On the morning of the first day of the fifth month of the eighth year of the Wan calendar, Zhu Yijun did not wait for dawn, so he hurried to his biological mother, the Empress Dowager Li, the Empress Dowager Cisheng, to say that there was something urgent.

Empress Dowager Li inexplicably got out of bed and summoned the emperor into the palace to ask why.

Zhu Yijun looked nervous, and immediately knelt down when he saw his mother, kowtowed and replied, "Queen Mother, the son of the son dreamed of his father, and the father and the emperor blamed the son and the emperor for nearly ten years, but he failed to see the tomb of the father and the emperor, and he was extremely unfilial." The son was terrified, and he invited him to see his mother. ”

Empress Dowager Li admired Buddha very sincerely, and when she heard Zhu Yijun's words, she couldn't help but be surprised, and a little hazy drowsiness disappeared in fright, and her half-leaning body sat up straight all of a sudden, and asked, "What else did your father say?"

Zhu Yijun shook his head and said, "I didn't say anything else, my father just accused my son of being unfilial, and my son woke up in shock at that time and came to see his mother immediately."

Empress Dowager Li couldn't sit still, stood up, hurriedly paced back and forth a few times, and said, "No wonder the mourning family has been a little restless recently, and the end of the month is your father's death day, which is why he is unhappy." Jun'er, this time your father's death, how did the court originally arrange it, and who will go to sacrifice on your behalf?"

Zhu Yijun thought for a while and said, "It should be Gu Anbo." ”

Gu Anbo is Chen Jingxing, the father of the Empress Dowager Rensheng. In terms of the habit of sacrificing in the Ming Dynasty, it is indeed very suitable for him to sacrifice Mu Zong on his behalf. A few years ago, except for one time when he couldn't make the trip because Chen Jingxing was sick, he went without exception.

But this time, Empress Dowager Li decisively waved her hand and said, "This matter is over, and the mourning family will send someone to the cabinet to explain it to Mr. Guo later." She said, looked at the sky, and said to the people around her, "Swing for the mourning family and go to Ciqing Palace." Emperor, you are also here. ”

Zhu Yijun secretly liked this idea in his heart, it was simply amazing, not only could he create an opportunity for Yao'e to meet Hou Gongchen, who accompanied him on a pragmatic trip, but also personally pay tribute to his father, killing two birds with one stone, which is wonderful

Turning his mind and silently thinking about his father in his heart, if it wasn't for the sons and daughters to deceive his mother, this fact is for Yao's good, your old man has a spirit in the sky, and he will not blame him, right

Not long after, the Empress Dowager Fengjia and the Emperor Luan drove to Ciqing Palace, and about halfway through, Chen Hong, the eunuch who was in charge of the seal of the celebrant and the eunuch, ran over sweating profusely, and came to the front of the Empress Dowager Li, and asked cautiously, "The Empress Dowager, what happened to me, it actually alarmed Yijia"

Empress Dowager Li glanced at him, saw him sweating profusely, and said warmly, "The emperor dreamed of the first emperor, the first emperor accused him of not personally sacrificing, and the mourning family wanted to discuss with the Empress Dowager Rensheng, this year, the first emperor Mu Zong's death, and the emperor personally enshrined Zhaoling." ”

Chen Hong was surprised and said, "Didn't the emperor pay homage to Zhaoling this year with the queen mother of the two palaces?"

What he said about this matter was in February this year, in accordance with the practice of the second year of Longqing, Zhu Yijun first paid tribute to the Changling Tomb, and after the sacrifice, he paid homage to the Queen Mother of the two palaces, and led the concubines to pay homage, and then paid homage to the Yongling Tomb and the Zhaoling Tomb as the Changling Tomb, and each of its tombs sent an official to pay tribute. So theoretically speaking, Zhu Yijun did visit Zhaoling, and it was only more than three months.

But Empress Dowager Li waved her hand and said, "The spring sacrifice ceremony is the spring sacrifice ceremony, and the death anniversary is the death ceremony, each has its own etiquette, how can it be confused"

Chen Hong secretly thought that this matter had nothing to do with him, since the Queen Mother asked the emperor to go, then go, even if someone wants to suffer, it is Chen Ju's bad luck, and he Chen Zhangyin doesn't need to worry about others. So I won't say anything more.

When she arrived at Ciqing Palace, Empress Dowager Li told Empress Dowager Chen about it, Empress Dowager Chen didn't care, anyway, the emperor was young, and he would run more if he ran more. And now that I have been there for many years, there is no danger near Tianshou Mountain, so I agreed immediately.

However, Zhu Yijun raised another matter, saying that although the first emperor only accused him of being unfilial, he thought that King Lu and several royal sisters had not been able to worship Zhaoling, and hoped that the queen mother of the two palaces would consider the filial piety of her younger brothers and sisters and allow them to go together.

This point made the queen mother of the two palaces hesitate, because the imperial tomb of the Ming Dynasty is generally only the emperor can be sacrificed in person, if the emperor has something to do, he can only be sacrificed by the lord or the minister, and the vassal king cannot run to pay tribute casually, and the princess has never heard of it.

But the queen mother of the two palaces is Emperor Muzong's former pillow person, knowing that Emperor Muzong is a person who attaches great importance to family affection, since he "dreamed" to blame the emperor for being unfilial and refused to personally commemorate his death, he knows that he will not also hope to meet King Lu and several daughters in the spirit of heaven

So the emperor said this, so that the two palaces of the queen mother hesitated, and finally the Empress Dowager Chen said, let the emperor go to the Wenhua Hall to summon Guo Ge Lao to ask the salute, if Guo Ge Lao thinks it can go, the emperor will bring his younger brothers and sisters to go with him If Guo Ge Lao thinks it is inappropriate, then the emperor can only go alone.

Zhu Yijun was then ordered to go to the Wenhua Hall and invited Guo Pu, who had just arrived at the cabinet duty, to the Wenhua Hall to greet him.

Guo Pu originally wanted to say, "Zi is silent, strange and confused", how can he dream and run in person

But after thinking about it, the emperor personally commemorated the death of the first emperor, which is also a manifestation of filial piety, and cannot be generalized. The reason why the general emperor will not go in person is because the old Zhu family has a string of elders in the imperial tombs of the past dynasties in Tianshou Mountain, but there are many various rituals in the Ming Dynasty, if every emperor's various rituals have to be visited by the emperor in person, then the emperor will not have to do anything else.

But in the final analysis, there is no problem for the emperor to sacrifice his father himself.

Guo Pu's entanglement also lies in whether King Lu and the princesses can go with him, in Guo Pu's opinion, in fact, it doesn't matter if the princesses go to pay tribute to Mu Zong, just go, it's not a big deal.

The key is King Lu, Daming's attitude towards the vassal king, which not only inherited Zhu Yuanzhang's idea of Tian'en Rong, but also inherited Zhu Di's strict monitoring policy, so in the end it became pig raising. Raising pigs is no better than raising cattle and sheep, and there is no such thing as stocking.

Raising cattle and sheep is even if it is captive, there are times when the wind goes out to graze, but raising pigs is different, every day is locked in the pigsty to grow fat, and I want to let it out to dream.

Therefore, Guo Pu finally said, "The emperor's worries, the old ministers already know, but the dynasty has its own system, and His Royal Highness King Lu is not a minor, so it is not suitable to go out of Beijing at will." ”

Zhu Yijun's heart tightened, and he hurriedly asked, "Those princesses"

"The old minister is not unreasonable." Guo Pu glanced at the nervous emperor, feeling a little inexplicable, but he still continued to say according to his own thoughts, "It stands to reason that several princesses should not go, but since the queen mother of the two palaces feels that this matter is important, it is not impossible to be accommodating. ”

In fact, Guo Pu knows that the queen mother of the two palaces even thinks that King Lu has no problem in the past, not to mention the princess, but Guo Pu is Gu Mingfu after all, some things can follow the meaning of some two palaces, but some things are absolutely not.

In his opinion, the reason why King Lu is not allowed to go is to adhere to the national dynasty system, and the princess is not allowed to go over on matters of principle, which is a little too disregarded for the actual situation, after all, the princess is also the daughter of the first emperor, and there is nothing wrong with going to worship her father

Of course, the point is that the princess cannot threaten the throne. So on this issue, you can give the queen mother of the two palaces some face.

When Zhu Yijun heard him say this, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief, but he just wanted to speak, but saw Guo Pu and continued, "However, the sixth princess is only ten years old, and the seventh princess is only nine years old. ”

This doesn't matter, Zhu Yijun doesn't want to take the kindergarten, if he doesn't take the third princess alone, it is easy to arouse the suspicion of the government and the opposition, he can't wait to take Zhu Yao'e alone, now Guo Pu is carrying the sixth princess and the seventh princess alone, Zhu Yijun can't ask for it.

At that moment, the emperor happily said, "If Mr. Guo is thoughtful, then I will take the third, fourth and fifth sisters to commemorate the death of the first emperor." ”