"Grandpa Huang?"
Zhu Yunxi came to the old man's bedroom in the side hall of Fengtian Palace and called softly.
Fengtian Hall is the place where court meetings are held on weekdays. It is the most solemn place in the entire Forbidden City. The old man has been a workaholic all his life and refuses to rest even a day.
He felt that it was too troublesome to walk from Fengtian Hall to the harem, and it was inconvenient to meet his ministers, so he stayed in the side hall.
At this moment, the old man's palace was a little empty. Several young eunuchs were carefully sorting out the things in the old man's study. Pu Bucheng personally made the old man's bed and his daily clothes.
The clothes were a bit old, but they were still neatly folded and carefully packed into boxes.
Zhu Yunxi knew that those old clothes were made by Empress Ma for the old man during her lifetime.
The old man said, wear it when you are alive and take it with you when you die.
"Here we come!" The old man lay on the recliner, his body swaying slightly with the recliner.
In front of them, Sijin and Yaya were holding toys in the cradle and giggling and playing with them. Seeing Zhu Yunxi come in, the two children crawled to the cradle and opened their hands.
"My grandson is here!" Zhu Yunxi said with a smile, walked to the cradle, held his daughter Yaya in his arms, and touched her little nose, "My daughter, do you miss your father?"
"You are so partial!" The old man, who was dozing with his eyes narrowed, opened his eyes, "Sijin is so anxious around here, but you want to hug your daughter first!"
Everyone in the palace knew that the emperor's grandson was usually very strict with the two emperor's great-grandsons, but he was very happy with his daughter. Every time they saw her, she hugged her and never let go.
Zhu Yunxi hugged his daughter, sat down next to the old man, and looked at the somewhat empty palace, "What are you doing?"
The old man glared at him and signaled with his eyes. Someone else immediately picked up the four pounds and put it in his arms.
Holding his great-grandson in his arms, the old man had a smile on his face and whispered, "If you are tired of living here, go live there!"
"Looking at your attitude, do you plan to live there permanently?" Zhu Yunxi said softly.
"We can live in our own home wherever we want? You are not the emperor yet, and you are already taking care of me?" The old man rolled his eyes at him, and then said in a low voice, "Now you are handling the state affairs, and we don't want to be here.
Stay here, the space is too vast."
"Every day, I have to watch those plagued scholars running towards you, which makes me feel annoyed. Why don't we move to a quiet place!"
"After the Chinese New Year, let's get the one-third of an acre of land that has been left uncultivated! From now on, we will work on the land, take care of our great-grandchildren, and live a peaceful life!"
The more he heard this, the more Zhu Yunxi felt something was wrong.
The emperor's home cannot be treated with normal sentiments. Every move of the emperor contains incomparable profound meanings.
The old man moved out of the palace where he had lived all his life, and in the eyes of foreign ministers, there was endless speculation.
"In the future, why don't you just move here!" The old man continued, "The Imperial Garden is too small and not solemn."
"How can your grandson move here to your bedroom?" Zhu Yunxi said anxiously.
"I've given you the country and the country, so what's the point of a rotten house?" The old man curled his lips, "Just move if you are asked, don't talk so much nonsense!" After saying that, he paused and said, "Move here before the Zhengdan Dynasty meeting.
When the time comes, we will be here to hold office and receive foreign envoys!"
"My grandson doesn't dare!" Zhu Yunxi was shocked.
He is the crown prince and the emperor of the Ming Empire, but he is not the emperor after all.
Even if the old man allowed him to live there, he would not dare to live in the Fengtian Palace, which represents the supreme imperial power and the authority of the emperor.
Since ancient times, there have been no such rules and principles.
"Moji!" The old man was dissatisfied and said with a softer tone, "Let's not have so many rules!"
At this point, he touched the four pounds in his arms and continued, "If you are really filial, give birth to more grandchildren while we are still alive!"
Then, without waiting for Zhu Yunxi to speak, he asked again, "Are you all ready?"
"What do you mean?" Zhu Yunxi was a little unable to keep up with the old man's way of talking, one sentence after another.
The old man glared at him again, "It's Chinese New Year!"
"Of course everything is ready!" Zhu Yunxi said with a smile, "Actually, there is nothing prepared, just eating, drinking and being lively."
"New Year's Eve dinner!" the old man said in a long voice, "We are celebrating the New Year at home, and you want to let those unscrupulous cooks in the imperial kitchen deal with it?"
"This grandson has thought about it too!" Zhu Yunxi continued with a smile, "On the other days, we still eat food from the imperial kitchen. On the thirtieth day, Ning'er took the lead with the wives of each vassal king and the princesses. Everyone was there
Make it as soon as possible!" He said, then smiled and said, "For the Chinese New Year, I will definitely let you, Grandpa Huang, eat the rice cooked and dumplings made by your daughter-in-law, granddaughter-in-law, and daughters!"
"Well, this is the Chinese New Year!" The old man nodded, "When we were young, every Chinese New Year, your great-grandmother would take care of the meals with your uncle's wives!"
As he spoke, his tone suddenly became a little more serious, "Also, the tributes for ancestor worship this year must be prepared by our own family members, and outsiders are not allowed to interfere!"
"My grandson will tell his third uncle when he gets back!" Zhu Yunxi said.
"We should worship our ancestors on the first day of the new year!" the old man said in a low voice, "We will go too!"
"This" Zhu Yunxi pondered for a moment, "Grandpa Huang, don't you always worship your ancestors before Zhengdan?"
In the house of the emperor, every action must be governed by etiquette and cannot be arbitrary. There is a time limit for ancestor worship, which cannot be changed easily. Otherwise, the memorials from the courtiers will be like snowflakes.
"Our own ancestors, we can sacrifice them whenever we want. We sacrifice them every day. What can we do?" The old man suddenly became a little angry. "We are afraid of others saying that we are going to sacrifice our ancestors? Who dares to say it? Just ask them to tell us.
, let’s see who is the real one or the fake one!”
"My grandson doesn't mean that!" Zhu Yunxi said hurriedly, "On the first day of the lunar month, there will be a court meeting first, and then we will meet with the vassal envoys at Jinshen Hall. The Imperial Ancestral Temple is outside the imperial city, so the time cannot be missed!"
"Then everything will be held at the Taimiao Temple!" The old man was still angry. "The great court meeting will be held at the Taimiao Temple. All civil and military officials and nobles will participate. Those barbarians from foreign countries will also be allowed to come. While worshiping their ancestors,
While attending the meeting and accepting the congratulations, the three things can be done as one, which saves trouble!"
"This" Zhu Yunxi became more and more puzzled, there was no such thing as this.
The Zhengdan Chaoqi is the first day of the New Year, and there is no way it should be careless.
"We are the emperor, and whatever we say is what we say. If you want to object, wait until you become the emperor later!" The old man rolled his eyes at Zhu Yunxi again, "Huh, you are not the emperor yet, you will do this and that with us. Wait until you become the emperor.
Your Majesty, we still have a good life. You unfilial thing, how many years can we live, why can't you just follow me?"
"Okay, okay!" Zhu Yunxi hurriedly smiled and said, "Grandpa Emperor, what do you think can it be done? My grandson will go and pass on your elder's decree. The Zhengdan meeting will not be in Fengtian Hall, but in the Ancestral Temple. At that time, all civil and military officials will come first
Accompany us two men, no, accompany us Zhu family men, sacrifice our ancestors first, and then go to court!"
Hearing what he said, the old man seemed angry.
"Being an emperor, there are not so many rules!" The old man added, "On the day we ascended the throne, the palace was not even built yet! Just on the square outside Fengtian Hall, kneeling and kowtow is considered to have ascended the throne!"
"Thousands of officials salute us, but there are not enough chairs for them to sit on afterwards. It's better for me to order that all the benches in the palace be moved out so that they can sit on them!"
As he said that, the old man suddenly laughed, "There are not enough stools in the palace to sit on, so I went outside to find a bunch of long stools!"
"Two fat men were sitting on a long stool. When one stood up to speak, the other overturned the stool. Just at our enthronement ceremony, they squatted on their butts, haha!"
"Didn't you see the stink of the fat official who fell? He was like a bastard, with his legs in the air and his big belly that couldn't be turned over, haha! It was Guo Laosan next to him who couldn't see through it, so he pulled him up!"
Zhu Yunxi also laughed, "Who is that fat official? Is he still in the court now?" Then he thought about it, "There are no fat people in the court now!"
"No matter what his name is, he's dead!" The old man continued to laugh in a low voice, "Corruption makes us light up sky lanterns. Damn, he's so fat, Jin Yiwei told us, it's enough to light up a sky lantern.
It’s a month!”
"Later, your grandmother said that it would be cruel to turn a good living person into a wick. We thought so, so we asked Jin Yiwei to extract all the oil from the fat man and distribute it to the people as lamp oil, which can be regarded as making the best use of everything!"
Suddenly, Zhu Yunxi burst into laughter.
The next second, the old man's big hand covered the back of his hand and said softly, "Grandson!"
"Grandpa Huang, my grandson is here!"
"We are the founding emperor. If we don't be ruthless, we won't be able to stand! If we don't be ruthless, the people below will have no rules. That's why we use severe punishments, no matter how cruel or scary they are!"
"But you are the Emperor of Taiping, the emperor of the prosperous age. If you want to be benevolent in the future, don't imitate us. It's enough for us to be called thieves and bastards. But we cannot let the descendants of the old Zhu family be called cruel people.
!Understand?
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2021 has passed before I know it, and I will be grateful for this year.
Thanks to this year, I have made the acquaintance of all of you who are so handsome and unrestrained. The jade trees stand in the wind. Everyone loves cars and cars. Flowers bloom. Watch the mountains fall, watch the rivers dry. Watch the chickens die, watch the dogs.
Friends who are turning over.
Your support and encouragement, as well as your love and your random thoughts about me, are the motivation and source of my creation.
I wish all my readers in the new year to make a lot of money and good luck. Peach blossoms are in full bloom and good luck continues. Play mahjong to catch four ghosts, fight landlords and big kings with four twos, pick up money when you go out, and win lottery tickets.
Grand prize.
(The last one seems unrealistic!)
This chapter has been completed!