"I will definitely not tell anyone!" He knelt down and said. But he thought in his heart: 'I'm afraid I have to report this to the Queen. Hey, I hope the Queen will be more tolerant to this servant.'
"You must not leak this matter." Of course, Yunxi didn't know what Lu Yi was thinking, so he told Cao Zheng again after he left with sorrow.
"I don't dare," Cao Zheng could only say.
"Please step back." Yunxi said a few more words to him and asked him to step back.
'Hey, if Your Majesty takes action to punish these people who have submitted the memorial, even if the civil servants do not know that I am present, the matter will always involve me, and someone will always blame me. Hey, it is really a fight between the kings of hell, and the little devil will suffer. I hope the Ministry of Industry and the The Minister of the Ministry of Finance, the Minister of Finance, the Minister of the Shaanxi Department, and the Minister of Yuanwai, please don’t hate me for this. I just want to quietly do what I want to do, and at the same time win His Majesty’s appreciation, how come I am involved in such a thing?” Xiang On the way outside the palace, Cao Zheng was thinking sadly.
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"These civil servants are afraid that the power in their hands will be less. In their view, there are only so many official positions in the world, and my appreciation is only so much. If there are more officials in the yamen like Gezhijian who they don't like, there will be fewer them. , so they always dislike people like Cao Zheng and want to expel Cao Zheng and others from the court; they even dislike military generals, but they can't expel them from the court, so they pick them up. Soft persimmon."
"There are also those who are true 'great Confucians' who don't care about this. But such people are often even more hateful. They always try to defend Confucianism that has been distorted since Dong Zhongshu. They are very contemptuous of people who do not study Confucianism. They feel that they have strayed from the right path and want to help them. 'Orthodox'. Many people under my command will respect and follow it."
"But the funny thing is that people who follow the 'Great Confucianism' are actually just borrowing the coat of Confucianism to keep cool. If the Great Confucian's ideas are not good for them, they will probably pretend that they have not heard it. Starting from Zhu Xi, all the great Confucian scholars of all ages have opposed it. The imperial examination system was established, but if you ask those who follow you if they are willing to abolish the imperial examination system, most of them will make decisions based on left and right considerations."
"Besides, these so-called 'Great Confucians' are just rotten Confucians. Real Confucians would not be like this. They..." After Cao Zheng left, Yunxi still said angrily in the room.
However, his only audience seemed to be very uninterested in what he said. After a while, he yawned and said: "Brother, my sister doesn't care about Confucianism. Why are you talking to my sister about this? Even if you want to take action, To punish those people, you should also write these words in the imperial edict to warn them, instead of saying it to your sister."
"Yunzhi, I am telling you this, firstly, to wake you up in the future and not to be deceived by such people; secondly, after the New Year, I will warn them face to face in the court and recite the speech in advance. Think carefully about what needs to be changed." Yunhe said with a smile.
"Why don't we wait until the new year to prepare the speech? My sister doesn't want to hear this! Why don't we find a few illiterate eunuchs to be the audience!" Yunzhi said.
"No, even if they are illiterate, they can't understand what the emperor is saying, but they will always remember a few words. If they tell others, they will leak it in advance, no." Yunxi shook his head.
But he then added: "But sister, you are right. It won't be too late to prepare your speech after the new year. Why bother letting a few delusional people affect your mood?"
"Yunzhi, I haven't asked you why you came to see me today." Putting this matter aside for the time being, he asked Yunzhi why he came to see him.
"Brother Imperial, today is already the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, the first day of the New Year's holiday; most of the workshops have distributed bonuses and closed down. There must be many people on the street and it must be very lively. Brother Imperial, please take your sister out and have a look.
." Yunzhi immediately sat next to him and said with a smile.
"Okay." Yunxi immediately agreed: "It's almost noon now. I'll take you out of the palace for a tour in the afternoon."
"Brother Emperor, you just agreed?" Yunzhi said in astonishment.
"Why, isn't it good to agree to my brother?" Yunxi said with a smile.
"Of course, it's good, but I'm surprised that the emperor agreed so readily." Yunzhi said: "In the past, if the emperor took his sister out of the palace, it wasn't to go to the homes of uncles, aunts, and two sisters. Wouldn't he always have to ask the sister to go back and forth?
Will you agree to a request?"
"Silly girl." Yunxi touched her head and smiled. This should be Yunzhi's last year in the palace. She will get married next year and will no longer live in the palace. Even if
She is a princess, even if she can still freely enter and leave the palace in the future. Even after Yunxi's last "rectification of the court atmosphere", the ministers did not dare to make irresponsible remarks to the princess, but there is still a completely different difference between being married and not being married.
.Yunxi wanted to spend more time with her before she got married, or in other words, let her spend more time with him.
Yunzhi leaned on his shoulder, enjoying the moment. Her father Zhu Biao passed away when she was three years old. Yunzhi assumed the responsibilities of a father in her life. She liked this kind of interaction similar to that of a father and daughter.
It's a pity that this moment can't last long. Yunxi flicked her head again and said with a smile: "Since I want to go out of the palace with brother Wei in the afternoon, I won't go back to the dormitory at noon. I will go to Kunning Palace with brother Wei for dinner.
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"Okay." Yunzhi agreed with a smile. Then she remembered something and said, "Min'er also likes to go out of the palace, why don't you take Min'er out of the palace with you?"
"This can't be done. Brother, I just promised your sister-in-law not to take her out of the palace a few days ago. You can't go against your promise in just a few days," Yunhe said.
"Why, why doesn't sister-in-law let Min'er leave the palace?" Yunzhi asked.
Yunxi probably talked about the matter, and Yunzhi said: "That's it. But speaking of it, Min'er really doesn't care about the difference between men and women, so it's time to take care of it." Then he said: "Min'er can't leave the palace, then the others
Where is Wen Lin, where is Wen Luo, where is Xian Qin, and where is Aunt Bao Qing?"
"Wen Lin, I'm afraid her mother and concubine won't trust me to take her out of the palace; Wen Luo is too young; after all, Xianqin and Aunt Baoqing are not easy to take out of the palace."
"But Si Qi can come out of the palace together. It's her birthday in a few days. According to the custom, she goes to Liang Guogong's Mansion a few days before her birthday. She celebrates her birthday at Liang Guogong's Mansion in the morning and returns to the palace in the afternoon to celebrate her birthday." Yun said.
Xi said.
"Siqi can celebrate two birthdays at one time, which makes my sister a little envious." Yunzhi said with a smile.
"Then when you celebrate your birthday this year, I will let you celebrate it twice, once in the morning and once in the afternoon." Yunxi also said with a smile.
"Okay, it's settled."
"It's a deal."
Having said that, Yunzhi stood up and went back to her bedroom to change clothes. Yunxi picked up a few memorials on the table, opened them and looked at them twice, sneered a few times, threw them aside, and then picked up a
Read a book. After a while, at noon, I got up and went to Kunning Palace.
At lunch, Min'er heard that Si Qi was to be taken out of the palace, but she didn't have a share, so she started to yell. But when she caught a glimpse of her mother, she immediately didn't dare to say anything. She lowered her head to eat, but her aggrieved look was on her face.
It can't be hidden either.
To add salt to her wound, Wen Qi suddenly said: "Dad, my son also wants to leave the palace this afternoon."
"What are you doing out of the palace?" Min'er asked before Yunxi could ask.
Wen Qi was not intimidated and said: "Dad, eldest sister, my son has a good rapport with the Crown Prince of Joseon. I want to go out of the palace to see him."
"It turns out that I'm looking for Zhu Bao." Yunxi said with a smile: "I thought you also wanted to visit the city. He lives in the Imperial City, so you can just go find him in the afternoon."
"Dad, my son also wants to visit the city. My son has grown so big, and he has only been taken out of the palace by his father and has only been to a few places. My son wants to go around the city with Brother Zhu. He always listens to people
It is said that the capital is so prosperous, it is the most prosperous place in the world, Brother Zhu also said the same, you have to see it with your own eyes."
"This," Yunxi pondered. When was the first time he went out to play in the palace? He couldn't find it from his limited memory, so it should be the Double Ninth Festival after he was sent to the Ministry of War shortly after Zhu Biao's death.
When he went out to play in the palace, he was already fifteen years old at the time, and he was still older than fifteen in his heart. However, Wenqi was only nine years old this year, and he was still ten years old when he died. He was too young. Even with Zhu Bao accompanying him, he was not at ease.
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He immediately wanted to refuse. But when he raised his head and saw Wen Qi's expectant eyes, he was a little reluctant to refuse. Finally, he said: "That's it, father is right. But you can't run around the city at will, and you can't talk to your father."
The distance is no more than one street. Father will also send his own guards to follow you. You must obey him and never disobey."
"Thank you, father." Wen Qi immediately said happily. He originally thought that even if Yunxi agreed to allow him to leave the palace and wander around the city, he would personally take him with him. However, he did not expect that although he did not completely let go, he also gave him a certain degree of freedom.
Degree, this has greatly exceeded his estimate.
"Wenyuan, do you want to go out of the palace with Wen Qi and Zhu Bao this afternoon?" Yunxi asked his second son again.
"Father, my son and the Crown Prince of Joseon are not as compatible as my third brother, and my son has nothing to see, so he will not leave the palace." Wenyuan replied.
Yunxi frowned when he heard this answer. Although he didn't say it, Yunxi knew that Wenyuan would stay in the room and read. Wenyuan liked reading too much. Although he also liked reading, he didn't reach this level.
. He always feels that it is not good to be too obsessed with books, but reading is always a good thing, and it is not easy to talk too much.
"Let the two brothers go out of the palace tomorrow or the day after to take a look." Xiyao said: "Zhu Bao's temperament is different from Wen Yuan's, and we can't go together. It's not good to go today.
"After a few days, my husband will take only their brothers out of the palace to have a look."
"That's fine." Yunxi said, finally bringing the matter to an end.
After eating and resting for a while, Yunxi got up and took Yunzhi and Siqi out of the palace together.
They first got on the carriage and sat in a busy commercial place not far from the Duke Liang's Mansion. Then they got off the carriage and walked towards the Duke Liang's Mansion while looking at the scenery on both sides of the road.
As Yunzhi said, it was already the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month. Officials and workers no longer had to go to work. They were on duty and came out one after another to buy New Year's goods or gather friends to drink and have fun in restaurants; merchants;
Of course, I also know that this is a good time to do business, and how much dividends I can get this year will depend on these few days, so I try my best to attract customers. There are rows of signboards on both sides of the road, shouts from different stores one after another, and people who go shopping are chattering.
The chattering sounds gathered into the heat in the air, it was so lively.
Siqi often went out of the palace, once a year, but this was the first time he went shopping during the Chinese New Year. Although he felt a little noisy and didn't like it, his eyes widened when he saw such a bustling scene, and he looked at it dizzyingly; Yun
After all, Zhi was a few years older, and last year she begged her second sister, who was already married, to take her for a stroll on the street. She had seen these situations before, so she was calm.
However, "Third brother, this year is more prosperous than last year. It can be seen that our Ming Dynasty is becoming more and more prosperous and the people are living and working in peace and contentment." She said with a smile.
"You are so sweet." Yunxi smiled and said, "If the emperor hears this, he will definitely be happy."
"Then I hope the emperor hears this and rewards the little girl with something."
"Don't worry, you will definitely get a reward." Yunxi said. He then pointed to a nearby store at random: "This is the store. I will buy some things from this store for you."
"Okay." Yunzhi said with a smile, looked at the plaque of the store, and suddenly said: "I think I have seen the plaque of this store before." (To be continued)
