287. Powerful minister? Puppet emperor (19)
"Your Majesty said that you want to choose the queen for the emperor?" Lian Yin confirmed to the King of Huaiyang in a strange tone. He was holding a teacup in his hand and wanted to drink. After hearing what the King of Huaiyang said to her, she silently put the teacup down again.
In my heart, I complained with Xiao Xiaoqi's ambition: The little emperor is only thirteen years old!
Although there are countless examples of emperors who get married at the age of thirteen in various history textbooks and official history, they are irrelevant characters with Lianyin. And she has been with the little emperor for so long, and it is really hard to treat him as an irrelevant emperor.
In Lianyin's first feeling, although the little emperor stepped from a child to a young boy, he was essentially still a child.
Let a child marry, Lianyin refused.
Xiao Xiaoqi said: "The King of Huaiyang is so impatient. The little emperor's hair has not grown yet."
Lianyin: "…"
As if he hadn't seen Lian Yin's refusal, the King of Huaiyang continued: "Now there are many women of aristocratic families of suitable age in the court. Why would the Empress Dowager choose a time to invite them into the palace and pass them one by one."
"No matter what, the Empress Dowager is also the most noble woman in the court and the emperor's mother. It's up to you to choose a daughter-in-law to appear appropriate and considerate." He said something different.
Lianyin was speechless for a moment.
Let her choose a daughter-in-law? I really don’t know if I should thank King Huaiyang for his understanding, or immediately spit on him.
However, the King of Huaiyang did not seem to see her emotions at all. After a while, he said: "The palace is deserted now, it is better to take this opportunity to choose more concubines for the emperor, so that the royal family can grow up as soon as possible."
Breeding branches...scattering leaves...? Lianyin couldn't help but be stunned. The thirteen-year-old young emperor asked him to bloom branches and leaves?
Lianyin instantly thought of the most popular sentence in court operas, "The emperor must drink the rain and dew", and his mind suddenly became blank and he had no thoughts. The picture was too beautiful and unimaginable.
After finally coming back from nothingness, Lianyin couldn't help but ridicule the King of Huaiyang: "Why don't you know, the prince has grown up?"
The King of Huaiyang did not expect that she would suddenly pull on him, and immediately pulled his eyebrows.
Lianyin stared straight at him.
It was not until a few years ago that she realized that the King of Huaiyang had always been a bachelor. This was incredible for the royal family. But he was such a strange existence.
He did not marry a princess, and there was not even a wife in the mansion, let alone a child.
When the late emperor was there, he seemed to have never asked King Huaiyang to do this, and King Huaiyang did not seem to have any plans for him, so he kept coming here like this.
If he hadn't asked the young emperor to choose a concubine, Lianyin wouldn't have thought of this.
Now that I mentioned it, Lianyin feels that I can say a few more sentences.
"The prince is already twenty-six or seven now? Shouldn't he be a princess earlier?" Lian Yin said as if he was an old elder, "How about looking at the prince first instead of choosing a concubine for the emperor?"
If it were the past, the King of Huaiyang might immediately reply: Are you looking for death?
However, in recent years, as long as he faced Lienyin needles, King Huaiyang's temperament became more and more advanced.
"I don't have to worry too much about my affairs later. Let's talk about the election first." King Huaiyang did not give Lianyin a chance at all, and continued to act according to his plan. "I have discussed with several ministers in the cabinet a few days ago that the first and fourth concubines must be decided. The position of concubines under this can be based on the emperor's preferences."
The meaning of the words is obvious, but the four concubines in the last year must adopt an internal order.
This lyrics are even more irrelevant.
However, Lianyin could see that the King of Huaiyang would not refer to her decision at all. He would give her a lot of face to tell her about this, so don’t count on anything else.
Lianyin stopped talking, but King Huaiyang made a lot of clarity, and he told the candidate for the four concubines without any concealment.
The candidate mentioned by King Huaiyang has not yet been determined to die, and there is no final number for who is the queen and who is the concubine. The only thing I know is that the final list cannot escape those people.
Lian Yin was in the harem, and although she was interested in inquiring about the previous dynasty, she was not familiar with the King of Huaiyang. Many of the names he reported were not known to her.
And the girls of the right age she knew were all his people.
The King of Huaiyang gave this matter to Lianyin, and asked Lianyin to choose a time by himself to invite all the ladies into the palace.
Lian Yin couldn't bear it and asked him: "The emperor is only thirteen years old, so the prince must be so impatient to arrange these for him."
The King of Huaiyang said: "Can't wait? The emperor has been ascending the throne for six years. As early as two years ago, he had already reported that the emperor would make a decision as soon as possible. But now it has been delayed for two years. Isn't it too early?"
Lianyin looked at him for a while and said nothing.
After the Huaiyang King left, when the little emperor arrived at Xingqing Palace, he looked angry.
After seeing Lianyin, the little emperor pursed his lips tightly, pulled her sleeve and said, "The King of Huaiyang said he wanted to choose a queen for me."
Lian Yin said lightly: "I already know."
The little emperor said again: "He also asked Chengde to pack up my things for me and asked me to move out of Xingqing Palace."
Lianyin sighed: "I know too. He told me after noon."
The little emperor suddenly felt sad: "Then did you promise him?"
Lian Yin asked back: "Then do you want a queen?"
The little emperor immediately shook his head, and there were tears in his eyes. When he spoke, he even said a tremolo: "I don't want any queen, and I don't want to move out of Xingqing Palace. Why does he always make things so difficult for me? I am just a puppet emperor, and I have worked very hard to cooperate with him as a puppet emperor. Why can't he pass through me?"
Lian Yin was immediately frightened when she heard this and hurriedly asked him: "What puppet emperor? But who said you?" This was the first time she heard the little emperor reveal that she was a puppet emperor, and he had never mentioned it before.
The little emperor did not answer Lian Yin's question, but the more he thought about it, the more he felt sad, and suddenly choked up: "I just want to be with the Queen Mother. I don't want any queen. Queen Mother, can you go and talk to him?"
Lianyin looked at her as a safe haven, and the little emperor who was praying in his words was really hard to treat him as an adult.
Of course she wanted to say good things, but before the word "good" was released, she was restrained by reason.
It is actually something you will have to experience after choosing or choosing a concubine sooner or later. Although she, like the little emperor, did not want the little emperor to choose a concubine too early, it is also a reference to look at the women of the right age family as soon as possible.
After thinking about it this way, she swallowed the good word and said to the little emperor: "Listen to me first."
Chapter completed!