Unofficial History of Emperor Wuzong of the Ming Dynasty

Emperor Zhengde took Jiang Bin to accompany him to climb Jilong Mountain to watch the sunrise before dawn. Wu Jie brought a freshly made sweet-scented osmanthus cake, and took out a booklet from his front and handed it over.

Emperor Zhengde flipped through the pages, closed his mouth with a "tsk" and said, "I really don't care about their lives."

Wu Jie clasped his hands and said, "You won't kill me."

Emperor Zhengde raised his eyebrows, threw the roster over to Jiang Bin and continued: "It's clear today, if one day he repeats his old trick..."

Wu Jie touched the jade tablet with half of the lines cracked on his waist, and calmly said: "I will help counter."

Emperor Zhengde yelled and threw himself on Wu Jie's face: "I have a son, but I'm so embarrassed!"

Wu Jie also grabbed Emperor Zhengde's face reluctantly: "You didn't."

Seeing the two of them teasing me and teasing you like children and neither would let go, Jiang Bin turned his head and said to Lu Qing who was guarding not far away: "Bring some melon seeds."

After Wu Jie went down the mountain with his sleeves flung, Emperor Zhengde rubbed his face and groaned. Looking at the sky, it seemed that it was going to rain, so he asked Lu Qing to go down first to prepare chariots and horses.

Standing in the middle of the melon seeds on the ground, Jiang Bin took out the roster and frowned after flipping through it. He knew that many officials had accepted bribes from Ning Wang, but he didn't know how extensive the involvement was. Zhu Chenhao was also Too powerful, I just don't know how Emperor Zhengde wants to deal with it.

Just as he was thinking about it, Emperor Zhengde stretched his waist and said: "You keep this roster, and when you return to Beijing, bring a few Jinyiwei to find them in private..." He yawned, "Ask for a bribe!"

Solicit bribes?

Jiang Bin didn't react for a moment.

"Take this roster, ask for life or money." Emperor Zhengde explained with a rub of his eyes.

"The emperor... isn't he afraid of burying the root of disaster?"

Emperor Zhengde smiled, and stepped on the melon seeds one by one into the soil: "At that time in Poyang Lake, King Ning was showing off his feet because he couldn't let go of Wu Jie and came back to rescue him. It's hard to be so emotional, and Wu Jie was the same. I know, I don’t want him to think about it.”

Jiang Bin didn't know there was this part. Before he saw Zhu Chenhao, he was good at calculating and hiding his secrets...

"I've had enough rest for the past few days, shall I leave at noon?" Emperor Zhengde said with his hands behind his back.

"Back to Beijing?"

"Nanjing."

It was only then that Jiang Bin remembered what Emperor Zhengde called the original intention of opening a branch.

It was a hired carriage to go to Nanjing, and Emperor Zhengde, who was still pulling Jiang Bin in the same carriage, finally had the desire to look at the scenery with his chin in his hands.

It was rare for Emperor Zhengde to be quiet, so Jiang Bin also remembered Qiao Yu's invitation before.It's just that there is an extra emperor this time, so I'm afraid we have to find an opportunity.

When the group arrived in Taoshu Town, it was getting dark, so they rested overnight, and it happened to rain.This drizzling disturbed Jiang Bin's heart, and it seemed that something was about to come out, but he couldn't tell what it was like.Pi Yi chatted with the guy in the inn, and the guy praised the beauty of Mrs. Datong as he talked.In the end, he also told Jiang Bindao not to stay in those seemingly decent inns when he was approaching Nanjing City.

Jiang Bin asked why, and the clerk said mysteriously, "Those stores...cannibalize people!"

Jiang Bin didn't understand, and asked further, but the guy made excuses that he had too much work to get his feet wet.

Jiang Bin was a little puzzled, but he forgot all about it after sleeping all night. After breakfast, the rain stopped, and the group continued on their way.

Jiang Bin swayed to sleep for a while, and when he opened his eyes again, he saw Fugui Mountain on the east side of Nanjing Taiping Gate.Although this Fugui Mountain is not imposing, it is also aura.When Taizu asked Shen Wansan to help build the Nanjing city wall, he built this section of the city wall extra thick because of the dangerous terrain of Fugui Mountain.

On the west side of Fugui Mountain is Xiaojiuhua Mountain with Tang Xuanzang's tomb. Standing on Fugui Mountain, you can see the Xuanwu Lake with the intersecting continents and rivers.This city, which is set off golden by the spring sun, is entrusted to the mountains. It is buried with the gold that Qin Shihuang used to suppress the king's spirit, and also buried the endless ambitions of generations.

Jiang Bin looked away, and found some inns scattered not far from the city gate.The doors of those inns were open, and they had no names. There were a few bored strong men guarding the door of each house, all carrying long knives behind their backs, and they all played bunts. He kept his eyes on the spot and glanced back and forth.The three or three couples of people who were being looked at all shivered and detoured when they saw these people.

A burly man wearing a scarf was sitting on a stone bench and was chewing grass. He glanced at one spot, stood up with a bah, and stared intently at the two lines approaching.

The team in front consisted of more than a dozen merchants, who pulled their horses and carried some tea and silkworm cocoons to a certain place in Nanjing to make a living.The one in the back who opened up some distance was naturally Emperor Zhengde and his party.

The burly man in the scarf entered the inn in the middle, and turned out after a while, with white dough beside him.There were two mung bean eyes on the white dough, and the mouth was lifted, and more than twenty strong men threw down the roosters that were fighting happily, and surrounded the two teams of horses and horses to stop them.

Passers-by who came and went saw this posture, and immediately dispersed.Jiang Bin looked up at the bright universe, jumped out of the carriage, and with a wave of his hand, a group of Jinyi guards surrounded the carriage in which Emperor Zhengde was riding.The leading man among the merchants seemed to have seen the world before, so he grabbed his horse and asked Guigan.

The big man wearing a scarf glanced at the white dough, and tapped the body of his acquaintance with the back of his knife: "Fire or stay in a hotel?"

Immediately the man said neither humble nor overbearing: "I will enter the city immediately, don't bother."

The big men all smiled when they heard this, and the dough next to them was filled with mung beans and snapped their nails: "You can live in this shop, and you can live in it!"

As soon as the words were finished, the remaining [-] people drew their swords together, and the man frowned immediately: "Who gave this bear heart and leopard courage! Do you do this business in broad daylight?"

The burly man in the scarf yelled and was about to step forward and drag the man off the horse. The man drew a saber and slashed at it, and the next moment the burly man in the scarf fell to the ground, clutching his broken arm.Seeing this, the rest of the strong men rushed up with their knives at the signal of Bai Dian.

Jiang Bin saw that the two boys who were behind the caravan were about to give up because of the frightened horses, and rushed over with the remaining few Jin Yiwei.This was a one-sided situation, but it was reversed instantly because of their joining.In just a cup of tea, there was a crowd of screaming men pouring out of the ground.

A few frightened people turned around and wanted to escape, but they still couldn't escape the knife.

Seeing that the situation was over, the white dough didn't run away in a hurry, but picked up a knife and rushed towards Emperor Zhengde.However, as soon as his strategy of encircling Wei and saving Zhao showed some signs of success, he was nailed to the ground by a lancet flying out of the carriage.

Bai Dian covered his shoulders and curled up in pain, like a worm, howling in embarrassment: "My adoptive father will not spare you!"

Jiang Bin walked over and put a knife against his neck: "Who is your adoptive father?"

"Zhang Xiong, the eunuch in charge of the chief inspector of ceremonies!"

Everyone was taken aback when they heard this.The white dough also said that they were afraid, covered his shoulders and cursed bitterly, until he died of offspring, when a flying knife was stabbed obliquely between his legs, and then he fell silent.

Jiang Bin looked back at Emperor Zhengde in the carriage, Emperor Zhengde shook his head innocently, and pointed to Zhang Yong, who had not changed his expression.Jiang Bin exhaled, and groped helplessly in the mass of fat. After a while, an extra waistband appeared in his hand.

Emperor Zhengde took it and looked at it for a moment and said: "This is indeed what I bestowed on Zhang Xiong back then."

So he found some nominal officials in Nanjing and handed them over to them.This group of old people who only wanted to take care of themselves accepted the order tremblingly, but they all secretly shirked and refused to do it.Emperor Zhengde was not in a hurry, he raised his eyebrows and said that he would return to Beijing when he gave an explanation.The elderly officials fell ill within three days of facing the spring breeze.Emperor Zhengde was very worried, and from time to time he walked through the streets to condolences, tossing the veteran cadres on the sick bed to "sit up in shock in the dying illness".

Jiang Bin couldn't see it, and proposed to take over the job. Emperor Zhengde, who was fishing by Lake Pipa, raised his eyelids and said, "I will leave it to you."

Then why are you spending the past few days here?

Emperor Zhengde put down his fishing rod and raised his chin to the waiting Wu Jing.Wu Jing immediately took out a somewhat worn drawing from under the saddle and handed it to Jiang Bin.

Jiang Bin unfolded it, and saw that it was a topographic map of Nanjing, on which several circles were drawn with a Chinese ink pen.

"Tomorrow you will bring people to take stock of all these places."

Jiang Bin figured it out, this was probably another exposure arranged by Emperor Zhengde, but this time it fell on Zhang Xiong, the chief internal officer.Jiang Bin and Zhang Xiong are not familiar with each other, but they served Emperor Zhengde together, and they have some sympathy for each other...

"Jiang Bin." A hand touched Jiang Bin's waist, and his face moved closer.

Jiang Bin was startled, and subconsciously pushed, Emperor Zhengde rolled for a while, and fell into the water with a "plop".