Chapter Eighty-Six: The Prince

In May of the third year of the Apocalypse, the Yellow River broke in the area of Suiyang, Xu, and Pi, and it was flat within 150 miles, and Zhu Youxiao happened to be unable to stand Yao Siren's food and antiquity, he showed a little bit of style, and soon Yao Siren invited himself. In July of the third year of the Apocalypse, Zhu Youxiao and Yao Siren, the prince Taibao, and Zhong Yuzheng was appointed as the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, and the emperor ordered him to survey the Yellow River and prepare to start governing the Yellow River.

In July of this year, He Zhongwei of Luzhou in Annan invaded Shangsizhou in Guangxi, surrounded Longtong, plundered Pingxiang Baisha Village, and the governor He Shijin led the army to repel and present the good news to the court. Zhu Youxiao was furious, sent an envoy to question Annan, and decided in his heart that once he pulled out his hand, he would conquer Annan.

Annan immediately sent an envoy to explain that the invasion of Guangxi was purely a private action of He Zhongwei and was not instructed by the Annan government. Since Zhu Youxiao already wanted to make a move on Annan, he asked the Ministry of Rites to put forward harsh demands: cede all the land of Annan Luzhou and merge it into Siming Mansion (the mansion to which Shangsizhou belongs), escort He Zhongwei's family to Jingshi, and exterminate his clan.

Annan was indifferent to the fate of He Zhongwei and his family, but to cede the land of a state to Daming, it was impossible anyway, so Annan explained in every possible way, delayed in every way, and wanted to end up in the end, and this was exactly what Zhu Youxiao wanted, he instructed the Ministry of Rites to keep a tail as the basis for future trouble.

In September of the third year of the Apocalypse, Empress Zhang Yan gave birth to a son, and Zhu Youxiao named him Zhu Ciran. He is the eldest son of the emperor, the son-in-law, and the undisputed crown prince. His birth, for the Ming court, is the most important thing, the Wanli period of the national capital of the dispute so that many ministers were deposed, the court staff, and finally sadly left the Beijing Division, the fundamental reason is that the queen has no children.

And now that the queen has given birth to her eldest son, at least for a few decades, the continuation of the Ming court will not have twists and turns. Proposed by the first assistant Fang Congzhe, seconded by the cabinet ministers and the six ministries, and then proposed by the ministers at the Great Imperial Council, the formation of what should be the strictest prince guard in the world.

The prince's escort consisted of three parts, the first part was the eunuchs and palace maids selected by Wei Zhongxian, who were responsible for the prince's diet and daily security while inside and outside the palace; The second part consists of the male descendants of the nobles and ministers from birth to five years old, who are responsible for accompanying the prince to study after he is two years old; The third part is the little monk from Shaolin Temple found by Hao Ming, the little Taoist priest of Longhu Mountain, who is under the age of ten and has good skills, and will be responsible for protecting the prince's personal safety after the prince is two years old.

The second and third parts are now just selected and then trained, and the first part of the palace maids, all have to go through a detailed investigation in the east factory, there must be close relatives in the family, there has never been any mistakes in the person can be preliminarily selected, and after the initial selection, it is necessary to go through training, mainly by the imperial doctor to explain the children's food taboos, daily physical health knowledge, knowledge to prevent cold, after training, but also to take the exam, the results can be finally selected, known as the safe palace maid.

And the eunuch must also be a person who has never made a mistake and has a close relative, and must have martial arts, and is called a security eunuch. Wei Zhongxian transferred Fang Zhenghua back from Suzhou and served as the head of this first part, and his official position was the eunuch of the capital governor, which was a few levels higher for Fang Zhenghua, and he had become the highest level among the eunuchs.

Fang Zhenghua led a total of fifty security eunuchs and fifty security palace maids to Kunning Palace in the first part. And it turned out that the eunuchs and palace maids of Kunning Palace were also gathered by Fang Zhenghua and stood in the courtyard.

Fang Zhenghua said: "From now on, everyone's actions must ensure that at least two people are together, that is, to get up at night to go to the hut, but also to wake up one person to accompany you, if you are called, you must get up to accompany you." When we see a person acting alone, we have the right to kill immediately. ”

After saying that, he waved his hand, and the two security eunuchs stepped forward and brought a large stone weighing about 100 catties and put it in front of him.

He clapped his hands and said, "Look at which of you has this hard head, don't blame me for not reminding you, you have to do at least two people together, including sleeping, eating, and going to the thatched house." My principle is that I would rather kill the wrong person than let it go, and if it is possible, pay attention, as long as it is something that may endanger the crown prince, I will nip it in the bud. ”

"Some of you may be very favored by the queen, that's the same, at least the two of you act together, so there will be a lot less misunderstanding, don't try to use the queen to pressure me, I have the emperor's highest authorization, in terms of the safety of the queen and the crown prince, I only listen to the emperor, and no one else can listen, including the queen, including the two concubines."

He kept rambling about the rule that at least two people acted together, far beyond the level of repeated orders, which made the palace maids and eunuchs of the original Kunning Palace disbanded, and then the security eunuchs and palace maids he brought with him.

He had already emphasized this point in the training and centralized training before he came, and it was all divided into three or two groups of three security palace maids. The security eunuchs are in groups of five, with a captain, and five groups are a team, with a captain, who are divided into two shifts to take turns on duty.

Now Fang Zhenghua is emphasizing the problem of personnel entering and leaving Kunning Palace, except for the two noble concubines and Mrs. Hakka, other outsiders entering Kunning Palace must obtain the permission of the queen or Wei Zhongxian, and their belongings must be checked. Food, medicine and other items are not allowed to be brought into the palace.

The duty of the security palace maid is to be responsible for the diet of the queen and the prince, as long as the food is cooked, there must be a safety palace maid to watch the whole process, and the food must also be accompanied by the safety palace maid. As for the issue of food entering the palace, Wei Zhongxian was personally responsible for checking it.

As for medicines, they can only be provided by the Imperial Physician, and they must be prescribed by at least two Imperial Physicians. The decoction process is all the responsibility of the safety palace maid, and other palace maids are not allowed to interfere.

And there are also people who are specially responsible for testing drugs among the safety palace maids, who feel very sensitive and can easily taste the peculiar smell in the medicine. After their trial, there is no problem for a period of time before it can be used by the empress, and the prince's medicine must be prescribed by at least two imperial doctors led by the director of the imperial hospital, and the emperor must agree before it can be taken.

For such complicated protection measures, Zhu Youxiao is actually a little unimpressed, in his opinion, how can anyone in the palace want to harm the queen or the prince? In fact, there is no need to be so grassy and woody.

It's just that he just expressed a little bit of meaning, and was immediately opposed by the two concubines (since Duan Ying gave birth to the princess, Duan Ying and Wang Wan were both named concubines), the Hakka family, Concubine Li Kang, and Concubine Li Duan, they were all frightened by the attack case in the Wanli period, and thought that the safety of the prince could not be overstated.

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