Traveling through: The down-and-out beauty refuses to be cannon fodder

He devoted his energy to cultivating the prince, and asked the civil servants to compile "Wenhua Daxun" as a teaching material for the prince to read. He also personally wrote the preface for each volume, and hoped to pass on his experience to the children as much as possible.

He has more and more children, and the number of concubines in his harem is also growing. Basically, the princes and princesses have grown up safely, and no one will die in infancy anymore.

After all, with a stable throne, a stable position as the crown prince, and the empress dowager and him watching him coldly, no one is interested in it.

He even held a Lantern Festival in the palace, with all kinds of juggling performances and entertainment.

And he just watched from the sidelines, feeling the joy of the special festival just like he did back then.It's just that the emperor's throne is noble and cold, alienating the crowd, and making him even more lonely.

He was finally tired of the day-to-day intrigues and scheming traps, and began to look for the meaning of life in the nothingness of Buddhism.

However, as the princes gradually grew up, a new round of palace battles began again.

The Crown Prince was raised by the Empress Dowager Zhou himself since he was a child, and his love is different from others. Zhu Jianshen has also shown kindness to the Empress Dowager's natal family many times to ensure that the Zhou family is a staunch supporter of the Crown Prince.

However, the fourth prince wanted to win the world, and some people in the palace began to rumor that the imperial concubine wanted to adopt the fourth prince born to Concubine Shao Chen and wanted to replace the East Palace.

Familiar formula, same taste.

How similar to him back then.

However, Zhu Jianshen did not let the matter develop, but started a new round of testing on the people around him.

The first person he attacked was Huaien, the eunuch in charge of the ceremony.Ask him: "What do you think if the crown prince is appointed instead?"

Huai En immediately knelt down and cried bitterly: "Your Majesty, absolutely not! The crown prince has been in the East Palace for many years, and everyone in the court and the public praises him. Don't tamper with the crown prince!"

Zhu Jianshen didn't say much, and directly demoted him to Fengyang.

Qin Chang, the supervisor of ceremonies, also insisted that the prince should not be abolished.

Inside and outside the palace, there were rumors about the abolished prince for quite a while.

The noble concubine Wan Huang who lived firmly in the Anxi Palace was furious: "This gang of black-hearted bastards, this palace is so law-abiding that I won't let them go?!"

She had to cry to Zhu Jianshen.

Zhu Jianshen was still very moved by Wan's sensible and peaceful.

In many cases, he bypassed civil servants and used Chuanfeng officials to solve problems, and sometimes he even needed to borrow the name of Concubine Wan Gui to let the eunuchs implement some things, causing her to bear a lot of infamy.

In order to appease Concubine Wan Gui, he wrote a poem on a Song Dynasty's "Picture of Hens and Chickens": "The southern huts are different from other groups, and the grass-roots caves can be divided. Nesting and lying down, there is no dark day, covering the body and calling children Accompanied by the night. Raise the plumage and peck it with a drink, and the defense will be a total merit. It is enviable to see you frequently, and the virtue of the loving bird is known to the world."

And gave this painting to Concubine Wan Gui.

However, the Empress Dowager Zhou is not a fuel-efficient lamp.How could the crown prince, whom she worked so hard to raise, be coveted as the crown prince just like this?

She quickly suggested that the emperor choose a concubine for the prince.

As for Concubine Wan Gui, whom she has hated for decades, she naturally wished that she would die sooner.

The prince is now 16 years old, and it is time to choose a concubine to start a family.

Zhu Jianshen quickly ordered the Ministry of Rites to discuss the matter of choosing a concubine for the prince.

Under such circumstances, the rumors of the emperor abolishing the prince naturally fell through.

Zhu Jianshen thinks how similar this situation is?
Back then, shortly after choosing a crown princess for himself, the first emperor died of a serious illness.

Now, do I have to repeat the mistakes of the late emperor?
It's not a bad thing for him either.

In his nearly 40 years of life, he has worked hard, struggled, and loved.

On the first day of the first lunar month of the 23rd year of Chenghua, Zhu Jianshen went to the southern suburbs to offer sacrifices and took the prince with him.

The prince had already grown taller than him, with fair skin and a tree facing the wind, he was just a young man in his prime.

Just taciturn, just like him back then.

Sacrificial ceremonies are cumbersome.

Zhu Jianshen finished the sacrifice, but found that the prince was not serving him.

He searched all the way, but outside the room arranged for the prince to rest, he heard a woman's voice that he had not heard for more than ten years.

He walked quietly to the door and listened.

The female voice inside is not loud, but the words are clear and powerful.

"I was late. When I first heard the rumors about the deposed prince, I wanted to come and take you away, but..."

"Mom, I don't blame you. Where have you been all these years?"

"I've been to many places. I picked the things I brought back for you with my own hands. Do you like them? There are music boxes, clocks, and crops like potatoes and corn. Haven't you received them?"

"Mother, I miss you so much!" The prince restrained his crying.

The woman began to sob: "It's my mother's fault! When the fourth prince was born, I wanted to take you away. Our mother and son traveled all over the world, wandering around the world. But you don't want to leave, and mother doesn't want to force you..."

The crown prince shook his head in tears and said: "I can't leave. If I leave, father will fall ill. He lost his mother, so he can't live without me."

The woman stopped crying: "He doesn't have you. He has other sons and daughters. He has a lot. And mother, you are the only one."

The prince said: "No, mother, I know, father is living a very hard life."

Zhu Jianshen outside the house couldn't help sighing secretly: "This son, the pain is really not in vain!"

After the mother and son in the room talked for a while, the woman began to persuade the prince again: "Brother Chan, you might as well consider going with me, the outside world is so wonderful, why do you bother to guard this terrible throne for the rest of your life?"

Before the prince could speak, Zhu Jianshen pushed the door open and entered.

The woman in the room was dressed in maid clothes, her appearance had hardly changed, she was still so young, so free and unrestrained, and so high-spirited.

Just like the first time he saw her in Yangzhou city.

When the woman saw him, she was stunned for a while, and finally uttered a sentence: "Why are you so fat?"

Really fat as two people.

Zhu Jianshen couldn't laugh or cry, he couldn't say what he wanted to blame.

She has disappeared for more than ten years, but it seems that she just went to the garden for a while, without feeling the slightest guilt, and even arranged herself!
Seeing that the emperor just looked at his mother deeply, the prince retreated consciously.

"Where have you been all these years?"

"I just went shopping overseas for a few years, and then I lived in Hainan."

"No wonder. It seems to be a little dark. How did you come back?"

"You have to find a way out for your son."

"You think I'm so cruel?"

"Enter the dragon, he is the younger one, and I am his mother, so I should protect him."

"what about me?"

"You are a powerful king with superb methods and great patience. Under your rule, the world has become more and more prosperous. Even the number of people living in Hainan has doubled, all thanks to you."

"Are you leaving me alone?"

The woman was stunned: "I can't control you."

"If you don't try, how do you know you can't control it?"

The woman turned sideways dejectedly. There was not much point in arguing about it.

"Then what are you going to do next?"

The woman paused, but said again: "If he refuses to come with me, I will go back to Jiangnan."

"Your parents and family have returned to the capital, what are you going to Jiangnan for?"

"My master is still in Jiangnan, I'm going to visit his old man."