Nanjing, Forbidden City, Qinzheng Palace.

The desk where the emperor usually worked was lifted aside at the moment.

Zhao Han sat on the throne with a calm face and looked ahead.

In front of him, there were four painters. ъìＱυＧΕtＶ.℃ǒΜ

A painter named Zhu Mouyuan is a descendant of King Ning. Standing next to him is his nephew Zhu Tong (钅乇), (钅乇) is difficult to write and difficult to recognize, let's call him Zhu Qi.

Another painter is Li Zhicheng, an Italian, and next to him stands his Chinese apprentice.

Both were wielding their paintbrushes, while their nephews and apprentices helped with their hands.

After some time, Zhu Mouyun took the lead and said, "Your Majesty can read." After saying that, he raised his eyebrows at the Italian in a provocative manner.

Li Zhicheng also said: "Your Majesty, please take care of yourself." ”

The table was not brought back, and the painters still needed to improve the details of their clothes, so Zhao Han just didn't have to pose anymore, just sit there and read by himself.

Neither of them finished painting until noon, but they both chose to retire, and the rest could be done elsewhere.

Two days later, Zhu Mouyun first came to hand in the task, which was a traditional portrait of a person, called "The First Emperor of Datong Min".

Zhao Han got it done here, Zhu Mouyuan went to paint portraits of the concubines again, and the Italian Li Zhicheng was still slowly tinkering. This foreign devil paints oil paintings, layer by layer, which takes half a month to complete in the short and one or two months in the longest, after all, painting a portrait of the emperor is very serious.

When the report of the victory of the Nanyang naval battle was returned, Li Zhicheng finally finished painting and presented the oil painting to the emperor.

Zhu Mouyuan and Zhu Qi's uncle and nephew came to see the jokes of foreign devils. They have already finished painting all the portraits of the concubine, and the foreign devil has only completed the first one.

Zhao Han compared the two portraits, each with its own merits, and said, "You can also take a look." ”

Zhu Mouyan took his nephew and bowed down to take the oil painting from the female official. At first, he was dismissive, but soon he took a serious look at it, because he was very interested in the light and shadow effects of oil paintings.

"How?" Zhao Han asked.

Zhu Mouyun said: "Back to Your Majesty, this Western oil painting also has merits. ”

Zhao Han said: "You can learn from each other, and maybe you can combine Chinese and Western styles to create a new way of painting." ”

Historically, it was Lang Shining who combined Chinese and Western styles.

"Yes!"

The two painters worked at the same time.

Zhao Han said: "Over there in the Hanlin Academy, a new painting gallery will be set up, and you all should enter the painting gallery to become bachelors." ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" The two were overjoyed.

The emperors of all dynasties wanted to raise royal painters. Zhao Han didn't plan to keep it in the Forbidden City, and threw it all to the Hanlin Academy, which was not bad for the salaries of those painters.

Zhao Han beckoned and said, "Zhu Qi, come here." ”

Zhu Qi's identity is the prince of Yiyang, if the Ming Dynasty does not fall, he will be able to be the king of the county with brocade clothes and jade food.

When the Datong army captured Yiyang, he was so scared that his father almost hanged himself. Later, after a public trial, it was found that several generations of Yiyang kings were all obsessed with poetry and painting, and they didn't care about anything else, and all the evil were those palace officials.

As a result, the Yiyang King was not punished, but only took their property.

Even the palace was kept, just take off the plaque, and only confiscate the garden villa. King Yiyang also reciprocated the favor and took the initiative to donate money and grain to fund the Datong Army to pacify the eastern Gandong region.

King Yiyang died of illness four years ago, and Zhu Qi kept filial piety for three years, so he followed his uncle to Nanjing.

He even changed his name, no longer using the characters of the Ming Sect, and directly changed it to the current Zhu Qi.

Hearing the emperor's call, Zhu Qi hurriedly stepped forward: "The grass people are here." ”

Zhao Han said: "You are not yet 30 years old, if you have a career, you can go back to Jiangxi to participate in next year's township examination." ”

Zhu Qi said: "Your Majesty, the grass people are not talented in the previous dynasty, and they are not eligible to participate in the township examination. ”

Zhao Han smiled: "I have granted it." ”

Seeing that his nephew was stunned and didn't speak, Zhu Mouyan hurriedly urged: "Don't thank you yet!" ”

Zhu Qi said: "Your Majesty, the grass people are obsessed with painting and have no career in it. Grass Folk ...... I want to enter the Hanlin Academy Painting Museum. ”

Zhao Han nodded and said, "That's right." ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Zhu Qi was happy.

When he was a teenager, Zhu Qi had a grudge against the Datong New Dynasty. Now I have figured out everything, those Ming clans in Jiangxi, except for the heinous ones who were beheaded, which one is not luckier than the clans in other provinces?

Look at those princes in the north, what will happen to the rogues.

When the painters left the palace, they really planned to go back to learn their painting skills, and then come up with a combination of Chinese and Western painting methods—the emperor said casually, and the people below had to get serious.

Zhu Qian was walking on the street when he suddenly heard cheers from in front of him.

Then the sound of horses' hooves came from far and near, and a post man galloped on horseback, shouting along the way: "Great victory for the navy, great victory for the navy." Our Datong naval officers defeated the Dutch fleet in the South Seas and captured more than 10 large and small warships. The South China Sea is peaceful, the South China Sea is peaceful ......"

Zhu Qixi said: "We have won the battle again, and our army is truly invincible." ”

Li Zhicheng, an Italian, also gloated: "Well played, it's long overdue to teach the Netherlands a lesson!" ”

The Dutch are really disgusted, not only dominating the North Sea trade, but also often running to the Mediterranean. Italian merchants, who have always been in a long-term competitive relationship with Dutch merchants, were cheated by the Spanish royal family, and Spain declared bankruptcy several times, resulting in a large number of Dutch and Italian merchants following the bankruptcy.

The victory was being celebrated on the streets, and the news of the good news soon reached Jinling University.

Zhu Cijiong, the third prince of the former Ming Dynasty, celebrated happily with his classmates. He was only a few years old when he left Beijing, but he has more memories in Nanjing, and he has long been accustomed to his current identity.

A schoolgirl walked up to him, frowning.

Zhu Cijiong smiled and said, "Xiaomei, the navy has won!" ”

Gu Xiaomei bit her lip and didn't speak.

Zhu Cijiong asked, "What's wrong with you?" ”

After hesitating for a long time, Gu Xiaomei couldn't speak: "My father sent a letter and disagreed with our marriage. ”

Zhu Cijiong was stunned in place, and then smiled bitterly: "I know." ”

Zhu Cijiong skipped class that day, sold a pot of wine halfway, and went home to drink dimly.

In the evening, Zhu Yujiao was the first to come back, and as soon as she entered the house, she smelled wine. Then he saw his brother lying on the table, already asleep, so he had to take his clothes and put them on him.

It was getting dark, and the brothers and sisters were coming back one after another.

Zhu Cihong, the prince of the Ming Dynasty, is now an official in Jiangning County. His work evaluation is not bad, it is estimated that after another year or two, he will be promoted to become a county governor in another place, after all, he studied at Jinling University (self-financed students, looking for the emperor's tuition fees, and he didn't study by himself without getting a graduation certificate).

Zhu Cihong chose to drop out of university because he was in a bad mood.

His classmates knew his identity and treated him as a monkey, and he always paid attention to avoiding suspicion, and he didn't have any friends at all, which made him feel very awkward.

"Third brother, what's wrong?" Zhu Cihong asked.

When he woke up, the alcohol dissipated a lot, and Zhu Cijiong shook his head: "It's nothing, I'm in a bad mood, drink some wine to relieve my boredom." ”

"Third brother, have you been bullied?" Zhu Cizhi asked.

Zhu Cijiong smiled bitterly: "The marriage has collapsed, and Xiaomei's family disagrees." ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone fell silent.

The eldest brother, Zhu Cihong, is already 20 years old and has not yet married a wife. once said that the two marriages were originally good, but when they heard that he was the former prince of Ming, the woman's parents immediately changed their faces.

If they marry ordinary people, most of them still have some hope.

But they all have a high vision, and the women all have status, even if the family is not an official, at least they are relatively rich. A family that is either rich or noble, how dare to marry the prince of the previous dynasty? If something goes wrong one day, you may have to raid your family and exterminate your family.

Zhu Cihong comforted: "Don't be discouraged, there are better people." ”

Zhu Yujiao suddenly said: "It's better to find an ordinary person." ”

Zhu Cihong said with a smile: "Don't hide it, I've already asked the media to find one." The person who opened a grocery store by Xuanwu Lake outside the city, although she had no prominent status and was not very beautiful, but the girl had studied in elementary school for three years and was also a girl who could write and calculate. The matchmaker said that the woman's elders don't dislike us. When you get your birthday right, you can choose a good time, and you can go over to hire and propose. “

"Congratulations, big brother!"

The younger brothers hurriedly said hello, and the eldest brother's marriage was finally settled.

Zhu Cihong said: "Third brother, why don't you find a matchmaker to help you find one?" ”

Zhu Cijiong was still thinking about his lover, and said excitedly: "Let's talk about it after graduating from college." As he spoke, he turned the conversation to Zhu Yujiao, "My sister is nineteen years old, so I should find her a broken family." ”

Zhu Yujiao said angrily: "Don't mention me, I'll be a sister-in-law." ”

This princess of the former dynasty is also very high-minded, and she is unwilling to marry an ordinary man. But a young man with a bright future, who has the courage to marry her?

Zhu Cizhi said: "Why don't I go and beg my mother?" ”

Zhu Cizhi's biological mother is Tian Xiuying, but according to the rules of the previous dynasty, she can only call her biological mother an aunt. Now, his biological mother has become a concubine again, but in order to avoid suspicion, she hardly goes to the palace to meet.

Zhu Cizhi said: "It's better not to bother Auntie, for fear of upsetting Your Majesty." ”

Zhu Cijiong grabbed a life-saving straw: "Your Majesty is lenient, you will not blame it, just this once." It's not embarrassing for the aunt, just try to say a few kind words to see if you can ask Your Majesty for marriage. ”

Zhu Cihong thought about it and felt that dragging it was not a solution.

He was not afraid of annoying the emperor, but he did not want to be helped by the emperor anymore. As he grew older, the former prince became sensible, and his views on Zhao Han were very complicated. There is resentment, gratitude, and all kinds of emotions are mixed together, and I don't want to be involved with the emperor.

But it is impossible not to be involved, before he joined the work, he moved out with his younger siblings.

The house was rewarded by the emperor, the living expenses were borrowed from the emperor, and the tuition fees after middle school were also borrowed from the emperor. Although the emperor definitely did not urge them to repay their debts, they could rely on them directly, but the Zhu family brothers and sisters remembered it in their hearts.

Even, they didn't dare to take the initiative to ask to move to other places, for fear of provoking the emperor with unnecessary associations.

After hesitating for a long time, Zhu Cihong said: "You don't have to ask Concubine Tian, I will go and see Your Majesty myself tomorrow." ”

The next day, Zhu Cihong went to the imperial city and took out the waist card given to him by the emperor, and immediately the imperial city guards went to report. The reply was also very fast, and the emperor asked them two days later, the brother and sister went to the imperial garden to meet together.

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