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

After the house was put in order, Zhu Gaochi bowed down and helped Zhang Xin back to the house.

Zhang Xin still couldn't turn around.

Zhu Gaochi couldn't remember what made him angry before, and only looked at Zhang Xin's face carefully:

"Wife, are you ready for dinner?"

"Tell me, how did you get pregnant?"

Zhang Xin said this without any context.

"My wife doesn't want to get pregnant?"

"No, I always feel like it will take me a year or two to get pregnant?"

"Where does this feeling come from... If you're pregnant, then you're pregnant. Why would you set a time limit for yourself?"

Zhu Gaochi was very happy.

"The prince is so fat, and he hasn't lost any weight yet. What should I do if I become like him?"

Zhang Xin frowned and looked for an excuse.

"Go, what's wrong with me being fat? Good seed! Big fat boys are so lovable!"

Zhu Gaochi was very angry.

"Is this fat guy also worthy of being loved?"

Zhang Xin was so angry that he just hit the weak spots.

"Hey, if you keep being such an idiot, I'll go back to stay at the Li Corporation. I came back here without doing anything, why don't you praise me?"

Zhu Gaochi sold himself out in excitement.

"Haha, so you went to Li's place?"

"Ah, just for a little while! I didn't do anything! She's so pretentious and she's not as pretty as my wife!"

"Then I'll marry you a few pretty ones who aren't fake, so that the prince won't have nowhere to go!"

"No, no, your baby boy is enough for me!"

"Why not my daughter?"

"Ah, help, Wanxiu, your prince's wife is being unreasonable today!"

"Prince, Princess, it's time to eat. The food has been heated up twice."

The sleeves appear instantly.

Zhang Xin had a lot of questions in her mind but couldn't express them. She had also vomited all the snacks she had eaten in the afternoon. She was so hungry that she couldn't think. She finally decided to turn her grief and anger into food:

"Dinner!!!"

"Okay!"

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Ming Dynasty, Hongwu 29th year, October

In a hurry, half a month passed quickly. Except for vomiting for a while that day, Zhang Xin had no movement since then.

When the menstrual period was supposed to come, it didn't come.

Wen Beijiao was invited again.

This time I gave a very definite answer.

It is the pulse of happiness.

Both the mother and the fetus are very healthy.

As for whether it was a boy or a girl, Wen Beijiao ignored Zhu Gaochi's questions, explained the precautions and left.

Only at this moment did Zhang Xin begin to feel a sense of reality.

After half a month, she also accepted the fact that her eldest son arrived early.

Come all come!

What else can be done?

I can only blame myself for not following the way I did in my previous life.

Back then, Zhu Gaochi would only stay in her room on the first and fifteenth days of the month.

Now they spend every day together. Since Zhu Gaochi got better at practicing Eight-Section Brocade, this harmonious life has become even more harmonious.

Even if the baby wasn't Zhanji, in the hands of my father-in-law and the monk Daoyan, he wouldn't be that bad.

If she gets pregnant and gives birth next year, it will be a good thing for Zhanji, at least it will make the situation less turbulent.

It turned out that Zhanji was born on the ninth day of the second month in the thirty-first year of Hongwu.

My royal grandfather passed away on the tenth day of the intercalary fifth month of the same year.

The difference is only four months.

After the emperor's grandfather passed away, the princes were not allowed to go back to pay homage to him, but the emperor's grandchildren were required to return to the capital to observe mourning for him for three years.

Just as Zhanji was beginning to accept Zhu Gaochi holding him in his arms, Zhu Gaochi went to Nanjing and stayed there for a whole year.

In August of the same year when my grandfather passed away, before his body was even cold, Zhu Yunwen was already sharpening his knife to attack the vassal kings.

The first to fall was King Zhou.

It is said that the imperial court received a secret report from King Zhou's second son, accusing King Zhou of intending to rebel. King Zhou was demoted to a commoner that month and exiled to Yunnan.

This King of Zhou might be my father-in-law’s younger brother.

The second one is King Xiang.

The charge was also treason.

In April of the second year after my grandfather's death, the imperial court sent troops to besiege the Prince of Xiang's mansion. Unable to bear the humiliation, the Prince of Xiang and his family burned themselves to death.

At that time, the father-in-law felt that the situation was not good, and immediately began to act crazy and stupid. Zhu Gaochi and his two brothers-in-law pretended to be good people because of Zhu Yunwen's death at an inappropriate time, and returned to Yan safely.

The third and fourth are King of Qi and King of Dai.

In May of the same year, he was reported and demoted to a commoner.

The fifth one was King Min’s turn.

In June of the same year, King Min was also demoted to a commoner for his crimes.

The whole development of the situation can be described in just a few words, but the situation is actually very complicated.

Zhu Yunwen's campaign to reduce the power of the princes was going on in full swing and smoothly, except for the self-immolation of the Prince of Xiang and his entire family, which caused some disturbances.

Most of the princes who were not affected were just watching.

Apart from the reason that one would not feel pain unless the knife cut one's body, anyone with a discerning eye knew that Zhu Yunwen's series of actions were aimed at weakening the Prince of Yan, the toughest of the vassal kings.

The governor of Beiping in Yan area was replaced by Zhu Yunwen.

Zhu Yunwen also sent his confidants to take over the troops in Peking.

The troops originally under the command of my father-in-law were also transferred away by Zhu Yunwen.

These fathers-in-law endured it all.

But it was not over yet. In June, Zhu Yunwen stationed the imperial army in Xilin Gol, which was on the edge of Yan territory.

In the end, my father-in-law was left with only 800 royal guards.

Eight hundred!!!

Zhu Yunwen, however, had a million imperial troops under his command.

The eldest nephew was just waiting for his father-in-law to disobey his orders, which would be treason, so he could just lead the army to the border and take his father-in-law down with justification.

So much has happened in a year and a half.

If it weren't for her mother-in-law keeping the palace in check, everyone in the palace would have been in a panic, running around, including herself.

She brought Zhan Ji, who knew nothing, with her, and she knew nothing herself, too, so let alone the feeling of waiting for the knife to fall.

By July, Zhu Yunwen could no longer wait and finally showed his true colors. He sent troops to surround the Prince of Yan's Mansion and wanted to capture his father-in-law and bring him to Nanjing to meet the emperor.

At that time, Zhanji was only one and a half years old.

That night, she held her son in her arms, together with her mother-in-law, and stood in the front yard of Prince Yan's mansion with their heads held high, with so many knives and guns pointed at them.

At first, the father-in-law just greeted the visitor with a smile. After the visitor stepped over the threshold, he turned around and pulled out the big knife behind the mother-in-law.

One knife down.

Blood splattered five steps.

The man's head rolled several times on the ground, but there was no blood on it. One could clearly see the smile on his face that he had not had time to retract at the moment of his death.

The silence in the yard became noisy when Zhanji suddenly clapped his hands and excitedly called out "Grandfather - Grandfather -".

The red scene marked the beginning of the four-year Jingnan Campaign.

It also started her journey to become the Empress Dowager.

She had gone through all the storms and waves since then. At that time, she felt that every road seemed like a dead end, but when she looked back, it was nothing special.

Didn’t she also get through the saddest part of losing a son and a daughter in old age?

It hurts, of course, but the living have to deal with the aftermath, and she doesn't have time to be sad.

On the day she died, apart from not being able to let go, she vaguely felt relieved.

I have been rushed around all my life, and have barely had a few days of peace and happiness. Now I can finally die.

It was only after she died that I really had time to think about it, to ponder it, and to feel heartbroken.

It was during those days when she was waiting idly in the Merit Bureau.

It was the days when she came back and stayed at her parents' home, waiting to become the Crown Prince's Consort.

Re-marrying into the royal palace was the uncertain future she had exchanged for her merits.

Well, now this early arrival of a child means that everything has begun to change completely.

Then, she might not have to see her loved ones die before her.