area51novel Chapter 2029: The Wealthy Population
Chapter 2029: The Wealthy Population
Chapter 2029: The Wealthy Population
"Uncle Wu!"
After hearing this, Niguzhu came forward excitedly and said, "I was just about to visit your home!"
The Fifth Prince leaned over and picked him up, saying, "Going to Fifth Uncle's house is not like being a guest, it's like going home! Fifth Uncle's house is just like your own home!"
Then he called Fengsheng and Akdan, "Let's go together and meet your sister Tana."
Apart from the two nephews, there was a stranger left. He was either someone else or the eldest son of the Tenth Prince. He was standing next to Fengsheng, standing very steadily.
"My nephew is coming too..."
The youngest prince did not say "no", but looked at the fifth prince curiously.
Niguzhu was in the Fifth Prince's arms, hugging the Fifth Prince's neck, and called out to everyone: "Everyone go, everyone go!"
The Fifth Beile's palace is close to the Seventh Beile's palace, and the contacts between the palaces are closer than those of other brothers.
The third princess also remembered the fifth prince and whispered, "Fifth uncle!"
The Fifth Prince responded and said, "Let's go to Uncle Wu's house to play with my sister!"
The third princess and Fengsheng both looked at Shushu.
Shu Shu said, "Since your fifth uncle is here to pick you up, then you can go and have a look around!"
I don't have any serious homework in the afternoon.
Niguzhu was still tempting everyone: "After we go to Uncle Wu's house, Uncle Wu will take us to see a big tiger. It's a really big tiger. We can't ride it, but we can look at it!"
Feng Sheng's heart was moved, and the little prince also imitated him: "Big brain ..."
Shushu looked at Akdan, who was standing next to Shushu. Akdan whispered, "I'm not going. I want to talk to Enie."
Shushu didn't force it and looked at the Ninth Prince.
The Ninth Prince looked at so many children and knew that the Fifth Prince couldn't take care of them all by himself, so he said to the Tenth Prince, "Shall we send the children over?"
The Tenth Prince had no objection.
The Ninth Prince held the Youngest Prince, the Tenth Prince held the Third Princess, and Hui Jie brought Feng Sheng, and the group left the Fifth House in a mighty procession.
It happened that the Fourteenth Prince had just finished lunch and was planning to go to the South Fourth Residence to look for the Eighth Prince, but he ran into everyone when he came out.
Knowing that the group was going to the head office, he asked, "Has Fifth Brother's family prepared any delicious food?"
The Fifth Prince said truthfully, "Our eldest princess is here too. She brought her nephews and nieces over and they played together."
The eldest princess of the Fifth Prince's Mansion...
The Fourteenth Prince thought about it and realized that she was Hongsheng’s half-sister, born out of wedlock.
To invite the legitimate princes and princesses from various mansions to play with a concubine's daughter?
Only the fifth brother could do such a thing.
Tsk tsk, you are not afraid of offending people.
He lost interest and showed disapproval on his face. When he was about to reach the end, he said, "Brothers, please be busy first. I'll go out for a while..."
No one cares about him.
The Fifth Prince waved his hand and said, "Go, go!"
The Ninth Prince saw the change in the Fourteenth Prince's expression. After sending him to the Fifth Prince's residence, he followed the Tenth Prince out and could not help but complain to him, "What's wrong with the Fourteenth Prince? Do you have to classify your nieces into different levels?"
It’s okay for each family to discuss the legitimate and illegitimate children.
To outsiders, they are all nephews and nieces, who would pick on this background?
The Tenth Prince said, "He has been like this since he was young. He is arrogant and only likes to look up..."
The Ninth Prince couldn't help but mutter, "Who did he take after? The Fourth Brother and the Ninth Princess are not of this character!"
The Tenth Prince thought about Concubine De's behavior and couldn't see any such problem.
Unlike his father and his mother, the Fourteenth Prince is unique in his snobbery.
The two of them went back to their respective homes.
Shushu remembered something and told the Ninth Prince, "The Xin County Prince's Mansion has sent an invitation. A wedding banquet will be held on the second day of next month..."
That is the prince who is the leader of the Zhenglan Banner.
His post was sent to the Ninth Prince and Shushu, and Shushu was also going there.
The Ninth Prince asked, "What should we do then? Go back to the Prince's Mansion and stay for a night?"
This is because they are afraid that it will be too late when the banquet ends and it will be inconvenient to leave the city.
Shu Shu said: "This main meal is arranged for dinner, it is indeed inconvenient to leave the city, it is really the only way..."
If it were someone else, this wouldn't be convenient, so it would be fine as long as the gift was there but the person wasn't.
If it were the new prince, who is of such a high generation, they would be grandchildren of the clan and from the same banner, so it would be difficult to do that.
By this time, the Fourteenth Prince had already arrived at the South Four Residences and had seen the invitation from Prince Xin's Mansion.
"What's going on? Prince Xin only sent the invitation to Big Brother and not to others? Why didn't I receive it?"
The Fourteenth Prince said unhappily.
He was not granted a title, but he was already a serving prince, so naturally he did not want to be looked down upon by his relatives.
So what if he is the prince who owns the banner?
Before the prince was granted a title, he was assigned to work with the prince.
The Eighth Prince thought for a moment and said, "I haven't seen any invitations sent to the eldest and fourth brothers. It should be a small banquet, and only relatives from our banner are invited."
The Fourteenth Prince's expression improved a little, and he said, "It's not enough to bother me. Knowing that everyone is now living in Haidian, it would be better to hold the banquet in the Wang Mansion and directly hold it in the Wang Garden!"
The Wang Garden of Prince Xin's Mansion is just northeast of Changchun Garden, four or five miles away from here.
"It's different. After all, it's the first banquet..."
The Eighth Prince said.
Hosting a banquet for the princes and nobles of our banner at the Prince's Mansion was also an announcement that the Prince's Mansion had a new owner.
The Fourteenth Prince thought of Prince Xin Eza.
He was a young prince, but he was not lacking in military merits. He became a general in his twenties and suppressed the Chahar Rebellion.
"If there had not been a grudge between him and Ninth Brother, the child in Prince Xin's wife's belly would be fine. Even though he is young, he is a legitimate son and precious. The title would not have fallen into the hands of others..."
The Fourteenth Prince said, "Now there are only illegitimate sons and grandsons left. I don't know if they can establish themselves. They are of low birth and have their titles transferred to other branches. I guess E Zha will not be able to rest in peace even after he dies."
The Eighth Prince felt uncomfortable after listening to this.
There is no inheritor...
He thought of Prince Zhuang...
Prince Zhuang's nephews and great-nephews were eyeing him covetously, but Prince Zhuang refused to do as they wished and was determined not to have an heir.
But what happens after Prince Zhuang passes away?
Prince Zhuang inherited his title from his father, Prince Chengze.
He has no descendants, so the title must be chosen from other descendants of Prince Chengze. By then, the successors to the title will still be his disliked nephews.
The title of my branch came from myself, and I was granted the title of Beile by grace. If I had no children or grandchildren, it would probably be the same as other titles granted by grace, with no inheritance.
No attack...
The Fourteenth Prince came over to chat with the Eighth Prince in order to get closer to him.
Thinking about the plate of loquats his family had received, he asked tentatively, "Myna seems to be very popular. Someone even came all the way to send loquats to him. Is this someone he made friends with during his previous southern tour?"
The Eighth Prince waved his hands and said, "It's nothing. After two years, when you have been assigned the position of assistant commander, the tributes from your subordinates will increase."
The Fourteenth Prince frowned and said, "When will Khan Ama be given a title? The Twelfth Brother is already nineteen, and he's still a bald prince."
The Eighth Prince said, "Good food is never too late. The Ninth Prince and the Tenth Prince were only conferred titles last year."
The Fourteenth Prince said bitterly, "It's just a Gushan Beizi, how can it be a good meal? Khan Ama is really something, it's not enough to divide his sons into two ranks, but he has to demote us another rank!"
The Eighth Prince said, "There are precedents for the uncle kings and the uncle kings. They will all be crowned kings in the end. It's just a matter of sooner or later."
The Fourteenth Prince had just looked at the accounts of the Eight Banners Payroll Office and was not so optimistic.
The annual salary of Heshuo Prince was 10,000 taels of silver, while the annual salary of Gushan Beizi was 1,300 taels of silver, a difference of seven or eight times.
Silver is still a small part, the big part is population.
The title was also divided into the number of assistants.
How could there be so many dukes and lieutenants to be divided among the lower five banners?
If all of them were brought from the upper three banners, then the population of the upper three banners would be smaller.
The Fourteenth Prince glanced at the Eighth Prince.
If I can think of these things, why can’t the Eighth Prince think of them?
It's not true, just talking nonsense.
The Fourteenth Prince was also impatient to socialize with him and said, "I have something else to do. I'll go to the duty room."
The Eighth Prince saw that the Fourteenth Prince was unhappy, but he didn't say anything. He nodded, served tea and saw the guest off.
When the Fourteenth Prince came out of the South Fourth Residence, his little face drooped.
If the princes after them want to be given higher titles, they must have corresponding Gongzhong Zuoling.
Apart from organizing the extra population into new zuoling, is there any other way?
When the Fourteenth Prince arrived at the Xiaodong Gate, he saw the Third Prince reining in his horse.
"Third brother..."
Seeing the Third Prince sweating profusely, the Fourteenth Prince couldn't help but wonder, "Aren't you in the Ministry of Rites preparing for the palace examination?"
The Third Prince was in a hurry to see the Emperor, and had no time to explain to the Fourteenth Prince, so he said, "I have something to see the Emperor. We can talk later when we are free..."
Having said that, without waiting for the Fourteenth Prince to react, he dismounted from his horse and strode into the garden.
The Fourteenth Prince looked at the Third Prince's back, feeling somewhat puzzled.
What's so urgent?
Could it be that there was cheating in this subject’s examination?
The Fourteenth Prince blinked.
The number of assistants for a prince is different from that for a beile.
If the Third Prince messes up his job and is demoted to Beile, a few lieutenants will be vacated.
The third prince was granted the title of a prince by grace, and the number of his assistants was fixed, not very many.
What if it was King Gong who was demoted?
The Fourteenth Prince's heart was moved, it seemed that the population of this Zuoling was not static...
Taizong vowed not to take away the Five Banners Commander.
That represents the royal family, the upper three banners.
But these princes are members of the royal family after they are lowered from the banners, namely the royal family of the lower five banners.
This moment, that moment.
You know, during the reign of Emperor Taizu, it was stipulated that the title of Duolo Prince should be hereditary and not inherited from generation to generation, starting from Duolo Beile. But Khan Ama said to change it, so he changed it.
In front of Qingxi Study, the Third Prince passed on a message and waited for an audience with the emperor.
He felt itchy on his back and couldn't help but look back a few times.
Nothing.
Why do you feel so chilly?
The Third Prince looked up at the sky. It was a bright spring day with the sun shining brightly high in the sky.
He couldn't help but tighten his clothes, perhaps because he was sweating from the rush of travel...