First Prince of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 160 Trivia
Li Shanchang left after listening. He was going to go back to discuss with the assistant officials of Zhongshu Province, while Zhu Biao stayed here to continue invigilating the exam. After all, it was only the first day, and it was not appropriate for them both to leave.

But this matter is really boring. Zhu Biao wandered around for several times, and then gave up. The candidates were already very nervous. When they saw Zhu Biao approaching, they wrote with all their strength, wanting to show their demeanor of writing. .

Zhu Biao was a little bored. He knew that he would stay with Li Shan for a while longer to chat. He walked to the examiner Song Lian's room. The two parties sat down after seeing the ceremony. Zhu Biao asked, "Mr. Song, do you have any papers for the exam?"

Song Lian said with a smile: "Yes, yes, but no matter how well your Highness answers, you won't be the number one scholar."

Zhu Biao also smiled and said, "It's just to pass the time."

Zhu Biao was bored, and Song Lian was also bored, so Zhu Biao began to answer. Song Lian watched with satisfaction, stroking his beard and nodding from time to time. In this way, when it was dark, Zhu Biao finished their three-day test papers in one day. .

After Zhu Biao finished writing, he stood up, stretched his muscles and asked, "Master Song, what do you think of this volume?"

Song Lian said with a smile: "It can be used as the standard for marking papers."

Zhu Zhizhi bid farewell to Song Lian proudly, and he will not come tomorrow, just take a look at it when the scientific examination is over.

When Zhu Biao walked out of the house, candlelight was already lit in the dormitory outside, and some chose to rest directly, recharge their batteries and answer the questions tomorrow. This is also a psychological test.

Zhu Biao inspected the examination room for the last time, then walked out through the gate, returned to the East Palace, washed his feet under the service of Nuan Yu, and then lay down. Just as the candle was about to fall, he heard Yun Jin's voice.

Zhu Biao let her in, and Yun Jin sat down on the side of the bed naturally after saluting: "Today, when the servant was serving the empress, I happened to meet Princess Kaiping and the crown princess came to visit, and the princess also rewarded the servant with a jade pendant .”

Zhu Biao didn't pay much attention to Yunjin's words, but looked at her soft face. Yunjin's characteristic was her innate gentle temperament. Obviously she was still a little girl, and she was very mature in taking care of others and doing things. "

Zhu Biao closed his eyes and said, "Just accept it if I give it to you, don't think too much about it."

Yun Jin replied softly: "The servant knows."

The two stopped talking, and Zhu Biao didn't let go of Yun Jin's hand, and fell asleep without knowing it.

The next morning, Zhu Biao didn't see Yunjin when he got up early in the morning. The big and small twins waited for him to dress and wash, and Zhu Biao didn't want to eat by himself, so he set off for Kunning Palace, ready to have a meal.

Along the way, I saw many eunuchs and maids cleaning up the palace early like hardworking ants.

When Zhu Biao arrived at Kunning Palace, he happened to meet Zhu Yuanzhang and Empress Ma having dinner together. He was very happy to see his son coming early in the morning. After saluting to them, Zhu Biao sat aside and started eating.

None of the three said anything, but Zhu Biao felt inexplicably relieved. After a while, Zhu Yuanzhang finished his drink, got up, patted his son on the shoulder, and went out to court.

Zhu Biao was not surprised either. His father always ate food very quickly, not gobbling it up but fast, maybe it was a habit left over from his youth.

After a while, the sleepy classmate Zhu Lu came out. Zhu Biao happily stretched out his hand to her. Zhu Lu still remembered her brother, obediently wrapped her arms around his brother's neck, buried her little head in Zhu Biao's arms, and was about to sleep for a while .

Zhu Biao held Zhu Lu in his arms and talked for a long time before really waking her up, and then handed her over to the nanny to feed. Although Zhu Lu stopped drinking milk at this time, the food was still very delicate. Made in the small kitchen of Kunning Palace.

Empress Ma looked at her son and said, "Since you like children so much, give me a grandson as soon as possible."

Zhu Biao said with a smile: "Your son is not yet married, but you are already urging to have a child."

Empress Ma sighed and said: "This day is really boring. You father and son are busy from morning to night, just like your father, I don't know when he came back last night, and I don't see anyone on weekdays." .”

Zhu Biao was also very helpless about this. In the Tang Dynasty, the status of women had improved to a certain extent compared with the previous dynasties.Wu Zetian, the emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty, made a lot of efforts for this.At that time, there were almost no restrictions on women's participation in social activities.

After the unremitting efforts of the scholar-bureaucrats in the Song Dynasty, especially noble women, there were very few things they could do, and they basically couldn't do without their own yard.

When Zhu Yuanzhang raised his army, Empress Ma was in charge of the inside and outside, and she took care of civil servants, military generals and their families, but now they are confined to the inner courtyard of the palace, and no one can see them except those wives.

Even if the wives used to get along well with Empress Ma, they should pay attention to the etiquette of respect and inferiority now. Yun Jin will help her with the affairs of the palace, and the concubines in the palace will also respect them.

Empress Ma is now a testament to how lonely invincibility is.

Zhu Biao had no choice but to promise to marry a daughter-in-law and give birth to grandchildren for his mother as soon as possible. Queen Ma took him to chat with Chang Luohua for a while, and he could feel that he was very satisfied with her in his words.

Zhu Biao stayed for a while before returning to the East Palace, and then began to continue to prepare for his work. He would have a better idea after thinking about many things. In the afternoon, the eunuch beside Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly sent something.

Zhu Biao asked Liu Jin to take it, and when he opened it, he felt very familiar. Isn't this the erotic picture found in Lu Chang's study?
Zhu Biao's face turned black, and he opened the rest of the things one by one. It can only be said that Lao Zhu is fully prepared, not only the erotic pictures, but also books explaining this matter in detail...

It seems that Zhu Yuanzhang also wanted to hug his grandson earlier, for fear that his son hadn't enlightened yet, but he couldn't tell his father, that's it?
Zhu Biao said to the smiling eunuch, "Go back and report to my father, and say that I will study it carefully."

Asking Liu Jin to send him out, Zhu Biao couldn't help but smiled, and read a few pages of the book, which was not bad. It seems that the ancients were still very professional in this area, and that's right, after all, there is nothing else to relieve pressure except this.

Zhu Biao's body is actually developing very well, and he has also begun to enter puberty. If he wants to, he can indeed give birth to heirs. This is actually very important. If the prince has a successor, the subjects of the Eastern Palace will feel more at ease.
However, Zhu Biao plans to wait another two years. He does not need a son to stabilize his position. In addition, Chang Luohua is not very old, so giving birth in ancient times is still very risky.

After Liu Jin came back, she also looked at it curiously, and then her eyes dimmed a lot. Eunuchs naturally have the pain of eunuchs, but Liu Jin immediately raised a smile.

A servant is a servant, and when his master is happy, he has to follow the music, how can he spoil his master's interest because of him.

Naturally, Zhu Biao was not that vulgar. He insisted on watching the erotic pictures with the castrated eunuch, and told him to put them away, so Zhu Biao went on to study his own affairs.

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(End of this chapter)