Return to the Red Chamber: Jia Min Xiuxian

Chapter 172: Thinking carefully in Ningshou Palace (3)
Even though it is the fourth son, although his identity has not been announced now, his identity as the heir son cannot be changed.As long as the prince steps down, he is the most likely and most legitimate one.But as long as the prince is around, even he, the heir, will feel uneasy!Although they are all legitimate sons, when there is an original spouse or eldest son, he is not orthodox!
Therefore, except for the prince, no matter which prince is in power, the presence of the prince is a threat, and even more ironic!Therefore, anyone will suppress the prince, or even more ruthlessly get rid of the prince directly.Only when the prince disappears, can they have a chance and no threat!Therefore, if the crown prince steps down, he will definitely not end well!This is an inevitable fact!
That's why it's said that the prince's behavior last night is not only as simple as losing the throne, but more importantly, he personally pushed himself into a doomed end!However, this is all done by himself. There is a saying that "it is okay to do evil by the sky, but you can't live if you do evil by yourself".
But such a result is definitely not what my aunt wants to see!The Empress Dowager thought of the Empress Dowager who had passed away. Back then, the Empress Dowager valued the Empress Hesheli the most, and she liked her first child Chenghu very much. That child was also very smart and a good child.However, he was an unlucky child who died young.The Empress Dowager has said many times with regret that if Cheng Hu's child is still alive, he will surely be able to inherit the emperor's mantle, and the Qing Dynasty will be in his hands for a long time.

Later, Hesheli finally became pregnant again, and gave birth to Baocheng, the prince, at the cost of his life.He was a very good child when he was a child, and lost his mother because of birth. It is really pitiful in this palace full of intrigues.The Empress Dowager loved him the most.Even surpassed the emperor!It's a pity that the empress dowager did not see the prince grow up.If the Empress Dowager was still there, with the Empress Dowager watching, the prince might not have come to this point.

Although the emperor dotes on him, but after all, there are so many things going on every day, and he doesn't have so much time to pay attention to the prince's spiritual world. This child has no mother to care about, so he has become more and more desperate.Especially when his younger brothers grew up one by one and all of them were human spirits and began to covet his position, they became more and more manic.The longer it is, the more crooked it is!The empress dowager is doomed to be disappointed in the future.

Back then, in order to protect the unique status of the prince, the Empress Dowager even suppressed Concubine Tong and later Empress Tong in many ways, because at that time there was only one son of the prince, and Empress Xiaozhao of Niu Colu's family had no children and short life, so Concubine Tong became No.1 in the harem!It can be said to be the invisible queen!Later, she was promoted to the imperial concubine, and even became the deputy empress, who has been in charge of palace affairs for many years.Everyone knew in their hearts that it would be a matter of time before Concubine Tong Guifei aspired to the next position.

Then she can't have a son, otherwise she will definitely threaten the prince!Although there is a prince, everything else is not orthodox.But what if the prince is gone?Then Tong Guifei's son will become the most legitimate heir.Although Empress Tong looked fine when she was young, but she stayed in the palace for a long time, who knows if one day she will do anything for her status?Therefore, the Empress Dowager does not allow Queen Tong to have such an opportunity!

What's more, Queen Tong and the emperor still have a deep childhood friendship.No one can guarantee whether the emperor will abandon the prince for love, so as to support the son of Queen Tong!After all, the dead cannot earn as much as the person next to their pillow!Therefore, it can be said that Queen Tong Jia has had no children for many years, and the Empress Dowager must have some credit for it!

Even the Empress Dowager doubted that when Empress Tong and Concubine De gave birth on the same day, Concubine De stole the beam and swapped the post with the dead baby she gave birth to for the fourth elder brother born to Empress Tong. Is there any shadow of Empress Dowager in this incident!After all, she witnessed the empress dowager's fear of suppressing Queen Tong in those years!
In fact, when it was reported that Empress Tong was pregnant and had been safe and sound until the time of childbirth, there was no accident and her fetus moved, the empress dowager was still wondering, why didn't the empress dowager take action this time?Isn't she afraid that Queen Tong's son will threaten the prince?At the beginning, she was still thinking that maybe the Empress Dowager still had another plan, or maybe the Empress Dowager was merciful, pitying this unborn great-grandson.But after seeing Queen Tong give birth to a dead baby, he didn't think about this issue any more.

Thinking about it now, isn't there a trick?If Queen Tong's son is directly turned into the son of nobleman Wu Ya, what strength is there to compete with the prince?Now the Empress Dowager can almost conclude that the reason why the Wu Ya family was able to steal the beam and replace the post was definitely due to the empress dowager's handwriting!
Otherwise, it is absolutely impossible to replace the fourth elder brother from Concubine Tong with only a little manpower from nobleman Wu Ya!After all, Empress Tong was in charge of palace affairs for many years, and she should have cultivated a lot of power in her hands, and the people around her were all confidantes, so it was definitely not something that Wu Ya, who had just been promoted to a nobleman, could calculate against!

When she first learned about this, she couldn't figure it out. Where did the Wu Ya family, a woman who had just been promoted from a court lady to a nobleman, come from to break through layers of defenses from Queen Tong and replace the fourth elder brother?That is simply impossible!After all, Tong Jia grew up in the palace, so she was not a vegetarian.

Now that I think about it, if the Empress Dowager is a matchmaker, it will not be a difficult task!Although Empress Tong is not a vegetarian, she has gone through ups and downs in three dynasties like the Empress Dowager, and was able to support Lord Shunzhi to the top in such a difficult and dangerous situation at the beginning, and assisted two generations of little emperors, and stayed in the palace for most of her life. Still a bit weaker than Jing.Although most of Queen Tong's side are confidantes, there must be a dark thread of the Empress Dowager, otherwise it would not be easy for Queen Tong to have no children for so many years.

Now the Empress Dowager even suspects that the Empress Dowager was able to drug Empress Tong silently back then, causing her to die of weakness.If so, then... the empress dowager was a little shocked by the empress dowager's ruthlessness. Sure enough, only those who are as decisive and courageous as the empress dowager can turn the tide when the Qing Dynasty is crumbling. This kind of courage is not what they can Than!
The Queen Mother didn't dare to think about it anymore, the more she thought about it, the more frightened she became, and the more she thought about it, the more she couldn't believe it.After finally recovering, looking at Yinzhen who was standing below waiting for her to speak after saluting, she felt more and more pitiful for the child.Just because he wanted to eliminate his threat to the crown prince, he had to accept the thief as his mother. Even if Jia Min hadn't taken care of him back then, he didn't know what would have happened if he was abused like that by Concubine De!
In comparison, Yinzhen's growth path was much bumpier than that of the prince.The prince just lost his mother, but the prince has the love and protection of the emperor and the empress dowager, but what about Yinzhen?Even though her own mother is right in front of her eyes but she doesn't know it, she still has to admit that her mother is a thief for more than ten years.He was almost killed by his so-called biological mother!

But now?Under the doting of the empress dowager and the emperor, the prince became more and more arrogant and lawless. He didn't even care about the feelings of the emperor who always loved him. He only focused on enjoyment and selfishness. Put it in the eyes, the eyes grow in the sky.

(End of this chapter)