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"Emperor," a eunuch who stood on the bench said softly, "the prince of King Yan is here." ”

"Call in," an old, deep voice said, "roll up the curtains." ”

Soon there is a palace woman to come up, gently roll up the curtain - at this time the emperor should be built and furnished and handed down from the Qing Dynasty in later generations is different, take the canopy hall as an example, the middle is the throne, the seat is next to the ballast vessel, the front of the seat is the curtain, the curtain is made of copper wire, the yellow rope is tied, the curtain is a blanket, and the blanket is set up at the end of the blanket; there are eight large dragon cupboards on the two walls of the palace, which store three generations of Ding Yi, and the cabinets are all marble screens.

The throne is covered with a curtain tent, there is a curtain and a curtain to separate the outside, the ancients have a saying: "The curtain, so separate the inside and outside, prevent idleness and shame, he can roll it without suspicion." As early as in the "History of the Five Dynasties", it was recorded that Meng Chang once made Wang Zhaoyuan, a favored minister, a curtain envoy. At this time, the emperor's ascension ceremony, two generals were used as shutters, and later when the crown prince was canonized, generals were also used as shutters, so the "curtain general" Sha Monk mentioned in a famous book "Journey to the West" in later generations came from here.

This is a very obvious Han system style, but it was lost in the Qing Dynasty. However, it is still preserved in some ceremonial cultures in Japan and Korea, such as the enthronement ceremony held by Emperor Akihito of Japan, where the emperor and empress ascended the throne at the two tents of the "High Throne" and the "Imperial Tent", and sat in the tents to meet the guests. And there are also screens, treasure covers, and hanging curtains behind the throne in the Gyeongbokgung Palace in Seoul, South Korea.

Zhu Gaochi saw Tianyan and immediately bowed to the ground: "Grandson Gaochi, I have seen the emperor's grandfather." ”

"Get up," Zhu Yuanzhang said with a pleasant face, "Is your son from the Zhuwang Pavilion?"

"Back to the emperor's grandfather," Gao Chi said: "The grandson is from the main hall, although there is no gentleman to teach today, but the grandson still wants to check some regulations, so I heard the emperor's summons, and he came quickly." ”

"Be diligent," Zhu Yuanzhang said with relief: "I have sent you here, there is nothing else to do, you can stand up." ”

Zhu Gaochi took a few steps forward and stood at the bottom of the stairs.

"Come up," Zhu Yuanzhang beckoned: "I have three hundred and forty-five chapters from the General Administration Department here, which I must read in one day. I will give you a job today, you will classify the pieces for the imperial grandfather, and if the things written on them are similar, they will be divided into categories, and you will take out the relevant ones that you think are important and present them separately first. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang gave such an order, but Zhu Gaochi did not show embarrassment, nor did he refuse, so he bowed and bowed, and then knelt next to the imperial case and read the scattered pieces one by one.

In this way, the grandfather and grandson quietly, in the huge hall, there is only the sound of reading and writing.

After more than an hour, Zhu Yuanzhang finally raised his head, pointed to the recital in front of him and asked: "The excerpts that my son showed me were all excerpts about the drought and flood disasters in various places, the reclamation of the border by the military and the people, and the construction of canals, ponds and water conservancy, why did you pick these excerpts and report them?"

Zhu Gaochi stood up and said: "Grandpa Huihuang, it is said in the "Book of Shang" that the people are only the state, and the country is solid and the country is based on the people, and the society is also for the people. Nowadays, drought and flood disasters in various places are related to the survival of the people, and land reclamation and water conservancy are closely related to farming, which are the source of food and clothing for the people, and the resources for the people's livelihood. The grandson felt that such a thing was the most important thing, so he took the initiative to pick out such a fold and asked the imperial grandfather to forgive him. ”

After Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, he was very happy and asked: "My son was born in the royal family and has never tasted hardship, how can I know about the suffering of the people?"

"Although the son is noble," Zhu Gaochi replied, "but since he was a child, he recited the ancestral teachings, and the emperor's grandfather loved the people like a son, so how could the grandson not hear about it? Moreover, when the grandson was in Beiping, every year during the spring ploughing season, my father ordered the three of us brothers to go to observe the people's feelings, and on the way, they did not take a sedan chair, but rode all the way forward, so that they could see the living conditions of the common people along the way and know that the life of the common people was not easy. My grandson also walked fifty miles in one day, and the counties around Beiping knew all the crops and acres of crops. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang was surprised: "Really?"

Seeing Zhu Gaochi nodding, he casually asked some questions about the crops, such as how to raise a handful of soil, cultivate a seedling, how many months to harvest, and how many months to harvest - sure enough, Zhu Gaochi did not lie to him, and his answer was not bad at all.

Zhu Yuanzhang was even more surprised, and even asked some peasants about hoeing, harvesting, loading, whisking, and dusting, which seemed to be clear to only old farmers.

Zhu Yuanzhang was overjoyed and said: "I often say that every time I eat, I think about the hardships of the family's crops, and every piece of clothing I think about the hardships of weaving. But the world has been peaceful for a long time, and no one listens to what I say, especially the kings, who grow up rich and noble, and are still arrogant, where can they still know the truth of the constant hardship of material resources! Today, I see that the answer is like a stream, sympathy for the hardship of the people, and my heart is happy, if all my descendants are like children, then what reason is there for this country not to prosper!"

He said to Zhu Gaochi again: "Among my sons, except for the first prince and Qin Jin Yanzhou, the rest of the sons were born after I pacified the world, so I don't understand the hard-won truth of the world. There are only these five sons, raised under the queen's knees, I haven't taught much, but they have all been taught very well by the queen, I still remember when they were young, but they were sent by the queen to Fengyang to live for three years before coming back, living in the people's homes, eating exactly the same as the people, I came back from the war, and when I saw these five sons, I almost couldn't recognize them! When eating, when the rice grains fall on the table, they pick them up and eat them, and they have to pick them up and eat them when they fall on the ground, and they look stupid at me! This is all taught by the queen well, and she can teach!"

Queen Ma was very interested in the crown prince, the king of Qin, the king of Jin, King Yan and King Zhou have indeed fulfilled their responsibilities as mothers, and even better than Zhu Yuanzhang's father, several princes were sent to Fengyang to live for three years and came back, these three years seem to have left an indelible mark on them, not only the calluses on their hands, these calluses Zhu Gaochi have seen in the hands of his father and King Zhou, as well as the cognition of ordinary people's lives, these princes are now changing their clothes and taking a hoe to the field, and they will only be regarded as farmers, and they can't see that they are pampered princes at all.

And this kind of cognition has been well passed on to the next generation, although several vassal kings also have arrogant sons such as the Zhou Wang's Youyi, the Jin Wang's Ji Xi, and the Qin Wang's Shang Bing;

At this time, in the harem, Concubine Guo Ning was also talking to the female officials around her about the son of the vassal king who came to Beijing.

"I heard that the emperor likes Gao Chi, Youyou Stew and Ji Xi very much," Concubine Guo Ning said: "I especially like Gao Chi, I can guess a few reasons - the emperor remembered the first prince." ”

"When the emperor was young, he didn't like the temperament of the first prince," she recalled: "It was not like him, the tiger gave birth to a son like a sheep, and several times when the first prince advised him to kill less, the father and son started to do it." Remember, after Sun Guifei died, the emperor wanted the prince to mourn the concubine, but the prince was unwilling, so the emperor chased him and beat him, but don't look at the prince's polite temperament, the emperor can't resist him. In the end, King Zhou was asked to wear filial piety clothes for the concubine. was so angry that the prince didn't eat properly for seven or eight days, and the father and son were angry for more than two months. ”

"The first prince is the queen's sister-in-law," the female official said in a low voice: "How can there be a concubine to give his mother-in-law a mother's funeral, the prince is naturally unwilling, that is, in the end, it is given to the king of Zhou, and the prince is not willing, saying that the king of Zhou is raised under the queen's knees, and he is also a son-in-law, and Sun Guifei has no son to send to the end, and she wants to rob other people's sons - these words reached the ears of the emperor, but the emperor was so angry that he said that he didn't want this unfilial son!"