Chapter 398: puppet emperor
Speaking of this relationship, it really isn't the royal family members of Da Zhou talking nonsense.
Zhao Zongrong, the head of the Zhao family, is indeed related to the royal family of the Great Zhou Dynasty by blood.
His mother is a daughter of the clan, and he and the members of the royal family of the Great Zhou Dynasty can barely be said to be of the same origin.
Moreover, the empress dowager of the Great Zhou Dynasty actually had a little intersection with Zhao Zongrong's grandfather's family before she entered the palace.
Although Zhao Zongrong had taken away his grandfather's family long before the incident, and the queen mother's party was furious because of it, but fortunately, they did not do anything bad to Zhao Zongrong's grandfather's family at that time because they were beyond their reach. thing.
The empress dowager at that time never imagined that times have changed, and more than ten years have passed, but now she has to be thick-skinned and use her old friendship in the past to establish a relationship with Zhao Zongrong.
The more she thought about it, the more annoyed she became, especially when she saw the puppet emperor whose face was red and dizzy because of being overly frightened, her inner irritability suddenly surged exponentially.
"Take him to the carriage behind me!"
As soon as the Empress Dowager, who had the most right to speak in this team, opened her mouth, some palace servants immediately took the unconscious little emperor to the second carriage in the team.
This carriage was for the trusted maids and eunuchs beside the Empress Dowager. There were already several people crowded in it. With the addition of a little emperor who could only lie down, the carriage was so crowded that it was difficult for everyone to even turn around.
Affected by the empress dowager's contemptuous attitude towards the little emperor for a long time, these cronies of the empress dowager didn't take the little emperor seriously at all.
In order to sit more comfortably for themselves, they actually threw the little emperor on the floor of the carriage after the little emperor's attendant **** got off the carriage.
The little emperor had never suffered like this before, he felt uncomfortable after being jolted by the carriage.
He tried his best to open his eyes, but the first thing he saw was the cronies of the queen mother who were looking down on him.
Thinking of his past experience, the little emperor felt a sudden panic in his heart.
He lost his biological mother since he was a child, and his biological father was the ghost of the late emperor who died early. He was brought to the queen mother's palace at a young age when he knew nothing.
As the empress dowager's useful tool, he has already learned to read people's faces when he was very young.
In addition, those old nuns and old eunuchs who the queen mother relied on most, these people don't know if it is because they have lived in the deep palace for a long time, so they have more or less psychological problems. After the empress dowager made it clear that she only wanted to use the little emperor, almost all of them stretched out their hands to bully the little emperor who was just an ignorant child.
They lived for a long time, and they stayed in the most filthy places in the palace, so it was easy to manipulate a helpless young child.
Thanks to their blessings, the little emperor established a cognition since he was a child, that is, "all the people in the empress dowager's palace are particularly terrifying".
But all the people who live in the Palace of Compassion and Ning, whether it is the empress dowager who firmly grasped the back of his fate, or those servants of the queen mother who should have respected him, but actually bullied him behind his back , the little emperor all had a very strong psychological shadow on them.
This led to the fact that even though the little emperor knew that it was wrong for these servants to treat him like this, he still didn't dare to raise any objections to his current experience.
He knew that even if he started to make trouble, the Queen Mother would not stand by his side and give him justice.
He also knew that the reason why he was treated like this was precisely because these maids and eunuchs knew that even if they bullied him, the Queen Mother would never give him justice.
They all knew that the Queen Mother valued her confidants more than him, a cheap son who was only recorded in the Queen Mother's name so that the Queen Mother could listen to the government behind the curtain and hold the power.
Not daring to say anything, the little emperor closed his eyes again for fear of being treated more excessively. While trying to hold back his physical discomfort, he tried hard not to cry.
The poor little emperor was already sick, and after being thrown on the floor of the carriage by this group of people for a night, he was depressed, startled and frightened, and then he had a fever uncontrollably.
His forehead was terribly hot, but because he had been trying his best to bear it, none of the confidants of the Queen Mother who was in the same car with him noticed that this child who was less than ten years old was about to burn himself.
It wasn't until the sky was bright that the team stopped for a short rest, and then the queen mother's confidantes remembered that their master needed the little emperor's cooperation to perform again.
They stretched out their hands to push the little emperor. After bending down and reaching out their hands, they finally realized that the little emperor was in a bad situation.
The cheeks of the ten-year-old children were red from burning. The sound of them yelling at each other and the movements of pushing each other made the other party unable to give any response.
The empress dowager's confidant, who had never taken the little emperor seriously, felt a chill down her spine.
The little emperor is indeed just a decoration, but his decoration is the key to the Queen Mother being able to issue orders to the civil and military of the Manchu Dynasty.
If something happened to the little emperor in their hands, causing the empress dowager to lose her status as the "mother" of the emperor, the empress dowager would not care whether the person who caused her trouble was someone she had relied heavily on.
Those who are useless, those who cause her trouble, will only be ruthlessly abandoned by her.
Thinking of this, those old nuns and eunuchs who knew the queen mother's temperament became nervous immediately.
They first moved the little emperor to the seat to lie down, and then soaked the veil with cold water and covered the little emperor's forehead, pretending that they actually took care of the little emperor.
After finishing all this, they sent two of them who were the best performers to get out of the car together, and went to ask the little emperor for the imperial physician with worried expressions.
The accompanying imperial physician was also a confidant of the Empress Dowager. After being invited here, he had already seen some clues from the little emperor's face before he could feel the pulse of the little emperor.
With a solemn face, he stretched out his hand and carefully felt the pulse of the little emperor.
After getting his pulse, he already knew what happened to the little emperor in his heart, but in order to prevent these old mothers and eunuchs with 800 minds per person from secretly retaliating against him, he didn't directly express the problems he saw. come out.
"Your Majesty is suffering from a cold. He is young, overly frightened and fatigued by the horses and horses. It is inevitable that he will suffer from physical problems."
After talking about the cause of the disease after pinching the head and removing the tail, the imperial physician wrote a prescription for the little emperor.
When the little medicine boy he brought went to get the medicine according to the prescription, he took out another set of silver needles for the little emperor to administer.
The queen mother, who had never seen her being good at using tools, became more and more irritable at this time. She sent one of the young maids who were waiting by her side to the second carriage to call the little emperor to go and perform motherly kindness and filial piety.
The little emperor was unconscious at this time, so naturally he couldn't fulfill the Queen Mother's request.
In desperation, the young court lady who was sent to call for someone had no choice but to bring the empress dowager's most trusted confidant, the nanny.