The heroine Jiangshan

Chapter 17 Prince Jing's Mansion

The light in the morning is exceptionally soft, lightly sprinkled in the room through the window lattice, silently opening the curtain of a new day.

Yun Ruochen got up early, finished washing and dressing up under the service of the maidservant, then got up and went to the concubine Huang side concubine to pay her respects.

Now that he has returned to Beijing, everything should follow the original rules of the palace.Previously, in other courtyards on the outskirts of Beijing, people could be casual and left alone, but in the palace, they can't be so casual.Otherwise, rumors about her being domineering and willful would be bad for Prince Jing's reputation.

Yun Ruochen walked slowly, glanced casually in the yard, and only had negative thoughts such as "horrible", "can't look straight", "let me reincarnate"... these kinds of negative thoughts.

Fortunately, when she came to regain consciousness, she had imagined that God sent her here to let her enjoy life like a rice bug, right?
She doesn't resist the happy life of stretching out her hand and opening her mouth when she comes to clothes.

But a series of facts that happened in the past month proved that her appearance was broken, she was very stupid and naive... Especially after entering Beijing, she realized that she was here to suffer.

What kind of palace is this called?
Except for the large area and many houses, this house has nothing to do with the legendary palace.The buildings and houses are dilapidated, the flowers, plants and trees are not repaired, and the floor tiles and walls are full of cracks... This is not the most powerful thing, the most powerful thing is that half of such a rotten house was burned down by an unknown fire.

Under the bright and dazzling sunshine, the ruin-like Prince Jing's Mansion miraculously presents a desolate and desolate scene.

People from the Ministry of Industry came to clean up the fire several times, and after making a list of the damage in the mansion, there was nothing left. Do you plan to just let Prince Jing's mansion just hang out like this?Father Jing... How failed are you, that even the little officials from the Ministry of Industry dare to bully you openly?
Yun Ruochen was very sad and indignant, feeling extremely unhappy.All of this stems from the old emperor Yuan Qi on the throne!
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Her imperial grandfather, Emperor Yuanqi, was the only son of the late emperor.For this reason, Emperor Yuan Qi was very concerned about the emperor's heir, for fear that he would have only one seedling, which would be too dangerous.But there is a saying that is good, whatever you are afraid of...

Emperor Yuan Qi ascended the throne at the age of 17 and became queen in the same year.A year after their marriage, Empress Chen gave birth to the emperor's first child, a baby boy.

At that time, the whole country was really celebrating, and Emperor Yuan Qi was so happy that he almost pardoned the world.As a result, the child died before the full moon, and Empress Chen also died of depression after giving birth.

With this lesson learned, Emperor Yuan Qi would keep a low profile when he had another child, for fear of ruining the child's life.He also followed the folk practice suggested by his personal eunuch, and gave the child nicknames that people disliked dogs, such as "dog leftover"... Finally, he managed to raise the second prince born to Concubine Cao until he was ten years old.

Generally speaking, a ten-year-old child is considered to be kept.Therefore, Emperor Yuan Qi was happy again and planned to let the second prince study in the upper study.It is a big event for the prince to study. Emperor Yuan Qi solemnly summoned his son and told him to study hard and make progress every day, and then...

Then the second prince fell ill and died.

Now Emperor Yuan Qi was very depressed.The ministers were also depressed.The crown prince is the heir of the empire, which is related to the continuation of the national line, and its importance is self-evident.Even though Emperor Yuan Qi was a particularly stern and ruthless emperor, he still cared a lot about his successor.

At this time, Luo Tianxing, one of the celestial masters who accompanied Emperor Yuanqi in his practice, put forward a strange prophecy "two dragons will not meet".He said that Emperor Yuanqi had a special fate and could not easily meet the princes, otherwise the true dragon and the hidden dragon "meet two dragons", and there must be an injury.To put it bluntly, either Lao Tzu beats his son to death, or his son kills Lao Tzu.

Emperor Yuanqi, who ruled the world at the age of 17, had a mind as strong as a rock, and it was not so easy to be persuaded by the Taoists.But at the spring festival of the following year, the nine-year-old third prince participated in the festival as a representative of the prince and was praised by the emperor, but was bitten by a poisonous snake in the countryside and died immediately.

From then on, Emperor Yuan Qi no longer summoned any of his sons easily.

As a result, the remaining princes were refrigerated for a long time.Even this failed to stop the premature deaths of the princes. Emperor Yuan Qi had borne seven sons in these years, and only the fourth prince Jing Wang and the fifth prince Cheng Wang survived to adulthood.

Emperor Yuan Qi seemed to have forgotten that he had these two sons, which made them not only neglected in life, but also very late in their studies.It was the ministers who cared about the princes and found that the two princes had become older men and young men. If we didn’t get married, our Daqing royal family would have no offspring, so they wrote to the emperor to ask the emperor to crown the two princes as kings and choose concubines.

Emperor Yuan Qi suffered from procrastination, and delayed the matter for more than two years before he appointed his two sons as princes, let them open their mansions, and asked the clan mansion to choose a woman from a good family to be their princess.

Prince Jing's concubine is the eldest daughter of a county magistrate in Sichuan, and Prince Cheng's concubine is the granddaughter of Shanxi Xuezheng.

Another year later, under the urging of the officials, another concubine was selected for each of the two sons.And until now, in the 35th year of Yuanqi, His Majesty the Emperor is over fifty years old, but he has not yet intended to establish a prince.

This made the ministers very headache and tangled.No matter how they admonished him, the emperor would not let go and set up the crown prince, making it clear that he did not want another dragon to meet again in his lifetime.No matter whether he killed his son or was killed by his son, it was a result that the old emperor could not accept!
Logically speaking, Yun Ruochen's father, Prince Jing, was older, so he should be the most logical heir apparent.Anyway, both he and Cheng Wang were not born of the queen, one was born to Concubine Hu Xian, and the other was born to Concubine Zhang Shu. Everyone was born in the same family, and no one is more noble than the other.

The problem is——Prince Jing is 30 years old, but he has no son yet!
And his younger brother, His Royal Highness Cheng Wang, is better than him in this point - Cheng Wang has a son, although he is only the bastard born to his side concubine, but a son is a son!
Therefore, most of the ministers and nobles in the capital are optimistic about King Cheng.Although hindered by the ancestral precept that "princes and ministers are not allowed to make friends privately", it is impossible to openly communicate with King Cheng, and there are many small gestures of flirting.Prince Jing was left in the cold with few cars and horses, forming a stark contrast.

But recently, because King Jing's disaster relief proposal was adopted by Emperor Yuanqi, while King Cheng's reputation fell sharply due to the "refugee attack incident", the power contest between the two parties is quietly changing.
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Concubine Huang's complexion was fine, and she seemed to be recovering well.In ten days or so, the child in her belly will be three months old.

The yard where she used to live was the most severely burned and could no longer be used by people, so now she can only live in the small backyard with aggrievedness.But Concubine Huang used her strengths of being good at housekeeping, and the simple courtyard was tidied up by her maids and servants. Yun Ruochen wanted to borrow a few people from her to use it.

Thinking of Yinqiao and Lianzhi around her, she felt that she really couldn't count on them.It can't be said that they are not diligent, but cleverness is definitely not counted. It seems that they will have to choose their own people in the future.

Having had breakfast with Concubine Huang, Yun Ruochen wanted to go to the front yard to talk to his father about something, but someone said that the prince had come to the front hall to meet guests.

Meeting guests?It's rare that Prince Jing's mansion also has guests. Could it be Mr. Gu Yuan who came?

Having dinner with his father at noon, Yun Ruochen knew that the guests who came in the morning were officials from the Ministry of Household and Ministry of Industry who were in charge of building the palace.

"Alas, the people from the household department said that they really couldn't come up with the money, and they only planned to allocate 5 taels to us, and the people from the engineering department said that the money was not enough to start work. The argument in the hall just now gave me a headache. What are you going to do about Gu?"

"Or, we can only repair the gate first, then build the main hall, as they said, and wait for the household department to have money in the future to talk about the rest?"

Prince Jing vomited bitterness to Yun Ruochen on his own.During those days in the villa, because Yun Ruochen kept pestering him about outside affairs, he eventually developed the habit of complaining about his daughter occasionally.

But Yun Ruochen wanted to roll his eyes when he heard it.Has her father's brain been in water since he was a child, or was he kicked by a donkey?Why is it so hard to use?Also, this kind of weak and tolerant temper is simply a miracle in the world of princes!

Watching the prince in other people's dramas, he is either domineering and domineering, bullying men and women and doing all kinds of evil, which is considered a happy life; How lofty the ambition is to buy the powerful ministers and officials to usurp the throne...

But this Prince Jing, he is just a steamed stuffed bun, pure, without even meat!

"Father, don't be fooled by them!"

Yun Ruochen couldn't help reminding him aloud.

Prince Jing looked at her in surprise.

"Chen'er, what did you say?"

"Father, they are arguing with each other and deliberately delaying the project, just waiting for your words. If you agree to do this, our palace will not be able to be repaired for many years."

"Uh... Chen'er, you are still young, you don't understand these things, so don't talk nonsense."

That is to say, an overly friendly Baozi father like Prince Jing would have a good look at his daughter who interrupted indiscriminately.If it was another one, she would have been driven out of sight long ago.

However, Yun Ruochen didn't intend to stop, and continued: "Father, the money they allocated to you at the beginning was to allow you to repair your appearance and the main hall."

If she guessed correctly, people from the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Ministry of Industry must have colluded to come to the door.They figured out that Prince Jing was afraid of trouble, and set him a trap, trying to lure him into agreeing to only repair the gate and the main hall.

The prince's palace caught fire, and the court had to repair it. It was about the face of the court.But as long as the outside is repaired, what does it matter if the prince's family lives comfortably inside?Anyway, Prince Jing didn't dare to complain to the emperor at all.

Officials of this dynasty advocate Confucianism, and have always had very low respect for the royal family. They dare to bully the old emperor at court meetings, let alone Prince Jing.

Yun Ruochen narrated his thoughts to his father as tactfully as possible, which made Prince Jing startled, unable to speak for a long time.

He's soft-tempered, but he's really not stupid.Why does what my daughter said just now make more sense the more I think about it?
Yun Ruochen paused for a while, and then said: "Father, you should be firm with them and insist on a complete overhaul, or let's just live like this without even repairing the gate! I don't believe it. This money!"

(End of this chapter)