Chapter 1: His Royal Highness Prince【07】
The emperor asked Yuan Jia to supervise the country, and it seemed that he had let go of power, but he asked Yuan Jia to report everything to him. Without the emperor's nod, Yuan Jia would not be able to send out the memorial.
Rather than saying that Yuan Jia was in power in the country, it would be better to say that he was used by the emperor as a tool for handling government affairs.
Yuan Jia would inevitably have disagreements with the emperor when dealing with government affairs. Under the circumstance that the emperor was extremely jealous of him, even if Yuan Jia's words were reasonable, even if the emperor was persuaded by him, he would definitely express his opposition. It was purely to oppose Yuan Jia. And against, in order to suppress Yuan Jia's prestige.
This made Yuan Jia feel that the emperor was becoming more and more lethargic. It was impossible for him to confuse black and white in order to take care of the emperor's fragile and sensitive old man's heart.
"Get out! Get out of here!" The emperor smashed a stack of memorials in front of Yuan Jia and threw him out angrily.
Yuan Jia just said calmly: "Then father and emperor have a good rest, my son will come to visit father and emperor tomorrow!"
He picked up the memorial on the ground and turned to leave.
This calm attitude made the angry emperor feel fearful, and the prince's calm attitude made him feel a sense of danger like a light on his back.
When the emperor was thinking wildly and suspicious of the prince, a **** came in and reported, "Your Majesty, the Empress asks to see you!"
The emperor calmed down and said, "Xuan!"
The queen walked in. At this time, she looked much older than before, and even powder makeup couldn't cover up her haggard look.
And why isn't that the case with the emperor? Therefore, when he saw the appearance of the queen, the emperor rarely felt a sense of mutual pity, and said softly: "The queen came to see me, what's the matter?"
The queen's eyes fell on the emperor's mottled temples, and then she calmly retracted her gaze, walked towards the emperor, and saluted: "My concubine sees your majesty!"
"Your Majesty, the concubine just heard that you had a disagreement with His Royal Highness the Crown Prince outside. You can't be angry now, you must take good care of your dragon body!"
The queen's words reminded the emperor of the appearance of the prince arguing with him just now. He frowned, and his heart was full of anger: "Don't mention that renegade son! My words don't work anymore, I'm not dead yet!"
The queen was overjoyed when she heard the emperor's dissatisfaction with the prince. She already hated the prince because the second prince was banned. She knew that she had a grudge against the prince. In the future, the prince would be the new emperor. How good are their mother and son?
Now the one who hopes the emperor can live a long life is the empress, because the emperor is alive and well, the prince will never even think about ascending the throne! She is still the queen.
So the queen gave the emperor an idea: "Now your majesty is going to recuperate, and the prince has the power alone, but your condition will get better sooner or later... In order to prevent the prince from having ambitions, it is better to let the third prince and the fourth prince supervise the country together with the prince."
When the emperor heard it, he felt that what the empress said was very reasonable. His illness would definitely be cured. If the prince was not willing to return the power after he took power, wouldn't he want father and son to kill each other in the future?
In order to avoid this possibility, it is a good idea to decentralize the prince now and let the third and fourth to check and balance the prince!
So the emperor immediately decreed to summon the third prince and the fourth prince to entrust them with important tasks.
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East Palace.
Not long after the queen gave the emperor the idea, Yuan Jia had already received the news in the East Palace.
Yuan Jia just smiled indifferently to the queen's demon behavior: "Useless struggle!"
It seems that the emperor needs Yuanjia to report everything in detail every day. He, the prince of the supervising state, has no decision-making power at all. In fact, many things can be done without an explicit order.
The emperor was seriously ill and had to let the crown prince supervise the country and recuperate himself. This signal was enough to make many officials turn to him as the crown prince.
In the few months that the emperor did not go to court, Yuan Jia had already penetrated most of the court. This is also because he put his main energy on the army, otherwise he would have already overshadowed the emperor.
Even so, there are not many people who are really only loyal to the emperor. Yuan Jia has the power, and he no longer has to worry about angering the emperor and taking back the power or dethroning the crown prince.
It's just that the emperor is Qin Yuanjia's biological father after all, and he used to love and value Qin Yuanjia very much. Now the emperor is only afraid of death because he is walking towards the end of his life step by step, and he is reluctant to give up power.
These could not erase the goodness of the emperor, so Yuan Jia did not want to take the road of forcing the palace to rebel. As a prince, he should have succeeded the throne in an upright manner.
As for the emperor sending the third prince and the fourth prince to check and balance him, Yuan Jia didn't take it to heart.
The third prince and the fourth prince were all concubines born to concubines in the harem. Their mother's family was not very powerful, and there were not many officials who supported them. The two of them had no sense of existence when the second prince was dancing.
Yuan Jia has investigated his younger brothers, and there are no powerful people who pretend to be pigs and eat tigers to develop power in a low-key manner, so the third prince and the fourth prince are really useless.
The two were sent by the emperor to Yuan Jia. Yuan Jia didn't need to say anything, just expressed his attitude. The two princes who checked and balanced him were like clay sculptures and wood carvings. They looked good there, but they were useless.
The court officials respected the two princes, but no one really took them as their principals.
Yuan Jia didn't speak, the third prince and the fourth prince couldn't even get in touch with the really important affairs, and could only consume a lot of time every day by some trivial and tedious things.
After more than ten days, the third prince and the fourth prince had no power at all. They tried to win over a certain official, but no one paid them any attention. Even if they moved out of the emperor's name, no one bought it.
They are not stupid. They didn't know that these people had taken refuge with His Royal Highness the Prince, so the two were shocked by the Prince's power, and when they thought of the emperor's physical condition, one or two gave up the fight for power and pretended to be deaf. He also took the initiative to cover the prince in front of the emperor.
Yuan Jia was very satisfied with the knowledge of the third prince and the fourth prince, so he generously let go of a little power and let them take over.
In the future, when he ascends the throne as the emperor, the younger brother of the male protagonist Qin Yuanhao is not enough. He should also share his worries with a half-brother like the third prince and the fourth prince who does not have many conflicts with him.
After Yuan Jia extended the olive branch, the third prince and the fourth prince surrendered.
In the eyes of the emperor and the empress, the third prince and the fourth prince have divided the power of the prince. In fact, the two still act according to the prince's orders.
For example, a certain policy is beneficial to the people. Yuan Jia knows that the emperor will definitely oppose it for the sake of opposing it. He has to spend a lot of time to achieve his goal. But he asked the third prince or the fourth prince to come forward and put it up in front of the emperor, and the emperor agreed much easier.
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The fifth prince Qin Yuanhao's concubine Zhang Qiqi gave birth to a young grandson in October, who was Qin Yuanhao's eldest son.
Yuan Jia valued Qin Yuanhao, his compatriot, his eldest son. He brought the Crown Princess Lin to the door to congratulate his eldest son, the third feast for the full moon.
Even the name of Qin Yuanhao's eldest son was taken by Yuan Jia at the children's three washing banquets.
Originally, Yuan Jia wanted to use the ready-made name of Qin Yuanhao's eldest son in the original plot, but now that the plot has been broken down by him, why should he stick to those? So he named Qin Yuanhao's eldest son 'Qin Rong'.
The names of Yuanjia's son Qin Zheng sounded like brothers, which showed Yuanjia's love for Qin Rong, his nephew.
Qin Yuanhao was excited when he heard that the elder brother named his son 'Qin Rong': "Then brother, I will thank the elder brother for the name on behalf of Rong'er!"
Yuan Jia laughed, patted him on the shoulder, and said in a friendly tone, "Between you and my brother, why do we need to say thanks? The name 'Qin Rong' was originally intended for Gu's second son, but he didn't expect it. Your eldest son is born first, so it will be used by your son! When the brothers Zhenger and Ronger grow up, I hope they will be brothers and sisters, and they will be good-looking!"
Yuan Jia's tone of treating Qin Rong as his own made many officials who came to congratulate him to have a new understanding of Qin Yuanhao's status in the heart of His Royal Highness.
Crown Princess Lin's biggest advantage over Feng Yufeng is that she always follows His Royal Highness when she knows everything. Yuan Jia shows that he values Qin Yuanhao's eldest son, and Lin's head turns to increase the baptism of the child. times.
So in the view of Zhang Qiqi, who has a straightforward personality, the new sister-in-law who is full of goodwill towards her and her son is better than the previous Feng Yufeng who was hostile to her, and she kept praising Qin Yuanhao afterwards: "This sister-in-law is much better than the previous one , at least I can feel that she smiled at me sincerely. Unlike the previous one, when she saw me, she wanted to stare at me to death!"
Qin Yuanhao said helplessly: "Stop saying these unlucky words! That Feng family is no longer a princess. Qiqi, don't mention her again, especially in front of sister-in-law."
"Don't worry, I know what I know." Although Zhang Qiqi is straightforward, she is not stupid and sweet. Of course she knows that Feng Yufeng cannot be mentioned in front of Lin, otherwise it is not Kua Lin, but keeps reminding Lin: You It's not the prince concubine who was married to the prince, but just a side concubine.
No woman likes to be reminded like that.
On the way back to the East Palace with Yuan Jia, Lin Shi said apologetically to Yuan Jia: "His Royal Highness, it's the concubine's fault that my concubine failed to conceive another child for you..." She wanted to say that if His Highness really She really wanted more children and more blessings, and she was willing to take concubines to His Highness.
But there are only her and the prince and his wife in the entire East Palace, and there are no other women intertwined among them, and the days when they don't have to compete with other women for favor are really wonderful.
Lin Shi still couldn't say anything.
Yuan Jia smiled: "Zheng'er is very good, very smart, and I'm satisfied with Zheng'er alone. Whether we can have children in the future depends on the fate of the children."
Seeing that Yuan Jia really didn't mean to blame her, the huge stone in Lin's heart was removed, and the smile on his face became much brighter.
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With the passage of time, the emperor's body and bones are getting worse day by day.
Originally, if he put down his power and recuperates well, he would have many years of life. It's a pity that the emperor couldn't let it go. He supported the sick body and wanted to seize the power. He fought openly and secretly with the prince. He often suspected that the prince would rebel in order to seize the throne, and it was difficult to sleep all night.
A healthy person can't stand the toss, not to mention that the emperor is already ill.
The worse his health is, the more power he is forced to hand over, the more suspicious he is of the prince, the easier he is to get angry, and the worse his body and bones are... forming a vicious circle.
Yuan Jia was also helpless about this. He advised the emperor to rest and recuperate. The emperor felt that he was persuading him to abdicate and become a virtuous person, but he was furious.
The queen kept blowing air in the emperor's ear, arousing the emperor's jealousy and suspicion of Yuan Jia, and wanted the emperor to cultivate the eighth prince instead, but she didn't know that her behavior was pushing the emperor to death.
The Eighth Prince, who is still studying in the study room, knows how to pretend to be innocent and innocent. For a young prince like the Eighth Prince, who will not threaten his throne and power, the emperor can dote on it with confidence, even more than the former prince.
In the past, when the emperor spoiled the prince, he would also consider the issue of spoiling the prince with a crooked temperament, but now the emperor spoils the eighth prince without scruples. Anyway, the eighth prince will not be the emperor in the future, and spoiling it is nothing more than an extra scoundrel prince.
But the queen and the eighth prince didn't understand the emperor's thoughts. The mother and son saw that the emperor's favor for the eighth prince even surpassed the favor of the prince in the past, so they started the dream of the emperor deposing the prince and making the eighth prince the heir.
Relying on the emperor's favor, the eighth prince became more and more domineering in the imperial palace, and he had a tendency to dominate the palace.
Seeing this, Yuan Jia thought about it, and sent his four-year-old son Qin Zheng to the emperor to be cute.
Xiao Qin Zheng, who has already started enlightenment, is a clever little ghost, and he is best at acting like a spoiled child.
Yuan Jia sent Xiao Qin Zheng to the emperor. At first, the emperor didn't want to see him. Now the relationship between father and son is very tense. Yuan Jia is often refused to see him by the emperor.
Yuan Jia patted his son's little head, Xiao Qin Zheng immediately understood, crawled around his chubby body, and shouted to the milky voice inside the palace: "Grandpa Huang! Grandpa Huang! Zheng'er is here to visit you! Grandfather—"
When Xiao Qin Zheng was just born, he used to cry to prove how loud he was. At this time, he shouted loudly. The emperor in the palace vaguely heard someone shouting 'Grandpa Emperor', so he sent his confidant **** out to see what it was. Happening.
"Your Majesty, it's the first emperor's grandson who has come down!"
Because the second prince was demoted to a commoner, Qin Yu, the son of the second prince, also lost his status as a grandson. Although he was kept by the empress who pity him, his name was not right. His status as a grandson was gone. Xiao Qin Zheng, who was born later than Qin Yu, became the grandson of the emperor.
When the emperor heard that it was Xiao Qin Zheng coming, the scene of Xiao Qin Zheng calling his grandfather softly appeared in his mind, and his loving heart was budding, he immediately got up and walked out: "What are you doing? Bring it in!"
The chief **** hurriedly supported the emperor, but when he walked to the gate of the palace, the emperor didn't want him to help him, so he straightened his back and walked out, trying his best to look like 'I am in great shape'.
As soon as the emperor came out, he saw Xiao Qin Zheng's chubby little body was trying his best to climb up the steps. The unfilial son, the prince, was standing at the bottom of the steps with his hands behind his back. He looked coldly at his son's hard work, and immediately became angry. Called in one place: "The prince doesn't care about the emperor's grandson, are you people who serve you also a decoration?"
The emperor hugged Xiao Qin Zheng distressedly. He wanted to hug Xiao Qin Zheng, but unfortunately his body was weak and he couldn't hold his chubby grandson.
Yuan Jia took two steps forward and bowed to the emperor: "Father, Zheng'er misses you today, crying and clamoring to see the emperor's grandfather, my minister has to bring Zheng'er to disturb you."
When the emperor heard Yuan Jia say that Xiao Qin Zheng missed him, his heart was filled with joy, but he had to hold his face and waved at Yuan Jia with a look of disgust: "Zheng'er will stay here today, get out of here! "
Yuan Jia had become accustomed to the emperor's disgusting attitude towards him, he told little Qin Zheng: "Zheng'er must be obedient at the emperor's grandfather's place, don't make a fuss, don't be naughty, and obey the emperor's grandpa's words, otherwise next time I won't bring you here!"
Xiao Qin Zheng hurriedly tried to please the obedient and showed a cute smile: "Zheng's obedient, I will come to see Grandpa Huang next time!"
The soft words really warmed the emperor's heart, and the emperor hated Yuan Jia, an unfilial son who scare his precious grandson even more.
"Zheng'er is good, Grandpa Huang asked someone to make you your favorite mung bean cake!" The emperor didn't even look at Yuan Jia, he led Xiao Qin Zheng into the palace.