Chapter 372: Two Brothers
This is a temple completely covered in white, and this is where the Empress Dowager Lu's soul rests.
Seven days after the suspension of the spirit, Lu's coffin will be moved to the filial piety tomb for burial.
Because the coffin of Emperor Xingzong Zhu Biao was parked in a side room in the filial piety tomb, it was natural that Zhu Biao's concubines such as Lu and others would be buried together.
When Zhu Yunwen is also buried, the three generations of grandparents will be reunited.
Of course, with the size of the filial piety tomb, it is enough for the emperors of the old Zhu family to be buried until the 21st century.
There are not too many people in the hall, and there are no monks and Taoists who recite the Sutra of the Past Lives, only Zhu Yunwen is a son, with Wen Kui and Wen Qi's two grandsons guarding the spirit.
The grandfather and the family knelt quietly on the futon in front of the coffin, and this posture had lasted from the time of the hour to the time of the sun, and only some food and water were eaten at noon.
After the last day of the funeral, the coffin will turn to Xiaoling early tomorrow morning.
"Father, you haven't spoken for a few days."
Zhu Wenqi stayed in front of his father, watching the latter be silent for several days, and finally couldn't hold back the doubts in his heart, and asked: "It's for grandma's sadness, you have said many times that birth, old age, sickness and death are common things in the world, and you don't need to be moved by this, and you hope that your father will take care of the dragon's body." ”
Zhu Yunwen tilted his head and shook his head gently: "Your father, I'm not sad, I'm just thinking about what my grandfather said to me back then, and I've been thinking about it since I calmed down for the past seven days." ”
"Is it Emperor Gao, the great-grandfather?"
Wen Qi was interested, when he was born, Zhu Hongwu had already been in the sky, and the little guy really didn't have a chance to meet this legendary great-grandfather, even Wen Kui, he didn't have any impression.
After all, he was only two or three years old at that time.
They didn't know that the grandfather in Zhu Yunwen's mouth was the old Red Army among the broken memory fragments in his mind.
That memory was so broken that it was too serious, and all Zhu Yunwen could remember was the words that his grandfather sighed with emotion before he died when he was in the middle of his career and was upright and high-spirited.
"I don't have too many requirements for you, and I don't need you to shine on the lintel, I just hope that you will be able to be an official and be better to the people in the future."
Be kind to the common people.
Then, this piece of fragment disappeared, and Grandpa's face became Zhu Hongwu.
The same old dragon clock, the same lying on the sickbed.
The identities of the two are very different, and the power of the latter is far more prosperous than the former, but the words are exactly the same.
"You have become an emperor, you have to be kind to the people."
These two instructions come from different identities and transcend time and space, but they unexpectedly produce competition.
Because of this, it was engraved into Zhu Yunwen's bones and mind.
The memory of his previous life, Zhu Yunwen has blurred too much, but this sentence has been retained precisely because of this accident, and it has never been diluted because of the washing of time.
On the contrary, with the precipitation of time, Zhu Yunwen's own age has increased, and he has become deeper and deeper.
"Yes, your great-grandfather."
Zhu Yunwen said a vague identity pronoun, and then sighed.
"When I was very young, he taught me filial piety and benevolence, said that filial piety comes first, and told the story of the crow feeding the lamb and kneeling for more than 20 years.
kneeling in front of Lu's spirit and saying the word filial piety, Zhu Wenkui, who had grown up beside him, felt very awkward.
He is not a little Wenqi, he is already old, and what happened in this palace is basically no secret to him.
"You have not met your great-grandfather, and I have not met my great-grandfather and great-grandmother.
I remember many years ago, I asked my grandfather, the story of my great-grandfather.
My grandfather burst into tears, and later I learned that when my grandfather was fighting on the front line, my great-grandmother was already sick, but there was no military pay at that time. Grandpa borrowed everywhere, and only managed to scrape together enough money to send back, and a month later, the package was sent back, and the money in it became even moreover, and there was also an extra mouthful of food.
It turned out that at that time, the mountains and rivers were broken, and my great-grandmother gave her grandfather the money she used to buy medicine and cure the disease, along with the last bite of food.
He chose to leave this world in pain and hunger, so that his grandfather could fight on the front line with peace of mind. ”
The two children were confused, this didn't quite look like Zhu Yuanzhang's story, but Zhu Yunwen's affectionate tone was never made up.
This is a story that really happened to Zhu Yunwen.
"There is a great mother who chose to send all four of her children to the battlefield, and when all four of them died, she sent four pensions to the barracks to help the country, and also took a cat that had been with her for many years.
said that there is nothing left in her family to support the country, only such a cat, which can fill her stomach if she kills and eats it. ”
The two children listened with numbness on their faces and sour noses.
So when I heard these two stories, I understood why my grandfather asked me to be filial, because he felt that he was not filial, he was not able to take care of his sick mother, he did not even have time to bury his mother, and his conscience tormented his life.
He hoped that I would be a filial son in the future, and that I would be a continuation of his life, and that I would make up for the debt in his heart. ”
Zhu Yunwen spoke quietly, tracing the scattered memory fragments in his mind.
"Back then, when they resolutely stepped on the battlefield, how could they ever have thought of staying by Gao Tang's side and serving filial piety on their knees, their choice, the choice of the whole country, was to give up their small family and protect everyone, without them, there would be no more qualifications for future generations to talk about filial piety first. This is not unfilial piety but great filial piety, which is to treat everyone's parents in the whole country as their own parents and sacrifice their lives to protect them.
This is what this group of uneducated people are doing, they don't know how to say that the rise and fall of the country is the responsibility of the people, and they don't know any high-level knowledge.
They simply believe in the propaganda of the state, and the state says that if the country dies, the family will be destroyed, so they put down their hoes and go to war, to sacrifice everything they have.
When the battle was over, the state said that they would dig ditches and build embankments and build roads, and they once again threw themselves into it without hesitation, until the blood was spilled on the embankment and their souls were ruined in a foreign land.
The common people lay so much food in a year, and they have to hand it over to the state, and the rest is barely enough to make ends meet, and they don't even have the money left over to sell their clothes, let alone listen to a song and drink a leisurely drink.
But it is such a group of people who have stood up to this country and protected every ethnic group living on this land! This is a group of truly great people, people who really deserve to be celebrated, but they will never be blessed when it is their turn, they only deserve to continue to go back to the dirt fields and go to the sweaty fields to dig and eat.
to continue to endure the oppression of dignitaries and dignitaries, and endure the exploitation and oppression of rich businessmen. ”
The two children's eyes turned red when they heard this, and Xiao Wenqi gritted his teeth even more: "Those high-ranking officials and nobles, and bastards who oppress the good and good, should be dismantled, and the sons are eager to peel them and cut them with a thousand knives." ”
"Even if we know that this is unfair, we can't do anything about it, because this is the reality, it is inevitable, it is an inevitable choice under the social formation system, and a country will definitely divide the ruling class and the ruled class.
If the world is equal, it will be a disordered world, which will only cause greater destruction and destruction.
And what we should do is to do our best to be kind to this group of people. ”
Even though he has been kneeling for seven days, Zhu Yunwen's spine is still straight, and the straight spine is just like his heart at the moment, unswerving, without regrets.
"In the face of the great righteousness of the country, everyone should have the least consciousness, even the people who have no culture have this kind of consciousness, then I should have it even more as an emperor, and you should also have it as a prince."
Zhu Yunwen's words were not finished, but Zhu Wenkui understood.
The emperor and prince should have it, and the queen mother should also have it!
When you ask the country to make way for you, then you can only make way for the country!
We can't let the common people be counted on to selflessly contribute to everything in the world, and the heavenly family of the greatest benefit recipient is at ease, talking about benevolence, righteousness and morality.
"The public power of the imperial court is based on the trust of the people, and when the people do not trust the imperial court, the political structure will collapse and be destroyed, which will then cause a series of great disasters, and countless people will be destroyed, so at no time can the people's trust in the imperial court be shaken.
The people trust me and trust that the court can do certain things well, so they support me and the court to carry out the tasks, so that certain things can be done well.
In fact, the people who do things are still the people, and I and the imperial court just put forward this idea, and it is because they trust it to do it, and then do it well.
If you don't even believe in it, then how can you do it, if you don't do it well, the people won't believe it, and so on in a vicious circle.
When the foreign enemy invaded, the court called on the people to fight, and the people were still willing to go, they would only spontaneously organize resistance in order to protect themselves, and the final result was that they were defeated by the foreign enemies. ”
The greatest responsibility for the pain of the national disaster will always be recorded on the incompetent government of the late Ming Dynasty.
Hundreds of millions of Ming people, but anyone who can show one-tenth of the courage and unity during the Anti-Japanese War can pile up and kill that group of aliens.
But the result was that at the same time as the invasion of foreign enemies, the internal battalions also fought for their own battalions, and finally Chongzhen hanged himself, and broke the soul of King Li Zicheng Jiugong Mountain.
The Southern Ming Dynasty established in the south of the Yangtze River still engaged in political dumping in the suspicion of the monarchs and ministers, fighting for power and profit, and even exploiting the people to repair the palace and pavilion.
The final result was that Jiangnan was slaughtered, and the dozens of massacres that were not inferior to Nanjing became a pain that the Han nation could not forget.
This bitter fruit was planted by the government itself at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and in the end, it ate the bitter fruit by itself.
And in the current Ming Dynasty, the people all over the country trust Zhu Yunwen, the emperor, and also believe in the Ming court.
If an alien race whose combat power far exceeded that of the Jurchens at the end of the Ming Dynasty came to invade, would he be able to defeat the Ming Dynasty?
Everyone knows that this is impossible, he will leave a wound at most, bite off a piece of meat, and he will never be qualified to destroy Daming.
It is the Great Wall of flesh and blood, which has thousands of heavy cannons, and has also been built by tens of millions of Ming people.
This is the cohesion and combat effectiveness of the country.
"At present, the first five-year plan of the imperial court, the cabinet has issued a military order to complete it, if it cannot be completed because of a certain person, what will the people think of our imperial court, and the trust will decline.
Shaking the foundation of trust once will not destroy the country, it is like a small anthill on a thousand-mile embankment.
Once carelessly, twice carelessly, after a long time, the latecomers don't care, and finally the embankment collapses.
Therefore, it is necessary to prevent the slightest slight, and it must not appear once. ”
The two sons had different expressions, but they both nodded their heads to indicate that they were taught.
At this time, the time was reported outside the palace, and the time came.
The seven-day wake is considered to be the end of the week.
"Your Majesty, rest early at night."
Shuangxi stepped forward to help Zhu Yunwen, who had completely knelt on the wood, and the latter would get up early tomorrow morning to send the spirit.
"You two should go back to the house and rest early."
Zhu Yunwen was struggling to walk right now, and when he threw down this sentence, he rubbed towards the Qianqing Palace little by little with the support of Shuangxi.
Waiting for Zhu Yunwen to leave, the two children did not let the waiter help them leave, but changed to kneeling to sit to relieve the numbness of their legs first.
It's really not easy to stand up after kneeling for a long time.
"Big brother, do you think your father did the right thing?"
Suddenly, Xiao Wenqi looked at Zhu Wenkui and asked such a question, which made the latter's face tense.
"What did my father do?"
Subconsciously, Zhu Wenkui prevaricated casually.
"Demolish Xiayun Temple."
Zhu Wenqi put his hands hard and supported himself to get up from the ground: "There is no one in Nanjing City who does not know the significance of Xiayun Temple to grandma, and no one does not know the physical condition of grandma over the years. ”
"The second brother is nine years old this year, right?"
did not answer Zhu Wenqi's question positively, Zhu Wenkui changed the topic and admonished: "It's not small, I heard that I will go to the lakeside school this year, since I am a big child, there is no child's words, and the consideration between the cabinet and the father and the emperor has not yet reached the time for you to put your beak." ”
"I heard that the queen mother has already started to choose a concubine for her eldest brother."
Seeing Zhu Wenkui turn around to leave, Zhu Wenqi followed behind him: "Start looking now, it will take a year or two to get married, and then the eldest brother will become a relative, and it will be difficult to listen to the teachings of the eldest brother." ”
Zhu Wenkui's back paused, and then turned his head sideways: "Don't you think you are a little too precocious, you are so smart, in a few years, where will you use me as an elder brother to teach you."
Oh yes, when the palace gets married, it is bound to move out of the Qianqing Palace, and then when the time comes, it will be your brother's turn to accompany you.
The matter of teaching is naturally from the father, and it is true that the palace is not needed. ”
"People in the palace said that I behaved unusually as soon as I was born."
There was a harmless smile on his face, but the words in the mouth of a little eight-year-old child had nothing to do with sincerity.
It's more of a show-off.
"Then it depends on what you can do when you enter Lakeside Academy this year."
Zhu Wenkui snorted coldly: "Don't blame me for not reminding you, although this lakeside school says that you and my brothers can get in directly by relying on their father, but if they can't pass the test, they will lose face to their father after all." ”
Whether it is small wisdom or great wisdom can only be seen on the stage.
But when the two brothers talked to each other, they were already holding guns and sticks, and they were full of gunpowder.
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