Chapter 38
The palace city is majestic and magnificent.
Zhu Yunxiu stood at the main entrance of the palace and watched Zhao Sili gradually walk away under the guidance of the palace servants, and breathed a sigh of relief. The scene just now was really a bit awkward. If this future father-in-law really stayed for dinner, he still didn't know what to say.
Although he is the crown prince grandson, if his future father-in-law sees the scene just now, he will feel a little embarrassed if he is a man? This is different from his future consort.
Fortunately, he is the grandson. If he were an ordinary person, Zhao Sili's old boxing would be swung up today. And people in the world would say that he would beat him well.
Turning around and returning to the hall, before he could speak, Pu Wuyong, who was causing trouble, had already kneeled down and kowtowed repeatedly.
Your Highness, I deserve to die, I don’t know that Your Highness is inside.........
Shut up! Zhu Yunxiu said lightly, and Park Wuyou stopped immediately.
The more I looked at him, the more angry he became. He had just dealt with the turtle's shame in the morning, and in the afternoon, this guy caused trouble again. Could it be that he looked too easy-going now, and these servants lost their awe.
Come on! Zhu Yunxi shouted outside the door.
Your Highness! The turtle is limping. Report to Your Highness, the founding Duke Huaiyuan and the sons of the Chang family are all here, waiting in the front hall!
Zhu Yunxiu looked at Park Wuyou again, and remember you thirty boards, get out and take the job first! As he said that, he walked towards the side hall and prepared a banquet!
After the crown prince went out, Park Wuyou escaped from death and was soaked in cold sweat.
The turtle shame looked at Park Wuyou and smiled, Xiao Pu, do you owe our family a favor?
Park Wuyou blinked his eyes, Lao Wang, why did he say this?
If our family comes to you for a while, today......Tortoise laughed at, do you have any miscellaneous families to bear the battle like this? Thirty boards will kill you!
Park Wuyong stood there in a daze, not knowing what he was thinking in his heart. He finally stood on par with the turtle-shamed guy, and he would be bullied by him in the future.
At this time, Miaoyun outside the hall brought a group of palace maids and nannies to the banquet with exquisite porcelain.
The turtle was sharp-eyed and grinned, and limped out. Miss Miaoyun, how can you do this kind of rough work yourself.........
The Chang brothers brought their younger generations to the East Palace. Then Zhu Yunyu and these cousins met one by one and held a banquet in the East Palace.
The Eastern Palace, which is usually a bit deserted, suddenly became lively.
At the same time, Zhu Yuanzhang was also drinking in the side hall of Fengtian Hall. Moreover, he seemed to have drunk a lot, with a little alcoholic feeling on his face.
Zhu Yuanzhang sat on a soft couch, and in front of him was a long and four-foot-long and two-foot-wide table.
This kind of table is actually used by the emperor and his ministers when they eat alone. The emperor is on one end and the ministers are on the other end. Both sides should be served by palace servants, and they should be dishing vegetables for the emperor and his ministers.
(It is the eunuch who picks up chopsticks. Not only the palace, but people with noble identities used to eat like this in public places. When I was a child, I went to Beijing to visit relatives, but the same was true for the ethnic hotel at that time. I was curious about this.)
But now, the palace servants in the palace are standing solemnly outside the door. The minister who was drinking with Zhu Yuanzhang did not sit at the other end of the long table, but sat at the lower head, and his words and demeanors were quite casual.
This man looked a few years older than Zhu Yuanzhang. His hair and beard were white, and his spirit was not as good as Zhu Yuanzhang. He spoke a little vaguely, but his alcohol tolerance was very good, one cup after another.
Dingchen! Seeing that the other party was drinking happily, Zhu Yuanzhang smiled and said, "You are still so good at drinking!"
The old minister, who was famous, trembling with his right hand, said, "I would rather eat three less meals than drink one less meal!" As he said, he drank it all in one drink, smacked his lips and said happily that wine is made of food, which is better than curing medicine!"
Haha! Zhu Yuanzhang patted his thigh and smiled very happily. Come on, give Shu tribute to the imperial wine, and give Duke Xin another pot, hurry up!
It's still because of His Majesty's pleasure! The old minister also smiled and said, "I am in my hometown and I am being controlled by my children every day." As he said that, he actually cursed, "Damn, I have fought a war for my whole life and earned them a wealth of wealth." When I was old, I was actually under their control and couldn't even get a drink of wine!"
Haha! Zhu Yuanzhang laughed again, and it was also a foul language. Damn, when we are old, our children will climb up to us. There is an old saying that goes, "The son respects his father in the first thirty years, and the father respects his son in the next thirty years!
This old minister was not someone else. He was another important founding nobleman of the Ming Dynasty who retired and returned home. The Duke of Xinguo, Tang He, whose courtesy name was Dingchen.
Tang He was not only a hero of the Ming Dynasty, but also Zhu Yuanzhang's childhood childhood, and their families were separated by a small road. On the other hand, Tang He was also Zhu Yuanzhang's guide. He was a horse team under Guo Zixing's account and invited Zhu Yuanzhang to join the gang again and again.
He was older than Zhu Yuanzhang and had a higher official position at the beginning, but he never showed off his proposition in front of Zhu Yuanzhang. Instead, he listened to Zhu Chongba, who was three years younger than him in everything.
The two were good brothers and good friends, drinking and cursing each other, and conquering the world together. Although Tang He seemed to be not as good as Xu Dachang Yuchun, the troops he commanded were always Zhu Yuanzhang's confidant Huaixi elite warriors.
It is said that Zhu Yuanzhang was too suspicious and criticized the heroes. However, as an emperor, it was a last resort. It was not that he could only share hardships and hardships, but that he could only have one master in the country.
If a hero wants to save the wealth you earn with your life, you must know what you have and how to advance or retreat.
In the 22nd year of Hongwu, Tang He retired and returned home after his confession.
I have fought with Your Majesty in the south for decades and I am old now. As the saying goes, the fallen leaves return to my roots, I have prepared a cemetery in my hometown of Zhongli, Haozhou, Huaixi. I have asked Your Majesty to grant me my family and take my children back to my hometown to take care of my old age!
Zhu Yuanzhang ordered people to build a house for the old man in his hometown of Haozhou, rewarding gold, silver and cloth, imperial farmland and land, and his wife and daughter all had imperial decrees, so that he could go home and be an idle person who enjoyed all his glory and wealth.
Not only that, Zhu Yuanzhang also issued a special order to ask Tang He to stay in Beijing for a few days every year, talk with him and drink some wine.
Xinguo Duke Tang He went to Beijing yesterday and today he went to the palace to drink with him.
When the imperial wine came up, Zhu Yuanzhang actually poured a glass of Tang He with his own hands and said, "How is our hometown?"
Tang He showed some hesitation on his wrinkled face. The harvest in the past two years was not very good! As he said that, he smiled and said, "I haven't told His Majesty that the harvest in my hometown is not good." The old minister took his own initiative and waived all the rent of his own tenant farmers. He also sent 1,000 stones of grain to the government for them to send them to the poor people!"
Pa, Zhu Yuanzhang slapped his thigh, good things! Good job! You donated a thousand stones, and we will reward you with two thousand stones. Then, he scratched his head with his big hand and said, "Jiu Li has paid tribute to gold, and you will take back a few boxes!"
Why do I want that gold? At this age, where can I spend it? Tang He grinned. My savings over the years, the gold and silver that Your Majesty rewarded every year, mines and fields, and the random creations of future generations, will never be completed. No, Your Majesty keeps them as military spending and war envoys!
Dingchen, among us old brothers, you are the most honest! Zhu Yuanzhang sighed slightly, those old brothers who started with us and became dukes and marquises, all of them were filthy forgot their roots and bullying the common people more and more cruelly!
Alas, if a person commits his own death, no one can stop him! Tang He said casually.
Zhu Yuanzhang smiled on his face. Is the family good? Your wife is good?
Tang He's wife, Zhu Yuanzhang, wanted to call her sister-in-law. In those years of fighting the world, she had a lot of free meals at others, and their men were fighting outside, and the women lived together in the rear, and had a deep relationship.
That old lady is stronger than me! I can't survive her! Although I scolded my wife Tang He, she smiled on her face. Your Majesty, knowing that I have entered Beijing, she specially brought you the bacon from her hometown to you, which she made by herself!
At this age, I still do it myself? Zhu Yuanzhang smiled while siping wine.
The pig raised in my own farm is four-finger fat! Tang He smiled and said, "The fatter and thinner are less, and it is made into bacon and steamed, and the plate is full of oil. If you stir-fry it with two handfuls of green garlic, the soup will be yellow. When poured on the rice, it will be shiny and fragrant!"
Damn, we're all greedy! Zhu Yuanzhang smacked his lips and shouted to the outside world, telling the kitchen to steam a plate of barbecue and bring it up!
Park Bushen came in from outside the door and said carefully, "The Emperor, His Highness the Grand Prince, have ordered you to have your food and drink..."
Did you see it? Zhu Yuanzhang smiled at Tang He, "Don't talk about you, we are still the emperor, you are still the little bastard in the family." As he said that, he laughed at Park Bucheng, I'm not dead yet. If we die, you can listen to him. Go and prepare the meat! His mother doesn't eat fat meat, what kind of wine can she drink!
Chapter completed!