Happy Little Scholar

In the Qinzheng Palace, Prime Minister Qin walked out slowly, and a middle-aged man lagged behind him half a step.

"Only ten, isn't it too few?" Chen Chong frowned and said.

He represented the Chen family and several other families this time. Regarding the enrollment of the academy, the academy supervisor Li Yi can do whatever he wants, but your majesty, you have to give them an explanation.

These ten extra places are the explanation.

"All the officials and dignitaries in the court add up to only thirty-four people, and ten is not a small number." Prime Minister Qin shook his head and asked, "How has the prince been these days?"

"I just met him yesterday." Chen Chong said, "The prince has recovered well, and his temperament seems to have changed a lot. I heard from the two eunuchs that the prince has been reading most of the time these days, and he didn't react when he learned about the academy."

"The prince has finally grown up, but it's still a little late..." Prime Minister Qin sighed and said this in his heart.

The expression on his face was a little relieved, but more of it was regretful.

He never thought that the King of Shu would be a wise monarch, but he also didn't expect that he would be so unteachable.

Now that the Qin family has been tied to the King of Shu, even he is powerless to make any changes, but during this period of time, the wind direction in the court has begun to change. His Majesty seems to have no intention of making the King of Shu the crown prince. The generals have always been His Majesty's most loyal supporters. Now even many court ministers who originally favored the King of Shu have left them...

Sometimes he wonders, when did the King of Shu go from having the upper hand to gradually falling to this point?

Suddenly, as if he had a feeling in his heart, Prime Minister Qin raised his head and saw a young man led by two eunuchs walking towards the direction of the Qinzheng Hall.

Seeing that figure, Chen Chong's face sank, and a hint of fierceness quickly appeared in his eyes.

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In the Qinzheng Hall, Emperor Jing threw a memorial aside and asked, "It's almost August. If I remember correctly, Mingzhu should be eighteen years old, right?"

Changde stood behind him and replied, "Yes, it's been eighteen years."

"These people are more anxious than me." Emperor Jing shook his head and said, "But this matter can't be delayed any longer. I'll ask Mingzhu first."

A princess who is still unmarried at the age of eighteen will make people all over the world laugh. How can a princess of a country not get married?

"What has Mingzhu been doing these two days?" Emperor Jing picked up another memorial, flipped through it, and suddenly asked.

"The princess has been to the Imperial Medical Bureau these two days." Changde thought for a moment and added, "The several midwives in the palace have also been questioned by His Highness several times. It seems that what the princess did... the Empress was also involved."

"Imperial Medical Bureau... midwives?" Jingdi's face showed doubts, "And the Empress..."

As soon as Jingdi finished speaking, a eunuch walked in from the door and said, "Your Majesty, Princess Yongle wants to see you!"

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"Father, I have something to report to you." Li Mingzhu handed a memorial to a eunuch, with a tired look on her face. It was obvious that she had not been relaxed these two days.

Although Mingzhu was a girl, she cared more about state affairs than those adult princes. She was also the only child who could share her worries about state affairs. Seeing her serious face, Jingdi restrained his expression and said, "Show it up!"

Changde walked down, took the memorial from the eunuch, and handed it to Jingdi respectfully.

The memorial was not long, and Emperor Jing finished reading it quickly. He closed the memorial, took a deep breath, stood up, looked at Li Mingzhu and asked, "Is this true?"

"The imperial physician is waiting outside the palace." Li Mingzhu said.

"Call~~~"

"Call the imperial physician~~~~"

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"County Li, go in quickly, don't let His Majesty wait anxiously." A eunuch looked at Li Yi and said with a wry smile.

"What are you in a hurry for? What are you in a hurry for? Didn't you see that the imperial physician was just called in? His Majesty is busy now, and you don't have the eyes to see..." Li Yi waved at him, walked to the corner of the corridor, looked at the figure with his arms folded and his back to him, and said, "Why, are you still angry..."

"I don't want to listen, you are just a turtle chanting sutras..." Princess Shouning covered her ears and shook her head like a rattle.

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"Who taught her this?" Li Yi's expression was a little depressed. Loli is hard to mess with, and even harder to coax!

"I don't like you anymore. Go away. I don't want to see you again." The arrogant loli finally put down her hand, wiped her tears and said.

Seeing that there was still mist in her eyes, Li Yi felt a little guilty. She was just an eleven-year-old child. What did an eleven-year-old child know? She might just be greedy and playful, and she had a little dependence on himself who could take her to do these things.

This was just a little girl's fantasy. Isn't it too cruel to let her dream shatter like this?

"How about I take you shopping today?" Li Yi asked tentatively.

The arrogant loli was unmoved.

"Go to the theater, "The Legend of the White Snake", "Journey to the West", "The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl"?

Princess Shouning twisted her body, turned her head and looked at him with a pair of red and swollen eyes, and said, "You have to apologize to me."

Finally let her speak, Li Yi felt relieved and said, "I'm sorry, it's all my fault."

Then he was a little depressed. What was wrong with him?

"Pa!" The arrogant Loli slapped her hand on the wall, looked at him, and said with a "ferocious" look on her face: "Do you think just saying 'I'm sorry' is enough?"

Li Yi looked at her blankly. With this move, could it be that all women, no matter ancient or modern, old or young, are self-taught?

He knelt down a little tiredly and said, "Then tell me, what do you want?"

"I want candied haws, I want Xizhilang, I want chocolate, I want ice cream, and I want a white rabbit..." Tsundere Loli twirled her fingers and said, "By the way, I also want Barbie..."

Li Yi looked at her with tears in her eyes while trying to remember something, and couldn't help but doubt her life.

He was actually ------ tricked by an eleven-year-old girl?

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"Back to your majesty, what the princess said is absolutely correct. In our country of Jing, when a woman gives birth, it is like going to hell. Therefore, three or four out of ten people die. The younger you are, the more likely you are to be in danger." "The Nei Jing" says that when a woman is fourteen years old, her "Ren meridians are unblocked and her Taichong meridians are strong." After a woman is fourteen years old, she has the ability to give birth. However, if the Yin is broken too early, it will damage the blood vessels. The best age for childbirth is , it will be postponed..."

The explanation given by the imperial doctor Liu Jimin was very complete and thorough, but the numbers on the memorial in Emperor Jing's hand were even more shocking.

A woman who gives birth in the year of cardamom actually has a 40% chance of dying. If this is postponed for a few more years, it will be reduced to less than 10%.

Thinking that so many women died innocently every year in the dynasty, Emperor Jing looked at Liu Jimin and said angrily: "Since you know this, why don't you report it as soon as possible? What does the Imperial Medical Office do?"

The imperial doctor ordered Liu Jimin to hurriedly prostrate himself and said, "Your Majesty, if your highness had not come to the Imperial Medical Office for verification, I would not have been aware of this matter. I have failed in my duty. Please punish me!"

All he could say at this time was that it was rare for a woman to die due to dystocia when she gave birth after her prime. However, due to various reasons, the country was always developing its population, so how could a woman wait until she was twenty? What about getting married?

If he used this as an excuse, wouldn't it mean that the culprit of all this is His Majesty?

"Forty percent, forty percent..." Emperor Jing murmured a few words, shook his head and said, "It's too high. Didn't the Imperial Medical Office think of a way to reduce casualties during production?"

Postponing the age of marriage for women involves too many things and is not just a matter of an edict. In comparison, Emperor Jing still hopes to solve the matter from other aspects.

Liu Jimin thought for a moment and said, "Is it possible for me to ask County Uncle Li for advice on this matter first?"

Emperor Jing then remembered something, waved to a chamberlain at the entrance of the palace, and asked, "Where's Li Yi, why haven't you arrived yet?"

"Return to your Majesty." The chamberlain said with a bitter look on his face: "County Uncle Li is coaxing Princess Shouning outside."