prosperous age

Chapter 608 Can 607 memorize it?

The carriage moved forward, and in the swaying carriage, Wei Guangde noticed that the eyes of Chen Hong sitting opposite were bloodshot, obviously he did not sleep well last night.

On the front seat of the carriage was King Yu, he and Chen Hong didn't dare to sit side by side with King Yu, they could only sit facing each other on the front carriage floor.

Wei Guangde was sizing up Chen Hong, and Chen Hong was also observing Wei Guangde, eyes staring at each other for a while, and then embarrassment appeared on their faces.

Wei Guangde and Chen Hong had only met each other, but had never dealt with each other.

In fact, the ministers didn't want to talk to Chen Hong, because he was in charge of the East Factory, so no one wanted to greet the spy chief.

However, in the current environment, it is impossible for him not to speak.

"Eunuch Chen, Your Majesty is summoning His Highness in Xiyuan, am I waiting outside?"

Wei Guangde first asked knowingly.

Chen Hong raised his eyes to look at Wei Guangde, then turned to King Yu and said, "Your Highness, the emperor has already returned to Qianqing Palace. This is to summon His Highness in Qianqing Palace, so."

That means, King Yu and Wei Guangde understood that although Wei Guangde got on the carriage, he couldn't enter the palace without a decree, so he had to get off the carriage outside the palace gate.

But Li Fang and Feng Bao in the car behind did not use it, because they were originally from the palace.

Afterwards, Wei Guangde continued to test Emperor Jiajing's condition and the current situation in the palace, and Chen Hong knew everything at this time.

He knew that this was an expression of direct goodwill to King Yu. Although these words were asked by Wei Guangde, they were what King Yu wanted to know most.

When the carriage arrived outside the imperial city, it was naturally stopped by the patrolling guards. Even though the carriage had the sign of the Supervisor of Rituals on it, it was still stopped.

Chen Hong lifted the curtain of the car and got out, showing the emperor's golden sword that he carried with him.

With the presence of the eunuch Bingbi, the supervisor of ceremonies, and the emperor's golden sword, the guards naturally did not dare to stop them.

After Chen Hong showed something outside the car, the guards blocking the road parted the way. After Chen Hong got back into the carriage, he immediately started moving and continued to drive slowly into the imperial city.

However, the more than [-] palace guards who accompanied the carriage before and after stayed behind.

When he arrived in the imperial city, the imperial guards were responsible for His Highness's safety, and it was no longer under their control.

Entering from Dong'an Gate, and then passing through two palace gates in succession, every time Chen Hong got off the carriage and showed his golden sword, the guards of the imperial city would let him go. Hong looked back at Wei Guangde before getting out of the car.

After Chen Hong got off the car, Wei Guangde whispered to King Yu: "Your Highness, I should get off here."

The moment the curtain was lifted just now, Wei Guangde had already seen where the carriage had arrived.

Although he has never been here, he also heard from Chen Ju that they should have walked around the Jingyun Gate to the back of the three main halls, and then walked inside to the real palace, and behind the vermilion wall is the emperor's bedroom. Qing palace.

Sure enough, after a while, the curtain of the car was lifted from the outside, and Chen Hong's head was exposed.

"Your Highness, please get out of the car."

"it is good."

King Yu got up immediately, and Wei Guangde stepped aside to let King Yu get off first, and he got out of the carriage after King Yu.

There was already a small stool beside the carriage. After King Yu stepped on the small stool to get out of the carriage, he saw that another servant had moved another stool to the back of the carriage. Li Fang got out of the carriage first, and then supported Zhu Yijun Get out of the carriage.

The little guy is still confused at the moment, he can't help but look around, because he finds that the surrounding environment is very strange.

Fortunately, Li Fang and Feng Bao were in front of him and behind him, people he was familiar with and couldn't be more familiar with, so he didn't panic, and he was more curious-where is this place?
Here, there are no guards from the imperial city, but there are many strong servants.

Wei Guangde understood that these people were probably the so-called internal drill eunuchs who were responsible for the safety of the palace.

After Li Fang and Feng Bao brought Zhu Yijun and King Yu to reunite, Chen Hong cupped his hands and said, "Your Highness, brother, please wait here for a while, I will go in and report to the Emperor."

"Tired."

King Yu said to him.

After Chen Hong walked towards the palace gate, King Yu asked Wei Guangde in a low voice: "What should I do after entering, Gu is a bit confused now."

Although he was going to see his father soon, King Yu and Emperor Jiajing had never met each other for so many years. Although they were related to each other, they were actually strangers.

Even if the two of them were walking on the street, they might not know each other.

"It's good to express your nostalgia for His Majesty. After all, you are a prince, and you are connected by flesh and blood. Although His Majesty has been reluctant to see you, there is a reason for that."

Wei Guangde didn't have much contact with Emperor Jiajing, but from the information he got from Chen Ju, he still knew that Emperor Jiajing still cared about his son, especially now that King Yu was his only blood.

At the last moment of Emperor Jiajing's life, what he probably wanted was the love between father and son that he had never had. After all, he had been a loner for 45 years.

"Little brother."

After speaking to King Yu, Wei Guangde squatted down in front of Zhu Yijun, and said to him, "You are going to see your grandpa in a while, do you know who the grandpa is? That is the father of the king."

"Master Wei, but I haven't seen him before, why didn't you bring me here before."

Zhu Yijun is still young and has not officially started studying, but King Yu has asked him to worship Wei Guangde and Zhang Juzheng as teachers, so now Zhu Yijun is no stranger to seeing Wei Guangde, and this master is better than Master Zhang, who brings him delicious food from time to time ,Fun.

Wei Guangde had heard about Zhang Juzheng's final outcome, and many people said that he was too harsh on the little emperor, so when it came to him, he would not make the same mistake as Zhang Juzheng.

If you make mistakes, you must teach them, but usually, indulgence is not a bad thing, as long as you have a good heart and can distinguish right from wrong.

Of course, the emperor does not need to distinguish between right and wrong, but to learn to choose, but this is not what children should learn today.

"Look here, there are so many guards around, this place is a hundred times more fortified than the palace, and your grandpa is usually very busy, so he doesn't have time to see you."

Wei Guangde explained to Zhu Yijun with a smile, "Go in and see your grandpa in a while, don't panic, you must know that he is the best person in the world except your father, who will treat you the best. Use the way you usually act like a baby in front of your father." Just put it on."

After all, King Yu was also the one who lost his two sons. Although he attached great importance to Zhu Yijun's education and found a good teacher for him early on, he was very arrogant towards Zhu Yijun on weekdays, and sometimes Wei Guangde even talked to him behind his back. sentence.

Fortunately, Zhu Yijun's acting like a baby can only target Yu Wang, but it is completely ineffective against his mother.

A loving father and a strict mother, this is a true portrayal of the relationship in Prince Yu's mansion.

Of course, the driving force behind it was Wei Guangde, who passed the words passed by Feng Bao.

There are many unofficial folk histories that Li Caifeng had an affair with the suave and promising Zhang Juzheng when she was a maid in Prince Yu's Mansion, but Wei Guangde could pat his chest and say, "Impossible, absolutely impossible."

The backyard of the Prince's Mansion is not something they can visit at will.

In his memory, the number of times he got into the back room was only one hand, how could Zhang Juzheng have the ability to meet a girl two or three times?

If there was any chance of flirting between the two, it must have been during the early Wanli Dynasty, when the teacher of the Wanli Emperor taught the little emperor.

After all, the emperor was still young at that time, and Empress Dowager Li would go to take care of him every day, so it is normal to meet more often.

They waited for two sticks of incense outside the palace gate, and the wait was not short, Zhu Yijun seemed to have numb legs, so he simply lay on Wei Guangde's shoulder.

Well, before in Prince Yu's Mansion and his own home, Wei Guangde often let his sons Wei Dacheng and Zhu Yijun sit on his shoulders to play, so Zhu Yijun was always very casual in front of him.

At this time Zhu Yijun lay on him, and Wei Guangde hugged him habitually.

But in his heart, Wei Guangde was also muttering, why did he wait for so long?
After another short while, Chen Ju finally saw Chen Ju rushing out from the palace gate, knelt down in front of King Yu, and invited King Yu and his little brother to enter the palace.

Wei Guangde handed the child to Li Fang who was closest to him, and then stepped aside.

King Yu walked in front, behind him were Li Fang who was holding Zhu Yijun, and Feng Bao who was protecting him, and Chen Ju was at the back.

Wei Guangde's eyes were sharp, and he ignored the attention of the servants around him. He grabbed Chen Ju and asked, "Brother Chen, what's going on inside? You've been waiting for so long?" '

"The emperor needs to freshen up and change into a uniform. Originally, I went in first."

It seemed that he wanted to say something more, but King Yu had almost reached the palace gate at this moment, and Chen Ju immediately changed his mind and followed quickly.

Seeing the back of Chen Ju leaving quickly, Wei Guangde smacked his lips, this is to make a good image in front of his son and grandson.

The few times Wei Guangde met Emperor Jiajing, he was always dressed in Taoist robes. If he was not in the palace, who would believe that he is the current emperor.

With King Yu's departure, he was left standing alone in the spacious square in front of the palace gate, with two carriages beside him.

Not knowing how long King Yu would stay this time, Wei Guangde simply jumped into the carriage again and sat down on the throne.

The two little servants were already standing in the carriage, seeing Wei Guangde's actions, they just opened their mouths and didn't say anything in the end.

The imperial seat that Wei Guangde sits on is of course not the "imperial" seat that only the emperor can sit on, but the "imperial" seat of the emperor.

This word is actually related to the "Yu" that was used later, maybe it is a fake word.

In the early days, there were usually three people in one car, and the order of the three people was: the venerable was on the left, the driver was in the middle, and the companion was on the right.

That is to say, among the three people in the car, the person with the highest status sits on the left, the driver of the chariot and horse sits in the middle, and the other character who accompanies the ride sits in the right seat.

After continuous improvement, the carriage has gradually become what people in later generations saw, but the name has not changed much.

At this time, in the Qianqing Palace, Zhu Yijun had been called to him by Emperor Jiajing, and he put his hands on the child's shoulders and looked carefully.

In the past two years, Emperor Jiajing had dared not even go to the city tower, so it was naturally the first time he saw Zhu Yijun.

Although he was not in good health, after grooming, the Emperor Jiajing no longer had the gray complexion before, and looked very kind. He kept asking Zhu Yijun about his life in the palace and the people around him.

Standing below, King Yu was also sizing up his father carefully.

Compared with the vague memory of the past, the current Emperor Jiajing is obviously old.

King Yu also met Emperor Jiajing when he was very young, when his second brother was still alive.

It's just that time is too long, and the resolute figure in the memory has long been blurred.

"Good boy, well educated."

After talking a lot, King Yu felt that Emperor Jiajing had told him all the things Zhu Yijun remembered since he was sensible, and only then did he hear a compliment from his father.

Perhaps because he felt that he couldn't hold on anymore, Emperor Jiajing stopped talking with Zhu Yijun, and said to Huang Jin: "Take the son to the imperial prison, and reward him with whatever he likes."

"Thank you, grandpa, for the reward."

At this time, Zhu Yijun widened his eyes and looked at Emperor Jiajing with joy.

"Okay, okay, as long as you like it, Huang Jin, take him there."

"According to the order."

Huang Jingong replied sincerely, and then took Zhu Yijun's little hand and walked out. Behind them, Li Fang and Feng Bao glanced at Emperor Jiajing who was sitting on the throne, saw him waving his hands casually, and then followed them away.

In the main hall of Qianqing Palace, only the emperor and Yu Wang and his son were left.

King Yu thought that Emperor Jiajing was going to say something to him, but he was still thinking about how to express his bondage to his father according to Wei Guangde's meaning, when he saw that the straight figure that Emperor Jiajing had always maintained suddenly softened Go down and lean on the support group of the throne.

"Father."

King Yu screamed out, and hurried over to support Emperor Jiajing. At this time, he could no longer care about the so-called superiority and inferiority of interests.

"My health is failing, I asked you to come here to see you for the last time."

By this time, Emperor Jiajing's lips had already looked a little dim, and he stretched out his trembling right hand to touch King Yu.

King Yu hurried over and let his hand stick to his face. This was an experience that he only had in his dreams for many years.

It's just that Yu Wang knew in his heart that this might be the last time.

Touching King Yu's face and looking at King Yu, Emperor Jiajing showed a trace of nostalgia in his eyes.

For so many years, other people have a house full of children and grandchildren, making love at their knees, but I dare not even see them face to face.

Although he was unwilling, he was afraid.

He was afraid that he would end up in the same way as his cousin, and that he would be one step ahead of him when he met his son, and he couldn't bear it.

"Put me on the couch, it's uncomfortable."

Emperor Jiajing said in a weak tone.

"Yes."

King Yu agreed, then turned his back, supported Emperor Jiajing with both hands to let him lean on his back, waited for his body to bear the weight of the emperor, got up with difficulty, and walked to the bedroom on the left step by step.

King Yu's body was somewhat hollowed out because of his drunkenness. He was young before, and under Gao Gong's persuasion, he knew a little restraint.

After Gao Gong left King Yu's mansion, the words of Yin Shizhen and others who stayed behind had little influence on King Yu. Even though Wei Guangde, whom he valued several times, was persuaded by King Yu, he was left behind by King Yu. The emperor was quite struggling.

"Can you move your back?"

Maybe it's a pun, not only asking whether King Yu can carry him behind his back, but also about the heavy burden of Daming Jiangshan, can you bear it, my son?
King Yu resolutely responded while carrying Jiajing on his back:
"My son can move his back! My son can move his back!"

It's just that King Yu at this time didn't think about that at all, and just walked towards the imperial couch step by step with Emperor Jiajing on his back.

The vitality of the old emperor is lost step by step, the era of Jiajing is about to pass, and the era of King Yu is coming soon.

(End of this chapter)