Volume 8 Chapter 24 Family Affection
Zheng Chenggong and Chen Xiuxiu are about to get married, Zhang Bin received the news, there was a little surprise, a little doubt, of course, more happiness, happy for the combination of these two.
One of these two is his apprentice, and the other is his sister-in-law, no matter what, he has to go over to attend the wedding.
He is ready to rush back to Fuguang, but there is still a question he must consider, that is, whether to take the crown prince Zhu Cihong this time.
This question is very important and troublesome.
If he takes the prince Zhu Cihong to go, with Chongzhen's suspicious character, he will definitely be suspicious, even if he doesn't mention it to him, he will be suspicious, because the prince has just gone to Fuguang with him, and he has to go with him less than a month after he came back, he doesn't doubt it, the prince is too close to him, and it is definitely not what he wants to see.
If you don't take the prince to go, the prince Zhu Cihong will definitely be unhappy, Zheng Chenggong is equivalent to his playmate and half a master, and the relationship with him is not an ordinary intimacy, now Zheng Chenggong is married, if you don't take him there, it's strange that he doesn't make emotions, if there is an estrangement with himself, then his previous efforts may be in vain.
Zhang Bin thought about it for a long time, and finally decided to take the crown prince Zhu Cihong with him.
Because he was already very disappointed in Chongzhen, but Zhu Cihong made him see hope, if he had to make a choice, he would choose Zhu Cihong, at least their master-apprentice relationship was true, and Chongzhen and him had no feelings at all, and the relationship between them was pure monarch and minister.
He once again chose to let the crown prince Zhu Cihong say it himself, if he went to tell Chongzhen, then the prince Zhu Cihong would not be able to go.
The crown prince Zhu Cihong has not yet reached the age of being able to figure out people's thoughts, as soon as Zhang Bin told him that he wanted to go back to Zheng Chenggong's wedding, he immediately went on again, crying and shouting to follow.
I have to say that the crown prince Zhu Cihong still has a lot of similarities with Chongzhen's personalities, although he has not yet shown his suspicious nature and stubbornness, but his temper is the same as Chongzhen's.
What he wants to do, he has to do, no matter what!
So, Chongzhen's head was big again, and the prince had just come back less than a month ago and wanted to go to Fuguang with Zhang Bin, so he naturally disagreed, but Zhu Cihong was crying and making trouble, and he was the queen and the imperial sister-in-law, which annoyed him so much.
Is it a coincidence that he did suspect the prince's behavior, once like this, and twice again?
The crown prince will inherit his throne in the future, if he trusts Zhang Bin as much as his imperial brother Tianqi trusts Wei Zhongxian, wouldn't there be another powerful minister who leans towards the government and the opposition and covers the sky with one hand, and his son will not become a puppet in the future!
Zhang Bin is not a ruffian hooligan like Wei Zhongxian who can't read a word, once he is allowed to hold the power of the court, when the time comes, the surname Zhu or the surname Zhang in this world!
He naturally didn't want the prince and Zhang Bin to get too close, and he trusted Zhang Bin too much, so he strongly opposed it at first.
However, the crown prince Zhu Cihong is as stubborn as him, no matter what, he is going to go, and the more troublesome he becomes, the more fierce he becomes.
In the end, he reluctantly agreed, because Zhu Cihong made such a fuss that he couldn't concentrate on handling government affairs, but he was already a little dissatisfied with the crown prince Zhu Cihong.
He decided that when the prince came back, he would educate him well, and he even did not rule out that Zhang Bin would be relieved of his position in Zhan Shifu and let someone else teach the prince.
If Zhu Cihong is obsessed again, then he will have to consider other means.
The emperor's house has no family affection, and the emperor of the Zhu Ming royal family seems to attach great importance to family affection, but in fact, he is quite ruthless
For example, Wanli, he is really good to his brother King Lu and son King Fu, that is because King Lu and King Fu can please him and have not disobeyed him.
However, he was unusually ruthless to Guangzong Zhu Changluo, at first, he even wanted to abolish Chang Liyu and establish Zhu Changxun, the king of fortune, as the crown prince, but later, the ministers strongly opposed him and confronted him for more than ten years, forcing him to make Zhu Changluo the crown prince.
Since then, he has ignored the government and politics, and even ignored the crown prince Zhu Changluo, and even the imperial grandson Zhu Youxiao was snubbed by him because of this, and he was casually thrown to a servant to raise, and he did not even arrange the lecture and reading of the waiter who taught people to read and learn words, so that Zhu Youxiao, the imperial grandson, did not know a lot of words when he grew up!
Chongzhen's stubbornness also has to fight with Wanli, if the prince Zhu Cihong is disobedient, he is estimated to snub Zhu Cihong like Wanli, and even abolish this prince!
The most ruthless emperor's family, the so-called family affection in front of the emperor, thin is like a piece of paper, it's good not to poke, a poke this paper will break, the emperors of all dynasties are ruthless to their relatives, it's just countless, Chongzhen has such an idea is not surprising.
Zhu Cihong naturally didn't know that Chongzhen was already a little dissatisfied with him at this time, he only knew that he could go to Fuguang with his master again, and he was going to attend the wedding of his senior brother Zheng Chenggong, so in his heart, not to mention how happy he was.
In this way, Zhang Bin rushed to Fuguang with the crown prince Zhu Cihong again, and Chongzhen also pretended to write a plaque of "a match made in heaven" for Zhu Cihong to take to Zheng Chenggong, and gave Zheng Chenggong a hereditary brocade guard to show his grace.
Zhang Bin is quite clear that Chongzhen is playing hypocrisy, this faint gentleman is afraid that he is going to do something again, but he doesn't care, it is serious to grasp Zhu Cihong, as for Chongzhen, there will always be an end of the day.
He didn't have time to think about Chongzhen's problem for the time being, and after arriving in Fuguang, he began to handle Zheng Chenggong's marriage.
Zheng Chenggong's identity is not simple, he is the son of Zheng Zhilong, the chief soldier of the Fujian Navy Division, and he is also the proud disciple of the second assistant prince of the cabinet, and the relationship with the prince is still very close.
However, Zhang Bin did not do this, because the situation in the court at this time was in a delicate period, a big traitor like Wen Tiren had been overturned by him, and a powerful minister like Yang Sichang also died of illness at his own peril, and there was a power vacuum in the court, but Chongzhen has never been able to trust himself and let himself take full power.
At this time, it was the most sensitive time, and it was really not suitable to handle Zheng Chenggong's marriage on a large scale, so he simply did not notify any irrelevant civil officials, but just invited his own military generals and shareholders at all levels of Dongshengtang to come to celebrate.
However, even so, the scene was quite spectacular.
Now there are really as many generals under his command, there are no less than ten general soldiers, and there are as many as forty or fifty generals, commanders, and commanders of guards, as for the guerrilla generals, thousands of generals, generals, commanders, commanders, commanders, and commanders, these generals below the third rank and above the five ranks, it is even more innumerable, and these generals and their families alone add up to almost a thousand.
As for the shareholders at all levels of Dongshengtang, any one of them is an important minister of the imperial court above the third grade, of course, most of these people can't come in person, they can only send their families to come, but this time there are hundreds of people, plus his relatives and friends and Zheng Chenggong's relatives and friends, the number of people attending the wedding banquet exceeded two thousand.
In order to entertain relatives and friends from afar, Zhang Bin deliberately arranged a banquet for ten days, of course, even if they are all relatives and friends, they must be entertained in different grades.
Like those military generals below the third rank, they are basically arranged to be entertained in a separate courtyard outside the governor's palace, and only the military generals and civil officials above the third rank are eligible to enter the governor's palace, as for the crown prince Zhu Cihong, naturally he can't show his head and sit with those people, Zhang Bin specially set up a few tables in the lobby of the governor's mansion, and his family and Zheng Chenggong's family are present.
On the day of marriage, in the lobby of the governor's mansion, the wedding ceremony had not yet been held, but Zheng Chenggong and Chen Xiuxiu had already put on auspicious clothes and sat on both sides of the crown prince Zhu Cihong for lunch.
The wedding ceremony at this time is generally held around the time of Shen, because after the ceremony, it will be sent to the cave room, and it is not allowed to be in the cave room during the day.
Zhu Cihong was even more excited than Zheng Chenggong at this moment, he looked at Zheng Chenggong, and then at Chen Xiuxiu, and couldn't help but laugh: "Senior brother, how is it, is it trembling with nervousness?" ”
This table is Zhang Bin and his wife and Zhang Xiang's five sisters and brothers, Zheng Chenggong is not restrained at all, he rolled his eyes and said: "What's there to be nervous about, I'm not afraid to go into battle to kill the enemy's senior brothers, are you still afraid of getting married?" ”
It seems that the ridicule was unsuccessful, Zhu Cihong teased Chen Xiuxiu again: "Sister Xiuxiu, have you long been interested in senior brother, seeing that the two of you stick together all day long, I am afraid that you will already spend the moon and swear an alliance." ”
Chen Xiuxiu is also the master of the eccentric elves, how could she be easily amused by the little prince, she rolled her eyes, and opened her mouth to fight back: "His Royal Highness the Prince, have you long been interested in Xiangxiang, I see that you stick to Xiangxiang whenever you have the opportunity, when will you invite us to drink happy wine?" ”
Zhu Cihong was stunned when he heard this, and then secretly looked at Zhang Xiang diagonally opposite, and his face turned red after brushing it.
He found that he really liked Xiao Zhang Xiang!
Seeing his expression, Chen Xiuxiu couldn't help but smile proudly, she only thought that she had fought back and won, and didn't think too much, and the others present didn't care much, but Zhang Bin saw Zhu Cihong's appearance and chuckled in her heart.
This kid wouldn't really want to beat my baby girl!
As fathers, most of them are reluctant to marry their baby daughters, Zhang Bin is such a daughter so far, it is even more precious tight, even if the prince falls in love with his woman, he subconsciously resists.
However, after thinking about it carefully, he felt that this seemed to be a good choice.
If his daughter marries the crown prince, it must be the crown princess, and after the crown prince succeeds to the throne, she will be the queen, that is, it is very likely that the successor to the throne in the future will be her grandson, so that you don't have to worry about retaliation for confronting the royal family.
Of course, this kid or his grandson may not recognize his six relatives, because the emperor's family is notoriously ruthless, and family affection seems to be very fragile in front of the imperial power.
Is this the right choice or the wrong one?