Chapter 1: His Royal Highness Prince【06】
Yuan Jia re-examined all the people around Concubine Lin and Xiao Qin Zheng, and sent twice as many people to protect their mother and son.
Although he kept an eye on Feng Yufeng and the Second Prince's manpower, and waited for them to attack them, he would not take the risk of Xiao Qin Zheng's safety.
In order to prevent him from ignoring Feng Yufeng and the second prince's calculations and causing the boat to capsize, Yuan Jia sent someone to intercept and decipher the secret letter between the two and check it every time.
Every time he read the contents of the secret letter, the anger in his heart would burn more vigorously, because the contents of the secret letter were all about how the Second Prince and Feng Yufeng conspired to kill Xiao Qin Zheng.
The plan was extremely vicious. The second prince helped to find the clothes of the smallpox patient outside the palace, and sent the pus from the smallpox patient into the East Palace to Feng Yufeng, so that Feng Yufeng could find a way to get the pus into the mouth of Xiao Qinzheng. nose.
Feng Yufeng has suffered from smallpox herself, and is not afraid of getting smallpox again. She can hide the pus of a smallpox patient in her fingernails, and openly contact Xiao Qin Zheng, and unknowingly let a child who is just a month old get infected. Smallpox, as long as the dirty things in the fingernails are cleaned off after the incident, who can find the evidence without knowing it?
If it wasn't for Yuan Jia's precautions, other people would never have thought that the prince concubine living in the palace would have a way to get things from smallpox patients, and the way would be through the second prince who was incompatible with the East Palace!
And Xiao Qinzheng, a child who has just turned a month, has such weak resistance, how can he endure the dangerous smallpox? In the royal family, children of several years old died of smallpox.
Yuan Jia's teeth itch with hatred in his heart, these two are really snake-hearted!
He ordered someone to make a copy of the secret letter, put the copy back, and keep the original as evidence.
Then, when Feng Yufeng and the second prince act, they will wipe out everyone involved in this matter!
Murdering the emperor's grandson is by no means easy. The second prince is very cautious, so it was delayed until the mid-autumn palace banquet. Put a small paper bag into Feng Yufeng's hand.
It is safest to trade in front of the public.
Yuan Jia's ears and eyes are clear and he has been paying attention to Feng Yufeng's movements. The approach of the second princess made him alert. Seeing that the second princess seemed to put something in Feng Yufeng's hands, he immediately walked over and grabbed the two women's wrists and said coldly: "I don't know what the second brother and sister gave to the solitary princess, so sneaky?"
He directly snatched the small paper bag from Feng Yufeng, who was pale and pale. He opened it and saw that there was a disgusting mass of pus inside. It was indeed the pus of a smallpox patient found by the second prince.
Yuan Jia immediately wrapped the paper bag again, and then called with a gloomy face: "Come here! Quickly pass on the imperial doctor!"
The disturbance on Yuanjia's side caught the attention of the emperor and the queen, and the emperor sent someone to ask what was going on.
Yuan Jia coldly glanced at the panicked Feng Yufeng and the second princess, and took the small paper bag to the front of the imperial family to report: "I report to the emperor, the prince concubine and the second brother conspired with the second brother to murder the only one. Son, son and minister have been right, the Crown Princess and the second younger brother and sister were arrested at the scene!"
When the emperor heard this, he was immediately furious, but at the same time he was a little suspicious, and immediately ordered: "Trust Wang Taiyi! Then bring the crown princess, the second princess, and the second child here! I will personally interrogate!"
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When the second prince was drinking and getting closer to the officials in his camp, he was suddenly summoned by the emperor, and a bad premonition suddenly rose in his heart.
When he came to the imperial front and saw Yuan Jiazheng looking at him with indifference and disgust, with his princess and crown princess Feng Yufeng kneeling on the ground, the second prince felt a shudder in his heart, and immediately understood what was going on.
However, the second prince did not show the slightest expression on his face. He just glanced at his princess in surprise, and then calmly bowed to the emperor: "My son joins the father emperor! I don't know what wrong the son's princess made, and he asked the father emperor. Express?"
The second princess, who was kneeling on the ground, held her skirt tightly with both hands, bowed her head, and her heart was cold.
She knew that when the second prince said so, he had already planned to give up on her.
Thinking of the expression when the second prince handed the small paper bag to her in the carriage before entering the palace, and told her to give it to the crown princess, the second prince recalled her daughter's innocent and cute face, and closed her eyes...
The emperor ignored the second prince, and only asked the imperial doctor on the side: "Doctor Wang, tell me, what is in that paper bag?"
Wang Taiyi said with lingering fear: "Report to Your Majesty, it is the pus that flows out after the rash from smallpox patients is scratched. If people who have not had smallpox come into contact with it, they will definitely be infected with smallpox."
The emperor's hand clenched the handle of the dragon chair, his face was solemn, he looked at the prince worriedly, and reprimanded: "The prince is really reckless, how can you touch such filthy things in person? A gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall. Don't you understand the truth? You are still a dignified prince, and you should pay more attention to your own safety!"
Yuan Jia bowed his head for training, and after the emperor finished his reprimand, he said: "Father, the emperor, rest assured, my son has experienced smallpox, so there is no need to worry about getting smallpox."
The emperor has already sent someone to burn the smallpox source of infection. Although most of the important people in the palace have experienced smallpox, if the smallpox infection spreads, the entire palace will be in chaos.
After making sure that the crown prince was fine, the emperor focused his attention on the second prince and the second princess, and he asked, "Second brother, can you explain to me why your princess would treat this kind of filth as such. Are you going to give it to the princess?"
"This, I don't know!" The second prince panicked in his heart, but his face was steady, he turned to look at the second princess who was kneeling on the ground and reprimanded: "This prince asks you, why did you send the crown prince here? thing?"
The second princess covered her face and wept, "Your Highness, it's the Crown Princess, she can't tolerate the little grandson, and she is worried that the little grandson will threaten the status of her son-in-law in the future, so she asks the concubine to do me a favor... The concubine is just confused for a while. I feel sorry for the difficult situation of the Crown Princess in the East Palace, momentarily, momentarily confused..."
Both the emperor and Yuan Jia watched the second princess' performance with cold eyes, and no one believed her nonsense.
However, the person who exploded first was Feng Yufeng. She got up from the ground and pointed at the second princess and the second prince, scolding: "Push everything on this palace? It was clearly the two of you who took the initiative to contact me and asked me to help get rid of the little emperor. Sun's, it's you who are eyeing the crown prince's position, don't want the crown prince to have a queen, and deliberately murder the grandson! I'm just pretending to be with you temporarily, and I want to find enough evidence to expose you!"
She turned her head to look at Yuan Jia, begging with a mournful expression: "His Royal Highness, you must believe in the concubine! The concubine and you are husband and wife, one is prosperous, and the other is lost, how can the concubine come to help the second prince. What about you? My concubine just wants to make excuses with them, and then I will expose them after I have the evidence, so that I can make a contribution to your Highness!"
This is a beautiful word. If Yuan Jia didn't know that Feng Yufeng belongs to her heart, loves others, and often curses Xiao Qin Zheng and Concubine Lin in secret, he can't help but believe it.
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Yuan Jia ignored the opinions of these people at all. He presented all the evidence he had collected to the imperial front, the secret letter exchanged between Feng Yufeng and the second prince, the Feng family members and the second prince's sister-in-law who passed by in this matter. The maiden's family and the subordinates of the second prince, as well as their confessions, were presented to the emperor by Yuan Jia.
When the emperor saw this sufficient evidence, he immediately understood that this matter was all under the control of his son!
He looked at the pale-faced and shaky second prince again, and couldn't help shaking his head. This son had no ambitions, but only knew how to play slanderous methods, which was too far from the prince's methods.
However, while the prince's ability made the emperor pleased with his successors, he also felt a little bit of jealousy in the depths of his heart.
The queen wanted to intercede for the second prince, but unfortunately, her successor was not very important to the emperor. He would never tolerate such a major event involving the murder of the emperor's grandson or the heir of the prince.
The emperor is very ruthless when he is ruthless. In the original plot, he can easily depose the prince who he cultivated by himself, and now he can easily deal with the second prince who has committed taboos.
The second prince was abolished from the throne, demoted to a commoner, and imprisoned.
As an accomplice, although the crime was not as serious as that of the second prince, she was not the emperor's daughter, so she was punished very heavily, and was demoted to a commoner. This is because the emperor thought that she had given birth to a granddaughter, and he was merciful.
And Feng Yufeng didn't have that treatment anymore. The emperor was very dissatisfied with her, and now she murdered the emperor's heir, and she has no children to let the emperor show mercy to her.
As a result, Feng Yufeng was directly abolished as a princess and was exiled for three thousand miles with the Feng family.
All those involved in the murder of the emperor's grandson were exiled by the emperor.
Yuan Jia was very satisfied with the result, and solved the two troubles of Feng Yufeng and the second prince with one stone.
Then Yuan Jia applied to the emperor to make his side concubine Lin righteous as a crown princess.
It is extremely rare for a concubine to stand upright in the official and ordinary families, but it is very common in the royal family. For example, the empress today is uprighted by the emperor from the position of the noble concubine.
Therefore, Yuan Jia proposed to straighten the side concubine Lin, and the emperor only pondered for a while, thinking of the little emperor's grandson Qin Zheng, and agreed.
Therefore, an imperial decree was issued to canonize the Lin family as the crown princess, and a canonization ceremony was held, so that the Lin family could justifiably be the crown princess.
Originally, Lin Shi, who only wanted to survive until the prince ascended the throne and became a concubine himself, received the imperial decree to canonize himself as a princess, and the whole person was surprised and stunned.
I never imagined that I would still have a day when I would be righted as a crown princess!
Then the Lin family sent someone to find out what was going on. She was righted to be the crown princess, so what happened to the original crown princess Feng Yufeng?
As a result, Lin Shi, who knew the truth, was about to explode with anger, and could not wait to find the exiled Feng Yufeng and bite her to death.
To start with a child who just turned a month! It's just too ruthless!
Lin Shi couldn't believe it, what would happen to her Zhenger if His Royal Highness did not find out the truth in time to stop them!
After Lin's concubine was canonized, she had the opportunity to see her mother, so she told her mother Mrs. Lin a few words in private: "Mother, go back and tell Dad, that **** Feng dares to do something to my son. , nothing can make her feel better!"
Mrs. Lin nodded understandingly.
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The daughter gave birth to the only son of the prince, and after the original prince concubine Feng was deposed, he was promoted to be the prince concubine. Father Lin would naturally not ignore what he said to his daughter.
When he thought that his golden grandson was almost killed by Feng Yufeng, Father Lin himself refused to give up. He asked someone to take care of the officials who took care of the exiled Feng family members, and asked them to 'take good care' of Feng Yufeng and the rest of the Feng family. .
Those officials who received benefits would naturally not be perfunctory towards the Crown Princess's father, and they took extra care of the Feng family, especially Feng Yufeng, who were tossed by them in different ways.
After all, Feng Yufeng is also a former prince concubine. She used to be the woman of His Royal Highness. Officials do not have the courage to interfere with her, but every day whipping her and punishing her for hard labor are indispensable. Feng Yufeng, who has never been punished, must survive and beg for death. dare not.
Piansheng Lin’s father also specially told the official to save Feng Yufeng’s life and not let her die early. Every time she was drawn with blood and had a high fever, she thought she was going to die, but the official invited a doctor to cure her.
Feng Yufeng didn't dare to commit suicide, so he could only struggle to live in such pain.
Then the impression of falling in love with the fifth prince at first sight when he was young was completely blurred in his memory. What became more profound was the days when he was married by Feng Jing and entered the East Palace to become a noble prince concubine, and was held in the palm of his hand by His Royal Highness the wise and martial prince.
Such a good day, but why is she messing around?
Feng Yufeng almost regretted her death. Her family thought that she was acting against the concubine's concubine in order to consolidate her position, but they didn't think she did something wrong. It was just that she was too careless and eager, and was caught by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.
In fact, she faced the situation of being suppressed by Lin's mother and son, and she did it all by herself.
If she hadn't deliberately pretended to be ill to keep the prince out, how could the prince's feelings for her break his promise to marry another concubine? How could you give that little **** Lin's chance to take advantage of it?
One wrong step, one wrong step!
Feng Yufeng can only spend the rest of his life in such regrets, day and night recalling the support of His Highness the Prince's love for her, and delusional thinking: Maybe one day His Royal Highness will think of me, and then send someone to rescue me go back!
However, this could only be her delusion after all.
Yuan Jia was accompanied by his sweet wife and son in the capital, how could he think of a viper woman who wanted to kill his son?
And with the news of Qin Yuanhao's concubine Zhang Qiqi's pregnancy, Yuan Jia also felt that the emperor was becoming more and more jealous of him, the prince.
He could also feel the emperor's conflict with him. He did the errand well, and the emperor was both pleased and apprehensive. If the errand went wrong, the emperor was both dissatisfied and somewhat relieved.
Yuan Jia's staff suggested that at this time, in order not to provoke the emperor's eyes, he should keep a low profile and show weakness.
Anyway, the second prince has already fallen, and the fifth prince who is qualified to compete with him for the throne is his direct brother. He has always followed his lead. The eighth prince is only twelve.
He was dormant for a while, and when the emperor really realized that he had to let go of power, or until the emperor died, he would naturally be able to take power.
But Yuan Jia disagreed, because if he wanted to show weakness to the emperor, he had to deliberately mess up when he was doing errands, showing his lack of ability and prestige, so as to reassure the emperor.
Deliberately doing errands is not good for the court and the common people, and he has been pretending to be a pig for a long time, so the courtiers and the emperor may think that he has really become a pig, and this is the factor that will shake his position as the heir.
Yuan Jia would rather behave better and make the emperor fear him even more, rather than play a low-key role as a pig.
He will let the emperor who is afraid of his young and strong know that the best heir to the Dayue Dynasty can only be him!
Even if the emperor wanted to suppress Yuan Jia for his own power, he had to consider the issue of inheritance after his death.
Yuan Jia thought so, and did the same. He not only showed himself to be wise and impeccable, but also controlled the forces of his subordinates, so that they could be officials without any reason.
The emperor tried to find a reason to reprimand the prince, but he couldn't find any reason, and the emotions of pride, comfort and fear rolled back and forth, and it was difficult to sleep all night.
Unable to consolidate the imperial power by suppressing the prince, the emperor wanted to support a prince to come out to fight with the prince, and control the prince's power through the technique of balance.
Of course, his euphemism was to find a whetstone for the prince.
At first, the emperor selected Qin Yuanhao, the most valuable son of the Empress of the Yuan except the prince. Unfortunately, Qin Yuanhao never thought of competing for the throne with his own brother. No difference.
So the emperor wanted to support other princes, and after doing so, he found that among the many other princes, none of them could compete with the prince. No matter their background or ability, they were far inferior to the prince.
Even if the emperor wanted to support the eighth prince to fight with the prince, but seeing the eighth prince's face that the baby fat had not disappeared, he couldn't do it.
Therefore, the emperor could only hold on to hold the power in his own hands and let the prince be controlled by him.
Yuan Jia has no objection to this, and has no intention of seizing power, and is honestly his prince.
When the emperor saw this, his heart relaxed a lot, but his tense nerves suddenly relaxed, and his body couldn't hold it any longer. One day early in the morning, he fell down on the dragon chair and fell ill.
After the doctor's diagnosis and treatment, he said that His Majesty was overworked and his body was severely damaged. If he continued to work hard...
In the end, the imperial physician did not dare to say, but the emperor also knew in his heart that if he continued to work hard, he might die one day.
Life is more important than power.
The emperor could only reluctantly order the prince to supervise the country and handle government affairs on his behalf.