Fortunate Young Gentleman

Emperor Chen is the emperor to Tang Ning, but he is a father to Zhao Man. It is indeed a cruel thing to know that her father is a cold-blooded and terrible person.

Tang Ning accompanied her for a whole day, and her mood improved a little.

In the next two days, Tang Ning specially collected some secrets from the previous era. With his current identity and status, it is not difficult to collect these news.

After sorting them out, Tang Ning unexpectedly discovered that there were indeed some things he didn't know before Emperor Chen ascended the throne.

The court is full of twists and turns. In a year or even half a year, there may be a major reshuffle.

A year ago, the Tang family was in its heyday, and Feng Xiang and the Jiangnan party firmly controlled the government. Now, in just one year, the Tang family has completely fallen, Feng Xiang has retired and returned to his hometown, and nearly half of the Jiangnan officials have been lost. The court has changed.

It was still like this a year ago, and the court more than 20 years ago was very different from today.

Even the Tang family was not the top family in Beijing more than 20 years ago. Those powerful and wealthy families were divided among the three princes and fought each other in the court.

More than 20 years ago, Emperor Chen, like Zhao Yuan, was just an extremely marginalized prince. In terms of status and power in the eyes of the previous emperor, he was far inferior to Zhao Yuan.

Such a lineup, even with the Tang family, would obviously not be taken seriously by the other three princes.

Tang Ning could see from some clues that it was probably not just the Tang family that helped Emperor Chen at that time.

When he was still a prince, he married Xiao Jue's sister, and not long after he ascended the throne, he successively took Concubine Zhang Xian, Concubine Fang Shu, and Concubine Tang Hui into the harem.

From the process of Emperor Chen ascending the throne, Tang Ning saw not only the shadow of the Tang family, but also the shadow of the Xiao family, the Zhang family, the Fang family...

Tang Ning could finally clear himself of some of his influence on Zhao Yuan. This was not a case of "like master, like disciple", but a family gene. Twenty years ago, Emperor Chen relied on several fathers-in-law to inherit the throne, and twenty years later, Zhao Yuan finally embarked on a similar path as him.

In addition, Tang Ning also discovered some other things.

Not long after the Tang family quietly stood in line, the third prince, who was active in the court at the time, was demoted to a commoner and expelled from the capital because of a serious political mistake, and his whereabouts were unknown from then on.

In the following year, the powerful and wealthy families in the capital that originally belonged to the other two princes were erased one by one for various reasons, until September of the following year, when the prince accidentally fell into the water and drowned, and the second prince, Prince Su, contracted a serious illness and died suddenly in the mansion in less than half a month.

For this black September, the history books recorded it like this.

In the autumn of the 16th year, the crown prince Rui drowned, and the prince Qi of Su died of an illness. The emperor was very sad and died in Yonghe Hall on the 26th.

The crown prince, the prince of Su, and the previous emperor died one after another. After Emperor Chen succeeded to the throne, after the period of mourning, he married the legitimate daughters of the Tang, Fang, and Zhang families. Among them, Concubine Tang Hui was the most favored.

Before he ascended the throne, he already had two concubines. One was Xiao Jue's sister, the then Princess of Qin, and the other was Concubine Yang, the mother of King Huai. Concubine Yang was just a commoner. In order to marry her, Emperor Chen seemed to have a very unhappy relationship with the previous emperor. It can be seen that he still liked Concubine Yang very much.

However, after ascending the throne, Concubine Tang Hui was favored alone, and even the queen had to give her three points.

When Emperor Chen was still the King of Qin, he had a son with the queen, but he died a year before he ascended the throne. After that, the queen was diagnosed as infertile by the imperial physician. The concubines in the harem tried their best to give birth to a dragon son.

Among them, Concubine Shu did not fight, and Concubine Zhang and Concubine Tang Hui fought the most fiercely. However, no one expected that Concubine Yang was the first to get pregnant. Later, Concubine Yang accidentally miscarried, and Concubine Zhang and Concubine Tang Hui became pregnant at the same time. After another year, Concubine Yang became pregnant again and gave birth to Prince Huai.

Then, Concubine Yang died of illness, and Prince Huai was adopted by the Queen. After the Queen died of illness, Concubine Zhang, Concubine Tang Hui, and Concubine Fang Shu were the most noble in the harem, and the balance has continued to this day.

There are not many descriptions of the dispute in the harem of Queen Chen in the data. The Tang family, the Fang family, and the Zhang family all helped Emperor Chen and participated in the fight for the throne. After the success, it was normal for them to compete for their own interests.

After understanding this history, Tang Ning destroyed the data.

There is no doubt that the Tang family contributed the most to Emperor Chen's succession, but this is a different time. Judging from the current situation, Zhao Yuan taking over his position is the best choice for Emperor Chen.

…

In the imperial study room.

After reviewing the memorials, Emperor Chen leaned over and slept for a while, but suddenly woke up at a certain moment.

Wei Jian hurriedly stepped forward, took out a handkerchief, wiped the cold sweat on his forehead, and asked with concern: "Your Majesty, are you having a nightmare again?"

Emperor Chen leaned back in his chair, his chest heaving, breathing slightly, and calmed down after a while, muttering: "It's been more than 20 years, and they still won't let me go?"

As he finished speaking, there was a sound at the door of the imperial study, and Zhao Yuan walked in with a soup bowl.

Zhao Yuan brought soup to Emperor Chen every day, and read in the palace.

Emperor Chen picked up the spoon, drank a mouthful of soup, looked at him, and asked, "Is "Zizhi Tongjian" difficult?"

Zhao Yuan nodded and said, "It is a little difficult, but Yuan'er will work hard."

After he finished speaking, he looked at Emperor Chen and said, "Mother said that father often had nightmares these days. I put some Polygala in the hall. The imperial physician said that it has a calming effect. Father will not have nightmares after drinking the soup."

For more than 20 years, he has often had this nightmare. He has tried all kinds of methods but nothing worked. How could a mere Polygala work?

Emperor Chen still smiled and asked, "Yuan'er has been out of the palace less these days, and you haven't seen the little girls from the Zhang family, the Wang family, and the Bai family, right?"

Zhao Yuan sighed leisurely and said: "Studying is important..."

A smile appeared on Chen Huang's face and he said: "These three little girls are all good. After two years, my father will decree that they all marry you, okay?"

Bada.

The spoon in Zhao Yuan's hand fell into the bowl. He raised his head and hesitated: "Can, is it okay?"

Chen Huang patted him on the shoulder and said, "As long as you want, there's nothing you can't do."

…

Emperor Chen felt that Zhao Yuan was working hard at studying, so he specifically asked him to take one day off every three days. After Zhao Yuan left the palace, he stayed in the Tang family for a while, and he didn't know whether to go to the Wang family, the Zhang family, or the Bai family.

There was also a eunuch in the palace who came out of the palace with him. The imperial court formulated a preliminary method to streamline the tax system. Emperor Chen asked him and King Huai to take another look and finalize the matter as soon as possible.

Tang Ning browsed through it. She originally wanted to go to Prince Huai's Mansion and discuss several places with Prince Huai. When she was about to leave the mansion, she suddenly thought of something. She walked back and asked Xiu'er, "Xiu'er, what day is today?"

Xiu'er thought for a while and said: "The sixth day of the lunar month."

"It's the sixth day of November..." Tangning murmured, shook her head, turned around and walked back.

You can find King Huai anytime, but not today. He saw from the information two days ago that today is the death anniversary of Concubine Yang.

The capital, outside the city.

Every emperor in the past dynasties would choose a geomantic treasure place for himself as an imperial mausoleum. The imperial mausoleum of the contemporary Emperor Chen was selected twenty years ago. The late empress and Concubine Yang were buried here.

Nanshan, among the imperial mausoleums, in front of a certain mausoleum.

King Huai carefully cleared away the few weeds next to the tomb, and wiped the stone tablet in front of the tomb spotless.

After doing this, he walked to another tomb and did what he had just done again.

Then, he stood quietly next to the tomb. After an unknown amount of time, a middle-aged man came from behind, put down the food box in his hand, and placed several plates of pastries on the stone steps.

He stood in front of the mausoleum, touched his slightly plump belly, and said with a smile: "These are the foods she used to like. It has been more than 20 years, and I don't know if her taste has changed."

King Huai looked forward and said, "It has been more than twenty years..."

The middle-aged man said: "Twenty-two years."

"It's been twenty-two years." King Huai looked back, smiled somewhat self-deprecatingly, and said: "In twenty-two years, all the people who didn't deserve to die have died, and the people who deserved to die are still living well in this world. This is a What kind of world is this..."