Chapter 37 Chenghua Love Story
“The prince is all ready.”
Meng Chong carefully placed ten glass bottles filled with sugar in front of Zhu Zaijing. He reminded while holding back his excitement.
Zhu Zaijing could not help but grin with joy as he looked at these ten installed works of art.
As a time traveler, Zhu Zaijing is very aware of the importance of brands and the high-end nature of luxury goods.
A successful brand can sell even an empty bottle for hundreds of dollars, and people are rushing to buy it.
Those who grab it think they have made a profit. If they don’t buy it, they will look forward to the next opportunity. If they can’t afford it, they will say sourly that many people paid stupid money to buy it.
But are the people who can get it stupid?
They are not stupid at all. What they need is the feeling that others have nothing and I have something.
If you can’t create this feeling, then don’t buy luxury goods.
It would be better to do low-end market wholesale.
Zhu Zaijing gritted his teeth and said, "Well done! I think highly of you."
After Meng Chong heard Zhu Zaijing's compliment, he felt happy immediately. He stood up and said, "Thank you for the compliment, Your Majesty."
Then Meng Chong asked with longing: "Your Majesty, how are we going to sell these treasures?"
Zhu Zaijing said: "Of course we have to. It’s enough to let people come to grab it. If we take the initiative to sell it, won’t we lose our status?”
Meng Chong was dumbfounded when he heard Zhu Zaijing's brazen words.
Is there such a business in this world?
Zhu Zaijing continued: "Go find a clever embroiderer and ask her to make ten numbered small tassel hanging tags. Embroider the words 'Yi Ran Zhi Tang' on the front and embroider the words 'Yiranzhi Candy' on the back. Embroider the numbers from 'Jiayi' to 'Jiashi' in sequence. It will be of great use to me!"
Meng Chong's face changed when he heard that Zhu Zaijing wanted to ask the embroiderer to embroider this kind of tassel tag with words. His expression suddenly became frightened.
The work of a good embroiderer is not cheap, it has to cost four to five hundred yuan, otherwise it will not be available.
But now that one tael of sugar has not been cashed out, and money has to be spent, Meng Chong's little heart is really a little bit overwhelmed
Meng Chong said anxiously: "My lord, you can't help it, this kind of embroidered card is very difficult to bear." Expensive."
Looking at Meng Chong's fussy look, Zhu Zaijing couldn't help but feel a little angry. Zhu Zaijing said: "What are our identities? What is my identity? We have to use the best, otherwise how can we show off our differences? Go and do it quickly, and you will starve for three days if you delay the king's business!"
When Meng Chong heard this, he immediately There is no need to stop Zhu Zaizhen.
Anyway, the palace's money is really gone, and the emperor and the court will not watch the dignified Prince of Ming Dynasty being unable to uncover the pot in Beijing, but will still provide some relief.
It's just that those slaves like them will be severely punished by the superiors, and other crimes will be eliminated. So Meng Chong is thinking about it now. Since his prince likes to do it, let him do it. The worst he can do is to be reprimanded by the palace several times. As long as the prince is willing to protect him, then it won't be a problem!
Meng Chong immediately found a skilled embroiderer according to Zhu Zaijing's request, and made ten more numbered tassel hanging tags according to Zhu Zaijing's instructions.
After the tassel hanging tags were completed, Zhu Zaijing hung these hanging tags on ten glass bottles filled with sugar.
Zhu Zaijing picked out a bottle of glass sugar bottle with a picture of an old pine. Zhu Zaijing looked at the painting of the old pine on it and the painting of an immortal sitting cross-legged and practicing under the old pine. Nodding with satisfaction.
Zhu Zaijing said: "This bottle is good. You can find a better box to put it in and send it to Xiyuan. It is my sincere filial piety and I want to make your majesty's heart sweeter."
< br>When Meng Chong heard that Zhu Zaijing was going to give candy to Emperor Jiajing, he seemed to understand something in his heart. It turned out that the prince was still so filial. No wonder the prince was so filial.
But in fact, Zhu Zaijing had no affection for Emperor Jiajing as a father and a son. He was just holding his job and showing the attitude he should have toward him. After all, judging from Zhu Zaijing's current body, Emperor Jiajing is Zhu Zaijing's father, whether in terms of patriarchal clan or bloodline.
If you don’t show an attitude of filial piety to me, how can you continue to follow me in the future?
Meng Chong said quickly: "I know this. It turns out that all this is the prince's filial piety."
Zhu Zaixian grinned and did not deny or explain.
Zhu Zaijing continued to choose another glass sugar bottle with plum blossoms painted on it, "This is for Eunuch Huang Jin, and I also want to thank him for his many years of serving His Majesty regardless of summer, heat, winter or snow. By my side, I will be filial to this unfilial son who cannot see his father.”
After hearing this, Meng Chong was so moved that he almost cried. The prince’s life is miserable. I have never seen the emperor's Tianyan, who grew up alone. But he didn't complain or get angry. He still remembered the emperor with all his heart and wanted the people around him to serve him well. What kind of filial piety was this?
Then Zhu Zaijing picked out another glass sugar vase with lotus flowers, "This is entrusted to Huang Jin to be given to my mother and concubine. Although I cannot fulfill my filial piety beside my mother and concubine, I still can I thought her life would be sweeter.”
No matter whether it is Zhu Zaijing now or Zhu Zaijing before, he doesn’t have much feelings about the existence of his biological mother. They are just limited by etiquette. , a sign of intimacy and filial piety.
Because the raising system for princes in the Ming Dynasty was a raising system where mother and child were separated, after the prince reached a certain age, he would be taken away and given to a wet nurse to raise, and his biological mother would not be seen a few times.
It is precisely because of this system that a sentimental love story took place in the Ming Dynasty under specific historical conditions.
Under the careful care of Aunt Wan, Emperor Chenghua who had gone through various childhood hardships, the two of them were like Yang Guo and Xiao Longnu, breaking through the age limit and having a vigorous coming of age. Transform love story.
It’s a pity that this kind of love is destined not to be accepted by the world.
Aunt Wan, who was favored by Emperor Chenghua, became the target of attack by the courtiers and literati at that time. They all believed that Aunt Wan confused the emperor and prevented him from having a correct view of love and responsibility.
Such attacks and slanders have not stopped until now, even hundreds of years later.
It seems that Aunt Wan is a temptress who does not deserve love. She brought trouble to the Ming Dynasty.
But in good conscience, apart from Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang and Chengzu Zhu Di, he seems to be the most capable.
Not only did he clean up the mess left by his father who studied abroad, he also regained the vigor of the Ming army and dealt a lot of blows to the ambitious grassland tribes outside the pass. It also created the "Chenghua Liting Garden" that is still talked about today!
This caused a serious blow to the power of the Jurchen tribe in Liaodong, and also caused them to cease for more than a hundred years, and no longer became a confidant of the Ming Dynasty.
It's a pity that the successor was too obedient and well-behaved. Although he also gained a historical evaluation of "ZTE", the Hetao was lost in his hands. As a result, for more than a hundred years, the Ming Dynasty suffered constant troubles from the north and could never be overcome. Once again rely on the Hetao land to go deep into Mobei and go straight to Dragon City!
So when it comes to the truth of history, you should not just listen to what others say, but look specifically at what the parties involved did at that time. These things are the ultimate basis for evaluating a historical status!
(End of this chapter)