Chapter 128 Leisurely Concubine Prince
Shuhua Palace is beautiful and rich, with the details arranged just right, warm and noble, just like the feeling that the imperial concubine gives people.
But she was always more kind than majestic in front of her only son.
Heng Yu wanted that position before, and the Imperial Concubine secretly took action many times, so that after hearing Heng Yu's attitude changed by 180 degrees, she was shocked and lost her manners.
Heng Yu knew what the imperial concubine’s weakness was. He made a light statement, “The father’s body has been not very comfortable recently. The imperial physician said that he should let the father rest at ease and not get angry at will.”
With all kinds of favors and many indulgences, the imperial concubine did not have feelings for Emperor Jingyuan.
Compared to the shock and anger of the imperial concubine, Heng Yu herself was very calm. She picked up the teacup and drank it and then continued: "The father had already had many disputes with the cabinet over the past few days because of his second uncle's affairs. It was just granting an official to the Jiang family, so it had already made such a big deal. What a great thing it was to become a crown prince? I was not right when there was a virtuous prince in front of me. My mother wanted to argue with the cabinet. When my father left one day, I would fight with the third brother, and finally my brothers were in a turmoil. Will the country be in a civil strife?"
After a pause, he gave the imperial concubine enough time to think, Heng Yu continued: "And the biggest reason is that I suddenly don't want that position. In recent days, I have been studying hard and I can't stand it. But when I sit in that position, I shoulder so many responsibilities and work hard every day, how can I steal half a day of leisure?"
"I used to think badly, but I only thought about the benefits, but I didn't see the disadvantages clearly."
Regarding the change in his attitude, Heng Yu gave the imperial concubine a reasonable explanation.
He spoke bluntly and calmly. The imperial concubine looked at Hengyu, but for a moment she lost her words.
After a while, she sat up straight again, sorted out the wrinkles that had been pulled out due to the movement just now, and returned to the noble and dignified imperial concubine. "You don't want to be the emperor, but the Jiang family needs you, your father wants you to be. After so many years of fighting, so many people have been involved. You are in the middle of the whirlpool. How do you want to retreat, how do you want to retreat?"
The Imperial Concubine also expressed Heng Yu's current situation in a very calm tone.
A dilemma is his current situation.
Many things are not something you can do if you don’t want to. It is tied to the interests of many people. If he wants to retreat, will those people let him retreat?
They will carry him and move forward all the way.
But in Heng Yu's opinion, other people's will never shake his choice.
"Jiang Family..." Heng Yu also sat upright with the imperial concubine, chuckling, with unconcealed contempt in his words.
"The Jiang family used their position to plunder how much wealth and how many disasters they did. If I ascend to the throne and become emperor, I will settle the Jiang family. Mother's mother will ask her two uncles again, and now she is willing to be the future crown prince?"
The original body was very contemptuous to the Jiang family who were arrogant in front of outsiders and flattering him and the imperial concubine. Heng Yu's attitude now showed did not surprise the imperial concubine.
"What kind of kindness does the Jiang family have to their mother?" Heng Yu filled a cup of tea for the imperial concubine and handed her the tea. After she moistened her throat and calmed down, she continued to say the following words.
"Now that grandmother has no kindness to her mother. When her mother was young, the Jiang family did not take care of her much, but instead treated her very harshly. You entered the palace when your two uncles were young, so how close can you be to them? Isn't it enough to repay the wealth and honor of these years?"
The Imperial Concubine was the daughter of Jiang's original wife. Her biological mother died shortly after giving birth to her. Later, Jiang's father continued to marry her. Her stepmother was very harsh on the young Imperial Concubine. Jiang's father didn't like this daughter. When she reached the age of entering the palace to be selected, she sent her to the palace to be a palace maid.
Later, she climbed up step by step, from beauty to Liangyi to Ronghua, and then to the position of imperial concubine. His Majesty gave kindness to the Jiang family. Since then, the Jiang family began to hold her, say some nice words, and find some nice excuses to shirk away the harshness of the past.
The ancients always attached great importance to clans, so although the imperial concubine could not stand the face of the Jiang family, she never obstructed their Qingyun Road.
But in fact, except for the blood bondage, the Jiang family has no much friendship to talk about.
The imperial concubine was probably a little tired, leaning against the soft collapse and sighed softly: "After all, it is your grandfather's family. If the Jiang family falls, where can you and me be better able to see your face?"
What I care about in the words is only her and Heng Yu's face, not the survival of the Jiang family.
It seems that his mother is already dissatisfied with the ugly appearance of the Jiang family over the years.
"The Jiang family has collapsed, and the mother will be the most noble woman in the Daqing Dynasty in the future." Heng Yu's words mean something else.
The most noble woman in the Daqing Dynasty was not the imperial concubine, but the empress, empress dowager, and empress dowager.
The imperial concubine frowned. Maybe she hadn't had a heart-to-heart talk with her son like this for a long time. For a while, she didn't keep up with Heng Yu's thoughts. She raised her body and asked, "Didn't you say you didn't intend to have that position? Then where did you start?"
"The turmoil has subsided, and soon the third emperor's brother will return to the court. The father doesn't like the queen, and he keeps taking his anger on the third emperor's brother because of me. The mother must say more good things for the third emperor. The third emperor is a soft-hearted person and will definitely be grateful to the mother's kindness. After all, if you really want to count it, the mother never regrets him."
The third prince was still young, and the empress's mother clan was killed because of the troubles of the vassal kings. The empress finally died of depression in Fengyi Palace and could not blame others.
At that time, the third prince was in a worrying situation. The imperial concubine took charge of the harem. After learning about the negligence of the people below, she harshly attacked it. The third prince's situation gradually improved. Later, he left the palace and made contributions, and then he gained a foothold step by step.
It has to be said that the imperial concubine was able to climb from a palace maid to the current position of the first-class imperial concubine, which was really amazing, and there were very few misses in details. What can be done and what can’t be done? She has always grasped the right measure here very well.
She never adds fuel to the matter of the third prince and involves herself. Occasionally, she will give some small favors within her ability.
That's why Heng Yu was able to persuade the Imperial Concubine.
Of course, the most important thing about exhorting the Imperial Concubine is actually because she also knows that Heng Yu's identity will definitely not receive support from the cabinet.
——The cabinet and the emperor are separated, and the voices are getting heavier and louder. Their lack of support is the biggest obstacle.
If Heng Yu wanted that position in the past, she would naturally compete for her son.
Now her prince realized the responsibilities that she needed to bear in that lofty position and did not want to take that position anymore. The imperial concubine could continue to maintain her noble status, so she would not fight to the death and let Heng Yu fight for that position.
Although that position is noble, the responsibilities you have to shoulder are not easy.
The descendants of the royal family have no real pleasure. If Heng Yu really doesn't want to be involved in the battle for the throne again, it would be great if he wants to live his life happily.
After listening to Heng Yu's words, the imperial concubine nodded slightly and said that she had written it down.
However, she still warned Heng Yu, "Your third prince's attitude towards you and me will continue to know that if he has resentment towards you and me, no matter what the ending is, the mother will definitely make you fight."
If you don’t fight, you will have a dead end. In that case, only by fighting can you gain a way out.
Heng Yu nodded, not refuting the words of the Imperial Concubine.
Not long after Heng Yu left Shuhua Palace, the imperial concubine waved her great palace maid Zijin and asked her to come forward, "Go and find out who Yu'er has come into contact with and what she has done during this period."
Zijin bowed and stepped down. The imperial concubine slowly stood up from the soft collapse. Thinking about the conversation with Heng Yu, her eyes fell on nothing, and sighed softly, "It's good if you don't fight. I'm sorry, you have been kind to me back then, but I couldn't save you when you were in trouble. Because of Yu'er, I only helped the third prince in small matters. Now that Yu'er is not fighting, I will help your son to get to that position with Yu'er."
When she was talking to herself, she unconsciously brought honorific words to call Queen Xiao of that year.
In the evening, news was already coming back to Jiang Mansion.
Jiang Ren smashed his favorite set of tea sets on the spot, looked up at his elder brother Jiang Li, and gritted his teeth and asked, "Brother, what do you mean by Yu'er? I am his uncle. If I became the Yan Yan Censor, would I lose his benefits!"
Jiang Li's eyes sank, feeling that he could not understand Heng Yu's deep meaning. But he was not as angry as Jiang Ren, and just sat there and drank tea quietly. After Jiang Ren gradually calmed down, he put the teacup and said lightly: "Yu'er has never been close to you and me, so let's go and invite my mother to the palace."
The next day, Heng Yu was in a bad mood, so he decided to go to the study room to take a class from Xiao Hongyun, the Hanlin Academy.
During class, Heng Yu was distracted, but suddenly felt that his eyes were falling on him. He looked up and happened to meet Xiao Zhangyuan's gaze that had not had time to move away.
Heng Yu: "..."
Xiao Zhangyuan comes from Hanlin Academy and is a great Confucian scholar of the generation, so he is a firm supporter of the inheritance system of the eldest son. He naturally will not like Heng Yu, who is favored by Emperor Jingyuan, and has never given Heng Yu a good face.
Didn’t Xiao Palm Academy ignore him all the time before? Why do you seem to pay attention to him today?
Finally, when Xiao Zhangyuan, who had never called his name, asked him to answer the question, Heng Yu was sure that Xiao Zhangyuan was paying close attention to him, this matter must not be his illusion.
"I talked about "Zuo Zhuan" the day before yesterday. Your Highness the Eighth Prince will memorize "Zheng Boke Duan Yuyan" again." Xiao Hongyun stroked his neatly-tight beard, as if he was squeezing his back casually.
If the chapter he chose was not "Zheng Boke Duan Yuyan".
This story, to sum up, is an idiom - brothers' walls.
Heng Yu thought, no wonder Xiao Zhangyuan paid so much attention to him today.
The Hanlin Academy must enter the cabinet and be one of the cabinet masters. I think Emperor Jingyuan has summoned all the cabinet ministers and said that he no longer insisted on letting Jiang Ren be the Censor of the Jiangnan Salt Censor, but instead clicked a person on the list submitted by the cabinet to serve as the Censor of the Jiangnan Salt Censor.
Xiao Zhangyuan didn't know what was going on, but guessed that this matter had something to do with him.
Xiao Zhangyuan probably thought that he was a child and could teach him well, so he decided to teach him well, let him abide by the ancestral system and not have any brothers' slurs.
Heng Yu was not interested in the brothers' fight, but the child could teach him something...
The next day, when it was time to go to the study room for class, Heng Yu decisively did not go and stayed in his palace to see the new storybook that the person below had just presented to him.
Let Xiao Zhangyuan continue to think that he is unteachable.
In the study room, Xiao Zhangyuan looked at the third empty position on the far right, and his old face turned cold. He felt that the various cultivation regulations he had listed yesterday had become waste paper in an instant...
Sure enough, the child can teach everything, it is all his illusion!
Xiao Zhanyuan vomited an old blood, either swallowed it or did he. Finally, he lit up the other princes in the study and recited the letter. At the same time, he scolded Heng Yu in his heart.
Chapter completed!