The afterglow of the setting sun shone on the horizon. The sun was like a hard-boiled hot spring egg, surrounded by red silk.
After walking out of the Da Baoen Temple, Zhu Gaojie and Zhang Yingzhen walked on the stone path among the camphor trees. The grass was luxuriant, and the silence was dull.
"What, what do you want to say?" Zhu Gaojie said after noticing that the girl next to him had a strange look on his face.
"It's nothing, Yingzhen just feels..." Zhang Yingzhen frowned slightly, but her beautiful face looked particularly troubled at the moment.
Zhu Gaojiu casually pulled off a piece of dogtail grass and held it in his mouth: "What do you think?"
"I just feel that Your Majesty, you are more... free and uninhibited than the rumors say." Zhang Yingzhen hesitated before saying this word.
She said he was free and uninhibited, but in fact she felt that this prince was a little... different.
He is really as bold as the banished immortal. His natural temperament is incompatible with the world. He does whatever he wants, as if no one or anything can restrain him. For example, the action he just pulled off the weeds and held them in his mouth was so natural, without any airs of a nobleman from Tianhuang.
"White Dragon Fish Suit is still a mortal after all." Zhu Gaojie said calmly.
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After returning to Qianqing Palace from Jiming Temple, Zhu Di felt a little tired.
But he still stood up and opened the national sports simulation system.
[Current simulated objects]
[Simulation Object 1: Zhu Qizhen]
Identity: [Crown Prince] [Emperor] [Foreign Student] [Top Emperor]
[Simulation object two: Zhu Qiyu]
Identity: [Lord] [Emperor]
Zhu Di expressed that he was greatly shocked. He did not expect that Zhu Zhanji's two sons actually had the status of emperor!
What's even more amazing is why his great-grandson Zhu Qizhen has the status of "Tai Sheng Huang".
Is it so magical?
Taishang Huang, also known as Taishang Emperor, is the honorific title of the emperor's father. It is usually given to the emperor who is still alive but has abdicated. Although the emperors are all the fathers of the reigning emperors, looking at the emperors in history, the reasons why they took this position are all strange and different.
Which emperor is willing to abdicate the throne and give power to others?
As long as the identity of "the Supreme Emperor" appears, there is a high probability that nothing good will happen.
What puzzles Zhu Di even more is what does Zhu Qizhen's status as an "overseas student" mean?
He really couldn't figure out what happened to these two great-grandsons, but he already had a guess in his mind: Could it be that after Zhu Qizhen ascended the throne, Zhu Qiyu successfully rebelled, forced his brother Zhu Qizhen to abdicate, and then became the emperor himself , supported Zhu Qizhen as the Supreme Emperor?
After thinking hard for a long time, Zhu Di finally chose to imitate Zhu Qiyu's emperor status.
[You were born in August of the third year of Xuande. You are the second son of Xuande Emperor Zhu Zhanji. 】
[You are a noble person from Tianhuang, but it seems you are not as good as being born into an ordinary family and being an ordinary citizen. 】
[Because you should not have been born in the first place. Your mother Wu is a sinner. She was a maid in the palace of the King of Han. 】
[Back then, your father, Emperor Xuande, went on a personal expedition, captured Han King Zhu Gaoxu and his son alive, and took the female family members of the Han Dynasty into the harem as slaves. The maid Wu was also among them. On the way back to Beijing, the emperor met Wu. However, as a sinner, she could not be named a concubine, so she was placed in a large mansion close to the palace wall, where she was always lucky. Finally, Mrs. Wu gave birth to a son, You. As the mother is more valuable than her son, the Wu family was named a virtuous concubine, but she continued to live outside the palace. 】
[In the tenth year of Xuande, you are eight years old this year. What does your father look like? You don’t know because you have never seen your father since you were born. I only know that your father is the emperor, but what does the emperor do? You don’t understand either. You have been dependent on your mother since you were born. You are used to living without a father. Having a mother is enough. 】
Zhu Di clenched his fists and sighed for a long time.
This child Zhu Qiyu really shouldn't be born into the royal family.
From the day he was born, he carried sin with him because his mother was a sinner.
But it also made Zhu Di feel a little relieved. He believed that Zhu Qiyu had a twisted personality because of injustice since birth. He was full of hatred for his father Zhu Zhanji and his brother Zhu Qizhen, and eventually sought power to usurp the throne and rebel and proclaim himself emperor.
Zhu Di got a headache when he thought of this. Could it be that in the final prophecy that simulated the identity of Emperor Zhu Zhanji, this was the crisis of the Ming Dynasty?
"I must be overthinking, things shouldn't be like this."
"How can my descendants kill each other?"
[One day in the tenth year of Xuande's reign, a large group of strangers suddenly broke into your home. Before you could figure out what was going on, they were forced into a carriage. 】
[They told you that it was your father who wanted to see you! 】
[You panic for no reason. You always talk about daddy, and suddenly you go to see daddy again. For an eight-year-old child like you, this is both unexpected and frightening. 】
[You have never met your father, and your father never cares whether you are still alive. 】
[Actually, it was your father Xuande Emperor Zhu Zhanji who was seriously ill, so he decided to bring you mother and son into the palace. You are his child after all, and you must be given a status. 】
[This is fatherly love eight years late, but this fatherly love is not because Zhu Zhanji feels guilty, but because the dying person wants to get rid of all the trivial matters during his lifetime. 】
[For him, you are just a trivial matter. 】
[This is the first time you have met your father and found out that you have an older brother - Crown Prince Zhu Qizhen. 】
[Your father, Emperor Xuande, said to your grandmother, the Queen Mother Zhang: This is also your eldest grandson, his biological son. I owe them a lot, mother and son, and I want to make up for it for me and treat them favorably. 】
[Empress Dowager Zhang could only nod. She understood in her heart why Zhu Zhanji urged her like this. Because only she can protect the mother and son. 】
Empress Dowager Zhang was the crown prince of the Yongle Dynasty, the first wife of Crown Prince Zhu Gaochi, and the biological mother of Zhu Zhanji.
Zhu Di admired his daughter-in-law very much, because Zhang was so sensible.
Since Queen Xu died of illness, Zhu Di has never appointed a queen, so the harem is naturally headed by the princess of the East Palace. The Zhang family not only had to take care of the affairs of the East Palace, but also the affairs of the harem, but she could handle them all in an orderly manner, making her a rare virtuous wife.
The Crown Prince Zhu Gaochi has two arms. On one side is the "good saint grandson" Zhu Zhanji, and on the other side is the Crown Princess Zhang.
[After the death of Emperor Xuande, with the intervention of Empress Dowager Zhang, you successfully recognized your ancestor and returned to your clan. You were named "King Xi" and continued to be with your mother, Wu. Of course, today's conditions are much better than before. You are very happy, because no one will look at him coldly anymore, and you can have fun in this big palace. 】
[A child will still be a child, even if he becomes a vassal or even an emperor. 】
[The same is true for the new emperor Zhu Qizhen. After he had been alone for eight or nine years, a younger brother of a similar age suddenly appeared. Naturally, he was novel and happy. So Zhu Qizhen and you had a good relationship at the beginning. It hasn't changed even as I grow older. 】
[Because the new emperor knows very well that you have no possibility of threatening his throne. So he broke the Ming Dynasty's rules and didn't let you, who had already been crowned king, go to other places to become a vassal. Instead, he stayed in the capital. If nothing happened, the two brothers would drink and have fun together. 】
