webnovelfull Chapter 500: Princess in the Deep Palace 4
Chapter 500: Princess in the Deep Palace 4
Chapter 500: Princess Fourteen in the Deep Palace
But in the next two years, no one in the entire harem became pregnant. The eldest prince that Su Tong was with was Situ Jin's only son. The other party did not take this son seriously before, but until he had no other sons, and at the same time his cousin and his brothers were eyeing him covetously, Situ Jin also felt a little threatened.
Situ Jin is not a fool. Although this son has the blood of the Princess of the Southern Kingdom, he is still his biological son. His son inheriting the throne is completely different from his nephew or brother inheriting the throne.
So in the absence of other sons, Situ Jin naturally had to educate his own son well, and even hired several tutors to teach his son to read.
The eldest prince was indeed gifted. He could memorize some books after reading them once, and even understood what the tutor said after just one explanation.
Although Situ Jin was very pleased, he sometimes felt a sigh. How great it would be if this son was not born from Su Tong's belly. But it was really strange. Why was Su Tong the only one who could give birth to a son, while other concubines could only give birth to daughters? Could this be a coincidence?
Situ Jin also suspected that he had been drugged at first, but if he had been drugged, wouldn't he be infertile? Why could he only give birth to daughters? Throughout history, he had never seen such a weird drug, so all this might really be just a coincidence.
Although Situ Jin's harem did not have three thousand beauties, there were at least forty or fifty of them. However, the number of pregnant women has been decreasing over the years, especially in the past two years. No one has been pregnant at all. People in the former dynasty and harem knew that the emperor was in poor health and wanted to support his other brothers, but the emperor had his own sons.
Now it was the turn of the court officials to compete with Situ Jin. If it were the old Situ Jin, dealing with these ministers would be as easy as dealing with dogs. But now he was weak and broke into cold sweats at the slightest provocation. He simply did not have the energy to do so, so he turned to support Su Tong.
At first, Situ Jin hesitated whether to do this. The other party was the princess of the Southern Kingdom. What if she rebelled? But when he thought that the other party had given birth to his only son, who was the future heir of the Jing Kingdom, adding more weight to the other party was nothing more than adding weight to his own son.
Neither the husband nor the wife were stupid, and they maintained a relative tacit understanding. Su Tong also felt that it was best for the other party to be half-dead. In addition, the people he had sent overseas before came back, and they found two kinds of crops, including sweet potatoes, as well as extremely high-yield corn and cotton.
With these things, Su Tong became famous immediately. Even though she was now a princess of the Southern Kingdom, the people of the Jing Kingdom had long regarded her as a savior.
Although cotton is now a precious commodity that only the rich and powerful can afford, ordinary people are now also growing it, and it is estimated that they will all be able to wear cotton clothes in no time.
Cotton is a crop that can be grown not only in the South but also in the North. However, there are fewer places in the South where it is grown. Most of the crops grown are rice, as well as some corn and sweet potatoes. With these things, although we cannot say that we eat very well, at least we can fill our stomachs.
When the Southern Kingdom knew these things, the Jing Kingdom had already developed first. The ministers of the Southern Kingdom regretted very much why they chose Su Tong for marriage, which increased the power of the Jing Kingdom for no reason.
Concubine An... is the original owner's mother. In the beginning, she did get what she wanted and climbed from a small position of concubine to the position of concubine. However, she has no children so far and can only be a mascot in the palace. Staying in the cold palace, she can't help but think back to the time when she had a daughter. Although she didn't like this daughter, life became more exciting with her.
There is actually no difference between Concubine An's life now and her death. She is just waiting for death every day, with her eyes blinking open and closed.
My mother's family only wanted to gain benefits from me, and even kept urging me to have another child.
Haha, the emperor hasn’t been to his palace for a long time. Even when he came to his palace, he mostly asked about Su Tong’s childhood.
"You mean that the Sixth Princess was always very quiet when she was a child and didn't read many books, but how did she come up with those ideas?" The emperor thought of honeycomb coal and those high-yield things, and he couldn't stop feeling regretful. If he had spent more time with his daughter, maybe Jing State would not have taken advantage of her.
A bitter smile appeared on Concubine An's lips. Ever since her daughter got married, she has never written a letter back. Even when she sent some gifts back, they were mostly very formal, as if they no longer had any mother-daughter relationship.
Those concubines of lower ranks, perhaps because they had a child, lived happily even though their ranks were not as high as hers. No wonder those concubines laughed at her before.
Life is short, and there are only so many things to pursue. If you can have your own children in your arms, that is a kind of happiness.
But... Concubine An lost her child, so whenever she heard the noise of a child in the palace, she felt a little dazed. If her child was still there, she might have married a steady man and she would have had a grandson.
By the way, it seems that Su Tong has given birth to a child, and it’s a boy. I don’t know when I can see him…
It was also the first time that Concubine An realized that her daughter was no longer her daughter after her marriage. Even wanting to see her was difficult. Every time, she could only hear a few words from her daughter from other people's mouths. Even when she learned that her daughter's child was born, Concubine An cried loudly under the quilt in the dead of night, and even most of her hair had turned gray.
In order to win over Su Tong, the Queen was willing to be nice to Concubine An, but after she found out that Su Tong never cared about his mother again after he got married, the Queen was no longer willing to waste her time on that.
Although Concubine An was a concubine in the palace, her life was worse than that of ordinary concubines. At least her palace was very deserted, like a cold palace, and the emperor did not like to go to her palace.
Although Concubine An is eight years younger than the emperor, she has gray hair and tired eyes, and looks older than the emperor.
Unless the emperor is very depressed, he would not have any feelings for such an old woman. If she had not given birth to a capable daughter, the emperor would not even think of her.
Su Tong didn't know about these things. Situ Jin had a serious illness and no longer had the energy to take care of the affairs of the court, so he left all matters to Su Tong. On the one hand, it was to train himself, and on the other hand, it was to test his ambitions.
Su Tong still did what he had to do. After all, they were just a plastic couple. The other party had no one to rely on except himself. The child was still young and was an outsider to other concubines.
Situ Jin was not a fool either. He began to think of ways to increase his son's bargaining chips. For example, he selected children of high-ranking officials as his son's study partners, and even increased Su Tong's bargaining chips as well.