Chapter Twenty-Nine: Pick-up
The so-called brine point tofu, one thing drops one thing.
Zhu Yuanzhang is afraid of his wife. To be precise, he loves, respects and fears Queen Ma, and he has not changed in the slightest since he became the emperor.
"Of course my son doesn't chew on the root of his tongue." Zhu Biao looked at Zhu Yuanzhang helplessly and said, "But father, can the affairs in the palace be hidden from the queen mother?" ”
"Well, we know we can't hide it." Zhu Yuanzhang smiled wryly: "But don't sue, it's not a big deal." If I could say a few kind words for my father, it would be even smaller. ”
"Look." Zhu Biao pursed his lips and said perfunctorily.
You're beautiful!
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It was still dark for the fifth day of October, and the whole Forbidden City was busy.
Under the command of the great eunuch, the small firefighters used long hooks to pick off the white gauze lanterns and replaced them with the usual red gauze lanterns.
On the road leading from the noon gate to Kunning Palace, those plain black yarns and paper horse banners were all withdrawn.
Even on their own bodies, they took off their filial piety clothes and put on the green or red stickers they usually wear.
In order to welcome the queen back to Beijing, the ladies of the six palaces also took off their plain skirts, changed back into palace clothes, re-applied grease and powder, and wore gold and silver.
His Highness also put on his dragon robes.
In short, the top and bottom instantly walked out of the 'sad' state of the concubine's death, and turned into the 'joy' state of the queen's return to the palace.
This time, Zhu Yuanzhang had no opinion at all, and completely disappeared from the arrogance of who didn't wear filial piety before, shouting and shouting to kill.
At that time, the long guard of honor escorted the millennias of the Ming Dynasty out of the Forbidden City and marched towards the West Gate of Shuixi.
Watching the bustling crowd of people, crowding both sides of the long street with nowhere to plug in. The officials of the Ying Tianfu and the pro-army capital governor's mansion were in strict formation, lined up in two lines of human walls, separating the long royal procession from the people, so as not to prevent anyone from taking the opportunity to cause trouble.
"Will anyone make trouble? Will it? ”
Concubine Chong sat on the inner bench, holding the window frame with her hands, looking through the window crack, greedily looking at the living picture of Nandu Fan Hui outside the car window.
"Mother, can you think of something?" Zhu Zhen and her were hip to cheek, maintaining the same posture, and they were also staring out the window.
This is the first time he has gone out of the palace to look outside.
"Mother's kung fu, isn't it useful?" Concubine Hu Chong said as a matter of course.
"Then it's not your turn to be a chitose girl." Zhu Zhen ruthlessly broke Concubine Hu Chong's illusions.
"Well, it's ...... too" Concubine Hu Chong was deflated. With your father's temper, he must be overt and secretly, I don't know how many people have been arranged in this Nanjing city. ”
"It's good to know." Zhu Zhen nodded and retracted his gaze.
It's really a bit of a shame, he didn't know that Nanjing would be called Nanjing at this time. He thought he would have to wait until the fourth brother moved the capital......
Of course, he already knew by this point. Now the Ming Dynasty has three capitals, Nanjing, Beijing and Zhongdu.
Nanjing is Nanjing, but Beijing is not Beijing, but Kaifeng. In later generations, Beijing is now called Beiping.
As for Zhongdu, it is Fengyang, the hometown of their old Zhu family.
With his shallow knowledge of history. Well, it's mainly about watching the TV series, it seems that although Boss Zhu is in Longxing, Nanjing, he has always been dissatisfied with this place, thinking that it is difficult to rule the world when he builds the capital here.
Moreover, a self-made boss like him has always been very superstitious, and he was also quite taboo about the previous Nanjing Six Dynasties' 'national glory is not eternal'.
So he wanted to follow the example of the past dynasties and build a capital in the Central Plains, but since the war at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the Central Plains has been devastated and the people's livelihood has withered.
So there was a compromise - to build the capital Fengyang in Jianghuai.
He asked his eldest brother, and at present, the three plans to build the capital have supporters, and the three parties are fighting fiercely. Zhu Biao told him that this was not something that his father could decide alone, and it was not yet known where he would become a master of Beijing in the end.
Zhu Zhen could see that the eldest brother was very distressed about this, and he couldn't tell him that Nanjing had won. But Nanjing didn't have the last laugh, and finally let an irrelevant place pick up the cheap.
This also made him very distressed, because he couldn't tell the eldest brother that it was not you or your son who moved the capital in the end, but the fourth brother......
But the two elder brothers were very good to him, which made him in a dilemma.
Alas, if you don't know how good history is at all, you won't be bothered about the future.
Or if you know the whole picture, you can make the right choice.
The worst thing is that I only know a little bit, and the source is very unreliable.
It is not at all enough to support one's own correct judgment, but it will interfere with one's own judgment. Not only does it not help, but it simply adds to the troubles, okay?
Seeing that her ten-year-old son was worried, Concubine Hu Chongfei took him into her arms.
"What's the matter, son, are you afraid that your mother will cause trouble again?"
Zhu Zhen was stunned for a moment, and then remembered his previous words. He wanted to break free from the arms of his mother, but Concubine Hu Chong hugged him.
"Don't flutter. The son has grown up, and if he doesn't hug him, he won't be able to hug him in the future. ”
Zhu Zhen had no choice but to move.
"Don't worry, for you, my mother will endure it in the future." Concubine Hu Chongfei put her cheek on the top of his head, self-righteously reassured him, and said, "Mother will never let you be scared alone." ”
"Uh, okay." Zhu Zhen nodded, it is always excellent to be able to worry less about himself.
"Besides, the queen mother is back, and the palace will be too peaceful." Concubine Hu Chong said with relief, but her arms hugged her son harder, as if she was worried that he would be snatched away.
Zhu Zhen seemed to feel the sadness of the concubine and wanted to comfort her, but she didn't know what to say, so she had to hug her arm tightly.
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But soon, His Royal Highness the King of Chu was reluctant to care about the mood of his mother, because he felt that he was about to be strangled......
Fortunately, as soon as the team came out of the west gate of Shuishui, the shouts of the fourth brother came from outside.
"Sixth, get off, get off!"
"Mother, I'll go down and walk." Zhu Zhen took the opportunity to break free from the arms of his mother and jumped out of the car to gasp for breath.
As I said before, Zhu Yuanzhang adheres to the principle of 'no matter how rich you are, you have to suffer from the child', and the prince is not allowed to ride in a sedan chair in the palace.
When you go out of the palace, you have to walk at least one-third of the way.
So the next ten miles to the riverside pier, the brothers had to change to walking.
But the young princes really can't ask for it.
The sky is blue, the air is clear, and you can see far away at a glance. It can be regarded as an autumn tour, talking and laughing along the way, playing and playing, not tired at all, and before you know it, you will arrive at the riverside wharf.
Except, of course, the limping seven......
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After waiting at the dock until noon, the queen's fleet finally appeared on the river.
After another full hour, the queen's boat stopped at the trestle, and the officers and soldiers of the pro-army Governor's Mansion, who had been waiting for a long time, hurriedly erected a staircase more than two feet high for going up and down.
For the deck of the ship was two feet higher than the trestle......
Looking up at the huge building ship, the princes all showed shocked expressions.
Zhu Zhen was also shocked, he had never seen such a big wooden boat.
But on second thought, it also makes sense. If the shipbuilding level of the Ming Dynasty was not so high, how could Zheng He's treasure ship be built?