I am the prince of the Ming Dynasty, I don't give up

Chapter 128 Giving Name
The group rode in a carriage straight into Prince Jing's mansion.

Zhu Houzhao did not bring his dragon robe, so he could only go to Cunxin Hall to change into Zhu Houxun's dragon robe. Anyway, the shape of the prince's dragon robe and the emperor's dragon robe were similar, but only the emperor could use bright yellow.

After Zhu Houzhao changed his clothes, Zhu Houxuan led him to Chengyun Hall, where Concubine Liu had already led the royal family members in the palace to wait.

Concubine Liu was extremely excited to meet Zhu Houzhao. The emperor personally came to the prince's mansion to visit relatives. This had never happened since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, and this happened in the Prince of Jing's Mansion. This was a great favor!

Concubine Liu has lived a very comfortable life in the past few years. She actually looks younger than before. After being relieved of the burden of Prince Jing's Mansion, she spends all day doing what she likes. The most important thing is that Zhu Houxun really brought honor to her!
Not to mention being summoned to the capital, the mere act of paying homage to the Xiaoling Mausoleum was enough to bring honor to the family and sweep away the decadent atmosphere in the Jingwang Mansion for the past twenty years.

The industry of the palace also developed rapidly, and the people of Qizhou were extremely grateful to the Jing Palace.

Zhu Houxuan was also very successful in having offspring. He already had a son out of wedlock, and the princess was also pregnant. She was already living a life of enjoying her grandchildren, and now there was nothing for her to worry about.

Every day I just play with my grandson, and then go to the art troupe to see if there are any new programs. My life is extremely relaxed and carefree.

She was very glad that she had readily handed over the power of the Prince of Jing's Mansion to Zhu Houxuan.

Zhu Houzhao accepted the greetings from the royal family of Prince Jing's Mansion, and then greeted Concubine Liu warmly. Concubine Liu's face was flushed with joy.

Then he turned his attention to Zhu Houxuan's eldest son.

Zhu Houxuan got married when he was 18 years old, in the seventh year of Zhengde, and his queen was Liu Yourong.

Before the Xuande Dynasty, the marriage partners of the princes were selected by the imperial court. After the Xuande Dynasty, each princely palace selected the family itself and then petitioned the imperial court for approval.

Although each royal palace selects its own relatives, the clan law has relatively strict requirements for the families of marriage, and the court will not approve those who do not meet the requirements.

So although Qin Yuelan was Zhu Houxuan's first woman, she was not suitable to be the Princess of Jing. After all, she was a criminal and had been cast into slavery. Although she was later freed from slavery, many people knew about it, so she only became Zhu Houxuan's concubine. In the seventh year of Zhengde, she gave birth to Zhu Houxuan's eldest son, who is now one year old.

In fact, Liu Yourong was not suitable to be the Princess of Jing. First, she was four or five years older than Zhu Houxuan. Second, she was an orphan and could not be considered a child of a good family. But Zhu Houxuan was unwilling to have a blind marriage. Anyway, there were many acquaintances in the court, so he just needed to say hello. So Liu Yourong became the Princess of Jing.

In addition, as a time traveler, Zhu Houxuan did not treat himself badly in terms of women. Although he did not have a large harem, he also took in two beautiful concubines, named Teng, in addition to Qin and Liu.

There was no restriction on the number of concubines for princes in the Ming Dynasty. However, strict restrictions were imposed starting from the princes. Concubines with more than the limit would not be entitled to clan salaries, and even the children born to the concubines could not be included in the imperial register.

Zhu Houzhao teased Zhu Houxun's eldest son, his eyes full of love, and asked, "Does your son have a name?"

"He is only one year old and has not been given a name yet. Right now he only has a nickname, which is An'er," Zhu Houxuan explained.

In ancient times, due to poor medical conditions and high neonatal mortality rates, royal family children were generally not given names until they were three years old.

"An'er." Zhu Houzhao called out, feeling an indescribable feeling in his heart. He wanted to find a gift from his pocket for An'er, but he left Beijing in such a hurry that he didn't bring anything precious with him, so he felt a little embarrassed for a moment.

Fortunately, he reacted quickly and said, "I was very fond of An'er when I saw him today. I will give him a name as a gift!" Concubine Zhang and Qin Yuelan hurriedly thanked him.

Zhu Houzhao pondered for a moment and said, "He is from the Zai generation, and his five elements are earth, so let's give him the name Zhu Zaihao!"

Concubine Zhang and Qin Yuelan thanked her happily.

Zhu Houxuan on the side almost spit out a mouthful of water.
壕？
Zhu Houzhao, did you do this on purpose or by accident?

However, Zhu Houxun thought about it carefully and felt that this name was not bad. First of all, Zhu Houzhao certainly didn't know the joke in later generations, so there was no idea of ​​alluding to him. And after all, he was the eldest son of a concubine, and there was a difference between legitimate and concubine children, so it was not appropriate to have a name with political implications. Therefore, the word "Hao" was quite suitable, at least it was not an uncommon word.

So Zhu Houxun had to accept the name reluctantly, even though he felt strange about it.

After choosing the name, Zhu Houxun took Zhu Houzhao back to Cunxin Hall.

The food and wine have been set out here.

The two men drank a cup first, and then Zhu Houxuan pushed a stack of red nuts in front of Zhu Houzhao.

"Brother, try this. It goes really well with wine."

Zhu Houzhao picked up the red nuts with chopsticks and put them into his mouth. He felt that they were crispy and fragrant, so he couldn't help but eat a few more.

"What kind of fruit is this? It's delicious." Zhu Houzhao said curiously.

"This thing is called peanuts, and it was brought over from overseas." Zhu Houxuan said with a smile.

According to real history, peanuts should have been introduced to China more than ten years later, and the appearance of Zhu Houxuan accelerated the process.

The two drank another cup, and Zhu Houzhao sighed: "I can always see new things here."

"Then we have to move around more often in the future." Zhu Houxun raised his glass again.

After three rounds of drinks, Zhu Houzhao started to talk. He talked about his troubles and difficulties in recent years, especially the rebellion of Prince Anhua, the downfall of Liu Jin, and the Liu Liu and Liu Qi Rebellion that lasted for three years.

Zhu Houxuan listened to Zhu Houzhao's story silently. In fact, to be more objective, Zhu Houzhao was the person responsible for the Liu Liu and Liu Qi Rebellion, but not the main person responsible.

Zhu Houzhao only added the final weight to the Liu Liu and Liu Qi Rebellion. In fact, the number of refugees had begun to increase in the late Hongzhi period. During the Hongzhi period, all matters were controlled by civil officials, and the feudal landlords carried out land annexation, making life even more difficult for the common people.

Zhu Houzhao is also responsible. He had already noticed the main contradiction after he ascended the throne. Liu Jin carried out political reforms and had already started to clear the fields in the later period. Moreover, it was the kind of clearing that did not consider one's identity. It cannot be said that Zhu Houzhao's shadow was behind this, but Liu Jin did not have a reliable and clean political team under his command, and a lot of problems arose during the implementation process.

The reason for the rebellion of Prince Anhua was that Liu Jin sent people to clean up the military farms. In order to collect more land tax, he counted 50 mu as one hectare, which caused dissatisfaction among the border troops of Ningxia Town. Liu Jin's people not only failed to alert them, but also severely punished the soldiers who evaded taxes, which gave Prince Anhua an opportunity. The border troops of Ningxia Town followed Prince Anhua in the rebellion.
(End of this chapter)