Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 720
Zhu Yihai was sitting in the queen's palace, with the prince beside him.

The female official in the Queen's Palace stood aside very anxiously. Fujian jasmine tea was brewed on the table. Although the green tea has been scented with jasmine, although the jasmine has been picked after it is made, the fragrance of the flower is still there.

Jasmine smells supreme, and ranks as the number one fragrance in the world.

This tea used to be the queen's favorite, and Zhu Yihai specially asked Shaofu Jian to build a jasmine tea house in Fuzhou, and invited tea masters to carefully scent it to make top quality tea. This tea carries the emperor's love for the queen, and it has always been Queen's favorite.

In the past, every time the emperor came, the queen would make a pot of jasmine tea herself, and sometimes even sing a piece of Yiqiang tune and play a qin for the emperor.

But today, the tea was cold, and the queen didn't come out.

The queen said she was sick.

Ever since he told the queen that he wanted Hong Jia to be the crown prince, the queen has been "unable to get sick". She even didn't show up when the prince came to pay respects to the queen during the crown prince canonization ceremony.

After that, the prince visited the queen several times, but was turned away.

Even Zhu Yihai had been shut down several times. Today is the Lantern Festival. After the court meeting, the crown prince asked again that he could come with the emperor to visit Queen Zhang and make amends to Queen Zhang.

Zhu Yihai didn't care about the exhaustion of the day and came together.

But the queen still refused to show up.

Zhu Yihai looked at the prince's restless eyes and felt angry.

It is true that he provoked the matter, but it is a big deal to establish a prince. The eldest son is both tall and virtuous, so he has no reason to insist that Li Gang will leave the Ninth Prince who is just over a year old.

"I'm going to see the queen."

Zhu Yihai got up to go in, but the female officer bit the bullet and stopped him.

He just stared at him, and the female officer hurriedly stepped aside. The emperor's eyes were too majestic, and ordinary people couldn't stand it.

Zhu Yihai walked into the bedroom.

When the queen heard his footsteps, she turned her head on the bed and turned her back to Zhu Yihai.

Zhu Yihai sat down by the bed, reached out to grab her hand, and she shook it off.

Zhu Yihai continued to reach out to grab it, and grabbed it hard, Empress Zhang trembled.

"I'll apologize to you first. Today is the Shangyuan Festival. The concubines in the palace and the imperial concubine outside the palace came to greet you and salute you. You didn't see me. Everyone was very worried."

"It's good that the concubine is dead, and it's not someone else's hindrance."

"What did you say?"

"Didn't Your Majesty want to abolish the Empress? Then just issue an order to abolish the Empress. If it's not enough, then issue a decree to bestow three feet of white silk or a cup of poisoned wine on the ministers and concubines."

Hearing that her tone was still full of resentment, even very serious, Zhu Yihai sighed, "You haven't wanted to see me for a long time, but I'm here today, why don't you see me?"

In the past, he thought that Empress Zhang was a gentle little girl from the south of the Yangtze River. She was knowledgeable and gentle. Even if she didn't have deep feelings, she was as gentle and considerate as water, and she was also generous and tolerant. But now he felt that she was unreasonable. , and even got into a dead end.

He also knew that the empress was extremely dissatisfied with the establishment of the crown prince, but he still hoped that she would understand and gave her time. He came here more than once and apologized to the steps, but she could not accept it.

This has become an impenetrable hurdle.

"The prince is still so young, why do you always target him?"

"I hate him, he robbed the Ninth Prince's reserve."

"Hong Jia called your mother queen, you can't be so ruthless."

"When I think about it now, I still felt sorry for him and let him call my queen mother, but now I think it's disgusting."

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Not much speculation.

No matter how Zhu Yihai comforted and persuaded her, Empress Zhang refused to turn her face away, which made Zhu Yihai feel very bored and even annoyed.

Zhu Yihai got up and glanced at Empress Zhang who had already covered her head with a quilt. Her jealousy made her look unrecognizable and she was very strange.

He doesn't know how to get along with him. This incident has become a hurdle for her. They used to have warm and sweet moments, and even had a son and two daughters together, but now they feel that their fate is over. It feels like an enemy.

"Take a good rest, at least for the sake of the three children, they are still so young."

The queen whimpered in the quilt, her shoulders twitching.

Zhu Yihai felt uncomfortable and went out directly.

The prince was still sitting there a little nervously, and when he saw him coming, he quickly got up, "Isn't the mother still willing to see your son?"

"It's been snowing and cold recently, and she's caught the wind and cold, so it's not suitable to meet her. Come back and come back next time."

The father and son left one after the other, very silent.

Although Zhu Hongjia is young, he has already become an adult. Now he is 14 years old. He knows why the queen hates him so much.

He is no longer alone now. His father has set up the Eastern Palace officials for him. Apart from the part-time ministers of the Eastern Palace who only occasionally come to guide him, there are also some full-time officials in the Eastern Palace. Although they are young and of lower rank, but They are devoted to the Prince.

Many things he didn't think of, they will remind him and teach him.

Just as the crown prince Xima Dong Zhining told him, from the moment Emperor Linxuan canonized him as the crown prince, he was no longer his pure self, he was the crown prince of the reborn Ming Dynasty, and he was the future of Daming.

He can't live up to the emperor's expectations, let alone the expectations of everyone in the world, he can only take up this burden and do his best.

So no matter how unhappy the queen is, she can't say anything to the emperor about being a prince.

The prince did not let it go.

Since you have been chosen, you have to do well, even fight, and whoever dares to take it will fight back.

Now that the Ninth Prince is still young, everyone can bear Queen Zhang's dissatisfaction, but there will be a deadline. If Queen Zhang can't understand it and treat the prince correctly, then the East Palace will not tolerate Queen Zhang forever, and sooner or later it will be activated. Obsolete procedure.

Zhu Hongjia understood these things, not completely, but it didn't prevent him from understanding them, but he couldn't accept them for a while.

One side is family affection, the other side is power, and it is the request and teaching of the officials of the Eastern Palace.

He wanted to be an excellent prince so that he could live up to his father's expectations.

In fact, he is still so young, it's just that he has become more tenacious after being outside the customs for six years.

Zhu Yihai took his son by the hand and walked side by side in the snow field outside the hall. The snow is vast, this winter is snowy and cold, and next year there will be less pests.

For the common people, the cold winter is both what they look forward to and it is difficult to endure, but only after getting through this cold winter, next year will there be more spring rain, fewer diseases and insect pests, and a bumper harvest.

"Let's go, go to Governor Zhang's mansion as a guest, I have arranged a marriage for you, Zhang Cangshui's daughter, that talented woman who is famous for her poems, novels, and scripts in the newspaper, go and have a look."

After leaving the palace, Zhu Yihai and the prince went to the residence of Zhang Huangyan in Dongcheng.

Zhang Huangyan had already been waiting at the door, and when he saw Jin Wu opening the way, the guards of Yulin, and the guards of the inner four guards, he immediately asked people to open the middle door.

Qian Sule, Dong Zhining, and Yang Zhao and other relatives of the Zhang family also came.

Today's family banquet is still very grand. The chef from Ningbo is invited, and the dishes prepared are mainly seafood.

The chef's craftsmanship is good, fresh and salty, steamed, roasted and stewed, tender and smooth, original flavor, rich color.

There are not many dishes, but each one is very delicate, full of color, fragrance and taste.

Such as yellow croaker wrapped in bean curd skin, roasted mossy vegetables in small squares, fried fresh bamboo shoots with pickled vegetables, rice balls made with rice wine, and steamed buns with crab powder.

Although a feature of Ningbo cuisine is stinky, it is useless this time, and their stinky amaranth stems are not on, but it is still very capable.

With a few pots of Shaoxing rice wine, this meal is very happy.

For the New Year's Eve, Zhu Yihai also drank two glasses of rice wine, with a smile on his face, hiding his unhappiness in the palace just now from the bottom of his heart.

After the meal, red envelopes were given out to the children of several families.

The red envelopes contained gold, silver and copper coins, which were specially made "New Year's Coins" by the Mint. The children who received the New Year's reward were very happy to kowtow to the emperor, and the prince also gave out New Year's money to several children younger than himself. All pretty good.

After the children finished paying their respects, Zhang Huangyan's wife, Mrs. Dong, also led a group of women and girls to visit the emperor and the prince.

Zhang Huangyan and Qian Sule, two brothers-in-law, introduced the emperor for the emperor.

When Xiaoxiang Layman Zhang Jinghui came out, Zhang Huangyan was still a little nervous, but Miss Zhang was very generous, very polite and not shy.

Zhu Yihai even asked her to compose a poem to celebrate the New Year, and she wrote it with ease, and it was very good.She even asked the crown prince to compose a song. As a result, Zhu Hongjia spent six years herding cattle and horses outside the customs and delayed his studies. After returning home, he worked hard to make up lessons for a year, but he also left a lot behind. , it is very difficult to be able to rhyme with antithesis, and it is very difficult to alternate between flat and flat.

Zhang Jinghui smiled and modified a few places on the spot, which actually made the poem more tidy.

"His Royal Highness's poem is not neat enough, but it has a high intention and is very strong." She also gave a good evaluation.

Zhang Jinghui was generous, but the prince was a little shy. After chatting for a few words, Zhang Jinghui and his mother and sisters left.

"How about it? Looking at your eyes, I'm quite satisfied with Governor Zhang's daughter."

The crown prince has some of the shyness of a young man who is in love with Dou Chu, "Father, Miss Zhang is very good."

"Why, worrying about gains and losses? Is it because she is unwilling? Father thinks that she was quite satisfied with you just now. Although your poems are not as good as hers, it doesn't matter. Poems are nothing but trivial."

Zhang Huangyan had an excuse to go out for a meeting and didn't come back for a long time.

Zhu Yihai knew that he must be going to see his wife and daughter, and asked them what they meant.

Seeing his flushed face and smiling face, Zhu Yihai knew that this matter might be possible.

"His Majesty."

"How?" Zhu Yihai asked with a smile.

Zhang Huangyan lowered his voice, "The little girl has a high opinion of His Royal Highness, but she said that she is only thirteen, and she doesn't want to talk about marriage so early, and wants to read more books."

Zhu Yihai was surprised by this statement, he thought it was a sure thing, but he didn't expect to hear the result of rejection.

The prince, who had pricked up his ears early to listen, also heard it, and his expression immediately dimmed a lot.

Zhu Yihai patted the prince directly in front of Zhang Huangyan, "Young man, cheer up, there is nothing to be afraid of a little setback. Governor Zhang's daughter didn't directly refuse, and she has a good impression of you. Now is the time to test your ability. arrive,
She hasn't agreed yet, then you should try to impress her and make her agree.

There is nothing difficult in the world, as long as there is a heart, my father supports you to pursue it boldly.My fair lady, a gentleman is so good. "

Zhang Huangyan also hurriedly smiled and said, "I will talk to my little girl with Zhuo Jing when I turn around."

"Cangshui, let the children solve their own affairs. We are only responsible for matchmaking. As for the rest, it is up to their own fate. Your daughter is so good, and my son is also very good. I believe that good things will come true." .”

"Prince, this is the first task I give you, you must perform well."

(End of this chapter)