“The younger generations will do well on their own! You ah! You worry too much!! Okay, when the time comes, I will bring the child to go on a blind date, okay? Alas, it’s a sin to have too many children… oh right, our daughter will also be returning. She will be staying in the capital for a month. How about it? Are you happy?” Imperial Prince Jing mentioned his only daughter.

Princess Consort Jing was overjoyed by the news; she sighed and said, “In the past, we shouldn’t have married our daughter to such a distant place. It takes over twenty days on the road for her to return to the capital. Isn’t it a difficult journey?”

Zhu Junyang’s older sister, who was the second oldest of the family, Zhu Junya  [1] , married Lu Nianhua, who was the eldest grandson of one of the founding fathers of the dynasty, Lu Changfeng. Lu Changfeng was well versed in literary and military strategy. He was also resourceful, and was known as ‘the second Zhuge Liang  [2] ’. In the past he followed the emperor emeritus to seize power from the old dynasty. With his brains and the emperor emeritus’s brawn, the two of them swept everything before them and built the Great Ming Dynasty. If the emperor emeritus was the commanding officer in a modern era army, then Lu Changfeng was equivalent to the military chief of staff who assisted the commanding officer. The two people recognized and appreciated each other’s talent and forged an extraordinary friendship. 

After the emperor emeritus...