Chapter 148 The Dongchuang Incident
After the death of the Empress, there was no backbone in the harem. The Empress Dowager was older and did not have so much energy to restrain the concubines in the harem. Later, this responsibility fell to Concubine Yun. on the body.
Concubine Yun Gui originally didn’t want to take on the thankless job of a housekeeper, but the emperor made a decree, so she had no choice but to take the job.
The harem is without a queen, and the previous dynasty is without a prince. The ministers in this dynasty are clamoring every day for the emperor to appoint a new queen and prince as soon as possible.
In order to prevent the people from being uneasy, those who are interested will work hard on it. The emperor is also very troubled by the matter of establishing the crown prince. It is not that he has a headache about who to appoint as the crown prince. He has already established the fifth prince Li Ruoyan as the crown prince in his heart. idea.
Ever since he chose Li Qun to be the fifth prince's first teacher, he had already thought about paving the way for the fifth prince.
Li Qun is just the first step, and there are many steps ahead that he has not yet had time to take. He also has to arrange for Cui Chu, the fifth prince’s uncle and Cui Xiu’s second brother, to teach Xiao Wu martial arts, so that Xiao Wu can Become a prince with both civil and military skills.
When the time is right, he will naturally establish the fifth prince as the crown prince.
When the fifth prince did not have the ability to become a prince, the emperor did not want to expose the fifth prince to everyone's eyes. This would be detrimental to the growth of the fifth prince.
It’s not that the emperor doesn’t think about his own children, he just thinks about the children he wants to consider.
For the sake of one child, another child must be sacrificed. The emperor chose to expose the third prince to everyone's attention. Since he wanted to be a prince so much, let him feel the feeling of "being a prince" for a few days.
As for the queen, the emperor has not thought about it. Concubine Yun is gentle and virtuous, and Concubine Jia is lively and lively. Each has its own advantages, but after all, he and these two people cannot get along with each other.
The emperor is like a mirror in his heart, understanding why Concubine Yun and Concubine Jia are unwilling to reveal their hearts to him.
He was helpless about what happened back then. If he wants to sit on this throne, who has not failed a few people, and who can say that his hands are clean from beginning to end.
The emperor never consumes himself just because his concubines don’t like him. They all get what they need.
When he married Xu Yanyun and Cui Xiu back then, it was for the power behind them, not for any personal relationship between their children.
Xu Yanyun hated him because he didn't let her go home when old Duke Xu passed away; Cui Xiu hated him because he beat the couple apart and separated her and Li Qun.
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The eighteenth year of Chenghe.
The third prince's family is now the dominant one in the court. In the past two years, the third prince's power can be said to have expanded with overwhelming force, but many of them are not completely loyal to the third prince.
Some of these people support the fifth prince, and some support the sixth prince.
After the deposed prince was gone, the third prince became more and more arrogant and domineering. He committed a lot of evil in just two years, most of which were concealed by his uncle.
The third prince was working hard outside the palace, and Concubine Chun was not idle inside the palace either. Relying on the emperor's "valuation" of the third prince, she frequently caused trouble in front of Concubine Yun Gui and Cui Xiu.
Cui Xiu and Concubine Yun were too lazy to get to know her. They pretended not to see anything if it wasn't something particularly outrageous.
Since the death of the Empress, Cui Xiu has never promoted Pai Gow. It is really meaningless to always have three or one missing.
Just when Cui Xiu felt bored, Princess Wanning got up and acted like a monster again, but this time it was not her who took the initiative to act like a monster, but someone came to Kyoto to report her.
Ever since the last bloodshed, Princess Wanning seemed to be discouraged and could no longer make any big waves.
Cui Xiu originally thought that Princess Wanning would become even more aggressive after the bloody recognition, but then Princess Wanning became pregnant less than half a year later, and she concentrated on raising the fetus and stopped acting like a monster. Princess Wanning's first child was not saved, and she had a miscarriage less than three months old. For this reason, Li Cheng specially invited people to go to Xu Guogong's mansion to remove the evil spirits.
Three years later, Princess Wanning became pregnant again. It was not easy to get pregnant for the second time. She was tightly held tightly inside and outside the house of Duke Xu for fear of being pregnant for the second time. There is something wrong with the fetus in Princess Wanning's belly.
But the baby finally survived three months. I thought it would be fine and he would be born, but the fetus slipped again.
The tire slides again and again will inevitably make people wonder if there is something wrong with it.
After Princess Wanning recovered, she made a special trip back to Hezhou in the south of the Yangtze River. Li Cheng accompanied Princess Wanning and stayed there for a month or two. When she came back, she was pregnant again. .
This is the third time that Princess Wanning is pregnant. Everyone is very worried. The more worried they are, the more cautious they are.
Fortunately, the third child was born smoothly. She was a girl. When she grew up, she could not speak yet.
Later, the imperial doctor diagnosed that the child's brain was not very good, and Princess Wanning was so angry that she kicked the imperial doctor out on the spot.
Even if Princess Wanning kicked out the imperial doctor, she could not change the fact that her child was a fool who could not speak.
"Princess Princess, Your Majesty has summoned you to the palace." The eunuch who conveyed the decree was waiting outside. Princess Wanning, who was holding the child, was still sitting there with no intention of moving.
Wan Ning thought to herself that she had restrained herself a lot over the years for the sake of her children, and she no longer bothered with Li Qun and Cui Xiu's affairs.
Back then, she wanted to use the information she knew to let the emperor know that the fifth prince was the child of Xu Guogong, and Cui Xiu's child was Xu Guogong's.
But she was unable to spread the news to His Majesty's ears unknowingly, as if someone had blocked the opportunity.
Later, Li Cheng stopped letting her enter the palace, and stopped giving her the Duanzi decoction, and replaced her with other decoctions.
Princess Wanning thought that she had no control over her, so she might as well live a good life with Li Cheng, and then give out the information she knew in exchange for benefits when there was a chance in the future.
“Go back and tell Your Majesty that I have made up my mind not to enter the palace again.”
“If Your Majesty wants to convict me, just issue the decree directly.”
"I have absolutely no complaints."
Princess Wanning now has a child, and her temper has become much more restrained than before. This person from Hezhou will sue her if he says he wants to, and there is no evidence. There is no way to convict her.
Wan Ning had settled the matters in Hezhou a long time ago, and she had arranged for the remaining dungeons to be burned down. Now Hezhou has no leverage against her.
The grand duke who announced the decree saw that Princess Wanning was so stubborn and stubborn, and he could not be rude to the princess, so he sent a person back to the palace to report to His Majesty.
A group of them are waiting for Princess Wanning to change her mind and enter the palace with them.
After the emperor knew that Princess Wanning refused to enter the palace, he took the initiative to leave the palace and went to the Duke Xu's mansion.