Daming: If I find a great-grandson, I will teach an emperor through the ages

Chapter 70
Silent all night.

When the morning sun emerged from the east the next day, the entire palace city was already busy.

In the Fengtian Lord Hall, Ren Hengtai, the Minister of Rites, was directing a group of subordinates and managing the placement of various things.

Since the 23rd year of Hongwu, when the previous Minister of Rites, Li Yuanming, became an official by his old name, the position of Minister of Rites has been vacant until now.

This time Zhu Yuanzhang's birthday is done, Ren Hengtai may be able to go up.

Regarding this birthday, Zhu Yuanzhang once said that everything should be simple, but simplicity should also have simple rules, so he was very careful and started preparing for Zhu Yuanzhang's birthday banquet two months ago.

The birthday banquet starts at noon, and half a day in the morning is enough for Ren Hengtai to arrange everything. As long as there are no mistakes in the birthday banquet, the seat of the Ministry of Rites will basically be secured!

"Quick, quick, quick!"

After Ren Hengtai said a few words, he went outside the palace to patrol around.

Not only did they have to arrange the seats for hundreds of officials in the court and many vassal kings, but they also had to lay out red carpets on almost all the main roads in the imperial city to show the celebration.

To tidy up the entire imperial palace in a magnificent and joyous manner, it is not enough to rely solely on the staff of the Ministry of Rites, and some of them are staff transferred from Honglu Temple.

Compared with the silent and desolate palace in the past, figures running back and forth can be seen everywhere in the imperial city now, which indeed adds a lot of vitality.

At noon,

All the arrangements for the birthday banquet were arranged, and people began to arrive one after another.

King Zhu Fang of Qin, King Zhu Ju of Jin, King Zhu Di of Yan, King Zhu Ji of Zhou, King Zhu Zhen of Chu, King Zhu Zhu of Qi, King Zhu Chun of Shu, and King Zhu Bai of Xiang. These vassal kings should have gathered together a long time ago, and they were all talking and laughing at this time. Come to the main hall.

Coming with them were Lan Yu, Feng Sheng, Fu Youde, Cao Zhen and other princes, as well as civil and military ministers in the court.

Thinking about it, Zhu Yuanzhang's birthday is so important, everyone must have been waiting for the arrival of noon early.

In less than a quarter of an hour, everyone who could attend the birthday banquet had found their seats and sat down safely.

So many people came to Zhu Yuanzhang's birthday banquet, they couldn't be seated in the Fengtian Hall alone, and there were many seats outside the hall, which were arranged for some people with low official positions and insignificant status.

Naturally, the people sitting in the hall were all rich or noble people with prominent status, such as vassal kings such as Zhu Di, princes with different surnames such as Lan Yu, and other high-ranking officials.

After everyone was seated, they began to chat in twos and threes.

"Fourth brother, look..."

Zhu Xi was very close to Zhu Di. After sitting down, he approached Zhu Di and whispered.

Zhu Di looked in the direction and saw Zhu Yunwen, whom he had talked about two days ago.

For some reason, Zhu Yunwen looked much more haggard than before, and seemed a little depressed.

Next to Zhu Yunqi, there was a young man who looked somewhat similar to Cao Ying, but there was more depression on his body, and his eyes were a little erratic.

It was the emperor's grandson Zhu Yunxi.

"Today is Father's birthday banquet, let's leave them alone," Zhu Di said.

Zhu Xi nodded, recalling that Zhu Di told him two days ago that Zhu Yuanzhang would never make Zhu Yunwen the crown prince, but when he asked why, Zhu Di said nothing.

Is it...

The candidate for the crown prince is actually Zhu Yunxi?
But this absurd idea made Zhu Wei feel even more impossible!

Sigh... I don't know what the fourth brother is hiding.

"His Majesty is here!"

The head eunuch shouted loudly, causing everyone in the field to stand up straight without saying a word.

The protagonist of today's birthday banquet, Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang of the Ming Dynasty, slowly came out from the back of the palace and walked to the central seat.

What followed immediately was the roar of everyone, which was about to overturn the roof.

"Wei Chen congratulates Your Majesty!"

"My son congratulates my father!"

"My grandson congratulates Grandpa Huang!"

People are refreshed on happy occasions, and Zhu Yuanzhang is no exception.

He who has become more and more serious over the years showed a warm smile, and waved his hand downward:

"All right, all right, no courtesy, no courtesy."

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

The crowd sat down again.

Zhu Yuanzhang glanced around at the people below and said: "Today is our birthday. We didn't want to hold this birthday banquet, but after thinking about it, it would be good to get together to eat and drink. Now we are drinking with you." If you can't drink any more, you can just do what you want without being too restrained. No matter how much you drink today, I won't punish you..."

This seemingly joking remark made the whole atmosphere finally relaxed, and everyone laughed in agreement.

"Father!"

Suddenly a voice sounded, attracting everyone's attention.

I saw Qin Wang Zhu Xi standing up with a wine glass and congratulating Zhu Yuanzhang:
"Today is my father's 65th birthday. It's a big happy event tomorrow. My son is thinking about it day and night, and finally waited until today."

"My son, I am here to wish my father good luck and long life!"

After finishing speaking, Zhu Xi drank the wine in the glass in one gulp.

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled and said a few good words.

Afterwards, Zhu Xi beckoned again, and a servant came out with a tray covered with a red cloth.

Zhu Xi stepped forward and took off the red cloth on the tray, revealing twelve shiny glass cups on it.

"Father, this is the birthday gift prepared by my son. It is a set of twelve glazed lamps found from the Western Regions."

The rest of the people in the field couldn't help but secretly gasped when they saw this scene.

As I said before, the colored glaze at this time is a rare item, and one or two colored glazed cups are worth thousands of gold, not to mention the complete set of twelve colored glazed cups by Zhu Xi.

This is a big deal!

It is not uncommon for Zhu Yuanzhang to be short of these glazed cups. He gave Cao Wei two of them a few days ago, but colored glazes are scarce after all, so it is appropriate for Zhu Yu to use them as a congratulatory gift at this time.

"Alright, alright, alright, you've made up your mind." Zhu Yuanzhang smiled and asked the chief eunuch beside him to put away the set of glazed cups. It was obvious that he was very happy.

Zhu Xi curled his lips in the audience, looked at Zhu Xiang who sat back with a proud look with disdain, and whispered.

"Every time he does this early bird."

"He is the oldest, so naturally he has the qualifications." Zhu Di responded quietly.

It's not that Zhu Xi hates Zhu Xi, it's just that the current situation is sensitive and he doesn't want others to benefit.

Although Zhu Xi is the second prince after Zhu Biao, he has poor morals and is difficult to convince the public. Zhu Xi only thinks about his fourth brother Zhu Di, so he can't help complaining.

Zhu Yu raised his head, and below him were a group of vassal kings, princes and ministers lined up to offer gifts to Zhu Yuanzhang.

After Qin Wang Zhu Xing, Jin Wang Zhu Xing also gave a congratulatory speech, and what he presented was a fist-sized luminous pearl, which once again attracted a lot of attention.

Now, it's Zhu Di's turn as King of Yan...

(End of this chapter)