And all fathers in the world have a common problem. That is his own son, he can beat, he can scold, and even kill himself. But if someone else does it, it will definitely not work. Even if this son is not talented, even if this son is a bastard, it is still his son. Ordinary people are like this, let alone him, the king of a country?

Huang Qiong, who woke up from the shock caused by the death of King Zhao and King Fengcheng County. did not ask the emperor if he had found out who this person was, but said something that surprised the emperor: "Looking at the health city from afar, the small river is haunting against the current." I saw the son kill the father, and then the brother killed the brother. ”

Huang Qiong's sentence is talking about the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the Song, Qi, Liang, and Chen dynasties of the Southern Dynasties, and the royal family fought for status, fathers, sons, and brothers killed each other. Although this metaphor is a bit too harsh, Huang Qiong does not think that this metaphor is inappropriate.

The death of King Zhao and King Fengcheng County, no matter who did it. But if you want to say that you have nothing to do with your brothers, you won't believe Huang Qiong if you kill them. And Huang Qiong is also reminding the emperor in disguise, my brothers have killed several of them, you, the emperor, may not want to do it, there are some things that should be paid attention to.

Sure enough, after Huang Qiong finished speaking, the emperor's face changed. But the emperor with a gloomy face did not answer him immediately, but looked at the main hall of the imperial palace facing the Huangji Gate, which was also the most magnificent Hanyuan Hall in the entire Ziwei City, but did not continue on this topic.

Instead, he changed the topic and brought up some old stories: "Ah Jiu, you are really smart, even smarter than I expected. Your personality is round on the outside and square on the inside, and you always have a bottom line in your heart, knowing what to do and what not to do, and you have lived up to your mother's training for so many years. ”

"But you know what your biggest weakness is? It's a little worse to endure some things. Remember, this may be the greatest weakness of the superiors, and it can also be the most fatal weakness. You must know that even the king of a country is not able to cover the sky with one hand, and there are many things that have to be retreated. ”

"Ah Jiu, do you know what I experienced when I was the prince and the king of Shou? I will tell you today that when I was the prince, Emperor Liezong also made things difficult and suppressed me in every way. It's just because my biological mother is just the wife of a criminal minister who was punished and confiscated in the palace in his eyes. My birth has insulted the noble bloodline of the Heavenly Family. ”

Emperor Liezong? Huang Qiong thought for a while before remembering that this Emperor Liezong was the crown prince of the Sejong Dynasty, and after ascending the throne, he found that his power was on the sidelines. When he tried to regain power, he failed because he did not act secretly. He was deposed by his grandfather as the king of Tong'an County, and was eventually killed in a forbidden place with several sons.

Or himself, the emperor Laozi, after regaining power, retrieved the remains of his hastily buried in Bishan, reburied them in the imperial mausoleum, and posthumously became Emperor Liezong. It's just that Huang Qiong didn't understand it for a while, what is the emperor doing with this past now? Is it a bittersweet memory, or do you want to remind or warn yourself about something through this incident?

Seeing the doubts in Huang Qiong's eyes, the emperor who mentioned the past couldn't help but say with a gloomy expression: "Back then, my biological mother, that is, your imperial grandmother, was the wife of a criminal minister who was punished and confiscated to the harem Huanyi Bureau as a slave. The status is the lowest in the palace, and it is not even as good as an ordinary palace maid, but it is only by chance that Emperor Sejong took a fancy to Lin Xing. ”

"It is said that in the palace, the mother is more expensive than the child, but in fact, the reverse is the same. Is the prince taken seriously, and there won't be a certain relationship with his mother? Your imperial grandmother was a married woman herself, and whether it was for the emperor's favor or not, it was already considered a loss of discipline in the eyes of the world. What's more, is it still the wife of a criminal minister who was confiscated as a slave in the palace? ”

"Although your imperial grandmother was fortunate to be visited by Emperor Sejong and had me, she is still not treated well in this palace. Mother and child were left in the palace, and a dilapidated corner was left to fend for itself. Even a eunuch with a higher rank can be reprimanded at every turn, and we don't take our mother and son seriously. ”

"I still remember that the bedroom where your imperial grandmother lived was not even the window paper. If it rains heavily outside the house, it will rain lightly inside. In winter, the room was damp and cold. If you think of the charcoal for heating, you can give some of it, and if you can't think of it, you and your imperial grandmother can only be frozen. ”

"Every winter, your imperial grandmother is afraid that I will freeze and get sick, so she not only wraps all her clothes around me, but wears only a thin piece of clothing on herself, and is afraid that I will hold me in her arms all day long. Because she knew that if I was sick, no doctor would come and treat me. As a mother, she just wants me to live. Despite my arrival, it was an ordeal for her. ”

"Every day, the meals delivered from the Imperial Dining Room are foolish, and sometimes even rancid. In the dish, not even a single diced meat can be found. During the New Year's holidays, give a little bit of the master who doesn't know the palace, and eat the rest of the meat and vegetables to be regarded as a festival. The clothes you wear are also not worn by others. That's it, I really don't have any clothes, so I give one or two pieces. ”

"Your imperial grandmother, there is not a single garment without patches. Speaking of which, I'm afraid no one will believe it now. When I was seven years old, I didn't even know what new clothes were. It is said that the heavenly family is rich in the world, but there are a few people who know that in this palace, a dignified prince actually grew up drinking rice soup, and he didn't wear clothes without patches before he was ten years old. ”

"The only thing that has changed is that after I was born, your imperial grandmother no longer has to go to the Huanyi Bureau to wash clothes and clean the toilet. People only know that your imperial grandmother is the wife of a criminal who was punished and confiscated into the palace. But who knows, before your imperial grandmother was promised a match, your imperial grandmother was a famous talented woman in the capital. ”

"My grandfather was also an official and a scholar of the Ministry of Rites, and your imperial grandmother was innocently implicated less than a month after marrying into that family. If it weren't for your imperial grandmother, who had been punished and confiscated to the palace for two years when Emperor Sejong was killed, I am afraid that those people would think that I was not Emperor Sejong's own flesh and blood. ”

"My mother has a low status in the palace, and I am naturally not as high as a son. Except for being thrown into that cold, dilapidated courtyard like your imperial grandmother to fend for herself, no one cares at all. When it was time for me to be knighted, I was not knighted at the age of six like other princes, and I didn't even have a proper name. ”

"The other princes went to school at the age of five, and I was not admitted to school until I was eleven years old. This is still a boudoir friend made by your imperial grandmother before she got married, and the later Concubine Chen really can't stand it. He spoke in front of Emperor Sejong and reminded Emperor Sejong that there was such a son. I have a name so that I can go to school. ”

"At that time, it was also thanks to Concubine Chen that the lives of my mother and son changed. Although your imperial grandmother has not been titled, at least with the help of Concubine Chen, her life has changed a little. At least I can eat enough every day, and I have more charcoal for heating in winter. ”

But that's all she can do. She is just a concubine, and she can't do anything about it. When I left the palace at the age of thirteen, according to the custom of the Sejong Dynasty, in addition to the mansion, the prince allocated 30,000 yuan of personal money to each prince from the inner treasury. But do you know how much of these 30,000 guan is left in my hands? It's less than 10,000. ”

"Later, I learned that most of the 30,000 yuan was taken by the crown prince at that time, that is, the later Emperor Liezong, and bought jewelry for his favorite concubine. The rest was divided among the eunuchs in charge of the inner treasury. In my hands, there are only 5,000 pieces left. In the remaining years of the feudal domain's stay in Beijing, I received a full thirty percent less than the other princes. ”

According to the order at that time, the prince went out of the palace to have sixteen eunuchs and sixteen palace maids. When I arrived here, the palace maids naturally did not have them, and only gave them to eight eunuchs who had reached the age and were about to leave the palace. It is this prince of mine, who was originally crowned as the king. It is not the longevity of the later life, but the punishment of the word. ”

"When I became a vassal, the Yongye fields granted by each of the other princes were as few as six thousand mu and as many as ten thousand mu. But when I got here, there were only 3,000 acres of thin fields. Most of them are river flats that have been flooded for nine years in ten years, or mountain fields where grass grows but no grain grows. ”

"There are also a lot of people in this place who tend to be inflammatory, and I am not treated well in the palace. Those officials definitely don't mind falling into the trap. Not counting the anger he suffered in the palace before, this alone is a great humiliation for a prince. But what if I couldn't bear it at that time? ”

"Every year, I could only take a look at Emperor Sejong from a distance during the Thousand Autumn Festival or the New Year. Not only is it the time of the annual Thousand Autumn Festival feast, but I am not eligible to participate. It is the annual family banquet in the palace, and there has always been no share. After kowtowing, you have to go back honestly. ”

"On weekdays, you don't see Emperor Sejong at all. After leaving the palace, there is no chance. The son of a slut is not qualified to face the saints. No one is welcome in the palace, and no one is treated when you leave the palace. My maternal ancestor was implicated and convicted of raiding his home, and the former scholars of the University Water and Rite Ministries have long been a thing of the past. Who can do justice for me? ”

"There is no one in my mother's family, and my father is here, I'm afraid that Emperor Sejong Lian Zhen may not be able to remember who he is. Where did I go to complain and complain? Besides, if I had expressed half of my complaints back then, my bones would have been cold a long time ago, and I could still have today? Emperor Yeejong was deeply favored by Emperor Sejong. Quietly killing me, the prince who is not waiting to be seen, will not even cause a ripple. ”

"I really feel wronged, so I can only find a place where no one is there and cry. Even so, many times I didn't dare to cry. For fear of being heard by someone with a heart, not only will it not solve the dilemma, but it will be even more unlucky. Therefore, I had no other way than to endure back then. It's far worse than you are now. ”

"Back then, your grandfather abolished Emperor Liezong and renamed me as emperor. Except that I don't have any foundation in the court, and I don't have any support from outsiders. It is not unrelated that I left an impression of cowardice on the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty back then. Because of the canon, he is the best to control. ”

"I'm not telling you this today, I don't want to teach you anything, let alone remember the past. I want to tell you that if you want to be a human being, you must first be able to endure what others in this world cannot endure. A knife on the head of the word ninja, even if others throw the dirtiest things in your face, you have to endure it before you have the ability to fight back. ”

"Only when you can bend and stretch, and endure what ordinary people can't bear, can you be a husband. All the ministers of the court and the central government said that my heart is strong, beyond ordinary people. But a few people can know how I could have exercised this will without the tempering of those years of life. Speaking of this, the emperor quietly glanced at Huang Qiong beside him.