More than half of the trip to the capital was over, and the prince felt that Dao Chi was reacting abnormally, becoming more and more erratic. He was running around in the capital, and often sighed secretly. He was also a little inattentive to reading historical materials with him.
The prince watched for two days and finally couldn't help but asked: "Erlang, what's wrong with you? You seem to have something on your mind?"
Dao Chi felt a little uncomfortable and said: "I don't have anything else on my mind, I just want to be safe."
When the prince heard this, he was stunned.
He was just a half-grown boy who had never left Anlu. After the initial fear and excitement, Dao Chi successfully aroused his "homesickness".
When he got off the carriage that night, the prince looked to the southwest and stood there for a long time.
In the conversation with Dao Chi, the prince no longer only thought about how to deal with the powerful officials in the capital and the queen mother, but began to mention the princess and the two princesses, as well as Lu Song and Fan's family.
The person he mentioned the most, apart from the princess, was the Fan family. One of them was to generate favors, and the other was to cultivate favors. It sounded like they had almost the same weight in the prince's heart.
In addition to being a listener, Dao Chi also began to talk about his own affairs.
The old monk who taught him how to behave in Xishan Temple, Father Wang who took care of him when he grew up, Wang Ning and Shun Niang who treated him as flesh and blood after coming down from the mountain, and the two uncles Liu and Cui who they only met in the twelfth lunar month of last year.
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There are also Rong Niang who has a cheerful personality and Wang Sanlang who is sincere.
Speaking of this, he also felt lucky in his heart.
In the past three years since I came down from the mountain, Jiangnan has been flooded for three consecutive years, and many people have been displaced. Even if the family has fertile land, the annual harvest is not enough. If he does not have the help of relatives and friends, let alone marrying a shunniang, even the lives of his grandparents will have problems.
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Although Xishan Temple is here, the help from others is just the icing on the cake. But without the legitimate help from others, Xishan Temple's money will not be spent.
The prince was frightened for half a month. Hearing the Taoist idiot mention these warm scenes, his spirit also relaxed.
However, the peculiar suspicion of the superior made him start to doubt again.
Seeing the smile on Tao Chi's face, which seemed to be filled with nostalgia, the prince felt dazzled and frowned: "Erlang is too simple. Of course there is true love in this world, but there is also hypocrisy driven by various interests. The eldest lady of the Wang family and
Wang Sanlang is both a son of the Yang family. His mother cannot tolerate you, how can they give birth to sincerity? And your two uncles, even if they have been away from home for many years. If they are interested in investigating, they will know the news about you early. I will ignore it.
For more than ten years, I have been trying to get a cheap nephew for a little favor. All they want is that you are a scholar, and you are my companion, and you have a biological father who is in the third rank. Maybe they can rely on you.
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In fact, he didn't care about Dao Chi's nominal grandmother and sister.
Dao Chi was originally a concubine from a wealthy family, and he was adopted into a poor family. Even though he only had the dowry from his biological mother, it was much richer than the original family. In this adoption, Dao Chi did not take advantage at all, but suffered too much.
Without the help of the family, they still have to shoulder the burden of marrying a sister and serving their elders. Even if the two care for the Taoist, they should do it, because the Taoist is the one who supports the family. Even if the adoptee is not the Taoist, but a member of other clansmen, they
As women and children, we can only win over them carefully.
After hearing these words, Dao Chi didn't know how to proceed.
Maybe these people have other ideas about how they treat him, but they also have sincerity in them. He himself is not 100% sincere, so naturally he is not demanding of others. He just looks at the good things.
The prince's views are too sharp and too negative.
He looked at the Crown Prince, truly puzzled.
In other palaces, there might be intrigues and intrigues, and the environment for children to grow up would be darker. In Prince Xing's Palace, Prince Xing is the first king, and Queen Xing's residence is as simple as an ordinary rich family's home.
, one wife, one concubine, and several unnamed intercourse.
The princess is the only one in the family, Mrs. Wang is docile and peaceful, and the other rooms are silent.
Except for the late second princess, the younger generation in the palace are all direct descendants of the princess. When the prince was born, the eldest prince had died in infancy for many years. He was the child that the prince and princess had been longing for.
How could the prince, who had been raised so pampered and pampered, be so gloomy in his heart?
Seeing the Taoist idiot's ignorance, the prince said seriously: "You grew up in the mountains and know very little about the world. Even if you have some knowledge, you can only get it from books. People's hearts are complex and sometimes it is difficult to write down in writing. In the future, you will be slow
You will soon know that you have a cautious temperament and are rarely moved by external things and outsiders. The only people who can really touch you are relatives and friends you recognize. Because of this, you have to be more careful, because the closer people are, the more they know about you.
The shortcomings will be more terrible than those of outsiders."
Having said this, the prince didn't know what he thought of, and he felt a little depressed.
The Taoist idiot mentioned these things in order to make the prince more "humane", but he never expected that the prince would become even more gloomy.
He really had a headache this time.
Apart from "losing his father when he was young", he could not imagine what kind of setbacks the prince could have encountered that would make him like this.
When I was in the palace earlier, it was fine. I just felt that the prince's temperament was a little dull and not lively enough. On the way to Beijing, I don't know if it was due to excessive pressure. The gloomy aspect of the prince's temperament became more and more obvious...
No matter how gloomy the prince's temperament is, as long as he doesn't get into trouble stupidly, there is nothing to fear. After thinking about it, Dao Chi became much more relaxed. He stopped doing small things and returned to his old ways, reading books, looking at the scenery, and reading with the prince.
Playing with Lu Bing and Hu Tou.
Without desire, he becomes strong, and he suddenly feels at ease.
The prince spent time with him day and night and naturally noticed changes in him.
However, in the eyes of the prince, Dao Chi was over the "homesickness" and was made more lively by Lu Bing.
The prince was happy to see this. In his eyes, Lu Bing and Dao Chi were both children. They were childish occasionally, and it was normal to be more lively.
Being led by Lu Bing, a Taoist idiot, the atmosphere in the carriage was no longer as dull as before, and laughter could occasionally be heard.
The palace officials still did not dare to slack off at all. The imperial envoy from the capital, who claimed to be smart, felt that he had figured out the temper of the prince, a child who was occasionally willful. To say that he was willful meant that he treated Gu Da when he was in Anlu.
He was said to be childish because of his age, his indulgence in his attendants along the way, and his moodiness.
It was originally expected to take 22 days to travel from Anlu to the capital. We set off from Anlu on the second day of April. We arrived in the suburbs of Beijing on the 22nd and arrived in the capital on the 23rd. However, after passing Zhili, there was an edict from the capital to urge us.
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Not only should the throne not be vacant for a long time, but the funeral affairs of the Daxing Emperor should not be delayed any longer.
The Emperor Daxing had a posthumous edict to "replace the sun with the month and remove the robes on the 39th day." But before the Emperor arrived, not only the courtiers could not remove the robes, but also the Emperor Daxing could not go to the funeral.
However, because the previous travel schedule was already tight enough, even if everyone speeded up after arriving in Zhili, they could only reach Liangxiang in the suburbs of Beijing one day ahead of schedule.
Liangxiang is located in the southern suburbs of Beijing. It is sixty miles away from the capital and is the gate to the south of Beijing. Officials from Huguang, Shaanxi, Gansu, Henan and other places who enter Beijing must pass through here to rest or arrange for people to come again to inquire about news from the capital.
Although the biggest official in Liangxiang County is only the seventh-grade county magistrate, even the groom and waiter can boast that they have seen a certain gentleman's car passing through this place.
Restaurants and teahouses in the county have also prospered as a result, and the prosperity of the market is evident.
Then, in late April of the 16th year of Zhengde, just a few days after the news of the national mourning spread, the gentry and common people in Liangxiang County discovered something unusual.
There are tens of thousands of guards stationed in Liangxiang in the capital, and from time to time there are cavalrymen riding horses on the streets. Those local ruffians who usually make a living in the market are in bad luck, and they are all arrested. Even if there are occasional
The two men who slipped through the net were hiding at home, and were arrested and imprisoned by the Yamen and the Jin Yiwei.
The magistrate of Liangxiang looked at the hundreds of people in the prison and wanted to hang himself anxiously.
Although he knew that Jin Yiwei acted like this in order to clean up the public order in Liangxiang and prevent him from disturbing the emperor's holy carriage overnight, he was so unlucky as a county magistrate.
It’s better not to fall behind.
However, as the heads of the six ministries and nine ministers of the capital gathered in Liangxiang, he, a small county magistrate, had no room to speak. He could only line up behind the six ministries and bow down to entertain the capital officials.
After the news came to Liangxiang and the emperor and his entourage arrived at Liangxiang on April 21, martial law began in Liangxiang.
Within one mile of the official post, only officers and soldiers are allowed to be stationed, and no officials or civilians are allowed to appear.
Waiting in Liangxiang, in addition to the officials from the Ministry of Rites who were ordered to welcome the subsequent emperor to Beijing, there were also six chief officials and division officials.
The officials of the Ministry of Rites are responsible for their responsibilities. The successor emperor needs to be presided over by the Ministry of Rites when he enters the capital, enters the palace, and ascends the throne. The chief officials and officials of the six departments are just like Gu Dayong before. They go out of the capital to welcome the successor emperor and want to appear in front of the emperor.
Show your face to show your loyalty.
On April 21st, there were many sedan chairs, horses, and officials in the Liangxiang.
Dao Chi was finally allowed to ride a horse, and he, Lu Bing, Hu Tou and other retinues were beside the Crown Prince's carriage. Apart from the Crown Prince, the only people remaining in the carriage were Huang Jin and Lu Fang, two internal officials.
Even though he knew that hundreds of officials were waiting to greet him, the Crown Prince's carriage went directly into the Guanyi Station, which was under martial law, and was not in a hurry to meet everyone.
Although he has not yet entered the capital, the prince has already arrived in Liangxiang and will enter the city tomorrow. The imperial envoys who welcomed the prince to the capital finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Even if the security is tight, everyone is cautious when it comes to imperial power. If the emperor makes any mistakes on the way, they will be the guilty ones. Now that the emperor has arrived successfully, he will be rewarded according to his merits after he ascends the throne. They are the ones who welcome him.
If you are too young, you will not be able to get promoted and make a fortune.
Dao Chi and Lu Bing, the unreal "attendants", were temporarily relieved of their duties after entering the palace. In addition to the internal officials serving the prince, there were also the palace officials led by Yuan Chonggao who communicated with the news. Only Hutou was a close guard.
His identity is still with the crown prince.
Although Liangxiang Guanyi is a big post, there are too many big shots in the industry that cannot stand up to the prince.
The more than 160 people who came from the royal palace, except for the internal officers, guards, and subordinate officers of high rank, were all accommodated in the inn near the post station.
Because Lu Bing and Dao Chi were the "attendants" of the prince, they were originally placed in the official post. However, looking at the room with ten people per room and the crowded courtyard, they joined Fan and Lu Song.
I said hello and went to the inn to settle down.
Along the way, most people stay outside and bathing is extremely inconvenient.
Therefore, after the two of them booked two rooms at the inn, they took a shower and changed clothes first.
Before the Taoist idiot finished bathing, he heard someone outside shouting "Erlang" and pushing in the door...