When standing outside the Changyun Palace, the sun was setting outside.

Emperor Jing said a little tiredly: "Tell the Imperial Dining Room to take care of Concubine Xiao and cook something she likes to eat, and I see that she likes the peonies in the Imperial Garden, so I asked the people from the Flower and Bird Division to transplant them, and then send the newly obtained shark spirit yarn in the warehouse." ”

"Explain it, ask those people in the palace to come and provoke Concubine Xiao, and the people who sent it to Changyun Hall will also carefully screen some obedient and sensible people, don't make her unhappy."

Feng Liang nodded hurriedly: "Yes, Your Majesty." ”

Emperor Jing led Feng Liang in front, and the imperial chariot was far behind.

When the dusk of the setting sun shrouded him, a generation of emperors couldn't help but feel a little bleak.

Emperor Jing remembered that even if Xiao Guifei deliberately looked cold, he couldn't hide the sudden depression on his face just now, remembered the blood and screams in the house when Xiao Guifei was aborted, and remembered that the imperial doctor said that Xiao Guifei was a male fetus in her womb, and she should have been like Xiao Guifei and called him father and emperor delicately and well-behaved.

Even if the emperor is cold, Emperor Jing can't help but feel a pain in his heart.

He looked up at the afterglow sprinkled in the sky and muttered, "Feng Liang, do you think I did something wrong in the first place?" ”

Feng Liang hesitated for a moment and didn't dare to speak.

Emperor Jing's voice was low: "That child died unjustly, Xiao Guifei shouldn't have suffered it, I could have avenged their mother and son, and stabbed the people who harmed her, but I let them go, although Yuan Yuan didn't say it, but I knew that she was resentful...... "I blame him for not getting justice for their children."

Feng Liang hurriedly whispered: "Your Majesty, don't think so, the noble concubine has always cared about you, and besides, Your Majesty also had your own concerns at the beginning." ”

When Xiao Guifei entered the palace, she was favored by the saints, and she became pregnant again not long after accepting the favor.

Emperor Jing's preference for her is undisguised, and the importance of the child in her womb makes everyone in the harem afraid, especially the concubines who have children, they are all afraid that Xiao Guifei's child will be born safely, and they are even more afraid that the child who is extremely valued by Emperor Jing will be a prince.

Concubines who have children don't want their sons to get a big position, and a few can have no ambitions, and Concubine Xiao and the child in her womb have become stumbling blocks in the eyes of everyone.

Xiao Guifei was assassinated and almost killed in one body, Emperor Jing was furious and called people to investigate strictly, but the Changyun Hall was like a sieve that leaked the wind, and the people who were stuffed into the palaces, the deeper the investigation, the more terrifying the truth became, and the more concubines and princes were involved, and even affected the court.

When the investigation got deeper and deeper along the way, and even found out to Concubine Rong and the queen, and even involved several princes, Emperor Jing suddenly withdrew his hand.

He only ordered someone to kill all the spies in the Changyun Palace, and ordered the beheading of two unimportant concubines, and replaced the people inside and outside the Changyun Palace, and the matter was pressed, and it seemed that the culprit had been caught.

But Feng Liang knew that the person who really harmed Concubine Xiao was still in the palace.

Emperor Jing later promoted Xiao Guifei's status and jumped her from concubine to concubine, which was enough to see him feel guilty.

In the end, because of the affairs of the DPRK and China, because of the trade-offs of all parties, because of the last resort and concessions, he gave up the child in Xiao Guifei's womb that he had been looking forward to.

Emperor Jing remembered the old things, and he felt an irrepressible disgust for some people in the harem: "I heard that Concubine Xiao and Concubine Rong had a dispute a few days ago? ”

Feng Liang said in a low voice: "It's not a dispute. ”

"On that day, Mo Shizi took the princess into the palace to thank him, and when he went to Shou'an Palace, he was embarrassed by Concubine Rong, and Concubine Rong mentioned the matter of the Xie family, and alluded to the fact that the princess was uneasy in the room before marriage, which almost made the queen mother angry, and Xiao Guifei said a few words about Concubine Rong."

"The concubine is straight, Concubine Rong is very angry, and the princess probably remembers the kindness of the concubine for several days, and asks Mo Shizi to send all the rare things from the first floor she opened to the Changyun Palace, and the concubine Niangniang likes the princess for this."

Emperor Jing was quite satisfied with Mo Xuanchen and Yun Jin's initial knowledge of Entubao, but Concubine Rong ......

He looked calm: "Concubine Rong has always loved to make friends with those ladies in the court, so as to win over the courtiers for the eldest prince, why is it difficult for Yun Jinchu this time?" ”

Feng Liang hesitated: "The servants don't know, but I heard that on the day of Mo Shizi's wedding, the eldest prince and they all went." ”

When Emperor Jing heard this, he guessed something in his heart.

His sons are all old, and he has been reluctant to give them the title of king all these years, let alone a prince.

Several princes are looking forward to winning the throne, among which the eldest prince regards himself as the eldest son, and likes to put on a polite corporal to attract people in the court.

Now he saw that he was healed, and he had to use it again.

Whether it is for Jin Linwei in Mo Xuanchen's hands, or for the Zhennan Wangfu behind him, several princes are afraid that they will come forward to solicit them.

Since the eldest prince had been to the wedding banquet, Concubine Rong made it difficult when they entered the palace the next day, obviously the eldest prince did not succeed in soliciting it, Concubine Rong felt that Mo Xuanchen didn't know what to do, and sprinkled her anger on Yun Jinchu?

Emperor Jing's expression was a little gloomy.

After returning to the Dragon Terrace, Emperor Jing called the shadow who had been guarding his side and asked, "What has the eldest prince been doing lately?" ”

The shadow was dressed in black, and his face was so ordinary that he couldn't find it when he threw it into the crowd.

He knelt on the ground and replied: "The eldest prince is still the same as usual, every day to the court, after the dispersal of the court, he either enters the palace to visit Concubine Rong, or goes to the ministry on an errand, but a few days ago, the eldest prince privately saw Qian Ling, the servant of the Ministry of Works, and sent the second son of the Marquis of Wenyuan out of Beijing. ”

"What are you doing?"

"I don't know, I just know that they went south by boat."

Emperor Jing's eyebrows furrowed, and the words of the shadow in the next moment made his eyebrows furrow even tighter.

"The four princes have also sent people out of Beijing in the past few days, and the queen's mother's family followed, and their people went south with the people of the eldest prince."

The fourth child also sent someone?

Emperor Jing rubbed the jade wrench in his hand, squinting slightly, thinking that there was something in the south that was worth sending someone to.

I don't seem to have heard anything about the south during this time, but if it really doesn't do any good, how can his two sons who don't see rabbits and don't scatter eagles send people out of Beijing?

"Let people stare at them and see what they want to do."

"No."

The shadow disappeared without a trace, just as it appeared.

Emperor Jing said indifferently: "Feng Liang, what do you say they want to do?" ”

Feng Liang lowered his head: "The slave doesn't know. ”

A shadow appeared in Emperor Jing's eyes.

In the past few years, he has been getting older, even if he looks tough on the surface, he also knows that he will not age day by day, and he will gradually become powerless for the court, this throne will be handed over sooner or later, and he has never thought of dying on the dragon chair all the time guarding this position.

But the princes of the court were not enough to satisfy him, whether it was the eldest prince, the second prince, the fourth prince, or several other young ones, none of them could make him directly afford the position of prince.

He wanted to test them for a few more years, let them each lead the errand experience in the court, and choose the most suitable person to inherit the throne.

But the sons did not grasp what he meant, and instead became more and more ambitious and restless.

"I just hope they don't do anything they shouldn't do." Emperor Jing said indifferently.

Feng Liang lowered his head when he heard this, but he sighed in his heart.

Let those princes keep to themselves, I'm afraid it's difficult.

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