General Constitution of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 65
In Qingning Palace.

As soon as Zhu Zaishun opened his eyes, he changed into the clothes he was going to leave the palace.

Unexpectedly, Zhu Zaiyu hadn't waited to step out of the palace gate.

Gao Zhong had the cheek to come to Zhu Zaixun.

"My lord, according to the decree of your father, let you contemplate behind closed doors in Qingning Palace..."

"I know."

He said that Zhu Zaiyu also put on boots on his feet.

Gao Zhong looked at Zhu Zaiyu at a loss, and cried out in embarrassment: "Then you, return, return, return... to leave the palace."

"Can't I resist the decree?"

Zhu Zaiyu said calmly.

"If you want to be abolished, you can be demoted. If you want to be demoted, you will be demoted. My legs are growing on me. If Eunuch Gao really can't stand it, will he cut off my legs?"

Having been with Ning Jue for a long time, Zhu Zaiyu's temperament has become more and more like Ning Jue's.

If you want nothing, you are invincible in the world.

Seeing through life and death, no one can do anything to himself.

Gao Zhong fell to his knees with a "plop": "Your Highness, don't be joking, even if you give me 1 guts, I won't dare."

"Then you tie me up, or get out of the way."

Gao Zhong knocked down cheekily: "I dare not give in, I still invite the palace..."

Without waiting for Gao Zhong to finish speaking, Zhu Zaiyi stepped directly over Gao Zhong's head.

"Whether you like to give in or not."

As soon as he passed Gao Zhong, all the Ti Wei outside the hall fell to their knees in unison.

"Your Highness, please return to the palace."

Zhu Zaiyu snorted coldly with great interest, and nodded himself.

"Cheng, Gao Zhong, there is something."

Gao Zhong knelt on the ground and said loudly: "I dare not! Only the father's will is obeyed!"

"I'm not going out of the palace, so I can study in the head office, right?"

Zhu Zaishun resentfully walked towards the desk beside him.

Hearing this, Gao Zhong was finally relieved.

"Reading is good, reading is good, reading is wise, saint..."

Before he finished speaking, Gao Zhong's voice stopped abruptly, because Gao Zhong saw the name of the book in Zhu Zai's hand called "Records of Wu Zong".

Study how to get out of the palace, right?

"Your Highness, the new year is approaching. Lord Yu and Lord Jing will go to Xi Nei to pay New Year's greetings to Junfu later. Why don't you also go there to give Junfu a soft hand? You can also relieve the restraint, and the minister is not here. This is bothering you."

"No! I've thought about it behind closed doors. Wouldn't it be against the decree if I go out? Whoever wants to go will go."

Zhu Zaiyu casually grabbed a plate of melon seeds and read it with relish.

As various ceremonies unfolded in the palace one after another, Daming officially entered the New Year's Eve, and Jiajing, who was sulking in Xiyuan, lost the mind to read the memorials, and threw a bunch of memorials to the courtiers in charge of ceremonies.

"My son, Zhu Zai, pays his respects to his father."

"My son, Zhu Zaizhen, has paid New Year's greetings to my father."

Jiajing, who had just been sulking with Zhu Zaiyu, became interested when he heard that these two sons came to pay him New Year's greetings.

The difference between King Jing and King Yu is less than [-] days, and both of them are about five months younger than Zhu Zaiyu.

Therefore, Jiajing's three sons are actually about the same age.

"Excuse me."

Jiajing carefully looked at the two sons in front of him.

"Well, the shoulders are thicker than before."

King Jing spoke first and said, "My son can eat two bowls of rice for one meal now, and a catty of meat!"

Hearing what Zhu Zaizhen said, a little smile appeared on Jiajing's face.

"It's good to eat, my sons have reached the age of growing their bodies, the common people say that half-sized children will eat me to death, but they will still let children eat it, just to let children as big as you grow up well. "

Jiajing said that what he wanted was to listen to Zhu Zaizhen's answer.

It's just that what Jiajing was thinking about was how Zhu Zaishun would answer after hearing his own question.

Hearing Jiajing's question, Zhu Zaizhen pondered for a moment, then nodded seriously.

"My son will definitely...!"

Jiajing looked at Zhu Zaizhen with a smile.

"Must be?"

Zhu Zaizhen's little face was flushed, and he looked at Jiajing seriously.

"Eat hard!"

An embarrassed yet polite smile flashed across Jiajing's face.

"Ah, good, you should eat hard, good..."

He also secretly thought in his heart: If the prince is the prince, he should be concerned about how much rice and meat the common people eat in a year.

Only then did Jiajing turn his gaze to Zhu Zaicui.

"Why doesn't King Yu make a sound?"

Zhu Zaixi lowered his head tremblingly and said, "I'm thinking about the common people..."

As soon as these words came out, Jiajing couldn't help but his eyes lit up, his eyes widened and he waited for Zhu Zaiqi's next words.

"What do the common people care about? Talk to your father and listen to it."

Unexpectedly, Jiajing's face-changing made Zhu Zaixi so frightened that he knelt down on the ground with a "plop" and cried with a "wow".

"My son is guilty!"

Now it was Jiajing's turn to be dumbfounded, and looked at Zhu Zaixi in disbelief.

"What is your crime?"

"The livelihood of the common people is really beyond the reach of my sons and ministers. I also ask the father and emperor to ask the emperor brother."

As he said this, Zhu Zaidi's teardrops also fell down in a "patta" and "patta".

"No, why are you crying? When did I blame you?"

"Xiangshi, when you go to the hall and sit in the hall in the future, the officials will disobey a little, and you will do the same?"

Zhu Zaixi hurriedly said in a winning streak: "Father and emperor have learned from you, my son and minister will never think so!"

Jiajing's chest seemed to be clogged with stale air, and after a long time, he finally had to swallow it by himself.

Seeing Zhu Zaizhen's appearance, Zhu Zaizhen on the side was a little anxious.

"Third brother, the emperor asked you something, if you cry so much, answer it truthfully."

It's just that Jiajing at this time was a little helpless and recruited the companion behind the two to signal to coax Zhu Zaixi well.

Jiajing, who has been in charge for nearly 30 years, knows very well that you can be an asshole when you are the emperor of Ming Dynasty, but you must not be cowardly, as long as you are cowardly, things will go bad.

Although Zhu Zaidi had some talent, Jiajing knew that with Zhu Zaidi's temperament, he would not be able to secure the throne.

As for Zhu Zaizhen, although he has a stronger temper, he is still too careless to look like a master.

"My son came to pay me New Year's greetings, rewarded as usual, and called Gao Zhong."

"Here!"

What Jiajing didn't know was that in the original timeline, his fourth child died even more strangely than Zhu Zaiyu. In the winter of Jiajing's 43rd year, Jiajing asked Xu Jie about the story of Chengzu's establishment of a reserve, which seemed to be easy to store. It means that the palace people secretly passed on to King Jing, and a few days later King Jing's memorial arrived in the capital, claiming that he was going to Xuanyue (Wudang Mountain) to pray for Jiajing.

Xu Jie wanted to refute it but couldn't find a reason, so the Prince Jing fell ill, and after the first month of the new year, he died in the fief and was expelled from the country without sons.

Not long after, Gao Zhong came to Jiajing.

"There is no need to be polite, what is the prince doing?"

Gao Zhong bowed his head in some embarrassment and said
"His Royal Highness is studying."

Jiajing nodded slightly.

Fortunately, I still have a prince.

"What book is the prince reading recently? "Zi Zhi Tong Jian"?"

Gao Zhong lowered his head in embarrassment.

"Bad, almost, they are all history books, and I don't understand..."

"Zi Zhi Tong Jian is Zi Zhi Tong Jian, why is it similar? What kind of book are you reading?"

"What the crown prince read is "Records of Emperor Wu Zong"."

"Wu...what does he want to do, a little bastard?!"

Gao Zhong hurriedly fell to his knees.

"My lord, it's not an option for the crown prince to be locked up all this time."

Gao Zhong didn't want to get involved in this matter from the bottom of his heart, if Zhu Zaishun really researched something from "Wu Zong Shi Lu" under his nose, wouldn't he become Liu Jin!

Thinking of Liu Jin's end, Gao Zhong couldn't help but shudder.

Jiajing looked sullen:

"Ning Jue... Let's forget about Ning Jue first. Hasn't he gotten very close to that Shu Chang surnamed Zhang recently? His knowledge is not too bad. He will teach a bachelor's degree directly and go to the East Palace to give lectures to the crown prince."

Gao Zhong heard this as if he had received amnesty.

"Here, I will report to the Supervisor of Rites to draw up an order."

"Wait."

Gao Zhong was taken aback, and quickly stopped.

"Hurry up and move the "Wu Zong Shilu" away! How can the East Palace have all kinds of books?!"

　The matter of Zhu Zaizhen is extracted from Volume [-] of Wang Shizhen's "Shoufu Biography Since Jiajing".

　　
　
(End of this chapter)