AWB Chapter 250 Queen Establishment
Chapter 250 Queen Establishment
After Yan Wan came out of the Ministry of Punishment, she met Fu Jia who was waiting outside.
"The Empress Dowager Imperial Consort asks you to go to the Cining Palace."
Yan Wan was surprised, but also prepared. One day she would have to face the Queen Mother's accountability.
Yan Wan thought she was scheming, but she was no match for the Queen Mother in terms of means and brains. She followed Fu Jia to the Cining Palace obediently.
To Yan Wan's surprise, the Queen Mother was actually cutting paper.
"The Imperial Concubine is here. Take a look at the paper-cuts I made for the windows."
Yanwan took off the precious gold armor on her hand, sat opposite the empress dowager, and looked at the window grilles on the kang.
When Yanwan looked closely, she found that all the paper-cuts made by the Empress Dowager were patterns of the two immortals, harmony and unity.
Yanwan was puzzled.
"Why did the Queen Mother only cut the Hehe and Hexian?"
The Queen Mother pointed to a picture in front of her that she thought was very good and handed it to Yan Wan to look at.
"I haven't cut window paper-cuts for many years. The only one I remember clearly is the one I cut when I was a concubine in the palace."
Yan Wan listened silently. She didn't know much about the Empress Dowager's past, but she heard a little bit. When the Empress Dowager first entered the palace, she was frightened by the schemes of Imperial Noble Consort Dunsu and Yixiu, and she fell ill and almost died in the palace.
“No palace banquet has been prepared this year, as the emperor’s health is gradually getting better.
Nowadays, although he cannot be too tired, he can still go to court and handle important affairs with someone's support.
The New Year's Eve banquet could have been held, but I stopped the emperor from holding the palace banquet because I had something more important to discuss with the emperor."
Yanwan looked around but didn't see the emperor.
The Queen Mother saw through Yan Wan's thoughts and said to her:
"The emperor is not here. He is in the Yangxin Palace with his children. Thanks to your recommendation, Yongrong is teaching the emperor to learn calligraphy again."
The Queen Mother looked at Yan Wan, who remained silent. She did not dare to reveal any more emotion.
The emperor could not move but could speak, and he could not read the characters he had learned in the past. Yan Wan found that the Sixth Prince's handwriting was very good, so she asked the Sixth Prince to hold the emperor's hand while he practiced writing.
In addition to the Sixth Prince, the Third Prince, and Concubine Chun's daughter, they often returned to the palace to accompany the emperor. Other princes and princesses in the palace also had the opportunity to visit the emperor.
“In fact, at this time, if you don’t allow those children to get close to the emperor, no one will dare to go against you, after all, you are the Imperial Concubine.
Now, the children who can inherit the throne beside the emperor are all your children."
The Queen Mother went to see Yanwan's belly.
"The imperial physician said that the baby in your belly is probably also a prince."
The Queen Mother said this while she was thinking it over.
Of Concubine Chun's children, the third prince was filial but incompetent, the sixth prince was ignorant of worldly affairs, and the princess was needless to say.
The Fourth Prince, the Eighth Prince, and the Eleventh Prince were all Jin Yuyan's sons. Naturally, they had no chance of inheriting the throne.
The Fifth Prince couldn't say anything.
The Empress Dowager had high hopes for the Tenth Prince in the early years, but later, seeing that the child lived a happy and smooth life under the guidance of Concubine Wan, the Empress Dowager no longer had this thought and also saw that Concubine Wan was deliberately hiding her incompetence.
The fact that Yongji and Yongjing share the same bloodline has been questioned. Yongji had no great talent to begin with and is now useless.
The Fourteenth Prince, the Fifteenth Prince, and the Sixteenth Prince are all Wei Yanwan's sons. I think there will be a Seventeenth Prince in Wei Yanwan's belly.
Wei Yanwan has four sons, and the throne can be said to be firmly in Wei Yanwan's hands.
As long as Wei Yanwan was a little more ruthless and let the emperor fend for himself, the emperor would naturally become decadent within a few years, and Wei Yanwan's son would definitely take the throne.
But the Queen Mother did not see Wei Yanwan do this. It was the children who took turns to accompany the Emperor that gave him the confidence to live well. It was also the unity of the children that made those who coveted the throne dare not easily make any moves.
"My children are the Emperor's children, and the Empress Dowager's grandchildren."
The Queen Mother listened to Yan Wan's statement and picked up the scissors again. She continued to cut the two immortals of harmony and unity. Yan Wan looked at the Queen Mother motionlessly.
Yan Wan thought that the Queen Mother might know what she was thinking. Or maybe she didn't.
Why should we help the emperor at this time?
Because Yan Wan didn't want her son to ascend the throne so early. She wanted her son to stand on the throne by standing on the emperor's shoulders, rather than a young child struggling to grope for the throne.
Regardless of the emperor's harem, the previous dynasty always had outstanding governance.
At least the emperor should lay a good foundation for his children.
Yan Wan didn't show anything on her face about what she was thinking, and she didn't speak again until the Queen Mother had finished cutting the hair of the two immortals, He and He.
"Fuga, bring the things here."
The Queen Mother carefully picked out the scraps of paper that had not fallen off the image of the two immortals of harmony and unity that she had re-cut.
What Fuga brought was an imperial edict.
"Royal Concubine, take a look."
Fu Jia held the imperial edict in front of Yan Wan, and Yan Wan's heart was pounding. She seemed to know what was in it. She wanted to see the result immediately, but she was afraid.
Yanwan went to see the Queen Mother.
The Queen Mother smiled and said:
"Look. The Emperor gave it to you."
Yanwan opened the imperial edict carefully.
"Establish a queen?
The Emperor wants to make me his queen.
I will also raise the banner for my concubine as Wei Jiashi."
Yanwan's hands were shaking with surprise.
The Queen Mother just smiled.
"Wei Jia is from the Manchu Bordered Yellow Banner, worthy of your position as queen."
"My name was not Niu Hulu Zhen Huan, but Zhen."
Yan Wan was vaguely aware of this past, but who now dared to mention that the Empress Dowager was Zhen Huan? They only remembered that the Empress Dowager was Nianhulu.
As the Queen Mother spoke, she handed the two immortals of harmony and unity that she had just cut out to Yan Wan.
"Immortals of harmony and unity, I wish you and the emperor a long and happy marriage. The wedding and the establishment of the empress will be on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. Although it is hasty, all arrangements will be made properly."
Yan Wan couldn't calm down for a long time. In the end, she just replied to the Queen Mother with a "yes" and gradually disappeared from the Queen Mother's sight.
After Yan Wan left, the Queen Mother looked at the table covered with paper cuttings and asked Fu Jia to clean them up.
"The Queen Mother and the Emperor really honor the Imperial Concubine."
The Queen Mother looked out the window silently.
"You can say that she is being praised, or you can say that she is being wronged.
The honor was nothing more than giving her the position of empress, and the grievance was to follow such an emperor for the rest of her life. She knew that the emperor did not love her. She did not love the emperor either.
Without love, the only thing that can bind two people together is interest."
"The position of Queen, the future heir to the throne, is the only means to make the Imperial Concubine willing to tie the Emperor up.
The emperor cannot afford any more turmoil at the moment. If something happens to the emperor, I, at my age, may not be able to support a prince to ascend the throne.
It would be better if the emperor managed the country for the imperial concubine's sons, and the imperial concubine took care of the emperor.
You also know that the emperor will not have any more children."
The Queen Mother sighed.
No matter how glorious the position of queen may be in the eyes of others, in Zhen Huan's eyes, it will always be a shackle, and the same goes for the throne of emperor.
Outside, Yanwan walked out of the Cining Palace and met Jinzhong who had been waiting outside.
Yanwan asked Jinzhong in surprise.
"Why are you here?"
Jinzhong smiled.
"The Queen Mother asked me to wait for the Queen here. From now on, I will serve the Queen exclusively."