The little palace maids happily took turns throwing the door bolt, and each of them could throw it three times. They had a lot of fun. If someone threw it particularly high, everyone would congratulate them, creating a very festive atmosphere.
Sun Liuyi looked at these innocent little palace maids with a hint of envy in her eyes. Suddenly someone shouted, "Get out of the way! Danger! Snowballs are rolling over!"
Sun Liuyi looked over when she heard the sound, and saw a huge snowball half a person's height rolling down the hill. The young palace maids screamed and dodged, and Sun Liuyi also hid behind a plum tree. The snowball rolled and rolled until it was stopped by an old plum tree.
A young girl and boy wearing only thin jackets ran over. They seemed to be about the same age as Sun Liuyi.
The young palace maids hurried forward and saluted, "Your Highness, Miss Hu."
Sun Liuyi also followed suit and bowed. She had been taught the rules of entering the palace when she was in the Pengcheng Earl's Mansion. She had to bow when she saw the nobles and could not hide.
It was Arei and Prince Zhu Zhanhe of Han. Today was New Year's Day, and Zhu Zhanhe had followed his parents to the palace for a reunion. When he heard that Arei was making snow rabbits in the imperial garden, he ran over to play with them. He saw that his eldest cousin Zhu Zhanji had arrived earlier and had made the rabbit trunks together with Arei.
This is a fat rabbit about the same size as an adult.
Zhu Zhanji used a shovel to carve the rabbit's legs, and Zhu Zhanhe volunteered to roll a big snowball with A Lei to serve as the rabbit's head.
The snowball rolled bigger and bigger, and when it reached a slope it lost control and rolled down the low ground.
collapse!
The big snowball was cut in half by the plum tree, and the rabbit's head was cracked...
"I'm sorry to have frightened you all." A Lei turned and looked at Zhu Zhanhe. "I've already told you that biting off more than you can chew is a mistake. The rabbit's head is too big to handle.
"You still don't believe me and keep rolling. The rabbit's head broke in two and almost hit someone else."
"Okay, okay, I know I was wrong." Zhu Zhanhe's forehead was covered with sweat. He waved his hand and said, "Come and help me put the two heads together and roll them up the ramp. We can't let this go to waste."
Since the noble lady had said "come everyone", Sun Liuyi hesitated for a moment, then followed a group of little palace maids to push the folded snowball.
There is strength in numbers. Everyone pushed the snowball up the slope together, and finally the rabbit head and torso successfully joined together.
The King of Han handed the purse on his waist to Sun Liuyi beside him and said, "Take it and divide it among you. This is my reward for you."
The King of Han did not recognize Sun Liuyi and thought she was a palace maid. Sun Liuyi was holding the purse and felt a little embarrassed, so she gave the purse to the little palace maid next to her.
The maid opened it and found a bag of gold beads. Zhu Zhanhe was really generous. "Thank you, Your Highness."
The palace maids went to the pavilion and divided the gold beads with laughter, while Sun Liuyi walked away silently.
"Miss Sun?" Zhu Zhanji, who was squatting on the ground trimming the snow rabbit's pedicure, looked up inadvertently and saw Sun Liuyi's back.
Last year during the Little New Year and Laba Festival, Zhu Zhanji went to the Pengcheng Earl's mansion to give gifts to his grandmother and uncles. The wife of the Pengcheng Earl liked Sun Liuyi and couldn't leave her for a moment, so Zhu Zhanji got to know Miss Sun.
Sun Liuyi stopped and saluted Zhu Zhanji. Zhu Zhanji introduced Sun Liuyi to A Lei and his cousin, "This is Miss Sun, a guest of the Pengcheng Earl's Mansion."
Zhu Zhanhe slapped his head and said, "Oh, I was rude to Miss Sun just now. I thought you were a palace maid. I'm sorry."
Don't give face to the monk, give face to the Buddha. The Pengcheng Earl's Mansion is the maternal grandfather's home of my eldest cousin Zhu Zhanji, so the guests in the house naturally have some respect.
Sun Liuyi said hurriedly: "It doesn't matter, I didn't explain it clearly."
Arei was holding a large white radish, which he sharpened and stuck on the rabbit's head as ears. A bunch of palace maids had not looked carefully before, but when they heard what he said, they took a closer look and said, "What a beautiful lady, do you want to join us in making a snow rabbit?"
The two cousins, A Lei and Zhu Zhanji and Zhu Zhanhe, have been playmates since childhood. They are used to it and do not distinguish between superiors and inferiors. They do not think there is anything wrong with playing with two men outsiders.
Sun Liuyi was different. In her eyes, the people in front of her were the eldest grandson of the Eastern Palace and the prince of Han. There was a difference between men and women, and between high and low. Just as her family taught her, this was a "noble person".
Therefore, Sun Liuyi thought it was very interesting to make a big white rabbit. She was eager to try it, but she suppressed herself and said, "Thank you Miss Hu for inviting me. However, I will follow the Madam of Pengcheng Earl into the palace today. If the Madam calls me later, I will go to accompany her."
Sun Liuyi was busy, so A Lei didn't force her to stay. He smiled and said, "I'll come and play with you another day when you have time."
Everyone in the capital city's wealthy families knows Hu Shanwei. In addition to being the Shang Gong for three dynasties, Hu Shang Gong is also the only female official who has a family outside the palace. She has only one child at home.
Sister, so Lady Hu went in and out of the palace every morning and evening to do her work, escorted by the Imperial Guards all the way, with a greater pomp than that of the Shangshu.
The Hu residence is on the first ring road of the capital - even the Pengcheng Earl's Mansion does not have such a good location. Its neighbors are the Han Palace and the Mu Palace. There are several young ladies in the Mu Palace who are of similar age to Miss Hu, and they interact with each other. Therefore, Miss Hu's friends are all top wealthy ladies in the capital.
Sun Liuyi's father was the chief clerk of Yongcheng County, not even an official. Now he was living in the Pengcheng Earl's Mansion, living under someone else's roof. A noble lady from a wealthy family was naturally classified as a "noble lady". She felt inferior and did not dare to play with a girl like A Lei. However, she had some expectations in her heart, so she went with the flow and said, "Okay, let's get together another day."
Sun Liuyi said goodbye. Zhu Zhanji, who was the proper young mistress of the harem, ordered the palace servants, "The paths in the garden are slippery. Follow Miss Sun carefully and don't fall."
Sun Liuyi felt warm at heart after hearing this.
The Crown Princess and Mrs. Pengchengbo's party were admiring the plum blossoms when they saw a big white rabbit lying in the garden from afar. They walked over to take a look and met Sun Liuyi who was halfway there. They learned that it was brought by A Lei and the two imperial grandsons, so they went to see the snow rabbit together.
Zhu Zhanhe picked up two coal balls and stuffed them into the rabbit's head as eyes. Zhu Zhanji used a thin knife to make a short tail for the rabbit. A Lei carved a nose with a carrot and pressed it into the rabbit's head.
The snow rabbit is done.
Seeing the Crown Princess and her entourage coming in a grand procession, the three of them quickly wiped the snow off their bodies and bowed.
The Crown Princess, who rarely saw her eldest son playing, smiled and said, "This snow rabbit is nice and lifelike. The snow in the garden is still thick. This year is the Year of the Rat. How about you build a rat?"
A Lei smiled and said, "Okay, first use the snow to make a shape, and then pour ink on it, and it will be a big mouse."
The Crown Princess touched Arei's red hands that were frozen, "Oh, your hands are cold, don't worry, warm them up for a while before making a pile."
As soon as the Crown Princess arrived, Zhu Zhanji immediately regained his composure.
The Crown Princess knew that with all the elders here, the eldest son would feel restrained and would not be able to have fun. The eldest son worked diligently like an old ox all year round and should have fun to his heart's content during the New Year. So she made an excuse to go see the white plum blossoms in the east and took everyone away.
When leaving, Mrs. Pengchengbo forced her hand warmer to her eldest grandson Zhu Zhanji, and touched his thin hands with pity, "You seem to eat a lot, but why don't you gain weight? Keep warm before playing, and be careful that your fingers will be frozen for too long, or they will tremble when writing."
The prince gets fat even if he drinks water, but Zhu Zhanji is thin even if he eats a lot of meat. When he stands with his father, he is just a bamboo stick and a round hawthorn, just the right size to string together a bunch of candied haws.
"Thank you, grandma." Zhu Zhanji took the hand warmer. He was always polite to his relatives, with a hint of distance in his politeness.
After everyone left, the three of them discussed how to make a big pile of rats. Arei was wearing little and had not been active just now, so he immediately felt a little cold. He clasped his hands together and blew a breath of hot air into his lips to warm his hands.
Zhu Zhanhe was strong and energetic. Seeing that A'lei's hands were cold, he stretched out his hands to cover A'lei's hands and rubbed them repeatedly. "Are you warm now? Let's go roll a big snowball, and you won't be cold when you play."
Zhu Zhanhe was two years younger than both of them and was very innocent. He inherited the tall and strong physique of Emperor Yongle and looked the same age as the two of them.
When Zhu Zhanji saw this, his eyes began to twitch. He put the squirrel fur cloak on A Lei and handed him the hand warmer that Mrs. Pengcheng Bo had given him. "Let A Lei rest for a while and eat something. I'll go roll snowballs with you."
A Lei was wearing a cloak, but he refused to take the hand stove. "Let's go together. I don't feel tired. I'll be bored waiting here."
The three of them rolled two snowballs together, one big and one small. Zhu Zhanhe found a horsewhip and stuck it behind the big snowball as the mouse's thin tail. Zhu Zhanji poured ink into the watering can and poured it on the big white rat. A Lei broke off a few plum branches, removed the flowers, and stuck them on both sides of the mouse's head as a beard.
The three of them cooperated tacitly. Zhu Zhanji poured ink to give the mouse a "tan". The ink splashed and fell on Are's face, making it look like he had grown a beard. Zhu Zhanhe pointed at Are and laughed, but he accidentally slipped and fell on Zhu Zhanji. Zhu Zhanji was caught off guard and fell backwards. The remaining ink in the spray bottle all poured on himself.
In an instant, Zhu Zhanji's angular, fashionable supermodel face with asexuality, abstinence and world-weariness turned into a clown face. Arei had just wiped his "beard" clean with snow water, but now his face was splashed with ink spots from the spray bottle, and his face immediately became like a sesame seed cake covered with black sesame seeds.
Only Zhu Zhanhe, the culprit, had a clean face. He pointed at A Lei's sesame-shaped face and said with a gloating smile: "You big bastard."
Arei was so angry that he casually grabbed Zhu Zhanji's ink-soaked thin jacket with both hands, smearing it with ink, and then smeared Zhu Zhanji's face with ink left and right, "Marshal Tianpeng."
Zhu Bajie, the Marshal of Heavenly Peng, is a pig spirit. In ancient times, pigs were generally black, and large white pigs are a modern breed. So Arei called Zhu Bajie the Marshal of Heavenly Peng.
Zhu Zhanji was attacked on the chest by A Lei for no reason. He felt a burning sensation on his chest, as if two marks were branded on it. He felt weak and unable to get up.
Zhu Zhanhe was smeared in the face and fought back. He pinched A Lei's face with both hands and wiped ten finger marks, "Hu Damazi turned into a little cat."
Seeing Zhu Zhanhe's fingertips sliding across Are's face, Zhu Zhanji immediately gained strength and stood up to block the two of them. As a result, Are had no time to withdraw his hand, and the ink that was about to be smeared on Zhu Zhanhe's body was all smeared on Zhu Zhanji's face.
Zhu Zhanji was not annoyed at all even though he was slapped in the face by Are. The cool fingers sliding across his face was so comfortable.
Although Zhu Zhanji was usually silent, he was very agitated inside. He quickly grasped the pattern of Are's actions and said, "Return the favor with your hands."
Hand, tooth for tooth", pretending to be angry, and stretched out his ink-stained hand to touch Are's face to "retaliate".
Are was hit, so of course he had to fight back. He kneaded a ball of "black snow", tore open Zhu Zhanji's collar and stuffed it in...
The situation was completely out of control. The three of them were laughing and playing together, and had a snowball fight. When Hu Shanwei finished his work and went out of the palace with Are to go home for the New Year, he only saw three big coal balls rolling in the snow, and he couldn't tell that the one with the coal ball was his daughter.
The ink spreads in the white snow, and at first glance it looks like a black and white ink painting. The three naughty children are covered with ink and crawling and rolling in the snow, just like three brushes, writing and painting freely, forming a picture of playing in the snow with supernatural powers.
It was the early spring of the sixth year of Yongle. It started with making snow bunnies and ended with a snowball fight. It was also the end of the childhood of the three people. They stepped from their innocent childhood into adolescence full of all kinds of troubles and throbbing.
During this year, Concubine Zhang Shu's methods of handling power in the harem grew from immature to mature and handy. Hu Shanwei often saw the shadow of Concubine Duanjing in her.
In the harem, Concubine Zhang Shu's position was gradually consolidated and she managed everything in an orderly manner. Under the leadership of Concubine Quan Xianfei, the Korean girl group was also docile and obedient, and the harem was stable.
With peace in the harem, Hu Shanwei's life began to get better. He punched in and out of get off work every day, took days off on holidays, and enjoyed family happiness with Muchun and Arei. Their family had rarely returned to a peaceful life.
In the previous dynasty, Prince Penguin staggered around every day and went to court regardless of rain or shine. Civil and military officials were uncomfortable at first, but gradually got used to it and accepted the reality that the prince was a disabled person.
#Has the crippled prince been deposed today?# This topic was on the hot search list every day at the beginning, but later it gradually faded away.
Because the two princesses who supported him copied the "Inner Training" until the middle of the night, the King of Han realized that he could not shake the prince's position by using physical disability, and it would also cause backlash, so he had to find a way to start from other aspects.
Therefore, the King of Han decided to conserve his strength and wait for the next opportunity. Anyway, most of the generals in the court supported him, and all he lacked was an opportunity.
In July of the sixth year of the Yongle reign, on the first anniversary of Empress Renxiao's death, Emperor Yongle wore plain clothes and a rhinoceros horn belt, suspended court for three days, stopped music and slaughtering in the capital for seven days, and all civil and military officials performed a ceremony of consolation at the West Corner Gate.
In the same month, a fire broke out in the ancient Jianchu Temple located near the Qinhuai River in Beijing at night. The flames almost illuminated the entire city. Emperor Yongle actually went to the fire scene in person and directed the fire-fighting efforts. However, this ancient temple of the Eastern Wu Dynasty built during the Three Kingdoms period was still destroyed in the flames.
At dawn, Jinyiwei Commander Ji Gang dug out a charred coffin from a cave in the pagoda. "Your Majesty, the shrine of the Concubine Shuo has been burned. Only the coffin was salvaged."
Shuofei was the biological mother of Emperor Yongle, but in order to ascend the throne legitimately, Emperor Yongle tampered with history books and wrote that the Crown Prince, Prince of Qin, Prince of Jin, himself, and his younger brother Prince of Zhou were all the legitimate children of Empress Xiaoci Ma.
In order to conceal the truth, the coffin of Concubine Shuo was secretly taken out of the Xiaoling Mausoleum and enshrined in the Jianchu Temple, the oldest temple in the capital.
Emperor Yongle knelt beside his mother's coffin, stroked it and cried, "Mother, I am an unfilial son. I cannot recognize you, cannot posthumously confer the title of empress on you, and the thousand-year-old Jianchu Temple was destroyed in a fire as a punishment from heaven."
"Mother, I really have no choice. For the sake of our country, no matter how much my heart aches, I cannot recognize you. I will rebuild the Great Baoen Temple here and build a nine-story glazed pagoda. I will ask Zen Master Daoyan to find the relics of famous monks and the Buddha's skull bones to be buried here with you to repay your kindness. I beg you to forgive me."
Emperor Yongle asked the eunuch Zheng He, who had just returned from his voyage to the West, and Zen Master Daoyan and others to preside over the construction of the Da Baoen Temple. Due to the huge cost, he used the excuse of "commemorating Emperor Gaozu and Empress Xiaoci" to easily ask the Ministry of Revenue for money. In any case, the secret of Concubine Shuo had to be kept secret.
Year after year, it was soon the seventh year of Yongle. Just at the beginning of spring, after a year and a half of site selection, Emperor Yongle announced that the tomb of his wife, Empress Renxiao Xu, would be located on Tianshou Mountain on the Changping Line of Beijing.
When this decision was made, the ministers were shocked: the capital is in the south, why should the queen be buried in the north
Emperor Yongle slowly threw out the second bomb, "Not far away, this is good, anyway, I have decided to move the capital to Beiping. The palace in Nanjing has been sinking and flooding every year. It is almost uninhabitable. It is just robbing Peter to repair Paul all day long. How can it be so shameful? I want to build a new palace in Beiping."
The ministers shouted: "Absolutely not! Peking is far away and the roads are not smooth. Building a new capital there will cause all kinds of inconvenience in transporting materials."
Emperor Yongle threw out the third bomb: "Oh, then dredge the Grand Canal from Beijing to Hangzhou to connect the north and the south, which will benefit both the country and the people."
"Building the canal will cost a lot of manpower and money!" The ministers were almost going crazy. "Your Majesty, Beiping is close to the northwest border. Mongolia invades the border every year. It is not safe. If we build the capital in Beiping, won't it expose the capital to danger?"
Emperor Yongle made light of it and threw out the fourth bomb. "The emperor has guarded the country's borders for generations. How can a dynasty that lives in peace in the south last long? You must have a sense of crisis. Therefore, I have decided to lead the army in person and use offense as defense. In this way, you will be protected when you build the mausoleum for Empress Renxiao, dredge the Grand Canal, and build a new capital. You don't have to worry about being disturbed by Mongolia."
And there is also a personal expedition
The shock was so great that the ministers' brains short-circuited and they went into shock.
Mr. Lu Xun said that the Chinese people are always willing to compromise. For example, if you say that the room is too dark and you need to open a window here, they will definitely not allow it. But if you advocate removing the roof, they will compromise and be willing to open the window. Without more radical ideas, they will never even make peaceful reforms.
Although separated by more than 300 years, the infrastructure maniac Emperor Yongle and Lu Xun had similar understandings of human nature.
He wanted to move the capital, build the Grand Canal, and lead the army in person. He struck blow after blow, which stunned the ministers and left them unable to fight back. After a long time, they finally came to their senses and knelt down to beg the emperor to give up, especially the move of the capital. This matter involved the destiny of the Ming Dynasty for a hundred years and could not be decided hastily.
Emperor Yongle had expected this and said, "The matter of moving the capital can be discussed later, but the coffin of my queen is still in the Rouyi Palace in the harem and cannot be buried. The mausoleum at Changshou Mountain in Beiping must be excavated. In addition, dredging the Grand Canal is related to people's livelihood, and the expedition is related to national defense. It must be carried out immediately without any mistakes."
Emperor Yongle has already retreated from "removing the roof" to "opening the windows". If the ministers refuse to agree, Emperor Yongle will climb up the roof and tear off the tiles.
This tactic was indeed effective. The meeting passed three things: repairing the mausoleum, dredging the Grand Canal, and personally leading the Northern Expedition. The issue of moving the capital was temporarily shelved and would be discussed further after Emperor Yongle returned to Beijing.
The paths taken by all the ministers could not escape the routine of Emperor Yongle.
In the spring of the seventh year of Yongle, Emperor Yongle announced that he would lead the army in person. He took his eldest grandson Zhu Zhanji with him to fight in battles for experience. He also named Concubine Zhang Shu as a noble concubine to keep the harem in check, and ordered the crown prince to be regent, allowing him to handle state affairs.
The King of Han was overjoyed: "The Crown Prince is the regent, holding great power. The more he does, the more mistakes he makes. The less he does, the fewer mistakes he makes. If he does nothing, he makes no mistakes. As long as he does something, he will not have to worry about not being able to find mistakes. The opportunity has finally come."
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