After hearing this, Wu Zechen paused imperceptibly, and then replied: "The queen is cruel by nature. Although she looks kind on the outside, she is very vicious secretly. Anyone who offends her will definitely be retaliated against. She can sit down To stabilize the position, it all depends on the power of the Duke of Fengguo behind him."
"Now Lei Guogong of Fengguogong is the father of the queen and a veteran of two dynasties. He has considerable influence in the court. And the prince of Fengguogong is married to the biological sister of General Zheng, the general of Anbei. The two families have a lot of contacts. In order to be close. The eldest daughter of the Zheng family has already married the prince and became the crown princess, and General Anbei has already joined the prince's camp. "
Northern Army? General Zheng? Zheng Chunhua?
Xia Luotong suddenly thought of this person, the legitimate daughter of the Zheng family who had pushed Si Hanyan into the lake and had a very bad relationship with Xi Menghan.
"So, these two families have already joined the prince's camp." Xia Luotong paused, then frowned and said, "The queen is from the Fengguo Duke's mansion, but the crown prince actually chose the Fengguo Duke's mansion. Daughter? Doesn't this mean that Fengguo Gongfu will become bigger? If the prince ascends the throne in the future, and the queen mother and empress are both members of Fengguo Gongfu, then should this country be named Wu or Lei? What does the emperor think? ? Doesn’t the Queen Mother have any objections?"
Xia Luotong really couldn't understand. The art of an emperor lies in balance, and one family should never be allowed to become bigger. But now that both the queen and the crown princess came from the Duke of Fengguo's palace, hasn't the emperor considered this?
"If the Queen Mother had known about this in advance, it would have been absolutely impossible for her to agree to this marriage." Wu Zechen's face was pale, with a hint of ridicule on his lips.
Xia Luotong said unexpectedly: "Your Majesty means...the Queen Mother didn't know about this in advance. Did the Queen kill her first and then report it?"
"To be precise, the emperor, the queen and the prince should have planned it together. While the queen mother was going to Wanfo Temple to worship Buddha, they directly issued an order to arrange the marriage. By the time the queen mother came back, the matter had already been a foregone conclusion. There’s no way around it.”
Xia Luotong was shocked when he heard this: "How could the emperor do such a thing? Did he know that the queen mother would not allow it, and deliberately took advantage of the queen mother's absence to do it directly? The queen mother discovered it after she came back. How is this going?"
"What else can we do?" Wu Zechen sneered, "The imperial edict has been issued, and the prince's marriage has been decided. The Queen Mother was so angry that she ignored the Emperor for several days, but what can be done now? Even if the Queen Mother is like this I haven’t given the Queen a good look in recent years, and I don’t want to see the Crown Princess and the Duke of Fengguo behind her, but I finally let those people succeed.”
"Why does the emperor insist on letting the prince marry the concubine of Fengguo Gongfu? Hasn't the emperor ever thought about the reason why the queen mother did not allow this?" Xia Luotong asked with a frown.
"The Emperor... finally took the opposite path to the Queen Mother for this power." Wu Zechen paused and saw that the carriage had stopped outside Shaoguang Pavilion. He helped Xia Luotong get out of the carriage and entered all the way. After entering Xia Luotong's house, he continued to slowly talk to her about the court situation that had never been mentioned to her before.
"In the early years, the late emperor was not a prince. He was able to ascend the throne and proclaim himself emperor with the help of the empress dowager and the Si family. When the late emperor ascended the throne, the world was not stable. The princes who failed to seize the throne were scattered around to establish themselves as kings, and wars continued. It took many years until the late emperor, with the support of all the major families, cleared away the remnants of the remnants of the king and reunified the Zhou Dynasty."
"After the restoration of peace in the Great Zhou Dynasty, the late emperor felt grateful for those families who fought in all directions for the Great Zhou Dynasty, so he continued to let them command the armies of all parties and guard the borders of the Great Zhou Dynasty. They did not commit any crimes such as crossing rivers and tearing down bridges. However, those families People are the seven families who are now in charge of the military power of the five parties."
"Prince An's Mansion is in charge of the Western Army. My father and I are both Generals of Pingxi. The emperor, who was still the crown prince at that time, sat in the capital with the late emperor, and the second son, my father, led the army to conquer the remnants of the rebel king in the west. .After the Western Region of the Great Zhou Dynasty was purged, the Dou family, the natal family of the father and mother, jointly managed the Western Army."
Xia Luotong was stunned. The Dou family, Princess Xian's mother's family? Why do you seem to have never heard anyone mention it? She only knows that the current General Pingxi is Wu Zechen, and that the entire Western Army is under his control alone. She has never heard of anything else about the Dou family. So what is going on with the Dou family now?
Seeing that Wu Zechen had no intention of mentioning the Dou family specifically, she didn't know if she could ask.
When Xia Luotong was confused, he heard Wu Zechen continue: "The Northwest Army has been managed by the Si family for several generations. He served as a leader in the past, so today's Northwest general is still a member of the Si family."
"As for General Anbei, he is General Zheng, the brother of Princess Fengguo. However, the Zheng family in the north only has 50% of the military power, and the other 50% of the military power is in the hands of the Wu family. It has always been shared by the two families. In charge of the Northern Army. In recent years, the relationship between the two families has become more and more delicate, because the Wu family's legitimate daughter entered the palace back then, and now she has ascended to the position of noble concubine, and is the biological mother of the second prince."
When Wu Zechen said this, Xia Luotong understood that it was nothing more than a new generation's fight for the right to inherit the throne. Wu Guifei's status was only lower than that of the queen, and she also had 50% of the military power of the northern Wu family behind her. She and How could the second prince be willing to be subordinate to the prince? After all, everyone is a prince and has the opportunity to sit on the highest throne! What's more, not to mention Concubine Wu and the second prince, even the Wu family in the north may not have this idea!
"The prince only has half of the military power of the Northern Army, which is equal to that of the second prince. It seems that there is a fight between the two of them." Xia Luotong has not met the second prince yet, but the prince has already met two of them. Looking back, she was very happy to see such a situation when she thought that someone could target the insidious and unscrupulous old woman.
Unexpectedly, Wu Zechen said with a sarcastic smile: "It's not just the two of them fighting? It's hard to say what the situation in the capital will be like in the future."
Seeing Xia Luotong looking at him in confusion, he explained: "You know the commander-in-chief of the Southwest Army, the current Marquis Wu Ning and the Southwest General Chu Junxiu. The Marquis Wu Ning did not take sides, but because he was in charge of the Southwest He has 50% of the military power, so now he is trapped in the capital like me."
Still trapped in the capital?
These words revealed a lot of information, Xia Luotong's eyes flashed slightly, and she understood the meaning.
"Actually, the Chu family originally controlled 70% of the Southwest Army, but some changes occurred in the early years. The old marquis died, and Chu Junxiu was recalled to the capital by the emperor on the grounds of recovering from his injuries and passing on the family line. Now the Chu family is holding The 20% of the troops have been slowly being eaten away by another Yue family in the Southwest Army, and it has become a situation where each army has 50% of the troops to fight against each other."
