[Ming] Wuzong's Chronicle of Rebirth

Xu Beiniang's elder brother is called Xu Sheng, and he is Xu Beiniang's cousin who has not released five clothes.When he was arrested that day, Du Ruo didn't bother him, and let him grind in the prison of Wucheng Bingmasi.Although his family is a well-to-do family, but he eats and drinks spicy food with Xu's father on weekdays, how can he suffer this kind of suffering.After being locked in prison for seven or eight days, he tried everything from bamboo tubes to pour beans.

Some members of the Xu family who were favored by Xu's father disapproved of their actions, and those who had bad intentions asked Xu Sheng to come to Beijing, so they must act first.After solving the big ones, there is still an aunt and a three-year-old child at home, who are easy to manipulate, and nothing can be done.When Xu Sheng came to Beijing, seeing what Xu's family looked like, he had the idea of ​​forcing Xu's mother to death and Xu Siniang to sell Xu Beiniang.Xu Sheng recruited a confession and put it in custody, Du Ruo quickly sent one of the confessions to the Hangzhou government, and the prefect of Hangzhou immediately took the masterminds.

Xing Wu, a second-class figure in the Andinghou Mansion, who had been with Du Yide in the military camp, was sent by Du Ruo to Hangzhou to handle this matter.Xing Wu went to Hangzhou to meet Zhou Mu, the right political adviser in Zhejiang Province, and Liang Yucai, the prefect of Hangzhou, and then went to Xu Fuzhong in Hangzhou to visit.

Aunt Li in Xu's mansion also knows what's good and what's wrong.The people in the family have evil intentions, and she is orphaned and widowed. She took out all the money on her body, hoarded food, rewarded the servants, closed the doors, and let no one in. Wait for the wife and the girl to come back to deal with any loopholes. None of them were given to the Xu family.Even the opening of the ancestral hall was pushed by her because she dared not enter the ancestral hall as a concubine.

With a male, everything is easy to handle.With a young son and a aunt, the Xu family's family property does not allow others to make decisions.The land, pavement, and property occupied by the impatient people were obediently given back.Only some people in the store took the money and fled, but this is always a minority, and most of the Xu family's property is still good.

Xu Beiniang knew that without the care of her family, it would be difficult in the future, so except for the few masterminds, the others did not pursue the matter. The masterminds were punished according to the law, and Xu Sheng was sentenced to exile.With such a two-pronged approach, the members of the Xu surname dare not make mistakes.

The major family affairs have been completed, and the father's coffin is still parked in the Yizhuang, so the three of Xu's family will naturally return to their hometown.During the more than ten days in the Hou Mansion, Du Ruo has talked to Xu Beiniang one after another, and Xu Beiniang also nodded and agreed to cooperate with Du Ruo to improve looms, absorb landless refugees, and open textile factories.

Xu Beiniang thought clearly, now that the Xu family has no adult males, if she doesn't cheer herself up, the day lily will be cold when the younger brother grows up.She also saw Du Ruo's printing machine workshop and Mo Xiangzhai, and knew the strength of the Hou Mansion, so she naturally had a plan in mind.Instead of finding another backer to seek skin from the tiger, it is better to be with Du Ruo.Du Ruo is still young, but he can make his own decisions, and there are no other people's schemes, and his assembly line production is also very interesting.

Du Ruo went to see Xu Beiniang again before she returned to Hangzhou, and told her about Xingwu. It is clear that Xingwu will be the master of the Hou Mansion in Hangzhou after that.Xu Beiniang and others returned home and were escorted by people from Hou's mansion who were going to Hangzhou.Du Ruo and Xu's family contributed 3% and [-] taels respectively to the textile factory and the loom workshop to be built first. If it was completed, additional investment would be discussed.The two wrote their own deeds, Xu Beiniang signed it herself, and Du Lin also signed it.

On the seventh day of September, Du Ruo sent the Xu family and the Hou family away.

Liuzhi, Lamei and others in Hou's mansion have been very friendly with Xu Beiniang, now that Xu Beiniang is gone, I feel very sad.The other maids and women were greatly relieved, they had had enough of Xu Siniang's moodiness, and disdain Xu's mother's stupid temper, now that they are gone, everyone is happy to go back to the original place and work as an errand. carry.

Du Ruo sent away Xu Beiniang and the others, and Zhu Houzhao welcomed the little one Liu Dong.

As soon as the Double Ninth Festival was over on the ninth day of September, a decree was made in the palace on the tenth day of September, and Liu Dong, the son of Liu Jian, was selected to accompany the prince to read.On September [-]th, Liu Jian took Liu Dong into the palace to thank him.Liu Dong has learned etiquette for a month, and he is already familiar with various coping methods.It's just that he's still young, and no more freaks like Zhu Houzhao and Du Ruo, so he's more or less stage frightened.

Along the way, Liu Dong saw the guards in armor standing on both sides with majesty and terror, and the eunuchs and maids coming and going in fear. He had never seen such a scene when he was raised in a deep house since he was a child, and he felt a little scared in his heart.Liu Jian saw that his little hand was holding him so tightly, and knew that he was afraid, so he comforted him softly.

Liu Dong saw his father dragging him from place to place, passing through so many places and meeting so many people, before arriving at a palace. Liu Dong saw that there were three large characters Qianqing Palace written on it.There was a white-haired and red-clothed father-in-law with a whisk in his hand who took them to see Zhu Youtang.The two entered the hall sideways, and Liu Jian took Liu Dong to salute Zhu Youtang.Zhu Youtang hurriedly asked the little eunuch to give him a seat.

Liu Jian took Liu Dong to Xie En and sat down.Zhu Youtang saw that although Liu Dong was not as good as Zhu Houzhao and Du Ruo, he was good-looking, and he was also good at reading and learning, so he secretly claimed he was.After a while, Zhu Houzhao came in.

Zhu Hou took care of Liu Dong's frail appearance, and thought to himself, there will be another little brother to take care of in the future, but this is brought on by himself, so he can only admit it.Seeing that Zhu Houzhao was strong and kind, Liu Dong envied and liked him.

Seeing that there was nothing wrong with Zhu Youtang, Zhu Houzhao took Liu Dong to see Mrs. Zhang.Mrs. Zhou now said that she was sick and had sent someone to say that there was no need to go, and the Empress Dowager Wang didn't need to go if she didn't see anyone all year round.

On the way, Zhu Houzhao saw that Liu Dong was too afraid to look up, so he took the initiative to tell some interesting stories about the palace to amuse him, finally made him laugh, and Kunning Palace also arrived.

Mrs. Zhang has prepared pens, inks, papers, inkstones, gold, silver and fruits as rewards, and said a few good words about studying hard, that's all.It was Zhu Houzhao who deliberately brought the two closer together, and then pulled Zhu Houwei, who had just learned to walk, out to be stupid.Zhu Houwei can only walk a few steps, and the room where he is learning to walk is covered with thick mats, so he is afraid that he will fall.Zhu Houwei himself was not afraid, and he was still giggling when he fell while walking.

Liu Dong saw that the two brothers Zhu Houzhao and Zhu Houwei were very close, and he remembered how good his elder brother Liu Lai was when he was alive, and he was a little more sad.Zhu Houzhao didn't care about that, and took two children to play with building blocks, puppets and other things in Zhu Houwei's toy room. The children were forgetful, and Liu Dong laughed happily for a while.

Seeing that Liu Dong finally looked like a normal child, Zhu Houzhao breathed a sigh of relief, and when the time came, he took Liu Dong back to Qianqing Palace to return Liu Dong to Liu Jian.

Liu Jian was worried there. Liu Dong was still young, so what should he do if he was afraid and cried halfway.Seeing that Liu Dong had only been away for more than half an hour now, when he came back his whole complexion was healed, and he looked like a child with a smile on his face.He breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and was glad that he agreed, even those words stabbed by the cabinet members yesterday were forgotten.

After a while, Zhu Youtang gave various affairs, allowing Liu Dong to take a ride in the Forbidden City. Liu Jian and Liu Dong thanked Liu Dong for his kindness before leaving the palace.

From that day on, Liu Dong came to the palace to accompany Zhu Houzhao to study every day when he was studying.Half of Liu Dong's illness was caused by Zhang's mischief, and the other half was caused by being stuck at home in a bad mood.Now that Liu Dong is registered in the palace, Mrs. and Mrs. Zhang are afraid that the palace will find out, so they dare not do anything wrong again.Zhu Houzhao knows how to play and coax children, and he has all kinds of novelties.Liu Dong and Zhu Houzhao played together, they were in a good mood, they often jumped up and down, and they were in excellent health.

Seeing that the two got along well, Zhu Youzhao was also very happy when he saw that Zhu Houzhao no longer looked like a little old man like before, but added a bit of childlike coquettishness.It can be said that everyone is happy.

The only one who was unhappy was Du Ruo.The printing press is on the right track, weaving won't start until Xu Beiniang handles things well, ink printing is still hopeless, Du Ruo writes letters to Zhu Houzhao when he is free, and Zhu Houzhao has an extra servant.Of course, he wasn't careful enough to be jealous of children, but how could this feeling of having a newcomer and forgetting the old be broken.

Zhu Hou looked at Du Ruo's jealous letter and thought it was funny. It was inconvenient for him to go out of the palace, and he could only see Du Ruo once or twice a month, and he missed him very much.He was also afraid that Du Ruo would get to know someone again, and the feeling of being jealous of such a lover was really good, so he could only write more letters to comfort Du Ruo.

After Qiu Jun died in February, Li Dongyang and Xie moved into the pavilion.Zhu Youtang suppressed the power of the cabinet, and the number of cabinet members was small.Now there are Xu Pu, Liu Jian, Li Dongyang, and Xie Qian in the cabinet.Li Dongyang and Xie Qian are newcomers to the cabinet, and their foundation is still shallow. Now Xu Pu and Liu Jian are the masters.

Now the four of them are discussing endlessly about the prince leaving the cabinet to study.

During Emperor Jiajing's reign, when the prince came out of the pavilion to study, he recognized the status of the prince.Emperor Jiajing believed in Taoism and believed in the legend that the two dragons could not meet. He rejected the prince and did not appoint a prince, but let his eldest son Zhu Zaihou go out of the court to study and be trained according to the prince system.Since then, when he came out of the cabinet to study, he recognized the identity of the prince and became the nominal ancestral system.But it is still the eighth year of Hongzhi, and Jiajing still doesn't know where the wandering spirit is.

Although the prince's education after leaving the court is not as meaningful as the later generations, but Zhu Houzhao is only four years old, which is too young.

Xu Pu resolutely opposed this matter, "Every word and deed of the prince is related to the country, the country, and he must not be careless. He needs to attend classes every day to go to school, and the requirements are naturally stricter. Now the prince is still young and has a lot of fun. I'm in a hurry, who can be responsible for being tired of studying. Besides, the prince is so young, if he cries in class, will the lecturers punish him, or not?"

Liu Jian disagreed with this. Liu Jian is now Zhu Youtang's master, so he naturally knows Zhu Youtang's affairs very well, "I usually think that although the prince is only a little over four years old, he is completely normal. Year-old child. Your Highness can control himself and is eager to learn. I think the situation that Mr. Xu said should not happen."

Xie Qian is currently in charge of Prince Zhan Shifu Zhan Shi. The more power the prince gets, the more power he has. Naturally, he agrees with the prince to leave the cabinet to study.He echoed Liu Jian and said, "It's not age but ability to learn before leaving the court. From this year's point of view, the prince is very prudent in doing everything. It's not a bad idea to learn after leaving the court."

Li Dongyang's nine-year-old second son died when he entered the cabinet in February, which can be described as a mixture of sorrow and joy.Now seeing the prince, Liu Dong's two children playing around, always thinking of his well-behaved second son who died young, he pays more attention to the children's feelings, "Now it's just mentioned by chance, and everyone doesn't know what the prince himself means. Why don't you ask the prince about it."

Xie Qian laughed on the spot, "The prince is reliable in his work, but usually he likes to play around the most. You can ask him about this, and I'm sure he will dismiss it for you immediately."

Being teased by Xie Qian, Li Dongyang was not annoyed, "Since this is the case, why not postpone it a little longer. In short, this matter is not urgent, and the opinions of the emperor and the crown prince are the most important."

Several people argued over and over, and there was no unified idea.In the end, Xu Pu decided to report to Zhu Youtang.

The author has something to say: Liu Jian did have a aunt, concubine, first spouse, step-wife, eldest son, second son, and grand-grandson who died young. The aunt and step-wife are both named Zhang, but the private affairs in the back house are I made it up.