female concubine

After the eldest grandson of the emperor was born in the East Palace, the happy event of Zhao Wangfu also spread from the palace. The emperor rewarded Zhao Wang with many treasures after removing his position in the Privy Council.

"Under the door, Li Xiaoyi, the founding man of Leping, is brave and good at fighting... The special officer is reinstated. From now on, he will serve as the guard and infantry duo Yuhou."

The official who read out the edict presented the official uniform and the mandate document, "This is the right amulet of Du Yuhou's waist card, and the left amulet is kept in the inner court."

Li Xiaoyi touched the carp waist card with trembling hands, nodded and said: "Your official knows."

The official smiled and squinted his eyes, "Your Majesty forgot, Le Pingnan was born as a Jinshi in the martial arts examination and once served in the Sanya. Now Princess Zhao is pregnant with the grandson. Your Majesty values ​​Princess Zhao very much. He will pay tribute from overseas. Both treasures and ambergris were sent to Prince Zhao's mansion, even the East Palace didn't show such great grace when news of the happy event came out."

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After the eldest grandson of the emperor was born, the crying of babies often came from the East Palace.

The prince stood beside the bamboo basket with a cold face, "Cry, cry, cry, cry all day long!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the baby in the bamboo basket cried even more. He let out a long breath, picked it up helplessly, and gently patted the quilt, "Okay, okay, stop crying, You still have daddy, don't worry, your mother is gone, daddy will definitely protect you and grow up safely!"

The palace people outside the palace entered, "Your Highness, please see me with Ping Zhang."

The prince turned his head, "Invite Weng Weng here."

"Yes."

"Hey, I heard his cry from a long distance away. With such a resonant voice, he will definitely be a lively and active baby in the future." Tong Pingzhang took the baby in the swaddle, gently rocked and coaxed him: " Zong Ning doesn't cry, there is a father-in-law here."

"Weng Weng is here to look for his grandson at this time?"

"Does Your Highness know that Princess Zhao is happy?"

The prince looked down coldly, "Haven't the rewards been moved to Zhao Wang's mansion one after another? How can I not know that there is such a big movement in the Ministry of Internal Affairs!"

Tong Ping Zhangshi gently shook the baby, "Your Majesty issued an edict to reinstate Uncle Shanyin's second son, and re-enter Sanya as Marquis of the Infantry Capital."

The prince stared at Tongping Zhangshi, "Li Xiaoyi has returned to Sanya?"

"The imperial edict was read out in front of civil and military officials in Da Nei early this morning. Li Xiaoyi is probably already in the infantry division now."

The prince questioned and took a few steps back, then sat down in a daze, and said tremblingly, "What exactly does Your Majesty want to do?"

Seeing that the baby had stopped crying, Tong Pingzhang gently put it back into the bamboo basket, walked to the Prince's side and patted him on the shoulder, "I guess His Majesty's intention is to make King Zhao calm down."

"This isn't security, it's connivance. Isn't the Privy Council and the Palace Division not enough, and now you have to give him the Infantry Division as well?"

Tong Pingzhang shook his head, "It seems to be a favor for King Zhao, but don't forget, Your Highness, Li Xiaoyi is the uncle of King Chu!"

"So what, anyway, His Majesty has never looked at the East Palace. The emperor's grandson didn't fulfill the promise, but he appointed King Zhao's biological mother as the queen, and wants me to keep my own place?"

"The third division proposed to suspend this year's grand court meeting and allocate the money to prepare for the empress ceremony. Your Majesty has...approved it."

"If Concubine Shu becomes the empress, King Zhao will be the descendant, and then Concubine Zhao's child will be the eldest grandson of the emperor. If Your Majesty..."

"Your Highness, even if Princess Zhao gave birth to the grandson of the emperor, it is impossible for her majesty to make her the grandson of the emperor."

"That's because the palace is still there!" The crown prince panicked: "The courtiers have already leaned towards King Zhao, and there is a living man next to King Zhao, and His Majesty believes in this person!"

Tong Pingzhang lowered his head, "Liju Lang is thoughtful. He has never made a mistake in Zhongshu for half a year. He seems to serve His Majesty, but King Zhao often goes to him. If he really serves King Zhao, then But it's tricky."

"The prince met with foreign ministers in private, and His Majesty saw it but just ignored it. This is not partiality or something. I think he just wants to pass the throne to Zhao Wang, a concubine, and use this palace as a stepping stone!"

"King Zhao is vicious and vicious. If I sit and wait to die, sooner or later I will die without a place to bury myself."

"Your Highness?" Tong Pingzhang stood up in shock, "Your Highness must not act recklessly."

"Don't worry, Weng Weng, I have my own measure."

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Different from the depression in the East Palace because of the death of Emperor Liang, the Palace of King Zhao was peaceful and joyful.

King Zhao led Princess Zhao to sit on the couch, and immediately lay on her side on her lap, "This king never expected to be a father so soon!"

"It's not even born yet, the prince is like this, it's a joke."

King Zhao turned to the attendants on the left and right, "Who dares to laugh at this king?" Then he sat up again, "Your Majesty ordered Taishan to reinstate the princess, do you know?"

"I know, my father sent someone to announce the good news yesterday."

"It's all thanks to him, but..." Zhao Wang got up and walked forward a few steps, looking at the pile of rewards in the room that no one dared to touch, he immediately turned cold, and said with his hands behind his back: "I want to Use these things to prevaricate me?"

Several confidantes of the Zhao Dynasty said: "From today onwards, the concubine will have to arrange other candidates for all the daily life. Even if the things sent by Ouchi are given by His Majesty, our people will test them first, and we will go to receive famous doctors from Tokyo City. King Zhao's residence is here."

"Yes."

Concubine Zhao stood up and said, "Isn't he just a child, why should he be so cautious?"

Zhao Wang turned his head and approached her, held his hands together and said, "You don't know how sinister people's hearts are outside, and you don't know how much blood of relatives is stained in the glory inside."

"Could it be Liangdi's death?" Concubine Zhao looked at King Zhao, "Is it related to the prince?"

"How could it be? Chen's is due to dystocia, but Donggong and I have always been at odds. The crown prince has already hated me, so we must be extremely careful."

Concubine Zhao has been in the mansion all the time, except for the royal banquet that requires the presence of the princess, she seldom goes to even the grand family banquet.

"Ah."

King Zhao hugged him, "But don't worry, since I promised you, I will protect you mother and child."

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Entering the autumn harvest season, some Xiang troops returned home, and the government also let the poor prisoners go home to work for a month. During the autumn harvest, the emperor ordered the prince to go down to the civilians for inspection.

"Why did His Highness bring the concubine out together?"

"Don't you think the East Palace is boring?"

"Does Your Highness feel that home is a boring place?"

"That's not what I meant..." Before the prince could speak, the horses driven by the coachman were frightened and did not listen.

The people in the carriage fell off their seats, the prince climbed up from the pedals, helped the princess up, and said angrily, "How did you drive the car?"

The coachman controlled the horse, quickly got out of the cart, caught a child, dragged him to the side of the cart, knelt down and begged for mercy, and said, "Ah Lang, it's none of Xiaodi's business. Let the horses run wild in fright!"

The prince got out of the car, stared at the children beside the groom, wanted to reprimand loudly, but was dissuaded by the princess who came down with him.

The child still tied his horns, facing threats from the prince and the coachman, he burst into tears in fear.

The princess stepped forward, knelt down and patted his head to comfort him: "Don't be afraid, we are not bad people, what are you doing with bullets at such a young age?"

Seeing the gentle elder sister, the child stopped crying and pointed to a dead tree by the side of the road. There was a bird's nest on the dead tree, and there was an injured bird that hadn't had time to fly away.

The concubine followed suit, frowned slightly, and said to the prince, "Do... the officials have any money?"

Hearing the crown princess calling him by his title, the prince calmed down the anger in his heart, "I never bring money with me when I go out..."

The princess then turned her head and took off the gold hairpin from her head, "Sister, can you exchange the bullets and bullets in your hand with this?"

The child looked at the beautiful gold hairpin in the hand of Wen Wen's elder sister, stared at his round eyes and nodded repeatedly, and very obediently handed over the earthen projectile in his pocket.

"Exchange the golden hairpin for the broken bamboo?"

"Although a bullet is not as lethal as an arrow, it can still scare people. A child of this age is ignorant, so he won't run into others again."

The crown prince took the bullet in the hands of the princess, which was similar to the archery bowstring, except that there was a hemispherical pocket in the middle of the bullet that could hold the bullet.

The prince put the pellets in and drew the bow to shoot the bird on the dead tree.

"Your Highness, don't!"

The projectile that should have been shot deviated from her shout and shot at the branch of the dead tree, which broke.

The prince blinked, looked down at the bomb in his hand, then turned around and helped the princess to get on the carriage again.

"This thing is only the king of Zhao's favorite. He even uses gold to make projectiles, so he can hold the king's grandson in his arms!"

The princess raised the curtain of the car and looked at the people working under the scorching sun on both sides of the dirt road, "Hunger and cold, chasing gold pills!"

"After the great cause, the war ceased, and the people were able to rest. It was a famine in the north in the early years of Jianping, which caused a large number of victims to flood into the city of Tokyo. That's why His Majesty canceled his plan to conquer the Xia Kingdom."

"If I can be king, I will let this extravagant wind go away!"

At the end of the eighth year of Jianping, the emperor issued an edict to set up the central palace, announced it to all officials, announced it at home and abroad, ordered the Taishi Bureau to divination auspicious days, and scheduled a grand ceremony for the establishment of the Empress in the spring of the following year.

The imperial edict was read out in public at the Xuande Tower on the winter solstice. At the same time, the Tongjin Division under the Mingmen issued the document and sent it to various places urgently.

After Li's rumors were finally nailed and hammered, it became an unchangeable fact. When the imperial edict was issued, there were no voices of doubt.

In addition, the Menxia Province issued an edict to posthumously confer the posthumous title of Duke of Qin on the late biological father of the Empress, and enshrine Shen Yi'an, the Commander in front of the palace, to the Duke of Jiangyin.

For one month in a row, the city of Tokyo has been raining and raining non-stop. The roads are covered with rain, and the horseshoes splash out on the accumulated water. In the East Palace, the Crown Prince is sitting on pins and needles.

"Your Highness, the spies from Prince Zhao's Mansion have come to report that Princess Zhao basically does not go out, and the Palace is so heavily guarded that even a sparrow cannot fly in, but it will be Zhengdan soon, and the grand banquet in the palace..."

"Are your brains squeezed by the door?" The prince glared angrily, "You dare to do things at the royal banquet in Da Nei, and you lost a few heads!"

The guard lowered his head, and then whispered: "However, people in the Earl of Shanyin's mansion said that Uncle Shanyin has always loved this granddaughter. Presumably Princess Zhao is very concerned about Uncle Shanyin, and Uncle Shanyin is about to pass his birthday. ..."

The crown prince turned his head, "This, I forgot, Li Xiaoyi is a powerful man, but his father is still a gentleman!"

The guard took out another small yellow ball from his pocket, "They also picked this up by the outer wall of the palace."

The prince glanced at it lightly, and waved his hand disapprovingly, "It's really the same as Han Wangsun, suffering from hunger and cold, chasing gold pills, this gold rewards you."

"Thanks..."

Jin Wan flashed past, "Wait!" The prince approached repentantly, reached out and snatched the ball that the guard was about to stuff into his arms, "Go to Zhan Shifu to collect the reward."

"Thank you, Your Highness!"

The prince put away the ball, raised his hands and walked into the bedroom in the hall.

The nanny in the room was sent away by him long before the guards entered. The child who was a few months old gradually became fair, and his eyebrows and eyes looked very much like his biological mother. The prince squatted beside the bamboo basket and said coldly: " It is not a gentleman not to take this revenge!"