The reason why Zhang Bin is like an arrow and missing his family is a reason, after all, it has been more than half a year since he went out, and it is impossible not to want his wife and children, and there is a more important reason, that is, his eldest daughter, Queen Zhang Xiang is about to give birth.

If he can't get out of Europe if he has something, then naturally there is no way, and now that he has come back from his errands, of course he has to rush back as soon as possible.

The queen gives birth to a prince, which is very important for an empire, because the inheritance of the royal family is related to too many interests, big enough to make brothers turn against each other and make relatives enemies, after all, when you become an emperor, you can control the world, and if you don't become an emperor, most of you can't even control your own destiny.

Therefore, there is a saying that "the crown prince is the foundation of the country" in all dynasties, because the prince is related to the continuation and stability of a dynasty.

Of course, Zhang Bin hopes that his daughter Zhang Xiang can give birth to a prince, so that the entire Ming Dynasty will have a foundation for long-term peace and stability, and there is hope for the continuation of his own governance philosophy.

Calculating the days, Zhang Xiang is almost at the time of giving birth, so he is in such a hurry to rush back, and after arranging the specific matters of Western trade, he is in a hurry to lead the fleet to set off.

This time, the fleet is smaller, because most of the Zhenyuan cruisers are leased to major merchants, and crossing the Strait of Malacca is equivalent to entering the inland sea of the Ming Dynasty, sailing in this sea area, he doesn't have to worry about safety at all, so he only brought a total of ten Weiyuan battleships, ten Zhenyuan cruisers and a hundred light ironclad ships, all the way to Beizhili, and even Coqueira He sent ten light ironclads back to Manila halfway.

In this way, after nearly ten days, in the afternoon, the fleet finally arrived at Dagu Port in Beizhili, and Zhu Cihong, who had already received the news, specially sent the new secretary of the Ministry of Rites, Chen Zilong, with a group of officials of the Ministry of Rites, to make a good arrangement at the port wharf, and warmly welcomed the return of the envoy of Wei Guogong to Europe.

Zhang Bin was still thinking about what kind of ceremony or not at this time, and as soon as he got off the boat, he pulled Chen Zilong, who came up, and asked eagerly: "Maozhong, did Xiang'er give birth to her?" ”

Chen Zilong was stunned when he heard this, and then he congratulated him: "Congratulations to the master, congratulations to the master, the queen mother has given birth to His Royal Highness the Prince." ”

Zhang Bin was pleasantly surprised when he heard this: "Really, when was it born?" ”

Chen Zilong introduced in detail: "At about a quarter of the morning before yesterday, auspicious clouds fell from the sky, and the queen gave birth to a dragon son. Because the queen mother is about to give birth, the emperor also deliberately postponed the early dynasty for half an hour, and the emperor personally announced the good news that morning, and at the same time announced, amnesty to the world, the whole world celebrates, at this time the capital is full of lights, just like the New Year. ”

When Zhang Bin heard this, he immediately couldn't wait: "Great, let's go, let's go back to Beijing immediately." ”

With that, he took the lead and hurried to the station next to the port.

Seeing this, Chen Zilong couldn't help but smile and shook his head, and then waved his hand and followed with a group of officials from the Ministry of Rites.

When Zhang Bin arrived in the capital, night had already fallen, but the imperial city and the imperial palace did not close the gate for the first time, and even the entire Chang'an Avenue and the imperial city to the imperial palace were hung with lanterns.

Zhu Cihong knew that his father-in-law Zhang Bin would definitely enter the palace overnight to see his grandson, and he was also eager to know what the results of Zhang Bin's trip to Europe would be.

Zhang Bin just went back to the mansion to wash up a little, changed into a neat official robe, and then walked to the palace with Hong Rong'er, who was waiting at home.

At this time, Queen Zhang Xiang was holding her son and teasing it, she knew that her father was back, so naturally she would not rest so early, and at this time her baby son was being twisted by her, babbling I don't know if he was laughing or angry.

Seeing this, Qi Fanghua on the side couldn't help but smile and shook his head: "Xiang'er, don't tease, I'll make Zhen'er tired for a while, and he should fall asleep again." ”

Zhang Xiang said with some unfinished feelings: "Isn't Dad almost here, I'm also worried that Zhen'er will fall asleep to tease him." ”

At this moment, a loud chant suddenly came from outside: "Wei Guogong is here." ”

When Qi Fanghua and Zhang Xiang's mother and daughter heard this, they couldn't help but be surprised, Qi Fanghua got up and walked to the door, hugged Zhang Bin's arm, and said excitedly: "Xianggong, Xiang'er gave birth to a big fat boy." ”

Zhang Bin walked in briskly, patted her hand and said, "You two have been working hard these two days, right?" ”

Qi Fanghua said happily: "I'm nothing, there are a lot of people in the palace, I'll just command, Xiang'er is really tired." ”

When Zhang Bin heard this, he walked to the bed and said with concern: "Xiang'er, you are okay." ”

Zhang Xiang handed his baby son to Zhang Bin as if offering a treasure, and said proudly: "Dad, I'm fine, you see, Zhen'er is laughing." ”

Zhang Bin hurriedly took his little grandson, held him in his arms and looked at it carefully, he looked at it with happiness for a while, and then asked: "Is Zhen'er's full name Zhu Hezhen?" ”

The reason why he asked like this is not surprising, because Zhu Yuanzhang has set the naming method of his descendants, and the generations of Zhu Di, the king of Yan, are "Gao Zhan Qi sees you, Hou Zai Yi Changyou, Cihe Yi Bo urges, and Jian Jingdi is the first." Zhu Youzhen is a generation of words, Zhu Cihong is a generation of words, and the next generation is naturally a generation of words.

Moreover, Zhu Yuanzhang also stipulated that the name of future generations is that the last word must be a word on the side of the five lines of "fire, earth, metal, water, and wood", Zhu Youzhen's inspection character is next to the wooden character, and Zhu Cihong's red character is next to the fire character, so the last word of Zhu Cihong's son must be next to the earth character.

The royal family knows this rule, and the ministers of the court and the central government also know it, so there is nothing strange about it, Zhang Xiang nodded and said: "Yes, yes, Zhen'er is called Zhu Hezhen, and this Zhen character was picked out by the emperor for a long time." ”

Why do you still have to pick the word in this name?

The reason is very simple, to put it bluntly, it is for the consideration of the common people, because there is a custom in this era called avoidance, and the words in the emperor's name cannot be used casually, for example, Zhu Yuanzhang has a yuan character in his name, and this yuan character must be avoided, so the ingots that have been called for thousands of years were changed to Tongbao in the Ming Dynasty, just to avoid Zhu Yuanzhang's yuan characters.

It is precisely because of this avoidance that the prince will try to pick rare words when choosing a name, especially if it is possible to inherit the throne and become the prince, the name must be the most obscure word, otherwise, as soon as the prince ascends the throne and succeeds to the throne, the people will be busy, in order to avoid it, all the words in the emperor's name must be changed, if the emperor's name comes to a common word, then I don't know how many places to change.

Zhang Bin nodded and said, "Well, this Zhen character is well chosen, and the emperor is wise." ”

When Zhang Xiang heard this, he couldn't help complaining: "Dad, you know to say good things to the emperor, don't you know, the emperor is busy with our mother and son, and he knows how to approve and deal with state affairs one day, and the emperor is still busy in the imperial study at this time." Dad, didn't you promise me to persuade the emperor, he can't go on like this, he will sleep for an hour or two a day, and he will have to be tired. ”

"This", Zhang Bin doesn't know what to say, if the king of a country is diligent, it is normal to forget to sleep and eat, and he can't persuade the emperor not to be diligent in government!

However, sleeping for an hour or two a day is indeed a bit too hard, and the iron man will be tired if he goes on like this.

He thought about it, then nodded and said, "Okay, dad will go and persuade the emperor." ”