He also asked Tu Yufan if he could choose a few concubines for him, which frightened Tu Yufan so much that he almost jumped up and scolded him. He was already an old man now, so what did he need women for? Moreover, he might even be older than the concubine's grandfather.
Yuan Zhan had to give up with regret. In the end, Yuan Zhan chose the legitimate daughter of General Jianwei as the queen, and also added a concubine and two ladies.
Empress Yuan Zhan no longer planned to select concubines to enter the palace. He remembered that when he was a child, his father Tu Yufan had dozens of concubines in his family, and there was no peace and quiet every day due to the quarrels.
General Jianwei also made many military achievements when he was young. Later, due to the recurrence of his old injuries, he had to retreat to his father's house and retire in his father's mansion.
Although the queen is not the general's daughter, she does not like to play with guns. She is gentle and virtuous, and manages the harem in an orderly manner. For Yuan Zhan, as long as she does not affect his work, she is a good wife.
For the queen, the emperor absolutely respected her as his wife and did not favor concubines. He left all harem affairs to her, so he was considered a good husband.
After his death, the retired emperor lived out his retirement life in another palace. He was unhappy at first, as he was no longer the supreme ruler and no longer had people flattering him. He couldn't help feeling a little lost, but without government affairs, he didn't have to worry all day long. He ate well and slept well, and slowly he gained weight.
A few years later, the retired emperor passed away. It was said that his weight was three times that before he abdicated. Tu Yufan seriously suspected that he had overeaten, overproduced, and overweight, which caused multiple complications and led to his death.
When Concubine Wan became the empress dowager and was no longer restrained by the retired emperor, she began to act like a demon. She refused to live in the Cining Palace and cursed Yuan Zhan for coming to the throne in an illegitimate way, forcing the retired emperor and imprisoning his brothers.
Yuan Zhan was very confused about this and came to ask Tu Yufan about it.
"Why is it that Yuan Xi and I are both her sons, but she treats me worse than a stranger? I believe I have never treated her unfairly, but she wants to destroy me."
Tu Yufan shed a few tears of sympathy for him and said as a matter of course: "Your Majesty has never raised him since he was a child, so it is inevitable that the Queen Mother is partial to him. Moreover, Your Majesty has imprisoned her favorite youngest son in the palace and cannot let him out. I think she is using this method to threaten you to release Prince Chen and reuse her. Prince Chen is her weak spot. It depends on whether you are willing to do this."
Yuan Zhan seemed to be thinking about something. After he returned, every time the Queen Mother acted up, Prince Chen would be injured. The reasons were getting more and more outrageous. For example, he broke his leg in a fall, had a high fever from choking while eating, and had his head shaved in the middle of the night. It was not until he heard that Princess Jialan might marry far away in the Lin Kingdom that the Queen Mother instantly became obedient.
Finally, the Queen Mother volunteered to go to Jialong Temple to pray for the people and not care about worldly affairs. Yuan Zhan pretended to refuse, but Prince Chen became more and more unlucky. Later, the Queen Mother repeatedly requested him to give up, and Yuan Zhan "reluctantly" agreed.
The Queen also breathed a sigh of relief. The Queen Mother had been sarcastic to her all day long, and she had to endure it submissively due to her seniority. Now she finally had some breathing space. It seemed that the Emperor had really lost his heart and had directly locked the Queen Mother up in Jialong Temple.
She also didn't understand the empress dowager. Her eldest son was living among the people, so she shouldn't have made more compensation after she brought him back. Why did she become alienated from her son? Now that the emperor is the supreme ruler, his majesty is inviolable, yet she jumped out and pointed at the emperor and scolded him. Did she think she could do whatever she wanted just because she was the empress dowager?
In the same year, the queen became pregnant and gave birth to a princess. Yuan Zhan was overjoyed and named her the eldest princess. A year later, she gave birth to a prince, who was made crown prince on the spot by Yuan Zhan.
Yuan Zhan was also nicknamed the most introverted emperor by later generations.
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