Poor family mother and son

Chapter 738 Useful or not ([-])

"You guys," Xiaobao said, "don't say anyone is stupid, none of you are smart, look at this bit of work for you to do!"

"This is the work of servants!" The tenth prince said, "We don't need to know it!"

The Eighth Prince also echoed: "That's right, it's not embarrassing enough to do these things! If I didn't want to play quickly, I wouldn't do these things!"

"Shame?" Xiao Bao gave him a white look: "Go and ask Mr. Confucius, does the old man feel ashamed of doing these things?"

"Of course it's embarrassing! Confucius is a saint!" said the tenth prince.

The Ninth Prince thought so too, but he wouldn't say it first.

"Your books are all in vain!" Xiaobao said, "Confucius said, 'I'm cheap when I'm young, so I can despise many things'. Confucius can do it. How do you think you are better than Confucius?"

The Ninth Prince answered at this time: "But Confucius also said that it was a 'despicable thing'."

Little Treasure: "Confucius said that it is a despicable thing in the eyes of the world, but it is not in his view. Otherwise, how could he refute Zi Gong's saying that he is "a general who is solid in the sky, but also capable?"? Admitting that he is a god Wouldn’t it be enough to be a general?”

The Ninth Prince was so blocked that he didn't know how to refute, Xiaobao said again: "My mother said: the sharp edge of a sword comes from sharpening, and the fragrance of plum blossoms comes from bitter cold;

My mother also said: How can you see a rainbow without going through wind and rain? No one can succeed casually! "

Uh……

The princes were silent for a while, and the ninth prince hummed: "Your mother can really talk!"

Little Treasure shook his index finger: "That's bad! Isn't Confucius more eloquent? How much has he said? The six classics of "Poetry", "Book", "Li", "Yue", "Yi", "Spring and Autumn" Woolen cloth!

This does not include the Confucius quotations collected by his students, ah, it is "The Analects". "

Sitting and talking about the mountains, Xiaobao was very leisurely.

The Ninth Prince snorted again: "You actually compared your mother with Confucius?!"

Xiaobao thought about it carefully, but did not refute: "You are right, my mother really can't compare with Confucius..."

Ninth Prince: "Hmph, it's better to be self-aware!"

Xiaobao: "What does it have to do with self-knowledge? I say they can't be compared, it's just that there is no comparison. One is engaged in education and the other is engaged in money. They have different occupations! But they have something in common!"

The Ninth Prince felt that Xiaobao was really shameless, and wanted to ridicule him, but Xiaobao had already continued: "They are all people who are useful to the country!"

Uh……

Now the tenth prince is not convinced again: "What's the use of your mother? If you know how to make gold and silver steamed buns, it's useful?"

If I didn't eat enough, I became heartbroken.

Xiaobao looked at the tenth prince with an expression of looking at a fool: "Does my mother want you to ask the emperor! The ninth prince is well said, people, you really have to have self-knowledge, you guys, you are useless, you also look at it." Not useful to others!"

This time, the hornet's nest was stabbed, and the six, seven, eight, and ninety princes all exploded and said in unison: "You are presumptuous!"

Because it was in the small garden, the children didn't have to worry about the volume, and they talked in a hurry, which was very noisy. Now that they were drinking together, the voice was even louder.

Attracted several older princes.

The second, fourth and fifth princes are already fifteen or sixteen years old. According to Daxuan's regulations, when they are 17 years old at the latest, they will be divided into princes.

But the emperor has never established a prince, so there is no theory of entrusting the king to divide the mansion.

This is one of the reasons why courtiers always compete with the emperor.

The emperor himself lost his mother when he was young. Although the mother family wanted to protect him, they were powerless. Compared with other princes, they had no power to contend.

If it weren't for the care of the current empress dowager and concubine Jing back then, it is estimated that he would not even have the chance to grow up.

Therefore, the emperor attached great importance to the relationship between the princes, and hoped that they would love each other and respect each other as brothers and friends.

But it is always unavoidable for a son to miss Laozi's family property, especially since Laozi is still the king of a country, so the heir of the family is also the heir of the world.

And the country must also have a crown prince-if something happens to the emperor, the dragons can't be headless, right?There must always be one candidate monarch.

With such a large family business and so many sons, it became a difficult problem who to choose as the prince.

Although the basic principle is "if there is a heir, there will be a heir, and if there is no heir, there will be an elder," but this principle is a simple and crude one based on the entanglement of "establishing the elder", "establishing the virtuous", or "establishing love". solutions, and are not applicable to the current situation.

The emperor currently has ten sons, except for the third son who is born to the empress, and the rest are born to concubines. When the empress entered the palace, the emperor was not even a prince. If it weren’t for Concubine Jing to Zhang Luo, the original emperor would not even be able to marry a daughter-in-law arrive.

Therefore, the queen's background is not high, and correspondingly, after entering the palace, she will not get any good treatment from the emperor, and is limited by the medical level, the emperor's treatment, her own background, etc., the queen's first child was miscarried.

After the emperor became the crown prince and accepted the side concubines, the side concubines gave birth to two princes, but the eldest was congenitally deficient, had a serious heart disease, and had been taking medicine since breastfeeding.

Later, the empress finally gave birth to the third prince, but when she was seven years old, she was caught in a cold and nearly killed her. Since then, she has also suffered from heart disease and is weak.

Here comes a problem. The second, third, fourth, and fifth princes are all old in terms of age. Even the fifth is 16 years old, but there is no way to establish a prince.

In terms of concubine, the third prince's health is not good; in terms of elders, the eldest prince's health is also not good; in terms of love, the emperor loves Princess Zhaohua more; in terms of virtue, the emperor doesn't notice any of them.

If the health is not good, it is very likely that one will die if one is established as a prince, why?If you are in poor health and want to be the crown prince, other brothers or their mother clans have to work hard to make you vacate the position?
The boss and the third child are weak, so neither the son nor the elder can be counted on. Find a "virtuous" from the remaining two, four, five princes. That is not the way a father looks at a son, but the way a leader looks at him. The eyes of the subordinates.

After looking around like this, I found that none of them would work, because the second, fourth, and fifth princes were too dependent on their mother clan, and their mother clan interfered a lot with the prince.

They are supporters of helping the emperor ascend to the throne, but their own family is not very powerful, so they always want to seek benefits from the emperor.

Such a prince is not strong on his own, even if a prince is established, he can only be a puppet in the hands of others.

Although the six, seven, eighty and ninety princes are younger, they have stronger personalities, which may have something to do with their mothers entering the palace after the emperor ascended the throne.

After ascending the throne, the emperor needs to balance the forces of all parties, so marrying women from these powerful families into the palace, they are confident and thoughtful, so the children they raise are also strong in personality and able to compete.

Moreover, the little princes were spoiled and spoiled, and they were panting after running for a few steps, and they were not very healthy.

What's more, the emperor now needs to gather more imperial power in his hands, and can't let these forces set themselves up to "rule under the roof".

Unless the imperial power is sufficiently concentrated and stable, it is impossible to choose among these princes.

If the prince is not established, most courtiers will urge them every day, but they will compete with each other, so the chance of making the emperor stand up is relatively small.

Once the crown prince is established, it will be another bloodbath. It is hard to say how many of my ten sons will be left, and the court will be in chaos, because no matter who wins in the end, it will suppress other forces, including the foundation of the emperor.

The eldest and the third child are weak and have been recuperating in the palace. As a result, the princes are all kept in the palace, and none of them can be separated.

Now the second, fourth and fifth princes heard Xiaobao say that the sixth son and the other princes were "useless", at first they thought it was funny, those little brats were just useless, but after thinking about it, not only did they feel that Xiaobao's tone was arrogant, but also His own face is also dull.

The prince is useless, isn't that the same as talking about them?

If it's useful, wouldn't he be crowned prince?Even if it was worse, he could still be granted the title of the king's sub-mansion, and then sent to various ministries for internships and participation in political affairs. How could he be studying in the palace like he is now?
(End of this chapter)