CHAPTER XIX
It sticks to the wall of the bath plank, and it is slightly cool. I curled up in the corner with my legs crossed, and slowly opened my eyes, looking at the world around me that seemed to be taken for granted, and I felt a sense of detachment in my heart. It's not where I'm supposed to be.
At that time, though, I was prepared for the dangers that would come. But it's only when you actually go through it that you know how hard it can be.
Since that day, I've been observing my surroundings carefully, listening to all kinds of information, and growing up unscrupulously.
Gradually, I also had a general understanding of this strange world. Although I have been to very few places here, I have a general understanding of the human customs and geography of the world.
In the gorgeous Dayue Palace, I am one of them, and it is important to say that it is important, and it is not important to say that it is not important.
Here, I am Mo Beichen, the second prince of the Dayue Dynasty, and my mother died in childbirth when she gave birth to me. And an hour after I was born, I was made the crown prince by my father, the emperor of the dynasty, Mo Junyan.
I also have an eldest brother named Mo Dongyan, who is the eldest prince, but he is not born to the emperor himself, but the only son of the emperor's brother King Qingri, who died early. The young death of the couple left behind this son. The emperor remembered that he had no father or mother, so he adopted him as his eldest son. Since he was not born to the emperor, according to the rules of his ancestors, he could not be crowned prince.
Concubine Yi is the emperor's favorite concubine, she is now pregnant with the dragon species in her belly, that is, the later third prince Mo Xiyu, who is only one year younger than me, in fact, she is only more than three months away. I was born in late winter, and he was born in early spring. Two years later, when I was three years old and Mo Xiyu was two years old, Concubine Yi gave birth to another son, the fourth prince Mo Nanhuan. He was born on the same day as the emperor, so he was extremely favored. Later, when the four princes were full moon, Concubine Yi was named queen. It's a pity that less than three years later, she died of a serious illness.
In addition to having four sons, the emperor also had two princesses. One was the same age as me, Mo Xinfei, and I got married when I was seventeen years old. One is now only seven years old, named Mo Xinjie, the youngest child of the emperor, and her mother is now the most favored Hua Guifei. I've only seen the two princesses a few times, and I'm not familiar with them at all.
And on the day I was born, the person who wanted to kill me was Emperor Shiyan Mo Junyan, my biological father. The other person I saw was "Jinghou" Xia Lingran. He and the emperor are cousins, and if you think about it, he is still my cousin. Later, when I was six years old, he became my wife. Actually, there are many more of his identities, but it's really a bit troublesome to talk about it carefully.
My mother, who died in childbirth, I only know her name is Concubine Jing, the emperor's first empress. The rest is hard to tell. Because everything about her is taboo in the palace. In the first few months after her death, the people who talked about her behind her back would inexplicably evaporate from this world in a short time. Gradually, no one talked about her, and all her things were wiped out in the palace, except for one thing, and that was me.
Not only in the palace, but no one in the court dared to mention Concubine Jing, or should it be Queen Jing. The queen's maiden family, the Jiang family, was second only to the Xiahou family at that time, but unfortunately after the queen's death, they lost a big backer. In less than a year, a large family that was originally deeply favored by the saint was released by the emperor in various names, and in the end, only a tree fell and scattered. Now, in the Dayue Dynasty, few people mention it anymore, and the descendants of the Jiang family are basically difficult to see their traces.
Some people in the court secretly speculated that because they were afraid of being implicated by the queen, most of them either chose to change their names and surnames, or live in seclusion and ignore court affairs in order to save their lives.
Most of the ministers and scholars who are good friends with the Jiang family in the DPRK and China are wise enough to protect themselves. Anyone with a heart knows that the good days of the Jiang family have come to an end. The emperor's means, no one can cope. Although the son of Empress Jing was named the crown prince, he couldn't get anything back. Moreover, judging from the situation in the palace these days, Queen Jing, who died early, is probably already a mud bodhisattva, and the people involved with her will not end well.
These things happened in the first year of my life. The loss of power of the queen and the Jiang family is obvious to all. However, no one knows what the reason is. All kinds of speculations came unexpectedly, but under the authority of the emperor, no one said anything.
Even if I went to investigate the relevant information of Concubine Jing and the Jiang family later, I only found a few records of the royal family, and the rest of the content, no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't find anything.
It can be seen that the power manipulated by the emperor is unpredictable. In just a dozen years, the things that everyone knew at that time could be sunk into the sea, and no news could be obtained again.