Chapter 401 Ling Jingxuan Extra 5
Of course, the attempt to touch my son in the pavilion scared the Queen's two new beauties, and they were also called over.
I had the Royal Guards pin them down on the benches and beat them to death, starting with the young and strong guards because they were strong and could withstand the beatings. The others could just watch for a while.
No one is allowed to faint, no matter if they are being beaten or watching being beaten. I want them to be awake and feel, and watch with their own eyes, what will be the consequences of disobeying my wishes and hurting my queen.
After all the guards and palace maids were beaten to death, Huifei's yard was already a river of blood, with not a single spot left clean.
The concubines watching the scene were pale, without a trace of blood. I think they will definitely remember this profound lesson.
As for the two concubines who offended the queen, I not only beat them to death, but also cut off their hands and sent them back to their parents' homes.
I know that there will be more new people entering the palace in the future, and more new people will try to get close to me and attract my attention.
So I have to take precautions in advance. Not only must I let the concubines in the palace know my bottom line, but the unmarried girls in the ministers' families must also know it.
You can enter the palace, but stay away from my queen and prince.
Afterwards, I appointed Concubine Hui as the Imperial Concubine, handed her the Phoenix Seal, and asked her to manage the concubines in the harem on behalf of the Queen. I think after today, she will definitely understand how to manage this harem.
The imperial concubine is the daughter of the current Minister of Personnel, Yao. I am not afraid of her family becoming powerful. After all, the Ministry of Personnel was prepared by me for Qi Zhongyuan. Ultimately, this place is still under the influence of the Queen and the Crown Prince.
When the Queen was pregnant, no matter who I favored, I would always send her contraceptive soup. But I didn't know that someone dared to spit out the soup after drinking it. Three months later, the fetus was stable, and someone came to report the good news to me.
This was indeed a huge surprise. I had people take good care of her and let her and the child live safely for more than six months. Then I poured a bowl of abortion medicine into her mouth, resulting in two deaths.
I have said that this world will belong to the prince in the future, and it will definitely belong to the prince. There is no way I would create a brother who is only a few months younger than the prince to compete with him.
Later, I stopped asking the palace maids to deliver contraceptive soup. People in the palace would get pregnant from time to time, but no one's fetus could survive to seven months.
Even if you are an idiot, you should understand what I mean.
When Sheng'er was a little over two years old, the national mourning was over and I was out of mourning. The court officials happily held a grand beauty pageant for me.
They said that I only have one child, the prince, and my offspring are not many, so I need a new person to expand the family.
I did not refuse. If my own daughter and sister don’t feel sorry for themselves, why should I feel sorry for them?
The palace is so big that it can still afford to support dozens of women.
Fengyi Palace is still the only place in the harem where I can sleep well.
After the prince turned three, he would begin his education under the guidance of the Grand Tutor. At that time, the Imperial Medical Bureau no longer prepared abortion drugs.
Even if the second child is born, he will be four years younger than Sheng'er. I don't think he has the capital to compete with Sheng'er.
Because Sheng'er not only has the advantage of age, he also has me as his father.
I took him into the imperial study since he was a child. I would hold him on my lap and let him watch me review memorials. I never avoided him when discussing important matters with ministers.
Everyone knows that I dote on the crown prince, and the ministers have long complained about this, but I really don't need anyone else to interfere in how I raise my own son.
In fact, although I dote on the prince, I am the strictest and have the highest demands on him among all my children, while I am extremely tolerant of my other children.
I only started to educate them at the age of five, and never forced them to do schoolwork. I gave them whatever they liked. I wanted to make them happy children, and make them the waste-like princes.
It was at this moment that I suddenly realized something. Isn’t everything I am doing now exactly what my father did for Ling Jingyu?
My father successfully turned all the princes except the crown prince into useless people with no ambition. I was the only exception. Because my mother died early and I had no relatives by marriage, no one cared about me at all.
I think my father must have thought that it would be difficult to let me fend for myself and survive for a long time, but who knew that this would give me the opportunity to grow up. By the time they found out, I had already entered the court and competed with Ling Jingyu.
I finally understood how much my father hated me. If one of my sons suddenly set his sights on my Sheng'er and wanted to steal his favor, his position as crown prince, or even his future throne, I would kill him without hesitation.
No matter whether he is my biological son or not, no matter whether he is really outstanding or not.
I am indeed the emperor's son, exactly like him...
I've asked myself countless times: Is legitimate birth so important? Can't the crown prince be chosen by the most virtuous rather than the eldest son? Is the person born from the queen's womb so remarkable?
I finally know the answer now, yes.
Legitimate children are important, the eldest son must be the crown prince, and the son born to the queen is extraordinary!
Because he is extremely important in my heart, that is why he has the opportunity to become the eldest prince!
All of them have put the cart before the horse. It's not that the prince got a huge advantage by getting those things, but those things were originally prepared by me carefully for the prince and only for him.
I hate my father's partiality, and my partiality is even worse than his.
I love Sheng'er, but I will never raise him to be an arrogant and conceited person.
I will pave the way for him, ruin all his younger brothers, and will never allow an accident like mine to happen to him.
Now I like the Yang and Qin families the most, because they are all supportive of the legitimate and orthodox descendants in their bones. They will always support my Sheng'er, and I am very satisfied.
The Queen never became pregnant again because her body was too weak. Even though the entire Imperial Hospital was taking care of her and I held her in the palm of my hand, she still left us father and son when Sheng'er was thirteen years old.
The whole world, the entire harem, millions of people rely on me, but I have lost my support.
After the Queen's body came out, I did not attend court for three days and stayed in Fengyi Palace without coming out.
Finally, it was the prince who came to beg me.
I looked at my son in front of me. He was already as tall as my chest. This was the child the Queen gave birth to for me. Just thinking about it made me feel extremely warm and happy.
Ever since the prince started learning etiquette with the tutor, he rarely let me hold him. But at this moment, we, father and son, hugged each other tightly.
There is no such thing as a king and his subjects, just a father and his son, the most ordinary father and his son.
Although there are probably a hundred concubines in the harem, I have no idea how many children I have.
But in my heart, my family has always only been the Queen and the Crown Prince. They are the only ones who belong to me, the ones I expect, and the ones I choose myself.
The others are not. They are the expectations of the court officials, the expectations of the world, the tasks, the rules, the responsibilities that an emperor must fulfill, and the dignity that he must possess.
They can't give me warmth, will never be my support, and will only make me feel extremely tired.
I became increasingly strict with the Crown Prince, and he was very hardworking. He always performed the tasks assigned to him very well, and the court officials praised him endlessly. As his father, I also felt proud of him.
This is the son I have always been looking forward to and raising personally, so of course he can't be bad.
But as he grew older, it was obviously not feasible for him to remain trapped in the deep palace.
Isn't it because Ling Jingyu has been protected in the deep palace that she has become an idiot who is ignorant of the suffering of the people and doesn't even know whether beans grow in paddy fields or dry land?
My son, this cannot be true.
But I can't bear to let him go out and explore the world on his own. If he gets hurt or sick, I can't bear it.
When he was sixteen, I finally came up with a good idea.
I sent him to Yuelu Mountain outside the city and asked him to study with Qin Yuelu.
Qin Yuelu was a talented person, but he had a lame leg and a bad image, so he could not serve as an official in the court.
Over the years, Yuelu Academy has been run very successfully by him, and several second and third place winners have emerged from it, but it is a pity that he has not produced a top scorer.
But this does not affect my trust in Qin Yuelu.
The students at Yuelu Mountain have all been strictly screened and come from all corners of the world. When Sheng'er goes to study with them, he can naturally learn about the customs and people's sufferings in different places from these people.
Moreover, as a crown prince, he cannot always rely on me to help him. He needs to have his own power and trusted ministers selected by himself.
There are both literary and martial arts academies on Yuelu Mountain, which is really perfect.
After making the decision, I changed the prince's name to Qi Sheng and sent him out of the palace.
At that time, I didn't know that when I sent the prince there, Dugu Yu and Qin Qingyao also sent their two children to Yuelu Mountain.
Qin Yuelu also placed all these relatives in one dormitory.
There were four people living in a dormitory on Yuelu Mountain. One of Sheng'er's roommates was Qin Yuefeng's youngest son, who was seventeen years old and named Qin Shiru.
The other two are a pair of brothers, one named Qin Leyin and the other named Qin Wuyou, who are said to be distant relatives of the Qin family.
When the guard came to report, he emphasized the situation of Qin Wuyou. He was only twelve years old, but he passed the imperial examination more than a year ago. He was an absolute little genius.
However, his brother Qin Leyin did not like studying, so he was the only one among the four of them who studied in the martial arts academy.
I asked Qi Zhongyuan to send Sheng'er over. I only told Qin Yuelu that he was a member of the Qi family and asked him to help take care of him. He had never seen the prince and didn't know Sheng'er's identity.
By accident, these four people with connections were put together, and three members of the Qin family were placed around the prince.
This was an unintentional act, and I naturally have no objection. After all, there are so many people in the academy, and how many friends he can make and how many talents he can attract depends on his own ability.
Because he was weak since childhood, Sheng'er only learned some punches and kicks to strengthen his body, and did not really learn martial arts.
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