Chapter 101
Su Li has no experience in politics, but she has managed large listed companies in modern times, and Su Li still has a lot of experience in hiring people.
The old and new dynasties have just changed, and people are uneven. What Su Li should do most now is to maintain stability.
In the first three months, Su Li was not ready to attack Gu Zhen.
Su Li responded to whatever Gu Zhen wanted in the court. Gu Zhen saw that his ex-daughter-in-law was respectful to him and became increasingly arrogant.
Not long after, rumors spread in the capital that the Empress Dowager was indecisive and listened to Gu Zhen, the chief assistant of the former father-in-law's cabinet.
But the people were not surprised, because they did not have any hope for the Empress Dowager who had no other special strengths except for the birth of a prince. What is there to be strange about a woman with long hair and short knowledge, who does not understand the government affairs and obeys the advice of the chief minister of the cabinet in everything?
The people even think that it is a good thing that a cabinet chief can help the Empress Dowager come up with ideas, which is better than the Empress Dowager who has to pretend to understand if she doesn't understand.
The people are all outsiders. The little emperor Zhao Ji and Wei Rong both have different feelings about Gu Zhen’s arbitrary behavior.
Wei Rong knew that Su Li would never really respect Gu Zhen, and guessed that Su Li had other intentions, so he kept tolerating and did not ask directly.
The four-year-old Zhao Ji is different. He does not have that patience. Every time he thinks the queen of mother proposes something that he thinks is excellent, the chief assistant Gu Zhen will object. The queen of mother is speechless and Zhao Ji feels distressed when he sees it. Although he is young, he can see that Gu Zhen is bullying her mother, which makes Zhao Ji unable to tolerate it.
But Zhao Ji went to his mother and said frankly that he was dissatisfied with Gu Zhen. The mother always spoke for Gu Zhen. Zhao Ji was angry and anxious, so he vented his anger on Brother Shan, who was a half-brother and was also accompanied by her half-brother. He said to Brother Shan with a tight face, "Brother, you should always live with us in the palace in the future. Don't go back to Gu's family. Your grandfather Gu Zhen bullied our Queen Mother all day long. He waited. When I grew up, I will definitely teach him a lesson for Queen Mother!"
Brother Shan is already nine years old.
After living in the palace for five years, Shan Ge'er inevitably heard some gossip.
Those people said that the old emperor had no son. He heard that both aunts had three cousins, so the old emperor asked his mother to come to the palace to serve him. Those people also said that his grandfather Gu Zhen was ambitious and arranged for his mother to divorce his dead father for the sake of glory and wealth, and then sent her to the palace. Among those people, the mother became a good-lived woman, and the prince became the queen mother and enjoyed an honor that no one could match.
Only Brother Shan knew that his mother was forced to take him away from the Gu family back then. When his mother recalled her father, she would cry. If it weren't for her grandfather's forced, she would not want to enter the palace and serve an old man.
Brother Shan likes the younger brother of the little emperor, but he doesn’t like the foolish and cruel old emperor, and he doesn’t like the grandfather Gu Zhen, who can clearly protect his mother but chooses to help the evil.
Now that the old emperor is dead, when Shan Ge'er thought that his mother would finally be able to end her hardships after becoming the queen mother, his grandfather actually jumped out to bully her mother again!
My younger brother's words didn't work, Brother Shan came to the central palace to ask for a meeting with his mother.
Su Li smiled gently to entertain her eldest son.
Although Su Li has not felt the process of giving birth to Shan Ge'er himself, out of affection for the fate of Shan Ge'er before, Su Li treats Shan Ge'er as much as the dragon and fetal children. Even because Shan Ge'er is too sensible, Su Li treats Shan Ge'er better and does not let Shan Ge'er be neglected for one day.
"Mom, grandfather is aggressive, why don't you punish him?" Brother Shan didn't want to eat the pastry handed to him by his mother, and said unfairly.
Wei Rong stood on one side and heard this and signaled the palace people serving in the hall to withdraw. He also walked a few steps away, but he could still hear the conversation between the mother and son, and was also observing the mother and son.
In Wei Rong's eyes, the twins are his biological flesh and blood, and Shan Ge'er is the child she gave birth to Gu Erye.
The bystander was clear, and Shan Ge'er might not have realized how good Su Li was to him, and Wei Rong saw it clearly.
Wei Rong guessed that in addition to the mother-son relationship, Su Li was also in the relationship between Gu Erye. She couldn't forget her relationship with Gu Erye, so she wanted to compensate Shanye.
Su Li didn't mind Wei Rong's existence. She pulled Shan Ge'er in front of her, held Shan Ge'er's shoulder with one hand, stroked the young man's handsome face with the other, and said helplessly: "Because he is Shan Ge'er's grandfather, no matter how much my mother blames him, for Shan Ge'er, she can't punish him for targeting me."
Brother Shan'er's eyes were red, and he wiped his eyes and said, "What kind of grandfather he is? I don't want to recognize him at all. I had known that my mother was tolerating his disrespect for me. I, I, I just died..."
"Shut up!" Su Li covered Shan Ge'er's mouth and scolded him so harshly for the first time: "If you dare to say such things again, I really won't see you again!"
Brother Shan burst into tears and threw himself into his mother's arms and cried: "Mom, I don't want you to suffer grievances. Mom used to be miserable, but now I have finally become the queen mother. I don't want my mother because I am bullied by that old thief again! My son is incompetent to help my mother, but he has implicated his mother and continues to suffer grievances. My son is uncomfortable!"
The birth of my younger brother made my mother a concubine, a queen and a queen, but he was useless. Brother Shan really blamed himself.
Su Li held such a sensible Brother Shan'er, and tears also appeared in her eyes.
Compared with Brother Shan, who simply cared about her mother, she was so bad.
Su Li deliberately indulged Gu Zhen. In addition to the strategic reasons for the court, another main reason was Shan Ge'er. After all, Shan Ge'er's surname was Gu. If Shan Ge'er did not let Shan Ge'er know Gu Zhen's badness, Su Li rashly attacked Gu Zhen. What should we do in the future when Shan Ge'er disliked her mother too cruel? Only when Shan Ge'er realized that Gu Zhen was the fault of her own will Su Li completely eliminate the consequences.
"Brother Shan really thinks so?" Su Li wiped off Brother Shan'er's tears and asked with heartache.
Brother Shan nodded and hugged his mother and said, "I will hate anyone who makes my mother sad! Mom quickly deal with him, otherwise my brother will be furious by him!"
Su Li touched Shan Ge'er's head and whispered: "Okay, mom, think about a solution, Shan Ge'er should not make any noise, even younger brothers and sisters, so as not to alert us and let Mr. Gu be prepared."
After receiving the promise from his mother, Brother Shan finally breathed a sigh of relief.
After Brother Shan said goodbye, Su Li took Wei Rong into the inner hall alone, nominally asking Wei Rong to pinch her shoulders.
Su Li sat in front of the dressing table, Wei Rong stood behind the chair, and really helped her pinch it.
Wei Rong looked at the mirror, her tears had long disappeared without a trace, and there was no tenderness in front of Brother Shan. She lowered her eyes and played with a hairpin in her hand, not knowing what she was thinking.
Wei Rong waited silently.
Su Li finally looked at him through the mirror and asked in a low voice: "How about dismissing Gu Zhen, how about transferring Cheng Duan back to the cabinet?"
Cheng Duan was the former chief minister of the cabinet replaced by Gu Zhen, and was also Wei Rong's personal friend. In the world of Pomegranate, Cheng Duan did not know Wei Rong's identity at first, but after Wei Rong killed Mingzong to reveal his identity, Cheng Duan was the first to support Wei Rong as the emperor and was very loyal to Wei Rong.
Su Li wants to resume Cheng Duan because Cheng Duan is the most suitable person to take over the chief minister. It is also because she has dealt with Gu Zhen, but she cannot have a estrangement from Wei Rong for the time being and affects the stability of the political situation. In a few years, Sun Han will be alone, and Su Li will also take over the power of the inner court. She will then look at Wei Rong's performance and decide how to change the placement of Wei Rong.
Wei Rong looked at her unexpectedly.
Su Li smiled, raised her eyebrows slightly and said, "Don't you think I'm really afraid of Gu Zhen, right?"
Wei Rong didn't think so. He suspected that she wanted to win over Gu Zhen to deal with him, but he didn't expect that it would be the same.
"The Empress repeatedly indulged Gu Zhen just to give him a crime of disrespect and get rid of it quickly?" Wei Rong asked, although she already had the answer in her heart.
This is what Su Li planned. She wanted to give Gu Zhen a surprise that she would never expect when she was proud and glorious.
Wei Rong looked at her rational and confident face and asked in a silence: "But he is Gu Erye's father after all..."
Su Li was stunned for a moment before she realized who was Mr. Gu.
She said casually: "He has a spirit in heaven. If he cares about the relationship between husband and wife, he will support my decision. If he only thinks about the relationship between father and son with Gu Zhen, then I don't have to care what he thinks."
Chapter completed!