Invincible Zhengde

Chapter 4 Read

For other queens, there are many things in the harem, such as managing a large number of women of the emperor, guarding against the usurpation of the little sluts, preventing them from seizing the heirs and becoming monsters after they have children, and letting them be favored in front of the emperor. But these things don't exist here at Queen Zhang.The emperor has only one woman, and that is himself, no other women can take care of him.

The harem is very stable, and there is no need to beware of other little sluts usurping the throne, and there are no other children taking the throne, so what does Queen Zhang do?

Apart from taking care of Zhu Youtang, all Empress Zhang's thoughts were on her son Zhu Houzhao, for fear that his son would grow crooked.

There are countless people buried around Zhu Houzhao, passing on news at any time, and knowing the direction of his son's growth at any time. Although sometimes they will not interfere, they must know.Zhu Houzhao is playful and doesn't like to study. Both Zhu Youtang and Queen Zhang know these things, but Queen Zhang knows more, and Zhu Youtang knows less. Because of the bad things her son has done, Queen Zhang seldom talks to Zhu You Tang said.

It's different now, my son is studying, so we have to talk about it properly. Seeing Zhu Youtang looking over, Empress Zhang smiled and said, "The emperor has grown up too!"

Zhu Youtang nodded: "Yes! I have grown up and know how to study. This is a good thing, a good thing!" As he spoke, his eyes became sour.

Zhu Youtang's childhood was quite unhappy. His biological mother Ji was the daughter of a chieftain named Ji in Guangxi. After the Ji surname rebellion subsided, the girl Ji was captured in the palace to manage the emperor's private money.

Once Xianzong passed by by chance, seeing Ji's beauty and intelligence, he stayed overnight.Afterwards, Ji became pregnant.Concubine Wan Gui, who loves the harem, finds out and orders a court lady to abort Ji.Ji's popularity is very good, the palace servants sent couldn't bear to do it, and when they reported back to Concubine Wan, they lied that she had a tumor in her stomach instead of being pregnant. Concubine Wan Gui was still worried and ordered Ji to be relegated to the cold palace.

Under the shadow of Concubine Wan Gui, the Ji family secretly gave birth to Zhu Youtang in the cold palace. After Wan Guifei learned about it, she sent Zhang Min, the gate supervisor, to drown the new prince. The baby is hidden in secret and fed with rice flour every day.Empress Wu, who was ostracized by Concubine Wan Gui, also helped feed the baby.Concubine Wan Gui has been searched several times, but she has not been found. In this way, Zhu Youtang has been eating a lot of food until she was six years old.

One day, when Zhang Min was combing Xianzong's hair, Xianzong sighed and said, "I'm about to grow old, and I don't have a son yet!" Zhang Min hurriedly said, "Long live already has a son."

Xianzong was taken aback, and hurriedly asked what happened, and Zhang Min told the truth.Emperor Xianzong was overjoyed when he heard this, and immediately ordered to pick up the prince.

When Emperor Xianzong saw his emaciated son whose fetal hair had not been cut due to long-term confinement and was dragged to the ground for the first time, he couldn't help crying and filled with emotion.

On the same day, all the ministers were summoned to tell the truth.The next day, an imperial edict was issued to the world, making Zhu Youtang the crown prince, and making the Ji family the concubine Shu.But then the Ji family died violently in the palace, and the gate supervisor Zhang Min also committed suicide by swallowing gold.Obviously, the deaths of Concubine Ji and Zhang Min are directly related to the persecution of Concubine Wan Gui.Xianzong's mother, Empress Dowager Zhou, was worried that Concubine Wan Gui would kill the prince, so she personally adopted her grandson in her Renshou Palace so that the prince could live safely in the palace.

Zhu Youtang, who had such a childhood, naturally couldn't talk about happiness, and the shadow of his childhood was almost the same. For this reason, he only married Empress Zhang, and at the same time gave Zhu Houzhao paternal love as much as possible.

Originally Zhu Houzhao had fun and didn’t like reading, so Zhu Youtang was not in a hurry. After all, Zhu Houzhao was only ten years old. Historically, Zhu Youtang’s health deteriorated day by day. Zhu Houzhao passed away when he was 15 years old. Under such circumstances, Zhu Houzhao education is delayed.However, although he doesn't read much, Zhu Houzhao is definitely not what he is said in history. He can be regarded as an emperor who has been discredited a lot.

Seeing Zhu Youtang was happy, Empress Zhang smiled and took Zhu Youtang's hand: "Your Majesty should be happy when the emperor has grown up."

"Happy, I'm happy!" Zhu Youtang nodded and said, looking at Empress Zhang, and the more she looked at the queen under the lamp, the more moving she looked.

Xianyang Palace.

Liu Jin came to Zhu Houzhao's side cautiously, replaced the cold tea, served a cup of warm and delicious tea, then cut the wick of the oil lamp short, brightened the wick, and then walked to Zhu Houzhao's side and said: "Your Highness, it's already three o'clock, it's time to rest!"

It's three o'clock in the afternoon?

Zhu Houzhao did some calculations, and it was almost ten o'clock in the later life. I didn't expect that I would read the book so late. I put down the book in my hand, stood up and stretched. Then Zhu Houzhao said with a smile: "Okay, then Let's rest!" He stood up and walked towards the room, going to bed early and getting up early is good for health, although he is not very sleepy, but Zhu Houzhao is also ready to rest on time.

The palace was peaceful that night.

Early the next morning, Zhu Houzhao woke up very early, finished washing under Gu Dayong's service, and then went outside to exercise.

The eunuchs in the palace also had to be on duty. According to later generations, they were assigned shifts, and not all of them were served by one person. For example, Gu Dayong is currently serving Zhu Houzhao.Compared with the thin Liu Jin, Gu Dayong looks a little bigger.The whole person feels simple and honest, but Zhu Houzhao knows that this kind of simplicity must be fake.

Who are you?The prince of Ming Dynasty, the only son of the current emperor, and the eunuch who can be sent to his side, will he have a simple role?

In other words, eunuchs who can get this position will have simple roles?Whether it's with the old eunuch or in terms of dealing with the world, they are all top-notch, otherwise you will never get this position.

Zhu Houzhao was noncommittal about this. Many things are like this. When the water is clear, there will be no fish. The emperor can't break some rules. The little eunuch standing next to him must be the big eunuch next to his father. road.As for loyalty, Zhu Houzhao didn't doubt it. Eunuchs can doubt everything, but loyalty is not used, but who is this loyalty for, you have to think carefully about it.

"Have you found the place you were looking for?" Zhu Houzhao asked Gu Dayong without looking back while moving his body.

"Go back to Your Highness, I found it!" Gu Dayong said hastily: "There is a garden behind Xianyang Palace, and the land there is suitable for any size."

garden?

Zhu Houzhao glanced at Gu Dayong, and frowned: "Is there no other place besides there?"

Uprooting the garden and building a martial arts arena for himself, I am afraid that if this matter is revealed, he will be impeached, who knows what reputation will be left, and if it is spread outside, he may not necessarily arrange himself.In history, Zhu Houzhao built a leopard house, and it turned out to be arranged like this.

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