Ming Dynasty: At the beginning, the house was ransacked and the ancestral temple was burned down.

Chapter 34 Concubine Zheng appears!
  The emperor asked such a fatal question, Zhang Jing really didn't dare to answer, so he had to pretend to be stupid and prevaricate:
  "It doesn't seem to be an important day... By the way, Your Majesty! Why don't you go to Concubine Zheng's place to rest for a while? Concubine Zheng is pregnant, and the little prince in her belly must miss you very much, Your Majesty."

Zhu Yijun finally showed a happy smile. He no longer asked what day June 20th was. He just nodded and said, "Okay, I'll go see Concubine Zheng."

Zhang Jing finally breathed a sigh of relief. He was glad that he had figured out the emperor's thoughts. As he expected, whenever the emperor was in a bad mood, only Concubine Zheng could comfort the emperor.

The most important thing is that Concubine Zheng is pregnant now. No matter how bad the Emperor's mood is, the thought of Long Zi who is about to be born will make her feel better.

Indeed, when Zhu Yijun thought that his beloved Zheng was about to give birth to a dragon heir, most of the depression in his heart dissipated, and he immediately boarded the Dragon Boat Festival and went to the harem.

Zhu Yijun seemed to have forgotten that he had not seen his eldest son Zhu Changluo, who was already two years old, for a long time.

At this time, Zhu Yijun only regarded Zhu Changluo, the eldest son, as an insignificant existence. What he didn't know was that this eldest son would become his biggest obstacle in the rest of his life.

……

Harem.

"My beloved, why hasn't your belly gotten bigger yet?" Zhu Yijun stared at Zheng Mengjing's belly, as if he wanted to see the child inside.

"Your Majesty, are you stupid? It's only been more than a month, how can you show your pregnancy so quickly."

Zheng Mengjing not only rolled her eyes at Zhu Yijun without hesitation, but even bluntly called her emperor "stupid". However, in Zhu Yijun's eyes, all her disrespect was the only one that was cute and cute.

In the entire harem, and even in the entire world, Zheng Mengjing was probably the only one who dared to treat Zhu Yijun like this.

"I don't know how many months it takes for a woman to show her pregnancy. How can you, little girl, call me stupid?" Zhu Yijun replied with a smile and stopped using "I" to refer to himself.

"It's not your first time to be a father. Did you forget when Concubine Gong was pregnant with Chang Luo?" Zheng Mengjing asked strangely.

Zhu Yijun's face froze for a moment when he mentioned the word "Gong Fei". He really didn't want to mention that "ridiculous" past again.

Although Zheng Mengjing dared to directly call the emperor stupid, she also knew that this man held the power of life and death for everyone. She knew very well when to pretend to be smart and when to pretend to be stupid.

"By the way, Your Majesty, our child is about to be born. I don't want the old guys in the cabinet to name the child. Can you name him yourself?" Zheng Mengjing changed the subject.

Zhu Yijun smiled: "Isn't it better for the cabinet ministers to read poetry and books, let them choose the auspicious characters first, and then let me choose?"

"I don't want it." Zheng Mengjing pouted, looking unhappy:
  "So what if they are well-read in poetry and books? In my eyes, they are just a group of smelly and dull old idiots. What good name can a group of old idiots have?"

Besides, Your Majesty, you are also well-read in poetry and books, you are young, handsome, and talented in literature, and you are also the biological father of the child. The name you choose will definitely be thousands of times better than those chosen by those old guys! "

Zheng Mengjing's flattery was really exaggerated, but Zhu Yijun was so impressed by her that she smiled so hard that his eyes narrowed into slits.

No man can refuse such flattery, even Zhu Yijun, as an emperor, has never been short of flattery.

"Okay, then I will name our child myself. What should I choose? If it is a boy, it must be related to water. Water..."

Zhu Yijun started to think, and soon he had an idea:

"What is the word "溆" like? "溆" means water. I remember there was a place named Xupu, also known as Shuanglong River. Qu Yuan had a sentence in Chu Ci, 'When you enter Xupu, you will be standing there, and you will be confused and don't know what I am doing'."

Zheng Mengjing is literate and loves to read, but all she reads are story books, so she can't understand what Zhu Yijun is saying. But she still looked at Zhu Yijun with great admiration and said, "Wow, that's great, so what do you mean, Your Majesty?"

Looking at Zheng Mengjing's shining eyes full of admiration, Zhu Yijun secretly raised his chest and explained: "It means that after Qu Yuan entered Xupu, he was wandering and hesitating, not knowing where to go." "Then. Isn't it the same as your Majesty now?" Zheng Mengjing suddenly asked.

Zhu Yijun was stunned, "Huh?"

Zheng Mengjing said again: "Aren't you just like Qu Yuan, hesitating and hesitating?"

For a moment, the atmosphere froze.

Zhu Yijun's originally relaxed mood suddenly became heavy again, and his face naturally turned ugly.

If any other woman had seen this scene, she would have been so frightened that she would have knelt on the ground and begged for mercy.

But this is Zheng Mengjing. The reason why Zhu Yijun loves her so much is not because of her beauty, but because she is different from other women.

"Your Majesty, sometimes I really feel like you are like an indecisive old man. You are the emperor, and those ministers are trying to get you in trouble. Why don't you just learn from Wuzong and beat them out?" Zheng Mengjing knew that Zhu Yijun was now Annoying, she even gave such advice.

Instead of being angry, Zhu Yijun smiled helplessly: "Learn from Wuzong? Then fight Wang Yangming? You are a little girl, you don't understand. Wuzong has gone too far. If I really learn from him, I will be infamy for thousands of years."

"Since you are afraid of being infamy for thousands of years and want to be famous for eternity, why not just be like Xiaozong and become an emperor who rules from the top down?" Zheng Mengjing suggested again.

Zhu Yijun was still not angry, but became entangled: "I am not willing to accept it. Xiaozong is just a lord who maintains success. What I want to be is like Chengzu..."

Zhu Yijun was thinking about it, and Zheng Mengjing had to listen. This was not the first time she heard Zhu Yijun make such meaningless excuses.

Although this man is a lofty emperor, in Zheng Mengjing's eyes, he is no different from an ordinary man. He always looks forward and backward, and sometimes even treats his mother-in-law.

"My beloved concubine, you said that back then..." Zhu Yijun said, and suddenly remembered something, "Forget it..."

When the words came to his lips, Zhu Yijun still didn't say them out.

In fact, what he wanted to say was, when Zhang Juzheng was in power, how did he deal with all these troubles?
  He just wanted to train troops in the palace, but so many people jumped out to oppose him.

And Zhang Juzheng also implemented the "Kaocheng Law", re-measured the land, and implemented the "One Whip". With so many reform measures, couldn't anyone jump out to give Zhang Juzheng a stumbling block?

Do not have!
  But why, it seems that he has never heard Zhang Juzheng complain...

How did Zhang Juzheng do it?
  Zhu Yijun wanted to know the answer, but the person who could answer him was already dead.

"I don't know what's going on with the emperor's brother..."

Zhu Yijun now only hopes that his good brother Zhu Yili can help him seize more money from the Zhang family.

Only by extracting enough money from Zhang Juzheng's home can he truly feel at ease.

At the same time, thousands of miles away in Jiangling, Huguang, Zhu Yijun's younger brother Zhu Yili lived up to his brother's expectations.

The money is coming soon!

(End of this chapter)