Little Cardamom

Seeing the reaction of the sixth princess, Ming Tan was naturally a little curious about how many rumors about this jewel in the palm of King Nanlu were true and how many were false.

The Sixth Princess is an undefended character, Ming Tan just made a slight show of favor, she seemed to completely forget that the person in front of her was her rival in love. I explained it.

It turns out that in those rumors, the part about her admiration for His Royal Highness Dingbei King is true, but the part about her and Zhai Nianci is really outrageous!

"...I don't even want to see her. Who wants to find fault with her? After she arrived in Nanlu, she heard that I love His Royal Highness Dingbei Wang. If there is anything to do, she will come to me and say that His Royal Highness and the princess are you!" He glared at Ming Tan angrily, "Keep talking about how much you two are in love! I told her that I didn't want to hear it, but I don't know how I offended her. She couldn't admire herself, so she insisted on pulling me It's so tiresome to be uncomfortable with her!"

"Oh, by the way, once she came to pay her respects in the mother's harem, and we happened to meet, and she said again! I couldn't help it, so I quarreled with her. It happened that my father came over and heard me arguing with her. He reprimanded me harshly, not only that, but the father also said that the mother and the queen are useless to teach the daughter, which made me mad!"

"Then on weekdays, your father is more partial to her?"

"How is it possible, I'm my father's favorite little princess!" She proudly puffed out her small chest, "My father just said a few words to me face to face just to save her face, and then he sent me a lot Good thing, I even gave away my favorite little bow."

As she said that, she thought of something again, tightened her bun face, and said solemnly: "But the father treats her well, because the father attaches great importance to you, don't get me wrong, no one in our Nanlu Palace treats her well." shoes."

Hearing this, Ming Tan nodded slowly: "That's really a pity."? ? ?

"What did you say?"

"It's nothing, I mean, since she has gone to Nanlu to get married and become your father's concubine, her words and deeds must conform to the rules of Nanlu Palace. You are a princess, so you don't have to be too tolerant in everything."

Ming Tan said while watching her white and tender bun face dangling in front of his eyes, couldn't hold back, and suddenly stretched out his devil claws and poked her face.

"What are you doing?" The sixth princess was inexplicable.

"You got something on your face."

Ming Tan's face was not red and his heart was not beating, and he put on a serious appearance of kindly helping her remove the dirty things, but he was sighing crazily in his heart: The little bun face of the sixth princess is so easy to poke, it turns out that the fleshy face on the face feels so good , I really want to poke it again, what should I do!

The sixth princess didn't notice it, she was still stupid and continued to talk about Ming Tan's previous words: "I can't bear her, that's why I quarreled with her at the Queen Mother's Qianqiu Palace banquet. Don't worry, with me here, she Nothing will happen. Besides, didn’t the Empress Dowager claim that she is out of illness? I heard that she is her biggest backer, she may have gotten the news, and she has had a lot of health in recent days.”

That's true.

She is the granddaughter of the Empress Dowager Su, if something happened to the Su family, how could the Zhai family escape the liquidation?

Now the Empress Dowager Su has claimed from the Shoushoukang Palace that she will not be sick, and she will never be sick again in this life. His father was demoted, and although his mother, Princess Wen Huichang, was not implicated publicly, the attitude of the dignitaries in Beijing to him was obviously not as good as before.

In such a situation, how could Zhai Nianci still be arrogant in Nanlu.

The Sixth Princess was also a chatterbox, she couldn't stop once she opened the chatterbox, she chatted with her about what Zhai Nianci had said to her.

There is no lack of slander against Ming Tan here, but without Ming Tan's explanation, she blamed all those bad words on Zhai Nianci's nonsense.

Ming Tan didn't expect that she just exchanged a roast chicken, and the sixth princess would consciously put herself in the same camp as her, which seemed to be a bit of a common enemy with her.

…

On the other side, when Jiang Xufang entered the imperial account, Emperor Chengkang got up from the imperial case and handed him a secret letter: "Look."

There are hundreds of words in the letter, but the most important thing is: Guo Bingmao trusts Beihe and suspects changes.

Jiang Xu looked at the ten lines at a glance, and there was no emotion on his face.

Emperor Chengkang said in a deep voice: "Since the new leader of Beihe succeeded to the throne, he has been eyeing Yangxi Road all the time. If it wasn't for the internal strife and being too busy to take care of himself, he would have taken advantage of the turmoil in Lingzhou to make troubles. I think it is because I am facing the turmoil. Fangping, I don't have enough spare power , I thought of joining forces with Qiang and Yu."

Jiang Xu put the letter on the imperial case: "It's not surprising that one wants to win the three states of Yangxi Road, and the other wants to protect Rongzhou."

"Earlier, Ming Tingyuan didn't have any troubles on Yangxi Road. Now it's better to replace Guo Bingmao. This Guo Bingmao is Ming Tingyuan's capable subordinate. Ming Tingyuan strongly recommends him as his successor—"

Jiang Xu suddenly interrupted: "This matter should have nothing to do with the Marquis of Jing'an."

"How do you know that?" Cheng Kangdi immediately asked back.

Cheng Kangdi always had scruples about Ming Tingyuan.

After Ming Tingyuan returned to Beijing at the end of his tenure, he was transferred to the Privy Council as a deputy envoy of the Privy Council. The Privy Council is the highest military and political organ of the dynasty. After he was promoted to Deputy Privy Envoy, he took charge of the north room and Hexi room under the twelfth room of the Privy Council.

Yangxi Road is under the jurisdiction of Hexi Fang, and he himself has been operating Yangxi Road for many years. Although the position of commander is changed, he still holds the power of commanding troops, and the successor commander is still his former capable subordinate. Power is not insignificant.

However, because Jiang Xu intervened, Emperor Chengkang missed the best opportunity to cut him off by pruning the family. In the past two years in Beijing, he also kept his own place. In addition, even if others were in Beijing, even if they held the power in the northwest frontier, they would not be able to escape. Therefore, Emperor Cheng Kang did not intend to touch him casually.

It’s just that this secret letter tonight—

"In the past, the Marquis of Jing'an was unwilling to get involved in court disputes. Now that he has been in the Privy Council for two years, he has never overstepped the rules. With his current status, there is no need for collaborating with the enemy and treason. If there is, it is only possible. It's to help me and plot a big plan." Jiang Xu said suddenly.

Emperor Cheng Kang was startled, and suddenly realized: "What nonsense are you talking about, I don't mean that, I have never doubted you!"

Jiang Xu's expression was extremely indifferent: "Your Majesty has no doubts about your ministers, nor do you need to be suspicious about the Marquis of Jing'an. Although the Marquis of Jing'an strongly recommended Guo Bingmao, Guo Bingmao has been in charge of West Yang Road for two years, but he has no important military power in his hands. Other thoughts. Why Guo Bingmao and Bei He communicated with each other, and what plans they have in the next step, have yet to be verified."

These words also make sense, Cheng Kangdi thought for a moment, then nodded: "Then I will leave this matter to you, if he really has two minds... then it is better to follow the plan."

Just as Jiang Xu had this intention, he nodded slightly in response.

After a long silence, Emperor Chengkang sighed, and patted him on the shoulder again: "It seems that you have taken care of that little princess. You have changed a lot since you got married."

Jiang Xu didn't like to discuss personal matters with him very much, and he didn't respond to his words, he just said in a low voice: "If there is nothing else, I will leave."

Looking at the back of Jiang Xu who was about to lift the curtain to get out of the tent, Cheng Kangdi suddenly called him back: "Ah Xu!"

Jiang Xu stopped.

"I will always trust you."

Jiang Xu paused for a moment, but still left the imperial tent without looking back.

Not far away, the newly promoted concubine who came to deliver the roasted venison hid in the dark and quietly heard this sentence, and couldn't help being curious.

After Jiang Xu left, the concubine entered the imperial tent to serve Emperor Chengkang eating venison and drinking deer blood wine.

Seeing that Emperor Chengkang was a little drunk, she squeezed carefully, kneading his shoulders and neck for Emperor Chengkang, and said casually, "By the way, my concubine just met His Highness King Dingbei outside."

Cheng Kangdi closed his eyes and remained silent.

She pretended to be curious and asked cautiously: "The concubine has heard that His Majesty has a lot of trust in His Royal Highness King Dingbei, but His Royal Highness King Dingbei has a heavy army, and his father-in-law, Marquis Jing'an, is also the deputy envoy of the Privy Council. Could it be that His Majesty is so relieved?" Is it? Even brothers are not so good."

After finishing speaking, her hands were a little gentler, and she hurriedly added a sentence: "My concubine is straightforward, so I dare to ask, if I make a mistake, don't blame your majesty."

This newly promoted concubine was quite a bit like the noble lady Jia from before, she was very daring to speak, but she was more able to observe the situation and judge the situation than noble lady Jia. Cheng Kangdi liked this temperament, and recently called her to accompany her every day.

At this moment, Cheng Kangdi still closed his eyes, and after a long silence, he slowly responded: "You don't understand, and you don't have to understand."

He didn't reassure her, but he didn't mean to blame her for meddling in politics.

In fact, it was not just the new concubine who was puzzled, there were many people who were puzzled by this, and many people even believed that Emperor Chengkang's trust and connivance towards Jiang Xu were all forced to kill him.

Now Daxian still can't do without this **** of war, so he can only let him be the master of war. If Daxian no longer needs him in time, or if he has a second heart, then his death will not be far away.

But Emperor Chengkang knew that there would never be a day when Daxian would always need King Dingbei, and he would never have the heart of disobedience.

——The throne was once in front of him, but he chose to give it up.