In December of the first year of Chongzhen, Prince Fu's Mansion in Luoyang.
Zhu Changxun wore a newly made Prince's uniform, stood in front of a large bronze mirror, looked at the man in the mirror, and couldn't help but sigh.
What appeared in the mirror was a middle-aged man with a slender figure, elegant face, and three neatly trimmed beards... Look carefully, he is still a handsome man!
Of course, this handsome man is the emperor’s uncle, His Royal Highness Zhu Changxun, the Prince of Luoyang.
It is unbelievable to say that Zhu Changxun, the lucky king who had been fat since he was born and had been fat for more than forty years, actually succeeded in losing weight in the first year of Chongzhen, and it only took six months. Six months ago, he was a fat man weighing more than 200 pounds. He stood in front of the bronze mirror like a door panel. There was so much flesh on his fat face that it couldn't fit in. He looked like a fat pig.
But now, he only weighs about 140 pounds at most, but his figure is much more proportional. Moreover, his face had also lost a lot of weight. As soon as his face became thinner, Zhu Changxun was surprised to find that he, who had been shapeless since he was a child, was actually a handsome man!
The fat King Fu could actually slim down into an elegant and handsome man... This fact was so shocking that King Fu Zhu Changxun himself almost sighed!
"Your Majesty, Doctor Li just said that your pulse is stable and strong, and your complexion is white and rosy. You should be fine. Your body and bones are much better than when you were fat in the past, so don't worry..."
The person talking to King Fu was a white-haired old eunuch. He looked at King Fu who became more handsome with a look of affection, just like a father who sees his son getting stronger day by day. This old eunuch's surname was Wang, and his name was Wang Changchun. He was originally the eunuch beside Prince Fu's biological mother, Concubine Zheng. Later, he was responsible for taking care of Prince Fu Zhu Changxun. He urinated heavily and turned Zhu Changxun into a fat man of more than 200 kilograms... ....I didn’t expect that once this fat man loses weight, he will look exactly like Concubine Zheng. They are both so good-looking!
It was as if Wang Changchun's eyes were wet when he saw his old master!
But Fu Wang Zhu Changxun sighed: "How is it possible that he is not sick? He has lost so much weight... I must be seriously ill! Wang Banban, are you trying to comfort me?"
When Wang Changchun heard what Zhu Changxun, the King of Fortune, said, he shed tears of sadness - this King of Fortune was not afraid of dying of illness, but looking forward to dying of illness!
However, it is not the same thing for a terminally ill person to lose weight, and it is hard to buy a lot of money to lose weight in old age! The reason why this fat and blessed king has lost weight is because he has not thought about food and food since mid-June. He often has nightmares when sleeping. He walks around in his palace every day... he eats less and stretches his legs. Of course I just lost weight, what could be wrong with me? If you must say you are sick, it is a heart disease!
King Fu's heartache stemmed from two letters sent by his mother, Princess Zheng, in mid-June.
The two letters arrived in Luoyang one after another. In the first letter, Princess Zheng told her son that the young emperor Zhu Youjian, who had just ascended the throne less than a year ago, was likely to be "gone."
This guy took tens of thousands of the emperor's servants to the imperial conquest without telling the court. As a result, he met the Mongolian Hutu Dun Khan in Datong and fell into a trap. He might have been like the Yingmiao master... .It may also have died!
So now there is chaos in Beijing. The courtiers are fighting for the successor to the throne, and most of them support King Fu to become emperor - this is natural!
According to the order of eldest and youngest, if we want to choose someone from among the uncles of Emperor Chongzhen, Prince Fu should be the emperor. He is the oldest!
If you want to choose someone among Chongzhen's brothers, Zhu Yousong, the son of King Fu, will be the emperor. He is the oldest among his generation!
If you want to choose a son of Chongzhen... there is no such thing among the clans of recent branches!
If one had to choose the richest among the nearby clans to be the emperor, it would be Zhu Changxun - Emperor Wanli gave him most of the internal transportation treasury, so he was certainly the richest among the kings.
His money was enough to alleviate the financial crisis of the Ming Dynasty... If the emperor didn't pawn for him, who else could he pawn for?
Of course Zhu Changxun was overjoyed when he got the news!
That night, a banquet was held in the palace to celebrate, and Wang Changchun and his son Zhu Yousong were asked to pack up all the gold and silver treasures in the palace and prepare to take them back to Beijing to spend time.
But a few days later, Princess Zheng sent him another letter. When Zhu Changxun read it, he was frightened for half his life - the previous news of the emperor's disappearance was a misinformation. It was the king who had abandoned the vassal and fled from Datong Town. A few princes from the Daiwang line are talking nonsense!
This is really going to kill the lucky king Zhu Changxun... It's true that he lives in Luoyang, and the trouble comes from Datong!
Dai Wang and his family are too unreliable, how could they joke about something like this?
A few days later, more terrible news came!
The young emperor Zhu Youjian turned out to be a ruthless man. He was brave enough to defeat Lu Bu and outsmarted Zhuge... He killed the 100,000 troops of the Han tribe who invaded Datong and suffered a huge defeat!
Now King Fu was so frightened that he couldn't even eat his favorite delicacies. Once such a ruthless man found out that someone wanted to make him the emperor, how could he kill King Fu, who was as fat as a pig?
Although the vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty have always been treated favorably, and generally speaking, they will not be punished if they make some mistakes...but this is based on the premise that the vassal kings should keep to themselves and not covet the throne or get involved in power. Once the feudal king breaks the rules and gets involved in the dispute over imperial power, he will be in danger.
Although King Fu himself did not take the initiative to fight for the throne, he was still praised by many ministers as the favorite to ascend the throne, and he was also on the opposite side of the candidates supported by Queen Zhou and Queen Zhang.
Just for this, Zhu Youjian can justifiably kill him!
Knowing that he was in danger, King Fu had been acting out of character since late June. He would go on hunger strikes every now and then without eating or drinking. Even if he didn't go on a hunger strike, he would have no appetite. He kept hoping that he would get a terminal illness. .....I thought that as long as he was terminally ill, the little emperor Zhu Youjian could let him go.
But the problem is that terminal illness is not something you can get!
When Zhu Changxun was over 200 kilograms fat, if modern medicine had checked it, he might have had three heights or something... Now, once he loses dozens of kilograms of fat, everything is normal. , and it looks a bit like an emperor!
"My lord, don't worry anymore...the courtiers have been tossing over the matter of supporting you, and they can't run away if they want to be held accountable!"
While Wang Changchun was still trying to persuade him, a young eunuch ran into Prince Fu's study in a panic, shouting as he ran: "Your Majesty, it's not good, something serious is going to happen!"
Wang Changchun hurriedly turned his head and took a look. It turned out to be one of his godsons, a young eunuch named Wang Quan.
"Quan'er, what happened?" Wang Changchun was also a little panicked - of course he knew that the little emperor would not let Prince Fu off easily, how could he let him go? The old Emperor Wanli gave Prince Fu so many gold and silver treasures, 20,000 hectares of land, silver for making tea from salt wells in Sichuan, miscellaneous taxes from Jiangdu to Taiping and Dizhou along the Yangtze River, and 1,300 yuan of salt to Huaihe every year. lead......
"The British gentleman came over from Beijing. He also brought the Jin Yiwei Bei Zhenfu, the deputy admiral of Dongchang, and one or two hundred Jin Yiwei cavalry. He said that he came on the emperor's order to invite the prince to Beijing... .We have arrived at the gate of the palace, please go and receive the order, Your Majesty!"
When Zhu Changxun heard this, his calves trembled, his vision went dark, his whole body went limp, and he collapsed on the ground.
...
Fan Yongdou, the oldest member of the Fan family in Zhangjiakou, was sitting in his sedan chair, leaning against the window and quietly reading a letter written in Mongolian characters in the sunshine.
The letter was written by Princess Wu Liangha herself - the old Fan family in Zhangjiakou did not start by doing business with Jianzhou Jurchens, but the Han tribe and the Tumote tribe were their regular customers. Princess Wuliangha had previously been in charge of thousands of households in the Chinese army under the Han Dynasty's Great Khan Orduo, and had always had business dealings with the Fan family in Zhangjiakou. Fan Yongdou once visited the eldest princess in Hanhot (Lindan Batur's capital) and exchanged letters, so he recognized the eldest princess's handwriting.
As soon as Fan Yongdou received the letter from the eldest princess Wu Liangha, he immediately left Zhangjiakou and went to Xinghe City to meet with the eldest princess's Ten Thousand Households Orduo's pastorate - of course he knew that the eldest princess was now the little emperor of the Ming Dynasty. Woman, this is a rare opportunity!
Not long ago, he kowtowed to Tian Conghan at the Houjin Army camp at the foot of Mameng Mountain!
Haha, this is something that all the big shots from the Northern Yuan, Hou Jin, and Southern Ming kingdoms can catch up with! Fan Yongdou felt so proud! It seems that the Fan family in Zhangjiakou is going to prosper in his hands...
