[Ming] Wuzong's Chronicle of Rebirth

It's not that the Northwest doesn't produce gourmet food, but that there are too few foods here compared to the capital.The lack of supplies makes it impossible for even the best cooks to make much.Yuan Yuze has been here for two years. Although he is only a small thousand householder, his special status allows him to always get enough preferential treatment, and of course he is indispensable for food.

As for fine wine, Zhu Houzhao and Du Ruo, who were underage, were strictly prohibited by Zhu Youtang, and the entire Forbidden City knew this.Even though it was thousands of miles away from the capital, Yuan Yuze didn't dare to violate the prohibition and let Du Ruo behave like "don't go home without getting drunk".With a knowing smile, Du Ruo certainly understood the meaning of Yuan Yuze's words.After making an appointment tomorrow, Du Ruo personally sent Yuan Yuze to the door.

The next day, before dawn, Du Ruo led someone to force the door and walked away, leaving only the doorkeeper of Du's house stamping and sighing behind.A garrison of Zhang Yue is now outside the city of Lanzhou, and it takes only an hour to fight horses.Zhu Houzhao successfully arrived at the barracks before the warm winter day came out.At this time, Yuan Yuze was already waiting there.

To invite someone of Du Ruo's status to dinner, of course it is impossible to make do in the barracks.Yuan Yuze has a small house only a few miles away from the military camp, and Du Ruo will stay here until tomorrow.Du Ruo would not show up until the people from the Lanzhou Government Office took the evidence given by Yuan Yuze and arrested the black apples of the Du family.Before this, Du Ruo was just a person who went to visit old friends to catch up with old friends, but he was drunk for a while and forgot to ask someone to report back.

In October, the northwest quickly cooled down, Du Ruo unceremoniously put on big hairy clothes.Zhu Houzhao in the capital also experienced one of the coldest winters when he came here.Without Du Ruo, Zhu Houzhao's workload surged, and because of this year's snowstorm and freezing disaster, Zhu Houzhao had to rely on the supervisor again.Of course, he couldn't just watch the Lijian family get up, and a lot of work was assigned to the cabinet. He only hoped that the two parties could check and balance each other, and there would be no dominance of one family.

Opening granaries, mobilizing donations, and preparing winter clothes and quilts, Zhu Houzhao tried his best to help the poor people affected by the disaster to survive this winter safely.The trouble is that not only the disaster situation is getting worse, Zhu Youtang's condition has also started to repeat itself because of the abnormal weather.In just half a month, Zhu Youtang has fallen into a coma three times. Pneumonia and high fever kept torturing this thin man.

Zhu Houzhao could only move the memorials to the night for review, and try to set aside time in the noon and afternoon to accompany Zhu Youtang and spend this long winter with him.Zhu Houwei and Ai Cao didn't go to school either, and reported to Weiyang Palace on time every day, serving soup and medicine for Zhu Youtang.Xue Ji told Zhu Houzhao several times that he had to fight. Zhang cried and wanted to prepare Zhu Youtang's funeral, but was strongly rejected by Zhu Houzhao, who firmly did not believe that Zhu Youtang would survive.

The heavy snowstorm also blocked the communication between the northwest and the capital. Zhu Houzhao wanted Du Ruo to come back, but he could only miss Du Ruo's place in Qianqing Palace when he was reviewing the memorial alone late at night.The endless memorials, the low efficiency of disaster relief, and Zhu Youzhao's heavy body were about to overwhelm Zhu Houzhao.But now he is alone, and only he can survive if he perseveres. No matter how long this winter is, Zhu Houzhao can only keep his weak tears in his heart, leave his decisive side to his courtiers, and leave his optimistic side to him. family.

It's just that Du Ruo doesn't know about these things, he hasn't received a letter from the capital for a long time.He knew that the first generation of Zhili in the capital city had suffered a snowstorm, and he was eager to return, but winter was really not a good season for traveling, so he could only wait and wait for the arrival of spring.Now he can only think about disposing of this pile of mouse feces, he doesn't care if it will destroy the reputation of the Du family, which is a dispensable jade bottle for him.

As a small local magistrate, He Ji certainly didn't have the guts to punish the head of the Du family directly.However, Du Ruo, who is the Duke of An, secretly instructed, of course, it is a different matter when the evidence is convincing.Of course, there is still a need for speed, so even if the dudes of the Du family were imprisoned, they still did not receive any abuse. They just went to the lobby once and stayed in the dark prison full of all kinds of smells for a whole day. .

In order to achieve his goal, Du Yiqian, the culprit, was selectively let go by Du Ruo.Killing chickens and respecting monkeys, scaring the monkeys to death is not good.When his sons and brothers were taken away by the people of the government because of forced buying and selling, and taking away women's daughters, Du Yiqian's first reaction was not fear.He guessed right away that it must have been ordered by Du Ruo.Otherwise, why use such trivial charges to punish a family member of the Duke's family.

As the head of the clan, he first felt that his rights had been challenged.No matter what Du Ruo's status is, he is the son of the Du family and his nephew of Du Yiqian.The so-called family ugliness should not be publicized, how could he do this.For any Ming Dynasty person with a normal mind, it would be impossible to directly send everyone from the clan to prison.But who told them to meet Du Ruo, if they want to talk to them directly, they have to bargain, look at the ugly faces of these people.So Du Ruo chose the most complicated plan, but the most comfortable one for him, and directly let them know that they are nothing without him.

In addition to Du Ruo, the Du family has cultivated two officials with the support of Du Yide and Du Ruo's money and reputation, but they are either far away in the capital or somewhere in the south of the Yangtze River.They couldn't express anything about the unforeseen disasters that their own clansmen broke into.The officials who had been signaled by Du Ruo and Yuan Yuze didn't dare to comment on this matter, either pretending to be sick or not, or pretending that they were busy with official duties and had no time to see Du Yiqian.

The people who once pulled him to call him brother, suddenly avoided him like a tiger, Du Yide deeply realized what it means to be cold and cold in the world.But he didn't do it for nothing in Lanzhou for so many years. Several people secretly sent him letters asking if he had offended the grandpa at home.Of course Du Yiqian knew that he had offended Du Ruo, he demanded more and more etiquette every year, he kept the airs of the patriarch all the time, and he kept things from Du Ruo, Du Yiqian didn't need them to tell him that it was Du Ruo hands down.

The most irritating thing is He Ji, who usually doesn't show the mountains and doesn't show the water, but he didn't expect to trick himself here.After struggling for a long time, Du Yiqian had no choice but to think about getting Du Ruo back.He thought clearly, it was just an apology, and he couldn't really see himself handed over to the government, and when he left, it was not easy for him to do what he wanted.The cemetery of Du Yide and his wife is still here, and Du Ruo's roots are still here, what should be taken out will be taken out in the future.

According to the information Du Ruo left behind, the people sent there did not find Du Ruo, and everyone said that they did not know where General Yuan and Du Ruo had gone.Du Yiqian really couldn't do anything now, and started to get scared.He searched everywhere but couldn't find Du Ruo, Du Yiqian could only curse Du Ruo in his heart for not knowing his elders, and also scolded himself for recruiting such a little Hades back, it was too late to regret.

Not only Du Yiqian, but the family members of the arrested people are also trying to rescue them, but with little success.Everyone watched their men suffer in the yamen, and they couldn't even send food in, while Du Yiqian, who did the most dirty things, was still doing well outside, and several people came to make trouble right away.At night, when everyone came back after hitting a wall, many people came to Du Yiqian to ask for an explanation.

After all, Du Yiqian takes the lead in the things that Du Ruo sends back every year, and those letters are all written by Du Yiqian, not to mention that most of the people who work in the name of Anguo Mansion are Du Yiqian's family. No matter how you complain, you should be complaining Du Yiqian.Du Yiqian was also wronged, his eldest son is still in the yamen, there is no news, how can he say that he is alone.

Since there is a patriarch like Du Yiqian, it is naturally impossible for the Du clan to have many groups, and there are many people who covet this position on weekdays.Du Yiqian just relied on the reputation of being the longest house besides Du Ruo, and being the acting patriarch personally appointed by Du Yide, so no one said much.Now that Du Ruoming is pretending to have trouble with Du Yiqian, those who usually miss the position of patriarch all jumped out.Someone suggested that Du Yiqian should be kidnapped to plead guilty to Brother Ruo. After all, we are all members of the same clan, so it is impossible for Du Ruo to be so cruel.

Everyone knows that Du Ruo can't find anyone now, and there is no news of his family members still in the yamen.Hearing someone say that those whose family members were arrested, they immediately thought about it. What's more, Du Yiqian's several crimes were counted in a single scene.Including being disrespectful to the head of the house, enriching the family property into private pockets, arbitrarily using the name of the family to make the government contribute money and efforts, bad personal morality, etc., there are only a few things that everyone is doing and dare not say.Seeing the clansmen instigated by his trusted brothers and nephews, Du Yide really understood Du Ruo's intentions.

Without Du Ruo's support, Du Yiqian is nothing.It's not that the patriarch has to be him, without him, there are naturally countless people surnamed Du who are willing to sit in this position.The day before, he had thought that with the help of Du Ruo, the reputation of the Du family would be further improved, and his son would be able to get a certain job, but now all this has become an illusion.Du Yiqian finally knew why Du Ruo was always so indifferent to clan affairs.

It's not because he is too far away from the capital, it's not because he's too young, and it's not because he respects himself, but on the premise of not hurting his interests, he doesn't care about the entire Du clan.What he cared about was his parents' tombs, and what he was afraid of was that the Du clan in a certain day was really making trouble.As for other patriarchal positions, clan interests, and mutual support between clans, he doesn't care at all.Otherwise, he would not have chosen to use this method to sound the alarm to these people of the Du family.

Du Yiqian managed to persuade everyone to go back, relying on the prestige of the patriarch for many years to temporarily appease everyone.But he couldn't tell what would happen tomorrow.On the second day, the government office opened a court hearing for the members of the Du family, and when the situation was about to get out of control, Du Ruocai appeared shishiran.