After leaving the West Palace, Zhu Gaosui returned to his own Prince Zhao's Mansion on Ting Street. During the Mongolian and Yuan Dynasties, the Privy Council and Yushitai Yamen, among the three central government offices, were both located here. Emperor Yongle built the city of Beijing, and his orders were raised on Ting Street.
He built several palaces, among which was the Zhao Palace that was given to Zhu Gaosui. Nowadays, other palaces are only rough in scale, but the Zhao Palace has been basically completed. At least the area where Zhu Gaosui lives his daily life is already beautifully decorated with carved beams and painted buildings.
In the palace, all the beautiful eunuchs saw King Zhao returning to the palace, and they all knelt down to greet him. Zhu Gaosui walked into the harem. Although the sun was blazing outside and it was unbearably hot, the room was very cool. This was because he was in the palace.
Around the palace, there are cleverly placed hidden compartments, which contain ice cubes dug up from the Yongding River in winter and stored in ice cellars. Of course, only the top princes can afford this cooling method, like this.
Such a large palace consumes two hundred cubic meters of ice a day. Each square is two feet long and wide, and the cost alone is one tael of silver.
That is to say, in order to keep this palace cool, two hundred taels of silver will be spent a day. And not only this palace, but also the main palace, study room, bedroom and other places where daily activities are carried out must be kept cool at all times.
The daily cost is more than a thousand taels of silver? It is enough to live on for ten medium-sized families for a year...
The wine and meat in the wealthy families stinks, and there are bones frozen to death on the roads. The Ming Dynasty has just been founded for a few decades, and the luxury of the princes has reached this level. How can the people not be poor and exhausted?
Four impossibly handsome eunuchs in gorgeous attire came forward, gently took off the prince's robes for King Zhao, and invited His Highness, who was wearing a gauze midriff, to step into the bathroom. In the bathroom, the gorgeous white marble bathtub was filled with water.
The beautiful eunuch, wearing only her hair, removed her underwear for His Highness the Prince, revealing a skin that was as frosty as snow.
Zhu Gaoxu slowly sat in the pool, enjoying the gentle rubbing and massage of the eunuchs, sweeping away all the heat and dust contaminated outside.
After bathing, Zhu Gaoxu put on an elegant embroidered silk robe. The silk was as thin as cicada wings, and when worn as clothes, it flowed like clouds and flowing water. The hem of the robe was also embroidered with colorful flowers. As His Highness King Zhao moved around, the flowers on the
The bees and butterflies are dancing gracefully and lifelike.
Zhu Gaosui was leaning on a gorgeous couch and unfolded an ancient book that he had not finished reading earlier. The beautiful eunuch brought the chilling wine, and Zhu Gaosui picked up the crystal clear glass, took a sip, and continued.
Read his "Qing Jing Miao Sutra". It was quiet inside and outside the hall, not even the ubiquitous chirping of cicadas
In this hot summer, having a cool world is the most basic requirement of King Zhao. The so-called coolness means not only coolness, but also purity. So not only people must be quiet, but even cicadas and frogs must not speak.
This is of course not because the cicada frogs are also afraid of the power of King Zhao and dare not speak, but that there are eunuchs holding sticky sticks to stick cicadas everywhere in the palace. They must make sure that there is not a single cicada in King Zhao's palace. As for the pond
The frog also suffered the same fate, so as not to disturb the purity of His Highness King Zhao.
Zhu Gaosui was reading quietly when a young eunuch came in and reported softly: "Your Majesty, Wei Wuque is here."
Zhu Gaosui frowned at first, but when he heard Wei Wuque's name, he couldn't help but have a faint smile on his lips. "Let him come in."
Not long after, Wei Wuque, an extremely beautiful man with fluttering white clothes and slender figure, entered the palace.
Zhu Gaosui leaned on the couch and smiled lazily: "Tiancheng, why are you here?"
Feeling the coolness in the room, Wei Wuque sighed comfortably and said, "Something happened in the capital, so I came over to report to the prince."
Zhu Gaosui reached out and motioned for him to sit down by the couch, held Wei Wuque's hand, and said softly: "Thank you for your hard work.
Wei Wuque held King Han's hand and said with a gentle smile: "For your big plan, it doesn't matter if you work hard.
The little eunuch brought a glass of ice-cold wine, and Wei Wuque took out his hand, took the glass, and tasted it gracefully.
Zhu Gaosui watched Wei Wuque's profile and movements with fascination. It wasn't until Wei Wuque put down his wine glass that he softly said: "I already know a rough idea of what's going on in the capital. I never expected that God would favor us so much. Let Wang
If you are a virtuous person, you will destroy yourself, and you want to involve my elder brother in it."
"It's not as optimistic as the prince thought." Wei Wuque frowned and said, "That guy Wang Xian is as bold as a tiger and as cunning as a fox. If he dares to do that, he is naturally confident."
"What confidence does he have?" Zhu Gaosui didn't believe it.
Wei Wuque then told King Zhao what happened in the East Palace that day.
After Zhu Gaosui heard this, his expression became serious as expected and he said: "So, if my father had seen their memorial first, I'm afraid they would have escaped this disaster."
"And the grandson has also arrived in Beijing," Wei Wuque said, "Speaking of which, I set off half a day later than him. It's just that he had so many followers that I got ahead of him." As he said this, he remembered something and said, "By the way,
Our people took an 800-mile express and should have been sent to the palace, but the emperor hasn’t responded yet?"
Zhu Gaosui shook his head, and suddenly thought of a scene, he sat up and said: "I remembered, it should have been sent to the palace, but it was suppressed by the cabinet people." As he spoke, a trace of anger appeared on his handsome face and he said: "You're still lying.
I said those words just to open the window, and I made a fool of myself."
"What?" Wei Wuque asked.
Zhu Gaosui told Wei Wuque what he saw and heard in the cabinet.
"It should be." Wei Wuque agreed deeply and said, "My lord, you have to enter the palace quickly, get ahead of them, and expose this matter. In this way, even those in the cabinet will have to pay for it."
"Well..." Zhu Gaosui nodded first, then gently lifted his chin, thought for a while, and finally shook his head and said: "No, this is not in the interest of this king."
"How?" Wei Wuque asked confused.
"You don't know something." Zhu Gaosui told Wei Wuque what happened in Fengtian Hall today and his conversation with the emperor in the back hall, and said: "Which of these two things do you think is more important to me?"
What are the benefits?
"Of course it's the prince's case." Wei Wuque was extremely smart, so he naturally said: "In my case, the best thing is to cut Wang Xian into thousands of pieces. As for the prince, the most he can do is to be reprimanded by the emperor...
…Unless the emperor allows the King of Han to supervise the country.”
"That's what I'm afraid of." Zhu Gaosui said calmly: "We help my second brother for ourselves, not to help him achieve righteousness. Once he imprisons the country, won't we be dumbfounded?"
"Yes." Wei Wuwei nodded, but secretly thought that killing Wang Xian would be more cost-effective than anything else. But although King Zhao looked gentle and elegant, his thoughts were extremely meticulous and vicious, and he did not dare to mess with him.
"As for asking my eldest brother to ban gold and silver in the capital..." Zhu Gaosui looked fascinated: "I can't wait to see him make a mess in the capital, and make all the officials and people who support him turn against him. This mess, my second brother can't clean up, and in the end he just
If I can come forward...haha, I can make a difference in one fell swoop."
"Your Majesty is wise," Wei Wuque hurriedly complimented.
"Tiancheng, you will be my prime minister when the time comes." Zhu Gaosui reached out and touched Wei Wuque's face, but he felt a layer of goosebumps. "What's wrong with you?"
"It's so cold here." Wei Wuque sighed secretly, stretched out his hand to cover Zhu Gaosui's hand, and said with an expression of enjoyment: "Then I would like to thank Your Highness first..."
"Do we still need to be polite between us?" Zhu Gaosui said with shining eyes: "Waiting for Mr. Wei to take a bath."
"Yes." Zhu Gaoxu's eunuchs respectfully invited Wei Wuque to take a bath in the bath just now. The bath had been replaced with another amber bath with peony petals floating on it. The eunuchs stripped Wei Wuque naked.
He sat in the bath, closed his eyes and let them wash him, but his expression was not as enjoyable as King Zhao's, and the hands under the pool were clenched tightly into fists, revealing the humiliation and pain in his heart.
Although Wei Wuque is as beautiful as a flower, he doesn't like men. For the sake of his big plan, he can't commit himself to King Zhao. The humiliation in his heart can be imagined. But he told himself that those who achieve great things must not only be cruel to others, but also be cruel to others.
Only by being cruel to yourself and enduring what ordinary people cannot endure can you become a superior person. So when he came out of the bath and put on his pajamas as light as gauze, he had already adjusted himself and followed the eunuch into King Zhao's palace with a calm expression...
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Because King Zhao had his own plan, when Zhu Zhanji came to the capital the next day, the emperor did not know what was happening in the capital. Knowing that his grandson was coming, Zhu Di was very happy and immediately asked him to meet him in the West Palace.
"My grandson pays homage to the emperor." Zhu Zhanji quickly walked up to the palace, knelt down in front of Zhu Di, and said with tears in his eyes before he spoke: "My grandson is unfilial and has been separated from the emperor for so long."
"Good grandson" Zhu Di was very cruel to his son, but he doted on this emperor's eldest grandson who resembled him so much, just like an ordinary grandson. Seeing the strong admiration of his long-lost grandson, he couldn't help but frown.
Feeling sour, he stood up and walked off the dragon chair. He helped Zhu Zhanji up with his own hands and said, "We haven't seen each other for half a year. Grandpa misses you very much." Then he looked at him carefully. He patted his shoulder vigorously and praised: "
Well, he has grown taller and stronger again. He is indeed my good grandson."
"Grandpa Huang also has the spirit of a dragon and a horse. My grandson is really happy to see it." Zhu Zhanji grinned and said, "Grandpa Huang was not in good health when I left. My grandson is really worried..."
"Don't you know yet? I got sick as soon as I went to Jinling, and it will be better when I return to Peking." Zhu Di laughed loudly and said: "You brat, Grandpa Huang has reached an age where you need to worry? If I go back and compete, I can still throw you.
Zhu Di was in a very good mood when he saw his grandson.
"Hey, hey," Zhu Zhanji said with a smile, "Of course, Grandpa Huang is a god descended from heaven, and even his eighty-year-old grandson can't compare to him."
"Then you are so bad." Zhu Di scolded with a smile and sighed: "Grandpa Huang is already over fifty. Confucius said that at fifty you know destiny. How could I not know how many years of good time I still have? So Grandpa Huang wants to
While you are still not old and confused, hurry up and finish all the things you need to do. While you can still ride a horse and shoot a bow, hurry up and consolidate the territory of the Ming Dynasty, so as to give my dear grandson a peaceful country..."
"Grandpa Huang..." Zhu Zhanji choked with excitement.