A Cai's work The Emperor's Phoenix: Abandoned Concubine The Emperor's Phoenix: Abandoned Concubine Volume 1 2021 Disaster, Irresistible Tenderness

Ever since that day when Feng Qingchen had a miscarriage and frightened the Ninth Prince so much that he almost lost his soul, the Ninth Prince has not "appeared" in front of Feng Qingchen, let alone forced Feng Qingchen. The plan of going out to sea to attack the Palace of Hundred Ghosts was also put on hold for the time being.

It is easy to understand which one is more important, the Hundred Ghosts Palace or Feng Qingchen. Because of the Hundred Ghosts Palace and the Ghost King who could not escape, Feng Qingchen was scared into premature birth and missed the birth of her first child. The Ninth Prince will regret it for the rest of his life.

The Ninth Prince did not come, but he did not come openly. In fact, he came to Feng Mansion every night. However, except for the secret guards who helped cover for him, the Ninth Prince did not alarm anyone.

Feng Qingchen didn't notice it at first, but she had a bad sleep quality recently, lying in bed most of the day, and often woke up in the middle of the night. Several times when she woke up, she found someone in the room.

The first time, Feng Qingchen was really frightened and almost screamed out loud. When she found out it was the Ninth Prince, she pretended not to know and continued to sleep.

What did she say?

Drive away the Ninth Prince? Make him stay away from me, and never show up in front of me again?

She couldn't say it, and didn't dare to say it.

The Ninth Prince has already made the biggest concession. If she continues to push her limits, and the Ninth Prince does not force her now, she will probably not be able to hide anymore once the child is born. If an imperial edict really comes down by then, she will have no choice at all.

Of course, these are not the most important things. The most important thing is that she noticed the transformation of the Ninth Prince, saw the Ninth Prince give in for her, and saw the Ninth Prince learn for her how to humble himself and love her.

She really couldn't bear to part with such an uncle.

It’s no wonder that women love domineering men, because once a domineering man becomes gentle, he can drown people.

For example, at this moment, she just moved slightly, and the Ninth Prince noticed that she was uncomfortable, and then sat there, silently massaging her legs to make her feel more comfortable.

Although, any maid could do this kind of thing well. But those people are not the Ninth Prince...

Feng Qingchen knew that this man had always loved her in his own way, just like when he found her hands were sore, and he silently pulled her hands and massaged them for her.

When she combined the Ninth Emperor Uncle with Lan Jiuqing, Feng Qingchen realized that, apart from the existence of Qin Baoer, she actually did not reject the fact that the Ninth Emperor Uncle was Lan Jiuqing. The Ninth Emperor Uncle, who was Lan Jiuqing, always appeared when she needed him and helped her unconditionally.

Feng Qingchen closed his eyes silently and turned his face to the side...

What should they do next?

With her hands on her stomach, Feng Qingchen sighed softly and continued to sleep.

Feng Qingchen slept well that night, but the Ninth Prince did not sleep all night. Feng Qingchen's legs were badly swollen, and the Ninth Prince did not stop the whole night until dawn, when he hurried away to attend the morning court.

As soon as he returned to the palace, the personal eunuch hurriedly changed the Ninth Prince's clothes. Seeing the dark circles under his eyes getting deeper and deeper, the eunuch carefully advised him: "Your Majesty, if you continue like this, even if you have a body of iron, you will not be able to bear it."

The Ninth Prince’s injuries had not yet fully healed, and now he was using his sleeping time to accompany Feng Qingchen. If he continued like this, his life would really be shortened.

The Ninth Prince glanced at the eunuch coldly. The eunuch was startled and quickly lowered his head, not daring to say anything.

The Ninth Prince is a good master, but there is one important point, that is, the people around him must keep their mouths shut and not say anything that should not be said, whether it is to the Ninth Prince or to outsiders.

"For the last time." The Ninth Prince stood where he was, waiting for the eunuch to change his clothes and then marched towards the main hall. There was no sign that he had not slept for several nights in a row.

At the morning court, the officials once again raised the issue of Nanling and Beiling. The fighting on the border was going crazy, and all the young men were sent to the front. There was no one to plant grain fields. Even if Dongling was rich, it would be useless if it couldn't buy grain.

Some civil officials suggested that they could negotiate peace with Nanling and Beiling to demonstrate the emperor's benevolence.

The Ninth Prince casually threw his memorial down and said, "I will kill your entire family and spare your life. Is this benevolent enough?"

Nanling is about to be taken down, and the tug of war between Beiling and Dongling on the border has been going on for a long time. If Dongling cannot take down Nanling and Beiling, these two countries will not let Dongling go.

Benevolence? What's the use of such a thing?

"I am terrified." The official who proposed peace talks immediately knelt down and dared not promote his own benevolent rule anymore.

Yuwen Yuanhua looked at the other person with sympathy: Do you really think that the emperor is like the previous emperor, who wants both fame and power?

Yuwen Yuanhua stepped out and presented his own memorial to the emperor to share his worries.

"There is no one in Dongling, but there are people in Liancheng, Taicheng, Yecheng, and Chucheng. I suggest that the captives and civilians in these four cities be relocated to various places, and the court should buy the good land and distribute it to everyone according to the population."

In this way, there were people farming in Dongling, and the people in the four cities and the captives had a way to make a living and hope. With food to eat and Dongling willing to accept them, they naturally would not rebel.

As for the missing population in the four cities, that is easier to deal with. The land of the four cities is in the hands of Dongling, and Dongling can encourage people to move there, give them a certain amount of land, or even exchange it.

In this way, the people of both sides integrated with each other, and after a while, no one would remember whether they were from Chucheng or Dongling.

Wang Jinling and Fu Lin spent several days to sort out this policy, from possibilities to plans, and even the survey of grain fields in various places had been completed.

Anyway, the national treasury has money, and the court buys the land of those big landlords at the market price, so those big landlords have to sell it even if they don't want to.

Of course, the imperial court will still give certain rewards to large landowners who cooperate with the imperial court policies.

Wang Jinling defined this policy as: Return the land to the people.

This is definitely a benevolent policy, different from the benevolent policy that the peace-loving ministers talked about, but it is obvious that this is truly for the benefit of the people.

Although the Ninth Prince was satisfied with this policy, he did not say anything at the morning court. He just left the memorial and proceeded to the next meeting.

As a result, the court officials brought up the old matter again, and once again brought up the matter of the Ninth Prince's establishing a queen and taking a concubine. The ceremony had nothing to do with the postponement of the establishment of the queen, but a concubine should be established at least.

The Ninth Prince doesn't have even one woman in his harem, which is really not something to be happy about.

It is hard to be a minister. If the emperor is not interested in women, they worry that he will be incompetent and have no successor. If the emperor is addicted to women, they worry that he will mess up state affairs because of women. You know, the previous dynasty was destroyed by a woman, and the daughter of Fengli.

Someone started it, and everyone started to persuade the Ninth Prince to recruit more concubines...

The ministers' favorite thing to do is to cause trouble for the emperor. The more unhappy the emperor is, the happier they are, because this way they can appear to be loyal ministers and good generals.

The darker the Ninth Prince's face became, the more excited the ministers became. Finally, the Ninth Prince turned away in anger, and all the ministers in the court knelt before the emperor, asking him to accept their advice.

Wang Jinling took a look silently, and while everyone was kneeling on the ground, he left the hall and walked towards the imperial study.

Everything has a limit. The Ninth Prince has indeed gone too far recently!