As she spoke, Wu Lingzhu gave the wet nurse a look, and the wet nurse took the child away.
The child neither slept nor cried, perhaps sensing his mother's complicated emotions, and appeared exceptionally well-behaved.
After the meal, Wu Lingzhu had the wet nurse take the child out.
Nothing unexpected happened during my postpartum period.
Postpartum period is over.
Then comes the full moon celebration.
At the full moon banquet, Emperor Kangxi had an imperial edict announced the bestowal of a name upon the fourteenth prince, Yinyu.
And a series of rewards, including two imperial estates, as well as countless writing implements, calligraphy and paintings, and ornaments...
The favoritism was palpable to everyone who attended the banquet.
Emperor Kangxi was already in his thirties, and in a few more years he would be forty. His eldest son had already married and had daughters, and he was already of age to become the emperor's grandfather.
Looking back, the average age of emperors in history was not very old, usually around fifty or sixty years old. If they had a son at this age, it was considered a middle-aged child, meaning they had a young son.
He felt that it wouldn't interfere with the government, and since he had the ability, he thought of favoring them more.
Wu Lingzhu's sincerity towards him was unparalleled in the harem. When the Crown Prince drugged him, he didn't question it, and he also harbored a sense of compensation.
Therefore, his preference is perfectly natural and aboveboard.
However, this favoritism takes on a different meaning in the eyes of onlookers.
As is well known, the most famous event during the Kangxi era was the struggle for the throne among the nine sons of the emperor, not the nine princes vying for power.
So many capable and talented sons were vying for the title of "legitimate son," yet not one of them actually took action to kill Kangxi and stage a Qing Dynasty version of the Xuanwu Gate Incident.
Kangxi's sons all had some degree of fatherly control over them.
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