Chapter 63: The Prince
Emperor Zhengxi came out this time, not alone, but brought out his eldest son and sister-in-law Yao'er, the reason for which is: Although he grew up in the deep palace, he couldn't be ignorant of the suffering of the world, so he took him out for a long time. From these words, it can be seen that although Emperor Zhengxi does not currently have Yao'er as the crown prince, he is cultivating him as a future emperor in his heart.
Therefore, since he left Beijing, everywhere he went, Emperor Zhengxi would explain to him about the people's livelihood and the governance of officials in combination with the local situation. At this time, he was analyzing the situation in the Jinling officialdom brought by the secret guard to Yao'er, and King Fujun was listening to a lively scene. In fact, the reason why King Fujun came to listen to this was not because he wanted to learn anything from it, but because he wanted to know some of Emperor Zhengxi's governing strategies, after all, he was going to eat under him, what did the big guy think, he knew a little more, so that he could follow the big guy.
“…… This Zhen family is the maternal grandfather of your Fifth Emperor Uncle. I can't touch him for now, but sooner or later I'll get rid of him, so I don't need to pay attention to him. When it came to the Zhen family in Jinling, Emperor Zhengxi thought of Concubine Zhen in the palace and the fifth brother outside the palace, and his brows couldn't help but lock tightly together, with a look of disgust.
Yao'er saw that he didn't like the Zhen family, but he didn't obey obediently, but objected: "Father, you taught me before: As a monarch, you can't decide the future of officials based on personal likes and dislikes. Then you don't like the Zhen family and want to deal with the Zhen family, is it based on your personal likes and dislikes? If that's the case, then it's not right for you to do so. ”
Emperor Zhengxi touched his son's head appreciatively and said, "What you say is reasonable." But I don't like the Zhen family, because what the Zhen family did in Jinling is not good for the people and the country, and Zhen Tiren is average, he can't even do his job well, and the reason why he can achieve his current position is completely because his mother is the emperor's nurse, and his daughter is Zhen Guifei. However, he is restless, not only does he expect his family to be rich and permanent, but he is also disloyal and unjust, both ends of the story. Therefore, it is not a good thing to let him continue to be an official. ”
As for why Emperor Zhengxi couldn't deal with Zhen Tiren immediately, most of the reasons for this were on Emperor Taishang, although Yao'er was young, she also knew this, so she didn't ask any further.
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After finishing today's prince's education, Yao'er turned her gaze to King Fujun and smiled sweetly: "Uncle Nineteen, I heard that you were fishing on the deck yesterday, is it fun?" If you go fishing in the future, can you bring Yao'er with you? ”
King Fujun shook his head and refused with a smile: "Your nineteenth uncle and I, I just want to play one thing all day long, and the things I played yesterday have very few possibilities to touch in the future, if you are interested, give me an order, and let the guards take you to play." ”
was rejected again, although Yao'er was ready in her heart, she still sighed inevitably in her heart, and immediately cleaned up the lost clarity and continued to put on a smiling face.
King Fujun saw that Yao'er didn't hide her mood changes because of her age, and he sighed in his heart, and raised Yao'er's danger to a level again.
Although on this trip, Emperor Zhengxi took Yao'er with him, but on the way, in the face of Yao'er's overtures and affection, King Fujun refused, for him, it was completely an ordinary uncle and nephew's attitude, and he had no intention of building a good relationship with Yao'er, except because the other party is not very old at the moment, and he is getting closer, from this stage, it will be beneficial to the other party for a long time, and he not only does not get any benefits, and may even be considered a team, but also because King Fujun does not want to be contaminated with the trouble of "seizing the heir".
Although King Fujun is young, he has never seen the appearance of the Emperor Taishang getting along with the abolished prince who was posthumously named Prince Yizhong when he was a child, but it does not mean that he has not heard of it. It is said that when the Emperor Taishang saw the abolished prince at that time, he simply regarded him as an eyeball, not only ate and lived with him, but even held the abolished prince in his arms when discussing politics; The affairs around the abolished prince are all personally inquired about, and the vastly different attitudes towards the abolished prince and other sons seem to make people feel that only the abolished prince is his own, or that he only has such a son as the abolished prince.
But a father and son who were once so close finally turned into almost enemies, fighting each other, and the abolished prince finally committed suicide. Yes, the abolished prince committed suicide because he failed to rebel, but why did he commit suicide? And why did they rebel? Isn't it too much for the emperor? If it weren't for the fact that the Emperor Taishang had the righteousness of abolishing the crown prince and the abolished prince could successfully inherit the throne, why wouldn't he think about it and rebel? It is said that the reason why the abolished prince was removed from the crown prince was because of his own lack of virtue and because other princes coveted the crown prince.
But let King Fujun say that the root of this matter must be found in the Emperor Taishang after all. Because, the contradiction between the emperor and the abolished prince is actually a struggle for imperial power, that is, there is a power struggle between the emperor and the crown prince. When the crown prince was young, this situation was not obvious; But as the crown prince grew older and the emperor who sat on the throne grew old, the struggle for imperial power between the two men began. And this kind of power struggle is very cruel, and almost all of them end in life and death. This is also the reason why in history, there are very few princes who have been crowned crown princes who can smoothly take over the throne.
Therefore, this is also an important reason why King Fujun does not want to get close to Yao'er. At this time, his sixth brother is really good to Yao'er's son, and he really wants to train him as an heir and pass the throne to him, who knows what will happen in the future? You must know that Yao'er's several half-brothers are not much different in age from him, who knows if they will continue to stage a drama of the battle for the heir of the prince under the emperor's knees in the early years?