Yunxi turned around and got on his horse. Just as he was about to leave, he suddenly heard Chang Sheng say: "So it's you."
Yunxi turned his head and looked. A man in his thirties wearing brocade clothes was walking towards Chang Sheng with a smile. There was also a young woman beside him. Yunxi couldn't see her clearly because he walked with his head down.
appearance and age.
The man first said to Chang Sheng, "Master Guo is also here to pay homage to Duke Liang today?" Then he pointed at Yunxi and said, "Is this the young Duke?"
Chang Sheng hurriedly said: "This is His Royal Highness the Emperor's Grandson, and you are still not polite."
The man was immediately frightened and fell to his knees and said, "I have met His Highness Taisun. Please forgive me."
Chang Sheng came over and said to Yunxi: "This is Lin Hai, the former Xuzhou Guard commander and hereditary commander. He was recently transferred back to the capital, so I don't know His Highness. Please forgive him."
Yunxi said: "He who doesn't know is not guilty. You can get up. There is no need to apologize." Lin Hai bowed twice more before getting up.
Yunxi turned to Lan Zhen and smiled: "Your social circle is quite broad!"
Lan Zhen hurriedly said: "Reporting to Your Highness, Commander Lin is my uncle, so I am familiar with him."
At this time, the woman who was following Lin Hai came up and saluted and said, "The daughter of the people has met His Highness."
Yunxi said casually: "Get up, no need to be polite." But then he glanced at it and was shocked, because this person looked very much like the actor who played Lin Daiyu in the 1987 version of Dream of Red Mansions.
Yunxi glanced at it several times, then realized that this was inappropriate and immediately turned his head. But the woman's face was already flushed.
Yunxi looked at her very much like Lin Daiyu, and her surname happened to be Lin. He resisted asking her "What's your name?", turned around and walked away. He vaguely heard the man say "Chaoying" or something like that.
Yunxi separated from Chang Sheng on the way, and rode back to the palace with his guards. Then he dismounted and went straight to Qianqing Palace.
Of course, Lao Zhu was reviewing the excerpts. When he saw Yunxi walking in, he said with a smile: "Yunxi must have just come back from the palace. Do you have anything to talk to grandpa about?"
After Yunxi saluted, he sat on the mat in front of Lao Zhu and said: "My grandson would like to ask my grandpa to allow my grandson to summon the North Korean King Li Chenggui after he goes to the north."
Lao Zhu asked doubtfully: "Why did you think of summoning the King of North Korea?"
Yunxi said: "North Korea was respectful to the Ming Dynasty, and grandpa allowed him to be the prince. He is really the first foreign vassal of the Ming Dynasty. My grandson wants to commend him for his obedience in person."
Lao Zhu didn't care much about letting the kings of foreign vassals run around, but he noticed another point: "Li Chenggui is already sixty-one years old this year, and is only seven years younger than his grandfather. I'm afraid he won't be able to ride a horse and work hard."
If I meet you in Peiping or other places, most of the time I will refuse. Grandpa can’t let an old man in his sixties rush to see you."
Yunxi said: "It's okay for Li Chenggui to send his son to pay homage. Last year, his son came to pay tribute and his grandson was busy teaching about the martial arts hall and had no time to talk about it. This time, we can talk for a while." After a pause, Yunxi said again: "
In fact, my grandson wants to go to North Korea to visit, but I don’t have time this time.”
Lao Zhu said: "You are the grandson of the Ming Emperor. How can you leave the vassal state lightly? This matter must not be mentioned." Yunxi responded.
Lao Zhu added: "I have begun to think that you wanted to summon Li Chenggui to see you to show the prestige of a great power. But you also said that you can send his son to see you, so why do you want to see him in the north? Let him send his son to the capital.
Isn’t it okay to meet you?”
Yunxi slapped his head and said: "What grandpa said is true. Why don't you give a decree to North Korea? If Li Chenggui can travel, let him go to the north, such as Peking to see me; if Li Chenggui can't travel, send his son to go to North Korea."
Come to Beijing to see me."
Lao Zhu said: "Then Grandpa will issue a decree to North Korea. Moreover, North Korea's congratulations on the first day of this year are scornful. The sinners who drafted the congratulations have not yet been sent to the capital, so Grandpa has to issue an edict to urge them."
Yunxi also remembered this incident. The congratulatory note sent by Liu Xun, the Korean envoy on the first day of this year, was not very respectful to the Ming Dynasty, and Zhu Yuanzhang reprimanded him angrily. Liu Xun said that the congratulatory note was written by Zheng Daozhuan and others. Lao Zhu then released
Liu Xun returned to China and asked North Korea to arrest Zheng Daozhuan and others and send them to the capital of the Ming Dynasty for punishment.
Yunxi was shocked at that time. Even when the United States was at its most powerful, there was no such thing as a foreign country, even a small puppet country, arresting and punishing the author of a New Year's greeting because of its disrespectful New Year's greetings. In the area west of Manchuria
, the Ming Dynasty is much more powerful than the United States in the 21st century.
Yunxi and Lao Zhu talked about other things for a while, and when it was time to eat dinner, Lao Zhu drove Yunxi back to Wenhua Hall.
After dinner, Yunxi said to Xiyao and Xiyi: "I have something to deal with tonight, so I won't accompany you." In the past few days, Yunxi stayed with Xiyao and the others after dinner every night.
, so I would like to give you a special instruction today.
Xiyao said: "I know it. I don't know whether your highness will stay in my palace tonight or in my sister's palace. I'll be ready."
Yunxi felt that today was the third day that Xiyi entered the palace, so he said: "Let's stay in Xiyi's palace tonight." Then he looked at Xiyao's expression and said with a smile: "Are you jealous? What about you?
Please wait for me with Xiyi in her palace tonight."
Xiyao knew he was joking, so she blushed and lowered her head in silence. Yunxi left Wenyuan Pavilion with a smile.
When they arrived at Dongnuang Pavilion, Yunxi asked Lian Zining to dig out the records about North Korea and give them to him. Because Qi Tai's family members were all in the capital, and his wife Yu Minyue had just become pregnant, Yunxi did not allow Qi Tai to work the night shift.
Zining, Guo Zhen and others took turns on duty.
Yunxi read the files of Goryeo and Joseon for a while, and then returned to the palace to sleep.
For more than a month after that, Yunxi would either handle matters in the Wenhua Palace during the day, read instructions and memorials, go to the Jiangwu Hall to give lectures, or meet with the students of the previous Jiangwu Hall who were stranded in Beijing to comfort them.
In the evening, I spent time making love with Xiyao or Xiyi.
Every day, he would take time to spend time with Xiyao and talk quietly about various things. Yunxi found that Xiyao fit his idea of an ideal wife, and he became more and more interested in Xiyao.
I like it, and my relationship with Xiyao is getting better and better.
The ninth day of June, the old royal palace in Seoul.
At this time, Li Chenggui was discussing political affairs with his son, consort, and others.
Li Chenggui (Note 1), who had been renamed Li Dan, knelt down on the couch and said to the consort Li Boxing who was kneeling below him: "How is the construction of the new palace that I asked you to supervise the construction now?"
Li Boxing, Lord of Shangdang, replied: "Reporting to your Majesty, the main body has been built. There are 330 pavilions and pavilions, more than 5,000 houses, covering an area of 126,000 square meters (approximately 57.75 hectares), which will be 1 of the Peking Forbidden City in later generations.
/76). There is only paint left in the palace that has not been finished. I am planning to ask the king to give the new palace a name."
Li Chenggui thought for a while and said: "There is a saying in the ancient Book of Songs of the Ming Dynasty: 'A gentleman has been here for thousands of years.' Let's call the new palace Gyeongbokgung Palace."
Li Dan's sons sitting below immediately praised the name in unison. Li Chenggui also knew that they must agree, and he himself thought the name was good, so he just looked at them with a smile.
Then Li Chenggui picked up a memorial and said: "Yesterday, the envoy from the Ming Dynasty came to the capital and said that the emperor's grandson of the Ming Dynasty would go to the north of the Ming Dynasty for inspection next month. He asked me if I had time to visit the emperor of the Ming Dynasty.
Grandson, what do you think?"
Fu'an Jun Li Fangfan (Note 2) said: "How can the king go to pay homage to the grandson of the Ming Dynasty emperor! Although the Ming Dynasty is big, Korea is not weak. Zhu Yunxi should be allowed to come to my palace in Seoul to pay homage."
Of course Li Chenggui was very happy to hear such words, but he still scolded with a straight face: "Don't talk nonsense. The status of the emperor's grandson of the Ming Dynasty is higher than that of me. How can I come to see me."
Li Fangqian, the king of Huai'an, said: "In any case, my father is old and it is difficult to stay away from the royal capital. It is better to send another capable envoy to pay homage."
Li Chenggui shook the fold in his hand and said: "The emperor of the Ming Dynasty's memorial also said: 'If I can't make the trip, I will send the prince to the capital of the Ming Dynasty on Zhengdan next year to worship.' Which of you is willing to go to the capital of the Ming Dynasty on Zhengdan next year?
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Li Fangyuan, Lord of Jing'an, said: "Father, I would like to go to the capital of the Ming Dynasty."
Li Chenggui looked at him in surprise. Now Li Chenggui favors the Kang family and wants to make Li Fangshuo, the youngest son of the Kang family, the heir apparent. The sons of his ex-wife Han family are very dissatisfied with this, especially Li Fangyuan. Why is he now?
Go to the capital of the Ming Dynasty at this critical moment?
'But no matter what he thinks, being able to send him out at such a critical moment can greatly reduce the difficulty of canonizing Li Fangshuo as the crown prince, so let him go to the capital of the Ming Dynasty.' Li Chenggui thought.
So Li Chenggui said: "Since you took the initiative to ask for help, I will send you to the capital of the Ming Dynasty." Li Fangyuan agreed.
Then Li Chenggui said: "The emperor of the Ming Dynasty also ordered us to quickly send Zheng Daochuan, who drafted the disrespectful congratulations to the Ming Dynasty at the beginning of the year, to the Ming Dynasty for trial. What do you think?"
The youngest son Li Fangshuo said: "Father, Zheng Daozhuan is an important minister of our Joseon. How can he be sent to be tried based on a word from the Emperor of Ming Dynasty? So he sent Mr. Zheng and others who polished the text over, saying that Zheng Daozhuan cannot be infected with infectious diseases.
That's all." After a pause, he murmured: "Liu Xun is the same. When asked, it's okay to just talk about the congratulatory notes written by a few people. Why talk about Zheng Daozhuan."
The others had no objections because Zheng Daochuan was an important minister of North Korea. The father, son, and Weng's son-in-law discussed a few more things. Li Chenggui said: "I am tired today, so let's come here today." Everyone then retreated.
Note 1: After Li Chenggui proclaimed himself king in the 25th year of Hongwu (1392), he changed his name to Li Dan. For convenience, he will still be called Li Chenggui in the following text.
Note 2: In North Korea, other princes except the crown prince and important officials of the court will be canonized as so-and-so king.
