When Du Tong heard Princess Changding's request for an audience, he couldn't help stroking his beard: "It seems that His Highness Changding really doesn't regard our Taifu's family as an outsider."
"Old Master, do you want to see me or not?" the steward Du Zhong asked with a smile, pretending not to hear his master's complaint.
"See you, why don't you see me? It's a great honor to see Her Royal Highness, how could I not see you?"
Although he felt that His Highness Chang Ding was a little too familiar, after all, His Highness Chang Ding had saved his youngest son.
Besides, Fengju is with His Highness now, how could he not see her?
He was also quite curious, why did His Highness Changding want to see him at this time?
It should be because of Concubine Jiang's fall from favor, but he didn't think that he, the tutor, could do much to help with the harem matter.
Besides, he didn't think that this matter was necessarily a bad thing for the imperial concubine and Changding Palace.
Everything that is beautiful in the forest will be destroyed by the wind. Now that the imperial concubine and His Highness are too favored, it might as well be suppressed.
As long as her life is not in danger, what does it matter if the imperial concubine falls out of favor for a while?
After meeting His Highness Chang Ding, he planned to explain it to him for the sake of saving Feng Ju.
However, he did not expect that His Highness Chang Ding would drop such a shocking news on him.
"This is impossible!" He shook his head without thinking, "Your Highness, how can the Queen Mother appoint the heir apparent? Are you kidding, Your Highness?"
Of course His Highness Chang Ding couldn't be joking, but the words themselves were too ridiculous, and he had no other words to say in reply.
He said seriously: "Your Highness, no matter who said this to you, it can only be said that they have ulterior motives, and their purpose is to provoke a dispute between the Emperor and the Queen Mother."
Zheng Jim was silent for a moment, then glanced at Du Fengju beside him, and then said: "Does anyone else need to provoke the dispute between the Emperor Father and the Queen Mother? Doesn't the Grand Tutor know best?"
"..." Du Tong stared at Zheng Ji speechlessly and did not answer.
His Highness Chang Ding does not have to be so straightforward.
Indeed, even without this sentence, the rift between the emperor and the queen mother would be difficult to mend.
After all, Princess Yonggui has passed away, and everything is irreversible.
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"Your Highness, don't you think it's too much of a coincidence that these things involve Cining Palace?" Du Tong said, not intending to make any comments about the most noble mother and son in the world.
Zheng Ji shook his head and said directly: "I don't think it's a coincidence."
The mother-in-law's plan to influence Cining Palace was a matter of careful consideration. Whether it was from the emperor or Empress Xue, she had already calculated it clearly.
What Dou Gui said was more like a stone that stirred up a thousand waves, but it was just brought out.
Now that she knew, she couldn't ignore it.
Come to think of it, the person who knew the most about the quarrel between the emperor and the queen mother back then was Tutong Du Tong.
In the previous life, when Feng Ju told her these inside stories, he said that he learned it from Du Tong's mouth.
It's a pity that Du Tong in his previous life was vague, and Feng Ju didn't say much.
Du Tong looked at Zheng Ji in surprise, and then said with a half-smile but not a smile: "Your Highness, have you misunderstood something? I know something, do I seem like someone who can tell it?"
He and Concubine Jiang had been at odds for many years, not because he was acting for the emperor, but because he felt that the emperor really favored Concubine Jiang too much.
It is really not a good thing for an emperor to have such obvious weaknesses.
Now that the emperor has taken the initiative to weaken his favor with Concubine Jiang, he is happy to see this happen, so why would he say anything?
Fengju chose His Highness Changding. This was Fengju's business. He didn't object, but it didn't mean that he would definitely be on Fengju's side.
In the final analysis, although his impression of His Highness Changding has changed, it is still not to that extent.
His Highness Chang Ding can be regarded as the crown prince of the country.
Du Fengju sat quietly, patiently listening to the conversation between them and not participating.
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It was enough for him to watch the exchanges between His Highness and his father.
"Of course Taifu will not say it out loud, but what if I say that after the Jiang family, there is the Tao family in Northern Xinjiang? What does Taifu think?" Zheng Ji said with a smile.
Du Tong narrowed his eyes and said, "Why did your Highness say this?"
"Master Taifu, I just feel that someone is anxious. It is certainly the mother-in-law's selfish intention to use Cining Palace to test the father, but you must also know that the father made this decision too hastily, isn't it? "
As Feng Ju said, this is not something that my father would do. At least, it's not something that my father can do now.
But my father still did it, which proves that my father feels that this matter is very urgent, and there must be someone behind it who is adding fuel to the fire.
The three people present knew who was fueling the fire.
"If His Highness's guess is true, then... why did the Crown Prince and his family do this? This doesn't make sense." Du Tong knew that His Highness Chang Ding was referring to the Crown Prince and Queen Xue, so he asked.
Zheng Ji twitched the corner of his lips: "Then I have to ask the prince and the queen."
After the empress saw the appearance of her mother-in-law and confirmed that her mother-in-law had really appeared, she didn't even have time to think more carefully before she reported it to the emperor.
Obviously, she has been waiting for such an opportunity for a long time.
This opportunity is an opportunity for the father to be disgusted with the mother and concubine. Once the father is completely disgusted with the mother and concubine, then the people behind the mother and concubine, such as her and the Jiang family, will naturally not be a concern.
What happened to make Queen Xue so anxious?
Zheng Ji went through everything that had happened in his past and present lives in his mind, and all he could think of was that the prince's family was actually facing some kind of crisis.
This crisis forced them to be anxious and push their father to do things behind the scenes.
However, the prince's status is stable, what kind of crisis can the prince's line encounter?
Zheng Ji couldn't think of it, and Feng Ju didn't know either, but Du Tong, the tutor, knew the court very well and had a sharp eye. He could always see things that others couldn't, right?
"Ha." Du Tong smiled, looked at Zheng Ji quite speechlessly, and said, "Isn't the crisis that the Crown Prince's family is facing now a result of His Highness?"
Zheng Ji hadn't thought about what Du Tong's yin and yang was referring to, but Du Fengju beside him had already said calmly: "Your Highness, the current unsatisfactory situation of the prince's line lies in the Zuo rate of the East Palace."
To put it more bluntly, it lies in the commander-in-chief of the Beiya Forbidden Army.
The current leader of the East Palace Zuo, and even the emperor's preferred commander of the Beiya Imperial Army, if nothing unexpected happens, should be Lu Guang.
Lu Guang is not from the prince family.
In an extremely important position, the person who commands so many soldiers and horses is not a close confidant of his own line. How can the Crown Prince or Queen Xue still sit in this position?
"Second update! Actually I can't sit still anymore and want to speed up the progress of the plot..."
