Xiao Yao's original arrangement took effect one month after Hongyu and the palace maids took action. Therefore, when the palace maids killed the emperor, her situation was actually a bit passive because the arrangement was not done yet and she couldn't do anything.

On the first day of becoming the Empress Dowager of the Eastern Palace, she saw the powerful ministers in the court going back and forth, taking power without taking her seriously. She knew that the future path was difficult and she would never be restored.

, become a puppet, and become a dirt through the methods of the powerful ministers' ups and downs.

So she took every step carefully, and when she was empty, she no longer painted like before, but instead thought about what the ministers said that day, what thoughts were hidden behind it, and what would they do in the future.

She thought it would be difficult for her to think about it, but she didn't think it was much easier than she thought.

Moreover, in the court, when facing the powerful ministers playing with power, she could always accurately find the entry point, arrange her own people without any trace, and then turn her attention to Prime Minister Fang and Shangshu Wang.

A month after listening to the government, she was very satisfied when she saw that when Qian Shangshu and others were taking power, she no longer did as she wanted as she wanted in the first month, but was constrained by her own people.

What satisfied her even more was that because Qian Shangshu and Gao Shangshu realized that they were being constrained, they immediately turned their attention to Prime Minister Fang and Wang Shangshu, and did not notice her at all.

Realizing that this was a good move for me, and with her previous arrangements taking effect, Xiao Yao continued to fuel the fire, allowing Prime Minister Fang, Shangshu, Qian, Shangshu, and Gao, Shangshu, to form a constraint relationship, and he didn't care about himself at all, but he was

Further place your own people into useful positions.

The cold winter became even colder, but in the court, it entered a stable period that Xiao Yao could control.

At this time, she finally had time, so she asked Prime Minister Fang, Shangshu, Duke An Guo and Duke Chengen to enter the palace to discuss the matter of opening the entrustment next year - usually the new emperor will follow the throne, and now two changes have been made in a short period of time.

If you become the emperor, you will be even more enthroned.

After the announcement of the Entrepreneurship in the court, many ministers' attention shifted to the spring exam next year and began to compete for the position of examiner.

While everyone was paying attention to the spring examination, Xiao Yao brought his confidant to the prison to deal with the five palace maids who killed the late emperor.

These five palace maids were originally going to be executed, but the Dali Temple Minister kept checking them. After the investigation, there was a national mourning. After that, the new emperor ascended the throne to the throne of the Eastern Palace and the empress dowager were obeying the government. The powerful ministers were all seizing power, and they didn't care about these palace maids who killed the emperor.

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Xiao Yao has always remembered these palace maids, but if everyone doesn’t mention them, she is naturally happy to mention them.

Hongyu and several palace maids looked extremely haggard and thin, with unkempt and trembling faces, huddled together.

Xiao Yao stepped back and asked Chu Yan to make sure that there was no one around him, and then walked away.

When Hongyu and his friends heard the footsteps, they slowly raised their dull eyes and looked over.

When they saw that the person coming was Xiao Yao, they were stunned for a moment, and then Hongyu took the lead in speaking: "Why is the Empress coming?"

Xiao Yao looked at them through the fence of the prison and said softly: "You shouldn't be so impulsive." After waiting for another month, she could kill the dog emperor without having to take action.

At that time, not only can they live safely, but even the three who committed suicide can continue to live until they reach the age of 25 and leave the palace.

After hearing this, Hongyu's face suddenly became cold: "Impulsive? No, we are not impulsive at all. We just regret it being too late to do it. If we had done it earlier, Tonghua would not have died, and many people would not have been tortured like that.

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Xiao Yao said: "If you don't have impulsiveness, you can live, live until you are 25 years old and leave the palace and live your own life."

"Have you ever thought that if we don't do anything, we might not live to be 25 years old?" Hongyu asked back.

Xiao Yao didn't say anything, but could only sigh softly.

She wanted to say, yes.

However, if they cannot tell them her plan, what she said will undoubtedly be a lie in Hongyu and the others.

After standing for a while, Xiao Yao turned around silently and prepared to leave.

Seeing that Xiao Yao was about to leave, Hongyu kowtowed to Xiao Yao: "Empress, when I was in the palace, thank you for your care for us."

As soon as she moved, the other palace maids knelt down and kowtowed to Xiao Yao, saying "thank you" and other words.

Xiao Yao turned his body back and looked at the palace maid in front of him: "The Ai family took care of you in the first place, and hoped that you all would be well, live until you were 70 years old and 80 years old, and see the whole family of children and grandchildren."

When the palace maids of Hongyu heard this, their eyes turned red in an instant and they didn't say anything.

Xiao Yao turned around again and left step by step.

At this time, Hongyu's glorious voice came from behind: "Mrs. Queen Mother, fortunately we did not implicate you."

Xiao Yao paused, but the next moment, he left with great strides.

She knew that she had always known that they didn't want to implicate her, so they made the plan so rigorously that she didn't know at all.

Otherwise, with her control over the harem, she would know that they were careless.

Of course, there must be Wang Changsheng secretly doing his best among them.

But no matter what, Hongyu and the others did not reveal any rumors when they planned to kill the emperor. That kind of rigor was to protect her.

Therefore, after the new emperor ascended the throne, she never mentioned these palace maids in the court. She kept thinking about ways to make them die easily or live quietly.

Three days later, Xiao Yao looked at Hongyu and a few: "You follow the people from the Ai family to leave the capital and live in the southernmost part of the Daxi Dynasty. Never return to the capital, never tell anyone your identity, use other identities.

Life."

After hearing Xiao Yao's words, Hongyu and others looked at the female corpses on the ground with similar shape as theirs, and instantly understood Xiao Yao's plan.

After understanding, their first reaction was not the pleasure of being able to survive, but the worry that it implicated Xiao Yao.

Hongyu knelt down and looked at Xiao Yao: "Empress Dowager, we will implicate you. We have appreciated your kindness to us, so you should deal with us. Since we have done this, we know that it is life.

The reason why I didn’t commit suicide was that I couldn’t do it, not because I was afraid of death.”

Xiao Yao looked at Hongyu, slowly swept over the other palace maids, and said, "The Ai family just hopes that you can survive. If you are worried that you will implicate the Ai family, you will listen to the Ai family and go far away.

Don't come back in your life, and don't tell anyone who you are."

She knew that this was a risk. If one day any of them was discovered, it would involve her. The most correct way was to eliminate the roots.

But what is the difference between her and the emperor by doing this?

All of them are dead.

And what did she do along the way?

It is to let more people live a dull but stable life, to work hard on spring planting and autumn harvesting in the fields, and to watch the flowers bloom and fall in the courtyard.

So, Xiao Yao decided to take this risk.

After hearing this, Hongyu and his eyes were red, looking at Xiao Yao without saying anything.

Xiao Yao said again: "If you don't want to implicate the Ai family, leave quickly." After saying that, he glanced at Chu Yan Chuyu and left.

Hongyu and others didn't dare to shout again, so they kowtowed to Xiao Yao's left behind, and then looked at Chu Yan Chuyu.

On the second day, Xiao Yao received news that Hongyu and the others had already sailed south.

She knew that Ji Changye's disciples would send Hongyu and the others to the southernmost end they designated before coming back, so she stopped caring about this and began to focus on disaster relief.

If the weather gets colder today, it's snowing day after day, and the beggars on the street are hungry and cold, and they are frozen to death. I don't know how much - they have been concealing reports everywhere, but she ordered someone to secretly find the female corpse a few days ago. It's like that

Many people were frozen to death, and the female corpses that replaced Hongyu and the others were frozen to death.

It’s a pity that the powerful ministers in the court are all focused on fighting for power and profit and do not care about this at all.

The honest officials who are dedicated to serving the people have mentioned it more than once and have made efforts. However, the voices with low status cannot be heard from the court, and those with high status cannot give out exactly the data, and the Ministry of Revenue cannot get the money withdrawn, so it is useless in the end.

As the anger gets colder today, she can't ignore it. She has to think of a way as soon as possible.

Because the matter was urgent, Xiao Yao didn't have many people in the Ministry of Revenue, and she couldn't expose the power of the Ministry of Revenue at once, so she came up with a solution that had little to do with politics that night.

She believed that her method would definitely work, because since the new emperor ascended the throne, she has always been "drifting with the flow" in political affairs, allowing the ministers to squeeze them. For this reason, as long as she insists, those ministers will be fooled by the ministers in order to fool them.

She will give her face.

However, this requires someone to agree.

Xiao Yao immediately recruited four ministers and said that he heard that the weather was severely cold, and many beggars and poor people in the capital and the north were frozen to death, so he wanted to provide disaster relief.

Duke An Guo and Duke Chengen immediately expressed their support.

Prime Minister Fang Shangshu Wang was not interested in this. They were more keen on the regime with other old guys, but they saw that Duke An Guo and Duke Chengen supported it, and the matter was mentioned by the Empress Dowager of the Eastern Palace, who had always been obedient to them, so it was not good to have any face.

If you don’t give it, if you do this, you can gain a good reputation. You nodded immediately to express your support.

Seeing that everyone supported him, Xiao Yao said, "Since that's the case, tomorrow's grand dynasty meeting will be held, and the Prime Minister and Secretary Wang will be in trouble."

"This is a good deed and also the duty of the old ministers. The Empress Dowager does not need to be polite." Prime Minister Fang said hurriedly.

Seeing that Prime Minister Fang and Shangshu Wang agreed, Xiao Yao nodded and found an excuse to keep Duke An Guo and Duke Cheng'en, and asked Prime Minister Fang, Shangshu Wang to retreat first.

After the people left, Xiao Yao looked at Chengen Duke and An Guogong and said, "Now the powerful ministers are fighting for power and profit, and the Ministry of Revenue has no money, so the Ministry of Revenue should not be able to provide much money, so the palace still wants to pass

Another way to raise money.”

Chengen Duke, also known as Master Xiao Er, felt sorry for his daughter as a widow at the age of 18, and was bullied by the ministers. He immediately asked, "What is the way to do the Empress do you have to just say it, I will definitely support you."

Duke An Guo nodded.

Although he had no blood relationship with the Empress Dowager, he worked with the Empress Dowager when the late emperor ascended the throne. He admired her agility and courage, and also wanted to make some political achievements to support the people to maintain the status of the young emperor and

Reputation, so I hope to do something.

Xiao Yao said: "When the court meeting tomorrow, I hope that all the officials will take a look at the tragic situation of the snow disaster. At that time, I will be soft-hearted and will propose donations. After the palace proposes to donate, all the officials will support me." After pausing, he said, "If all the officials are at hand

If you are struggling, then I will allocate funds from my private warehouse quietly.”

This was the method she originally thought of having little to do with politics.
To be continued...