The 29th day of the twelfth lunar month in Beijing, tonight is New Year's Eve. According to the rules set by Zhu Yuanzhang, tonight is the day for all the royal children in Beijing to gather.
There were not many urgent matters. In the morning, Yunxi called Li Ding and other ministers into the palace to discuss some matters together. He also asked some questions from the heroes and generals, and the whole morning passed.
In the afternoon, Yunxi woke up from his nap in Qianqing Palace and then went to Kunning Palace.
When he arrived at Kunning Palace, Xiyao was not here. There was a family banquet in the evening. This was the first time this year for Xiyao to arrange such a big event. She was afraid that if she made any mistakes and made others laugh, she started busy with it soon after getting up in the morning. The matter is currently being held at the Jiaotai Palace where a banquet will be held in the evening. And in order to ensure that nothing goes wrong, she also invited Concubine Guo Ning, who had presided over this matter in the past, to assist.
Yunxi always ignored such things, and this time was no exception. Yunxi teased his children in the harem for a while, but it was already getting late, and the prince had already entered the palace. Yunxi also hurriedly changed his clothes. He led Min'er and Wenyao, two children who could sit and eat alone, to Jiaotai Hall.
Wenyuan is only over seven months old now. He can't walk yet and can only crawl, so he won't be brought to this family banquet.
When Yunxi came to Jiaotai Hall, the prince, princess and princess who had already arrived saluted and said hello to Yunxi, and Yunxi also replied to them one by one.
Yunxi did not immediately sit down in his seat, but casually sat down and chatted with these brothers/uncles. He was chatting casually and increasing the feelings between them; at the same time, Yunxi also had other intentions. purpose.
He has decided to send a ship to Nanyang after the Chinese New Year. At the same time, he has also decided to find an opportunity to test the water by sealing a prince in Nanyang. This prince will also go to Nanyang with the ship.
Yunxi has been thinking about which prince to choose recently.
Such candidates are naturally the few princes in the capital who have not yet been crowned. The princes in the capital who have not yet been crowned include Shen Wang Zhu Mo, An Wang Zhu Ying, Tang Wang Zhu Kuang, Ying Wang Zhu Dong and Yi Wang Zhu Yi (next to the word wood), There are also several brothers of Yunxi.
Zhu Huang, Zhu Dong, Zhu Yi and Yunxi were all too young to be king. Yunwen was the oldest, but Yunwen only thought for a second and decided not to appoint Yunwen as the prince. Yunwen was more benevolent. , was not suitable to open up new territory and expand the territory, so Yunxi decided not to appoint Yunwen this time.
In fact, Yunxi had a headache on how to make Yunwen a prince. He had to make Yunwen a prince, but becoming a prince would require a fief. Yunwen was one year older than Yunxi, and he was already twenty-three after the new year. I also have a son, so I have to seal it off.
Even if you can seal him without letting him go for the time being, you can't seal him without letting him go forever, right? Not only will the civil and military officials not look good, but the vassal kings everywhere will also have doubts.
Moreover, Yunwen's identity is also embarrassing. Everyone knows that Zhu Yuanzhang once hesitated when choosing who to be his successor. Yunwen was also one of the candidates, and he briefly left the palace to work in the Ministry of Household Affairs. He is also Yunxi's elder brother. No matter how you deal with it, it’s difficult to handle.
Apart from Yun Wen, Zhu Mo is the oldest. Zhu Mo will be twenty years old after the New Year, and he is also an adult, so he can be considered. The other is Zhu Ying, who will be seventeen after the New Year. As for Zhu Mo, he can also be considered. Yunzhen, after turning fifteen, is still a little younger.
At this time, Yunxi focused on inspecting Zhu Mo and Zhu Ying. Although he did not talk to them all the time, he tried to talk to them as much as possible or listen to them.
But after a while, Gao Xu and other princes who were more familiar with Yunxi and had a closer relationship arrived, and Yunxi could only go over to talk to them. The other people could not be completely ignored, so Yunxi was very busy and did not have many opportunities to talk to them.
Zhu Mo and Zhu Ying spoke. Fortunately, there will be another chance after a while.
Unknowingly, without Yunxi even realizing it, the time for the banquet had arrived. Wang Xi, who was standing next to Yunxi, reminded Yunxi softly: "Your Majesty, the time has come."
After being reminded by Wang Xi, Yunxi realized that it was time. He hurriedly said to Zhu Youjuan and Zhu Jiye in front of him: "It's almost time, find a place to sit down." Then he turned around and went up. Everyone around him heard it.
Sit down quickly.
Like Zhu Yuanzhang, Yunxi did not arrange fixed seats for most people. But Yunxi's arrangement was different from Zhu Yuanzhang: for Zhu Yuanzhang, everyone was his descendant, there was no difference; but for Yunxi
For example, it is necessary to distinguish between princes and county princes, because princes will basically be appointed as kings in the future, and county princes are basically impossible, so Yunxi asked all princes to sit close to him, and county princes to sit on the outside.
Yunxi sat at the highest position and looked down at his relatives below. He felt a little emotional for a moment. He had also sat on the stage and looked down at them on the previous six New Year's Eves, but at that time he was sitting next to them.
Thinking of this, Yunxi turned his head and looked at the place next to him. Of course, it was empty now.
Yunxi took a deep breath, relaxed his emotions, and then began to host the family banquet.
In fact, there was nothing to say. Yunxi just imitated Zhu Yuanzhang and said don't be formal and love each other, and then announced that dinner was ready. He originally wanted to say a few words about studying in the Royal Academy, but thinking about this big
It’s better not to say such disappointing things during the Chinese New Year.
Xiyao also came over. When the princes below saw Yun Hei, they all stood up and congratulated Xiyao on "Good luck to the Queen" and toasted with a glass of wine. Xiyao also smiled and returned the gift and drank the wine in the glass in his hand.
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Then Xiyao left and went to the other side, where Xiyao hosted the family banquet of the princess, princess, and princesses on the other side.
Because there has been no fundamental change in the policy towards royal children since Yunxi came to power, unlike Zhu Yunwen in history, Zhu Di guarded his brothers and nephews as thieves, so everyone was as relaxed as Zhu Yuanzhang was.
After the fixed toast at the beginning, everyone either started eating or chatting separately. Especially this year, because Zhu Yuanzhang passed away less than a year ago, there was no singing and dancing, so chatting with each other started earlier.
Yunxi went to a banquet with the female family members on the other side. After coming back, he ate something to fill his stomach until he was eighty percent full, and then talked to the princes next to him in turn.
Zhu Mo and the others were elders, so they sat closer to Yunxi and talked to Yunxi first. Yunxi also wanted to know more about them, so he happened to say a few more words.
Yunxi also asked Zhu Mo what Zhu Ying thought of the Guangdong and Guangxi areas. Until now, the two of them had never been out of Yingtian Mansion, let alone Guangdong and Guangxi. However, Zhu Mo had to answer the questions of the current emperor.
Then he said: "I heard that the climate in Guangdong is hotter than that in Beijing, but it is windy in summer, so it is bearable."
Zhu Yingze said: "It is said that because there is little land in Guangdong, Guangxi and Fujian, many people make a living doing business in Nanyang, and some even go to overseas vassal countries without permission." Neither of them answered directly.
Their imaginations were not that rich, so they realized that Yunxi wanted to test the waters in Nanyang and be crowned a king. Most of them thought that Yunxi wanted to create a prince there because the people in Fujian, Guangdong and Guangxi were unruly and difficult to control. So they asked questions like this
Problem. It has to be said that they still haven’t figured out Yun Xi’s thoughts.