After the palace was forced to be forced to hold a birthday party, the emperor naturally had no intention of continuing to hold a birthday party. All those who attended the birthday party left the palace and returned home.

However, people are in panic, fearing that they will be involved in such a major rebellion that will affect the whole family.

The Seventh Prince, whom Gu Wenjing prefers, was not dismissed. The people in the Marquis’ Mansion were not so worried. They were just frightened when they forced the palace and were all very tired.

The adults are fine. Even if Gu Zhenghong is smart and sensible, he is still too young. He was scared very much today.

After returning, I had a fever at night. Fortunately, there was a permanent doctor living in the Hou Mansion, so I took Gu Zhenghong's pulse in time and prescribed a prescription.

Gu Wenjing was guarding his son's bed and watching Cheng Yuhua carefully feed the medicine to his son who was burning with red face. He coaxed his son next to him: "Be good, Hong'er, it won't be uncomfortable if you drink the medicine. After drinking it, eat sweet candied fruit."

Gu Zhenghong sensibly finished drinking the black medicine juice. Gu Wenjing quickly stuffed a candied fruit into his mouth and let him get rid of the bitter taste.

There are medicines for calming the mind in the decoction, so Gu Zhenghong fell asleep within a while.

Gu Wenjing wiped his son's red face with a towel before signaling Cheng Yuhua with his eyes. The two walked out quietly.

Gu Wenjing lowered his voice and said, "I will be very busy these days and can't accompany Hong'er, so I'll have to worry too much."

Cheng Yuhua also knew that such a big event had just happened, and there must be a big change in the court. It was related to the family. She said very consciously: "Don't worry, husband, Hong'er is my parent-child, I will take good care of him."

Gu Wenjing nodded, looked at the small figure lying on the bed through the curtain, and turned around and left.

When he arrived at the large study in the front yard, Ning Yuanhou was already waiting for him.

Seeing Gu Wenjing come in, Ning Yuanhou asked with concern: "How is Hong'er?"

Gu Wenjing replied: "I have taken the medicine and I have already fallen asleep."

Ning Yuanhou was worried about his grandson, but at this critical moment, he could not put down what he had and guarded his grandson, so he changed the topic: "Today, he forced the palace, the eldest prince assassinated His Majesty, the third prince and the sixth prince bribed the imperial guards to force the palace. Even if His Majesty was thinking about the father-son relationship, they could not turn over. Fortunately, the fourth prince did not get involved."

The second girl in the Marquis' Mansion married the fourth prince and became a concubine. If he got involved, the Ningyuan Marquis' Mansion might be implicated.

"Wen Jing, do you think the fourth prince has a chance now..." Even though the Ningyuan Marquis' Mansion has always insisted on being neutral, at this point, the four most powerful princes have been cut in three, leaving only one fourth prince, and the fourth prince is still in-laws with the Marquis' Mansion. Even the Ningyuan Marquis' Mansion couldn't help but feel a little moved. He knew that the emperor's body was already very bad, otherwise how could those three princes rush to attack at the emperor's birthday party?

Gu Wenjing said: "Didn't you say that the Gu family should remain neutral?"

Ning Yuanhou smiled a little embarrassedly and said, "Isn't this the greatest chance to see the fourth prince..."

Gu Wenjing smiled faintly: "The Fourth Prince's chances are the greatest? That's not necessarily."

The Fourth Prince did not take action at the birthday party today, probably because he was not as brave as the other three princes, and had the courage to take a gamble. So when facing the emperor's bait, he did not dare to bite it, and by chance he escaped the disaster.

However, the fourth prince's mother's family is a nobleman, and she still has military power. Although that little military power is nothing, it also caused the emperor's taboo. If the fourth prince is allowed to take office, it is inevitable that he will have to worry about the superiors of his relatives.

"My son thinks that the Seventh Prince has the greatest chance. The Seventh Prince's mother's family is in decline, so there is no need to worry about the issue of relatives. Moreover, the Seventh Prince's mother died early and the queen has no son. The two sides probably have an alliance, otherwise the Chengen Duke's Mansion would not be on the lookout for the Minister of Revenue."

Even if the Duke Chengen's Mansion is named as the Duke's Mansion, it is actually not very prominent, and there is not much real power. The queen has no children and no daughters. There is also a concubine who is favored by the emperor in the palace, so the queen's life is not easy.

In order to deal with the Minister of Revenue, he made a letter of resignation for the Seventh Prince. Chengen Duke's Mansion had done his best to fight with the Sixth Prince and consumed all his favors from his ancestors.

The seventh prince also likes Chengen Duke's Mansion but has difficulty growing in connections, and has the identity of the queen's legitimate son.

In this society where the seventh prince is valued by the queen and becomes a registered legitimate son, those court officials who support the tradition of establishing legitimate sons will join the seventh prince.

Unfortunately, the queen has no legitimate son, otherwise the legitimate son she gave birth to would be destined to be crowned as the crown prince. Then there would be so many princely parties, only the prince and the princes. As the legitimate son, the prince is an insurmountable mountain.

It is conceivable how important the identity of the legitimate son is. But the queen without a legitimate son is just a famous person. The queen also hopes to let the prince she supports rise to power. The seventh prince without a biological mother is also the best choice. She doesn't want to be the mother and queen, and there is also a Virgin Empress Dowager who disgusted her.

Ning Yuanhou pondered for a while and said, "Whether it is the fourth prince or the seventh prince, we will not take sides and follow His Majesty."

Gu Wenjing nodded.

So the father and son finally decided to keep a low profile from beginning to end in the battle for the throne.

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The next day.

When he was in the morning court, Gu Wenjing found that many familiar faces had not come.

A lot of things happened last night. It seems that these people who did not come must have suffered last night.

The emperor was helped to court. Looking at his slightly staggering steps, all the court officials knew the emperor's health.

The emperor sat on the dragon throne and said two words coldly: "Opinion!"

Then the eunuch standing next to the dragon throne began to read it with a stack of imperial edicts.

The eldest prince assassinated the king and father, and was punished for death!

The third prince and the sixth prince led troops to force the palace, committed a serious crime, deprived the prince of his status, demoted him to a commoner, and exiled for three thousand miles.

The fourth prince did not report the information, secretly assisted the rebels, deprived the prince of his title, and banned him.

All four princes who had previously fought for the throne and all had fallen, and their gangs were also searched, demoted, or exiled in the following imperial edicts.

Not only did the officials who did not come to the morning court today have bad luck, but many officials who came to the morning court today thought they could escape the disaster were dragged down on the spot.

Gu Wenjing listened to the announcement of imperial edicts with his heart. Unexpectedly, the emperor could really be cruel. The eldest prince was sentenced to death, the third prince and the sixth prince were spoiled, and being exiled for three thousand miles was almost a dead end. The fourth prince was a little better, but he was just a ban, but being imprisoned for a lifetime was not as good as death.

Next, another imperial edict was read out: "In accordance with the will of heaven, the emperor issued an edict: It has been thirty and thirty years since I ascended the throne... My seven sons are talented... Now I have made the seventh prince the crown prince..."

Gu Wenjing lowered his head and listened to the imperial edict to enthrone the Seventh Prince as the crown prince. He was not surprised. After all, he had known that the Seventh Prince would become the final winner. But he didn't expect that before the Seventh Prince was appointed as the crown prince, the emperor did not record the Seventh Prince in the name of the queen and became the legitimate son.

He recalled where it deviated from the original track. It was obvious that the empress and the seventh prince were allied in the matter of Chengen Duke's mansion ordered people to impeach the Minister of Revenue. Could it be that the emperor did not want the future prince to have too close relationship with the empress?

The Seventh Prince is a concubine's son. If he ascended the throne in the future, he would have to respect the Empress, the legitimate mother as the Empress Dowager. However, the Chengen Duke's Mansion cannot be regarded as the real mother's family of the new emperor, and the two sides are separated by a layer. But if the Seventh Prince is recorded in the name of the Empress, even if the Empress did not give birth to him and did not raise him, he would be his only mother. The Chengen Duke's Mansion is also the Seventh Prince's legitimate mother's family.

The emperor was concerned about the power of relatives, so it was understandable that he did not remember the seventh prince as his legitimate son.

Gu Wenjing wondered why the seventh prince was remembered as the legitimate son by the emperor in the original plot?

Perhaps only the Big Eyeball Subsystem knows this problem, and Gu Wenjing is too lazy to guess, anyway, everything is basically settled.

Because after the establishment of the crown prince, the imperial edict was to let the crown prince supervise the country on behalf of the emperor, which already means that the emperor has begun to delegate power to the crown prince.

All civil and military officials basically knelt down to spend this morning court. Because they were reading the imperial edict, the eunuchs and general managers finally finished reading it.

The emperor sat on the dragon throne with a expressionless face and said the third and fourth words of the morning court today: "Retreat the court!"

After that, the emperor rarely went to morning courts, and often stopped courts, or asked the prince to come forward to deal with government affairs on his behalf.

Gu Wenjing also found that the handwritings corrected in the memorials were more and more corrected by His Royal Highness, and the handwritings corrected by the emperor were not as elegant as before. It was obviously because of the illness that affected the emperor's writing status.

Gu Wenjing knew that the emperor was about to be in the near future.

The Minister of Revenue was in trouble with the Sixth Prince and his home was confiscated and exiled. Gu Wenjing, the right minister who temporarily served as the Minister of Revenue, took the lead.

Gu Wenjing, who was promoted to the Minister of Revenue, was appointed as the second rank of the official position, but his busyness was still the same as before. After all, he had already started to temporarily handle the work of the Secretary of Revenue, and everything was in order.

After the tension passed, Gu Wenjing also paid attention to the cultivation of potatoes.

In his name, potatoes have been planted and the rise is good, and it is almost time to harvest.

Although it is only the first time to grow potatoes, Gu Wenjing believes that the yield will not be low.

In June, Gu Wenjing personally went to the farm outside the capital and dug a nest of potatoes by himself. He wiped his sweat and looked at other people busy digging potatoes in the fields, as well as more and more potatoes piled beside the ridges of the fields. He couldn't help but smile.

Qingyan, who has always been paying attention to potato planting, also realized the significance of the abundant potatoes, and came to Gu Wenjing to congratulate him: "Congratulations to the prince, congratulations to the prince!"

Gu Wenjing smiled and pointed at the nest of potatoes he dug out and said, "Take all the potatoes I dug back to the mansion, let the chefs at the mansion make some delicious dishes or make them into vermicelli, and let the mansion taste the taste."

The two baskets of potatoes that Li Chang brought back before were kept for planting, and Gu Wenjing was reluctant to take them to eat them. Now that he has harvested so many potatoes, he misses the taste of vinegar shredded potatoes and beef potato flour.

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Gu Wenjing brought the potatoes back to the Hou Mansion and personally told the chef how to cook. Although the chef had never seen potatoes, he understood what to do after a little mention. He also used his imagination to make several dishes with potatoes as raw materials in different ways.

So there were a few unfamiliar dishes for lunch at Hou Mansion. Gu Wenjing introduced to everyone: "This is a new variety of food brought back from overseas by my fleet. It tastes very good, please try it."

Gu Wenjing had a fleet going out to sea under his name, and the master of the Hou Mansion basically knew that the Hou Mansion had a large amount of income every year and could not hide it from those who were interested.

The Marquis of Ningyuan and Yuan were just asking about Gu Wenjing's private property. Anyway, they thought that the entire Marquis' mansion would be his in the future, so why bother to worry about his son's private property? Even if Gu Shaoping was envious, jealous and dissatisfied, he would not dare to show it.

Gu Wenjing now said that the dishes made from potatoes are specialties from overseas, and everyone tried them curiously.

“It tastes really good, it’s delicious.”

Gu Wenjing knew that their praise was due to his pretext. The taste of potatoes was tasted in the mouths of these people who were used to eating delicacies in the mountains and rivers. It was just a novelty. It would be better to say how delicious it was. Moreover, the chef used potatoes to cook for the first time, even if Gu Wenjing tasted it, he felt that it was different from what he had eaten before traveling through time in his memory.

However, most of the dishes made in the last plates of potatoes were eaten by Gu Wenjing, because only those present knew how much benefit these potatoes could bring to the Hou Mansion. Thinking of these, let alone the potatoes taste good, even if they were very unpalatable, he could finish them all.

After lunch, Gu Wenjing privately visited Ning Yuanhou and discussed the potato with him.

Regarding potatoes, Gu Wenjing has issued a ban order, and relevant insiders have been monitored, and he has not even told Yuan Cheng Yuhua and others.

"Father, the ingredients of the dishes that are lunch today are crops from overseas, called potatoes. Do you know how much potatoes are produced?"

Ning Yuanhou didn't care about the potato at first, but thought it was his son's filial piety. After getting overseas specialties, he gave it to them to try. Now when he heard his son ask about the yield as if he was insincere, he immediately realized the hidden meaning: "Is the yield very high?"

Gu Wenjing smiled and did not keep it in a silence: "That's right, the yield per mu is a thousand pounds!"

He went to the farm to dig potatoes and saw with his own eyes that the tenants dug out all the potatoes in the field. Because there were too few potatoes, they only planted less than half an acre of land for two baskets of potatoes. But even if they had such a few bits of land, they had harvested hundreds of kilograms of potatoes. It is conceivable that the yield of planting a full acre of land would definitely exceed a thousand kilograms!

Ning Yuanhou was so shocked that he fell all the teacup in his hand. However, he didn't care that he had fallen the celadon teacup he liked the most, and asked quickly: "Wen Jing, are you sure? It's really a thousand pounds per mu?!"

Gu Wenjing nodded and said, "My son has sent someone to try planting in the farm. He planted it in March and harvested in June. He did not have enough potatoes. He only planted less than half acre of land, but he collected more than 400 kilograms. If he planted acre of land, he would definitely be able to collect more than 1,000 kilograms."

Ning Yuanhou paced back and forth excitedly: "Okay! That's great! Wen Jing, this is a huge contribution! You report it immediately, and you must not disclose the news and be taken first!"

Gu Wenjing smiled and said, "Father, don't be so anxious for the time being. Why not try planting a few more times to expand the yield? At least you have to plant a full acre of land to see the harvest before reporting it. And you have to choose a good opportunity to report it."

Ning Yuanhou was stunned for a moment and immediately realized that Gu Wenjing said that the good time was when the prince ascended the throne. At this time, the emperor was seriously ill and the prince was just a governor. Now the report was reported but the time was not appropriate.
To be continued...