Chapter 913: Golden Branches and Jade Leaves

The Hongwen Pavilion Sutra Feast has been held four times so far, but until April 15, although several officials have been promoted because of their suggestions, and it is not known how many people have been in the emperor's heart because of this, but in the final analysis, there is no conclusion after discussion. But on the fifteenth day of April, when the tumultuous discussion came to an end, the bigwigs, who had always just watched silently on the wall, were still like bodhisattvas, either approving, admiring, bored, or expressionless looking at the courtiers who had just been talking eloquently, but now they all closed their mouths. Unexpectedly, Zhu Zhanji, who only wrote a poem to the ministers after a feast, did not let the eunuch end the feast loudly, but stood up.

"The next time Hongwen Pavilion has a feast, the topic is enlistment and military households, after Zhu Qing goes back, you can tell your colleagues and think about it. In our dynasty, the assignment was originally set to be light, but now that many years have passed, the number of arrears has not decreased, but because of the evasion of servitude, thousands of households are lost in the yellow register of household registration every year, and there are especially many hidden households in the Huguang area of Jiangnan. And other households, such as boat households, often suffer from solving things and sending them to Beijing. As for military households, the people all say that military households are cheap labor, and there is a lot of loss of military households. And the Nine Sides used the military households to settle the fields, so that the Tartar prisoners often suffered many deaths and injuries at every turn, because all their minds were on the military fields......"

The emperor said a cup of tea with a lot of effort, but although the people who listened carefully, they all muttered in their hearts. What about the three things that come ahead of us? Is it to put it aside for the time being, or has a decision already been made? Having said that, some time ago, there were many of the boiling turmoil in the imperial history of the Imperial Court of the Imperial Procuratorate, and many of them were involved in this matter, what is the ending? However, looking at it with a pair of eyes, it was an old Hanlin scholar after all, and when the emperor finished speaking, he bowed down.

"Your Majesty, the three things discussed before ......"

"The three things that have been discussed before have ended today. At the next feast, I will announce the corresponding matters. ”

That's what it means to settle the dust. For a while, the ministers didn't dare to ask, but when they saw that the ministers stayed behind again, many people cast envious glances. It's just that although Huang Fu, the head of the household department who had just rushed over from Nanjing, filled the vacancy of a book, among the six departments, the Shangguan of the Palm Seal Hall of the Criminal Department, the Ministry of Industry, and the Ministry of War was still empty. Since Yongle, the government has become more and more stable, and the six Shangshu have almost never moved, but there will be occasional changes in the squire, and there is no such vacancy this time. Although he was looking at the seat, it took several months for the head of the military department to decide on the candidate for the right attendant, and everyone did not dare to use too drastic measures.

And the Hanlin people thought that Yang Pu had not yet hung the title of university scholar, and his expectations for entering the cabinet were even lower. Among several cabinet elders, such as Yang Shiqi and Yang Rong have been in charge of cabinet affairs for more than 20 years, it seems that the situation can be done for at least ten years, Huang Huai is Zhishi, Jin Youzi is always sick, Du Zhen is not even a headache in spring, summer, autumn and winter, and now Yang Rong has gone to Yunnan, and there are three people left in charge of the machine business, and the water can't be poured in, Zhang Ying and Chen Shan said that they would quit, and there was not even a trace of hope for a comeback.

Above the court, there is only one Hongwen Pavilion left for them to speak.

Zhang Yue, who was not counted as a middle-aged faction by others, retreated with the rest of the people after a short conversation in the Wenhua Hall with the ministers, but was intercepted by the royal eunuch Wang Jin when he arrived at the door. This time, he followed straight to the Qianqing Palace, but he accompanied Zhu Zhanji to discuss the matter of the vassal king. When he said that the Tang and Song royal clans had almost no plans to rebel, Zhu Zhanji's face couldn't help but change, and then he shook his head again.

"I know what you mean. In the Han Dynasty, Gaozu also set the system, but by the time of Emperor Wen and Emperor Jing, there had been changes, and after Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the authority of the vassal king had been cut to almost nothing. But this is also the case in this dynasty, the vassal king originally wore armor to guard as little as 9,000 and as much as 10,000, but now few of the relatives still retain the guard. Yang Qing mentioned before that if you add that the relatives are not allowed to leave the fiefdom without permission, they are not allowed to ask for the court's invitation without permission, they are not allowed to encroach on the people's land, etc., it should be enough. ”

Yang Shiqi is an old man, for fear that the affairs of the clan will be too ruthless, so he will make even more inextricable things - the rebellion of the Seven Kings in the Han Dynasty, coupled with the subsequent turmoil, not only died by mistake, but also implicated more people, so he was convinced that Yang Shiqi also did not want Du Zhen to fall into the quagmire - but, thinking of the character of the father-in-law and teacher, he still shook his head and said: "Your Majesty, now the pro-clan does not have the authority of the day, but it can't stand the number of people. The county kings of several large feudal clans and even the generals of the town and the country were added together, accounting for more than half of the royal family. These people can't take the imperial examination and can't be officials, and naturally they won't go to farming and doing business. If you stay there all the time, you will naturally not stop over time. ”

Stillness is thinking about movement, and moving is thinking about change.

These eight words don't need to be reminded by Zhang Yue, Zhu Zhanji naturally knows. He hadn't agreed to Yang Shiqi's proposal yet, but he just felt that the concubine's refusal to accept the title was a bit harsh. However, after all, the number of the prince and Mrs. Na was set in the early years of Hongwu, and the same is true of the regulations of the genealogy, but it has not been strictly enforced. Think about it, there are only two of his brothers who have no children to be crowned, but the other clans don't even have the place to be crowned kings. So after thinking about it, he finally nodded.

"Anyway, if there is no knighthood, it will be a quasi-agricultural businessman. As for the demotion of the lord...... And from below. ”

It's not that Zhang Yue didn't think about sealing those royal family relatives who couldn't inherit the title overseas - the news from the Daming Shenwei ship continued, and it was not a place without wealth overseas. It's just that in today's era when the local sentiment is the heaviest, it is really not the time to rashly propose this. Therefore, after discussing the details of martial arts with the emperor for a while, he stood up, but before he could say goodbye, a man rushed in like a gust of wind.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, Concubine Wu...... Concubine Wu is about to give birth! ”

Zhu Zhan's affection based on Concubine Wu is just ordinary, and because the previous palace change also had the unborn child, he was a little unhappy for a while, but after all, the heir is difficult, and he has been persuaded by the Empress Dowager Zhang several times. Hearing this at this time, he couldn't help but stand up, his face was shocked and angry.

"Didn't those imperial doctors say that it would take half a month to say less?"

Fan Hong was so anxious that he was sweating profusely, and hurriedly explained: "I heard from the palace people that Concubine Wu had fetal gas when she got up in the morning, and after inviting the imperial doctor to take a look, she found that she was born prematurely, so at this time, the imperial doctor Wenpo and so on were already there." When returning to the Queen Mother, the Queen Mother had already instructed that the child must be saved, after all, it is April, the weather is hot, and the yang energy is heavy, even if it is born prematurely, it can be saved. ”

"What are you doing so long-winded, go there and keep guard!"

Zhu Zhanji finally couldn't care so much, and gave a sharp order, seeing that Fan Hong agreed and walked away, he found that Zhang Yue was still there, and he couldn't help but be a little embarrassed, and sighed after a while: "I envy you, I have two sons and two daughters under my knees, and my wife is pregnant again." I now have only two daughters and a son, and for this, I don't know how many times I have been taught by the Queen Mother, and I don't know how many civil and military forces are hanging there...... Yuanjie, if this baby is a son, if you have a daughter, and you are a son on your side, what if I promise her to your son? ”

This is not the first time the emperor has mentioned this, but this time the tone is not like the previous joke. Zhang Yue was stunned, only to see the emperor walk out from behind the bookcase with his hands behind his back, and looked him up and down a few times in front of him.

"I know what you are worried about, you know, at the beginning, some ministers mentioned that the dictatorship of the relatives is not a blessing, so one of my two uncles inherited Peng Chengbo, and the other resigned from the army. During the Hongwu period, most of the princesses were married relatives, but their lives were quite happy, but when it came to my aunts, some of them were quite happy, some died young, and some gave birth to bastards like Li Maofang...... I don't want to force you to ask a princess to go back to be a daughter-in-law, I think there should be a good system for the princess to descend. Since the Tang and Song dynasties, how many princesses can really marry well? I only have a few children, so I feel sorry for my daughter, since you have a lot of ideas, go back and think of a good idea. ”

The emperor's daughter is also worried about getting married, this is the reality since the Tang and Song dynasties, therefore, Zhang Yue thought that the emperor was going to push a princess to his house, and he was startled, but when he heard the words behind him, he was even more frightened. It is true that the princesses of the Ming and Qing dynasties are pitiful, but except for a few who do whatever they want, they are still pitiful? Therefore, he was about to refuse, but Zhu Zhanji didn't give him a chance at all.

"Although it is said that the land of blood and light cannot be trespassed, but I will inevitably remember it in my heart, so I will go to the Queen Mother to sit down and recite two Buddhist scriptures...... It's not too early, I will give you leave, go home to visit your daughter-in-law. By the way, I forgot, today Aunt Ning said that it was okay, and she had already gone with her two children, so I am afraid that she is already at your house at this time. ”

The emperor walked fast, and when Zhang Yue left the palace, he couldn't help but have a headache. There are some things that he can solve with the experience of the afterlife, but there are some things that ...... It's really an unusual trouble. Thinking that Zhu Ning was thinking about the future of the two children, and wanted to reduce a layer of constraints, he didn't let Zhu Rujun and Zhu Ruyun enter the royal family genealogy, thinking that he would make a fuss because he wanted to solve the sect domain, he couldn't help but shake his head again and again, thinking that Zhu Zhanji was still serious this time, and then he gave birth to a layer of vigilance.

Zhu Zhanji is still young and in good health, how could such an emperor only reign for ten years?

With this full stomach to return to the military department, Zhang Yue justifiably pushed a bunch of official duties to Xu Kuo on the grounds that the emperor granted leave - of course, because he had recently squeezed this Xu Lao too hard, he promised that he would be on duty at night in the military department for the next ten years, which can be regarded as a mixture. When he galloped all the way from Xuanwumen Street to the door of his house, he really heard that Zhu Ning had brought two children to see Du Juan, who was playing in the back house at this time.

Zhu Ning is Du Juan's close friend, although she has never married, but with two children, she has completely regarded herself as a mother, so watching the children crawl all over the ground covered with a thick Goryeo carpet, her face is naturally full of maternal brilliance. Seeing that the Zhang family's two children who were about the same size as Rujun Ruyun were also crawling around, and Du Juan was still pregnant with one in her belly, she couldn't help but lower her head and listen to Du Juan's belly.

"Sister Ning!"

"What are you shy, haven't you heard of it?" Zhu Ning looked at Du Juan with a smile, and saw that she just glanced at her angrily, so he smiled, "I just thought that I would have the opportunity to take the children in the future, but it would be boring to let the two of them play together. By the way, there's also the one from the Little Five family. Don't stare at me, this kid has a lot of fun and fun, don't you want to? I know, if you're afraid that I'm in the way of a few of you getting along in private, I'll leave immediately when he comes back, and I'll come back when he's gone, it's always okay, right? ”

was teased by Zhu Ning, Amber and Autumn Scars who were in the room also laughed, and Du Juan was even more helpless. Zhang Yuecha, who happened to be outside the door, heard Zhu Ning's voice, and stood up with a thoughtful expression. When she saw Zhu Ning in the past, she couldn't help but show a trace of helplessness that she couldn't hide, but now just listening to the voice that he knew, he knew that this county lord had completely put aside those thoughts, otherwise he would not have made jokes that only such a married woman would say.

So, he waited for someone to report before going in. At this time, the weather is already hot, the house and the outside are replaced with Xiangfei bamboo curtains, only the children climb on the ground, if only the bamboo mat is laid, it is inevitable that a climb is a body print, so I think it is just a sweat, so it is still a carpet. As soon as he entered the door, he felt a small figure bumping into him, and when he looked down, he found that it was a round child. After being stunned for a moment, he lowered down and picked the person up, and laughed and teased him twice.

"Little guy, it's wrong, it's a godfather, not a father!" He looked at Du Juan as he spoke, "Didn't you say last time that you wanted to be Rujun and Ruyun's godmother?" It just so happened that Sister Ning came with the child, why didn't she send the things? ”

Zhu Ning was embarrassed by Rujun's voice, but when he heard this, he breathed a sigh of relief and turned into joy. Du Juan suddenly realized that he patted his head, and immediately nodded at Amber, who went out like a gust of wind, and returned with two purses in a short time. The two families have been in contact all the time, so the meeting gift has been given a long time ago, holding these two purses, even if he knows that Zhang Yue is embarrassed, but Zhu Ning thought about Sister Shengning, and laughed for a while.

Several people talked for a while, Du Juan had to ask why Zhang Yue came back so early, and when Zhang Yue talked about the story in the palace today, she was immediately stunned, and immediately turned her head to look at Zhu Ning, but found that Zhu Ning also happened to look over.

The emperor said that he was a princess, but didn't he know that there was also Zhu Ning?