Chapter 224: Congratulations (Part 1)

Deep winter in December.

However, a few days later, the army of King Chu quickly pacified Wu and sent people to repay the Queen Mother and Queen of Jingzhou, which made everyone feel relieved and received the correct letter, and everyone was happy.

Jingzhou, in the temporary residence of the Song family.

Song Han sat on the upper head, Song Heng sat aside, standing next to Song Han, the eldest son of the Song family, Song Ziye.

The other slaves were all withdrawn and were far away, and they could not hear the conversation between the three people in the room.

Song Ziye is far from comparable to that day.

The conflict between Song Ziye and Wang Hongyi in the past actually came from some subtle jealousy, but now the gap is getting bigger and bigger, and even jealousy is nowhere to be mentioned, but instead has calmed down.

After getting rid of this subconscious, and after years of experience and family prosperity and decline, Song Ziye has been reborn.

I saw Song Ziye wearing a long robe, a vest inside, a red belt, a dark and bright eyes on his face, and a calm and elegant manner, which made people forget the vulgarity at first sight.

He has a good foundation and has cultivated both civil and military affairs. At this time, it finally became a little more climax.

He now married his wife, but in order to avoid suspicion, he married a woman from an ordinary wealthy family. Her daughter is outstanding in appearance and more virtuous and considerate in temperament. Because it was not a family marriage, Song Han chose him very much. The couple were very satisfied, but they had some affection. It was a blessing in disguise.

Now Song Han has become an official. Although he has been an official for the first time, the Song family’s connections are there, and many things are handed over to him, so it is very appropriate to handle them.

This also made some people who were not optimistic about him at first silently shut their mouths. No matter what, their daughter is now in a stable position in the palace and has a son under her knees, so she can't be shaken easily.

After Song Han became an official, Song Heng took charge of all matters of the family. In fact, when Song Han was still in charge of the family, Song Heng was not idle, but now he is responsible for more and more things, and he looks much thinner.

I looked very good. Although my cheeks were thinner, my spirit was in a very good state, and I felt proud of the spring breeze.

After Wang Hongyi sent the news back to Jingzhou, Queen Song Xinyou also summoned her father Song Han and told them about the matter.

In fact, even if Song Xinyou doesn't say it, with their current connections, they will only get news outside the palace faster than Song Xinyou, but these news comes from the path and are not as reliable as coming from the palace.

As soon as Song Han returned home, he called his second brother Song Heng and his eldest son Song Ziye over.

"Brother, I don't know what the war is going on ahead? Is the queen summoning you, is it the matter?" In this family, Song Heng naturally didn't need to beat around the bush and asked Song Han directly.

"Yes, the queen summoned her brother and was talking about this. The battle has ended in front of her. The King of Chu has captured Jinling a few days ago. Now, almost all prefectures and counties in Wu have surrendered to the King of Chu." Song Han said.

"It's so fast?" Song Heng said in surprise: "When I received the news yesterday, I thought it was just some exaggerated legends, but I didn't expect it to be true!"

Wu, which has a population of 100,000 soldiers, twenty-one counties, and a population of seven million, was occupied like this?

"When I first heard about this, I was quite surprised. However, the King of Chu was young and promising, and the Chu army was also an ever-victorious army. When I pacified Jingzhou and Jiaozhou, I was also unstoppable. Wu was pacified so quickly. First, the Chu army was very powerful, and second, Wei Yue was unpopular, and there were some criticisms. Once the army was defeated, the mountains would fall." Song Han commented.

"Oh? Did the queen summon the eldest brother? Did she say something else? The King of Chu has already captured Jinling, did she..." Song Heng quickly thought of the move to the capital, so his eyes lit up and he looked over.

Jinling is different from Xiangyang. Since ancient times, several generations of founding monarchs have set the capital in Jinling. This is not only due to luck, but also due to terrain.

Now that Wang Hongyi has captured Wu Yue, it can be said that Wang Hongyi has controlled the entire south on this large area of ​​land.

Under such circumstances, it will take a moment to move the capital again.

"Second brother, you have been in the clan these few days and will be sent to Jinling at that time." Song Han said to Song Heng.

"What?" Hearing Song Han's words, Song Heng was slightly stunned, and then his face changed rapidly, and he understood the meaning.

"So, the move to the capital is a foregone conclusion?" Song Heng asked in a low voice.

Although the Song family has always been low-key and will not interfere in many sensitive matters and do not want to destroy their relationship with Wang Hongyi, this does not mean that as a great family, they will not do anything.

Even if they don’t do it, other aristocratic families, even the parents of the concubines of some forces in the palace, will not do nothing.

Song Han and the others should provide some support and some connections that should be provided.

As the queen of the main palace, what she should do is not just to take care of her husband and children, balance the situation in the palace, prevent the scandals of the palace, and eliminate the meticulous works sent by other princes into the palace. All the big and small things need to be done by the trusted people.

Where to find someone from your confidant?

Of course, a small amount is cultivated by Song Xinyou himself, and more of it is loyal servants provided by the family.

All of his parents are in the hands of the Song family. As a family, he has given birth to a child and has received favor from the Song family since childhood. How can someone like this be easily bought by others?

Although Wang Hongyi hated the fact that the aristocratic family stretched their hands too long, it was quite reassuring to leave Song Xinyou to care about the big and small things in the harem. He was not such a person who was not aware of the truth. He knew that the queen of the main palace had no power and no one. Not to mention managing the harem, it was quite difficult to protect himself and his legitimate son, so he was quite agile in this regard.

The Song family has cultivated many connections outside the palace, specifically for serving the queen and the legitimate son.

If the capital is moved this time, the connections placed in Xiangyang cannot be moved easily, and Jinling is not the place where our family is located, so they still need to cultivate a group of confidants to go there so that they can rest assured.

"I guess this is what the queen told Brother Wei, it must be true." Song Han said in a deep voice: "This matter should be fast, and I am afraid that it will start moving in the next few days."

"Please don't worry, brother, I will do this matter properly." Song Heng said with a smile.

"Ziye, you go to Jinling this time!" Song Han looked at his legitimate son Song Ziye standing aside again.

"Please give me instructions." Song Ziye hurriedly came to his father and bowed and said respectfully.

"Although the situation in Jinling has calmed down, the old capital of Wu, the King of Chu has moved to the capital. He will live in Jinling for a long time in the future. The power of the Song family will be gradually cultivated there. This time you go, one is to take care of your sister, inside and outside, and the other is to investigate the situation in Jinling and prepare for the future development of the Song family." Song Han said earnestly.

Song Ziye hurriedly said respectfully: "Don't worry, my father, the child will definitely do this."

After saying this, Song Han sighed. The most important thing is that Wang Hongyi has not yet established a prince.

If the prince is appointed, many things will be much easier to do.

A few days later, the Jingzhou harem started to move. After a few days of busyness, it began to move towards Jinling one after another.

"Empress Dowager, please wait." He helped Mrs. Wang get on the carriage. The female official in the palace came to Song Xinyou's carriage and reported: "Queen, everything is ready. Will you set off?"

"Yeah, let's go!" Song Xinyou said decisively.

The team was heading towards the dock, where there were imperial ships, and they were taken to Jinling.

This is not the first time the harem is moved. Compared to the panic of the first time, this time the migration is much less busy.

Song Xinyou has been in charge of the harem for many years and has the majesty of the queen in every move. Under her management, none of the slaves in the harem dared to be scammers, and did not cause any trouble along the way, and it went very smoothly.

Although it was late winter, it was well prepared and the waterway was very stable, and no one suffered much along the way.

The old lady became more and more satisfied with her daughter-in-law Song Xinyou. No matter how she looked at her, she felt that the other party had the demeanor of everyone and was worthy of being her son's personal wife.

A few years ago, there was still a gap between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law. As Wang Hongyi's foundation continued to expand, one mother-in-law and the other was the queen, and the other was the queen, and instead respected each other as guests.

On December 26th, Wang Hongyi received a report in the morning that the Empress Dowager and her group were about to arrive.

So I asked someone to clean the streets and the city gates, and prepared arrangements. On the morning of the next day, I took a group of civil and military personnel out of the city gate for three miles to welcome the Queen Mother and her men.

On December 27, on the morning of the morning, Empress Dowager Chu and Queen Chu and others arrived outside Jinling City.

Under the arrival of the King of Chu, the Queen Mother, the Queen and others' carriages entered the city.

Everything is arranged in the palace in the inner city.

Wang Hongyi first welcomed the Empress Dowager to Cining Palace. When he arrived at Cining Palace, the Empress Dowager went in first, and Wang Hongyi went to salute him again.

Seeing Wang Hongyi come in, the palace maids all over the palace kneeled down, but the queen just needed to give a blessing gift slowly.

At this time, the fire was ignited, and as soon as I entered, I felt warm and satisfied. I saluted the Queen Mother and smiled: "Mother, what do you think of this?"

The queen mother looked at her beloved son with moist eyes and sighed: "These are so extravagant, I am afraid that I can't stand it. Yesterday I was on the boat, and I had a dream, hey, you have lost weight."

There was a slight distress in his tone.

Wang Hongyi smiled and bowed and said, "Mother is my mother, what can't stand it... I wonder what dreams my mother has had?"

The Queen Mother said, "I dreamed that I went to a big temple, which was very bright. There was a god in the temple, but it was you. Oh, I don't know if this is a good thing or a bad thing."

"It is because my son is unfilial to bother my mother." Wang Hongyi hurriedly smiled: "Everyone who encounters dreams in the temple in the big corridor is auspicious, so mothers don't have to worry too much."

The Empress Dowager Wang shook her head and said, "My son, today is a happy day. If you don't talk about these things, you will win a great victory and make achievements. My mother has never congratulated you. You should say it carefully, we all want to hear it!"

Then he called the queen and the concubines, and the whole family sat together and started talking about the common words.

Outsiders would not know how they described it. Soon afterwards, an eunuch sent the will of the King of Chu, ordering all civil and military officials to attend a palace banquet in the afternoon to cleanse the empress dowager.

No one would refuse this matter. After receiving the order, everyone began to prepare for it.
Chapter completed!