female concubine

In the spring of the 13th year of Qianyuan, the courtiers made a request to establish a reserve, which was condemned by the emperor.

The minister of Shangshu was severely reprimanded by the emperor, and ran back to the Yushitai with the memorial, "You said that the official family is really strange, the king has supervised the country twice, and he is the eldest son of the emperor's royal family. This crown prince is nothing more than a piece of paper..."

There were a group of scarlet robes and green robes sitting in the Yushitai, "The former Zuo Sijian Su Yu yelled at the imperial city when he left the capital... Could it be that the government really wants to establish a princess?"

"Absurd!" An official slapped the table and said, "Not to mention that the princess belongs to the daughter's family, and the eldest son of the emperor is still alive and has not made any mistakes. Under such circumstances, it is absurd to change the daughter of a concubine from the clan."

"It should be impossible for the Crown Princess, after all, the King is born of Her Royal Highness the Queen."

"I just can't figure it out, the king is benevolent, filial and honest, and treats people with courtesy, and the official family only favors the queen, so it should be right to have a son..."

"Officials have always acted without rules, and their tempers are eccentric and unpredictable. Who knows what the officials are thinking at this moment."

"The king's heart is unpredictable, but the holy will cannot be guessed."

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In the Hall of Wende, the emperor flipped through the memorials on the table and immediately overturned them.

But on the ground, scattered.

"I'm going to die soon or something. Since last year, officials have been urging the establishment of the crown prince. Could it be that they will not live without the crown prince? Without the crown prince, the country will perish?"

Liu Miaoyi picked up a roll of papers that had been thrown to the ground by the emperor, "The reason why the courtiers went up is because the officials let the king of Han supervise the country twice, and the king of Han is your eldest son."

"In my opinion, they see that I dote on Fuqing, and they are afraid that I will appoint an empress dowager and let a woman rule."

"Isn't that what the officials think?" Liu Miaoyi put the paper back and tidied up the table.

The emperor lowered his head, "At least I haven't made up my mind."

"But the officials are partial..."

"Father!" A ten-year-old girl with her head tied ran into Wende Hall, and the servant also rushed in, and said frantically with crossed hands, "Officials, the princess won't wait for the notification..."

"Okay," the emperor waved his hand, "You all step back."

The servants looked at each other, then bowed and left, "Yes."

Liu Miaoyi bowed to Princess Fuqing, "Princess."

Princess Fuqing looked up at her coldly, then turned her head and walked to the emperor, "Daddy."

"Did the empress ask you to come?"

Princess Fuqing shook her head, "Your Majesty doesn't know, it was Ruhua who sneaked out."

"Ok?"

Princess Fuqing leaned against the emperor's knee, poking her fair little finger at the lock on the jade belt, "Ruhua heard the little yellow gate of the Kunning Hall talking about Daddy going to marry my brother, and the person my brother is going to marry is my second sister." Is it?"

The emperor raised his hand and patted Princess Fuqing on the head, "We haven't got married yet, we have to wait until your brother gets the crown."

"Then Daddy really wants my brother to marry my second sister?" Princess Fuqing stared at the emperor and pouted, "But my brother doesn't like my sister. My brother said that Xi'er and my sister are the same in my brother's heart. So my brother Well, he is the one who listens to daddy the most."

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In the Kunning Hall, the King of Han sat beside his mother in a well-mannered manner after saying good morning.

"The Taishi Bureau accepted sister Xi'er's horoscope. Why didn't the mother tell her son about it first, son..." The King of Han lowered his head, "My son doesn't want to marry." Let my son marry her..."

"You have been with her day and night for more than ten years, is there anything wrong with her?"

"Sister Xi...it's different from when I was a child. Now that I'm old enough to see the rules, there's nothing wrong with being educated and reasonable, but my son..." Han Wang hesitated, and didn't know what reason to use for a while. reject mother.

"I don't want to force you either, but she begged me that day and said that she would rather the Qingdeng Ancient Buddha than marry someone else. If you don't want to marry the main wife, she can also retreat to the concubine, but I refused. She is the daughter of the eldest princess." , and my father is a general who was born in the first line, so it is not a high marriage to match you."

"But ma'am," King Han knelt down from the chair and kowtowed, "my son doesn't like her."

"Do you know how I met your father? You know how I married your father."

The King of Han raised his head, "Mr. Qi said it was a gift of marriage..."

"Yes," Xiao Youqing got up and helped his son up, "Back then your father refused to marry me, he did not hesitate to resist the decree and offended the late emperor, and even knelt in front of the hall and begged the late emperor for a long time."

"Daddy won't?" Han Wang asked incredulously.

"Your father had never seen me before the kiss. Thinking about it now, she must have said a lot of bad things about me behind my back when she married me."

"But daddy clearly..." the King of Han stopped talking.

"Sometimes fate is like this, maybe it's deliberate, maybe it's your fate in this life." Xiao Youqing helped the King of Han to sit down, "Think carefully about the past few years, is it because Er Niang has been with you?" Take good care of yourself."

The King of Han lowered his head, never thinking about the people and things around him before.

"That's what your father meant too."

"Daddy's..." King Han raised his eyes, "Do you mean it?"

"There are still a few months until your birthday, and after the crowning ceremony, the Ministry of Rites and Taichang Temple will officially prepare for your wedding. I don't want you to disappoint her in the future, so you still have time to think about it."

The king of Han bowed and backed away, "I will think about it carefully." He turned around immediately.

Xiao Youqing looked at his son's back, "A man can have a concubine and a concubine when he marries a woman, but a woman marries once in her life, you should figure it out for yourself."

The King of Han paused for a moment and then left, leaving the Palace of Kunning, followed closely by his servants.

"My lord, the villain is bold."

"Say."

"Recently, many ministers in the court petitioned the officials to appoint the king as the crown prince, but in the end they were all severely reprimanded by the officials and ordered not to mention the appointment of the crown prince."

The king of Han stopped, and the servant said again: "The second girl is the eldest princess Qin's aunt, the second daughter is the grandson of the empress dowager, and her father is the commander in charge of the front office of the palace. If the king marries the second girl, he can get three With the support of the Yamen and His Royal Highness the Empress Dowager, the position of the second heir..."

The usually gentle King of Han suddenly turned around and shouted loudly, "Presumptuous!"

The servant trembled and knelt down, "Damn the villain."

"Are you trying to drive a wedge between the monarch and his subjects, or provoke my father-son relationship with the officials?"

"I don't dare," the servant repeatedly kowtowed, "It's just that the officials made exceptions to Princess Fuqing again and again, and the courtiers thought they wanted to register as a princess because of their love for Princess Fuqing. The villain is worried about the king."

"This king is not interested in the second heir. If you dare to talk too much..." The king of Han looked at the trembling servant kneeling on the ground, and immediately exhaled the pent-up breath in his heart, very helpless, "Get up!" .” Immediately, he lowered his hands weakly and turned around, saying, “I am his subject.”

The servant knelt and raised his head, "But the king is also a son of the official family."

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In the Palace of Wende, the emperor breathed a sigh of relief after the servant sent Princess Fuqing away.

"Actually, I don't want my sister's second daughter to marry the King of Han."

Liu Miaoyi understood the emperor's meaning very well, "The second girl's father is in charge of the Dianqian department, and her mother is a compatriot sister of the official family. If the King of Han marries the second girl Zongzhao as his wife, the prince of the official family will be established no matter what. .”

"You can't get around the crown prince even if you go round and round," the emperor slumped on the back of the chair. "Do you know how difficult it is to be the crown prince in the previous emperor's dynasty?"

"But now that the official family is in power, Haiqingheyan, why are there so many fights?" Liu Miaoyi stepped forward, "I probably know what the official family is thinking, but some things are out of date, and we shouldn't rush for quick success, and Princess Fuqing is still there. Young and bold, Princess Fuqing is a bit too self-willed and arrogant, as far as the country is concerned, the successor of the official family needs a benevolent king."

"Officials," the servant walked into Wende Hall, "the King of Han asks to see you."

"King of Han? Didn't he go to greet his mother?"

"The villain Shicai saw that the King of Han came in from the Right Supreme Harmony Gate, so he should have just come out from the Palace of Kunning."

The emperor supported his head, "Let him in."

"Yes."

The elegant and easy-going young man stepped into the Wende Hall calmly, "Minister Wei Zongren, I respectfully invite Shengan."

Liu Miaoyi bowed to the King of Han, "Your Majesty," and then said to the Emperor, "Since your Majesty has something to ask for, I will take my leave first."

"Let's stay inside, so you don't have to go back and forth," the emperor leaned on the armrest of the chair and stared coldly at the purple robe kneeling in front of the table, "you rarely come outside..."

"The prince's duty is only to see the food and say hello, and not to honor court invitations." The King of Han raised his head, "I am here today to ask Your Majesty to marry my aunt's second daughter...as the wife of the King of Han."

The emperor sat up and propped himself on the table, and gradually frowned, "Did you hear the wind in the palace?"

"No, it's my own wish. Rather than not getting it all my life, it's better to cherish the things in front of the people in front of me. Whoever treats me sincerely, I know."

"Being sincere to you?" The emperor stood up and walked to the King of Han.

"Your Majesty also said that the Taishi Bureau has already read Sister Xi's birth date, which means that His Majesty also intends to..."

"She is your aunt's second daughter, so I will decide her marriage. As for you..." The emperor narrowed his eyes and stared at King Han, "Do you really think so?"

"The minister dare not deceive the king."

"You go back." The emperor turned his back with his hands behind his back.

"Your Majesty?" The King of Han knelt and straightened up.

"In the future, you only need to greet your mother, and you don't need to go to Funing Hall to see the meal. That's the prince's duty."

The King of Han looked at the emperor's back, and immediately kowtowed, "Yes."

Liu Miaoyi didn't dare to step forward until the King of Han stepped out of Wende Palace, "Although the official family is reluctant, but after all, they agreed to Her Royal Highness, the official family is like this..."

"Does Qing think it will hurt the peace of father and son?"

Liu Miaoyi bowed her head, "I don't understand."

"The King of Han..." the emperor stepped on the step bed along the edge of the table and sat down, "The King of Han was still young, and he was well-clothed and well-fed since he was a child. Does he want anything? He only looks forward and sees what he doesn't have, so I also don't know how to cherish my side, put aside the struggle inside, and I can't destroy every good girl in his hands."

The King of Han walked out of Wende Hall, and walked very fast after descending the steps of the hall.

"What's the matter, Your Majesty?" The servant followed closely behind, and the master didn't reply for a long time.

The King of Han hurriedly walked in the courtyard of Wende Hall, and then bumped into Si Chen who came out of the Kelou office to deliver the official documents, "Your Majesty!" Si Chen was so frightened that he straightened his feet and raised the head of the Han King, "You should die. "

The King of Han shook his head lightly holding his sore arm, "It's my king who was distracted by walking, and it's none of your business."

The servant asked anxiously, "Where is the king hurt?"

"This king is not a woman, how can she be so delicate." The King of Han continued to move forward while supporting his arms.

"What's the matter with the king? He frowned when he came out of the Wende Palace..." The servant wondered in his heart, but he didn't ask the reason until he followed out of the Xuande Gate. Lead the horses to the King of Han.

Zipao took the reins from the servant, stepped on the horse, and beat the horse away without saying a word.

"This is not the direction of the palace..." The servant immediately got on his horse anxiously and followed closely.