Chapter 12: Such a Family Feast

Since Song Sheng's promotion, many generals in the army have been promoted or awarded awards, and these people, without exception, are the people who Zhu Di tried to get close to him before.

Then Yang Wen, the left governor of the Right Army Governor's Mansion and the chief military officer of Liaodong, returned to the dynasty from Liaodong, and was crowned the Marquis of Hanshan by Zhu Yunwen, and concurrently served as the commander of the Shandong Weidu.

Xu Zhong, the commander of Jiyangwei, was reappointed as the commander of Datongwei, and Li Yuan, the commander of Ulzhouwei, was reappointed as the commander of Jizhouwei.

Chen Heng, the former governor of the Northern Zhili Prefecture, was added to the chief military officer of Guizhou and went deep into Tusi to prepare for the reform of the land and return to the river.

Chen Heng has lived in Beizhi for a long time and is under Zhu Di's co-system, so Zhu Yunwen sent him far away first, leaving hidden dangers in the encirclement he set up for Zhu Di.

The current Zhu Di, the north is Monan, the east is Liaodong, the west is Datong, the south is Shandong, and there is a Jizhou Wei at the throat, Zhu Yunwen really wants to see, in the encirclement of nearly 400,000 troops, how did he Zhu Di jump out?

Zhu Yunwen, who was in a good mood, began to issue decrees one after another, pardoning all the officials who had been convicted for their words in the Hongwu Dynasty, rehabilitating those who had died, moving back to their hometowns after being exiled, giving acres of land, and giving their families generous food, cloth, and silver money to help them stabilize their lives.

Those who serve their sentences, and those who are not guilty of capital crimes, are pardoned, and it is for the sake of amnesty for the whole world.

Subsequently, due to the preliminary survey of Yunnan, Guizhou and Guangxi for many years of war, it was in the ascendant and the tax was exempted for three years.

For a time, the government and the opposition sang peace, and all recited the benevolence of Jianwen.

Only Zhu Yunwen was alone with a faint pain in his flesh, taxes from the three provinces, and tens of thousands of people were rehabilitated, and the huge expenditure made Hubu Shangshu almost commit a cerebral thrombosis.

The cub sells Ye Tian's heart is not painful, and the family foundation left by Taizu is thick enough!

After the filial piety, everyone who should be graced has also been heard, and Zhu Yunwen finally turned his attention to the princes!

In the thirty-first year of Hongwu, on the first day of the eighth month, Zhu Yunwen set up a family banquet in the provincial bow hall, and entertained all relatives, including most of the princes, concubines, and his own half-brothers, such as Zhu Yunxi. Why do you say a large part of it, because Zhu Yunwen still has a few uncles, who are only eight or nine years old now, and they have not been in the harem all these years.

"Your Majesty has arrived!"

There are little eunuchs from the warm pavilion corridor into the main hall, singing a voice, there is a music class in the main hall to make vocal music, a group of relatives are standing in their respective positions, the music sounds, one after another bows.

"The ministers knock on Your Majesty, long live my emperor, long live, long live!"

The last syllable fell, the drum music stopped, Zhu Yunwen walked from the royal road to the dragon chair, sat down, and spoke, "Today is a family banquet, no court ceremony, uncles and brothers, get up." ”

A musician rang the chime, and the chime sound was crisp in the ears, and everyone bowed again, "Thank you, Your Majesty." "Resurrection.

Worship, it's not a child playing at home, the big guys just kneel on the ground and kowtow and shout long live. The rigor of the worship can be understood as a military parade of courtiers in ancient times.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the ministers often got up at three o'clock in the morning, rushed to wait outside the noon gate, and waited for the big guys to come to the roster, and waited for the name to be finished at almost four o'clock, at this time the eunuch in the noon gate went to the harem to report the news.

In fact, it is to call the emperor to get up.

If the emperor is diligent in government, he will wake up as soon as he shouts, and the eunuch will run back to the noon gate, "The emperor is in the court, and hundreds of officials will meet him"

The noon gate opened, and the ministers divided the civil and military, and walked along the left and right sides of the royal road to wait for music outside the Fengtian Palace.

The military general is on the left, and Wenchen goes to the right, so he goes to the main hall, and in the eyes of the emperor, he is Wen Zuo and Wu Right.

If the emperor is lazy and lies in bed, the good guy will have to wait, when the emperor wakes up, hug the concubine in his arms, and delay if he is interested, and he is even lazier to go to court if he is not interested, and the eunuch will also go out to report the news, "The emperor is unwell, and he will strike the court today." ”

These ministers deserved to stand for four or five hours.

The emperor went out of the Qianqing Palace, passed through the Qianqing Gate in the south, began to play music in the Fengtian Palace, the courtiers stepped on the music point into the hall, each returned to its place, and so on the music stopped, the ministers must have stood up, if the music stopped and did not find their place, then you don't have to look for it, go to the hall to kneel and wait for the disposal, the light punishment is to think about it, and the heavy is to take the court staff.

When the emperor passed all the way south through the two halls of Jinshen and Huacani, and was about to enter the main hall along the imperial road on the west side of the Fengtian Palace, the inner attendant entered the hall and sang, "Your Majesty is in the court." ”

At this time, the emperor should also appear in the sight of the officials, and when he sees it, he will bow down, and the ministers will kneel on the ground, sing long live, and kowtow.

When the music is collected, the emperor must have walked to the position of the dragon chair, and then the emperor sat down and shouted flat, the leader of the music class knocked on the bell, the sound of the bell has penetrating power, even if there are ministers who are about to faint from hunger, they will instantly come back to their senses, and when they hear this sound, they will immediately habitually shout "Your Majesty Xie" kowtow and get up.

Everyone has watched TV series, and after the emperor shouted flat, a eunuch shouted, "There is a book to play, but there is no book to quit." ”

This set of words, it is appropriate to use it before the year of Ming Yongle, and this sentence should not be shouted at this time after Ming Yongle.

Why?

After Yongle, the imperial court has a cabinet, the emperor every day on the first night of the court, the cabinet has drawn up the charter, the good things have already been prepared, the court directly issued, the things that are not done are waiting for the emperor to go to the court to do it.

Whoever named it came out to explain what the situation was, and then the emperor judged.

If the emperor goes to court with anger, he plans to ask some ministers why this matter is so tricky, and they want to find someone to trouble.

The dignified emperor can't pull the big guy, shout slowly, I have something to say, right?

So it must have been after the big guy was flattened, and the eunuch shouted, "Listen to the hadith." ”

When the cabinet has not been resolved, the emperor has a look at him, and this is the time to shout the phrase "quitting without a book".

Everyone is fine, the emperor is retreating, and the eunuchs are singing, "Retreat." ”

Playing music, the minister bowed to the emperor and sang long live.

At this time, it is different from the court, at this time, the etiquette and music are slow, and the minister is also dragging his breath when he sings long live, and he must wait for the emperor to leave his sight, and this last sentence can be shouted after long live.

In a word, whenever the emperor can see the minister, the minister must be kneeling.

So much so that there is a sentence to describe the Ming and Qing Dynasty rites: "The emperor's authority has reached the pinnacle of supremacy." ”

This set of cumbersome procedures is the etiquette, the minister goes to the palace, pays homage to the king, if there is no music, no ringing, it is said:

Etiquette collapses!

The court ceremony is cumbersome but must be learned, Zhu Yunwen first opened his mouth to set the tone, not to mention the court ceremony, but to make the relatives feel relieved.

"Today's meal, firstly, since everyone entered Beijing, I have never had the opportunity to officially entertain you, and this time I am considered to be the friendship of the landlord.

Second, uncles and brothers are all vassal kings, and the filial piety period has passed.

Finally, let's sit together as a family, talk about parents, summarize what each branch has seen and heard over the years, and let the big guys learn from each other's strengths. ”

In the end, Zhu Yunwen laughed, "For example, the fourth uncle taught our first gold belt winner of the Ming Dynasty, and my son is almost three years old, so I have to ask the fourth uncle for advice." ”

The big guys all laughed together, and Zhu Di got up and bowed, "The emperor praises falsely, and the ministers are ashamed." ”

"Think about it, our family has been here for so many years, but today is the first time we have all here."

Zhu Yunwen sighed, "The uncles have come to the domain one after another, and I will no longer have the opportunity to learn from the uncles. ”

Zhu Yunwen raised his glass, and the big guys drank the wine in the glass, and the youngest one was Anwang Zhu Ying, who was only sixteen years old, and choked after drinking.

Ma Meiyin laughed, "King An is still young, so it's better to replace the bar with tea." ”

Zhu Yunwen waved his hand, "If you don't know how to drink, if you don't drink now, you will have to exercise more, I plan to let Uncle An Wang become a vassal next year, and if you don't practice now, you will have a good amount of wine, and when you get to the feudal country, you must not be bullied by those madmen." “

There was a quiet moment in the hall, and several princes who were close to King An were all smiling, and asked Zhu Yunwen where he planned to let Zhu Ying go.

Zhu Yunwen laughed, "We are all a family, and the world is also our family, where to choose by yourself, I have agreed today." ”

It seems that Zhu Yunwen seems to be very talkative, Zhu Ying suddenly dizzy with joy, and asked tentatively, "Is it okay if you want to go to Zhejiang?" ”

Young Sichun, always in the palace to listen to the servants say that there are many beautiful women in the south of the Yangtze River, there is heaven and Suzhou and Hangzhou, and Zhu Ying, who is sixteen years old and has not yet found a daughter-in-law, now wants to see what heaven is.

Zhu Yunwen nodded with a smile, "Yes, then I will give you Shaoxing Mansion." ”

Zhu Ying suddenly felt dizzy for a while, only to feel that this surprise was a little too big, and he forgot to thank him for a while.

Some of the princes whose fiefs were in remote areas were red-eyed, and the young Liao King Zhu Zhi rolled his eyes, and he also opened his mouth.

"Your Majesty, the minister wants to change his fiefdom, do you think so?"

Zhu Zhi is young after all, he is only in his early twenties this year, and at the age of fifteen or sixteen, he was driven by Zhu Yuanzhang to Liaodong, where birds don't, and his life is so hard.

Yes, with tens of thousands of troops in his hands, he is no different from the emperor in Liaodong, but what is the use, he can't point to killing people every day for fun, and he doesn't want to rebel against the real emperor, he wants to be the king of the Taiping domain for a lifetime, and he also wants to rise up in the spring night, so that the king will not be early in the morning, instead of being woken up by various military reports before dawn all day, and then run to the military camp where the wind leaks on all sides and freezes like a dead dog.

Zhu Yunwen pretended to have a cold face, "Uncle Liao is guarding Liaodong, that is the grandfather's appointment, how can you say that you can change it." ”

Who knew that Zhu Zhi actually pretended to be sick, "Your Majesty, the minister is bitter." ”

After staying in Beijing for more than three months, Zhu Zhi didn't know how many flowers and moons he saw, if it weren't for Rexiao's obstruction, Zhu Zhi would have turned into a wolf to rob the people's daughters, he was also a useless person, and he couldn't miss a temple fair every day.

In short, Zhu Zhi has made up his mind to pay attention, the broken land in Liaodong, he said that he will not go back, the population is sparse, the land is poor, the girls there are stronger than Li Kui, and the daughter-in-law of the family persuaded Zhu Zhi to take a concubine several times, but Zhu Zhi was not determined to abuse himself.

Hearing that Zhu Zhi was not accustomed to the water and soil, and suffered from the wind and cold for a long time, so that he felt unbearable pain in his legs and feet at a young age, Zhu Yunwen sighed, "That's it, in this case, Uncle Liao Wang will stay in Beijing first, and I will arrange for the imperial doctor to diagnose and treat my uncle, and the matter of the fief will be decided by you and me in the future." ”

Zhu Zhi happily drank three cups in a row, not at all like he was sick in his body.

Zhu Yang, the king of Min in Gansu, saw that Zhu Zhi had a play, and he also wanted to change it, but as soon as he opened his mouth, he was refuted by Zhu Yunwen, "Nonsense!" Uncle Liao Wangzhen has been guarding the frontier for many years, and it is meritorious, I first said that it is okay, if you want to change the fiefdom, it is not impossible, and you can go to the nine borders to guard for a few years. ”

If you have guarded the nine sides, you can change it?

A few younger people immediately started to think about it, only Zhu Di, Zhu Quan, Zhu Gui, and Zhu Ao trembled in their hearts, glanced at each other, and seemed to see the fluctuations in each other's hearts, sitting in their own positions, silent.

As for the attack on the title, Zhu Shangbing, the king of Qin, and Zhu Jixi, the king of Jin, who were of the same generation as Zhu Yunwen, were indifferent to this, and were busy eating at this time.

The two children don't worry about these things at all, since they attacked the title, they have only one thought left in their hearts, they will listen to the emperor for everything.

They are not their father Zhu Fan and Zhu Li, these two people are disobedient that they have confidence, and their prestige in the army is high, Qin Wangwei and Jin Wangwei can listen to Zhu Fan and Zhu Li's words, that is a friendship between life and death, as soon as they die, those soldiers would rather listen to the orthodoxy of Nanjing, and it is impossible to fool around with the two children, so they entered Beijing this time, it was relaxed.

are even ready not to return to the feudal country as soon as they come, the new emperor sees that they are so obedient, he will not kill them, right?

Seeing that a good meal would soon become a grievance meeting, Zhu Yunwen hurriedly waved his hand, "Okay, let's talk about the matter of sealing Yi Fan later, today I am here to drink, come, let's respect the fourth uncle together." ”

Zhu Di was sweating on the back of his neck, and as soon as he heard Zhu Yunwen's name, Teng Leng jumped up, "The minister is frightened, and he doesn't dare to be the emperor." ”

Zhu Yunwen smiled, actually walked down the imperial case, came to Zhu Di with a wine glass, took the latter's arm and faced everyone, and said sincerely, "Uncles and brothers, the fourth uncle has been on the front line of Shuntian for a long time, coordinating the military of the nine sides, and has fought dozens of battles for me over the years between the Ming Dynasty and the remnants of the reverse yuan, I heard that the fourth uncle has been in the mansion for less than a month a year, and some of you enjoy peace in Jiangnan, and I can ascend the throne in Yingtian, we all inherit the love of the fourth uncle, you say, this cup of wine should not be respected." ”

There was a chorus of praise in the hall, saying things like "the fourth brother and the fourth uncle should drink", Zhu Di had to pretend to be frightened and drank it all, and he didn't even dare to say it in his mouth.

was about to put down the wine glass, but saw Zhu Yunwen pick up the wine jug and pour wine for Zhu Di personally.

"Fourth uncle, I want to honor you alone."

Zhu Yunwen sighed, facing everyone, "Everyone doesn't know, the fourth uncle works too hard for the country, even when he is filial piety for his grandfather, he has always been concerned about the frontier war in his heart, and he has repeatedly sent strict orders to Shuntian not to slack off on armaments, I was really moved inexplicably in my heart, so I let Song Sheng go to Monan, thinking that the two are old friends and can help each other, and the fourth uncle also in order to avoid suspicion, a few days ago, there was no banquet for Song Sheng to practice." ”

After speaking, Zhu Yunwen also patted Zhu Di's arm, "Between you and my uncle and nephew, why worry about it, blood is thicker than water, how can I not trust my own family." ”

Everyone praised it, but Zhu Di was terrified to death!

In King Yan's mansion, there are thieves!