29 029 Jinling
◎Magnificent! Worthy of being the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties.◎
As soon as Master Kang gave this oral instruction, everyone immediately understood.
Good fellow, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is really disliked by His Majesty this time. He
was "locked up" on the spot in front of so many people, and was not allowed to accompany the left and right escorts on the tour. Isn't this too ruthless?
Add to that the previous incidents of Suo Etu and Mingzhu being dismissed from office, and anyone with a discerning eye can see that the wind direction has really changed this time.
The Crown Prince may really be going to lose his reputation.
In fact, this matter was not without traces before, but at that time, it was always hidden under the surface. Although everyone knew it, they all kept it to themselves. After all, the issue of the crown prince was related to the foundation of the country, and it would be impolite to talk about it.
Not to mention that none of the ministers dared to mention it, even Master Kang himself did not express this intention clearly even if he was angry - what a joke, that is the position of the crown prince, how can it be moved casually?
Even if it just showed a little bit of trembling, it would not be allowed.
Therefore, everyone was trying to overthrow each other while maintaining superficial peace.
Including Master Kang, he only punished the eldest prince and the crown prince when the two factions were fighting the most fiercely. The methods used were to deal with the marginal and core figures in both factions, with warning as the main method and punishment as the auxiliary method. No drastic methods were used at all.
Especially for the crown prince, because of his love for his son, Master Kang rarely reprimanded him. At most, he dealt with Suo Etu and others and that was it.
Who could have thought that he would go all out and overturn the table directly.
Looking at his appearance, he might really depose the crown prince if he was unhappy one day.
And if the crown prince really fell, who knows which prince could take the throne again - this question instantly became the most wanted question in the hearts of everyone present.
In fact, it is not your fault that you think too much. Who doesn't want to become the confidant of the next new emperor? How can one get more benefits than following the dragon's lead? Standing on the side early is definitely a big plus, after all, this is also a new opportunity. Although
the prince had some conflicts with the Wansui Lord in the past, none of them were as intense as this time - mainly because the prince really went too far this time. Oh my God, coveting the mother is incest and disobedient, and it is "rebellion" to be rounded off.
In fact, if Mo Yu hadn't heard his inner complaints, many of the Eight Banners officials who accompanied him at the beginning would not have reacted to the seriousness of the matter.
After all, this matter was not particularly unusual in the grassland tribe period - the new leader could inherit the wives of the old leader, which was called "levirate marriage."
In the era of grassland tribes, it was very common for sons to marry their stepmothers and younger brothers to marry their sisters-in-law.
Although in the Central Plains, especially in the Jiangnan region, this kind of thing is simply incredible and contrary to human ethics, in fact, this tradition of "adoption marriage" has always been popular on the grassland.
If you trace the roots, this tradition has continued for thousands of years since ancient times. It is very popular in places with low productivity and poor living environment - there, women, children and children are scarce resources and need to be well protected.
If a pillar of a family dies and only women and children are left, they will really face the embarrassment of not being able to survive, so widows can only remarry in order to survive.
This tradition has really lasted for too long. Even after entering the Shanhai Pass, when living conditions and living environment have been greatly improved, it has not completely ended.
Although it is said that Huang Taiji has accepted the Confucian culture of the Central Plains and started to implement the policy of prohibiting levirate marriage in the country, the effect is not very good.
After three generations of efforts, it was not until the generation of Master Kang that the results began to be seen.
I never thought that the prince would actually have this idea - not to mention that it is inconsistent with mainstream values, even if you really want to "revive the arts", you have to wait until the death of the Wansui Master...
You say he is not, he didn't?
Then why did the "little fairy" of the Lin family reveal the "secret" so clearly?
Believe it or not, I believe it anyway.
Most of the gossipers had the same idea, so they were not surprised by the prince's fate. Instead, they began to guess who would be the next one to be gossiped about...
After all, according to what the young master of the Lin family said, there are quite a lot of gossips about the harem of the Long Lived Lord.
If that doesn't work, gossips about the other princes are also fine.
Unlike the ordinary gossipers, the Fourth Prince was curious about whether what Mo Yu said was true, but on the other hand, he was somewhat uneasy.
After all, in the "heart" of the young master of the Lin family, the gossip of him as the "Fourth Master" was actually quite big - yes, probably because he had heard it too many times, and now everyone has naturally accepted some of the strange titles or expressions of the young master of the Lin family.
For example, he likes to call Wansui Ye "Master Kang", and he, the Fourth Prince, calls him "Fourth Prince"...
Although he is indeed old enough to be the child's father, he is still a member of the royal family and a prince personally conferred by the Emperor, so calling him "First Prince" is a bit too dignified.
However, compared with these details, it is the information revealed by this child that makes the Fourth Prince more concerned and even terrified.
This happened not long ago. When the fourth prince first met the young master of the Lin family, he received a shocking piece of news - the young master of the Lin family actually said that the emperor would abolish the crown prince in the future and pass the throne to him, the fourth prince who had always been low-key and transparent...
Although it was a good thing, the news was so explosive right away that it was really a bit overwhelming.
Especially when the situation was not clear enough, it put him in a crisis in advance, making enemies everywhere and being very passive.
But what could he do?
Whether this was "God's will" or a joke, he was powerless and could not stop it.
The Fourth Prince is now just thankful that the Lin family kid is only concerned with exposing the Crown Prince's secrets, and no longer mentions things like "wise ruler in reserve" or "killing other brothers to ascend the throne".
If his father knew that he was the one who ascended the throne in the end, he didn't know how his father would react.
Although this matter is not something that any of them can control, it is good to be able to expose it later.
I wonder if it will be effective to play with this child every time they meet, take better care of him, and give him more gifts...
The Fourth Prince was lost in the philosophical question of how to get along better with Mo Yu. Meanwhile, his loyal younger brother, the Thirteenth Prince Yinxiang, was very happy.
He was happy from the bottom of his heart.
Because the Thirteenth Prince was still young, he just celebrated his sixteenth birthday this year. In modern times, he would still be a high school student, and it was the time for him to play. Apart from those explosive gossips, the Thirteenth Prince was the one who paid the most attention to the fact that Mo Yu could express his inner voice among the three princes who accompanied him on the southern tour.
Oh my God! This child is amazing!
It turns out that he can actually "ventriloquize", and what he tells are all secrets that no one knows - it's really amazing! !
At first, the Thirteenth Prince, like the Fourth Prince, Master Kang and others, was half-believing that Mo Yu could express his inner thoughts.
But after experiencing it for himself, he instantly became Mo Yu's "little fanboy"... Oh no, if you count the physical age, he is still much older than Mo Yu, so he should be considered a "big fanboy". In short, it's almost the same feeling as a fan seeing his idol.
Later, Mo Yu realized that in the eyes of the Thirteenth Prince, he might not be much different from those cute little pets in the Fourth Prince's house.
But no one expected that the Thirteenth Prince would be imprisoned as a pet for more than ten years, and was not released until his fourth brother succeeded to the throne...
and it was his dearest father, Master Kang, who did it.
This matter can be regarded as one of the eternal mysteries.
After all, before that, Master Kang loved the Thirteenth Prince to the extent that made everyone jealous - from when he was twelve or thirteen years old, until the first time he deposed the prince at the age of twenty-three, Master Kang would take the Thirteenth Prince with him wherever he went whenever he went on tour.
In addition to his young age making him easy to be loved, his own excellence is also obvious to all.
Master Kang likes excellent sons.
The better the better.
But there is one thing, the more he likes, the more demanding he is, and he changes his face faster than turning the pages of a book.
Now he still likes her very much, but when the Crown Prince is deposed for the first time five years later, he will be imprisoned directly - I heard that it was because the old master felt that the Thirteenth Prince was protecting the deposed Crown Prince Yinreng.
There are also gossips that the Thirteenth Prince did protect the deposed Crown Prince.
But he did not do it entirely to depose the Crown Prince, but mainly to get his beloved Fourth Brother out - this involves that famous bloody gossip.
The Crown Prince had an affair with one of Master Kang's concubines, but was unfortunately discovered by Master Kang.
The old master did not expose the Crown Prince on the spot due to the father-son relationship, but just left in anger and silence, and even did not punish the Crown Prince afterwards. It is obvious that he is biased towards the Crown Prince.
However, there is only one prince, so even if he is favored and different from others, it is nothing - everyone knows that Master Kang's favorite son is the prince. A woman is just a woman, how can she be more important than the prince.
But the concubine was not so lucky.
I heard that she "died" on the spot.
But later I heard that this "death" was fake, and the woman was "faked dead", and was actually secretly rescued by the Fourth Prince.
This is not to say that the Fourth Prince is a saintly father who can't stand the death of people, but he probably wanted to use this matter as a trump card to deal with the prince at the time - with Master Kang fanning the flames and "assisting" beside him, there is really no prince who is slightly capable and does not want to be the emperor.
At least those who have been stamped and concluded in history definitely wanted to.
The Fourth Prince is one of them, and the one who won in the end.
So, Master Kang is indeed worthy of his name. His ability to change his mind intentionally or unintentionally is really amazing.
It turns out that everyone was still doing some small tricks in secret.
After Master Kang deposed the prince, everyone stopped pretending.
Everyone showed their cards.
Everyone tried their best to show off in front of Master Kang, hoping to become the new prince.
Unexpectedly, only half a year later, the newly deposed prince was reinstated - what can prove that the prince is Master Kang's favorite son?
This is it.
He really, he loves her very much...
In this case, the trump card is useless, and the conspirators in the Fourth Prince's mansion killed her directly... As for whether it was ordered by the Fourth Prince, what does it matter? Anyway, it was done by his people. If you take it seriously, you will lose.
At this time, the Fourth Prince had not yet made up his mind, and he wanted to hide his strength a little bit, so his style of doing things tended to be more implicit.
Later, the Crown Prince was deposed again within two years, and the Fourth Prince finally made up his mind - the possibility of reinstating a Crown Prince who had been deposed twice was basically gone, so why not push him aside and let him take the throne?
It seemed that there was nothing wrong with it.
The love, hatred, and love-hate relationship between Master Kang and his digital legion was so complicated that it could be made into a TV series if you just picked it up.
I really admire their ability to work so hard, aren't they tired?
Mo Yu, a real salted fish worker, said that he couldn't understand it at all, but he felt that it was very powerful...
and the reason why he had time to think so much was because he was caught "riding with the master" again.
Master Kang had promised him to accompany the master, even if he was only a three-and-a-half-year-old baby, he had to pack up and send himself on board.
Now he continued to think about it on the wide and stable boat, while dealing with the 13th prince's 100,000 whys...
Yes, the 13th prince now has a very good relationship with him, just like a real brother. He would come to him and stick to him when he had nothing to do, laughing and chattering. He was really enthusiastic but didn't make people feel that he was noisy.
Mo Yu was really curious. The Thirteenth Prince was handsome, humble and polite, and his words and actions were interesting and fun. Basically, any carbon-based creature would like him.
At least they would not hate him.
But such a rare and excellent person ended up with such a tragic end.
[Hey, Master Kang's eyesight doesn't seem very good. How could you be so heartless to such a good Thirteenth Prince? You just gave up on him. It's such a pity.]
When Master Kang heard this voice, he was sitting in a spacious and exquisite boat and talking to several officials who were accompanying him.
The old man was surprised when he heard this. He took a look at Mo Yu's physical condition while thinking about the deep meaning of Mo Yu's words.
How could he say that he was going to give up on Thirteen? He liked Thirteen so much now, it was impossible for him to suddenly stop liking him. Thirteen
was still young, and he was not the crown prince. He had always been very well behaved, and he would definitely not go crazy easily.
Speaking of which, he made the crown prince "sick", and he really got sick. He could not serve him on tours for the time being, but he even refused to greet him. Was he trying to compete with him?
In other words, he could not have this son anymore.
Thinking of the crown prince, Master Kang became angrier and angrier, with some sadness in his heart, but he would definitely not give in easily.
So while Master Kang was thinking about this, he was still a little absent-minded and missed a very important message in Mo Yu's mind, which made him speechless later.
Although he reacted on the spot and seemed to have missed something, he didn't have time to ask more questions.
Because they finally arrived in Jinling City.
Before Master Kang got off the boat, Zhen Yingjia got off the boat first and knelt to greet him - it must be said that his action of getting off the boat and then turning around to kneel was still very embarrassing and difficult to comment.
But Master Kang didn't mind and even thought it was funny, so there was no problem - the old man could favor whoever he wanted, and these things had nothing to do with Mo Yu. After all,
he was just a three-and-a-half-year-old child who couldn't do anything. He could only complain and eat melons.
Fortunately, according to the date, the old man is about to finish his southern tour. Since he has given me so much, I will just have to endure it for a few more days.
Mo Yu has always been very open-minded and enjoys his public travel trip very much.
When Mo Yu was held in the arms of the nanny and followed the crowd to get off the boat, he temporarily put aside the messy gossip and looked up at Jinling City with great interest - it was really endless, it was extremely prosperous, and it was worthy of being the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties.
Even if it was just a small ferry, it was decorated very simply and generously, making people feel very high-end at first glance.
After the boat stopped, Master Kang rushed out first, and the rest of the people who accompanied him followed closely behind. Mo Yu's nurse also carried Mo Yu off the boat very responsibly. As soon as he got off the boat, he looked at the busy scene in the city and couldn't help but exclaim again:
"How amazing*, how magnificent, how spectacular, how impressive! It's worthy of being the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties."
Unfortunately, his good mood disappeared instantly when he saw the welcoming team standing on the shore.
Because he didn't know when, the old lady of the Zhen family had already brought the women and men of the family to the dock. They were all made up and had a typical smile. It was obvious that they were here to pick him up.
However, when she saw the Lin family members in the escort team, her expression suddenly froze, and a hint of viciousness appeared in her eyes. Although it disappeared quickly, it was clear at a glance that she was indeed "unfriendly" this time.
[Author's words]
Minor details have been modified, which will not affect the main plot [? ]
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