Zhu Jingyuan's father, the second son of the emperor, Zhu Jianyan, currently has a princess and four wives. The wives are concubines who already have children.
The five wives and concubines gave birth to five sons and six daughters, for a total of eleven children.
Zhu Jingyuan is the fourth among sons. He has three brothers and three sisters, and one brother and three sisters.
After graduation, the top two brothers and one sister were arranged to go to various yamen, factories, and health clinics for internship training and work.
The remaining one elder brother and younger brother are still receiving the same specialized education as Zhu Jingyuan, and the two older sisters and three younger sisters are studying in collective schools of the royal family and clan.
Zhu Jingyuan had just graduated before the end of the year and had not yet had time to arrange to go out for practical training. Now that he has the job of negotiating peace, there is no need to make special arrangements for going out.
There are older brothers and older sisters who have not yet graduated, but the younger brother Zhu Jingyuan has already graduated. This is because the education of princes and grandsons is different from the education of ordinary clans.
They do not receive collective education for a prescribed number of years in school. Instead, they have dedicated teachers to provide completely personalized instruction, and their learning outcomes are judged through daily comprehensive inspections.
No matter what your age, you can graduate as long as your knowledge level reaches the standard, and this standard is close to the level of ordinary undergraduates in later generations.
Zhu Jingyuan passed the exam at the end of last year, but there was an older brother who had not passed the exam before him, so Zhu Jingyuan graduated first.
Zhu Jingyuan is now fifteen years old and has almost a bachelor's degree in knowledge.
This may seem very exaggerated, but the education of princes and grandsons is targeted, and the actual efficiency is much higher than collective education.
Zhu Jingyuan started enlightenment at the age of four. It has taken him eleven years to complete the knowledge from primary school to university for sixteen years, which is equivalent to skipping five grades in total.
Now Zhu Jingyuan happens to be the only one at home, so he needs to get up by himself at this time, eat in advance and go out for morning exercise.
Zhu Jingyuan came to the restaurant at home and ordered a bowl of meat porridge, two steamed buns, two eggs, and a cup of soy milk.
After finishing the simple breakfast unhurriedly, Zhu Jingyuan took a short rest, leaving the two maids who were still confused, and rode out on horseback.
The current capital of Shuntianfu is one of the largest cities in the world, with a total population of more than six million people.
However, this huge city is divided into two distinct urban areas, the old and the new.
The new urban area is located directly south of the original Beijing city, and its center is almost in the middle of the later Daxing District. It is now the economic center of the northern part of the empire, with a population of more than five million.
This new city was built after Emperor Shizu regained the capital.
He obviously foresaw at that time that the capital's population would expand rapidly after industrialization, to the point where the original city could not accommodate it.
So when he built the new capital city, he also split the functions of the imperial capital.
The new city serves as the new economic and cultural center, and the original old city serves as the political and military center.
The new city was originally built with city walls and was larger than the original city of Beijing, but it did not last even a hundred years and was already overcrowded.
We can only follow the rules left by Emperor Shizu and continue to expand the city in the southwest, south, and southeast directions of the city.
Because the empire has no shortage of farmland, and the urban railways are very developed, there are not many high-rise buildings planned in the new city, resulting in the rapid expansion of the urban area.
Now the edge of the new city has been paved to the line between Zhuozhou and Langfang. Some people suggest that it be built to the southeast in the future, with the goal of converging with Tianjin City...
The situation in the old city was more complicated. When the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, according to the house occupation policy, all the original residents in the city were driven away, and all the houses were given to the Eight Banners and Baoyi.
After the capital was restored, the Eight Banners and the Baoyi were driven out again. The capital that Emperor Shizu received was a completely empty city.
Taking advantage of the vacuum in the capital, Emperor Shizu made overall repairs to the buildings in the old city and made more reasonable adjustments to the city planning.
The outer city, which was half built during the Jiajing period, was also built, with the western city wall of Jinzhongdu in the west as the western boundary, and the earthen wall of the northern city wall of Yuan Dadu in the north as the northern boundary, and then extended a similar distance to the east, finally joining together to form a Complete square outer city.
This old capital city formed a four-story square nested structure of palace city-imperial city-inner city-outer city, and the total area of the city more than doubled.
Four huge star-shaped fortresses were built at the four corners outside the city as external fulcrums for the imperial guards to garrison and defend the capital.
The restored old city was used as a political center, so the new residents were only the royal family, nobles, officials, their families and service personnel.
The number of officials is relatively stable. Although the number of clans and nobles continues to expand, not all of them will stay in the capital. Most of them will be dispersed to serve in local places.
Moreover, with the continuous development of industry and society, Jingshi New City, as the economic and cultural center, is becoming more and more prosperous, and its attraction to ordinary people is increasing day by day.
As the political center, the old city has always maintained the typical characteristics of a serious atmosphere, ancient environment, lack of entertainment, and strict management.
Therefore, more and more ordinary clan members and nobles gradually moved to live in the more prosperous new city.
Many grassroots officials also like to live in the new city, and many unimportant yamen have also moved there one after another.
The residents who stay in the old capital of the capital all year round are mainly the royal family and nobles from the nearby branches, as well as the real senior core bureaucrats of the empire.
So far, the population of the old city is still less than one million, and the area of the old city that has expanded the outer city is still very spacious for this million people.
Nowadays, normal residents in the old city still live within the city walls, and most of them live in detached houses. There are no high-rise buildings in the old city.
The tall city walls still have a certain degree of defense against today's weapons, and combined with the city wall patrol guards and city gate checkpoints, suspicious persons can be easily isolated.
Zhu Jingyuan headed north from Wangfu Street on the east side of the Imperial City, to Chaoyangmen Street, then turned eastward, dismounted at Chaoyangmen for inspection, and then left Chaoyangmen to the East Outer City.
Continue to go straight east, dismount again at Dong'an Gate in the East Outer City, undergo another inspection, and then pass through Dong'an Gate before finally arriving outside the capital city.
Along the way, I met several groups of clan members and noble descendants, as well as two princes and four princes' grandchildren.
Ordinary clan members and noble disciples receive regular training four times a month, in batches and at staggered times. Meeting them in the morning is just an accident.
Princes and grandsons under the age of thirty have daily training once every morning, regular training four times a month, and intensive training once a month.
The princes and grandsons in the learning stage will receive training at normal times with specialized instructors and do not have to rush to the morning time.
Therefore, the status of these princes and grandsons is obviously the same as that of Zhu Jingyuan. They passed the examination at the end of last year and have not yet had time to be sent abroad.
They are the same generation as Zhu Jingyuan, but they are not familiar with him. They are also three to five years older than Zhu Jingyuan, the youngest is eighteen years old, and the oldest is twenty years old.
There are no older princes or grandsons who have just graduated, because those who are over twenty years old and have not completed the course will be eliminated in the heir training.
"A person with middle-level qualifications or below is not suitable to be cultivated as a prince."
Then they will be transferred to a collective school, where they will go to school with the ordinary nobles of the clan and train together regularly, and they will have no chance of being crowned emperor.
Zhu Jingyuan is actually not much smarter than other princes and grandsons, but he has the blessing of more than 20 years of learning experience in his previous life.
Although I did not recover my memory in the early stage, I still became sensible very early. I started my education at the age of four, and I learned very quickly. I graduated just after I turned fifteen.
If it is a collective school, even students who have to skip a level every other year will still have one year at a time to get to know each other and their classmates.
However, the education of the princes and grandsons of the Ming Dynasty is personalized, and students with different learning speeds cannot get together at all.
The other party didn't know what happened in the palace last night. He didn't know that Zhu Jingyuan was already the prince who made the reservation, but the relevant procedures hadn't been completed yet.
So the two sides just said hello and went their separate ways as usual, just like ordinary relatives who are not familiar with each other.
