The identity of the direct son - Xu I's prosperous world

Beijing.

The time has entered July, which is also known as the ghost month.

After having Yang Qi'er, the emperor now believes in gods and Buddhas, so there are several rituals in the July Palace.

Moreover, the emperor was planning to go to the Zhenguo Temple to worship in person, so the Zhenguo Temple was naturally in a hurry.

Concubine Xian has been dreaming of the eldest prince Yang Fengxi repeatedly for a few days, so she is restless and eats fast and recites Buddha every day.

On this day, Wang Hanqing came to look for her. Wang Hanqing had previously been the head of the House of Internal Affairs, and he was an eunuch deeply trusted by the emperor.However, for unknown reasons later, he was dismissed from this position by the emperor and demoted.

And the head of the House of Internal Affairs appointed another clan that was favored by the emperor to do it.

This matter is related to a trick Ji Heng made against the emperor.

The dynasty has existed for nearly a hundred years, and it is almost time for the most prosperous dynasty to go downhill. But in fact, the dynasty is not at its peak at this time, but the country has many disadvantages and is about to go downhill.

One of the huge problems is that the population of the royal family is increasing. To support so many royal families has become a huge burden for the country, and some vassals are very restless in their fiefdoms. However, Ji Heng told the emperor that cutting the vassals is just a matter of Treating the symptoms is not the root cause, and it is easy for the vassals to rebel, so they are planning to change the policy of the imperial court to fully support the royal family.

This policy, the first is that the princes and concubines will not be given titles unless they have great achievements, and the second is that the royal family without titles will not be supported at all after a few generations. If they are required to make a living like ordinary people, this policy is so ruthless. What made the vassal kings make a fuss, of course, has not yet been implemented at this time, but the emperor is already doing the preliminary work, that is, calling many vassal princes and brothers to study in Beijing, and then bestowing real power on the outstanding talents, and even the emperor will special To favor some vassal princes who would never be appreciated by the emperor in their lifetime, the first thing to do is to win over these people, and the second is to make these vassal kings scramble to get closer to the emperor, but it makes these vassal princes have conflicts of interest. They will not unite to rebel, and naturally let these royal clans understand the truth of making progress, and making progress can change their own destiny. After all, even the royal clans, many of them are entrusted by their ancestors. Although they have no worries about food and clothing, they still live very aggrieved Yes, and before the emperor came out with this policy, they would feel aggrieved that they could only be so mediocre for the rest of their lives, so they would be content with the status quo. Now that the emperor has the opportunity to call the clan to study in Beijing, they naturally know that strive for.

This policy of summoning the clan to study in Beijing means that every child of the clan has the opportunity to sign up, but only after passing the exam can they stay in Beijing, and not many people stay in the end.

These people stayed, on the one hand, they were studying and progressing, and on the other hand, they became the protons in the hands of the emperor. After all, they were the clan, and they were able to deal with some very difficult civil servants.

With this policy, in order to show his sincerity, the emperor gave the position of the head of the House of Internal Affairs to a clan. Of course, this person is naturally the emperor's confidant, and he can be trusted and handled well.

But because of this incident, Wang Hanqing lost his position as the steward, and because he offended Ji Heng, he was beaten to the end. Now he is only the steward of a deserted small palace. He was able to keep this position because he once served the emperor's biological mother. , the emperor thought of this affection.

He came to find Concubine Xian, Concubine Xian would not underestimate these old people in the palace, so she treated him well.

After being polite, Wang Hanqing explained the purpose of his visit. As far as he knew, there was a lot of trouble in the death of the eldest prince.

After he said this, he said, "Our family knows that you miss His Royal Highness, Madam, so we came to talk to you about these things. Since the emperor took His Royal Highness back, he has treated His Royal Highness with great favor, like a heart Holding it in the palm of your hand like a baby, even if the emperor still remembers His Royal Highness, how much does he remember? Besides your empress, you still miss His Royal Highness, who else in the palace remembers him, just Xu Guiren I'm afraid I've forgotten it. Your Royal Highness, if he is still alive, the crown prince should have belonged to him, and the empress is his adoptive mother, hey..."

Concubine Xian naturally understands this, and even these things have been turned in her heart thousands of times, and they have become a part of her mind.

Although she was aroused by Wang Hanqing's words, she still maintained her composure. After pondering for a while, she said sadly, "It's because Xi'er didn't have that fate."

Wang Hanqing smiled sarcastically, leaned closer to Concubine Xian, and said in a low voice, "His Royal Highness is gone, but our family knows some inside information. Although His Royal Highness was in poor health at that time, but But it’s just getting angry. Our family has heard that colds and colds go away, but we haven’t heard that just getting angry will go away. Besides, after the imperial doctor treated him, His Royal Highness obviously improved, and his mouth was burnt. The blisters disappeared, and I could eat and drink, so how could I say that if I don’t have it, then it’s gone? Moreover, after His Royal Highness passed away, the Tai Hospital just kept silent about this matter, and even the staff who took care of His Royal Highness at that time All the servants were punished by the emperor for their dereliction of duty. Later, there were still servants in the palace who had taken care of His Highness the First Prince. Even though the nurse of the First Prince was not executed at the time, as far as our family knew, It was also sent far away, and I don't know where it went. There is nothing tricky in it."

Concubine Xian frowned slightly, quietly staring at the pastel butterfly teacup in her hand, although her face was still as calm as water, her heart was full of turmoil.

Wang Hanqing added, "Our family dare not say anything bad about the emperor's treatment of His Highness the First Prince. After all, it is the Emperor's flesh and blood, and originally occupied the title of the eldest son of the Emperor. However, compared with the current His Highness the Crown Prince, It can be seen how eccentric the emperor was at that time. Moreover, as far as our family knows, the moment His Royal Highness brought the crown prince back to the palace, the emperor directly told Lord Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites that he wanted to make him the crown prince. What else is there to think about? It must be that the emperor wanted to give him the position of crown prince before he was born. However, firstly, his biological mother was brought back from outside without knowing, and secondly, there was His Royal Highness the eldest prince in front of him. It can't fall on him. And counting the days, it was when His Highness the Crown Prince was in his mother's womb for three or four months, and the First Prince was gone. Isn't this more thought-provoking. Your Majesty, it really counts There is no strategy left, a good emperor who is rare in the ages."

Wang Hanqing didn't know who the prince's biological mother was, so he just guessed that the emperor was so cruel that he didn't even let his eldest son go, so he killed his second son in order to let the second son occupy the title of the eldest son of the emperor; but Concubine Xian knew it, she knew that the prince was born by Ji Heng, so she could fully understand why the emperor loved the prince so much, and why he intended to make him the prince as soon as the prince was born, no, the prince would still be the prince. Before he was born, he intended to make the child the crown prince.

Concubine Xian was reminded by Wang Hanqing in this way, of course she knew that Wang Hanqing had come to tell her these things, so she had a purpose, but these were indeed talking about her sore feet.

She felt that she had figured everything out in an instant. If the death of the eldest prince had been arranged by the emperor, then it was the emperor's intention to imprison her at that time. This just explained why the emperor did not deal with her lightly in the end. Deprived of her right to manage the harem.

The emperor's heart is on Ji Heng. Ji Heng's belly does not know whether it is a man or a woman, or whether it is a monster, or whether he can survive. He will be able to deal with His Highness the First Prince so cruelly, just for the sake of Ji Heng's child. It may be a son. He hopes that the child born to himself and Ji Heng will be the heir.

Concubine Xian couldn't cry even if she wanted to cry, she just felt that she had been deeply hit, and her hatred suddenly surged up, making her almost utter evil words, and she lost the energy to pay attention to Wang Hanqing again.

Wang Hanqing also saw the drastic change in Concubine Xian's face, so she didn't stay any longer, got up and left.

After Wang Hanqing left, Concubine Xian slammed the cold teacup on the ground.

On the day of Qixi Festival, there was a palace banquet in the palace as usual, because the Jiangsu and Zhejiang coasts had a great victory against the pirates, and Wang Qi's lair was taken away. Moreover, the pirate Xu Tiehu from Fujian was persuaded to surrender, and the most important thing was that the emperor decided to settle the matter. The Xu family and the Xu family decided to get rid of Xu Qilang again, so they were in a very good mood, so they invited some of the clan's children who stayed in Beijing to the palace for a banquet.

Because the emperor's harem was really deserted, he called many wives into the palace, so that the concubines and concubines in the palace would be more attractive.

The emperor first carried His Royal Highness the crown prince in his sedan chair to the Fengxiang Hall where the clans were located. Most of these clans were from low-born clans. Because of the high-born clans, the first reason was that the vassal kings didn’t want them to enter the capital, and the second was that most of them were dandies. If they have no ability, they will not be able to get a place to study in Beijing middle school, so these clans are mostly low-status clans who are striving to make progress and are not valued. The emperor just wants to win over and promote these people, and then reform the royal clan.

Most of these clans were unmarried. The emperor said some words of encouragement to them, and on this day, he bestowed marriages on several clans, and then left in a happy and peaceful atmosphere. One and a half years old, just when he was restless, he was very restless in the emperor's arms, moving and humming, but fortunately he was sitting on the dragon chair. When the emperor spoke, he seemed to understand this Sometimes the solemnity did not make a fuss, but at other times, he was completely restless.

When he was sitting on the palanquin going from Fengxiang Hall to Bixi Hall, he babbled and said some words to the emperor that the emperor could not understand, and seeing the beautiful palace lanterns everywhere in the palace, he was so happy that he almost got carried away by the eight people. The sedan chair overturned.

Then the emperor got angry, pretended to be angry and spanked his ass, and even scolded him a few words, and now His Royal Highness, the delicate crown prince, lost his temper with his father, not crying, but just keeping a straight face. A pair of big eyes were opened on Zhang Xiao's face, lips were pursed, whether to cry or not, he would not listen to how the emperor coaxed him, the emperor kissed his cheek, he even roared, then slapped the emperor's face away, If the nails on his hands hadn't been cut off as soon as they grew, I'm afraid the emperor would have scratched red marks on his face.

The emperor became angry again, and when he got off the sedan chair, he slapped Yang Qi'er's butt twice again.

Yang Qi'er's small body is soft, and her buttocks are even softer. The emperor felt comfortable beating her, but this made Yang Qi'er very angry. He screamed and yelled at the emperor's hands, but it was not crying, but it was more sad than crying. .

The singing eunuch has already sung a salute to Bixi Palace, "The emperor is here, and the prince is here."

All the concubines and wives knelt down to receive him.

Because Yang Qi'er kept twisting his body, his face was flushed with force, and the emperor couldn't hold him, so he hugged his waist tightly with one hand, and supported his back with the other hand, like this The two father and son entered Bixi Hall.

Anyway, children are like that, and His Royal Highness is still too young, so naturally he can't show the rules and majesty of the royal family. Stirring and yelling, he entered Bixi Hall.

After the emperor sat down on the dragon chair, he stretched out a hand and pressed Yang Qier to the position next to him on the wide dragon chair, and motioned Liu Sheng to let him lie down.

Liu Sheng sang the salute instead of the emperor to make everyone calm down.

Yang Qi'er was still arguing with the emperor, and shouted dissatisfiedly, "Daddy, scoundrel, get down, I'll get down."

The following concubines and other wives dare not look directly at the emperor at this time, but the voice can be heard. Those who can enter the palace are all well-behaved women, although some feel that His Royal Highness is so powerful. Cute, but most people still think that the emperor raised the prince himself, not as carefully as a woman, so that His Royal Highness was raised so unruly.