People have been quiet and honest all their lives, and only one of their descendants later became a Fengguo general. A rebel king, even the biological son of the current emperor, would stir up chaos in the world. The descendants were not deposed as common people, but were actually given a title. Wouldn't that be the most ridiculous thing in the world? At least until the matter cools down completely, whatever the emperor does is inappropriate.
In fact, both the emperor in Jingzhao and Huang Qiong in Zhengzhou knew it clearly. Regardless of the true cause of this rebellion, whether identified or not. For the sake of the stability of the court, even for the sake of the emperor's face, the true inside story cannot be made public. In other words, even if King Jing's rebellion was completely passive this time, the matter would end there.
If the world knew that the rebellion of the emperor's two sons was secretly manipulated and controlled by another son, then where would the court's face be and where would the Tian family's prestige be? So even if the two kings are deeply wronged now, they have to endure it for the time being. Of course, Huang Qiong knew the real reason, and the emperor would definitely investigate it secretly.
If this matter is not verified, the emperor may not even be able to sleep. But this matter can only become the privacy of Tianjia forever, at least on the surface it ends there. And no matter what the real reason is, it is impossible for the emperor to give his grandson too high treatment at the moment. Even if it is to maintain the apparent truth, no treatment will be given.
According to the practice of previous dynasties, there are only two outcomes for being the son of a rebellious clan. One is a lifelong confinement, which means that the rest of this life will be spent within those four high walls. The other one is that the older ones will be put to death and the younger ones will be sent away. Whether they can survive or not depends on their own lives. If he can survive until the next emperor ascends the throne, he may be restored to his clan status and given an official position.
But this has a prerequisite, that is, their father was wronged and the next emperor is willing to vindicate him. Otherwise, you will only be a commoner in this life. Just like the four sons of Li Ke, the third son of the former Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, their due treatment was not restored until their cousins ascended the throne for the second time. Otherwise, we can only spend the rest of our lives smelling the miasma in Lingnan.
According to past practice, even the emperor finally found out the cause. When the limelight is over, the most they can do is give him the title of county duke as compensation. However, Huang Qiong felt that the title of the Duke was not intended to be compensated by the emperor himself, but was reserved as a reward for the next emperor.
Because this is the best guarantee for King Jing's children. When I, the emperor, am on the throne, at least Prince Jing's children will not suffer too much grievance. But once his imperial grandfather is gone, this title will become very important. In addition to ensuring their lives, it is more important to save their lives.
And Huang Qiong saw through this and finally understood the painstaking efforts of his emperor and his second brother. A county prince, not even a county king. It is very possible that my emperor, I, was showing weakness to my group of tiger and wolf sons. What I, the emperor, mean is, no matter what happens here, your second brother, I have already reached this point.
I only gave it to a prince who doesn’t even have bodyguards or soldiers, and also has a lot of fiefdoms, so he definitely can’t threaten you. No matter who of you takes the throne from now on, he will leave some blood to your second brother. Your second brother is gone, he is just a county official, just giving them a guarantee. I'll sell this favor to you, so please show your respect and don't kill them all.
And his second brother committed suicide by taking poison, which may not necessarily have this meaning. If he returns to Beijing alive, the emperor may allow him to commit suicide. But judging from Huang Qiong's understanding of the emperor's character, Huang Qiong knew that this was unlikely. Especially this second brother is the legitimate son of Queen Daxing. Even for the sake of Queen Daxing, the emperor couldn't do anything too cruel.
The most likely punishment is expulsion from the clan and permanent imprisonment. And this confinement is not just him being imprisoned, but everyone in the entire Prince Jing's Mansion will be imprisoned together. Maybe the girls among them won't, but all the sons can't escape the fate of living with a high wall for the rest of their lives.
No matter who succeeds to the throne in the future, even if King Jing is not killed, this family will not be released again. In other words, it was not only King Jing himself who was imprisoned for life, but also his sons. At most, after King Jing's death, his sons were deposed as commoners and kicked out of the clan. By then, a magistrate would be enough to kill them without the emperor taking action himself.
And now King Jing has committed suicide, which means that the culprit has been eliminated. The sons are not very old and have not been involved in the rebellion. Coupled with the emperor's tendency to embrace grandchildren but not sons, the clan might not necessarily be expelled, and imprisonment was even more impossible. As for what the next emperor will do, King Jing is powerless. Being able to do this is already his limit.
As he said himself, it depends on their own fate. After thinking about this, Huang Qiong could only lament that his second brother was not a good son, let alone a good husband, but he was still a good father. Even though he did his best to everyone, he still couldn't do anything to his own son.
Even until he died, he was still trying his best to save his son's life. It can even be said that he exchanged his own life for his son's freedom, or simply said, it was his life. And my own emperor, I, must have worked hard. For the sake of these grandchildren, although he didn't say it clearly on the surface, he bowed to his sons in private, which was not an ordinary well-intentioned thing.
But what Huang Qiong didn't understand was that he vaguely felt that the emperor's bow this time seemed to be bowing to him. After all, the effect of this treatment will probably be better after I return to Beijing with Wang Jing's family and his family. Now that he is still serving as the envoy to Zhengzhou, he announced it in a hurry, as if he was deliberately doing it for himself.
However, although he did not understand the reason why the emperor did this, Huang Qiong recognized this amount. He thought that these were enough for the princes and daughters to continue living a life of fine clothing and fine food. No matter how much, the clan members who are as greedy as wolves and their uncles who are equally greedy and even have weird thoughts may not be able to survive.
Although two thousand hectares is not too much, it is definitely not too little. If you manage it yourself, at least you won't be able to collect 60% of the land rent. If everything follows the laws of the imperial court, it will be a good thing for the people in the fiefdom. Although taxes may not have been reduced much, at least the burden of corvee work has been greatly reduced.
As for this division, it is because King Jing not only has the eldest son, but also has other children. They were all given to him, what about the other children? Especially the biological mother of Wang's eldest son, she was the kind of person who was mean and greedy, and was not someone who generally cared about her family. Huang Qiong had a very bad impression of the biological mother of Wang's eldest son.
If you give him too much, I'm afraid that all the money will be transferred to her parents' house. For other children, a big boy may not be able to get it. They are all descendants of the Tian family, children born of the same father. Huang Qiong treated all children equally regardless of whether they were legitimate or concubine children. What's more, although the eldest son of the king is now named Lin Hanyan, he is not his legitimate son.
Besides, Huang Qiong still has to observe whether the eldest son of the king can take on the responsibility of the patriarch of a large family. When he can really reach the point where his eldest brother becomes his father, Huang Qiong will not fail to consider other things. But at least for now, Huang Qiong still has to leave some backup. After doing this, Huang Qiong felt that he was benevolent and righteous, plus fair.
It can be regarded as a relatively satisfactory explanation for his second brother. But Huang Qiong didn't know that for his arrangement, the eldest son Wang, under the instigation of his biological mother, did not express his position on the surface, but privately he did not approve of it. It could even be said that he felt abnormal disgust and rejection in his heart.
Because in the eyes of his biological mother, since he is the eldest son of the king, he will be the undisputed leader of the clan after his father's death. The wealth left by King Jing can only be left to him alone. There is no doubt that it is impossible for King Jing's title to be passed down. But he can be regarded as the emperor's direct grandson. Even if he is implicated again, at least he will not be able to escape the title of a county king.
As for how to divide the other brothers and sisters, this is a matter for him, the eldest son of the king, and the current patriarch of King Jing. At least Huang Qiong, the uncle, was not qualified to intervene at all. Now, he only gave his mother and son 40% of the income. Isn't this a clear slap in the face of him, the eldest son of the king, or simply saying that he looks down on him, the eldest son of the king?
There is also my aunt, who didn't even give birth to a child, but she took care of everything in the house. Not to mention my mother, even I, the eldest son of the king, have nothing to do with it. He was always finding fault with his mother, suppressing his biological mother everywhere, and not taking his eldest son seriously at all, which made him extremely jealous.
As the saying goes, "fighting for favor and raising hatred for rice", Huang Qiong never thought that the treatment she had worked so hard to get for him would not only fail to make her nephew grateful, but would instead make him resentful. After discovering the affair between Huang Qiong and Princess Jing, he even resented his aunt. Under the instigation of his biological mother, he believed that all this was instigated by his hateful aunt.
It's just that this king's eldest son is, after all, King Jing's biological son. Moreover, Huang Qiong, the second brother, had no legitimate son when he was alive. The son he loves most is now his younger brother. There is no way to recognize him except that he is sitting on the throne of God. I have put a lot of hard work into educating my eldest son.
The eldest son of the king is much more scheming than his mother who is basically brainless except for provocation. Although she was extremely resentful towards Huang Qiong, the ninth uncle, and Lin Hanyan, the aunt. But he clearly knew that he now had no ability to compete with his ninth uncle and his aunt who had the support of his ninth uncle.
He suppressed all his hatred in his heart and did not show it. Not only did he not show any performance when facing Huang Qiong and his aunt alone. He even showed more respect for his ninth uncle and aunt, at least on the surface, than before. But he didn't know that Huang Qiong didn't care much about the performance of his eldest son.
Apart from testing his academic performance every day, Huang Qiong had little contact with him on weekdays, and even deliberately avoided contact with him. Moreover, the test of academic performance is not just for him. All the sons of King Jing who have already tied up their hair and are studying, Huang Qiong has to take the exam every day. Because this was the emperor's request, Huang Qiong was helpless.
Unlike other emperors of the Qi Dynasty, they did not attach much importance to their children's education. Even the education of the prince was a hammer in the east and a stick in the west. Huang Qiong, the emperor, attaches great importance to the study of his children and grandchildren. On the second day after Huang Qiong arrived in Zhengzhou, he received a secret order, requiring him to immediately resume the studies of Prince Jing and his daughter, and requiring him to conduct school examinations in person every day.
