LEGEND OF THE CROWN PRINCESS

Episode 43 - Declaration of the Emperor

Wrapped in the Crown Prince's distinctive golden robe, a man stood staring at the vast lake before him. When the look of the face turned to sadness when he saw a large gap from the red sky that he began to be unable to control his arrival. A bad sign is going to happen, the only way to stop this is to look for a pheonix.

"Hail the Crown Prince. The Pheonix is gone!" said one of his brothers.

The Crown Prince furrowed his brows, he immediately met his teacher inside the divination hall. "What does teacher mean?"

"Your Pheonix Birds lost the fight. You can't expect it anymore!" like being struck by lightning during the day, the look on the Crown Prince's face grew even more miserable.

"I will meet the god of death to resurrect him!"

"Bei Ming, you might be asked to kneel for three hundred days would you be able to? Don't be rash, better find another way to stop all this!"

"Is there any other way, teacher?"

"You can meet him in the year before his death. Help him cultivate to reach this high-level continent! Help him defeat all his enemies and bring change!"

"I'm gonna do it. All these years I waited for him to come to me, but it all ended tragically. I will meet him and bring him myself to the Hongyun Continent!"

"For you, it's a time-travel to the past and you don't know for sure what year you'll cross. But for him, this would be his resurrection, most likely he would remember the events of his previous life."

Bei Ming nodded. "Of course, I have to meet the god of time to take me to a time before that!"

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Adviser Bei fell silent as he stared at his green jade. It had been the hundredth year when he left Hongyun Continent. The continent of the top level cultivators, where gods live and heaven of the world. "You went through time to save her and help her, wouldn't it be too evil if she ended up with someone else instead?"

"Shut up! You're really noisy!" Counselor Bei pressed his forehead feeling dizzy hearing the tiny worm crackling in his jade. Before long, the sound of footsteps entered the study room. Today, he would teach Yijin how to concoct medicine, vitality Pills to restore energy and accelerate growth, usually given to the children of cultivators or to the seriously injured victims.

"Teacher, are you talking to someone?"

Adviser Bei turned towards the source of the voice, he saw Yijin in a riding suit with his hair tied neatly back. "Sir, control the look on your face like that monkey's ass!" said the little worm in jade.

"Yourf!" Adviser Bei snorted softly, then tried to control himself.

"Teacher all right?" Yijin approached and tried to see the face of the Master.

"Murid stop there! Well, we'll start learning in a minute. Before that, I should test you in a way you should mention what ingredients we should have in order to make the Vitality Pill!"

Yijin crossed his arms around his chest. "That's very easy, cinnamon bark, a little mashed ginger, eternal fire and also heavenly water!"

Adviser Bei nodded. "Don't forget that the firebox you use must be made of the best materials!"

"Good!"

In the course of time the Yijin vitality pill-making experiment managed to do so and would try the pill on the fawn the result of his hunt earlier this morning. Adviser Bei had always been next to Yijin, seeing the pill working so well the man was so proud of him.

"Oh yes, to the widows of the previous emperor what order would His Majesty give?"

"I must send them home with the title 'Dear Empress Dowager', they must gain glory among the people despite being a widow and anyone intending to remarry will be welcome. Although they do not live in the Harem Palace, they will get alimony for their living needs partially. Even the Palace will give a small fee to enliven the wedding they title."

Adviser Bei shook his head while grunting softly. "A good idea. But wouldn't it be wasteful to spend money on widows' marriages?"

"Teacher, this is the way to save. By repatriating all the concubines who amounted to almost thirty people, we could save a monthly budget of one million and five hundred taels, they only got fifty thousand taels every month after coming out of the Palace. Compared to freedom, fifty thousand who were cut off from them were certainly nothing. They will definitely agree to my way!"

Adviser Bei clucked in awe, in just a few weeks the girl in front of him had already made a distant change. All for the sake of the public's view of women, Yijin only wants them to be seen as equal and not considered weak. Moreover, the widows of the emperor were usually done disrespectfully after being repatriated.

"I strongly agree, one by one the things the Emperor said I will make it official. There will soon be a political meeting, Your Majesty should get ready soon!"

"Good teacher, thank you for today's lesson."

After breezing away, Yijin returned to his room to change into official clothes. Meanwhile, Bei's Counselors began to make the rules that Yijin had said in writing and would be announced as the Emperor's Declaration. After everyone had gathered at the meeting hall, there was no one who did not greet their Emperor. Yijin's different gaze while on the throne and on the outside, made Counselor Bei admire him secretly.

What an extraordinary Wen Yijin, he did not feel trepidation towards the deadly aura of the various clans before him. "Bei's counsel will announce the Emperor's Declaration and the new rules of the kingdom!"

Adviser Bei immediately took a few steps forward and opened the declaration that had been made. The rules Yijin gave are already officially in writing.

"Declaration of the Emperor and new rules of the empire. Any female ruler can lead a kingdom or a duchy without the help of a man. Not obliged to follow the rules of the harem reserved for male rulers.

The widows of kings who died on the battlefield can be repatriated honorably with the title of 'Honourable King's Widow' and are obliged to be given as much as part of the monthly allowance at Harem Palace.

Free to re-marry with royal support, no humiliation for her."

All the men in the meeting hall objected to the declaration already delivered however, since the emperor's remark was an order they no longer dared to refuse. They were only thinking about how to remove the Emperor from the throne so as not to give rise to new rules that were misleading to them.

After the declaration was delivered, all of their happy women felt their rights were fulfilled as Emperor Wen Yijin began to ascend the throne, the equality that Yijin wanted to bring in the empire made great hopes for women throughout the kingdom.

After the political meeting was over, Wen Yijin walked around the royal garden looking at the flowers that had just bloomed in the spring. He longed for Hu Yazhu's distant existence at the border, yet he also couldn't abandon his duties at the palace. The relationship between the two of them seemed to be blocked by a boundary that was difficult to pass. Although it can be done but it will be very difficult to live it properly, Hu Yazhu who had to protect the kingdom and would definitely often go do the task to the outside with Yijin who had to organize the kingdom as best as possible inside the palace.

Wen Yijin looked like the moon and Hu Yazhu stood like the sun, no matter how hard the sun chased after the moon, he would still never reach her.