Ming Dynasty: Traveling through the harem, Zhu Yuanzhang was dumbfounded

Chapter 1: The Strange Man Six Hundred Years Later
It was late at night, the silver moon was like frost, and its cold light was shining on the magnificent Kunning Palace.

The Queen's Bedroom, as the first Queen of the Ming Dynasty, Queen Ma's bedroom was built perfectly. It not only had a tea room, but also a study for reading and writing.

Zhu Yuanzhang once commented on his queen in this way.

If she were not a girl, she would definitely have the ability to be a fortune teller.

This is enough to show how much Zhu Yuanzhang valued this queen.

As the queen, Empress Ma not only loved the people, but also bravely stood up and advised Zhu Yuanzhang, the iron-blooded emperor, when he made mistakes.

According to the time, if Zhu Yuanzhang had not come to the bedroom at this time, Empress Ma should have gone to bed early.

But tonight not only did she not get any rest, there were two other men of high status and authority in the Ming Dynasty in the study.

Standing on the right side of Empress Ma was the most powerful prince in history, Prince Yiwen Zhu Biao.

The person standing side by side with Zhu Biao was the famous Emperor Chengzu of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Di, the Prince of Yan who launched the Jingnan Campaign.

Inside the study, the three people all frowned, looking confused, and their eyes kept falling on a young man not far away.

The other person had a handsome face, regular features and an upright posture. The only special thing was that the clothes he wore were completely different from the gorgeous clothes of the other three.

He was wearing a modern loose short-sleeved shirt, black shorts and a pair of ordinary sneakers.

The clothes he wore were very strange.

The two groups confronted each other face to face.

After a long time, a soft voice sounded.

"Young man, you said you came from a hundred years later. What evidence do you have to prove your identity?"

Queen Ma looked at the young man in his early twenties in front of her. He was about the same age as her son, but he had no beard and looked full of youth and vitality.

As the queen of a country, Empress Ma was once from a merchant family and had seen a lot.

There were very few things that surprised her.

What just happened is one of them.

Faced with the question, Yang Chen didn't know how to explain, and finally could only point to the clothes on his body.

"Empress, at this point there is no need for me to cover up for myself. Look at the clothes I'm wearing, aren't they enough to prove it?

This material is made of ice silk fabric, which you definitely don’t have in your era. If you don’t believe me, you can touch it and you will know the difference once you touch it.”

Yang Chen looked at Empress Ma who was sitting on the stage, and then looked at Zhu Biao and Zhu Di on the side.

After saying that, he pointed to the clothes on his body.

Until now, he still wondered how he came to this world.

He vaguely remembered that he was running on the bridge when suddenly a dazzling light came from behind him, and then he felt his body being hit by a truck.

The whole person fell from the bridge into the river.

Then there was a bright light before my eyes, and when I opened my eyes again, I found myself in the back garden of Kunning Palace.

By now, Yang Chen has accepted the reality of his time travel.

He thought he could show his talents, but when he looked up, he saw Empress Ma and Zhu Biao and Zhu Di staring at him in a daze in the garden.

Only at this point did he reveal his identity.

Zhu Biao looked at the other party's impolite behavior and subconsciously reminded him.

"Yang Chen, you are facing the Queen of the Ming Dynasty, the mother of a country. You are not allowed to be so rude."

Zhu Biao, who received a Confucian education since childhood, attached great importance to etiquette.

The other party's words and actions just now seemed a bit frivolous to him.

After all, it was his own mother who was talking to him.

"Biao'er is fine. This person's origin is mysterious. Maybe he is from the future a hundred years ago, as he said."

Looking at her son who was speaking for her, Queen Ma raised her hand to indicate that she didn't care.

As a queen, she has a broad mind, and Yang Chen's actions are nothing in her eyes.

Not only that, she was also confused and curious. After knowing their identities, the young man in front of her only looked slightly surprised, and did not show the same respect to the royal family as others.

This immediately aroused Queen Ma's suspicion.

"Since you are from the future, why are you so unfamiliar with the etiquette of the Ming Dynasty? Did the emperors of the future generations fail to set the proper rules for the people, or have you, the people of the future generations, forgotten the rules of the Ming Dynasty?"

"Mother is right, Yang Chen, since you are from the future, why are you so unfamiliar with the etiquette when it comes to treating people?"

Zhu Biao also added a sentence after his mother finished speaking.

Hearing this, Yang Chen shook his head subconsciously: "You can't blame me for being rude, but hundreds of years later, in our era, there is no kneeling ceremony or respect for the royal family.

In that era, the class system had been abolished by us, and in most cases, everyone's personality was equal, and there was no one who should be respectful to anyone else. "

When the three heard these words, they were dumbfounded.

What does it mean that the class system has been abolished? Doesn't that mean that the powerful and wealthy class are gone?

What shocked Zhu Biao even more was that everyone’s personalities were almost equal. Did that mean that the emperor’s status was the same as that of ordinary people?
In this case, what is the meaning of the emperor's existence?
You have to know that nowadays, it is said among the people of the Ming Dynasty that their family is the reincarnation of a real dragon, otherwise how could they have taken over the world.

The more Zhu Biao thought about it, the angrier he felt towards his descendants.

"Nonsense! How could my descendants be so foolish? If so, wouldn't there be no distinction between the ruler and the subjects? This is simply outrageous!"

Listening to Zhu Biao's words, Yang Chen subconsciously looked at Zhu Di, then shook his head and thought.

"The Qing Dynasty is gone, not to mention the Ming Dynasty. As for unworthy descendants, if we really have to talk about them, it seems that they should be the descendants of your younger brother next to you." Empress Ma's reaction was not as obvious as Zhu Biao's. She had lived for almost fifty years and had seen all kinds of storms.

He seemed to be sitting on the Diaoyutai with a calm expression, but his face showed a bit of confusion.

All dynasties have been passed down according to ancient methods, and the supremacy of the monarch is a privilege that no one dares to shake.

When it comes to Yang Chen, everyone is equal.

There must be some hidden story going on here that is unknown to the public.

She continued to ask:
"Yang Chen, since you are from the future, how could the Ming Dynasty undergo such a change? Which emperor announced the complete abolition of the etiquette system?"

The moment these words came out, Zhu Biao also looked very nervous.

According to the Ming Dynasty's inheritance system, he will naturally ascend to the throne in the future, and the same will be true for his descendants.

According to Yang Chen, if people in later generations abolish the system of kneeling to the royal family, they would be rebelling against their ancestors.

And he, Zhu Biao, will also become a sinner.

Facing the gazes of the three people, Yang Chen did not hide anything.

“This matter is very complicated and difficult to explain.

To answer the Queen's first question, the etiquette of respect for the royal family was not abolished during the Ming Dynasty, nor did any emperor issue a similar order.

Not only that, successive Ming emperors highly respected similar rituals, and they became more and more rigid as time went on. "

After hearing what Yang Chen said, Zhu Biao's worries quickly eased.

"It turns out that it wasn't my descendants who did this. That's good."

He felt relieved and murmured softly to himself.

But Empress Ma sensed something was wrong.

Since these etiquettes did not change during the Ming Dynasty, why did Yang Chen react like this to himself?
“Since you said that these systems did not change during the Ming Dynasty, then why did you just say that people in later generations are almost equal in personality?

Could it be that you are not a Han Chinese from the Ming Dynasty, but from a foreign country outside the Ming Dynasty?"

When the word "Fanbang" appeared in the room, Zhu Biao's eyes suddenly lit up.

Because only this can explain Yang Chen's reaction and what the other party said.

Whether in terms of clothing or in terms of words and deeds, Yang Chen has no trace of the Ming Dynasty.

Even after knowing the identities of the three people, he did not kneel down and worship them. Instead, he was full of curiosity.

In his opinion, the only explanation for this reaction was that the other party was from a foreign country.

When Yang Chen heard this, he quickly waved his hand to explain.

"You are wrong, Queen. I am not a foreigner. I am a native of Jiangnan and a member of the Chinese nation. The place where I live a hundred years later is still under the rule of the Ming Dynasty."

Yang Chen was almost expelled from his Chinese identity, and he didn't want to be treated as an alien.

“You are lying. Since you said that you are also a member of the Chinese nation and live in the Jiangnan region, the Ming Dynasty did not abolish the etiquette system, so why do you speak like that?

I think you are a foreigner who looks like a Han Chinese and wants to cheat us."

This time it was Zhu Di who spoke.

Zhu Di in front of him had a handsome face, wore a dragon robe, and had an upright posture, but his face showed that he was very unhappy with Yang Chen's attitude.

It was because what the other party said seemed to him to be contradictory and difficult to explain.

When the other party was explaining himself, Zhu Di thought he had found a loophole and planned to expose the true face of this liar.

It was obvious that Empress Ma and Zhu Biao both agreed with what he said.

So he just watched quietly how Yang Chen explained.

However, the other party did not panic after being exposed. Instead, he looked at Zhu Di calmly and said:

"Don't be anxious, Your Highness Prince of Yan. Have you ever thought of a possibility? That is, in the era I live in, the Ming Dynasty has already been destroyed?"

Yang Chen said this short sentence, and the study suddenly became quiet.

At the same time, whether it was Empress Ma, Zhu Biao or Zhu Di, the three of them were instantly frozen in place.

Everyone was stunned by Yang Chen's words.

The Ming Dynasty was destroyed?

And judging from the other party's tone, it seemed that they had been destroyed a long time ago.

impossible! Absolutely impossible!
How could such a thing happen to Daming?

The silence in the study was soon broken by Zhu Biao.

He smiled guiltily and unsurely.

"Yang Chen! You are so brave! The Ming Dynasty is now in its heyday and is so powerful. How could it possibly perish in the future? You are simply talking nonsense!"

"That's right! Big brother is right, you have been deceiving us from the beginning. How could the Ming Dynasty, which was prosperous, perish so early?
Mother, this person is spreading lies and cursing the Ming Dynasty. In my opinion, we should report this matter to the emperor and let him handle it."

Zhu Di's anger was no less than that of his brother.

He was the Prince of Yan and the son of Zhu Yuanzhang. As Zhu Di had lived in an era of strife since childhood, the person he admired most was his father.

He rose from a peasant to the emperor, drove out those who rebelled and affected the unification of the Central Plains, and established the Ming Dynasty.

(End of this chapter)