When Zhang Ning woke up from his sleep, he first heard the chirping sparrows. When he opened his eyes, he saw yellow sunlight pouring in from the window, making the shadow of a teapot on the table in front of the window long and imprinted in the room.
on the floor. It seems that in my previous life, I took a nap and overslept. After a while, I can have dinner, and then I can go out to enjoy the cool air, watch the two neighbor old men playing chess and chat for a while. The kind old family members will ask Xiaojun how he is now.
Where do you work? Then you will envy and say that being in an office building with air conditioning is better than working on a construction site; and it seems that on a weekend, you can finally cancel the alarm clock and sleep until you wake up naturally. After getting up, you will go to the refrigerator to find something to drink.
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But the door soon opened, and a slim girl appeared, wearing a half-length skirt. As she came in, the light of the setting sun also appeared at the door. For a moment, she felt as if she had just come down from the sky, and her whole body was shining.
Shining with light and dressed in ancient costume, Zhang Ning quickly returned to reality. At this time, all the events of the Ming Dynasty entered his consciousness like a tide.
"Brother, you finally woke up!" Zhang Xiaomei's voice came out from the light, as if it was the first time she came to this world.
Zhang Ning got up and felt that his body was soft and his head was a little dizzy and a little painful. He asked, "How long have I been asleep?"
"You came back at noon yesterday." The younger sister walked to the bed and looked at him with concern, "Eat something, red date porridge, I put candied fruits in it."
Zhang Ning stretched out his hand to wipe his face, walked to the table, picked up the teapot with a long shadow, and shook it. Hearing the sound of water, he took a few sips of tea at the mouth of the pot, and turned around and said: "Bring it on
Bring me a toothbrush and towel, and have someone boil some hot water. I'll take a shower and change clothes first."
"There is still hot water in the kitchen, I'll get it for you." The younger sister said hurriedly, "Also, Miss Luo came here yesterday and didn't dare to wake you up. She was worried that she slept at our house last night."
"Well..." Zhang Ning heard the explanation and said, "I asked Zhao Erniang to do those things just now, so just say it was my order."
"She hasn't come back yet." The younger sister looked at him innocently.
Zhang Ning slapped his forehead: "Oh!"
After a while, Luo Yaoniang came as expected, complaining: "You really look like someone who came back from a famine. You fell asleep when you came back and made people worry about you..."
"My little sister, have you been well-behaved at your house these days?" Zhang Ning showed an ugly smile. He felt that his beard seemed to have suddenly grown a little longer. He didn't want to shave tomorrow, so he had to let it grow like this.
Luo Yaoniang said: "It's good. Within a few days, our family Cuihua couldn't bear to leave her... You did a good job this time. My father nagged me several times yesterday and kept saying that you were a talent."
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"Oh." Zhang Ning just responded.
In his previous life, he had heard a lot of belittling and looking down on him, but later he became "sensible" and did all the right things a person should do, and he was somewhat promising. There were also a lot of exaggerations and praises, and he was not surprised. In fact, most of them were.
It depends on the surface whether you have a future or not. When you live in this world, you will be bound by this invisible pressure of public opinion. Whether you like it or not, it only matters whether you should or should not.
At this time, Xiaomei and Wenjun came in with water, and Zhang Ning asked: "Have you rested?"
Xu Wenjun was stunned for a moment before she realized that she was asking herself. She nodded hurriedly and said, "I got up this morning and slept well." Her eyes were looking away, as if she was deliberately avoiding Zhang Ning. Perhaps it was because of what happened at the Chunhan Liyuan in Nanjing.
Is she embarrassed?
Luo Yaoniang continued to say on the side: "I went home in the afternoon and heard from my father that there were many memorials early this morning urging him to ascend the throne as soon as possible, but the prince said that the late emperor had just passed away and he couldn't bear it, so he didn't agree."
Zhang Ning said casually: "The ministers have to go to court three times to persuade the prince. Only when the prince refuses to accept it can he avoid the difficulty of holding the enthronement ceremony."
Luo Yaoniang said: "The British Duke (Zhang Fu, the leader of the Ming army) also suggested that the prince order the capital camp to impose martial law on the capital. However, the prince said that the soldiers were working too hard in the hot weather and it was unnecessary, so he ordered more troops already at the city gate.
The troops also withdrew."
Zhu Zhanji is indeed not a mediocre person. This move shows his courage and magnanimity, which means that even the King of Han would not dare to attack the capital.
After preparing the things for bathing, Zhang Ning planned to take a bath and change clothes in his room, so he said: "I'm going to take a bath, I'll talk about it later."
Luo Yaoniang's cheeks turned slightly red and she said seriously: "You guys go out first, I have a few more words to finish."
Xu Wenjun and Zhang Xiaomei walked out of the room in silence. Zhang Ning took off his coat and threw it directly on the floor. Seeing that Luo Yaoniang still didn't leave, he didn't bother to care about her, so he took off his underwear and threw it away. Luo Yaoniang hurriedly turned around, Xiaomei
He said: "The late emperor passed away, and our marriage has to be postponed...Originally, ordinary subjects are not allowed to marry within 27 days, but my father wants to set an example of loyalty and filial piety, so we have to wait for at least a year."
Zhang Ning had already stripped naked and jumped into the wooden bucket. There were no showers in this era. If you wanted to take a bath, you had to wash yourself in the bath tub or carry a bucket outside and wash it with water. At this time, he was smelly, mostly from sweat. Naturally,
Don't worry about the lingering feminine odor on your body. It's really difficult to distinguish the feminine smell that has passed a few days from the unpleasant sweat odor.
"Then we have to wait another year." He said solemnly, "You can go out first. There are no outsiders in the yard, but it is always not good for the late emperor to just pass away. Don't spend the night here during this period. Even last night
Yes. Mr. Yang is an important minister of the imperial court. It will always be unpleasant if someone talks about such a trivial matter."
After hearing this, Luo Yaoniang blushed and walked out. At the door, she couldn't help but said: "One year is quite a long time."
Zhang Ning said: "Don't worry, I'm not a fastidious person, are you?"
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Funeral objects were hung everywhere in the capital, and there had been national mourning in the past two years. However, at this time, calm was restored, there were no large numbers of troops wandering around the city, and the cities were in good order.
Zhu Zhanji did not think that the King of Han had the guts to lead his troops to attack Beijing at this time. The King of Han's opportunity was before Zhu Zhanji came to Beijing. There were almost no favorable excuses and opportunities at this time, and the situation gradually tilted towards the capital. It could not be recovered.
The situation in the era of Emperor Hongxi was that because Emperor Hongxi was the elder brother, the King of Han did not dare to disrespect his elder brother easily as a younger brother. But Zhu Zhanji was different. He was a junior and his prestige was not as good as that of the King of Han. However, Zhu Zhanji occupies a justifiable name.
Well, it shouldn't be anything serious for the time being.
What Zhu Zhanji faced was not a mess, but the situation was also very complicated. First of all, the vassal king was too powerful. Not only the King of Han, but also several uncles were also taking advantage of the situation.
The country's people's livelihood has still not recovered from the Yongle era. Hundreds of thousands of Ming Dynasty troops are still fighting in Jiaozhi (Vietnam). They are bleeding every day and suffering casualties and spending a lot of military expenses. The Vietnamese people are resisting the invasion and constantly creating problems for the Ming army.
Trouble, the south is full of blood and tears accusations against the "violence of the northern dynasty". However, the civil servants of the Ming Dynasty expressed their innocence. They wanted to use royal education to make Vietnam more civilized, and sent hundreds of thousands of troops to help them and build
They built city fortresses and post roads, and built watchtowers and fortresses in the post roads as strongholds to improve transportation in the wilderness; they also implemented the baojia system across Vietnam to make them more organized; they continued to collect grain and livestock, in short, they concentrated their manpower
Material resources can be used to accomplish great things that benefit the people...but now others don't appreciate it. The Ming Dynasty court is in a dilemma and may want to withdraw its troops.
In addition, there are also rebellions in minority areas in the southwest and other places from time to time, issues of taxation and servitude in the Jiangnan area, and changes in the strategy of the northern border defense... The judiciary also needs further innovation, and centralization of power needs to be further strengthened...
In addition to attending to the funeral of the late emperor in the Forbidden City, Zhu Zhanji was now mainly thinking about the upcoming major affairs of national governance.
There are two most important things at the moment: the enthronement edict. The first edict is to establish the fundamental national policy of the Zhu Zhanji dynasty. Zhu Zhanji has a passion for great achievements, but at this time, after thinking clearly, he still mainly continues the tone set by his father.
The main thing is to restore and develop the economy; the second thing is the core team of his regime, who should be re-employed, this is also a top priority.
San Yang and other ministers were close friends with Emperor Hong Xi, and they had a deep relationship. Zhu Zhanji also recognized them, but his personal relationship was not that deep. He thought more about it, and a set of methods of governing the country that he believed to be more stable had already been in his mind.
Gradually taking shape.
He first met with Yang Shiqi and other important ministers in private, talking about the overburdened people of the Ming Dynasty, the difficult life of soldiers, etc. He first expressed his opinion on restoring the economy in compliance with historical missions, and hinted that Yang Shiqi would prepare the enthronement edict to create and stabilize the dynasty.
The stage has gradually passed, and what the people of the world now want is a better material life, so Yang Shiqi and others are very pleased and agree with Zhu Zhanji's words.
Immediately afterwards, he called the eunuch in charge of the ceremonial department to meet with some palace officials from the East Palace, and asked about the situation of some ministers. The eunuch Wang Gou'er had the honor to meet the saint. He had been an eunuch in the three dynasties, and it seemed that he was not in front of Zhu Zhanji at present.
He will not fall out of favor, because Zhu Zhanji has heard about it: when the late emperor died, Wang Gou'er was serving him. Later, the ministers asked him if he had any posthumous edict. Wang Gou'er said that Emperor Hongxi had ordered the prince to return to Beijing.
Come and inherit the throne.
Zhu Zhanji believed that most of the eunuchs in his East Palace were illiterate and had no talents. Because he thought Wang Gou'er was loyal, he had already decided to make Wang Gou'er the chief minister of etiquette.
The monarch and his ministers talked for a while. Zhu Zhanji suddenly remembered something and asked casually: "Has Zhang Ning come to the table?"
Most of the people present had no idea who Zhang Ning was, and immediately looked at each other very nervously. At this time, Wang Gouer hurriedly said: "The Director of Ceremonies has not received his note yet."
In the past two days, there have been a lot of people coming to the table to persuade them to come in. It is not easy for Wang Gou'er, the eunuch and eunuch in charge of etiquette, to determine at once whether Zhang Ning is going to the table. This is also Wang Gou'er's ability. He had already heard that Zhang Ning went to welcome him.
The prince was pleased, so he paid extra attention to Zhang Ning's performance.
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