sinovels Chapter 437 The Morning of the First Day in the Eastern Palace
Chapter 437 The Morning of the First Day in the Eastern Palace
Everyone left, leaving the two of them alone, the little prince stopped pretending and jumped off his seat: "Little uncle!"
This kid is very interesting. Although there are three brothers in the Wan family, he calls Wanxi the eldest uncle, wants Wantong the younger uncle, and Wanda is the third uncle.
I don't know how he divided it himself, but he just didn't change his words.
"You are all princes, you have to be mature..." Wantong scolded his nephew with a straight face.
"Be mature and steady!" The child said helplessly, "I will recite everything they say."
The little prince has heard enough of the whole day.
"Don't say a few words, are you sleepy without seeing the child?" Wu Youwei said kindly: "His Royal Highness should take a rest. If you wake up too early, you will be sleepy."
"Yeah!" The little prince nodded, "Uncle said so!"
Wantong: "...!!!"
Wu Youwei: "...!??!"
Who knew that the child spoke surprisingly: "I wanted to call you aunt, but my concubine refused to let me call you uncle."
Wu Youwei blushed, and gave Wantong a hard blow: "What did you tell the child?"
Wantong lifted the little prince up with a blank expression: "Go, uncle will take you to rest."
But he is not satisfied in his heart, because his elder nephew has good eyesight, knows how to call people, and knows how to be polite!
The other eunuchs and court ladies all lowered their heads, not daring to lift them up.
"Uncle, let's go, let's go." The little prince pulled Wu Youwei through Wantong: "Go to sleep, get up and eat something before leaving the palace, there is still time."
"Okay." Wu Youwei felt that this baby was not a brat.
Of course, this is only on the surface. The little prince slept, and Wantong and Wu Youwei also slept on the soft couch in the side hall. After getting up, the little prince made arrangements for them both for the afternoon Tea.
Black tea, red bean cake, and golden jujube cake.
There was also dried yak meat that came as a tribute. It is said that this was a tribute from Uzbek. It was only three hundred catties, and it was divided into one share. When it came to the little prince, only ten catties were left.
This thing is heavy, and it looks like a small piece, but it is heavy and tight, so although ten catties is a lot, there is only a small pile. Put two pieces on a plate, and a few of them will weigh a catty.
Dried yaks came from Uzbekistan as a tribute in the early years. Emperor Xianzong rewarded them with fifty catties of chili powder. Even the seeds were ground into powder. It was guaranteed that no single seed was complete. People in Uzang took it back and ate it, and they were surprised!The plateau has a cold climate, and three of the four seasons are cold and windy, so they need chili more than anyone else.
So when they made tributes, they deliberately used the best yak meat, mixed with pepper, aniseed, chili powder and other spices to make precious yak meat jerky, and paid tribute to the Ming emperor, hoping to get the chili seeds .
Emperor Xianzong generously gave it, but their place...is not suitable for growing peppers!
In fact, pepper planting is not suitable for directly sowing seeds, but for seedlings to be planted in the soil.
Uzang is the place on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. In the north of the plain, seedlings are planted in April and May. There are warm houses in the south of the Yangtze River, and green peppers can be eaten all year round.
As for Wusizang, few people from the Central Plains go there, they only know that the climate is harsh, and seedlings are planted here in April and May, and there are still heavy snow flakes there.
Can it be the same?
They don't know how to grow things either?
So... it's just that life and death can't be done, and I have to exchange some salt, tea, porcelain and chili powder in Daming every year to go back.
Emperor Xianzong has already considered the issue of opening a mutual market.
"Is this jerky yak meat?" Wu Youwei took a bite, and felt that the taste was different from ordinary beef. The yak meat was thicker, perhaps due to ethnic minorities, and the taste was stronger. The kind of pure natural beef that one bites into one's mouth The flavors of spices and beef come together.
Wu Youwei felt that this game would definitely fight hunger!
"It's from the father, the tribute from Wusi." The little prince held a gnawed flattery: "There are three to five hundred catties every year, but they are so poor there, so they pay tribute to these things, and some snow foxes. Skins and stuff... oh, and herbs."
"Well, don't look at that place as poor, that place is a treasure." Wu Youwei took the opportunity to say, "It's not that they are poor, but they don't know how to use those things. Tibet in later generations, one of the tourist attractions, blue sky and white clouds, Buda La Palace, Snow Mountain, Grassland, and Rhodiola Rosea, Turquoise, Snow Lotus...
And seabuckthorn, they are all babies!
A bottle of seabuckthorn drink costs seven or eight yuan!
That thing is quite overbearing to supplement vitamins.
"Really?" The little prince's eyes widened: "What's it like there?"
what does it look like?
Wu Youwei thought for a while: "There is a plateau area, with the highest snow mountain in the world... the Himalayas."
In later generations, it was called "the roof of the world".
It is located on a plateau with extreme climate changes, but there is a very magical ethnic group, the Tibetans.
I remember that the most mysterious thing in later generations is "sky burial"....
Wu Youwei used the geography knowledge he had learned back then to compose a travel vocabulary, and introduced the place, and the little prince's eyes widened when he heard it.
What about yaks, snow wolves, Tibetan mastiffs, and mysterious sky burials, generations of Living Buddhas and Lamas....
But it was too good to say, the palace gate was about to be released, and the two of them had to go back.
"Uncle, are you coming tomorrow?" The little prince looked at Wu Youwei eagerly, "I... this prince still wants to hear about Wu Sizang."
Wu Youwei couldn't hold back, and touched the little prince's little hand: "Come on, I'm your Zuochunfang University scholar, I will teach you whatever you want to learn."
If this child is a malleable talent, he hopes that in his lifetime, he can see the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty, and he will not be forced to enter the customs by the Qing Dynasty in the future, and he will not bow his head and be called a "slave".
Not to mention the hundred years of backwardness and humiliation....
It would be nice to have a constitutional monarchy.
"Hmm!" It would be nice if all the gentlemen were like uncle.
The little prince thought happily, and sent Wantong and Wu Youwei out of the gate of Ciqing Palace.
Ciqing Palace is the so-called "East Palace" and the residence of the prince.
That night, Wu Youwei wrote the class schedule, and the next day, he didn't go to the court. Zuo Chunfang University Bachelor is an honorary title, and there is nothing that needs him to speak in the court, except for the matter about the crown prince.
But the crown prince has just been established, and he is still so young. Basically, he doesn't need to go to the court. Of course, if he is a caring person who wants to have a sense of presence, he can go.
Wu Youwei is not a masochist, getting up before dawn to go to court, that is not his style!
So he thought he got up relatively early, brought the schedule and a whole set of elementary school textbooks, and wobbled to the East Palace in his own pony carriage.
As a result, as soon as he entered the door, he saw Wantong teaching the little prince Zamabu!
"Don't shake your legs." Wan Wan tapped the little prince's calf with a woven rattan.
"En!" The little prince was wearing a small set of strong clothes, and instead of wearing any gold or silver crowns on his head, he wore a small bun on his head. He was obviously already sweating profusely, but he still gritted his teeth and insisted.
"It's almost there?" The chief eunuch looked distressed, and took out his handkerchief to wipe off the little prince's sweat: "Lord Wan?"
"Just wait until that stick of incense burns out." Wantong pointed to a stick of fine incense sticking on the incense burner beside him.
The incense is really thin, only a little thicker than the incense sticks, and it has been burned to three quarters.
Wu Youwei came in: "His Royal Highness, thousand years old."
In ancient times, it was troublesome. When we met each other, we couldn't help but say hello, and we had to give a big gift. Who told this to be the prince?Fortunately, Wu Youwei is a scholar of Zuochunfang University and the prince's husband, so there is no need to kneel down and salute, just bow down and salute.
"Hmm!" The little prince gritted his teeth, didn't speak, but just glanced at the chief eunuch of Ciqing Palace with his big eyes.
"His Royal Highness said, Master Wu is free from courtesy, please sit in the Duanjing Hall." The chief eunuch said sternly: "Please."
Wu Youwei smiled, and Wantong nodded to him: "Go in and sit down, my side will be fine in a while, and His Royal Highness needs to wash it."
"En." Wu Youwei nodded: "Have you had breakfast?"
The little prince glanced at the chief eunuch.
The chief eunuch said: "Not yet, I only drank a glass of... that milk in the morning."
This was the kind where His Highness the Crown Prince was not allowed to eat after Master Wan came, and he was given a cup of hot milk with some sugar, and then His Highness the Crown Prince was allowed to walk around the East Palace.
Those with small arms and legs are tired enough after one lap, and then they have to do gymnastics, such as the five-animal show, and then let the little prince squat.
This squat is like a stick of incense.
Although the incense is a little thinner, it is still a stick of incense!
"Oh, then I'll go in." Wu Youwei said he knew, and went in without saying anything else.
The chief eunuch did not leave the little prince's side, but his mouth was not idle: "Come here, let's serve tea and snacks."
After he went in, he arranged the textbooks and looked at the teaching environment.
The place where the crown prince is taught is the Duanjing Hall, which is actually the East Hall of the main house of the Prince’s Ciqing Palace. The East Palace is on the east side of the three main halls from Qianqing Gate to Shenwu Gate. Wu Youwei formed a A map, according to the symmetry of the division, the Ciqing Palace should be the Dongsan Temple in the Qing Dynasty
The East Palace is the name of the ancient palace, and it got its name because of its location.
Later, it was borrowed to refer to the prince who lived in the East Palace.
Because "East" belongs to spring, and the color belongs to "green", it is also called "Spring Palace" and "Qing Palace"; the state reserve lives, so it is also known as "Chu Palace".
The place where the prince studied is the Duanjing Hall.
Although it is a "palace" specification, the room is spacious and bright, especially on the windows, which are all...large pieces of transparent glass!
You know, such a glass window outside has already been sold at a sky-high price!
That is to say, Emperor Xianzong put on large glass windows for his Qianqing Palace, the Queen's Kunning Palace, the Empress Dowager's Qingning Palace, and Wan Guifei's Zhaode Palace. Other places are still window paper and window screens. Woolen cloth.
That's it, I have already contracted the formed large glass produced by the glass factory in the past few years.
Wu Youwei didn't know that Emperor Xianzong was such a prodigal, he would rather show off than let the glass factory make more glass products to sell for money, who the hell!
But sitting here now, looking at the classroom that can be said to be "bright and clean", Wu Youwei is still very satisfied, but there are a little less students, and His Royal Highness is alone.
Wu Youwei looked at the seat of His Highness the Crown Prince, it was covered with a soft grass woven cushion, which was quite thick and breathable, nothing more.
The long table is carved into the pattern of auspicious clouds, on which are placed the top four treasures of the study.
Because the little prince is still young, all the things he makes are small, which look a little cute.
Outside, it was finally time for the little prince to squat, he was carried by the chief eunuch to wash up, and changed his clothes before sitting in the flower hall to wait for dinner.
In fact, the breakfast in the palace is not extravagant, but the variety is a bit more.
Elephant eye buns (that is, small steamed buns), big meat buns, and Shandong vegetable buns.
Millet porridge, eight-treasure porridge, red bean porridge and miscellaneous grain porridge.
And four small pickles, one braised egg, and one sliced braised pork.
The main reason is that there are two adults around, and the little prince can't usually eat so much.
Wu Youwei actually had breakfast when he came here, but he had never eaten the one in the palace, so he wanted to eat it.
After breakfast, the little prince was of course the first to move his chopsticks.
I saw the little guy holding a steamed bun tremblingly with the chopsticks, but he missed it, and the steamed bun fell on the table. The little prince's eyes widened. Slowly, his eyes were filled with mist, and his mouth was also deflated... ....I'm about to cry!