Novel Full Chapter 1177 - 170: Princess Consort Li Could Never Be Made Empress
Chapter 1177 - 170: Princess Consort Li Could Never Be Made Empress
"Isn’t your mother consort Zhao Zheng’s favorite woman?" He Lianfang felt Zhao Yao’s reaction was too intense, "He wants to make your mother consort the Empress, isn’t that quite normal?"
After he spoke, seeing Zhao Yao’s strange look at him, he raised his eyebrow slightly and said with some disdain, "What kind of look is that?"
"Uncle, did you go out today and forgot to bring your brain back?"
He Lianfang heard Zhao Yao’s insult, and glared at him sharply.
"Uncle, it’s true that my mother consort is indeed Father Emperor’s beloved woman, precisely because of this, Father Emperor would not make her Empress." Zhao Yao thought to himself how, after just half a year away from Swamp Prefecture, his uncle’s intelligence seemed to decline upon his return." My mother consort’s rank is not high, because Father Emperor has always been protecting her, hiding her well."
"The major families in the capital have fallen, whether in the palace or the court, no one will threaten your mother consort’s safety anymore. Zhao Zheng can openly make her Empress."
"The more at such a time, the more Father Emperor would not make my mother consort Empress. Besides, there is Noble Princess Consort Ying and Princess Li." Zhao Yao waved his hand and said, "Uncle, if you think Father Emperor would make my mother consort Empress, then you underestimate him."
"Don’t you want your mother consort to become Empress?" He Lianfang asked with a casual tone, "Empress is the most noble woman in the world."
Zhao Yao knew He Lianfang was testing him and found it amusing in his heart. However, he did not let it show on his face.
"Empress indeed is the most noble woman in the world, but also the most dangerous. I don’t like my mother consort to be placed in such a perilous position. Besides, my mother consort doesn’t want to be Empress."
"Oh, your mother consort doesn’t want to be Empress? Doesn’t she want to stand by Zhao Zheng, become Zhao Zheng’s wife?" In He Lianfang’s view, no woman in the harem doesn’t want to be Empress.
"She neither wants nor cares." Zhao Yao felt He Lianfang underestimated his mother consort, his expression turned stern, and so did his tone, "Uncle, although my mother consort is a consort in the harem, she’s different from them. She and Father Emperor are in love with profound understanding, but she never thought of being Empress. For her, being by my father’s side is enough. What she seeks is not supreme status, nor endless glory and wealth, but for both my father and I to remain safe and sound." If my mother consort wanted to be Empress, with her intelligence and means, she would have already sat in that position.
He Lianfang didn’t speak. He originally thought Lady Liang would be willing to be Empress for Zhao Yao.
Zhao Yao deeply looked at the silent He Lianfang, speaking in an unusually serious tone: "Uncle, not everyone likes supreme power. Just as I don’t like being Emperor, I have no interest in vying for the crown. Just as my mother consort doesn’t like being Empress, she has no interest in competing for favor in the harem. Neither my mother nor I have such ambition."
He Lianfang understood Zhao Yao’s hidden meaning, but pretended not to hear.
"So who do you think Zhao Zheng will make Empress, Noble Princess Consort Ying or Princess Li?"
"Noble Princess Consort Ying has no offspring; even if Father Emperor wants to make her Empress, the court officials won’t agree." Following He Lianfang’s question, Zhao Yao analyzed, "As for Princess Li, she does have the qualification to be Empress, but she won’t become Empress."
He Lianfang heard Zhao Yao speak so confidently and asked with interest, "Why can’t Princess Li become Empress?"
"Once Princess Li becomes Empress, that means making the Fourth Brother Crown Prince." Zhao Yao said and lightly sighed, "The Eighth Brother won’t allow this to happen."
"Do you think Prince Wei can stop it?"
Zhao Yao nodded slightly, "He can!" After speaking, he added another sentence, "If Princess Li does become Empress, then she is not far from death, and Fourth Brother will not have a good ending either."
"Are you so sure that Prince Chu can’t rival Prince Wei?" He Lianfang said, "Don’t you hope Prince Chu can sit in that position?"
"I do hope so, but things won’t go according to my hopes." Zhao Yao glanced at He Lianfang, and after a moment of hesitation continued, "Eighth Brother and Father did make a deal."
He Lianfang, just picking up his teacup preparing to drink, froze in action upon hearing Zhao Yao’s words, his teacup suspended in mid-air, a trace of surprise flashed in his eyes. But his expression quickly returned to calm, and he continued the action of drinking tea.
"Prince Wei and Zhao Zheng made a deal, what deal, how do you know, did Prince Wei tell you, or did Zhao Zheng tell you?"
Seeing the surprise on He Lianfang’s face, Zhao Yao sighed internally: Uncle’s acting is still as good as ever.