Chapter 199: The wife is the only one
"Why does His Highness think that there are so many women in the backyard?" Shen Zhao asked the six princes lightly.
"Have fun." The sixth prince said.
After finishing speaking, the six princes smiled awkwardly, and then cleared their throats and said, "The balance of the court."
Shen Zhao continued to ask rhetorically in a faint voice: "If it's just for the sake of balance in the court, wouldn't it be more balanced if you don't choose one in the backyard?"
This remark made the six princes stunned, and then couldn't help laughing, "This is reasonable."
Then he asked, "But the courtiers will not agree, and neither will the people."
Shen Zhao looked at him lightly and continued to ask, "What is the reason why the courtiers don't agree? What are the courtiers so scrambling to stuff people into the backyard and harem?"
"For the sake of the royal heir." The sixth prince said.
Shen Zhao asked rhetorically, "The Sixth Highness thinks that if there are more heirs, it must be a good thing?"
The Six Princes were silent.
Needless to say, let's talk about what has happened in Yanbei these days, and say that Emperor Yanbei is still lying on the sickbed, the root cause is not that there are too many princes, but almost everyone wants to get that position.
In front of the position above 10,000 people, they have lost people's hearts and lost goodness.
"The courtiers are scrambling to send their daughters and sisters to the palace and to the various royal palaces, to put it bluntly, just for their own honor." Shen Zhao said lightly.
After a pause, he said, "The people were only mentioned below the Sixth Highness, why did the Sixth Highness feel that the people would also disagree?"
The Sixth Prince said, "For a long time, isn't there a saying that having more royal heirs means that the country can also prosper?"
Shen Zhao asked, "Does the Sixth Highness think that there is an inevitable relationship between the two?"
The sixth prince pursed his lips and said, "Even if we know in our hearts that there is no inevitable relationship, will the people think so?"
"How many people are in the backyard of the harem, it has never been a place where the people care, and the vast majority of the people don't know how many people there are in the backyard of the harem, if their lives are rich enough and everyone can live and work in peace and contentment, then who cares how many concubines you marry?" Shen Zhao asked.
What the people want is food and clothing, and what they want is a stable life.
For them, if the emperor can't keep them fed and clothed, it's useless for the emperor to marry a hundred and ten concubines.
The six princes threw out several questions to Shen Zhao, all of which could not be refuted, and after a moment of stunned, the six princes couldn't help laughing aloud, "Okay, okay, good, it seems that you have already thought of a way to deal with it."
Shen Zhao's expression was still faint, but it was obvious that he was quite firm in his eyes, and said, "I said that my wife is only one Qingyuan."
"Okay, you brother-in-law, I admit it!" The sixth prince patted Shen Zhao's shoulder and said.
This shot was a little caught off guard, Shen Zhao was just about to drink tea, and almost the teacup in his hand was slapped to the ground.
Seeing that the teacup almost fell to the ground, the sixth prince hurriedly helped to hold the teacup up, and said embarrassedly: "I'm sorry, I didn't want to have so much strength, I may have spent too much time at the border on weekdays, I'm used to it, you forgive me."
"It's fine." Shen Zhao put the teacup aside and said lightly.
The sixth prince said again, "However, you should also practice, otherwise how can you, who have no power to restrain the chicken, protect the eldest sister of the emperor."
Sheng Qingyuan had just come back from the Tai Hospital, and he happened to hear what the six princes said.
Shen Zhao has no power to restrain the chicken?
Where did he see it?
Shen Zhao studied under Meng Kun, and his strength should not be underestimated.
Shen Zhao was not annoyed, and even said with a faint smile on his face, "Okay, then if you are free, teach me."
"No problem!" The sixth prince patted Shen Zhao's shoulder very heroically.
Sheng Qingyuan looked at the strength of the six princes, and felt that his shoulders began to hurt.
Sheng Qingyuan coughed twice and walked in.
"Elder Sister Huang." The six princes immediately smiled at Xiang Sheng
Qing Yuan saluted.
It's just that this gift is more casual than just now, but it makes people feel a little more intimate.
"Why are you here?" Sheng Qingyuan asked him.
The sixth prince smiled and said, "I originally wanted to come to chat with the eldest sister, but when I saw that my brother-in-law was also there, I simply chatted with my brother-in-law for a while."
Brother-in-law......
Listening to this word, there is a lot less indifference and solemnity among the royal family, and more of the closeness and warmth of ordinary family.
Sheng Qingyuan's tight strings also relaxed a little, and he nodded in response, "Then you're done talking?"
"I'm done talking to my brother-in-law, haven't you talked to my eldest sister yet?" The Sixth Prince said with a smile.
At this time, the six princes looked like a teenager who had not yet grown up.
However, when you calculate your age, you are indeed just a teenager.
It's just that the royal family is precocious, obviously only in his teens, but he looks as old as he is in his twenties and thirties.
"What do you want to talk about?" Sheng Qingyuan asked him.
"Whatever, eldest sister, you can talk about whatever you want. The eldest sister came to Yanbei, did she have a good visit? Why don't I take you for a walk?" The Sixth Prince asked expectantly.
As he spoke, he came to Sheng Qingyuan and said with a smile, "In this way, I can also get to know each other with my eldest sister."
"Didn't my father give you a task? You don't have to be busy?" Sheng Qingyuan asked lightly.
The sixth prince immediately jumped away a few steps away and said, "Eldest sister, look at my immature face, those movements, it doesn't take two books to write my immature face all over the vicissitudes of life, eldest sister, can you bear it?"
Looking at the miserable appearance of the six princes, the corners of Sheng Qingyuan's mouth couldn't help twitching, and he said to him, "Those who have the ability to live in it."
The sixth prince refused without thinking about it: "That eldest sister overestimates me, I have no ability at all in this area, in the past, the Taifu taught things related to this aspect, and I fell asleep immediately without listening to two sentences."
Glancing at the direction of the imperial study, the sixth prince said, "If I go to help my father review the folds, then I guess I won't wake up for a while."
"Does my father know what you say?" Sheng Qingyuan asked with the corners of his mouth.
"I know, I must let my father know about this, but my father won't listen to me!!" The Sixth Prince complained.
Then he walked up to Sheng Qingyuan, pulled her sleeve and said, "Eldest sister, why don't you go with me to tell my father and ask him to take back his will?" I really can't, I'm still very self-aware in this regard!!"
Sheng Qingyuan glanced at him lightly: "I refuse."
"Why?!" The sixth prince immediately asked, and the volume couldn't help but be a little louder.
Sheng Qingyuan said, "Because my father needs to rest well, Xiaoba is still too young, this is my proposal."
The Sixth Prince: "????"
He also wanted to come to the eldest sister to see if the eldest sister could save him, but now she actually told her that this was her suggestion?
The sixth prince covered his chest, looking injured, and then said to Sheng Qingyuan pitifully: "Eldest sister, don't hide it, I really can't do it, you, if you feel that your father needs to rest, it's better to ...... Can you ask your brother-in-law to help?"
The sixth prince immediately put his hot eyes on Shen Zhao's body and looked at him expectantly.
Shen Zhao said casually, "One, I am King Jing of the Great Zhou, and two, I haven't been in contact with this kind of thing for a long time, and I won't either."
"You can, you can, I heard when I was a child how smart King Jing of Da Zhou is, and if you're not that powerful, you can't marry the eldest sister, right?" The sixth prince hurriedly said.
Sheng Qingyuan glanced at him, pulled his clothes and dragged him outside.
"Eh, eldest sister, what are you doing?" The sixth prince hurriedly asked.
"What? Send you where you need to go, and don't mess with those nonsense ideas, or I'll tell my father and let him teach you a lesson." Sheng Qingyuan said.
The sixth prince said with a hippie smile, "No
Now my father can't get out of bed, he can't beat me, it's okay."
Listening to the words of the sixth prince, Sheng Qingyuan felt that his hands were itchy, and he gave him a needle without saying a word.
With a needle, the pain made the six princes grin, and then they couldn't move, and looked at Sheng Qingyuan with a little shock.
Sheng Qingyuan ignored him and said to the chief eunuch who came, "Send the Sixth Highness to the place where he should stay."
The chief eunuch looked at the six princes with a painful look on their faces and couldn't move, and asked cautiously, "Your Highness, what is the ...... of the Sixth Highness?"
"In a quarter of an hour, he will be back to normal, enough for you to send him to the study." Sheng Qingyuan said lightly.
"Yes, the servant will send the Sixth Highness there." The chief eunuch hurriedly said.
"You ......" The six princes were so angry that their teeth itched.
The chief eunuch said with an apologetic face, "Sixth Highness, this is what Your Majesty and Her Royal Highness the Princess meant, you can accept it."
The Sixth Prince: "............"
What does it mean to cry without tears?
That's what he is now.
When he went to the imperial study, the six princes finally regained their freedom of movement, and the chief eunuch sent all the prepared pieces to him, and said to him with a smile, "The old slave will not disturb His Highness."
The sixth prince waved to him and said, "Come here! What to do so far away? Shall I still eat you?"
The chief eunuch approached and asked tentatively, "What else does Your Highness command?"
"You tell me about this King Jing." The sixth prince said.
The chief eunuch looked sincerely frightened, and said, "This can't be said, His Royal Highness King Jing is the husband of His Royal Highness the eldest princess, and the old slave doesn't dare."
"If you let you say it, and you didn't let you arrange it, you just tell me, is he good to the emperor's eldest sister? What about others?" The sixth prince said.
Seeing that the chief eunuch still looked like he was struggling, the six princes raised their fists and looked ready to beat him, so the chief eunuch had to say.
"If you go back to Your Highness, Your Royal Highness King Jing treats Her Royal Highness the eldest princess really well, and the person is also very good."
"Gone?" The sixth prince was still ready to listen to the following, but he didn't wait for a long time.
"It's gone." The chief eunuch said, and then hurriedly said, "The slave still has to serve Your Majesty, and the old slave retires."
After speaking, without waiting for the six princes to say anything, he hurriedly left the imperial study.
"This old thing...... I don't eat people, what do I do if I run so fast." The sixth prince pursed his lips and hummed.
However, judging from today's chat with King Jing, it seems that he is indeed a good person.
But whether this is the real him, or just talking, will have to be seen again.
The eldest sister of the emperor, who was finally found, can't be easily arched by a pig.
The next day, the sixth prince invited Sheng Qingyuan and Shen Zhao to go outside the city to ride horses and shoot arrows.
He still can't accept a helpless man as his brother-in-law, otherwise if he can't even protect his wife, then what kind of man is he.
Sheng Qingyuan hesitated, but agreed.
It's just that when he was about to go out, Shen Zhao was called away by King Heng, and it looked like he had something very important, so he couldn't go.
When the six princes saw that only Sheng Qingyuan and Xiaoba appeared, they immediately asked, "Where is King Jing?"
Sheng Qingyuan said, "King Heng has something important to discuss with him, so he can't come today."
"What is so important? If you don't call it in the morning and don't call it late, but at this time, he shouldn't dare to come, right?" The Sixth Prince complained quietly.
Sheng Qingyuan glanced at him lightly, but there was a bit of warning in his eyes.
"Okay, okay, it's my fault, it's my fault." The sixth prince hurriedly said.
The Eighth Prince said, "Brother King Jing is very powerful!!"
Listening to the Eighth Prince's still somewhat immature voice, the Sixth Prince touched his head with a smile and said, "What do you know that is powerful?"
The eighth prince raised his chin and looked at him very much
Said firmly, "I just know that Brother King Jing is very powerful, much more powerful than Sixth Brother!"
For the six princes, these words are unbearable, "No, I have to let him come today!"