King Luhuang of the Ming Dynasty: My father, Ming Taizu

Chapter 57 Tan'er is so filial.
  Zhu Yuanzhang:
  Who did this kid follow?

Why are you taking the initiative to serve food?
  Do we mean to invite you to stay for dinner?

However, for someone as shameless as Zhu Tan, Zhu Yuanzhang was still a little bit intolerant of this.

Zhu Yuanzhang is 57 this year.

And Zhu Tan was just 15.

When he reached Zhu Yuanzhang's age, he loved Zhu Tan even more.

He glared at Zhu Tan in a funny way and snorted: "Your Highness, Prince Lu, just doesn't think our food is bad!"

Zhu Tan heard this.

Suddenly I remembered.

In my own memory, Lao Zhu's food has always been relatively poor.

Talk about it.

There is another allusion here.

Zhu Yuanzhang once complained to Queen Ma that his officials were extravagant and indulged in pleasure.

Queen Ma gave Lao Zhu an idea.

At Queen Ma's birthday party, all the ministers were invited to dine together.

The dishes served in front of everyone were four simple stir-fried vegetables and green onion tofu soup.

Taking advantage of the shocking efforts of the ministers, Zhu Yuanzhang taught them to be simple and frugal.

At the same time, it is stipulated that in the future, official banquets will only be allowed to follow this standard, with four dishes and one soup.

It is said.

The earliest "four dishes and one soup" standard originated from this.

Zhu Tan thought of this.

The smile on his face suddenly froze.

This royal meal is so careless!
  Forget it, just treat it as a fat-reducing meal.

Zhu Tan sighed.

Soon, as Zhu Yuanzhang finished handling the government affairs, Lao Zhu took Zhu Tan and Zhu Biao to have a meal together.

What was placed in front of everyone was two simple fried vegetables, a plate of scrambled eggs, a plate of braised pork head and a pot of soup.

There are more staple foods, such as sorghum cakes, millet cakes, pies, rice, etc.
  Seeing the dishes served, Zhu Tan sighed inwardly.

What's the point of being an emperor, Lao Zhu?
  If you don’t eat well and sleep well every day, you will have three days off every year, starting from 5 in the morning and 10 in the evening.
  After so many years, I still stick to the four dishes and one soup that I prescribed!
  Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Zhu Tan and suddenly smiled.

"You can't afford to eat delicacies here. Do you regret it later? Do you want to go back later and have another meal?"

talking.

Zhu Yuanzhang snorted.

"We have heard that after you became a vassal, you have long forgotten the rule of four dishes and one soup! The food is extremely luxurious! It is really unreasonable!
  This time, you may want to accompany us for dinner! Let me show you, your meal is nothing more than this, do you still have the nerve to continue to waste money? "

Zhu Tan laughed dryly.

Extravagance and waste are all precursors.

He's okay.

What's more, I was used to eating heavy flavors before traveling through time, so every meal was spicy.

The origin of chili peppers is America, and there are no chili peppers in Ming Dynasty.

As for using green peppercorns, pepper, ginger and the like to add spiciness, no matter what, they are still much worse than chili peppers.

Even though the cooks in Prince Lu's Mansion were proficient in frying, frying, and stewing, it was still difficult for Zhu Tan to maintain a strong appetite.

It's just that Zhu Tan didn't change much in his diet in order to maintain his character and didn't want to be suspected in the smallest details. He still had more than twenty dishes in one meal.

In Lao Zhu's eyes, this was naturally an unforgivable extravagance and waste.

Zhu Biao smiled slightly.

He had been with his father for a long time and was already used to such a light diet.

What's more, he has his own thoughts and doesn't care about these worldly pleasures at all. Zhu Yuanzhang sighed while eating.

The eyes are slightly moist.

"These four dishes and one soup are the rules we made together with your mother! We have been abiding by them for so many years!

When we are emperors, we don’t want those kinds of enjoyments!
  Having enough to eat and keeping warm is enough!
  Your mother is also the wisest queen in the world!
  We ordered people to grow vegetables in the backyard of the palace for us to eat and drink.

She put a loom in the palace and weaved in her spare time!

Our royal family is obviously the most noble group of people in the world, why do we do this?
  Alas. In the final analysis, your mother and I are so frugal because we want to set an example for the world, for the sake of the court and for the people of the world! "

Zhu Tan also felt a little emotional when he heard this.

Speaking of which, by the eighteenth year of Hongwu, the imperial court was no longer poor.

Even the treasury in many places is already full.

Once a local disaster occurs, local officials can immediately open warehouses to release grain and provide relief to the victims.

The foundations of the later Yongle era and the Renxuan rule were actually laid by the Hongwu Dynasty.

But the Hongwu Emperor himself, who ruled the Tang and Song Dynasties, was so frugal.

Zhu Tan couldn't help but said: "Father works so hard every day and eats so lightly. How can your body bear it? My son has sent so much money this time. Father, can you keep some to improve your diet?"

When Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, he froze.

Does Lao Shi feel sorry for himself?
  Want to spend his money on yourself?
  From the beggar back then to the Ninth Five-Year Supreme Emperor today, Zhu Yuanzhang has experienced too much.

Whether they are relatives, brothers or friends, no matter how much friendship there is, they become as weak as paper in the face of power, and Zhu Yuanzhang also becomes cruel and suspicious.

But is he really cold-hearted and emotionless?
  Of course not!
  And, generally speaking, the more something is missing, the more you care about it.

When Empress Ma passed away, Zhu Yuanzhang cried bitterly and did not establish another empress for the rest of his life.

Zhu Yuanzhang was extremely heartbroken when his nephew Li Wenzhong passed away.

Later, Xu Da passed away, and Zhu Yuanzhang still cried bitterly.

It is said that Li Wenzhong died of depression after being scolded by Zhu Yuanzhang, which is not actually the case.

After all, after Li Wenzhong became seriously ill, Zhu Yuanzhang personally sent people to take care of him day and night.

The so-called giving of roast goose to kill Xu Da is purely a slander by later generations of literati.

Even for Li Shanchang, if he knew how to restrain himself, he would not think of himself as an old prime minister everywhere, let alone collude with cronies after taking office, and become the leader of Huaixi nobles.

It is also possible that Lao Zhu will observe him for a few more years and take him away when he is really no longer able to survive.

It's a pity that Li Shanchang didn't know how to reflect on himself. In the end, Lao Zhu couldn't hold it back and eliminated this biggest threat in advance, but he did not impose any severe punishment on Li Shanchang's relatives.

After all, Li Shanchang's target was Sima Yi back then.

It may be said that Zhu Yuanzhang values ​​​​love and righteousness, but after all, he is a qualified and even excellent emperor, so he has the deepest understanding and understanding of the most ruthless emperor's family.

But now, when Zhu Yuanzhang really heard that his fifteen-year-old son truly cared about him.

Suddenly, a warm current surged through his body.

This is the deep love between father and son!

Except for Zhu Biao, his feelings for any of his sons are very restrained.

He was afraid that his sons would misunderstand his desire to compete for the heirloom.

I am afraid that the Ming Dynasty will lose its etiquette and chaos.

He is afraid that his children will be overly pampered and have no future.

Zhu Yuanzhang could only make up for these children with as much indulgence and pampering as possible.

The so-called great love is speechless, but that's it.

This is also the reason why these vassal kings do not have deep feelings for Zhu Yuanzhang.

After all, Lao Zhu's concern for them was buried deepest.

Their feelings towards Zhu Yuanzhang were more of awe and fear.

For example, King Tan later made a mistake and when he heard that Zhu Yuanzhang was going to recruit him to respond to the sky, he was so frightened that he set himself on fire!
  (End of this chapter)