After the morning court session had ended, the Princess Consort of Jin waited for King Jin, and then the couple went together to see Empress Dugu.
Everyone believed that to vie for the position of Crown Prince, one needed to put more effort into cultivating relationships on the Imperial Court.
This was also why the Crown Prince, upon discovering King Jin's intentions, had begun to network with various factions within the Court to have them on his side.
But King Jin knew that the Great Sui was unlike any dynasty in history.
Although the harem was forbidden from engaging in politics, and indeed his own backers from the Dugu Clan rarely interfered in affairs of the Court,
throughout the whole of Great Sui, the Emperor had only one woman, his mother, meaning that all five sons were legitimate, making it normal for the Empress to pass the throne to anyone.
