After staying in Fengjiazhuang's hotel for one night, Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai hurriedly set off and continued to the southwest.
The next day, they came from Yanzhou to Jining.
Jining was still a "prefecture" in the first year of Taizu. Yanzhou was under the jurisdiction of Jining Prefecture at that time, but later Taizu granted his tenth son the King of Lu and was vassalized by Yanzhou, so he promoted Yanzhou to the prefecture, and Jining was demoted to the prefecture.
Anyway, these two places are close to each other, and you can do whatever you want in administrative affairs. If you look through the map, you will understand that we won’t chew more grinding.
Here we still have to talk about this "King of Lu".
Don’t get me wrong. The King of Lu that Taizu personally named him is not the same person as the one we are talking about now... They are more than three hundred years apart.
"Lu" is a title.
The emperors were basically granted vassal kings according to place names (most dynasties are like this, with exceptions, for example, the Song Dynasty was named with the word "Auspicious". The fiefs in Shandong were called King Lu, the fiefs in Sichuan were called King Shu, and the ones in Liaodong were called King Liao; some were named directly by counties, such as King Huainan and King Chenliu...
The title of this prince can be hereditary and is generally inherited by the eldest son.
In other words, the prince of King Lu is still called King Lu after his position. As long as this incense has not stopped, the "King of Lu" will always exist, but the number of people who have been named this title may have changed dozens of people.
So what about names like "King of Luhuang" and "King of Lu Ai"?
Those are names that only dead people have. The word in their names is "posthumous title". Posthumous title is summarized by others based on their life virtues or experiences after they die. Such words as "civil and military success" and "jie, Zhou and Youyang"... These words are added after death, and they do not exist when they are alive.
If you dare to call a living prince King Lu Yang, then he will most likely give you Yang on the spot.
To sum up, the King of Lu in our story does not have the word "in the middle", and his son Zhu Yi is even less.
If Zhu Yi can officially succeed the King of Lu in the future, he may really get the word "王" after his death, but I believe that everyone knows whether this "if" will happen...
Let’s talk about this King of Lu. This person’s surname is Zhu and his name is 73 years old this year. As the saying goes, he is “living on the hurdle.”
When you see this, someone may be talking about it again. Why are all descendants of the Zhu family in your book single names? This is not in line with the ritual system of the Ming Dynasty.
I have to reply to you. What I write about is the great world of a parallel universe, not the Ming Dynasty we are familiar with.
I know that in the Ming Dynasty, only Zhu Yuanzhang's own twenty-six sons were single names, and all of them were next to the character "Mu"; I also know that the King of Lu should be named according to the 20 generations of "Zhao Taiyang should be healthy, observe the longevity and prosperity, revitalize the success and achieve success, and meet Benning in the prosperous country", combined with the radicals of "fire, earth, gold, water and wood".
But every time I write about the old Zhu family, I have to check the names of the generation... Isn't this too troublesome? I'm not a prince, why am I worried about it?
So the rules of the "twenty generation" in our book no longer exist. I can keep the rules of fire, earth, gold, water and wood.
Get back to the point...
King Zhu Xu of Lu is the same generation as the current emperor Zhu Xu, but he is over 20 years apart.
Zhu Yu has been alive in this life - he is lucky, he is the eldest son.
Prince Dazhe's rule of recognizing the legitimate and not the illegitimate son made the fate of the legitimate son and the illegitimate son very different.
No matter how hard Zhu Shu was not motivated, he didn't have to worry about his future livelihood problems. Therefore, in his life... he did almost nothing but eat, drink and have fun.
Of course, you can't say how unbearable he is. If it were you... if you knew that you had been financially free in your life since you became sensible, would you still work hard?
Anyway, I won't.
Because I am like everyone here, even if I don’t have financial freedom now, I don’t work very hard.
He also said that Zhu Yu had been through this in a daze over the past seventy years. If you want to say anything that made him worry about over the years, it should be that before he was forty-eight years old, he had only a daughter and no "son".
This matter is a big deal in the prince's family, because the position of the prince is passed on to men but not women. Even the legitimate daughter can only inherit part of his fiefdom and a princess title. If the remaining fiefdom and the royal palace do not have a son to inherit, the court will take it back.
However, Zhu Yu married so many wives and concubines, but it was just so coincidental that he all gave birth to daughters.
Also, since Zhu Yu began to indulge in alcohol and sex at a very young age, he completely lost his fertility after he was forty. In our current words, it is infertility.
So, between the ages of 40 and 46, all his wives never got pregnant again. Needless to say, Zhu Xiao should understand... it must be that he had something wrong with himself.
Unexpectedly, when Zhu Zu was forty-seven years old, his third concubine, who was a teenager younger than him, became pregnant again.
How did you get pregnant? Then you can refer to the traditional crosstalk "Tie the Doll".
I won't describe this kind of traditional art passage in detail here, because our book is obviously in a more luxuriant state.
Then Zhu Yu... is not stupid either, so he naturally doubts that the child is not his.
However, firstly, he had no evidence to prove that the third concubine had an affair with outsiders, and secondly, people at that time did not have a full understanding of infertility, so they still had some luck mentality.
Therefore, he pretended to be confused for the time being...
Until the day the third concubine gave birth, Zhu Yu stood outside the room and waited for a few hours, and finally waited for a cry.
The midwife took the child out and showed him, hey, boy, and she looked a little similar to him.
Zhu Zu thought: Could it be that God is really good that I am old (the lifespan of people at that time was short, and I had already called me a husband at the age of 48) and got a son?
That day, after he handed the child to the wet nurse, he immediately ordered someone to strangle the third concubine to death and buried her quietly.
What is this logic?
It's very simple: he has some concubines, and he won't feel too distressed when he kills one, but on the contrary, if he lets this woman who might have cuckolded him live, he will continue to doubt, be entangled, and be frustrated...
Therefore, even if he could not confirm whether the third concubine had stole someone, he would rather kill him by mistake than release him by mistake.
And for children, he is another standard...
Although he is also unable to be sure whether the child is his, he can keep the child first. When the child grows up, he will see whether he looks like himself. Then make a decision and avoid wrong killing as much as possible.
Is it double standard? Is it vicious? Is it cold?
That's right, but this is the real human nature. In a specific era and in a specific environment, you may also have the same logic as him.
A long story short, in a blink of an eye, seven years have passed.
The baby boy born to the third concubine, Zhu Yi, was always fostered by Zhu Yu's wife. She almost never left the house and never saw any strangers. The whole palace kept silent about the existence of this child.
This... is to prepare for both hands: first-hand, if Zhu is really like Zhu Yu when he grows up, then he will naturally announce that this is the eldest son born to his wife; second-hand, if Zhu Yu is not like Zhu Yu when he grows up, then he will kill him and think that there has never been such a person in the palace.
Zhu Yu was lucky. Although he had no blood relationship with Zhu Yu, he inexplicably looked very similar to Zhu Yu when he was a child.
Zhu Yu watched Zhu grow up year by year and really look like himself, and gradually believed that this was really his son.
At this point, he felt a little apology to the third concubine back then, of course... it was just a little.
In short, it was not until Zhu Yu was seven years old that Zhu Yu suddenly officially announced to the public that he had a son, and he was already seven years old, and said that he was born to his wife.
He also thought about it. If the court asked him why he didn't report his son, he would pretend to be confused and say that he had forgotten when he was old.
But can the court not know his slutty operation? Which royal palace does not have detailed work installed by the court? Do they think they are free to get their salary?
However, because he knew the child's background, the court turned a blind eye; because the person in charge of surveillance also felt that the child looked like Zhu Yu, and should be his biological son. According to the principle of "no legitimate position to establish a illegitimate wife", no matter which mother gave birth to him, Zhu Yu's prince was always him, and there was no need to make any more troubles about killing the third concubine back then.
In this way, when he was seven years old, Zhu finally had a legal identity and reported to the court, confirming the name "Zhu".
Of course... Zhu Yu was still young at that time, and he didn't know the previous generation of robbers and dogs. He always thought that his biological mother was Zhu Yu's personal wife.
Time flies, and time passes.
In a blink of an eye, this little prince has grown up and Zhu Shu is already old.
Although Zhu Yu has not died yet, the real power of the Lu Prince's Mansion has long fallen into Zhu Yu's hands.
The sphere of influence of the Prince of Lu has also increased over the years. According to our current geographical cognition, it has expanded to the entire Jining region and surrounding areas.
Among all the princes left by Dazhi, the King of Lu can be regarded as one of the most powerful ones. As the actual ruler of the Prince of Lu's Mansion, Zhu Yu undoubtedly called the wind and rain in this Jining realm and did whatever he wanted.
The Fire Lotus Sect, which uses him as its backer, is also rampant in the countryside and lawless.
Just now, when Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai lined up to enter the city gate, they encountered the "setting of card" of the Fire Lotus Sect.
These Fire Lotus Sects were wearing black uniforms, with a fire lotus embroidered on each chest and behind each back. They either had a knife or a sword on their bodies. When they walked, they mostly had nostrils facing the sky, swaying and domineering... If they didn't say that they were religious, they would think they were bandits with uniform uniforms.
Today they set up a card here, using the saying that last night a thief broke into the royal palace with a bad intention. Fortunately, the Huolian Daxian was in charge of the royal palace. As soon as the thief entered the courtyard, he was intimidated by the great immortal's power. He vomited blood three liters and fled away with his head. In order to protect the safety of the royal palace, the Daxian did not chase the thief, but the thief must have not escaped from the Jining area. Therefore, from now on, the Huolian Sect will search for travelers coming and going at various city gates and passes to capture the thief. If there are any disobediences, they will be treated as a thief accomplices.
"Come on, hurry up! Don't be too slow, just shine all the things in the bag yourself, don't let me do it!"
But the seven or eight Fire Lotus Sectists at the city gate, the leader, stood under the city gate with a large sword that was unsheathed in his hand, shouting and constantly signaling the people behind to follow.
This group of people said they were "searching for bandits" and even held a portrait in their hands as if they were decent. In fact, they had never thought about catching thieves, but they just searched for oil here "by geese plucking their hair".
Those who have money can scrape some money, those who have no money can scrape some things, and when they meet a beautiful girl and a little wife, they have to touch each other...
If anyone "don't cooperate" with them, they would even be intimidated and drank, and they would surround the guys and say you are a thief's accomplice. Who would dare to resist?
The people nearby also knew what the consequences of offending the Fire Lotus Sect. They were used to being bullied by these guys on weekdays, and they dared not speak out. They endured this "toll" and passed it.
"Hey! The two behind, say you guys! What are you doing sneakily? Come here!"
After queuing for a long time, it was finally... Sun Yixie and Huang Dong's turn to come.
It is obvious that the two of them cannot easily accept body searches, because there are too many shameful things in both their bodies and their burdens...
Putting aside the pile of Taoist priests' methods and uses, the key is that there are still a lot of gold, silver, silver notes, poisons, hidden weapons, and lime powder in their baggage...
If 30% of these things are found, the opponent will be shocked. If all of them are found, then the person will definitely call for reinforcements and catch them.
So Sun and Huang lined up, observed and muttered quietly... just discussing how to pass the city gate.
"Hmph!" Sure enough, Sun Yixie faced the Huo Lotus Sect's question and acted completely differently from the ordinary people, "What are you talking about? Do you need to report to a minion like you?"
"Hmm?" The brother holding the knife was stunned at that time.
He had been standing at the city gate for a long time, and no one dared to talk to him like this. Even the dignitaries and nobles who came into the city in sedan chairs would have ordered their servants to respectfully offer them silver and say a few good words before they could let them go.
"Hey~ you kid are crazy?" The Fire Lotus Cultivator said as he raised the knife and shook it in front of Sun and Huang, "Do you know who you are talking to?"
"I don't know, you're talking about it." Huang Donglai retorted.
When they said these two sentences, the Fire Lotus Sects around them also felt that something was wrong, so they all surrounded them.
Chapter completed!