The daily life of the great grandson of Ming Dynasty

Nanjing City, East Palace.

Zhu Gaochi received a secret letter from Zhu Zhanji asking Wuying to send it.

Although Zhu Zhanji knew that Zhu Di didn't want him to intervene in the affairs between his father and his second uncle, he had to let his father know what should be known to his father.

Zhu Gaochi looked at a letter that suddenly appeared on the table, and knew that Zhu Zhanji sent someone to send it back quietly.He quickly opened the letter and read it.After he finished reading the letter, his brows were tightly furrowed, and his face became a little ugly.

When Zhang Mingzhen came in, she saw Zhu Gaochi's dignified appearance, and asked with concern: "His Royal Highness, is something wrong?"

Zhu Gaochi handed the letter to Zhang Mingzhen: "Look."

Zhang Mingzhen reached out to take the letter and read it carefully.After she finished reading, she showed the same heavy expression as Zhu Gaochi.

"His Royal Highness, father...does he still want the second brother to be the crown prince?"

Zhu Gaochi frowned and said: "The emperor's technique of checks and balances, but if I lose in this game, then my highness, the crown prince, has also succeeded."

Zhang Mingzhen felt a little uneasy, and hurriedly asked, "Your Highness, what are you going to do?"

Zhu Gaochi showed bitterness: "Father wants me and my second brother to check and balance each other, but I can't do anything, at least I can't blatantly bribe ministers like my second brother."

"Why?" Zhang Mingzhen didn't quite understand, "Since the father wants you and the second brother to check and balance each other, then you can win over the courtiers like the second brother. Otherwise, the second brother is more powerful than you, how can you check and balance the second brother?" ?”

"That's what I said, but I can't do it." Zhu Gaochi sighed slightly and said, "Believe it or not, if I try my best to win over courtiers like my second brother, my father will definitely be very dissatisfied with me." , and even think that I have disobedience."

"But...you don't do anything, how can you compete with the second brother?" Zhang Mingzhen frowned and said, "The second brother has always been supported by the lieutenant generals, and now he is in Beijing, following the father."

"Ming Zhen, it's not easy to be a prince." Ever since Zhu Gaochi was canonized as a prince, he walked on eggshells every day.On the surface, His Highness the Crown Prince looks very majestic and dignified, but in fact, His Highness the Crown Prince has worked very hard.To be honest, being a prince is much more difficult than being a prince. "If my prince is too good and is supported by the courtiers, then my father will be jealous. However, if my prince is mediocre, I will definitely be disgusted by my father. At that time, my father will find an opportunity to abolish me. This prince, let the second brother be the prince."

Although Zhang Mingzhen is a woman, she is very smart and has unique insights into the affairs of the court.

"Your Highness, you have worked hard." It was very difficult for His Highness when he was the Crown Prince, but now that he is the Crown Prince, it has become even harder.

"Alas..." Zhu Gaochi was really full of sadness and grievances, but he couldn't say anything, and he could only complain to his wife.

"Your Highness, is it really okay if you don't do anything?" After Zhang Mingzhen gave birth, she regained her previous intelligence. "Your Highness, if you don't do anything, will Father be satisfied?"

"I can't do nothing, but I can't even do it." Zhu Gaochi was very distressed, "What do you think I should do?"

Zhang Mingzhen couldn't think of a good solution for a while, "It's really difficult."

"I still listen to Zhanji and don't do anything. As for what the civil servants want to do, I don't care."

"However, Your Highness, if the civil servants support you too much, they will offend the emperor."

"Father is dissatisfied, so be dissatisfied." Zhu Gaochi's tone sounded a bit broken, but it is not the case, "If my prince is always careful not to make mistakes, father will not be happy, so I still have to make mistakes occasionally. , let the father scold me."

"Your Highness, if you make a mistake, the second brother will make a big fuss, and then the emperor will definitely punish you severely." It's not like this kind of thing has happened before.

"Don't be afraid, I still have Zhan Ji." Zhu Gaochi said with a smile, "Zhan Ji will not let my second brother bully me."

Thinking of Zhu Zhanji who had been with Zhu Di all the time, Zhang Mingzhen missed him very much: "I don't know when Zhanji will come back?"

"It will probably be next spring." Zhu Gaochi guessed, "This year's Chinese New Year, father and the others will not come back."

"What do you think your father is doing in Beijing for the New Year?" Zhang Mingzhen really didn't understand this matter. "Not long after my mother gave birth to my little sister, my father went to Beijing, and I haven't come back for a long time."

"You forgot that every winter there will be unrest in the northern border, and my father is also worried about Beiyuan."

"I don't know how much Zhanji has grown up." Ever since Zhu Zhanji was taken away by an assassin last time, Zhang Mingzhen was very concerned about him.

"What about Zhanji?"

"Your Highness, don't you want to?"

Zhu Gaochi admitted generously: "Of course I do. I don't think there is such a kid as Zhan Ji in this palace, so I feel a lot deserted."

"Isn't it? I think the queen mother also misses Zhanji very much."

"Zhan Ji was brought up by his mother. Zhan Ji is not around, and his mother misses him more than we do." Zhu Gaochi said, "Fortunately, there are still mothers with us."

"Can't you write a letter to persuade Father to come back to celebrate the New Year?"

"Father has made up his mind, it's useless to persuade anyone."

Zhang Mingzhen knew it well, so she didn't talk about it again.

Zhu Gaochi and his wife stopped talking about political affairs, and talked about some things in the palace.

Zhu Zhanji, who was missed by Zhu Gaochi and Zhang Mingzhen, was busy training his small army at this time.

Zhu Di gave him a team of boy scouts and asked him to train by himself.After training for a period of time, Zhu Di also asked Zhu Zhanji to take them to the battlefield for actual combat.

Zhu Zhanji attaches great importance to the training of his small army. He trains his army by referring to some methods of training the army that he remembers in his previous life.

Zhu Di did not interfere with Zhu Zhanji's training, and let him do it freely, and then waited to see the results of his training.

Regarding Zhu Zhanji's boy scouts, Zhu Di recruited them directly in Beijing.

As soon as they heard that they were going to be Zhu Zhanji's soldiers, the children in Beijing actively signed up.

Zhu Di did not recruit more people for Zhu Zhanji, but recruited fifty children.

Apart from studying, Zhu Zhanji spends the rest of his time training his army every day.

Zhu Di and Zhang Yu were surprised by Zhu Zhanji's training method, which was completely different from their method of training soldiers.

In the first few days, Zhu Zhanji just asked fifty children to stand in a military posture.Don't underestimate this military posture, it is not easy to stand well.Fifty children trained for six or seven days before they could stand in the military posture.

Zhang Yu's soldiers have not been trained to stand in a military posture.Although they are an elite army, their standing posture is really... In Zhu Zhanji's words, they are very lacklustre.

While Zhu Zhanji was busy training his army, Zhu Gaoxu and Zhu Gaosui were busy patrolling the desert to maintain the peace of the northern border.

Time flies, and it will soon be New Year's Eve.

Although they will not return to Nanjing for the New Year this year, Zhu Zhanji and the others had a very lively New Year in Beijing.

This year, Zhu Di celebrated the New Year with the common people in Beijing, and came to have fun with the people.

In Nanjing city, because there is no Zhu Di, this year is not very lively and festive.

After the new year and the Lantern Festival, Zhu Di made a decree in Beijing, which is to encourage the people of Beijing to open up wasteland.

Although the city of Beijing is larger than the city of Nanjing, it is not as prosperous as the city of Nanjing.The most important point is that the population of Beijing City is not as large as that of Nanjing City, and the fertile land is not as large as that of Nanjing City.

So far, the grain produced in the fields of Beijing city can only be self-sufficient.If you want to make Beijing the capital, then the current population and land are not enough.

Before officially moving the capital, Zhu Di first encouraged the people in Beijing to open up wasteland and open up more fields.In this way, after the capital is moved, the common people can be guaranteed to have land.

Of course, a new palace had to be built in Beijing.The new palace is bigger than the one in Nanjing, so a lot of materials are needed.

There are not many trees in Beijing.The most important thing is that there is no nanmu in Beijing, and the nanmu has to be transported from other places.In order to ensure that materials can be transported to Beijing smoothly, the canal must be repaired.

Before Zhu Di came to Beijing, he sent Song Li to build the canal.Besides Song Li, there was also Xia Yuanji.

Xia Yuanji is mainly responsible for repairing the waters in western Zhejiang, Su, Song and other places. 【From Du Niang】.

Song Li and Natsuhara Yoshijisui are very good at it.Under the treatment of the two of them, the canal became much smoother.However, it took a lot of manpower to repair the river.During the process of building the river, many people died, which caused some complaints from the common people.In addition, some people from the Cao Gang fanned the flames, causing the people to become more and more dissatisfied with the river repair.

After Zhu Di heard about this, he asked Zhu Gaochi to appease these people.

Zhu Gaochi still has some abilities, and under his comfort, the people who had been complaining no longer complained.

Zhu Zhanji also heard about it.He thought of the things recorded in that golden finger book.Historically, the emperor's grandfather moved the capital to Beijing, which had a great influence on later generations. As the capital, Beijing also has far-reaching effects, but the move of the capital really cost a lot of money and manpower.

Because of this, civil uprisings continued.Because of this, the people were very dissatisfied with Zhu Di.

His grandfather did many great things during his reign.Every major event is a waste of money and people, resulting in constant public grievances.

"Grandfather, have you calculated the financial and manpower cost of moving the capital?"

Zhu Di who asked this question was stunned for a moment, and he said, "I haven't thought about it."

"Grandfather, the manpower and financial resources spent on moving the capital are not a small amount." Zhu Zhanji said, and simply calculated with Zhu Di.

After Zhu Di heard this, he frowned fiercely. He didn't expect to spend such a huge amount of money and manpower.

"Grandfather, you still have to march north. These two things will cost you more. At that time, there will be complaints from the people, which will affect your reputation."

"Zhanji, tell Grandpa Huang whether it was right or wrong for Qin Shihuang to build the Great Wall?"

"Of course it's right." The Great Wall played a very important role.Without the protection of the Great Wall, the Central Plains may never be peaceful.

"Did Qin Shihuang spend a lot of money and manpower when he built the Great Wall?"

"Yes."

"Does Qin Shihuang care?"

"I don't care." Zhu Zhanji understood what Zhu Di meant, "Grandpa, I'm telling you this not to oppose you, but to let you know what the consequences of doing these two things will be."

"Zhanji, Grandpa Huang knows what you said, but Grandpa Huang is not thinking about the present, but the future." Zhu Di said confidently, "Grandpa Huang believes that it is right to move the capital to Beijing, and future generations will also feel that I was right about everything."

Later generations confirmed that it was right for Zhu Di to move his capital to Beijing.

"Zhanji, there are some things that many people think are wrong when done now, but people in future generations will think that they are right." Zhu Di said with a deep expression on his face, "Maybe it will not benefit the people now, but it will definitely be done in the future." Benefit the common people." Then, he patted Zhu Zhanji on the shoulder, "Zhanji, some things need to be considered in the long term, not just in front of the eyes."

Zhu Zhanji nodded after being instructed: "Grandpa Huang, I understand."

Zhu Di said again: "Zhanji, you have to remember that you can't stop doing things just because you are opposed or scolded by others." He went on to say, "As an emperor, you have to consider the long-term interests. For the benefit of future generations."

"Just like Qin Shihuang built the Great Wall, did Emperor Sui Yang build the canal?" However, Emperor Sui Yang built the canal at the beginning without any long-term considerations, nor was it to benefit the people in the future.However, no matter what his original purpose of building the canal was, it did benefit the people later, and it has been affecting later generations for 2000 years.

"Yes, moving the capital to Beijing can defend the northern border and resist the Mongol invasion, so that the common people can truly live a stable life." Zhu Diyu said earnestly, "The common people don't understand now, but they will understand in the future."