Chapter 1106: Insiders and Outsiders (To the book friend "Xuehua's reward plus the second chapter")
As soon as she left the palace, Manbao saw Bai Shan, Bai Erlang, and Daji standing not far away. Her face immediately lit up, and she turned around and said happily to Eunuch Wu, "You don't have to send me off. Just send Shopkeeper Zheng back to Jishitang. Someone from my family is here to pick me up."
Shopkeeper Xiao Zheng was almost frightened to death by Manbao and immediately said, "No, no, I can just take Doctor Xiao Zhou's car for a while. I won't bother Eunuch Wu."
Eunuch Wu also felt that if Manbao didn't take his car, he would not bother to go and give Manager Zheng a ride.
Seeing that Shopkeeper Xiao Zheng understood, he smiled and nodded, saying, "Then we'll take you two here. When does Doctor Xiao Zhou plan to come tomorrow?"
Manbao thought for a moment and realized that she still had to give Yin Huo acupuncture after school tomorrow, so she had to leave the palace early. So she said, "I'll come at 3 p.m."
In this way, you can leave the palace around 3 p.m.
Eunuch Wu smiled and nodded, noted the time, and said goodbye to Manbao.
Manbao ran towards Bai Shan and the others. Bai Shan also took a few steps forward. Seeing her rosy face and a happy smile on her face, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
Because of the presence of an outsider, Shopkeeper Xiao Zheng, they had many questions that they were reluctant to ask, so they became quite quiet after getting in the car.
Shopkeeper Xiao Zheng's eyes slid back and forth between the three of them. Seeing that they were just staring at each other silently without saying anything, he felt a little regretful. He should have walked out and called a taxi.
The three of them exchanged glances silently, thinking they understood each other's meaning, so they looked away and all looked at Shopkeeper Xiao Zheng, starting to find topics to talk to him.
Manbao asked him, "Were you nervous when you entered the palace?"
Bai Shanze asked, "Did Manbao say anything wrong in the palace?"
Bai Erlang then asked, "Have you seen the Emperor?"
Shopkeeper Xiao Zheng: ...What if you want to get off the bus and walk away?
With the help of the three people, he finally made it to the front door of Jishiditang. He jumped out of the car almost as if escaping. Manbao opened the window and waved to him, saying, "I won't go in. You should tell Old Zheng, the shopkeeper, that you will be here when we discuss the patient's condition."
But he hadn't been with her for quite a long time. He didn't have the chance to ask her in the palace, so why didn't he explain it when he came out?
So that they can check whether she has done anything wrong or said anything wrong.
Before he could say anything, Manbao had already lowered the curtains, and Daji whipped his horse and left.
Shopkeeper Xiao Zheng could only watch the carriage go away. He sighed softly and turned back to report.
Even if Shopkeeper Xiao Zheng asked, Manbao would not tell him. This is a secret, and secrets can only be told to family members.
So when the carriage had only gone a short distance, Manbao, who had been holding his breath for a while, immediately lowered his voice, but could not help but excitedly asked them: "Do you know who the emperor is?"
Bai Shan and Bai Erlang looked at each other, both speechless, "I know."
Manbao glared, "You know?"
Bai Shan: "...Of course I know. The current emperor is His Royal Highness the Prince of Qin, the late emperor's second prince. Who wouldn't know that?"
Manbao: "...I'm talking about a person! You, me, and him, all of us have seen him. Do you know who he is?"
She spoke as if the people today were not human beings… Before Bai Shan finished complaining in his heart, he suddenly realized the meaning of her words. He was stunned, then thought carefully in his mind for a long time, and shook his head woodenly, "I don't know, have we met?"
Bai Jilang was also very surprised, "Oh my God, when did we get to know such a powerful person?"
Manbao chuckled and said, "We met him when we were on our way to Yizhou City to study and passed through Maozhou. At that time, he was pretending to be a merchant, saying that he was Li Er."
Bai Erlang was still wondering who it was, but Bai Shan had already remembered and sighed, "He is indeed Li Erlang."
Bai Erlang finally remembered something, but he couldn't quite recall what the man looked like. He was curious, "What was he doing in Yizhou at that time? Did he know that the King of Yizhou was planning something bad, so he went to investigate?"
Bai Shan and Man Bao glanced at him at the same time. Bai Shan said, "A son of a wealthy family shouldn't stand under a dangerous wall. He's the emperor. How could he run to Yizhou when he knew the King of Yizhou was plotting something bad?"
Man Bao said: "It's not like he doesn't have subordinates. He has so many ministers. He can just send anyone to investigate."
Bai Erlang: "Then tell me, why did he go to Yizhou?"
Bai Shan thought for a moment and said, "It should be about resettling refugees after the disaster, right?"
Manbao: "By then, three years had passed. Everything that needed to be arranged had been done. It was easy to tell which officials were good and which were bad just by visiting the local authorities."
Bai Shan nodded.
The three of them were silent for a moment, then Bai Shan turned and asked Man Bao, "Have you tried to make friends with him?"
Manbao coughed lightly, feeling a little guilty, and said, "I climbed it accidentally."
Bai Shan: "...He is the emperor, don't talk about friendship with him in the future."
Bai Erlang: "There's no point in talking about it, huh. At least we've met and even stayed together at night, but he still cheated us and sent you to Beijing to file a complaint."
Manbao sighed, "Yes, the emperor's family is pretty much the same as what's described in the books. I just can't understand why the Third Prince and the Crown Prince have the same parents and are not without money or land, so why would he want to fight with the Crown Prince for the throne?"
Bai Shan said, "It's because there's a lot of money and a lot of land that people are fighting over it."
Bai Erlang disagreed, "My family has plenty of money and land, so I never thought of competing with my eldest brother."
Bai Shan glanced at him and said, "That's because my uncle divided the property fairly evenly. My eldest cousin inherited an extra portion of the sacrificial land and the ancestral home, and the rest of the land was basically split in half between you two. But you should know that according to the rules of our clan, the eldest son can inherit more than 70% of the property, and the remaining 30% is divided among the sons."
Manbao looked at Bai Erlang and said, "If Mr. Bai and Mrs. Bai had more children..."
Bai Shan continued, "Then you can divide the 30% of the property among yourself. It depends on whether you are happy with it or not."
Bai Erlang opened his mouth wide, and it took him a while to find his voice. "No, why? How come I don't know this rule?"
Manbao finally remembered, "Is there a clause in the law?"
Bai Shan nodded affirmatively, "Yes, there is this one."
He said, "In their view, the entire empire belongs to the emperor, and the princes who share the same mother as the emperor are only granted a small fiefdom. This fiefdom is less than one-tenth of the entire empire. Concubine princes who don't share the same mother probably have an even smaller and more impoverished fiefdom. Many people are dissatisfied with this."
Man Bao: "It's really strange. It's Confucianism that insists on the system of primogeniture. It's also Confucianism that says it's not the scarcity of inheritance that's worrying, but the inequality of inheritance. So, does Confucianism want the eldest son to inherit more, or for all sons to share equally?"
"Of course it's the eldest son," Bai Shan said, "The family heritage must be passed down through one lineage. This is the only way it can be passed down for a long time. It's not the scarcity that's worrying, but the inequality that's worrying. It's just a matter of understanding."
See you tomorrow
(End of this chapter)
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