The Most Powerful Man in the World

Chu Yi sat there with no thoughts, but Yue Buqun stood there in awe, not daring to disturb Chu Yi at all.

As for Zhu Zaiji on the side, it is obvious that he has a psychological shadow on Chu Yi. He is holding the book in his hand at the moment. what.

Glancing at Chu Yi secretly, seeing that Chu Yi didn't seem to notice him, Zhu Zaiji's eyes lit up, his small body bowed quietly, then raised his short legs and took a step quietly.

Although Zhu Zaiji kept making small movements, he did not forget to stare at Chu Yi's actions. Seeing that Chu Yi still had no reaction, Zhu Zaiji endured the joy in his heart and stepped out again, approaching the pavilion in the distance step by step.

When Yue Buqun, who was standing on the side, came in, he naturally noticed everyone in Chu Yi's courtyard at a glance, including Zhu Zaiji and the queens in the pavilion not far away.

However, Yue Buqun did not dare to look at it any more. At this moment, Zhu Zaiji's small actions naturally attracted Yue Buqun's attention.

Yue Buqun, as the commander of Jinyiwei, is naturally very clear about the situation of the royal family, and he has even seen the prince Zhu Zaiji more than once.

Therefore, Yue Buqun is no stranger to Zhu Zaiji, and Chu Yi also taught Zhu Zaiji as the prince's grandfather. This is a well-known thing in the world.

Seeing Zhu Zaiji's cautious appearance while Chu Yi was thinking about the problem and leaving, Yue Buqun couldn't help but feel a little funny in his heart.

Zhu Zaiji has walked almost ten feet away at this moment. It seems that because Chu Yi has no reaction, Zhu Zaiji's face is full of joy, and his eyes are filled with infinite joy. He ran to the attic.

In the attic, under the service of several palace maids, the queen was sitting there reading a book. Although the queens of the Ming Dynasty did not dare to say that they were all virtuous and virtuous, there was no trouble with the people of the dynasty. Queen Xia was born in a family of officials. , Qin, chess, calligraphy and painting are naturally proficient.

Sitting there reading a book at the moment, it seems extremely demure.

A maid standing beside Queen Xia apparently noticed the little prince Zhu Zaiji's small movements in the yard in the distance and couldn't help but said to Queen Xia: "Queen Empress, look at the little prince..."

Queen Xia looked up and looked into the distance, just to see Zhu Zaiji bowing slightly and walking away from Chu Yi with a cautious appearance.

Just looking at Zhu Zaiji's cautious appearance, Queen Xia couldn't help showing a little smile on her face.

"The emperor is really a nonsense!"

Although the words are said, there is infinite doting between the words. Queen Xia has only such a son. If nothing else, Zhu Zaiji will be the future emperor and will be her support for the rest of her life.

For Zhu Zaiji, Queen Xia's doting is naturally conceivable. Fortunately, Queen Xia also knows that Zhu Zaiji wants to ascend to the throne, but he has to rely on Chu Yi and other important officials in the court, even if it is only for Zhu Zaiji's own consideration, Zhu Zaiji must also Study well.

Therefore, no matter how much Empress Xia spoiled Zhu Zaiji, when Empress Xia was teaching Zhu Zaiji by Chu Yi, no matter how Chu Yi punished Zhu Zaiji, Empress Xia would not come forward.

Of course, Queen Xia could go out of the palace and accompany Zhu Zaiji to Wu Wangfu, but she also asked the emperor's permission, and Queen Xia assured the emperor that she would never interfere with Chu Yi's teaching Zhu Zaiji.

If it weren't for this, how could Queen Xia leave the palace and appear in the palace of King Wu.

"Mother..."

Zhu Zaiji trotted towards Queen Xia, his face full of joy.

With a squeak, the door opened, Zhu Zaiji ran into the room, rushed forward into Queen Xia's arms, held Queen Xia and raised her face with a look of grievance: "Mother, Ji'er wants to go back to the palace. !"

Hearing Zhu Zaiji say this, Queen Xia couldn't help laughing, she pointed out her sallow jade finger on Zhu Zaiji's forehead and said, "You little guy, doesn't the mother know your mind?"

Among Zhu Zaiji's several teachers, only Chu Yi would strictly discipline him at every turn, without any intention to regard him as a prince. Even Wang Shouren and Yang Yiqing would occasionally teach Zhu Zaiji strictly when they taught him, but like Chu Yi. At every turn, he hit the palm of his hand with a ruler, but except for Chu Yi, no one else had ever done it.

It is conceivable that Zhu Zaiji is just a child. In the midst of the doting of everyone, there is such a person who dares to beat him suddenly. If there is no fear in his heart, who is to blame.

In fact, when Zhu Zaiji walked away carefully, Chu Yi had already noticed Zhu Zaiji's actions, even if Chu Yi's mind was on those news, but with Chu Yi's cultivation base, it was impossible to hide any troubles. Yi.

Zhu Zaiji ran away from him. If Chu Yi didn't notice it under this circumstance, it can only be said that Chu Yi's response was too slow.

He glanced at Zhu Zaiji lightly, even Zhu Zaiji didn't notice the appearance of Chu Yi throwing at him, and thought that Chu Yi didn't notice at all.

Lightly tapping on the table, Chu Yi looked at Yue Buqun and said, "Commander Yue, I have a matter for you to handle!"

Yue Buqun couldn't help but be refreshed when he heard this, with a look of excitement on his face, and said to Chu Yi, "No matter what the prince ordered, I will do my best."

Chu Yi nodded slightly, whispered a few words, then looked at Yue Buqun and said, "Can you write it down?"

Yue Buqun nodded towards Chu Yi and said, "This subordinate has written it down, and I will do it now!"

Seeing Yue Buqun leaving in a hurry, Chu Yi showed a smile on the corner of his mouth, slowly got up, and then looked towards the attic in the distance.

Just as Chu Yi's eyes were on Zhu Zaiji's, Zhu Zaiji was so frightened that he was lying in Queen Xia's arms when he saw Chu Yi looking at him: "Teacher has found out, Ji'er is miserable, mother, let's go back to the palace... "

Just when Zhu Zaiji looked pitiful and asked Queen Xia for help, a voice came: "Kier, can you recite the thousand-character text?"

When Queen Xia saw Zhu Zaiji's appearance, she was a little amused. She patted Zhu Zaiji on the shoulder and said, "Kier, go to Taifu!"

Zhu Zaiji raised his head, looked at Queen Xia and shook his head aggrievedly, but it's a pity that Queen Xia spoiled Zhu Zaiji on weekdays, but now she doesn't dare.

Chu Yi could tell him and the emperor at the beginning that if he wanted him to discipline Zhu Zaiji, then in the process of teaching Zhu Zaiji, neither the emperor nor the queen had any opinions.

Zhu Houzhao naturally trusted Chu Yi very much, so he agreed to Chu Yi at the time. Even if the queen had any opinions, she didn't dare to raise it. A fool would know that it would definitely hate Chu Yi.

Queen Xia spent a lot of effort to make Chu Yi become the prince's grandfather, and let Zhu Zaiji have a relationship with Chu Yi. With this kind of relationship, unless Chu Yi made it clear that he did not support Zhu Zaiji , otherwise, in everyone's eyes, Chu Yi is Zhu Zaiji's supporter.

Pushing Zhu Zaiji away from her arms, Queen Xia stood up and bowed slightly to Chu Yi who was outside the door: "Jie'er is stubborn, but it's troublesome for the lord!"

Chu Yi smiled slightly and said, "Niangniang is being polite. It is Chu's duty to teach Ji'er, and Chu should try his best to teach Ji'er to live up to the trust of Your Majesty and Niangniang."

Patting Zhu Zaiji's little head, Queen Xia pushed Zhu Zaiji and said, "Kier, go!"

Zhu Zaiji looked reluctant, but he didn't dare to play any petty temperament. You must know that when he first came to the door, because of his petty temperament, he was taught a lesson by Chu Yi.

Zhu Zaiji's small hands were swollen when Chu Yi hit him with a ruler. Since then, Zhu Zaiji seemed to be a lot more obedient in front of Chu Yi, at least he was quite afraid of Chu Yi.

Reaching out and pulling Zhu Zaiji, Chu Yi smiled and said, "If Ji'er can memorize the thousand-character script, the master will take you out to play later, how about that?"

"Go out to play?"

Zhu Zaiji's eyes lit up when he heard the words, his face was full of yearning and anticipation, he blinked, looked up at Chu Yi and said, "Teacher didn't lie to Ji'er?"

Seeing Zhu Zaiji's appearance, Chu Yi couldn't help laughing and said, "Teacher never lies!"

Chapter 580 Tai Tuo, Jier wants to... [2 more]

Queen Xia, who was standing aside, heard the conversation between Chu Yi and the little prince, her expression changed slightly, showing a bit of worry, and subconsciously opened her mouth, but when the words came to her mouth, she said nothing.

Obviously, Queen Xia thought of the agreement between herself and the emperor.

Zhu Zaiji nodded excitedly at Chu Yi and said, "Teacher, don't lie to Ji'er!"

Zhu Zaiji is still very curious and longing for the outside world, especially not long ago, Chu Yi took Zhu Zaiji to play in the bustling streets of the capital. Very much looking forward to it.

After all, Zhu Zaiji was born in the palace since he was a child. The palace seems to have everything, but it is not popular and there is no prosperity in the outside world.

Especially for a child like Zhu Zaiji, if he has not seen the prosperity and excitement of the outside world, it would be nothing. After all, there is no comparison.

But Zhu Zaiji has been out of the palace and seen the prosperity of the outside world. Although he only went out once, he left an extremely deep impression in Zhu Zaiji's heart.

At that time, Zhu Zaiji begged Empress Xia and the Emperor several times to allow him to go out to play, but unfortunately the Emperor and Empress Xia could not agree to let Zhu Zaiji go out to play.

Seeing Zhu Zaiji sitting there reciting the thousand-character script honestly, Chu Yi couldn't help but smile.

But he said that at this moment, in the palace, Yue Buqun was the commander of Jinyiwei, and he was also a few high-level officials among Jinyiwei, especially Yue Buqun sent news to the palace through the channel of Jinyiwei. It didn't take long, then. The memorial went to the emperor's case.

Although Zhu Houzhao was not diligent in managing his administration, he could not be said to be slack. In the imperial study, Zhu Houzhao sent the cabinet to the cabinet, and after reviewing the memorials that needed him to make a decision, he stretched his body and his eyes fell on that one. above the memorial.

For Jinyiwei, Dongchang and Xichang, Zhu Houzhao naturally attaches great importance to it. After all, Jinyiwei, Dongchang and Xichang are the eyes and minions of the emperor. Even if they were united by the ministers and kept in the dark, they would not know what was going on.

Therefore, Zhu Houzhao values ​​Dongchang and Jinyiwei very much, but Zhu Houzhao will check the memorials presented by Dongchang and Jinyiwei as soon as possible.

For Yue Buqun, Zhu Houzhao is quite impressed, part of which is due to Yue Buqun's identity, and the other part is because Chu Yi is quite fond of Yue Buqun.

Just like Yang Yiqing, Wang Shouren, Han Kun, etc., it seems that Chu Yi was born with a pair of eyes that can discover talents, but those who are valued by Chu Yi are all capable people, at least so far, they have not appeared. What went wrong.

Looking at the news sent by Yue Buqun, Zhu Houzhao's expression changed. In the memorial, he described the situation in the South China Sea in detail. At the same time, he also mentioned what kind of power and rule of the sea powers such as Portugal and the Netherlands have overseas. What a vast land.

Although Chu Yi has learned a lot about the world outside of Daming, and even through those businessmen, in the past few years, people from Jinyiwei, Dongchang, and Xichang have stepped out of Daming through maritime merchants and collected Lots and lots of news.

However, these news are obviously different from the news about the Western world revealed by Governor George and Earl Harry.

Daming's caravans rarely crossed the South China Sea to reach the Western world, so Daming did not know much about the Western world, and it could even be said that they did not know much about it at all.

According to Chu Yi, in the future, the Ming Dynasty will inevitably have contact with Western countries.

I don't know when, under the influence of Chu Yi, Zhu Houzhao would subconsciously tap on the table when thinking about a problem. He saw Zhu Houzhao sitting there in a trance with one hand gently tapping on the table.

"It is said that Yang Yiqing, the chief assistant of the cabinet, Wang Hua, Chen Ding and others have entered the palace to meet!"

When one of the emperor's sons was passed to the cabinet, several cabinet elders were also holding the news about Nanyang and Western countries and talking about it.

After receiving the will of the emperor, several patriarchs entered the palace immediately.

In the imperial study room, Zhu Houzhao looked at the elders and motioned them to take their seats. Then he said with a righteous expression, "Everyone, I called you here today because of the news presented by Jinyiwei."

Yang Yiqing and others' expressions changed slightly, and Zhu Houzhao said it, which reminded Yang Yiqing and others of the information from Jinyiwei that they were still arguing about not long ago.

Needless to say, apart from this piece of information, what the Son of Heaven said is unlikely to be the second piece of information.

Zhu Houzhao noticed the changes in the expressions of the crowd, and he knew very well: "If you want to get that piece of information, all the Qing families have seen it."

Saying that, Zhu Houzhao waved his hand, and immediately a servant next to him took the piece of information and walked over to several elders, and he heard Zhu Houzhao say: "If any elder has not seen it, you might as well take a look at it. ."

Yang Yiqing took the piece of information, flipped through it, nodded slightly at the pavilion elders, and said to the emperor, "Your Majesty, not long ago, the ministers were discussing this piece of information."

Eyes lit up, Zhu Houzhao smiled and glanced at several cabinet elders and said, "Oh, I don't know what some of the cabinet elders have to say about this piece of information, and let me hear it."

Looking at each other, I saw Yang Yiqing speak first: "Your Majesty, the first thing we have to do is to determine whether this information is true or not, and whether the information is true or not is directly related to the court's response!"

Zhu Houzhao was stunned for a moment, then nodded slowly and said, "The words of the Qing family are the words of an old man to seek the country. Indeed, this information is of great importance, and it must be determined whether it is true or false."

Speaking of Zhu Houzhao, he said: "This news is submitted by the commander of Jinyiwei, Tong Zhiyue Buqun. If Jinyiwei will not do anything with this piece of information, they don't dare, the only thing that cannot be determined is this piece of information. How credible are those news?"

Needless to say, these news were all learned by Jin Yiwei from the mouths of those prisoners, and not to mention the language barrier and communication difficulties. Even if there is an interpreter, sometimes there is a great possibility that the words are not conveyed because of the translation.

In this way, it is very likely that there will be some differences in the information.

Everyone understands the truth of spreading falsehoods, so it is particularly important to talk about the accuracy and authenticity of this piece of information.

Chen Ding stroked his beard and said: "Your Majesty, since those alien races have been captured alive, we might as well escort them to the capital, and then send competent people to pry open their mouths and dig out the information we need from these populations. information."

Wang Hua nodded and said: "Yes, it is said that there are thousands of prisoners. When the time comes, these prisoners will be separated for interrogation. In this way, there is no need to worry that these people will use fake news to fool people."

Chen Ding on the side kept nodding and said: "Lord Wang is right, according to the information I read earlier, Governor George and Earl Harry explained that their two countries' navies are extremely powerful, with thousands of ships. , if this is the case, I have to deal with it carefully."

A pavilion elder said with a look of disdain: "There are only thousands of ships in the area. I don't mention anything else. Caoyun alone has tens of thousands of ships. In addition, there are King Wu. The new warships that His Royal Highness has already started to build the year before last, if added together, there will be no more than a thousand warships alone."

With a light cough, Wang Hua said to Zhu Houzhao, "Your Majesty, this minister thinks that this matter is of great importance, so you might as well send someone to invite His Royal Highness King Wu, and everyone can listen to what King Wu means."

In the impression of everyone, Chu Yi can be said to have no leftovers, and he has never missed anything. No one doubts what Chu Yi says on weekdays.

Now I naturally think of Chu Yi, and the elders can't help but look at Zhu Hou.

Zhu Houzhao nodded and said, "Pass my will and quickly invite King Wu into the palace."

Wuwangfu

Zhu Zaiji, who had a happy face, was standing in front of Chu Yi at this moment, his head held high, his face full of anticipation.

Just looking at Zhu Zaiji's appearance, Chu Yi couldn't help but patted Zhu Zaiji's head with a chuckle and said, "Kier is so good, the master will take you to the street to play!"