Zhu Yixuan came out of Yutai Teahouse and went to the palace to see Empress Dowager Li. After all, he had beaten his grandfather's housekeeper. Although Li An and his status were extremely unequal, as the saying goes, it depends on the owner when beating a dog. Especially when the owner is his mother's elder, timely communication is necessary.
After meeting Empress Dowager Li, Zhu Yili angrily recounted the conflict between himself and Li An in detail, focusing on his domineering behavior. Empress Dowager Li had long been tired of worrying about her family over the years. She also heard that King Lu dealt with things in a reasonable and orderly manner, so she just gave the housekeeper a few words to talk about and sent the evil servant to justice, so she said: "My son, just give him a beating. His family is doing all these bad things. It annoys me to death."
King Lu scratched his head after hearing this. Zhu Yijun had already traveled through time when he was young. Although he didn't have much contact with this cheap emperor brother, Emperor Shen Yi's decisiveness and aloof personality left an indelible impression on his young mind—— When he accepted the concubine, he looked up to his sister-in-law, which was partly due to his teenage thoughts, but the more reason was that he felt that the only thing that could rival his brother-in-law was finding a wife, and he could only look up to the rest of the world.
As he grew up, he saw the respect his royal brother had for his mother, which led him to have a strong admiration for Queen Mother Li. Especially in the first year after Zhu Yijun ascended the throne, his mother often held him in his arms to discuss military and state affairs with the emperor's brother, which made him even more frightened of his mother who loved him. His delay in leaving the palace was not due to Zhu Yijun's efforts to prevent him from staying. It was because she didn't dare to ask Empress Dowager Li for permission.
Now listening to Empress Dowager Li's common complaint, Zhu Yili suddenly seemed to have broken through his "knowledge barrier" and realized that his mother, whom his family had admired and feared for many years, was only at a mediocre level. He smiled and said:
"Mother, this Li An is very stupid. My son also said, 'Why have I never seen you before?', but this guy didn't understand what he meant. Instead, he was even more rude. This forced me to be cruel. "
After hearing this, Empress Dowager Li thought for a while and finally said: "Yes, you gave him a chance. He deserves this beating." After hearing this, Zhu Yili felt reassured.
After finishing everything, he changed the subject and said, "Mother, your wife's milk supply is insufficient now. Do you know any good prescriptions?"
After hearing this, Queen Mother Li immediately turned her mind to her grandson, raised her forehead and said: "Don't listen to the emperor's nonsense, don't say that the children of our heavenly family, even the children of rural landlords, are all fed by wet nurses. How can any legitimate mother breastfeed herself?" -The emperor has many fallacies, how can he, a man, know how to have children!"
After hearing this, Zhu Yirui could not help but retort: "The emperor's sister-in-law and the emperor's concubines all nursed the children themselves. Now the prince and his nephews are all strong and strong, and there is no one with any congenital deficiency. To be honest, in our Forbidden City, from the time the prince was born, Has any child died in infancy? Grandpa Sejong raised eight children, the late emperor and two uncles. Isn’t that scary enough? A poor civilian family is nothing more than that."
When Queen Mother Li heard this, she was stunned. Ever since she became the Queen Mother, everyone in the palace has been saying auspicious words to her. Therefore, after Zhu Yijun's wedding, no one said in front of her that none of the emperor's children would die in infancy - Looking back now When I think about it, it’s a miracle!
At this time in the world, even if you are an emperor's family, whether you can raise your children depends entirely on destiny: the mortality rate of infants and young children is extremely high - Zhu Yijun once arranged for the medical school to make statistics. In the tenth year of Wanli, one-year-old children in the capital area died. The rate reached one-sixth. This was the result of a large amount of popular science carried out by the medical school in the capital. A sample survey conducted at the same time showed that in the twenty years from the 40th year of Jiajing to the ninth year of Wanli, the number of people in the capital could grow up healthily. Less than 65% of children reach the age of twenty - it will only be lower in non-capital areas where medicine is more backward.
The reason is nothing more than an unprofessional delivery process, incomplete disinfection and a large number of "hygiene" issues. When a baby is born, just one "tetanus" is very painful. At this time, there is a folk saying that "seven days of wind and eight days of throwing". This is only the first calamity that these little lives need to survive.
Infectious diseases are even more serious killers, such as whooping cough, measles, scarlet fever, pneumonia, typhoid, and even colds and fevers. Any disease can be fatal to babies with weak immunity. The backwardness of medical treatment and medicine caused people at that time to practice superstition during the birth process. Witch doctors, magicians and other popular practices also committed misdeeds - it was inevitable in the inner palace. When Zhuang Jingjia gave birth to her daughter, monk Hanshan performed Buddhist rites in Mount Wutai as evidenced by this. .
There is also a very important point, that is, women at this time give birth prematurely. In later generations, girls who are thirteen or fourteen years old will be at the level of junior high school. Their bodies are not fully mature yet, but they get pregnant and give birth early. This is also an important reason why infants and young children are weak and unable to resist minor illnesses and disasters.
After Zhu Yijun fell from a horse, in order to allow Empress Zhuang to legally control the political power and continue the reform plan after her sudden death, she became pregnant and gave birth to a child at the age of fifteen. At that time, she was actually sweating in her heart.
Fortunately, he came from later generations and was familiar with some knowledge about pregnancy and infants, so that the medical school made thorough preparations; and he did not choose poor families during the draft, so these harem women never lacked nutrition and were relatively healthy; in addition, after the prince was born, , the concubines in the harem were all over eighteen years old - this created the miracle of not having any children die in infancy.
After being reminded by King Lu, Empress Dowager Li was so surprised that she chanted Amitabha Buddha, clasped her hands and prayed to heaven: "It's all Buddha's blessing." After thinking about it, she sighed, "Actually, your royal brother has an older brother before him, but it's a pity that he is Raised until six years old - it seems that your royal brother is really blessed."
Before he finished speaking, the eunuch at the door came in and reported: "The Queen Mother, the emperor has come to say hello." After hearing this, Zhu Yili stood up from his chair and saw the palace staff opening the bead curtain, and the emperor came in in ordinary clothes.
Seeing Zhu Yijun here, Zhu Yijun didn't think it was strange. He laughed loudly and said, "Why are you here today? Didn't you go to the horse racing and listen to books?" Before King Lu could reply, he asked Empress Dowager Li to say hello.
Empress Dowager Li nodded in return and said with a smile: "We ladies were saying that the emperor is a blessed man, so you came."
King Lu knelt down and saluted: "Replying to my brother, I have beaten the housekeeper of Uncle Wu Qing's house today, and I have come to apologize to my mother."
Seeing him salute, Zhu Yijun hurriedly stepped forward to help him up and said, "Don't be restrained, sit down and talk. Who did you say you hit?"
When Zhu Yili asked, he told the whole story again. Finally, he said: "This Li An is using the banner of Uncle Wu Qing's Mansion to dominate and seize the shop. He really brings shame to his uncle's family. This little shabby teahouse is worth a few big dragons. It's worth it to make trouble for him." ?”
Queen Mother Li's original intention was not to let the emperor know about the bad things about her mother's family. Unexpectedly, when King Lu met his brother, it was like a mouse meeting a cat. The emperor casually teased him and he took the initiative to explain everything. He smiled helplessly in his heart and sighed at this The second son is too cowardly.
Zhu Yijun listened with a smile and said to King Lu: "You handled it very well, you are brave and resourceful." After saying that, he looked him up and down and said, "Well, you look like a man after becoming a father."
After hearing this, King Lu felt a wave of heat rising to the sky, wishing he could go out on the streets to do chivalry and help his brother eradicate injustices in the world. He grinned from ear to ear and said, "I will go to Uncle Wu Qing's house later and talk to my uncles."
Zhu Yijun glanced at Queen Mother Li and said with a smile: "No need, when Mrs. Wu Qingbo comes to the palace to pay her respects, let the Queen Mother give his family a heads up. You can't be addicted to slaps in the face. After all, this is our grandpa's house." King Lu listened. He then smiled dryly at Empress Dowager Li with a flattering face, and Empress Dowager Li gave him a sideways look.
Zhu Yijun pondered for a while, then smiled at Empress Dowager Li and said: "Today, there are fewer clans and noble officials who dare to take away business, but it is not impossible. It is difficult to stop them. If these powerful slaves in my uncle's family don't restrain themselves, my son will inevitably take them. If his family wants to attack his son and establish his authority, please ask the queen mother to speak harshly."
Empress Dowager Li was so upset by these two words of the emperor that she secretly hated her father and brother for not living up to expectations. At the same time, she also had some resentment towards the emperor for being more serious. So she responded lightly on her face, but she was secretly cruel in her heart and prepared to come to Uncle Wu Qing's Mansion. A big embarrassment.
Zhu Yijun stopped talking and then changed the subject: "What did the Queen Mother and King Lu just say? How do you say that your son is blessed?"
But King Lu didn't dare to say this - he was afraid that good things would not work and bad things would not work, and the prince and princess would die before he said these words, and the emperor would inevitably be angry. Seeing that he was silent, Empress Dowager Li said that the prince and princess were both healthy and safe.
Zhu Yijun nodded and said: "Actually, it's not complicated to say. It's all about observing things and hygiene. If we do it all, the mortality rate of infants and young children can be reduced. Last year, the one-year-old mortality rate of infants and young children in the capital has been reduced to one tenth. , this alone will increase the capital’s population by 12,000.”
After speaking, he smiled and said: "Princess Shouyang was already eighteen years old when she held the wedding ceremony for the royal family of Zhongxing County. Her mother was still anxious back then. Now she has given birth to a child safely. How great! The woman is young and is really not suitable for childbirth. . But if the first child has passed through, and the subsequent births are continued, it will be good for mother and child. Therefore, delaying marriage for a few years to let men and women grow up is indeed conducive to population reproduction. "
After hearing this, Queen Mother Li glanced sideways at the emperor and scolded with a smile: "Who do you think will live together?"
Zhu Yijun smiled and apologized - Empress Dowager Li was the most fertile among Mu Zong's concubines. Except for her first child, which she failed to raise, she gave birth to four more children after giving birth to Zhu Yijun, making great contributions to Mu Zong's establishment of the throne. Today, Zhu Yijun's peers, except for Princess Yanqing who was born to Mu Zong's concubine Qin, the other five brothers and sisters were married by Empress Dowager Li alone.
After laughing for a while, Zhu Yijun said with a smile: "When girl Shouyang got married, there were rumors among the people that she was somehow ugly because she was not married yet at eighteen. Now girl Yongning is also eighteen years old. She needs to take care of herself this year. To give an example to the people, from now on, women will not be allowed to marry under the age of eighteen, and men will not be allowed to marry under the age of eighteen - this is also a matter of immeasurable merit."
Speaking of merit, Empress Dowager Li, who is a devoted believer in Buddhism, recited a line from Buddha. Then she smiled and said: "The emperor takes it for granted. If the family is rich, it will be better. Who from a poor family is willing to let a girl live in vain for four or five years, and she will feed her husband's family!"
When Zhu Yijun heard this, he frowned and nodded: "What the Queen Mother said is that the court will increase publicity in the past two years, and then legislate, high fines will be imposed on early marriages, so this matter must be reversed."
Speaking of the princess, Empress Dowager Li said: "The emperor is so cruel. Princess Leping was newly married, so you asked the consort Xu Guangqi to go a hundred thousand miles away. Now it has been two and a half years. Your empress, the Queen Mother, cannot be a grandma. Her mother and son are two Don’t you blame me?”
Hearing this, Zhu Yijun touched his nose and said: "There is another news from Guangzhou. The ship sent by Xu Guangqi has also arrived. It is said that it has brought back several ships of things - he should be back in the year after next at the latest."
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