The suppressed cries of teenagers were heard in the Forbidden City.

is not the little emperor, it is his younger brother Zhu Yiyi, the most favored King of Daminglu by Empress Dowager Li.

In the emperor's return to the war bureau, King Lu, who was only eleven years old, hugged the emperor's legs and feet and cried almost uncontrollably.

"Why is the queen mother so ruthless, the younger brother is far from the age of the feudal lord, but she wants to seal the subordinate brother thousands of miles away, the clan relatives all say that the overseas feudal is the place where the traitors and criminals go, and the younger brother has done nothing wrong!"

Xiao Wanli is fifteen years old, and in the months after Chen Mu left, the little eunuch Zhang Whale measured his length and grew three fingers, and his eyebrows and eyes were also expanded, looking more like Emperor Longqing, an optimistic and cheerful Emperor Longqing, young people can change their appearance in almost a few months in this era.

Wanli didn't speak, he lowered his head to look at his younger brother, raised his hand and waved lightly to the eunuch who followed behind him, and then slowly squatted down.

"Zhu Yiyi, when I was your age, I didn't cry for two hours when I knelt down, don't cry anymore."

King Lu cried so much that he screamed snot and tears rubbed the hem of Xiao Wanli's regular clothes everywhere, his brother didn't think his younger brother was dirty, he held King Lu's shoulders with both hands, and said softly: "You and I are born in the emperor's family, I can't help myself, don't cry, you come with me." ”

King Lu is a little devil in the palace, doted on by the Empress Dowager Li and the emperor, and there is no heavy responsibility on the shoulders of Wanli, except for the queen mother and the emperor, no one can restrain this curious and noble boy, but he listens to his brother's words very much.

Although his shoulders kept loosening due to the sadness of hearing the bad news, he still stood up, clutched a finger of Wanli in his fist, and walked on the bluestone road of the palace step by step.

"My father named me Jun, hoping that I would rule the world as freely as a craftsman, but he probably didn't expect that the world would become bigger during my Wanli years."

"The slaves and maids in the palace are on their lips, and they have been written since the books of the Han Dynasty, and the husband and son of heaven are the four seas as their home, but I don't know how big the four seas are, and I don't know what the meaning of the four seas is my home, so there is nothing in the sea except fish, what is the use of me having the four seas?"

Out of the Xihua Gate through the moat, Xiao Wanli led King Lu all the way to the north, and the eunuch Shang Baojian and the eunuchs who had a straight room did not go out to disturb the holy car.

Xiao Wanli chattered while walking to appease King Lu, and slipped into the sweet room to get a piece of tiger's eye candy and stuffed it into King Lu's mouth, but listened to his younger brother eat candy, he was hungry and turned back halfway and took two pieces for himself, and when he came out, he also carried a lacquered food box containing silk nests and muffins, which was very satisfying.

Startled the palace maid eunuch in the sweet room.

"It's delicious, sugar is made of sugar cane, and there are sugar cane in Asia, and there are a lot of them."

Not to mention that it was okay, as soon as Asia was mentioned, King Lu cried again, and even spit out the tiger's eye candy: "Brother doesn't eat sugar!" My brother doesn't like to eat candy the most! ”

The disgusted little face, the firm eyes, if it weren't for the silk scarf wrapped in half of the sugar and hidden in the sleeve and reluctant to lose it, Wanli would have really believed it.

"Okay, I can't eat it for a while." Wanli glanced at King Lu's sleeve hidden behind his back, and said: "I have known about the affairs of the domain for a long time, but I just told you, you are far from the domain, you don't need to make a noise because of this, and if the queen mother is displeased, she will punish you for kneeling." ”

King Lu looked up with a small face: "The queen mother has never let her brother kneel." ”

However, before he was proud for two seconds, he immediately asked, "How far is it?" ”

"Only when you get married will you be a vassal, and if you get married in a few days, you will have to say that it will take another three years, right? If the Ming army goes well in Asia, it will be decided at the beginning of three years, and you can set up a mansion, and I will repair your mansion for you, more or less for another three years, you don't have to leave, just live in the palace. ”

King Lu counted and counted with his fingers, three years and three years, this is six years, right?

After finishing the matter, he opened a pair of big eyes and asked, "Then why does the queen mother plan to inform the world that her younger brother is about to conquer Asia?" ”

"Who doesn't know that I am closest to you, who doesn't know that the queen mother loves you the most, only by sealing you to go to sea, the clan will know that going to sea is a good thing."

After Zhang Juzheng finished his filial piety, he asked the Queen Mother to return to the emperor, but was rejected by the Queen Mother, not only the Queen Mother Li, but Xiao Wanli was also sincere about this - he tried, he ruled the country by himself, and he couldn't govern it.

All kinds of rules and regulations can exhaust him to death.

Empress Dowager Li also thinks that it is too early for the emperor to be in power now, and he should be asked to go step by step, grasp the principles of governing the country and the prestige of the court little by little, and the court still needs Zhang Juzheng, which is very needed.

However, since it is gradual, the emperor has more power than in the past, and he has indeed made decisions in several things, the most important thing is to inform the clansmen of the world that King Lu is a vassal of the news.

It's not impossible to seal the clan relatives in a punitive nature, but the people who can really seal it out are definitely not what the emperor wanted to seal out at the beginning, the threshold of the Zongren Mansion is about to be broken, and the princes and princes of all parts of the country are panicked to death when they hear the news, and they endlessly send gifts to the palace, which makes Xiao Wanli's heart soften.

In just this half year, not counting the calligraphy and painting jewelry that entered the inner library, there were 170,000 taels of silver alone, and the clansmen who were at least Uncle Wanli were very afraid of this decree.

Xiao Wanli decided to change his tactics and make them think it was a good thing, and then seal them out.

"It's hard for me to elaborate on the truth, you can take the time to read more Tao Te Ching to understand, this is called letting others exert their subjective initiative, I can only tell you that this is very important."

"As I said, the world has become bigger in my year, and the overseas land is far away from the Han and Tang Dynasties, even when I became my grandfather, I didn't have so much land, the West, the South Ocean, and the East, which one didn't have a land of thousands of miles."

Xiao Wanli came to the conclusion like a little adult: "The court can't control it, and it can be peaceful for ten or twenty years. ”

"The prince is in charge, starting with you and me, Asia, either you go or I go." Xiao Wanli didn't even say anything about my self-title, raised his hand and patted his chest and said, "If you don't want to go, I can only ask the queen mother to allow you to give up the throne, and I will go to Asia to become a vassal." ”

"The younger brother doesn't want to be the emperor, the imperial brother can let the younger brother stay in the palace to see the sky, and the younger brother will be satisfied."

What Xiao Wanli said was indeed not polite words, he really planned to do it like this, and he also knew that with the degree of affection of the Queen Mother for her younger brother and herself, she could really do this.

In fact, he envied King Lu.

"What's good overseas, since the imperial brother knows that it will change, just don't care about it."

"Silly words, you like coral pearls, gold and silver, and the South Seas have them; These things also exist in the West and the East, and overseas barbarian countries are all grabbing land, do you know what Yidi is? ”

King Lu was destined not to participate in politics, but he still read some books, and he memorized them well, and said: "Tang Taizong said Yidi, beasts and beasts, afraid of power but not virtue." ”

"Yes, to compare those sea nations to beasts is to exalt them, and the beasts are still virtuous, but they don't know, so do you know how to deal with them?"

As he walked, the battle was close in front of him, and the roar came over the high wall, and the little emperor took King Lu and raised his finger and said, "Take you to see my baby!" ”