Professional Ethics of a Concubine

"What's wrong, Your Highness?" Ye Qingzhi asked him curiously, "I remember Your Highness ate glutinous rice balls last year, and he thought the peanuts tasted good."

"Xie Wenyuan sent me a human head. It belongs to a prince of the Chu State. He said it was a Lantern Festival gift for me. He also said that the head is round like a glutinous rice dumpling, which is very suitable for the occasion."

Xie Jin told her very straightforwardly why he had lost his appetite.

Ye Qingzhi,...

What a hell of a joke.

"Is there really a human head?" Ye Qingzhi asked with some disbelief, eyes slightly widened.

"Really? After I saw the head with a faint odor and a gray face, and thought about Xie Wenyuan's words that fit the situation, I didn't want to eat dumplings at all.

Do you want to take a look? It's in the study. I'll have someone bring it over..."

Xie Jin seemed very happy to share.

No one should eat the dumplings this year.

"...No! Really, no need!" Ye Qingzhi reacted violently and quickly shook her head and waved her hands.

She has never even seen a dead person, and you asked her to look at a human head that has been stored for a long time. When she listened to the prince's description, she got goosebumps all over her body just thinking about it.

Xie Jin immediately smiled, with a caring look that showed he would never force her, "Don't worry, Qingqing, if you don't like it, I won't show it to you."

Ye Qingzhi glanced at Xie Jin with resentment, "Your Highness, don't tell me about this kind of thing in the future. I have a weak stomach and I really can't stand this."

Thinking about it now makes me want to vomit.

Xie Jin smiled and agreed, then said to Ye Qingzhi,

"Xie Wenyuan has made such a great contribution. I think I must present it to my father to make him feel happy. What do you think, my dear?"

Ye Qingzhi,...

Your Highness, just be a human being.

After you are frightened, you have to drag everyone else to be frightened together in order to feel mentally balanced, right?

Where is your generosity? Where is your breadth of mind?

Although she was complaining in her heart, Ye Qingzhi nodded with a smile.

"Your Highness is absolutely right. How can I not share the joy of such a great achievement with the Emperor?"

Alone Better Together.

Let us all celebrate the Lantern Festival together and miss this madman Xie Wenyuan.

Seeing Ye Qingzhi's support for him, Xie Jin smiled, but he couldn't help but said with a little worry,

"You said this Xie Wenyuan, he is smart and resourceful, and now he is acting more recklessly. After he is done with his troubles outside, he won't come back to cause trouble again, right?"

"The world outside is so big. After we have dealt with Chu, there are other places to go. After we have dealt with the Central Plains, there are overseas."

Ye Qingzhi told Xie Jin not to worry, but also gave him some advice.

“Although Xie Wenyuan is a little crazy and likes to do different bad things, he still has feelings in his heart.

He has admiration for the Emperor, a father-son relationship with Hongbao, a brotherly love for His Highness, a sense of responsibility towards the country and people of Great Zhao, and even a desire to make up for the mistakes he made in his previous life.

For a capable person like Xie Wenyuan, on the one hand, you should not restrict him and give him absolute trust and power, and on the other hand, you should also give him a certain emotional belonging.

We need to make him understand that when he is having fun out there, every time he looks back, there is a group of relatives and friends who are supporting him, thinking about him, and welcoming him back at any time.

This is like the string that flies a kite. With these emotions, no matter how crazy he is, he will be held in the hand of His Highness and will not come back to go crazy.

So, Your Highness, why don’t you think about it, Xie Wenyuan has given Your Highness such a great gift, how should you repay him, how should you give him the emotional needs, and how should you hold the thread in your hand well. "

Upon hearing this, Xie Jin suddenly had an epiphany and fell into deep thought.

After a while, Xie Jin had some ideas and asked Ye Qingzhi,

"His identity cannot be revealed yet. In addition to providing him with the necessary resources, how about crediting his achievement to Hong Bao?"

"Okay!" Ye Qingzhi nodded with a smile, "I think he will like it."

-

The next day was the Lantern Festival.

Today is a festival, so there will be no early court session.

After finishing breakfast and dealing with some urgent government affairs, Xie Jin personally brought the special gift box to the imperial study to ask for an audience with his father.

I didn't expect that Prince Su would be here so early in the morning.

Prince Su entered the palace early in the morning to deliver dumplings to the emperor, which he and Mu Nianqiu had made yesterday.

Since it’s made by myself, it still has some meaning, so I took it to the palace and gave it to the emperor to taste.

The emperor was very happy to receive the filial piety from his younger brother. The two chatted about family matters and were all smiles.

"Greetings to the Emperor, Father, and Uncle." Xie Jin greeted the two men, wished them a happy holiday, and then smiled and said to them,

"I have a special gift for my father and uncle."

"Oh? What is it?" the emperor asked with great interest.

Prince Su looked directly at the gift box in his hand. He felt that the size and packaging of the gift box seemed familiar, but he couldn't remember it for a while.

"Please ask your Majesty to dismiss the others." Xie Jin said with a smile, "This gift is very mysterious."

The emperor asked the other eunuchs and palace maids to leave. For a moment, only a few of them and the chief steward were left in the imperial study.

Xie Jin put the gift box on the desk, and before opening it, he smiled and explained to the emperor,

"Father, this is actually Xie Wenyuan's Lantern Festival gift to you. He wrote it in a mysterious way in the letter and didn't say what it was. He just said it was very appropriate for the occasion and it was a token of his filial piety."

"A gift from Wenyuan? I have to see what it is. This kid is becoming more and more thoughtful."

The emperor's eyes brightened, full of anticipation, and he couldn't wait to open the box himself.

However…….

"Ouch!"

The emperor was caught off guard. When he saw that there was a human head inside, he couldn't help but scream in fear, his hands trembled, and he stepped back.

Prince Su was standing next to the emperor. He was not frightened by the head, but was shaken by the emperor's shout. Then he looked at the emperor speechlessly and said,

"Brother, it's just a head, what's the big deal! You're screaming like a woman.

Have you been living a life of luxury these years and have you forgotten how to kill enemies on the battlefield?"

"How can it be the same! How can it be the same!" The emperor angrily slapped his annoying brother on the shoulder, trying to save face for himself.

"This is a malicious scare! I never thought there would be a human head inside!"

If the emperor had been told in advance that there was a human head inside, he would definitely not have been afraid.

However, in order to achieve this frightening effect, Xie Jin also created a warm atmosphere in advance, which completely broke the emperor's defenses.

"What?! It's actually a human head!" Xie Jin suppressed his laughter and pretended to be surprised, while condemning him.

"Why did Xie Wenyuan send a human head to my father as a Lantern Festival gift? He even said it looked like a glutinous rice dumpling and was very suitable for the occasion. He is really becoming more and more unruly."

The emperor's face turned pale and he said nothing. He felt that he had been fooled and that he had lost all face.

It's so suffocating!

He looked at the prince, and for a moment, he felt that the prince was up to something bad.

However, thinking about the prince's daily words and deeds, the emperor felt that it was unfair to think so and it was wrong.

Prince Su looked at the head carefully and saw that it was a young man, so he asked Xie Jin curiously,

"Whose head is this? To have that evildoer send it here, he must be of high status."

That disaster refers specifically to Xie Wenyuan.

"In the letter, he said that he had plotted to kill the crown prince of King Wei, Prince Rui, and then planned to take advantage of the King Wei's loss of his beloved son and become his most trusted adviser, so as to achieve his goal of controlling the King Wei."

Xie Jin said with a serious face,

"This head must belong to Prince Rui."

"He controls the King of Wei? That's awesome!" King Su knew who held the upper power in the State of Chu and was no stranger to the King of Wei.

Therefore, after hearing the news, Prince Su was shocked and stopped calling Xie Wenyuan a disaster. He couldn't help but praise him,

"He is indeed capable. It is absolutely right to let him go to Chu! When the two countries fight again, I believe that with Wen Yuan's support in Chu, we will definitely win."

The emperor nodded, his expression no longer as gloomy as before and he seemed to have calmed down a lot.

Although the former prince was a little crazy and didn't like to follow the rules, he was very good in other aspects.

"He also said that he planned to use Princess An Ning of Chu to marry into the Nanzhao Kingdom and then take control of an army of Nanzhao.

He didn't specify what he was going to do in the letter, but let him do it anyway, as long as he doesn't do it in our house."

Xie Jin spoke again.

emperor,……

Prince Su,...

What the prince said was so true; it touched their hearts!

"Ahem, his political achievements are remarkable. In just half a year, he has already controlled the King of Wei and established another connection with the marriage alliance with Nanzhao."

The emperor cleared his throat and began his closing statement.

"Others who went to the State of Chu could only gather some peripheral intelligence, but he went straight to the lair and captured the king first. Not bad, not bad!"

"Then father, please give him some reward?" Xie Jin took the opportunity to attack the enemy and immediately revealed the real purpose of this trip.

The emperor was stunned by the question and said, "Yes, I can give a reward."

But what reward could he give since Xie Wenyuan was not there for him.

"You can give a reward, but what should it be?" the emperor asked Xie Jin.

"Then give it to Hongbao. The child is almost ten years old. Confer him the title of a prince and give him a mansion, all the fiefdoms and salaries." Xie Jin said.

"Okay." The emperor frowned when he thought of his eldest grandson who was becoming increasingly silent and sensible, and felt sorry for the child.

This year, when he and other imperial grandchildren came to wish him a happy new year, he no longer stood at the front, but took the initiative to stand in the corner, at the back.

It was only when he took the initiative and called him to the front that the child came forward obediently, spoke politely, and stopped acting like a spoiled child to him.

However, it was his father who was wrong, not the child.

He fell from the position of Crown Prince and became the legitimate son of a guilty prince, and almost had to bear all the faults of his father.

Although Mingyu and the others protected him on a daily basis, the servants in the palace would not bully him openly, but they would not respect and praise him as much as before.

It's different after all.

Giving him the status of a prince was to strip him of his identity as the son of the guilty crown prince, and it was a re-recognition and acceptance of him.

"Also, don't keep Xie Wenyuan's wives and concubines locked up forever. They have no power and no followers, so they can't cause any trouble." Xie Jin said.

The emperor had no objection to this.

However, in order to pardon the guilty prince's wives and concubines with such fanfare and grant Xie Hongbao the title of Prince, one must give the people of the world a convincing reason.

The former prince's achievements in the State of Chu are unspeakable.

"If you want to find an excuse, it's easy. Just put all the credit on Hongbao." Xie Jin started to tell the story.

"Today happens to be the Lantern Festival, and we have a dinner party tonight, so we must serve glutinous rice balls. Father doesn't want to eat glutinous rice balls, so he gave them to Hongbao.

But unexpectedly, the glutinous rice balls were poisonous. Hongbao fell to the ground due to poisoning after eating them, thus warding off disaster for his father.

Father has pity on him and wants to make him a prince, and also pardon his mother. Isn't that very reasonable?"

emperor,……

Prince, you said it very well!

I really don’t want to eat a single glutinous rice ball at the Lantern Festival banquet tonight!

The story is good and makes sense.