The prince does not fight for the heir

Chapter 167 The Dusty Truth

In Qianming Palace, Yun Zuo was once again kept by Emperor Yuan'an.

Emperor Yuan'an chose the notebooks on the desk, picked out two or three, and handed them over to him, saying: "Take a look at these memorials, and if you have any suggestions, let me know after reading them."

Zheng Ze raised his old eyes secretly, and glanced at Yoon Zuo knowingly.

This is the first time that Emperor Yuan'an let the prince participate in the review of the memorial, and it even has the meaning of teaching, saying that any previous dynasty, this is a lesson that the prince of the East Palace needs to learn. It seems that the Sacred Heart has been set!
Yun Zuo glanced at the memorials, and found that one of them was from Yun Zhen. When he opened it, he found that it was the memorial of Yun Zhen advising the imperial court to implement the system of sharing the tenements into the mu. But it is also necessary to be cautious when talking about reforms. According to the usual practice, this means that a recognized result needs to be discussed at the Dachao Conference.

After reading the excerpt, Yun Zuo raised his head and said, "Father, the fourth elder brother's advice, I think, is imperative, and there is no need to discuss whether to implement it or not. The key is who will be sent to inspect the various places and implement the policy!"

"Well!" Emperor Yuan'an nodded: "In your opinion, who should be sent?"

Yun Zuo pondered for a moment, and then named a few people. Emperor Yuan'an smiled slightly, and said approvingly: "Not bad!"

Yun Zuo immediately looked worried, and said again: "Father, although the advice of the fourth brother is good, if it is brought to the court for discussion, the fourth brother will become the target of public criticism. I heard that a few days ago, the court was up and down. Disagreeing over whether the fourth brother should be crowned king or the crown prince, my son thought, before the fourth brother's remonstrance goes to the court for discussion, the father should hurry up and give the fourth brother a status!"

The right to speak in the court depends on the status of the speaker. The higher the status, the more useful the speech will be, and the resistance will be relatively small. bigger.

Of course Emperor Yuan'an knew this truth, that's why Yunzhen's papers had been handed over long ago, but he kept it on the desk and hadn't made it clear to the court for the courtiers to discuss.

It's just that he didn't expect that when he asked the courtiers to discuss the title of King Yunzhen, something happened. Many officials from the former queen's faction could not accept the title of King Yunzhen, and they repeated the old saying and fiercely remonstrated him. storage.

Emperor Yuan'an nodded and said: "I also have this intention, Jin Yunzhen is the king of Chu."

Yun Zuo took a deep breath and said solemnly: "Father, my son thinks that the fourth brother can only deter Xiao Xiao if he becomes the crown prince. It is a good strategy for all ages, otherwise, it cannot be implemented smoothly!"

He didn't know about Fu Xuechen's previous life. In order to carry out this policy, Emperor Yongzheng couldn't even guarantee his own safety and became a short-lived emperor who reigned for a short time. Guarantee the safety of Yunzhen, let alone only the prince.

Emperor Yuan'an didn't expect that he could hand over the crown prince position, and he was stunned there for a moment, he didn't believe that with Yun Zuo's intelligence, he could not understand what he meant.

Zheng Ze raised his head in surprise and looked at Yoon-joo.

There was silence in the hall for a while, and Emperor Yuan'an asked slowly: "Are you sure, you want to support Yunzhen as the crown prince?"

Yoon Zuo nodded: "I'm sure! And this is also the wish of my mother and concubine."

Emperor Yuan'an couldn't help but frowned deeply: "Do you want to be a prince?"

Yun Zuo nodded again and said: "Yes! Father! Father, you have fought all your life as a soldier and conquered thousands of miles of land with your own hands. I have always regarded you as an example in my heart. I am also willing to lead the army to the North Town of the Great Wall to serve as a fence for the country. Get out of the Great Wall, expand the territory of our Darong Empire, and let the north of the Great Wall belong to our Darong territory!"

Listening to his sonorous and forceful words, Emperor Yuan'an rewarded him with a bit of helplessness at the same time. He himself was not a law-abiding character since he was a child. It is conceivable that Yun Zuo would not like to sit in the East Palace and be trapped in the East Palace. In a corner, only the vast world outside and the bloody battle can attract the yearning of young people.

Emperor Yuan'an sighed deeply, nodded and shook his head: "You trust Yunzhen..."

Yun Zuo hesitated for a moment, and suddenly said: "In fact, I suspect that the fourth brother is not the first son of the empress, but the son of the mother and concubine. He is the elder brother of the same father and mother!"

Zheng Ze's pupils shrank sharply, and he looked at Yunzuo in shock. Even Emperor Yuan'an was shocked by his sudden words, opened his mouth slightly, widened his eyes, and shouted: "Yunzuo! Do you know what nonsense you are talking about? ?!"

"Father, please forgive my son for being rude!"

Yun Zuo didn't panic, but calmly knelt down on one knee, apologized first, but then took out a roll of thick paper from his sleeve, put it in his hand and said seriously: "But I have evidence in my hand!"

Emperor Yuan'an focused his eyes: "What evidence?"

Yun Zuo unrolled the scroll, and it turned out to be a sketch portrait of Yun Zhen on it. Not to mention that the painting was exactly the same, there were seven or eight parts of it. This kind of sketch portrait had been spread. Although the scope of application was not wide, Emperor Yuan'an knew about it. Looking at Yunzuo puzzled, he saw that Yunzuo compared the portrait to the right side of his face.

"This is the portrait of the fourth brother drawn by Zhiling herself. Father, you can compare it carefully, and you will find that both the fourth brother and the son have double eyelids. The shape of the eyes is almost exactly the same, and the shape of the nose is also very similar. We Their eyes and nose shapes are exactly the same as those of their sons, ministers, mothers and concubines."

Yun Zuo recalled all kinds of genetic knowledge that Fu Xuechen told him, and continued: "As far as my son knows, father, you and the late empress both have single eyelids, and if both husband and wife have single eyelids, there will be no children with double eyelids. Only one of the husband and wife, who has the characteristics of double eyelids like the children, ministers, mothers and concubines, can give birth to children with double eyelids."

"In addition, the first queen was suffering from gluttonous jaundice, and she died without treatment. Glutinous disease can be passed from one generation to the next, and it can be passed on from male to female, but the fourth brother does not have this disease!"

Yun Zuo looked at Emperor Yuan'an, feeling a little nervous and expectant: "Father, although I have some evidence, I dare not guess lightly, so I want to ask my father for more evidence. Can my father tell my son? , above the son-in-law, has the concubine mother ever given birth to a brother-in-law of the son-in-law?"

"Why don't you..." Emperor Yuan'an wanted to ask Yun Zuo why he didn't ask the imperial concubine directly, but then he thought of something, withdrew the question, and then admitted the matter, and said slowly: "You do have a brother named Wei Yunchu was born in the same year as Yunzhen, only four months younger than Yunzhen."

He fell into the memories, and there was a trace of regret in his voice: "When they were two years old, a local epidemic broke out. Unfortunately, Yunzhen and Yunchu were both infected and quarantined. At that time, there were several mothers who were ordered to quarantine together. The mother and the maid were lucky enough to be cured and sent back in the end, only the young Yunzhen, as well as Su Momo and another maid. Both Yunchu and his nanny died of the epidemic, because Yunchu died when he was less than three years old. Therefore, it is not included in the Zong dish, and the teeth are not arranged..."

When Emperor Yuan'an said this, he couldn't help narrowing his eyes, which flickered sharply.

Back then, he was still fighting abroad and didn't care about the backyard. He could only know about these things after the fact. Hui's son desperately thanked God for his blessing. He not only rewarded the doctor at the time with a large sum of money, but also went to a Buddhist temple to fulfill various wishes.

Concubine Xie was very miserable, she passed out from crying several times, shed tears for a long time, until she found out that she was pregnant with Yoon-joo again, then she got better completely, and because Yoon-joo was hard-won, she was very pampered since she was a child Yoon Zuo, I wish I could pour all my mother's love on Yoon Zuo...

"Yun Zuo, you should step back first! I will find out about this myself."

Emperor Yuan'an waved his son away, watched Yun Zuo leave respectfully, and then said coldly: "Zheng Ze, go to Zhen's treasure house and bring the remaining twelve zodiac jade pendants together!"

"Hey!" Zheng Ze hurriedly took the order and left, the shock of hearing the truth still remained on his face.

Emperor Yuan'an sat alone behind the imperial case. After a long time, he let out a sigh of relief, and said in a low voice through gritted teeth: "Queen Zhang! Zhang Yuanxian! If you really pretended to be Yunzhen, Li Daitao froze and took someone else's son, Then you really deserve to die! Sure enough, I shouldn’t believe that you can know what remorse is for someone who can do evil things like abducting and selling one’s own sister!”

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In the Palace of Yanxi Palace, Concubine Xie finally selected three candidates who could be the side concubines of Yunzhen. They were all the top choices in appearance and family background, but each had their own merits. Although they were not as dazzling as Fu Xuechen, they were still considered excellent. When the time came You can let Yunzhen choose from among them, then Yunzhen's life-long events will be completely settled.

She looked at the portraits and documents of the three girls one by one, and became more and more satisfied when she looked at them. At this moment, the voice from outside suddenly came again: "The Holy Majesty is here——" Emperor Yuan'an came again!
After seeing the ceremony, Emperor Yuan'an once again turned his back to the left and right, and after sitting down, he looked at the imperial concubine with complicated eyes.

The imperial concubine was slightly uneasy, and asked softly: "Your Majesty, what is this?"

Emperor Yuan'an spread his hands, and handed a tiger pattern jade pendant to her eyes: "Look at this carefully!"

The imperial concubine accepted the tiger-pattern jade pendant puzzledly, and with just one glance, she recognized that it was one of the twelve zodiac jades cut from the beautiful jade handed down by Emperor Yuan'an. Every time Emperor Yuan'an got a child, he would The corresponding zodiac jade was given to the child as a family heirloom, and Yoon Zuo also got one. Because he is a dragon, he got the dragon pattern jade pendant.

Emperor Yuan'an asked: "Aifei can see what is coming?"

The imperial concubine was a little confused, she looked at the jade pendant several times, and said puzzledly: "Your Majesty, isn't this Yun Zhen's personal jade pendant? Why did you show it to my concubine?"

Emperor Yuan'an said: "You don't know, Yunzhen was born in early August, so there are eight patterns on this tiger's body."

The imperial concubine lowered her head in surprise and counted: "That's true!" If Emperor Yuan'an hadn't reminded her, she would not have noticed that the small jade tiger on the tiger pattern jade pendant had such a meaning in the pattern on its body.

Emperor Yuan'an said with emotion: "Yunzhen and Yunchu were born in the same year, so I made an exception for them and carved two identical tiger pattern jade pendants. To show the difference, I ordered the craftsmen to carve the tiger pattern on the Yunzhen jade pendant into eight lines. Yunchu was born in December, so the tiger pattern on Yunchu's jade pendant has twelve lines, four more than Yunzhen."

When the imperial concubine heard the name "Yunchu", her complexion turned pale instantly.

In the past, in order to take care of her, he never exposed the scars in her heart, and never let people mention Yun Chu's name, but now he took the initiative to mention this dusty name for more than ten years.

"The secret of the tiger pattern is only known to me, so the matter is trivial, and I forgot to share it with anyone, so you don't know it, my concubine, and neither does the former queen Zhang Yuanxian!"

Emperor Yuan'an said every word, his voice was not clear, but it bombarded the imperial concubine's heart like thunder: "The jade pendant in your hand should belong to Yunzhen, but because of Yunchu's premature death, it was taken into my treasure house and belonged to the imperial concubine. The jade pendant of Yunchu is still in good condition, and it was worn on Yunzhen for 18 years, until today!"

"So! Back then, both Yunzhen and Yunchu were sick, and it was not Yunzhen, but Yunchu who survived in the end! It was Zhang Yuanyuan who deceived the world, replaced my two emperors, and used Yunchu as Yunzhen, and placed him in the I've kept it by my side until today!" Emperor Yuan'an patted the table, and he came to the conclusion in a deep voice: "Yunzhen is really Yunchu, your son Yunchu!"

The imperial concubine was dumbfounded, her knees softened in shock, and she knelt down: "Your Majesty..."

"Beloved concubine, don't be surprised!" Emperor Yuan'an was not angry with the imperial concubine, seeing her kneeling on the ground in fright, he quickly reached out to pick her up and embraced her in his arms: "All this is Zhang Xianxian's crimes, Nothing to do with you!"

"It's to blame, it's to blame that I don't know people well, and I put a woman with a femme heart into the back seat, and it's even more to blame that I was negligent in the past, and didn't carefully identify the jade pendant that was returned when Yunzhen died young, which caused Yunchu to bear the burden. Yunzhen's name and identity were stolen by Zhang Yuanyuan and raised in Kun'an Palace, where she was separated from your mother and child for 16 years."

"Your Majesty..." The imperial concubine seemed to have found an outlet for her years of grievances and grief. She leaned against Emperor Yuan'an's arms, and finally burst into tears.

Emperor Yuan'an was a little at a loss, and couldn't help comforting him indiscriminately: "Okay, okay! Don't be sad! The matter is over, Yun Chu is not dead, and he grew up safely, you should be happy!"

"It's my fault! I should have made you my queen in the first place! You gave me two good sons, both of whom are so outstanding, equally outstanding! Especially Yoon Zuo, it was his reminder that Fang told me to notice The tragedy of changing sons back then revealed the truth."

The imperial concubine's eyes were full of tears, she choked up and asked in a hoarse voice: "Zuo'er? How did he know about this?"

"I didn't understand much, he said..." Emperor Yuan'an briefly recounted the "evidence" and "guessing" that Yun Zuo in Qianming Palace said to the imperial concubine.

Emperor Yuan'an smiled and said: "Later, I figured out why he made such a guess, and collected some supporting evidence for this, so that I could ask me about the past, it was because of you! Everything you did for Yunzhen, in his eyes Come, it is all the best that only a biological mother can do."

"You are so active in planning and working hard for Yunzhen because you know that he is your biological son Yunchu, right? It was Zhang Xianxian who told you the truth before he died?"

The imperial concubine nodded again and again, as if relieved: "Yes! It was the queen who told the truth to the concubine, and she made the concubine swear poisonously before hearing the truth. "

Emperor Yuan'an heard the words and said angrily: "This poisonous woman!"

The imperial concubine said with lingering fear: "Fortunately! Fortunately, Your Majesty, you took the initiative to find out the truth, so the concubine is not considered a breach of the oath! The concubine did not tell the truth to the majesty, the concubine knows the mistake, and is willing to accept the punishment!"

"What's wrong with my beloved concubine!" Emperor Yuan'an shook his head, hugged her even tighter, and said softly, "I know what Zhang Yuanxian is thinking. She was unwilling to lose her son and secretly replaced your son in order to have the prince , so that she can seize the throne in the future, so that she can become the empress dowager, so that her Zhang family can continue to have the glory and wealth for several lifetimes."

"Including her frankly telling you the truth, and making you swear to strictly keep the secret, it is also to let Yunzhen continue to maintain her status as the first prince and maintain the support of her Zhang family, and at the same time drag you into the water and let you also come to serve for Yunzhen. Do your best."

"Although you also have selfish intentions and want Yunzhen to become the crown prince of the East Palace, I know that what you think is that only when Yunzhen becomes the crown prince, lives in the East Palace for a long time, and will inherit the throne in the future, can you get closer to him without violating Under the condition of the poisonous oath, in the name of the queen mother, listen to him call your mother queen, right?"

The imperial concubine smiled wryly: "Your Majesty has guessed all the thoughts of the concubine! The concubine is selfish and disregards the national order. How will the majesty deal with the concubine? The concubine will recognize it! Please also take pity on this child Yunzhen, he left the court. Concubine, my mother, it's been too long! It's all due to the confusion of the concubine, who missed the opportunity to reveal the truth and take him back."

Emperor Yuan'an sighed and nodded: "I really wronged this child! Zhang Yuanyuan knew that he was not his own child, so he would not treat him sincerely, but would only treat him as a tool and squeeze him in many ways. No wonder there was almost no smile on his face, and he was silent. Widow Huan, in the past 16 years, he has suffered a lot!"

The imperial concubine's tears flowed down again, blurring her eyes: "Then Your Majesty..."

Emperor Yuan'an pondered for a moment, and said: "We don't have to reveal the truth to the world, we have to restore his name and identity at the beginning of Yun. He now has the power of the Zhang family and all the resources left by the former empress. If he loses Yun Zhen These things are gone! And these things are the compensation he deserves! I sent someone to call him, and meet your mother and child in private. Let this secret be buried in the hearts of the few of us! "

The imperial concubine was overjoyed: "My concubine, thank you Your Majesty!"

Emperor Yuan'an acted swiftly and resolutely, so he asked Zheng Ze to call Yunzhen into the Palace of Yanxi Palace. After he met the imperial concubine, he asked him to take out the tiger-striped jade pendant he had worn since he was a child and observe carefully. The meaning, as well as the 16-year-old empress-changing case, were all told to him.

Yunzhen was completely dumbfounded. He was not Yunzhen, but Yunchu, the biological son of the imperial concubine, and the brother of Yunzuo? !If it hadn't been for the fact that Yunzhen died of illness and was replaced by the previous empress to take over the identity of Yunzhen, then he should have been brought up by the imperial concubine as the fifth prince, right?
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