Quickly wear salted fish, she won by lying down

Chapter 1103 The Murderer in the Dark 14
In this dynasty's royal family, the eldest son of a prince was given the title of prince, the other legitimate sons were given the title of general guarding the country, and the illegitimate sons were given the title of general supporting the country.

However, when enfeoffing members of the royal family, except for the eldest son who can inherit the title directly, others have to take exams to obtain the title. If the test results are excellent, they can obtain the title according to this regulation. If the test results are not excellent, their title will be downgraded, and it is possible to be downgraded by one, two, or three levels.

For example, the concubine's son of the Prince of Qingjiang can be granted the title of General Fuguo according to the rules, but if he does not perform well in the examination, for example, if he performs very poorly, his title will be demoted three levels, and he can only be granted the title of Lieutenant Fuguo, which is only one level higher than the lowest Lieutenant Fengguo. His grandson could have been granted the title of Lieutenant Fengguo, but if he does not perform well in the examination, he will lose his title and become an idle member of the royal family - he can only receive thirty-six taels of silver and twenty-two shi of rice a year.

In other words, although the other party is the grandson of a prince, he may not even have a title and is just an idle member of the royal family. It is so cruel.

As for this, there is already such a person in their branch - after all, the title of Prince of Qingjiang has been inherited for two generations. The grandson of the first Prince of Qingjiang is a cousin of the Prince of Qingjiang of this prefecture. However, some of the illegitimate sons of the first Prince of Qingjiang did not perform well in the examinations and were only granted the title of Lieutenant of the Fuguo. Then, the cousin of the Prince of Qingjiang did not perform well in the examinations either, so he had no title and became just an idle member of the royal family.

That person is not far related to the Prince of Qingjiang, they are cousins, but he has been demoted to an idle royal family member without a title, which shows how quickly he was demoted.

The Prince of Qingjiang has five thousand taels of silver and two thousand five hundred shi of rice a year, while the other party, as his cousin, only has thirty-six taels of silver and twenty-two shi of rice a year. There is a huge difference!

In the future, similar situations will also happen to the illegitimate sons and their sons in this mansion.

But the crown prince's branch has nothing to fear, as according to the hereditary system, the throne will be gradually passed down after four generations, and there is no need to take exams.

Even if he was not demoted, the treatment of a General of the State was much worse than that of a Prince of a County - the annual salary of a General of the State was 1,300 taels of silver and 650 dan of rice, which was almost a quarter of that of a Prince of a County.

This is the difference between the two companies in the future.

It's still okay in this generation, but it will be a world of difference in the next generation. So the Crown Prince's wife said that after the palaces are divided, she will give some of her money to the descendants of illegitimate sons who have a good relationship with her. It will be a lot of money for them. It is actually true.

The few dozen taels of silver she gave to others might not be a big deal, but for those idle royal family members, it might be a year's income.

This is also the reason why some small clans want to cling to the big clans, because their income is too little, and they want to rely on rewards and assistance from the big clans.

There is no way. The grandson of the prince, when the prince is alive, may live a glorious life in the palace relying on the public. One day, the prince passed away, and he moved out of the palace. If he did not pass the exam well, he would only get a fiefdom of an idle clan, with only 36 taels of silver and 22 stone of rice a year. This amount of money is about the same as the living standard of a well-off family in the countryside, and it is a world apart from their previous life. It is difficult to go from luxury to frugality, how can they live! It may not even be enough for their monthly expenses! They have no choice but to cling to the big clan, hoping to get some benefits from the big clan by pleasing them, otherwise they are used to living a good life, and the money is not enough.

Not to mention that the Crown Prince's wife had a better impression of Linlang, but it was not only the people in the palace who felt that it would be difficult for Concubine Song to become the successor concubine. Even Concubine Song herself felt a little hopeless as time went by and she had tried to sound out the issue countless times, but Prince Qingjiang did not respond to her request to become the princess.

So, what will Concubine Song do when she knows that she will not be made the second concubine?

She certainly didn't want to sit and wait for death. After all, she and the Crown Prince's wife were already at loggerheads. If she couldn't become the Crown Prince's successor, she and her son would live separately after the prince passed away, and no one would help her. She would live a miserable life. So she called her family to discuss the matter.

When Concubine Song's family heard that it might be difficult for her to become a concubine, they became anxious and asked immediately, "What should we do?"

Concubine Song glanced at her mother and said, "The only way now is to find a young girl from home to come to the palace and give it a try."

Yes, this is Concubine Song’s method.

She planned to find a young girl from her natal family to come into the palace to see if she could become the consort. The reason she wanted to do this was that she had almost offended the Crown Prince's wife. In the future, the Qingjiang Palace would fall into the hands of the eldest wife, and she and her son would move out of the palace and would not be able to rely on the main support. Such a result was obviously not what she wanted to see, so she had to let Prince Qingjiang marry another princess, and it would be best if this person was from her natal family.

In this way, even if she cannot become a concubine, but if her family members become a concubine and give birth to a son in the future, and he can obtain the position of crown prince, it will naturally be better than the current crown prince being a prince.

As for the fact that the Crown Prince is alive and well now, why the position of the Crown Prince could fall to the child born by the girl in her family? That is all a matter for the future. Let's deal with the matter of the concubine first.

Besides, when her daughter becomes the consort and takes over the housekeeper's power, she will be able to live a better life in the mansion. It will be much better than the current situation where the Crown Prince's wife is in charge and she has to make a living under her nose, which is not easy.

Her mother nodded after hearing what she said and said, "This is the only way."

After all, she couldn't let the meat that was about to reach her mouth fly away. God knows she had always thought that her family would finally have a relative in the royal palace. How could it be possible if it didn't happen now? Although Concubine Song was a concubine, their family didn't dare to say that they were relatives of the royal palace, because only the princess's family could be considered relatives of the royal palace. Otherwise, the prince had so many concubines. Could it be that every concubine's family was a relative of the royal palace? How was that possible?

In fact, Concubine Song was taking a gamble, because it was not necessarily useful for a girl from the Song family to enter the palace. After all, no matter how well they planned, it still depended on whether Prince Qingjiang was interested.

But as far as Linlang knew, Prince Qingjiang might not be interested anymore.

He knew that marrying a concubine would definitely cause a lot of trouble, so although he felt that many things were inconvenient without a wife to take charge of the household, for example, he didn't know who to discuss some important matters with, after all, he couldn't discuss it with his concubine.

However, when he thought about marrying a concubine, which would cause turmoil in the mansion in the future, and then a dispute over the power of the housekeeper, Prince Qingjiang hesitated again.

Linlang thought that unless she met someone that Prince Qingjiang particularly wanted to make his queen, otherwise, if she continued to hesitate like this until she was in her fifties, she might not appoint a successor at all. After all, she was in her fifties and no one knew when she might die, so there was no need to make any more trouble.

Concubine Song naturally didn't know about Prince Qingjiang's hesitation, so that day, the Song family sent a girl to the palace to try her luck.