open sea

Chapter 766
In the Forbidden City, the young man's suppressed cries could be heard.

It's not the little emperor, but his younger brother Zhu Yiliu, the most beloved King Lu of the Ming Dynasty.

During the emperor's return to the military battle, the eleven-year-old King Lu hugged the emperor's legs and cried almost uncontrollably.

"Why is the mother so cruel? My younger brother is far less than the age of the emperor, but he wants to seal the younger brother thousands of miles away. The clan members all say that the overseas emperor is a place for criminals. My younger brother did nothing wrong. !"

Xiao Wanli is already 15 years old. In the few months after Chen Mu left, the little eunuch Zhang Jing measured his birth and grew three more fingers. His eyebrows and eyes have also spread out. He looks more like Emperor Longqing, an optimistic and cheerful Emperor Longqing, a young man In this era, it takes almost a few months to change into a new look.

Wanli didn't speak, looked down at his younger brother, raised his hand and waved lightly at the eunuch following behind him, retreated left and right, and then slowly squatted down.

"Zhu Yichun, when I was your age, I knelt for two hours without crying, so stop crying."

King Lu cried so much that his nose and tears wiped all over the hem of Xiao Wanli's uniform. The elder brother didn't think his younger brother was dirty. He put both hands on King Lu's shoulders and said softly: "You and I are out of the emperor's house. Crying, you come with me."

King Lu is a little villain in the palace. He is doted on by the Empress Dowager Li and the emperor, and has no responsibility for Wanli. No one can restrain this curious and noble boy except the empress dowager and the emperor, but he listens to his brother very much.

Although his shoulders kept loosening due to the sadness of hearing the bad news, he stood up and held Wanli's finger in his fist and walked step by step on the bluestone road of the palace.

"Father named me Jun in the hope that I would govern the world as easily as a craftsman turning Jun, but he probably never thought that the world would become bigger during my Wanli years."

"The slaves and maids in the palace are talking about it, and it has been written since the Han Dynasty, and the husband and the emperor are all over the world, but I don't know how big the four seas are, and I don't know what the meaning of the four seas is my home. In the sea, there are nothing but fish. I have nothing, what use is it if I have the world?"

After leaving the Xihua Gate and passing through the moat, Xiao Wanli led King Lu all the way to the north. The eunuchs and officials who had left the eunuch Shangbaojian and Bingzhi Zhifang long ago should not go out to disturb Shengjia.

Little Wanli babbled to appease Lu Wang while walking, and slipped into the dessert room to get a piece of tiger eye candy and stuffed it into Lu Wang's mouth, but when he heard his younger brother eating candy, he turned back halfway to get it for himself when he was hungry I bought two yuan, and when I came out, I was still carrying a lacquer food box containing silk nests and cut muffins, which was very satisfying.

Startled the court ladies and eunuchs in the dessert room.

"It's delicious. Sugar is made of sugar cane. There are many sugar cane in Asia."

Not to mention that it’s okay, but when Asia was mentioned, King Lu started crying again, and even spat out tiger eye candy: “My brother doesn’t eat candy! My brother doesn’t like candy the most!”

Wanli would have believed it if he hadn't wrapped the half-filled candy in a silk scarf and hid it in his sleeve with his disgusted little face and firm eyes.

"Okay, I won't be able to eat after a while." Wanli glanced at King Lu's sleeve hidden behind his back, and said, "I already knew about the matter of Jiufan, but I just told you that you are still far away from Jiufan. Don't make a fuss because of this, if you offend the queen mother, you will be fined to kneel."

King Lu raised his face and said, "The queen mother has never made my younger brother kneel down."

But before he was proud for two seconds, he immediately asked again: "How far is it?"

"Only when you get married will you become a vassal. I will get married in a few days. At least it will take another three years, right? If the Ming army goes well in Asia, it will be decided at the beginning of three years, and you can set up a mansion. I will repair your mansion for you. How many years?" For another three years or so, you don't have to leave, as long as you stay in the palace."

Lu Wang counted and counted with his fingers, three years and three years, this is six years, right?
After finishing the matter, she opened her big eyes and asked: "Then why is the queen mother planning to tell the world that all the ministers are about to leave Asia?"

"Who doesn't know that I am the closest to you, and who doesn't know that the queen mother loves you the most. Only by letting you go to sea will the clan know that going to sea is a good thing."

After Zhang Juzheng finished observing his filial piety, he sent a memorial to the queen mother, hoping to return to power as the emperor, but the queen mother refused. Not only the queen mother Li, but also Xiao Wanli was sincere about it-he tried, but he couldn't manage the country by himself.

All kinds of rules and regulations can exhaust him to death.

Empress Dowager Li also thinks that it is too early for the emperor to be in charge, and he should be asked to step by step, to grasp the principles of governing the country and the prestige of the court little by little. The court still needs Zhang Juzheng, very much.

However, since the step-by-step process, the emperor has more power than before, and he has indeed made decisions on several matters. The most important thing is to inform the clans all over the world about the news that King Lu has become a vassal.

It is not impossible to confiscate the clan relatives in a punitive nature, but the people who can really be confiscated are definitely not the ones the emperor wanted to confiscate at the beginning. The threshold of the clan mansion is about to be broken, and the princes and kings of all places are panicked to death when they hear the news. Sending gifts to the palace without land made Xiao Wanli's heart soften.

In the past six months, 17 taels of silver alone, not counting the calligraphy, paintings and jewelry that went into the internal treasury, the clansmen whose seniority is at least Uncle Wanli are terrified of this decree.

Xiao Wanli decided to change his strategy, let them think it was a good thing, and then banned them.

"It's hard for me to explain the truth in detail. You can understand it by reading the Tao Te Ching more often. This is called letting others play their subjective initiative. I can only tell you that it is very important."

"As I said, the world has become bigger in my reign, and the overseas lands are as far away as the Han and Tang Dynasties. Even when I became my grandfather, I didn't have so much land. The Western Ocean, Nanyang Ocean, and Eastern Ocean, which one is not as far away as thousands of miles away."

Xiao Wanli came to the conclusion like a little adult: "The imperial court can't control it, and it can be peaceful for ten or twenty years. Once the overseas is full of wings, it will change sooner or later. Starting from the East, there must be King Qin sitting in charge."

"The prince sits in town, starting with you and me, Asia, either you go or I go." Little Wanli didn't even mention my self-proclaimed name, raised her hand and patted her chest and said: "If you don't want to go, I can only ask my mother to allow it." I surrender the throne to you, and I will go to Asia and become a vassal."

"I don't want to be the emperor, my brother can let me stay in the palace to see the sky, my brother will be satisfied."

What Xiao Wanli said was really not a polite word, he really planned to do it like this if he couldn't do it, and he also knew that the Empress Dowager's love for his younger brother and himself would probably be able to make it happen.

In fact, he envied King Lu.

"Then what's good overseas, since the emperor knows it will change, just leave it alone."

"Stupid, you like coral pearls, gold and silver, which are found in Southeast Asia; these things are also found in the West, and also in the East. Overseas barbarian countries are all grabbing land. Do you know what barbarians are?"

King Lu was doomed not to be able to participate in politics, but he still read some books, and he could recite them well. He said: "Tang Taizong called barbarians and di, animals are also, afraid of power but not virtuous."

"Yes, comparing those sea nations to beasts is flattering them. Even beasts are virtuous, but they don't know. Then you know how to deal with them?"

Walking and walking, the battle situation was right in front of us, and the roar was heard over the high wall. The little emperor held King Lu and raised his finger and said, "Show me my baby!"

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)