Chen Xingwang's statement is just a corner of the matter, because he cannot see the panoramic view.Zhu Gaoxu was listening while guessing other things in his mind.
In the narrative, Chen Xingwang mentioned the same time twice: the second year of Jianwen.He said that the little prince of Annan was born in the second year of Jianwen, and mentioned that the time when the queen of Annan came to the border villa was in the second year of Jianwen.
Zhu Gaoxu couldn't help but think about the events of that year.
In the second year of Jianwen, the Jingnan Campaign was a tragic period of fighting desperately between the two sides; and something happened in Annan... It was that year.
So Zhu Gaoxu boldly speculated that first there was a coup in Annan Kingdom and the king was killed; then the pregnant queen was only supported by Chen Xingwang and others, and fled to a villa in the border forest to hide.
...At this time, Chen Xingwang said: The queen has never spoken to Caomin in the villa.It was not until last year that we escorted the queen to a temple on the ground of Laos toast, that the queen finally spoke to the grass people.
Zhu Gaoxu asked casually: Do you still remember what she said to you?
Chen Xingwang immediately nodded vigorously: I remember the Caomin until he died!It was a night... He turned his head and looked at the light outside the door, which was brighter than the sky now.The queen said: I'm a little bored. I heard you have played the erhu before. Is your erhu still there?
He became even more excited when he said this, and his emotions seemed to fall into a sense of excitement. His words were not as sequenced as before. He said excitedly: Once, the queen called Caomin to play the erhu, and she sang, it was really... that was not the singing that should be found in the world...
Originally, Chen Xingwang told a story of a man and a woman mixed with conspiracy, which so far are wonderful.
But when Zhu Gaoxu heard this, he felt a little inexplicable emotion.
He thought about it and then interrupted quietly: Li Louxian's voice is also quite good, otherwise she would not have been so famous.
However, Chen Xingwang's excitement did not calm down, and he ignored Zhu Gaoxu's words.
Chen Xingwang said incoherently: Just like a queen who is not in the world, she has so many sad things, which is really pity... She was forced to marry the elderly king, and then became a widow. What's more, she was betrayed by her trusted relative Chen Tianping and threatened the lives of her mother and son...
etc!Zhu Gaoxu stopped Chen Xingwang's words and immediately asked, "What's wrong with Chen Tianping?"
Zhu Gaoxu had heard of this man. He was the Chen clan member who was sent to the capital by Laos last year!
Chen Xingwang was stunned and said: Chen Tianping is the royal family of Annan Kingdom. The queen was able to escape to the villa because Chen Tianping helped him. Later, Chen Tianping wanted to be the king, which was not good for the queen!These are all told by the queen.
Zhu Gaoxu was walking back and forth on the floor. He vaguely felt that Chen Tianping, who was as anxious as a stray dog and had escaped to the Ming Dynasty by the Lao chieftain, seemed not so miserable.
At this time, Zhu Gaoxu suddenly asked: What the queen said to you is that Chen Tianping wants to be king and it will be unfavorable to the queen, but why did he save the queen at the beginning?
Chen Xingwang thought for a long time, but hesitated and couldn't answer.
Zhu Gaoxu frowned and pondered for a while, then reminded Chen Xingwang: Is there any power in the queen's family?
Chen Xingwang nodded and said: It seems that he is also a royal family member of the Annan Kingdom.King Annan only married his own people. We Ming people feel that this is a matter of disdain, but they are just like that!
Zhu Gaoxu nodded slightly and thought to himself: I can only make such a guess for the time being. Chen Tianping first responded to the queen because he needed the support of the queen's mother's family.
If the queen gave birth to a daughter, then everyone would be happy and both parties could join forces through marriage... Unfortunately, the queen gave birth to a son. Chen Tianping wanted to be the king, so he almost had a reputation.
Chen Tianping only got rid of the little prince at this time, which was a choice, but he had to appease and win over the queen's family's forces first.
Because the queen was pregnant and ran away, someone must have known about Annan. Chen Tianping did too much, which could easily cause internal strife among the royal family...
Chen Tianping could also ease things, for example, when the Ming Dynasty recognized him as king, the queen and his son would be allowed to show their support; then he would pretend to promise to the domestic ministers and pass the throne to the little prince in the future, and even marry the queen.
I will slowly find a way to kill the prince in the future.
Of course, the queen herself would not be willing; so what the queen said about threatening her life is not necessarily the truth...
Zhu Gaoxu still thought about it in his heart, but it was all his own thoughts, which were difficult to verify.
He asked again at this time: Did the Queen tell you that the powerful minister Hu was planning to usurp the throne because he coveted her beauty?
Chen Xingwang shook his head and said: The Queen did not say this.However, Caomin heard a little about it, and the cause and effect were reversed.Hu wanted to be king, so he intended to force the queen.
Caomin heard from Chen An that the king of Annan before the surname of Annan was Li, and the Chen family was just a powerful minister.
The method for Chen to replace him was to marry the princess of the Li family first; then support the princess of the Li family as the queen, and named Chen the "male queen".
After marriage, the queen was forced to abdicate the throne to the male queen.
So later, the royal family of Annan Kingdom became the surname Chen.
At first, Hu also wanted to use the same trick again, marry Queen Chen, become the "male queen" first, and then usurp the throne step by step.But something unexpected happened later.
In Zhu Gaoxu's opinion, the male queen only married the same surname is very strange.Even in later generations, he had never heard of...and there was such an operation?Things in Annan Kingdom are really weird.
However, Zhu Gaoxu finally understood one thing: the queen's beauty was so beautiful that the whole country was fascinating in rumors, but neither Hu nor Chen Tianping were bewitching his beauty, but was calculating his power.
Only Chen Xingwang, a grass man, is eager to the queen.
But can the queen really like the heart and soul of a grass-roots person?
She ignored Chen Xingwang for several years, and only when she needed him would she remember to get close.
Zhu Gaoxu couldn't help but sigh: The beauty of the country only exists in books.
...Outside the study, it was completely dark, and Chen Xingwang's story was almost told.Zhu Gaoxu has not yet fully understood the affairs of Annan Kingdom, but the rest of the inside story is probably not something Chen Xingwang can know.
Chen Xingwang said something else, all of which were told by Queen Annan; but it was impossible to tell whether the queen was lying... The queen said that Chen Tianping decided to be king and would kill them, mother and son; he asked Chen Xingwang to save the prince and hide it in the Ming Dynasty.
The queen also promised some completely unreliable painting pie.
She did not hesitate to play with relatives with the grass-roots Chen Xingwang, saying that before the Song Dynasty, many Han people came to Annan Kingdom, and perhaps the royal family Chen family was also Han people, and everyone was the same clan; and said that in the future, Chen Xingwang would be appointed as a general and so on.
Do you believe it?Zhu Gaoxu asked curiously.
Chen Xingwang nodded and said a little hesitantly: However, it seems not easy for the queen to regain power.
Haha... Zhu Gaoxu made a sound.
Zhu Gaoxu no longer wanted to pay attention to Chen Xingwang's daydream, so he said: Come, choose a corridor in the front hall of the palace to settle in the little prince of Annan.Chen Xingwang, since you are loyal to the prince, you will also stay in the royal palace to protect the prince.
Chen Xingwang seemed to be worried about being chased, and was overjoyed and thanked him for his gratitude.
When the eunuch Huang Dog took Chen Xingwang and the other two out of the study, Zhu Gaoxu couldn't help but say something more, Chen Xingwang, I think your wife Li Lou is good to treat you first.
Chen Xingwang bowed and said, thank you, Your Highness.
Zhu Gaoxu did not leave the study immediately. He paced between the wooden racks filled with books and desks, touching the books unconsciously, as well as a goose feather knife placed on the table and a cold forging armor hanging on the wooden rack.
Dingdong!The Guzheng also made a meaningless sound because of his fingers.
Since Annan Kingdom has a more legal heir, Zhu Gaoxu feels that he should write a letter to report the matter.
Doing this matter has nothing to do with private matters, but according to the moral ethics and laws of the Ming Dynasty, this should be done... In this era, the entire East Asia region is abiding by this set of universal morality. The lightest reaction of the Wushou court in the Ming Dynasty would also send envoys to rebuke it.
Zhu Gaoxu has not decided to write a letter because he feels that there are huge loopholes in this matter.How to confirm that the boy is really the little prince of Annan?
The only witness who can prove Prince Annan's identity is Chen Xingwang.Apart from this, there is neither human nor physical evidence.
If Chen Xingwang's confession was false, Zhu Gaoxu's memorial would not only be ridiculed by the court officials to be frivolous, but also make the court's decisions in the Annan area complicated and troublesome... After all, in the Ming Dynasty, who cares which surnamed Chen was the king?
As long as it makes sense morally.
Even in secret, the court officials probably hoped that Chen Tianping was the most legal heir, because Chen Tianping went to the capital in person and gained the trust of the wise ruler and ministers.
Thinking of this, Zhu Gaoxu was preparing to slow down this matter first, and he had to find a way to find evidence of the little prince's identity...
There is no way.
First find the queen, then find the old ministers and clans of Annan who have seen the queen to testify, determine the queen's identity, and get pregnant in the palace, etc.... Then find the person who guarded the queen and delivered her baby in the past few years to form a chain of evidence.
Only in this way can we confirm the title of the prince of this boy who grew up in the mountains.
If Zhu Gaoxu wants to take care of this matter, it seems a bit troublesome to operate.No wonder in the Ming Dynasty, people did not recognize the children born to those concubines who were raised outside.
It seems that everything can only be done with the flow, and it will be fine if you can't do it. Anyway, there is Chen Tianping as the candidate.This matter is not that important to the court and to Zhu Gaoxu.
Zhu Gaoxu turned around and walked out of the study. The eunuch waiting at the door was Wang Gui.
Wang Gui bent down and whispered: Prince, it’s getting late.At noon, you mentioned going to Yao Ji's side, and I told Yao Ji.The prince has passed by now and the dinner must be ready.
Then I went to Yao Ji's yard, and I was really hungry.Zhu Gaoxu waved forward and made a gesture.
At this time, a group of people and a chariot outside the study were leaning towards this side.
In the narrative, Chen Xingwang mentioned the same time twice: the second year of Jianwen.He said that the little prince of Annan was born in the second year of Jianwen, and mentioned that the time when the queen of Annan came to the border villa was in the second year of Jianwen.
Zhu Gaoxu couldn't help but think about the events of that year.
In the second year of Jianwen, the Jingnan Campaign was a tragic period of fighting desperately between the two sides; and something happened in Annan... It was that year.
So Zhu Gaoxu boldly speculated that first there was a coup in Annan Kingdom and the king was killed; then the pregnant queen was only supported by Chen Xingwang and others, and fled to a villa in the border forest to hide.
...At this time, Chen Xingwang said: The queen has never spoken to Caomin in the villa.It was not until last year that we escorted the queen to a temple on the ground of Laos toast, that the queen finally spoke to the grass people.
Zhu Gaoxu asked casually: Do you still remember what she said to you?
Chen Xingwang immediately nodded vigorously: I remember the Caomin until he died!It was a night... He turned his head and looked at the light outside the door, which was brighter than the sky now.The queen said: I'm a little bored. I heard you have played the erhu before. Is your erhu still there?
He became even more excited when he said this, and his emotions seemed to fall into a sense of excitement. His words were not as sequenced as before. He said excitedly: Once, the queen called Caomin to play the erhu, and she sang, it was really... that was not the singing that should be found in the world...
Originally, Chen Xingwang told a story of a man and a woman mixed with conspiracy, which so far are wonderful.
But when Zhu Gaoxu heard this, he felt a little inexplicable emotion.
He thought about it and then interrupted quietly: Li Louxian's voice is also quite good, otherwise she would not have been so famous.
However, Chen Xingwang's excitement did not calm down, and he ignored Zhu Gaoxu's words.
Chen Xingwang said incoherently: Just like a queen who is not in the world, she has so many sad things, which is really pity... She was forced to marry the elderly king, and then became a widow. What's more, she was betrayed by her trusted relative Chen Tianping and threatened the lives of her mother and son...
etc!Zhu Gaoxu stopped Chen Xingwang's words and immediately asked, "What's wrong with Chen Tianping?"
Zhu Gaoxu had heard of this man. He was the Chen clan member who was sent to the capital by Laos last year!
Chen Xingwang was stunned and said: Chen Tianping is the royal family of Annan Kingdom. The queen was able to escape to the villa because Chen Tianping helped him. Later, Chen Tianping wanted to be the king, which was not good for the queen!These are all told by the queen.
Zhu Gaoxu was walking back and forth on the floor. He vaguely felt that Chen Tianping, who was as anxious as a stray dog and had escaped to the Ming Dynasty by the Lao chieftain, seemed not so miserable.
At this time, Zhu Gaoxu suddenly asked: What the queen said to you is that Chen Tianping wants to be king and it will be unfavorable to the queen, but why did he save the queen at the beginning?
Chen Xingwang thought for a long time, but hesitated and couldn't answer.
Zhu Gaoxu frowned and pondered for a while, then reminded Chen Xingwang: Is there any power in the queen's family?
Chen Xingwang nodded and said: It seems that he is also a royal family member of the Annan Kingdom.King Annan only married his own people. We Ming people feel that this is a matter of disdain, but they are just like that!
Zhu Gaoxu nodded slightly and thought to himself: I can only make such a guess for the time being. Chen Tianping first responded to the queen because he needed the support of the queen's mother's family.
If the queen gave birth to a daughter, then everyone would be happy and both parties could join forces through marriage... Unfortunately, the queen gave birth to a son. Chen Tianping wanted to be the king, so he almost had a reputation.
Chen Tianping only got rid of the little prince at this time, which was a choice, but he had to appease and win over the queen's family's forces first.
Because the queen was pregnant and ran away, someone must have known about Annan. Chen Tianping did too much, which could easily cause internal strife among the royal family...
Chen Tianping could also ease things, for example, when the Ming Dynasty recognized him as king, the queen and his son would be allowed to show their support; then he would pretend to promise to the domestic ministers and pass the throne to the little prince in the future, and even marry the queen.
I will slowly find a way to kill the prince in the future.
Of course, the queen herself would not be willing; so what the queen said about threatening her life is not necessarily the truth...
Zhu Gaoxu still thought about it in his heart, but it was all his own thoughts, which were difficult to verify.
He asked again at this time: Did the Queen tell you that the powerful minister Hu was planning to usurp the throne because he coveted her beauty?
Chen Xingwang shook his head and said: The Queen did not say this.However, Caomin heard a little about it, and the cause and effect were reversed.Hu wanted to be king, so he intended to force the queen.
Caomin heard from Chen An that the king of Annan before the surname of Annan was Li, and the Chen family was just a powerful minister.
The method for Chen to replace him was to marry the princess of the Li family first; then support the princess of the Li family as the queen, and named Chen the "male queen".
After marriage, the queen was forced to abdicate the throne to the male queen.
So later, the royal family of Annan Kingdom became the surname Chen.
At first, Hu also wanted to use the same trick again, marry Queen Chen, become the "male queen" first, and then usurp the throne step by step.But something unexpected happened later.
In Zhu Gaoxu's opinion, the male queen only married the same surname is very strange.Even in later generations, he had never heard of...and there was such an operation?Things in Annan Kingdom are really weird.
However, Zhu Gaoxu finally understood one thing: the queen's beauty was so beautiful that the whole country was fascinating in rumors, but neither Hu nor Chen Tianping were bewitching his beauty, but was calculating his power.
Only Chen Xingwang, a grass man, is eager to the queen.
But can the queen really like the heart and soul of a grass-roots person?
She ignored Chen Xingwang for several years, and only when she needed him would she remember to get close.
Zhu Gaoxu couldn't help but sigh: The beauty of the country only exists in books.
...Outside the study, it was completely dark, and Chen Xingwang's story was almost told.Zhu Gaoxu has not yet fully understood the affairs of Annan Kingdom, but the rest of the inside story is probably not something Chen Xingwang can know.
Chen Xingwang said something else, all of which were told by Queen Annan; but it was impossible to tell whether the queen was lying... The queen said that Chen Tianping decided to be king and would kill them, mother and son; he asked Chen Xingwang to save the prince and hide it in the Ming Dynasty.
The queen also promised some completely unreliable painting pie.
She did not hesitate to play with relatives with the grass-roots Chen Xingwang, saying that before the Song Dynasty, many Han people came to Annan Kingdom, and perhaps the royal family Chen family was also Han people, and everyone was the same clan; and said that in the future, Chen Xingwang would be appointed as a general and so on.
Do you believe it?Zhu Gaoxu asked curiously.
Chen Xingwang nodded and said a little hesitantly: However, it seems not easy for the queen to regain power.
Haha... Zhu Gaoxu made a sound.
Zhu Gaoxu no longer wanted to pay attention to Chen Xingwang's daydream, so he said: Come, choose a corridor in the front hall of the palace to settle in the little prince of Annan.Chen Xingwang, since you are loyal to the prince, you will also stay in the royal palace to protect the prince.
Chen Xingwang seemed to be worried about being chased, and was overjoyed and thanked him for his gratitude.
When the eunuch Huang Dog took Chen Xingwang and the other two out of the study, Zhu Gaoxu couldn't help but say something more, Chen Xingwang, I think your wife Li Lou is good to treat you first.
Chen Xingwang bowed and said, thank you, Your Highness.
Zhu Gaoxu did not leave the study immediately. He paced between the wooden racks filled with books and desks, touching the books unconsciously, as well as a goose feather knife placed on the table and a cold forging armor hanging on the wooden rack.
Dingdong!The Guzheng also made a meaningless sound because of his fingers.
Since Annan Kingdom has a more legal heir, Zhu Gaoxu feels that he should write a letter to report the matter.
Doing this matter has nothing to do with private matters, but according to the moral ethics and laws of the Ming Dynasty, this should be done... In this era, the entire East Asia region is abiding by this set of universal morality. The lightest reaction of the Wushou court in the Ming Dynasty would also send envoys to rebuke it.
Zhu Gaoxu has not decided to write a letter because he feels that there are huge loopholes in this matter.How to confirm that the boy is really the little prince of Annan?
The only witness who can prove Prince Annan's identity is Chen Xingwang.Apart from this, there is neither human nor physical evidence.
If Chen Xingwang's confession was false, Zhu Gaoxu's memorial would not only be ridiculed by the court officials to be frivolous, but also make the court's decisions in the Annan area complicated and troublesome... After all, in the Ming Dynasty, who cares which surnamed Chen was the king?
As long as it makes sense morally.
Even in secret, the court officials probably hoped that Chen Tianping was the most legal heir, because Chen Tianping went to the capital in person and gained the trust of the wise ruler and ministers.
Thinking of this, Zhu Gaoxu was preparing to slow down this matter first, and he had to find a way to find evidence of the little prince's identity...
There is no way.
First find the queen, then find the old ministers and clans of Annan who have seen the queen to testify, determine the queen's identity, and get pregnant in the palace, etc.... Then find the person who guarded the queen and delivered her baby in the past few years to form a chain of evidence.
Only in this way can we confirm the title of the prince of this boy who grew up in the mountains.
If Zhu Gaoxu wants to take care of this matter, it seems a bit troublesome to operate.No wonder in the Ming Dynasty, people did not recognize the children born to those concubines who were raised outside.
It seems that everything can only be done with the flow, and it will be fine if you can't do it. Anyway, there is Chen Tianping as the candidate.This matter is not that important to the court and to Zhu Gaoxu.
Zhu Gaoxu turned around and walked out of the study. The eunuch waiting at the door was Wang Gui.
Wang Gui bent down and whispered: Prince, it’s getting late.At noon, you mentioned going to Yao Ji's side, and I told Yao Ji.The prince has passed by now and the dinner must be ready.
Then I went to Yao Ji's yard, and I was really hungry.Zhu Gaoxu waved forward and made a gesture.
At this time, a group of people and a chariot outside the study were leaning towards this side.
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