The mountain stone is painted with linen, the stream is circulating, the wild bamboo is clustered, due to the factor of water vapor, the vista fades, an ape hugs the child on the stone, and an ape breaks the loquat branch to play among the trees. The image is vivid and cute, on the soil slope under the tree, the reeds, small bamboo, fine grass are overgrown, and the small river water under the slope not only breaks the flat plate of the slope stone, but also makes the picture rich in natural ecological interest, and has a faint taste of home.

After painting two scrolls in a row, Zhu Zhanji stopped his pen and looked at it with satisfaction, and then said: "Gonggong Chen, you will go to Kunning Palace later, and give my second scroll to Niangniang, which can be regarded as one of the rewards I gave him."

"The old slave understands!" Chen Wu walked out and bowed in response.

Zhu Zhanji walked out of the imperial case and sat down on the dragon chair in the center, and Chen Wu hurriedly handed over a cup of ginseng tea. Zhu Zhanji took it, opened the lid and took a sip, and asked casually, "Are all the reward items ready?" ”

Chen Wu said: "The old slave is about to tell the emperor about this!" As he spoke, he shouted outside the door, "Bring it up?" “

As soon as the words fell, a eunuch came out of the door, and the eunuch dragged a tray in his hand, and he didn't know what the item was, and covered it with a yellow brocade cloth.

Chen Wu didn't wait for the eunuch to step forward, took the tray and just lifted it, and said, "Your Majesty, this is a reward prepared by the slave for the prince, please take a look at it?" “

Zhu Zhanji glanced at it, stretched out his hand and lifted the brocade cloth, and then his eyes lit up, it was a golden bracelet, a rare bracelet hung with a delicate jade lock, but he saw that the jade was exquisitely crafted, although it was extremely small, but the luster was bright, and it was not ordinary at a glance, and what was even more rare was that it was engraved with the words "rich and long-lived", the words were extremely small, if it were not for his excellent eyes, he could not see clearly.

Zhu Zhanji said: "But what does it mean? ”

Chen Wu said: "Shen Kuo of the Song Dynasty wrote in "Mengxi Writings": "Jinling people ascend to the mausoleum of the Six Dynasties, get the jade arm, and the ghosts and gods are meritorious." There is also a kind of arm ring called "jumping", such as a spring, coiled into a circle, less than three circles, more than a dozen circles, and the two ends are braided into a ring sleeve with gold and silver wires to adjust the tightness. This "jump-off" armband can be worn on the arm or wrist.

From the Sui and Tang dynasties to the Song Dynasty, it was common for women to decorate their arms with bracelets, which was called the necessary arm. In the early Tang Dynasty, Yan Liben's "Walking Lady" and Zhou Fat's "Hairpin Lady" clearly depicted the image of a woman wearing an arm. This was not only limited to the nobility of the court, but also to the common people. According to historical records, Cui Guangyuan led his troops to crusade against Duan Zizhang, and the soldiers looted everywhere, and when they saw women, they cut off their arms and took away their arms. Therefore, the bracelet has the meaning of avoiding disasters and driving away evil spirits, and the lock on the bracelet is a longevity lock that wishes for a long life.

If the prince brings this thing, he will be able to turn evil into good fortune and grow up healthily, without accidents."

Zhu Zhanji finally got the prince, naturally he hoped that the child could grow up healthily and not have any more accidents, and when he heard Chen Wu say this, he nodded and said, "This thing is very good!" “

Chen Wu was worried that the emperor would not be satisfied, but when he heard the emperor say this, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

Zhu Zhanji thought for a while and asked: "Niangniang has the greatest credit this time, but can you make arrangements?" ”

Chen Wu said: "Back to the emperor's words, the old slave has already given out a reward in accordance with the rules of the past, and also licked some maids in the palace!" ”

Zhu Zhanji is very appreciative of Chen Wu's ability to do things, and he is also very relieved, this time the prince is not easy, with his feelings, he feels that he is only afraid of such a son, so he is somewhat dissatisfied with Chen Wu's ordinary reward, so he said: "This son is my eldest son, and I am pregnant with my great victory over Le'an Prefecture, which can be described as extraordinary, I see all kinds of systems, and the rewards are doubled, right?" ”

Chen Wu was stunned for a moment, glanced at Zhu Zhanji and whispered: "Double is the prince's specifications, ...... is this?" “

"Prince, isn't this son my prince, you just follow the prince's specifications, right?" Zhu Zhanji said casually.

Chen Wu made waves in his heart, and the primogeniture system of establishing the eldest but not the virtuous was the tradition of all Chinese dynasties, the foundation of the country established by Confucianism, and the ruling foundation representing the three outlines and five constants. Moreover, the heir needs to have the support of the civilian clique in order to counter the nobles and balance the power of the court. And the civil official is a Confucian disciple, naturally supports orthodoxy, although the current prince is the eldest son, but after all, he is not born to the queen, he is not a concubine, according to the rules, he cannot be established as a prince, and the queen Hu is still there, and it is not that he can't have children.

Although Chen Wu sympathized with the Empress Hu, after all, this was a family affair of the emperor's family, not to mention that he was a eunuch, even if he was a civil and military official of the Manchu Dynasty, there were a few people who dared to say more, so after a moment of surprise, he immediately responded.

Zhu Zhanji didn't know what Chen Wu was thinking in his stomach, he thought about it and said: "It's going to be nine days soon, you let Wang Zhen prepare well, prepare, and then greet the courtship of the hundred officials, what is missing in the palace, you go directly to the Internal Affairs Mansion, and the Internal Affairs Mansion is out?" ”

"The old slave understands!" Chen Wu answered and immediately turned around.

Looking at Chen Wu's disappearing back, Zhu Zhanji turned around, looked at the "Liqi Picture" on the imperial case, and said to himself: "I have a son!" “

For Zhu Zhanji's joy, Yang Zheng has not yet become a father, and he can't realize that when the news from the palace came, he just sighed, which was regarded as responding to the joy in the palace.

But deep down, I still can't help but remember the legend I heard in my previous life, which is mainly from Xuanzong Xiaogong Empress Sun, a native of Zouping. Young and beautiful. Father Zhong, Yongcheng County master also. Mrs. Peng Chengbo, the mother of Queen Chengxiao, is a native of Yongcheng, who is always in the forbidden, and she is loyal to a virtuous woman, so she has to enter the palace.

Legend has it that this Sun Guifei was deeply loved by Emperor Xuanzong, and the only regret was that she did not get the queen's throne, so Sun Guifei racked her brains and always wanted to squeeze out Empress Hu and stand on her own. The opportunity finally came, Emperor Xuanzong's heirs have not been prosperous, Empress Hu failed to give birth to a prince for Xuanzong, although Sun Guifei also failed to give birth to a child, but she came up with a plan to steal the beam and change the building, she sent people around the palace to find out which palace maid was pregnant after the emperor was lucky, so she hid the found palace maid in the secret room, isolated from the outside world, and sent someone to deliver food and take care of it. Then he bought off the imperial doctor, claimed to be pregnant, and disguised many signs of pregnancy.

Because Sun Guifei was deeply favored by the emperor at that time, no one dared to reveal the slightest rumor, so she was pregnant in October, and the palace maid gave birth to a son, Sun Guifei immediately sent someone to carry the child to her side, secretly executed the palace maid, and then sent someone to immediately notify Xuanzong, and she also pretended to be very weak after giving birth. In this way, this little baby boy became the biological son of Queen Sun, and this child was the later Ming Yingzong Zhu Qizhen. At that time, Yang Zheng was mostly under the impression of books, film and television dramas, and believed in this kind of legend, as if Qin Shihuang was the son of Lü Buwei and Qianlong was the son of Chen Gelao.

The Jingshifang is subordinate to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and its most important responsibility is to manage the affairs of the house, and the so-called "person who is in charge of the affairs of the emperor". According to the division of responsibilities, the affairs of the emperor, the empress and the concubine were all managed and recorded by the eunuchs of the respectful room.

According to history, every time the emperor and queen opened a new house, the chief eunuch of the worship room had to write down the year, month and day, so as to check and verify it when she became pregnant in the future. The emperor and his concubines have a new house, and the procedure is a little more complicated. After dinner every day, the chief eunuch presented a large silver plate, which contained dozens of green cards (note: according to research, this card is called a card, because it is often presented after dinner, also known as a meal card), and each sign has the name of a concubine written on it. If the emperor is not sexual, he says "go", which means that the emperor wants to rest alone; If it's a little interesting, find the name of your favorite concubine, turn the brand over, back up, and put it on the plate. The head of the worship room memorizes this sign, and when it comes out, he gives it to the eunuch who is responsible for carrying the concubine into the palace (this eunuch is called the concubine eunuch) and sends it to the dragon bed.

At that time, if the emperor wants to sleep, he will go to bed first, cover the ankle with the quilt to the ankle joint, and leave his feet exposed; The concubine and eunuch waited for the chosen concubine to bathe, and stripped off her in her own room, and then helped her wrap a large cloak and carry it all the way to the dormitory, and then ripped off the cloak and put the concubine on the bed. The concubine can see that the "dragon's feet" outside are crawling into the big quilt, and then they can go to the night of candles in the cave room. The eunuch and the steward withdrew from the room and waited outside the window, waiting for the completion of the work. In order to prevent the emperor from dying of a "wind" in the middle of the moment, after a little longer, the chief had to sing outside: "It's time." ”

If the emperor is in high spirits and pretends to be deaf and dumb, he shouts again. "If this is the third", the emperor can not delay any longer, and must "stop being polite" and beckon the eunuch into the room. After the eunuch entered, the concubine faced the emperor and climbed out of the quilt upside down. The eunuch wrapped her cloak again and carried her out of the door. The steward then came in and asked, "Do you want to stay?" "The emperor said to stay, so he took out a small notebook and recorded the emperor's concubine at a certain time in a certain year, a certain month, a certain day, and a certain time; If he said that he would not stay, the chief manager would come out, find a certain acupuncture point between the concubine's waist and thighs, and rub it slightly, "then the emperor's dragon water will flow out", and implement artificial measures. If the manual measures are not successful, additional measures must be made, because there is no record of intercourse in the book, and it is done in vain. After all, whether she can give birth to a child is very important to the concubine, and it is a question of whether she will be able to rely on her mother and child in the future.

Although it seems that this is not a "humane" archiving system, it can effectively limit the "travel of children and grandchildren". However, this system was strictly enforced during a long period of time in the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, Ming Xiaozong, known as the lord of Zhongxing in the Ming Dynasty, because he did not accept the imperial concubine, many nobles and ministers tried their best to advise, hoping that he could imitate the ancient system and set up a few more imperial concubines to make the descendants prosper. At that time, although Xiaozong agreed, he was unable to accept a concubine due to the restrictions of the queen. Therefore, in the imperial tombs of all dynasties, there are many imperial concubines buried, and only the husband and wife are buried in the tomb of Xiaozong. This kind of thing is unique, so what Gong'e was born is pure nonsense.