Emperor of the Red Chamber

Chapter 66: Not a prince, but actually a prince

When everyone learned that Yuan Qingbai had moved into the Yuqing Palace, the crown prince's palace, they all thought that Yuan Qingbai would be appointed as the crown prince by Emperor Chengtai.

However, just three days later, Emperor Chengtai announced that he would establish the crown prince without any explanation, and would adopt a secret method of establishing the crown prince.

On the eleventh day of the first lunar month, Emperor Chengtai canonized the former ninth prince Yuan Siluo as Prince Zhongzhi. The meaning of "zhi" is justice and integrity.

Yuan Siluo became the first prince personally canonized by Emperor Chengtai.

The princes canonized by Emperor Jing'an all started with the word "righteousness", such as Prince Yiqin and Prince Yizhi.

The princes canonized by Emperor Chengtai all started with the word "loyalty".

A few days later, Emperor Chengtai conferred the title of two more county princes at once.

Yuan Qingliang was canonized as the virtuous prince.

The third son of the emperor, Yuan Qingbai, was granted the title of King of Wu Commandery.

Yuan Qingbai was only secretly made the Crown Prince, and Emperor Chengtai publicly named him Prince Wu. There was no contradiction between the two.

This is what Emperor Jing'an asked Emperor Chengtai to do.

According to Emperor Jing'an: "He was still granted the title of Prince of the County, and was given the order to familiarize himself with political affairs in order to broaden his knowledge."

A few days later, Emperor Chengtai promoted another prince.

This time the Jin Dynasty granted the title to the former fourth prince Yuan Sishu.

Yuan Sishu was originally the king of Shun County, but this time he was granted the title of Prince Zhongshun by the Jin Dynasty.

In fact, this was also one of the explanations given by Emperor Jing'an to Emperor Chengtai.

This Prince of Shun County was good at literature, calligraphy, and archery. He could be said to be capable of writing and martial arts.

He also had certain scientific literacy. Emperor Jing'an once personally explained geometry to him, and also asked him to learn the knowledge of laws and regulations from missionaries. He also asked him to preside over the determination of the height of the North Pole. He was also ordered to preside over the compilation of books on laws and regulations, calendars, and algorithms. The completed book was titled "The Origin of Laws and Calendars" by Emperor Jing'an. He also initiated the editing of "Collection of Ancient and Modern Books"...

In addition, Emperor Jing'an once took him with him when he was on a personal expedition, and he also achieved military exploits.

It's just that Prince Shun also has something wrong with him.

He liked to make friends with literati, sing about the wind and the moon, listen to operas obsessively, and raised many actors.

He was also not good at etiquette. For example, he once failed to observe the funeral etiquette regulations during the hundred days of mourning for a concubine of Emperor Jing'an...

It was precisely because of these shortcomings that Emperor Jing'an only granted him the title of Prince Shun, but he still held a great deal of weight in Emperor Jing'an's heart.

Emperor Jing'an really didn't want to see his sons fighting anymore.

When Yuan Qingbai learned that Prince Shun was granted the title of Prince Zhongshun by the Jin Dynasty, he sighed in his heart: "Sure enough!"

When he first traveled through time, he was reminded of Prince Zhongshun in the original work by Prince Shun, and speculated that this fourth uncle might be named Prince Zhongshun by the Jin Dynasty in the future.

The current facts confirm his speculation.

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In the first month of the first year of Chengtai, there was a saying circulating in the Great Zhou Dynasty.

This sentence is: "Not a prince, but actually a prince!"

Obviously, this sentence is talking about Yuan Qingbai, which means that although Yuan Qingbai was not officially appointed as the prince, he should be the prince secretly appointed by Emperor Chengtai.

Some people are happy about this, such as Yuan Qingbai's female relatives, such as Jia's family...

There are also people who are angry about this, such as Xiahou and Yuan Qingzhe, such as Yuan Qingtang...

There is another person who doesn't know whether he should be happy or sad. This person is Wang Ziteng.

Wang Ziteng has been the deputy general of the Beijing camp for three years. Three years ago, he had planned that when Emperor Jing'an dies and the third prince succeeds to the throne, he will use the Rongguo Mansion to allocate her beautiful niece Wang Xifeng to Yuan Qingbai. In this way, Wang Xifeng will most likely be a side concubine, and most likely even a noble concubine in the future. Even the imperial concubine.

For this reason, he gave up the idea of ​​betrothing Wang Xifeng to Jia Lian of Rongguo Mansion.

Just last year, Jia Lian was engaged to be married to the eldest daughter of Zhen Mansion in Jiangnan, Zhen Baofen, the eldest daughter of Zhen Yingjia, the head of the Zhen Mansion.

This Zhen Mansion is not simple!
Zhen Yingjia's grandmother was once the nanny of Emperor Jing'an, and was called "my old man" by Emperor Jing'an.

Zhen Yingjia's father once served as Emperor Jing'an's companion, imperial bodyguard, and doctor in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. He was later appointed by Emperor Jing'an to Suzhou Weaving, and later to Jiangning Weaving. After his death, his son Zhen Yingjia took over as Jiangning Weaving. .

Emperor Jing'an went to the south of the Yangtze River several times, and the Zhen Mansion picked him up four times. His money was spent like water, but he also suffered an astonishing deficit.

Three-year Prospects Emperor An asked the third prince at that time to check the deficit and gave a list of some exceptions. The first one Emperor Jing'an named was the Jiangnan Zhen family.

Jia Mansion and Jiangnan Zhen Mansion are old relatives and family friends.

The third prince's inventory deficit frightened Zhen Yingjia, because the Zhen Mansion was unable to repay the staggering amount of deficit. Fortunately, the third prince did not threaten the Zhen Mansion, and Zhen Yingjia knew that Emperor Jing'an was taking care of the Zhen Mansion.

And when Zhen Yingjia heard the news that the third prince had the highest chance of succeeding, she was frightened. She was worried that once Emperor Jing'an died and the third prince succeeded to the throne, the third prince would be cruel to the Zhen family.

what to do? We must find a way, we cannot wait to die.

Zhen Yingjia then thought of a way, which was to betroth her eldest daughter Zhen Baofen to Jia Lian of Rongguo Mansion, so as to deepen the relationship between Zhen Mansion and Jia Mansion.

Because Jia Yuanchun has been married to Yuan Qingbai by Emperor Jing'an, Yuan Qingbai is the son of the third prince and will most likely be the next emperor.

In this way, when Emperor Jing'an dies and the third prince ascends the throne, he may not deal with the Zhen Mansion because of the relationship with the Rongguo Mansion. Even if the third prince still has to deal with the Zhen Mansion, the Zhen Mansion can still let Jia Yuanchun intercede with Yuan Qingbai. .

Zhen Yingjia felt that this method was very good, so she specially arranged for her eldest daughter Zhen Baofen to go to Beijing to meet Jia's mother, proposed an engagement to Jia She, and also gave Jia She a large sum of money.

Jia She was greedy and greedy for money. With such a large sum of money, and the other party being the eldest daughter of the Zhen family, he naturally agreed to the marriage.

Seeing that Zhen Baofen looked good and was the eldest daughter of the Zhen family, Jia Mu agreed.

In this way, Jia Lian and Zhen Baofen got engaged last year.

Now that Jia Lian is engaged, Wang Ziteng can no longer betroth Wang Xifeng to him, and is more determined to betroth Wang Xifeng to Yuan Qingbai.

However, when Emperor Jing'an was still alive, it was inconvenient for Wang Ziteng to allocate Wang Xifeng to Yuan Qingbai.

Because Wang Ziteng was a close confidant of Emperor Jing'an, Emperor Jing'an also warned him that he should learn from Jia Daishan and do his best to serve Emperor Jing'an loyally and never have any evil intentions.

Under such circumstances, how could Wang Ziteng allocate Wang Xifeng to Yuan Qingbai? This would make Emperor Jing'an think that Wang Ziteng couldn't wait to join the third prince.

The third prince would probably not accept this kind of thing.

But even though Emperor Jing'an was already old, he was still strong and strong.

But now, Emperor Jing'an actually gave the throne to the third prince, who became Emperor Chengtai, and Yuan Qingbai was not the prince but actually the prince.

This made Wang Ziteng not sure whether he should be happy or sad.

Fortunately, the third prince succeeded to the throne, and Yuan Qingbai really wanted to be the emperor.

What is worrying is that Emperor Jing'an has become the Supreme Emperor and has not yet passed away. Wang Ziteng still has trouble allocating Wang Xifeng to Yuan Qingbai.

Wang Xifeng is the same age as Yuan Chun, and this year she is in her late teens and has reached adulthood.

If Emperor Jing'an lived for several years without dying, wouldn't he have to make Wang Xifeng wait until he was twenty years old?

In this era, it is rare for a girl from a wealthy family to be over twenty years old and not yet married. She can already be regarded as an "old girl".

If Wang Xifeng is not assigned to Yuan Qingbai, who can she be assigned to?

Although the Wang family is wealthy, it is also limited. Wang Ziteng is very ambitious, especially when he sees that the third prince has become the emperor. Yuan Qingbai is not the prince but the prince. He is not a particularly impressive wealthy man marrying Wang Xifeng as his wife. Wang Ziteng is not happy. Yes, how could a wealthy and powerful young man marry Wang Xifeng as his wife?

The prince is anxious...

(End of this chapter)