"Oh?" Zhu Su doesn't feel sleepy anymore. Could it be that Zhu Laosi, who only knows how to skip school, dance with swords and guns, and fight with stones in formations, has finally become enlightened at his age and is full of love?
He lifted the quilt and sat up with a wicked smile on his face: "Of course it is recorded in history! And you have seen it too."
"That's the little girl we met in the Imperial Garden. Do you still remember her?"
"Is it her?" Zhu Di thought for a moment and finally remembered Xu Miaoyun, whom he had met in the Imperial Garden with Zhu Su. He couldn't remember her appearance, but he remembered that she was the daughter of Xu Da's family. "So,
I ended up marrying Uncle Xu’s daughter?”
"Yes." Looking at Zhu Di's thoughtful expression, Zhu Su thought she was just reminiscing about Xu Miaoyun's appearance. This made him feel like he was eating a piece of history: Emperor Yongle and Empress Xu had a deep love for each other in history, and Xu Miaoyun also
She is truly beautiful, and now she can vaguely see how she will turn the country into a queen in the future. The fourth child must be extremely satisfied!
"How many children has this Xu family given birth to?" Zhu Di asked again.
Oh? Do you care how many children you have in the future? Zhu Su smiled even more on his face and said, "Your three sons in the future will all be born to the Xu family!"
"That's it!" Zhu Di nodded, keeping this matter in mind.
Since my father forbids me from marrying, I will definitely not marry Uncle Xu’s daughter.
As long as the maternal line is not the original owner, in later generations, "filial sons and virtuous grandchildren" like Zhu Qizhen will not appear, right?
Well, to be on the safe side, anyone with the surname Xu should stay away from her.
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"Be careful." Hu Weiyong lowered his head and scolded. "This is still within the imperial city, so we need to be careful that the walls have ears!"
In Zhu Di's heart, the surname "Xu" has been labeled as a scourge...
"There is no need to delay the change of military households and craftsmen households. The cabinet will quickly draw up a plan for us. Under what conditions, military households and craftsmen households will be allowed to change their households." Lao Zhu said.
Even if I set up a thousand systems to make up for the mistakes, can I really break the curse of the country's subjugation in the future?
After coming back, he always has a thoughtful look on his face. Then he has to draw up all kinds of strange and weird clauses...
With the help of the cabinet, Lao Zhu's government pressure is now much lighter. The cabinet is now increasingly powerful, and some of the powers of the Central Secretary's Office have been subtly transferred to the cabinet by Lao Zhu. Now the Prime Minister of the Left, Hu Weiyong, is standing below.
His complexion is not very good-looking.
"Uncle Xu should be back in the next few days. The Jurchen is not very powerful. The army did not spend much effort plowing the courtyard and sweeping the holes."
His thoughts then turned back to the "Tumu Fortress Incident". If a local official is incompetent, the most he can do is bring disaster to a local area. The Ming Dynasty was so great that by making up for losses with surplus, it was possible to eliminate invisible disasters in a local area.
Outside Jinshen Hall, the two groups of people from the Cabinet and Zhongshu Province were clearly distinguishable, and they walked down the steps in groups on the left and right.
But if an emperor like Zhu Qizhen emerges, it will immediately become a serious national problem, and no matter how good the system is, it cannot make up for it.
After all, the system is used by the emperor to restrict the people below him. If the emperor does not follow the system, who can control it?
Why, he just threw out a few arithmetic problems, and he was so shocked that he was convinced and accepted it?
This sentence made Hu Weiyong stop immediately. He only cared about fighting for power with the cabinet, but he really didn't care about the reason for His Majesty's sudden change in the past few days.
No one will implement the "Peel the Skin and Stem Grass" anymore, the "Edict" has become a waste paper, and the "Sea Ban" has harmed the Ming Dynasty for generations. Even the just-drafted "The Harem and the Internal Prison are not allowed to interfere in political affairs" have also been banned in Laosi's generation. It was completely wiped out.
Contrary to Zhongshu Sheng, it can be said to be painful and happy at the same time.
And he has no control over whether the descendants of the fourth child will have a foolish king. Who can guarantee that the descendants of the fourth child will not have a foolish king?
"What should we do..." Lao Zhu fell into deep thought.
Finally, I remembered that in the past few days, when Your Majesty comes to the palace, he must first go to Qianqing Palace.
"Prime Minister Hu, look at those people in the cabinet..." A Zhongshu Provincial official looked at the cabinet officials on the left with disgust. "In terms of rank, they are just seventh-grade minor officials, but they have gained a little trust from His Majesty, and their heads are about to be raised. It’s gone to heaven.”
"By the way, talking about Uncle Xu's house. These days, the man named Xu Yungong often asks people to ask if you are feeling better." Zhu Di casually threw a piece of pastry into his mouth. "It seems that he is quite worried about your physical condition. .”
Zhu Di was eating cakes on the bed without any scruples, while chattering beside Zhu Su. Zhu Su deliberately closed his eyes not to look at him, and he didn't take it seriously. However, Zhu Su actually didn't mind his noisiness. Accompanied by Zhu Di's chattering, Zhu Su gradually felt sleepy and fell into a drowsy sleep.
"Last year, the articles that had to be drawn up throughout the whole year were not even half as much as these days..."
"Zhu Tiezhu refuses to apologize. Because of his bad behavior, our brothers almost fell into a pit of fire. He still dares to continue to be locked up in the house and pretend to be sick... I must treat him well some other day..."
"In a few days, I'm afraid I will arrive in Beijing."
On the other side, Lao Zhu, who came to Jinshen Hall, was dealing with the many memorials in front of him.
"How to deal with internal eunuchs interfering in government affairs, and how to avoid them. All these must be formulated in order to prepare for the spread of everything. The regulations must be detailed, and we must not let our Ming Dynasty fall into the situation of eunuchs interfering in government!"
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"In addition, please draw up a statement for us to discuss the matter of the eunuch's involvement in politics." Remembering that Zhu Qizhen had listened to the eunuch's slander and caused the disaster, Lao Zhu said abruptly.
The system cannot restrict the emperor!
Lao Zhu felt that he seemed to be trapped in a cycle of paradox. He could only use the system to influence future generations, but as long as future generations ignored it, he had nothing to do.
An ancestral system? He already knew from Lao Wu that the ancestral system established by him, the founding emperor, almost became a piece of waste paper in later generations.
"Xu Yungong?" Zhu Su was confused. When the young master saw him before, didn't he say that his eyes were not eyes and his nose was not his nose?
When the official heard this, he quickly shut up, looked around, and then opened his mouth and said, "I don't know what happened to your Majesty these days. He actually issued so many orders."
"Yes." A clerk in the cabinet hurriedly recorded the emperor's oral edict. Every time Lao Zhu came out of the Qianqing Palace in the past few days, he would ask the cabinet to draft a new decree. Working overtime every day is unbearable.
Lao Zhu waved away the cabinet and the Central Secretariat and looked at the memorials piled up on the documents. He flipped through several memorials and found nothing major. The outcome of the cabinet vote was very much in line with his wishes and there was nothing wrong with it. Dismissed.
He carefully thought about what had been heard in the palace and court in the past few days, which incident might be the cause of His Majesty's sudden change.
"The third child has been wandering around the main hall these days. It seems that he wants to find that strange book you made up. You have to think of a good reason to stall him."
Today's Zhongshu Province has gradually become an idle yamen. His authority as Zuo Prime Minister is somewhat weaker now than when he was an official in the past.
"In the Qianqing Palace...the fifth prince who has fallen into the water and has not recovered now lives..."
"Your Majesty originally only paid attention to the Crown Prince, but these days, he is extremely concerned about His Highness the Fifth. Even when he is asking about politics, he still asks about His Highness's behavior every once in a while."
"I used to think that Your Majesty was just a licker, but now I think about it. His Majesty, the Fifth Prince, has his own concubine and Queen to take care of him in the palace. Why does Your Majesty need to visit him every day? And he is placed in the Qianqing Palace, the main palace of the harem?"
"Could it be that the root cause of all this is His Highness the Fifth Prince?"