Zhang Lun followed his grandfather's instructions and went to the palace with Xu Yande and Zhu Lin early the next morning. The result was of course as expected. It was naturally impossible for Zhu Houzhao to withdraw the punishment that had been announced. Moreover, this punishment was actually only symbolic.
But after hearing Zhang Lun and others say that Zhang Yanling locked herself in her home, put up a sign saying "Be behind closed doors and reflect on her mistakes", and refused to see anyone, Zhu Houzhao felt a little regretful.
After he ascended the throne, his uncle was loyal to him and saved him from crises several times. Although, unlike Liu Jin, he did not act according to his own wishes and made himself happy and comfortable.
But whenever big things happen, he always steps forward to solve problems for himself, regardless of his own safety. He is trustworthy.
Although what happened in Guangdong this time was a bit excessive, he was forced to give some punishments under pressure. But it might chill his heart and he didn't know. This person in the court was someone he could completely trust and rely on.
There are not many people, but don't let your uncle really become depressed from now on, that would be undesirable.
So, at noon, a chamberlain went to the Jianchang Marquis Mansion to deliver the edict. In front of Zhang Yanling, he took down the plaque that read "Be behind closed doors and think about past mistakes" hanging on the door, and read out the imperial edict.
"I hope you will shut yourself up and think about your mistakes, but I don't want you to be grounded. There are many important things in the court, and Jianchang Hou is a capable minister of the country. How can you just turn your back and enjoy your leisure time? Everything was complicated before, and I kept pushing back the wedding.
Now that the new year is approaching, the Empress Dowager is urging her very urgently, and all the ministers have come forward to invite me. It is indeed time for my wedding to be put on the agenda. I have decided to take advantage of the peace of the year and hold the wedding ceremony in the twelfth lunar month. The Marquis of Jianchang is
I am a relative of my uncle, so I will arrange the arrangements for you. From now on, Shouning Hou Jianchang and Hou Ninghou will join hands with officials from the Ministry of Rites to organize the wedding ceremony. I appreciate this!"
Zhu Houzhao was very smart. He asked Zhang Yanling to go out of the house on the pretext of organizing his own wedding ceremony so that he could not be autistic at home. At the same time, he also used this matter to tell Zhang Yanling that he still trusted him, otherwise such a grand wedding would have been the responsibility of the Ministry of Etiquette.
Although he is the uncle of the state, it is actually not his turn to take care of matters with the royal family and princes.
Zhang Yanling naturally understood the meaning. He did not regard this incident as the end of the world. Zhu Houzhao's punishment was not severe. How could Zhang Yanling not know that it was just a formality?
His behavior in the past few days was actually exactly what the British public Zhang Mao had guessed. On the one hand, he deliberately expressed dissatisfaction and made his attitude clear. On the other hand, he also wanted to see how many people were adding insult to injury in this situation.
People really care about themselves.
When people are unlucky, they can best see the true thoughts of the people around them.
Zhang Yanling kowtowed to thank him, rewarded the messenger, and sent him back to the palace, feeling very happy.
The emperor came forward to take off his "closed door and think about past mistakes" sign, which means that he no longer has to pretend to be behind closed doors and think about past mistakes. There is no need to continue this scene. During this period, he is locked at home every day. Although he is free and enjoys every day
Family happiness. But such days are too boring.
In fact, Zhang Yanling was still enjoying it a few days before the door was closed. Every day, he carried the caged bird and wandered around the house with his son. He pointed to the east, pointed to the west, looked south and west, and his figure was everywhere.
When Xu Wanyi asked him if he was bored, Zhang Yanling also said things like, "It takes half a day's leisure" and "The true taste of life is pure joy", indicating that he was enjoying it.
But soon, Zhang Yanling felt that the days of doing nothing were too difficult. His personality was not that of a person who could stay at home. If he was to be trapped at home like this for the rest of his life, eating and sleeping every day, even if he had a lovely wife, beautiful concubines and children all over the house,
He would die of boredom in the gentle countryside at night.
Besides, Zhang Yanling still has a lot of things to do.
For example, the matter of imitating the Fo Lang machine gun. After the samples of the Fo Lang machine gun arrived at Wild Dog Ridge, Zhang Yanling had long wanted to take a look, and worked with Xu Gao to study the imitation, transformation and improvement. This was a major concern for him. Go.
The biggest gain from a trip to Guangdong was this thing. Especially after seeing the power of the Fo Lang machine gun, Zhang Yanling hoped to master the technology of casting this gun as soon as possible.
And it's not just imitation. Zhang Yanling believes that if it really wants to compete with the Fo Lang machine gun, the new cannon must be better than the Fo Lang machine gun in terms of range accuracy and power. Only in this way can it crush the opponent and win in combat.
One of the reasons why the Folan machine can roam across the ocean is because of their Folan cannon, which is more advanced than all the artillery in the world. If the cannon you make cannot surpass the Folan cannon, it is actually a failure.
.
Zhang Yanling already has a plan in his mind to solve the financial and tax tension problem faced by the Ming Dynasty through trade. The basis of this plan is to open up sea and land trade routes and establish an overseas trade system. And all of this requires force as a guarantee. So this time
The success of the cannon-casting plan is crucial.
The manpower and financial resources related to this have already been inspected for ship manufacturing and the design of long-distance warships are all on the schedule. Zhang Yanling could have used the time before the year to plan and inspect, communicate with the nobles, and persuade
The emperor agreed to the plan and so on.
But now he is stuck at home with nothing to do, which naturally makes him feel uneasy.
The wives and concubines of the Zhang family also breathed a sigh of relief. They had actually had enough of Zhang Yanling in the past few days. In the first few days, Mr. Hou was normal, but in the next few days, Mr. Hou was just looking for trouble and being unreasonable.
In the last few days at home, Zhang Yanling had to comment on everything from the layout of the house to the furniture at home, the arrangement of flowers and trees in the yard, and even everyone's clothes, paintings, calligraphy, and even the fish in the fish pond.
Find all kinds of weird reasons to express dissatisfaction.
Xu Wanyi drew a picture of plum blossoms. Zhang Yanling just pointed at it and said that this was not good and that was not good. Xu Wanyi angrily drove him out and closed the door to prevent him from coming in, so as not to listen to his blabbering.
Shiqing made a poem, which was caricatured as a limerick by Zhang Yanling. Huayi made a picture, which was caricatured as a graffiti.
Myolie made a new coat and wore it, and she looked very pretty. When Zhang Yanling saw it, she said it looked like a matchmaker wearing a colorful coat.
Putao'er recently got angry and had blisters on her lips. When Zhang Houye saw her, he said she must have said something bad, which hurt her lips.
…
All these things are unreasonable and make everyone in the back house angry.
The back house was uneasy, and the servants in the front yard were also uneasy. In addition to having to drag the servants to ride horses with him in the yard, he was even dissatisfied with the appearance of several horses. He disliked their messy hair and insisted on being yellow.
4. Shave them. They say they should be shaved smoothly.
Huang Si was speechless. In this winter, if the horses were shaved clean, wouldn't it make them sick?
Ma Quan, Huang Si and the horse servant Xiao Zhongzi argued with each other and finally gave up the absurd idea of the Marquis.
In short, during the seven or eight days when the Marquis of Jianchang closed his door and thought about his past, the Marquis of Jianchang was in a state of turmoil. Everyone was afraid to avoid him when they saw the Marquis. Because they didn't know that this extremely boring Marquis
What words will he say and what ideas will he come up with?
Tan Ruqing goes out every morning and does not come back until evening. Youtang went to Xishan Manor and worked with Xu Gao on imitating the Franco machine gun. Xu Wanyi had his own set of rules of life and did not allow Zhang Yanling to torment him. As long as
Axiu was left worryingly watching her husband-in-law doing nothing and bored every day. He didn't know where to comfort him.
In short, everyone in the Zhang family witnessed how the easy-going and cheerful Marquis turned into a verbose, mean, troublesome and noisy person in a few days. Finally, he turned into a taciturn person who was often in a daze.
Everyone was naturally anxious about this. Everyone actually understood that the Hou Ye's behavior was caused by being at home with nothing to do. The Hou Ye felt depressed, so he found various things to kill time. Now the Emperor is going to have a big day.
After getting married and taking off the sign at the door, the Marquis could go out to do things. The whole family was even more happy than Zhang Yanling herself.
November 23rd, today morning, the emperor's wedding ceremony was announced. Zhang Yanling got up early in the morning, dressed neatly, washed up and went out under Tan Ruqing's attendance.
The whole family, old and young, gathered in the vestibule as if it was a big event to send the Marquis out to court. When Zhang Yanling went out on horseback, accompanied by his entourage, everyone in the Zhang family looked at each other and laughed, and secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
The Marquis has finally gone out, and everything will be on the right track. No matter how hard he works outside, he will be happy in his heart. He can no longer keep it at home. Otherwise, this person will really go crazy.
"Hey, it's quite clean. I didn't expect that he alone would be more noisy than all of us put together. Now it's good, he finally has something to do. Hey, it's great." Xu Wanyi said.
Tan Ruqing smiled and said: "Youtang sister understood him, what did he say in the first place? This is a prophecy."
Xu Wanyi said: "What did Youtang say? I forgot."
Tan Ruqing said: "Have you forgotten? On the day when Mr. Hou was punished, he said that he could spend time with his family at home. Sister Youtang said, I'm afraid that Mr. Hou will get tired of being home for three days and not like us anymore.
.Look, doesn’t it make you tired after three days and not pleasing to anyone at home?”
Xu Wanyi clapped her hands and said: "Oh, it's true. I didn't expect that we are not as good as Youtang, but she understands in her heart. She really let her say it."
Axiu pursed her lips and said with a smile: "That's because my husband is a restless person. It's hard for him to stay at home for so many days without going out. He's like a lion in a cage. Can he be kept in it? Then
Don’t you want his life?”
Xu Wanyi and Tan Ruqing nodded slightly, and at the same time sighed softly in their hearts.