Although the current emperor is still in his prime, but since the death of the Yuan Hou Li Shixu, the emperor's body has suddenly been much worse than before, although it will not linger on the sickbed, but occasionally there will be some powerlessness in political affairs, which is also one of the reasons why Prime Minister Wang Cheng has been sitting big when he came in. And then the son of the Wang family, the fourth prince Chu Chenzhao, is sixteen years old this year, and the age is not too young, but the emperor has not given any good opportunities, so he has not accumulated any merits, the second prince and the third prince above the four princes died as early as three years old and seven years old, and now there are only two princes in the palace, Chu Chenxuan, the crown prince and the fourth son, Chu Chenzhao.

Speaking of which, after the death of Empress Yuan, the emperor has been lacking in interest in the harem, so that since the twelfth year of Ruikang, there is no son in the palace to land, which also makes the emperor have only two sons and two daughters: Chu Chenxuan, the prince of the queen Yuan, Chu Chenzhao, the fourth prince of the queen, Chu Chenjing, the princess of Minjing, Princess Minjing, Princess Minjing is sixteen years old this year, and after the princess Minjing was crowned at the ceremony last year, she married the prince of Wu Guogong, and the second princess Chu Chenmiao from Liu Jieyu, the princesses of the Tianchu Dynasty were all crowned with honorific titles on the ceremony. Therefore, the second princess who is eleven years old has not yet been titled.

Compared with the previous emperors in the history of the Tianchu Dynasty, the emperor's heirs can be said to be extremely thin.

And now the prince is such a bastard to the outside world, whether the emperor knows the truth or not, the ministers are still a little chilled by His Royal Highness the prince, if it weren't for the fact that the fourth son of the emperor has no achievements that can convince people, maybe the twists and turns of the abolished prince would have been flying all over the sky. However, the Wang family is getting bigger and bigger, and although Prime Minister Wang's ambition is not known to everyone in Sima Zhao's heart, it is also something that many courtiers know. Although the prince's grandfather An Guogong is a close minister of the first emperor, and his merits are world-famous, but although An Guogong was born as a military general, he is not a reckless person, in order not to be a person who has high merit and shock, An Guogong asked for resignation as early as ten years ago from the post of general protector, returned the tiger charm, and only retained the title of An Guogong, and made a pilgrimage to the emperor on the fifteenth day of each month.

Therefore, if the crown prince succeeds to the throne, then the Tianchu Dynasty will still be surnamed Chu, but if the four princes ascend to the throne, it will be difficult to say with the current shili of the Wang family.

This is one of the reasons why the emperor never mentioned the abolition of the crown prince.

And the matter of the Hanlin bachelor's full-time drafting of the edict, if he is accidentally mixed in by the people of the Wang family, maybe once the emperor dies in the future, there will be some messy "edict" out, even if this year's Jinshi seems to have nothing to do with the Wang family on the surface, but with the old plan of Prime Minister Wang, who knows if this is really the case in secret?

Thinking about this, Ye Qing also understood his brother's current situation. If my brother enters the Hanlin Academy, with my brother's means, he will naturally have a bright future in the future, and it is unlimited. But if you do the Hanlin worship, it will be a lifetime of nobility, but there is nothing to do - for hundreds of years in the Tianchu Dynasty, most of the Hanlin Yuan worship in the Hanlin Academy has been eating and waiting for death in the Hanlin Academy for a lifetime, although the official position is good, but there is no real power and room for growth, except for the luck to do some books to compile the famous history, there is almost no great achievement.

Thinking of this, Ye Qing's mind flashed with inspiration, and he suddenly found that he seemed to have overlooked something important!