Chapter 23: Abide by one's duty as a minister
Zhu Song chuckled: "My son has come all the way back, and my father won't beat me!"
After Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, he snorted coldly, but the smile on his face did not diminish at all.
Zhu Song thought for a while and finally asked about his marriage.
"Father, please don't blame me for being talkative. This Lord Feng's daughter Feng Miao is getting married. I have never seen her before. I have never seen her before. We suddenly got married and we have to spend the rest of our lives. Isn't this a bit hasty?
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Zhu Yuanzhang had many questions after hearing this.
"Everyone is married like this, so why do you have so many problems? Look at your brothers, who are not married like this? Are their lives not good?"
"Your fourth brother was just like you at the beginning, saying that he was unwilling to marry the eldest daughter of the Xu family, but what happened? After the eldest daughter of the Xu family married, the fourth brother became henpecked. He couldn't be affectionate anymore.
Our father has almost lost his face!"
"By the way, you can't imitate your fourth brother. When the time comes, you'll come to me every day to plead with me. If you don't want to get married, it won't work. It's not up to you to make the decision. Your grandson has already sent the betrothal gift to Feng Cheng."
Zhu Song sighed in his heart, a daughter-in-law fell from the sky, which is indeed a good thing, but he is a time traveler. His thoughts have been baptized by modern times, and he is free and unrestrained. He believes that falling in love first and then getting married is the way to go.
It should.
In ancient times, when people got married, their parents ordered a matchmaker. The two parties knew each other well, and the marriage was decided upon by such a match.
As for the groom and the bride, they may have never met each other before they got married. It would be even worse for me, let alone meeting each other, even hearing their names for the first time.
I hope that Miss Feng Miao will not be as powerful as the fourth sister-in-law. I don't want to be known as henpecked.
Wait! That’s not right!
Only now did Zhu Song realize that the focus of the matter was not at all on the marriage between himself and Feng Miao's relative, Miss Feng, let alone whether they were in love. The real focus was that the person who paid the betrothal gift was actually the emperor's grandson.
The grandson of the emperor is the crown prince of the country, and the crown prince goes to personally pay betrothal gifts for his ministers. This is such a huge favor. I am afraid that it will be difficult for me to hide now.
"Father, this... this is the betrothal gift personally given by the emperor's grandson to his son. I'm afraid this is against the rules, isn't it?"
Zhu Yuanzhang smiled: "If he goes as the emperor's grandson, of course it is against the rules, but he is going as his nephew to help his uncle run errands and get a betrothal gift. What's wrong with that?"
"However, your father was very happy after hearing what you said. This shows that you have always abided by your duties as a minister. Yun Wen personally gave you a betrothal gift. This also shows that as a prince, he also cares about his ministers enough. There is harmony between the king and his ministers.
What a good thing!”
From Zhu Yuanzhang's point of view, the harmony between the prince and his ministers may not be very good. In fact, the real good thing is the harmony between Yun Wen as his grandson, and the harmony with himself as his son.
Zhu Song knew in his heart that it was really uncomfortable not to tell what was going to happen in the future, but telling Zhu Yuanzhang would definitely be counterproductive. It seemed that he really couldn't avoid this favor.
"Since His Highness the Emperor Taisun personally paid the betrothal gift to my son, I should go and thank the Emperor Taisun."
Zhu Yuanzhang nodded: "You should go to the East Palace to see and thank you in front of your great-grandson. Ever since we came back from Liaodong this time, your eldest nephew has been talking about Uncle Twenty, saying that you love the people like
Master, I say you have the talent to govern the people, and you have the talent to turn wild soil into fertile soil!"
Zhu Yuanzhang said, proudly patting his son on the shoulder.
"Our Ming Dynasty, our old Zhu family conquers the world, who do we have to rely on to protect it? Don't we have to rely on our own family to protect it? It is not easy to maintain a business, and it is especially difficult to succeed! If our own family did not unite as one, we would all be able to do it.
With all my strength, can I hold on to this country?"
After Zhu Song heard this, he cupped his hands and said: "Please rest assured, father, I dare not forget my father's teachings, and I will definitely assist my great grandson!"
Zhu Yuanzhang nodded repeatedly and helped Zhu Song up.
"With your words, we can rest assured. Let's go and have a look at the East Palace."
"My son, I obey!"
Zhu Song was about to retreat as he spoke. At this moment, Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly thought of his fourth wife and three sons.
"That's right! Your fourth sister-in-law has come back with your fourth brother's three children. You were not yet born when your fourth brother went to Peking to establish a feudal clan. You should go and visit your fourth sister-in-law. You should also go see your fourth sister-in-law.
Look at these three sons from your fourth brother’s family.”
What is Zhu Song really afraid of?
The last time the emperor's grandson went to Peking for an inspection, he said that King Yan was too majestic and had a big tail. Zhu Yuanzhang then made a decree saying that he missed his grandson and asked Princess Yan to bring her three grandsons to Beijing.
He said he missed his grandson, but in fact everyone in the world understood that this was a proton, but now Zhu Yuanzhang still wants to protect both parties.
Zhu Song originally had no intention of getting involved with Zhu Yunwen and Zhu Di. He wanted to stay as far away from them as possible, but who knew that instead of getting further away, he got closer and closer.
But this can be considered a good thing. Zhu Yunwen is closer, and he has to find a way to be closer to Zhu Di. If he is closer here, he will be closer there, which means there is no change.
"My son, I obey."
Zhu Song left Fengtian Hall and went straight to the East Palace. After arriving at the East Palace, he abided by his duties as a minister, lifted his robe and knelt down.
The guards and eunuchs of the East Palace began to kneel down as soon as they saw His Highness entering the door of the East Palace. They did not dare to delay and hurried to report.
In the East Palace, the emperor's grandson was reading the memorials at the moment, just like his father did before. Now Zhu Yuanzhang also divided some memorials and gave them to Zhu Yunwen for review.
"Your Highness, Your Highness King Han is here. He is kneeling at the gate of the East Palace now."
After Zhu Yunwen heard this, he felt happy and hurriedly put down the pen in his hand.
"What did you say? Uncle Twenty is here, why don't you invite people in?"
The eunuch looked helpless after listening.
"Didn't His Highness not let His Highness King Han in? His Highness King Han knelt down when he arrived at the entrance of the palace. This... this is so in line with the rules!"
After hearing this, Zhu Yunwen thought that it was a good thing to abide by the rules, but wasn't Uncle Twenty being a little too out-of-the-box?
"Go out alone and welcome Uncle Twenty in!"
Zhu Yunwen said as he stood up and left the main hall, came to the door of the East Palace, saw his second uncle kneeling on the ground in an orderly manner, and walked forward quickly.
"Uncle Twenty, what are you doing? You don't have to be like this as a family. Just let the eunuchs finish their briefing and go into the house. Now the weather is getting colder and colder. Your health is important!"
Zhu Yunwen said and helped Zhu Song up from the ground.
Zhu Song said with a smile.
Chapter completed!