After the matter was explained, Zhu Yijun sat quietly for a while before setting off to greet the two palaces.
I have been racking my brains and thinking non-stop for the past two days. Although my body can handle it, it is really draining my spirit.
There was still no handling of government affairs, and even the riding and shooting in the afternoon was skipped because of the filial piety period.
But even this made him a little tired.
It’s no wonder that there are many people who don’t want to go to court. Wanting to be a good man is not much easier than 996.
After a rare moment of leisure, Zhu Yijun refused the carriage and walked to Queen Chen's palace with only a few maids and eunuchs behind him.
Empress Chen was the late emperor's second wife, and she had no heirs. She was driven to live in a separate palace by the late emperor on the grounds that she was "childless and sickly." The remote location was almost a cold palace, which made it easier for Zhu Yijun to leave.
Fortunately, he was not stopped outside the palace today.
"Your Highness, the Queen, please come in." The palace maid lowered her eyebrows and led the way.
Zhu Yijun nodded and followed behind.
This Empress Chen is really a pitiful person. She was born in the royal palace, but she is not favored.
The heir is about to ascend the throne, and he is not his biological son.
The eunuchs and maids all went to Concubine Li to flatter her, and almost no one came to Empress Chen to burn the cold stove.
My predecessor didn't meet Queen Chen very often, and in my impression, she had a cold temperament.
"Your Highness, please wait a moment while the servant goes in to report." The palace maid stopped outside the door and said.
This is a villa, there are not many palaces and pavilions, and there are few decorations in the palace.
Zhu Yijun looked around and responded casually.
After a while, the palace maid came out again and invited him in.
As soon as Zhu Yijun entered, he saw Empress Chen wearing the queen's gown, leaning against the table by the window.
Empress Chen looked to be in her early thirties, with extremely beautiful appearance but not a good complexion. Her white ceremonial dress and gray collar made her face look pale.
The front and back of the dress are woven with black and gold cloud and dragon patterns, showing a touch of noble coolness.
Queen Chen saw Zhu Yijun coming in and looked over.
Zhu Yijun was the first to salute: "Son, do you wish to express your condolences to your mother?"
Empress Chen's voice sounded like a clear spring, and she said slowly: "With the departure of Emperor Daxing, I have really become the Ai family mentioned in the opera. No one has come to this palace for several days."
"I didn't sleep at the right time yesterday, so I neglected my son."
Zhu Yijun couldn't help but feel sympathy. He replied: "The coldness in the mother's palace is the child's fault. From now on, the child will come to greet the mother every day."
Empress Chen chuckled lightly: "You are very filial. No wonder, only a good filial son would think about Emperor Daxing in his dreams."
"I heard early in the morning that my sister went around praising you for changing your gender and becoming sensible overnight. Now it seems that you are indeed decent, not bad."
Although she is not the biological mother, the patriarchal clan is supreme and the binding force is very strong. Zhu Yijun does not dare to be vague.
After receiving praise, he naturally had to be humble: "The Queen Mother taught me that the child was indeed too careless in his work in the past. Please give me more lessons from the Queen Mother in the future."
Having said this, he simply hit the snake and followed it with the stick: "Mother, I have been studying "Shang Shu" recently. When my son was reviewing it, he found that there are still some doubts. Can you please explain it to me?"
Empress Chen is different from Li, she comes from a scholarly family.
His father was born in a general family and failed in the imperial examinations. His mother was the granddaughter of Prince Shaobao and Zhang Wenzhi, Minister of Rites.
Empress Chen has been familiar with the Four Books and Five Classics since she was a child, so she naturally has a lot of understanding of classics.
Of course, for Zhu Yijun, it is not important what he is asking for advice, but what is important is asking for advice.
The people he helped may not necessarily feel grateful.
On the contrary, most of the people who have helped him will have a good impression of him.
This is the golden rule he summed up in his previous life.
And the so-called asking for advice has been proven time and time again, and always wins the favor of the leader - of course, the qualification to ask for advice is the most rare.
Now Zhu Yijun has learned a lot and used it on Empress Chen, and it is naturally very effective.
Empress Chen nodded and sat upright: "Well, at your age, the minister is indeed a bit obscure. You might as well talk about it and listen to it."
As he spoke, his eyebrows and eyes widened with smiles, obviously he was very much benefited from it.
Zhu Yijun quickly asked someone to fetch a book of ministers.
While turning the pages of the book, he looked puzzled and asked questions repeatedly.
Most people like to teach others, and Empress Chen is no exception. What's more, it's rare to have someone to talk to, so she naturally doesn't hesitate to give advice.
Empress Chen gave some advice, and Zhu Yijun immediately realized what he was doing, and then drew inferences from one example.
With Zhu Yijun's intention to support her, every time she scratched Empress Chen's itchy spot, she would indulge in it unconsciously.
An hour passed like this.
After Zhu Yijun left, Queen Chen, who was thirsty and tongue-tied, still had some aftertaste.
While she was drinking tea to soothe her throat, the eunuch walked in in small steps and said, "My Lady, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has gone to Concubine Li."
Queen Chen finally came back to her senses and nodded.
She looked at the empty palace again, her face a little sad, and said: "Chen Suan, tell me, why don't I have a son?"
Eunuch Chen comforted him and said, "Mother, your Royal Highness is your son."
Empress Chen laughed at herself: "Yes, he is a good son. He is so good that I don't even know how my 'good' sister was born."
After saying that, she raised her head again and looked out the window.
He seemed to be whispering and said: "Let Chen Hong restrain himself. He helped Zhang Siwei to deliver the memorial privately behind my back. Only when he was stopped by Feng Bao did he ask me for help? Meng Chong just died yesterday. I can't bear the thought of you old people leaving one by one."
Earlier than me."
These two eunuchs named Chen were originally slaves of the Chen family. They followed her into Prince Yu's Mansion, and their names were given by her mother.
Chen Shuan buried his head very low: "I will go and tell him now."
Queen Chen nodded, looked at the sun outside the window, and said no more.
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When Zhu Yijun arrived outside Concubine Li's palace, he happened to see Feng Bao coming out from a distance.
As soon as she entered the palace, she saw that Concubine Li's face was ashen.
He was puzzled, but he still followed the etiquette: "I say hello to my mother and concubine."
After the ceremony, he didn't hear Concubine Li's reply. He moved closer to Mrs. Li and said carefully, "Who made my mother angry? Mother told me that I will go to trouble him right away."
Concubine Li angrily threw out a memorandum and threw it on the table: "Take a look!"
Zhu Yijun was confused but kept his expression.
He gently picked up the memorial and flipped through it.
It turned out to be a high-arching memorial to impeach Feng Bao. It listed Feng Bao's crimes of using official weapons for personal use, corruption and perversion of the law, murdering colleagues, isolating internal and external affairs, etc. It was very conclusive.
Feng Bao was so honest that he presented it to Concubine Li like this? So he was angry with Feng Bao? Shouldn't he?
Zhu Yijun tried and said: "Mother, some trivial matters are not worthy of my anger."
Concubine Li suddenly lost her composure: "A small matter!? Then what else is a big matter?"
"What on earth is this high arch for?"
"Do you still think that he is just a civil servant who always disagrees with Feng Dajuan?"
"Do you know what he said!?"
Concubine Li almost squeezed out a few words through her teeth, and her tone was cold: "He said, how can a ten-year-old emperor rule the world?"
Zhu Yijun looked at Concubine Li who was losing her composure and silently closed the memorial.
This is Feng Bao's dirty trick.
The meaning of "How to rule the world" and "How to rule the world" are completely different.
It went directly from how to govern a country at the age of ten to how to be an emperor at the age of ten.
This has touched the Li family's backbone. As soon as these words came out, anything Gao Gong said to Concubine Li would become nonsense.
People who are held grudges will not be viewed objectively.
As Feng Bao was one of Concubine Li's own, Gao Gong's petition for impeachment immediately turned into a provocation to the inner court and the Li family.
The method is simple, but it works repeatedly.
However, Zhu Yijun had nothing to do. After all, Gao Gongzhen said similar things.
He took a deep breath and showed a look of hatred on his face: "How dare you bully my orphans and widowed mother like this!?"
"Mother, when I ascend the throne in a few days, I will drive him out of the court!"
Concubine Li's expression calmed down a bit, but she still felt upset and tore up Gao Gong's memorial: "For such a treasonous person, Feng Daxuan still said that these words alone cannot cure his crime! How unreasonable!"
This is to leave things unaddressed - physically.
Zhu Yijun was very discerning and called the palace servants to burn the shredded paper.
He didn't just watch, he quickly stepped forward and patted Concubine Li on the back, comforting him and said: "Mother, don't get angry with this old man, otherwise you will make him happy."
“Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty, before he ascended the throne, was evaluated by Prime Minister Zhang Dun as ‘Prince Duan picks up lightly and cannot rule the world’, which is no different from Gao Gong’s rebellion.”
"But after that, Emperor Huizong did all kinds of evil. The Jin people broke up the capital and captured the Jin Kingdom. He died with his own hands and made the world laugh. However, he just answered Zhang Dun's words."
"Today's Gao Gong, I'm afraid Zhang Dun is proud of himself."
"Not only should my mother not fulfill his plans and fame, but I should let Gao Gong take a good look at how great my mother's son is and how he can dominate the world."
"At that time, the child will bring up the old matter again and let him admit his mistakes to his mother and concubine."
After Zhu Yijun explained it, Concubine Li finally looked better.
She said angrily: "I haven't studied for a few days, and when I talk, I quote scriptures and tell stories from the previous dynasty."
Zhu Yijun quickly took Li Guifei's arm and said, "It's because of the mother's good control that the child understands some knowledge and principles."
Concubine Li glared at him: "Speaking of which, I haven't settled the score with you yet!"
Zhu Yijun blinked his eyes, confused.
Concubine Li knocked on his forehead: "The eunuch on duty at the Wenhua Palace today said that you were in a trance during your lecture, and you were distracted, right?"
After hearing this, Zhu Yijun immediately knew what he was referring to and sighed in his heart.
There was really no end to this black case. I was thinking that Zhang Juzheng was right, and if I lost my mind, I could be sued to Concubine Li.
You don't need to think about it to know that it was the eunuch on duty who passed the news to Feng Bao.
Fortunately, he is not his predecessor, otherwise he would really suffer a loss.
Zhu Yijun stopped smiling, stood up in front of Concubine Li, and then bowed profusely.
Li was puzzled.
Zhu Yijun didn't explain anything, he just knelt on the ground and began to recite the content of the lecture word for word: "Taijia has been established, unknown, Yi Yin released Zhutong, and returned to Bo for three years..."
Although Concubine Li didn't understand much, she understood what he was doing, so she listened quietly and nodded frequently.
After a while, Zhu Yijun recited the entire paragraph.
But he did not stop and began to explain the meaning of this article.
Concubine Li was satisfied and recognized that the son of the family had studied seriously today.
She said: "Okay, get up."
Zhu Yijun did not move.
It wasn't until Concubine Li became impatient that Zhu Yijun finally recited all of today's lessons.
But he did not get up. Instead, he buried his head lower and said, "Mother, yesterday I promised my mother in person that I would go to school and cultivate virtue and not be idle."
"Now I am naturally working diligently and don't dare to be negligent in the slightest."
"But my mother falsely believed in the villain's slander and belittled the dignity of the successor. How is this different from Gao Gong?"
"My child is brave. Please mother, please trust your child more in the future and see if your child has done anything wrong. This will save you from the villain's slander."
Zhu Yijun suddenly made such a fuss. Concubine Li was a little unable to get off the stage, so she helped him up with a blushing face.
He turned away and said, "My son has become sensible and will teach his mother a lesson."
Zhu Yijun refused to give up: "I am not teaching my mother a lesson, but my mother trusts outsiders more than my son. The groundless accusation makes the child feel aggrieved."
Concubine Li coughed lightly: "Okay, okay, mother knows."
Seeing that Concubine Li's attitude finally softened, Zhu Yijun's expression turned from cloudy to clear, and he quickly rubbed her shoulders again.
This is how the perception changes little by little.
If you want people to think that you can trust someone, the best solution is to have a gentle attitude, but don't give in to the bottom line, and use a humble attitude to argue your case.
This is especially true between mother and child. Otherwise, once you become a mother's baby, your growth will be in vain.
Concubine Li came back to her senses, but still felt a little embarrassed, and added: "It's not that my mother doesn't believe you."
"Look, there is another official report saying that the Heavenly Dog eats the sun. This is a warning from heaven. Many of them are caused by the emperor's bad behavior. I want you to examine your own sins, copy the Taoist scriptures, and make sacrifices to heaven."
"Mom, this is just to help you check for your mistakes and fill them up, so that you don't do anything wrong to God."
After saying that, Concubine Li took out some memorials and handed them over.
Zhu Yijun was speechless and too lazy to answer the memorial.
This kind of memorial has never been nutritious, but it stands on the high ground of political correctness, making it impossible for people to refute.
As for who is so wicked... it's probably Zhang Juzheng.
Once I copy the Buddhist scriptures, I can't stop copying them for half a month, which consumes my mind and energy.
In addition to watching the North Korea and the Sun, I'm afraid I have to spend the rest of the day on this.
In the past, he was the one who flooded the boss's desk with useless documents, but now he is being returned to him.
I feel bad about retribution.
Unfortunately, he really couldn't ignore this kind of memorial, which was also part of the etiquette system today.
Just like you have to pray for rain when there is a drought, or you have to issue an edict to blame yourself if there is a fire in the palace, there is no way to avoid it.
Moreover, Concubine Li's attitude when she took out these memorials was very obvious: copying Buddhist scriptures and Taoist scriptures, that's a good thing, so hurry up and copy them.
Zhu Yijun could only agree: "I will copy it carefully when I get back."
Concubine Li nodded with satisfaction, which was considered to have revealed the matter.
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Note 1: Queen Chen of Xiao'an, a native of Tongzhou. In September of the 37th year of Jiajing, she was elected as the concubine of King Yu. She was registered as the queen in the first year of Longqing. She had no children and was sick, so she lived in a separate palace. - "History of the Ming Dynasty·Biography·Volume 2"
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