Chapter 477: Family Affection
Zilong was moved and sad in his heart when he heard this, this kind of feeling of being truly remembered and cared for, he really enjoyed it.
"I didn't want to take care of too many mundane things, but knowing that Zilong you were forced to come here, I really can't bear it!" Zheng Wang suddenly stopped his sadness and said angrily, "Liu Jin actually tried to kill you three times, how can this be done? You are the son of Emperor Hongzhi, the prince of the Ming Dynasty, and the nobles of Tianhuang, how could Liu Jin be framed at will by such a gelding!" Therefore, I decided to follow King An's suggestion, come out and expose the events of the year again, so that you can officially appear in this world, so that everyone in the world knows that Emperor Hongzhi still has a son like you, and Zhengde and he still have your brother!"
Hearing this, Zilong and the others finally understood.
This Zheng Wang stood up this time, not for personal gain, regardless of Liu Jin's threat, but just wanted to use his own strength to expose the events of the year, so that Zilong could have a foothold and no longer be persecuted by Liu Jin and others.
Zilong was moved in his heart, pulled this thin old man, and said: "Grandpa, I know, don't worry, I will definitely pull Liu Jin off the stage this time, and get justice for you and your mother!"
If before, Zilong only decided to join the Ningxia uprising led by King An because of the bond between Ma Fengyue and the Fengyue Gang, then at this moment, Zheng Wang's appearance and everything he said made Zilong understand.
If they don't clean up Liu Jin and the Queen Mother, they will only persecute the people around them more and more, first Ma Fengyue and the Fengyue Gang, then their grandfather, and then, it is likely that they are friends of the Central Plains Martial Arts and innocent people of Hetao.
Retreat and compromise cannot satisfy Liu Jin and others.
Only by standing up, taking everyone together, following King An, leading the army to the capital, and admonishing the imperial court, so that Liu Jin loses his authority, and the queen mother loses her support outside the palace, can he rest easy, and the Ming Dynasty can return to normal.
It was also at this moment that Zilong finally made up his mind to mobilize all his strength to devote himself to this uprising led by King An, to help King An, to help the people around him, to help his father Emperor Hongzhi, who had never seen him, to put the chaos in place since Liu Jin came to power.
After thinking clearly, Zilong and Gu Xiaotian and others tried their best to persuade him, Zheng Wang finally stopped his sadness, stroked Zilong's face with some joy, and said vigorously: "Like, really like, you really look like your mother!"
"My mother?" Zilong flashed a painting in his mind, but it was the ink treasure left by Emperor Hongzhi to King An, and he couldn't help but try his best to recall the person in that painting.
"Yes, your mother is gentle and kind, and she is a very good person. If it weren't for the poverty of the family at that time, she didn't want me to work too hard because she felt sorry for me. I'm afraid I won't enter the palace. If you don't enter the palace, you won't encounter so many things, so there is no news so far, and I don't know if it's life or death, hey!" Zheng Wang said with his hands and patting his chest.
"Don't worry, grandpa, as long as my mother is still alive, I will definitely find her, even if she is gone, I will definitely go to the palace, find her remains, and bury her with my father!" Zilong saw Zheng Wang so sad, and immediately comforted him, and said to himself.
After Zheng Jinlian gave birth to Zilong and Zhengde, she lost her news.
Empress Dowager Zhang has always claimed that Zhengde was born to her, and she doesn't know where Zheng Jinlian went, and Emperor Hongzhi has not tracked it down for some reason.
Now Zilong knows the reason for this, and it is extremely shocking to make such an oath.
You must know that his father is Emperor Hongzhi and is buried in Tailing, and it has been almost six years since then.
The emperor's mausoleum, not only has guards and officials guarding the mausoleum, but also wants to pay homage or let people be buried in it, which is an extremely cumbersome procedure.
At the very least, if Zheng Jinlian was really unfortunate to be killed, and Zilong wanted to bury her with Hongzhi, this Empress Dowager would not agree.
And Zilong said this, obviously it was not a petty theft, but a funeral similar to that of the concubine, and justifiably buried his mother and his father. There is a lot involved in this, and there is great resistance!
Fortunately, it is not reckless here, or ordinary civilians like Zheng Wang, who don't know what's involved, but they just think that Zilong is doing this, which is a rare embodiment of filial piety.
After Zheng Wang heard Zilong's statement, he was even more happy to close his mouth, and praised Zilong for his filial piety.
At that moment, Zilong also took advantage of this rare leisure time to chat with his grandfather, who met for the first time.
The two sat in the stone pavilion, accompanied by Gu Xiaotian and others, Zilong said some of his experiences over the years, just said those beautiful things, what he had been a beggar, and didn't say anything, so as not to make the old man sad.
And Zheng Wang just talked about Zilong's mother, as well as his own affairs over the years, and heard about Zilong's great achievements, and he was the leader of the Hetao and the leader of the martial arts alliance, but they all made Zheng Wang close his mouth, and he was a powerful boast of Zilong, worthy of being the son of the first emperor.
Hearing that Zheng Wang spoke highly of his father, Zilong couldn't help but ask his grandfather about the deeds of Emperor Hongzhi.
Although Zheng Wang had several meetings with Emperor Hongzhi because of his special status.
But after all, this identity is really different, and the Empress Dowager Zhang obstructs it, so the two don't see each other much.
However, in these few meetings, Emperor Hongzhi made Zheng Wang remember it to this day with his humble and benevolent, graceful and generous bearing.
Therefore, Zheng Wang said that he was full of praise, and there was no bad word.
also sighed vigorously, if the first emperor hadn't left so early, I was afraid that the Ming Dynasty would be imminent, and there would be no eunuchs like Liu Jin in power, confusing the world.
Zilong was also fascinated when he heard this, this was the first time he heard the news of his father from other people's mouths.
At that moment, he couldn't help but pester Zheng Wang and let him talk more.
Where did Zheng Wang bear to refuse Zilong's request, he told Emperor Hongzhi about suppressing the power of eunuchs, attacking the great eunuch Liang Fang, and dealing with Li Guang.
He also said that Emperor Hongzhi made great efforts to govern the country, appointed virtuous ministers, and enabled a group of upright old ministers such as Liu Jian, Li Dongyang, Xie Qian, and Liu Daxia, so that the politics were clear and the country was thriving.
In the end, he sighed and said: "It's a pity, His Majesty the former emperor is too diligent in the government, and his health has not been good since he was a child, and he has suffered too much, so he fell ill, but in the end he died young!"
"Have you suffered since you were a child?" Zilong couldn't help but be a little puzzled, and asked, "He is the emperor, and he should have been the prince when he was a child, the crown prince, what did he suffer?"
"This is the business of your grandfather's generation!" Zheng Wang sighed and said, "When your grandfather Emperor Chenghua was in the harem, he favored Wan Guifei, who was nineteen years older than him. This Wan Guifei has not been able to give birth to a prince, but she is afraid that she will fall out of favor, so as long as Emperor Chenghua favors the palace maid, she will order her personal eunuch to go and poison her! Over time, until the fifth year of Chenghua, Emperor Chenghua still has not been able to have a prince to inherit him!"
"What a ruthless woman!" Zilong and the others all heard about this palace secret for the first time, and they all glanced at each other, and from each other's eyes, they saw the cruel anger against this ten thousand concubines.
"One day, when the eunuch Zhang Min combed Emperor Chenghua's hair, Emperor Chenghua looked at himself in the bronze mirror, and he had white hair on his temples, and he couldn't help but sigh that he was old, but he didn't have a son to inherit the great cause!" Zheng Wang said slowly, "That Zhang Min also knelt on the ground at the risk of death, and said that Emperor Chenghua favored a palace maid surnamed Ji, but gave birth to a prince. With the help of Zhang Min and other eunuchs, as well as the deposed Wu family, this Hongzhi Emperor survived in horror in the palace!
When Emperor Chenghua first saw Emperor Hongzhi, the child's hair was uncut and left on the ground, as thin as firewood, but he really didn't know how many sins he had suffered. Emperor Chenghua hugged his child, burst into tears, and named the child the crown prince on the spot, so that your father later ascended the throne!"
Zilong thought that he had been extremely miserable when he was a child, but when he heard that his biological father was persecuted like this when he was a child, under the protection of many people, the fetal hair was not cut, and after growing up skinny, he found that his suffering was nothing compared to his father.
In my heart, I felt a sense of admiration for the father who had never met but was greatly praised by my grandfather.
Xu said so much, after Zheng Wang finished talking about the past of Emperor Hongzhi, he was also tired and closed his eyes tiredly.
But he still held Zilong's hand tightly, as if he was afraid that he wouldn't wake up and see Zilong's grandson.
Ma Fengyue was also moved when she saw it, and immediately comforted: "Zilong, it's windy here, let's send Zheng Lao to rest together!
"Okay!" Zilong naturally didn't want his grandfather to freeze outside, so he immediately picked up his thin grandfather, and arranged Zheng Wang to rest in a warm pavilion with Ma Fengyue.
After placing Zheng Wang, Zilong also took Ma Fengyue and the four of them, quietly walked out of the room, and talked quietly in the hall of the warm pavilion.
First of all, Zilong thanked Gu Xiaotian and Ouyang Jin for responding to him and coming here.
Then he told the two of them what he and Ningxia are doing and what they are going to do.
After finishing speaking, Zilong said solemnly: "Master, big brother, what I am doing now is a matter of killing my head, if the matter fails, I am afraid that no matter how high my martial arts are, I will not be able to escape death! Now I have implicated you in for no reason, it is really extremely ......."
"Zilong, what are you talking about?" Without waiting for Zilong to finish speaking, Gu Xiaotian glared at him and said dissatisfiedly, "Don't say whether you are the prince or not, whether you are the flesh and blood of Emperor Hongzhi, but you are on the side of morality, just say that you are my Gu Xiaotian's apprentice, I will help you! The head is off, the bowl is a big scar, what's the big deal, your master is a person who died once!"