This person is none other than Princess Zhu Ainao of Kunxing, who was able to leave the palace to find her lover thanks to the intercession of Concubine Tian.
These days, it is rare to have such an opportunity to leave the palace. Therefore, she hurried out of the palace at dawn and went shopping, buying delicious food and fun things. When she returned to the palace, she also brought some for her younger brothers and sisters in the palace.
, of course, Empress Zhou and Concubine Tian are indispensable.
As for Emperor Chongzhen, she would not bother him.
In fact, Queen Zhou was actually a little unhappy. She felt that it was too shocking that she was a majestic princess of the Ming Dynasty, and that she would show up in such a public place and take the initiative to find her husband.
However, Emperor Chongzhen had already approved it, but she had no choice but to tell Zhu Aona to abide by the order and not to expose her identity.
After Princess Kunxing brought her several gifts from outside the palace to please her, Zhu Aona no longer had a straight face when she saw her mother again.
On this day, as before, she went shopping happily with her palace maids and guards.
As for the matter of finding a husband, she has actually forgotten about it. The various shops in the capital city have so many products, even if she is a princess of the Ming Dynasty, many of them have never been seen before, which is very useful to her.
Attraction.
Now that she saw that the registration for the special examination on the study of physical studies was about to end, and the examination was about to start soon, she became a little anxious, thinking about meeting those students to see if there were any suitable and promising ones.
No, after she had left for a while, another maid came over excitedly and reported to her: "Miss, I have learned clearly that candidates who come to the capital, regardless of men or women, will go to one place first to get good luck.
, let’s go too, maybe Miss can become the number one scholar!”
"..." Zhu Ainao was a little speechless when she heard this. As a princess, she couldn't reveal her identity. Why would she want to be the top scholar?
Later, she came back to her senses and became very interested: Those candidates who entered Beijing, regardless of men or women, would go to one place to get good luck. What was going on?
Thinking like this, she asked curiously: "Where can I get good luck? Shouldn't I go to pray to gods and worship Buddha, or go to Confucius Temple for blessings?"
Hearing this, the maid who had inquired about the news excitedly introduced: "I have found out clearly that all people from other places must go to two places after arriving in the capital. One is to get good luck.
, the other one is Jing Zhonglie!”
Upon hearing this, Zhu Ailao said with great interest: "Jing Zhonglie, this must be the Zhonglie Hall and the Zhonglie Memorial Hall. We should also go and see it. This lucky place, I really can't figure out where it is!"
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"It's Wang Laowu's pig farm!" The maid didn't dare to seduce the princess, so she quickly explained, "Wang Laowu, who won the special prize in the first welfare lottery, is the only one summoned by His Majesty, and
He also taught him the pig-raising method derived from studying things. Therefore, everyone said that he was a very lucky person."
After a pause, she immediately added: "And this pig farm is a graduate of Gwu. As a candidate for the special examination of Gwu, I naturally want to see it. Therefore, the pig farm also became a candidate.
A must-visit place.”
"..." Zhu Ainao was slightly surprised when she heard this. After she came to her senses, she nodded and said, "It seems to make sense. Then I will follow their lead and go to both places!"
"Miss, where should we go first?"
Hearing the maid's enthusiastic question, Zhu Aao thought for a while and then said seriously: "Let's go to Zhonglie Hall first. This matter is the most important."
After hearing this, the maid happily waved her hand behind her.
When the two guards saw it, they immediately led their horses forward, one for each, and rode over.
The entire capital is still very large, and it is absolutely unrealistic to rely on walking.
The means of transportation in this era were horses, carriages, sedan chairs and the like, nothing else.
Zhu Ayao learned riding and archery from Concubine Tian Guifei. She was not the kind who went to the battlefield, but learned to play, and she also contributed to Liu Weichao's videos.
She was impatient to ride in a carriage because she felt it was not free and blocked her view, so she chose to ride a horse by herself.
In the capital city, it is not uncommon for masters and servants to ride on horseback.
It's not that there are no rich people in the capital, but that the rich people in the capital are relatively low-key. However, this trend has only been formed in the past two years.
In the past, the customs in the capital were similar to those in the late Ming Dynasty. Luxury comparisons and showing off wealth during travel were also an important part of it.
However, since the current emperor was privately nicknamed the "Emperor of Chasing Households", this trend has begun to change significantly. Coupled with the promulgation and strict implementation of the new etiquette system, the trend of luxury and comparison has directly transformed into a low-key one.
Planted.
As a result, Zhu Yurao and his group immediately attracted a lot of attention. However, Zhu Yurao did not care about this situation.
Soon, the group of them arrived at the Ming Dynasty Martyrs Memorial Hall outside the Meridian Gate.
After arriving here, I found that there were many people. Basically, I could tell at a glance that they were all students who came to Beijing to take the exam. However, there were more men than women; there were many older people and relatively few young people.
But because of the large number of people and the large base, even the number of young girls is not too small.
There is a monument in a large open space outside the Martyrs' Memorial Hall. In front of the monument, there is a large incense burner where you can burn incense and worship.
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Here at the Martyrs Memorial Hall, they sell incense and paper money, with different packages, some expensive and some cheap.
There are ordinary incense and fine incense, paper money, and all kinds of paper money;
If you choose the most expensive package of 10 taels of silver, you will also get a special privilege, that is, you don’t have to line up, and you can go directly to the Memorial Hall of the Martyrs from a separate road.
Ten taels of silver was really not too little. But when Zhu Aao saw the long queue outside the memorial hall, she gritted her teeth and took out fifty taels of silver.
I have no choice but to leave the maids and guards outside and go in alone. They will definitely not agree. If something happens, they will lose their heads.
Since they want to go in together, they can't be allowed to pay for it themselves!
Therefore, Zhu Aina still had to pay for this money.
In fact, it still costs money to store their horses.
The capital has everything, and you can enjoy the grandeur, but the key is spending money.
Fortunately, in recent years, the palace has gradually become richer. If it had been a few years ago, Zhu Aona would have had to wait in line.
Although Zhu Yurao didn't know what the original history was like, she was still very pious when facing the loyal men of the Ming Dynasty.
They carefully led the maids and guards to burn incense for the martyrs of the Ming Dynasty. After burning valuable money, they were led diligently by the soldiers in charge of the martyrs' memorial hall and entered the gate through a separate path.
The soldier did not enter the door, but said at the door: "I would like to remind you that you must observe etiquette in the Zhonglie Hall and do not make loud noises or laugh loudly, otherwise the patrol will drive people away!"
After hearing this, Zhu Ailao nodded, indicating that she understood, and stepped into the lobby.
On the front of Zhonglie Hall, there are temples for the Three Lords, namely Sun Chengzong, Lu Xiangsheng and Qiu Minyang.
Zhu Yuluo already knew about the deeds of these three people. She looked up at the statue with great piety. After a moment of silence, she turned to the back.
The number of people inside the memorial hall is much smaller than outside. Those who queue up must first buy tickets, which cost five cents each, and there is a traffic limit. Otherwise, the memorial hall will definitely be crowded.
However, although there are much fewer people inside than outside, this is still a relatively large number of people.
When Zhu Yurao saw a crowded place, she did not crowd around, but just looked around. When there were few people, she went closer to see and learn about the deeds of the loyal martyrs.
She discovered that men and women are still different, and they don't get together or crowd together.
When it comes to descriptions of battles and the like, most of the people are men, while when it comes to places like relics and portraits of loyal martyrs, most of them are women.
If you are older, you can still hear them talking in low voices to their companions around you. Some of them may even have experienced or heard about the war and will add a few words.
Zhu Yasuo was walking and looking, and suddenly found that there were a lot of girls in one place. She was a little curious, so she walked over to watch.
It turns out that there is a portrait of a female general hanging here, with a heroic appearance, and an introduction to her deeds on the side.
Zhu Ya'ao was not short-sighted. She stood on the periphery and saw the name of this female general. She knew immediately that this female Zhonglie was the daughter-in-law of Duke Zhongzhen. Zhang Fengyi died in Houjiazhuang during the six years of Chongzhen's suppression of bandits.
This is also the only female general in the Zhonglie Hall so far.
Zhu Aona was watching, and suddenly, she heard a girl's voice speaking: "I really admire her so much. I will learn from her in the future and leave my name in history!"
Hearing this, Zhu Ainao turned around and saw a group of three people, two women and one man.
The eldest one was a woman, already dressed as a woman; the one who spoke just now was the younger woman, who Zhu Aona estimated was a little younger than herself.
That man...
Before she could take a look, she saw that the woman dressed up had turned around, just blocking her sight, and said to the younger girl: "Little sister, don't think so much, learn the science of physics well, and we will talk about it later."
Maybe I can leave my name in history!"
Although loyalty makes people admire you, if it is your own family member, you will naturally be reluctant to part with it. This is also human nature.
After hearing this, the little girl replied: "Unless you can get the number one scholar in the gewu science test this time, then you will be like that Wang Laowu, and you will be famous all over the world. If you do something in the future, you will be able to
Leave a name in history! But... But in terms of studying things, let alone my second brother, even you, the eldest sister, are much better than me! If you ask me, this female number one scholar must belong to my eldest sister. I simply don’t care.
There is no hope!"
Upon hearing this, Zhu Aina couldn't help being slightly surprised.