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This was a huge upheaval, with so many people dead. It was said that there was a river of blood in the palace that day. It would be strange if everyone didn't talk about it in private. After all, whenever something new and interesting happened in the capital, everyone would talk about it after dinner. What's more, this was a big event. Even though there was an implicit rule that we couldn't talk about palace affairs casually, it couldn't stop everyone's enthusiasm for discussion, and they still chatted for a long time in private.

If it weren't for the fact that Prince Anjiang happened to be well and had a slight cough, Linlang would have been afraid that Prince Anjiang would pass his illness on to the Anwang family. If something happened to these people, they would blame their family. Otherwise, Prince An and his wife would talk to them for a long time.

Because Prince Anjiang still had some signs of a cold, we were afraid that if we talked too close he might get sick, so we sat far away and it was not convenient to talk, so we only talked for about an hour. If Prince Anjiang was fine, we probably could have talked all day.

The content of the conversation is actually similar to that of other people in Beijing.

One is that Concubine Wang was actually a witch, and the other is that the emperor had no offspring, and who would be the next emperor.

In fact, who would be the next emperor was not something they could discuss, but because they had dismissed their attendants and had people watching the area to prevent anyone from getting close, Prince An still had a few words with Prince Anjiang.

At present, the emperor has no sons, and no sons from his brothers, but he still has sons from his uncles.

Including Prince An and Prince Anjiang, they are all sons of the emperor's uncles.

Not only them, but others as well.

Because the emperor's uncles and uncles' family has developed for so many years and has given birth to many children, there must have been children yesterday who did not go to the palace for various reasons. For example, some of them may have been sick like Prince Anjiang, so they did not enter the palace. With so many people, it is normal for one or two of them to be sick and not enter the palace; some may be still young and not suitable to enter the palace, so they did not go; there are also those who did not go for various other reasons. In short, among the emperor's uncles and uncles' family with so many sons, grandsons and even great-grandsons, in addition to Prince An and Prince Anjiang, there are indeed people who did not go to the palace.

Because not only Prince An and Prince Anjiang did not enter the palace, but there were other people alive as well, so Prince An and Prince Anjiang did not think that the throne would fall on them. Of course, the main reason was that they were the emperor's cousins, and if they were adopted, it should be their younger generation who would be adopted as the emperor's heirs, and they, who were of the same generation, could not be adopted.

They don't think that the throne will fall on them, which is why they are discussing it openly at this time. Otherwise, knowing that the throne will eventually fall on the head of Prince Anjiang, Prince An and his wife probably wouldn't be able to discuss these things with Prince Anjiang. After all, he will be the monarch and they will be the subjects, so how dare they discuss this matter so brazenly?

However, although they did not know at that moment that Prince Anjiang would become the emperor, the ministers soon decided to have Prince Anjiang adopted as the son of the late emperor and inherit the throne.

The reason why they didn't find a royal family member who was younger than the Prince of Anjiang to adopt as the son of the late emperor was because the affair between the late emperor and the evil concubine was known to the world, and it was unlucky to adopt an adopted son for him. So the ministers discussed and decided to adopt an adopted son for the late emperor and start another line. Otherwise, if the bloodline of the late emperor was continued, it would be written in the history books in the future that Emperor So-and-so was adopted, and his father was Emperor So-and-so who was famous in history for being controlled by the evil concubine. Would this reputation still be acceptable? I guess no one wanted such a person to be their father, so they simply adopted a son for the late emperor and started another line. In this way, when the history books were written in the future, the father of the adopted son was a clean emperor, which would sound better. As for the line of the late emperor, it caused such a big mess and so many people died. This line is not auspicious at all, so let's just cut it off.

Seeing the discussion among the ministers, Linlang finally understood why the late emperor adopted the Prince of Anjiang. It turned out that he was not adopted for him, but for his father. No wonder she always felt that something was confusing. Now that the ministers had decided, she finally understood what she had been confused about. The Prince of An and his wife obviously did not expect that the ministers had such a plan, and they were stunned.

Although it was definitely a good thing for him as an elder brother that his younger brother, who he had a good relationship with, became the emperor, he never expected that his younger brother would be qualified to be the emperor! He had always guessed that it would be their nephews, and guessed which royal son the ministers would adopt as the heir to the late emperor. However, the ministers unanimously decided not to adopt a heir to the late emperor, but to adopt a son to the late emperor.

However, Prince Anjiang refused the offer, saying that he did not know how to govern a country and that being a leisurely prince would be fine, and he did not want to be an emperor.

Although being an emperor usually requires three refusal and three declines, the refusal of Prince Anjiang was serious and not just for show.

The reason why the ministers chose Prince Anjiang to be the emperor was because of his leisurely character.

The ministers looked at the situation of several close royal family members. After that night's massacre, there were only a few left of the royal family who were as close to Prince Anjiang.

Therefore, most of these people, like Prince An, became the eldest sons who inherited the throne and it was difficult for them to be adopted by others to become emperors.

The ministers first excluded those who had only one person left in the entire branch, in order to avoid adopting the person to the previous emperor and cutting off the person's lineage. They only looked for those who were not the eldest sons of the heir.

Such people have very few options.

In fact, there are only two such people, one is only a few years old, and the other is the Prince of Anjiang.

Most people might think that it might be better to choose someone who is a few years old, after all, he is small and easy to control. However, although this child is young, he has a reputation for being spoiled. When he grows up, given his temperament, I am afraid he will not be so easy to control.

On the other hand, Prince Anjiang has always had a reputation for being idle. Everyone knows that he does not like worldly affairs and only devotes himself to mountains and rivers. Such a person, even if he is an adult, is much easier to control than that child. Moreover, Prince Anjiang's character has almost been formed, while that child's character has not yet been formed. God knows what he will become in the future. They do not want to test their own hearts, so after comprehensive considerations, they finally decided to choose Prince Anjiang as emperor.

The Prince of Anjiang saw the ministers kneeling at the gate of the Prince of Anjiang's mansion every day, as if he didn't want to be the emperor, and no one else was suitable, and they couldn't find a suitable person. He couldn't help but feel a headache. In order to eliminate this trouble, the Prince of Anjiang finally agreed - of course, the more important reason was: a minister came to remind him that if he really didn't do it, the ministers recommended him to be the emperor, and if he didn't do it, the new emperor would have a grudge against him in the future, so he shouldn't cause any trouble to him. (End of this chapter)