At Yin time the next day (3 a.m. to 5 a.m.), Lao Zhu summoned the person in charge of monitoring Yun Xi inside the palace and the person in charge of monitoring Yun Xi outside the palace. He also learned in detail about Yun Xi's daily activities starting from July. What did they do? Originally this was a very annoying thing, but the two supervisors in charge of surveillance were yawning and slandering Lao Zhu on the way here. They were the old people who couldn't sleep and came to them for entertainment.
When they arrived at Qianqing Palace, they saw Lao Zhu's face that was much more serious than before, and heard Lao Zhu's detailed inquiries. They suddenly felt that the actual situation might be different from what they thought. It was true that they couldn't sleep, but it was not true. I'm not looking for them to have fun. It seems that Yunxi is likely to become the emperor's grandson. Both of them thought. The reason why I didn't name these two people is because they will be killed soon, so it won't be troublesome.
After asking the question, Lao Zhu waved his hands to the two of them to leave without saying anything. But after this inquiry, Lao Zhu finally made up his mind.
However, Lao Zhu did not give any orders that day. In the next few days, life continued.
On September 10th of the same day, Lao Zhu issued an edict, allowing merchants to pay half of the customs duties with banknotes, and ordered to reduce the circulation of treasure banknotes by half. A separate granary was set up in ten cities including Beiping, Kaifeng and Jinan. Others did not know the conversation between Yunxi and Lao Zhu the night before, and they all thought that Lao Zhu had listened to some of Yunwen's suggestions, which made Yunwen's market recover a little. , Huang Zicheng, who had almost lost hope, regained a little confidence and began to seriously plan for Yun Wen.
Of course, Yunxi was not disturbed. He knew the truth of the matter. Next, he and the officials from the Ministry of War discussed the opening of the "Active Officers Training School" and organized it on September 15th. I submitted the application form, but Lao Zhu did not respond for several days.
This is normal. Lao Zhu's attention has been attracted by another thing in the past few days, because Mu Ying's body is coming back soon. Lao Zhu had previously ordered Mu Ying to be buried in the capital, and a grand ceremony would be held for him in the capital. Regarding the funeral, the main focus of the court these days was discussing Mu Ying's funeral specifications.
What Yunxi was most puzzled and happy about was that Qitai's attitude towards him had changed significantly. Although things were still business-like, conversations were no longer so rigid. He didn't know that Qitai was attracted by his My wife convinced me, thinking that Qi Tai was moved by her unwilling and shameless actions (overthinking), and became narcissistic for several days.
In addition, Yunxi inquired about Tie Xuan at the Ministry of War in the past few days, and found that Tie Xuan was also one of the people Lao Zhu was optimistic about, because Tie Xuan was very good at solving cases in the Dudu Mansion, which won Lao Zhu's praise, and he also gave him The word "Keystone" came up (why is this routine so familiar). In short, the treatment was the same as Qitai's later treatment.
Not to mention, the people Lao Zhu likes are loyal people regardless of their abilities. In the past few days, Yunxi met Tiexuan again when he went to the school in the north of the city for assessment. It seems that he must have met him before. It's just that I didn't know him at the time and didn't care. Yunxi thought for a long time at the scene, but still couldn't think of a suitable reason to contact him. His work was completely different from his! In the end, he gave up the contact. He waited until a suitable person came along. Let's talk about it when we have a chance.' Yunxi thought.
On September 17, Mu Ying's body returned to the capital. On September 18, a grand funeral was held in the capital. The streets were empty, including all the civil and military officials of fifth rank and above in Beijing, the royal family, princes and counts, princes and princes, and others.
Everyone who was eligible to attend the funeral attended the funeral.
Zhu Yuanzhang also specially ordered that Mu Ying be posthumously named Zhaojing, posthumously named King Qianning, and be entitled to enjoy the Ancestral Temple, but no one paid much attention to all this. Because Lao Zhu ordered Yunxi to replace him on the grounds of poor health.
He attended the funeral and paid homage!
On the morning of September 18th, the emperor held a mourning ceremony for Mu Ying inside the Xihua Gate. The funerals of the Ming Dynasty, not just the Ming Dynasty, but all feudal dynasties were very ritualistic and looked fake, so I won’t describe them in detail.
Anyway. In short, Yunxi wore plain clothes and took a car to Xihua Gate. After getting off the car, he sat on a small stool next to where the emperor should be sitting. When the Taichang Temple Minister or someone else said, "please express condolences," he
He started crying, and then the people below him started crying too; when someone asked him to stop crying, he stopped crying, and everyone below him except the Mu family members also stopped crying immediately. During the whole process, he was very tortured, and until it was over, he
I breathed a sigh of relief when I got in the car again.
'If Lao Zhu really comes here and has feelings for Mu Ying, it will probably be better. I don't even know who Mu Ying is, and I'm not an actor. How can I cry naturally? Besides, how many actors can do that?
Cry if you want. If I hadn't brought the tools, I would have been embarrassed here today. **, when I become emperor, I must reform." Yunxi complained alone in the car.
Because Yunxi was in so much pain today, he didn't even pay attention to what was going on in the other squares. Except for the Mu family themselves, basically no one at the scene focused on the funeral itself, and they were all staring at Yunxi. Although Yunxi has been doing this for a month
He also went out to run errands, but most people had no contact with him, did not know him, and did not understand him. Except for a very few cautious people, most people had already concluded that Lao Zhu wanted to make Yunxi the emperor's crown prince.
Sun. So everyone wants to take this opportunity to observe Yunxi more.
This also includes Mu Chun, the head of several brothers in the Mu family. Although Mu Chun has not interacted with Yunxi these days, his younger brother does! Mu Sheng was appointed as the left governor of the rear army governor's mansion, and Mu Ang was appointed as the left governor of the rear army governor's mansion.
The commander of the left guard of the government army all needed to deal with the Sima Department of the Ministry of War (Martial Arts Department), and they all had contact with Yunxi.
At this time, Mu Chun combined what his younger brother said, his contact with Yunxi more than ten days ago, and his current observation of Yunxi to make a comprehensive assessment of Yunxi. "The Third Highness is a fair man, and he also attaches great importance to military affairs. It is estimated that he will treat military generals after he takes the throne in the future."
It won't be too repressive, but if he enfeoffs the royal family to Yunnan, it may endanger the Mu family's status in Yunnan, or even let the Mu family return to Beijing. This is something to worry about, and you have to find an opportunity to test it out.' Mu Chun thought.
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Because everyone was crying today, everyone had been observing Yunxi for a long time and couldn't find anything. Everyone, including Mu Chun, gave up and wanted to wait until there was a chance to observe again in the future.