Chapter 904 Secret (3)
Madam Ji saw that there was no one around, so she moved closer and whispered, "Your Highness has also seen today that Madam Lu's fourth daughter...is determined to marry into the Rui Palace. However, Your Highness need not take her words to heart. If that could happen, the fourth daughter would have become the Rui Palace Princess long ago. It's just a matter of talking. As for the royal hunting that Madam Ye mentioned today, Your Highness should tell the prince about it later. There are many hidden dangers in this matter. Your Highness should not be schemed against in vain." Seeing that other ladies had already come out of the Lu family's door one after another, Madam Ji said, "I will not say the rest. If Your Highness has some free time, you can come to the palace and sit down. I don't think you are very familiar with Long Ye, so I can also talk to him about it for you." Then she said goodbye to Shen Miao and left in a hurry.
On the way back, Shen Miao kept thinking about what happened today. She didn't take Lu Wan'er's words to heart, but for some reason, she always felt that Madam Ye made her very worried.
Shen Miao asked Bajiao: "I didn't see Madam Ye's daughter at the banquet today. How many young ladies are there in the Ye family? Why didn't you bring any of them out?"
Bajiao was stunned for a moment, then shook his head and said, "The Ye family has no young lady."
“How come there is no young lady?” Shen Miao frowned.
"This is a fact known to everyone in Longye," Bajiao said. "Prime Minister Ye and Madam Ye were a young couple. They had a daughter when they first got married, but unfortunately, she died young. Madam Ye was overly worried, and her relationship with Prime Minister Ye faded. Prime Minister Ye later took a concubine, who gave birth to a son, who is now Young Master Ye in the Prime Minister's Mansion."
Shen Miao frowned: "Is there no other heir in the Prime Minister's Mansion?"
Bajiao shook his head: "After Prime Minister Ye had Young Master Ye, he was assassinated while out and injured his reproductive organs. It is impossible for him to have children in the future."
Shen Miao was surprised. How could a high-ranking official family like the Ye family only have one son? She asked, "Doesn't the Ye family only have one illegitimate son?"
"That's not the case. The concubine was already weak and passed away when Young Master Ye was born... However, some people say that the Ye family strangled the concubine to death. Young Master Ye was raised under Madam Ye's name after he was born, and he was the legitimate son. However," Bajiao paused, "even with the status of the legitimate son, this Young Master Ye was not valued by Madam Ye."
“Why is that?” Shen Miao was puzzled. Although he was not her biological son, but since the Ye family had no other heirs, raising him under her name would be much easier for Madam Ye if she treated this legitimate son well.
"Young Master Ye was born with a congenital disease, and his legs and feet are difficult to walk. Such a person will not be able to enter the official career in the future, so some people say that the Ye family will decline in this generation." Bajiao explained.
Shen Miao finally understood. So he was a cripple. No wonder Madam Ye looked down on him. Thinking of this, her mind suddenly brightened. The Wen Ye family, the Wu Lu family, and the Lu family all sent Concubine Jing to the palace, but why didn't the Ye family? It turned out it wasn't because the Ye family lacked ambition, but because they simply didn't have any extra daughters. They were afraid that if they sent a daughter from one of their relatives, it would be difficult to control her.
Then the current situation... Shen Miao could vaguely guess what Emperor Yongle was planning.
The Ye family can't compete with the Lu family in terms of offspring. If they ally with the Lu family, even if their ambitions are realized one day, it will only benefit the Lu family. People always have bad habits. Why is it that we are all aristocratic families, but in the end you dominate while I gradually decline? It would be better for me to defect.
Emperor Yongle probably wanted to stir up internal strife between the Lu and Ye families, subdue the Ye family, and then deal with the Lu family who held military power. This would be much easier.
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