A stone caused a thousand waves, which made the people who were already dissatisfied with the court even more indignant. They scolded Chen Yao for murdering loyal and kind-hearted, and tried to subvert the country, and their hearts could be punished.

The treacherous ministers were in power, the emperor was incompetent, the foreign relatives interfered in politics, and the empress dowager was in charge of the morning, which harmed the country and the people.

At this moment, it became even worse. Not only did Lingnan, Yunzhou and other places cause uprisings, but heroes from Lingxi, Qianzhou and other places also responded one after another, rising up in the name of clearing the monarch. The rebel army continued to grow, like sparks, capturing the Daze in one fell swoop, and then occupying Jiang County like a bamboo shoot.

The Empress Dowager could no longer sit still. After the Lantern Festival, she sent Lingwang Song Yihuan to lead a large army to suppress the rebels, and Qin Liren's son Qin Fang served as the front drive.

Shortly after Song Yihuan left Changling City, another riot occurred in the victims outside the city. The Empress Dowager wanted to send troops to suppress them. Just when the leader of the Lianyue Sect was about to take advantage of this great opportunity to win over the hearts of the people, the emperor changed his normal behavior, withstood the pressure of the Empress Dowager, issued an edict to commit crimes, and issued a law to allow the people in the disaster-stricken areas to "free rent and tax", and mobilized officials, gentry and wealthy households to donate silver and "give money" to the victims outside the city.

Disasters can choose to return home or stay in Changling City. The gates are wide open and the disaster victims can enter and exit freely.

This move shocked the world.

People were surprised and looked at the emperor with admiration.

There are rumors that the so-called emperor's reputation for being stupid and incorruptible is all the dirty water that the empress dowager deliberately poured on his own son in order to control the government. Before, all the tyranny was the result of the empress dowager's rule behind the curtain, and the emperor couldn't help it.

Luo Ying had already expected this when she chose to cooperate with Wei Yuanze. If Wei Yuanze willingly cooperated with her, she had to dispel his doubts and choose a win-win result.

...

At this moment, Shouyan Palace

The incense burner of Fushou is full of blue smoke and the sandalwood is quiet.

In the hall, it was terrible.

As soon as the empress dowager came out of the small Buddhist temple, Arun walked in and replied carefully: "Empress dowager, found it."

The Queen Mother's eyes flashed and said, "Oh": "Where are the people?"

"Hide it in Xiangyun Temple."

The Queen Mother said lightly, and a dark and unobstructed light floated in her eyes: "Do you confirm it is her?"

"I confirm that it is her. Although she is old, she still looks like she was." After a pause, she said, "Will the Queen Mother go to see her?"

"..." The empress dowager seemed to be in deep thought. When she thought about the beginning, her heart was undulating, and her hand holding the Buddhist beads couldn't help but tighten.

I didn't expect that she was still alive, but she was still alive...

Ruoru, the Ai family finally found Ruoling for you.

Thinking of it, she pinched her eyebrows and said, "You retreat first and let the Ai family think about it alone."

As he spoke, Arun stepped back. The empress dowager sat on the warm couch, half-squinted her eyes, and kept turning the phoenix-eyed Bodhi Buddhist beads in her hand. She wanted to calm her heart, but the more she could not calm her heart.

She entered the palace for fourteen and became the talent of the late emperor. The late emperor treated her quite favorably. Unfortunately, she was later punished by Xinzheku for offending Chen Ping and became a lowly slave. At that time, only Ruoru was with her. In Xinzheku, she and Ruoru depended on each other for three years.

Later, Yingguo was defeated, and Yue Zheng, the general of the cavalry of Yingguo, died in battle to save Xiao Yuxin. Ruoru wanted to leave the palace to find his sister, and her sister Ruoling was Yue Zheng's legitimate wife.

The palace maid could only leave the palace at the age of twenty-five. In order to allow Ruoru to leave the palace smoothly, she had no choice but to ask the Eight Kings whom she liked at the time. She did not expect that her request would completely push Ruoru into the fire pit.

Not long after Ruoru left the palace, not only did he not find his sister, but he was also plotted to become a tragedy.

At that time, she was in the deep palace and had no idea about Ruoruo. She only rose again with the help of the Eight Kings, climbed up all the way, and finally ascended to the rear at the age of twenty-six.

Does anyone know the dangers in this situation, and she was unable to save her life several times, but she never gave up looking for Ruoru.

It was not until she was pregnant with her fourth child that she found her, and Ruoruo was redeemed by Su Bu at that time. Because her identity as a brothel prostitute was not tolerated by the Su family, Su Bu could only quietly raise her outside.

Later, Ruoru gave birth to a daughter and died of dysfunction. Before her death, she entrusted the child to her and asked her to help her find her sister Ruoling, whose life and death are uncertain.

In fact, she also knew Ruoling. She grew up in her grandmother's house since she was a child. Ruoling, Ruoling, was her childhood playmate. She did not expect that one day in the future, during the talent show, Ruoluo would be selected into the palace a year after her.

When Ruoruo died, she treated her daughter as if she had already left, and even destroyed the order of three sons.

Of course, in addition to her feelings for Ruruo, her poor daughter was burned to death with Song Yunxiu at Tianshuang Tower as soon as she was born. Seeing the weak and cute Song Yiru in her cradle, she would involuntarily regard her as the incarnation of her daughter.

She always thought her daughter was dead, until one day Yun Annan broke into the palace and saw the scalded scar behind her, only to know that her child might not have died.

She will always remember that night, it was an extremely hot summer night. She dragged her weak body and hugged her newly born daughter to escape from the sea of ​​fire. A piece of burned and broken wood hit her daughter's back, leaving a scalded scar.

She held her daughter tightly in her arms in fear, but the fire was soaring into the sky, and she didn't know where to escape. She didn't know who rescued her from the sea of ​​fire. It was not until she woke up that she realized that it was the Eight Kings who rushed into the sea of ​​fire to save her, and the daughter in her arms was gone.

Although the daughter's body was not found, the people in Hegong said that it was so big that a newborn baby had long been burned to the fire.

Without her daughter, she only has Song Yiru.

Fortunately, Yi Ru was there, which made her withdraw from her grief. Later, she helped her most cowardly and incompetent son to the throne, controlled the government and held the power firmly in her palm. Even if she temporarily asked the emperor to look up, she had never been so powerless.

Shen Yao, the humerus minister around her, was actually a native of Yingguo, or the illegitimate son of Princess Xiao Yuxin and General Yue Zheng of Yingguo Cavalry. This pair of dogs and women even gave birth to a child with their faces.

Until now, she could not fully believe that the person she valued, and even wanted to marry his daughter to him, turned out to be the ambition of Ying Guo.

No matter how irreconcilable the conflict between her and the emperor, she must not allow Xiao Yuxin and Yue Zheng's illegitimate son to subvert the country's dynasty.

If Cheng Guo is gone, she, the empress dowager, will be gone.

Unfortunately, Wei Yuanze knew about this matter first, and he couldn't wait to spread rumors everywhere and announced Shen Yao's life experience to the world, which made her fall into a huge passive state. She could no longer block the world's Youyou people's mouths.

If she had known Shen Yao's life experience first, it would never have been possible for the situation to continue like this. She would have executed Shen Yao secretly, and then executed those who knew his life experience, so that his life experience would be buried forever. In this way, no one would say that she, the empress dowager, believed in the slander of treacherous ministers and framed loyal and kind-hearted.

well--

It seems that she is really old, and she is not as good as before in terms of intelligence, strategy and energy. She doesn't even know that there is such a evil wolf by her side. She keeps wondering if this is a game set up by the emperor and Wei Yuanze, deliberately slandering Chen Yao as a member of the Yingguo.

However, not long ago, she received a news that Yue Zheng's legitimate wife had been hiding in Changling. She quickly sent someone to search for it. First, she wanted to fulfill Ruoru's last wish, and second, she wanted to ask Fangling if Chen Yao was the evil seed born to her husband and Xiao Yuxin.

Thinking of it, she pinched her painful eyebrows tightly, continued to twist the beads with her hands, and thought about it.

With the support of the Wei family, the emperor was already full of strength. Should she return to power to the emperor? From then on, she withdrew from the government and became only a queen mother who guarded the harem?

If she quit, what kind of situation will she face?

Although the emperor was her biological son, the suppression of him over the years made him hate her mother. In addition, he was gloomy and violent since childhood. She didn't know what he would do to her once she completely lost power.

There is no father or son in the royal family, nor mother or son.

Taking a step back, even if the emperor thinks of the mother-son relationship and respects her as the queen mother, he will never let her go. As long as she falls, her mother will fall and scatter.

Therefore, she must not lose the power in her hands, she must not.

At this moment, another eunuch came to report to Qin Liren, the Minister of Revenue, to see the Empress Dowager. When the Empress Dowager heard his name, he suddenly had a headache.

After a while, Qin Liren ran in with unlucky tears, pounced onto the ground and started crying.

"Empress Dowager, please save Hang'er as soon as possible... Hang'er is really unfair..."

"What's wrong with Qin Hang?"

Qin Liren cried even more sadly: "I was abruptly struck the father-in-law's sedan chair by horseback this morning. The father-in-law actually rolled out of the sedan chair and fell seriously injured. I don't know if he was really seriously injured or pretended to be seriously injured. Zi Hang'er has been arrested by the emperor's people now."

The empress dowager's eyebrows pounded. It was because of the troubles. Why did this happen again? She asked quickly: "How could Hang'er hit Duke Zhenguo? Duke Zhenguo is a martial arts practitioner. How could he get out of the sedan chair?"

Qin Liren shook his head and cried, "It's not Duke Zhenguo, but Concubine Lan's father, Yuchi Youren."

The Queen Mother slapped the table in anger and said, "What kind of father-in-law is he?"

"But the emperor's people said that Hang'er had collided with the father-in-law." Qin Liren cried, took a few steps forward, begging sadly, "Empress Dowager, please save Hang'er quickly. How could he have any better if he falls into the hands of the emperor? Fang'er followed the King of Ling to fight. I don't know if... can... come back, I only have Hang'er around me..."

The empress dowager snorted coldly, "The emperor is becoming more and more stupid. The queen is still in charge of the harem. Is he going to move the place for Yuchi Lanyan?"

Qin Liren covered his crying, his eyes rolled and said, "If this is the case, that would be great."

When the empress dowager heard this, she paused and nodded silently. The emperor relied on the Wei family now. If the Wei family and the emperor were distracted, Li Xiang and the others would not cause much storm.

However, the Wei family was loyal to the emperor. The last time the emperor kicked An Nan's heart, it could not make Wei Yuanze have a rift with the emperor.

Suddenly, her eyes rolled and a flash of inspiration flashed in her mind.

Wei Yuan can't do it, but Wei Yuanji is a bold and reckless thorn in his head.

In his eyes, he thought that he had no idea of ​​loyalty to the emperor. If he succeeded in causing a difficult conflict between him and the emperor, the emperor would likely lose the big tree of the Wei family.

Thinking of it, she silently closed her eyes, twisted the Buddhist beads with her fingers, and didn't say anything. She just calmed down a dark and unclear face in the sandalwood smoke, thinking about something.

Qin Liren felt that the Empress Dowager suddenly stopped talking, and his heart became turbulent. Because Chen Yao was a matter of winning against the people of the country, he felt guilty when he came. At the beginning, the Empress Dowager was not very optimistic about him because Chen Yao was a member of the Ji family. It was because he recommended Chen Yao in front of the Empress Dowager that his official position was higher and higher, and he only took the position of Grand Tutor. Later, he was willing to live under Chen Yao and became his confidant.

Unexpectedly, the person he supported was a member of Ying Guo with ulterior motives. In the past few days, he has been ill at home and dared not see the queen mother. If it weren't for Qin Hang's incident, he wouldn't have the courage to see the queen mother.

He secretly glanced at the empress dowager, but saw that her face was not very good, and she felt even more panicked, and she burst into cold sweat all over her body, and she did not dare to speak easily.

After a long time, the Empress Dowager finally opened her eyes and looked at Qin Liren with a sharp edge: "I think about it, if it weren't for you, the Ai family would not be able to use Chen Yao. Now everyone is talking about Chen Yao being a member of the country, which puts the Ai family in a very passive situation. Otherwise, how could the emperor have the courage to take Qin Hang!"

When Qin Liren heard this, he was so scared that he trembled and said stuttered: "I was blind at the beginning and believed Chen Yao's sweet words, but who would have thought that Ji Nancheng would adopt a Ying Guoren as his adopted son?"

The queen mother sneered, "According to your words, are you still innocent?"

"No, I dare not, I am guilty. I am willing to receive any punishment, just ask the Queen Mother to reach out to save Hang'er."

The Empress Dowager sighed and lowered her eyes and said, "Now the Ai family is more willing but less capable."

Qin Liren was poured with a basin of ice water on his head, his heart was cold, and he cried out in a voice: "Did the Queen Mother watch Hang'er suffer this injustice for nothing? This is clearly the conspiracy of the demon concubine Yuchi Lanyan, who is intended to get rid of your family!"

The Empress Dowager looked at him again, and she was in a difficult mood: "You don't know what you said about the Ai family. You should step down first, the Ai family has its own opinions."

"The Queen Mother..."

"Okay, if you delay for another quarter of an hour, Hang'er will be more dangerous. You are not unaware of the emperor's temperament. For the sake of that demon concubine, he can do anything!"

"I thank the Queen Mother for the grace, thank the Queen Mother for the grace..."

Qin Liren finally saw hope again and kowtowed with gratitude.
To be continued...