Quick wear is not a cannon fodder

After listening to An Ran's words, Emperor Yuanfeng patted An Ran's hand several times with emotion and said, "My beloved concubine is so knowledgeable and reasonable! She thinks about me in everything, and they even scolded me for doting on you too much. But if they do this for you I think about it, instead of bothering me with things all day long, I won’t bother them anymore. In this way, since you don’t want your father to be an official, that’s fine, I will make your father the Duke of Anguo!”

Before the change, Emperor Yuanfeng might have only made Zhang's father the Duke of Anguo, but today An Ran's performance was so good and he was in a good mood, Emperor Yuanfeng was extra generous and made Zhang's father the Duke of Anguo.

Although there is only one level difference between Duke and Marquis, his status is much higher. After all, there are many Marquises in Beijing, but not many Dukes.

Soon, Emperor Yuanfeng's imperial edict arrived at the Zhang family.

The Zhang family also didn't understand why the imperial concubine would agree to the emperor granting them a title. After all, didn't everyone agree before that they would just become ordinary people and no longer be officials?

Thinking of this, Zhang's father said to Zhang's mother: "Anyway, I have to go to the palace to thank you. Go and ask the empress."

Mother Zhang nodded.

At that moment, the couple entered the palace. Zhang's father went to thank Emperor Yuanfeng, while Zhang's mother came to An Ran's place.

Logically, Mother Zhang should go to the Queen to express her gratitude, but at this time there was no middle palace and no Queen Mother, so Mother Zhang in the harem did not need to go anywhere else, she could just come directly to An Ran.

After seeing An Ran, Zhang's mother asked An Ran to step aside, "Didn't the empress say that she didn't want the family to be in the court again, so as not to fall into party strife again and get involved? Why did the emperor grant the title of Duke to the family now? ? Or... His Majesty issued the decree directly without your opinion?"

An Ran shook his head and said: "That's not true, His Majesty told me, mother, the reputation about me has been getting worse and worse recently. I thought, anyway, I am being scolded by people left and right, and I haven't enjoyed it yet, so I might as well live up to my name. , at least I enjoyed being scolded by others. Besides, it’s just an empty title with no real job, so it’s okay. In this way, when you go out, you have status, you don’t have to kowtow to people and salute, and you don’t have to worry about getting involved in party disputes. OK."

In the original world, the original person was executed, and the original family, as the family of the demon concubine, did not escape death.

Since you are so low-key, others still can't stand you and want to kill you, then you should comply with their wishes and be more public. In this way, even if you die in the future, you will still live a good life and not suffer any loss - Zhang Before the family members were executed, they had cried out in this way, saying that they had failed the name of Yao Fei’s family. They should have enjoyed themselves if they had known this, and they would not have enjoyed nothing and still been scorned and killed.

An Ran pondered their thoughts and decided to satisfy them. As long as she was here, she would never let the Zhang family go on the same path as before.

After hearing An Ran's words, Zhang's mother couldn't help but fell silent. After a while, she sighed and said, "That's what you said. That's fine. I'll tell your father and brothers about your opinion."

When Zhang's mother said this when she went back, Zhang's father was fine with it, but his sisters-in-law and brothers and sisters were still happy to see it.

There are clearly beloved concubines in the family, but every time they go out, they have to kowtow to those successful villains, which makes them angry to death, so now they have become the daughter-in-law of the prince, and no one will stand above them except the royal family. They kowtow and salute, and they are naturally happy.

Grandma Zhang Si, who had just entered the house at that moment, said: "Actually, that's what your Majesty said. Besides, His Majesty has long wanted to ennoble our family. It's not because our Majesty forced us to do so. It doesn't matter. My daughter-in-law thought, the reason why Your Majesty has long been If you want to ennoble our family, you also don’t want to see us saluting people everywhere. After all, your Majesty is your favorite concubine, and Your Majesty doesn’t want the father-in-law and his brothers-in-law to salute people.”

After hearing this, Zhang's mother hurriedly interrupted her words and said: "Be careful what you say. We are the fathers of the country, and you are the brothers-in-law. Fortunately, only a few of our family are talking together. If there are outsiders, we can't talk. In this case."

What happened more than ten years ago, Zhang's mother felt like it was still yesterday. Every time she dreamed back at midnight, she was often awakened by nightmares, so she was the most sensitive and afraid of these things.

Grandma Zhang Si said: "That's what my daughter-in-law said. I guess in His Majesty's heart, he just regarded us as the father-in-law and brother-in-law. He just didn't say it directly."

Mother Zhang stopped talking now.

In fact, she also felt that His Majesty treated their family very well. Several times she went to the palace to see her daughter and met the emperor. The emperor indeed treated her as his mother-in-law and treated her very well.

The Zhang family was granted the title of Duke and moved into a rather nice house in the capital given to them by the emperor. A plaque was hung up with the name of the Duke's Palace, and it soon became crowded with people.

Although many people in the court called the Zhang family girl a witchy concubine, there are always people who want to follow people's influence.

Fortunately, the Zhang family had been in poverty before and had seen many people who looked down upon others. In addition, they were frightened by the party struggle and demotion. Now An Ran agreed to knight them and give them status, and they did not On the contrary, they closed the door and thanked guests. Except for those with good connections, they looked down on them when they were in decline. Now that they are prosperous and come to praise them, they all disappear.

Anyway, the empress said that she agreed with the emperor to knight them in order to give the family status so that they would not have to kowtow to anyone they met in the future. Now that they have this convenience, plus their salary and other income, their family conditions are getting better and better. Well, they are very satisfied. They don't have to jump around like a villain who has achieved his ambition, lest he commit another crime and be demoted again. They are really frightened by being demoted.

As the saying goes, if you cultivate your moral integrity, harmonize your family, and govern your country, you will bring peace to the world.

Self-cultivation, for An Ran, means practice, and it goes without saying that she is practicing hard now.

The Qi family, now she has successfully made the Zhang family a duke.

Individuals and families have been dealt with.

Next, it is time to govern the country and bring peace to the world.

Apart from anything else, Emperor Yuanfeng's ability to govern the country was really lacking.

It was bad before, but now that I'm old, it's even worse.

However, she couldn't just talk about governing the country and bringing peace to the world. After all, it was taboo for the harem to interfere in politics.

So she has to find the time.

The timing was fortuitous.

That day, An Ran heard that something had happened to Emperor Yuanfeng, and became very angry in the imperial study.

After finding out the reason, An Ran approached Emperor Yuanfeng with mung bean soup and pretended to go to comfort him.

"In this hot weather, people are easily irritable, let alone something happened. It's no wonder that Your Majesty is in a bad mood. Come, Your Majesty, please take a sip of Jieshu Decoction to relieve your anger, and then we may have some clues. .”

Although Emperor Yuanfeng was in a bad mood, seeing that his beloved concubine had arrived and brought mung bean soup, he relieved his mood a little, drove the ministers out, took An Ran's hand, and sighed: "My beloved concubine. , I really want to be pissed off by those idiots sometimes!"