Jia Zhu, the White Magic God of the Red Chamber

Chapter 33

Jia Shishi here is still thinking about Jia Yuanchun's card, but His Royal Highness the Crown Prince over there is suddenly knocked out by the pie that fell from the sky.In the East Palace, he looked at the Empress with mixed expressions of sadness and joy, and finally heaved a deep sigh of relief: "Mother, I am still dizzy. Father, he really issued the order to abdicate, and also appointed Let me succeed?"

Opposite him, the queen in bright yellow uniform nodded slowly and solemnly.The queen, who was only three years younger than Emperor Longxi, was well maintained and looked like a woman in her forties.Although her face can only be regarded as handsome, she is quite graceful and elegant, coupled with her strong bookish atmosphere, people have to admire this mother of the world.

"Mother, why do you think the father suddenly made such a decree? Obviously, he told our mother and son..." The crown prince didn't say what he said later, but both mother and son knew what it meant.

Ever since he was the prince, Emperor Longxi has always looked down on the queen, the first wife.If it wasn't for the fact that he won the heir in the future, there would be no birth of the prince.And because their mother and son were the evidence that Emperor Longxi was forced to compromise, the mother and son were even more unwelcome by Emperor Longxi.

When he was young, the prince still wanted to get close to Emperor Longxi, but when he found out that to Emperor Longxi he was just a transparent existence, and in Emperor Longxi's heart, only the child born to Concubine Zhen Gui was his child, the prince completely changed his mind. Give up.

Royal children are always precocious. Fortunately, the prince has a mother who used to be a princess and later a queen.And although this mother is not favored, and the position is not very secure, she still does her best to educate him and protect him from growing up.

In this huge harem, the only thing they can trust is each other.

Apart from the queen, the prince didn't even believe his concubine and children.Although they were husband and wife on the same boat, it was obvious that the Crown Princess was highly valued by Emperor Longxi, and things were rewarded from time to time.And him?No matter how well the errands were handled, it was a matter of course for Emperor Longxi.

Having been the crown prince for nearly 40 years, Emperor Longxi would definitely take him with him every time he left the capital.It's not that Emperor Longxi is reluctant to leave his son too far away, but that if he stays in the capital, he will definitely be supervised by Emperor Longxi.But Emperor Longxi would not give him this chance.

Sometimes, the prince can't help but think.Since Emperor Longxi didn't want him to exist, why did he let him be born in the first place.Is the throne really worth his father making such a shameful compromise?Compared with the hard life of his father as the eldest son of the concubine, his career as a prince is full of thorns.

Emperor Longxi still had a way out back then, but as a crown prince, besides succeeding to the throne, his only fate was death.It is impossible for any of his brothers to stay in power, even if that person wants to keep the reputation of the Mingjun through the ages.

The prince was educated by the queen since he was a child, and the prince understood a fact.The history books have always been written by the victors, even the proud historians will still compromise when faced with certain things.For example, in the history of the Tang Dynasty, which was the most powerful at the time, it is clearly recorded in the history books that Tang Taizong Li Shimin killed his brother and forced his father.

But there is a reason behind what he did. He was forced to do so by his father and elder brother!

Now that thousands of years have passed, who knows whether Li Shimin was forced to protect himself, or whether he was full of ambition and had such a plan long ago, who can know.Anyway, although Li Shimin has such a crime on his back, he is still an emperor through the ages.

It is an indisputable fact that the Tang Dynasty reached its most glorious period in his hands.

Therefore, if he, the crown prince, failed to ascend to the throne in the end, it would definitely not be Emperor Longxi who was wrong in the history books, but only him, the crown prince, who failed to live up to expectations.But actually?It is obvious that Emperor Longxi favored his concubine and killed his wife, and regarded the legacy of his ancestors as nothing, and made him, the prince, the whetstone of his beloved prince.

The prince was naturally reluctant to appoint him, but he also knew that his odds of winning couldn't be lower.Therefore, he had already planned that even if he could not ascend the throne in the end, he would definitely not be able to take advantage of Concubine Zhen's family!Even if he was going to die, he couldn't die worthless.

But, what happened to this sudden turn of events?

The fact that Emperor Longxi was not in good health was well known to everyone, and it was because of this knowledge that the front and rear palaces were so turbulent.But before this, Emperor Longxi was clearly sitting on the Diaoyutai, looking down at their sons fighting to the death for the throne, how could he just abdicate like this? !

Even if he abdicated, why did he, the prince, succeed him?Obviously, he planned to use all his strength to fight hard at the Wanshou Festival next year, and drag the First Prince and the Third Prince into the water by the way!

"Emperor, this is the end of the matter, don't think too much about it." The queen narrowed her eyes, "The imperial decree has been issued, and after the ninth day of September, the emperor will be the new emperor of our Daqing Dynasty. Before that, we What we have to do is not to guess His Majesty's mind here, but to be careful and guard. You can't relax until the last moment."

"Even if the last moment has passed, you can't relax." The prince also squinted his eyes, and the expressions of the mother and son were exactly the same, "Over the years, my good brothers have already possessed different forces in the court, but my prince It’s nothing but the Eight Lords that my father allocated to me back then. Even these Eight Lords have their own thoughts, and they don’t really regard me as their master.”

"Prince, you have suffered so much for so many years." The queen's face was full of guilt.If it wasn't for the fact that she always disliked Emperor Longxi in everything she did, why would the prince be here.Obviously, he should be the most honorable man under Emperor Longxi, but in the end he was always oppressed by Concubine Zhen's children since he was a child.

The queen doesn't hate Concubine Zhen Gui, even though she often blows pillow wind to Emperor Longxi.Emperor Longxi said that she was his favorite woman, but in fact besides her as the empress, Emperor Longxi also had many concubines and children in his harem!Even if Concubine Zhen has the most children, she is not the only one of Emperor Longxi.

The empress's longing for love is to be a couple for a lifetime, so when she knew that she was married to the eldest prince by Qing Shizu to be the princess, she firmly protected her heart.Coupled with what Emperor Longxi did later, she only lived for her natal family and the prince.

The queen is a smart woman, she never thought about how powerful her natal family is to support herself.Before she got married, instead, she persuaded her father and brother to either release or resign, and must restrain the clan members, so that they could do whatever they wanted just because she, the concubine, was born in the clan.

A family that can raise a woman like a queen will naturally not be short-sighted, even if there is, it will obediently die down under the suppression of the patriarch.Later she became a queen, and after her only son became a prince, her natal family shrank completely.

Emperor Longxi's obvious dislike can be seen by everyone. Not only did the queen's family not blame her for not bringing benefits to the family, but they felt sorry for her and the prince.For the sake of family inheritance, since she was selected as the princess, she has been abandoned by the family, and the support that the family can give her is pitifully small.

Having said that, I have to talk about the queen's origin.The queen's surname is Wang, and his father was only a fourth-rank official of the Imperial Academy before he resigned. He didn't have much real power in the court, but he had a lot of reputation among the Qingliu.

Probably because Queen Wang's royal family is completely different from Mrs. Wang's royal family.The ancestor of Mrs. Wang's natal family was just a squire before the Daqing Dynasty, but the investment in Qingtai/Zu was a great success, so she was granted the title of ruling county uncle after the founding of the dynasty.

But the royal family of Queen Wang originated from the father and son of Wang Jian and Wang Ben in the Qin Dynasty, and later the Langya Wang family that flourished in the Eastern Jin and Southern Dynasties.Although the Langya Wang Clan ended later, and Tang Taizong and Empress Wu Zetian suppressed the clansmen in the Tang Dynasty, the Langya Wang Clan is a family that has been passed down for thousands of years and naturally has its own demeanor.

Emperor Longxi never knew that his queen was from the former Langya Wang family, so naturally he didn't know that Qing Shizu had actually arranged a way for him long ago.

As early as the Southern Dynasty, the Wang clan of Langya no longer attached so much importance to becoming an official.Compared with the momentary scenery, the long-term inheritance of the family is more important.If it weren't for the queen and queen who came from such a background, she wouldn't have raised such an outstanding prince as the prince.

Even if Emperor Longxi didn't like the crown prince, he didn't like his gentle appearance, but he had to admit that his son was an excellent one.Otherwise, when he decided to abdicate and practice magic with Yarlin, he would not have directly chosen the crown prince to succeed him.

After so many years of suppression, it is not easy to contact the courtiers, but the prince still has a lot of diehard loyalists.Still being willing to follow him under such circumstances is enough to show the charisma of His Royal Highness the Prince.No matter how attractive His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is, those who are willing to follow him are not enough compared to the people of Emperor Longxi.

Had it not been for Ya'erlin's sudden arrival, Emperor Longxi had made up his mind to give up the throne at this time, the outcome of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince can be imagined.

Even now that Emperor Longxi has confirmed that the crown prince will succeed him, he cannot relax.His brothers, especially the first and third princes born of Concubine Zhen Gui, would never accept their fate like this.The long-term love of Emperor Longxi made them uncertain about their status, not only that, but also regarded the throne as their own.

If it weren't for this, the Zhen family would not have become the emperor of the south of the Yangtze River in an upright manner, directly withholding most of the tax money that should have been handed over to the treasury.This point, apart from Emperor Longxi being kept secret, there is probably no one who does not know.

No, Emperor Longxi also knew about it, otherwise he would not have arranged for his confidant Lin Ruhai, who was born as a marquis of Gusu Shuxiang Family, to Yangzhou to be an official a few years ago.No matter how capable Lin Ruhai was, he was also powerless in the face of Jiangnan, who was deeply rooted. He could only do his best to find out the news, and then reported it to Emperor Longxi.

The doctor of Lantai Temple, the shining chess piece that Emperor Longxi placed in the south of the Yangtze River.But Lin Ruhai still has to be grateful for Emperor Longxi's kindness of knowing and encountering him, not to mention, maybe he has to die.

Just like him before, he is also the biggest pawn in Emperor Longxi's hands.

However, how many people are willing to do this chess piece?The prince didn't know what Lin Ruhai was thinking, anyway, he didn't want to.Just like what his empress said, no matter why Emperor Longxi had such an idea, what he has to do is to seize this only opportunity and never give his brothers a chance to turn things around.