The Prosperous Era of Longwan

As the carriage moved forward, in the swaying carriage, Wei Guangde noticed that Chen Hong, who was sitting opposite, had bloodshot eyes. It was obvious that he had not slept well last night.

On the main seat of the carriage was Prince Yu. He and Chen Hong did not dare to sit side by side with Prince Yu. They could only sit opposite each other on the ground in the front carriage.

Wei Guangde was looking at Chen Hong, and Chen Hong was also looking at Wei Guangde. For a moment, their big eyes looked at each other, and then an awkward look appeared on their faces.

Wei Guangde and Chen Hong had only met each other, but had never interacted with each other.

In fact, none of the ministers wanted to talk to Chen Hong because he was in charge of Dongchang and no one wanted to chat with the spy chief.

But in the current environment, it was impossible for him not to speak.

"Eunuch Chen, Your Majesty is summoning His Highness in Xiyuan. Should I wait outside?"

Wei Guangde first asked knowingly.

Chen Hong raised his eyes and looked at Wei Guangde, then turned to Prince Yu and said, "Your Highness, the Emperor has returned to Qianqing Palace. He is going to summon His Highness in Qianqing Palace, so."

That meant that Prince Yu and Wei Guangde understood that although Wei Guangde got on the carriage, Wu Zhi could not enter the palace and could only get off the carriage outside the palace gate.

However, Li Fang and Feng Bao in the car behind did not need to do so, because they were originally from the palace.

Afterwards, Wei Guangde continued to test Emperor Jiajing's condition and the current situation in the palace, and Chen Hong also knew everything at this time.

He knew that this was a direct expression of goodwill to King Yu. Although these words were asked by Wei Guangde, they were also what King Yu wanted to know most.

When the carriage arrived outside the imperial city, it was naturally spotted by patrolling guards and stopped. Even though there was a sign of the Supervisor of Ceremonies on the carriage, it was still stopped.

Chen Hong opened the curtain and got out, showing the emperor's golden sword that he carried with him.

With Eunuch Bingbi, the Supervisor of Ceremonies, present and the Emperor's Golden Sword in hand, the guards naturally did not dare to stop them.

After Chen Hong showed something outside the carriage, the guards blocking the way separated a road. After Chen Hong got back into the carriage, he immediately started moving and continued to drive slowly into the imperial city.

However, the more than twenty royal guards who had been accompanying the carriage before and after remained behind.

When we arrived at the Imperial City, His Highness's safety was under the responsibility of the Forbidden Army and was no longer under their control.

Entering through Dong'an Gate, and then passing through two palace gates in succession. Each time, Chen Hong had to get out of the car and show his golden sword before the imperial guards would let him go. When the carriage arrived outside the palace gate, this time Chen Hong Hong looked back at Wei Guangde before getting out of the car.

After Chen Hong got off the bus, Wei Guangde whispered to Prince Yu: "Your Highness, I should get off here."

The moment he opened the curtain, Wei Guangde had already seen where the carriage had arrived.

Although he had never been here before, he heard Chen Ju mention that they should have walked around the Jingyun Gate to the back of the three main halls. Going further in would be the real palace, and behind the red wall would be the emperor's bedroom - Qian Qing palace.

Sure enough, within a moment, the car curtain was lifted from the outside, and Chen Hong's head was exposed.

"Your Highness, please get out of the car."

"good."

King Yu stood up immediately. Wei Guangde stepped aside to let King Yu get off first. He followed King Yu and got off the carriage.

A small stool had been placed next to the carriage. After King Yu stepped on the small stool and got out of the car, he saw that a chamberlain had already moved another horse stool to the back of the carriage. Li Fang got out of the car first, and then helped Zhu Yijun to get off as well. Got the carriage.

The little guy was still confused at the moment and kept looking around because he found that the surrounding environment was very strange.

Fortunately, there were Li Fang and Feng Bao in front of him and behind him. They were all familiar people to him, so he didn't panic. Instead, he was more curious - where is this place?

There are no imperial guards guarding here, but there are many strong chamberlains.

Wei Guangde understood that these people were probably the so-called internal eunuchs, the eunuchs responsible for the safe armor training in the palace.

After Li Fang and Feng Bao brought Zhu Yijun and Prince Yu to the meeting, Chen Hong cupped his hands and said, "Your Highness, little brother, please wait here for a moment. I will go in and report to the emperor."

"I'm tired."

King Yu said to him.

After Chen Hong walked towards the palace gate, King Yu asked Wei Guangde in a low voice: "What should I do after entering? I am a little confused now."

Although they were about to meet their father, Prince Yu and Emperor Jiajing had not seen each other for so many years. Although they had a close relationship with each other, they were actually strangers.

Even if the two of them were walking on the street, they might not know each other.

"Just express your attachment to His Majesty. After all, you are a prince, and your flesh and blood are connected. Although His Majesty has been unwilling to see you, there is a reason for that."

Wei Guangde didn't have much contact with Emperor Jiajing, but from the news he got from Chen Ju, he still knew that Emperor Jiajing still cared about his son, especially now that Prince Yu was his only flesh and blood.

In the last moments of Emperor Jiajing's life, perhaps what he wanted was the love between father and son that he had never received. After all, he had been a loner for forty-five years.

"Little brother."

After speaking to King Yu, Wei Guangde knelt down in front of Zhu Yijun and said to him: "The person you are going to see in a moment is your grandpa Huang. Do you know who the grandpa Huang is? That is the father of the king."

"Master Wei, I've never seen him before. Why didn't you bring me here before?"

Zhu Yijun is still young and has not officially started studying, but King Yu has asked him to become teachers of Wei Guangde and Zhang Juzheng, so now Zhu Yijun is no stranger to seeing Wei Guangde, and this master is better than Master Zhang, and he brings him delicious food from time to time ,Fun.

Wei Guangde had heard about Zhang Juzheng's final outcome. Many people said that he was too harsh on the young emperor, so naturally he would not make the same mistakes as Zhang Juzheng.

If you make a mistake, you must be taught a lesson, but in normal times, it is not a bad thing to indulge a little, as long as you have a good character and can distinguish right from wrong.

Of course, the emperor does not need to distinguish right from wrong, but must learn to make choices, but this is not what children today should learn.

"Look at this place. There are so many people guarding it. This place is a hundred times more formidable than the palace. Moreover, your grandpa is usually very busy and has no time to look at you."

Wei Guangde smiled and explained to Zhu Yijun, "When I go in and see your grandpa, don't be alarmed. You must know that he is the best person in the world besides your father. Use the way you usually act coquettishly in front of your father." Just put it on."

After all, King Yu was also the one who lost two sons. Although he valued Zhu Yijun's education and found a good master for him early, he was also very arrogant towards Zhu Yijun on weekdays. Sometimes Wei Guangde would even say something to him behind his back. sentence.

Fortunately, Zhu Yijun's coquettishness could only be directed at King Yu, but it was completely ineffective against his mother.

A loving father and a strict mother, this is a true portrayal of the relationship in Prince Yu's palace.

Of course, the driving force behind it was Wei Guangde, who passed on Feng Baochuan's words.

Many folk unofficial histories say that when Li Caifeng was a maid in Prince Yu's Mansion, she had a romantic affair with the suave and promising Zhang Juzheng, but Wei Guangde could pat his chest and say, "Impossible, absolutely impossible."

The backyard of the palace is not something that subordinates like them can visit at will.

In his impression, he only entered the back once once. Is Zhang Juzheng capable of seducing a girl after just two or three meetings?

If there was any chance of flirting between the two, it must have been in the early days of the Wanli Dynasty, when they were teaching the young emperor as the teacher of Emperor Wanli.

After all, the emperor was still young at that time, and Empress Dowager Li would go there every day to check on him, so it would be normal to see him more frequently.

They waited outside the palace gate for two sticks of incense, and the waiting time was not short. Zhu Yijun's legs seemed to be numb from standing, so he just lay on Wei Guangde's shoulder.

Well, in the past at Prince Yu's Mansion and his own home, Wei Guangde often let his sons Wei Dacheng and Zhu Yijun sit on his shoulders to play, so Zhu Yijun was always very casual in front of him.

At this time, Zhu Yijun lay on top of him, and Wei Guangde picked him up out of habit.

But in his heart, Wei Guangde was actually murmuring, why did it take so long?

After another short while, I finally saw Chen Ju running out of the palace gate, kneeling down in front of King Yu, and inviting King Yu and his younger brother to enter the palace.

Wei Guangde handed the child to Li Fang, who was closest to him, and then stepped aside.

King Yu walked in front. Behind him were Li Fang, who was holding Zhu Yijun, and Feng Bao, who was protecting him. Chen Ju fell at the back.

Wei Guangde had quick eyesight and quick hands. He ignored the attention of the servants around him, grabbed Chen Ju and asked: "Brother Chen, what's going on inside? It took so long?" ’

"Your Majesty needs to freshen up and put on his uniform. Originally, I went in first."

It seemed that he wanted to say more, but King Yu was already approaching the palace gate. Chen Ju immediately changed his mind and followed quickly.

Looking at Chen Ju's back as he quickly left, Wei Guangde smacked his lips, wanting to leave a good image in front of his son and grandson.

The last few times Wei Guangde met Emperor Jiajing, he was always wearing Taoist robes. If he hadn't been in the palace, who would have believed that he was the current emperor.

As King Yu left, he was left standing alone in the spacious square in front of the palace gate, with two carriages beside him.

Not knowing how long King Yu would stay this time, Wei Guangde simply jumped on the carriage again and sat down on the throne.

The two young chamberlains were already standing under the carriage. Seeing Wei Guangde's actions, they just opened their mouths and said nothing in the end.

The throne that Wei Guangde sat on was, of course, not the "imperial" seat that only the emperor could sit on, but the "imperial" seat for the emperor.

In fact, this word may be considered a fake word with the later word "control".

In the early days, there were usually three people in a car. The order of the three people was: the venerable person was on the left, the charioteer was in the middle, and the companion was on the right.

That is to say, among the three people riding in the car, the person with the highest status sits on the left, the person driving the carriage and horse sits in the middle, and the other accompanying character sits on the right seat.

After continuous improvement, the carriage gradually became what people saw in later generations, but the name did not change much.

At this time, in the Qianqing Palace, Zhu Yijun had been called to him by Emperor Jiajing, who put his hands on the child's shoulders and looked at him carefully.

In the past two years, Emperor Jiajing has not even dared to go to the city tower. Naturally, this is the first time he really saw Zhu Yijun.

Although he was in poor health, after washing and dressing up, Emperor Jiajing no longer looked as gray as before and looked very kind. He kept asking about Zhu Yijun's life in the palace and the people around him.

King Yu stood below, also carefully looking at his father.

Compared with the vague memories of the past, the current Emperor Jiajing is obviously older.

King Yu also met Emperor Jiajing when he was very young, when his second brother was still there.

It's just that it's been so long ago that the resolute figure in my memory has long been blurred.

"Good boy, well educated."

After talking a lot, King Yu felt that Emperor Jiajing had told him all the things Zhu Yijun had remembered since he was sensible, and then he heard a compliment from his father.

Perhaps because he felt that he could no longer hold on, Emperor Jiajing stopped talking to Zhu Yijun and told Huang Jin: "Take the prince to the imperial prison and reward him with whatever you like."

"Thank you, Grandpa Emperor, for the reward."

At this time, Zhu Yijun widened his eyes and looked at Emperor Jiajing with joy.

"Okay, okay, as long as you like him, Huang Jin, take him there."

"According to the order."

Huang Jin answered respectfully, and then took Zhu Yijun's little hand and walked out. Behind them, Li Fang and Feng Bao glanced at Emperor Jiajing on the throne, saw him waving his hand seemingly casually, and then left.

In the main hall of Qianqing Palace, only the emperor and Prince Yu and his son were left.

King Yu thought that Emperor Jiajing was going to say something to him. Before he could think about how to express his attachment to his father according to Wei Guangde's wishes, he saw that Emperor Jiajing's upright figure suddenly softened. Go down and lean on the throne's support.

"Father."

King Yu screamed and hurried over to support Emperor Jiajing. At this time, he could no longer care about the so-called interests and superiority.

"My body is dying. I asked you to come here just to see you one last time."

By this time, Emperor Jiajing's lips were already a little dark, and he stretched out his trembling right hand to touch Prince Yu.

King Yu hurriedly came over and let his hand touch his face. This was an experience he had only had in dreams for many years.

But King Yu knew in his heart that this might be the last time.

Touching King Yu's face and looking at King Yu, Emperor Jiajing showed a trace of nostalgia in his eyes.

For so many years, others have had children and grandchildren in their homes, enjoying themselves at their knees, but I dare not even see them.

Although he was unwilling to do so, he was afraid.

He was afraid that he would end up like his cousin. He was afraid that when he saw his son, he would be one step ahead of him, and he couldn't bear it.

"Carry me to the couch, it's uncomfortable like this."

Emperor Jiajing said in a weak tone.

"yes."

King Yu agreed, then turned his back, held Emperor Jiajing back with his hands and let him lean on his back. After his body could bear the weight of the emperor, he stood up with difficulty and walked step by step to the left bedroom.

King Yu's body was a little hollowed out by drinking and sex. He was young before, and he knew a little more restraint under Gao Gong's persuasion.

After Gao Gong left Prince Yu's Mansion, the words of Yin Shizhen and others who stayed behind had little impact on Prince Yu. Even though Wei Guangde, whom he valued, persuaded him several times, they were all ignored by Prince Yu. At this time, Jiajing, who was wearing a Gong uniform on his back, The emperor had a hard time.

"Can you carry it?"

Perhaps it was a pun. Not only was he asked whether King Yu could carry him on his back, but also whether you could bear the heavy burden of the Ming Dynasty, my son?

King Yu responded resolutely while carrying Jiajing on his back:

"I can carry it! I can carry it!"

But at this time, King Yu couldn't think of that at all. He just carried Emperor Jiajing on his back and walked towards the imperial couch step by step.

The vitality of the old emperor was lost step by step. The era of Jiajing was about to pass, and the era of King Yu was about to come.