Yinzhen raised his head, revealing a headache as he thought about it. "It's just that you and Concubine Jing are the only ones in the palace who have studied the affairs of the six palaces, and you both have children to take care of."

These words were still testing. Ye Bingshang cursed Yinzhen in her heart for being narrow-minded and greedy. On the one hand, he was obsessed with pretending to be an ordinary couple with her, while on the other hand, he was testing her in every way and didn't believe her at all.

Jingpin was already on good terms with her, and became even closer to her after raising Wen Yi. If the palace power was given to Jingfei, it would be equivalent to giving it to her. Yinzhen deliberately brought it up to see if she would speak for Jingfei.

Since you are so suspicious, it would be unreasonable for her not to do something. Ye Bingshang's eyes flashed with a smile under the book, "You didn't learn it before, but you can learn it now. For example, Sister An and Sister Mipin both entered the palace with me."

Yinzhen's eyes darkened. Seeing that Ye Bingshang did not speak up for Concubine Jing, he couldn't help but regret his own suspicion. He had blocked Concubine Jing's way to assist in managing the six palaces.

Although Concubine An is careful, she is very close to the Queen now. Giving the palace power to her does not mean that it still falls into the hands of the Queen. Then his goal of dispersing and balancing power among the six palaces will not be achieved.

Yinzhen finally touched his smooth forehead and sighed helplessly, "Mipin's personality is similar to Qifei's, not stable enough, I'm afraid she's not suitable. Anpin's family background is lower, her personality is soft, I'm afraid she won't be able to convince the public."

"Although Sister An has a soft personality, she is careful in her work. With the guidance of the Queen, there should be no problem." Ye Bingshang fought for An Lingrong.

Yinzhen was still not satisfied. He patted the chair with one hand and stood up. "The queen is not in good health, and Wen Yi is old. I'd better trouble Concubine Jing to work harder and let her help the queen manage the affairs of the six palaces, and then take time to teach Concubine An."

Ye Bingshang remained noncommittal: Oh, that’s great, both of them are on my side.

She devoted herself to maintaining the image of a kind and weak little innocent girl, using Yinzhen's growing preference for her to consolidate her position, and then using her position to build her own power.

Concubine Jing and she worked together to guard against it, and An Lingrong secretly tried to find out the Queen's actions. The Queen was concerned about Yinzhen's blood dropper and sticky stick, and was unwilling to dirty her hands, so she could only fan the flames everywhere.

Among the people the queen instigated, one was stupid, and the other two were dumb and cowardly, and they could not accomplish anything at all.

On the contrary, after the incident with the old clothes, An Lingrong discovered the Queen's resentment towards Queen Chunyuan and immediately informed Ye Bingshang.

Ye Bingshang used the connections of the Shen family and her maternal grandfather's family to investigate and soon found out how Queen Chunyuan became the Fourth Lady. This matter caused a lot of uproar at the time, and even after Yinzhen ascended the throne, he couldn't suppress it because too many people knew about it.

One is a pregnant concubine, and the other is the concubine's elder sister who is engaged. The elder sister actually dances in the plum garden of her younger sister's husband's family and becomes famous in the capital, causing Yinzhen, who is still a prince, to propose to her regardless of anything.

This kind of joke happened in the high and mighty royal family, so wouldn't everyone be happy to talk about it? Even if they wanted to make an example of someone to scare the monkeys, they had to be mindful of the fact that the law does not punish everyone.

That is to say, the relatives and ministers that Yinzhen could contact would not say it openly, but behind the scenes, the common people had seen enough of the jokes about him and Ulanara. This was one of the reasons why there were no more capable ministers in the clan after the death of the Queen.

Considering that Queen Chunyuan died of complications during childbirth and that the person who took care of her during her pregnancy was the former concubine, now the Queen, Ye Bingshang and An Lingrong both guessed that the Queen must have had some hand in this.

Unfortunately, due to the passage of time, no evidence can be found.

But if this thorn was provoked, Yinzhen would certainly be suspicious of the queen. Judging from his own experience, Yinzhen himself was not the kind of person who could tolerate his own brother coveting power. So how could the queen tolerate someone snatching away her husband's sister?

While the palace is peaceful and tranquil, there are undercurrents between Ye Bingshang and the Queen, and they keep making small moves, but for the time being, neither of them can do anything to the other.

Ye Bingshang is waiting for an opportunity. This opportunity may be that Zhen Huan wants to return to the palace and make a fuss like in her previous life, or it may be that the Queen Mother dies of illness and can no longer protect the Queen, or there may be other variables.

As Luanyue and Hongxing grew up, the Queen's headaches became more frequent. Although she was satisfied that Ye Bingshang did not get involved in the palace power, Hongxing was deeply loved by Yinzhen and threatened Hongshi.

She had been a childless and unfavored queen for most of her life. A hundred years after Yinzhen's death, did she still have to be a queen mother and empress dowager who was suppressed by illegitimate sons and concubines? Absolutely not.

Unexpectedly, every time she planned to attack Ye Bingshang, she failed. The Queen felt that An Lingrong was useless, but she had no one else who could be used.

He could only focus more on training An Lingrong. In addition to her singing and pipa, he also asked someone to teach her the Jinghong Dance and learn the poems that Chunyuan liked before, so that she would have more capital to compete with Ye Bingshang for favor.

Ye Bingshang just laughed it off when she found out. It seemed that the queen was good at only abortion and killing with a borrowed knife, and nothing else. The purpose of training concubines was to make them learn from Chunyuan.

Then learn it. The more similar the better. It would be best if she resembles Zhen Huan in everything except the face. This way, it would be even less likely that Zhen Huan would return to the palace in the future. She also doesn't want to add to her current smooth life.

However, this time Yinzhen seemed to really understand that the person was dead and could not be forced. He was not very interested in An Lingrong, who was similar to Queen Chunyuan, so Ye Bingshang was the only favorite concubine in the palace, and An Lingrong and Concubine Qi could only be considered to have not fallen out of favor.

The Queen summoned An Lingrong and Concubine Qi to the Jingren Palace for a discussion. She said that the two were useless. "It's a shame that this palace has spared no effort to promote you, but you can't even get a share of Concubine Lan's favor. Are you prepared to be suppressed by Concubine Lan in the future?"

"Empress, Noble Concubine Lan is already a noble concubine, and I am only a noble lady. Although I am a Manchu military flag, Noble Concubine Lan's father has an official position no lower than my father, and he also holds military power."

Concubine Qi still did not know how to read people's expressions when speaking. She just said whatever she thought and thought that what she said was particularly reasonable and smart. At the end, she added a sentence that hit the Queen right in the heart.

"Noble Concubine Lan gave birth to auspicious twins, a boy and a girl. The Emperor loves them very much. What can I do?" It's not that she is not striving hard, but she has no capital to compete with Ye Bingshang.

The Queen felt a dull pain on her forehead. She felt that ever since she had accepted Concubine Qi as her chess piece, her headaches were even worse than when Shi Lan was alive. Her entire mood was low. "So are you willing to be a noble for the rest of your life and let Concubine Lan bully you?"

Living together in Yongshou Palace, it would be very easy for Ye Bingshang, as the mistress of the palace, to secretly deal with a not-so-favored noble lady. The Queen deliberately wanted to provoke Noble Lady Qi's vicious nature.

Unexpectedly, after hearing this, Concubine Qi immediately changed the focus, opened her eyes wide and pouted, looking aggrieved, "The other day the Emperor conferred titles on the six palaces, why didn't the Empress say a word for me? Even Concubine An was involved, and it was obvious that I..."

Although she didn't finish her words, everyone present understood that she was saying that she and the Queen were both from the Manchu military flag, and An Lingrong was just the daughter of an eighth-rank minor official.

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