My God, I am the emperor, the lord of mankind.

Chapter 123 Queen Mother Succession Law

Seeing that both of them had broken their guard, Zhu Houcong turned his attention to Su Ziping who was aside.

Su Ziping was frightened and said quickly.

"Everything is fine, my concubine!"

"Oh! I just want to ask you what you are betting on in this cricket fight. When I have time next time, I will also come and play with my concubines..."

Yes, let you see the giant cricket that braves blue light and can spit fire in the world of immortality nowadays.

Zhu Houcong thought.

"You guys go ahead and play... Concubine Yin Ai doesn't have to be so simple, Huang Jin!"

"His Majesty!"

Zhu Houcong said as he looked at Huang Jin who hurriedly came from outside the palace with two little palace maids who looked miserable.

"Pick some clothes and jewelry from the inner treasury and send them to the three concubines, each of them can choose."

"Yes……"

Huang Jin replied.

Behind Zhu Houcong, Yin Huaisu's face turned red.

"My beloved concubine is having a good time in the palace these days and is raising a baby..."

Zhu Houcong gave instructions before leaving.

Just now he used his spiritual consciousness to scan and found that the children in his belly were all healthy, and one of them was even a twin.

The probability of having spiritual roots is very high!
This made Zhu Houcong very happy.

"During this period, I will pick some people from the Royal Horse Guards and Factory Guards to stay in Jingyang Palace. If anyone asks, just say it is my order."

Zhu Houcong said to Huang Jin.

After saying that, he turned his head and took a deep look at Su Ziping.

Seeing this, Su Ziping trembled again.

"My beloved, please pay attention to rest. The delivery date is approaching, so you must not mess around in these few days."

"Your Majesty's instructions, I will definitely keep them in mind!"

Su Ziping replied immediately.

……

In the evening, Zhu Houcong stayed at Changchun Palace.

Sitting next to her was a distant relative of the Empress Dowager Chiang's family.

She was adopted as an adopted daughter by the Queen Mother, and a beautiful girl was selected through manipulation and brought into the palace.

The woman named Jiang Rong has a beautiful face, and she is the one who told Zhu Houcong at noon that her cat can do backflips.

"What happened in the palace recently?"

While Zhu Houcong was eating grapes from the Changchun Palace, the woman next to him had a wave of eyes and stretched out her jade hands to catch the grape seeds spit out by Zhu Houcong.

Zhu Houcong looked puzzled and said that he had already swallowed both the skin and the seeds.

If you really want it, you can only wait until tomorrow.

Seeing that the atmosphere was a bit awkward, Zhu Houcong grabbed the hand of the beautiful woman in front of him to stop him from eating grapes, which made Jiang Rong's face turn red with embarrassment. He stuffed two bunches of grapes into her mouth and asked.

"It's nothing. It's just that some sisters haven't seen Your Majesty for a long time. They couldn't bear the loneliness and misery in the palace, and they unfortunately got cold..."

As the woman spoke, she observed Zhu Houcong's face.

What a coincidence?Zhu Houcong had just come back, and it was time to leave the harem for the unpregnant concubines. Some of the concubines became "unfortunately" sick and could not get out of bed——

I'm afraid some people don't want to see them imitate the three people from Jingyang Palace and soar into the sky after receiving the Holy Grace, so they do it deliberately.

"That's really unfortunate. Did the hospital send someone to take a look?"

"It's the medicine that the Queen Mother personally ordered the hospital to collect."

Jiang Rong lowered her eyebrows and gently opened an orange for Zhu Houcong and brought it to her mouth.

"That's it... No, I don't like oranges."

Zhu Houcong sighed, and when he saw the tender eyes of the woman beside him, he refused.

"The grapes sent from the surrounding imperial villages are quite delicious and nutritious. My dear wife, you can try them."

"Apart from these? I heard that some pregnant concubines in the palace had funerals in their families..." Zhu Houcong wiped his hands and lay down on the bed beside him.

"Rub your shoulders for me. I don't know why my back has been hurting these past few days——"

"Ugh!"

When Jiang Rong heard this, she saw the emperor lying on his bed with his back stretched out, and her originally depressed expression became cheered up.

He replied with a smile.

He said while rubbing his shoulders.

"Other people don't know much about it, but it seems that the father of sister Li Wenyu, who lives in the same palace as Li Wenyu, passed away a few days ago, and she is now very depressed. Are our sisters who live in the Changchun Palace taking turns to take care of her?"

The palaces of the Ming Dynasty were similar to those of the Qing Dynasty. It does not mean that a palace only has one house.

Take Jingyang Palace, where Zhu Houcong specially arranged for Su Ziping and others to live, as an example.

It has jurisdiction over many palaces including Ningzi Tower, Shuyu Garden, Jiefangzhai, Yueyingxuan, Shuya Hall, Cuiwei Pavilion, Zhenxia Pavilion and Jieqi Pavilion.

There is no need to worry about accommodation, it is more than enough for five or six concubines.

"How the inner court arranges it."

Zhu Houcong knew that the traditional performing arts in the Ming Dynasty's harem were coming again.

"The Empress Dowager ordered the Supervisor of Rites to check the files of the Ministry of Rites. She believed that according to the old system, if Sister Li gave birth to a prince, she would no longer be suitable to be raised by someone who had a funeral in the family. When the time comes, the Empress Dowager would convene everyone to discuss it, and she would naturally choose a person with both ability and political integrity. Sister Li’s child will be temporarily adopted and raised in her name.”

really.

Zhu Houcong blinked.

The inheritance system of the Ming Dynasty was quite complete compared with the Xuanwu Gate Succession Law of the Tang Dynasty and the Succession Law of the Northern and Southern Army of the Han Dynasty.

Therefore, most of the time, there will not be situations like the Han and Tang Dynasties when, in order to compete for the throne, the two sides lined up in the capital, or even attacked the palace in broad daylight.

This also gave rise to a series of questions——

That is, compared with previous dynasties, in order to support one of their own to ascend the throne, aristocratic families usually pointed their finger at other princes.

Therefore, the probability of accidents for princes in the Han and Tang dynasties was very high, even in the Ming Dynasty it cannot be said to be low.

But the Ming Dynasty took action more against the prince's biological mother.

This is also the reason why many queen mothers in the Ming Dynasty were not the emperor's biological mothers.

Don't ask, just ask because the emperor's own mother was regularly in poor health.

Either he feels that his virtue is not worthy of the throne, takes the initiative to abdicate in favor of a worthy person, and adopts the prince to someone with "virtue".

"Of course, after the funeral in Sister Li's family is over and the mourning is over, the prince will naturally be returned to my sister - Your Majesty is your concubine. Is it uncomfortable for you?"

Seeing Zhu Houcong's silence, Jiang Rong panicked and quickly explained.

"It's nothing...you pressed it very well."

Zhu Houcong consoled him.

Zhu Houcong was not surprised by what means these wealthy families would use to gain power in their hands.

Just don't reach into Jingyang Palace.

"I heard that His Majesty returned to Beijing this time. After handling government affairs for several days, he went to Jingyang Palace again?"

"Are you very well informed? Did the Queen Mother send someone to tell you?"

Zhu Houcong asked.

"Yes... no, Your Majesty, Your Majesty, please forgive me!"

Jiang Rong's face suddenly turned pale.

Peeping at the traces of the Holy Spirit is, at worst, a crime of beheading.

She quickly got out of bed and knelt down in front of Zhu Houcong, trembling with fear and tears filling her eyes.

"Since the Queen Mother told you that a mother feels sorry for her daughter-in-law who is staying alone in an empty house, why are you guilty? As the saying goes, if your parents are here, you don't have to travel far~ If you really want to talk about guilt, then I am the guilty one——"

Zhu Houcong's tone was faint.

"Come on, it's getting late, and it's time for my beloved concubine to rest."

"Tomorrow, I will go to the morning court to talk to the courtiers about the Southern Japanese and Northern captives, and also ask the Ministry of Rites about the progress of preparations for offering sacrifices to heaven? You also have to pay homage to the Queen Mother, assist your mother in taking care of the harem, and visit the sick and filial sisters in the harem. ~We are all very busy~ How can we waste time?”

(End of this chapter)