It was already noon when Yunxi got up the next day. When he saw him getting up, Wang Xi hurriedly came over to help him dress, and said, "Congratulations to your majesty on your new son."
Yunxi smiled and said: "Today is not your mother's birthday, why are you going back to the palace now?"
"Your Majesty, I have served my mother for dinner all morning and kowtowed too much. Furthermore, my mother said to me, you are now serving the emperor. The emperor is the emperor of all people in the world. He is much more important than me, an old woman. What can I do?"
Letting you go home to celebrate the New Year is already a great favor from the Emperor. Why don't you hurry back and serve the Emperor? It doesn't matter that I, an old woman, can't celebrate my birthday. So I hurried back."
"Look at your mouth, you are so good at talking. Do you want me to reward your mother with something more?" Yunhe said with a smile.
"Your Majesty, these are really what the slave's mother said, and they are not lies." Wang Xi exclaimed.
After a pause, Wang Xi added: "There is one more thing. Please forgive me for my sin. Early this morning, officials from the Ministry of Rites came to invite your Majesty to receive the envoys from foreign vassals. When I saw that Your Majesty was sleeping soundly, I told them to decline until tomorrow."
"This slave made a decision for Your Majesty without authorization. Please forgive me."
"I told you before that unless there is an attack on the border, a flood or drought, or someone rebels, nothing else can wake me up. Your handling is also very appropriate. What crime is there?" But Yunxi thought about it and said: "
In the future, you must remind me of such things before I go to bed the night before."
"Yes, Your Majesty." Wang Xi agreed.
At this time, Yunxi had finished dressing and walked towards Xiyao's bedroom. Xiyao was still awake at this time, so Yunxi immediately went over to see his seventh child.
When he passed by, Min'er, Baoqing, and Siqi were all there, looking around Wen Yin's crib. Min'er wanted to reach out and touch it, but was immediately stopped by the palace maid.
She turned around and saw Yunxi and said hurriedly: "Dad, I want to touch my little brother, but Aunt Shen won't let me. Also, I want to give the delicious food I saved to my little brother, but Aunt Shen won't let me."
let."
Miss Shen, who was sent to take care of Wen Yin, immediately saluted Yunxi and explained: "Your Majesty, I am afraid that the eldest princess will accidentally hurt the fifth prince, so I prevent the eldest princess from touching the fifth prince; and the newborn child is
Those who can't eat can only drink milk."
"I know, you don't need to explain." Yunxi said. He had had six children before, and he had heard other female officials talk about it.
He glanced at his fifth son, gently touched the child's bare scalp, and asked, "Is everything okay now?"
"Your Majesty, the fifth prince is in good health," said Ms. Shen.
Yunxi asked a few more questions, and she answered them one by one.
He turned to Min'er and the others and said, "Aunt Baoqing, Min'er, Siqi, have you had lunch?"
"No." Bao Qing said, "Why didn't you call me last night? I have to wait for my grandnephew to be born."
"It was too late last night, so I didn't call you." Yunxi explained, and then led them to the dining hall.
On the way, Wang Xi suddenly said: "Your Majesty, when I saw the fifth prince, I remembered something and asked your Majesty for instructions."
"Oh, what's the matter? Is it related to the fifth prince?" Yunxi asked.
"Your Majesty, I have nothing to do with the fifth prince, it's just a coincidence."
"I have spent the past few days at home celebrating the New Year with my relatives. Yesterday morning, several people suddenly came to my house. They claimed to be from the Zhou family in Hangzhou and wanted to pay tribute to your majesty with embroidery." Wang Xi said.
"Pay tribute? You're here to camp," Yunxi sneered.
Of course, the Ming Dynasty had a tribute system. Local officials were required to bring local specialties to the capital every year for the emperor to enjoy. At first, some officials used this to please the emperor, while others used it to embezzle and accept bribes.
Of course, Zhu Yuanzhang showed no mercy to these two types of officials, and gradually no one dared to take money from them. After Yunxi came to the throne, the trend started again. He also punished a group of such officials, and repeatedly ordered local tributes to be only
It is limited to local specialties, and is limited to a few items such as food and silk, and the local government must pay in full.
It's not that he has never thought about abolishing this system, but he is reluctant to part with the delicious food from all over the country: he is not here to serve the people when he travels across the country, but to let the people serve him.
If the tribute system is abolished and procurement is implemented, whether it is setting up procurement bureaus across the country or temporarily sending people to local procurement every year, according to the operating rules of the Chinese government, the local burden will be heavier than it is now, so it is better to maintain the current system.
Therefore, Yunxi did not abolish the tribute system.
Of course, paying tribute is not a good thing for tribute households. Local officials often do not pay the full amount, and many families are forced to die. Only a few people can benefit from it; but it is different if tribute is paid directly to the emperor.
Once the signboard is registered in front of the emperor, it can be used as capital to brag about in the future.
The king was pleased to see that Yunxi had a bad look on his face, and hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, if that's all, that's all. But this time his family is going to present to Your Majesty a screen with "The Immortal Delivering His Son" painted on it, and the background is the endless horizon.
The snowy land is quite compatible with the Fifth Prince."
"Oh." Yunxi hesitated. He originally planned to return all the Zhou family's things, but when he heard that this embroidery was so suitable for the occasion, he hesitated again.
After thinking for a while, he said: "In that case, return everything except this embroidery, and only accept this screen. Pay him the market price."
"Yes, Your Majesty." Wang Xi agreed. However, he secretly thought in his heart: 'Such an exquisite screen will become a scrap if there is even a slight mistake during the embroidery. Even if you have money, you may not be able to buy it, so there is no market value.'
Xiyao didn't wake up until the night, and quickly asked people to bring Wen Yin over to take a look. Min'er gathered around her and told her how her little brother was doing.
Xiyao smiled and said: "After all, he is old enough to care about his younger brother."
"I have always cared about my younger brothers. I take care of Wenyuan and Wenqi every day." Min'er protested.
"Do you mean taking care of them by smearing cream on their faces?" Yunxi said with a smile.
Min'er's face turned red rarely and she stopped talking; Yunxi and Xiyao both laughed.
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The next morning, memorials celebrating the emperor's birth of a prince or legitimate second son flew into the palace like snowflakes flying in the sky at this time, and quickly covered the table in Yunxi's small study room in Qianqing Palace. The General Affairs Department is on duty today.
Zuo Tongzheng was well prepared and went to the home of the envoy before going to work. Finally, he succeeded in getting him to order the scribes and Youtongzheng who should be resting to go to work.
Yunxi picked two at random and looked at them, then put them down and said to Wang Gen: "Pick a few with the best diction and keep them, and leave the rest to Huang Fu. Now let the officials of the Ministry of Rites waiting outside the Qianqing Gate come in.