It was a quiet autumn.
Hu Shanwei went to visit his old friend. As the Zhou Palace was established in Kunming, Ru Siyao and Dr. Tan and their spouses also moved here and continued to assist in compiling the "Compendium of Materia Medica for Famine Relief" in the palace. Yunnan is rich in products, and there are many plants that are not found in the Central Plains. This book was written volume after volume, and it seemed that it would never be completed. It was a huge project.
Ru Siyao and Doctor Tan had two sons, named Tan Jing and Tan Gang. In order to fulfill their medical ideals, they stopped having children.
An old friend and I were brewing tea in the garden and appreciating the autumn scenery. The warm sunlight shone through the leaves, casting mottled spots on our bodies, not too cold or too hot, just right. The two of us closed our eyes on the recliners and listened to the wind, as if we were drunk by the autumn wind, our bones were soft and we felt lazy.
Ru Sixiao heard that the kettle on the small red clay stove had stopped humming and the boiling water had stopped making noises, so she opened her eyes and made tea for the guest.
Ru Siyao joked, "It's ready. Get up and drink some tea. Do you want me to feed it to you? This is Kunming, not the imperial palace in Beijing. Don't act like a court lady in front of me."
Hu Shanwei opened her eyes, they were clean and shining. She was 46 years old this year. She had a happy love life, a successful career and a happy family. She had also lived a peaceful life in seclusion in the mountains for four years. Time had been particularly kind to her and she looked only in her early 30s.
Hu Shanwei changed his sitting position and sipped his tea. "How did you raise your two boys? They seem to be well behaved and obedient, not giving you and Doctor Tan any worries at all."
Ru Siyao almost spit out her tea on the spot, "You only see the thief eating the meat, but not the thief being beaten. I think your A Lei is sensible and obedient, and he is your little cotton-padded jacket. I wish your second son was a girl. In a family like ours, the children are all good outside and look good, but at home, they are naughty in their own way."
"We have been doctors all our lives. The more we learn, the more we feel that there is no end to learning. We can only learn the tip of the iceberg in this life. So we put our hopes on the two boys, hoping that they can inherit the family tradition of the Tan and Ru families. However, these two boys are going against us."
"We both can't live without the smell of medicine, and we think it is the most fragrant thing in the world. But the two boys said that the smell of medicine is pungent and frowned when they smelled it. My husband and I studied medical books, and the two boys immediately fell asleep when they saw the medical books. But when they saw the Four Books and Five Classics, they immediately became energetic and vowed to take the imperial examination in the future and become a Jinshi and enter the official career. This is completely contrary to our ideals."
Hu Shanwei felt as if the First, Second and Fourth Red Army had joined forces in victory at Taibao. He put down his teacup and held Ru Siyao's hand. "It's the same in my family. What the child strives for is contrary to the path we have paved for her good. It's like a siege. People in the city want to attack and people outside the city want to attack."
Ru Siyao also sighed, "As parents, what else can we do? We have fought against the two boys several times and were defeated. Now my husband and I have given up and let them go. They study and take the imperial examinations. We don't have any hope for our two sons to inherit our family's knowledge. This kind of thing cannot be forced. When we have grandchildren in the future, if they have a talent for medicine and are willing to resume our family heritage, we will teach them."
Ru Siyao and Doctor Tan met because of their medical background and shared the same ideals, but encountered problems in inheritance, so they could only rely on their second-generation grandchildren. Fortunately, by the time of their grandchildren, the Tan family really produced a great medical expert who influenced the history of medicine and passed down his reputation through the ages. It can be seen that we still have to have dreams, just in case they come true.
The best comfort in the world is not that I understand you, but that we are all the same.
Hu Shanwei felt relieved when he saw Ru Siyao was facing the same problem. The two of them complained to each other, "A Lei is only nine years old, but she has so many tricks that I can't understand her. Whenever she goes to school and is not at home, she locks her boudoir and study with two locks and doesn't allow us to go in and see."
Ru Siyao sneered, "A lock can stop you and Muchun? It's useless."
The bad thing about long-time friends is that they know each other too well and their lies are exposed immediately.
Hu Shanwei had been a palace maid for two terms, so he lied without blinking an eye. "How can that be possible? We still have to respect our daughter's privacy. Since she locked the door, it means she refuses everyone. As a parent, we can't force it."
Muchun was forced by his daughter to become an expert at picking doors and locking them.
Ru Siyao smiled knowingly, too lazy to expose her, "It's such a waste of talent for a fifth-rank imperial concubine to compete with my daughter in wits and courage. You are still so young, are you really going to retire from the world and not care about worldly affairs? If I were in your place, I would never touch a medical book again, and it would be better to die."
Hu Shanwei said, "That has nothing to do with that. You practice medicine to save people. During the years when I was a palace lady, there were 360 days a year, and every day there was a lot of fighting and intrigue. There was bloodshed and a lot of death. It was not a human thing to do. I finally got out of it, so I don't think about the past. Apart from the worry about my daughter, my life was like a god..."
What you fear will come true. Hu Shanwei and Ru Siyao were chatting about family matters, talking about their children and pouring out their troubles to each other in the leisurely autumn scenery. Before the tea party was over, a group of people rushed to the Tan family. Their leader was actually the eunuch Sanbao. The eunuch Sanbao was in a hurry and asked Ru Siyao and Doctor Tan to go back to the capital with them immediately.
Empress Xu's injury relapsed again.
It was this couple who cured her last time. Now they have come from afar to ask them to help again, which shows that Empress Xu's condition is not optimistic.
Ru Siyao hurried to pack the medicine box. Eunuch Sanbao went to Prince Zhou's mansion again. This time he wanted to take Prince Han's son Zhu Zhanhe away with him.
Seeing this, Hu Shanwei thought that Empress Xu's condition must be more serious than he had expected, so he hurriedly brought his second grandson Zhu Zhanhe to the capital, as a gesture of farewell to future generations in case she could not be cured.
Eunuch Sanbao's search was in vain, and no one knew where Zhu Zhanhe had gone. Both the Prince of Zhou's Palace and the Duke of Qian's Palace sent people to look for him.
Where is Zhu Zhanhe going
Sending A Lei home after school. Two years ago, Zhu Zhanhe bravely entered the "haunted house" and the two met. Later, A Lei went to school in the Zhou Wangfu, and Zhu Zhanhe was raised in the Zhou Wangfu. After a few visits, they became familiar with each other. A Lei was followed by his parents in disguise, and it was Zhu Zhanhe who reminded him to expose it.
To prevent fire, theft and parents, the two children formed an alliance tacitly, often covered for each other, and forged a deep revolutionary friendship.
The weather was clear and crisp in autumn, and animals were growing fat and plump. The two men saw a hare running along the roadside, so they spurred their horses to chase it.
Went to the mountains to hunt.
Zhu Zhanhe was growing up rather fast. The seven-year-old boy was taller than the nine-year-old A Lei, and his development trend was becoming more and more like his grandfather, Emperor Yongle.
The two horses rushed into the forest, driving away the hares and scaring away the pheasants. Zhu Zhanhe's riding and archery skills had improved rapidly in the past two years, and he quickly shot down two panicked pheasants.
Arei jumped off his horse and picked up the prey. "Okay, enough for dinner tonight. Let's stay here. It's not a good idea to fish in a dry pond. If you eat one meal, you won't have the next."
Zhu Zhanhe still felt that it was not enough. "The pheasants are too skinny. I can kill two of them by myself. What are you and your sister and brother-in-law going to eat? I'll go to the forest to find some more prey and add a few dishes to the table."
"Ah?" A Lei was a little reluctant, "You still want to come to my house for dinner today?"
Zhu Zhanhe was not as roundabout as his elder cousin Zhu Zhanji. He was straightforward and said, "Why? You don't welcome me."
The two knew each other too well, and Arei spoke bluntly, "My sister said that your appetite is like the reincarnation of Marshal Tianpeng, and you eat more than my brother-in-law. If I invite you to dinner, I have to ask the kitchen to prepare more ingredients in advance and cook an extra pot of rice."
The story of "Journey to the West" was popular in the Ming Dynasty. The pig-spirit Bajie was the most eye-catching character besides the protagonist Sun Wukong. Everyone knew him. His biggest characteristics were his ability to eat and his cute and silly personality.
Zhu Zhanhe was open-minded and did not feel ashamed. He even joked and bowed like Zhu Bajie on the stage, "Miss, are you Miss Haitang, the daughter of Master Fei?"
Later, everyone became familiar with the novel of the same name written by Wu Cheng'en, in which Zhu Bajie was the son-in-law in Gao Laozhuang. However, this was the fourth year of Yongle, and Wu Cheng'en's great-grandfather was probably just born.
Currently, the most popular version of the story of "Journey to the West" is the play written by Yang Jingxian, a dramatist sponsored by the former Prince Yan's Mansion. In the play, Zhu Bajie forces Fei Haitang to marry him.
After hearing this, A Lei did not feel embarrassed like an ordinary woman, but immediately got into the role of Erlang Shen with excitement, and said in a dramatic voice: "You pig demon! I am here to capture you by the order of Guanyin. If you sincerely convert to Buddhism and pray to Guanyin, you will also achieve enlightenment. If you do not convert, you will die in the mouth of a small dog."
In Yang Jingxian's opera script, the scene of reconquering Zhu Bajie is performed by Erlang Shen and his subordinate, the little dog, while Sun Wukong only plays a cameo role throughout.
Both of them liked Journey to the West and knew the lines by heart. Zhu Zhanhe just slapped his horse and fled, "Others are afraid of you, but I am not."
"Generals on both sides, quickly lead the dogs to bite the pig monster!" Arei spurred his horse to chase after it. However, as a child, he acted on impulse and was so busy playing that he forgot about the important task of hunting for a snack.
The two were chasing each other in the woods. Suddenly, there were sounds of weapons and screams ahead. Zhu Zhanhe was running in front. Hearing that it was not good, it seemed that there was a gunfight ahead, he immediately turned his horse around and said, "Sister A'lei, run."
A Lei didn't understand what was going on, but seeing Zhu Zhanhe's serious expression, he immediately ran in the direction of the road they came from.
The sounds of fighting behind them were getting closer and closer, and they were even starting to use weapons that made a lot of noise, such as firearms. Zhu Zhanhe and A Lei lay on their horses, trying their best to hide their bodies, and with the help of the woods blocking their way, they barely managed not to get hurt.
The two horses quickly took the young master out of the forest. The people behind seemed to want to silence them and chased them relentlessly. Just when the two were about to be exposed to the gun of the unknown assailant, the guards from the Zhou Palace and the Qian Palace who were looking for people led their hunting dogs and found this place by following the scent. They originally came to find Zhu Zhanhe to send to the capital, and just happened to save him.
The two groups started fighting, but the criminals were well-armed and fought and retreated, leaving corpses on the ground. In the end, a few of them escaped under the cover of night.
The guards cleaned up the battlefield and carried out the bodies one by one. Prince Zhou, Eunuch Sanbao, and Mu Chun and Mu Sheng, who had heard the news, came to check the scene.
Eunuch Sanbao recognized the identity of a dead body and said, "This is Xue Yan, the Minister of the Supreme Court. The emperor just sent him to the Kingdom of Annan last month to bring Chen Tianping, a descendant of the former ruler, to the Kingdom of Annan to succeed him."
Mu Sheng also immediately recognized the identity of a dead body, "This is the grandson of the former ruler of Annan, Chen Tianping."
The two looked at each other and said in unison: "Annan is planning a rebellion!"
It turned out that A Lei and Zhu Zhanhe had accidentally witnessed a coup d'état. No wonder the criminals wanted to wipe out the roots of the crime.
Annan was a neighboring country of the Ming Dynasty, and originally the Chen family was the king. After the Ming Dynasty successfully conquered the south, the Mu family settled in Yunnan, and the Chen family sent an envoy to the Ming Dynasty, delivered a letter of credence, paid tribute to the Ming Dynasty, recognized the Ming Dynasty as their suzerain, and submitted to the Ming Dynasty as their vassal.
The Kingdom of Annan was so sensible that Emperor Hongwu gave the edict of enthronement to the King of Annan. The two countries established diplomatic relations and listed Annan as a "country that will not be conquered."
After the death of the King of the Tran family of Annan, Prime Minister Le Qui Ti (Mao) seized power, massacred members of the Tran royal family, changed his surname to Hu, called Hu Qui Ti, ascended the throne as king, and the Hu Dynasty began.
As a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, any change of dynasty, or a change of king from father to son, had to be approved by the suzerain state, and an imperial edict of enthronement had to be issued and recognized by the Ming Dynasty before it was legitimate.
Hu Jiti delivered a letter to the Ming Dynasty, claiming that the Chen royal family had no descendants and that he was the nephew of the old king. Before his death, the old king appointed him as the new king and heir to the throne.
At that time, the Ming Dynasty had just ended the Jingnan Campaign and the civil war had stopped. Emperor Yongle was focused on consolidating his own imperial power and had no time to take care of other things. When he saw the letter sent by Annan, he appointed Hu Jiti as the new king without any deep thought or verification.
Hu Jiti thought his plan was successful, but unexpectedly, a grandson of the Chen Dynasty, named Chen Tianping, escaped the massacre by chance and went to the Ming Dynasty with great difficulty. He first sought help from Mu Sheng, the Duke of Qian, who ruled Yunnan for generations. When Mu Sheng heard this, he was shocked. How could this happen? This is clearly a crime of deceiving the emperor!
So Mu Sheng sent people to escort Chen Tianping to the capital to file a complaint with Emperor Yongle, and at the same time he sent troops to Annan to attack Hu Jiti and hold him accountable for the crime of deceiving the emperor. This happened in November last year.
At the beginning of the fourth year of Yongle, Chen Tianping arrived in the capital, crying until he was hoarse, accusing Hu Jiti of the truth of the massacre of the Chen royal family. Emperor Yongle was of course furious, but he was a calm emperor. At this time, he was preparing for the Northern Expedition to conquer Mongolia. How could an empire that had just stabilized withstand the dual fronts of the Northern Expedition and the Southern Expedition
Therefore, Emperor Yongle issued an edict to scold Mu Sheng and ordered him to bring his troops back immediately. "You are stationed in Yunnan and are trusted by the people. How can you move lightly? I ordered you to move troops to Laos and station there, but you went there yourself. This is not my intention. Return as soon as the edict arrives. You also said that you want to send troops to Annan. I am trying to show my kindness and win over people from far away. Although Hu Jiti disturbed my border, I am sending people to question him. If you can sincerely obey my order, I will also be generous and generous to the people in the wilderness."
What I mean is, I know I was fooled by Hu Jiti, but now that the Ming Dynasty is recovering, if we can achieve our goal through peace talks, we should not send troops to fight lightly. Fighting a war is too damn expensive, and for my sake, it is not worth it.
Emperor Yongle sent envoys to Annan, saying that as long as Hu Jiti was willing to admit his mistakes, abdicate, and return the throne to Chen Tianping, the Ming Dynasty would forgive his past mistakes and would confer the title of Duke on Hu Jiti, guaranteeing the Hu family's wealth and prosperity for generations.
Hu Jiti accepted the Ming's conditions on the spot. Therefore, Emperor Yongle sent Xue Gu, the Minister of the Dali Temple, as an envoy to take Chen Tianping to Annan to inherit the throne, and Huang Zhong, the left deputy general of Guangxi, and Lu Yi, the right deputy general, escorted them with 5,000 soldiers and horses.
However, as soon as the Ming Dynasty delegation arrived in Annan, it was immediately attacked by Hu Jiti's ambushes of more than 10,000 troops. Deputy General Huang Zhong and right deputy general Lu Yi were killed in the battle. Ming Dynasty soldiers desperately escorted Xue Gui and Chen Tianping to escape. The Annan people disguised themselves as Ming people and chased them from behind. When the entire Ming army was destroyed, they were spotted by A Lei and Zhu Zhanhe.
Mu Chun looked at the corpses on the ground and was furious. "If anyone dares to kill my daughter to silence her, I will destroy his country! Bring me my Portuguese cannon. If a tiger doesn't show its might for a few years, you can think of me as a sick cat!"
The author has something to say: The first battle of the Yongle Dynasty is about to begin. The second round of palace struggle is also approaching, and Sister Shanwei will soon return to the palace to start the third round.
Yesterday I got Mu Chun and Princess Zhou's ages wrong. Princess Zhou is Mu Chun's aunt, so she should be called Aunt. I have corrected it.
I forgot to send out red envelopes yesterday. Congratulations to reader Parvati for receiving a big red envelope of 100 points.
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