In the study room of the main courtyard on the middle road, Duke Qian and Mu Liao were talking about the couple.
Even though the Mu Mansion has many industries and a lot of money in Yunnan, such a huge piece of priceless imperial green was given away as soon as it was said to be given away. The Duke of Guizhou was also twitching with distress.
"My father liked the jade mountain donated by neighboring countries very much. He ordered eighteen scenes of Jinling to be carved. When he was homesick, he stared at it every day and fell in love with it. That jade mountain is of immeasurable value, and it is not yet imperial green.
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The boy bought it casually and got the imperial green color. I heard it was very big, half a man tall and could not be hugged by one person. It must be so priceless.
Money is still a small matter. The most important thing is that although there are many jade and jade ornaments in the Mu Mansion's warehouse, there is not such a big piece of imperial green.
Duke Qian is distressed by this.
His brows furrowed and he said, "Do you think the prince really doesn't feel sorry for me? It's such a big piece, so I just offered it up." Even if you cut it in half and offer it up, leave half of it.
"How could the prince take back those words when there was so much public in the court?" It's too late to say anything now.
The general public, after saying something like that, there is really no way to take it back. It’s just...
"You said, did the prince really say that he would dedicate it to the emperor? Or..."
Or what? Or was he framed by the eldest son and forced into a last resort?
The Duke of the Kingdom said this, how dare Mu Liao respond. He lowered his eyes and said nothing.
The Duke of Guizhou was silent for a while and sighed, "Zhan'er, it wasn't like that before." He treated him as filial, obedient, capable of handling local affairs, and had outstanding abilities. Why does he seem so narrow-minded and paranoid now?
It was like that in the past because the prince was not in Dian, so no one compared him with him, and his cousins did not dare to surpass him. Now I just want to show that I am better than the prince in everything.
But Mu Liao dared to think this in his heart, but he did not dare to say it with his mouth.
"What do you think of the eldest son's behavior in the council hall these days?" Duke Qian did not let him go.
Mu Liao thought for a while and said: "The eldest son is more active than before. What he says is also very insightful."
"What about Prince Bizhi?"
Mu Liao stopped talking again.
Duke Qian sighed and said, "There are no outsiders here. You can say whatever you want."
"Yes." The Duke of Guizhou said so, and Mu Liao did not dare not to speak.
"The eldest son is still the same as before, but he is more decisive. Maybe the eldest son came from the Imperial College, and has been working with the emperor in these years. In the early years, he also went to Mobei with the emperor, and led troops alone on the southeast coast.
He has suppressed bandits and has more experience than the eldest son."
The Duke of Guizhou nodded while listening, "The prince has been alone in the capital these years with almost no one to help him. He has made his own way. On the contrary, Zhan'er has never suffered any setbacks since he was a child. The prince has been led by the old marquis since he could speak.
I taught him personally by my side.”
"The prince is like an old marquis." Outstanding ability is the blessing of the land of Yunnan.
"The prince was originally my eldest son. Back then, I suggested that the old Marquis adopt Zhan'er to his eldest brother, but my father did not agree. At that time, I thought that there would be a legitimate son, so I did not refuse. No idea...
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Unexpectedly, there are only two bastards around him now.
Time is also fate.
After a while, he asked Mu Liao again, "What do you think, what if I adopt the son back now? In the future, I can adopt Qier to my eldest brother as his grandson?"
Mu Liao was stunned, "I'm afraid the prince won't agree."
Duke Qian thought it was not a problem, "Based on the love between him and his wife, there will be no missing sons in the future. No matter whether they are adopted children or other sons." There will be no missing legitimate sons.
"This... the prince passed to the late Marquis, and it has been recorded in the ancestral genealogy."
"It can be changed. Now that I am the clan leader, I have the final say."
"But the crown prince is kept secret by the royal family. I'm afraid..." It's not easy.
"Just don't announce it to the outside world."
Mu Liao stopped talking.
Not to mention the royal family, I'm afraid the prince himself would not agree.
Whether he comes back through adoption or not, the eldest son is still the eldest son. There are only him and his wife in the first house, plus at most the eldest lady in the nunnery outside. What can we do in the second house after adoption? There are many people and many things to do.
If he were, he wouldn't agree. Mu Liao lowered his eyes.
After a while, the Duke of Guizhou also felt that his proposal was a bit unrealistic. Thinking of his own son being cold and indifferent to him and having a deep misunderstanding, his head hurt.
How come the father and son who are kissing each other are so strange that they don't resemble father and son? They can't even have a normal uncle-nephew relationship.
Seeing that Duke Qian didn't want to give up, Mu Liao couldn't help but persuade him...
"My lord, please don't think about that. Even if the prince is no longer in the second marriage, the blood relationship will not be less. He is your biological son. No matter where he is or which family he is in, no one can change the blood relationship. Besides, no one can change the blood relationship.
, now there are the eldest son and the sixth son in the second house. If the prince is adopted back, trouble will inevitably arise. And the eldest house must have an heir. What if the emperor adopts someone else to the eldest house again? Maybe there will be some changes in the future.
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Variable? Duke Qian frowned.
Thinking about the capital city, after the emperor ascended the throne, many families in the capital originally had their titles vacant, which made me shudder.
Just like the Guo family of the Marquis of Wuding.
In his early years, Guo Ying followed Taizu in the southern and northern wars, and made great contributions to pacifying Yunnan. Because he was sent by the late emperor to attack the current emperor, after the emperor ascended the throne, his official position was not mentioned. After his death, his sons and grandsons did not
The title he could inherit has been vacant.
If you don't take it back, you won't give him a title.
As for the Mu family, the title fell to him because his eldest brother died young and because he was Emperor Jianwen's companion. Otherwise, no matter who became emperor, the title of Marquis of Xiping would have fallen to Mu Yan. After all, he
He is the crown prince personally granted by Taizu.
If Emperor Jianwen was still there, maybe the crown prince would be replaced by Zhan'er.
But the emperor was replaced.
Moreover, his maternal family, the Geng family, also participated in the crusade against the current emperor.
The emperor ignored him and granted him the title of Duke of Guizhou. He did not want anything to happen to Yunnan and pointed him at the Mu family to guard the border.
"You said that a few years ago, I submitted a letter asking for Feng Zhan'er to be crown prince, but the emperor kept ignoring me. Do you still remember that the Geng family participated in the Northern Expedition?"
How dare Mu Liao respond to this?
After thinking about it: "Master Guo, the heir apparent is doing quite well now. Although he has been adopted by the eldest family, he is still of the blood of the Duke. Moreover, now that the second, third and fourth bedrooms have children, it would not look good if the eldest family does not have one.
.Besides, the eldest lady is still here."
If the Duke of the country has some evil thoughts and insists on adopting the crown prince, then the eldest lady will adopt another one to the eldest family. If the emperor passes the title to the eldest family again, wouldn't it be a disaster?
"I was wrong."
After the Duke of Guizhou thought about it, although he still had regrets, he never mentioned the adoption of Mu Yan again.
The next day, in the meeting hall, Duke Qian paid close attention to the prince's performance.
The more I look at him, the more I feel that this son is outstanding. Compared with all his cousins, he is not even a bit outstanding. Mu Zhan, whom he personally raised, is not as good as the prince.
I couldn't help but sigh in my heart.
"Your Majesty, I heard that the stone you bet on turned out to be imperial green? I haven't even had time to envy the Crown Prince's luck, so why did I hear that the Crown Prince is going to give it to the Emperor as a gift for his longevity?"
Mu Xi said with regret on his face, but there was a sense of schadenfreude in his eyes that he couldn't hide.