Infrastructure masters in the red building

According to the fifth prince Zhou Deheng's point of view, "grabbing that chair" is really like a child fighting, rushing up, beating the person who is currently sitting on the chair, dragging him down, and sitting on it by himself.

But his method was a little roundabout and complicated: he dragged the two cousins ​​off the chair one by one, and even found a scapegoat beforehand——he just stepped out from the corner calmly and sat on the chair. Chair, who monopolizes the power of supervising the country.

It is easy to grab a chair, and it is also easy to sit firmly on this chair. Control the defense of the Beijing camp and the soldiers and horses of the five cities. Curfew, no one is allowed to move rashly, no one can threaten his safety.

As for the government affairs of supervising the country, it is even simpler.As the saying goes, Xiao Gui Cao Sui, the various divisions and ministries in the court have designated responsibilities, and the civil servants only need to follow the rules, so that the whole country can continue to run like this-if this is not the case, the mediocre prince like the earlier prince There was no way to deal with it easily, and it lasted for many years.

When the DPRK and China encountered such a change, the first thing the civil servants introspected was whether they were clean or not, or whether they had excellent ability to handle government affairs; Inadvertently offended Zhou Deheng.

Even some old ministers would look back at what they did when the emperor was restored 20 years ago to decide what posture to use to hug his fifth prince's thigh.

The fifth prince intends to whet their appetites, let these people suffer for a while, and then publicly stated that the old things can be forgotten, and all officials just need to do things with peace of mind, and everything will be as before.

At that time, the officials will breathe a long sigh of relief, touch the black yarn on their heads, and think that the official hat and head have finally been saved; Son, what does it have to do with them?

Everyone has selfish intentions, and everyone secretly rejoices in order to preserve their self-interest.

Justice is not always so important in the face of self-interest.

Of course, the Fifth Prince's method is not limited to beating people and dragging chairs. To the south, he has the King of Nan'an's rebellion echoing him. When Wu Yuan Taoyuan is broken, the First Prince's line is destroyed, and he gets what he wants, the Fifth Prince will turn his face. Tear up the secret agreement with Nanyi.The king of Nan'an will also transform himself, and he will become a loyal man who defends his family and the country through the rebellion of foreign countries.

The fifth prince will further eliminate dissidents and establish his authority through this victory in the battle of defending the land.

And by that time, the world will know him again and get to know him Zhou Deheng——

But right now, there are still many thorny issues facing the Fifth Prince:

One is the Rongguo Mansion. The Rongguo Mansion insists that His Majesty the Emperor is safe - these five princes absolutely do not believe it.Why didn't you show up?You don't even want to see your own son for the last time? ...But anyway, the Rongguo Mansion can last past the first day of junior high school, but not the fifteenth day. When it comes to the day of his son's funeral, what reason does Lao Tzu not show up?When the time comes, won't the Rongguo Mansion have to take off the fig leaf on itself?

So the fifth prince resisted the urge to order people to rush into the Rongguo Mansion, and just set about making arrangements outside—he even made the worst plan, even if the old emperor was still alive and well, as long as the military power is in hand, the fifth prince It is also necessary for His Majesty the Emperor to personally experience the feelings of his biological father, Prince Yizhong, and the feeling of being pulled from the dragon chair.

The second is the eldest prince, who is brave and good at fighting, and will be the strong enemy of King Nan'an.But thinking that the King of Nan'an has elephant soldiers and fire|arms in his hands, if he can't even deal with the eldest prince, then the King of Nan'an won't even think about "supporting him".

Finally, there is that damned Jia Fang——

Eight hundred miles to the south, the urgent document was delivered, and the fifth prince was full of joy, but found that the county magistrate of Wuyuan reported that Jia Fang was only detained in Wuyuan.The fifth prince jumped into a rage immediately, guessing that the south side might be doing the opposite.He gritted his teeth and said to himself: "You think I can't cure you because you hide in the south?"

"When the Ningrong Second Mansion in Beijing is completely defeated, and when the imperial garden is taken over by me, let's see if you can still hide!"

The people in Beijing, after the "self-judgment" of the third prince and the "disappearance" of His Majesty the Emperor, once again experienced the harsh life of martial law and curfew in the whole city.At night, the whole city closed its doors and closed its doors. Anyone who dared to go out on the street, unless he was on official business, would be expelled immediately, and might even be beaten by the servants of the Wucheng soldiers and horses.

Ordinary people are fine. In the past, the busiest Dongmen merchants in central Beijing, as well as the evening markets in many places, were all forced to close.For a while, merchants in the city complained.

But the most uncomfortable thing is the government's restrictions on public opinion: only bad things about the third prince and good things about the fifth prince are allowed, and everything else is silenced.

Originally, when the third prince was in charge of the country, the discussion about the case of the prince in Beijing was full of excitement, and the third prince never issued a ban, but he was extremely depressed and waited for the Shuntian government to find out the truth as soon as possible.But he never thought that behind him, the mouths of the common people would be strictly controlled.

In the early morning, when the curfew was lifted, some merchants and hawkers who had to go out to work came to Wanqing Building according to the habit, and ordered a plate of hot rice rolls, accompanied by a bowl of raw porridge.

Several regular customers met and naturally sat down at a table, but when they saw a young man in casual clothes in the corner drinking porridge with his ears up, a hawker and his co-sitting winks.

Everyone bowed their heads together, drinking porridge Xilihulu, and raised their heads occasionally, looking at the densely rolled dark clouds in the sky and saying with emotion: "Today's weather is good!"

Such caution is naturally due to the fact that in the past few days, many ordinary people who "discussed" the government have been arrested by the Wucheng soldiers and horses.

There are spies everywhere, and everyone can tell the truth, so who dares to speak up?

However, at the teahouse, there was a designated storyteller sitting there, talking about how the third prince cleverly planned to seize the position of the East Palace, and how the sky net was restored without leaking. When the truth came out, he finally had no face to face the world. , can only end his life with a rope.

The people who were watching nodded nonchalantly, understanding the current "official" attitude.

It's just that the common people really didn't want to understand: If the third prince is really afraid of committing suicide, why didn't he ask or tell?

Apart from the mouths of the common people, there are three most strictly watched places in the whole capital: Ningrong Second Mansion, Beijing Prince's Mansion, and Taixue.

Needless to say, the Ningrong Second Mansion, it is rumored that His Majesty the Emperor disappeared in the Rongguo Mansion on the day the third prince broke the news of "self-judgment", and has not reappeared until now.At first, the people in Beijing had everything to say, but later on, no one dared to talk nonsense.

The Beijing Palace and Taixue are a bit weird. The two seem to have nothing to do with Jia. Even the Beijing Palace has been uninhabited recently. I don’t know where the young Beijing King has moved, but The Jingying Garrison and the Wucheng Bingma Division still surrounded these two places tightly.

On the day of the incident, all the Taixue students were besieged in the Taixue and were not allowed to enter or leave.After they protested vigorously for two days, the Fourth Prince finally met Prince Teng, the garrison of the Beijing camp, and won water and clean treatment for them, so that these students could continue to survive.

Wang Ziteng's move seemed selfish, and the fourth prince specially reminded him to go to the East Palace to report.

After being reminded by Wang Ziteng, the fifth prince "finally" remembered that he still had a "cousin" in Beijing, so he went to Taixue himself to "visit" his elder brother.

After the news was sent to Taixue, the fourth prince rushed to greet him with several officials from Taixue.

"I have seen the Fifth... His Highness the Fifth..." The fourth prince faced the fifth prince who was standing outside the gate of the Taixue with his hands behind his back, and performed the big gift he used to pay homage to the crown prince or the third prince.This made the fifth prince very, very comfortable, knowing that this fourth cousin, who had no chance of being in charge because of his stuttering, bowed his head in front of him very wisely.

"What is fourth brother doing..." The fifth prince pretended to help him up, "It's just a coincidence that my younger brother got the position of supervisor."

The fourth prince was sweating profusely nervously, and said for a long time: "Courtesy...the etiquette cannot be discarded..."

The fifth prince thought to himself that no matter how talented this person was, if he could only talk like this in front of the officials, he would naturally have no hope for his position.He immediately took this as the reason for the fourth brother to "know the current affairs", and he wanted to win him over.After all, there are not many people in the old Zhou family who are dedicated to hard work. Now that the fifth prince sees the fourth brother, he intends to save his life, just like the emperor uncle left his life back then.

"I've heard that the fourth brother started the Gewu Academy a long time ago. My younger brother admires it very much and wants to come and have a look."

The fourth prince hurriedly greeted the fifth prince: "Welcome to you, welcome... that one!"

He half bowed his waist, like a low-ranking official, and greeted his cousin inside.But this is also in line with the impression of the fourth prince in the mind of the fifth brother: taciturn, who only knows how to do things, ignores those verbal exchanges and disputes, hoping to have a place among the princes.

The fifth prince entered Gewu Academy with his cousin, and he was most concerned about the two firecrackers that were sent to Gewu Academy last time, so as soon as he stepped into the courtyard where Gewu Academy is located, he asked eagerly: "I heard four Brother once carefully disassembled the two firecrackers that were used for government affairs last time, and studied the principles, but did you achieve anything?"

The fourth prince shook his head: "Where did the achievement come from? It was finally opened and sent to Shuntian Mansion as a witness."

He didn't shy away from it, and directly took the fifth prince to see the "Jiangwu Hall" of the Gewu Academy, which was in charge of researching weapons.As soon as the fifth prince entered the "Lecture on Martial Arts Hall", he saw that there were books piled up all over the place, and paintings hung on the walls. It looked like he had just come out of an academy, and it looked nothing like "Lecture on Martial Arts" and "Weapons" relation?

The fourth prince led the fifth prince in, and ordered someone to take out the records of the two firecrackers last time, and opened it for the fifth prince to see.

The fifth prince saw that it was a simulation drawing of two firecrackers—it seemed that the fourth prince hired a master craftsman to draw the appearance of the two firecrackers in detail, and the drawing was not bad.The size, length, and material of the firecrackers are also marked on the map, and everything is recorded in every detail.

The Fifth Prince was noncommittal, and only asked, "Has Fourth Brother ever tried... to imitate such a firecracker?"

The fourth prince suddenly had a bitter face, and said: "Fourth brother, here... what do you want, what do you have... No iron, no blacksmith, no copper, no coppersmith... the medicine..."

It was really difficult for him to speak, the fifth prince had no choice but to help and finish the sentence for him: "The gun|powder can only be removed from the firecrackers set off during the New Year, but it is not useful at all, is it?"

The fourth prince breathed a sigh of relief: "...Yes yes yes yes yes!"

The fifth prince immediately stretched out his hand, carefully rolled up the simulation drawings of the two firecrackers, and handed them to the attendants around him.As he handed it behind him, he paid attention to the expression of the fourth prince.I saw that the fourth prince was a little puzzled at first, but after a while, he suddenly realized that he bowed his hands to the fifth prince and lowered his head.

If things like firecrackers are left among the people or controlled by courtiers, it will be a disaster after all.

Seeing the fourth prince handing over the blueprints without any intention of being in love, the fifth prince felt very comfortable and said straightforwardly: "Fourth brother, take me here to have a good look at the 'Gewu Academy'!"

So, under the leadership of the fourth prince, the fifth prince visited the room full of pulleys and levers, various coils and pointers, bottles and cans of any size, and completely ignorant of the etiquette of advancing and retreating, only knowing to guard the pile of bottles and cans Cans are "researchers" who do research.

In the end, the fifth prince saw the stele inscribed by King Qing's handwriting "Grassing things to know" and stood in front of the stele. people.The Fifth Prince naturally received courtesy.

But I saw two new lines engraved on the back of the stele: "From practice, to practice."

The fifth prince was quite straightforward when he heard this, and immediately asked in confusion: "Who said this? How can he stand shoulder to shoulder with King Qing?"

The fourth prince: "This, this, this... yes yes yes yes..." He hesitated for a long time, and it was very difficult to say.

The fifth prince really didn't have the patience to listen to it, and these two sentences seemed to make sense, so he said: "No matter who it is, for the sake of His Highness Prince Qing, this king should also pay respects. !"

When he raised his head again after paying his respects, the fifth prince unexpectedly found that there was a narrow smile on the face of this fourth brother who had always been reticent.This smile is fleeting, but not