Chapter 291: Family Banquet

On the 29th of the month of the capital, tonight is Chinese New Year's Eve. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 infoAccording to the rules set by Zhu Yuanzhang back then, tonight is the day when all the royal children in Beijing gather.

There weren't many urgent matters, Yun Xi called Li Ding and other generals into the palace in the morning to discuss some things together, and asked the meritorious generals for some things, and the morning passed.

In the afternoon, Yunxi woke up in the Qianqing Palace, and after taking a nap, he went to Kunning Palace.

When he arrived at Kunning Palace, Xiyao was not here. The evening is the family banquet, and it is the first time for Xiyao to arrange such a big thing this year, for fear that there will be a little mistake and make people laugh, so he started to be busy with this matter soon after getting up in the morning, and now he is also waiting in the Jiaotai Hall where the banquet will be held in the evening. And in order to ensure that nothing goes wrong, she also pulled Concubine Guo Ning, who presided over this matter in previous years, to assist.

Yun Xi has always been indifferent to such things, and this time is no exception. Yun Xi teased his children in the harem for a while, and it was not too early, and the prince had already entered the palace. Yun Xi also hurriedly changed his clothes and led Min'er and Wen Yao, two children who could sit and eat alone, to Jiaotai Palace.

Wenyuan is only more than seven months old now, and he can't walk or climb yet, so he won't take him to this family banquet.

Yun Xi came to Jiao Tai Palace, and the prince, princess, and county lord who had already arrived all saluted Yun Xi, and Yun Xi also replied one by one.

Yun Xi didn't immediately sit in his place, but sat casually down and chatted with these brothers/uncles. He was making casual small talk to increase the affection between them; At the same time, Yoon-hee also has a different purpose.

He had already decided to send a ship to the South Seas after the New Year. At the same time, he has also decided to find an opportunity to seal a prince in the South Seas to test the water, and this prince will also go down to the South Seas with the ship.

Yun Xi has been thinking about which prince to choose recently.

The first choice for such people is naturally the few princes who have not yet been crowned in the capital. Now the princes in Beijing who have not yet been crowned are Shen Wang Zhu Mo, An Wang Zhu Ying, Tang Wang Zhu Huan, Yingwang Zhu Dong and Yi Wang Zhu Yi (next to the wooden character), as well as several brothers of Yunxi.

Zhu Huan, Zhu Dong, Zhu Yi and Yun Xuan are too young to be kings. Yun Xi was the oldest, but Yun Xi only thought for a second before deciding not to appoint Yun Xi as this prince. Yun Xi is more benevolent and not suitable to expand the territory, so Yun Xi decided not to appoint Yun Xi this time.

In fact, Yun Xi has a headache about how to seal Yun Xi. He can't help but crown Yun Xi as the prince, but if he seals the prince, he must have a fief, Yun Wei is one year older than Yun Xi, and he is twenty-three years old after the New Year, and his son also has one, so he can't help but seal it.

Even if you can block it without letting him go for the time being, you can't block it without letting him go for the rest of your life, right? Not only do the civil and military officials look unpresentable, but the vassal kings everywhere will also have doubts.

And Yun Wei's identity is also embarrassing. Everyone knows that Zhu Yuanzhang once hesitated when choosing who to be the heir, Yun Wei is also one of the candidates, and he once went out of the palace for a short time to work in the household department. It's Yunxi's brother again, and it's not easy to deal with it.

Except for Yun Wei, Zhu Mo is the oldest. After the New Year, Zhu Mo is twenty years old, and he is also an adult, so he can consider it; In addition, Zhu Ying, who is seventeen years old, can also be considered. As for Yun Xi, after the age of fifteen, he is still a little younger.

Yun Xi was focusing on Zhu Mo and Zhu Ying at this time, although he didn't talk to the two of them all the time, but he tried to talk to them as much as possible, or listen to them.

However, after a while, Gao Xu and the others were more familiar with Yun Xi and the prince who was closer to him arrived, and Yun Xi could only go over to talk to them. The rest of the people couldn't be completely ignored, so Yun Xi was very busy, and he didn't have many opportunities to talk to Zhu Mo and Zhu Ying. Fortunately, there will be a chance in a while.

Unconsciously, without Yun Xi realizing it, the time for the banquet arrived. Wang Xi, who was standing beside Yun Xi, reminded Yun Xi softly: "Your Majesty, the time has come. ”

Yun Xi, who was reminded by Wang Xi, realized that it was time, and hurriedly said to Zhu Youyi and Zhu Jiye in front of him: "It's time, find a place to sit down." Then he turned around and went up. The people around them sat down when they heard it.

Yun Xi, like Zhu Yuanzhang, did not arrange fixed seats for most people. But Yun Xi's arrangement is different from Zhu Yuanzhang: for Zhu Yuanzhang, all people are his children and grandchildren, and there is no difference; But for Yun Xi, it is still necessary to distinguish between the prince and the county king, because the prince will basically be crowned out as the monarch in the future, and the county king is basically impossible, so Yun Xi let all the princes sit close to him, and the county king sits on the periphery.

Yun Xi sat in the highest position, looking down at the relatives below, and felt a little emotional for a while. He had sat on the stage looking down on them for the previous six Chinese New Year's Eves, but he was sitting next to them.

Thinking of this, Yun Xi glanced sideways at the location next to him, of course, it was empty now.

Yun Xi took a deep breath, soothed his emotions, and then began to preside over the family banquet.

In fact, there is nothing to say, Yun Xi also imitated Zhu Yuanzhang and said that he should not be formal and love each other, and then announced that the meal would be opened. He originally wanted to say a few words about studying at the Royal Academy, but he thought that he should not say such a disappointing thing about the Chinese New Year.

Xi Yao also came over, and the princes below hurriedly stood up to congratulate Xi Yao on her 'Queen Mother's auspiciousness' when they saw Yun Xi, and gave a glass of wine. Xi Yao also smiled and returned the salute and drank the wine in the wine glass in his hand.

Then Xi Yao said goodbye and went to the other side, and Xi Yao presided over the family banquet of the princess, princess, and county lord on the other side.

Because Yunxi has not fundamentally changed the policy towards the children of the royal family since he came to power, unlike Zhu Yunwen and Zhu Di in history, who treated their brothers and nephews as thieves, so everyone is as relaxed as Zhu Yuanzhang was.

After the toast that was fixed at the beginning, everyone either started eating or chatting. Especially this year, because Zhu Yuanzhang died less than a year ago, he didn't go to singing and dancing, so chatting with each other started earlier.

Yun Xi went to the family banquet of the female relatives on the other side, and when he came back, he first ate something and filled his stomach until he was eight points full, and then he talked to the princes beside him in turn.

Zhu Mo They are elders, so they sat closer to Yun Xi and talked to Yun Xi first. Yun Xi also wanted to know more about them, so he just said a few more words.

Yunxi also asked Zhu Mo and Zhu Ying what they thought of the Liangguang area. The two of them have not been out of Yingtianfu until now, let alone Liangguang. But today's holy questions cannot be answered, so Zhu Mo said: "According to heard, the climate in Guangdong is hotter than that in the capital, but it is windy in summer, and it can be tolerated. ”

Zhu Ying said: "It is said that because the people of Liangguang and Fujian have few fields, many of them make a living doing business in Nanyang, and some even go to overseas feudal countries without authorization. Neither of them answered positively.

Their imagination is not so rich, and they find that Yunxi wants to test the waters in the South Seas and become kings; Most of them thought that Yunxi wanted to add a prince over there because the people of Liangguang and Fujian were unruly, so they asked such a question. I have to say that they still haven't figured out Yun Xi's thoughts.