Emperor Yongchang is certainly not a dead man.

He was able to follow the first emperor to revolt from a vassal king to win the world, not because of luck, but because of the experience and ability accumulated from the sea of corpses and blood.

A person like this, the careful thinking of the people below, how can he not see clearly?

As Emperor Tong Yongchang and Lai Qingming, the first assistant of the cabinet, said: "Over the years, they have seen me kill less, thinking that I am old and dizzy, and all kinds of thoughts have risen. ”

Since ancient times, when the emperor has such a problem, you are still in the prime of life, but the people below you can't eat too much benefit in your hands, so you began to seek a new future early, and I wish to be like the nobles who are now with the right people, and then come to a dragon to win a lifetime of wealth and glory.

Lord Lai is Emperor Yongchang's henchman and right-hand man, and he is also old and serious, after hearing this, other people are already sincerely afraid, but Lord Lai is still steady: "This is all because the prince is undecided, so people's hearts are unstable." ”

For many years, Emperor Yongchang was not angry at Lord Lai's direct comment, but just glanced at him.

However, Lord Lai has followed Emperor Yongchang for so many years, and he will not be deterred by this idea, he just sighed and said softly: "Your Majesty, although the first prince is heroic, but in the end it is already irreparable. In recent years, the voice of the imperial court calling for the establishment of the prince has continued, and you have been reluctant to establish the prince, so the two kings are-for-tat, and they have their own supports, and there are more people, and it is inevitable that there will be more breeding thoughts. ”

To tell the truth, Lord Lai said softly: "Your Majesty is almost half a hundred years old, why don't you set a storage position early?" ”

These words can only be said by Lord Lai, in other words, it is the sin of being able to cut off the head directly, and those who don't know think that his old man is cursing the holy bow.

Fortunately, Emperor Yongchang didn't know Lai Qingming's heart, he only pulled the corners of his mouth: "There are many examples of early determination of the prince, is it difficult to determine the prince and there will be no disputes?" That's not what I said, what's more, if I didn't figure out the matter of Prince Si for a day, I couldn't settle the position of the prince with peace of mind for a day. ”

Prince Si is the first prince who died early.

Emperor Yongchang can be described as a fatherly heart to Prince Si.

Now King Zhou and King Lu are more of a courtier, and Prince Si is the child he really brought up in the war.

The first prince died in the northwest, which was a pain in the heart of Emperor Yongchang.

Lai Qingming also understands that Emperor Yongchang failed to find out the truth of the Northwest Rebellion for a day, and he couldn't set up a prince with peace of mind for a day----- what if Wang Lu Wang really had anything to do with the events of that year?

It's not impossible.

That being the case, Lai Qingming sighed: "What does the Holy Lord have to say to the two princes and courtiers?" ”

Since you don't have a certain prince, you have to calm people's hearts first, right?

After all, the age of King Lu of Zhou is already here, and both of them are people with children, and if they are not established, it is impossible to cross them to establish the people below.

Emperor Yongchang didn't blindly say it to death, he first talked to his henchmen: "Actually, according to their age and ancestral rules, they should have gone to the fiefdom to become a feudal lord a long time ago, right?" ”

Lai Qingming narrowed his eyes, he actually gave King Lu of Zhou a fief before, but later after the first prince had an accident, he recalled the two princes back to the capital.

The fiefdom has not been mentioned again in these years.

Now that Emperor Yongchang said this, Lai Qingming suddenly understood what Emperor Yongchang meant, but he still reminded him very dutifully: "But once you really go to the fiefdom, the vassal king will lose the possibility of the main prince." ”

Although there is no clear rule that the vassal king cannot ascend the throne, in fact, unless he rebels like the previous emperor, the possibility of the vassal king winning the throne is almost equal to nothing.

If Emperor Yongchang did this, it would be tantamount to excluding the two princes from the candidates for the prince.

But the princes below haven't gotten married yet! Too young.

His worries were the same as those of the Empress Dowager Cui before, and Emperor Yongchang said softly: "Mindi has just suffered a hailstorm that is rare in a century, and there are also natives in the southwest who are in turmoil, so why do you have to go to the domain?" Just let them run errands. ”

It is said to be an errand, but no matter which of these two things it is, it will not be possible without a year and a half of hard work.

Now that Zheng Jun has emerged, there has been a breakthrough in what happened back then.

In this way, when the matter is clarified, the errands of the two princes should be very similar.

In this way, it is also justified to decide the prince when the time comes.

Lai Qingming had nothing to say.

The sons are all born to His Majesty the Emperor himself, and his old man is now unwilling to make a prince, and he has thought of all the excuses, what else can he do as a courtier?

His previous words were already considered arrogance, and if he was an emperor with no heart, he thought he was colluding with a prince.

Now that this is the case, it is already Emperor Yongchang who has compromised.

Lai Qingming, as the first assistant of the cabinet, naturally understood the intention of Emperor Yongchang's words, and after he went back, he played a few excerpts.

Without exception, they are all invited to set up a prince.

In this way, everyone knows which way the wind is blowing.

Before anyone could say anything, Emperor Yongchang proposed to let the princess go out of the pavilion to study, and also designated Lai Qingming as the princess's Mr. Historiography.

No one really expected that at the cusp of this time, Emperor Yongchang would suddenly make such a move.

Therefore, at present, someone originally wanted to use King Lu's accident to suggest that the prince should be established early, and all eyes were attracted by the princess's exit from the pavilion to study.

It's outrageous!

For so many years, since the beginning of the Taizu Dynasty, the princess of the Great Zhou Dynasty has always been like raising a delicate bird, and she has also gone out of the pavilion to study? is a title, and you have to wait for the princesses to reach their age and get married before they can give them honorific titles.

For what?

is to prevent the princesses from interfering in the government one by one, just like the previous dynasty, and some even have their own tens of thousands of guards!

Therefore, the courtiers reacted violently to Emperor Yongchang's move to let the princess out of the pavilion to study.

Except for Lord Lai, who had already been informed by Emperor Yongchang, the other courtiers were anxious, and those who didn't know thought that the saint was crazy.

The princess wants to read, and it's not that you won't be allowed to read, isn't there a literate chamberlain in the palace? Twenty-four bureaus, is there no well-informed female official?

The treatment of the princesses of the Great Zhou Dynasty is indeed not good, but the princesses are not really semi-literate, of course, they will still be taught to read and write by the palace.

However, in the eyes of many courtiers, the princess can study, but it must not be in such an open and vigorous way, and it is the important ministers of the previous dynasty who give lessons to the princess!

What has become of this?

Only when the princes go out of the pavilion to study, there are such rules!