Text_Chapter 459 The eldest princess
That cry was like a pair of big hands, grabbing Zhu Youxiao's heart fiercely, making him almost suffocate. γFengyun Reading Network. Without hesitation, he rushed to the delivery room, so fast that his body almost became a phantom.
With a bang, while everyone was still immersed in various emotions, he smashed the door and rushed in.
"Orb, Orb, it's okay." Zhu Youxiao hurriedly asked. Although he was outside just now, listening to the sound of the child's birth, he still couldn't help but worry in his heart at this moment, what if, what if something happened?
"Long live the lord, long live the lord......" Zhang Yan couldn't help shouting when she heard Zhu Youxiao's voice, just shouting and shouting, she couldn't help crying.
"It's useless to have a concubine, I'm sorry Your Majesty, it's useless to give birth to Lin'er." Zhang Yan's face was pale, and this cry made her complexion almost transparent, which made people worry about it.
"It's okay, it's okay." Zhu Youxiao didn't care about the dust on his body, and hurriedly hugged Zhang Yan's mantis head into his arms, carefully caring for and comforting him.
Zhang Yan leaned over, but still sobbed quietly.
Beside her, when the midwife saw this scene, she was stiffened when she wanted to come over to report the good news, and she was at a loss for a while. Think about it, this is royal, the difference between men and women is even worse than that of the people, not to mention that it is still the queen who gave birth, not men, and this loss is even greater.
However, this is a small life after all, and it was snubbed by its parents as soon as it was born, it was too cruel, and the midwife couldn't bear it, so she finally hugged it and congratulated her loudly, "Congratulations to Your Majesty, congratulations to Your Majesty, the queen mother gave birth to a princess." β
It's just that when Zhang Yan heard this, his heart was even more sad, and he howled and cried again, and Zhu Youxiao comforted him again, but he had never had experience in this area, and it was useless to comfort him, or he had an idea, and saw the midwife next to him holding his daughter helplessly, so he got up and reported this little thing and sent it to Zhang Yan.
"Baozhu, you see, this is our daughter, and she will be the eldest princess in the future, isn't it cute. It doesn't matter if we don't have a son, it's good that we have another child in the future. β
"Eldest princess?" Zhang Yan sobbed and chattered, and then gradually stopped her tears, and carefully looked at the baby in her swaddling clothes, this is the meat that fell from her body after all, as soon as she received it in her hand, a feeling of mother-daughter connection came to her heart, and joy gradually came out, squeezing out other emotions.
The eldest princess is generally the title of the extremely favored princess and the emperor's sisters, Zhu Youxiao has no siblings, and several sisters are concubines, and now as soon as the eldest daughter is born, she is crowned the eldest princess, which shows her favor. Of course, this kind of favor is actually for Queen Zhang Yan.
It is precisely because of this reason that when she heard His Majesty's title, Zhang Yan was stunned, and the sadness in her heart gradually stopped.
"Your Majesty still loves me!" Zhang Yan muttered in her heart, "But I still have to strive to have the eldest son as soon as possible, but it's a pity, if this baby is a boy, how good it ......."
As soon as the title of the eldest princess came out, the other woman in the delivery room was also stunned, and then showed a look of ecstasy, she was none other than the nurse who had been prepared a long time ago. This is the case in the palace, or China is like this, one is prosperous, one is lost, and one person ascends to heaven.
The nurse who can grow a princess is naturally better than an ordinary princess, which is a matter of status in the emperor's mind.
When this title spread to the ministers outside, they were surprised that it was a pity just now, this is not an ordinary title, such a title is not much worse than the crown prince.
Eldest princess, what an eldest princess!
The ministers were silent, and then retreated.
On the same day, the news of Empress Zhang Yan's birth of the eldest princess spread throughout Beijing, and then published through the Imperial Daily, and within half a month, it spread throughout the entire Ming Dynasty.
The whole country rejoices, and the whole world celebrates.
Although he did not give birth to a prince, as Zhu Youxiao's first child, he still ordered that all soldiers, civil servants, and employees of the inner government should be paid an extra month's salary that month, and the merchant transaction tax would be halved.
This decree made the prisoners who had committed crimes in this month secretly curse in their hearts, but it made countless people all over the country cheer, and the volume of goods traded that month not only did not decrease, but surged, and the tax revenue in various places doubled.
Just because the tax revenue was halved this month, almost all counties, except for those that are really remote and uninhabited, have basically completed the tasks set at the beginning.
In the delivery room, looking at Queen Zhang Yan's favored appearance, the other two concubines, Fan Zhenzhen and Yi Die'er, were almost jealous in their hearts, and then they had to hide it.
As a group of people who entered the palace at the same time, the three of them can be described as a competitive relationship, why is the other party the queen, and they are so favored when they give birth to a daughter.
"I have to find a way to give birth to the prince first." The two women thought in unison.
After coming to the palace, they also learned about all kinds of rhymes that had been circulated before, including Zhu Youxiao's biological father, Guangzong Zhu Changluo, such an inspirational story is simply giving hope to all kinds of concubines from humble backgrounds, as long as they can give birth to their eldest son, they will definitely be the emperor in the future.
This is something that the previous Wanli Emperor personally verified.
Of course, the two women who had lived in the deep palace for a long time didn't know that as the praised Holy Emperor, Zhu Youxiao had already firmly held the power in his own hands, and any decision he made, the civil official group could not stop it at all.
After his painstaking adjustments, Jinyiwei and Dongchang's arduous maintenance, the emperor's holy decree is now more effective than the cabinet's decree.
His holy decree does not need to be stamped with the cabinet seal at all, it is directly effective, and anyone who dares to resist it is the result of the edict and imprisonment, which has been personally verified by the people who did not want to be officials in the first place, and now these people are still teaching in the northeast or the Mongolian steppe, and they warn future generations with their personal experience.
The so-called mind moved, heaven and earth responded, the queen and the two concubines thought in their hearts, and the atmosphere suddenly changed subtly, Zhu Youxiao's senses were already sensitive to ordinary people, and he felt it at this time.
This is the rhythm of the palace fight!
This kind of rhythm, Zhu Youxiao can't stop it at all, unless he only asks him to marry a woman, otherwise it can't be avoided. And it is obvious that between Gong Dou and monogamy, he is willing to choose Gong Dou.
Although in the past three years, he has not canonized the harem above the concubine, but it is still unavoidable to hunt wild food and secretly talk or something.
Looking at a few scrappy women, he could only silently think of a way in his heart, "It seems that you must pay attention to your menstrual period in the future until the queen gives birth to her eldest son." β
This is not only his blessing, but also the blessing of the country, although he has the ability to let his second son ascend the throne, but he can save trouble, why not save trouble.
After the jubilation, there is calm.
That night, Zhu Youxiao ignored the fatigue of the journey, stayed in Kunning Palace overnight, and stayed awake all night with Zhang Yan, and the subsequent time was the same, the two of them were like glue, there was no room for a third party to intervene, and even the other two concubines who wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to get the king's favor did not succeed.
Time passed leisurely, and sure enough, as expected by several ministers, the emperor really never came out of the harem again, and he was either teasing the eldest princess or accompanying the queen all day long.
Fortunately, the rules of the cabinet and the Metropolitan Governor's Office have been set, the emperor is not there, the empire is running as usual, and all work is done well.
In Mobei, the land of Outer Mongolia, although the Jurchens themselves restrained, they couldn't stand the fact that there was a provocateur in secret, and through several pretended attacks, the hatred between the two had accumulated, and even fought together, and a large-scale conflict was only a matter of time.
If the Jurchen wants to get rid of the material control of the Ming Dynasty, they can only seek help from the outside, but the only capable person in the local area has been aroused by the Jurchen pretended to be Zhang Shize, and he didn't listen to Huang Taiji's explanation at all, it was useless to listen, Zhang Shize could continue to provoke.
And since he can't get out of the predicament, Huang Taiji can only follow Daming's plan and use the blood of his own people to pave the way for Daming to enter the place.
Stepping on these corpses, Huang Taiji led his people all the way to the west.
With the entry of the Xiao cavalry into Hulunbuir, the map of Inner Mongolia in later generations was completely complete, and the division of these provinces in the north, Zhu Youxiao also followed the guidelines of intertwined dogs and teeth in the behavior of later generations.
Based on the basic terrain of mountains and rivers, but it does not allow a province to form a closed area, and the mountain and river checkpoints are always divided into neighboring provinces, and one place will not control all the traffic arteries.
In this way, the map of the northern provinces is basically similar to that of later generations, except that the only difference is that Gansu Province, which he merged the regions of Ningxia in later generations.
As for the newly established Mongolian provinces, no governor has been appointed for the time being, and only half of them are under the jurisdiction of the left and right, waiting for the subsequent resettlement. After all, Inner Mongolia is too long, and the traffic at this time is not very developed, so it is better to divide it into two parts for the time being.
The frontier was quiet, but the inland was in turmoil, the uprisings of the landlords everywhere were surging, and the armies from all over the country rushed back and forth to suppress them, and finally the situation was temporarily maintained without collapse. But the shrewd Xu Guangqi has already seen the clues from this unusual place.
Therefore, just after the Mid-Autumn Festival, he didn't care about the emperor returning from a long battle, so he broke into the palace with a twist and turn, and His Majesty saw the emperor.
"Your Majesty, the situation is critical now, Your Majesty should make a decision as soon as possible." Xu Guangqi said solemnly.
However, Zhu Youxiao didn't care, just yawned lazily, "My 100,000 army is scattered all over the world, which is enough to suppress it." β
It's not that Zhu Youxiao is arrogant, but the original military strength of the Ming Dynasty in the world today is too weak, not to mention the landlord uprising that is even smaller than the Ming Guard's army, he doesn't care about it at all.
"It is true, as Your Majesty said, but the conspiracy behind this, Your Majesty may have ignored it!" Xu Guangqi's words immediately made Zhu Youxiao's heart jump, and a bad pre-cold came out.
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