On the day Zhu Cihong returned to Nanjing, there happened to be a summer typhoon.
On the streets of Nanjing, a heavy rain is approaching, and the strong wind makes a whining sound, like a ghost crying and a wolf howling. The dark clouds were already hanging down low, and from time to time there was a faint muffled sound of thunder rolling across the sky. The streets were dark, with only trash being rolled up. When Zhu Cixiang entered the city under the escort of one or two thousand soldiers on short fat horses, together with Concubine Ning and Concubine Fei in a carriage, the whole city seemed empty and quiet.
Zhu Cixi suddenly thought that if Nanjing had always been so empty, he would have saved himself a lot of trouble...
"Your Majesty, the Emperor and the Emperor and the Empress know that you are returning to the palace today. They have specially returned to the Forbidden City from Tangquan Palace. Now they are waiting for you to return to the palace with the Empress, the Imperial Concubine and the Emperor's eldest son!"
The person talking to Zhu Cixiang was Wei Zaode, the first assistant. When the emperor returns to the court, of course he will take hundreds of officials to the suburbs to welcome him - there are no officials, just the heads of the Cabinet Office, the Generalissimo's Office, the Zongren's Office, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate. What other officials should do!
"Really?" Zhu Cixiang replied, unintentionally, "Is Zheng Zhilong here?"
"Here he comes, why doesn't he come?" Wu Xiang answered in a rather depressed tone, "He should be in the Forbidden City talking to the emperor right now, right?"
As soon as Zheng Zhilong heard that his daughter had given birth to a son, he immediately rode a horse from Fujian. Now he is a popular figure in Nanjing.
"Zheng Sen is here too," Qian Qianyi said with a smile, "He just came back from Chaiguan half a month ago."
Zhu Cixiang was stunned, "Chai stick? What's this name?"
"It's the name of a place in Shuizhenla," Qian Qianyi explained. "Didn't the emperor ask Zheng Sen to visit Annan, Champa and Shuizhenla before?"
Zhu Cixiang nodded, "Yes, yes, there is such a thing."
Zheng Sen was also very busy. Not long after he came back from Japan, he went to Annan to meet with their Lord Zheng and Lord Ruan. Then he went to Champa Kingdom and met with King Anzan of Champa City. Finally, Went to Shuizhenla again and met Ude, the regent of Shuizhenla.
It's just a matter of meeting, establishing contact, and understanding the situation of these three countries, that's all - colonial rule has to be divided into objects. Annan, Champa, and Shuizhenla are not too weak. The Ming Dynasty has an advantage over them, but it is not overwhelming.
So don't be too hasty and start colonizing with all your might as soon as you get there... It's not that easy!
When he thought of Annan, Champa, and Shuizhenla, Zhu Cixiang's thoughts turned to food security, which he was most concerned about.
"What was the result of trying to grow sweet potatoes? How much did you harvest? Can you eat them?"
Sweet potatoes are potatoes, and Fujian people call them sweet potatoes. They have been grown in small quantities in Fujian and Jiangnan. This kind of thing was also mentioned in Xu Guangqi's works.
However, sweet potatoes are not as common as sweet potatoes in the southeast, so Zhu Cixiang did not rush to promote them, but asked Wu Xiang, the Minister of the Ministry of War, to try planting them - not at the Military Tun Division of the Ministry of War, but at Wu Xiang's own Zhuangzi experimented with planting, and it didn't matter even if there was no harvest for a few acres of land.
"I have planted it, I have planted it... I have planted three acres, and the harvest is good. I have harvested more than 3,000 kilograms. The harvest is not bad!" Wu Xiang smiled, "I also asked someone to send some to the palace. Maybe today Your Majesty will be able to eat it at the Queen’s place tonight.”
"Really?" Zhu Cixiang asked with a smile, "The Queen has already eaten?"
"Not only have I eaten it, but I have also cooked it myself. It is deep-fried... French fries and fried chicken." Wu Xiang said with a smile, "The Queen said that this is what His Majesty told her before leaving Nanjing. of."
Zhu Cixiang laughed, "This is good, this is good... I must try the Queen's craftsmanship."
He hasn't eaten French fries or fried chicken for a long time...
While Zhu Cixiang was talking to Wu Xiang, Wei Zaode and others, the short and fat horse under his crotch was still moving forward, and he finally entered the Forbidden City before the heavy rain came down.
Wei Zaode, Qian Qianyi, Chen Rui, Li Yan, Huang Binqing, Li Ruolian, Zhu Chunjie, Zhang Shize and others were not relatives of the emperor, so it was not convenient for them to attend the family banquet in the palace, so they said goodbye and went back to the Yamen to attend to their affairs.
Zhu Cixiang went to Wuying Hall with Wu Xiang, the fat Prince Fu of Zongren Mansion, the somewhat effeminate Prince Lu, and two pregnant concubines.
Chongzhen lived in Wuying Palace before moving out of the Forbidden City. After he left, the house in Wuying Palace remained so that the emperor could live there when he returned to the palace.
Zhu Cixiang did not ride in a sedan chair, but rode a horse all the way to the gate of Wuying Palace. The servants had already informed him, so Empress Wu Sanmei and Zheng Chagu, who was keeping her son, had already welcomed her out of Wuying Palace.
"Third sister, there is no need to salute...Tea girl, don't kneel either." Zhu Cihong got off the horse and excused himself from the two women while striding forward to take the hand from the tea girl. I picked up a big fat boy.
This kid is only a dozen days old, but he is fair and fat. He is probably a foodie. He was sleeping when Zhu Cixiang hugged him. He probably felt the stranger, so he woke up, opened his eyes and glanced at Zhu Cixiang, and then burst into tears.
Zhu Cixiang had little experience in coaxing children and was a little at a loss when the voice of Emperor Chongzhen came from the Wuying Palace.
"Brother Hao is crying, go and have a look..."
"Brother Hao?" Zhu Cixiang was stunned.
Zheng Chagu hurried forward and hugged her son, and told Emperor Zhu with a smile, "Your Majesty, the old emperor just gave me a name, Brother Hao."
"Brother Hao?" Zhu Cixiang frowned, "Your name is Zhu Hao?"
"Your Majesty!" Wu Sanmei shook her head, "Why did you forget your own family name?"
"By the way," Zhu Cixiang thought for a while, "Brothers Ci and Yi, they are of the same generation...and then there is metal, wood, water, fire and earth. My name is fire, so my son's name is earth. Is Zhu Tuhao?"
Zhu Tuhao... Emperor Chongzhen really knows how to name names!
Zhu Cixiang is the richest emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Tuhao is the richest among the concubines of the Ming Dynasty, and his grandpa Zheng Zhilong is the richest man in the entire Ming Dynasty... A bunch of richest people surround him. If he is not a rich man, who is a rich man?
"What Zhu Tuhao..." Wu Sanmei couldn't laugh or cry, "It's Zhu Hehao!"
"Almost, almost..." Zhu Cixiang smiled, picked up Wu Sanmei, and entered the Wuying Palace together. As soon as he entered the door, he saw a strutting little fat man, followed by two little girls who were staggering when they walked.
The three children stood there, looking at Zhu Cixiang stupidly, and then one of the older girls said to Emperor Zhu with a smile: "My daughter pays homage to my father!"
Then another younger girl also said in a coquettish voice: "Greetings, father!"
The little fat man who finally reacted also said: "Greetings to the Emperor Father..." Halfway through, he realized something was wrong, "No, you are not the Emperor Father, you are..."
"I am your imperial brother," Zhu Cixiang reached out and pinched the little fat man's bun face, "Brother Fu, why are you so fat? Are you just greedy?"
This silly boy turned out to be the son of Emperor Chongzhen, the "Brother Xiaochun". Zhu Cixiang wanted to adopt him to Prince Fu Zhu Yousong, so he called him "Brother Fu". As for his famous name, he was Zhu Cibing (Nianpi).
"What is greedy?" the little fat man asked stupidly.
Zhu Cixiang did not answer him, but leaned down and held the two little girls in his hands. These two girls are Zhu Cixiang's daughters. One was born to Wu Sanmei in the 18th year of Chongzhen, and the other was born to Zheng Chagu in the 19th year of Chongzhen. In addition, Wu Sanmei also mentioned that Zhu Cihong gave birth to three daughters in the 20th year of Chongzhen.
The three girls were also given names, namely "Tianfeng", "Caifeng" and "Xiaofeng". Now Xiaofeng is being held by Queen Zhou Shang and has been put to sleep.
After Zhu Cihong hugged the two precious girls, he put them down, then strode forward to salute Emperor Chongzhen and Queen Zhou Shang, and said loudly to them: "Father, Emperor, Mother, my sons and ministers have lived up to our expectations." , finally returned in triumph... Our country, the Ming Dynasty, finally has hope for ZTE!"
