Professional Ethics of a Concubine

The Crown Princess came to pay her respects at this time and saw her aunt getting angry. After asking, she learned that the two beauties were given to Prince Jing by her mother. In just a few days, they were trained into two nuns by Princess Jing.

He stays in his room every day, reciting scriptures and copying rules, and is extremely law-abiding.

Princess,...

How come Princess Jing has such good methods? It makes her want to learn from her.

When the Crown Princess thought of the women in the East Palace, she was filled with rage. Of course, when she thought of the Crown Prince, the anger in her heart became even stronger.

After the Queen said a few words, she no longer wanted to care about the affairs of Prince Jing's Mansion. She would get angry if she talked too much, so she turned to ask the Crown Princess,

"What has the prince been busy with these past two days? He hasn't come to pay his respects to me."

"My aunt, after I sold off those two concubines, the Crown Prince said that he felt annoyed when he saw me. He even refused to go back to the Eastern Palace these past two days and has been living in the Royal Courtyard outside the capital."

The Crown Princess wiped her wet eyes with a handkerchief and said aggrievedly.

The queen glared at her fiercely, disliking her for not being able to win the prince's heart. "Then you should take the initiative to find two more beauties for the prince and coax him back!"

When the Crown Princess heard this, she was full of complaints and thought, if she could find another one, then why did she sell the person out?

Even if the beauty she found was someone she could control, it would only be temporary.

Once they are favored by the emperor, their minds become wild. They start thinking about having children to win favor, and then they step on her face.

However, seeing her aunt's ugly face, the Crown Princess took a deep breath, endured it, and responded obediently,

"Okay, aunt, I will definitely take care of this matter later. I came here today to discuss with you whether Hongbao's birthday party should be bigger.

Taking advantage of this wave of gift donations, the Eastern Palace will also donate some money, which should please the Emperor."

The "Hongbao" mentioned by the Crown Princess is naturally the Crown Prince.

"Sure. Hongbao is seven years old now. He is no longer a child. It's time to have a big celebration."

The queen nodded. In fact, she loved and cared for her grandson far less than she did the crown prince.

After all, the prince is her biological son. Moreover, when the prince ascended the throne, she was the empress dowager. Moreover, she had devoted so much effort to the prince. How could she compare to that with her grandson?

However, Xie Hongbao is the Crown Princess's favorite!

In front of his son, the prince is nothing and has to stand aside.

Moreover, her son is the crown prince and has the right to inherit the throne.

Therefore, when her son was suppressed by the Crown Prince, the Crown Princess also confronted the Crown Prince head-on, and her attitude was not weak at all.

Regarding Xie Hongbao being canonized as the Crown Prince, this is what happened.

First of all, Xie Hongbao is the eldest grandson of the emperor, the first grandson of the emperor, and the legitimate son of the crown prince, so he has a good family background.

Xie Hongbao started walking and talking early. When he was three years old, he could recite the entire Three Character Classic, Thousand Character Classic and other enlightenment books, showing that he was very intelligent.

The emperor looked at his clever grandson, then at his son who had all kinds of shortcomings. Also, since he was still young, he began to think about training his grandson.

For various considerations, and of course also to spur the prince on, when Xie Hongbao was five years old, the emperor issued an edict to confer him the title of Crown Prince and also gave him the right to inherit the throne.

Therefore, the prince's situation is actually like this:

There is a capable father occupying the throne, who is in good health and cares about the world. There will be no problem for him to continue to support the country for another ten or even twenty years.

There is a smart son waiting for him, and his father even values ​​him more than him.

If dad passes away in another twenty years, his son will have grown up, and maybe dad will pass the throne directly to his son.

He has been the crown prince for his entire life, but he has never ascended to the throne, and he has directly become the emperor? !

The title of "emperor emeritus" sounds nice, but it has no real power and is a joke.

How could the prince not worry about this situation? And how could he be willing to accept such a thing happening?

Therefore, the prince was also jealous of his son and even felt threatened.

This led to the Crown Prince having a bad attitude towards the Crown Prince. He never encouraged education, but instead suppressed it.

Therefore, the last time the Crown Prince was in charge of testing the Emperor's attitude towards Prince Su, he was blamed by the Emperor and even had his lip broken. The Prince not only did not comfort him, but also mocked him.

She scolded the Crown Prince for being stupid and said that he was no better than Mingyu.

Not only that, the prince also has a very controlling mother who does not allow him to have his own preferences and opinions and only likes him to be obedient.

The prince, who lives in such an environment of control and threat, and has been conceited since childhood, will become distorted inside and extremely eager to gain power quickly so that there will no longer be people suppressing him.

Therefore, it would be unreasonable for such a prince not to cause some trouble.

Why did the prince sell official positions and titles and support the contraband sale of salt? On the one hand, he really needed money to do things, and on the other hand, he did this because he wanted to control the country and the court in another way.

The prince did not return to the East Palace for the past two days. He held a Deer Singing Banquet in the royal villa to entertain the students who passed the imperial examinations. Among them, the three more important ones were naturally the top three.

The prince hosted a banquet, so naturally everyone came to show up, including the runner-up Zhou Shutian.

He has lofty ambitions and wants to overthrow the prince, so naturally he has to get close to the prince first, truly face the prince, and understand what kind of person the prince is.

Therefore, Zhou Shutian, who never participated in various banquets, also came to the prince's Luming Banquet.

After attending the banquet, Zhou Shutian had a new doubt. He felt that the prince was not as extravagant as he had imagined. He did not have the feeling that he was surrounded by money when attending the banquet.

The royal villa and the things at the banquet were very normal.

However, the prince had to rely on selling official positions and titles, and smuggling salt to collect money. So where did the money the prince got go?

When Zhou Shutian returned to the second courtyard, he wrote down this doubt and asked the secret guard to deliver a note to King Jing.

This secret guard was naturally sent to him by King Jing, mainly to protect his safety and, of course, also to supervise him.

King Jing was afraid that Zhou Shutian's naive heart might lead him to act rashly and do something suicidal like confronting the Crown Prince, which would be a waste of a talented person.

-

"This Zhou Shutian is indeed a talent." After receiving the news from the secret guard, King Jing said to Ye Qingzhi with a smile.

"What do you mean? What is he good at? Has the emperor arranged a position for him?" Ye Qingzhi asked with interest.

"The summer harvest is coming soon. The emperor has asked him to go to the Ministry of Agriculture and given him a sixth-rank official position, in charge of agricultural matters."

King Jing spoke.

"Directly promoted to the sixth rank, it seems that the emperor really values ​​him." Ye Qingzhi nodded, and asked about the whereabouts of Song Yixuan and Xie Mingqing.

"Song Yixuan went to the Ministry of Personnel, also a sixth-rank official, and Xie Mingqing went to the Hanlin Academy, a seventh-rank editor." Prince Jing said,

"The Spring Examination and the Palace Examination have ended. I will also finish my work at the Ministry of Rites and go to the Ministry of Personnel next."

"Your Highness, are you and Prime Minister Fang preparing to close the net?" Ye Qingzhi asked Prince Jing.

Since the Chinese New Year, Prince Jing has begun to lay a net against the Crown Prince and Minister Chen.

Ye Qingzhi knew that he was making many preparations and would make timely adjustments or add new strategies due to various accidents.

For example, Prince Su's rebellion was a big surprise, and the emergence of dark horse Zhou Shutian was also a change.

Anyway, in the original owner's dream, there was no such thing as Prince Su's rebellion, and the runner-up of this year's exam was not Zhou Shutian.

And these two changes were brought about by Feng Yuxi.

Without Feng Yuxi's paternity test, Prince Su would not have known that he was cuckolded, and there would have been no so-called treason.

Feng Yuxi saved Zhou Shutian's wife and children, which may have changed Zhou Shutian's trajectory and made him decide to go to Beijing to take the exam.

"Yes, they are closing the net." King Jing nodded and asked Ye Qingzhi, "What do you think the prince has spent all the money he has collected?"

"Raising private soldiers and preparing to force the emperor to revolt?" Ye Qingzhi raised her eyebrows and emphasized, "Many of our novels say this."

“……”King Jing.

He was also very curious about the novels in her world, how could she dare to write anything.