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

Chapter 144 Dragon Flag
After hearing this poem, the people at the scene fell into deathly silence.
Fortunately, the silence only lasted for a short time.

"Good poem!" Ning Wang Zhu Chenhao was the first to come back to his senses and praised loudly.

Jiang Bin was the second one to come to his senses. He flattered the emperor loudly, "Your son, I understand your father's ambition today."

Others followed suit with a flood of flattery.
Zhu Houxuan was in tears and amused. This poem was hard to describe. Not only did it not rhyme, but it also ignored the prosody.

Zhu Houzhao's poetry is hard to describe, the quality is uneven, and the level fluctuates greatly. Some are doggerel, while others are similar to the original. They are quite interesting to read and perfectly show his unrestrained character.

In history, this guy personally led the army to fight. On the way, he came to Yang Yiqing's hometown and wrote several poems in one breath. One of them is: "Zhengde's heroic name has spread, and he dares to take the lead in the southern and northern expeditions. He has been mighty and peaceful throughout his life, and he will forever rule the country for thousands of years."

If "Zhengde" is replaced with "Qianlong", it will sound natural when read. I guess some people really think it was written by Qianlong.

But also in Yang Yiqing's hometown, Zhu Houzhao wrote another poem of quite high level: "The divine power is mighty in the south, and the dragon boats ride the huge waves. The troops are deployed far and wide, and Yu's merits are great in quelling the rebellion. The sun's rays float on the yellow axe, and the clouds' light moves the ochre robe. I, an old minister, bow my head three times, fearing that the emperor is working hard." This is also an ancient poem, with a total of more than 200 words, and the prosody, parallelism, and allusions are all very exquisite.

Just like Zhu Houzhao's life and work, he wrote poems entirely according to his heart. When he was serious, he was particularly serious, and when he was absurd, he was particularly absurd.

Although everyone is praising Zhu Houzhao's poems, many people have noticed the sentence "Zhengde Jing Wang has made great achievements" in Zhu Houzhao's poem. Why was Jing Wang included in this sentence? It doesn't seem like a slip of the tongue!

Many people couldn't figure out the reason, and finally could only attribute it to Zhu Houzhao's love for Zhu Houxun.

Amid the praises of the crowd, the iron flower performance came to an end. Everyone felt that they had spent a dreamlike night and were very excited.

At this time, more than a dozen iron flower performers came forward to ask for rewards. Zhu Houzhao, who was in high spirits, even called up the two final performers and commended them individually. He also said that he wanted to learn iron flower performance from them and was going to bring them back to the capital.

Hearing that Zhu Houxun and Grand Secretary Liang Chu were frowning, Zhu Houxun secretly made up his mind not to let Zhu Houzhao bring these two people to the capital.

The iron flower performance is different from other performances. It can easily cause a fire. If these two people are really taken to the capital, anything can happen.

Having admired the lanterns, watched the performances, and composed poems, Zhu Houzhao felt extremely proud and satisfied. This Wanshou Festival was much more interesting than any other before.

At this moment, he suddenly heard a cry of surprise from behind him. It turned out that one of the lanterns in the Lantern Market had caught fire for some unknown reason.

The Lantern Festival was originally held on an open space close to the river, with wind blowing continuously from the river. The fire was not big at the beginning, and everyone was still trying to find ways to put it out. However, the wind fanned the fire, and it grew bigger and bigger, and soon it was no longer possible to put it out with human power.

Fortunately, the surrounding area was relatively open, the fire did not spread again, and people in the Lantern Festival were relatively easy to evacuate, so no one was killed in the fire.

Everyone could only watch helplessly as the beautifully crafted lantern turned into a sea of ​​fire.

The 50-60-foot-tall Aoshan Lantern turned into a huge torch in front of everyone's eyes, and then collapsed with a loud bang amid everyone's exclamations.
All this made Ning Wang Zhu Chenhao feel very distressed.

But Zhu Houzhao said his famous saying with great interest: What a great fireworks display!
To be honest, this was not done secretly by Zhu Houxuan. It was a complete accident. He wanted to ruin the Ning Wang Zhu Chenhao, but he didn't need to use such means.

If nothing unexpected happened, he would stay in the capital most of the time and have many opportunities to sabotage the plans of Ning Wang Zhu Chenhao, so the fire also surprised Zhu Houxuan.

In the end, he could only regard this as historical inertia. There were some problems with the manufacturing of these lanterns. Historically, they burned in the imperial palace. Now that they were moved to Qizhou, they did not escape the fate of fire.

But compared with the historical consequences of burning a large area of ​​the imperial palace and even burning down the Qianqing Palace, burning it to ashes on the open space outside Qizhou city is also a good choice.

In history, Zhu Houzhao even issued an edict of guilt for this incident and imposed an additional tax of one million silver taels to repair the Qianqing Palace, which made the court's finances even more difficult and also made his reputation even worse. Now all of this has been avoided.

Although all the lanterns made by Ning Wang Zhu Chenhao were burned down, his purpose of pleasing Zhu Houzhao was achieved.

Zhu Houzhao did not get angry at Prince Ning because the lanterns burned down. Instead, he became closer to Prince Ning because he watched the last big fireworks display.
After the Wanshou Festival, Grand Secretary Liang Chu led all the officials in Nanjing to urge Zhu Houzhao to return to Beijing.

Although Zhu Houzhao was reluctant to leave Qizhou, he also knew that it was time to leave.

He did not take Zhu Houxuan with him this time because he had to return to Beijing and get approval from the cabinet before the official imperial edict could be issued.

The night before he left, Zhu Houxuan came to visit him with a scroll.

"Oh? Brother, do you have another good thing?" Zhu Houzhao immediately stared at the thing in Zhu Houxun's hand.

"It's good stuff." Zhu Houxuan said with a smile and handed over the scroll in his hand.

Zhang Yong quickly took it and carefully spread it out on the table.

Zhu Houzhao took a closer look and found that it was a rectangular flag.

The upper and lower parts of the flag are black stripes, and the middle part is red, accounting for half of the flag. There are two thin white stripes at the junction of red and black, and a simple dragon is painted in the center of the red part.
The whole temperament appears simple and elegant, majestic without being angry, the black and red color combination is extremely visually impactful, and most importantly, it looks very beautiful.

Zhu Houzhao studied the flag for a while, and the more he looked at the pattern on the flag, the more familiar it seemed to him.
"Is this the pattern on the roof tiles of the Han Dynasty?" Zhu Houzhao asked uncertainly.

"Your Majesty, you have a good eye. It is exactly the blue dragon pattern in the four gods tiles of the Han Dynasty." Zhu Houxuan said with a smile.

"The black frame and white lines on the upper and lower sides symbolize the creation of the world. The red in the middle represents the fire virtue of our Ming Dynasty. The black dragon in the middle stands between heaven and earth, symbolizing that we must support a piece of heaven and earth for the black dragon of our Chinese nation." Zhu Houxun explained the meaning of the flag.

What Zhu Houxuan took out was the red-background black dragon flag of later generations, which was also a flag he liked very much.

Zhu Houzhao was also very fond of the flag and asked, "Brother, why did you show me this flag?"

"I plan to use this flag as the flag of the Ming Royal Group. The pattern in the center of the flag will also be printed on the products produced in the factories under the Ming Royal Group," Zhu Houxuan explained.

Since it is the Ming Royal Group, there is nothing wrong with using the dragon flag.

"It's so beautiful!" Zhu Houzhao liked it more and more the more he looked at it. It was the first time he saw such a flag with such a special sense of design.

"Or your group should not use this flag. The Ming Dynasty's army does not have a unified flag yet. This flag will be used as the Ming Dynasty's military flag..." Zhu Houzhao suddenly made a decision.

"Ah?" Zhu Houxuan was stunned and said quickly: "Isn't the current military flag of the Ming Dynasty good? Why change it to this?"

"What's so good about it! Those flags are too ugly, this one is better looking."

(End of this chapter)