All Heavens and Worlds Modified History System

Chapter 194 Master Chen said that in an imperial family, the emperor and his subjects are discussed first, and then relatives!
Imperial Palace, Fengtian Hall.

The people from the Shangbao Division arranged the seats, and the Jinyiwei placed yellow flags on both sides outside the hall.

The Jinwu Guards, wearing armor and holding long spears, were stationed around the hall in a majestic manner.

The Guanglu Temple had a wine pavilion on the west side and a dining pavilion on the east side below the imperial throne.

In the wine and food pavilion, there are the delicacies pavilion and the pickled fish pavilion. Various delicacies from land and sea have been prepared, and most of the dishes are sprinkled with thick spices.

When Zhu Yuanzhang's carriage arrived, the music band of the Jiaofangsi began to play music in the square outside the palace.

Although Zhu Yuanzhang also wanted to create a grand piece of music similar to "The Qin King's Battle Music", unfortunately he didn't know how to do it, and he was unwilling to ask others to do it, so he never came up with it.

Old Zhu held Empress Ma's hand and walked into the palace and sat on the throne.

When he and Empress Ma sat down, the music outside stopped, the sound of whips was heard, and Crown Prince Zhu Biao led a group of his younger brothers who had returned from their fiefdoms into the hall.

Behind them came the royal family, civil and military nobles who entered one after another.

Of course, the space in the hall is limited, and only those above the fourth rank are qualified to enter.

Those below the fourth rank could only eat and drink outside the palace.

Although Chen Ran's rank was not high enough, he was the son-in-law of the emperor and empress, so he followed the crowd and walked into the palace among the royal relatives.

There were eunuchs leading everyone to their seats, and there was a strict hierarchy of who sat where.

If you sit randomly at this time, it means you don't know etiquette and you are ruining your future.

When everyone was seated, people from the Guanglu Temple began to present the imperial banquet, and people from the Jiaofangsi started playing music and nine kinds of music.

The palace maids presented flowers, and the Guanglu Temple presented nine cups of wine.

During the drinking process, there are activities such as scattering flowers, drinking soup, and performing martial arts dances.

Looking at the dazzling array of delicacies in front of her, Empress Ma said softly, "Chongba, this is too much."

"Today is your birthday." Zhu Yuanzhang turned into a wife-protecting maniac. "No matter what, I won't celebrate it!"

Ever since Empress Ma contracted smallpox and nearly died, Zhu Yuanzhang began to cherish his wife even more.

Normally, as long as Empress Ma opened her mouth, there was basically nothing she couldn't persuade.

Birthdays like today's are planned in a grand manner and cost a huge amount of money.

Of course, Zhu Yuanzhang knew that Empress Ma was frugal, so he used another reason: "It was a good excuse to celebrate the great victory in the northern expedition against the Yuan court."

It was natural for the Ming Dynasty, which was at its peak, to win the battle against the Mongols, which had already declined significantly.

The Ming army won a great victory in this battle, especially Prince of Yan Zhu Di, who attacked Qingzhou, beheaded Prime Minister Guo Lai, and captured the general Bu Lanxi alive. He immediately became a rising star general.

Later, with the intentional assistance of Feng Sheng and Lan Yu, Zhu Di continued to attack northward and reached Jinshan (Shuangliao), the core area of ​​Yuanting Taiping Road.

Nahachu, the Minister of Taiping Road of the Yuan court, pretended to surrender, but the young and hot-blooded Zhu Di never thought of accepting the surrender of the Yuan court and directly arrested him and chopped off his head.

In this battle, nearly 100,000 Yuan court men and women were captured, and countless cattle, sheep and horses were seized. It was a glorious victory.

Zhu Yuanzhang was overjoyed and took the opportunity of celebrating Empress Ma's birthday to summon back all the princes from all over the country to celebrate together.

Chen Ran, who was sitting in his seat, drinking a little wine and watching the girls from the Jiaofangsi singing and dancing, felt very comfortable.

Then he saw Zhu Yuanzhang stop the singing and dancing and called Zhu Di to come forward.

First, he praised him and admired his brilliant victory during the Northern Expedition.

He immediately asked Crown Prince Zhu Biao to give the reward on his behalf.

Old Zhu was very harsh towards his officials, but generous towards his own son.

Gold, silver, copper coins, silk and cloth were given as rewards like water.

He even rewarded Zhu Di with tens of thousands of kilograms of spices.

Well, after seeing the benefits brought by maritime trade, Zhu Yuanzhang finally changed his attitude and fully supported the maritime trade business.

Not only did he increase investment in shipyards to build new ships, he also formally mobilized the navy to join in the harvesting work in the Spice Islands.

The Ming Dynasty set up a stronghold and camp in the Spice Islands and arranged people to pick the spices day and night.

Then fleets sailed over in waves, loading large bags of spices and bringing them back to the Ming Dynasty.

The result of the large influx of spices was that merchants who had suffered losses last year were no longer fooled.

Even though Chen Ran called together merchants again to discuss the sale of spices, no one went.

There is no way. The spices that I bought at a high price last year have not been sold even one tenth of them so far.

After that, they had no choice but to follow Chen Ran’s advice and start selling the products to the people at low prices.

Spices, which were once equivalent to silver, had now become equivalent to copper coins in the Ming Dynasty, especially in the Jiangnan area.

Although it is still expensive for ordinary people, at least they can grit their teeth and buy a few coins and taels to take home and try.

Instead of not having the chance to even smell the spices like before.

Old Zhu is becoming more and more generous now. People like Feng Sheng, Lan Yu and others were rewarded with spices worth tens of thousands of kilograms.

As more and more gold, silver and copper from Japan were sent to the Ming Dynasty, the nobles could also receive some rewards of gold, silver and copper.

The banquet continued in an orderly manner.

Everyone ate, drank and had fun, congratulated the Queen and the Emperor, and followed the procedures and etiquette. In the blink of an eye, two hours had passed.

When the time came, the eunuchs and palace maids began to clear the banquet.

All the ministers and nobles stood up, bowed to the emperor and empress, and left the hall in order. When everyone left, the only ones left were the Zhu family's own people.

Following Old Zhu's call, the princesses and princesses who had been dining in the side hall came to the main hall with their children.

For a moment, the hall was filled with laughter and joy, and children were running back and forth and playing, making it very lively.

As we all know, when too many children are gathered together, conflicts can easily arise.

Not long after, the sound of a child crying was heard in the hall.

Queen Ma, who was happily holding her grandson, hurriedly asked, "What happened?"

Zhu Gaoxu, who was as chubby as a tiger, wiped his tears and ran over to wrap his arms around Empress Ma, shouting to his grandmother, "Xiong Ying bullied me~~~"

Zhu Xiongying, who is already over ten years old, raised his head and shouted, "I asked him to give me the flowers, but he didn't listen!"

Some palace maids had scattered flowers in the palace before, and there was no time to clean up.

The children thought it was fun and started fighting over it.

Empress Ma immediately reprimanded, "You are the elder brother, you should give in to your younger brother."

"I'm the elder brother, and also the future crown prince!" Zhu Xiong spoke in amazing English. "Master Chen said that in an imperial family, the emperor and his subjects are discussed first, and then relatives!"

As soon as these words were spoken, the previously bustling hall suddenly became quiet.

All the princes looked at Zhu Biao with strange expressions.

Zhu Biao's face flushed with anger. He glared at 'Master Chen' first, then stepped forward and twisted Zhu Xiongying's ear, "Shut up!"

"Xiong Ying is right."

Old Zhu narrowed his eyes and stroked his beard. "Heaven, earth, the emperor, parents and teachers. The emperor should be like this in front of his parents."

He looked at Zhu Di and said, "Fourth Brother, you fought well in this battle, but don't forget that it was the eldest brother who provided you with financial and logistical support, so that you could win!"

At this moment, Zhu Di's eyes were very complicated. He lowered his head and saluted Zhu Biao, "Thank you, brother!"

Zhu Biao was a little at a loss, especially since many of his brothers and sisters were looking at him, which made the always loyal Zhu Biao feel very embarrassed.

He was so angry that he wanted to get angry, but after looking around, his eyes finally fell on Zhu Xiongying.

A slap landed on Zhu Xiongying's head. "Who do you think you are? How dare you preach here so brazenly?!"

"okay!"

Old Zhu was not happy with the slap, so he waved his hand and asked Zhu Xiongying, who was holding back his tears, to come to his side. "Xiongying is the eldest son and grandson, so how can he not be the emperor? From now on, he is the crown prince! I say it!"

Zhu Yuanzhang clarified Zhu Xiongying's identity, which meant that Zhu Biao's status as crown prince was reaffirmed.

Even if the brothers had any ideas or plans in their minds, they could only stand up and salute at this time.

As for that 'Master Chen', he was concentrating on eating and drinking, as if he knew nothing.

The atmosphere was somewhat awkward, and the banquet naturally ended in a bad mood.

Back in the palace, Empress Ma, who was helping Zhu change his clothes, complained, "Why are you saying these things? You've made the children unhappy."

"It's better to be unhappy now than to make a scene later."

Zhu Yuanzhang sighed, "I want my sons to be capable, but I don't want them to be capable. The fourth son showed his ability, and I was worried."

"The fourth child won't do that." Queen Ma immediately shook her head. "None of the children will do that."

"You and I are here, Biao'er is here too, so naturally they won't." Lao Zhu sighed again, "But if one day we are gone, who can guarantee that they won't have any thoughts?"

Queen Ma stopped what she was doing and said solemnly, "Then what do you say we should do?"

"I can't think of any good solution." Lao Zhu shook his head. "That's why I reiterated in front of everyone that the position of the boss's lineage is unshakable. But this can only treat the symptoms, not the root cause. After all, you and I are old~~~"

With Zhu Yuanzhang and Empress Ma in control, no one, from the princes to the nobles, dared to have any evil thoughts.

But they are old after all. Even though they shout "live a thousand years, a thousand thousand years" or "live ten thousand years" all day long, they all know that life is only a hundred years and there will be a day when they die.

After they die, only God knows what the powerful princes will do.

Just like this time when Zhu Di sent out troops, he didn't even wait for Feng Sheng, Lan Yu and others to join him, but instead led the royal soldiers and the troops of the Peking Provincial Government to attack.

Even though we won the battle, we couldn't escape if we disobeyed orders.

In other words, even if he won, Lao Zhu would have no choice but to accept it.

Now it's like this, then
And each of them holds a large number of troops.
These heavy troops not only include their royal soldiers, but also local garrison troops.

For example, the Beiping Provincial Government where the fourth prince Zhu Di was located had a large number of border troops on the border because the territory outside the wall was the Mongols.

These troops can all be mobilized by the princes.

Moreover, they can also use the local reserves of money and grain. Once someone has disloyalty, they will have all the men, horses, money, grain and territory.

Old Zhu was having a headache, wondering if he had gone too far in establishing the system of enfeoffment of princes.

Queen Ma, who had also fallen into silence, suddenly laughed.

Zhu Yuanzhang was puzzled and asked, "What are you laughing at?"

Queen Ma's lips curled up slightly. "Chongba, we can't think of a solution, but smart people must have a solution."

Old Zhu's eyebrows moved slightly, and he understood in his heart, "Which smart person?"

"Of course it's 'Master Chen' from Xiongying."

(End of this chapter)