Especially this male favorite, not only was he unusually talented in some aspects, but he also served the prince extremely comfortably in other aspects. Soon after entering the East Palace, he became the prince's favorite. I was so fascinated that I couldn't see the prince for a day, and my heart felt itchy and uncomfortable. It could be said that one day without seeing him was like three autumns.
Even if the palace is seriously ill at the moment, the prince needs to attend to his illness at any time. But the prince, who was obsessed with this male favorite, always looked for opportunities to sneak out and pamper this male favorite. The cries of his heart at this moment, especially the last words about not wanting to live anymore, simply made the prince's heart feel like a knife.
He looked at Lihua Daiyu, his most favored male favorite, lying on his lap, crying. The prince hugged him up in an unusually painful way. After a heart-warming meal, he said: "Don't worry, Gu will definitely avenge your brother's revenge. It's just that Gu's ninth brother can't do anything for the time being. , this matter will take some time.”
Patting the male favorite on the shoulder, the prince sneered: "Don't worry, even if there is no such thing as your brother, Gu's ninth brother, Gu will never let him live too long. It's just that Gu needs to deal with it more now. They are the other two serious troubles. As for the ninth brother who has no foundation in the palace or the court, taking his life is like picking something out of a bag."
"After Gu Gu has eliminated the other two serious troubles, he will be the first remaining one to be eliminated. As for now, it is not time to touch him yet. However, your brother cannot die in vain in his hands. He must be taken care of first. Isn't it a bit of interest? Didn't your brother fall in love with Mrs. Chen in his house? Then let that woman go down to accompany your brother first. "
"I heard that that woman grew up with him, almost like another relative of his. You have lost a younger brother, and Gu has also lost a relative. I will give it to you as a little compensation first. The rest is with Gu. Take care of him slowly. Don’t worry, Gu Yi always does what he says.”
"Don't worry about the incense in your house. You are not a purified eunuch. You only use your back. Isn't the rest of the place fine? As a woman in this other house, you can enjoy it as you like. . If that person gets pregnant and gives birth to a son and a half, won’t your family have a heir?"
After all, in order to prove that he was true to his word, the prince ordered two palace ladies to be summoned. He dragged this male favorite, together with the two palace maids, into his own bedroom in this house. The two eunuchs who were originally in the room were dumbfounded when they saw the prince's ridiculous move, and quickly and quietly retreated out.
The two eunuchs, who knew the prince's character, were afraid of being disturbed by others. Although he retreated, he did not dare to leave without permission. The two of them stood guard outside the door, blocking anyone who wanted to disturb the prince at this time. The two prince's confidants originally wanted to take this opportunity to discuss some matters with the prince, who rarely left the palace during this period.
He didn't want to, but the two eunuchs blocked the door desperately. The two aides, who also knew the prince's hobby, could only helplessly look at the door and shake their heads. The prince came back without discussing the matter first, but he did such a trick, which made the two aides somewhat disappointed and chilled.
Although the prince was not generally angry at Huang Qiong for not giving him face. And as a prince, he is not a fool after all. Regarding Huang Qiong's move, he immediately understood Huang Qiong's next intention. He knew that this matter was just the beginning, and the next step was to eliminate the people he had installed in his house one by one.
But for the current prince, he really has no intention of getting rid of his younger brother immediately just because of this incident. Although he did have some murderous intentions, this murderous intention was definitely not because of this male favorite. This male favorite's pear blossoms and rain only strengthened his idea.
To be precise, the prince's murderous intention towards Huang Qiong was caused by Huang Qiong taking the emperor to the homeless area two days ago. As for the reason, it is very simple. The Jingzhao Prefect is a direct descendant of the prince, and it was the prince who single-handedly deposed the Jingzhao Prefect and took over half of his money bag.
The prince is different from other princes who belong to the vassal. He does not have his own vassal land, and he has no financial resources other than his salary. He didn't need to move into a palace, let alone a vassal state, so he didn't even have the money that the emperor gave each prince to divide the family when the princes moved into the palace. In other words, even though he is the prince, before he takes the throne, he can at least use the money on the surface, that is, his salary.
Although this amount of money was an astronomical sum in the eyes of ordinary people, it was simply not enough for the prince. Fighting against several brothers who were spying on his position as prince, he needed money to win over officials. Enjoy it by yourself, it takes money to buy a separate house to raise a male pet. The most important thing is that cultivating some secret forces requires more money.
The current prince can be said to spend money like water all day long. Pointing to those salaries, they are not even a drop in the bucket. There was no land to scrape, and under the emperor's nose, he did not dare to be as bold as the brothers who had already conquered the vassal. They dared to do any business as long as they could make money.
The reason why he pushed Jing Zhaoyin to the position of Jing Zhaoyin after he was appointed to the official position in Wuchang was that besides placing his own people beside his pillow, the most important thing was that he expected him to come from the capital. , this place where the richest man in the world is worth a bowl of water, makes money for himself to make up for the shortfall.
After Jingzhao Yin took office, the prince directly regarded Jingzhao Mansion as his own money bag. Every year, the money and materials that Jing Zhaoyin gave him were at least two hundred thousand guan. This money can be said to have solved his great needs. And the reason why Jing Zhaoyin has been able to maintain his position as Jing Zhaoyin despite constant impeachment memorials in recent years.
Except for his father, Marquis of Wuchang, who was highly valued by the emperor, even if he became an official, he was not released back to his hometown, but was left in the capital to retire. From time to time, he was summoned to the palace to have heart-to-heart talks with the emperor. It also has a lot to do with the prince's efforts to protect it in recent years. Cutting off someone's money is like killing one's parents. If this money bag is threatened, the prince may really want to stop and kill the god.
Although the warning given by the emperor to Jing Zhaoyin that day was targeted, the prince, who knew that the emperor had become increasingly dissatisfied with him in recent years and had only been tolerant to him because of his seriously ill mother, was obviously very uneasy. He even suspected that the emperor already knew that he was making a lot of money in Jingzhao Mansion.
For the prince, making money in Jingzhao Mansion is not a big deal. But he was worried that once this matter was exposed, not only would his brothers who had been looking for excuses to attack him, they would bite him hard again, but it would also arouse his father's suspicion of him.
What is a prince? For other brothers who have become interested in reserve positions, they are the targets they want to move down. For the emperor, in addition to being the first successor, he is also the first target of prevention. There is something wrong with the prince, and if it reaches the emperor, it may be a big deal.
The matter of making money from Jingzhao Mansion may seem normal to others, but in the eyes of the emperor, it is absolutely abnormal. The prince is the crown prince of the country, which means that when the current emperor dies, the world will belong to him. Now that you have become the crown prince, the whole world in the future will be yours. What do you want with so much money?
Generally speaking, when the emperor learns about the prince making money, most of his first thoughts are that the prince wants to take over the throne in advance. The reason why the emperor thought this way was very simple. After most princes were appointed, whether intentionally or unintentionally, they were first regarded as a potential threat and opponent by the person who appointed them.
Throughout China's thousands of years of history, we cannot say that about all emperors, but most emperors tend to become more wary of the prince after appointing a prince. These emperors don't care what they do, even if they are a foolish and incompetent prince. That is to say, he wants the prince to become a talented person and become a wise king behind him.
However, he was wary of the prince's excessive prestige and power, which eventually led to him abdicating early in despair. Therefore, almost every emperor kept strict supervision over the princes he appointed. Once there is any trouble, not only will they be abolished at every turn, but they will even kill the wrong ones rather than let them go.
Especially since the beginning of the Sui Dynasty, those who were first established as princes almost never had a good ending. From Yang Yong, the prince of Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty, to Jiancheng, the prince of Emperor Gaozu of the Tang Dynasty. There was also the first female emperor of China who showed no mercy at all when she killed the prince. Even Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, who was known as the most wise emperor in ancient and modern times, also abolished the crown prince Cheng Qian he established.
As for Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, he executed the prince he appointed along with several other sons just because of an unfounded crime. Although the prince was appointed by himself, no emperor would really be soft-hearted once he felt that his imperial power was threatened. Even most emperors were unwilling to leave any room for abolishing exile.
This also means that most princes, before the day of inheriting the throne, live in fear, and there are not a few who are even forced to rebel. Although this prince had some indiscretions, after all, he was created by the emperor himself. From the day he entered school, his tutors were all first-level bachelors from the imperial court who were well-read in poetry and literature.
The prince could even say that he knew these bloody lessons learned from the past. In addition to these years of experience with the emperor, the emperor's mental skills have also been learned quite a bit. Although most of the time, it is not used in the right place. Although he cannot be said to be a master of mental tricks, at least he is not a mediocre person.
It was precisely because of these lessons learned that the prince felt unusually frightened after learning that the emperor might know about this matter. He was worried that the emperor would further deepen his dissatisfaction and even suspicion of himself. Especially when his biggest backstage in the palace, his biological mother, has reached the point where she is running out of gas.
As for how the emperor knew that Jingzhao Mansion collected money from the refugees, although the prince did not visit the scene in person, he could guess it through the news from Jingzhao Yin. And if he, the current prince, doesn't even have an informant around the emperor who can tell the truth, then he, the prince, has really failed.
Although he didn't know where the emperor went when he left the palace that day, he still knew that the emperor happened to be instigated by his ninth brother to go out of the palace incognito to relax on that day when those servants were unlucky. Coupled with the eunuch who was sent to prison, the prince could determine that the people who appeared at the refugee residence that day were the emperor and his party traveling incognito.
It was in the outer city and an extremely remote place in the capital. If no one took the emperor there, the emperor himself would not know that there was such a place in the capital, let alone go there on his own initiative. Except for his ninth brother, none of the guards and eunuchs who accompanied the emperor out of the palace dared to persuade the emperor to go there, unless they really didn't want to lose their heads.
