Section 384 Firstborn

Shuntian for nine years, the wind and rain are smooth, it is a good year.

There are a few major events in Beijing, but they have nothing to do with the lives of ordinary people.

Everyone is just talking after dinner.

The first one, in April of the ninth year of Shuntian, the Gu family was disobeyed, and Gu Yantao returned to the court. Coincidentally, the Gu family had just been discontinued, and the official department had lost his mother and returned to Zhejiang for the funeral. The Ministry of Officials is the head of the six departments, and the Ministry of Officials is also known as the "Heavenly Official", how many people covet that position?

In order to promote the Gu family, the emperor asked Gu Yantao to concurrently serve as the secretary of the ministry.

Gu Yantao has been in obscurity for two and a half years, and he is ambitious and readily accepts.

In June, the emperor named Tan Guifei as the queen.

Not long after Empress Tan took charge of the harem, on the tenth day of the seventh month, Concubine Gu's De, who was already pregnant but deliberately concealed it, gave birth to a prince.

Except for the Tan family, the dynasty rejoiced.

The Tan family newly ascended the throne, and in order to show virtue and goodness, he personally held three baptism ceremonies for the three princes. She even made a statement to the emperor and named the third prince as King Yong.

Yong refers to the capital.

King Yong's fief is the capital and the surrounding land, and it is the most noble of all the princes. Since ancient times, King Yong has been his son-in-law. The concubine born to the queen chooses one as the crown prince; For the rest of the concubines, the emperor will choose a favorite son from them and be named "King Yong".

This dignity is something that Concubine Gu De's son can't enjoy.

When the news spread, everyone was very surprised.

The emperor was very happy, and consulted with the cabinet elders: "I am approaching the age of my establishment, and my heirs have always been thin. Now that the three princes have been added, it is a real happy event. The court people were prosperous. It indicates the prosperity of the world. The queen is virtuous, and the three princes are named the king of Yong, and I am pleased. It's just that King Yong has always given his sons-in-law, and the three princes are not concubines, I don't know what you think? ”

Xia Shoufu was silent.

The other elders were silent.

Gu Yantao hesitated for a moment before he said, "Your Majesty, Weichen thinks it's not good." There is a folk saying that children should be raised cheaply when they are young. Cheap and blessed. Too prestigious. On the contrary, it folds the blessing of the child. Over the years, the heirs in the palace have been thin, and the three princes have been cowardly. It's better to wait for the third prince to come of age. Crowned King Again"

Xia Shoufu and several other pavilion elders were stunned. They all looked up at Gu Yantao.

They originally thought that Gu Yantao was very happy and tried his best to promote this matter.

I don't think so. He actually refused.

Xia Shoufu looked at Gu Yantao's gaze with a bit of inquiry.

The emperor was displeased.

In the fourth month of Gu's concubine's pregnancy, the emperor found out. It was the Queen Mother who helped Concubine Gu De hide it. After the emperor found out about the matter, the queen mother explained: The child has just been put on the body, and he is the most delicate. Folk sayings should not be widely publicized, and they need to be concealed, so that the child can be healthy.

The emperor also accepted the Queen Mother's explanation, only liked it, and did not delve into Concubine Gu De's concealment.

Later, the Queen Mother was very attentive to Concubine Gu De's fetus.

Concubine Gu De's body and bones have always been fine, and she has no illness or disaster until the child falls to full term.

It's a prince.

Not to mention the emperor, the queen mother also cried with joy.

This child carries too much hope of the emperor, and it is the emperor's wish to be able to crown the child as King Yong. He wanted the child to be safe and honorable.

The newly crowned queen wanted to please the emperor very much, but somehow she spied on the emperor's thoughts, and actually offered to let the third prince be named King Yong. King Yong can only be the second son of the queen, and the emperor is also worried that the Tan family will not be happy and make some right and wrong.

The emperor didn't want the Tan family to make trouble as soon as he ascended the throne.

Now that the Tan family has taken the initiative to mention it, half of the emperor's worries have gone, and it is Xingtou.

Only Gu Yantao poured cold water. Gu Yantao's scoop of cold water was splashed suddenly and inexplicably, and the emperor was stunned for a long time.

Some of the princes were crowned kings by birth, and some were crowned kings again when they became adults, and the rewards were different depending on the situation.

Gu Yantao's request is reasonable.

The emperor looked at his gaze, but secretly choked a little thunder: Can't Gu Yantao see that the emperor tried his best to promote Concubine Gu De and the third prince, not only because he loved the third prince, but also because he promoted the Gu family and Gu Yantao by the way?

Why hasn't Gu Yantao become so short-sighted in the past few years?

"What is unusual for the three princes," the emperor said, "besides, this is also the queen's loving heart, and she has made the three princes the king of Yong." In my opinion, it is better to set a date and award it as soon as possible. ”

"Your Majesty, the young son is not enough to bear the love, this is an eternal truth. I beg Your Majesty to love the three princes and postpone the reward," Gu Yantao said.

He insisted on not letting go.

Several pavilion elders came back to their senses and spoke for Gu Yantao one after another.

They are either protégés of the Tan family, or they are not used to the Gu family, so they naturally don't want Concubine Gu's son to be resealed.

Xia Shoufu finally spoke, persuading the emperor not to rush to reward the three princes.

The emperor was so angry that he threw his sleeves away.

He was full of joy, but he was angry.

But the words of the courtiers cannot be completely ignored.

It is a big deal to be crowned a prince, and the emperor can't listen to it alone.

He was very upset and went back to the inner palace.

He went to the third prince first.

After the baptism, the three princes moved from Jinghe Palace to Xinde Palace. Xinde Palace is the palace of the prince, and it sent four grandmothers, twelve big palace maids, twelve small palace maids, and twelve chamberlains to serve the three princes.

The three princes also look like the emperor.

The princesses and princes born to Concubine De are like emperors.

The prince's generation is the generation of the word "Yan", so the third prince is named Yanshan.

The emperor looked at it for a moment, looked at the child's red and tender sleeping face, and suddenly felt that Gu Yantao's words were right. The child is too tender, the hands and feet are so small, and the small ones are not real. Such a child can't afford the controversial title of "King Yong".

Rather than being prosperous and rich, the emperor hoped that Yanshan could live a healthy life.

Don't be like the second prince

Thinking of the untimely death of the second prince, the waves of pain in the emperor's heart rolled up, and he took a hard breath before suppressing his feelings.

He got up and went to Renshou Palace, and told the Empress Dowager of his decision first, he wanted to slow down first, wait for the third prince Yanshan to be older, and then give the prince the title. He wanted to ask the Queen Mother if he was doing this right, and if he would treat Yanshan lightly.

At the end of July, in the capital, the heat has subsided, and the sound of cicadas in the shadows of the branches has added a touch of decadence. Summer is finally coming to an end. The green grass is everywhere, and the rich green moistens the land that has been roasted by the midsummer sun. Autumn seems to be far away.

From Xinde Palace to Renshou Palace, the emperor did not take the jade chariot.

Sometimes, he would rather take a few more steps around the palace and see his courtyard.

When I arrived at Renshou Palace, I heard the joyful laughter of the Queen Mother.

The emperor's mood couldn't help but be happy.

He came in, saluted the Queen Mother, and then asked the Queen Mother, "Why is the Queen Mother so happy?" ”

The Queen Mother handed the express letter sent from Luzhou to the emperor, and said: "On the fifth day of the seventh month, the eldest son was added to Zhongjun's room, four catties and eight taels" Then, the Queen Mother sighed slightly, "Not full-term, it will land in seven months." At the beginning, Xiao Qi was pregnant and refused to squeak, just wanting to go to Luzhou with Zhong Jun. I heard that it has not been smooth."

Gu Jinzhi was pregnant in the first month.

She didn't want to stay in the capital alone, and wanted to follow Zhu Zhongjun to Luzhou, so she deliberately didn't say anything. If she reveals a little wind, whether it is the Queen Mother or Song Paner, she will not let her go. And Zhu Zhongjun has to go, this is the ancestral system, Gu Jinzhi doesn't want to stay in Beijing alone.

Neither can she.

Not only is she not sure, but Zhu Zhongjun will also worry about her, and she will be restless day and night. It's better to follow.

She took her pulse and felt she could handle it. She thought of her tenth and eleventh brothers, who were also conceived by her mother on her way north. With this, she felt even more that there was no need to make a fuss.

Who knows, after arriving in Luzhou, she began to fall red, intermittently, and did not dare to use medicine. At that time, she was also so frightened that she had no master, and specially asked someone to quickly invite Lin Yi from Fujiazhuang to Luzhou.

Lin Yi had a little friendship with Gu Jinzhi, so he went.

He has superb medical skills and uses acupuncture to save the child for Gu Jinzhi.

Zhu Zhongjun and Gu Jinzhi hid this matter from the Queen Mother.

Because she had fetal gas at the beginning of pregnancy, Gu Jinzhi's condition continued during pregnancy.

In the end, the child landed at only seven months.

can grow to four catties and eight taels, all of which Lin Yi takes care of properly.

There must be a reason why the child falls to the ground before term. Zhu Zhongjun felt that the Queen Mother must investigate deeply, and concealing it might have lost the Queen Mother's trust in their husband and wife, so he sent the most powerful steward and secretary around him to Beijing in person, not only to report the good news, but also to tell the Queen Mother the truth: Gu Jinzhi and the child are very good, although they are less than a month, they are very healthy and can live a long life.

The Queen Mother was first stunned, then delighted.

Children and adults are safe, no matter what happened in the past, it was a false alarm, and the Queen Mother was not prepared to blame too much.

The emperor took the letter and read it, and saw the secretary standing beside him, and asked him with a smile, "Who does the prince look like?" ”

"Like a prince," replied the secretary, kneeling down hurriedly.

In fact, the child is very similar to Gu Jinzhi.

But the secretary knew what to say when he saw someone, and deliberately said like Zhu Zhongjun. The first time he saw the emperor, he thought that his legs would be weak. Unexpectedly, the emperor looked a little like the prince, fairer and gentler than the prince, and the secretary actually felt a little kind, so he was not afraid.

When he had finished speaking, the emperor told him to get up, and he got up and stood aside.

The Queen Mother waited for the emperor to finish asking, and said with a smile: "Zhong Jun asked the emperor to give the child a name." This child is blessed, five days earlier than our Yanshan. If he is full-term, he is Yanshan's younger brother. Now he is an elder brother. ”

The Queen Mother was very happy.

There are two more grandchildren, which makes the queen mother's love very high. As soon as she was happy, she laughed with the emperor.

The emperor also smiled, but something came to mind in his heart, which made his eyes flicker a little. Then, he groaned slightly and said, "It's called Yanzhuo, right?" ”

The Queen Mother felt that the word "Zhuo" was very good, nodded and smiled: "Yan Zhuo is good." Outstanding, in the future, this child will stand up to Zhongjun's court. She asked Aunt Cheng to bring paper and ink and let the emperor write it down.

The emperor gave the word "Yanzhuo" to Zhu Zhongjun and Gu Jinzhi's eldest son.

(To be continued......)