My Daming New Empire

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The prestige of Confucius in this era is much higher than that of later generations. Almost all scholars consider themselves disciples of Confucius.

Although Confucius is Confucius and the Confucian family is the Confucian family, in the eyes of many people, treating the Confucian family well means respecting scholars.

The end of the Grand Court Meeting on the first day of junior high school marks the beginning of the new year. Whether it is high-ranking officials or ordinary people, they have all entered the process of visiting relatives and friends.

The palace also opened the door this year. Not only Zhu Zhanji's concubines, but also Zhu Di and Zhu Gaochi's concubines were notified earlier that they could meet their relatives between the first and fifteenth day of the new year.

This incident has little impact on Zhu Zhanji, because his concubines are all young.Those who have children are concerned about their children, while those without children are thinking about gaining a foothold.

And those concubines like Zhu Di, many of whom have been in the palace for 20 years, are rarely allowed to meet their relatives, and now they are all grateful to Zhu Zhanji.

The Dachaohui on the sixth day of the first lunar month represents the beginning of a year.

On this day, Zhu Zhanji promulgated two decrees to formally legislate.It was announced that the Ming Dynasty would abolish foot binding from now on. No matter what form of foot binding it is, it is illegal.

The second decree abolished the sacrificial burial system.From now on, regardless of whether it is the royal family, civil and military officials, or ordinary people, it will not be allowed to force people to be buried.

The first decree was proposed by Zhu Zhanji at the opening ceremony of the Cuju Competition, so most of the people are already mentally prepared.

However, the second decree Zhu Zhanji had never made a statement before. As soon as this decree came out, the concubines in the palace had a better impression of Zhu Zhanji.

Most of these concubines in the palace have nothing.They are not favored by Zhu Di and Zhu Gaochi, and they don't have much affection for them.

Even so, if Zhu Di and Zhu Gaochi die, they will also be buried.

No one doesn't want to live, and most women don't want to be buried. Now that Zhu Zhanji has abolished the system of funerals, how can they not be grateful!

In addition to the necessary entertainment these days, Zhu Zhanji has also been busy meeting the concubine's relatives.

His son-in-law is very easy. These mother-in-laws and old father-in-laws don't have the publicity of later generations. On the contrary, they marry their daughters to Zhu Zhanji and bow down to Zhu Zhanji.

Even so, they still consider it a great honor.

It was not difficult for Zhu Zhanji to take some time to meet them, but they were extremely moved.

They also did their best to send heavy gifts to their daughters, but Zhu Zhanji ordered them to return most of the gifts except for the necessary ones.

Not only that, every concubine was treated equally, and the inner eunuch came forward, and all of them prepared a gift in return, so that they could return with a rewarding experience.

With the abolition of sacrificial burial, the atmosphere in the entire palace improved a lot, and Zhu Gaochi's concubines also breathed a sigh of relief.

Zhu Di was in good health, but Zhu Gaochi was critically ill several times, and his concubines were all worried, for fear that they would be buried with Zhu Gaochi once he left.

Now, they don't have to worry.

This decree made Zhu Gaochi a little unhappy. On the evening of the sixth day, He Chun specially asked Zhu Zhanji to speak at Wenhua Hall.

As soon as they met, he questioned: "Such a big matter, you don't discuss it with your emperor, and you don't tell me, just issue an order directly!"

Although he was called Renzong in later generations, Zhu Gaochi still had the typical thinking of people of this era.

Zhu Zhanji just replied: "Who is not raised by his parents, how can he be willing to be forced to be buried because of his husband's death? What's more, the child is just not allowed to be forced to be buried. If a female relative is willing to be buried, the child will not care."

In the early Ming Dynasty, the common people were rarely buried.Even in order to increase the population, the court had to arrange another marriage for a woman who was only [-] years old.

In this era, chastity archways were not popular. It would not become popular until the late Ming Dynasty, when the population entered the stage of explosion and the number of people decreased.

Hearing Zhu Zhanji's answer, Zhu Gaochi sighed.He knew very well that his son had grown up, even better than himself.

Apart from being a father, he has no advantage over this son.But the father's airs can't be put on too often. After all, Zhu Zhanji is the grandson of Jian Guo, who is under one person and above ten thousand people.

If this son's face is hurt, no one knows what he will do.

He could already feel the house arrest of the entire inner prison and Jingwei. Although it was arranged by Zhu Di, without Zhu Zhanji's permission, he would not have been supervised so strictly.

Yang Pu was released from the prison, but he has not been able to enter the palace so far.Without thinking, you can know whose handwriting it is.

Zhu Gaochi was also heartbroken, this is his own son, but for the sake of power, he also disowned his relatives.

He knew very well that in the face of power, the relationship between father and son should be placed in the back row, but it still made him very sad when things happened to him.

"Yang Pu wrote me a letter a few years ago. He has been my father for more than ten years. I want to meet him."

Of course Zhu Zhanji knew about this, he knew everything written in the letter.

Yang Pu is talented and talented, but that's all.Zhu Zhanji didn't let him enter the palace, not because he was afraid that something would happen to him, but just to give Zhu Gaochi no hope.

So he replied: "My child already knows about this matter. After fifteen years, my father will go to another hospital to recuperate. I will definitely let him accompany me."

Zhu Gaochi stared into Zhu Zhanji's eyes and asked, "Can't we see you now? I'm your father!"

Zhu Zhanji sighed, looked at Zhu Gaochi calmly and said: "Father, the problem is not that you can't see him, but the meaning behind this matter. The boy never meant to put the father under house arrest, but he just didn't want the father to make some troubles." Right and wrong, let others separate our father and son relationship."

Zhu Gaochi smiled wryly, turned around and slept on the inner side of the bed. "You go, why is this..."

"Father, please rest in peace. Tomorrow the child will let Yang Pu enter the palace."

Hearing Zhu Zhanji's footsteps leaving, Zhu Gaochi turned around, lay on the couch, staring at the roof in a daze.

Although it seemed that he had won, since Zhu Zhanji had already spoken, he would never dare to take any action.

Because he didn't dare to do anything to him, but if he can release Yang Pu today, he can be locked up again tomorrow.

He Chun looked at Zhu Gaochi lying on the bed, not daring to make a sound.However, Zhu Gaochi did not forget him, and said: "Let Concubine Shu and Concubine Li come to massage Gu, I have slept for a long time, and my body is very tired."

He Chun responded lightly, and quietly left the room.He knew that Zhu Gaochi was unhappy, and wanted to find some sense of existence in women.

But he didn't even think about it, could his body bear it?

When Zhu Zhanji left the side hall, Mrs. Zhang asked the eunuch Ambassador Guo next to him to stop him.Following Ambassador Guo to the apse, Mrs. Zhang also received many wives and family members today. At this time, someone helped her hold her body.

Zhu Zhanji came in to say hello, she sent the others away, sat up, and let Zhu Zhanji sit by the bed. "What did your father tell you to do?"

"Maybe because Hai'er abolished the burial, he felt a little unhappy, so he talked to Hai'er."

Mrs. Zhang was not worried about the burial. As the future Empress Dowager, after all the women in the harem died, it would not be her turn to be buried.

After hearing Zhu Zhanji's words, she looked at Zhu Zhanji's face again, and said: "Your father is unhappy, but don't wrong yourself. Since ancient times, for thousands of years, there has been no burial system. Zhanji, you abolished it, this is a good deed."

Zhu Zhanji said with a smile: "I didn't think so far, but I just don't want the women in the palace to panic. They don't have to worry, there will be a lot more laughter in the palace."

Mrs. Zhang nodded, and said: "I met Mrs. Xia Guogong today. She is getting older, but her life is not going well."

Zhu Zhanji frowned, and asked, "I didn't hear any disharmony, what's the matter?"

Mrs. Xia Guogong is the old wife of the late Xia Guogong Gu Cheng. Gu Cheng was named Xia Guogong as hereditary Zhenyuan Hou because of his meritorious service.

Their family is also considered to be full of loyalty. There are eight sons in the family, four of whom were killed by Emperor Jianwen, and one died on the battlefield.