After bidding farewell to Concubine Guo Ning, Yunxi visited Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao's other higher-ranking concubines who were still alive. However, all of their concubines who had not given birth to children were buried, and not many of them were still alive. Yunxi It took me half a day to visit them all.
Concubine Li was another focus of the visit. Most of the nobles knew how much Concubine Li had helped Yunxi before he was granted the title of Crown Prince. Although no one would ever say this in public, Concubine Li had also always She is very peaceful, but because of this, Yunxi has to treat her more preferentially.
Until noon, Yunxi rejected Yunzhi's request to stay in the palace where she and her mother-in-law had dinner, got up and left the palace.
'Isn't this a joke? Yunzhi's mother is only in her early thirties. I, an emperor in my early twenties, dine in her palace. After an hour, the rumor will be known to most people in the palace. Tomorrow, the rumor will be spread in the palace. The capital is full of people, even if Yunzhi is accompanying her to have dinner with her, Yunxi thought in his heart.
In the afternoon, Yunxi played with his very young children. All eight children, including the youngest Wen Kun, were called to the Qianqing Palace to play together.
Wen Kun, Wen Yin and Wen Kun were all very young, lying on the ground and making "ah oh oh" sounds, not knowing what they wanted to do; Wen Yao, Wen Yuan and Wen Qi were three slightly older children. Wen Yuan and Wen Qi both seemed to want to code something similar to the shape of Kunning Palace, while Wen Yao wanted to code something similar to the shape of Kunning Palace. A small city with walls was identified.
Min'er took Wen Lin and was playing with the little girl's toys. Wen Lin said something with a "babble" smile. Yunxi didn't know if Min'er really understood what Wen Lin meant, but Wen Lin kept saying it. She looked very happy, maybe Min'er understood what she wanted to say.
Yunxi looked at his children with a faint smile on his face. No matter what happens in the future, they are all very cute children now. He does not have the hard work of taking care of children in ordinary families, so he looks at them very happily.
I don’t know how long it took, but Xiyao walked into the room and looked at the children playing with a faint smile on her face. Yunxi asked her to sit next to him, put his arms around her slender waist, and felt There is a touch of warmth as a family gathers together.
However, such times never last long. After a while, Wang Xi came over and reminded him softly: "Your Majesty, Madam, it is almost the time of Youshi, and the clan banquet is about to begin."
Yunxi released his arm around Xiyao's waist and said to her: "The clan banquet is about to begin, let's go over."
"Yes, husband." Xiyao paused and then said, "How many of them are there?" She pointed at the children in front of her.
"Wen Kun, Wen Yin, Wen Kun and Wen Lin are still young, so they stay here to play and let the female officer who takes care of them continue to look after them here; Wen Yao, Wen Yuan, Wen Qi and Min'er are already quite old. Besides, Wen Yao, Min'er and Wenyuan have been attending clan banquets since the second year of Jianye, so I will still take them there this time," Yun He said.
"But in previous years, the banquet was not long, and they persisted. This year's banquet is longer, which may be a bit inconvenient." Xiyao said.
"They are not young anymore, so they should be able to hold on for a little longer until the banquet is over. And this year's banquet is much more interesting than in previous years, isn't it? Maybe they will be attracted and can last longer." Yunxi said.
Xiyao could not say anything else to object, so she could only get up and bring her four children to attend the clan banquet. Her purpose was actually to only let the prince Wenyuan attend to show his special status; Xiyao thought about it all the time
Let others realize that her eldest son Wenyuan is the crown prince and has a different status.
Yunxi actually understood a little about Xiyao's thoughts, but he had nothing to do about it. Besides, Xiyao was a very qualified candidate for the queen. She not only kept the palace in order, but also treated other concubines very well.
He was fair and just, and never showed mercy to the incompetent members of his natal family. With these excellent performances, he won unanimous praise from his wives both inside and outside, so Yunxi could only let her go.
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As soon as Zhu Chun, King of Shu, walked into the hall where the banquet was held this year, he felt something was wrong: this year's hall was much larger than the palace where the banquet was held in previous years. The north side was the same place where they were seated as in previous years, but there was a place erected on the south side.
The slightly higher small stage is like a stage with hooks and tiles.
Zhu Chun stopped one person and asked: "Brother Six, what's going on? Isn't it possible that His Majesty will let the troupe perform opera on the stage this year?"
Chu King Zhu Zhen, who was stopped by him, said: "Eleventh brother, I don't know either. Although I heard some rumors before that Your Majesty is going to change this year's clan banquet, I don't know how."
As he spoke, he also grabbed the person passing by him and said, "Maybe Yunzhen knows what's going on."
"Ah?" Yongwang Yunzhen was looking at the stage to the south. He didn't pay attention to what they just said, so he was caught without warning. He hurriedly asked: "Uncle Liu, why did you grab my belt?"
Zhu Zhen repeated the question again, and Yun Zhen said: "I don't know either. I don't live in the palace now, so I don't know what the emperor is up to."
"However, the emperor still prefers opera. This stage is similar to the stage. I guess he has arranged a few newly written operas."
"It's a newly written opera," Zhu Youdun interjected: "I don't know which opera master in the Cultural Propaganda Department wrote it, and what the story is."
"Brother Youdou, if you like opera so much, you might as well join the Literary and Propaganda Department to give full play to your talents." Zhu Jiye joked with a smile. It is well known in the clan that Zhu Youdou likes opera.
Unexpectedly, he actually nodded and said, "I really should go to the Publicity Department to take a look."
"No, brother Youdou!" Ji Ye said loudly. Youdou is the Crown Prince of Zhou and the future prince. If he really wants to go to the Propaganda Department because of his words, no matter how gentle Zhu Ru's temper is, he will not be able to spare him.
Youdou stopped paying attention to him, turned around and sat down at a table alone, seeming to be thinking seriously. Ji Ye hurriedly chased after him, sat next to him and kept talking.
Zhu Zhen and others laughed for a while, and Yun Zhen said: "I always feel that it may be a performance, but it may not be an opera. Brother Huang always does things unexpectedly, and it is not easy to guess."
Zhu Chun also nodded. As expected, he was deeply moved. Now it seems that one of the points that attracted everyone's attention when Yun Xi was just starting out was when he was talking to him.
"But how could it be unexpected?" Zhu Zhen said.
"Don't think about it. You can guess the way the emperor does things, but what he is going to do, if you can easily guess it, how can you do it unexpectedly? The banquet will start in a while, and you will know when the time comes.
" Yunzhen said.
After listening to Yunxi's words, everyone felt that it made sense; they all understood Yunxi's idea of doing things after studying it, but they still couldn't guess how he would deal with a matter; and this was just something that happened during the clan banquet. It was just a show and not worth spending energy to think about, so everyone put it down and talked about other things.
"Uncle Six, I heard that there was a barbarian rebellion in the west of Huguang last year. Did you go to quell the rebellion again?" Jin Wang Jixi suddenly said.
"Well, there was a barbarian rebellion in Guzhou (now Rongjiang County, Guizhou Province). I took the guardsmen from Wuchang and other places and the Tujia people (Tujia people) in western Hunan to suppress the rebellion."
"The local barbarians rebelled just because the imperial court sent some corvees. Damn it. I successively attacked more than 200 villages and executed all the barbarians who dared to rebel. After the children were castrated, I kept some of them and left the rest for now. I'll wait in Wuchang for His Majesty's death." Zhu Zhen said in a slightly showy tone.
"Haha, speaking of which, there are too many eunuchs this year. Shiba also castrated a lot of children in Burma and will be sent to the Central Plains. The shortage of eunuchs in various royal palaces will be greatly alleviated, and maybe there will be a lot of wealth." Yunxi said with a smile. .
"That's good." Ji Xi said: "Otherwise, it will be as tight as before, and we can only use palace maids. But too many palace maids will arouse the resentment of the civil servants. Now all the problems are solved."
"Speaking of which, the Tujia people in western Hunan are really tame. I remember reading the Di newspaper on weekdays, and I often saw rebels in Huguang Province recruiting Tujia people." Zhu Chun did not want to talk about the eunuchs, so he brought up this topic.
Before Zhu Zhen could speak, Zhu Bai, the king of Hunan who had just arrived, heard Ji Ye speak and said: "The Tujia people are very docile and obedient to the government. Whether it is fighting or sending corvees, as long as they are given enough military pay when they fight. "
"It would be great if all the Mongolians in Yiwu were like this." King Shang Bing of Qin came over and said, "When I arrived in Yiwu, I discovered that the Mongolians are very lazy, and they don't spend much energy on grazing. Let them do something. I am completely unwilling to find excuses for other matters. Since He Yili is my ally, I can't force him too much."
"No, the Mongols are very obedient when they are in charge of fighting," Ning Wang Zhu Quan said: "The Mongols of Duoyanwei under my command are very obedient when they are in charge of fighting."
"But now we have no war in Yiwu, what we need is construction. According to the emperor's words, if Timur comes over, Yiwu needs to be built as an important place to fight against Timur; if Timur doesn't come over, he will die. Well, in the future, expanding westward will also require a Yiwu with abundant resources and people. So I need these Mongolians to work." Shang Bing said.
"Then this is not easy to handle. It is easy to make the Mongolians work hard on the battlefield, but it is impossible to make them work." Ji Xi said with a smile. There are also many Mongolians among his three guards, and they are very familiar with the temperament of these people.