The imperial capital is Chang'an

Inside the forbidden garden of the Ming Imperial Palace

There was the hearty laughter of Emperor Richard, and more than a dozen smart and lovely emperors and grandsons surrounded his knees, making His Majesty the Holy Emperor, who had always been high, show a rare smile.

These 10 or so 6~9-year-old royal grandsons are from the palaces of the kings of Qin, the crown prince Tang-Li Qian (the third son of the emperor), the king of Guangnan Tang-Li Kun (the seventh son of the emperor), and the king of Pingxi Tang-Li Xin (the eleventh son of the emperor). They are all the grandsons of the emperors who are in the top position of the succession to the throne (Note, referring to the sons of the queen. It is difficult for those royal grandchildren to even see the emperor's grandfather.

There's no way around it.

Emperor Richard has a total of 135 princes and princesses, the youngest emperor 73 is only two years old, and there are nearly 100 adult princes and princesses at the age of 16.

From this year onwards

Daming Palace stopped selecting show girls, and no new people entered the emperor's harem, and it is estimated that there will be fewer opportunities for His Majesty the Holy Emperor to leave royal blood in the future.

This is also the result of the repeated bitter advice of Empress Lin and the cabinet ministers, the royal inheritance has no need to worry, now the most important thing is the holy bow of His Majesty the Emperor, which is related to the rise and fall of the empire.

"Don't kneel, get up, all the emperors and grandchildren have rewards, each emperor and grandson go to Wanshou Mountain to pick a companion pet beast, right?" Emperor Richard said with a wave of his hand.

The lions, tigers, leopards and birds of Wanshou Mountain (note, homonym of Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain) are all handsome and intelligent, and these are all divine beasts trained by Emperor Richard with true blood, and the escort is no better.

Most of the rewards given to the emperors and grandchildren are cubs of lions, tigers, leopards and beasts, who have grown up with them since childhood, and their feelings are naturally very deep.

"The emperor's grandson and others thank the emperor and grandpa for his favor!"

Hearing the reward of the emperor's grandfather, all the emperors and grandsons immediately jumped over, knelt down and kowtowed again to thank the reward, and even the face of Queen Lin beside her could not hide her joy.

His Majesty the Emperor's Sacred Beast is not an easy reward, and so far there are only more than 20 princes in the top ranking, and several founding marshals and dukes have received this reward, and each of them is regarded as a treasure.

There was a reason why Emperor Richard was so generous, these young descendants were the heirs of the future empire, and they were still in the rank before the concubine.

For example, the eldest son of Li Qian, the king of Qin, and the nine-year-old grandson of the emperor, Tang-Li Zhiye, is the fourth heir to the throne in the Tang Empire, second only to his father and two uncles.

As for His Royal Highness Tang Li Yuan, the Duke of Hawaii and the eldest son of the emperor, who was originally ranked fourth, after His Majesty the Tang Emperor issued an edict and was crowned King of Kentucky, he had automatically lost the right to inherit the imperial throne.

His Royal Highness Tang Li Geng, Duke of Panama and the second prince, has automatically lost the right to inherit the throne of the Tang Empire, which is ranked fifth in the Tang Empire, after the emperor issued an edict and was crowned King of Oklahoma.

Qin Wangfu, Guangnan Wangfu and Pingxi Wangfu were born in the royal grandson, and their succession to the throne is ranked first, which is more priority than other imperial uncles, commonly known as "cutting in line".

In this era of blood theory, from the princes, the important ministers of the empire to the common people, it seems that everyone naturally accepts this phenomenon of "cutting in line", and the same is true in the inheritance of the imperial nobility.

It was precisely because of the appearance of the emperor's grandchildren one after another that His Royal Highness Don Li Yuan, the eldest son of the emperor and Duke of Hawaii, obediently accepted the edict and went to Kentucky to start a new kingdom.

The same is true for several other princes who are in the front ranks, seeing that there is no hope of even one in 10,000 to inherit the imperial throne, the little cubs of the Qin Palace, the Guangnan Palace, and the Pingxi Mansion are lined up one by one, and everyone will be discouraged.

It's not ...... The fifth son, the sixth son, the eighth son, and the ninth son are all waiting to go overseas to take up the domain, that is, in the past two years.

royal gossip spreads;

It is said that His Majesty intends to take out all the 11 provinces under the command of the former Andean Governor's Palace in Beihai and South America, and arrange the top 20 princes to be vassals and establish vassal kingdoms belonging to the empire.

As for the princes after twenty, they are awarded the title of third-class duke that is demoted from generation to generation, and such a third-class duke is rewarded by His Majesty the Emperor with a mansion when he reaches adulthood, but the title has no title, no fief and fief, and can only receive a super-fine salary from the Royal Internal Affairs Office every year.

After the death of these princes, the descendants can only attack the marquis, and then the grandchildren can inherit the earl, until the barony, the prince and the boy can inherit five generations, and then the commoners.

The reason for this arrangement is that Emperor Richard of the Tang Dynasty deliberately made a title inheritance arrangement considering that the 3 million royal children of the Ming Dynasty had almost eaten up the entire country.

Now there are more than 1,300 royal princes, grandsons and princesses of the Tang Empire, and if it continues to multiply for several generations, hundreds of thousands of people should be very easy.

Even if the Tang royal family is extremely rich, it can't stand so much.

Because these vassal states were not independent kingdoms, their territories were an integral part of Tang China, they did not have an army, they did not have independent diplomacy, and they needed to pay a variety of tributes every year to implement the unified legal and economic system of the Tang Empire.

The government of the feudal kingdom was transformed from the provincial governments of the former Andean region, and the officials were transferred to receive the dispatch of the imperial government, and there were not many places where the feudal kings could intervene.

The feudal kingdom under such heavy restrictions is more like a Ming Dynasty vassal king raised on the ground.

The difference is that the Tang Empire does not restrict the children of the royal family from engaging in politics and the military, nor does it restrict business and various industries, which can allow the children of the royal family to give full play to their wisdom and talents.

"Queen, the affairs of the harem let the other concubines worry more, you don't have to work too hard, just cherish your body." Emperor Richard looked at Empress Lin with some pity and said.

Empress Lin is only one year younger than Shengshang, and she is 56 years old, and she looks younger than her actual age due to proper maintenance, and her majesty is still there, but her gray hair still exposes the wind and frost of time.

Now that her children and grandchildren are full, she looks at the emperor who is still middle-aged and sighs, saying; "The posture of the concubine Pu Liu, there is no regret in this life to be cared for by the saint, I only hope that the saint cherishes the dragon body, thinks of the national community, and leads the empire to have another Jiazi, which must be the wish of hundreds of millions of subjects."

"Hehehe...... The queen laughed, no emperor in the past and ever could live that long? ”

"The concubines know that Your Majesty is not an ordinary person, but a god sent by God, and we and the harem concubines can only pray for Your Majesty day and night, but I hope that the holy bow will always be there!"

"I know the hard work of the empress, and the concubine has already been restrained, hehe......" Slightly embarrassed laughed twice, Emperor Richard immediately changed the topic and said;

"In view of the construction of the new colony, I intend to divide the kings in the summer and autumn of next year, and let them all go out and break out.

Many princes have learned a skill, and there is no use for noisy, so take it out and compare, who is stronger and who is weak?

After many teenagers, they said that I didn't give them a chance. ”

After hearing this, Queen Lin nodded dignified and said; "The affairs of the court are subject to His Majesty's holy decree, and the concubines will not comment, I think it should be the blessing of these emperors."

The two talked for a while, and His Majesty the Emperor drove back to the palace, and Empress Lin felt tired and went to rest.

The old concubines who heard the news were overjoyed, and many of the emperors who were about to be divided had their own blood and blood.

If Your Majesty makes a decree to be crowned a vassal king next year, it will be a royal title higher than that of the duke, and it will be extremely honorable.

Mother is precious by virtue of her son, and she can finally see the day when she will be glorious.

The royal family of the Tang Empire, from the generation of the emperor's grandson, is all "granted" (note; With the word "accept", according to the 8 words of "ordered by the sky, both longevity and Yongchang", and then the next generation is the word "life", in order.

Therefore, the son of Li Qian, the king of Qin, is the eldest grandson of the nine-year-old emperor; Tang-Li Zhuye, the word "Tang", is exclusive to the children of the noble imperial family.

Just like the word "Feng" in the German Junker military aristocracy, it represents a surname of noble origin, which is very easy to identify.

Emperor Richard was not a whim, many princes have been in the army since childhood, and they have been in the military and politics over the years, and their performance is quite outstanding.

In this case, give them a small world to develop, and there will be no surprises.

Huang Ming's way of raising pigs has abolished many outstanding royal children, and the Tang Empire is certainly unwilling to take this old road.

This is also conducive to strengthening the frontier and consolidating the frontier, and it is impossible for the vassal kings to rise up and rebel without soldiers in their hands, let alone demolish the platform of the Tang royal family.

When there are any grand celebrations in the future, the scene of Wanbang coming to the dynasty is also very exciting.

After the feudal kings were divided, the feudal kings returned to their own feudal territories to eat old rice, and those who were good at engaging in economic natural prosperity could only sit and eat empty mountains, which forced them to work hard.

After Emperor Richard returned to the inner hall, he flipped through it for a while, and the latest edition of the "World Summary" edited by the royal secretariat felt that there was nothing new, so he put it down and drank tea while thinking about his thoughts.

According to the latest news from Europe, His Majesty Kaiser Wilhelm I of the German Empire is frail and frail, and has often been bedridden lately, and his physical condition is not optimistic.

It seems that it will be a matter of the past year or two.

For the first time after the reunification of the German Empire, the German Empire was facing a change of imperial power, which was highly anticipated.

There is also bad news that the German crown prince, Prince Friedrich, was diagnosed with throat cancer in May, which was delayed due to a misdiagnosis by British doctor Morrell Mackenzie.

By July and August, the swollen tumor had seriously affected Prince Friedrich's speech function, leaving him suffering from the pain.

This cast another shadow on the German Empire, but fortunately, His Royal Highness Friedrich Wilhelm Victor Albert von Hohenzollern, the grandson of the Emperor, had grown up, and at the age of 28, he was in the prime of life, but he did not worry about having no successor.

As for the rookie pecking war between the three South American countries, Emperor Richard only glanced at it and stopped paying attention.

If you are willing to fight, you can fight it, the so-called praying mantis catches cicadas, and the yellow finch is behind, I don't know who can have the last laugh?

(End of chapter)