Chapter 3462 Extra Prince 1
The prince knew from a young age that he was the eldest brother and had to help his mother take care of his younger siblings.
As soon as his father ascended the throne, he was made the crown prince. It can be said that he was legitimate and extremely noble.
He himself was also full of energy and although studying was difficult, he still studied hard in order to manage the country well.
Aye was strict with him, but favored the third brother and Mingda. He didn't think there was anything wrong with it before. He was the eldest brother and would inherit the family business and take care of his younger brothers and sisters in the future.
So he had no objection. Within a reasonable range, he would indulge his younger brothers and sisters, and would only occasionally help his mother discipline them.
He thought that he would always be full of vigor and successfully ascend the throne in the future, and become a wise ruler like his father, or even better than his father.
But life is not so smooth. When he grew up and started to talk about marriage, he encountered his first setback.
Aye, who was confident of finding a good wife for him, selected several girls from aristocratic families and personally wrote letters to those families to discuss marriage.
As a result, they were rejected one by one.
This not only hurt the emperor's reputation, but also made the prince fall from the sky. He began to realize that the royal family was not omnipotent. In the eyes of some aristocratic families, they were nothing.
He was somewhat ashamed and annoyed, and secretly developed a fighting spirit, so he fully supported his father's emphasis on the imperial examination and supporting the poor.
Humph, they can't fight against these aristocratic families now, but twenty, thirty, or fifty years later, when there are enough people from humble backgrounds and commoners standing in the court, won't they be able to fight against the aristocratic families?
It was also because of this that the emperor specifically gave the Ministry of Rites to the crown prince for management. The Ministry of Rites managed the Imperial College, and all official and private schools in the world. With students from all over the world as a foundation, the crown prince would be able to do a lot of things in the future.
Until this time, the prince thought that his life would be spent building the country, continuing the glory of the Li family and fighting with the aristocratic families.
Until he married the Crown Princess, she had no children for two years. He then took in a concubine and several maids, but none of them had children for another two years.
So the Crown Princess and the concubines who had been taking medicine stopped taking it and the Crown Prince took the medicine instead.
No one dared to mention this matter in front of him. Even his father, who was concerned, quietly signaled the imperial physician to go to the East Palace to see him.
Several of his younger brothers who got married later than him all had children, but he alone did not have any.
Moreover, as his younger brothers grew older and began to be granted fiefs, his father's preference for the third brother became more obvious.
He would not have taken this seriously before. The third brother was his legitimate brother and they were born from the same mother. It was normal for his father to favor him. Even he would be more partial to his brothers and sisters who were born from the same mother.
But now it's different.
Because of his father's favoritism, some ministers in the court began to favor the third son, and the third son also snatched several jobs and credits from him.
Although the prince had a smooth life, he was also from the royal family, so he certainly knew what the third brother's move meant.
It's impossible not to be sad, but the throne belongs to the capable. If you have the ability, come and grab it, right?
The prince was not afraid. He felt that there was nothing wrong with his body and he was still as strong as ever. It was just that the time had not come yet, so the child was delayed.
He was waiting, he felt that God would always be on his side.
But since when, everyone started looking at him differently. When he was in court, whenever he mentioned his offspring, everyone would secretly glance at him.
Some government affairs that should have been handed over to him were also snatched up by court officials and given to the third prince, or even to other princes.
Even the queen had to secretly search for famous doctors for him.
Then he realized that what he thought was fine was not really the case. Although the doctors explained it vaguely, he understood that his kidney water was deficient, making it difficult for a woman to get pregnant.
There can be a prince without offspring in the world, but there absolutely cannot be a crown prince without offspring.
If the crown prince has no offspring, it means that the future emperor will have no offspring, which means that the country is unstable and there will be struggles over the succession in the future.
Even he himself felt that rather than letting the Jin Dynasty be in turmoil in the future, it would be better to depose him now and re-appoint the crown prince.
He felt that his father must have thought the same way, otherwise why would he favor the third son more and more and not let him go to his fiefdom and stay in the capital.
The prince had given up and thought, you can scold me all you want, it would be best if you scold me out of my position as prince, then I can live a quiet life from now on.
But the emperor disagreed. This was his eldest son. He could scold him, but how could others despise him so much?
So when the prince gave up on him, the emperor held on to him tightly, and no matter who mentioned deposing the prince, he refused to do so.
There are also quite a number of ministers in the court who insist on orthodoxy. The crown prince cannot be deposed unless he makes a major mistake. Otherwise, what will happen if future generations learn from him?
The emperor's accession to the throne was not legitimate in the first place. If the next generation continues to behave like this, how can the inheritance of the Great Jin Dynasty be good in the future?
Therefore, a series of important ministers including Wei Zhi, Old Tang Lord and Li Shangshu insisted on maintaining orthodoxy and supported the emperor in not deposing the prince.
The prince was pushed forward by them. Before he knew it, he had been competing with the third brother for a long time, almost to the point where the two kings did not meet each other.
But even at this moment, the prince still felt that he could survive, it all depended on when his father would depose him and make the third son the prince.
He didn't think that the third brother should be killed after he succeeded to the throne. If he had no offspring, what did it matter whether he was killed or not?
And there is also the Queen Mother, they are from the same mother.
Until a concubine in his house became pregnant.
After the Crown Prince and the Crown Princess checked again and again and confirmed that the child was his, the couple were overjoyed.
Who wants to be a deposed prince when you can be the emperor?
So the prince felt that he was okay again.
The Crown Princess was even happier. She had already chosen a name for the child and was already worried about the child's future education.
Moreover, if the prince can make a concubine pregnant, he may be able to make someone else pregnant in the future. They may have more than one child, although the time span in between is a bit long.
But as long as they had one child, they felt they could go on.
As a result, the child was born within two months.
The concubine also hanged herself because of self-blame and guilt.
At that moment, not only did the light in the Crown Princess' eyes disappear, but the Crown Prince also disappeared.
At that moment, he lost not only a child, but also his younger brother, his father, and himself.
The third brother cut him off, and it was obvious that he had already decided to kill him. He had always thought that there was still room for maneuver, but it turned out that there was no room for maneuver.
At that moment, the prince clearly realized that he and the third brother were no longer brothers, but enemies, and mortal enemies at that.
The emperor clearly knew what the third brother's action meant, but he still chose to protect him. Obviously, even his father, who had always protected him, had abandoned him.
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