Early Ming Dynasty: Turning Clouds and Rains into New Learning Saints

Chapter 61 Beauty is in the eyes of lovers

As mentioned earlier, Zhu Yuanzhang started from scratch with no help from his clansmen.If he wants to stabilize the imperial power, he must have enough trustworthy power.

For this reason, he betrothed his son to the daughters of various meritorious officials, and planned to marry his daughters to the sons of meritorious officials to consolidate the imperial power of his Zhu family.

But no matter what, the person he trusts most is definitely not his in-laws, but his children, especially his son.

Therefore, from Zhu Yuanzhang's perspective, it was a matter of course for him to confer the title of king on his son, give him military power, and guard important places. It was the most important thing for him to consolidate imperial power.

It is impossible for Zhu Yuanzhang to be unaware of the harm that may result from doing so.Therefore, he deliberately said it publicly to his ministers during the enfeoffment.

When the vassal king leads the army, as long as the court has the power of promotion and finance and logistics, there will be no trouble!
As the founding emperor, he knows the essence of war very well!

Zhu Yuanzhang mainly cultivated Zhu Biao's ability in governing the country and trained his other sons in leading the army.It was designed by him, the most critical step in consolidating the Zhu family's imperial power.

The result was good, he just divided his four sons as vassal kings, and they were only training troops in Fengyang, the central capital, and had not even gone to join the vassal. This Ye Boju began to attack his vassal king system.

Moreover, this attack on the vassal system was not just about pointing out the flaws in his arrangements and how to improve them, but just citing some things in history to talk about, completely ignoring Zhu Yuanzhang's system design.

In Zhu Yuanzhang's view, Ye Boju's memorial was just an attack on his measures to consolidate imperial power. He did not have any good intentions, and this was something he could not bear.

Originally, after Hu Weiyong became the prime minister, the conflict between the prime minister's power and the imperial power became more and more intense. Now that Ye Boju took the lead in blasting things that he tabooed, he must not leave it undisposed like other memorials.

When Zhu Yuanzhang felt the malice from the civil servants, he immediately flew into a rage. On the grounds that Ye Boju had alienated the relationship between the royal father and his son, he ordered the local government to escort Ye Boju to Pingyao to teach him to Beijing.

While his anger was still lingering, another piece of news came from his subordinate, the inspector.

The news came from the secret agent of the Korean government, saying that Li You and Li Cunyi and his son visited the Korean government last night and discussed with Li Shanchang and his son. They said that the eldest princess was showing signs of cheating on her. He was worried that the marriage would change if she stayed. Li Shanchang decided After King Yan's wedding, he proposed to the emperor during the congratulations, and married his eldest son Li Qi to the eldest princess Zhu Jingjing.

If this matter was related to the marriage with the Li family before Zhu Yuanzhang saw Ye Bo's memorial, it was in Zhu Yuanzhang's consideration to win over Li Shanchang and consolidate the imperial power.

But at this time, Zhu Yuanzhang had just finished reading Ye Boju's memorial, and felt the ill will of the civil servants facing the imperial power, and his mentality was different.

Although Zhu Yuanzhang still doesn't know if there is someone behind Ye Boju's back, but in the struggle for imperial power and prime minister power, your Li family went to marry Hu Weiyong instead, and now you want to marry him, trying to please both sides?

Others disgusted Zhu Yuanzhang once, but Zhu Yuanzhang didn't mind disgusting Li Shanchang at this time.

So, he called a guard and ordered: "Remember on the day of the congratulations, rush to the Liujia Village, find that Zhang Yifan, and remind him in the name of King Yan that the Korean prince is about to propose marriage, let him He should hurry up and propose marriage, and if it’s too late, he won’t be able to become a consort!”

Later, he sent a message to Prince Zhu Biao.For Zhu Biao, Zhu Yuanzhang really had to cultivate him to the best of his ability.

In response to this early morning incident, Zhu Yuanzhang personally analyzed the situation to Zhu Biao, and then said to Zhu Biao: "Jing Jing's marriage will eventually be promised to the Li family. There is no need to explain the various reasons, right? You I am the eldest brother, so I have to guide my eldest sister and stop causing any trouble!"

After Zhu Biao heard this, Zhu Jingjing's figure flashed through his mind yesterday, and he felt Zhu Jingjing's determination. After hesitating for a moment, he still said to Zhu Yuanzhang: "Father, Jing Jing said that person is also very capable and can help father." . Moreover, she will not marry anyone other than that person..."

Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Zhu Yuanzhang: "It's ridiculous. How capable can a country boy, just a young boy, be? Even if he is somewhat capable, can the Li family give us more help? You , as a prince, if you want to take charge of the Ming Dynasty in the future, you must put the country first, do you understand?"

After Zhu Biao heard this, he thought of Zhu Jingjing's determination again. He had watched Zhu Jingjing grow up and knew her character. He was afraid that she would do something stupid. After thinking about it, he said to Zhu Yuanzhang: "Jingjing said, that person Her talent is really good, she even said that she can compete with others to get married, because even if all the talented people in the world compete together, he will definitely win!"

Hearing this, Zhu Yuanzhang was angry and funny, so he taught Zhu Biao: "She is all about that boy, can you believe what she says? I have seen many people, but a country boy of that age, If you ask him to come and disgust the Li family later, they are probably all trembling with fear and showing off all kinds of ugliness, and you have to compete with the world's most talented people to win, how is that possible?"

At this point, he paused and then said decisively: "This matter is settled. You can also let Jing Jing watch by herself and see what kind of person the person she likes is actually like in the public square. She just gave up!"

As a little girl, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but when she realizes that her lover is not actually acting like he usually does in front of her, her fiery thoughts will be extinguished.

Even in Zhu Yuanzhang's opinion, whether the boy dares to come or not is a question!
Zhu Biao saw that his father had made up his mind and actually agreed with his father's statement. In the end, he did not express any objection and just agreed.

Then, they started busying with Zhu Di's wedding.

The prince's wedding begins with the welcoming ceremony, lasts for several days, and ends with congratulations.

During this process, there was no need for Zhu Biao to go to Zhu Jingjing, Zhu Jingjing and the Crown Princess went to him.

So Zhu Biao told Zhu Jingjing his father's decision.Finally, he comforted his eldest sister and said: "You are just blinded by the love between men and women. Your identities and backgrounds are so different, you are not suitable!"

Zhu Jingjing listened and of course disagreed. Although her father and the prince's eldest brother were not optimistic about it, she still firmly believed that Zhang Yifan was definitely not what they thought!

Although the Crown Princess admires Zhang Yifan, the scene is different after all. It is not in Liujia Village, but in the Forbidden City. She is not optimistic about Zhang Yifan's performance in front of the emperor, not to mention that he may have to face the founding of the Ming Dynasty. The first hero!What aspects of the world have you not seen?How can a young boy defeat the Korean father and make his father change his mind?So she fell silent.

The day of Asahi comes in no time.All civil and military officials, as well as married women, came to the palace to congratulate him.

At the same time, Zhu Yuanzhang's guards also rushed to Liujia Village.

(End of this chapter)