To the north of Nanyang, in the Baizhong Mountains.
Soldiers and horses from all walks of life left one after another and went to garrison in various provinces.
Nanyang suddenly became much deserted. There was no noise anymore. Today the emperor specially brought two princes to hunt.
Hongjia and Hongcheng have already practiced their riding skills well. Each rides a Qinghai dragon horse and gallops, surrounded by the inner four guards and their entourage.
A sigh of relief.
King Qin fired an arrow from his horse and hit a deer that rushed in front of him in panic.
"White deer, a white deer!"
Zhu Hongjia watched excitedly as his followers captured the injured deer that fell to the ground. They brought the white deer to King Qin, but the deer was still struggling. Zhu Hongjia pulled out his short sword and gave the white deer a patch of wounds, ending its pain.
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A large group of guards came to support the emperor.
Zhu Hongjia presented the white deer in front of the emperor's horse.
Zhu Yihai looked at this white deer and felt a little pity. Sun Jiaji, the governor of Hubei who was accompanying him, felt that this should be a Shennong white deer. The edge areas of Fang County and other counties from Wudang Mountain to Daba Mountain in Hubei are the unique geographical Shennongjia.
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There is a unique herd of Shennong white deer here.
Compared with the one or two white deer that occasionally appear outside, there are many groups of white deer in Shennongjia, which is a rare species.
In ancient times, the white deer was considered auspicious.
The young King Qin shot and killed the rare white deer, which was not a good thing and even a bit unpleasant. However, Zhu Yihai simply thought that the deer was rare and did not think it was a bad sign.
"The King of Qin is good at archery!"
"Let's continue hunting and see who can catch more prey before dark!"
Zhu Yihai laughed loudly and continued to chase his prey.
Large groups of prey were driven out of the mountains by the guards and ran around in all directions.
Wang Sangyu, dressed in military uniform, galloped on horseback, raised a cavalry shotgun on the horse, and shot down a deer with a bang. Anu on the other side showed no sign of weakness, and even stood directly on the horse, bent his bow and shot an arrow.
Shoot another deer over.
Zhu Yihai rode forward and chased after him.
He locked onto a Two King.
There are tigers and golden leopards in Funiu Mountain in Nanyang. The tiger is called the king of the mountain, and the leopard is naturally the second king.
The two kings, who were usually very comfortable in the mountains and forests, were driven away by the guards and soldiers and had nowhere to escape, so they had to flee everywhere.
The emperor chased after him on horseback, without raising a musket or a bow. Instead, he directly raised a spear, chased behind the two kings, and stabbed him down with one shot. The usually agile leopard did not escape this blow.
If it fights alone in the jungle, it is the king, but if it is driven to the plains, its majesty is lost.
With a scream, the leopard was provoked by the emperor.
In later generations, this would definitely be a beast that could sit in jail. There were probably only a few dozen in the entire Funiu Mountains, but at this time, tigers were all over the place, let alone these two kings.
This time the emperor brought his troops to hunt, not just for fun, but specifically for tigers, leopards, wolves and other ferocious beasts, to get rid of some so as not to harm the people and prey on cattle and horses.
Although there are not as many tigers in Nanyang as there are in northern Sichuan, they still multiply and grow rapidly in the chaos, causing harm.
All the guards applauded and cheered loudly.
The emperor stabbed the leopard with his spear, and the scholars who were worthy of accompanying him quickly thought of some good poems to praise him.
Suddenly a tiger roared in the distance.
A tiger was driven out by the guards.
A large colorful insect.
When a large group of guards saw the tiger, they all gathered in front of the emperor to protect him.
"Whoever kills a tiger will be given a tiger spear and a tiger coat." Zhu Yihai shouted with a smile.
General Liu Zhaoxing rushed forward with an iron spear in his hand and his horse. This was the son of Liu Mu, the new governor of Jiangxi Imperial Camp. His father, Liu Mu, was a martial arts champion. He learned the swordsmanship of the Liu family when he was a child, and later learned it from the Jiangyang thief Bi Kunyang.
He got the Bi family gun and was a master of martial arts. He accumulated merit and became a general of the Imperial Guard.
Liu Zhaoxing stepped forward, and the others were not willing to lag behind and rushed out one after another.
It should be said that the emperor also gathered a large number of martial arts masters around him.
For example, Liu Zhaoxing's teacher Bi Kunyang, Bi's friend Huaqiang Warrior Qing, and Siping gun Chu Fubao, as well as Shanxi Fu Shan, and Shi Jingyan, a retired general during the Chongzhen Dynasty, who was over eighty years old, but his marksmanship was extremely good.
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Bi Kunyang, Chu Fubao, Warrior Qing, Wu Wenhu and other masters with guns are not as good as him, but this old man is also amazing. He is more than eighty years old, and he can actually kill a tiger alone with a gun.
He is now the imperial camp instructor and imperial bodyguard beside the emperor.
At this time, the old man was walking as fast as he could with his gun in hand, not lagging behind at all.
Others such as Cao Lanting, Zhao Ying, Shaolin monks Hong Ji and Hong Xin, Jiangnan internal masters Wang Zhengnan and Huang Baijia, as well as the old man's disciples Wu Shu, Xia Junxuan, Xia Yuru, Plum Blossom Spear Lu Jueting, etc. also rushed up one after another.
Jian Haiseng, a monk scholar from Jiangyin, also rushed forward carrying an eighty-pound iron sword.
Sanshan monk from Wu Xi followed with his Zen staff.
The female guard Li Saier from Cizhou, holding the Nine Chains, and her brother Li Jia, Liu Qianjin from Ningguo, Sanxian Taoist, Monk Putao, and sharpshooter Lu Shangyi all pounced on him.
The tiger falls in Pingyang.
Any one of these martial arts masters could kill a ferocious tiger, but when they met dozens of top masters, they were beaten to death just in time to scream.
However, it was Liu Zhaoxing who took the lead and stabbed the tiger to death with an iron spear before everyone else. The others jumped in the air and could only attack the other leopards, wild boars, wolves, etc. that were driven out. In an instant, there was no time to escape.
The beast fell to the ground.
Some of these people are good at using various spears, some are good at using various swords, there are also many people who are good at internal martial arts, some are good at using shotguns, and some strange weapons such as the nine-ring ring.
Several of them wielded broadswords, iron whips, iron maces, and copper hammers, and they were all strong men. For example, the monk Jianhai used an eighty-pound sword as a weapon, and Zhu Yihai was very tired because of him.
Li Saier used nine large iron rings as weapons, which could be thrown, chained into a whip, or put on the arm for endless variations.
Liu Zhaoxing won the first place, and the others were not far behind. They continued to drive wild animals across the mountains and hunted ferocious beasts everywhere. Tigers, leopards, and wolves also suffered today.
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At the end of the day, Zhu Yihai and the others had a full harvest. They had caught seven tigers, more than sixty leopards, and thousands of other wolves, wild boars, deer, etc. in total.
More than 3,000 small animals such as rabbits were killed in one day, and more than 100 monkeys were killed.
Twenty bears, ninety-six wolves, and more than three hundred wild boars.
Zhu Yihai also gained a lot. The novice assassinated a tiger, two leopards, a monkey, six wolves, three wild boars, ten rabbits, and more than thirty pheasants and birds.
The kings of Qin and Han also shot several deer, many rabbits and pheasants.
A great harvest.
Although a lot of imperial troops and guards were mobilized to drive people away from the mountains, this kind of harvest is still worthy of praise, especially the emperor's martial arts skills with bows, horses, guns and muskets. Even the performance of the two young princes was an eye-opener for the ministers.
They say the prince is brave.
Zhu Yihai is now becoming more and more satisfied with the two princes. He has been taking them with him since they came back, not only to get closer to them, but also to teach them personally.
In the beginning, father and son were relatively distant and strangers, but as time passed, they became closer and closer.
As the elder brother, Hongjia was originally more resolute and mature in character, but now he is more stable than the eldest son of the emperor, and Zhu Yihai is becoming more and more satisfied with this son.
He once thought about making Hongjia a king, and in the future he would create a vassal and guard the frontier, but now his performance made Zhu Yihai have the urge to directly make him the prince.
Compared with the ninth prince born to the queen who was still nursing, Hongjia was held captive as a slave for six years, but he is now doing very well, being sensible, steady and more determined.
In the evening, he camped at the foot of Bai Zhong Mountain, and after having a feast of beasts with his ministers, he asked the Hongjia brothers to continue reading Zizhi Tongjian with him.
"Hongjia, do you want to be the prince?"
After reading today's book, Zhu Yihai put down the book and suddenly asked his eldest son.
"The sons and ministers are born from concubines and have no qualifications. Our Ming Dynasty has always adopted the system of direct eldest son. Although the sons and ministers are the eldest sons, they should be established as direct descendants rather than virtuous, and sons should be established as noble rather than senior." Zhu Hongjia answered calmly.
Zhu Yihai also deliberately talked about it today.
"It's okay that Queen Dazhang has no children. The doctor said she can't have children, so she adopted you into her name. You will become the legitimate wife. When I was still the general of Zhenguo, I had already reported to the court and made you the eldest son. Later you
After being kidnapped, I inherited the title of King of Lu. I thought you were gone, so I asked the court to posthumously make you the Crown Prince of Lu. When I succeeded to the throne, I posthumously named you the Crown Prince.
Although Empress Xiao Zhang has given birth to the Ninth Prince, you are still the eldest son."
The Ming Dynasty has a legitimate son system, and the legitimate son of a son is based on the identity of the mother. The son of the main wife is the legitimate son, and the son of the second wife is also the legitimate son. If the concubine is corrected, her son will also become the legitimate son. Of course, if
If the first wife is deposed, then her original legitimate son will also be deposed as a bastard.
The son's identity changes with the mother's identity.
Before the Ming Dynasty, the vassals still implemented the system of waiting for the heir. If the princess's main wife had no sons, then other concubines would not be appointed as heirs. They had to wait until the princess died of illness or until she was fifty years old and had not yet given birth.
Crown Prince.
Although the emperor's family did not have such a system of treating concubines, there was a secret tradition in the early days that if the crown prince or empress had not given birth to a child after marriage, other concubines were not eligible to have children.
Unless there are no children after many years of marriage, the reproductive rights of other concubines will be released. The purpose of this is to ensure that the eldest son is the legitimate eldest son.
Of course, by the middle and later stages, this tradition had already been broken.
Zhu Yihai was only a general who ruled the country before, not even a county king, so he didn't have to abide by the system of waiting for the first wife, and he didn't say that his first wife couldn't have other children if she didn't have children. His first wife, Zhang, had never given birth, so his concubines gave him children.
, because of Zhang’s special situation, she was later diagnosed as unable to have children, so she directly adopted the eldest son into her name and raised him personally.
Therefore, Zhu Hongjia is indeed the eldest son.
The Ninth Prince's biological mother, Empress Xiao Zhang, is also a queen, so he is naturally his legitimate son.
But as long as Zhu Hongjia is around, he is just the second son.
If Zhu Hongjia is not capable, then his status as the eldest son will naturally allow him room for maneuver. But now that he is performing so well, Zhu Yihai feels that the crown prince should appoint him.
"Father, I am not the real eldest son."
Zhu Yihai smiled and patted his shoulder, "You are my son, and you were raised by your first wife, so why are you not the eldest son?
I am very satisfied with you, and during the Chinese New Year this year, I will officially canonize you as the crown prince at the Zhengdan meeting!"
Zhu Hongjia was stunned.
"Since you are the direct eldest son and a wise man, I should appoint you as my successor and learn from me well. In the future, this country will be under your command."
The crown prince is the foundation of the country. Zhu Yihai is so eager to establish the crown prince because he understands that Zhu Hongjia and the ninth son of the emperor have this hidden danger of inheritance, so he should establish him early to avoid future troubles.
Moreover, if you establish the prince early, you can also start making arrangements in advance to train a team for the prince. This will help the prince to control the government after he ascends the throne in the future.