"Erchen understands, Erchen will definitely regard his younger brothers as helpers, and will never have any suspicions, please rest assured that my father and emperor." After the prince was silent for a moment, he finally spoke, "In the future, the sons will be like their father, urging the clans to go these two ways, so that they can contribute to the world together." ”

Seeing that the crown prince finally understood his intentions and would express his stance to follow him, the emperor was also relieved.

He knew that if China wanted to move towards the road of modernization and modernization, it was necessary to attach importance to science and technology, and this was not a problem that could be solved in one or two generations, so he wanted to come up with a set of methods in the future to transform the country's method of selecting talents from Baguwen to practical sciences such as mathematics and physics, and then let his sons also devote themselves to military and science as an example of the future social atmosphere.

If there is a royal family as an example, science can at least get the support of the future royal family, and the military will be given enough attention, and it will not become ignorant and conservative in dull ignorance, and China will not sink in the midst of thousands of horses.

"If only you understood! Those who are in the country should seek for the country, and when they seek for the people of the world, we will win the world in a dignified and upright manner, and win with strong soldiers and artillery. I should govern the world in a dignified and upright manner, and put the right path first! If you follow the example of some ignorant people, think of foolish people and weak people, and ruin the world with the selfishness of one family and one surname, then what is the point! ”

"The words of my father should be the words of eternity!" The prince chewed on his father's words in silence, and after a long time, he said with infinite admiration.

"What is not eternal? There is an endless feast in the world, where are there immortal dynasties since ancient times? Qin Shi Huang wanted to let his children and grandchildren rule the world without wants, but didn't he die as a second? There are some things that cannot be undone by manpower. We can only do what is in front of us, and who knows what future generations will do...... In my opinion, if our family can have more than ten or twenty generations of the world, it will already be in vain. The emperor's expression was very calm and relaxed, as if he didn't feel how terrifying his words were, "However, the same death, the way of death will not be the same." When the Ming Dynasty died, it was so that the Han people could no longer set foot in the Western Regions, and even the Hetao was lost. Moreover, the world is corrupt, the land is full of hunger, and a small number of scholars are full of food all day long but do not know what is going on in the world, which makes Westerners surpass science and technology; I hope that by the time we die, the Han Dynasty will have occupied all the places it can occupy, and everyone in the world will be able to read it! Even if he dies at that time, he is worthy of Huaxia, right? ”

The prince didn't dare to answer this question at all. He is also different from his open-minded father, he sincerely hopes that the country laid by his father can be passed down from generation to generation in the future through his hands.

"Father, please rest assured, although the talent and strategy of the sons are far inferior to their fathers, the sons will keep every piece of their father's teachings in their hearts and pass them on to future generations, so that they can also understand their father's painstaking efforts and be able to govern the world with sincerity." He said with all sincerity.

"Don't be so solemn, it's just a gossip, you just write it down, don't say anything to pass on to future generations. Isn't what future generations are most afraid of is that their ancestors come to a lot of rules and regulations? You see that Zhu Yuanzhang made a book of "Emperor Ming's Ancestral Teachings", and everything is stipulated, but can future generations always act according to the words of their ancestors? Times change, the world can not only follow one rule, we must learn to judge the situation, if the descendants are really stubborn, it is useless for us to be anxious now. The emperor still smiled very easily, "You have to teach future generations, don't worry now, you are still a hairy child!" ”

This teasing remark made the prince slightly embarrassed, and he shrank uneasily, not daring to speak again.

He is thirteen years old this year, although he is still young, but the queen mother is already busy with the matter of marrying a wife for him, and has begun to look for future princesses everywhere, preparing to marry him in two or three years. He didn't think much of it, feeling that he was too young to get involved in the family too early, but now that he was the crown prince, where could he have so much freedom? So I had to let the queen mother do it.

It's really embarrassing to hear this kind of ridicule at this age.

"There are some things that I want to treat all people equally, so that they can also understand things, but there are some things that I can only teach you, not them. But you have to learn, because you are the crown prince, you are the future heir of the world, you can't let me down and you can't let the world down," fortunately, my father didn't plan to continue to tease the prince, but just kept looking at him, "Child, you've worked hard." After the New Year, you will go out to have fun, and then go to Goryeo in the spring, and I will see how you behave when the time comes. ”

"Erchen...... Never let my father down. With great determination, the prince made a promise to his father.

In the blink of an eye, the time quickly came to Chinese New Year's Eve.

Greeted by high-ranking courtiers and female officials, the servants of the palace ran around to make final preparations for the Chinese New Year's Eve. The palace is full of lights, and the palace walls are splendidly lit up, sweeping away the usual loneliness and coldness, and spending a New Year for the new dynasty and brilliance.

The royal family also got together and had the last dinner of the year at the Qianqing Palace. Because the New Year is approaching, everyone is jubilant, even the emperor himself is full of smiles, and the atmosphere is very harmonious.

Tomorrow, on the first day of the first lunar month, all the cabinet ministers and high-ranking military generals in Beijing will enter the palace to pay homage to the royal family and congratulate the new year. At that time, it was lively, and it was difficult to find warmth in the family.

According to the rules set by the emperor, during the New Year's meal, several imperial concubines sat next to the emperor, the children sat in the lower seats, the older children had already moved the rules and sat obediently to eat, while the younger children played and played, and the noise echoed throughout the hall, making the festive atmosphere more intense.

In the eyes of the older palace people, this is not like a majestic royal family, but an ordinary rich family, but they did not despise the royal family of the Han Dynasty because of this.

These palace people were all mixed in the last years of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, and they were retained by the Han Dynasty because they were familiar with the affairs of the palace, and continued to stay in the Forbidden City to be responsible for the maintenance of the palace. Not only have their personal status guaranteed, but their salaries and benefits have been improved a lot, so they don't feel any antipathy to the change of dynasty.

These palace people have been engaged in the palace for many years, and they have seen the chaos in the court at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and some of them are even witnesses of the three major cases of Wanli. Wanli's indifference to the crown prince in his later years, the violent death of Emperor Taichang, and the two palace moves in the early years of the Apocalypse, all kinds of thrilling things have become the talk of these palace people in their spare time after years of precipitation.

These palace people all said that compared with the previous dynasty, the royal family of the new dynasty is much more humane than the former Ming royal family with cumbersome rules, and the Forbidden City does not have the gloomy atmosphere of the new dynasty when the royal family is there.

"Your Majesty, let's eat a few more pieces of winter bamboo shoots." Between talking and laughing, Concubine Meng Hui sandwiched a few pieces of winter bamboo shoots into the emperor's bowl, "This winter bamboo shoot is refined by the imperial kitchen, and after eating it, the country will be more prosperous next year, and it will rise steadily!" ”

This color head said very loudly, so the emperor didn't say much, just ate it, and then praised "Well, it's really good, it's with heart." ”

The queen and the imperial concubine have a respectful status, they are not good at showing too much courtesy, although they are very cordial to their husbands in private, but they are also reserved in front of everyone on weekdays, and Concubine Meng Hui's status is just neither high nor low, so she is the most courteous and pleasing to the emperor, and she is very happy.

While the emperor was still chatting with Concubine Hui, the queen set her eyes on the crown prince sitting next to her. She kept adding vegetables to her son's bowl, and her distress and concern were overflowing. For the sake of his studies, the prince usually lives alone all the time, so the queen can only see him every once in a while, and Aiko will naturally make the queen worry, always afraid that something will happen to him.

"Prince, eat more, I see that you have lost a lot of weight these days." The queen said, while sandwiching a few slices of venison into the prince's bowl, "It's a good thing to study seriously, but you have to be relaxed, it's not good to read until you forget to sleep and eat, look at you, now you are a lot paler, even the height is slow, and Brother Tiger is almost as tall as you......"

Looking at the hill of vegetables piled up in the bowl, the prince smiled slightly bitterly in his heart, his mother's words did not make much sense. As a crown prince, he should study, although his efforts have not reached the level of forgetting to sleep and eat. Bai is a lot whiter, but that's because I've been staying in the house and reading, and it has nothing to do with being pale and thin. As for the height, his height is already tall compared to his peers, and he has grown a lot of size over the years, although Brother Tiger has grown more, but Brother Tiger is talented, he was born tall, and he looks like a material that can become a brave general, how can he be easily compared?

But he smiled bitterly in his heart, but how could he refuse his mother's kindness? He kept thanking his mother, and then obediently ate the dishes in the bowl that the queen mother had brought over.

"My son has finally grown up......," the queen kept watching her son eat, and suddenly smiled with relief, "I really didn't expect that unconsciously, the children are already so old." When you croaked and fell to the ground, you were still like a little bit...... Time flies. ”

The prince felt a little embarrassed, so he could only bury his head in eating to cover it up.

"Son, you see that you are getting bigger and bigger, and it is time to think about lifelong events, do you have any favorite candidates now?" The queen asked again suddenly.

Caught off guard, the prince almost vomited the rice and meat in his mouth, but he finally returned to normal, swallowed the food with a bitter face, and then poured a mouthful of water.