Rebirth of the Ming Dynasty: Sixth Generation of Glory, I don't want it

"Okay, okay, let's go and see who can predict the outcome." Zhu Gaochi smiled and hugged Zhang Xin tightly in his arms: "Wife, it's really hard to be a prince or a grandson of an emperor. You're also unlucky to be born into my family."

Although Zhang Xin did not enjoy it very much, she did not resist Zhu Gaochi's embrace. After all, their relationship was still pretty good.

She adjusted her posture to make herself more comfortable, then patted Zhu Gaochi:

"Now that I'm here, I'll make the best of it. The road is made by people. I'm already married, can I return it?"

"Hey, my wife is thinking about returning the product? What's wrong with me!!!"

"Uh, this is okay for now."

"Listen to me, that's awkward? It's like you're waiting for me to stop."

"Your Highness is overthinking."

"Sometimes I feel like I don't think enough, sometimes I feel like I think too much. It's just that women and villains are hard to raise—"

"Humph, since I am a woman, I also have a mean heart. My mother said that the former Crown Princess died in an unclear manner. The current Crown Princess may have done something. The Crown Prince came out of her belly. Your Highness, please think about whether what I said makes sense?"

"Okay, I'll think about it. Even if the sky falls, there is still a man at home to support it. Worrying too much will make you old quickly, wife. It's night, go to sleep."

"Oh."

After everyone closed their eyes, Zhu Gaochi still fell asleep first.

Zhang Xin was thinking about what to do next.

She had finally planted the seed that Zhu Yunwen would immediately reduce the power of the princes after he ascended the throne. No matter what Zhu Gaochi did afterwards, it would definitely be affected.

As for her father-in-law, she speculated that it was the death of her second uncle in May last year that made her father-in-law and mother-in-law become alert.

It was much later, two years later - in March of the 31st year of Hongwu, that he really started to pay attention to it.

Just when my father-in-law and mother-in-law were starting to relax, suddenly, my third uncle died of illness.

At the same time, news came from the capital that the emperor's grandfather was too ill to attend court, and Zhu Yunwen was in a state of half-taking over the government.

Whether it was really that the Emperor's grandfather could not go to the throne, or for some other reason, my father-in-law, as his son, had no way to confirm it completely.

The princes were not allowed to leave their fiefdoms without being summoned, and Zhu Di was not even allowed to go back to check on his father.

The second uncle and the third uncle have a unclear relationship. If one uncle is alone, the other will be in trouble. My father-in-law is in danger all the time.

So at that time, the dilapidated palaces behind the Prince of Yan's Mansion, which had not been repaired, were crowded with people, and there were noises every day.

Monk Daoyan came here often, and the women in the mansion were not allowed to leave even the palace gate.

In the intercalary May of the 31st year of Hongwu, my great grandfather passed away.

Zhu Yunwen used the name of his grandfather's will and said that his grandfather did not allow all the princes to return to Beijing to worship, and all officials in the princely territories had to be arranged by the court.

After the princes and dukes arrived in Beijing to pay their respects, they left a will that they could not be sent back until they had mourned for three years.

It’s okay for the front ones, but if the princes don’t let me go, I won’t go.

But Zhu Gaochi, Zhu Gaoxu, and Zhu Gaosui all had to go, and they had to stay for three years before they could return to their fiefdoms.

How much can happen in three years?

My father-in-law has only three sons!!!

There had been no children in the backyard for several years. In order to get Zhu Yunwen to release his three sons, the father-in-law had to pretend to be crazy and stupid. As mentioned above, he was old and sick and begged for a child.

Zhu Yunwen did not want to give people any chance to talk about him, so he finally released them in April of the first year of Jianwen after detaining them for nearly a year.

However, someone reported his father-in-law's pretending to be sick, so Zhu Yunwen directly sent a large army to attack.

In a hurry, my father-in-law had no choice but to raise the flag and counterattack, and all the troops that could be taken away were taken away by my father-in-law.

Zhu Yunwen's army did not turn back to protect the emperor as his father-in-law had expected, but instead headed straight for Beiping, intending to seize the entire Prince of Yan's Mansion in order to capture his father-in-law.

At that time, there were only a few thousand soldiers left in Peking to defend the city.

Defending a city is no more difficult than attacking it, but the disparity is still a few thousand versus tens of thousands.

It really couldn't be more difficult.

Beiping was under siege for more than ten days. Zhu Gaochi and his mother-in-law mobilized the entire city, almost everyone, young and old, women and children, to finally defend Beiping.

Zhang Xin wanted to reduce the difficulty further.

This way, the mother-in-law wouldn’t have to go up the city wall herself.

She strongly suspected that her mother-in-law died so soon because of the hidden injury she suffered that time and the lack of proper recovery afterwards.

My mother-in-law, the proper queen, doesn’t even live in the Forbidden City!

This was a regret in her father-in-law's heart, and also the biggest regret in her heart. Later, every time she thought about it, she would be depressed for a few days.

She knew a lot about what happened behind the scenes, but she didn't understand the current progress of the external hospital.

She is just a woman in the inner house and cannot interfere. It is also not something that she, as a prince's consort who is nothing, can interfere with.

Yao Guangxiao was second only to the emperor, but he was still called a demon monk because of his three predictions.

She couldn't carry anything on her shoulders or lift anything with her hands. If she accidentally exposed even a little bit of her body, she would be burned to death.

After much thought, all she could do was to influence what happened next by influencing Zhu Gaochi.

As much influence as possible!!!

What if we counterattack in advance?

It doesn't matter whether you fight back early or late, so why bother waiting for the other party to make a move just for a little bit of reputation.

Anyway, the so-called records that followed are not something that later generations can edit however they like.

She has gone through six dynasties and edited two and a half chapters.

Zhu Gaochi had just started compiling the true records of his father-in-law when he himself died.

Her son took over and asked her to discuss it with him. After finally finishing his father-in-law's work, she had just started to compile Zhu Gaochi's work when her son passed away.

The eldest grandson who took over later was only eight years old.

So Zhang Xin was involved in matters concerning his father-in-law, Zhu Gaochi, and his son, and he made the final decision.

She made up a story about Zhu Gaochi, a black-bellied, soft-hearted, powerless fat man who lingered in the backyard, and turned him into the Great Ming Emperor Jingtian, Tidao, Chuncheng, Zhide, Hongwen, Qinwu, Zhangsheng, Daxiaozhao.

When she was waiting for rebirth in the Merit Department, she also looked at her own posthumous title and praised it so much that she didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

The Empress of the Ming Dynasty was loyal, filial, respectful, virtuous, benevolent, and shuntian.

Or some female Yao and Shun.

In fact, she was just forcing the issue.

The fairy who had the most contact with her in the Merit Department once said a word to describe her, which won her heart.

That word is from another small world, it’s called a straight woman of steel.

The fairy explained that a straight woman is a woman who is female in gender, masculine in character, and whose thinking tends to be rational.

The advantages are tenacity, firmness, persistence, honesty, courage and lack of pretentiousness.

His shortcomings are that he speaks bluntly and easily offends people, he is stubborn and not good at adapting, he is slow to respond to emotions, he is not good at managing relationships between men and women, and he does not understand romance.

Whether it is advantages or disadvantages, it is all there.

In her previous life, when she was getting along with Zhu Gaochi, she was always very straightforward, until Zhu Gaochi didn't want to talk to her at all.

She could act like a spoiled child with her wet nurse and even with her mother-in-law, but she couldn't act like a spoiled child with Zhu Gaochi.

At that time, she always felt that as the Crown Prince's wife, she should be upright, dignified, and generous, and persuade her husband to practice martial arts to please Zhu Di.

The final result was to push Zhu Gaochi further and further away.