Wu Sangui is here!
Lying comfortably in a fine nanmu coffin, he swaggered down from a sailboat hung with various white cloth strips... He was carried down by others. His two sons also came together, holding the coffin and crying loudly. The band on the pier also played special tunes for weddings, which made people cry. Duke Yan Sheng Kong Yin was leading a group of Confucian scholars, monks, and Taoist priests to the dock long ago. The monks chanted scriptures, the Taoist priests chanted mantras, the Confucian scholars loudly recited sacrificial texts, and paper money was scattered all over the sky... It was really grand!
The Wu family members also arrived at the pier, and they all showed great respect for their filial piety. When the coffin came off the boat, everyone burst into tears.
All the high-ranking civil and military officials from Wuhan Prefecture came, and they all cried on the pier to welcome us. Some of them really cried, but most of them were fake. For example, Zheng Zhilong was pretending to cry. Although Emperor Zhu gave Wu Sangui a great mourning honor during this period, this kind of mourning also showed from another perspective that the Beiren Party suffered heavy losses due to Wu Sangui's death, so the emperor still had to work hard to support him. !
The situation is still very favorable to the old Zheng family!
The only thing that makes Lao Zheng a little worried is that Wu Sangui forced his daughter Ake to the Crown Prince in his suicide note... In this case, the future Empress of Ming Dynasty will still be from the Wu family!
According to Emperor Zhu's current rules, the queen's status and power will be greatly improved! And the current crown prince does not seem to be as powerful as Emperor Zhu. In the future, Wu Ake's power will increase.
"Your Majesty is here, Your Majesty is here!" Zheng Sen's voice rang in the old man's ears. Old Zheng quickly turned his head to look and found Emperor Zhu wearing a dragon robe entangled with a tall woman in plain clothes, coming out of the carriage.
"Who is this woman? Is she the queen?" Zheng Zhilong was old and his eyesight was not very good, so he asked casually without seeing her clearly.
"How could it be the queen?" Zheng Sen said, "How could the queen wear such heavy filial piety for King Pingxi?"
that's true! The queen is the mother of the country. How could the mother of the country pay such heavy filial piety to Wu Sangui? Her father Wu Xiang was not so filial when he was mourning, let alone her brother Wu Sangui?
"Then she is..."
"He is Wu Ake!" The person who spoke was Zheng Jiangong, and his wife was Princess Kunxing, so he had the opportunity to follow and secretly meet the rivals of the Zheng girls, including Wu Ake of course.
"What? She is Wu Ake..." Old Man Zheng didn't understand. "Why is Your Majesty holding her up? This man and woman don't have sex!"
"Does that need to be said?" Zheng Sen whispered, "The Wu family must have presented her to His Majesty..."
"This...miscalculation!" Zheng Zhilong's face turned dark immediately. He was thinking about giving granddaughters to Emperor Zhu's sons, but he forgot that Zhu Cihong was the emperor now!
His daughter Zheng Chagu is the imperial concubine and the second in the harem. If Empress Wu is gone, it will be her turn to become the empress... But now Wu Sangui's daughter is about to enter the palace!
Wu Sangui was granted the title of King of Pingxi, and Wu Ake was the princess. This status was inherently nobler than Zheng Chagu. In addition, she was young and beautiful. Even if she was not the imperial concubine, she was still the number one concubine. Once Wu Sanmei was gone, she She is the Queen, and will be the Queen Mother in the future, so her daughter Zheng Chagu has no chance to correct herself!
When he thought of this, Zheng Zhilong became really sad. His nose became sore and tears started to flow down!
Zhu Cixiang also saw Zheng Zhilong. When he saw him crying like this, it didn't look like he was pretending to cry. He sighed softly - he had misunderstood Lao Zheng. He and Wu Sangui were still very close, otherwise how could he cry like this? It seems that the party struggle in the Ming Dynasty was still a struggle between gentlemen, and the personal relationships between ministers were still very harmonious. This should be a good phenomenon that can only be seen in the rule of a holy king!
Thinking of this, he nodded to Zheng Zhilong from a distance, and then walked towards the nanmu coffin where Wu Sangui lay...
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Wu Sangui is gone again!
He still lay in the fine nanmu coffin and left intact. He never came out during the few days in Wuhan... When he left, he also took Wu Ake, Chen Yuanyuan, and Ning Rong's second house. All the members of the two families were taken away - they sent Wu Sangui to Wolong Mountain to be laid to rest. Under the supervision of Zheng Sen, Minister of Industry, Wu Sangui's tomb is almost completed.
Of course, after burying Wu Sangui, Wu Ake still has to go back to Jinling Women's University! Zhu Cixiang ordered her to interview for admission.
Although Wu Ake will not marry Zhu Cixiang's sons, she still has a certain possibility of becoming the queen mother or even serving as a supervisor, so Zhu Cixiang still has to train her well.
In addition, he also needs someone to act as eyes and ears among the women's universities - keep an eye on those female students and make them pay attention, and they can't just think about getting married and having children.
As soon as Wu Sangui left, Wuchang City became lively with lights and colors everywhere, making it very festive. It was still the same Hanyangmen Pier. The black and white archways erected to welcome Wu Sangui were all replaced with festive colorful ones.
On the first day of May, Hanyangmen Wharf and the nearby Hanyangmenwai Street were once again guarded by the defense army and the New Army. The wide street had been swept clean in advance, and the shops on both sides were hung with colorful flags. Both sides of the street were once again crowded with people watching the excitement.
However, Emperor Zhu did not appear at the Hanyang Gate Pier, and he did not see many high-ranking officials' motorcades. He only saw a prince's guard of honor and some carriages with flags recognized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The carriages of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs are quite common in Wuchang, but the prince's ceremonial guard is rare. Although there are many princes and princes in the Ming Dynasty, most of them are concentrated in Yingtian and Wuhan, they don't pay much attention to ostentation - they don't have the spare money to do it! Emperor Zhu gave the prince 10,000 acres of land to collect rent. It was not a paddy field, but it cost him thousands of stones of rice and flour for a year, which could only be converted into a few thousand taels of silver. The income is not low, but it is not very comfortable to support a large family and pay for the education of a group of children.
In this case, where is the prince who cares about pomp and circumstance? What's the point of raising so many people who are free to eat? So now the princes of the Ming Dynasty are relatively simple, and they go out in a light and simple manner.
But there is still a guard of honor for the prince! After all, princes sometimes have to undertake some official duties, such as visiting the mausoleums of Tianshou Mountain in the north, the imperial mausoleums in Fengyang, the imperial mausoleums in Chengtianfu, Confucius in Shandong, and visiting royal temples and temples in various places. Giving alms at Taoist temples, going to Tibet to give alms to the great lama... Sometimes I even travel abroad, to North Korea, Japan, Siam, and Annan. In short, there are still quite a lot of official activities.
These official activities are subsidized - traveling such a long distance to serve the country cannot be in vain!
In addition, the country must provide them with guards of honor. Princes and princes do not need to show off when they are not on official business. But when they are doing things for the country, it is not their own pomp, but the face of the Celestial Empire.
Therefore, Emperor Zhu established a special honor guard unit under the bodyguard camp (guard battalion), using the name of the banner guard. The establishment was almost a brigade (smaller than a regiment and a division). Emperor Zhu needed to use honor guards. Look to them when the time comes, and other princes also look to them when they need ceremonial guards - to put on different clothes and carry different flags to show off for different people.
But here in Wuhan, there are really not many official activities that require the prince's presence, because there are not many princes who followed Zhu Cixiang from Yingtian to Wuhan.
Now, the one who brought hundreds of flag guards to show off was the richest among all the princes and princes living in the two capitals, the blessed prince Zhu Cibing, nicknamed the Charter King.
At this time, Zhu Cibing was standing on the Hanyang Gate Pier with the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Luo Dagong, watching a "rich elephant" dressed in glittering gold and walking onto the dock from an equally glittering ship.
Obviously, the person who comes to Wuhan Mansion today must be an extremely wealthy guest!
