Chapter 261: Filial Piety Mausoleum

In the city of Nanjing in October, osmanthus is fragrant, and the streets are paved with scattered osmanthus flowers. A gust of wind blows, and small yellow flowers float in the air, bringing bursts of fragrance at the same time, adding a few different charms to the autumn of Nanjing.

At the southern foot of the Purple Mountain, Dulong Fu plays under Mount Everest, adjacent to the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum in the east, and Meihua Mountain in the south. Today, there is a drizzle in the sky, and there are bursts of mist wafting in the mountains, which looks full of fairy spirit.

Next to the southern foot of the Purple Mountain, Dulongfu plays under Mount Everest, which is where the Ming Tomb is located. Xiaoling was built in the 14th year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty to the third year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty (1405), and successively used 100,000 military industries, which lasted for 25 years.

However, due to the relocation of the capital to the north by Chengzu, this cemetery rarely welcomed the patronage of the emperor. Today, the Ming Tomb, which has not ushered in an emperor for a long time, finally welcomes another emperor.

Dulongfu plays under Mount Everest, and the people with armor stand all over the mountains, five steps and one post, and the guard is very strict.

Wanli took the next step in the crowd of ministers, and slowly walked towards the interior of the cemetery. After walking for about thirty minutes, the cemetery finally appeared in front of everyone.

From the Xiamafang to the main gate of Xiaoling, Wanli walked for a while, and finally entered the interior of the cemetery. The palaces and pavilions in the cemetery echo each other.

"Someone, go and bring me the figures." Wanli looked at the cemetery and shouted behind him.

After a short time, the Janissaries brought the Tumen up.

The ministers looked at the pictures and couldn't help but point and discuss.

"He's the Great Khan of Mongolia? How do you look like a groom? ”

"Don't say it, it's a bit similar, but aren't their ancestors horsemen? Hahaha...."

"God bless me. God bless me. ”

“......”

They felt like a monkey for everyone to see. At this point, he blushed and wanted to find a crack in the ground to get into.

Wanli glanced back at the figures, and then looked at the expressions of the ministers, and couldn't help but feel refreshed. Subsequently, Wanli waved his hand and led the ministers through the Dajin to the Ming Dynasty Xiaoling Divine Merit Monument.

This is a huge stone tablet as high as three zhang, which mainly records the exploits of Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty. The inscription was written by Zhu Di himself, with a total of 2,746 words, and was built on September 18, the 11th year of Yongle.

Wanli stood in front of the monument and looked at Taizu's exploits, and couldn't help but rise with pride, and secretly swore in his heart that he would also open up territory for the Ming Dynasty.

The Tumen were unlucky, Wanli said behind him, and someone pulled the Tumen out and kowtowed a few times to the tombstone.

After the monument of divine merit and holy virtue, you will arrive at the Yuhe Bridge. Wanli did not stop, and took his ministers to cross the Yuhe Bridge. Go up the gentle slope to the north of the Yuhe Bridge, and you will arrive at the main building part of the Ming Tomb.

What catches your eye is the Wenwu Square Gate, which is the main entrance of the mausoleum, with five door openings, three arched holes, and two square holes. The middle 3 are arched openings, and the two sides are rectangular openings. The roof is also covered with golden glazed tiles.

Wanli took his ministers to the inside of the cemetery, and saw a huge tombstone appear in front of him. Wanli didn't dare to slack off, and knelt directly towards the tombstone.

Then he said loudly: "The alien race offended my Daming, fortunately my Daming has the protection of my ancestors, repelled the alien race, and captured the Mongolian Great Khan, Tumen." Since his accession to the throne, his descendant Zhu Yijun has never paid tribute to his ancestors, and today he has brought the Mongolian Great Khan Tumen to pay tribute to his ancestors. In order to comfort the spirits of the ancestors in heaven. ”

After saying that, Wanli slowly got up and asked the Tumen to kneel forward and kowtow to the tombstone.

"Bang, bang, bang." Tumen kowtowed for a day, dizzy, but he had no choice but to live.

Immediately after that, Wanli told the tombstone about his exploits, and the time soon came to noon.

Wanli said: "It's not early, it's time to go out." ”

The ministers hurriedly responded and hugged Wanli and walked outside the hall. After walking for about half an hour, the group walked out of the gate of Xiaoling.

As soon as he walked out of the gate, Wanli dropped a sentence, "I am a little tired today, if there is anything, I will talk about it tomorrow." Then he got into his car and left the Purple Mountain and went to his palace. Only the ministers were left messy in the wind.

"Alas!" The ministers sighed, and then they each got into their carriages and hurried home.

Zhang Yun looked at Wanli's eager appearance, and guessed that he must have gone to find the two Yangzhou thin horses, if it goes on like this, his body can't stand it.

As soon as he thought of this, Zhang Yun called Zhang Cheng. "Father-in-law Zhang, you can let the emperor take it easy. If there is any damage to his dragon body, you are a capital offense. ”

"Yes, yes, yes." Zhang Cheng broke out in a cold sweat on his forehead, he didn't expect that the emperor would have to do that with those two goblins every day, and now he also had a headache.

Seeing that he agreed, Zhang Yun chuckled, and then boarded the carriage and walked towards the palace. When I got home, I immediately told Xu Xi about it.

"Or, you let Zhang Cheng tell those two goblins that they have a menstrual affair?"

"Then the emperor should be able to stop for a while."

Zhang Yun suddenly realized and kissed Xu Xi. immediately ran to Wanli Dormitory, found Zhang Cheng, and explained the situation to him.

"Okay, okay, our family will go and order those two women tomorrow, and forgive them for not daring to disobey our family."

As soon as this trick came out, it worked.

The next day, Wanli walked out of his dormitory and summoned the civil and military officials in Nanjing. Xu Weizhi, the Duke of Wei who was garrisoned in Nanjing, and all the Shangshu of Nanjing, all Wanli who were above the fourth grade were received.

From morning to noon, Wanli was noisy by these officials.

In addition to Xu Weizhi and other nobles, those civil officials all tried their best to swipe a wave of presence in front of Wanli, so that Wanli could transfer himself back to Beijing.

Some people saw that they couldn't take the road of Wanli, and even took the path of Zhang Yun and Feng Bao. As a result, Zhang Yun's temporary residence was piled up with all kinds of gifts.

All kinds of jade, silk and satin, gold and silver title deeds, and even some people sent Yangzhou thin horses to Zhang Yun.

"Master Hou, I bought this back from Nanjing for a lot of money, and I hope Lord Hou will accept it with a smile." The officer smirked and pointed at the skinny horse.

Zhang Yun scolded secretly in his heart, and then looked in the direction of Xu Xi.

When Xu Xi saw the woman, his face turned green with anger. Zhang Yun coaxed and deceived for a long time, and then Xu Xi was coaxed. However, Zhang Yun blacklisted the name of the person who gave the gift.

Zhang Yun thought about it and felt puzzled, so he asked Zhang Cheng to find an excuse to put him in prison. It took a few days to release it until Zhang Yun was relieved.

In the evening of the same day, Xu Xi was getting tired of Zhang Yun when he heard a sound outside. "Master Hou, the emperor sent someone to ask you to meet the driver."

Zhang Yun looked at Xu Xi's resentful eyes, smiled bitterly at her, and kissed her on the cheek.

"You go and tell the emperor, and I'll be there later." After that, Zhang Yun tidied up his clothes under Xu Xi's service and hurriedly ran to Wanli's dormitory.

At this moment, Wanli was sitting at the table bored, casually flipping through the folds in his hands. Most of the above are the boastful rhetoric of Nanjing officials.

How much credit he has, he wants to contribute to the country, and let Wanli transfer himself back to Beijing.

"Your Majesty, the Marquis of Changning has arrived!" Feng Bao saw Wanli's boring appearance and chuckled.

Wanli looked up in surprise, and sure enough, he saw that Zhang Yun had arrived at the entrance of the hall, and he pulled Zhang Yun to his side. "Hurry up, you talk to me, I'm bored to death."

Zhang Yun looked at him and pretended not to know. "Your Majesty, what about your two new mothers?"

"Don't mention it, they're not feeling well." Wanli replied with a bitter face.

"Tell me about this, how can there be such a coincidence, both of them ......"

Zhang Yun was afraid that he would guess that Zhang Cheng was making trouble, so he hurriedly diverted the topic elsewhere.

"By the way, Your Majesty, Zhang Shoufu's Ding Wei is coming to an end, and you will have to put away the two mothers when the time comes."

Sure enough, as soon as Wanli heard Zhang Juzheng's name, his body couldn't help shaking, and his face showed a look of panic. His eyes were slightly upward, as if recalling the terrifying moment when Zhang Juzheng was in the imperial court before.

Zhang Yun hurriedly relieved: "Your Majesty don't worry, now that you are an adult and have been in power for three years, I don't think Zhang Shoufu should be like before." ”

After hearing this, Wanli's spirit was soothed, and then he asked, "By the way, Zhang Cheng found two beauties for me." Tell me, how should I reward him? ”

Zhang Yun looked at Feng Bao, who had a gloomy face on the side, and then looked at Zhang Cheng who looked forward to it.

"The minister doesn't dare to discuss."

As soon as these words came out, Zhang Cheng looked disappointed, and Feng Bao breathed a sigh of relief. He was afraid that Zhang Yun would open his mouth to intercede with Zhang Cheng, and it would be a certainty that Zhang Cheng would return to the capital.

As soon as he thought of this, Feng Bao spoke first: "Your Majesty, since Zhang Cheng is meritorious. Then you might as well reward him with something, let him stay in Nanjing City, and continue to recruit beauties for the emperor. ”

"Well, that's fine." Wanli looked at Zhang Cheng. "Zhang Cheng, you will continue to select some show girls for me to send to the palace."

After Zhang Cheng heard this, he almost stumbled and fell to the ground.

"Zhang Cheng, thank the emperor for his grace." Feng Bao looked at Zhang Cheng from the side, with a smug expression.

Zhang Cheng glanced at Feng Bao, and then knelt down to Wanli and said, "The minister has thanked Your Majesty for his grace, and he will definitely do a good job for the emperor in the future." ”

Wanli patted Zhang Cheng on the shoulder, and then walked out of the dormitory quickly. "Well, I'm a little bored, go out for a walk."

Suddenly, only Zhang Cheng and Zhang Yun were left in the hall.

"Master Hou, did you intercede for me just now?" Zhang Cheng got up and looked at Zhang Cheng with a little complaint.

Zhang Yun chuckled. "How do I speak? Could it be that you should be the commander of the East Factory? ”

"I don't want to turn my face with Feng Bao now, if I say it, I will completely offend him."

Zhang Cheng's face was like ashes, and he was not at all proud of the spring breeze a few days ago. "Well, what can I do? The next time the emperor came to Nanjing, I don't know when. ”

"Father-in-law Zhang, don't panic, I have my own way." Zhang Yun patted him on the shoulder, and then whispered in his ear.

After hearing this, Zhang Cheng asked suspiciously, "Can this work?" ”

"Don't worry, it's going to work."

"Okay, let's get out."

Zhang Yun instructed him, then caught up with Wanli's pace and walked around the palace with him.

Although the Nanjing Palace has not been occupied by the emperor for many years, it is still not abandoned. There are rockeries, pond fish, and exotic plants everywhere.

Wanli and Zhang Yun walked around together for about an hour, and then they felt a little tired. Zhang Yun asked about tomorrow's plan, Wanli said casually, and then asked Zhang Yun to go back and rest.