Although Yuan Jianing was a little confused, she said goodbye to Princess Yu who was riding with her, and boarded Xuan Yuan's carriage.
Inside the car, Xuan Yuan was sitting upright alone. When he saw her coming, he stretched out his hand to help her up, and then asked her to sit side by side with him.
Yuan Jianing looked at him puzzled and asked, "We are about to reach the inner city, and you still want me to come here urgently. What's the matter?"
Xuan Yuan smiled slightly, held her hand and said, "It's okay, I just think this is the first step for us to officially enter the new capital, and we should join hands together."
Yuan Jianing turned to look at him, and he was staring at her calmly.
She smiled at him.
Xuan Yu was a long-lived emperor. Although his private life in his early years was extremely absurd, in his middle and later years, he paid special attention to self-cultivation. Therefore, when he died, Prince Xuan Yuan was already in his forties.
From being established as the crown prince at the age of fifteen to succeeding to the throne in his forties, Xuan Yuan has been the crown prince for more than twenty years and nearly thirty years. The period of time he has been a crown prince is even longer than the life span of some emperors.
The transition between the two generations of emperors was basically smooth, and the prince's younger brothers had long since lost the energy to make trouble again.Although a prince who does not want to be an emperor is not a good prince, it depends on his strength. The third prince, who was almost as captive, and the fourth prince, who was raised as a dandy, no longer have the ability to defeat the prince who has been low-key but not weak over the years, so they can only stay in their respective palaces and be idle princes.
Compared with Xuan Yu, who was talented but often willful and strong in private, the new emperor Xuan Yuan was the most rigorous in his private life. There was only one woman who belonged to him in the harem, and that was his empress Yuanshi Jianing.
Xuan Yuan's personality is completely opposite to that of his father. Ministers privately said that this is the opposite of everything.
However, Xuanyuan's ability to govern was inherited from Xuan Yu. As the emperor in the prosperous Kaiping era, the several major policies he made throughout his life were all good governance that benefited the country and the people.
And when his son Xuanjing succeeded to the throne, Jingguo reached the peak of prosperity and created a century-long peaceful age.
Therefore, future historians still have a very high evaluation of Xuan Yuan, an emperor with a strange background. Because of his connection with the past and the future, the splendid prosperity in Jingguo's history was achieved.
When he was the prince, he was respectful and filial to the emperor. After he became the emperor, he was good at educating his prince. From the beginning to the end, there was only one woman, Yuanshi Jianing, by his side.
When Yuan Jianing gave birth to her last son, she was already in her forties and suffered some physical injuries. Although Xuan Yuan took good care of her afterwards, she still passed away at the age of fifty-five.
After the queen's funeral, the prince was worried that his father would be too sad, so he stayed with him all the time. Although Xuan Yuan would sometimes be in a daze, he did not show too much sadness, and the prince gradually felt at ease.
After another three years of this, Xuan Yuan suddenly fainted on the dragon throne during the morning court, and then his body weakened rapidly.
When he was dying, he said to the prince: "Your mother said that I am a good emperor and wanted me to stay on the throne for a few more years. She refused to let me go with her. I have always respected her opinion, so I worked hard to survive. But these three years are so long, and they are more difficult than the past thirty years. I can't hold on any longer. Let me go. I think she won't blame me anymore, right?"
Xuanjing, who had always felt that his father valued emotions too much, was already in tears and broke down in tears.
After Xuanjing succeeded to the throne, although he worked hard politically, he became more and more like his grandfather in his private life. He experienced many women in his life. He seemed to love every beautiful woman, but he never showed how deeply he loved them.
In fact, Xuan Jing is afraid of the kind of life-and-death relationship in his heart. How can we love each other so that one person dies and the other person cannot survive even if he struggles desperately?
From Xuan Yu to Xuan Yuan, and then from Xuan Yuan to Xuan Jing, perhaps this is another kind of thing that must be reversed.
Xuan Yuan and Yuan Jianing, an emperor couple who were loyal to each other, finally got married.
The emperor's grandson Xuanjing was personally raised and educated by his emperor's grandfather Xuanyu.
Usually, Xuanjing lived in the side hall of Xuanyu's palace, and would be taught by Xuanyu himself sooner or later.
In fact, even the princes have not received such careful upbringing and instruction from Xuan Yu.
It can only be said that the grandfather and grandson have the right temperament and like each other, so they don't get tired of getting along day and night. The most important thing is that Xuan Yu really loves Xuan Jing.
However, the time spent with his grandfather became shorter than the time spent with his parents. Although Xuanjing would make a special trip to the East Palace to pay his respects to his parents every first and fifteenth day of the lunar month, the relationship between them was not as close as that between his younger siblings and their parents.
Xuan Jing was actually a little sad, but thinking that he couldn't have his cake and eat it too, he resolutely abandoned his little melancholy and continued to be the emperor's grandson who was positive and diligent in studying.
When Xuan Jing was eight years old, he was playing in the Royal Garden, chasing Cuju, which he was passionate about at the time. He somehow ended up in a dark corner, and then accidentally heard a shocking secret——
The Crown Prince was not the biological son of the Crown Princess, but actually the child of a palace maid whom the Crown Princess had adopted. The Crown Princess claimed to be her son in order to invite her favor. The Crown Prince doted on the Crown Princess alone, so he helped her hide it from everyone, including the Emperor. The Crown Princess killed the palace maid for fear that the secret would be leaked. The palace maid was given to the Prince by the current Queen, and it seemed to be called Amber...
The two little palace ladies who were whispering looked around from time to time, as if they were afraid that the secret would be leaked. They had no idea that the emperor's grandson hiding under the flower stand was already pale and cold.
How capable is an eight-year-old child?Even though Xuan Jing was smarter and more precocious, he was still frightened by this shocking secret.
The emperor's grandson is ill.
He was swept away by huge panic and anger, but he did not dare to say anything and could only endure it. Then he began to have nightmares and his condition became more and more serious.
The prince and princess personally came to take care of him, but he turned him away.
So Xuan Yu took care of him personally, and he felt that he was no longer the eldest grandson of the emperor's grandfather. Maybe the emperor's grandfather would not like him in the future, and he would become an abandoned and despised child.
So he decided to hide this secret in his heart, and no one would ask or tell anyone. At the same time, he secretly decided to kill people to silence them - to get rid of the two little palace ladies.
So Xuanjing slowly recovered, and a month later, he found an excuse and killed the two little palace ladies with a stick.
His hands were stained with blood since he was a child, and his scheming became more and more profound.
Maybe Xuan Yu really saw it correctly. Xuan Jing was a born strategist and a natural heir to the throne.
When Xuan Yuan and Yuan Jianing were alive, Xuan Jing was very respectful and filial, but he always lacked the kindness and warmth of being a child. Xuan Yuan and Yuan Jianing were also puzzled, but they could never find the reason. They could only attribute it to living with their grandfather. The distance caused emotional alienation.
It was not until after Yuan Jianing's death and when Xuan Yuan was seriously ill that Xuan Jing revealed this secret.
He said to Xuan Yuan: "Later I sent people to thoroughly investigate what happened in the East Palace of Jinling. Everyone checked and confirmed that I am the biological son of the father and the queen. I just fell into the trap of the enemy and fell into the alienation plan. The two little palace ladies deliberately told me. Unfortunately, habits dictated that later on, even if I wanted to get close to the father and queen, I didn't know how to do it."
Xuan Yuan looked at him for a long time, and finally sighed softly and said, "You are indeed born to be a child of the royal family."
For such a shocking secret, at the age of only eight, he actually knew how to weigh the pros and cons, how to kill people and silence them, how to hide it from the truth, how to conduct verification afterwards, and most importantly, he actually managed to keep it a secret for so many years. What a genius.
But this is such an unpleasant talent.
Xuan Yuan said: "Back then, your mother heard rumors when she was a child. She thought she was not your grandfather's biological daughter and thought she had a biological father. Do you know what she did? She went straight to your grandfather and asked her whose child it was."
As he spoke, Xuan Yuan couldn't help but laugh, and added: "You said how stupid and stupid she was, which made your well-educated grandfather lose his temper and slapped her on the spot. Although she cried aggrieved at the time, afterwards she felt clear in her heart, without any haze."