Chapter 216 Harem Affairs
Jin Zekang couldn't handle Ye Xiao with just one word: "nephew".
Holding the jade pendant, I don't know whether to call him Regent or uncle.
Xiao Yuan glared at him with disdain and said, "Why did you come here instead of staying at home to recuperate?"
Once you are well, get back to work. Your father and I have been as busy as grandchildren recently.
It makes me sad to see you, as a son, so idle."
Ye Xiao suddenly looked aggrieved, "Father, why are you like this? Don't you have anything to explain to me?"
Also, why do you sound more and more like my stepmother now?
Hahaha, Jin Zekang was laughing so hard that he almost died.
"Yes, yes, yes, it turns out that there are two kinds of people sleeping under the same quilt.
I was just telling him yesterday that I felt he was becoming more and more like his wife, as if he had suddenly transformed from a civil official into a military commander.
In the past, people would say half a sentence and leave the other half, and one word would reveal eight different meanings.
Now it's good, just a stick, a word is choking to death."
Xiao Yuan poured himself a cup of tea and snorted coldly.
"I think my wife's way of dealing with things is very good, so as to avoid people who don't understand what I say and deliberately misinterpret it.
There is so much work to do and everyone is so busy that no one has time to practice Tai Chi.
If these useless corpses continue to dawdle so slowly, we will have to chop off another batch."
"No, it's still two years before the imperial examination. Who will do the work if you kill them all?"
Jin Zekang stretched his back and patted his shoulders, "You don't have to be so resentful if you are not satisfied with your desires!
It'll just be a bit chaotic at first, but it'll be fine once it's straightened out.
We also need to give the ministers some time to adjust.
In the past, it was the Crown Prince’s Party, the Second Prince’s Party, and the Third Prince’s Party. Now, it’s bad enough that none of them have won the prize. We should be more tolerant.”
Xiao Yuan rolled his eyes at Jin Zekang and said, "Don't worry about how those guys fight. At least I have recruited a bunch of capable people. What about you?
Those of your cronies are all grassroots officials, and there isn't even one above the fourth rank.
Nowadays, if you want to use an individual, you have to first check the data from the East Factory.
The job you are doing is what you are supposed to do. The job I am doing now is the one you found for me!
And those relatives of yours, haha, no wonder only one of your uncles became the prefect.
What the hell are those?
By the way, your uncle-in-law is just like that. Don’t transfer him to the capital and give him a promotion.
He is also a person who is not good at doing things but is more likely to cause trouble than to do them. "
Jin Zekang threw up his hands helplessly, "What can I do? Relatives are inherited from my ancestors and I didn't choose them.
Don't worry, I won't send them to the court to cause trouble even though I know they are useless.
I know better than you how terrible they are.
Take my unfortunate uncle for example. After he knew that I became the regent king, he immediately wanted to force my two cousins to be my queens and concubines.
Damn it, one is eleven years old and the other is only nine years old. No one unless they are stupid can think of such a thing.
When I said my age was not right, he got even more aggressive and said that if I thought she was too young, he could let his two cousins enter the palace to become empress and concubines.
Really, I don’t know where he gets such a big face from.
After all, he is my mother's only brother. I patiently told him that it was inappropriate for them to be so much older than the emperor.
He didn't understand what I was saying at all and said it didn't matter whether it was appropriate or not, it was all up to me.
I want to say that if the emperor is asked to marry the little emperor, he dare not refuse.
I am really impressed. A lowly official from the sixth rank is so ambitious that he is not afraid of getting himself killed."
Hearing about Jin Zekang's troubles, Xiao Yuan felt somewhat saccharine.
"I'm afraid it's not just his family. I guess everyone in your mother's family is eyeing the new harem."
"Of course not. Those who have daughters are thinking about them, and those who don't have daughters are planning to have one now."
Jin Zekang rubbed his head in frustration, "My aunt sent someone to tell me not to get engaged to my two cousins from my uncle's family. I thought she was afraid of making things difficult for me.
Guess what happened?
She said she was taking pregnancy medicine now and asked me to raise a daughter she would give birth to in the future.
There is also a saying that a boy who is ten years older than his parents is not as noticeable as a girl who is ten years older than her parents. The two cousins are older than the little emperor and they are definitely not favored.
When his concubine is born, she will be eight or nine years younger than the little emperor. Her youth and beauty will surely win the little emperor's heart.
If these guys weren't brothers from the same mother as my mother, I would have cursed their ancestors for eight generations."
Ye Xiao had never imagined that there was such an interesting person behind the Regent. His big eyes were blinking and his face was full of gossip.
Xiao Yuan knocked him with disdain, and asked Jin Zekang with interest,
"Then how did you solve it? I really want to arrange a marriage for the Emperor right now."
Jin Zekang said with a "Pooh" sound, "How is that possible? My cousin is my biological brother, not a descendant.
With their brains, they can't give birth to any good children. I'm afraid it will lower the average IQ of the royal family.
We are so busy every day, who has time to argue with them?
I was too lazy to be tactful and just told them directly not to have such wild ideas.
If they don't make trouble and just live a life of idleness and wait for death, they will not be rich.
If you make me annoyed, I will pack up and throw you to Xuzhou and let you take care of it.
You know what, it’s nice to learn how to talk like my sister sometimes.”
Xiao Yuan's expression became even more disgusted. What do you mean your sister? She's my wife.
You start fighting as soon as you meet me, and you're even more aggressive. How can a dignified Regent be such a coward? You feel uncomfortable when no one is against you, right?
Jin Zekang is certainly not a coward. He regards arguing with Jiang Xinyu as a way to relieve stress.
The higher the position and power one holds, the less casually one should speak, as a few words he says may be interpreted differently by others.
Sometimes he would also like to say something back at some officials who were talking nonsense.
He didn’t dare, for fear that the man he had just confronted would think his house was going to be raided and get scared to death.
Governing a big country is like cooking a small fish. Too much killing can easily cause people to become uneasy.
Being too gentle made these people lose their sense of awe and started to make small moves constantly.
So he and Xiao Yuan complemented each other, Xiao Yuan shocked people with killing and he convinced people with reason.
In fact, he was quite envious of Xiao Yuan's character. It felt really good to be able to say what he meant and then kill off those who didn't obey and then replace them with another one.
Unfortunately, the image of King Xiao Yan is deeply rooted in people's hearts.
Let’s not even talk about whether he would be able to intimidate others by using force.
Speaking of Xiao Yuan, who would dare to believe him if he could convince people with reason?
Even if the smile is gentle, it's still eerie.
There was no other way, he had to play this gentle role by himself, because he had always shown weakness in front of the public.
Although Jiang Xinyu had already explained to Ye Xiao why Xiao Yuan didn't tell him the truth, the boy still wanted to hear what his adoptive father had to say to him.
As a result, he just stared at it but got no response.
It seems that his father only has the heart to pamper his wife but not the love for his son.
She actually started chatting with Jin Zekang on her own, and had no intention of explaining anything to him.
Ye Xiao looked aggrieved and resentful at his adoptive father from time to time, his expression was just like that of a young wife.
Xiao Yuan really wasn't ignoring him on purpose, he just had too many important things to talk about and couldn't finish them all at once.
There are dozens of young concubines in the palace who are not easy to deal with. Jin Zekang dare not go to the harem and only focuses on the former court.
Now the harem is managed by Xiao Ling and his adopted sons, while Xiao Yuan runs between the two.
Now that I have finally found some time to sit down with Jin Zekang, I naturally have to tell him about the important things that have happened in the past two days.
For example, Jin Zekang was worried that his maternal grandparents wanted to put someone in the young emperor's harem.
He was rejected, but the people in the palace were still in turmoil.
Concubine Wang and Concubine Zhao have been chatting with the Queen Mother a lot these days, and they are always promoting their own nieces or nephews.
Their queen mother is a coward with cotton ears and a rabbit-like courage. Even though she is the queen mother, she is still bullied by two concubines.
The maidservant was also unlucky and went to ask Jiang Xinyu for help when she saw that something was not right. Otherwise, the two concubines might tear the empress dowager apart by pulling one arm each.
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