No one likes the night, but everyone must experience the night. Only after experiencing the darkness of the night can there be the whiteness of the day.
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"Today is the sixth day since the old man's mausoleum was laid to rest!"
Zhu Yunxi stood in the pavilion where the old man liked to stay on weekdays, looking at the mourning hall with flickering lights, and listening to Zhu Gaochi's low voice behind him.
"One day will be the day when the old man will be buried!" Zhu Gaochi said, "I have already visited the underground palace. According to the old man's last wish, he will be buried simply. All the funerary objects are things that the old man used during his lifetime."
"How long will it take for the sweet potatoes on Zhuangzi to be ripe?" Zhu Yunxi suddenly said, catching Zhu Gaochi a little off guard.
"This...I really don't know..."
"Grandpa Huang said before his death that his greatest wish in his life was to feed everyone in the world!" Zhu Yunxi continued, "I still remember that when we were harvesting potatoes last year, he smiled like a child and held the potatoes in his arms.
The potato refused to let go. He also said to me, if this thing had existed in the world earlier, wouldn’t it be his parents, and our great-grandfather and great-grandmother would not have to starve to death?”
"On that slope..." Zhu Yunxi pointed to the quiet slope fields in the distance at night, "They are all planted with sweet potatoes. The agricultural officer of the Ministry of Revenue said that in fact, these things do not need to be taken care of very carefully, but the emperor
Grandpa still wants to protect it like an eyeball, for fear of losing fat, lack of water, and getting worms!"
"I thought that this old man would wait until this year's sweet potato harvest to see a good harvest before leaving!" Zhu Yunxi lowered his head, with a bitter smile on his lips, "But I didn't expect that the old man would leave like this.
Sudden!"
Zhu Gaochi stood behind, with mixed feelings in his heart, and raised his head, "Your Majesty, although the emperor's grandfather has left, his ambition has been left to us descendants. He did not see the day when everyone in the world can have enough to eat, but
He hopes our generation can do it!"
"Our generation can't do it. We still have sons, and there will be endless descendants. One day, there will be no more famine and civil unrest in the land of Mid-Xia!"
"Hongshu is still being promoted in various provinces, and there is no large-scale planting. If the emperor can trust me, I am willing to take on this matter and plant all the land in the world that cannot grow food with red potatoes, so as to give the people of the world more food to eat!"
Zhu Yunxi turned around and nodded silently, his eyes full of relief.
"Although Grandpa Huang loves me the most, he has more than just one grandson: me." Zhu Yunxi said in a low voice, "You and I, the descendants of the Zhu family, it is the greatest filial piety to strive for self-improvement and care about the people!" He said, sighing, "Tomorrow,
You go to the hillside to get some soil and a few seedlings to be buried with Grandpa Huang on the day he is buried!"
"Yes!" Hearing this, Zhu Gaochi cried silently.
At this moment, heartbreaking cries suddenly came from the mourning hall again.
"It's Uncle Fourteen, Uncle Sixteen, and Uncle Eighteen who are back!" Zhu Gaochi wiped away his tears and said, "It is said that Uncle Sixteen cried until he fainted several times on the road!"
Zhu Kai, the Su King of Ganzhou (Zhangye).
Zhu Zhuan, the King of Qing in Ningxia (Yinchuan, Ningxia).
Zhu Xun, the Min King of Yunnan.
"Prince Ning hasn't arrived yet?" Zhu Yunxi suddenly frowned.
Deng Ping walked out of a remote corner behind Zhu Yunxi, "It will be at dawn at the earliest!"
"Thankfully the old man loved him so much during his lifetime!" Zhu Yunxi snorted coldly.
Indeed, compared to other vassal princes, the old man really favored Prince Ning.
If you look at the fiefdoms of the fourteenth, sixteenth and eighteenth elders, you will know that they were pure frontier fortresses that did not even have a city before the feudal lordship. But Prince Ning had whatever he wanted.
The most favored children are often the least filial.
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"I'm waiting to see you, Your Majesty!"
King Su, King Qing, King Min, and three other people bowed down and saluted.
Zhu Yunxi, who was sitting on the throne, raised his head slightly and said, "Get up, uncle, please come and give me a seat!"
Afterwards, Zhu Yunxi carefully looked at these three unfamiliar Uncle Wangs.
The reason why he is unfamiliar is because he really has nothing to do with these three people, and these three people have always been low-key and unknown people.
"It's been a hard journey!" Zhu Yunxi said in a low voice.
"I don't dare!" the three of them hurriedly bowed and said.
Zhu Yunxi waved his hand and motioned for them to sit down without formality. "Have all the arrangements for the fiefdom been taken care of?"
"There is nothing wrong with my fiefdom!" Su Wang Zhu Kai smiled bitterly, "In the past, there was the commander-in-chief Zhai Neng guarding the border fortress, and in the back, the Marquis of Changxing was training troops. I, the king of the fortress, are actually just filling in!"
He became a vassal in the 28th year of Hongwu's reign, and the Prime Minister of Shaanxi Province was in charge of Ganzhou Wuwei Military Affairs.
It sounds like he has a lot of power, but in fact he has never really gotten involved in the military power. At the beginning, there was the veteran Song Sheng in Gansu, and Tang Fu was the governor of Shaanxi. The former Zhu Yunxi didn't have much contact with him, but the latter was definitely a die-hard best friend of the East Palace.
Zhai Neng was later transferred to the post of commander-in-chief of Gansu Town, and Geng Bingwen, the Marquis of Changxing in the rear, was a die-hard loyalist of Zhu Yunxi. It would be strange for him, the Su King, to have access to military power.
"After hearing what you said, do you mean to complain?" Zhu Yunxi narrowed his eyes and whispered.
"I don't dare!" King Su Zhu Kai was so frightened that he stood up quickly. His words were indeed a bit ill-considered, and he quickly said, "I can't do it if I can't do it with military force. I'm really not up to my ability to handle the border duties!"
"Your Majesty!" At this time, Qing Wang Zhu Zhuan suddenly said, "I and the fourteenth brother are the same!" As he said, he kept wiping his eyes with his sleeves, "Originally, I wanted to wait until my father's birthday this year.
Zhezi, I hope that the old man will be happy and ask the emperor to move the minister's fiefdom inland!"
As he spoke, he suddenly burst into tears, "Over there in Ningxia, I can't get used to eating and living. I got sick three times last year! Your Majesty, I don't want to be the king of Sai, and I don't have the ability. I just want to leave...
.Get closer to the south, it’s too cold there!”
His crying caught Zhu Yunxi off guard, and he couldn't say the words he had prepared.
The two brothers, King Su and King Qing, not only have no ambition, they don’t even have any desire for power. They just want to go back to the south to enjoy themselves!
In fact, the same was true for the two brothers in history, especially Zhu Zhuan, the king of Qing. He did not want to stay in the fiefdom all day long. He fantasized about reciting poems, reading and writing in the south of the Yangtze River all day long.
Unexpectedly, when Qing Wang Zhu Lai cried, Min Wang Zhu Lai next to him also began to cry.
"Your Majesty, I also want to tell my father that I will no longer stay in Yunnan!"
"Nonsense!" Zhu Yunxi said with a face, "How can the emperor's title be child's play? You can change it if you want?" Then he asked, "Are you not used to it in Yunnan?"
"It's not that I'm not used to it, but..."
"But what?" Zhu Yunxi asked.
"The Mu family... bullies people!" Zhu Zhen almost cried out, "Your imperial edict has reached Yunnan, and before I could leave, several brothers of the Mu family rushed to Chen's palace with people, and almost drove them away.
The minister came to the capital..."
"And all the military offices in Yunnan are listening to his Mu family. The vassal king is just there for decoration! Mu Chun, tell me directly...him...?"
Seeing him like this, Zhu Yunxi felt a little unkind and wanted to laugh.
"what did he say?"
"He told me that if I live a thousand years old, I will take care of myself in the palace, eat more meat, drink more wine, marry more wives, and have more sons. All external matters will be decided by the lower officials!" Zhu Zhen cried, "This is too much!"
"The second son of the fourth brother's family!" Zhu Min said loudly, "He has been sending people to my house all day long to complain about the autumn wind, saying that he lacks someone there, and that I, as the king's uncle, don't want to make progress... Wuwu.
..It’s not that I don’t want to make progress, I’m just suffering from both sides!”
When he cried, Zhu Yunxi felt a little embarrassed.
The fact that the Mu family was domineering and contemptuous of the vassal king in Yunnan was actually his instruction.
Because Yunnan is really remote, allowing King Min to grow bigger would be detrimental to the court. And everything the Mu family had was given by the court, so there was no way there could be any second thoughts.
"Okay, okay, I will make the decision for you!"
Zhu Yunxi's words were not false. You must know that in his lifetime, among the descendants of King Min, there was a great and outstanding figure who was loved by everyone.
"Your Majesty, let me make the decision!" Qing Wang Zhu Zhuan cried, "If I come here this time, I won't go back! It's too cold and miserable over there, and there's not even a scholar who can read poetry!"
"These three masters!" Deng Ping stood beside Zhu Yunxi and said to himself, "Well, the emperor didn't say anything, so they just gave up! It's really easy!"
Thinking about it, he looked at the distance and sighed in his heart, "If all the vassal kings were like this, it would be so troublesome and trouble-free! Tomorrow, when King Ning arrives, it will be the last day for the Supreme Emperor to lay in mourning. We can wait until the Supreme Emperor is laid to rest. The Emperor is the new emperor.