The prince knew that he was the eldest brother since he was a child, and he had to help his mother take care of his younger brothers and sisters.
As soon as Aye came to the throne, he was appointed as the prince. It can be said that he was justified and extremely noble.
He himself was very high-spirited. Although it was difficult to study, he still studied hard in order to manage the country well.
Aye was strict with him, but favored the third child and Mingda. He didn't think there was anything wrong before. He was the eldest brother, and he would inherit the family business and take care of his younger brothers and sisters in the future.
So he has no objection. Within reason, he will indulge his younger brothers and sisters, but occasionally help his mother to discipline them.
He thought that he would always be high-spirited and successfully ascend to the throne in the future, and become a wise king like his father, or even better than his father.
But life will not be so smooth. When he grew up and started discussing marriage, he encountered his first setback.
Full of confidence in finding him a good wife, Aye chose several girls from aristocratic families and personally wrote letters to discuss marriage with those families...
As a result, they were rejected one by one.
This not only hurt the emperor's face, but also caused the prince to fall from the sky to mid-air. He began to realize that the royal family was not omnipotent. In the eyes of some aristocratic families, they were nothing.
He was a little embarrassed and secretly wanted to fight, so he fully supported his father's emphasis on imperial examinations and supporting poor families.
Humph, they can't fight against these aristocratic families now. In twenty, thirty, or fifty years, when there are enough poor families and common people standing in the court, won't they still be able to fight against the aristocratic families?
It is also because of this that the emperor specially handed over the management of the Ministry of Rites to the prince. The Ministry of Rites is in charge of the Imperial Academy and the official and private schools in the world. With the students from all over the world as the foundation, the prince will be able to do many things in the future.
Until this time, the prince thought that his life was spent in building the country, continuing the glory of the Li family and fighting with the aristocratic family.
Until he married the Crown Princess, the Crown Princess had nothing to live for two years. He then took in Liang Di and several concubines, and for another two years, there was no one to live with.
So the crown prince and Liang Di's concubines, who had been taking medicine, stopped taking medicine and the prince took medicine instead.
No one mentioned this matter in front of him. Even his father, who was concerned about it, quietly asked the imperial doctor to come to the East Palace to see him.
Several of his younger brothers got married later than him and all had children one after another. He was the only one who didn't have any children.
And as the younger brothers grew older and began to move out of the country, the father's preference for the third child became more obvious.
He would not have noticed this in the past. The third child is his direct brother and they share the same mother. It is normal for his father to prefer him. Even he will prefer his younger brothers and sisters who share the same mother.
But it's different now.
Because of his father's preference, some ministers in the court began to favor Lao San, and Lao San also snatched several errands and achievements from him.
Although the prince is having a smooth sailing, he is also from a royal family. Of course he knows what the third son's move means.
It's impossible not to be sad, but the throne belongs to the one who can occupy it. If you have the ability, come and grab it?
The prince was not afraid. He felt that there was nothing wrong with his health and that he was still strong. It was just that the time had not come yet, so the child was delayed.
He is waiting, he feels that God will always be on his side.
But I don’t know since when, everyone looked at him differently. When going to court, whenever he mentioned the heir, everyone would secretly glance at him;
Some government affairs that should be entrusted to him were also scrambled by the courtiers to give them to the third son, and even to other princes.
Even the queen had to search for famous doctors for him privately.
Then he knew that what he thought was fine was not really fine. Although the doctors spoke in a vague way, he understood clearly that he had kidney deficiency and it was difficult for a woman to get pregnant.
There can be a prince without heirs in the world, but there can never be a prince without heirs.
If the prince has no heirs, it means that the future emperor will have no heirs, which means that the country is unstable and there will be fights over succession in the future.
Even he himself felt that instead of letting the Jin Dynasty be in trouble in the future, it would be better to depose him now and reestablish the crown prince.
He felt that Aye must have thought so too, otherwise why would he favor the third child more and more and not let him go to the fiefdom and stay in the capital.
The prince broke the pot, thinking, you can scold him if you want, it is best to scold him and lose his position as prince, and live a quiet life from now on.
But the emperor refused. This was his eldest son. He could scold him, but how could others despise him so much?
Therefore, when the prince gave up on himself, the emperor clung to him tightly. No matter who mentioned the idea of deposing the prince, he would not depose him.
There are also quite a number of ministers in the court who insist on orthodoxy and cannot depose the prince unless he makes a major mistake. Otherwise, what will happen if the next generation learns from it?
The emperor's accession to the throne was already unfair and unfair. If the next generation continues to do this, will the inheritance of the Jin Dynasty be good in the future?
Therefore, Wei Zhi, a series of important ministers such as Master Lao Tang and Li Shangshu insisted on upholding orthodoxy and supported the emperor in not deposing the prince.
The prince was pushed forward by them. Unknowingly, he and the third son had been at odds with each other for a long time, almost to the point where the king could not see the king.
But even at this moment, the prince still thinks that he can live, it depends on when his father will depose him and make the third child the prince.
He didn't think that the third son would kill him after he succeeded to the throne. If he had no heirs, what would it matter whether he was killed or not?
And there is also a queen mother, they are siblings from the same mother.
Until a concubine in his house became pregnant.
The prince and princess checked again and again, and after confirming that the child was his, the couple went crazy with joy.
Who wants to be the deposed prince when he can be the emperor?
So the prince felt that he could do it again.
The Crown Princess was even more happy and directly named the child. She was already worried about the child's future education.
Moreover, if the prince can make a concubine pregnant, he may also be able to make others pregnant in the future. They may have more than one child, although the time span in between is a bit large.
But as long as they had one child, they felt they could go on.
As a result, the child was born within two months.
The concubine also hanged herself because she blamed herself and felt guilty.
At that moment, not only did the light in the princess's eyes disappear, but so did the prince.
At that moment, he lost not only a child, but also his younger brother and his father, including himself.
After Lao San broke up with him, he obviously had murderous intentions. He always thought that there was still room for change, but it turned out that there was no room for change.
At that moment, the prince clearly realized that he and Lao San were no longer brothers, but enemies, and life and death enemies.
The father clearly knew what the third son's move meant, but he still chose to protect him. Obviously, even his father, who had always defended him, gave up on him.