The reef was taken aback: "What? No way! ”

He had never heard of such a prince in his previous life. The one who succeeded to the throne was the Eighth Prince. Except for the eighth prince, Emperor Deguang has no other sons - the prince of King Ji has already left the family and has not been able to obtain permission to recognize his ancestors and return to his ancestors, so it doesn't count. Everyone in the world knows that Empress Wu died with the three princes, and when she died, she was pregnant with Liujia, and she was about to give birth but had not yet given birth, where is there another prince?

If Emperor Deguang really had such a son, then after the death of the sixth prince, he would not have been sick with fear because he had no children to inherit the throne. Sun Ge Lao took advantage of his serious illness to win over the clan and support the prince of King Ji to return to the sect, and almost became the emperor dead. But if the emperor has a son in his hands, it is impossible for him to be forced to that share by Sun Ge Lao and the clan. This embarrassment was not alleviated until Concubine Xu Xian gave birth to the eighth prince.

If Empress Wu really left a living prince, it would be the prince from the middle palace. And Concubine Xu Xian is not only from the palace, but also married for the second time, how can the eighth prince she gave birth to be compared with the concubine of the middle palace? Why did Emperor Deguang let his son-in-law not stand and insist on appointing his youngest son as the prince?

Haijiao put forward various reasons and thought that Xiaomei's statement was unreasonable. But Haitang is not completely unfounded, she told Haijiao about the strange remarks that Wu Qiong had revealed to Mrs. Gui before: "It sounds like Mrs. Gui believes that it is the prince of Empress Wu who will inherit the throne in the future!" ”

Haijiao frowned: "When Mrs. Gui said this, was her mind clear?" She is very unreliable in what she says and acts, so she can't be lying, right? ”

"This is what she revealed to her biological daughter in private, is it necessary to lie?" Haitang disagreed, "I think she is unreasonably proud, and she seems to have a lot of reliance in her heart, combined with her own remarks, she probably really thinks so." After all, she had lived in Cining Palace for several years. How big is Cining Palace? She learned that elusive skill again, even if she discovered the secret hidden by the Queen Mother, it was not impossible. ”

If it weren't for Empress Wu's own son to succeed to the throne, why did Mrs. Gui think that the Wu family would be prosperous in the future? She doesn't even pay attention to Concubine Xu Xian's mother and son, and she doesn't take the protection and kindness of the Zhou family to heart, this is what normal people would think?

Reef's brow furrowed even tighter. He began to consider the possibility of the existence of this "prince": "If Empress Wu gave birth early during the fire and gave birth to a little prince, and she was too late to flee because of postpartum weakness, she entrusted the child to her henchman Pomegranate Flower and nursing mother Xu, but she died in the fire, this is possible." What about the three princes? Empress Wu was reluctant to watch her youngest son die, so was she willing to see her eldest son die tragically in the fire? ”

Haitang thought for a while: "If the fire in Kunning Palace doesn't spread quickly, so that Empress Wu can have time to give birth, then why don't the other palace attendants escape?" There should be no way to escape, right? Did someone control them in advance? Did it stun the person, or did it kill them outright? Could it be that there are still people surrounding outside Kunning Palace to prevent anyone from leaving? If so...... Empress Wu knew that she and the third prince could not escape, so she entrusted her young son to Pomegranate Flower and asked her to try her luck. If it's just two women with a child, walking the trail, secret passage or something, there is still a chance to escape. And after the fire, Sun Guifei knew that there were the remains of Empress Wu and the third prince in the ruins, and it is estimated that she would not investigate in detail whether there were any fish that slipped through the net? ”

Sounds reasonable.

Haijiao pondered: "That pomegranate flower will take the risk of killing the six princes in order to avenge the old master, and it is not a pity to lose her life, which shows her loyalty to Queen Wu." It is unreasonable for such a loyal palace maid to flee with only a strange nurse when the fire broke out, and she did not come forward afterwards to cry out for the old lord and tell the truth about the fire. But if she also took away the little master at that time, in order to raise the little master, she hid in the Cining Palace, kept her name incognito for several years, and refused to let people find out her identity when she died, implicating the Queen Mother and the little prince under the protection of the Queen Mother, then it is understandable. It's just that...... Calculate the time, the little prince is the same age as Wu Qiong, and the year the sixth prince died, he was not much old. How could Pomegranate dare to leave him behind and take the risk of assassinating the Six Princes? ”

Haitang guessed that it was probably because the little prince was protected by the queen mother, and the people of the Xu Palace were taken care of, and it didn't matter if there were no pomegranate flowers, so the latter would go on an adventure, right? Maybe there were other reasons at that time, so that the pomegranate flower did not hesitate to lose her life, but also killed the six princes. Is it because of Mrs. Gui's provocation, or is it because the sixth prince is about to be made the prince?

This was known only to those in the know at the time.

Haijiao lowered his head and thought about it, feeling that Xiaomei's guess was also reasonable, but he still couldn't believe that there was really such a prince: "The Queen Mother sheltered this grandson, it won't be to let him live incognito in Cining Palace all the time, right?" When Sun Guifei was in power, she couldn't leave the palace, we used to think that she was to protect the Wu family, but now that we think about it, it may be more to avoid letting the outside world know about the existence of this little prince, especially not letting Sun Guifei and the Sun family know. But after the death of the sixth prince, the emperor's knees were empty, and it was a good time to disclose the identity of the prince. Why did Empress Dowager Zhou still refuse to disclose the news, preferring to let the palace people around her go to be concubines for the emperor and give birth to eight princes? ”

After the emperor recovered from his illness, he regained power, and because he was afraid of Sun Ge Lao, he not only posthumously sealed the unjustly killed Duke Wu Wen'an, but also recalled Wu Men's old life to serve as an official in the court, and asked them to check and balance Sun Ge Lao. Don't look at the fact that the old students of the Wu family were suppressed by the Sun family, and they seem to be in a weak position in the court, but no matter how weak they are, they are also a force, and they have a lot of weight in Shilin, and they are better than Concubine Xu Xian, who has no one in her mother's family. However, the emperor would rather support the eight princes who have no roots and no foundation and no support from foreign forces, rather than the young son of Empress Wu, what is the reason? But as long as there is a concubine in the middle palace, what else does the prince of Ji Wang talk about recognizing his ancestors and returning to his ancestors? The emperor's troubles were solved.

Haitang tilted his head and thought about it, and proposed a possibility: "If you say ...... The emperor actually knew that it was the pomegranate that killed the six princes? Although she was provoked by Mrs. Gui, she also had the idea of removing obstacles for the succession of the young lord in her heart, right? As soon as the sixth prince lives, Sun Guifei will be arrogant for a day, even if the emperor knows that he has a son, he will not make him the prince, and may even sit back and watch Sun Guifei kill the prince, just like when she burned Empress Wu and the third prince to death in Kunning Palace, the emperor did not punish her. Only when the sixth prince dies and the emperor's knees are empty, can the prince have hope of coming forward......"

Pomegranate may have killed the six princes out of such thoughts. If the emperor knew her intentions and saw the other son left by Empress Wu, would he be happy? He has endured the pain of losing a son, looking at a son who is a vested interest, or a strange son who has never cultivated feelings since he was a child, and suddenly appeared, how much father-son affection can there be?

If he had paid attention to the imperial heirs of the middle palace, he would not have been indifferent to the death of the three princes back then. In addition to Sun Guifei's son, there is now the Eighth Prince of Dumiao, when did he care about the lives of his other sons? If he cared, when Sun Guifei eradicated competitors for her son, it would not have been possible that she had not been punished, but the victims had suffered again and again.

It seems understandable if the emperor was angry with the prince because of the death of the sixth prince, refused to disclose his existence, and refused to support his ascension to the throne, preferring to accept a completely innocent young son to inherit the throne. But the newcomer is Xu Shi, a nursing mother who has taken care of the prince for many years, and he may have also taken into account the future of the prince, which is not completely ruthless.

It's just that...... Why did Mrs. Gui think that this unknown prince would eventually inherit the throne?

(End of chapter)