Father can be an enemy to the country

"What does 'ah' mean?" Zhu Yuanzhang sat up, his eyes as wide as copper bells, he patted Lao Liu's thigh and said, "You're not hooking up with those two widows, are you?"

"What a widow? It's really unpleasant." Zhu Zhen corrected in a low voice: "It's a little widow."

Seeing that he didn't correct the second half of the sentence, the prince also lost his voice and said: "We really hooked up together."

"No... Fucked." Old Liu blushed and said, "We are innocent."

"That's okay." The prince breathed a sigh of relief.

"What's good?" Zhu Yuanzhang said unhappily: "Since we hooked up, we have to hook up! Guizhou is too important, and we must maintain stability, otherwise Guizhou will be in chaos and Yunnan will be in danger."

As he spoke, he patted Lao Liu's thigh heavily and gave orders: "For the stability of Ming Dynasty's southwest, you must take some concrete actions to make them die for you!"

"Dad, is this what a father should say?" The prince said speechlessly: "The sixth child is getting married soon..."

"What happened to the wedding? He was not allowed to marry two female chieftains home." Zhu Yuanzhang said nonchalantly: "As a man, if you have nothing to do, you still have to look for flowers. Now that this boy can pick up girls according to the order, he is confident and feels happy. flower?"

"No, no, absolutely not." Zhu Zhen shook his head like a rattle, but didn't say a word of rejection.

"Oh, you... I can't say anything to you." The prince simply didn't want to communicate with these two guys.

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After His Royal Highness the King of Chu returned to Beijing, everyone inside and outside the palace began to get busy preparing for his wedding.

Before the official wedding, there are still several procedures to go through.

The first is the king-making ceremony. Although Lao Liu has already been crowned king twice and is quite familiar with it, the canonization of a prince is a grand ceremony of the imperial court, so he still cannot be careless.

However, in line with his usual frugal style, Boss Zhu gave all his sons who had not yet been crowned kings a title. Anyway, you have to be sealed sooner or later, and you won't be given a salary before getting married. You can save a lot of money by attending the ceremony of the sixth child.

On the eighth day of April, the emperor announced that he would hold a canonization ceremony, and named the emperor's sixth son Zhu Zhen as the king of Dian; the emperor's sixteenth son Zhu Zhu as the king of Qing; the seventeenth son Zhu Quan as the king of Ning; the eighteenth son Zhu Zhen as the king of Min; and the nineteenth son Zhu Su. He is the King of Valley; his 20th son, Zhu Song, is the King of Han; and his 21st son, Zhu Mo, is the King of Shen.

On the tenth day of April, Zhu Yuanzhang sent Duke Guoguo and Duke Cao to offer sacrifices to the ancestral temple.

At the same time, the Ministry of Rites and Honglu Temple began to display a guard of honor in accordance with the etiquette for canonizing the prince of the East Palace.

On April 15th, the day of the official canonization, the emperor personally visited the Fengtian Palace, and the crown prince and other princes came to the east gate of Fengtian to wait.

Zhu Zhen, wearing a Gun dragon robe, followed the prince, followed by the seventh king of Qi, Zhu Zi, the old king of Batan, Zhu Zi, the old king of Lu, Zhu Tan, the eleventh king of Shu, Zhu Chun, the twelfth king of Hunan, Zhu Bai, and the thirteenth king Zhu Gui. , the fourteenth old Su Wang Zhu Mei, the fifteenth old Liao Wang Zhu Zhi.

On the contrary, none of the six princes who were to be canonized today did not show up. The reason was that they were too young. Among them, the eldest Lao Shiliu is only five years old, and the youngest Lao Twenty-one is only three years old.

A three- to five-year-old child can't control himself when peeing. Wouldn't it be embarrassing to participate in the ceremony? Therefore, after the ceremony, Li Shanchang and Li Wenzhong would bring the books and seals to the palace to hold the ceremony for the young princes alone without mixing in the Jinluan Hall.

Therefore, the one who received the canonization in the Golden Palace today was actually Lao Liu. This is good, otherwise it would be embarrassing to accept the canonization with a group of three- and five-year-old children. On the one hand, if one of them cried and the other peed, he would have to help clean up, which would be too annoying.

At this time, the ceremonial music sounded, and the crown prince and the princes entered from the east gate of the palace, came to the emperor, and stood in obeisance.

The internal praise officer then guided the King of Chu to the salute position of His Majesty Dan, and paid homage to the emperor.

The emperor then awarded the book, and the official who held it gave it to the official who read it. After reading it out, he handed it to Lao Liu. Lao Liu accepted it and gave it to the young eunuch Ma Sanbao who was following him.

Then the emperor awarded him a precious seal, so Zhu Zhen became the unique third prince of the Ming Dynasty.

Gao Xin, the minister of the Ministry of Rites, held the imperial edict of canonization and went to the Meridian Gate to unfold it and call the world.

After the ceremony, the emperor returned to the palace and the ministers retired.

Zhu Zhen had to pay homage to the queen, prince, and concubine in turn, and then accept the congratulations of the emperor's younger brothers.

The prince also has to wear a crown and go to Fengtian Palace to congratulate the emperor, and to Kunning Palace to congratulate his mother.

In addition to congratulating the emperor, the prince, and the prince respectively, all the officials had to go up to the table to express their congratulations. The next day, all the officials went to the prince to celebrate and bowed four times.

The concubines inside and outside also wanted to congratulate the Queen of the Middle Palace, saying in a speech: "I and others are meeting the prince's acceptance of the feudal state, so I came here to congratulate Her Royal Highness the Queen."

On this day, all officials and wives gave banquets, which cost a lot of money. No wonder Boss Zhu always thinks about having multiple kings at the same time.

Finally, an auspicious day must be selected, and the kings will pay homage to the ancestral temple to complete the king-conferring ceremony.

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When the windlass is completed, it will be the end of April.

At this time, the palace given by the emperor was finally tidied up.

The palace is located in Taiping, and the location is pretty good. It's just outside West Chang'an Avenue. As for the style, it is completely in accordance with the regulations, and there is no difference because Zhu Zhen is the third prince.

Zhu Zhen was already very content. He heard from his mother and concubine that his father didn't even plan to give him this house. She wanted him to use the villa in Qingliang Mountain as his palace, saying it would be extra romantic, but in fact he just wanted to save some money.

Of course, it is understandable that Boss Zhu has so many sons, and it is too much for one son to own a palace. Naturally, it’s better to save some money.

However, Empress Ma firmly opposed it. She said that outsiders don't know what Zhu Yuanzhang thinks. They will only say that you treat the sixth son harshly, granting him three princes without any additional salary, and not even granting him a palace. How unpopular is this?

Boss Zhu was very unconvinced and said I didn't want to see him? Can you grant him the title of three princes, and also grant him the title of Suzhou and Kunming? Not only did he have three palaces in his palace in Suzhou, but we also gave him Prince Liang's palace. We love him the most, okay?

However, Boss Zhu finally gave Lao Liu this palace as his official residence in the capital.

But when it came time to hang the plaque, the people from the Ministry of Industry had a problem. They didn't know whether to hang one plaque or three plaques. If there was one plaque, how should the content be written? If there are three plaques, how should they be arranged in order? In the end, I could only ask the prince for instructions.

Zhu Biaoxin said that it is indeed a problem. Usually when there is a list of official positions, just the most important and conspicuous one is enough. For example, in the Xu Da family, Xu Da was not only the Duke of Wei, but also a general, and the current Taifu. The plaque hanging on the door of his house read "Imperial Grant to the Palace of Wei".

So usually Zhu Zhen only needs to hang "Prince Chu's Mansion". But when the three princesses were involved, things became unusual. If only the Prince of Chu's palace was attached, the other two princesses would definitely be unhappy. Isn't this creating family conflicts for Lao Liu out of thin air? Although his family conflicts are definitely inevitable...

However, as the eldest brother, he must try his best to protect his stinky younger brother. The prince thought for a moment, then wrote with a stroke of his pen:

‘Chu Hai Dian Prince’s Mansion’!