The Xianwang Mansion.
The virtuous princess stared closely at the imperial physician who was taking her pulse, until a look of joy gradually appeared on the physician's face. He stood up and congratulated the virtuous prince and the virtuous princess on the couch, "Congratulations, virtuous prince, congratulations, princess, the princess is pregnant!"
Upon hearing this, Princess Xian breathed a sigh of relief, and then a strange light flashed in her eyes.
The virtuous prince was overjoyed. He stepped forward, grabbed the virtuous princess's hand, and said a few words to comfort her. Then he asked someone to reward the imperial physician and also asked the physician to take a message to the palace.
How could the imperial physician not know what the message was?
Because of the incident in Chongqing Palace that day, Princess Huaian was deposed, and Prince Liang and Prince Xian were both placed under house arrest. However, Princess Chengqian, considering the Duke Zhenguo's Mansion, went to plead for Prince Liang, and Prince Liang was not imprisoned for many days. Instead, Prince Xian and his wife became very depressed, and didn't they see that Prince Xian's eyes were dark blue and he had lost a lot of weight visibly!
This time, the virtuous princess is pregnant, and the emperor is very pleased, and he is afraid that he can relieve the virtuous prince.
But Princess Xian had never been pregnant and had been treated for a long time without any results. How could she suddenly become pregnant?
The imperial physician left with doubts.
The virtuous princess dismissed her attendants and said to the virtuous prince, "I am pregnant this time, thanks to Sister Chengqian. It was her good prescription that helped me conceive. If I can help my father untie his feet, I should thank Sister Chengqian sincerely!"
The virtuous king just smiled without saying anything, thinking that his princess was truly kind-hearted. Cheng Qian had caused them to be confined to their homes, but she was grateful for just a prescription of medicine.
Cheng Qian already had this recipe, but for more than ten years, he watched him without a legitimate son but did not offer it to him. What was his motive?
Could it be that something really happened between the Eastern Palace and the Emperor... Cheng Qian wanted to curry favor with him?
The virtuous king has not been idle these days even though he has not gone out. He summoned his retainers and staff to analyze the matter for a long time, especially since the crown prince was sent to Quzhou after leaving the Yangxin Palace that night, and no one knew what he was going to do.
It was said that he was suppressing bandits, but his spies reported that the prince had taken his men into the dense forests of the Quzhou Plateau. The forest was deserted... No, it wasn't that there were no people. In recent years, local people had rumored that there were wild men in it. Regardless of whether they were bandits or wild men, why would a prince like him go there instead of staying in the Forbidden City?
And for several months, he didn’t even come back for the Chinese New Year!
The staff all said that this was a sign that the prince was going to be deposed.
In order to stabilize the court and the princes, no direct decree was issued, but he had been exiled from the center of power, waiting for that imperial decree!
Furthermore, the divorce between the Prince of Zhenguo and Cheng Qian also proved that the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion had abandoned the Prince. It was said that the old Duke of Zhenguo, for the sake of his reputation, did not want the officials to think that he was a sycophant, so he pretended to expel the Prince from the house.
Cheng Qian disregarded the woman's reputation and went forward to look for her, which ended up implicating the prince, who almost died. Cheng Qian probably used the child to threaten the prince and forced him to stay by his side.
As for that day in Chongqing Palace, the prince came out to speak for Cheng Qian, but it was only because he had a child with her. If he was really so sincere to Cheng Qian, how could he agree to a divorce?
The staff witnessed with their own eyes that on that day at the princess's mansion, Cheng Qian and the prince avoided the guests and went to Aoxue Pavilion one after another. Perhaps Cheng Qian wanted to do something bad to the prince. When the prince came back, his clothes were disheveled and his face was gloomy!
Pian Chengqian was holding the child and looked calm and composed.
He is a member of the Zhao family, how could he not know the virtues of the Zhao princesses?
Zhao Ying pretended for so many years, but finally her cruel and rebellious nature was revealed!
After analyzing for several days, the wise king felt that he had a very thorough understanding of the court situation!
The prince is finished!
Zhao Ying is looking for a backer!
The prince of Zhenguo was avoiding him as much as possible!
If that is the case, then among all the princes, he is the most likely to ascend the throne!
He is the eldest son. Although his father loves Empress Xiaomin the most, the second most important woman in his heart is his mother. If the crown prince is deposed, he will be the first to bear the brunt!
In the past, he had the flaw of not having a legitimate son, but now it is gone!
The only unsafe person is Shangguan Shu. If he does not support the prince and instead supports King Liang, then things will be difficult.
Fortunately, King Liang and Shangguan Shu had always been at odds with each other. They just couldn't get along when they were young. In recent years, Shangguan Shu almost hated King Liang.
This was mainly because when Shangguan Shu's eldest daughter was one month old, King Liang saw her and said, "This child is so ugly!"
Shangguan Shu was not in the capital at the time, so Cheng Qian wrote a letter home to sue King Liang.
Shangguan Shu held a grudge against him from then on. As soon as he returned to Beijing, he rushed to Prince Liang's mansion without taking off his armor. At that time, Prince Liang was having sex with his concubine. A sharp spear went through the door and went straight into the bed curtain, scaring Prince Liang so much that he could not get an erection for half a year.
But that wasn't the end of it. At the full-moon banquet for the sixth daughter of the Prince of Liang, Shangguan Shu, a foreigner, unexpectedly squeezed into the boudoir of the Prince of Liang's concubine. Standing among a group of women in a riot of colour, he said coldly to the little princess in his arms, "My concubine, you are the princess, how did you give birth to Zhang Fei?"
Later, after Cheng Qian instigated his father, the title of the little princess was decided to be "Yide".
Since then, the two families have not held banquets of any size...
Therefore, the probability of Shangguan Shu surrendering to King Liang is lower than the probability that King Liang's sixth daughter is really the reincarnation of Zhang Fei.
If Shangguan Shu doesn’t support King Liang, who else can he support?
The wise king felt that as long as he extended an olive branch to Shangguan Shu, Shangguan Shu would definitely be used by him. By then, he would have Shangguan Shu for military power and his sixth brother, the King of Yue, for wealth. Why would he worry about not being able to ascend to the throne?
When the time comes, he will settle the shame of house arrest with Cheng Qian!
After a long time without receiving a response from the King, the Consort Xian called out, "Your Majesty?"
The virtuous prince came back to his senses, collected his thoughts, and patted the virtuous princess's hand. "Zixian, what you said is very true. I wonder what Zixian thinks about this?"
The wise king thought to himself that the princess was kind and did not like disputes, so it would be better not to tell her about this plan, so as not to scare her!
The virtuous princess smiled and said, "Your Highness really knows me!"
"It turned out that I had wrongly trusted that Zhao Yao and misunderstood Sister Cheng Qian, nearly committing a serious mistake. Sister Cheng Qian, on the contrary, repaid me with kindness. I thought, if I could free my feet, why not invite her and a few sisters to the Xianwang Mansion, and I would personally cook a family feast, which would be my way of making amends to Sister Cheng Qian!"
The wise king took a deep breath and nodded, somewhat displeased, but without objecting. "If you have made up your mind, then do it!"
Princess Xian curled her lips and smiled slightly.
"You rest first. I still have things to do. I will have dinner with you later!"
After the virtuous prince left, the virtuous princess' smile instantly disappeared.
His long fingers clutched the blankets beneath him tightly, and his eyes were filled with poison.
Si De, don't worry, I will definitely avenge you!
…
When the news of Princess Xian's pregnancy reached the Yangxin Palace, Emperor Jianxi really did untie the feet of Prince Xian and sent imperial physicians to serve her at all times, hoping that Princess Xian could give birth to a eldest son and grandson.
The virtuous king went to the palace to meet the emperor the next day, and a moment later the imperial edict of Emperor Jianxi arrived at Guangming Hall.
Shangguan Shu was promoted before the virtuous princess gave birth.
Grand Tutor.
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