Chapter 4 The Twenty-Seven Princes
It is also at this critical point in time that in the palace, it will gradually be divided into several groups of people, and each prince will be established together.
In the future, as time goes by, each prince will be able to see the overall situation, and basically two groups of people will gradually form.
One wave is to take the second prince as the main force, and wants to re-promote the second prince and let the first emperor make him the crown prince, after all, he has this ability.
As the first prince of the first emperor, the first emperor naturally favored the second prince, even though his background may not be recognized.
can rely on the favor of the first emperor before him, and the power of the second prince in the imperial city, which should not be underestimated at all.
Naturally, he became the best choice for the crown prince, even if he may not be justified in the eyes of outsiders, but this is not a problem.
You must know that the first emperor was also a human being, and he also grew up watching various princes. From childhood to adulthood, in the process of growing up, each prince has encountered some problems, how they have solved them, and what problems they have that cannot be ignored.
Maybe the princes have some understanding of these false surface brothers around them, but after all, they are only one-sided.
Only the first emperor knows best, he witnessed the process of their growth, the character of each person, the way they behaved and the habits.
This also caused the second prince, as the eldest son of the first emperor, to naturally have various tilts in resources, and no one dared to object.
This is a very normal thing, but this does not mean that the first emperor will definitely choose the second prince and make the second prince the crown prince, not necessarily.
Even if the second prince himself is very good, it can be said that he stands out among the princes, but he is very cruel by nature.
It can even be said to be full of violence, what the second prince wants to get, he will definitely not give up easily, let alone others.
You must know that if the first emperor really intended to make the second prince the crown prince, it would be impossible to drag it on for so many years, just not admit it.
At the same time, he insisted on this point, which is a little incomprehensible, but the second prince is not an idler.
and the second prince with patience, willing to wait until the day when the first emperor crowned himself the crown prince, even if it would not be so.
The second prince also has a way, and the big deal is to get rid of all the other princes who may become the crown prince behind their backs.
This is also why Ivan is obviously not in the scope of the competition for the crown prince, but he was hunted down, and the second prince is not a fuel-efficient lamp.
You must know that if all the princes of the first emperor are dead, and only the second prince is left, then the position of the crown prince will belong to him.
From childhood to adulthood, the second prince, as the oldest among many princes, naturally has a certain prestige among brothers.
The princes of all walks of life are also people who look at their faces and the situation, and it is impossible to choose a side casually, it is a life-threatening thing.
You must find the one that you feel is the most suitable, the one with the greatest possibility, and the one who is most likely to become the prince.
And the second prince is the one who everyone thinks is the most likely among the many princes, which no one can argue.
But even so, it doesn't mean that the second prince must not have any threat, and there must be other reasons for not becoming the prince.
You must know that there are three thousand beauties in the harem, and the first emperor must have different degrees of love for each concubine, which is understandable.
But from ancient times to the present, there must have been only one strange woman who could go to the position of queen, or the queen during the reign of the first emperor.
And the son of this strange woman is the Seventh Prince, which has caused the biggest disagreement in the imperial city about the choice of the crown prince.
The second prince was not born to the queen, but was born by the first concubine to give birth to a prince among the many concubines, so it can be regarded as a concubine.
After all, the concubine is a concubine, how can the position be comparable to the queen. Even if the first prince is born, at most he will be promoted to the imperial concubine. The position of queen is a hurdle that other women will always covet, but it is difficult to reach or surpass.
It's just that the queen's health has been poor before, and for some reason it is difficult to conceive the emperor's heir, which makes some concubines take the lead.
And the one who walked in front of the queen, that is, the one who shot the first bird, is the mother of the second prince, and her identity is a lot more noble after all.
But you must know that in the imperial city with a heavily guarded system, even if you are the first prince to be born, you can't decide anything.
As long as he is not the eldest son, it can only be said that he is the first to add blood to the royal family, and what comes out of the concubine is what comes out of the concubine, and he is inferior.
It will never be as high as the status of the heir, which is why the second prince has been deeply wanting to change over the years.
Even if the second prince is the oldest, in the imperial city, the first emperor has never put too much power or military strength on him.
Most of the time, he is reluctant to let go, or he is handed over to the seventh prince who was born in the future, and the eldest son can rest assured.
This is the gap, when the emperor is the emperor, he naturally understands that only the queen is married by the Ming media, and her status is the most noble.
As the mother of a country, she is naturally the mother of the world, and the other concubines are nothing more than the first emperor himself who moved at will in the future.
But none of them can shake the queen's status as the master of the harem, this is a very serious issue, and no emperor is willing to challenge.
The first emperor naturally understood what this was all about, and as soon as the seventh prince was born, the resources of the first emperor were tilted again.
Almost all of what the Seven Princes could get was the best that could be found in the Imperial City, which made the other princes very jealous.
It's just that there is a gap of several years between the second prince and the seventh prince, and the difference between the two is several years in age, and there is a slight estrangement.
This also leads to the fact that even if the resources are tilted, the second prince has already been sensible, learned to read people's faces, and will no longer suffer losses.
knows how to mobilize these relationships that he can use in secret, after all, he is the prince born by the concubine, and the second prince has been calculating how to make himself the crown prince since he was born, inheriting the mantle of the first emperor and the country, and not giving it to others.
And the mother of the second prince also has the courage of a bear and a leopard, and she wants the second prince to become the next emperor, so that she can be justified.
After all, only the emperor's biological mother can become the queen mother in people's mouths, and if it is separated by a little, it always feels a little worse.
This is the most important point, and it is also the point that the second prince has been instilled by others since birth, the son of the concubine naturally has the means.
The second prince deeply understands the importance of this, both for himself and for the queen mother. So over the years, he has been committed to opening up the relationship between various bureaucratic predecessors and those in charge of the military in the palace, which are the embodiment of his soft and hard power.
These are the people who will play a very key role in the future for the second prince, and they have to be all handled well.
When you want to compete for the crown prince in the future, you will definitely be able to come in handy.