Empress Dowager's party and the Empress's party had been fighting for many years. Even if they didn't know everything about each other, they at least knew some.
Since Empress Dowager Gu set the strategy of attacking instead of defending, her party members all went on the move. They tried all they could to dig up the dirt of the Empress's party.
Even though the Empress's party had foreseen this before they attacked. Yet because they were worried to leak the information, other than the important ones, everyone else was warned after the tragedy of Qingfeng Ji. Those who were usually cautious or upright were fine. The ones who were bossy and swanking naturally became the targets!
After Duan Jin committed suicide and Qingfeng Ji was closed, a dozen of middle- and high-level officials of the Empress's party were also taken down. At the moment, both Empresses all took a huge hit. In this intense fight, even the neutral ones felt they couldn't take it.
Of course, Qiu Yelan was startled, but she was quick. She immediately set up a straight face and said, "What nonsense! The third uncle and Uncle Mengmin were never good to each other. You knew that! Although He Shuijin privately gave this account to me to make us the fourth branch do this, personally she just wants us to own her a personal note!"Jiang Yashuang tucked the account into his sleeve, gave her a gentle pinch on the cheek, and smiled, "Are you lying to me now? Let me tell you what's wrong with that. It's true that the contradiction between us and the first branch is an issue of interest, but we, the fourth branch, are not the ones who hate the Dou Family most! So if He Shuijin showed this account because of the contradiction between the third branch and the first branch, she had given this to our grandmother rather than you."He squinted slightly and said, "Especially now something happened to the Tao family. Although grandmother thought it serve
The Imperial Army was an army for protecting the Emperor. By definition, it only served the Emperor and followed his order. But as the Emperor was a puppet, the Imperial Army was carved up separately by Empress Jiang and Empress Dowager Gu actually. Jiang Yadan, who had been picking up the concubines of the Emperor frequently, was using his position in the Imperial Army to do whatever he wanted.Empress Jiang had the power to arrange for her nephew to get a position in the Imperial Army, and Empress Dowager Gu could follow her suit.Today, the Imperial Army that surrounded the Dou Mansion must be controlled by the Empress Dowager.But even if Empress Jiang and Empress Dowager Gu had power in the army, they did not dare to appropriate the army without permission if there was no evidence or good reasons. After all, the two Empresses had the border armies as their backers respectively. If the situation went bad, there would be turmoil! At that tim
Qiu Yelan prepared herself angrily that others would persuade her to be generous. She wasn’t in the mood to ask about the Dou Family’s matter. Jiang Yashuang told her voluntarily when he had the chance, "The Dou Family was found to trade with tribes of the western savages stealthily. The amount is huge, and they have been trading weapons. They are definitely ruined this time. They may end up worse than the Tao Family!"The Tao Family ended up like the Duan Family. The main members of their family were beheaded in public. Others were exiled far away. Empress Dowager Gu sent her grandnephew to help the Duan Family as a reward for Duan Jin's loyalty since he killed himself to keep the secret. However, the Tao Family was ruined because they betrayed the Jiang Family. No one dared to help them, including Madame Tao. Few of those spoiled ladies might be able to arrive at their exiling destination alive!Jiang Yashuang said that the Dou Family might end up worse t
One day after Jiang Yashuang had a long talk with Qiu Yelan, the charge of the Dou Family was decided. It was like what Jiang Yashuang said. The whole family would be executed. Those who were below sixteen could be exempted by law, but they would be sold and could not be redeemed.Days ago, they were still arrogant nobles. But the next day, this happened. Thinking about what her husband said, Qiu Yelan felt guilty.When she went to the third branch to help, she found an opportunity to talk to He Shuijin alone. She said, "Even though Jiang Yashuang didn't guess the truth, he has been suspicious. Yesterday he hinted at me again. This time he suspected the government. What do you say?"He Shuijin understood what she meant. She said cautiously, "Rest assured. I understand we may all be implicated! If I were a careless person, I wouldn't have asked you to keep this a secret when we were in Mount Dizi! This will always be a secret kept here in the ba
What Tang Xinqiong meant was quite clear. The Jiang Family could have one relation that colluded with the western savages by marriage. Who knew the Jiang Family wouldn't have another person who sold out the Western Army?Even though this Princess Yan was speaking to Qiu Yelan, her real target was Madame Dou and her niece next to Madame Tao. After she just finished the sentence, Madame Dou and Madame Dou Junior all turned to her. On their gaunt faces were unconcealable hatred and anger, "Princess Yan, are you trying to teach the Jiang Family's daughter-in-law a lesson in front of all of us?"Madame Dou had always been arrogant, but she did learn something from being the eldest daughter-in-law in the Jiang Family for a decade. She immediately accused Tang Xinqiong of overstepping!Madame Dou Junior immediately followed up, "You are a Princess. If we look at the title, only the second aunt is at your level. Qiu Yelan is just a Commandery Princess,
"Accordingly, Prime Minister Xue gave Xue Fangmi to this Madame Sun two years ago and forbade her mother Madame Nan from interfering. How come Madame Sun is helping you today?" After changing a corner and having a maid look around the corner, Xin Fubing asked surprisingly, "Even if she doesn't like Xue Fangmi, isn't she afraid to make Prime Minister Xue angry on this kind of occasion for supporting an outsider? After all, Xue Fangmi didn't actually say anything outrageous today."Qiu Yelan smiled, "But what I said was also not outrageous. Why Xue Fangmi got mad so quickly? She is a petty person, but she also knows how to act. Don't you think she purposely came after me?"Xin Fubing didn't waste the recent teaching on how to be a Crown Princess. She immediately understood, "They were both intentional? But why? Is it because of your cousin Ruan's appointment? They picked a fight with you to show the Xue Family's stand?""I would say so. Do you kn
There was a brief explanation of the New Year's Eve Dinner.It was not just this dinner. According to the rules that Darui had since they established the dynasty, a royal dinner was divided into a front one and a back one. The front one would be the Emperor hosting the governmental officials. The back one would be the Empress hosting the peeresses.But the two Empresses were fighting power. Neither of them was willing to stay in the back to host peeresses and let the other go with the Emperor to get greeted and respected by the officials.Therefore, after several battles, they decided to compromise and let everybody have dinner together!Of course, the men and women were still divided. Looking down from the top, men were on the left and women were on the right.At this moment, Qiu Yelan was not beside her husband. She could only look at him through the crowd while feeling anxious secretly.Facing the ask o
Although many important officials and peeresses felt that it was too much to regard all people in the Hall as suspects, if all the officials wanted to kill the emperor, the Chu Family couldn't still sit in the imperial chair!In particular, the two empresses also asked men and women to take off their clothes and get checked in the side hall or behind the screen. That was total humiliation!But Empress Dowager Gu and Empress Jiang took the lead in asking several respected ladies to go to the side hall to watch the palace servants undress them and check whether there were any poison things and traces. After that, people had nothing to say, because there was no special treatment for the Emperor's mother and wife, not to mention the courtiers.Naturally, this was because the Empress Dowager's party and the Empress's party did not trust each other.The Empress's party suspected that this was arranged by the Empress Dowager's party, and