Your Majesty's biological mother is not there, then it is normal to be raised by the imperial sister-in-law, but Your Majesty's biological mother Zhu is still there, and the Queen Mother not only did not crown Zhu as the queen, but also took Your Majesty away from her, separating their mother and son, doesn't the Queen Mother feel too cruel?" ”

"Bold! You...... How dare you speak to the mourners like that! Empress Dowager Gao didn't expect Zhao Yan to accuse her so directly, and her whole body trembled with anger at the moment. Pointing at Zhao Yan and reprimanding loudly.

"Erchen is just telling the truth, before the imperial brother died, he told me several times to help him take care of His Majesty, so naturally I can't sit idly by and ignore His Majesty's affairs!" Zhao Yan said with a proud expression at this time.

Usually when he faced the Empress Dowager Gao, he always gave in as much as possible, because she was his elder. As long as it is not a particularly important matter, there is no need to conflict with her, but today's incident completely annoyed Zhao Yan, although he didn't care much about the power of the regent, but it was one thing for him to voluntarily hand it over, and it was another thing for him to be snatched away, plus the Empress Dowager Gao had already made him feel inappropriate in dealing with Zhao Maid's mother and son, and all kinds of reasons combined to make Zhao Yan accuse Empress Dowager Gao in person with such fierce words.

"You can't sit idly by. But your hand is too long, and the affairs of the inner palace are naturally decided by the mourning family, and it is not your turn to be a prince! Empress Dowager Gao also calmed down from her anger at this time, and said loudly with a cold expression at the moment, since Zhao Shu was still in power, the inner palace has become her forbidden place, and no one has ever dared to have any objections to her decision in the inner palace, so although she calmed down. But his expression was even more terrifying, and he even hated Zhao Yan a little.

"It's not my turn to intervene. It seems that the Queen Mother really likes to separate other mothers and sons, and you are also a mother, do you feel very happy when you see other people's mothers and children separated? Zhao Yan roared again at this time.

His biological mother Zhang Guiyi was obviously in the palace, but he couldn't recognize the other party, and he didn't take it seriously. After all, he can't be regarded as the real Zhao Yan, but Zhang Guiyi has always regarded him as a real son, and whenever he has a birthday, he will try his best to send him some gifts, and after Zhao Yan has a child. It is said that Zhang Guiyi wants to come to see the child every day, but unfortunately the rules in the palace are strict, and she can't recognize Zhao Yan, so it is impossible to see the child, and finally Zhao Yan personally painted a portrait of the child and quietly sent it to the palace, for which Zhang Guiyi was happy for a long time, it is said that those portraits have been hidden by her pillow, and she has to take them out every night to see them before she can fall asleep.

With Zhao Yan's identity, Zhang Guiyi can't recognize him, and his two sisters, as well as the fourth brother Zhao Hao, obviously already know their biological mother, but because there is the Empress Dowager Gao in the middle, they can only separate the mother and son, and it used to be fine, but now how old are their children, and several old concubines in the palace miss their grandsons or grandsons, but it is impossible to even see each other, which also makes Zhao Yan more and more dissatisfied with the Empress Dowager Gao, and this time the conflict finally broke out.

"You ......" Hearing Zhao Yan's accusation, Empress Dowager Gao couldn't help but tremble with anger, but she had nothing to say, she was very domineering and put all the children born by other people's concubines under her own name, which was already very criticized, but as the mother of a country, no one dared to accuse her face for so many years, and even Zhao Shu didn't dare to mention this matter before her death, but he never expected that this matter would finally be exposed by her nominal son Zhao Yan in person, which made her angry and a little ashamed at the same time.

Empress Dowager Gao was angry and had nothing to say, and after Zhao Yan vented the anger hidden in his heart for many years, he didn't say anything, but the titular mother and son stared at each other, and no one spoke again for a long time, and finally Empress Dowager Gao finally said in a heavy tone: "It seems that you have been resentful of the mourning family for a long time, no wonder you have not been very close to the mourning family before." ”

Zhao Yan couldn't help but be stunned when he heard the words of the Empress Dowager Gao, because he heard a trace of regret from the other party's tone very rarely, with the strong personality of the Empress Dowager Gao, which made Zhao Yan think that he was dreaming.

"It is the cause of the day, the effect of today, when the Queen Mother did these things, she should have taken into account the current consequences." It was rare to see a trace of regret in the Empress Dowager Gao, which made Zhao Yan also calm down, and then spoke again, "But these things have passed, and I and the second sister will not be caught because of this, and if the Empress Dowager is not worried about me, I can also completely hand over the regent, but I have a few conditions!" ”

Hearing Zhao Yan's last words, Empress Dowager Gao finally understood what Zhao Yan meant by discussing a few things before, it turned out that he wanted to use this matter to put forward conditions, in other words, a transaction, and the object of the transaction was the conditions that he could agree to, as well as the power in Zhao Yan's hands.

Thinking of the above, Empress Dowager Gao also showed a hesitant look on her face, but finally spoke: "What conditions do you have to put forward for the mourning family to hear?" ”

"These conditions are not difficult for the Queen Mother, the first is the private matter I mentioned just now, I have been separated from my mother for many years with my second sister, and now my mother is old, and it is already inconvenient to stay in the palace again, and if you are a child, you naturally have to do your filial piety for your parents, so your son wants to ask her mother for her consent, so that our sisters and brothers can take their mother to live at home!" Zhao Yanchang took a breath and said, this condition is the simplest one he thought of, if Empress Dowager Gao doesn't even agree to this condition, then there will be nothing to talk about in the future.

Although Empress Dowager Gao is strong, she is not stupid, on the contrary, she is actually a very smart woman, and she has already considered that Zhao Yan may make this request just now, so she is not surprised to hear Zhao Yan's condition now, and even she has thought it through just now, and now after listening to it, she just nodded and agreed: "I can agree to your conditions, let Zhang Guiyi and them go out of the palace with you to retire, but you and the mourning family still have to maintain a nominal mother-son, mother-daughter relationship, Otherwise, the mourning family will never agree to this matter! ”

As for the last additional condition of the Empress Dowager Gao, it was not unexpected by Zhao Yan, I saw that he nodded almost without hesitation after hearing it, now as long as Zhang Guiyi and the others can be taken out, other titles and the like are not important at all.

The first condition was finally negotiated, and the two sides could be regarded as having a basis for cooperation, so I saw Zhao Yan put forward the second condition again: "The second condition is not difficult, and it can even add a lot of prestige to the queen mother, that is, to severely punish Lu Huiqing and liquidate his various crimes since the reform of the law. ”

"This ......" Hearing that Zhao Yan wanted to severely punish Lu Huiqing herself, Empress Dowager Gao also showed a hesitant expression on her face, because Lu Huiqing was the main supporter who supported her to launch a seizure of power, if Lu Huiqing was exiled at this time, it would be a self-cutting arm, in case Zhao Yan did not keep his promise and launched a counterattack later, it would be difficult for her, Sima Guang and others to support it.

"Queen Mother, I don't know how Lu Huiqing bewitched you, but I know that your seizure of power this time was not very successful, don't look at you now seem to have the initiative, but don't forget, there are not only Lu Huiqing and Sima Guang, the two prime ministers, but also countless civil and military officials, with the prestige of the sons, it is actually a very simple matter to encourage some people to make trouble, in case of chaos in the court, do you think it is more likely that you will be in power in one fell swoop, or that it is more likely that your sons will regain power?" Zhao Yan said with confidence on his face at this time.

Empress Dowager Gao's seizure of power this time did catch him off guard, but the fame and foundation he had accumulated in the court over the years was not so easy to be taken away, if he really fought with Empress Dowager Gao, I am afraid that he would have a greater chance of winning, not to mention that he also had unparalleled influence on the army, and he had long been invincible. (To be continued......)