This is the most reunited Spring Festival Zhu Youjian has experienced since his rebirth.
The whole family gathered neatly in the Xiyuan of the Imperial City of Beijing.
Not only the Han concubines, including Queen Zhou, Concubine Tian, Concubine Yuan, Concubine Wang, Concubine Qin, and Concubine Ma, were by Zhu Youjian's side, but also the five Mongolian concubines and two Mongolian concubines on the grassland (also Fu Jin of Hu Tu Dun Khan) ), and Xu Ruolan, the treasure-hunting lady who does not have the name of a concubine, but is actually a concubine, all gathered together... Seven of them are Han and seven are Mongolian (Su Tai is actually a Jurchen), which is very balanced.
In addition to the reunion of Zhu Youjian's women, his children also gathered in Xiyuan - he had many children and many blessings in his previous life, and he has no restraint in this life. Zhu Youjian, who was only 24 years old after the New Year, is now already There are six princes including the rebellious son Zhu Cixuan, the Xinwang Zhu Cixuan, the "third prince" Zhu Cijong, the fourth prince Zhu Cizhao, the fifth prince Zhu Cirong, and the sixth prince Zhu Ciyan, as well as Princess Kunxing, Princess Kunyi, Princess Kunming, and Princess Kunrong. Princess Zhaoyi and five other princesses. Six sons and five daughters in total!
In addition, Concubine Wuliangha, Concubine Siqintu, Concubine Qin, and Concubine Ma are all pregnant... If these women can have safe mothers and children, then the number of Zhu Youjian's children can reach 15 .
Considering his current age and his enthusiasm for continuing to have concubines, Zhu Youjian may have more children in this life than in his previous life...
Now 13 little kids - plus Zhu Cixi's two daughters-in-law Wu Sanmei and Zheng Chagu, and 16 "parents" - including Zhu Youjian's sister-in-law Queen Zhang, all gathered at "Yingtai Children" paradise".
The lake on Nantai Island (Yingtai Island) had long been frozen on Friday, and the outdoor climate was of course below freezing.
However, the newly built Le'an Hall on Nantai Island has ground dragon heating, so it is as warm as spring. The children playing inside all took off their thick winter coats and ran and chased around wearing only tight-fitting single clothes. They laughed happily from time to time and looked carefree.
Zhu Youjian didn't go to court today, and he pushed through a lot of red tape... Is it easy for him to be the emperor? Don’t you want to live in peace even after the Chinese New Year? What's the use of a bunch of nonsense? The most important thing is that the family is reunited.
But how many more reunion years can this imperial family have? Zhu Youjian often went on expeditions and inspections, and it was common for him to miss the New Year. And most of his sons, except for the rebellious son Zhu Cihong, had to go to the frontier to become fortress kings!
Now Zhu Cixuan has been granted the title of King Xin and opened the vassal Guihua City. Zhu Cijiong has granted the title of King Ning and will go to Daning, Quaning or Taining to open a vassal in the future. The fourth child, Zhu Cizhao, has been granted the title of King Ping and will go to Pingzhou, which is somewhere in Liaodong, to establish a vassal state. Zhu Ci, the fifth child, sealed the title of King Shen, and in the future he would have to go to Shenyang, where Huang Taiji lived, to be the King of Fortress. The sixth child, Zhu Ciyan, was granted the title of King of the Forest, and the Thousand Miles of Pine Forest was his fiefdom!
Of course, these five Sai kings are not really the ones who broke the soil and became kings. What they got or will get is just guard military households - currently the strongest King Xin has 25,000 households, followed by King Lin's 5,000 households. , and the three kings, including King Ning, King Ping, and King Shen (whose mother is Ma Fei), whose mothers are Han concubines, have not yet been granted guard military households because they do not have mothers who can command the army. However, when they grow up, they can get at least 5,000 and up to 25,000 guard military households.
In his previous life, Zhu Youjian suffered enough from "investing in building a country". In this life, he will never spend money on his sons... His path is still to engage in feudalism, give birth to sons, and then establish guard military households for them, and then The son and the guard military household were sealed out together.
This saves a lot... Even if there are 100 sons to be sealed, it is nothing more than 1 million to 2.5 million households. There are four or five people in a household, which means there are 10 million people.
The entire Ming Dynasty has a population of at least 200 million. If 10 million is given to other sons, the traitor will still have 190 million... Maybe tens of millions more will be born. In short, it will be enough for the traitor to have a headache. .
Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian waved to Zhu Cixiang, who was pretending to be a grown-up with his hands behind his back, watching a group of younger siblings playing with two child brides. Eunuchs and palace officials walked over and invited the traitor to Zhu Youjian.
"Why is the father calling his son?" Nizi always spoke in this tone, making him sound a bit older than his actual age.
Zhu Youjian asked: "Brother Chun, why don't you play with them?"
"Father, my son has grown up and won't play these childish tricks anymore."
Zhu Cixiang said seriously.
Really not playing? Zhu Youjian said heartily: When you were with Wu Sanmei and Zheng Chagu, didn't you often come to Nantai Island to play? I even want to live in Nantai Island. Now you say you don’t want to play any more... You treacherous son, you are still so cunning!
Zhu Youjian, who knew his son was cunning, seemed very happy. He smiled and asked: "Brother Chun, I recently received a personal letter from Huang Taiji. He seems to want to become a vassal... What do you think?"
He asked this question, firstly, because he wanted to test his son; secondly, he also wanted to hear Zhu Cihong's advice - although this boy is only six years old, it's amazing that he stopped when he was three years old and is now six years old!
"Father," Zhu Cixiang thought for a moment and asked, "Aren't you going to let the slaves and thieves eat?"
"No!" Zhu Youjian shook his head, "They should still have food to eat, right?"
According to the information Zhu Youjian had, Houjin's food supply was also very tight, but they could save food exports to feed the Eight Banners soldiers by consuming the lives of the coated slaves.
"Why would you want to become a minister when you have food to eat?" Zhu Cihong asked, "Are you lying to others?"
Zhu Youjian nodded repeatedly, a traitor is a traitor, he has been cunning since he was a child!
Zhu Cixiang rolled his eyes at this time and said with a smile: "Anyway, as long as I don't let Third Sister eat, she will definitely surrender!"
Wu Sanmei is a foodie, and her eyes widen when she sees something delicious. So you have to coax her with delicious food, and to control her, you have to threaten her with hungry meals.
Zhu Cixiang somehow learned this trick, so he turned a girl who was bigger than him into his little thug...
Zhu Youjian smiled and asked: "Then how should I deal with Huang Taiji's request to become a minister?"
Zhu Cixiang said: "In any case, we can't feed him enough!"
The traitor is really vicious!
Zhu Youjian glanced at Zhou Hou, who was watching the children playing, and said in his heart: I am pure in nature and good to others. The traitor is so vicious at such a young age, so he must be following you!
By the way, the third child is also bad!
Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian found Zhu Cijiong among a group of dolls. He seemed to be using Zheng Chagu's rag doll to hit Zhu Cixuan, who was bigger than him... I don't know why Zheng Chagu gave the doll to him? borrowed? Will you pay it back?
no! Zhu Youjian decided: I have to have more cunning sons with Zhou Hou! The Ming Dynasty needs such a Sai King!
After thinking about his son's nature, Zhu Youjian's thoughts returned to the matter of his nephew's supervision of the country.
"Brother Chun," he said to Zhu Cixiang, "after the New Year, the Xingshi Examination (Jinshi Examination) will be held. After that... I will go north. It will take two months at the earliest, and no more than five months at the most. Wait until September. You must come back when the time comes, and this country will still imprison you!"
"My son, I accept the decree!"
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The imperial examination for the Ming Dynasty Jinshi examination was usually held in April. After presiding over the imperial examination, it was time for Zhu Cixiang to go north to the grassland to preside over the Kulitai Conference.
The reason why Zhu Youjian had to wait for so long was actually to wait for the birth and confinement of Concubine Wu Liangha.
The eldest concubine's belly is really impressive, and she gave birth to a fat son again this time. Of course Zhu Youjian liked it very much. He gave him the name Cichen, and when he was full moon, he made him a king - the success of Genghis Khan! Just by looking at this title, you can tell how much Zhu Youjian values this son!
After sealing the seventh son of the emperor, Zhu Youjian left Beijing in a mighty manner on April 15th, leading five Mongolian concubines and more than ten thousand cavalry in front of the tent and in front of the palace, and embarked on the journey north. Khan's journey.
At about the same time, the Kingdom of Jin, which had finished sowing, had to gather elite troops.
The day when Huang Taiji comes out of Yanshan is approaching!
(End of chapter)
