When the old queen mother returned to the palace from the imperial temple, she did not rush to take action, but remained silent for a long time.
Firstly, it is to confuse the opponent and make him relax his vigilance. Secondly, she needs to observe and observe everything around her to adjust her action plan.
In her opinion, the time she left, even if it was only more than a year, was already different from the situation before she left.
Although a lot of news is put on her desk through various channels every day, she doesn't particularly believe in the news. She will always be skeptical unless she sees it with her own eyes. Therefore, she had to spend a lot of time to prove the authenticity of the news and to prove that the news was not deliberately given to her by those boys.
"She actually thinks that Emperor Jiaren, Emperor Chongde and Prince Tong will give her false news?" Jin Miaomiao shook her head gently, "Does she think that everyone in the world is like her, doing nothing but scheming against others every day? Is there anything else to do?"
"In fact, they did deliberately leak some information to her, but it was all true and reliable." Shen Cha shrugged, "But the old lady was too suspicious, so she missed the good opportunity to act, and was beaten by Jiaren Emperor Chongde and Emperor Chongde took the lead."
"This is about being clever but being misled by cleverness. If you are taken advantage of, you can only be suppressed along the way. It is not surprising that she failed." Shen Haolin picked up the memoir on the table and turned to the paragraph about the old queen's return to the palace. "This It said that after the old lady returned to the palace from the imperial temple, she asked Emperor Jiaren to build a small Buddhist hall in the palace courtyard where she lived. She said that the days in the imperial temple made her feel extremely peaceful, although Now that I'm back in the palace, I still have to recite sutras every day."
"Wait a minute, renovate a Buddhist hall?" Jin Miaomiao thought for a while, "The one in the Queen Mother's Palace?"
"Yes, that's the one." Shen Cha nodded, "That Buddhist hall has been renovated very well, and the Queen Mother likes it very much."
"I know that three days before the Queen Mother's birthday, Her Royal Highness the Eldest Princess and I stayed there for a whole night." Jin Miaomiao thought about it carefully, "But, I carefully observed the layout of the Buddhist hall. It’s a bit strange. By the way, did Emperor Jiaren hire someone to renovate this Buddhist hall, or did the old lady find it herself? With how serious the old lady’s suspicion is, she shouldn’t worry about Emperor Jiaren, right?”
"The old lady dragged her mother's family to find her. You are right. She does not believe in Emperor Jiaren, nor does she believe in the Inner Chamber. Only her mother's family can be trusted and will not hold her back." Shen Cha glanced at Jin Miaomiao and said, "It's just a pity that she didn't get what she wanted. Prince Tong wrote in his memoirs that this reformed team included not only people arranged by Emperor Jiaren and Emperor Chongde, but also those from the palace. A concubine who has a grudge against the old lady, and of course, there is also an informant from the old lady’s mother’s family.”
"Tong Wang singled out the old lady's natal family's eyeliner to say something. In fact, her natal family didn't have anything to do with her?" Seeing Shen Cha nodding slightly, Jin Miaomiao waved to her, asking her to put that Diesongzi handed it over, "At that time, the head of her natal family was no longer her father, right?"
"It's her second brother." Dream Chinese
"Second brother? Where is the eldest brother?"
"The old lady died of illness in the fifth year after entering the palace." Shen Cha handed the pine nuts to Jin Miaomiao, and brought her an empty plate specifically for loosening the pine nuts. "The old lady is not very close to her second brother, but they still have a good relationship."
"The relationship is pretty good? Not necessarily?" Jin Miaomiao snorted twice and threw the pine nut shells in her hands into the empty plate. "If it was really good, why would her second brother arrange his own people in the reconstruction team? Have you never been to the palace and want to see what it is like, or do you have other plans?"
"Miaomiao, your feeling is so accurate." Shen Cha nodded towards Jin Miaomiao, "Do you still remember that there were records in the history books that the Queen Mother once killed her relatives out of justice?"
"Remember!" Jin Miaomiao was startled, "Are you saying that this second young master really has other plans? The plan is..."
"Rebellion." Shen Haolin took up her words and added, "He wants to replace Emperor Jiaren."
"Relying on the secret guards in her hands?" Jin Miaomiao shook her head helplessly, "Are you too confident? Is it a common problem in their family to believe in themselves too much? Both of them are like this. So, this The second young master arranged for his people to enter the palace to draw a structural diagram of the palace?"
"Yes!" Shen Cha nodded, "There are not many people in this team, but there are a lot of informants, and most of them have ulterior motives. Except for the informants of Emperor Chongde and Emperor Jiaren who have known each other before, the others Everyone is on guard against each other, and the Ministry of War understands each other's origins. They are all friendly and amiable on the surface, but secretly they are cautious, for fear of being discovered by others about their true identities."
"The old lady didn't notice?" Jin Miaomiao poured the peeled pine nuts into her mouth and thought while chewing, "If you wait a moment, there is something wrong. The Queen Mother's palace is part of the inner palace. Foreign ministers and foreign men are not allowed to enter, unless they are internal servants, otherwise..."
"There were not so many rules in the previous dynasty." Shen Cha waved his hand, "You also saw that the Buddhist hall is located very far away. It is almost the northernmost position of the entire inner palace, close to the corner gate on the north. From the small Buddhist hall to the corner gate, It's time for a cup of tea at most. They all come in and out from that way." She raised her eyebrows at Jin Miaomiao, "These craftsmen are restricted to the small courtyard where the small Buddhist hall is located. They are heavily guarded around. They dare to do whatever they want. Walking around is a dead end. Although they are very curious about the harem, for the sake of their own lives, they dare not make any mistakes."
"The old lady knew that there were informants sneaking in, but she didn't know which ones they were, so she used a little trick to catch a few of them and sent them out of the palace under different excuses."
"Whose informants are these people who were caught?"
"Those concubines who are not compatible with the old lady." Shen Cha took a sip of water, "So, the secrets hidden behind the Buddhist niche that the old lady wanted to hide were actually known to her opponents in advance."
