Although he did not obtain pro-government power, Zhu Yijun also intended to improve his situation during the early dynasty.
Since there was no curtain in the court, Empress Dowager Li did not attend the morning court. Although Zhang Juzheng was in charge of the affairs, she could not stop him from speaking. Therefore, in the morning court on the second day after the banquet, Zhu Yijun occasionally spoke in reply to the ministers in the morning court after careful consideration many times.
The ministers were so surprised that they were unable to express even the slightest objection to the emperor's handling.
This happened several times, and the emperor behaved as if he had eaten a red fruit and added a plug-in. All the officials in the outer court were surprised. Apart from being surprised, they couldn't help but worry that the emperor was so precocious that if there was anything inappropriate in his work, he would be picked on by the emperor.
Making mistakes will make you lose face, but it will greatly hinder your future prospects.
From then on, the important ministers changed their dejected attitude and began to work cautiously, making Zhang Juzheng, who was planning to take the law examination, dumbfounded.
Ten days have passed by in a blink of an eye since Zhu Yijun traveled through time. In these days, everyone inside and outside the palace praised the new emperor for his intelligence and precociousness. Many concubines and wives who came to visit the two queen mothers all praised them. Empress Dowager Chen smiled brightly.
I accepted everything as ordered, and my illnesses since winter have improved a bit.
Empress Dowager Li's ears were on the verge of becoming calluses, and she was confused. She also quietly visited the Emperor's palace, the Wenhua Hall (where lectures were given) several times, and saw that the Emperor was really very different from what he had been ten months ago. He followed the rules every day.
, he was precise in his words and actions, and his thoughts and speeches were thorough and detailed, making him no less generous than the late emperor. This was still the result of Zhu Yijun's painstaking suppression, otherwise he would have made nonsense.
Empress Dowager Li tossed and turned after returning to the palace for several days. One moment, she was happy that the emperor had awakened early. The other moment, she was afraid that he would be so smart early, so he would be jealous and die young. The next moment, she thought of the late emperor and couldn't help but shed tears.
Dark hanging.
The life of a widow was difficult. Empress Dowager Li had been very worried for the past few days. After falling asleep, she could not help but have erotic dreams and nightmares, and she suddenly fell ill. She was usually in good health, but suddenly fell ill, and she actually felt very heavy. She was just groggy every day.
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The death of the Empress Dowager Bingzheng was a major matter for the internal and external affairs. The Imperial Hospital was the first to take action, taking pulses every day, prescribing medicines, cooking medicines, and adjusting meals as they were busy.
Zhu Yijun also announced his resignation from the court and lectures. In addition to fulfilling the responsibilities of a filial son and providing decoctions and medicines to treat illnesses, he also recited and copied scriptures every day to pray for the Queen Mother.
The nobles and ministers in the entire capital, and their wives who are eligible to visit the palace, will inevitably go to the palace to pay their respects, and burn incense in various temples to pray for the empress dowager. Zhang Juzheng, Feng Bao, etc., not to mention, pray silently every day, praying for Li
The Queen Mother will recover soon.
On February 20th, the imperial doctor announced that Queen Mother Li had recovered from her illness and informed both the inside and outside of the country. All the ministers heaved a sigh of relief.
Early the next morning, Empress Dowager Li had missed a lot from her Buddhist rituals over the past few days, so she got up early to recite sutras and catch up on her homework. A copy of the Diamond Sutra newly copied by the emperor was presented to her. Empress Dowager Li opened it and saw ink marks.
There was a faint color of blood in the blood, and I was confused. When I put it to my nose and smelled it, I was shocked that it smelled of blood.
She hurriedly summoned the old eunuch Yin Xiang and the junior eunuch Zhang Cheng who were serving the emperor. Yin Xiang was old and his ears were a little unclear. The Queen Mother asked a few questions but could not get the details, so she asked Zhang Cheng to play it carefully. Zhang Cheng cried and bowed to the ground.
Played:
"Ever since I became a child, I have never seen anyone as sincere and filial as the emperor. The Queen Mother has been disobeying the emperor a few days ago. Before serving the soup and medicine every day, the emperor would take a bath, straighten his appearance, and say: 'The queen mother has violated the agreement, and I will punish her.
"Looking up, so as not to worry about my kindness," and when I returned to the palace after serving, I didn't think about food and tea, and I was worried. Since three days ago, the Queen Mother was not well. The emperor asked the slave for a needle, but the slave didn't know what it meant, so he took it and gave it to her.
Your Majesty. Unexpectedly, your Majesty actually pricked your left arm with a needle to draw blood. The servant could not stop him. Your Majesty... Your Majesty... your Majesty actually pricked your left arm three times, bleeding about three dollars each time. He used it to grind ink and copy scriptures, hoping to express his filial piety to heaven and earth.
Grandpa Huang said: 'I am the Son of Heaven. Heaven can see my sincerity and will protect my mother.' After saying this, he broke down in tears.
After hearing this, Empress Dowager Li burst into tears and murmured: "This unfilial son! I will kill the Ai family with anger!" She took a few deep breaths, put her hand on her chest, scolded Yin Xiang and Zhang Cheng with her halberd finger, and said: "When you see the emperor's injury, Why don't you stop me with my mutilated body? What's the use of waiting for these slaves?!"
Upon hearing this, Zhang Cheng raised his head and took off the little yellow hat on his head, revealing a large bruise on his head. He lowered his head again and echoed: "I don't want to do anything about Mr. Yin. The emperor doesn't want to alarm the palace, so he took the slaves to screen everyone away." I did it to stop the emperor from getting bruised and bleeding, but the emperor is determined and I don’t dare to deceive you..."
Empress Dowager Li gradually became less angry when she saw that he answered questions intelligently and explained things clearly. However, her love for her son and gratitude for her filial piety was overwhelming, and she lowered her voice and said, "Is the emperor going to bed?"
"Your Majesty, because the Queen Mother has recovered, has relaxed and got up a little late today. I saw that Your Majesty had not slept well for a few days, so I had the courage not to wake up today, so I came to inform the Queen Mother. The Queen Mother summoned my servant." Already."
When Empress Dowager Li heard about it, she retired from the eunuch and changed into formal clothes. Then she took her left and right to the emperor's bedroom in Qianqing Palace. A young eunuch had already taken a step ahead and told them not to make any sound on the way. When they arrived at the palace quietly, the Queen Mother asked everyone to wait outside. Then, she gathered up her skirt and walked into the inner hall.
Arriving in front of the dragon bed, I saw the little emperor curled up in the bed and sleeping deeply, with his left arm hanging outside the quilt. The Empress Dowager Cisheng's eyes were red, and she tremblingly rolled up the sleeves of the emperor's underwear on his arm, and saw three areas of skin on the crook of the elbow of his left arm. The blood was dark and the blood had not dissipated. I couldn't bear it anymore, so I took out my handkerchief and cried softly. After crying for a while, I saw the emperor's body moving, and knew that he was about to wake up, so he stopped crying and wiped away his tears. Sit quietly by the bed.
When Zhu Yijun woke up, he was surprised to see the Queen Mother sitting in front of the bed. He asked, "Queen Mother, why are you here?" He looked to the left and right again, but there was no one quietly there.
"Zhu Yijun, do you know your guilt?" Seeing the emperor wake up, the Queen Mother asked in a low voice with a powerful look on her face.
Zhu Yijun's head suddenly trembled, and he woke up completely. He knew that something he had worked so hard for had happened, but it was what he had expected. He immediately adjusted his emotions. He got up, knelt on the bed and asked: "The Queen Mother is in her early stages of recovery, so don't be angry. Your Majesty has done something wrong, please express it clearly to your mother."
"How do you mutilate your limbs and make the Ai family sad? You are also a reader of sages. Don't you know that 'the hair and skin of the body are given to parents and should not be mutilated'? This is a truth that all women and Taoists in the Ai family know, how come you don't know?" As he spoke, his eye circles became red again.
Seeing her true feelings revealed, Zhu Yijun was secretly moved. The drama that he was going to perform with all his heart was now filled with the emotions from his original body memory. He cried loudly: "The emperor has lost his father. If the emperor is gone, Mother, what's wrong? Then I... Then I... Am I not an orphan without a father and a mother? Mother, the emperor is so scared!" After saying this, I felt a longing for my parents and relatives in future generations that I had suppressed for the past few days. The tears came rolling down my face, and my soft crying turned into loud crying. Tears and mucus rolled down my face, and I was sobbing and choking until my face turned red.
The Empress Dowager Cisheng was already full of emotions. When she saw the little emperor's sincere words, each word was like a knife piercing her heart. She couldn't help hugging Zhu Yijun. Mother and son held each other's arms and cried. One missed her parents who could never meet again after time travel, and the other Missing my husband who had already conquered the sky. This cry made the two of them cry until the sky was dark and they could only rest after a cup of tea.
Zhu Yijun came from a later generation. He had watched too many bloody dramas and had developed a certain immunity. After crying for a while, he stopped crying. Seeing that Empress Dowager Li still couldn't stop crying, he held up his arms and persuaded: "Today, the emperor has realized his mistake.
I will definitely not do this in the future and make my mother sad...Mother, please stop crying. If you cry too much, wouldn't it be your son's fault?"
Empress Dowager Li slowly stopped crying. Seeing the emperor comforting her like a little adult, she smiled and took a handkerchief to wipe the emperor's tears first, and said: "Will you dare to do it again? One more time, I will kneel before your father's soul.
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Zhu Yijun also showed a smile and said: "Your Majesty, I don't dare anymore." The two of them looked at each other and smiled, feeling as if the ice in their hearts had melted. The feeling of connection between mother and son stirred in their hearts, and they were no longer bound by the previous etiquette.
That kind of separation.
This method of parents being sick and their children pricking blood to copy scriptures has been around since ancient times, but it was rare in the palace of the Ming Dynasty. When Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty seized the throne from Jiulong, the princes played this trick in a vulgar way, and Kangxi was not even excited after that.
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Zhu Yijun also learned this skill from TV dramas. Empress Dowager Li experienced this for the first time and was deeply moved. She felt that although she was a widow, she had a filial child and she would have someone to rely on for the rest of her life.
In order to get rid of Feng Bao, Zhu Yijun must arouse the affection between mother and son in Empress Dowager Li's heart. On the one hand, it is to form an overwhelming advantage over Feng Bao's holy family, and on the other hand, it is to eliminate Empress Dowager Li's worries about his own administration. Now it seems that
Now, Empress Dowager Li is on the hook, and things have become turbulent.
The mother and son talked for a few more words. When Zhu Yijun saw that the Empress Dowager Cisheng's eyes were red and swollen and she was crying like a peach, he opened the door of the palace and ordered the palace servants to come in and help them wash up. He also asked people to bring some ice and use silk cloth to wash them.
After wrapping it up, he put it on the eyes of Empress Dowager Cisheng. Cisheng smiled and said, "How does the emperor know this? Even the queen mother doesn't know."
Zhu Yijun smiled and said: "A scholar can know the affairs of the world without going out. After studying, the emperor also reads some miscellaneous books and forgets where he learned it." After pondering for a while, he asked the palace servants to get some eggs, pearl powder, honey and other things.
, found a silver bowl, mixed pearl powder, honey with egg whites, and asked Empress Dowager Ci Sheng to lie half on the bed, and apply it carefully on her face. In less than a quarter of an hour, she ordered the palace servants to bring water to serve Ci Sheng's bath.
face.
After washing up, Ci Sheng took a look in the mirror and saw that his face was smooth and supple, and the swelling around his eyes had subsided. He was surprised and said: "Your Majesty, you also learned this method from a book? But the Queen Mother doesn't believe it."
Zhu Yijun smiled and said: "The Queen Mother may not believe it even more..." He glanced left and right and said: "You guys retreat." Seeing everyone retreating, he added: "Everyone retreat ten feet outside the palace!"
Seeing everyone retreating in awe, he whispered to Cisheng: "...the night before the Sutra Royal Banquet, the emperor had a strange dream. He dreamed that my father took me to a place that looked like a place where gods lived, and asked me to
The child worshiped four teachers, and just like the yellow beam in a dream, the child followed the teacher and experienced all kinds of strange things in the fairy abode. When he woke up, it was as if he had opened a heavenly orifice and understood many truths..."
Seeing the Queen Mother's eyes getting wider and wider, Zhu Yijun smiled and said: "Everyone around me knows this. When I woke up, the emperor was still dazed for a while." After a pause, he added, "My eldest companion also knows."
When Cisheng heard that Zhu Yijun had dreamed of the late emperor, he was sad at first, and then half-believing. Seeing that he was sure, he went to the door of the palace and asked Zhang Cheng to come in. Zhang Cheng didn't know why, so he only heard Empress Dowager Cisheng ask: "The Emperor's Royal Scriptures"
On the day of the feast, will you feel anything strange when you get up or go to bed?"
Zhang Cheng replied: "To the Queen Mother, on the day of the banquet, when the emperor got up from bed, he was in a trance and seemed to not recognize us. He asked the slaves, 'Where is this'? The slaves wanted to teach the imperial doctor, but Eunuch Feng stopped me."
The emperor came to his senses after meeting Eunuch Feng. Since everything was as usual with the emperor, he followed the emperor's wishes and did not report it to the Queen Mother, so as not to worry about his kindness. "
Empress Dowager Li was dumbfounded after hearing this. Because she believed in Buddhism, she believed in these sacred things the most. She forced Zhang Cheng to retreat, but she burst into tears again and said: "The emperor is filial to heaven and earth. The late emperor must be worried about it."
You just... just entered your dream, and then... you invited the gods to teach you."
After thinking for a while, he asked again: "Have you remembered everything the masters taught you?"
When Zhu Yijun saw that she recognized the late emperor's dream, he felt relieved and replied with a smile: "It's like a child has learned it since he was a child, but he doesn't know where it comes from? I can't remember everything the masters said to me -
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After hearing this, Empress Dowager Li interjected: "The scripture without words is the true scripture." Zhu Yijun was secretly pleased that she praised her so well, and said with a smile: "That's it, but he also remembered the appearance of several masters, one named Ma
, with big beards on their faces, one named En is also bearded, the other two are named Mao and the other Deng, but both of them have no beards.”
Empress Dowager Li heard that she recited several lines of Amitabha. Because what the emperor said was interesting, she laughed and said: "People with the surname En are rare." Zhu Yijun was prepared and said with a smile: "It is rare, but "Hundred Family Surnames"
There are also some. During the Zhengtong period of this dynasty, Honglu Temple originally had an official with this surname."
Seeing that he had a nose and an eye, the Queen Mother thought of the emperor's sudden improvement in sacred knowledge these days. Now all the doubts in her mind were dispelled. After hesitating for a moment, she asked again: "Did the late emperor ever say
What?"
Zhu Yijun had completed the plan and couldn't bear to bully her anymore, so he smiled and said: "Father just touched the child's head kindly and said nothing." After hearing this, Empress Dowager Li felt a little disappointed.