The snow falls like cotton covering the ground, and the world looks like a new winter coat.
Shallow, thick but not warm, it will turn into spring mud next year.
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There is snow outside and there is a heater in the palace.
The snow is pure white, and the heater is a spherical hollow silver mesh with carved patterns.
Cold is very simple and direct, while warmth is relatively more complicated and requires careful creation.
"Your Highness, you should walk slower!"
In the Chunhe Palace, Queen Zhao Ning'er sat behind the curtain, looking at Liu Jin intently, learning etiquette under the guidance of several bachelors.
To be precise, it was to learn the etiquette of receiving the feudal king.
The emperor issued an imperial edict that the Prince of Burma would personally receive the King of Myanmar when he entered the court years ago. This made the civil servants in the court suddenly fall into inexplicable excitement.
In their opinion, this is how it should be. The prince is the crown prince of the Ming Dynasty, and he must be carefully cultivated from an early age. Because only by nurturing him from an early age can he cultivate the most perfect successor for the Ming Empire.
In the hearts of these civil servants, in all dynasties, the most righteous country is the Ming Dynasty.
And throughout the ages, it is I, the Ming Dynasty, who values the direct elders the most and respects the inheritance of etiquette and laws by the direct elders the most.
"Your Highness, you have to go slower and take a smaller pace!" Yang Hu, a scholar from Zuo Chunfang, looked at Liu Jin with an impatient face and said patiently, "Go steadily!"
Liujin was wearing a brand new apricot-yellow dragon robe. He rolled his eyes and glanced back at his mother's blurry outline behind the curtain, then raised his face and said, "Why do you have to walk slowly!"
"Because His Highness wants to step out of his majesty!" Zhang Xianzong, a bachelor of the East Palace, said from the side, "You are the crown prince of the Ming Dynasty. When you receive foreign vassals or envoys, you represent the Ming Dynasty! Every move you make is the power of God.
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"When walking, you should not squint, your shoulders should not move, and your steps should be of normal size! If you walk fast, you will be in a hurry. If you are anxious, you will be confused, and if you are confused, you will be looked down upon. Walk slowly and look dignified.
, calm and relaxed." Gao Xunzhi, another East Palace teacher, said, "Do you think this is how the emperor walked when he went to court?"
Liujin recalled in his mind that his father indeed walked like this when he went to court. He held the jade belt with one hand and the skirt with the other hand, and then slowly walked step by step. From a distance, it looked like he was climbing up the mountain.
Mountains in the clouds....
"But the ancestor didn't walk like this before!" Liujin retorted with a blink of an eye, "Have you ever seen the ancestor walk?"
As he spoke, he raised his head like a proud little rooster, then clasped his hands behind his back in an old-fashioned way, and made a look on his face that didn't please anyone.
"Look, my ancestor walked like this before!" Liu Jin imitated the way the old man walked before, striding like a star with every step.
"That's right!" As he was walking, Liujin suddenly stopped.
Then, under the surprised eyes of all the academicians, he actually took off his shoes and stepped on his heels casually.
Walking, pattering.
"This is how our ancestors walked in the past!" Liu Jin walked in circles in the hall, imitating the old man's behavior, frowning in a Sichuan shape, "His old man has never sat in a shoulder carriage or a soft sedan in his life, and he has never been like you.
Just walk coyly as taught!"
"This..." Several bachelors looked at each other with wry smiles in their eyes.
Emperor Taizu Gao was a king who founded the country through hundreds of battles. Even if he walked barefoot and shirtless, he always carried an awe-inspiring murderous spirit and was not angry.
But his old family's behavior cannot be applied to the prince. The younger he is, the more mature and stable he must be. If the prince imitates the gestures of Emperor Gao, the foreign vassals will definitely think that the etiquette of the Ming Dynasty is not good.
A feeling of contempt.
"Prince!" Behind the curtain, Zhao Ning'er frowned, "Why are you comparing yourself to Emperor Taizu Gao!" She said with a bit of anger, "He is the founding emperor, what about you? You are just a child with a yellow mouth! He
The old man was born in the army, but he also respects etiquette."
"But...."
"Don't argue!" Zhao Ning'er interrupted Liu Jin, "Etiquette and law are fundamental and compulsory courses. Don't you know that as a prince, you must set an example? Otherwise, how will you face the people of the world in the future...?"
Liujin lowered his head, stuck out his tongue slightly, and whispered, "Yes!"
"Your Highness, your Majesty's lesson is right!" Yang Song said with a smile, "Etiquette is simple to say, but it is the most important thing to maintain the stability of the world. If you abide by the etiquette and laws, the subjects will abide by them. If you are stable, the world will be stable...
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After saying that, he paused and said, "Now, let's get in touch and see how we should respond when we meet the King of Burma!"
Another teacher, Gao Xunzhi, followed up and said, "The King of Burma comes to Beijing to thank the Heavenly Dynasty for his canonization. And His Royal Highness, you are personally welcoming me on behalf of the Emperor, so the King of Burma must perform the courtesy of a minister of the Ming Dynasty, bowing three times and kowtowing nine times!"
"I want to turn slightly sideways, I can't take it all!" Liu Jin said helplessly, "To show my preferential treatment to King Burmese, I have to open my mouth to let him level up." As he said, he waved his hand slightly, "That's it, I stand alone.
Let him get back on his feet, and then say that your clan's saddle and horse are tired, and it's been a hard journey!"
"Your Highness is smart!" Several teachers nodded with satisfaction, showing a childish look on their face.
Liu Jin said again, "Then Gu invites King Mian to ride in the carriage and horse with Gu to show his honor!"
Behind the curtain, Zhao Ning'er had a smile on her face when she saw that Liu Jin was speaking eloquently.
At this moment, a nanny walked up to Zhao Ning'er and whispered softly.
"Yeah, I got it!" Zhao Ning'er glanced at Liujin who was practicing etiquette again, and whispered, "Let him wait in the side hall..."
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In the side hall of Chunhe Palace, the bastard stood behind the curtain with his hands down.
When the footsteps sounded, and there was a vague figure sitting on the throne behind the curtain, he quickly knelt down and kowtowed, "I have seen the empress!"
"Get up!" Zhao Ning'er said with a smile, "What's the matter with the cold weather? Do you still want to go for a run?"
"I don't want to be a slave!" The bastard smiled sarcastically, and then bowed and said, "It's because the Koryo camp just sent some fine Korean ginseng as tribute, and the Jurchens in Liaodong brought in some rare sable skins."
"The Lord Long Live ordered me to have my slave bring you some. The Lord Long Live also said that if you don't need it, you can give it to the abbot. The abbot has an old injury on his leg, so he can use these Korean ginseng to nourish his body.
Sable fur to keep out the cold!”
A smile appeared on the corner of Zhao Ning'er's mouth.
This honor never existed before.
The emperor's rewards were only limited to Chang Xu, Li Tang and other founding heroes. Although the Zhao family was the first cousin, they were still not as good as these families in the emperor's heart.
It seems that during the assassination case, his father Zhao Sili made a big appearance, so the emperor showed special favor to the Zhao family.
This kind of honor makes Zhao Ning'er proud.
"It's so cold that you have to go there in person!" Zhao Ning'er smiled, "It's so hard for you!"
After saying that, he paused and said, "I just happened to have new shoes made here. You can bring them to the emperor!"
Zhu Yunxi followed the old man's temperament and did not like to wear court boots, but preferred low-cut cotton shoes. Made of fine Songjiang cotton, the inside was stuffed with cotton wool, making it light and warm to wear without feeling stuffy.
"Xiao Wang..." Zhao Ning'er said softly.
"My slave is here..." The bastard was standing with his hands down. Hearing this, he was stunned for a moment, and then said quickly.
"Ha!" Zhao Ning'er chuckled from behind the curtain, "I didn't call you!"
The shameless bastard was wondering why the queen suddenly called him Xiao Wang?
I saw a handsome little eunuch, holding a box in both hands, coming in from the side hall.
"It's a coincidence that your surname is Wang and his surname is Wang. Maybe you were still a family five hundred years ago!" Zhao Ning'er joked again with a smile.
"A new person has entered the East Palace? Why didn't I know?"
The bastard looked at the new little eunuch next to him calmly.
Then he was shocked to find that this young eunuch was actually wearing a regimental shirt with a sunflower pattern on it!
This chapter has been completed!