Chapter 071 Ulterior motives
Jiang Baoshan and Qian Shengxue had certainly thought of this question and had gone to verify it.
"Mama Gu's daughter has a very special butterfly birthmark on her left shoulder. She has never told anyone about this, but it was an accident a few years ago that Mama Gu recognized."
We had known each other a few years ago, but Mother Gu didn't tell her about it, and she kept it secret so deeply. No one expected this.
Over the years, Mother Gu took advantage of the opportunity to leave the house to meet her daughter in secret. This is an indisputable fact.
Moreover, Mother Gu herself knew that her grandson was working as an errand in Prince Yi's Mansion.
"Does Mother Gu trust her daughter and grandson that much?"
Zheng Ji was very puzzled by this. Mother Gu had been with her grandmother for so many years. The relationship between master and servant must be extraordinary, and her grandmother had always been very kind to her. How could she be willing to poison her grandmother?
"She didn't know it was poison, she just thought it would make your grandma sick for a while and she would get better over time."
Jiang Baoshan himself found these words ridiculous even when he said them.
Mother Gu is a capable person, and she has been with her old wife for so many years, so her character has been sharpened.
How could she possibly believe that these pills only made people uncomfortable for a period of time?
It's just that she is deceiving herself.
Jiang Baoshan didn't want to know what her difficulties were at all. If she could do such betrayal, she was already a dead person to him.
He has the same attitude as Zheng Ji towards those who betray him.
If he hadn't been trying to track down the person behind it, he would have crushed him to ashes!
Zheng Ji'an understood his grandfather's thoughts and believed that there was nothing wrong with Gu's mother's confession.
There was one thing she couldn't figure out.
King Yi wants to deal with the Jiang family for such a reason?
There are countless wealthy merchants in the country. After the Jiang family is gone, will King Yi have to deal with other businessmen?
If all the merchants' money is transferred to the national treasury, will it really be possible to achieve the goal of making the king wealthy and the idler wealthy?
not necessarily.
As a person who is good at eating, drinking and having fun, I would have known in the past that rather than being collected into the national treasury, the Jiang family's wealth can only truly make the national treasury lively if it circulates among the people.
Only in this way can wealth be continuously created.
If King Yi was just after money, there would be no need to spend so much time dealing with the Jiang family.
To put it another way, wouldn't it be better to take the Jiangjia Huitong Hall back to Yiwang Mansion?
However, according to his logic, after the Jiang family fell, it would not be of much benefit to him.
Seeing Zheng Ji's silence, Jiang Baoshan and Qian Shengxue looked at each other, and then Jiang Baoshan said, "Xiaojiu, is there any problem?"
Zheng Ji thought for a while and said, "Grandpa, I always feel that it's not that simple."
She told the story about Concubine De and Prince Ping.
At the end, he said: "In the Spring Silkworm Ceremony, the Queen, Concubine Mother, Concubine Tao Xian and Concubine De have been involved. Now, together with Concubine Shu's son, Prince Yi, the Queen and the fourth concubine, none of them are missing."
The palace banquet ahead involved the prince. So, all the adult princes were included.
This feeling is like... everyone has a share of pork.
When such a situation occurs, either they are really involved, or there is an invisible hand pulling the strings behind the scenes.
She thinks it's the latter.
There is no evidence and no way to explain this.
This is a keen intuition that she has developed through countless life and death tribulations in her previous life.
Many times, this intuition is correct.
The Jiang family is the richest, and not many of the family members serve as officials in the court, which is a flaw.
If you have not been immersed in the imperial court for a long time, especially if you have not been tempered in the three central provinces, then you will indeed lack something.
This little thing is the grasp of the situation of the court.
Ignoring the direction of the court, all that can be seen is probably the layer below the water surface.
If you go down another level, or a few more levels, you won't be able to see clearly.
After hearing what she said, Jiang Baoshan and Qian Shengxue understood instantly.
"Xiaojiu, do you think there is someone else behind the scenes? Directing our attention to Prince Yi's Mansion?"
Zheng Ji nodded.
After thinking for a moment, she said decisively: "Grandpa, now that the person who poisoned grandma has been found, let's leave it like that for the time being. King Yi, there is no need to deal with it in a hurry. I will let others take a look first."
According to the Jiang family's character, if they know their enemy, they will spare no effort to deal with him.
She was worried that if there was someone else behind it, it would just fall into the design.
Furthermore, there is Concubine Zhou Shu behind King Yi, and the Zhou family behind Concubine Shu. These are not simple people.
As an unlearned and unskilled royal dandy, King Yi could still live a leisurely life despite losing his royal reputation, of course because he didn't care about his reputation.
What's more important is that Concubine Zhou Shu and the Zhou family are behind this.
You know, although the Zhou family does not have military power and is not rich, the Zhou family...
A good scholar!
Zhou Ruheng, the imperial eunuch, was a disciple of the Zhou family and had taught many scholars.
Although people like King Yi are completely unlike the Zhou family, the fruits produced on a vine can vary in size. People like King Yi will not affect the prestige of the Zhou family in the scholarly community at all.
On the contrary, I feel extremely sympathetic to the Zhou family.
Even if the Zhou family doesn't care about Prince Yi and Concubine Shu, once the Jiang family attacks Prince Yi's mansion, they will definitely not stand idly by.
No matter which aspect you look at it, the Jiang family cannot act rashly now.
Especially to Prince Yi’s Mansion!
Jiang Baoshan and Qian Shengxue were both able to restrain themselves in this position, and they both nodded when they heard this.
"Then your grandmother's illness will still get better."
In order not to alert others, Qian Shengxue had been pretending to be ill, even from Concubine Jiang Guifei.
Now that the mother Gu behind the scenes has been found, of course things will get better.
Only when grandma gets better and everything in the Jiang family returns to normal can the person behind it take action again.
But this time, she won't let her grandmother get hurt again.
She has so much long-term power that she can use, not to mention sending her to protect the Jiang family, but she can still protect her grandmother.
She also wanted to see if the people behind her would take any further action if they saw that the Jiang family was not moving.
She said so, and naturally everything was done.
Soon, Qian Shengxue got better, and the happiest person among them was of course Concubine Jiang.
When the news reached Fuqing Palace, Concubine Jiang shed tears and directly rewarded the palace maids with their monthly salaries.
Some people are happy and some are sad, but in a certain place, it is naturally not the case.
In fact, someone was so angry that he even broke the precious jade Ruyi.
"How is it possible? There is no movement from the Jiang family? Is everything normal in Prince Yi's palace?"
