Astute Princess: Married to be the Empress Novel - Chapter 213

Chapter 213 Prince You Left

Earlier, Duke Youxian came to look for the Ai Clan. Even if the Ai Clan didn’t tell you, you probably know why he was looking for the Ai Clan. But rest assured, the Ai Clan is not foolish. A country and a family, the Ai Clan knows which is more important. The Ai Clan has already told him what to say. He also promised the Ai Clan that he will leave the Imperial Capital and return to his ancestral home as soon as possible. Probably only for these two days.

“Back then, Ming Shuo was still young, and Concubine Ni was in charge of the palace. No matter what, we relied on Prince Youxian to get here. Now that they are leaving, Ming Shuo is not in the imperial capital. You are his wife. When the time comes, you can send Prince Youxian off on behalf of Ming Shuo. This can be considered as a complete friendship between their nephews and uncles.”

Empress Dowager Xiao’s words were utterly unbelievable. As expected from years of training in the palace. This is the best way to advance by retreating. I can give you what you want, but you must also give me what I want. If you want the power in the hands of the Xiao Clan, I can give it to you. But if I want to protect the honor of the Xiao Clan for the rest of my life, you must also give it to me.

Not only did you have to give it, you also had to personally deliver it to the door. Only in this way would the Xiao Clan not become the laughingstock of the crowd. Even if they were forced to return to their ancestral home, they would still be able to raise their heads and behave themselves in the future.

Fu Yingran naturally understood this point. Anyway, her own goal had been achieved, so she didn’t mind selling her favor to Empress Dowager Xiao, giving the Xiao Clan another glory and personally sending the Youxian Wang Clan away.

“Mother said this is foreign, you are Ming Shuo’s Mother, also known as daughter-in-law’s Mother, right prince is Ming Shuo’s uncle, naturally is also daughter-in-law’s uncle, uncle’s family to leave, daughter-in-law personally to send off is also appropriate, when tomorrow morning after the morning, daughter-in-law will personally go to the right prince’s mansion.

As for Ya’er, Mother can rest assured that her happy daughter-in-law has been keeping watch over her. Once the situation stabilizes, her daughter-in-law will personally return her happiness to her. Fu Yingran smiled craftily at Empress Dowager Xiao and dipped his hand in tea to write a few words on the table.

After Empress Dowager Xiao saw it, her face was filled with shock. Then, she smiled with gratification. Fortunately, everything was still perfect.

After that, Empress Dowager Xiao accompanied Fu Yingran to dinner in Yikun Palace and returned to her own bedroom to rest.

After this incident, the morning court the next day went particularly smoothly. Because there were only his own people left in the court, Fu Yingran’s orders were always approved by everyone.

And she did not break her promise. After the morning court was over, Fu Yingran asked Little Yizi to temporarily draft a decree and then instructed him to set up the Youxian Palace.

A palace servant had already gone to the Youxian Palace to notify them. Therefore, Fu Yingran’s luanjia had just arrived at the gate of the Youxian Palace when he saw the Youxian King and his family waiting respectfully outside to receive him. Seeing Fu Yingran get off the carriage, the Youxian King’s face flushed red, but he still brought the entire family to kneel down to welcome him personally. He said awkwardly, “I, Xiaogang, greet the Empress. Thousand Years Old, Thousand Thousand Thousand Years Old.”

Although the Right Virtuous King had already signed his resignation certificate, his throne was still alive. He was still the Right Virtuous King of Ye Lan, so he still considered himself a subordinate.

Seeing that, Fu Yingran also took two steps forward to support him and said, “You Xianwang don’t need to be too polite. Quickly, please stand up.”

Who would have thought that the Right Virtuous King, who was forced to sign the resignation certificate yesterday because he refused to pay respects to Fu Ying, would now kneel respectfully to welcome her. This made Fu Yingran, who was used to seeing big scenes, shush. However, Fu Yingran was too lazy to argue with him.

He turned around and said to Little Yizi behind him, “Little Yizi, read out the decree.”

Right now, the Emperor is not in Ye Lan, and the Empress is in charge of everything. Therefore, the Empress’ decree now has the same weight as the Emperor’s imperial decree.

“Yes, Your Highness.” Little Yizi replied and unfolded the bright yellow decree in her hand. “The empress has issued a decree. Xiao Gang is the empress dowager’s brother and uncle. He has worked hard for many years to protect the empress dowager and support the young master. He has returned to his hometown. He respects Empress Dowager Ci Yi and retains the position of the empress dowager. Until a hundred years later, his son, Xiao Yi, will confer the title of Marquis An Ning and allow him to build a mansion.”

“Thank you Empress for your kindness. Thousands of years old. Thousands of years old.” While thanking Fu Yingran, Prince Youxian stood up and respectfully welcomed Fu Yingran into the manor.

The spies who were hiding amongst the onlookers also turned around and ran away. They wanted to report this news to their master as soon as possible so that they could plan ahead. It seemed that the Right Virtuous King had already obeyed the Empress.

But at this moment, the Right Virtuous King’s heart had never felt so relaxed. As expected, good and evil are only in one thought, Only now did he truly experience the realm of taking a step back and broadening the sky. Back then, he had been scheming for the sake of sealing his wife and son. For this reason, he didn’t hesitate to take Huyan Mingshuo and his wife as enemies. He even caused Huyan Mingshuo to leave his heart and even have a daughter. Even then, the result was still far from what he wanted.

Now that he had only listened to the Empress Dowager’s lecture, he chose to return to his ancestral home, Not only did he preserve the glory of the entire Xiao Clan, even Yi’er was given the title of Marquis. He could even bring his status as the Right Virtuous King to see the ancestors of the Xiao Clan. What he did not expect was that Fu Yingran would personally send him off. He was also willing to justify his name and let him return to his ancestral home in the name of returning to his hometown.

This way, even if the Xiao Clan returned to their ancestral home, they would still be able to raise their heads and straighten their chests. Although he no longer had any real power in his hands except for the throne, his heart was calm. As the saying goes, there were advantages and disadvantages in everything. Without real power, there would naturally be no danger. From now on, he would be able to safely become a wealthy and idle person.

In fact, Fu Yingran had only come to the Youxian Palace for a formality, so she drank a cup of tea at the Youxian Palace and left after saying a few words. Now that the burden of Ye Lan was on her, she did not have any extra time to waste.

By the way, when the scouts get back, After hearing what had happened in front of Prince Youxian’s mansion, the hearts of those people became panicked and they immediately lost their minds. There were about thirty to forty officials who signed the resignation certificate yesterday, some of whom were confidants of Father of the Emperor, and some of whom were originally attached to Prince Youxian.

Now that the Right Virtuous King had left, the people on both sides suddenly had no idea. Ever since Father of the Emperor was banned, the winds of these people had changed to the Right Virtuous King. Now, the Right Virtuous King had suddenly left, and it seemed that he had reconciled with the Empress. It seemed that there was no room to persuade them back.

At this moment, Xiao Yang suddenly stood up, He sent people to hand over the posts one by one, Everyone was worried that no one would step forward when they received a post from Xiao Yang. Thus, everyone came to his Minister’s Mansion as quickly as possible. When the butler brought them into the study room one by one, everyone suddenly discovered that only Xiao Yang was left among them who could speak.

Ever since Huyan Mingshuo ascended to the throne, there had been a big clean-up in the court. Everyone’s positions had changed considerably. On the surface, everyone’s positions had been promoted, but in reality, the power in their hands had been shed.

The majority of these people were civil servants. Normally, they would only rely on their mouths to attack people, and they would always feel that other than the Emperor, they were the biggest. Of course, the Emperor in their hearts was only Father of the Emperor.

That was why they rarely walked around. Most of the time, they acted on their own. Unless Father of the Emperor had a mission to give them, they would occasionally gather together. Otherwise, they would probably not even be able to distinguish who was who.

After seeing the situation clearly, the hearts of everyone became cold. They did not expect that the new emperor’s mansion was so deep that it had unknowingly wiped out the powers of these people. And now, the Empress had even forced them to sign the resignation certificate. In other words, they were now a bunch of idle people who had no jobs or jobs.

In such a situation, what should they use to fight Fu Yingran? Thinking of this, everyone began to miss the scene when Father of the Emperor was in power. At that time, the wind in the court had always been falling towards them. Who didn’t respect them? Even the current Emperor was still the Crown Prince at that time, so he had to be courteous to them. When had they ever suffered such humiliation?

Xiao Yang sat on the main seat and saw the changes in everyone’s expressions. To be honest, he was starting to feel a little worried. However, as long as he thought about the Minister of Household, who had only managed to obtain the position with great difficulty, and about the large family behind him, he would not be willing to return to calm from now on.

So when everyone was seated, he stood up from the main seat, walked to the center, cupped his fists and saluted to everyone, “Thank you all for your kindness today, making my Xiao Clan feel honored. I don’t want to say anything else. I don’t need to say anything more about the reason for inviting everyone here today, I believe everyone already knows.”

Everyone, think about how glorious we were when Father of the Emperor was in power. But now, even a little girl who just left her cottage can force us into such a situation. Are you willing? “Are you willing to be so calm and waste all of our life’s effort?”

Hearing this, someone suddenly retorted, “Then what does Lord Xiao think we should do? Is Fu Yingran the current Empress, the eldest princess of the Great Wei Kingdom, and also the Eldest Miss of Tian Yi Village? There is also news that she already controls the entire world’s economic lifeline. With such a powerful force behind her, what can we use to fight her?”

It wasn’t that they didn’t dare to resist Fu Yingran, but that the forces behind Fu Yingran were frighteningly powerful. As long as they thought about the fate of Zuoxian Palace and Nanjiang Kingdom, everyone would start to retreat in their hearts. After all, none of them wanted to see the destruction of the entire family.

Actually, these people are quite shrewd people, Returning to the mansion yesterday, They carefully recalled everything that had happened in the court and realized that they were too impulsive at that time. The whole thing was too strange. For such a big matter, they had actually made more than 30 people in the court sign the resignation papers voluntarily. This Empress’ scheming was too deep, and she was actually able to calculate people’s hearts so thoroughly.

Everyone couldn’t help but recall the night before the Emperor’s expedition, the night before the incident. They were preparing for the morning court the next day when they suddenly received a secret letter from Father of the Emperor, telling them to take advantage of Huyan Mingshuo’s absence to attack Fu Yingran together, then try to welcome him to the throne, and guarantee that once he ascended to the throne, they would definitely be promoted.

Before that morning, They had even deliberately gathered together to discuss, That’s why there was that scene in the hall, They only wanted to give Ying Ran a dismount, so they deliberately didn’t bow to her. They wanted to see how she would handle it. If she punished everyone severely for this, then they would make the matter big. They said that the Empress was immoral and lacked tolerance. At that time, under the pressure of public opinion, he, the Empress, would not be able to do it.