Three days later, Ye Chunqiu was urgently summoned to the palace. He was supposed to lead a team to Chaoyang Gate to welcome the envoy in the early morning, but now he hurried to the warm house.

Spring is just beginning, and there is a bit of spring in the palace. New branches have grown on the trees, and unique green buds can be seen everywhere.

However, Zhu Houzhao suddenly recruited Ye Chunqiu to the palace at this time, which made Ye Chunqiu a little confused. So he had to let Wang Shouren lead the team and go to Chaoyang Gate with the ceremonial officer. When he arrived at the warm pavilion, he saw Zhu Houzhao brushing his golden armor with a playful look on his face.

Ye Chunqiu saluted, and Zhu Houzhao blinked at him and said, "Ye Aiqing, is the little prince of Tatar coming?"

Ye Chunqiu said, "Your Majesty, I'm afraid it's not until noon."

Zhu Houzhao blinked at him again: "I will know." He put down his brush, and his words became colder, saying, "I have sent an order to host a banquet in the palace tonight. You can accompany me and see who this little prince is with me."

Ye Chunqiu roughly knew the identity of this little prince, so he naturally derived it from the light brain.

He was promoted to the throne of Khan when he was young. Thirty years ago, he became the leader of the Tatar tribe named Batumonk. This man was a very talented man. He quickly subdued the powerful ministers within the Tatars and at the same time annexed the Oirat tribe, which was also Mongolian, forcing the participating Oirats to move westward. Now he is almost unified in the Mongolian grasslands, and the power extends from Liaodong to the west of the desert.

When he attacked the Oirat tribe, he had a peace talk with the Ming Dynasty. When Emperor Hongzhi saw that he was "true" attached to him, he heard that he claimed to be the Great Khan of the Yuan Dynasty. Perhaps it was equivalent to admitting his identity as the Great Khan of the Yuan Dynasty. So the Ming Dynasty opened border trade and traded with the Tatars. Unexpectedly, when the Oirats were annexed by the Tatars, the "Dayuan Dynasty Khan" immediately raised an army and began to raid the borders of the Ming Dynasty. During the Hongzhi Dynasty, the court was disturbed by the little prince.

Back then, Emperor Hongzhi discussed countermeasures with his ministers to deal with the little prince. The young Zhu Houzhao accompanied him to play with Emperor Hongzhi's seal. He was familiar with the deeds of this person.

Today, Zhu Houzhao seemed a little excited and a natural fear when facing this person, because he clearly felt the worries on his face when his father and his ministers discussed this person.

He had made a great wish to defeat him one day, but when this man arrived in the capital, Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but feel a little timid.

It seems that at this time, only Ye Chunqiuzuo can be with him to feel more comfortable.

Ye Chunqiu saw Zhu Houzhao's thoughts, so he simply sat aside and remained silent.

He was very good at judging Zhu Houzhao's feelings. During the past six months of waiting for the imperial edict, Zhu Houzhao only mentioned this person casually many times. This shows that this little prince had a particularly deep memory of Zhu Houzhao.

Since that's the case, Ye Chunqiu had nothing to say, but he couldn't help but think, Your Majesty wanted to bring himself to be brave.

Ye Chunqiu looked at Zhu Houzhao suspiciously. Zhu Houzhao was silent and thought about his thoughts, which made Ye Chunqiu sigh softly: "Your Majesty is still a child after all."

At this time, he seemed to have forgotten that he was two years younger than Zhu Houzhao.

At noon, Zhu Houzhao gave him a meal. He had his first meal in the palace. Ye Chunqiu was quite looking forward to it, but when the imperial meal came up, Ye Chunqiu suddenly lost his appetite.

The meals in the palace focus on pomp, what is pomp, it is nothing more than the size of the dishes, the soup, and the pastries required. With the order of Your Majesty, these meals must be brought from Shangshiguan. Therefore, in order to prepare early, the dishes are often prepared long ago, and then placed in a warm fire and slowly warmed. After a command, people put them in brocade boxes and walked three or four miles from Shangshiguan to the front of the imperial court.

In Ye Chunqiu's opinion, no matter what kind of dish it is, or the most delicious thing that has just been served, and once it has been warmed for a long time, it is no different from overnight dishes. Ye Chunqiu just ate some tastelessly, then picked up the fruits and vegetables to eat. Zhu Houzhao was not in much mood to eat, so he forced a few bites and waved his hand: "Get away."

In the afternoon, the banquet was already underway in the front hall. This time, the party was mostly important ministers from the cabinet and various ministries, as well as officials from the Ministry of Rites and the Honglu Temple. Because it was only a private banquet, it was not held in the three main halls, but in a side hall.

Zhu Houzhao and Ye Chunqiu arrived there early. When the cabinet ministers and the tribes arrived, Ye Chunqiu was busy going to pay tribute.

Liu Jian was in a pretty good mood today, and he joked with Ye Chunqiu: "Are you planning to compete with the foreigners again?"

"Uh..." Ye Chunqiu pursed her lips and simply said nothing.

Xie Qian, who was standing beside him, smiled.

Ye Chunqiu simply knelt down after a corner of the hall, waiting until the sky gradually faded. At this time, another team of ceremonies came in outside and saluted Zhu Houzhao on the imperial throne. Someone bowed and said, "Your Majesty, Dayuan Khan has arrived."

The little prince was just the Ming people's name for the leader of the Tatar tribe, but Batumonk's true identity was the Great Khan of the Yuan Dynasty.

Zhu Houzhao seemed calm, but she was actually a little nervous. He couldn't help looking at Ye Chunqiu and saw Ye Chunqiu hiding in the corner and sitting with a ceremonial officer, and couldn't help feeling helpless...

Ye Aiqing is out of reach now and can't help me...

So Zhu Houzhao coughed and said, "Xuan."

After a while, there was a man with a back and waist. Although he was only about forty years, he looked particularly energetic. He was wearing a jacket, generous and luxurious, with braids on his head and black and white on his hair, so he couldn't tell his momentum.

Zhu Hou looked after him and found that he was nothing special, except that he was more solid than ordinary people.

The person who accompanied him in was Zhang Yi, the host and guest doctor. Zhang Yi smiled and asked him to the lower left of the imperial palace. He just saluted Zhu Houzhao and said, "The Great Khan of the Yuan Dynasty, Batumonk, have seen the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty."

Although he was respectful this time, he did not bow down.

Zhu Houzhao only looked at him, and then came to her senses and said, "No need to be polite. Today is a private banquet, just to welcome you."

Batumonk's eyes narrowed slightly, and his eyes swept across the young Zhu Houzhao like a knife. He seemed to be thinking in his eyes, and then he laughed and said, "Thank you for the banquet."

After saying that, he came to his desk, and took off a coat that was covered with. The eunuch next to him hurriedly picked up his coat. However, at this time, the little eunuch stood still, his eyes were a little straight, and his eyes were staring straight on his waist.

He tied a royal belt around his waist, and the shape of the imperial belt was exactly the same as that of Zhu Houzhao's waist.

It's the imperial belt!

(To be continued.)
Chapter completed!