The Lantern Festival of the sixteenth year of Yongle lasts from the fifteenth day of the first month to the seventeenth day of the first month, because the day of the lanterns is full of three nights, the lanterns, the Ao Mountain, the fireworks, the night is forbidden for ten days, the emperor even watches the lanterns at the noon gate, and the ministers are feasted into the poems.

"His Royal Highness the Emperor Sun is hungry?" Hai Tongle asked: "The slave maid specially asked people to buy snacks from Donghua Gate before the palace gate fell key, and Shang Shan Jian just warmed it up, Your Highness would like to taste it?"

Brother Shou'er's face buried in the mink fur really showed an expectant look, and asked, "What do you have to eat?"

"There are lamb skewers, purple rice porridge, bean juice, cold noodles, grilled cakes, lotus seed porridge, sour plum soup, red fruit cheese, almond tofu, kebabs, grilled lobster, grilled squid, fried grasshoppers, fried scorpions, fried silkworm pupa," Haitong reported a large string in one breath, "Do you want to eat?"

This string of names attracted several children next to him, and they all shouted to eat, Zhang Zhaohua asked, "Can you eat it?"

Hai Tong said with a smile: "So that the mother knows that these snacks are all made by these eunuchs watching them on the side, and when they come back, they will try them with the little eunuchs, and they don't have any stomach troubles - they dare to taste them for Your Highness." ”

"In that case, taste it. Zhang Zhaohua said: "Don't eat too much at night, you watch from the side, don't let them eat and can't sleep." ”

Brother Shou is the eldest of these half-grown children, but he is still a naughty child, babbling. Zhang Zhaohua was about to say that he didn't eat well, but when he saw the two brothers of the Han Wang family at a glance, he felt uncomfortable again, drank them again, and took away the snacks that had reached his mouth.

The emperor had already made it clear that after the wedding of the grandson, the king of Han would immediately occupy Qingzhou, but now that the grandson has been married for more than two years, the king of Han still lives in Beijing, and the emperor seems to have forgotten what he said.

"I want to eat, I want to eat-" I don't know who cried first among the children, and they cried and fell down, and the palace people were hurriedly coaxing, there were already palace concubines and even foreign officials looking over frequently, and the princess Hu was originally on the other side of the distance, and hurried over when she heard the voice, gently and meticulously coaxing this group of crying children.

"Look at the eldest sister-in-law of the princess," Wei said, "It's love." The emperor really has a good vision, except for the fact that he has not had a child for more than two years after entering the door, isn't the rest perfect. ”

Zhang Zhaohua rolled her eyes, Wei's embarrassment was not much, in fact, she mainly sighed about herself, Wei's infertility for so many years after Brother Ping'er, the emperor's determination to abolish the establishment is getting bigger and bigger day by day, if it weren't for the king of Han biting and not letting go, Wei's fear will repeat Xu's mistakes. What she said is actually good, the heavenly family has nothing to rely on, and only the heir is the standard for measuring women. Although in Zhang Zhaohua's view, it is normal to have no children for two or three years after marriage, but in this era, it is abnormal. I think that when Emperor Jianwen was still the grandson, although Ma was named the concubine, Emperor Gao just pinched the golden treasure and didn't give it until Ma gave birth to a son.

Now that Hu is the concubine, the golden treasure is in her hands, but the golden book has not been given to her for a long time, which in itself is a great pressure on her, Zhang Zhaohua was relieved a few times, but it didn't seem to have much effect, and seeing that Hu was said by Wei, he suddenly turned pale and gray.

Mu Shi saw that the opportunity was very good, and walked over with a smile, first stuffed a candy man into his child's mouth, coaxed one, and teased him with other snacks, and after a while, these children burst into tears and laughed.

"Or you have a way. Zhang Zhaohua breathed a sigh of relief.

"In Yunnan," Mu said, "There are many children in the family, all of them are free-range, and I have four younger brothers alone, as well as cousins, cousins, and cousins, and it is already common to coax children." ”

King Zhao has also been quite restless over the years, and seems to have found that although the confrontation between the crown prince and the king of Han was not the expected result, but the strongest opponent was defeated, he had great hope, and the meaning of jumping up and down was obvious. The Mu family also seems to be interested in befriending the palace concubine, and she is exquisite, but she has always been a good person, and Zhang Zhaohua will not be cold to her, not to mention that under this big festival, if she doesn't tear her face, no one will quarrel. Crying in the New Year is a frustrating thing, and everyone has to pass happily.

Zhang Zhaohua stayed at the noon gate for a while, and when he saw the foreign envoys coming, he went downstairs. A group of women sat in the main hall and touched the cards, and in the end, they let the palace people go out to get sick.

After the first month, the spring was soon unveiled, and the list was sent to the East Palace, and I heard that this time the spring was a bit interesting, because the emperor saw more than a dozen scholars fooling around with prostitutes at the noon gate, and these scholars who went to Beijing to catch the exam were quite dissolute, and they were also wearing Confucian clothes, which were quite eye-catching in the crowd. The emperor was very unhappy when he saw it, and ordered the Jinyi guards to write down the names of these scholars, and not let any of them be selected.

"Alas, it's strange, there are especially many Jinshi surnamed Zheng in Wuxuke this year. Zhang Zhaohua also looked at the gold list: "Among the seventy-five people in the second grade, there are four surnamed Zheng, and among the one hundred and seventy-two people in the third grade, there are ...... Eleven. ”

Gao Chi nodded and said, "It's all a family." ”

"Huh?" Zhang Zhaohua said in surprise: "You said that these fifteen surnamed Zheng are all a family?"

"The first one in Jiangnan," Gao Chi closed the book and said with interest, "Do you know?"

The Zheng family located in Pujiang, the most famous is "a door of righteousness, nine generations living together", from the Southern Song Dynasty to the present, nine generations of people live together, thousands of people drink and eat together, but the advance and retreat are orderly, and the family is harmonious. In addition, the Zheng family has no male offenders, no women have remarried, and set up a family rule of "children and grandchildren, those who have heard with dirty ink, and those who are born will be removed from the family register, and the tablet will not be allowed to enter the ancestral hall when they die", and the three generations of the Song, Yuan and Ming dynasties have lasted for more than 300 years, and nearly 200 officials have been out of office, none of them are corrupt and corrupt, and all of them are diligent and honest.

The Zheng family of Pujiang has been repeatedly honored by the imperial court, and in the eighteenth year of Hongwu, Emperor Taizu Gao personally awarded it the title of "the first in the south of the Yangtze River". Zheng Zhai was originally called Renyili, and its door was called Xiaoyimen, so it was also called "Zhengyimen", so Pujiang Zheng's was also called "Yimen Zheng's".

"It is said that in Zheng's house, crows and magpies nest together, cats and dogs share the same nest," Gao Chi said: "It is also because of harmony." ”

Zhang Zhaohua couldn't understand: "You said that the Zheng family has thousands of people and is well organized, how is this managed?"

"The Zheng family has the Zheng family model," Gao Chi said: "One hundred and sixty-eight family rules have been formulated, and their essence is three: one is to be kind, advocating filial piety to parents, brothers to be courteous, and the principle of diligence and frugality; This is the most basic, the Zheng family is said to have a uniform time for the whole clan to get up and down every morning, and to hear the bell when to eat, when men are studying, when women are popular, and even what clothes the clan wears are all regulated. ”

Zhang Zhaohua said with a smile: "Do you still care when you go to the toilet?"

In the end, China is a patriarchal family, and the clan is a society within it, and such rules and regulations may be able to be implemented in such a small society, but it is absolutely impossible to put it in a country.