The behavior of the Queen Mother is not difficult to understand, it can even be said to be easy to understand.
Since the Queen already has a prince under her knees, if a prince is to be established, then there is a high probability that it will be this prince who can barely be regarded as a "legitimate" prince.
With Concubine Hui, there is basically no chance of winning.
Because the courtiers under the patriarchal system will definitely not support her, and the Queen Mother will not stand on her side. In this case, even if the emperor's heart is towards Concubine Hui and her son, it will be of no use.
unless…
Unless there is a high-ranking and powerful official in the court who firmly stands on the side of Concubine Hui, it is possible for the balance to tilt slightly.
After the Battle of Shandong, it was obvious that Lord Shen had become an important minister of this level.
In this case, Queen Mother Sun and Empress Sun did not need Shen Yi's support. They only needed to ensure that Shen Yi would not support Concubine Hui and her son. That was enough.
Shen Yi was also happy to see this situation and readily agreed.
Seeing what the emperor said, Shen Yi thought for a while and said: "Your Majesty, the Queen is still young. If you want to delay, you can..."
Having said this, he stopped talking.
Discussing private matters of the royal family is not what ministers should do.
But the meaning of his words was already obvious, which was to let the emperor get closer to the queen and then let the queen have children.
The Queen already has two princesses under her knees. If she has another child, according to the probability, it should be a prince.
Although the adopted prince is good, his own biological son will naturally be better.
However, judging from the fact that the Empress has begun to pave the way for the prince who is not his biological son, the relationship between His Majesty the Emperor and the Empress should not be very good.
Otherwise, the Empress would not be so eager to establish a heirloom.
The emperor frowned slightly, rubbed his head and said: "There have been too many political affairs in the past two years, and I really don't care about anything."
Shen Yi curled his lips inwardly.
There should be four or five princes in the palace now.
There are almost five or more princesses.
Unintentionally, your children are born one by one?
Obviously, she is just a careless queen.
Mr. Shen looked at the emperor thoughtfully, feeling really curious.
It's not that he has never seen the Queen before. Although she is only of average appearance and not as beautiful and charming as the Pipa Jue, there is absolutely no problem in calling her a beauty.
The Queen is the same age as the Emperor, she is only twenty-six or seven years old this year.
Although she is not considered young in this era, she is indeed a serious young woman. I don’t know what tricks the Pipa Absolute Emperor used and what kind of pillow wind he blew to make the Emperor have no interest in the Queen...
However, this kind of thing obviously cannot be asked too much. After Shen Yi thought about it for a while, he said: "If Your Majesty is worried about this matter, then my suggestion is that you might as well decide on the crown prince first and make him the third prince."
"In this way, the harem dispute will come to an abrupt end, and some voices in the court will disappear."
"As for the future..."
Shen Yi said softly: "The third prince is young after all. If he is established as a prince, he will not open the East Palace. If the queen gives birth to a prince in the future, or your majesty has another prince he likes, you can consider replacing him."
"Although this method treats the symptoms but not the root cause, it can at least give Your Majesty a few years of peace."
Here, Shen Yi specifically mentioned the matter of opening the mansion.
Because the prince wants to open the East Palace.
After the East Palace is opened, a group of people will be assigned to the prince to form a small court to simulate a large court.
In this way, when the prince ascends the throne in the future, he will not have no work experience at all and his eyesight will be black.
But this system...means that there will be a large group of people, and a large group of important figures in the court, who will be bound to the prince and form a community of interests. From then on, you will have me, and I will have you. No distinction between each other.
After opening the East Palace, this group of people will definitely assist the prince loyally, because if the prince falls, it means that the future of these people will fall.
Therefore, after the prince opened the East Palace, it was difficult to abolish it easily.
In other words, even if this third prince is used to transition, he cannot be allowed to be the prince for too long. If he remains for a long time, it will be difficult to abolish him.
The emperor turned back and glanced at Shen Yi.
"I have thought about this method of yours."
Having said this, the emperor shook his head slightly and sighed: "But after thinking about it seriously, I finally feel that it is inappropriate."
Shen Yi asked: "Your Majesty, what do you think is wrong?"
"It's too utilitarian and lacks some human touch."
The emperor stopped and said slowly: "The third child is also my son. I can't use him like this. Even if he is ignorant now, he will think of these things when he grows up..."
"It will be sad."
After hearing these words, Shen Yi was startled and then stood in awe.
For a long time, especially after ten years of Hong De, as His Majesty the Emperor became more and more experienced in his position and became more and more skilled in his role as emperor, Shen Yi no longer regarded him as a "person" in many cases. .
Rather, it should be regarded as an identity and a leader.
He is an emperor, but not an independent person.
Therefore, the advice he gave was somewhat rational.
Before the emperor said these words, Shen Yi was completely unaware that the man in front of him of the same age, in addition to being the emperor, was also a father.
If you put yourself in his shoes and put him in the position of emperor, he probably wouldn't treat his son as a political tool.
"Just put it off a little longer."
The emperor looked up to the sky.
"After the New Year, I will go talk to the queen."
Shen Yi immediately lowered his head and said, "Your Majesty is wise."
After saying this, Shen Yi paused and then said: "Your Majesty, you also heard what the Queen Mother said in Kunde Palace today..."
The emperor rolled his eyes at him: "What? You want me to tell Concubine Hui?"
Shen Yi coughed.
"There's no need to tell her specifically. Just inform Concubine Hui so that she can put aside these thoughts for the time being and wait until the children grow up."
The emperor sighed and did not answer, but said: "You probably feel in your heart that I have to tie you to Concubine Hui and her son because I want to harm you."
"Actually, I don't have any intention of having my son as my treasure."
"It's just that Concubine Hui is already alone, and Wang'er has no maternal family to speak of. Sometimes, I just want them to have more support for mother and son."
Shen Yi looked serious and said: "Your Majesty, you are Concubine Hui and the eldest prince, their greatest support..."
The emperor did not comment or answer, he just said: "Let's go back to Ganlu Palace. Last night, I took the time to write a plaque for your family. I will take you to take a look."
Shen Yi nodded immediately, followed the emperor, and soon arrived at the Manna Hall.
Eunuch Gao had already taken out the large characters written by the emperor yesterday and placed them on the table.
After the last inscription at the Confucius Mansion, the emperor worked hard on writing large characters, and now he can write in a decent and elegant manner.
Shen Yi looked at the four words "福" on the paper, then looked at the inscription and postscript in the lower left corner, and quickly discovered something that was not quite right.
There is an extra horizontal line above the green character on the right side of Jing.
However, the word "安" does not appear where the continuous strokes should be. There is only a female character written under the cover.
Shen Yi looked at it carefully and asked, "Your Majesty, what does this mean?"
"This is my evaluation of you."
The emperor pointed to the word Jing on the calligraphy and said with a smile: "The meaning here is that you, Shen Qilang, are more capable than others."
He pointed to the word "an" again and continued.
"Although I have many abilities, I don't like to show off for many things."
"It's really rare."
"I came up with this on a whim last night. If Shen Qing doesn't like it, I will rewrite it for you now."
"This one is great."
Shen Yi looked at this calligraphy, thought about it seriously, shook his head quickly, and said with a smile: "Your Majesty is really quick in writing. Your Majesty's words will be passed down from now on as the family motto of the Shen family."
"After I returned home, I asked someone to make a plaque with this inscription and hang it up."
At this time, Shen Yi still felt that the emperor's evaluation was very pertinent.
Of course, Lord Shen would not have thought that in the future, this plaque would be echoed and misinterpreted as "Under the blue sky, there is no one above."
Just when Shen Yi was reading this calligraphy with the emperor, the eunuch Gao Ming suddenly walked in with small steps, came all the way to the emperor, lowered his head and said: "Your Majesty, Concubine Hui is asking for an audience outside the palace..."
When the emperor heard this, he was startled for a moment, then frowned and said, "Who is talking to her again?"
Eunuch Gao hurriedly lowered his head: "I will send someone to check immediately."
The emperor sighed slightly, looked back at Shen Yi, and said helplessly: "Shen Qing, Concubine Hui is here."
He coughed: "It has nothing to do with me."
Mr. Shen blinked, stepped forward, slowly rolled up the emperor's calligraphy treasure, and held it in his hand.
"Your Majesty, are you leaving through the back door?"
Mr. Shen has been to Ganlu Palace too many times. He is already familiar with where the back door is.
The emperor glared at Shen Yi.
"Are you afraid that if she does something, she can still eat you?"
"Your Majesty, for the sake of my meager contribution..."
The emperor then waved his hand.
"That's all, you go back first."
"If something happens, I will summon you to the palace again."
Mr. Shen was overjoyed. He held the emperor's calligraphy treasure in his hand and bowed to the emperor.