Chapter 774 Zhu Yuanzhang is determined to live and die
Zhu Yuanzhang's illness was actually not a serious illness.
In later generations' terms, it is a gastrointestinal cold.
Zhu Yuanzhang grew up in a poor family and couldn't afford anything good to eat. Later, he became a wealthy man. If nothing else, he couldn't lose his fortune.
For Lao Zhu, big fish and meat are three necessary meals.
This also causes Lao Zhu to actually be a little fat now.
With a height of 1.75 meters, his actual weight is close to 200 kilograms.
In traditional Chinese medicine, there is no such thing as high blood pressure. In this era, it is called a disease of wealth.
From ancient times to the present, doctors' training experience mainly comes from ordinary people. Of course, rich people cannot find an apprentice to treat them, they must be famous doctors.
But famous doctors also came from apprentices slowly. Throughout the ages, there are no fat people in ordinary people's homes. All of them are too thin to lose weight due to hunger.
Even if you are a child of a noble family, you will not eat and sleep every day.
Yes, there are, but very few.
Therefore, diseases of wealth are also included in the category of difficult and complicated diseases.
Zhu Yuanzhang must have high blood pressure, otherwise he would not have fainted. The most important thing is that he saw visions when he fainted.
Before this, although his wife was gone and his eldest son was gone, Zhu Yuanzhang was still holding back his breath.
At that time, he knew that the emperor's grandson was young and the Ming Dynasty needed him in many places, so he had a strong spiritual goal.
If people have goals, their spirits will be much higher.
However, since his grandson entered the palace, Zhu Yuanzhang was still very excited at first. Later, as Zhu Ying gradually showed his ability to govern the country, Zhu Yuanzhang felt more and more that the role he could play became smaller.
As for the reform of military and political affairs, the number of government affairs that needed to be handled personally by the emperor began to decrease significantly. It was basically impossible for some secretive matters to be placed on the emperor's desk anymore.
This also gave Zhu Yuanzhang a lot of leisure, and he had more time to take care of his great-grandson and enjoy his life.
However, old people cannot be idle.
If you are idle, you will have random thoughts and be sentimental.
In fact, Zhu Yuanzhang already had this sign, but Zhu Ying did not notice it.
Like many people's children, many people feel that the elderly cannot be overworked for fear of exhaustion, but they do not expect that once the elderly have no spiritual sustenance, they will be even more affected.
If you don't have much to do, you will spend a lot of time thinking about things and worrying about gains and losses. Living like this every day, people will become depressed.
The winter in Nanjing is very cold, and due to Lao Zhu's dietary problems, it is normal for him to have a gastrointestinal cold.
The bad thing is that all the negative emotions accumulated before burst out at this moment, which made Lao Zhu feel a little lifeless.
In the back hall of Qianqing Palace.
Zhu Yuanzhang was lying on the bed, looking out the window with blank eyes.
The goose-feather heavy snow fell slowly, and it was all white before the eyes.
After two days of rest, Zhu Yuanzhang's body has almost recovered, but he is still a little weak and cannot bear the cold.
At this time, there was a loud noise at the door.
Liu He came in and reported: "Your Majesty, the young highness is here."
Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes were a little more angry: "Let Xiao Wencheng come in quickly."
Not long after, little Wen Cheng jumped into the house, holding a small snowman in his hand.
"Grandpa, I heard that you were sick, so I specially built a snowman for you. Can you get better soon, and then we can build a snowman together?"
Xiao Wencheng put the little snowman on the bedside table and said with a smile.
When Zhu Yuanzhang saw Xiao Wen Cheng, there was a little smile on his face.
"Then you have to wait for a few days, great-grandpa. When we get better, I will build a snowman with you."
Xiao Wen Cheng shouted happily: "Yes, yes, yes, I want my great-grandfather, father, and mother to accompany me to build a snowman."
"Great Grandfather, when the time comes, can you make your next edict and ask your father to come too? Every time I call him, he doesn't come. I heard others say that my father only listens to Grandpa's words."
"Grandpa gave him a decree. If he still dares to come and build a snowman with me, huh, Grandpa, you will spank him when the time comes, hehehe."
Zhu Yuanzhang was also amused: "Okay, okay, listen to our little Wen Cheng, I will give your father an order. If he doesn't come, I will take off his pants and spank him, hahaha."
Xiao Wen Cheng said distressedly: "But Grandpa, how long will it take for you to recover from your illness? What if it stops snowing after you recover? Then we won't be able to build a snowman."
Zhu Yuanzhang touched Xiao Wen Cheng's head and said with a smile: "We are the emperor, and everyone in the world must listen to us. When our illness is cured, and if it doesn't snow in the sky, I will give him an edict.
Let him continue to snow, so that we can build a snowman with Xiao Wen Cheng."
Xiao Wen Cheng jumped up and down happily: "Okay, then my great-grandfather will send a decree to the sky, and we can build a snowman."
Zhu Yuanzhang asked: "Now is the time for you to do your homework. Why did you come to see Grandpa? Have you finished your homework?"
Xiao Wen Cheng said: "I heard that my great-grandpa was sick, so I wanted to see my great-grandpa, but my father wouldn't let me come. He said that my great-grandpa needed to rest. He had finished his homework early this morning, so my father asked me to come over."
Zhu Yuanzhang nodded: "Good boy, you are thinking of us in your heart."
At this time, Concubine Ning came in with a medicine bowl. Seeing the smile on His Majesty's face, she knew that His Majesty was in a much better mood.
"Your Majesty, it's time to take medicine." Concubine Ning said softly.
Zhu Yuanzhang said: "Let's eat later. I'll chat with Xiao Wen Cheng for a while first."
Xiao Wencheng shook his head and said: "No, no, my great grandfather must take the medicine obediently. Only by taking the medicine will he get better. Then we can build a snowman together."
After saying that, Xiao Wen Cheng rolled his eyes and said with a smile: "When I was sick, my mother always gave me medicine. It was so painful. This time my great-grandpa is sick, so let me give me medicine."
"Good medicine tastes bitter. Good medicine tastes bitter. Grandpa, don't be afraid of bitterness. When it comes to your mouth, drink it."
After saying that, he went to take the medicine bowl from Concubine Ning's hand.
Zhu Yuanzhang smiled happily and said: "Okay, let our little Wen Cheng feed us today."
Master Wen Cheng took a spoonful of it, blew it cold, and slowly brought it to Grandpa's mouth.
Zhu Yuanzhang opened his mouth and drank in cooperation.
Just like this, spoonful after spoonful, the medicine was finished soon.
Concubine Ning, who was accompanying her, took the medicine bowl and left at Zhu Yuanzhang's signal.
Xiao Wencheng did not leave, but followed Zhu Yuanzhang chattering and told him some things he had encountered.
It's just that, as a child, he fell asleep soon after.
He was still half asleep and said: "Grandpa, let's build a snowman together."
Zhu Yuanzhang fondly stroked Xiao Wen Cheng's head, and whispered with memories in his eyes: "In those days, your father also liked to make snowmen the most, but he was much more domineering."
"That New Year's Day, government affairs were busy. We were reading the memorial in the Canopy Hall. It started snowing heavily outside. Your father started making a fuss about building a snowman. We said that when we finish reading the memorial, your father grabbed our beards.
, dragged it away forcefully."
"Your grandpa was discussing things in the East Palace, and your dad was banging the gong, making them so noisy that they couldn't talk about anything. There was no other way, so your grandpa had no choice but to follow and build a snowman."
"Your grandpa has never built a snowman. When he was born, there was no Ming Dynasty yet. We were fighting on the front line, and my eldest sister had to help behind. When the war is over, we will finally be free, and your grandpa will grow up.
Already."
"We are very busy on weekdays, but your dad has this ability and pulls our whole family out to build snowmen. At that time, it was really good."
As he spoke, tears slowly overflowed from the corners of Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes.
He didn't talk about big girls, but in his eyes and in his heart, he was full of big girls.
Zhu Yuanzhang raised his head and looked out the window, as if he had seen the happy time when his family of four was building snowmen there.
The snowman his son built was the ugliest, so his eldest grandson named him the Ugly General.
The snowman built by the eldest sister was the most beautiful, so the eldest grandson made him a general.
"Our snowman is not as ugly as your grandfather, nor as good-looking as your great-grandmother. Your father was just thinking about what name to give him, which made us laugh."
Zhu Yuanzhang was thinking, talking, and laughing. Along with his thoughts, his mouth started to murmur.
"Your father lost his mother when he was a child, and it was your great-grandmother who took care of him. When he was as old as you, he always called your great-grandmother mother, but that would make you happy to call you great-grandmother, what?
Protect him in everything."
"With your great-grandmother protecting you, your father is so arrogant that no one in this palace dares to offend him. Even we, the emperor, have to take a detour when we meet your father sometimes."
The corners of Zhu Yuanzhang's mouth curled up, and the things he recalled seemed to have happened yesterday.
But then, Zhu Yuanzhang's voice became deeper.
"Your father is sick. He is as sick as we are now. We asked all the doctors from the entire imperial hospital to come and treat your father. But these quack doctors are all quacks. Your father's illness is getting worse and worse."
"That is our lifeblood, and it is also your great-grandmother's lifeblood, but even so many doctors have not been able to cure your father."
"We will execute all those quack doctors and cut them into pieces with thousands of cuts, but it will not relieve the hatred in our hearts."
"Your great-grandmother is sick. No matter what medicine she takes, it doesn't work. She begged us not to kill the imperial doctor again. She wanted to be with her grandson herself. No wonder others asked us not to implicate those quack doctors. We agreed.
."
"But didn't she think about how we would live if she left and left us alone in this world?"
"Your great-grandmother is so cruel."
At this moment, Zhu Yuanzhang was like a helpless child, crying.
I cried and laughed again.
"We finally see your father again. We can tell at a glance that he is our eldest grandson. Our eldest grandson is back."
"We just want to ask your great-grandmother, where can I find my eldest grandson down there? My eldest grandson is still living well up there, but he's gone for nothing down here."
"Your father is a good boy. Even though he didn't grow up in the palace, he is from our Lao Zhu family. He is like me, no, he is like your grandma."
"We told your great-aunt back then that if she were a boy, we wouldn't have anything to do with her."
"Your father's temperament is very much like yours, and he is also more capable."
"Now, under the rule of your father, the people of the Ming Dynasty live and work in peace and contentment, the world is full of smoke, the treasury is abundant, the soldiers and horses are strong, and your great-grandmother has never seen a train that can run thousands of miles a day."
Zhu Yuanzhang lowered his head slightly and looked at Xiao Wen Cheng sleeping soundly beside his bed.
It seemed like I was seeing my eldest grandson from back then.
"We are old, no longer useful, and our body and bones are no longer good. Now I can rest assured that I will leave this life to your father. He will not let us down."
"Xiao Wen Cheng, you are different from your father. You have your father and your mother. Without us, you can still be happy and grow up happily."
"We miss you so much right now. She and the boss must be talking about us all the time down there."
Zhu Yuanzhang spoke softly, with doting on Xiao Wencheng still in his eyes.
But at this moment, Liu He, who was waiting not far away, was trembling all over.
He couldn't hear clearly what His Majesty was saying, but he suddenly laughed and cried again, which frightened Liu He very much.
But at this time, Liu He did not dare to step forward.
Because back then, the previous eunuch, the Supervisor of Ceremonies, came up to comfort him under such circumstances, and was ordered to die by His Majesty.
There are things about the emperor that eunuchs like them are not allowed to talk about.
When the queen passed away, the eunuchs of the Qiankun Qing Palace died. When the prince passed away, the eunuchs of the Qianqing Palace died again.
It was Liu He's turn to come up.
Learning from the past, Liu He did not dare to step forward.
Perhaps His Majesty was tired and soon fell asleep, so Liu He walked out in small steps.
Then Sayazi rushed to Huagai Hall.
The road was slippery and Liu He fell. The young eunuch helped him get up and hurried over again.
In the Huagai Palace, Zhu Ying was making arrangements for the Northern Expedition.
This time the Northern Expedition was different from the past, but it was about truly occupying the grasslands.
Since it is occupation, it involves the issue of migrating people.
It is difficult to feed people in places like grasslands.
Despite the ferocious fighting prowess of the nomads, in fact, for the grassland's lower-class people, the grassland is just a place where people can eat people.
In the impression of later generations, grassland people should drink heavily and eat meat.
In fact, in the grassland, for many people, being able to drink a mouthful of porridge every day is already a great life.
Grazing cattle and sheep is not for food. It is the property of the tribe. Just like the landlord's tenants, most grassland people work for the nobles.
The only thing they were looking forward to was to exchange some dairy products for some grain with the Central Plains Dynasty.
Winter is a nightmare on the grassland.
It is difficult to see old people on the grassland, because every winter, a large number of old people die.
The old mentioned here does not mean seventy or eighty, but refers to about fifty years old.
Why do prairie people beat the autumn wind?
Because there is no food available in autumn, the elderly and children will starve to death in the harsh winter.
Nine out of ten children who are unlucky enough to be born in winter will die young.
Therefore, if Zhu Ying wanted to rule the grassland, the first problem he would face was to solve the food problem.
He wanted to build a city on the grassland and break the tradition of grassland people living in pursuit of water and grass.