On that day, Lady Lü and Zhu Yunwen finally left the Eastern Palace and moved to the former Wu Prince's Mansion, now the Jianwen Prince's Mansion.
The scale of this Prince's Mansion was originally planned by Zhu Yunwen and the former Minister of Revenue, with only a few tens of thousands of taels of silver allocated. Later, Zhu Yunwen took the initiative to cooperate with the current Minister of Revenue to use those tens of thousands of taels of silver for the renovation of the original mansion.
Therefore, although the mansion was well renovated, it was extremely small in scale. It can be said that this was Zhu Yunwen reaping what he sowed.
Despite his frustration, he was powerless to do anything about it.
Upon arriving at the Jianwen Prince's residence, Lady Lü's expression remained grim.
It was clearly unbearable for a former Crown Princess who was used to living in the Eastern Palace to suddenly move to this small Prince's Mansion.
So she looked at Zhu Yunwen and said:
“Son, no matter what, we, mother and son, must rise up. We can never live like this.”
Zhu Yunwen nodded solemnly, and then said:
"I've already made up my mind. In a while, I'll secretly meet with my second uncle, Prince Qin Zhu Shuang, my third uncle, Prince Jin Zhu Gang, and my fourth uncle, Prince Yan Zhu Di."
Lady Lü's eyelids twitched slightly, and she immediately said:
"Is my son trying to win them over? But they are princes after all, and they are probably very interested in the throne right now. I don't think it will be easy to persuade them to help you sit on that throne."
Zhu Yunwen smiled:
“They have their ambitions, and I have my ideas. I will take advantage of their ambitions, as well as their army and power, to help me rebel. After the rebellion succeeds, I will use my schemes to take that position myself.”
Lady Lü suddenly realized what was going on and said, "You want to deceive them and then use their power to help you get to that position?"
Zhu Yunwen nodded and said, "That's right, they will definitely be dissatisfied with each other and all want to sit in that position."
"I only need to utilize their military strength to seize the throne after my grandfather's death. Then, I'll instigate internal conflicts among them, letting them fight amongst themselves, while I, the fisherman, reap the benefits."
Lady Lü nodded and said:
"The plan is good, but we'll see if it can be carried out under your control when the time comes."
Zhu Yunwen smiled confidently: "Mother, don't worry, there's absolutely no problem. I'm very confident in my abilities. The reason I've temporarily lost to Zhu Yunwen is simply because that guy got lucky."
Lady Lü also had a blind confidence in her son, which perhaps wasn't entirely blind.
After all, for a long period of time before, everything Zhu Yunwen showed was superior to everything Zhu Yunwen had shown.
This brief transition was not enough for Lady Lü to realize that Zhu Yunwen was already stronger than Zhu Yongwen.
The mother and son are clearly still on the path of self-destruction, continuing to think about how to go even further.
Meanwhile, after Zhu Yunwen moved into the Eastern Palace, he began to assist Zhu Yuanzhang in handling important affairs of the court.
In order to cultivate Zhu Yunwen, Zhu Yuanzhang also established the Chamberlain's Office in the Eastern Palace. This so-called Chamberlain's Office was actually a small court.
It has the same layout as the imperial court.
For example, the imperial court has three high officials, and the Crown Prince's residence has three young masters.
It was used to teach Zhu Yunwen, and at the same time, it was also to train Zhu Yunwen, to give him the feeling of handling things in the court.
In this situation, Zhu Yuanzhang specifically assigned some memorials to Zhu Yunwen for processing. After processing, Zhu Yunwen only needed to read them once.
The Grand Tutor also oversaw the administration of the prefectures, wards, and bureaus to assist the Crown Prince.
Zhu Yuanzhang now attaches great importance to the education of his grandson, so he specially established a more complete set of officials for the Eastern Palace than in previous dynasties to instruct the crown prince.
Zhu Yunwen was quite satisfied with Zhu Yuanzhang's arrangements, after all, Zhu Yuanzhang still had many years left before he passed away.
During these years, Zhu Yunwen was able to learn how to handle court affairs very well, which was also a good opportunity.
After all, he possesses certain abilities, as well as a certain level of intelligence and the means to handle affairs.
But ultimately, he wasn't familiar enough with many things in the imperial court.
Managing a country well is by no means a simple matter.
Therefore, the comprehensive training that Zhu Yuanzhang is now giving to Zhu Yunwen can definitely be considered a preschool for emperors.
In this way, when Zhu Yuanzhang passes away, Zhu Yunwen can perfectly take over the important task without appearing so awkward or unable to cope.
After having his own dedicated office, Zhu Yunwen finally realized that there were indeed many matters to be dealt with in the imperial court.
From time to time, memorials were sent from the cabinet. These memorials were basically initially judged and processed by the cabinet, and then reviewed and approved by Zhu Yunwen.
If there is anything wrong with the memorial, it should be sent back to the cabinet for a final decision.
The memorial would be considered complete once Zhu Yunwen was satisfied, or if there were any minor flaws, he would point them out and make slight modifications.
After the eunuchs presented it to Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Yuanzhang reviewed it and felt that the cabinet had handled it well, and Zhu Yunwen's suggestions were also good, so he directly handed it over to the Six Ministries for processing.
In this way, Zhu Yunwen would have to review at least forty or fifty memorials a day.
However, this is only the tip of the iceberg among the many memorials submitted, which shows that being an emperor is not an easy task.
Being a diligent and conscientious emperor, especially, is no easy task.
Of course, if these matters can be handled by a trustworthy leadership team, then it would be a much easier task.
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