little emperor of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 154 Reserved
After the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, after eating Tanggua Nian and sending Master Zaojun to heaven, the prelude to the Chinese New Year will be officially kicked off.The eunuchs and maids of the palaces in the Forbidden City are busy every day, cleaning and cleaning, laying gold and hanging red, and on the day of the New Year's Eve, the atmosphere of the New Year is at its peak.

Sacrificing ancestors, offering sacrifices to gods, receiving stoves, pasting couplets to hang money, hanging gate gods, inserting sesame seeds, setting general charcoal, and all kinds of festival customs, all are just to make good luck in the coming year.

In the blink of an eye, New Year's Eve is here, and this year's palace banquet is held in Kunning Palace. The Emperor Wanli showed his body a little and then retreated on the grounds that he was unwell, but it doesn't matter. The photos show every detail.This year, the emperor held the New Year's Eve banquet in Kunning Palace uncharacteristically. It has nothing to do with the empress, it must be for one person.

So Zhu Changluo suddenly had a lot of unknown mothers and concubines around him. At this moment, Zhu Changluo was like a charcoal general made of incense charcoal decorated with gold decorations standing outside the palace gate. Happy new year.

So one by one, with the spring breeze and enthusiasm, they invited him to watch the year in their own palaces, but what they didn't expect was that there were too many people who had such thoughts. As the old saying goes, places with many people are rivers and lakes. There will be wind and waves.

So some were glaring, some were gnashing their teeth, some were sneering and sarcastic, and even a few excited ones had already revealed their well-manicured nails. Looking at the posture, there were also some who were going to scratch people's faces in the next step.

The maids and eunuchs serving in the first hall were all dumbfounded. They didn't know what happened to this group of noble, self-respecting, elegant and elegant ladies today. I'm afraid that Tang Monk Meat will be performed live.

Normally Zheng Guifei would have yelled angrily and lashed out, but today she seemed unusually silent.

Queen Wang couldn't help squinting at her, she was still dressed in the seven treasures as usual, piled up with brocade embroidery, her face was exquisitely made up, like a blooming flower under the bright light, it was so beautiful, bright and soul-stirring.

She is also a woman, Queen Wang admitted that Concubine Zheng Gui is indeed much more beautiful than herself.But so what?His eyes glanced over Zheng Guifei's eyebrows that Feng Yudai had carefully drawn on her face...

Suddenly bowed his head and smiled, the sooner it blooms and withers, the sooner the flowers fade, I'm afraid my heart will be broken...

Under the intervention of Queen Wang, Zhu Changluo finally managed to break free from the mad enthusiasm of the ladies, and returned to the Ciqing Palace as if fleeing all the way.

Firecrackers blared everywhere and the sky was full of fireworks. On this last day of the 19th year of Wanli, Zhu Changluo lived with a sense of infinity.

After calming down, he pushed open the window, and when the cold wind hit his face, his mind was immediately cleared.

Looking up at the night sky, watching the red, purple and golden fireworks blooming in the sky, it is magnificent and unparalleled.

The dazzling beauty of the fireworks is obvious to all, but it is a pity that the magnificence is fleeting, and the eternal night sky is still dark and cold after the splendor.

Suddenly I remembered that year in the Yonghe Palace, that roaring voice, the tall body with a suffocating aura...

"You have to know that everything you have is given by me! If I give it to you, you will have it! If I don't give it to you, you can't ask for it!"

"Tell me, what exactly do you want?"

"You could have been a prince and live a peaceful and peaceful life! Although I don't like you, I won't treat you poorly."

"You threaten me with the love of father and son, and ask for an equal opportunity, so it doesn't matter if I fulfill your wish!"

"From now on, you will go the way you want to go. I will neither hinder you nor help you! Because all of this is your own choice, whether you succeed or fail, it is no different from others!"

Recalling the past and looking at the present, this journey can be regarded as ups and downs, and it is already in a trance, as if in a dream...Is it very similar to this sky full of fireworks?Although it is brilliant, it can only be a momentary thing.

Zhu Changluo, who was immersed in the memories, suddenly opened his closed eyes, as if all the bright stars of the day flew into his eyes, and there was a hint of sarcasm at the corner of his mouth.

At the gate of Ciqing Palace, the court ladies and eunuchs had already knelt on the ground, each holding their breath, silently daring not to make a sound.

Looking at the thin figure standing quietly in front of the window through the door curtain, he suddenly found that this child who had almost no impression in his heart had quickly grown into a handsome young man. There is reluctance and care in her eyes.

Huang Jin, who was standing beside him, asked cautiously: "Your Majesty, it's very cold here, why don't you go in and sit down and talk to His Highness?"

Wanli shook his head, covered his face with his sleeve and coughed a few times.

Huang Jin looked at the emperor with a worried expression. As the emperor's personal eunuch, he knew that the emperor's health had been getting worse and worse in the past six months.First, the body was deficient and chilly, and the doctor concluded that it was excessive indulgence, and more warming and tonic medicines could be used to treat the symptoms. Who would have thought that after taking the medicine for half a year, the symptoms of deficiency and cold disappeared. disease.

These days, he took medicine every day to recuperate, but it didn't get better, Huang Jin was deeply worried.

"Huang Jin, who do you think Prince Rui looks like?"

Huang Jin, who was worried, was a little baffled by this unrestrained question. After subconsciously groaning, he thought about it for a long time, flatteringly accompanied him with a smile: "Prince Rui is a dragon and a phoenix, clear and elegant, wise and powerful, that... naturally In line with the emperor."

Wanli was amused by him, "I don't know old people, I always play tricks." After speaking, he walked into the palace.

Why didn't I know it?Didn't know anything there?Huang Jin, who had black hair, let out a few furious roars in his heart, and hurriedly followed her in small steps.

The ground dragon is burning in the Ciqing Palace, and a warm fragrance blows over the face as soon as you enter the door.

There are daffodils everywhere in the palace, and the spring flowers have opened their branches one after another, and the red and yellow alternate with each other, which is very lively and festive.

"What are you thinking?"

Hearing the sound, he turned around, only to find that the emperor, who only showed one face at the dinner, was already standing behind him, staring at him quietly with a smile in his eyes.Surprise flashed across Zhu Changluo's face, and he hurriedly got dressed and came up to greet him.

"Father is here, but the ministers are not far away to greet him, I hope father is not guilty."

Wanli shook his head, waved his hands and said, "I came here suddenly, what's your fault? Get up."

"You all go out."

Wan Li waved his hands to the people kneeling on the ground around him, and everyone responded and filed out.Huang Jin followed the crowd and was the last to leave. When he reached the door, he closed it with his backhand, and waited outside with a wave of his whisk.

"Are you used to living here?"

Zhu Changluo lowered his eyebrows, bowed and said, "Thank you, Father, for your concern. It's much better than here in Yonghe Palace."

Wanli's eyes darkened when he heard that in the Yonghe Palace, and after a long time he sighed: "In the past, I've been sorry for you, but it doesn't matter, the future will be long, and I will slowly make up for you."

Zhu Changluo was in a daze for a while when he heard the words, his fingers trembled slightly, his expression was mixed, and his mood was complicated and unspeakable.

On this New Year's Eve in the 19th year of Wanli, the emperor stayed at the Ciqing Palace, it could also be said that Prince Rui accompanied the emperor to watch the new year.

The emperor and Prince Rui's father and son talked and laughed, the atmosphere was harmonious, Huang Jin heard it seriously outside the door, and unconsciously his old face smiled brighter than a flower.

When Wanli's loud and happy laughter spread far away, it was taken for granted that many caring people listened to it.

The news quickly spread throughout the palaces and palaces, and the palaces responded differently.

The Kunning Palace was silent, only the maid came out to add a few more lanterns to the corridor.

Chuxiu Palace was also silent. Concubine Zheng Gui, who got the news, was still expressionless, but her eyes had become sharp when there was no one around.

The sound of the wooden fish in the Compassion Ning Palace stopped and stopped, and when it sounded again after a while, it seemed to lose its crispness and tranquility in the past, and it was a little more stagnant and dignified.

Half awake for the light, half bright for the sky, but Zhu Changluo was quietly lying on the table, sleeping soundly and solemnly with his head on his arms.

Emperor Wanli, who was sitting beside him, put one hand gently on Zhu Changluo's head, and refused to leave for a long time.

Staring out the window, the night sky is heavy, the stars are twinkling, and the eyes are full of tenderness intoxicated by the past.

"Without you by my side, I don't know how this Nine-Five Supreme, picturesque world can't compare to your every frown and smile..."

"Without you by my side, what is the use of this country?"

"I didn't expect that the child I despise and hate the most in this palace is actually our child..."

"If you knew how I treated him these years, you would definitely blame me and blame me..."

"I want to give this world to him, I don't know if you are happy or not?"

Until dawn, Huang Jin yawned outside the door all night. Seeing that the time had come, he was about to call the door softly.

Suddenly hearing a familiar coughing sound from inside, Huang Jin hastily pushed the door gently and came in to serve her.

As soon as Huang Jin, who didn't make a sound under his feet, came in, the first thing he saw was this warm scene. The eunuch, the chief eunuch of the Ming Dynasty, rubbed his eyes fiercely, and then he was sure that what he saw was true. , not an illusion of not waking up.

"Your Majesty..." As a qualified and knowledgeable chief eunuch, Huang Jin knew that the only thing he could do now was to keep his mouth shut.

Wanli slowly closed his hands and raised his hands, the obsession with the past remained in his eyes.

The sound of footsteps went away, but there was still a residual temperature on his head, and Zhu Changluo, who opened his eyes, still kept his lying posture unchanged.

It's just that the fundus of the eyes is blue and white, as if the eyes were washed after a heavy rain.

As the saying goes, a sad day is a better year. From the first day to the fifth day of the new year, the taste of the folk year is strong, and the ministries of the court have officially entered the court.

On the first day of the court, there was a gust of wind in the court.An oral order came from the inner palace: Master Shen Yiguan, the first assistant of the cabinet, and Lord Shen Li, the second assistant, came to the Qianqing Palace to meet the saint as soon as possible, and have important matters to discuss.

This sensitive and unusual phenomenon immediately attracted the attention of a group of officials who were active in their minds.

In the Qianqing Palace, Shen Yiguan secretly looked at the emperor's complexion, and it seemed that the emperor's complexion became worse after a year.

Shen Li stood upright by the side, constantly guessing in his heart what the emperor asked the two of them to do.

After a moment of silence, Wanli finally spoke, "I called you two today, and I want to discuss something with you."

Did you hear me right?Shen Yiguan and Shen Li exchanged glances in surprise, and the premonition of accompanying the king for many years told them: Whenever the emperor speaks in such a tone, it must be an earth-shattering event!
"The matter of the country has been pending for a long time. Qing and others have repeatedly urged me to do so. The time has come, and I don't want to procrastinate any longer."

Shen Yiguan, who suddenly raised his head, was overjoyed. Does the emperor mean that... a crown prince is about to be established?

Beginning in the 14th year of Wanli, the most intense and complicated political event in the Wanli period, the struggle for national capital, forced Shen Shixing to resign, Wang Xijue resigned, and hundreds of officials were dismissed, dismissed, and assigned because of this incident, creating a mess of chaos , almost everyone does not believe that it will be resolved one day.

Shen Yiguan, who was in ecstasy, wanted to know the most crucial question: "Your Majesty, may I ask the meaning of the country, what is the sacred heart?"

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