"The concubine doesn't know, the queen mother is about to give birth, maybe she is uneasy, and she wants to hear about some postpartum matters." Sun Xiuxiu whispered.

"Then let's go, there are still the two of you, Xiao Jiu hasn't been back to the palace for a few days to take a look." Liu Hongjian smiled slightly at Yang Xue and Kun Xing.

Liu Hongjian didn't agree with his wife's statement, there are so many imperial concubines, so many old doctors, and old female officials in the palace, these people are all from the past, if it comes to postpartum matters, these people are far more understanding than his wife.

And the reason why Chen summoned his wife is probably because of other intentions, and the production is just an excuse.

I heard that Zhu Cihong's kid favored Qin Guifei alone, and rarely went to Queen Chen's place, and now there are several concubines in the harem, and the Chen family and the Qin family came to the good news in the same month last year.

In other words, Queen Chen's birth is imminent, so Qin Guifei's side should be soon, which is a bit embarrassing.

As a later generation, as a promising young man who has watched too many court dramas and costume dramas, Liu Hong gradually knows what Chen is worried about.

The ancient inheritance system began at the end of the Shang Dynasty and was set at the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty, and the specific provisions were "to establish a descendant to be long rather than virtuous, and to establish a son to be noble but not to be long".

There are also clear provisions in the Da Ming Law and Household Order, where all the sons and daughters of the concubines, in addition to the official shadow, the eldest descendants of the first concubine, the analysis of the family's wealth and property, regardless of the wife, concubine, and maidservant, stop according to the number of children equally, the son of adultery, according to the number of children half of the share, if there is no other son, the person who should be succeeded is the heir, and the adulterous son is equally divided, and the person who should not be succeeded is allowed to divide the whole of it.

It means that the son-in-law has priority over the concubine in terms of inheritance, and the son-in-law is more valuable than the eldest son.

The so-called concubine is a male born to the original wife (commonly known as the eldest wife) who is marrying the Ming media, and a male born to a concubine (a famous little wife) is a concubine.

But even if the eldest son is a concubine, he has a certain status.

The problem is here, although the Qin family is a noble concubine, she conceived a child more than ten days earlier than the queen Chen family, which means that excluding other reasons, the eldest son is likely to be in the Qin family.

Before the child was born, the son was valued by the mother, and after birth, it became the mother by the child, which is the court.

At this time, there is no such high-tech as B-ultrasound, and it is impossible to analyze men and women by taking the pulse, if the Qin family gave birth to a son to Zhu Cihong first, but the Chen family gave birth to a daughter, this would definitely be bad news for the queen Chen, who was not very favored.

Although the Ming Dynasty has always followed the etiquette system of establishing a successor but not a long-term heir, it does not mean that no emperor has ever resisted.

The moths that came out of the Ming Dynasty because of the country are really not few, from the original Zhu Chongba Zhu Biao but not Zhu Di, even if Zhu Biao did not become the emperor and hung up, from the perspective of etiquette, the seat is still not Zhu Di's turn.

The eldest son, the eldest grandson, the eldest son, and then it can be the turn of the eldest son and the eldest son, Zhu Laosi is first the eldest son, not the eldest son, and the seat finally fell to the eldest grandson Zhu Yunwen.

Zhu Di must not be convinced, he snatched his nephew's position through Jingnan, and was worried that he would be criticized by the world, so he quietly changed the history of the Ming Dynasty and changed himself to his son-in-law, and moving the capital to Beijing also has this consideration, and there is naturally righteousness, but there is another reason that he feels that Nanjing is not very safe, and Beijing is his old nest.

After Zhu Di did not like the lame eldest son Zhu Gaochi, but he was also forced to pass on the throne to him due to the etiquette system.

The most famous of the Ming Dynasty should be Zhu Yijun, the emperor of Wanli of Shenzong, who fought with the courtiers for more than 20 years in order to establish the blessed king Zhu Changxun, although he still did not win in the end.

But now the situation is different, after several beatings between him and Uncle Chongzhen, the courtiers have gradually lost their bargaining chips and confidence in arguing with the emperor.

The two large camps in the north and south of the capital were stationed with more than 100,000 troops in the Beijing camp, and these soldiers followed Liu Hong's southern expedition to the north and tasted the sweetness, and they had some absolute obedience to the emperor.

Zhu Cihong originally favored the Qin family, which means that if the Qin family really gave birth to the emperor's eldest son, then it is likely that Zhu Cihong will be established as the prince.

What if Chan happens to have another daughter in his belly?

"Yes, yes! Cher has only been to the palace once when she's grown up! Be sure to take a good look this time. Yang Xue said happily.

Kun Xing naturally has no opinion, the two sisters-in-law her favorite is still Chen, it may be due to her personality, both of them are quiet and do not like to compete, but she is lucky to marry the palace of Anguo County.

Not only does she not need to be supervised by the female officials in the palace, but she can also go to the palace to see her mother and brother at any time.

And Chen's as the queen is not so easy, even if she doesn't want to fight, those who follow her to serve her will not agree, and there is the outer court, the queen of the prince is born on the cusp, and if she is not careful, she will end up miserable.

Everything was confusing, like a cloud of pressure, and it was no wonder that the Chen family would come to summon his wife to the palace.

In Liu Hongji's view, although Chen's temperament is a little weak, his emotional intelligence is not low.

The civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty, except for his ability to absolutely influence Zhu Cihong's decision, other such as the cabinet of the outer court and the ceremonial supervisor of the inner court are not enough to match.

He is the regent of the first emperor Chongzhen, although he doesn't like to take care of things very much, but if he wants to take care of it, even Zhu Cihong has no power to suppress it, but he hasn't reached that point.

Moreover, whether it is Zhu Cihong or him, they are deliberately avoiding certain issues that are easy to cause sharp contradictions, such as Liu Hong's gradual failure to go to court and do things, and even more so, whenever Liu Hong's opinions are gradually raised, Zhu Cihong will give priority to them.

Even after dealing with the problems of the envoys of various countries, Zhu Cihong specially issued a decree, announcing that the king of Anguo County could not kneel and salute.

Whether it is out of affection and trust between each other, or to show goodwill, people with a discerning eye can see the deep meaning contained in it.

The regent is not easy to do, and if he doesn't get it right, he is not a person inside and out, and if it weren't for the kindness of his father-in-law, he wouldn't have come down.

In this way, the idea of the queen summoning his wife is very clear, because as the master of the harem, although he can summon important ministers of the court, it is not suitable in terms of identity or etiquette.

As the emperor's woman, the best way to befriend a courtier is to befriend his woman, and Chen has no problem doing this out of instinct.

It's just that...... Regarding Lichu, Liu Hongji's thoughts are different from anyone's, or maverick.

He didn't dare to say it, because once he said it, whether it was Zhu Cihong or the outer court, or the harem, or the inner court, they would be surprised and even opposed.

He would not agree to Zhu Cihong's appointment of his eldest son as the crown prince, nor would he agree to him appoint his son-in-law as the crown prince, nor would he even agree to Zhu Cihong's hasty appointment of anyone as the prince.

He knows that sooner or later he will have to face it, but at least he can drag it out for now, because in his concept, whether it is a successor or a long, it is such a.

Who knows what a newborn doll will be, what if it grows up to be a fool?

If the Ming Empire really wants to stand on top of the world for a long time, the choice of a successor must re-establish a set of rules, neither a successor nor a long-term succession, only meritocracy!

ps: The mobile phone code word is particularly troublesome, thank you for yesterday and today's reward of the cold old iron, and thank you for the complaints.