After the beginning of autumn in July, the weather was relatively cooler, but it was still too hot for court officials like Shen Xi who needed to wear thick official uniforms to give lectures in the palace. In this era, there is no electric fan, and if you stand in the airtight hall for a while, you will immediately have beads of sweat falling on your head.

The prince has an attendant fanning the wind, but Shen Xi doesn't have this kind of treatment here, he can only hope that God will open his eyes and the heavy rain will subside. But perhaps because of bad luck, the capital during this time the sky is high and cool, every time he enters the palace to give a lecture, the sky is clear, the sun is basking along the road, and he can't cool down.

On July 19, Shen Xi entered the East Palace to give lectures.

Because he was worried that the prince would suffer from heat stroke, Zhu Houzhao was more likely to study in the apse of the Fang Hall in the summer, and he only went to the Wenhua Hall once in a while.

On this day, Shen Xi needed to talk about the "Book of the Later Han Dynasty", and as soon as he arrived at the Fang Palace, he saw Zhu Houzhao riding a bamboo pole, holding a wooden sword in his hand and chopping everywhere, with his wooden sword waving, the little eunuchs who played with him fell to the ground one by one, as if the general was killing the enemy on the battlefield and was invincible.

Shen Xi secretly thought: "This bear child, you just kick the juju on weekdays, and now that you are nine years old, can you play something new?" ”

Zhu Houzhao was slashing there, and he was shouting: "Tartar Hugh escaped, see if you are killed in this palace, you will not leave a piece of armor!" ”

The Mongols who have just passed the border, and finally ended with the Ming Dynasty not resisting and the Mongols retreating on their own, perhaps from the Tumubao change to the Ming Emperor's warning, but where encountering foreign invasion it is best not to take the initiative to attack, otherwise it is likely to die and the country will be destroyed, which also makes the Mongols feel that the Ming Dynasty is easy to bully, while begging for tribute, while fighting with the Ming Dynasty to stop.

But after the war, in order to maintain the posture of the Ming Dynasty, the war is usually described as a bloody battle between the soldiers of the border army, so that the barbarians will collapse without a fight.

The young Zhu Houzhao was edified, thinking that fighting was such an interesting thing, and he actually wanted to learn to kill the enemy bravely like a soldier on the bloody battlefield.

Today's son Zhu Youji's personality is weak, but the prince Zhu Houzhao is definitely not cowardly, but this character is more akin to playfulness than real bravery.

Thinking of the ridiculous things that Zhu Houzhao did in the future, Shen Xi could only lament...... What kind of era you are born in, what kind of courtier you are, you have to work hard to adapt to what kind of emperor.

At least Shen Xi still has the opportunity to reshape Zhu Houzhao's character, although it doesn't seem to him to have much practical significance.

The prince wanted to play, Shen Xi could only wait in the apse, and after half an hour, the prince came in sweating profusely, and as soon as he sat down, he shouted: "This palace wants to eat ice!" ”

There are many ice cellars in the palace, and in winter, the palace people will chisel down the whole piece of ice and store it in the ice cellar dozens of meters deep underground, and take it out when you need it, and it is best to relieve the heat in summer. However, to ensure low temperature, the most important thing is that it cannot be ventilated, so it is inconvenient to open the ice cellar often, usually each ice cellar can only be entered once after a day or two, and the ice cubes must be sealed immediately after taking out.

Liu Jin hurriedly reminded: "Your Royal Highness the Prince, you forgot, Your Majesty does not allow you to eat more ice." ”

Zhu Houzhao shouted: "I don't care, I just want to eat ice, you go get it for me!" ”

This can stump Liu Jin, without the permission of Emperor Hongzhi, who dares to go to the ice cellar to get ice privately? Who's to blame for eating a bad stomach?

Besides, there are many checkpoints from the East Palace to the ice cellar, Liu Jin has no status in the palace, and no one will sell him face.

It was Shen Xi who relieved Liu Jin, and Shen Xi said in a deep voice: "His Royal Highness the Prince, it's time to go to class, and there must be no food in the class." ”

Zhu Houzhao glared at Shen Xi, although he was a little unconvinced, he still didn't embarrass Liu Jin anymore, but he untied his clothes and asked Liu Jin and a few little eunuchs to fan him from several directions.

Shen Xi started from Emperor Guangwu, the content is complicated, although it is explained according to the content of the original book, but Shen Xi connects the various emperors to form a historical main line, but because there is not much to attract the attention of Xiong children in the Eastern Han Dynasty, Zhu Houzhao did not listen very seriously.

"Father-in-law Liu, I want to drink tea, use well water to calm it, go get it!" Zhu Houzhao shouted at Liu Jin, then turned his head to look at Shen Xi, "This palace wants to drink tea, this should always be okay, right?" ”

The prince was not allowed to eat during class, but tea was allowed.

Shen Xi nodded.

Zhu Houzhao's face was full of pride...... Look, I can drink tea, but you have to stand there and give me a lecture, you have the ability to treat me again!

It was almost noon, when Shen Xi talked about "The Biography of Wuhuan Xianbei", Zhu Houzhao frowned and said, "What is Wuhuan?" How come I haven't heard of it? ”

Shen Xi's tone was flat: "Wuhuan is a tribe on the grassland, and Xianbei is the same Donghu, named after Wuhuan Mountain and Xianbei Mountain, paying tribute to the Han family, and being under the jurisdiction of the guard Wuhuan Captain. ”

Zhu Houzhao's eyes glared: "That's the Tatars?" ”

Shen Xi shook his head slightly: "There is no Tatar in the Han Dynasty, Tatar was raised in the grassland in the Song Dynasty, and then the Mengyuan was established, and my Ming Dynasty was established after the Mengyuan was driven away." ”

Because Zhu Houzhao is not an adult, he only studied 21 histories, not including the history of the national dynasty, so he is not very familiar with the history of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Houzhao was obviously very interested in the grassland tribes, and asked a few questions one after another, first asking Meng Yuan, and Shen Xi replied that it was completely in accordance with the content of the "History of the Yuan", because Shen Xi was not allowed to talk about the history of the dynasty, he brushed aside this part of the content, and did not even mention the situation of the Northern Expedition when the Ming Dynasty was founded.

But even so, Zhu Houzhao also had a feeling of "opening his eyes", only then did he know that the Tatars had such a deep relationship with the Ming Dynasty, and those Tatars actually occupied great rivers and mountains before, and his ancestors drove the Tatars away.

"Sir, can you make it a little clearer, just tell me about the one who invaded my Beiguan this time...... Is it a descendant of Meng Yuan, which tribe does it belong to? Zhu Houzhao continued to ask.

Shen Xi shook his head: "The content of His Royal Highness's question is off topic, what I want to talk about today is the Book of the Later Han, and what the prince asked must be in line with the content of the class." ”

Zhu Houzhao stuck out his tongue, a little dissatisfied, but his question was not interrupted.

Shen Xi no longer explained the Tatar problem to the prince, and Zhu Houzhao began to ask about the origin and ending of Wuhuan and Xianbei.

Shen Xi gave a detailed answer and said: "In the last years of the Western Jin Dynasty, at the beginning of the Wuhu Chaohua, the clothes crossed to the south, and since then, the Central Plains have been occupied by foreign Yi. ”

Zhu Houzhao pouted and said, "It didn't take long to ......"

Shen Xi said: "From the establishment of Cheng Han and the former Zhao to the destruction of Beiliang by Emperor Taiwu of the Northern Wei Dynasty, there were one hundred and thirty-five years. Since then, the ...... of the North and South dynasties has begun"

Obviously, Zhu Houzhao did not have such a clear timeline in the twenty-one history he had studied before, and after listening to Shen Xi's answer, he felt confused.

Shen Xi asked, "Does the prince know how long the Eastern Han Dynasty lasted?" ”

Zhu Houzhao shook his head at first, but he immediately said: "I know that the Eastern Han Dynasty was the Western Han Dynasty before it, and then the Three Kingdoms...... After the Three Kingdoms, it will be the Jin Dynasty, as for the ...... behind"

Zhu Houzhao wanted to show off his knowledge, but his knowledge was too narrow, and China's ancient eras and the way of recording history books were outdated, and many messy memories could not be connected in his little head.

Shen Xi asked the attendant to bring a large piece of rice paper, then picked up a pen, and drew a general graphic of the land of China on the paper, so that Zhu Houzhao could take it to his side, and he wanted to use this map to explain the historical development and the corresponding territorial changes to Zhu Houzhao. But it was such a rudimentary map that had made Zhu Houzhao stunned.

"What is this? Why does it look ...... Like a rooster? ”

Shen Xi smiled and said, "This is the land of Huaxia, and you and I are in this position now...... This is the Yellow River, this is the big river, and the south of the big river is called the south of the Yangtze River. ”

"And where are these two?" Zhu Houzhao pointed to the island painted by Shen Xi.

Shen Xi smiled and answered.

To say that in the Ming Dynasty, the land of Hainan is still under the rule, but Taiwan is not the land of kings, called "Ryukyu", also known as "Dongfan".

In the prince's studies, there was no geography class, and when he saw the content of Shen Xi's drawing, he immediately felt novel and interesting, and asked a map about it, and Shen Xi took the trouble to answer it in detail.

"Prince, it's time to eat......"

Liu Jin came over and said to Zhu Houzhao respectfully.

Zhu Houzhao scolded angrily: "Didn't you see that I was doing studies with my husband? Don't eat, don't eat, sir, where are those Tatars? I've also heard of Mobei and Monan, what do they mean......"

Shen Xi originally wanted to use the map to tell Zhu Houzhao about the changes of Chinese historical dynasties, but at the end of the day, he found that the map itself has a lot to tell, and Zhu Houzhao's attention is also on more intuitive and more intense geographical issues.

Shen Xi had no choice but to teach the history class as a geography class, and he carefully explained the geographical division of the Ming Dynasty and the surrounding neighbors to Zhu Houzhao, and even the location of the Xuanfu that had resisted the Tatars before.

Zhu Houzhao was taken aback: "Those Tatars, aren't they all around us?" ”

"Yes." Shen Xi nodded solemnly, "It's almost under the nose of the Jingshi, that's why the capital will be under martial law some time ago." ”

Zhu Houzhao's eyes widened again and asked, "What is martial law?" ”

Shen Xi realized that Zhu Houzhao was just a small flower in the greenhouse, he didn't know anything about the outside world, he had never walked out of the palace gate in his life, if he was allowed to come into contact with the outside world of flowers, he would definitely feel that the first half of his life was in vain, so he would be so rampant after ascending the throne and taking power.

It is not difficult to explain to Zhu Houzhao about the martial law of Jingshi, but the difficult thing is to make him recognize the environment he is in and the responsibilities he will have on his shoulders in the future.

"Martial law means that people are not allowed to walk on the streets at will, the city gates are closed, and the streets in the city are ...... set up in the middle of the city."

Shen Xi's explanation brought new thinking and new questions to Zhu Houzhao, what is a card? How many streets are there in town? And so on and so forth!

When Shen Xi explained these to Zhu Houzhao, Zhu Youji, the Hongzhi Emperor outside the Fang Palace, and Empress Zhang came together, originally to come over to see his son during the lunch break, but he never thought that when he arrived at the ground, he knew that his son was still studying in the apse.

"I don't think it's better to bother. It's rare to have such a responsible gentleman......" Zhu Youzhi had a slightly relieved smile on his face, and he thought to himself, maybe his son knew that the assessment was approaching and was stepping up his studies.

However, Empress Zhang thought differently from her husband, she said: "The emperor has grown up and knows that he has studied seriously. ”

Zhu Youzhu didn't expose his son in front of his wife, maybe he was temporary, but he had been here many times before, and his son had never taken the initiative to ask for make-up classes, and today was the first time in the world.

Zhu Youzhu nodded and asked, "Which gentleman is coming to talk today?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, it's Shen Yude, he has been talking to the prince all morning, and he is still talking in it at this time......" The attendant handed the words over.

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