Li Qiaohui saw that Li Yao was interested, and she didn't hide it, so she started talking about the situation of the royal family.

"Emperor Gaozu of the Great Zhou Dynasty was the king of Zhou in the previous dynasty, and after Emperor Gaozu was called emperor, he changed the name of the country to the Great Zhou, which has been nearly two hundred years, during which thirteen emperors have been replaced. The current emperor succeeded to the throne at the age of twenty-nine, and now it has been ten years. ”

"He succeeded to the throne at the age of twenty-nine, so the emperor was still very young when he succeeded to the throne?" Li Yao looked at Li Qiaohui with wide eyes.

She remembered that Li Qiaohui mentioned the age of the Empress Dowager when she died, and when the Empress Dowager died, she was seventy years old, which can be regarded as an advanced age in ancient times.

If the first queen mother is still alive now, then there should be seventy-five or sixteen, the age of the first emperor can not be younger than the first queen mother, counting the current emperor is only thirty-nine years old, then the current emperor and the first emperor, the age difference is thirty or forty years old, the first emperor can not have a son, or the successor is the emperor's old son?

Li Yao remembered that in ancient times, the royal family and even the big family valued the eldest very much, if the prince in front of him was not a big problem, it should not be the turn of such a young son to succeed to the throne.

Li Qiaohui looked at Li Yao's expression, and could guess two points of Li Yao's thoughts, so she said: "The current emperor is the fifteenth prince of the previous emperor, and he was born to a small palace concubine at that time. It is said that the first emperor also had high hopes for this son-in-law, but the first queen mother's sister-in-law had an accident when he went to the martial arts arena with the emperor at the age of fourteen and died on the spot. The first queen mother lost her son-in-law, and she was depressed for a long time, and the first emperor saw that the first queen mother was becoming more and more depressed, and he couldn't bear it, so he hugged the fifteenth prince who had just been born in the palace at that time to the palace of the first queen mother. After the first queen mother had fifteen princes, she really transferred her feelings for her sister-in-law to the fifteen princes, and the fifteen princes at that time also became the most favored princes in the palace, which gave the emperor a chance later. ”

Li Yao was stunned when she heard this, she didn't expect there to be such a tortuous thing.

Today's emperor is also fateful, if he has been raising his mother, a small palace concubine is afraid that it is unlikely to help his son get the throne, and the accident of the third prince back then, I don't know if it was a real accident or a fake accident, Li Yao, who has watched too many palace fighting dramas, always feels that there may be some conspiracy in this.

"I didn't experience anything back then, when I went to serve the Empress Dowager, the current emperors are all adults, and when I left the palace, the emperor also had more than ten little princes." Li Qiaohui saw Li Yao's frowning thoughtful appearance, and always felt that she was thinking about something serious, and couldn't help but be a little funny.

Li Yao's eyes widened again when Li Qiaohui was shocked, and he counted with his fingers, the current emperor is only thirty-nine years old, and when Aunt Li left the palace, the emperor should have been only thirty-five years old, and there would be more than a dozen little princes at that time, if you count the princess, I don't know how many children there are.

This emperor is really alive.

"However, there are a few little princes who have a bad life, so they went early, and when I left the palace, only seven of the emperor's fourteen princes were alive." Li Qiaohui sighed a little.

"Huh? The survival rate of this little prince is too low, right? Li Yao was shocked again.

It stands to reason that although the survival rate of children in this ancient period is low, in the palace, the medical configuration is definitely the best place today, and the prince has a noble status, so he has to have a higher survival rate than ordinary children, but according to Aunt Li, half of these princes are dead, which is worse than the survival rate of children from poor families, and Li Qiaohui has been out of the palace for four years, and the princes in the palace don't know if there are few.

The palace is really not a place for people to stay, Li Yao secretly came to a conclusion.