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Chapter 197: Marriage Grant (1)
That's why not only Mrs. Lu has deep feelings for Lu Mingfeng, but also the old man and Lu Zhongmian. Although the father and son have never taught Lu Mingfeng like Lu Wenting, they have definitely spent more time on her than all the other girls in the mansion. It sounds too much, let them give up on Lu Mingfeng like this, let Lu Mingfeng marry the eldest prince, doomed not to have a good life in the future, how can they not feel distressed or sad?

Mrs. Lu seemed to relax a bit when she heard the old man's words, she looked slightly relaxed, and sighed: "I know that it is difficult for you father and son to be the head of the family, but the eldest prince's character is low, that's all. The key point is that he still has such a habit. You were not there at the time, and you didn’t hear how embarrassing what he said to the little eunuch when he first woke up. Even if he was framed, could the person who framed him still force him to say Is this not possible? It can be seen that he really had this habit in the past, but no one knew about it, but today it was deliberately exposed... Seeing that there is no hope for him to go further, Feng girl married him and went back to her hometown to marry her incognito. What's the difference between others? Forget it, just think about it, and wait to see what the emperor means, anyway, it's just a matter of two days."

The old man and Lu Zhongmian both nodded in agreement, and went to the old man's small study to talk in the middle of the night, and it was four o'clock before they went back to their rooms to rest.

The emperor's decree was made faster than anyone imagined, and there was news in the palace early the next morning.

The eldest prince was framed by someone, and the little eunuch who framed him recruited himself last night because he was outraged that the eldest prince had shot his brother with a cane, so he deliberately retaliated in order to tarnish the eldest prince's reputation, and then committed suicide in fear of crime. It was all caused by the eldest prince not knowing how to be lenient and gentle, so the emperor banned the elder prince's feet for half a year, ordering him to do nothing but copy Buddhist scriptures for self-cultivation.

At the same time, Empress Xu also fell ill due to shortness of breath, and the imperial doctor said that she would have to be raised for at least a year and a half, so now Concubine Luo is temporarily taking care of the Sixth Palace, with Concubine Chen Shu and Concubine Xiao Ding as assistants.

The turmoil that happened on the Qianqiu Festival disappeared in the invisible like this. Although there were many people present at that time, everyone knew what was going on, but no one dared to talk about it in broad daylight. The higher the level of things, the more people can keep their mouths shut, and it will be flat, and because everyone understands that this matter is ultimately related to the storage position, naturally no one dares to discuss it.

Although what happened on Empress Xu's Qianqiu Festival disappeared quickly, this summer is destined to make the whole capital boil. When everyone was thinking about the path they should take in the future, the emperor issued another decree, and the second prince and the third prince gave marriage together.

Originally, one of the second prince and the third prince was eighteen, and the other was seventeen. Even if the princes of this dynasty always get married late, it is normal to get married after reaching the crown. At the current age of the second prince and the third prince, they should indeed be married up.

But the emperor's decree still shocked the whole court, because the marriage bestowed this time was extremely strange.

The second master of An Guogong's mansion, the eldest daughter of Xu Jinhua, the current Shaoqing of Guanglu Temple, is given the title of second prince Murong Kai Zhengfei.

The first-class general protecting the country, the eldest daughter of Xuan Da Zongbing Wei Yue, was given the title of third prince Murong Shenzhengfei.

Everyone knows that the An Guogong's mansion is the mother's house of the current queen, and it is born to belong to the eldest prince's party. Even if the eldest prince sees that he has lost power, they have only one way to go to the black. The eldest daughter of the second master of their family bestowed the second prince as his concubine, that is to say, from now on, the Anguo Duke's mansion will be both the mother family of the first prince and the wife family of the second prince. What does the emperor think? Do you want to use this to divide the interior of Duke Anguo's government and further weaken the power of the First Prince, or to put the Second Prince in the camp of the First Prince in a disguised form to strengthen the power of the First Prince?

The General Protector's Mansion started with military exploits from its ancestors, and reached the heyday of the family in Wei Yue's generation. Six years ago, Wei Yue led the army to wipe out the two small barbarian countries of Xiqiang, Miao, and Xinjiang that had troubled the border of the Great Zhou for many years. , Expanding the territory of the Great Zhou by nearly a quarter on the original basis, it can be said that he has made an incomparable contribution. Therefore, the award of Xuan Da Zongbing and the seal of the first-class general protecting the country are now The well-deserved No.1 in the Great Zhou army.At the same time, although the Wei family is thriving, for some unknown reason, each generation has only one daughter, and this generation does not have successive generations. The Wei Yue brothers have a total of [-] or [-] sons and concubines, but only Wei Yue's wife gave birth to a daughter. , was loved by the whole family, so the emperor said that he gave his eldest daughter, but in fact he gave his only daughter, the darling of the Wei family, to the third prince as his concubine. Have a certain military power?

What's more, both the birth mothers of the two princes were appointed concubines early on, and their mother families were not weak either. One was from the Huainan Chen family and the other was from the Lanling Xiao family. Shang'an Duke's Mansion is so prominent, but it's not much worse.

And according to the usual practice, when the prince bestows the marriage, he should be crowned king at the same time. The eldest prince is the eldest prince, so it’s fine if he wasn’t crowned king when the marriage was bestowed. The third prince bestowed a marriage and did not become a king, so no one could help trying to figure out what the emperor wanted.

So some people in the court speculated that the emperor had given up on the first prince by doing this, and planned to focus on cultivating the second and third princes, so that in the future, one of the two would be selected as the crown prince?But there are also many people who hold the opposite opinion. They feel that the emperor's move seems to be cultivating two or three princes, but in fact it is maintaining a delicate balance. In the future, when the fourth prince grows up, the influence of the elder brothers should not be underestimated. He cannot sit firmly on the position of prince. After all, it is well known that the emperor dotes on Concubine Luo and the fourth prince...so they secretly plotted their own way out.

Of course, there are quite a few people who still support the eldest prince, thinking that the eldest prince is the son of the middle palace, and he was born to occupy the orthodox position.Even if the Eldest Prince really has some immorality, the flaws can't be concealed, as long as he corrects it, not to mention the Emperor himself said that the Eldest Prince was framed by someone this time?Naturally, the right way is to regard the eldest son as the foundation of the country... and so on.

With the marriage decree of the two princes, which shocked the court and the public, attracting everyone's attention, the other decree issued by the emperor has hardly attracted anyone's attention. The law book should be copied and exiled, thinking of the late Prime Minister Ling's love and credit, so he only seized the title, fined the family property, demoted him to the common people, and was not allowed to be born in the imperial examination for three generations.

People in the capital have almost forgotten that there is a Marquis of Guangping in this dynasty. Although Ling Xiang is a famous minister, he has been dead for many years, and the Ling family has moved away from the capital for more than ten years. Who remembers that there was a Such a family?
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