The Holy Emperor of Ming

Chapter 12 Who gave you the face
December 25, the ninth year of the Hongzhi reign.

The prince beat his uncle, Jianchangbo, in the street until he was on the verge of death, and all the ministers were moved.

Officials from the Cabinet, six ministries, the Censorate, the Dali Temple and other departments all requested to see the Emperor and demanded that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince leave home and go to school, and that he not practice martial arts or become obsessed with martial arts, and that the eunuchs around the Crown Prince be eliminated.

The emperor refused to meet with his ministers, citing illness as an excuse.

The ministers did not give up and submitted petitions one after another.

This year, the court was more lively than ever before. The previous custom of putting everything on hold during the New Year was broken.

The ministers seemed to have reached an agreement and made up their minds that this matter must not be exposed.

The civil servants in the court, who had many factions, seemed to have completely come together over the issue of the crown prince.

Even on New Year's Day, the ministers continued to submit memorials.

The outer court was bustling with activity, but everyone was blocked outside the East Palace.

Anyway, Zhu Houzhao didn't notice anything and practiced martial arts happily every day.

Liu Jin, Cao Zhengchun and others only dared to worry in secret. They did not dare to tell the Crown Prince a single word about the affairs of the outer court, including the affairs of the Queen. This was a death order from the Emperor.

They can understand this very well.

The situation is already chaotic enough, and with the Crown Prince's temperament, once he finds out, things will get even more chaotic.

New Year's Eve.

Zhu Youtang was forced to break the rules and let the queen and the prince not spend the New Year together.

He first came to the East Palace and carried out a series of activities with his silly son. After eating the New Year's Eve dinner and coaxing his son, he hurried to Kunning Palace to continue coaxing his wife.

Unfortunately, my son is not that easy to appease.

It’s not easy to please my wife.

Empress Zhang had a miserable look on her face and cried from time to time.

Zhu Youtang was helpless and silent for a moment, but he still made up his mind and said solemnly: "Queen, I am sorry for this matter."

"What does your majesty mean?" Empress Zhang suddenly had a bad feeling.

"I need to tell you something about the Queen and the Crown Prince." Zhu Youtang said seriously.

"Your Majesty, please speak." Empress Zhang said in a low voice, her mind turning.

"The Crown Prince has mastered the Ming Shen Wu Dian. Empress, you should also know that the Ming Shen Wu Dian is the most powerful martial art of the Ming imperial family, and only Taizu and Taizong have ever mastered it.

The Ming Shenwu Code is of great significance to the Ming imperial family.

Zhao'er is already the eldest son, and now he has mastered the Ming Shenwu Canon. In other words, Zhao'er will definitely be the next emperor of our Ming Dynasty.

No one can change it, not even me, do you understand?" Zhu Youtang said earnestly.

Empress Zhang's face turned pale.

She had been the Empress of the Ming Dynasty for more than nine years, and was the most favored concubine in the harem. She almost completely controlled the power in the harem, so she naturally knew many secrets of the Ming Dynasty.

She knew clearly that Zhu Youtang had not lied to her. Although he had exaggerated a little, the fact that the prince had mastered the Ming Shen Wu Dian must have been secretly recognized by the powerful forces of the Ming imperial family.

In addition, on the surface, even if another prince was born, it would not shake his position as the crown prince at all.

"Are we just going to let the Crown Prince continue to be so wanton and naughty?" Empress Zhang said unwillingly.

"Empress, you know Zhao'er's personality well.

Asking him to apologize is impossible.

Zhao'er would not agree to the execution of Liu Jin and Cao Zhengchun.

However, promotion to the title of Yanling can be discussed.

The matter of letting Zhaoer go to school still needs to be discussed with the court." Zhu Youtang said sincerely.

Seeing what Empress Zhang was about to say, he sighed and said, "Empress, Zhao'er is the most susceptible to softness and not hardness. Even if you oppress him now, what about the future?

What about Heling and Yanling?

I can’t protect them forever.”

Empress Zhang's face turned pale again and she clenched her hands tightly.

The next moment, she burst into tears.

Zhu Youtang's heart softened again, he put his arm around her shoulders and comforted her, "Don't worry, Queen. I promise you that I will teach Zhao'er well in the future.

Zhao'er is a person who responds to soft words rather than hard ones. Even if I am gone, nothing will happen to him."

"Your Majesty is in the prime of youth. You must not say such things." Empress Zhang said hurriedly.

"Well, I won't tell you." Zhu Youtang nodded, feeling a little relieved.

The Queen's problem has finally been solved.

Next, the Queen and Zhao'er were not allowed to meet, and after a while, the matter was over.

Then slowly improve their relationship later.

Next is the court.

Zhu Youtang couldn't help but frowned deeply, with a heavy look on his face.

It would be much more difficult to reach an agreement with the court.

take it easy.

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The tenth year of Hongzhi arrived.

The entire capital city is generally immersed in the festive atmosphere of the New Year.

Only the officials continued to submit memorials and make suggestions.

In fact, many people had already seen the prince beating his uncle, the Earl of Jianchang, who had raped a commoner girl.

In addition, all officials were mobilized to attend such a major event.

This should have caused heated discussions throughout the capital.

But due to an invisible force, the heated discussion was suppressed.

In addition, the officials did not dare to further tear their relations apart, so they just acquiesced.

As a result, the lower and middle classes in the capital were quite peaceful.

Those who knew it only dared to speak about it in private and secretly.

After the New Year, the officials' memorials did not slow down, but instead became even more intense.

It seems like it’s just a snack before and after the Chinese New Year.

Now, it's time for dinner.

On January 10, the tenth year of the Hongzhi reign, all officials jointly submitted a petition, requesting that the Crown Prince leave the palace to study, stop indulging in military affairs, and eliminate the two eunuchs Liu Jin and Cao Zhengchun. The Emperor still did not attend the court on the grounds of illness, and kept the petition in his possession without issuing it.

January 15th of the tenth year of Hongzhi was the Lantern Festival.

The day passed relatively peacefully.

The next day, almost all civil officials from the Cabinet, six ministries, six departments, and the Censorate requested to see His Majesty and attend court.

This overwhelming momentum made Zhu Youtang silent.

Two days later, he went to court.

Faced with the reports from all the officials, he was extremely angry. He left a sentence "It's not that I can't kill people" and withdrew from the court.

Afterwards, all officials did not give up and continued to submit memorials.

The stalemate lasted for another half a month, with dozens of officials, led by the Censorate, kneeling outside the Meridian Gate.

Zhu Youtang was so angry that he smashed his pen, but he had no choice but to go to court.

After more than half a month of wrangling, they finally reached an "agreement".

When the prince left home to go to school, he had to study for three hours every day.

The other two points will not be mentioned for now.

Zhu Youtang and the civil service group both understood each other's thoughts.

Among the three points, the prince's marriage and entry into school is actually the most core and important.

Because the prince was taught by a civil servant.

Also, getting married and going to school takes a lot of time.

If you spend your time and energy on studying literature, how can you find the time and energy to practice martial arts?

Plus teaching...

This is the purpose of the civil service group.

Zhu Youtang had no choice because the prince would have to marry and go to school sooner or later.

There are many things to learn.

The civil service group has a consistent stance and attitude on this matter. They have joined forces and the pressure is too great.

For the sake of the court's stability, he couldn't keep resisting and had to make some concessions.

Marrying off and going to school was the last bottom line for the civil service group, and there was nothing he could do about it.

The only thing he could do was to shorten the time.

Secondly, he believed in his son's talent and even asked Mr. Zheng if three hours of schooling a day would delay his son's martial arts training too much.

He also had more faith in his son's character and believed that he would not always believe and obey the teachings of the civil servants.

On March 1st, Zhu Youtang officially issued an edict, allowing the prince to leave home and go to school.

Generally speaking, the teachers were a group of scholars headed by Yang Yanhe.

After the imperial edict was issued, the civil officials were barely satisfied.

Yang Yanhe and others were successively received by some officials.

And on March 3rd, he came to the East Palace to teach the prince to go to school.

Inside the East Palace.

Tai Chi Thirteen Postures Level 402 (10000/)

The first level of Myojin Martial Arts Code (1557/10000)

Zhu Houzhao was addicted to practicing martial arts. The more he practiced, the more interesting he found it, and it was not boring at all.

What made him unhappy was that, with the Thirteen Tai Chi Postures, he could gain at least one point each time he practiced, and sometimes he could gain two or even three points, but this was rare.

Each practice session also takes much longer than before, taking nearly three quarters of an hour (each quarter is fifteen minutes).

The main reason is that the speed of practicing Mingshen Wudian is decreasing little by little.

Mingming practiced the thirteen Tai Chi forms, and his body meridians were constantly strengthened, coupled with various powerful medicines.

He should have been practicing faster and faster.

But in the past two months, he went from practicing for fifteen points a day to only thirteen points.

When he asked the old man, he remained silent and just told him to practice slowly.

He had no other choice but to practice slowly.

He was so absorbed in cultivation that he didn't even notice how fast time passed, and he didn't care about what was happening outside the East Palace.

Anyway, the only bad guy he remembered recently, his father also promised to punish him.

this day.

Zhu Houzhao looked at the people who wanted to teach him, his eyes full of doubt: "This prince's father wants you to teach this prince?"

"Your Majesty, you should call him father," one of the officials spoke immediately.

"It's none of your business." Zhu Houzhao glanced and raised his chin.

Several officials frowned, but they knew in advance that the prince was naughty and were mentally prepared.

Yang Yanhe, the leader, was about to say something when Zhu Houzhao snorted and said arrogantly, "This prince is born divine and the most powerful. What qualifications do you have to teach this prince?

Can you beat this prince?"

Yang Yanhe and the others were all startled. Yang Yanhe said in a deep voice: "Your Highness, we are here to teach you the words of the saints, not the so-called way of the warriors.

Also, Your Highness, you should be humble and not think you are the best."

"What a bunch of nonsense! How dare you not believe me?" Zhu Houzhao was impatient, his eyes widened, and then he smiled excitedly, "Let me see, what skills do you have that dare to teach me?"

Before the voice fell, a fist hit Yang Yanhe.

Yang Yanhe widened his eyes in disbelief.

Then——"Ouch~!"

With a scream, Yang Yanhe fell to the ground.

Zhu Houzhao glanced at them with contempt and rushed towards other officials.

"Your Highness, you—Ah!"

Several other officials soon fell down screaming. Zhu Houzhao felt it was meaningless and said disdainfully: "You can't even beat this prince, and you still want to teach me a lesson? Who gave you the face?"

As he said that, he casually kicked Yang Yanhe, who was trying to get up, and kicked him back a few feet. He spat out a mouthful of blood and passed out.

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(End of this chapter)