I open a history tutorial class in Daming

Chapter 132 Brother, why are you trying to divert trouble to others?
Previously, everyone in Kunning Palace was thinking about the meaning of the so-called "pathogen" mentioned by Song Shen, so there was silence in the palace.

Although she hadn't figured out what this was, Zhu Yuanzhang had just farted with his mouth. In order to avoid Song Shen's suspicion, Empress Ma took the initiative to speak.

"Ziwei, what is the pathogen you just mentioned?"

Song Shen is also easy to deal with.

He was already worried that the noise was an indecent sound made by Empress Ma, and for a moment he didn't know how to resolve the embarrassment of his toes touching the ground. At this time, the other party happened to ask the question, so he hurriedly climbed down the pole.

"Oh, that's right. This is what I read in a book."

"If I were to explain... For example, if a large-scale epidemic broke out in a village, whether it was smallpox or some other disease, doctors had to cover their mouths and noses when entering the village. Once the patients died, they could not be buried directly on the spot. They had to be sprinkled with lime or burned together with the clothes and the body."

"These are experiences that have been passed down for thousands of years, and the reasons are closely related to pathogens."

"This substance is invisible to the naked eye, but it does exist. It may be attached to people's saliva, excrement, or even spread through the air we breathe. Of course, it may be on clothes, accessories, and even hair."

"Diseases like smallpox are highly contagious, severe, and lethal. Smallpox patients are too easy to identify, so it is impossible to let them come into direct contact with the victim. If someone wants to take advantage of this, all they need to do is give someone the patient's belongings to contact for a long time, or give the person they want to harm their belongings to the patient for a few days... and the situation will be easy to achieve."

After he finished speaking, everyone in the hall fell silent.

Of course, from Song Shen's perspective, Empress Ma was just frightened and kept silent, but in fact, Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao behind the screen were also horrified with their mouths wide open.

Queen Ma looked palely at the expressions of the father and son beside her, and only felt a little more balanced when she saw that they were as shocked as she was.

After calming down, she coughed lightly and said:

"Ziwei, you have been in the palace for so long, I think you must be tired. If there is any result today, I will find you and tell you again. Otherwise, you should go back and rest first."

Although it was a questioning tone, Song Shen knew that it was just a courtesy.

She is finally seeing the guests off!
Song Shen quickly stood up and saluted in the direction of the voice:
"My minister obeys."

…………

As Song Shen was helped by a eunuch into a wheelchair and slowly walked out of the palace, he heard footsteps behind him.

Before he could ask who it was, the man introduced himself:

"Oh, it's Ziwei who has entered the palace!"

"Xiao Wang, I was just thinking of finding time to come see you. Thank you for your reminder!"

Such a familiar voice, such a familiar tone, such a familiar way of speaking...

Song Shen's mouth twitched.

How come I could meet this guy Zhu Di here?

Nothing good happened as soon as he entered the palace. First, Empress Ma asked him to help crack Lu's tricks, and then he ran into Prince Zhu Di, the person he least wanted to see. Did he not check the almanac before going out?
Oh yes, he couldn’t see the almanac anyway.

"Your Highness, Prince of Yan? Please forgive me for being rude. I have been unable to move around recently and cannot perform the salute."

Song Shen suppressed his annoyance, turned around and greeted the person coming.

It is annoying, but the Prince of Yan has done nothing and is still a young man. Moreover, because of his butterfly wings, Zhu Yuanzhang changed the vassal system. Zhu Di might be even more annoyed with him after knowing the truth.

So... after all, he will be staying in Yingtian Prefecture in the future, so it’s better to talk to him nicely if possible to avoid making enemies.

Zhu Di pretended to be surprised, but in fact he had known about Song Shen's entry into the palace.

He ran over in two or three steps, pulled away the eunuch Lou Chang who was pushing the wheelchair, and whispered in a very familiar voice:

"Ziwei, you calculated for me before that my princess is pregnant, so can you help me calculate whether the child is a boy or a girl?"

"If it's a boy, he'll be my eldest son!"

Song Shen gritted his teeth.

As a modern man, if he were to choose, he would still prefer his daughter. Isn't a caring little girl much better than that naughty boy who gets beaten three times a day?
But he also understood the idea that in this day and age, the eldest son was needed to carry on the family line.

So, Song Shen paused and said:
"Then congratulations to His Royal Highness Prince Yan. The princess is pregnant with a boy."

Even though he had known this for a long time, Zhu Di still couldn't hide his excitement when he heard it from him.

He rubbed his hands and asked again:

"If that's the case, could you please help me, Brother Ziwei, to come up with a name for my eldest son?"

"Yun Gong came over in the middle of the night to say this for me, but he forgot for some reason. I thought, since this child is destined to be with you and you are so capable, then Brother Ziwei, you should give him a name, which will bring him some good fortune."

The most important thing is to let this child have a relationship with Song Shen in the womb. If something happens in the future, this child will be much more reliable than the red seal and iron certificate in Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes!!!

But Song Shen raised his head doubtfully and asked:

"I personally have no problem... But, Your Highness, Prince Yan, I remember that the royal family's generation names have already been arranged by His Majesty, right?"

"For example, your Highness the Crown Prince and your generation both have the wood radical. From now on, it seems that each branch has a generational name. If you choose a three-character name, you must also include the five elements."

"It seems that the name of your son has already been decided. It's hard for me to decide."

Zhu Di had already prepared for this problem:

"Indeed, there is such a saying. The five generations after this king's lineage are Gao Zhan Qi Jian You, so the middle character of this child must be Gao, but the last character can still be chosen. Father said that my next generation belongs to the element of fire. Brother Ziwei, you only need to find a character next to the character for fire to name him!"

"I have mentioned this to my father. After all, it is you who predicted the child. You can give him a name. My father has no objection."

Song Shen's eyelids were twitching.

You've already said it, what else can I say?
There is no room for rejection!
Zhu Di silenced him for a moment, and he had no choice but to say:
"Then let's call him Zhu Gaochi, which means "burning the sky and the earth."

Song Shen had no intention of explaining - after all, he himself didn't know why Zhu Gaochi was called Zhu Gaochi, except for the generation name and the five elements determined by Zhu Yuanzhang. Anyway, there was no problem with the name.

Zhu Di thanked him hurriedly, but he didn't dare to say more.

Even though he already knew that the child's name was Zhu Gaochi, and that he was his crown prince in history, and was even favored by his father, history had changed. Zhu Di needed to find a way out for himself and his entire family. The child's name was not important. What was important was that he could use the child as a bond so that he would have a good relative from birth.

In this day and age, naming someone else's child is already a godparent relationship. Even if Song Shen kept his distance from me because of the Jingnan Campaign in history... a child who was like a blank sheet of paper and had never done anything wrong in the future, Song Shen couldn't possibly refuse, right?
With this thought in mind, Zhu Di happily sent Song Shen away.

But when he entered Kunning Palace, he found that there was already a lot of noise inside!

"…At most, wait a few more days, and then take the child away from her! The Hundred Flowers Palace of the Lu family is a snake den. You don't feel sorry for using other people's children, do you?!"

This was Queen Ma's tone, which brooked no room for argument.

"No, no! The Lu family incident has not been investigated yet. We can't just arrest this one person. How many people are behind the manipulation of the selection? Just think about it. If we don't deal with them cleanly, you can rest assured in the palace, but we can't!"

This is Zhu Yuanzhang in a runaway state.

"How about...how about we discuss it, half a month? Half a month should be enough for the Yiluansi to find out something. Besides, according to the history that Song Shen said, Lu would first find a way to be promoted to the position of the legitimate wife before taking action against Ying'er. We have to protect my wife first..."

This is Zhu Biao trying to smooth things over carefully.

But after Zhu Biao opened his mouth, before he could finish the word "daughter-in-law", Empress Ma and Zhu Yuanzhang turned around and glared at him, shouting together:
"Shut up! How could this happen if you didn't manage the palace properly?"

Zhu Biao:......

No matter how good Zhu Biao's temper was, he really wanted to throw things at this moment.

Did he choose Lu himself? Not to mention the crown prince, even in the emperor's harem, there are probably not many concubines that they really like.

Isn't it just a marriage arranged to stabilize the ministers? If you insist, whoever brought Lu into the palace, his father or his mother, should take the blame!

But in the current situation, how could he dare to say this.

The point that Zhu Yuanzhang argued was that, according to previous inferences, there must be other people behind the Lu family. If Lu Ben alone was responsible, he would never be able to pull off such a thing. Now it would be best to play the long game and catch a big fish, and let the child pretending to be Zhu Yunwen stay in the Hundred Flowers Hall for a while longer without losing any money.

However, Empress Ma thought that, first of all, the child was a fake. It might not be a big deal now that Mrs. Lu was overwhelmed with joy, but the longer it took, the easier it would be for the truth to be revealed. If anyone discovered the truth, the child would die and the fish would escape. It would be better to take the child away from the Eastern Palace with other reasons and then go to mediate with Mrs. Lu.

Only Zhu Biao was stuck in the middle and was neither a human being nor a human being.

When Zhu Di saw that his elder brother was yelled at, he just pushed the door open and wanted to go in but then he retracted his foot.

He was about to turn around and leave, but the sharp-eyed Zhu Biao shouted:
"Old Four, you're here!"

Zhu Di:......

Okay, okay, you really are my good brother. It’s not enough to be scolded by yourself, you have to drag me into it, right?
He gritted his teeth, turned around, forced a smile, and greeted the three people in front of him:

"Father, Mother, Big Brother, I just came to take a look... Since you are busy, then go ahead and do your work. I don't have anything urgent to do right now..."

Zhu Biao did not allow him to retreat, and immediately went over and dragged Zhu Di over.

He looked at Zhu Di with a smile and said:
"Old Four, you came at the right time. We discovered something earlier..."

After giving a brief account of the previous incidents regarding smallpox and Lu, Zhu Biao looked at his brother, whose eyes were already wide open at the shock of this heavy news, and asked cheerfully:

"We have different opinions on this matter. You are an outsider, so you may have a more accurate view of the matter. How about you tell us how to better handle this matter?"

Zhu Di's back teeth were almost broken by biting them.

Although he had been taken care of a lot by his elder brother in the past and knew that he would have to repay him sooner or later, he still wanted to curse now.

He had just cleared himself from the matter of the future Jingnan Campaign, and perhaps he was not yet completely clear, but his eldest brother was already shifting the blame to someone else. This was an unbearable burden for his life!
"I... I don't have much to say. This matter is not a big deal, but it is definitely not a small matter. It has not yet caused unrest in the Eastern Palace, but it cannot be underestimated."

Zhu Di said a lot of things, and when he saw his elder brother was forcing him with his eyes, he reluctantly spoke again:
"but--"

"But I think that even if we leave the child in Baihua Palace for a few days as my mother said, there will still be ways to deal with it later."

"Although we can't ask Song Shen directly, doesn't the tutoring class start again in two days?"

"Besides Zhu Qizhen, there is also my future self. If you want to know the truth, even if Zhu Qizhen is a little older, the future Zhu Di must know a lot about smallpox, Ying'er, Lu, and Zhu Yunwen."

"To be honest, I think it's more important to discuss national policy. After class, we can just ask Zhu Di. He will know what he should know. What do you think?"

The three of them's eyes lit up.

That makes sense!

Not to mention that Zhu Qizhen was a fool, even if he was not, it was impossible for him to know the palace secrets that were passed down for generations so clearly. At most, he heard some rumors, and these things would definitely not be recorded in history books.

But Zhu Di was different. Firstly, he and Zhu Biao were brothers and princes, so he knew a lot. Secondly, when he rebelled, he directly broke into the Forbidden City. He had the deepest understanding of Lu and Zhu Yunwen decades later.

This is a good way!

Zhu Biao suddenly seemed to remember something and perked up.

"correct!"

"Dad, Mom, maybe we can find out sooner than the next class—"

"Song Shen said in class earlier that this exam does not prohibit students from discussing with each other... Wait for me, I'll ask, right now!"

He immediately said to the void:
"System, system?"

"Can I communicate with other classmates besides my father now?"

[Yes, but unless the students from other time and space also realize this, they will not be able to communicate and can only see the picture one-way.]

Zhu Biao told his parents and brother the system's answer, and then said excitedly:
"Look, this is the method I just mentioned!"

"Do you think it's feasible? If it's feasible, how about we ask the fourth brother in Yongle's year?"

Hearing this, Queen Ma also felt a little itchy.

She looked at her husband expectantly, but Zhu Yuanzhang poured cold water on her:
"You can try, but I advise you not to have too high hopes."

"Most people must be busy with exams right now, so they have nothing else to do but think about this."

——Cheng Yaojin, who lived in the ninth year of Zhenguan in the Tang Dynasty, sneezed involuntarily.

(End of this chapter)