Although he did not receive pro-government power, Zhu Yijun also intended to improve his situation during the early dynasty.
Since there was no curtain in the court, Queen Mother Li did not attend the morning court. Although Zhang Juzheng was in charge of the general affairs, he could not stop him from speaking. Therefore, in the morning court on the second day after the banquet, Zhu Yijun occasionally spoke in reply to the ministers' remarks in the morning after careful consideration many times. The ministers were so surprised that they were unable to express even the slightest objection to the emperor's handling.
This happened several times, and the emperor behaved as if he had eaten a red fruit and added a plug-in, and all the officials in the foreign court were surprised. Although he was surprised, he couldn't help but worry that the emperor was so precocious. If there was anything inappropriate in his errands, he would be picked out by the emperor and make a fool of himself, which would greatly hinder his future prospects.
From then on, the important ministers changed their dejected attitude and began to handle their errands cautiously, which made Zhang Juzheng, who was planning to take the law examination, dumbfounded.
Since Zhu Yijun traveled through time, ten days have passed by in an instant. Over the past few days, everyone inside and outside the palace praised the new emperor for his intelligence and early wisdom. Many concubines and wives who came to visit the two queen mothers all praised them. Empress Dowager Chen smiled and took all the photos. Her illness since the winter started was all good. A few points.
Empress Dowager Li's ears were on the verge of becoming calluses, and she was confused. She also quietly visited the emperor's palace and Wenhua Hall (the place where lectures were given) several times. She saw that the emperor was really different from what he had been ten months ago. He followed the rules every day. , speaking and doing things in a precise manner, and thinking and speaking carefully and meticulously, making as much concessions as the previous emperor. This is still the result of Zhu Yijun's painstaking suppression, otherwise he would have to make nonsense.
Empress Dowager Li tossed and turned after returning to the palace for several days. One moment, she was happy that the emperor had awakened early. The other moment, she was afraid that he would be so smart early, so he would be jealous and die young. The next moment, she thought of the late emperor and couldn't help but shed tears. Dark hanging.
The life of a widow was difficult. Empress Dowager Li had been very worried for the past few days. After falling asleep, she could not help but have erotic dreams and nightmares, and she suddenly fell ill. She was usually in good health, but when she suddenly fell ill, she became quite heavy and felt groggy every day.
It is a major matter for the internal and external dynasty that the Empress Dowager Bingzheng's phoenix body is not in danger. Tai Hospital was the first to take action. It was busy taking pulses, prescribing medicine, cooking medicine, and adjusting meals every day.
Zhu Yijun also announced his resignation from court and lectures. In addition to fulfilling his responsibilities as a filial son and providing soups and medicines to treat illnesses, he also recited and copied scriptures every day to pray for the Queen Mother.
All the nobles and ministers in the capital, and their wives who were eligible to visit the palace, would inevitably go to the palace to pay their respects, and burn incense in various temples to pray for the empress dowager. Not to mention Zhang Juzheng, Feng Bao and others, they prayed silently every day, praying for Queen Mother Li's early recovery.
On February 20th, the imperial doctor announced that Queen Mother Li had recovered from her illness and informed both the public and the public. The ministers were relieved.
Early the next morning, Queen Mother Li had missed a lot from her Buddhist rituals over the past few days, so she got up early to make up for her homework by chanting sutras. A copy of the "Diamond Sutra" newly copied by the emperor was presented to them. Empress Dowager Li opened it and saw the faint color of blood in the ink marks. She felt puzzled. When she put it to her nose and smelled it, she found that there was the smell of blood, and she was shocked.
The old eunuch Yin Xiang and the young eunuch Zhang Cheng who were serving the emperor were urgently summoned. Yin Xiang was old and his ears were not clear. The Empress Dowager asked Zhang Cheng for details but could not find any details, so she asked Zhang Cheng to play it carefully. Zhang Cheng cried and bowed to the ground and said:
"Ever since I became a child, I have never seen anyone as sincere and filial as the Emperor. The Queen Mother has been disobeying the emperor a few days ago. Before serving the soup and medicine every day, the Emperor would take a bath and straighten his appearance. He said: 'The Queen Mother has violated the order and I will punish her. "Looking up, so as not to worry about my kindness." When I returned to the palace after serving, I didn't think about food and tea, and I was worried. Since three days ago, the Queen Mother was not well. The emperor asked the slave for a needle. The slave didn't know what it meant, so he took it and gave it to her. Your Majesty. Unexpectedly, your Majesty actually pricked your left arm with a needle to draw blood. The servant could not stop him. Your Majesty... Your Majesty... your Majesty actually pricked your left arm three times, bleeding about three dollars each time. He used it to grind ink and copy scriptures, hoping to express his filial piety to heaven and earth. Grandpa Huang said: 'I am the Son of Heaven. Even Heaven can see my sincerity and will protect my mother.'" After saying this, he broke down in tears.
After hearing this, Empress Dowager Li burst into tears and murmured: "This unfilial son! You are so angry that you will kill me!" She took a few deep breaths, put one hand on her chest, scolded Yin Xiang and Zhang Cheng with her halberd finger, and said: "You see the emperor is disabled. Limbs, why don't you block them? What use are you waiting for these slaves?!"
Hearing this, Zhang Cheng raised his head and took off the little yellow hat on his head, revealing a large bruise on his head. He lowered his head again and echoed: "I don't want to do Mr. Yin's business because the emperor doesn't want to alarm the palace, so he took the slaves to screen everyone away." I did it to stop the emperor from getting bruised and bleeding, but the emperor is determined and I don’t dare to deceive you..."
Empress Dowager Li gradually became less angry when she saw that he answered questions wittily and explained things clearly. Her love for her son and her filial piety were overwhelming, so she lowered her voice and said, "Is the emperor getting up?"
"Your Majesty, because the Queen Mother has recovered, relaxed and got up a little late today. The slave girl saw that the Emperor had not slept well for a few days, so she had the courage not to wake up today, so she came to inform the Queen Mother. The Queen Mother summoned the slave girl ”
When Empress Dowager Li heard about it, she retired from the inner prison and changed into formal clothes. Then he took his left and right people to the emperor's bedroom in Qianqing Palace. The little eunuch had already taken the lead and told them not to make any sound on the way. Arriving at the palace quietly, the Queen Mother asked everyone to wait outside, gathered up her skirt and walked into the inner hall.
When he arrived at the dragon bed, he saw the little emperor curled up into the bed and sleeping deeply, with his left arm hanging outside the quilt. The Empress Dowager Cisheng's eyes were red, and she tremblingly rolled up the sleeves of her underwear on the emperor's arm. She saw that the skin on the crook of her left arm was dark in three places, and the congestion had not yet dissipated. Unable to bear it any longer, he took out his handkerchief and cried softly. After crying for a while, I saw the emperor's body moving, and knew that he was about to wake up. He stopped crying, wiped away his tears, and sat quietly by the bed.
Zhu Yijun woke up and was surprised to see the Queen Mother sitting in front of the bed. He asked: "Queen Mother, why are you here?" He looked to the left and right again, but there was no one quietly there.
"Zhu Yijun, do you know your guilt?" Seeing the emperor wake up, the Queen Mother asked in a low voice with a majestic look on her face.
Zhu Yijun's head suddenly shook, and he came to his senses completely. He knew that something he had worked so hard for had happened, but it was exactly what he had expected. He immediately adjusted his emotions. He got up, knelt on the bed and asked: "The Queen Mother is in her early stages of recovery. Don't get angry. Your Majesty has done something wrong, so please express it clearly."
"How do you mutilate your limbs and make me sad? You are also a reader of sages. Don't you know that 'the hair, hair and skin of the body are given to parents and should not be mutilated'? I am a Taoist woman who knows this truth. How come you don't know it?" Then, the circles under his eyes became red again.
Seeing her true feelings revealed, Zhu Yijun was secretly moved. The drama that he was going to perform with all his heart was now filled with the emotions from his original body memory, and he cried out loudly: "The emperor has lost his father. If he has lost his mother, what will happen? Then I... Then...am I not an orphan without a father and a mother? Mother, the emperor is so scared!" After saying that, a feeling of longing for parents and relatives in future generations that had been suppressed for the past few days came up, and it turned from crying in a low voice to I cried loudly, tears and snot rolled down my face, and my face was red from sobbing.
The Empress Dowager Cisheng was already full of emotions. Seeing the little emperor's sincere words, every word was like a knife piercing her heart. She couldn't help hugging Zhu Yijun, and the mother and son hugged each other and cried. One misses the parents who will never meet again after time travel, and one misses the husband who has already conquered Bintian. This time, the two of them cried until the sky was dark, and they could only rest after a cup of tea.
Zhu Yijun comes from a later generation. He has watched too many bloody dramas and has developed a certain immunity. After crying for a while, he stopped crying. Seeing that Empress Dowager Li still couldn't stop crying, she held up her arms and persuaded: "Today the emperor has realized his mistake, and he will definitely not do this in the future, which will make his mother sad...Mother, please stop crying. If you cry too much, wouldn't you be your son?" sin?"
Empress Dowager Li slowly stopped her tears and saw the emperor comforting her like a little adult. She smiled and took a handkerchief to wipe away the emperor's tears first and said: "Will you still dare to kneel in front of your father's soul again? One more time. "
Zhu Yijun also showed a smile and said: "Your Majesty, I don't dare anymore." The two of them looked at each other and smiled, feeling as if the ice in their hearts had melted. The feeling of connection between mother and son stirred in their hearts, and they were no longer bound by the previous etiquette. That kind of disconnect.
This method of parents being sick and having their children prick blood to copy their scriptures has been around since ancient times, but it was rare in the Ming Dynasty palaces. When Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty seized the throne from Jiulong, the princes played this trick in a vulgar way, and Kangxi later became less excited.
Zhu Yijun also learned this skill from TV dramas. Empress Dowager Li experienced it for the first time and was deeply moved. She felt that although she was a widow, she had a filial child and she would have someone to rely on for the rest of her life.
In order to get rid of Feng Bao, Zhu Yijun must arouse the deep affection between mother and son in Queen Mother Li's heart. On the one hand, it is to form an overwhelming advantage over Feng Bao's holy family, and on the other hand, it is to eliminate Queen Mother Li's worries about her own administration. Now that we have seen that Empress Dowager Li is on the hook, things have become more or less complicated.
The mother and son talked for a few more words. When Zhu Yijun saw that the Empress Dowager Cisheng's eyes were red and swollen and she was crying like a peach, he opened the palace door and ordered the palace servants to come in and help them wash up. He also asked people to bring some ice, wrap it in silk cloth, and put it on the eyes of Empress Dowager Cisheng. Cisheng smiled and said: "How does the emperor know this? Even my mother and queen don't know."
Zhu Yijun smiled and said: "A scholar can know the world's affairs without going out. After studying, the emperor also reads some miscellaneous books and forgets where he learned it." After pondering for a while, he asked the palace servants to get some eggs, pearl powder, honey and other things. , found a silver bowl and mixed pearl powder, honey and egg white evenly, let Empress Dowager Ci Sheng lie half on the bed, and applied it carefully on her face. Less than a quarter of an hour later, he ordered the palace servants to bring water and served the Merciful Saint to wash his face.
After washing up, Ci Sheng took a look in the mirror and saw that his face was smooth and supple, and the swelling around his eyes had subsided. He was surprised and said, "Your Majesty, you also learned this method from a book? But my mother didn't believe it."
Zhu Yijun smiled and said: "The Queen Mother may not believe it even more..." He glanced left and right and said: "You guys retreat." Seeing everyone retreating, he added: "Everyone retreat ten feet outside the palace!"
Seeing everyone retreating in awe, he whispered to Cisheng: "...the night before the imperial banquet, the emperor had a strange dream. In the dream, my father took me to a place that looked like a place where gods lived, and asked me to The child worshiped four teachers, and just like a yellow beam in a dream, the child followed the teacher and experienced all kinds of strange things in the fairy abode. When he woke up, he felt as if he had opened a heavenly orifice and understood many truths..."
Seeing the Queen Mother's eyes getting wider and wider, Zhu Yijun smiled and said, "Everyone around me knows this. When I woke up, the emperor was still dazed for a while." After a pause, he added, "My eldest companion also knows."
Cisheng heard that Zhu Yijun had dreamed of the late emperor. He was sad at first, and then half-believing. When he saw that he was sure, he went to the door of the palace and asked Zhang Cheng to come in. Zhang Cheng didn't know why, so he only heard the Empress Dowager Cisheng ask: "On the day of the emperor's sutra-registering banquet, was there anything unusual when he got up and went to bed?"
Zhang Cheng replied: "To the Queen Mother, on the day of the banquet, when the emperor got up from bed, he was in a trance. He didn't seem to recognize us and asked the slaves, 'Where is this'? The slaves wanted to teach the imperial doctor, but Eunuch Feng stopped me." The emperor came to his senses after seeing Eunuch Feng. Since everything was as usual with the emperor, he followed the emperor's wishes and did not report to the Queen Mother, so as not to worry about his kindness. "
Queen Mother Li was stunned after hearing this. Because she believed in Buddhism, she believed in these divine things the most. She forced Zhang Cheng to retreat, but she burst into tears again and said: "The emperor is filial to heaven and earth. It must be the late emperor who doesn't trust you, so... he entered In your dream, you... invited gods to teach you again."
After thinking for a while, he asked again: "Have you remembered everything the masters taught you?"
When Zhu Yijun saw that she recognized the late emperor's dream, he felt relieved and replied with a smile: "It's like a child has learned it since he was a child, but he doesn't know where it comes from? I can't remember everything the masters said to me - "
After hearing this, Empress Dowager Li interjected: "The scripture without words is the true scripture." Zhu Yijun was secretly pleased that she praised her so well, and said with a smile: "That's it, but he also remembered the appearance of several masters, one named Ma , with big beards on their faces, one named En is also bearded, the other two are named Mao and the other Deng, but both of them have no beards.”
When Queen Mother Li heard about it, she recited several lines of Amitabha. Because what the emperor said was interesting, she laughed and said, "People with the surname En are rare." Zhu Yijun was prepared and said with a smile, "It is rare, but "Hundred Family Surnames" There are also some. During the Zhengtong period of this dynasty, Honglu Temple originally had an official with this surname."
Seeing that he had a nose and an eye, the Queen Mother thought of the emperor's sudden improvement in sacred knowledge these days. Now everything was aligned, and the last doubt in her heart was dispelled. He hesitated and asked again: "Did the late emperor say anything?"
Zhu Yijun had completed the plan and couldn't bear to bully her anymore, so he smiled and said, "Father just touched the child's head kindly and didn't say anything." After hearing this, Queen Mother Li felt a little disappointed.
