In the Qianming Palace, Yu Zuo was once again left by Emperor Yuan'an.

Emperor Yuan An chose the excerpts on the desk, picked out two or three copies, handed them to him, and said, "You take a look at these books, what are your feelings and suggestions, and tell me after reading them." ”

Zheng Ze's old eyes were secretly raised, and he glanced at Yu Zuo clearly.

This is the first time that Emperor Yuan'an has asked the prince to participate in the review and review, which even has the meaning of teaching, and put any previous dynasty, this is a course that the prince of the East Palace needs to learn, it seems that the sacred heart has been decided!

Yu Zuo glanced at the folds, and found that one of them was from Yu Zhen, opened it and looked, sure enough, it was Yu Zhen's advice to the imperial court to implement the system of apportionment into the mu, followed by the cabinet's vote, basically agreed, but also said that the law change needs to be cautious, according to the convention, this means that it is necessary to discuss a recognized result at the court meeting.

After reading the excerpt, Yu Zuo raised his head and said: "Father, the fourth brother's advice, the sons and daughters think that it is imperative, and there is no need to discuss whether to implement it or not, the key is only who to send to inspect various places and implement the policy!" ”

"Hmm!" Emperor Yuan An nodded: "Then in your opinion, who should be sent?" ”

Yu Zuo pondered for a moment, and then named a few people, Emperor Yuan An smiled slightly, and said approvingly: "Not bad! ”

Yu Zuo immediately said with a worried color: "Father, although the fourth brother's advice is good, but if it is openly brought to the court to discuss, the fourth brother will become the target of the public, the son heard that a few days ago, the court was arguing over whether the fourth brother was crowned king or the prince, and the son thought that before the fourth brother's advice was discussed in the court, the father and emperor quickly set the identity of the fourth brother!" ”

The higher the status, the more useful the speech, and the resistance encountered will be much smaller, which also means that the higher the status of the person given by the emperor, the greater the support given.

Of course, Emperor Yuan An knew this truth, which is why Yu Zhen's excerpt had already been handed over, but he pressed it on the desk and did not let the courtiers discuss it, that is, he was going to give Yu Zhen the title of prince first.

It's just that he didn't expect that when he proposed to let the courtiers discuss the title of King Yuzhen, there was a moth, and many officials of the former queen's faction could not accept the title of king of Yuzhen, so they repeated the old words and fiercely admonished him as the prince.

Emperor Yuan An nodded and said: "I also have this intention, Jin Yuzhen is the king of Chu." ”

Yu Zuo took a deep breath and said solemnly: "Father, the son thinks that the fourth brother can only deter Xiaoxiao if he becomes the prince, and it is a good policy for a hundred generations to spread the land into the mu, otherwise it cannot be implemented smoothly!" ”

He didn't know Fu Xuechen's previous life, in order to implement this policy, Emperor Yongzheng couldn't even guarantee his own safety, and became a short-lived emperor who reigned for a short time, but he could feel the hardships involved, even if he had the position of prince, he could not guarantee the safety of Yu Zhen, let alone the position of prince.

Emperor Yuan An didn't expect him to be able to give up the position of the prince, and he was stunned for a while, he didn't believe that Yi Zuo's cleverness could not understand what he meant.

Zheng Ze looked up in surprise and looked at Yu Zuo.

The hall was silent for a long time, and Emperor Yuan'an asked slowly: "Are you sure that you want to support Yu Zhen as the prince?" ”

Yu Zuo nodded: "Erchen is sure!" And this is also the heart of the son's mother. ”

Emperor Yuan An couldn't help frowning deeply: "You want to be a prince?" ”

Yu Zuo nodded again and said, "Yes!" Father! Father, you have fought all your life, and laid down thousands of miles of rivers and mountains with your own hands, and your sons have always taken you as an example in their hearts, and they are also willing to lead the army to the Great Wall in Beizhen, for the national fence, and even more want to go north out of the Great Wall, open up the territory for my Darong Empire, so that the north of the Great Wall belongs to my Darong territory! ”

Listening to his sonorous words, Emperor Yuan An appreciated it at the same time, but also gave birth to a little helplessness, he himself has not been a peaceful and self-conscious character since he was a child, Yu Zuo Xiao him, it is conceivable that he will not like to sit in the East Palace, trapped in a corner, only the vast world outside, bloody battles can attract the yearning of young people.

Emperor Yuan An sighed with emotion in his heart, nodded and shook his head: "You trust Yu Zhen......

Yu Zuo hesitated for a moment, and suddenly said: "Actually, Erchen suspects that the fourth brother is not the first queen's concubine, but the mother's concubine, and he is the son's brother with the same father and mother!" ”

Zheng Ze's pupils shrank sharply, and he looked at Yu Zuo in shock, even Emperor Yuan An was shocked by his sudden words, opened his mouth slightly, widened his eyes, and said, "Yu Zuo!" Do you know what you're talking nonsense?! ”

"Father, please forgive your son's rudeness!"

Yu Zuo did not panic, but calmly knelt down on one knee, apologized first, but took out a thick paper roll from his sleeve, held it in his hand and said seriously: "But Erchen has evidence in his hand!" ”

Emperor Yuan An's eyes froze: "What evidence?" ”

Yu Zuo unfolded the paper scroll, on it was actually Yu Zhen's sketch portrait, not to mention that the painting is exactly the same, there are also seven or eight points of portrait, this kind of sketch portrait has spread, although the application range is not wide, Emperor Yuan An knows, he looked at Yu Zuo puzzled, but saw Yu Zuo compared the portrait on the right side of his face.

"This is Zhiling's own hand-painted, the portrait of the fourth brother, father, you can compare it carefully, you can find that the fourth brother and the son have double eyelids, the shape of the eyes is almost identical, the shape of the nose is also very similar, and the eyes and noses of the two of us are exactly the same as the sons and daughters."

Yu Zuo recalled all kinds of genetic knowledge that Fu Xuechen told him, and continued: "As far as the sons know, the father, the emperor, you and the former queen both have single eyelids, and if both husband and wife have single eyelids, they will not be able to give birth to children with double eyelids. ”

"In addition, the first queen was suffering from the disease of valley dice, and if it is not cured, the disease of valley dicice can be passed from the previous generation to the next generation, and it can be passed on to men but not women, but the fourth brother does not have this disease!"

Yu Zuo looked at Emperor Yuan An, and was also a little nervous and expectant: "Father, although the son has some corroboration, he doesn't dare to guess easily, so he wants to ask his father for more evidence, can the father tell the son, above the son, has the mother concubine ever given birth to a son's brother?" ”

"Why don't you ......" Emperor Yuan An wanted to ask Yu Zuo why he didn't ask the imperial concubine directly, but then he thought of something, retracted the question, and then admitted the matter, and said slowly: "You do have a fellow brother, named Yu Chu, who was born in the same year as Yu Zhen, only four months younger than Yu Zhen. ”

He fell into the memories, and his voice brought out a trace of regret: "When they were two years old, there was an epidemic in the place, and Yu Zhen and Yu Chu were unfortunately infected and quarantined, and they were ordered to isolate together, and there were several grandmothers and maids, and finally they were cured and sent back, only the young Yu Zhen, as well as Su Mama and another maid, Yu Chu and his nurse all died of the epidemic, because Yu Chu died before he was three years old, so he was not included in the sect disc, and he did not rank his teeth......

When Emperor Yuan An said this, he couldn't help but squint his eyes, and his eyes flashed fiercely.

At that time, he was still fighting outside, and he couldn't take care of the backyard, these things he could only know after the fact, the relationship between the queen and Concubine Xie was good, and no one thought about it anywhere, he only knew that the queen was holding the son who was rescued by luck and desperately thanked God for blessing, not only rewarded the doctor at that time with a large sum of money, but also entered the Buddhist temple to repay all kinds of wishes.

Xie Guifei was very miserable, she cried and fainted several times, and washed her face with tears for a long time, until she found out that she was pregnant with Yu Zuo again, and she completely improved, and because Yu Zuo was not easy to come by, she was very spoiled when she was a child, and she couldn't wait to pour all her maternal love into Yu Zuo......

"Yu Zuo, you step back first! I'll find out. ”

Emperor Yuan An waved his hand to drive his son away, watched Yu Zuo leave respectfully, and then said coldly: "Zheng Ze, go to my treasure house and bring the remaining twelve zodiac jade pendants together!" ”

"Huh!" Zheng Ze hurriedly took the order and left, with a look of surprise on his face that he had heard the secret news at first glance.

Emperor Yuan An sat alone behind the imperial case, and after a long time, he exhaled a breath and gritted his teeth and whispered: "Empress Zhang! Zhang Qianqian! If you really take Yu Chu as Yu Zhen, Li Dai Tao stiff, and take away someone else's son, then you really deserve death! Sure enough, if you are able to do the evil thing of abducting and selling your own sister, I shouldn't believe that you know what remorse is! ”

……

In Yanxi Palace, Emperor Xie Guifei finally selected three candidates who could be the concubines of Yu Zhen, their appearance and family background are all the best choices, and their talents have their own merits, although they are not as dazzling as Fu Xuechen, they are also extremely good, and when the time comes, they can let Yu Zhen choose from them again, so Yu Zhen's lifelong events will be completely decided.

Her eyes examined the portraits and materials of the three girls one by one, and the more she looked at them, the more satisfied she became, and at this moment, the voice outside suddenly came again: "The Holy Lord has arrived-" Emperor Yuan An is here again!

Seeing the salute, Emperor Yuan An once again held back his left and right, and after sitting down, he looked at the imperial concubine with complicated eyes.

The imperial concubine was slightly uneasy, and asked softly: "Your Majesty, who are you?" ”

Emperor Yuan An spread his hands and handed a tiger-striped jade pendant in his palm to her: "Take a closer look at this!" ”

The imperial concubine took the tiger stripe jade pendant puzzled, only a glance, and recognized that this was one of the twelve zodiac jade cut out of the family heirloom jade of Emperor Yuan'an, and Emperor Yuan'an gave the corresponding zodiac jade to the child as a family heirloom.

Emperor Yuan An asked: "What can Concubine Ai see?" ”

The imperial concubine was a little confused, turned over the jade pendant and looked at it a few times, and said puzzledly: "Your Majesty, isn't this Yuzhen's personal jade pendant?" Why did you show it to your concubines? ”

Emperor Yuan An said: "You don't know, Yu Zhen was born in early August, so there are eight patterns on the tiger's body. ”

Hearing this, the imperial concubine lowered her head in surprise and counted: "That's the case!" If it weren't for Emperor Yuan An's reminder, she wouldn't have noticed that the small jade tiger on the tiger stripe jade pendant still had this meaning on the lines on her body.

Emperor Yuan An said with emotion: "Yu Zhen and Yu Chu were born in the same year, so I made an exception for them and carved out two identical tiger striped jade pendants, in order to show the difference, I ordered craftsmen to carve the tiger stripes on the Yu Zhen jade pendant into eight ways, Yu Chu was born in December, and the tiger stripes on the Yu Chu jade pendant were carved into twelve, four more than Yu Zhen. ”

When the imperial concubine heard the name "Yu Chu", her face turned pale instantly.

In the past, in order to take care of her, Emperor Yuan An, who never revealed the scars in her heart and did not let people mention the name of Yu Chu again, took the initiative to mention this name that had been dusty for more than ten years at this moment.

"The secret of the tiger stripes is only known to me, so the matter is insignificant, and I forgot to tell anyone, so you don't know the concubine, and the first queen Zhang Qianqian doesn't know!"

Emperor Yuan An said word by word, the voice was not loud, but it bombarded the heart of the imperial concubine like thunder: "The jade pendant in your hand should belong to Yu Zhen, but because of Yu Chu's untimely death, it was collected into my treasure house, and the jade pendant that belonged to Yu Chu is still good and dignified, and it is worn on Yu Zhen's body, and it has been worn for 18 years, and it has been worn to this day!" ”

"So! Back then, Yu Zhen and Yu Chu were both infected with the disease, and it was not Yu Zhen who survived in the end, but Yu Chu! It was Zhang Qianqian who deceived the world, replaced my two emperors, and used Yu Chu as Huang Zhen and raised her by her side to this day! Emperor Yuan An slapped the table and shouted in a deep voice to the conclusion: "Huang Zhen is really Huang Chu, it is your son Huang Chu!" ”

The imperial concubine was dumbfounded, her knees weakened in shock, and she knelt down: "Your Majesty ......"

"Don't be surprised, concubine!" Emperor Yuan An was not angry with the imperial concubine, seeing that she was so frightened that he fell to his knees, he hurriedly reached out and scooped her up and took her into his arms: "All this is Zhang Qianqian making evil, and it has nothing to do with you!" ”

"It's strange, it's strange that I don't know people clearly, and I put a femme fatale in the back seat, and it's even more strange that I was negligent back then, and I didn't carefully identify the jade pendant that was returned with the early death of Yu Zhen, which caused Yu Chu to bear Yu Zhen's name and identity, and was stolen by Zhang Qianqian to change the beams and change the pillars, and was taken away from Kun'an Palace, and was separated from your mother and son for 16 years."

"Your Majesty......" The imperial concubine suddenly found an outlet for her grievances and grief for many years, she leaned on Emperor Yuan'an's arms, and finally burst into tears and cried.

Emperor Yuan An was a little at a loss, and couldn't help but comfort indiscriminately: "Okay, okay!" Don't be sad! The matter has passed, Yu Chu did not die, and grew up safely, you should be happy! ”

"It's my fault! I should have made you the queen in the first place! You have bore me two wonderful sons, both so good, just as good! Especially Yu Zuo, it was his reminder that Fang asked me to realize the tragedy of the change of children that year and uncover the truth. ”

The imperial concubine had tears in her eyes, and she choked up and asked in a dumb voice: "Zuo'er? How did he know about this? ”

I didn't understand much, he said......" Emperor Yuan'an roughly retold the "corroboration" and "speculation" that Yu Zuo said in the Qianming Palace to the imperial concubine.

Emperor Yuan An smiled and said: "I later figured out why he had such a guess, and I also collected some supporting evidence for this in order to ask me about the old things, it was because of you!" Everything you have done for Yu Zhen, in his opinion, is the best that only your biological mother can do. ”

"You are so active in planning and working hard for Yu Zhen, all because you know that he is your biological son Yu Chu, right? Did Zhang Qianqian tell you the truth before she died? ”

The imperial concubine nodded again and again, relieved: "Yes!" It was the first queen who told the concubine the truth, and she asked the concubine to swear a poisonous oath before hearing the truth, if the concubine confided the truth, she would tell Zuo'er not to die well,"

When Emperor Yuan An heard this, he said angrily: "This poisonous woman! ”

The imperial concubine was particularly apprehensive and said, "Fortunately! Fortunately, Your Majesty, you took the initiative to find out the truth, and the concubine will not be considered to have broken her oath! The concubine did not confess the truth to His Majesty, and the concubine knew her mistake and was willing to accept the punishment! ”

"What's wrong with loving the concubine!" Emperor Yuan An shook his head, hugged her tighter, and said softly: "I know Zhang Qianqian's thoughts, she is unwilling to lose her son, and secretly replaced your son, in order to have the prince, so as to seek the throne in the future, so that she can become the queen mother, and her Zhang family will continue to have the glory and wealth for several lifetimes." ”

"Including her confessing the truth to you, and making you swear a poisonous oath to keep it a secret, it is also to let Yu Zhen drag you into the water while continuing to retain her identity as the prince and the support of her Zhang family, so that you can also help Yu Zhen."

"Although you also have selfish intentions and want Yu Zhen to become the prince of the East Palace, I know that what you want is that only if Yu Zhen becomes the crown prince, lives in the East Palace for a long time, and inherits the throne in the future, can you get closer to him, and listen to him call your queen mother in the name of the queen mother without violating the poisonous oath, right?"

The imperial concubine smiled bitterly: "Your Majesty has guessed all the thoughts of the concubine!" The concubines are selfish and disregard the national unity, how does Your Majesty want to deal with the concubines, the concubines all admit it! Please also ask Your Majesty to have mercy on this child, he has left the concubine for too long, too long! They were all concubines who were confused, and they missed the opportunity to reveal the truth and take him back. ”

Emperor Yuan An sighed and nodded: "I really wronged this child!" Zhang Qianqian knows that he is not his biological child, he will not treat him sincerely, he will only treat him as a tool, and he will be squeezed in many ways, no wonder there is almost no smile on his face, he is silent, but for sixteen years, he has suffered him! ”

The imperial concubine's tears flowed down again, blurring her eyes: "Then Your Majesty ......"

Emperor Yuan An pondered for a moment and said: "We don't have to reveal the truth to the world, we have to restore his name and identity as Yu Chu, he now has the power of the Zhang family, and has all the resources left by the former queen, if he loses the identity of Yu Zhen, these things will be gone!" And these things are the compensation he deserves! I sent someone to call him and recognize your mother and son in private, and this secret is buried in the hearts of several of us! ”

The imperial concubine was overjoyed: "Thank you, Your Majesty, concubine!" ”

Emperor Yuan'an acted resolutely, and really asked Zheng Ze to summon Yu Zhen into Yanxi Palace, and after he met the imperial concubine, he asked him to take out the tiger stripe jade pendant he had worn since he was a child and observe it carefully, and told him the meaning of the twelve ways of tiger stripes, as well as the case of the first queen changing her son sixteen years ago.

Yu Zhen was stupid, he was not Yu Zhen, he was Yu Chu, he was the biological son of the imperial concubine, and Yu Zuo's sibling brother? ! If it weren't for the fact that Yu Zhen died of illness that year, and he was replaced by the former queen who stole the beam and replaced the pillar, then he should have grown up under the upbringing of the imperial concubine as the fifth prince, right?

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