The First Consort 4 - First Update, Mwah!

Hongyu is still a baby, and the only person we are focusing on developing right now is Yinti himself.

Compared to the governance and administration taught to him by the three gentlemen, he preferred the strategy of "using war to sustain war" taught to him by Huo Qubing.

Han Xin taught him flexible use of troops and strategic planning. Li Jing, the military genius of the Tang Dynasty, taught him multi-service coordinated operations of infantry, cavalry, and navy. General Yue Fei taught him discipline, discipline, and unity between the military and the people.

After the red bumps on Consort Hui's face subsided, her mind cleared up. She suddenly realized that her son seemed to have changed a lot. He no longer fought with the Crown Prince, and even his impulsive personality had changed. This made her feel that something was amiss.

So, after Yinqi returned to her palace from the Qianqing Palace, she probed him with a few questions.

Yinti looked surprised and doubtful after hearing this: "Mother, are you saying that you also had a great dream, and after waking up, you didn't know whether you were Zhuangzi dreaming of being a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming of being Zhuangzi?"

"Also? Yinti, could it be that you are also?"

Yinti nodded: "It seems that Mother and I both had a dream. It was because of that dream that I decided to give up competing with the Crown Prince for the position."

Father Emperor never intended to pass that position to his son, so why should his son insist?

After hearing Yinti's words, Consort Hui held his hand with heartache: "It's because your mother is useless. In the past, your mother only thought that a mother's status was determined by her son, but forgot that a son's status was determined by his mother."

It's all your mother's fault for not giving you a good birth, making you inferior to Yinreng from birth.

Having been given a second chance at life, your mother is very pleased that you've come to terms with it. It's better not to fight for the position of crown prince. What good would it do even if you did? Yinreng was raised by your father, the Emperor, and in the end, he was deposed.

Ironically, it was the quiet and unassuming Yinzhen who emerged as the ultimate winner.

Consort Hui became increasingly distressed as she spoke. Recalling the tragic fate of her grandchildren in her dream, she couldn't help but punch Yinti: "You need to take your wife's health seriously. You can't let her leave us so early like she did in her previous life."

Children without a mother's protection are so pitiful. You're so careless, and your second wife is kind on the surface but cruel on the inside. My poor grandson and granddaughter are suffering because of you...

After giving Yinti a beating, Consort Hui opened her private treasury and stuffed all the good medicinal herbs into his hands, then sent him home to be with Chen Xia.

Seeing that he was just idling at home playing with cats and dogs all day, Chen Xia asked the Shennong System to assign him a task, intending to send him to the farm to farm.

Who knew this guy would run into the palace, and somehow manage to talk to Emperor Kangxi about it, but when he came back, he happily told Chen Xia...

"Father bestowed a newly renovated garden near Changchun Garden upon you, Master. Although it is not large, the scenery is very beautiful. When the weather gets warmer, our family will move to the garden to live."

Upon hearing about the garden near Changchun Garden, Chen Xia quickly asked what it was called. Yinti thought for a moment and said, "Father didn't say what the garden is called either, so it probably doesn't have a name. After we move there, if the Princess Consort likes it, she can give it a name, or Father can bestow a name upon it."

Upon hearing that there was no name, Chen Xia thought that she must be overthinking it. There are many gardens near Changchun Garden, and it is not necessarily Yuanmingyuan.

When she saw the location of the garden, she was stunned. This garden was probably the future Yuanmingyuan, but now it was named Qichun Garden by Emperor Kangxi.

Chen Xia was initially surprised by the fact that her family had occupied the Fourth Prince's Yuanmingyuan Garden, but the surprise quickly passed. "We've already occupied it, we can't just give it back, can we?"

The garden was so spacious and comfortable that Yinti and his family didn't want to return to the capital.

Emperor Kangxi would spend most of the year living in Changchun Garden, and during this time, Yinti's family would also live in Qichun Garden.

Kangxi was not the homebody Yongzheng. He went to the Mulan Hunting Grounds almost every year. Every time he went, Yinti was among his entourage. Yinti accompanied Kangxi to the Summer Palace, while Chen Xia continued to live in Qichun Garden with the children.

In recent years, her relationship with Consort Hui has become increasingly harmonious.

Consort Hui doted on her eldest grandson, Hongyu, to the extreme. Yinti was also a doting father, so the responsibility of educating Hongyu ultimately fell to his two older sisters, Wuxiha and Anari.

The two little girls were unusually eager to teach, and they were incredibly serious when instructing their two younger sisters and brother.

With everything in the manor managed so well, Chen Xia could truly live a life of ease and comfort.

No longer obsessed with her son vying for the crown prince position, Consort Hui, who considered herself to be without desires, completely reverted to her true nature. She would go and kill anyone she didn't like, and even Emperor Kangxi was no exception.

Unexpectedly, Kangxi was not angry at all. Instead, he pulled her aside and reminisced about the past. Although Consort Hui was old, her skin, nourished by the beauty cream, was even more delicate than that of a young girl, which made Kangxi love her.

Consort Hui, who had been out of favor for many years, suddenly became Emperor Kangxi's favorite, which not only shocked the harem, but also stunned Yinti and Chen Xia. How could their mother (mother-in-law) be so powerful?

In order to keep Consort Hui in the emperor's favor, Chen Xia took decisive action and gave Consort Hui a pill to nourish her yin and improve her complexion, making her look younger and more delicate.

With Consort Hui constantly whispering sweet nothings in Emperor Kangxi's ear, Yinqi, the eldest son, gained increasing importance in Kangxi's heart. Compared to the filial eldest son, the increasingly irritable Crown Prince seemed utterly useless.

Yinti stayed in Qichun Garden, diligently farming. Apart from the Crown Prince, he had a very harmonious relationship with the other princes. After all, the saying "the eldest brother is like a father" was not just a saying. Even the impetuous Tenth Prince, who dared to contradict Kangxi, was as docile as a cat in front of Yinti.

After all, his father, Emperor Kangxi, would show him leniency, but his elder brother, Yinqi, would truly punish him.

The more Emperor Kangxi trusted Yinqi, the more composed he became, while the Crown Prince perceived him as a greater threat and increasingly targeted him. Kangxi grew more disappointed with the Crown Prince's behavior, and the Crown Prince became increasingly fearful and uneasy...

This was a vicious cycle. The Crown Prince felt his position as heir apparent was unstable, and, instigated by Suo'etu, he plotted to seize power while Emperor Kangxi was away from the capital. After Kangxi discovered his plot, Suo'etu took all the blame upon himself and died in prison.

In the 47th year of the Kangxi Emperor's reign, the Crown Prince was deposed, and the eldest prince, Yinti, stayed in Qichun Garden, eating and drinking as he pleased, and continuing to cultivate his own land.

Emperor Kangxi regretted deposing Yinreng immediately and tentatively asked Yinti how to deal with Yinreng.

Yinti replied, "I will listen to my father, do as you please. But no matter what, Yinreng is your son, my brother, and I hope you can show leniency..."

Emperor Kangxi was greatly pleased with Yinti's answer. Not long after, he bestowed upon him the title of Prince Zhi. Then came a series of shady moves. Ostensibly, he asked the ministers to recommend a new crown prince, but in reality, he wanted to use the ministers' position as a pretext to release the deposed crown prince, Yinreng.

As a result, no one could guess what Kangxi was thinking, and everyone unanimously recommended the very popular Eighth Prince, the Eighth Virtuous Prince, as the crown prince.

Emperor Kangxi was furious. He had anticipated that his court officials would nominate the eldest, second, or even third and fourth princes, but he never expected that they would all unanimously nominate the eighth prince as the crown prince.

Unexpectedly, the eldest and second eldest brothers' fight turned out to be the one that benefited the eighth eldest brother, who acted as the fisherman.

Emperor Kangxi hated nothing more than the formation of cliques and the pursuit of personal gain. Now, the Eighth Prince had won over so many court officials right under his nose, which was a direct slap in the face to him.

The Manchu and Han officials unanimously recommended the Eighth Prince as the Crown Prince, praising his virtue and ability, which made the autocratic Kangxi feel threatened.

Kangxi not only dismissed Ma Qi and others who were the most troublesome, but also reprimanded the ministers who supported the Eighth Prince.

In front of all the civil and military officials, he cursed the Eighth Prince as being born to a lowly maid from the Imperial Household Department, thus completely blocking any possibility of the Eighth Prince ascending to the throne.

In order to maintain balance in the court, Kangxi brought back the deposed Crown Prince Yinreng and continued to use him as a figurehead.

Chen Xia had no time to pay attention to the commotion in the court, because her sons, Ushiha and Anari, were getting married.

In the 45th year of the Kangxi Emperor's reign, Ushiha was betrothed to Dorjisereng, a Taiji of the Khorchin, while Anari married Cangjin, the Prince of Duling of the Ongniud tribe of the Borjigit.

Kangxi originally intended to marry Ushiha to a Mongol woman while Anari remained in the capital, but Yinti refused.

He told Emperor Kangxi that his two daughters were like him, strong-willed, and fond of horseback riding and archery. They wanted to be soaring eagles and did not want to stay in the backyard to be wives and mothers.

Emperor Kangxi summoned his two granddaughters to the Qianqing Palace. The three of them chatted for a while, and the two little girls pleased Emperor Kangxi greatly. He not only bestowed upon them the title of Heshuo Princess, but also personally granted them dowries and guards.

Chen Xia couldn't bear to part with her two daughters, so she asked Yinti to make a scene with Emperor Kangxi. At least they stayed for another year or two, but now they had no choice but to marry.

Ushiha and Anari's dowries were accumulated from childhood, and Chen Xia went to great lengths to collect them after she arrived.

Ushiha's husband, just like in her previous life, was still Dorji Sereng, a Taiji of the Khorchin.

But unlike the previous life, in this life, Yinti is a Prince Zhi, and the dowry Chen Xia prepared for Wuxiha was so elaborate that even a ten-mile-long procession of red bridal procession couldn't contain it.

The wedding procession was even more impressive, with the ninth and tenth brothers leading the thirteenth and fourteenth brothers to send their eldest niece off to her wedding.

Twelve-year-old Hongyu was also in the wedding procession. He had been making a scene for a long time, insisting on sending his older sister off to get married. He even threatened Dorjisereng that if anyone dared to treat his sister badly, he would come and beat them up.

After hearing from the maid about Hongyu's threat to Dorjisereng, Ushiha couldn't help but tear up. The maid beside her had to coax and persuade him to smile again.

After Ushiha got married, Chen Xia's heart flew to the Mongolian grasslands. She was worried about her every day, fearing that her little darling would be wronged.

Ana Ri brought her third and fourth daughters to visit Chen Xia every day. Chen Xia felt even more distressed when she saw her graceful second daughter.

The fact that her own plump, healthy cabbages ended up benefiting a bunch of blond-haired bastards from the grasslands made her increasingly furious.

Anari clung to Chen Xia's arm and said coquettishly, "Mother, it's those Mongolian princes who should be worried. Just wait, sooner or later they will all be groveling at my feet."

After learning from their masters for so many years, it's finally time for them to put their skills to use. Their daughter is even eager to marry into the Mongolian family.

In the future, if Mother ever tires of staying in the capital, she can go to Mongolia to find her daughters and eldest sister. Her daughters will conquer a Mongol Khanate for her, and she can become Empress.

Chen Xia poked her head: "You wish! No matter what you sisters want to do, your mother will only say one thing: you must do it while ensuring your own safety."

Six months later, Ana Ri boarded a carriage and embarked on the same journey as Ushiha. By this time, Ushiha had completely taken control of Khorchin and began to subtly and gradually erode the surrounding tribes.

Emperor Kangxi was extremely shocked by his two granddaughters' ambitions. He never expected that they would emulate Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang. In their words, since decades ago, Mongolian women were able to control the harem of the Aisin Gioro family and thus influence the previous dynasty.

These princesses of the Aisin Gioro family are now able to gradually gain control over the various Mongol tribes.

Emperor Kangxi was undoubtedly pleasantly surprised by the bravery of the two young girls. The reason he established the policy of sending women from the imperial clan to pacify the Mongols was actually to firmly control the various Mongol tribes through marriage alliances.

He didn't believe his two granddaughters could achieve what so many princesses who married into Mongolia had failed to do. But their insight and courage were already remarkable.

The eldest son is so lucky! He not only has an outstanding eldest son, but also two intelligent daughters.

For the first time, Emperor Kangxi discovered that his eldest son was not entirely useless; at least he knew how to teach children.

What a pity! If only Hongyu were Yinreng's eldest son! That way, even if Yinreng was not a good son, there would still be a good grandson.

Why did the Yongle Emperor pass the throne to Zhu Gaochi, who was deemed incapable of ruling the country? It was all because of his beloved grandson, Zhu Zhanji!

After Emperor Kangxi reinstated the crown prince, he would always lament why Hongyu was not Yinreng's eldest son whenever he saw the prince's disappointing behavior.

After repeated disappointments, Kangxi finally had the painful decision to abandon Yinreng, once again deposing him from his position as crown prince and imprisoning him in Xian'an Palace.

At the same time, he took the sixteen-year-old Hongyu under his wing and, like the previous crown prince, taught him how to handle government affairs.

Having grown up under the suppression of his four older sisters and the earnest guidance of several powerful mentors, Hongyu's starting point was far superior to that of Yinreng.

Emperor Kangxi was both surprised and delighted. Hongyu was a combination of the brothers Yinti and Yinreng, and was a man of both literary and military talent.

The key is that he is very methodical in his work, knows how to advance and retreat appropriately, and has strong leadership skills and personal charisma.

His grasp of people's hearts is also very good. He is not like Lao Ba, who is just polite and respectful to people. He has a really strong personal charisma.

The saying "grandparents love their grandchildren more than just words" is true. Emperor Kangxi could be ruthless and let his sons run wild like dogs, but he truly loved his eldest grandson, Hongyu, to the core.

Even Yinti couldn't help but complain sourly to Chen Xia: "Father Emperor is really good to Hongyu. If I said the same thing, Father Emperor would scold me to death, but Hongyu would say that his grandson is right."

Chen Xia couldn't help but laugh; her son's maxed-out affinity and luck stats weren't for nothing.

The idea of ​​taking the "sacred grandson's route" as a roundabout way to achieve national salvation is not new. The Ushiha sisters felt that if they were to control the various Mongol tribes in the future, Hongyu might very well be able to sit in that position.

Chen Xia then sought out several influential mentors, who suggested a roundabout approach: leveraging the grandson of the emperor to increase Yinqi's leverage.

Chen Xia thought it was a good idea. Yinti only had one son, Hongyu, and he had sent all the concubines and princesses from the backyard to the farm.

Even if he later ascends the throne and changes his mind, I can still control him, and it will be impossible for him to have another son.

Even if he were to take that position, it would only pave the way for Hongyu. Ultimately, Chen Xia agreed to the plan. Now it seems the plan is progressing smoothly.

Consort Hui was more effective than anyone could have imagined. Less than half a year after she regained the Emperor's favor, Consort De offended the Emperor and was demoted to Consort De. She was then confined to Yonghe Palace to copy scriptures and calm her mind.

Subsequently, the Imperial Household Department carried out a major purge from top to bottom, replacing most of the key positions with people arranged by Chen Xia.

On the other hand, the fourth, fifth, and ninth wives became pregnant after using the health-preserving pills given to them by Chen Xia, and gave birth to legitimate sons in succession the following year.

From then on, the Eighth Prince's party completely fell apart, and the Ninth Prince and the Tenth Prince were pulled onto Chen Xia's side.

In the spring of the fifty-sixth year, Emperor Kangxi fell critically ill. He thanked Consort De, of the Uya clan, for pushing her niece, Uya Wanying, forward to secure his favor in order to win back his heart.

In an attempt to turn the tables, Lady Wuya used women trained in Yangzhou to seduce Emperor Kangxi and keep him in her favor for half a month. Consort Hui seized the opportunity to add fuel to the fire by adding an ingredient to the incense in Kangxi's bedroom.

Kangxi was only good at self-control; any other emperor would have immediately gone mad.

Chen Xia cleaned up the mess for Consort Hui, making sure the investigation wouldn't reach her, since Consort De had also inadvertently given her aphrodisiacs.

Therefore, despite his physical limitations, Emperor Kangxi issued an edict ordering the execution of Consort De and Lady Wuya, and exterminating the entire Wuya clan.

Then, in front of all the princes, members of the imperial family, and several important ministers, he established the eldest prince, Yinti, as the crown prince.

After dismissing the court officials, in front of all the princes, Kangxi held Hongyu's hand and earnestly advised, "Your father is reckless; you should try to persuade him more."

Yinti pouted: "If you are not at ease, Father, you might as well pass the throne to Hongyu. Your son is willing to be the retired emperor."

Upon hearing this, Emperor Kangxi found it reasonable and immediately ordered Su Peisheng to summon both Manchu and Han officials to an audience.

Kangxi bypassed Yinti and passed the throne directly to his eldest grandson Hongyu, making Yinti, the newly appointed crown prince, the retired emperor.

After Emperor Kangxi passed the throne to Hongyu, he died soon after. Although the princes knew that the throne had nothing to do with them, they never expected that Emperor Kangxi would make the decision to pass the throne to his grandson.

Unfortunately, Hongyu was not Zhu Yunwen, and with the protective retired emperor Yinti in charge, everyone had to keep their thoughts to themselves.

The Emperor is a smiling tiger, and he also has a retired emperor who can do whatever he wants. It's okay to offend the retired emperor, but if you offend the Emperor, the retired emperor can beat you to death, and the worst part is that you have nowhere to complain.