Pukou, Xijiang Port Terminal.
It's time to say goodbye to father, son, and brother again. The weather is quite cold, and heavy snow like goose feathers is floating down one after another. In the midst of a snowstorm, the Ming Emperor Zhu Cihong, the Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youjian, the Good Luck Prince Zhu Hexing, the Imperial Concubine Hu, the Crown Princess Ding Yuying, and sixty or seventy older princes were bidding farewell on the pier. Zhu Cixiu, the king of Luoshan County, is about to travel far.
The Prince of Luoshan County was not wearing the robe of a County Prince, but was dressed in white, with a three-foot green sword hanging from his belt. His handsome face also had a bit of vicissitudes of life and a bit of tragedy, and it didn’t look like much. He is a Ming Dynasty prince who eats, drinks and has fun. He looks like...what does he look like?
Zhu Cixiang looked at his brother who looked like he was about to sacrifice his life for righteousness. When he didn't remember who he looked like, the farewell song was sung.
"The wind is rustling, the water is cold, and once the strong man is gone, he will never return! Explore the tiger's den, enter the Jiao Palace, look up to the sky and exhale, it will turn into a white rainbow..."
Isn't this "Yi Shui Ge"? When Zhu Cihong heard this, he felt something was wrong. Wasn't this a curse on his brother? Why didn't he pay it back? What about 350,000 taels? You’ve only used it twice and then you won’t be able to pay it back? Beautiful thought!
Thinking of this, Emperor Zhu suddenly turned around and saw Kou Baimen of the Jiaofang Division leading a few singers there playing the piano and singing!
"Bai Men," Zhu Cixiang roared, "Who asked you to sing "Yishui Song"?"
Kou Baimen trembled when he heard Zhu Cixiang's roar and did not dare to sing any more. Then he looked at Emperor Chongzhen in astonishment.
"I asked you to sing it!" Emperor Chongzhen said with an unhappy look on his face, "Boss, isn't it the Tiger's Nest Jiao Palace that Lao Jiu is going to this time?"
"Li Dingguo is my loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty!" Zhu Cixiang said with certainty, "There will be no danger for Lao Jiu to go to him."
"Hmph!" Chongzhen snorted, "Li Dingguo is a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty. Are there any disloyal ministers in the world?"
What this said... Li Dingguo was not a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty. Is there still a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty?
Zhu Cixiang also sneered, then turned to the "Jing Ke" version of Zhu Cixiang and said: "Old Jiu, our father is joking with you, don't take it seriously... You have to distinguish between loyalty and treachery. Trust me, your brother. I know loyal ministers with my sharp eyes! Even if they are not loyal ministers, I can turn them into loyal ministers! So don’t worry, I will never return to Duogan without paying attention!"
Zhu Cixuan sighed and said with a wry smile: "Why don't I believe what the emperor said? It's just that I'm gone, thousands of miles away, and I don't know when I will be able to return. My father is old, so it all depends on the emperor and all the brothers..."
Having said this, Zhu Cixuan raised his eyes and looked at the large group of brothers... What else could he say? There are more than a hundred sons of the Emperor! What's the point of missing him?
Zhu Cixuan understood what Zhu Cixuan meant, nodded and said with a smile: "Don't worry, our father has many sons...we will line up one by one to take turns to perform filial piety, one turn a day, and it will take three months to complete the turn! You hurry up on the way At one point, they might all be back in three months.”
After hearing this, Chongzhen snorted again - Where can one take turns to fulfill his filial piety? None of these sons has ever come to bed to show their filial piety... In the past few years, there have always been only beauties, not filial sons, who have served him in front of his bed!
Zhu Cixuan looked at his unreliable father, then at his outrageous brother, then at his mother who was crying so hard, and then at a large group of brothers who were getting annoyed just by looking at them. He had no choice but to sigh and then kneel down. After kowtowing to Chongzhen, Concubine Hu, and the "trickster" Emperor Zhu, he turned around and boarded a large river boat with both oars and sails, and began another long journey.
Watching the river boat slowly leaving the pier, Zhu Cixi turned around and said to Chongzhen: "Father, please go back in your carriage... I have something to say to you."
After Zhu Cixiang said this, he looked at the group of brothers gathered on the pier to bid farewell to Zhu Cixiang with caring eyes... Chongzhen immediately understood that there was a business coming to his door!
Also getting into a carriage with Zhu Youjian and Zhu Cixiang were the Crown Prince Zhu Hexing and the Crown Princess Ding Yuying. Emperor Zhu's carriage was specially customized by Shanghai Shenche. The interior was extremely spacious. In addition to the two rows of seats facing each other, there was also a row of seats installed horizontally on the left side of the carriage.
So now Emperor Zhu and Chongzhen sit face to face, while Zhu Hexing and Ding Yuying sit side by side on the horizontal row of seats.
Seeing his grandson and granddaughter-in-law, Emperor Chongzhen couldn't help but frown - why are these two here? Are they "buyers"?
When the carriage rumbled and rolled, Zhu Cixi pointed out the window of the carriage, lined up on the pier to bow to the carriage, and bowed to the little brothers. He said to Emperor Chongzhen: "Father, you have so many sons!"
Chongzhen smiled: "Having more children means more blessings... As a father, I have to work hard for the country and the people in the first half of my life, and in the second half of my life I will worry about you juniors."
"Grandpa Huang," Ding Yuying interrupted at this time, "most of the younger uncles have not yet been engaged. How do you plan to solve their life-long affairs?"
How am I going to solve it? Chongzhen became angry when he heard this. This is your father-in-law's business. How can you rely on me, the Supreme Emperor?
Zhu Hexing added at this time: "Yes, there are only so many students in Jinling Girls' School, which is not enough for my uncles."
How could it not be enough? Chongzhen said in his heart: I only have more than a hundred sons, and there are more than 200 students in the first phase of Jinling Women's University. How can it not be enough? It's simply because your father doesn't want to find good wives for his brothers!
The first class of Jinling Women's University will graduate next year, and more than 200 of the girls will basically have husbands... more than half of them are already mothers! But among the sons of Emperor Chongzhen, only the wealthy king married a female college student, Luo Xiaohe, and the others were just greedy. On the contrary, about ten of Emperor Chongzhen's grandsons (all sons of Zhu Cihong, Zhu Cijiong, and Zhu Cizhao) married beauties from Jinling Women's University.
The second phase of enrollment at Jinling Women's University is now in full swing. The preliminary exam has ended and the re-examination is awaiting.
Chongzhen has already inquired with the wealthy king in charge of this matter and learned that since the 25th year of Hongxing's reign, Jinling Women's University has enrolled students every year, but the number of students enrolled is not as many as 200, only 100. Emperor Zhu will also personally participate in the recruitment of female students in Hongxing's twenty-fifth year... He will choose a concubine for Zhu Hexing!
Ding Yuying's "protection period" is coming to an end soon, and she will face a real challenge!
Of course, Emperor Chongzhen didn't want to miss this opportunity. He hoped that his son could gain something among the second-year female students... As a prince and a county prince, of course he would not be unable to find a wife. But it is not easy to find a satisfactory wife. Because Zhu Cixiang, as an elder brother, is too stupid and unwilling to make good arrangements for his brothers, just 3,000 acres of land plus a poor prince's palace is a bit high and low!
Some of them who are willing to work hard, such as the local tycoon Zhu Cibing, certainly don't have to worry about it - they strive for their own success, and they are top students in Taixue and elites in the rent-collecting industry. Of course, they will not be short of good matches.
But Chongzhen’s sons are still useless... They are all princes who are waiting to die. Will the families of those Jinling female college students be rare?
Thinking of this, he glanced at Zhu Cixiang and asked, "Boss, do you want to help your brothers find wives?"
Zhu Cixi smiled and said: "Father, marriage matters are governed by the orders of the parents. You are their father, and I am just their brother!"
Parents' orders? Chongzhen thought to himself: Is it your parents' orders to snatch Wu Sanmei?
"Boss," Chongzhen could now hide his thoughts and just said with a smile, "I am their biological father, and you are their king and father... Some of them have already been granted the title of county king, and some have not yet." But they must be sealed after all! You, the king and father, have to give them marriage!"
Zhu Cixiang smiled and nodded, "Father, how about twelve of you come first?"
"Twelve?" Chongzhen laughed immediately after hearing this, "You're going to give them all a marriage?"
"That's right!" Zhu Cixi nodded, "I'll give you a marriage!"
"The cost of getting married to twelve county princes..."
Zhu Cixiang smiled and patted his chest, "I've taken care of it all!"
