Chapter 1 Mid-Autumn Festival

"Your Majesty has arrived."

A long, high-pitched shout was heard.

Emperor Zhengde, who was nearly thirty years old, walked over. He wears a crown of good wings on his head and a cyan dragon robe. He was equipped with a black long sword, and the layers of white cloth on the hilt of the long sword had long been wet with sweat and dyed yellow. Obviously a common thing. This sword is not a royal style. Instead, it is similar to the Han sword. Zhengde walked over and bowed to Empress Dowager Zhang. Said: "I have seen the queen mother." ”

Empress Dowager Zhang said nonchalantly: "Get up." ”

Standing at the bottom, Zhu Houhuang didn't look up, and he felt this somewhat embarrassing scene.

It is rumored that Zhengde is not the biological son of Empress Dowager Zhang, and I don't know if it is true or not, but there is no doubt that there is a knot between Zhengde and Empress Dowager Zhang. It seems to have something to do with those women in the harem.

The rumors spread all over the world.

Zhengde didn't care, and got up.

Everyone below, including Zhu Houhuang, saluted together and said, "Meet Your Majesty." ”

Zhengde didn't like etiquette the most, shook his hand and said, "Get up." Today is the Mid-Autumn Festival family banquet, and there are no outsiders, so you can use family gifts. ”

The crowd stood up. As soon as Emperor Zhengde gave an order, the banquet began.

Naturally, there are palace maids and eunuchs, who generally send wine and delicacies with flowing water, and there are also the voices of silk and bamboo in the teaching workshop. For a while, many Mid-Autumn Festival words were sung one by one.

It doesn't look so lively.

This is a family feast, and not many people come. They are all related to the royal family. For example, the two princesses of Emperor Hongzhi, and even more so the several concubines of Emperor Chenghua. And then there is Zhu Houhuang himself.

In fact, among all of you, Zhu Houhuang is the most special one.

In the second year of Zhengde, when Zhu Houhuang was five years old, his father Yongwang Zhu Youzhu died due to the crack in Hengyang.

Before Zhu Youzhuo died, he was bent on moving to Shandong, saying that he was not satisfied with the water and soil of Hengyang. It's just that they were all vetoed by civil officials because of the huge cost of moving the feudal domain.

I didn't expect Zhu Youfang to die like this. Only Queen Wu and Zhu Houhuang are orphans and widows.

Zhu Youzong's biological mother, that is, Zhu Houhuang's grandmother, Concubine Shao cried to Empress Zhang, lest this orphan and widow be lost in the miasma of the south of the Yangtze River, wouldn't King Yong be extinct?

Empress Zhang couldn't stand Concubine Shao's pleading, so she told Emperor Zhengde.

In fact, Emperor Zhengde is a very humane emperor and is very good to his own people, but first of all, let Emperor Zhengde treat you as his own.

Emperor Zhengde listened to Empress Zhang's words, and with a stroke of the pen, he placed Queen Yong's Wu family and King Yong's son Zhu Houhuang to live in Beijing, and also moved King Yong's coffin to Beijing and buried it in Beijing. After Zhu Houhuang reaches the age of fifteen, he will discuss where to seal it.

Emperor Zhengde's most impatient thing is etiquette, and although he said that he used family etiquette, he still had a clear look, who drank first, who drank later, and there was no room for mistakes, making people look like robots.

Emperor Zhengde was the most impatient with such a scene, and after three glasses of wine, he withdrew from the table on his own.

Zhu Houhuang saw Emperor Zhengde retreat, and said secretly in his heart: "How to do it in the future depends on today." ”

Zhu Houhuang is not the original Zhu Houhuang, he is a modern person who was reborn in the four-year-old doll in the second year of Zhengde.

It's been almost a decade now.

There is already a voice in the DPRK and China, and it is up to Zhu Houhuang to choose a place.

But Zhu Houhuang didn't want to.

This is not to say that Zhu Houhuang has great political ambitions and wants to replace him with righteousness, but he simply doesn't want to be a rice pig.

There is always something to be done in life. And the last thing that the Ming Dynasty was likely to do was the vassal king.

So Zhu Houhuang must give it a try, Zhu Houhuang has been in the Ming Dynasty for so many years, and he also knows some rules, and the preferential treatment of vassal kings, that is, the more unserious and absurd a vassal king is, the more popular he is.

The worst result is to be assigned to a remote place to be the prince. Why not give it a try.

Zhu Houhuang also quietly retired.

After retiring, he turned a corner and saw several little eunuchs guarding the corner.

Zhu Houhuang stepped forward, went to stuff a piece of silver to a little eunuch, and said: "Zhu Houhuang, the son of King Yong, wants to see His Majesty, and he troubles his father-in-law. ”

The little eunuch weighed the silver with his hand, and immediately said with a smiling face: "Please wait a moment." ”

But in a moment. The little eunuch led a tall eunuch over. The eunuch was tall, wearing a python robe and carrying a whisk of dust in his hand. Zhu Houhuang knew the big eunuch, stepped forward two steps, and said, "I've seen Gonggong Qiu." ”

This is the Qiu Ju among the Eight Tigers back then.

Qiu Ju smiled: "Why should the prince be polite." Although he said so, he accepted Zhu Houhuang's gift solidly.

Zhu Houhuang said: "My father-in-law has worked hard in front of His Majesty, and no one in the world admires him." ”

Qiu Ju has been slapped too much, but after being slapped by Zhu Houhuang, he is still very happy. Because of Zhu Houhuang's identity, he is a serious dragon son and phoenix grandson.

Qiu Ju smiled and said, "The prince is invited, the emperor wants to see you." ”

Zhu Houhuang said: "Thank you father-in-law for your support. ”

The place where Emperor Zhengde is located is a waterfront pavilion. In the gazebo, dozens of lanterns are hung, illuminating the entire gazebo in red.

Gurgling water bypasses the gazebo. The moon in the sky is reflected in the water, and the lights in the pavilion are even more charming.

Emperor Zhengde was drinking on the pavilion, and when he saw Zhu Houhuang coming, he immediately greeted: "Brother Huang, are you thinking about your feudal feudal, let's say, where do you want to seal it?" ”

Zhu Houhuang saw that there was a wine glass in front of Emperor Zhengde's seat, and the shallow traces on the wine glass showed that a woman had just sat here. secretly complained in his heart, obviously disturbing Emperor Zhengde's good deeds.

Zhu Houhuang said: "Brother Huang, the younger brother doesn't want to be crowned king. ”

Zhengde became curious and said, "Oh, you don't want to be crowned king, what do you want to do?" ”

He was used to seeing many people, all of whom wanted benefits from him, and he thought that Zhu Houhuang was the same. wanted to find a good place to be the king of the domain, but he didn't want Zhu Houhuang's idea to surprise him.

Zhu Houhuang said secretly: "Whether it is success or failure, it is this time." He took a deep breath and said, "Brother Huang, this dynasty has always used the vassal king as a pig to raise, and nothing can be done. You can only eat and wait for death, you study literature, and the literati and artists on the ground look down on you. If you learn martial arts, you are handing over the bandits' schemes. All my life is to eat, drink and be merry, not what I want. The younger brother asks the royal brother to be gracious and demote the younger brother to a concubine. ”

Zhengde sighed a little, because he also felt the same way, although the ministers did not raise the emperor as a pig, but they clearly wanted to use the emperor as a memorial arch, no matter what they did, they seemed to be in power, but in fact it was difficult to move an inch in the circle of etiquette. said: "Aren't you so easy to be? ”

Zhu Houhuang said: "Isn't there still an imperial brother? Wouldn't it be okay to ask the royal brother to bring one or two? ”

Zhengde said: "Oh, how can I carry it? ”

Zhu Houhuang secretly cheered himself up again. Secretly said: "Whether it is life or death, this is what happened." "If Zhengde agrees, in the Zhengde Dynasty, he can do something, as for the future, take one step at a time, if Zhengde doesn't agree, then he will honestly be a vassal king who eats and waits for death. Anyway, it is the Zhengde Dynasty now, not the Wanli Dynasty, and you can't live to the Qing Dynasty if you eat and wait for death.

Zhu Houhuang said: "The younger brother practiced martial arts hard, and wanted to fight on the battlefield for the imperial brother and become a general. ”

For a while, Zhu Houhuang held his breath.

If these words were not addressed to Emperor Zhengde, Zhu Houhuang would never dare to say them. But even so, Emperor Zhengde's reaction, Zhu Houhuang could not predict. It was an order to take yourself down, put yourself under house arrest, and immediately become a country. is still as he wishes, degraded to a commoner, starting from the bottom.

Emperor Zhengde smiled and said, "Brother Huang still practices martial arts, okay." Come, let's try our hands. Qiu Ju brought me two wooden swords. ”

Duke Qiu took the order and left, and after a while, two wooden swords appeared in front of Zhu Houhuang.

The two wooden swords are carved from pineapple wood and have a dragon pattern on them. It's so delicate that it looks like a work of art.

Zhengde ordered the lantern to be held.

Dozens of eunuchs and palace maids, each holding a palace lamp. For a while, the entire pavilion was lit up with red lights, and the wine and food were withdrawn, and Emperor Zhengde tightened his clothes, picked up a wooden sword, walked down, and said, "Come." ”

Zhu Houhuang gritted his teeth, picked up another wooden sword, and also got off the field, saying, "Brother Huang, please atone for your sins." ”

Emperor Zhengde feigned anger and said, "Hurry up." ”

Zhu Houhuang saw that he would inevitably start with Emperor Zhengde, and he also settled down. A sword stabbed out.