Chapter 12: The Secret of the Favorite Concubine
When passing through the last pass in Beijing, Yao Qinghua couldn't help crying, for the unknown life, or the mysterious "daddy"?
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Zhu Zhanji, who was in the carriage, looked at Yao Qinghua's face full of tears, only as if she was unable to leave her homeland, and said softly: "Don't cry, if you have a chance in the future, I will take you back, and we will catch crickets again." ā
Speaking of crickets, Yao Qinghua noticed that the cute stove cricket was still carried by Zhu Zhanji, but the house was changed, and the previous small gourd was replaced by an elegant palace-style cricket cage. The little thing lay leisurely in the cage, and seemed to have fully adapted to this new home.
I don't know, Yao Qinghua's life after entering the palace is as good as this elf?
Besides, Zhu Di, after a month and a half of starry night galloping, returned to Nanjing smoothly. First of all, he ordered the fat prince Zhu Gaochi to refuse the guests and carefully study the strategy of governing the country, which was actually to confine the prince to the prince's mansion.
It's just that in order to prevent Zhu Zhanji, who lives by the emperor's grandfather's side, from being humiliated in front of others, he gave the crown prince Zhu Gaochi a nice remark.
Because the little girl Wu Erhong has openly stated the plan to move the capital to Beijing in public, this can be regarded as helping Zhu Di test the water successfully, after returning to Nanjing, Zhu Di has no longer covered it up, and stepped up the pace of making the plan to move the capital public. He set up Beijing as a "Xingzai", with various yamen official offices under it, and permanent officials to work.
Although the Beijing Yamen was first established, various personnel and functional departments were still very chaotic, but Zhu Di's purpose in doing this was to let those ministers see the emperor's determination to move the capital. So at least some of the timid ministers will choose to obey; Those who are stubborn or have different ideas, at least do not dare to openly disobey, then there will be much less resistance to the plan to move the capital.
Now that the relocation of the capital has been put on the agenda, the next imperative thing is how to strike at the forces of Arutai.
In order to take advantage of the contradictions to weaken and contain the power of Arutai, Zhu Di issued an edict on May 24, the seventh year of Yongle, that is, on the way back from this northern tour, and named the leader of Wara, Mahamu, as the king of Shunning, the Tatar leader Taiping, as the king of Xianyi, and the leader of "Wuliangha" Vulture Polo as the king of Anle. At the same time, he sent the minister Guo Ji to envoy Benjamin, promising to reconcile with him and form a marriage.
Killing four birds with one stone, Zhu Di's move originally thought that it could directly divide the rights of the Tatar Taishi Arutai, and the three major divisions of Warat, Tatar and Uliangha had been weakened at the same time, and appeased the remnants of the Yuan Dynasty's royal descendant, Benyasuri, who thought he was foolproof.
Unexpectedly, Benjamin, who was originally a descendant of the royal family, had already seen through Zhu Di's imperial tricks and did not appreciate it, but with the help of the weakening of the three major Mongolian tribes, Warat, Tatar and Uliangha, the army suddenly rose up and developed and expanded.
On the 10th day of the sixth month of the seventh year of Yongle (1409), Li Bolan of 100 households reported that the minister Guo Ji was ordered to send an envoy, but he was killed by Benjamin. Benjamin united with Arutai to defeat Warat and fled to the Yuqu River, preparing to attack the Uliangha tribe, causing chaos on the border.
The two countries exchanged troops and did not kill the envoys, not to mention, this time Zhu Di sent Guo Ji as an envoy, intending to reconcile with the Yuan family, but he encountered such barbaric treatment, Zhu Di was furious.
In the past, the emperor was furious, and only the sound of Concubine Quan Xian's flute could soothe the left and right. The strange thing this time is that Quan Yan'er's flute has not sounded in the palace for several days.
After Yao Qinghua returned to the palace, although he was familiar with the affairs of the palm with Li Shanggong, he could often go to the Qingluan Palace where Concubine Quan Xian lived.
At that time, it was the middle of June, the weather was already hot, and the palace ministers and ministers all changed into flowing saron clothes.
The virtuous concubine Niangniang is wearing a plain white "Yuehua skirt" today, tomorrow she is wearing a floating "Su Jinshang", and the day after tomorrow she is crookedly combing the "fallen horse bun", and she is reserved and eager to look forward to it in Qingluan Hall every day, just like a young daughter-in-law who is looking forward to her husband returning home.
Every late at night, when the frost and cold are heavy, Quan Yan'er always returns under the repeated persuasion of Furui.
Yao Qinghua knew that Concubine Xian was looking forward to the emperor. But it's strange to say, why did Zhu Di, who has always regarded Quan Yan'er as the meat of his heart, suddenly disappear from Qingluan Palace?
She and Fleur were old acquaintances, and since the emperor gave her the privilege of walking around the palace of the virtuous concubine, she stuck to the hibiscus every day, wanting to get some secrets in the palace from the mouth of this very strict-mouthed big girl.
"Do you know why the emperor loves our North Korean lady so much?" Fleur finally spoke.
"yes, you stopped last time you said this, and you can't be appetizing this time." Yao Qinghua said urgently.
Maybe it's because she has been in the palace for a while, Fu Hui already has some understanding of Wu Erhong, the person who is in charge of the eight-rank palm, and knows that she is also cautious, clever, and a celebrity in front of the emperor and concubine, and she is so good with the little emperor and grandson, even the always arrogant Li Shanggong Niangniang opens the back door to her everywhere!
Since he accidentally opened his mouth in Chang Parallel Palace last time, if he keeps this secret and doesn't say it, it can be regarded as a blatant offense to people. After living in the palace for so long, she still knows the rules of survival in the palace.
So, Fu Hui beckoned, took Yao Qinghua out of the Qingluan Palace, and went to a big rockery behind the imperial garden, and talked to Yao Qinghua carefully.
"Actually, it is rumored in the palace that there is only one reason why the emperor favors Concubine Xian, that is, she looks very much like the emperor's own mother."
As soon as Fu Yuan spoke, Yao Qinghua was shocked: "Ming Chengzu Zhu Di, isn't it the fourth son born to Queen Ma?" ā
"No, the emperor was born to a Korean concubine." Fleur said with great certainty.
The old man in the palace said that this Concubine Shuo was a beautiful woman from North Korea, but Concubine Shuo was 6 months pregnant and gave birth to a prince. At that time, the great grandfather had been fighting outside for a long time, and he suspected that the emperor was not his own child, so the great grandfather ordered Concubine Shuo to be sent to the cold palace, not to mention, and was determined to give her death. Concubine Shuo's death was very miserable, and she was tortured by an iron skirt. This kind of torture is made of iron sheets made of skirts, worn on the prisoners, and then the iron skirts are heated by fire, and finally the prisoners die of pain. ā
Fleur lowered her voice, and a look of horror appeared on her face, as if the fire had roasted her.
Yao Qinghua remembered in a trance where he had seen this wild history, it is said that Zhu Yuanzhang also had murderous intentions towards Zhu Di, and in the end it was Queen Ma who saved him. After becoming an adult, Zhu Di did not dare to admit his biological mother Concubine Shuo, but when he sacrificed to her, he secretly gave his biological mother different treatment from the concubines, that is, he turned the tablet of his biological mother Concubine Shuo, so that she could enjoy different treatment from other tablets, so that the biological mother could quietly understand the honor of "mother is more precious than son" in the dark; But on the other hand, Zhu Di destroyed historical materials and publicly recognized Queen Ma as his mother, so that although he was not the "eldest son", he could at least ascend to the throne as a "son-in-law", with less doubts and obstructions.