Zhu Yili came out of Yutai Teahouse and went to the palace to ask for an audience with Queen Mother Li. After all, he beat his grandfather's housekeeper. Although Li An was extremely unequal in status, as the saying goes, beating a dog depends on the owner, especially if the owner is his mother. When dealing with elders, timely communication is necessary.
When he met Empress Dowager Li, Zhu Yili angrily recounted the conflict between himself and Li An in detail, focusing on his domineering behavior. Empress Dowager Li had been worrying about her mother's family all these years, and she had long been very tired of it. I heard that King Lu dealt with it in a reasonable and orderly manner. He just gave the housekeeper a few words to talk about and sent the evil servant to the court. He said: "My son, it's just a beating. This is the only thing in his family." This shit annoys me to death."
King Lu scratched his head after hearing this. Zhu Yijun had already traveled through time when he was young. Although he did not have much contact with this cheap brother, the Emperor's decisiveness and intangible character left a mark on his young mind. He left an indelible impression - he looked up to his sister-in-law when he took the concubine. Of course, it was because of his teenage thoughts, but the more reason was that he felt that the only thing that could rival his brother-in-law was finding a wife, and the rest could only be looked up to.
As he grew up, he saw how much his royal brother respected his mother, which led him to have a strong admiration for Queen Mother Li. Especially in the first year after Zhu Yijun ascended the throne, his mother often hugged him. As he discussed military and state affairs with his imperial brother, he became even more frightened of his mother who loved him so much - it was Zhu Yijun who prevented him from leaving the palace, and it was mainly because he did not dare to ask Empress Dowager Li for permission. To.
Now hearing a common complaint from Empress Dowager Li, Zhu Yili suddenly seemed to have broken through his "knowledge barrier" and realized that his mother, who had been worshiped and feared by his family for many years, was only mediocre. He heard the words and said with a smile:
"Mother, this Li An is very stupid. My son also said, 'Why have I never seen you before?', but this guy didn't understand what he meant. Instead, he was even more rude. This forced me to be cruel. "
After hearing this, Empress Dowager Li thought for a while and finally said: "Yes, you gave him a chance, he deserves this beating." After hearing this, Zhu Yili felt certain.
After finishing everything, he changed the topic and said: "Mother, your wife's milk supply is insufficient now, do you know any good prescriptions?"
After hearing this, Empress Dowager Li immediately turned her mind to her grandson, raised her forehead and said: "Don't listen to the emperor's nonsense, don't say that the children of our heavenly family, even the children of rural landlords, are all fed by wet nurses. How can a legitimate mother breastfeed herself?" -The emperor has many fallacies, how can he, a man, know how to have children!"
After hearing this, Zhu Yirui could not help but retort: "The emperor's sister-in-law and the emperor's concubines all nursed their children themselves. Now the prince and his nephews are all strong and strong, and there is no one with any congenital deficiencies. To be honest, in our Forbidden City, since the prince was born, How has a child died in infancy? Grandpa Sejong raised eight children, the late emperor and two uncles. Isn’t that scary enough? A poor family among the people is nothing more than that."
When Empress Dowager Li heard this, she was stunned. Ever since she became the Empress Dowager, people in the palace have been saying auspicious words to her. Therefore, since Zhu Yijun's wedding, no one has said anything about this emperor in front of her. None of our children died in infancy - looking back now, it is actually a miracle!
At this time in the world, even if you are an emperor's family, whether your children can be raised depends entirely on destiny: the mortality rate of infants and young children is extremely high - Zhu Yijun once arranged for the medical school to make statistics. In the tenth year of Wanli, one-year-old children in the capital area died.
The rate reached one-sixth. This was the result of the medical school's extensive popularization of science in the capital. A sample survey conducted at the same time showed that in the twenty years from the 40th year of Jiajing to the ninth year of Wanli, the number of people in the capital could grow up healthily.
Less than 65% of children reach the age of twenty - it will only be even lower in non-capital areas where medical science is more backward.
The reason is nothing more than a large number of "hygienic" problems such as unprofessional delivery and incomplete disinfection. When a baby is born, just a "tetanus" is very difficult. At this time, there is a folk saying of "wind in seven days and throw away in eight days". This is
This is just the first calamity these little lives need to survive.
Infectious diseases are the biggest killers, such as whooping cough, measles, scarlet fever, pneumonia, typhoid, and even colds and fevers. Any disease can be fatal to babies with weak resistance. The backwardness of medical treatment and medicine makes people at that time have trouble giving birth to children.
In the process, superstitious practices were practiced, and witch doctors, divine men, etc. were practicing evil deeds, and they were also committing sins - it was inevitable in the inner palace as well, as evidenced by monk Hanshan's Buddhist rituals in Mount Wutai when Zhuang Jingjia gave birth to her daughter.
There is also a very important point, that is, women at this time gave birth prematurely. In later generations, girls aged thirteen or fourteen were at the level of junior high school. Their bodies were not fully developed yet, but they got pregnant and gave birth early, which also led to weak infants and young children.
, an important reason why it is difficult to resist minor illnesses and disasters.
After Zhu Yijun fell from a horse, in order to allow Empress Zhuang to legally control the political power and continue the reform plan after her sudden death, she got pregnant and gave birth to a child at the age of fifteen. At that time, she was actually sweating in her heart.
Fortunately, he came from later generations and was familiar with some knowledge about pregnancy and infants, so that the medical school made thorough preparations; and he did not choose poor families during the draft, so these harem women never lacked nutrition and were relatively healthy; plus after the birth of the prince,
, the concubines in the harem were all over 18 years old - this created the miracle of not having any children die in infancy.
After being reminded by King Lu, Empress Dowager Li was so surprised that she chanted Amitabha Buddha, clasped her hands and prayed to heaven: "It's all Buddha's blessing." After thinking about it for a while, she sighed, "Actually, your royal brother has an older brother before him, but it's a pity that he is
Raised until six years old - it seems that your royal brother is really blessed."
Before he finished speaking, the eunuch at the door came in and announced: "The Queen Mother, the emperor has come to say hello." After hearing this, Zhu Yili hurriedly stood up from his chair and saw the palace attendants opening the bead curtain, and the emperor came in wearing ordinary clothes.
Seeing Zhu Yijun here, Zhu Yijun didn't think it was strange. He laughed loudly and said: "Why are you here today? Didn't you go to the horse racing and listen to books?" Before King Lu could reply, he went to say hello to Queen Mother Li.
Empress Dowager Li nodded in return and said with a smile: "We ladies were saying that the emperor is a blessed man, so you came."
King Lu knelt down and saluted: "Replying to my brother, I have beaten the housekeeper of Uncle Wu Qing's house today, and I have come to apologize to my mother."
Seeing him salute, Zhu Yijun hurriedly stepped forward to help him up and said: "Don't be restrained, sit down and let's talk. Who did you say you hit?"
When Zhu Yili asked, he told the whole story again. Finally, he said: "This Li An is using the banner of Wu Qingbo's house to act arrogant, and even wants to seize the shop by force. He really brings shame to his uncle's family. How much is this little shabby teahouse worth?"
Is a big dragon worthy of causing trouble like this?"
Queen Mother Li's original intention was not to let the emperor know about the bad things about her mother's family, but she didn't expect that when King Lu met his brother, it was like a mouse meeting a cat. The emperor casually teased him and he took the initiative to explain everything. She smiled helplessly in her heart and sighed at this
The second son is too cowardly.
Zhu Yijun listened with a smile and said to King Lu: "You handled it very well, you are brave and resourceful." After saying that, he looked him up and down and said, "Well, you look like a man after becoming a father."
After hearing this, King Lu felt a wave of heat rising to the sky. He wished he could go out on the streets to do chivalry and help his brother eradicate injustices in the world. He grinned from ear to ear and said: "Then brother Wu Qingbo will come to him soon."
Let’s go talk to the uncles again.”
Zhu Yijun glanced at Empress Dowager Li and said with a smile: "No need. When Mrs. Wu Qingbo comes to the palace to pay her respects, let the empress mother give her family a heads up. You can't be addicted to slaps in the face. After all, this is our grandpa's house." Prince Lu listened.
He then smiled dryly at Empress Dowager Li with a flattering face, and Empress Dowager Li gave him a sideways look.
Zhu Yijun pondered for a moment, then smiled at Empress Dowager Li and said: "In today's clan, there are fewer officials who dare to take away business by force, but it is not impossible. It is difficult to stop them. If the powerful slaves in my uncle's family don't restrain themselves, my son will inevitably take them."
If his family wants to attack his son and establish his authority, please ask the queen mother to speak harshly."
Empress Dowager Li felt panicked by these two words of the emperor. She secretly hated her father and brother for not living up to expectations, and she also had some resentment towards the emperor for being more serious. So she responded lightly on her face, but she was secretly cruel in her heart and prepared to come to Uncle Wu Qing's house.
A big embarrassment.
Zhu Yijun stopped talking and then changed the subject: "What did the Queen Mother and King Lu just say? How do you say that your son is blessed?"
King Lu did not dare to say this - he was afraid that the good would not work or the bad would not work, and the prince and princess would die after saying this, and the emperor would be angry. Seeing that he was silent, Empress Dowager Li told him that the prince and princess were healthy and safe.
The head said it.
Zhu Yijun nodded and said: "Actually, it's not complicated to say. It's all about observing things and hygiene. If we do it all, the infant mortality rate can be reduced. Last year, the one-year-old infant mortality rate in the capital was reduced to 10%.
First, this alone will increase the capital’s population by 12,000.”
After he finished speaking, he said with a smile: "Princess Shouyang was already eighteen years old when she held the wedding ceremony for the royal family of Zhongxing County. Her mother was still anxious back then. Now she has given birth to a child safely. How great! The woman is young and is really not suitable for childbirth.
.But if the first child has passed, and the subsequent births are continued, it will be good for mother and child. Therefore, delaying marriage for a few years to let men and women grow up is indeed conducive to population reproduction."
After hearing this, Queen Mother Li glanced at the emperor sideways, laughed and scolded: "Who do you think will live together?"
Zhu Yijun smiled and apologized - Empress Dowager Li was the most fertile among Mu Zong's concubines. Except for her first child, which she did not raise, she gave birth to four more children after giving birth to Zhu Yijun, making great contributions to Mu Zong's establishment of the throne. Now, the same generation as Zhu Yijun,
Except for Princess Yanqing, who was born to Mu Zong's concubine Qin, the other five brothers and sisters were married by Empress Dowager Li alone.
After laughing for a while, Zhu Yijun said with a smile: "When the Shouyang girl got married, there were rumors among the people that she was somehow ugly because she was not married yet at the age of eighteen. Now that the Yongning girl is also eighteen years old, we need to take care of herself this year.
To give an example to the people, from now on, women will not be allowed to marry before they are eighteen, and men will not be allowed to marry before they are eighteen - this is also a matter of immeasurable merit."
Speaking of merit, Empress Dowager Li, who was a devout believer in Buddhism, recited a Buddhist sentence. Then she smiled and said: "The emperor takes it for granted. If the family is rich, it will be better. Who in a poor family is willing to let a girl live in vain for four or five years?"
Mother-in-law’s family!”
When Zhu Yijun heard this, he frowned and nodded: "What the Queen Mother said is that in the past two years, the court will increase publicity, and then legislate, high fines will be imposed on early marriages, so this matter must be reversed."
Speaking of the princess, Empress Dowager Li said: "The emperor is so cruel. Princess Leping was newly married, so you asked the consort Xu Guangqi to go a hundred thousand miles away. Now it's been two and a half years. Your empress, the Queen Mother, can't be a grandma. Her mother-in-law has two sons."
Don’t you blame me?”
Hearing this, Zhu Yijun touched his nose and said: "There is another news from Guangzhou. The ship sent by Xu Guangqi has also arrived. It is said that it has brought back several ships of things - he should be back in the year after next at the latest."
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