Chapter 194: Naming

It has been three months since the birth of the little prince, and the daimyo has not yet been decided. The reason is that Chen Youcong wants to give his son a perfect name so much, and there is a large list of options on the list, and he doesn't know which one to choose.

According to the order of the Chen clan, the little prince should be described as "thick".

Chen Youcong thought about it for a long time and discussed with Zhang Weizhao, he wanted to put the word "Zhao" in Zhang Weizhao's name into the name of the little prince and named it "Houzhao", which means that this child is the fusion of the blood of the two of them, and at the same time, he also hopes that the child's life is as bright and warm as being illuminated by the sun.

According to the clan etiquette law, a child's name cannot be repeated with the elders, even with different homophones, which means that it is offensive to the elders. But Chen Youcong heard Zhang Weizhao say that in the country where Zhang Weizhao traveled in his previous life, naming a child after someone is an expression of love and respect for this person. Chen Youcong thinks this tradition is good and can be used for reference.

As for what others are saying......

There are already a lot of things that have been talked about about this pair of young emperors and queens, and I don't care about adding this one.

Zhang Weizhao also thinks this name is good. Chen Houzhao, Houzhao, and Zhang Weizhao read the name several times, and suddenly a strange feeling rose in her heart. Why does she find the name familiar?

Seeing that his wife, who was still smiling just now, suddenly froze, staring blankly at a certain place in the air, and the babbling of the child in her arms did not cause her to respond, Chen Youcong asked softly, "What's wrong?" But what do you think is wrong with the name? ”

Zhang Weizhao murmured softly: "You let me think about it, let me think about it......"

Where did you hear that name? Why does the name cause unease in yourself? Zhang Weizhao tried his best to empty his emotions and quickly scan his early memories.

The first thing she remembered was her grandmother. Grandma is a fan of Peking Opera, when Zhang Weizhao was young, she often sat at her small table, scribbling and painting for most of the day, and her grandmother sat next to her, watching Peking Opera on the TV in a low voice. Zhang Weizhao didn't understand what was going on when the people in the play dragged out their voices and sang for most of the day, but he felt that the tone was not unpleasant.

Later, when she grew up, she was exposed to her grandmother, and she roughly understood what those plays were about, and she also knew some singing genres. She didn't become a fan of opera like her grandmother, but she had a good impression of Peking Opera, because Peking Opera reminded her of a lot of happy childhood times related to her grandmother.

I still remember when I was in the second year of junior high school, once, my grandmother sat in front of the TV and watched a play called "The Dragon and the Phoenix", which was about an emperor's private visit to Weifu and met the sister of a hotel owner. The girl refused to agree at first, but finally learned that the man was the emperor and obeyed.

Zhang Weizhao watched it for a while, he didn't like the plot of this drama very much, and felt that the emperor in it was very hateful to look proud and flirt with the people's girls at will, and said to his grandmother that this plot was too ridiculous, how could the emperor come out of the Forbidden City and run around alone? Still flirting with the restaurant girl?

Grandma smiled and explained to her that this play was really not groundless. The emperor in the play is Emperor Zhengde of the Ming Dynasty, he is a very strange emperor, a person who is full of energy and never plays cards according to common sense when doing things.

He didn't like the red tape in the palace, so he built a mansion for himself outside the palace, and often lived outside the palace and didn't go back. He likes to ride and shoot, and often competes with a group of boys under him, and his martial arts are outstanding. He loves beauty and often goes to the folk fishing and hunting.

Although he lived an absurd life, he was a talented man at the same time. First of all, he was able to tolerate people, including those civil officials who often scolded him, so there were many virtuous people in the court. Secondly, he often reduced taxes, and the common people did not hate this fun-loving emperor. Again, he was brave enough to go to war with the little Mongol prince and returned victorious. When he was fighting, he ate and lived with ordinary soldiers in the army, and every time he won a battle, he was promoted to his own officer, and he was promoted from a small soldier to a mighty general along the way, and almost usurped his position.

It's just a pity that he died too early, and hung up in his thirties. The reason was that when he was learning to fish as a fisherman, he fell into the icy river water in late autumn and died of wind and cold.

Grandma, who likes historical stories, told the story of this unique emperor very interestingly, and after many years, Zhang Weizhao still remembered how he laughed because of the sentence "almost usurped his throne".

Zhang Weizhao was not a liberal arts student, had no special interest in history, and could not remember the names of many emperors. But the name of this emperor is preserved in the depths of memory along with the story told by his grandmother.

His name is, Zhu Houzhao.

Zhang Weizhao began to tremble slightly.

She knew that Da Yan and the world she was in were not on the same time branch, although the history of Da Yan before the founding of the People's Republic of China was the same as the world that Zhang Weizhao was familiar with, but after the Yuan Dynasty, the timeline had shifted, and it was no longer Zhu Yuanzhang who established Da Ming, but Da Yan whose surname was Chen.

Zhang Weizhao originally thought that the degree of development of science and technology and humanities in this Dayan was similar to that of the Ming Dynasty, but the historical context would not be the same, after all, the name of the country and the surname of the emperor were different. But now she suspects that these two space-time clues overlap more than she imagined.

Regarding Emperor Zhengde Zhu Houzhao, in addition to his personality, his grandmother also talked about his family history and ending. The emperor's father is very maverick, and he has only married one wife to the queen in his life, and has no other concubines. The couple only had one child, Zhu Houzhao, who spoiled him so much, so he lived enthusiastically and boldly. At that time, Zhang Weizhao was still joking with his grandmother, I'm afraid this emperor didn't cross over. Zhu Houzhao's father died very early, so he succeeded to the throne at a young age. And he himself died young, died without a son, and the throne was inherited by one of his cousins. Grandma said that the emperors of the Ming Dynasty had genes for early death.

The fragments of memory gathered more and more, and gradually collaged a mottled picture, although incomplete, it matched the scene Zhang Weizhao was in at the moment.

The more Zhang Weizhao thought about it, the more frightened he became. Is this the fate of her husband and children? Is this her fate?

The child in Zhang Weizhao's arms felt his mother's fear and anxiety, his mouth pursed, and he cried out.

Chen Youcong took the child from Zhang Weizhao's arms and patted it gently, and when the child finally calmed down, Chen Youcong called Shi Yan and asked her to carry the little prince to the compartment, and pulled Zhang Weizhao to sit down: "What's wrong?" What do you remember? Tell me! ”

Zhang Weizhao settled down and told Chen Youcong everything he remembered.

Chen Youcong hugged Zhang Weizhao's shoulder, and kissed his lips on his wife's sideburns: "So, you were even shaking your hands just now, are you afraid that my son and I will die early, just like the Ming Emperor in your memory?" ”

Zhang Weizhao closed his eyes and nodded slightly.

"Then tell me, in the history you know, has there been a queen who opened a women's school and built a hospital?"

"Nope." Zhang Weizhao opened his eyes and shook his head.

"Has anyone invented a bicycle?" Chen Youcong then asked.

"Nope." Zhang Weizhao shook his head again.

"Is glass becoming more widespread?" Since the beginning of this year, glass mass production, although still very expensive, is no longer regarded as a top luxury, many families began to use glass inlaid windows, and some people learned from Zhang Weizhao to build a conservatory in the garden.

"Nope."

"Have clocks ever been invented?" When the little prince was born, a female official of the academy presented a self-striking bell of her own design as a gift. This is Dayan's first self-striking bell. Before that, people used corona or omission to keep time.

"Not either."

"You once told me that in the history of the Ming Dynasty, there was also a Three Treasure eunuch named Zheng He who went to the West. Then after Zheng He, did the emperor send a fleet to sail away? ”

"No, I didn't. Not only has he never sailed away again, but it seems that there are still people who continue to enforce the sea ban. Speaking of which, Zhang Weizhao already understood what Chen Youcong meant. The fear in her heart gradually subsided, and the strength returned.

"So, you see, we won't repeat the mistakes of the Ming Dynasty. You and I, we will work together! And our sons and daughters if we don't have enough time! We will set sail to learn more about the world, and we will let the world know more about Dayan. We will make our people wiser and richer! I won't die soon, and neither will our son. I don't know what my life would be like if you hadn't come to me, and what the future of Great Flame would have been like. But now that you're here and you're standing by my side, everything is different! ”

"Yes! You're right! Zhang Weizhao nodded heavily.

"How about our child called Houzhao?" Chen Youcong's face was fearless and determined.

"Good!" Zhang Weizhao smiled brightly.

In the third month after his birth, the little prince was named Chen Houzhao. When he was one year old, Chen Houzhao was named crown prince.

When Chen Houzhao was three years old, Zhang Weizhao gave birth to his second son, named Chen Houwei.

When Chen Houzhao was seven years old, Zhang Weizhao gave birth to a little daughter and was named Princess Taikang.

All three children inherited their mother's healthy physique, rarely got sick, and lived a long life.

When later historians studied the history of the Great Yan, they believed that the reason why Chen Youcong was able to take on the heavy responsibility of reviving the Great Yan, that Chen Houzhao was able to unify the Mongol tribes north of the Great Wall, and that he was able to establish the position of the maritime hegemon of the Great Yan on the basis of his father's voyage career, in addition to their wisdom and diligence, their health and longevity were also the key factors to ensure that their advanced concepts could be gradually implemented in such a tradition-oriented empire as Dayan.

And those historians, especially those who study women's history, believe that all this happened inseparable from Chen Youcong's only wife, the queen mother who was praised by the people of Dayan as the reincarnation of Bixia Yuanjun.