Daming Military Empire

Chapter 632 Yudi returns to Beijing, palace dinner

Zhu Cijiong frowned even more when he received the report from Li Mingfu. He didn't know whether "Sun Tzu's Art of War" and "36 Strategies" had spread to Europe or what happened. ah.

Judging from the information provided by Shivela and Oquendo, the great powers definitely have more than a few super battleships. For example, Denmark and Sweden have hundreds of super battleships, so the two major powers, Britain and France, must have more than one hundred. Now the Netherlands is in full swing. What's more, their shipbuilding ability is even stronger than that of Ming Dynasty.

The great powers must have other plans in such a secretive way. It is very likely that they dug a hole and waited for Daming to jump. Thinking of this, he dared not be careless. He had to wait for Zheng Chenggong and the others to come.

Daming is now a ship and a train. It didn’t take long for Zheng Chenggong and the others to rush from Xingcheng Port to the capital. About eight days later, Zheng Chenggong and Zheng Zhihu led a small fleet of ten super battleships to Dongdaying. Then, accompanied by Huang Long, he took a special train to the capital.

When the three of them arrived in the capital, it was already dusk. Zheng Chenggong ignored Huang Long and Zheng Zhihu, but left the two of them behind, took a bunch of personal guards, found dozens of carriages, and formed a huge convoy. How many boxes, went straight to the palace.

The only one who dared to give gifts to the emperor so blatantly and searched all over the entire Ming Dynasty was like this. The convoy of the emperor's younger brother and the prince of Zhennan didn't even dare to control the imperial guards and Jin Yiwei, so he just led the convoy into the imperial city. , It was only when entering the palace that all the guards driving the carriage were replaced with eunuchs.

After entering the palace, the convoy moved forward all the way, but it still didn't stop when it reached the Qianqing Palace. You must know that after passing the Jiaotai Palace, it is considered a harem!
Well, it's not that Zheng Chenggong is arrogant, but the emperor and the two empress dowagers wanted him to have a dinner together, and the place of the dinner was Kunning Palace.

The convoy didn't stop until the small square in front of Kunning Palace. Now, even the eunuch pulling the cart was startled.

Oh my god, what kind of people are standing on the steps outside the gate of Kunning Palace!
The emperor, empress, and empress dowagers of the two palaces all came, as did the imperial concubines and concubines, and even a bunch of princes and princesses came!
Zheng Chenggong was also taken aback, he quickly took Liu Rushi from the first carriage, and then pulled her to kneel under the steps and said loudly: "My minister Zheng Chenggong sees the emperor, empress, two empress dowagers, imperial concubine and everyone. Empress Dowager."

Such a large group of people shouted at him so much that he was almost out of breath. Fortunately, he had practiced kung fu, otherwise he would not be so full of breath.

At this time, no matter whether it is Zhu Cijiong, Qin Mingyue, Princess Anna or the empress dowagers of the two palaces, they are all very excited. This guy lived in the palace all the time when he was a child. He is the real younger brother of the emperor. The empress dowagers of the two palaces really treat him like a son .

Especially the Empress Dowager Yi'an loved him even more. At this moment, she even ran to the bottom of the steps, pulled Zheng Chenggong up and hugged him into her arms, and said with tears: "Success, you are back. It has been so many years, you I don’t know if I’ll come back to see Ai’s family.”

Zheng Chenggong was touched by this. He was at a loss and said: "My minister, my minister, I am busy with military affairs, and the empress dowager is worried about you."

At this time, Zhu Cijiong led a large group of people down the steps. Chen Yuanyuan and others dragged Liu Rushi to talk endlessly, but Zhu Cijiong pulled a group of princes and princesses over and introduced them to Zheng Chenggong one by one.

Zheng Chenggong quickly took out a jade pendant and a bracelet from his arms. Each prince had a jade pendant, and each princess had a bracelet.

Those jade pendants are all carved from high-quality jade cores, which are priceless in the capital, but not so exaggerated in Nanyang, because many places in Nanyang produce jade.

Those bracelets were even more extraordinary. Although the body of the bracelet was only hollowed out and carved from gold, it was inlaid with a circle of colorful gemstones. Those gemstones were collected all over the world by the Ming Royal Western Traders. It can be said that each one is priceless.

Zhu Cijiong didn't care much about these things, he just asked curiously: "Success, why are you pulling so many carriages here? What are the things inside?"

When Zheng Chenggong heard this, he said shyly, "It's nothing. They are all Nanyang specialties. Just a few carts of pearls are worth a little money. The others are dried fruits and seasonal fruits, which are not worth much."

Good guy, dried fruit and fruit are nothing, and the transportation is also developed at the moment, if you want to eat, you can still find a way to get it, pearls are different, good pearls are not cheap at all, presumably Zheng Chenggong sent them here It's not just ordinary pearls either, he actually delivers them by carloads!
This pearl is a rare good thing for women. It can whiten and nourish the skin, nourish the liver and improve eyesight, delay aging, promote sleep and so on. Ladies who have been in the deep palace for a long time are naturally the most researched on this. Empress Anna When the princess heard the words, she couldn't help asking: "Are there many, can they be ground into powder and eaten?"

It is better to grind it into powder and eat it, but at this time, pearls cost at least a few taels of silver, and even dozens of taels of silver can't beat it. Even the imperial palace can't afford such a luxury.

Zheng Chenggong said without hesitation: "Sister Anna wants to grind it into powder to eat, just eat it, if it is not enough, just send me a telegram. There are a lot of these things in Nanyang, as many as you want!"

If others say this, it is definitely bragging, but Zheng Chenggong is not bragging. Even if Princess Anna eats a few pills a day, it is just a drizzle to him.

Everyone was chatting so eagerly that they even forgot to eat. Zhu Cijiong touched his hungry stomach and couldn't help but suggested, "Let's eat first, and chat while eating."

The heat people who were chatting realized that they were a little hungry, and they surrounded Zheng Chenggong and Liu Rushi and walked inside.

On Zheng Chenggong's side, the empress dowagers of the two palaces were around, and the imperial concubine Anna was chattering aside, even the empress Qin Mingyue pulled her son to lead the way with a smile on her face.

On Liu Rushi's side, several sisters were also hugging their children and chatting non-stop around her.

At this moment, only Zhu Cijiong was left alone, and followed behind depressed.

There is no way, he is the emperor, and sometimes he has to maintain his majesty, but Zheng Chenggong does not have this burden. When he was a child, he would come to everything like a baby, and this kind of true temperament is more pleasing.

The dinner party was naturally extremely lively, but there was still a distinction between superiority and inferiority. Zhu Cijiong specially opened two tables. His table consisted of two empress dowagers, empress Qin Mingyue, imperial concubine Anna, and Zheng Chenggong. The other concubines accompanied Liu Rushi. With a bunch of princes and princesses at another table.

During the dinner, people talked about Zheng Chenggong's affairs the most, mainly because he was not yet married and Liu Rushi was just a concubine.

Who can be worthy of such a proud son of heaven?
The imperial concubine Anna proposed a candidate, that is his cousin, Princess Maria of Spain.

You must know that King Philip IV of Spain has only one son and one daughter in total, and Princess Maria is also precious.

Just a dignified prince and son of Ming Dynasty, would he marry a foreigner as his wife?
It seems that it is not impossible, because the emperor has married a foreigner to be the imperial concubine. Of course, these are things for later, so I will skip them here for the time being.

(End of this chapter)