Daming prepares the emperor

"what is this?"

"The document Wei Zhongde found." Zhu Biao handed over the memorial, and picked up the stack of complaints brought back by the folding fan, "And this, father, you have to take a good look at these two things."

Huang Xi took the time to serve Zhu Biao a glass of iced Longjing.

Zhu Yuanzhang read things very quickly, Zhu Biao drank a cup of tea, his face was almost purple with anger, and he barely suppressed his anger and asked: "Biaoer, did you ask us to stamp you before, is it related to this matter? "

"Yes, I urgently wrote a document, urging Dao Tong to avoid death, and let Lu Jin'ai go to Beijing immediately."

"Is Lu Jin'ai the one from Fengyang?"

"Yes."

"You did a good job on this matter." Zhu Yuanzhang said, "If they are telling the truth, then Zhu Liangzu deserves to die!"

For Zhu Yuanzhang, the matter of fish and meat is still secondary.After all, this kind of thing is common, and it can never be eradicated completely. If you get angry every time, you will die of anger in a few days, and you will not be able to govern the country.

Those Huaixi generals who fought with him in the world basically had deeds of bullying men and women and taking people's money. In order to regain the lost land in the north and capture Sichuan and Yunnan, Zhu Yuanzhang did not intend to deal with them in the early days of the founding of the country. That said, Zhu Liangzu was the same, it would be fine if he only co-operated with the Luo family, Zhu Yuanzhang thought he could hold back, and wait until later to find a chance to attack.

The most important thing is that he dared to openly beat the court officials in his capacity as a marquis, and he didn't take the government order seriously at all, and even joined with his superiors to intercept the letter, almost making the emperor make a mistake, knocking out his teeth and swallowing it, what arrogance .

Once the formation of a party for personal gain occurs, the impact on taxation, corvee, and politics will be huge, which is far more terrifying than oppressing the people.

From Zhu Chongba's point of view, he hated Zhu Liangzu and the Luo family, and from Zhu Yuanzhang's point of view, he hated the Huaixi Party that helped each other in Yingtian Mansion.

Just as the people in the lobby in Panyu County, Guangzhou Prefecture thought, a small splash aroused Zhu Yuanzhang's desire to do something, and with his murderous intention, the sky of the Ming Dynasty was about to change.

Move the breath and raise the body.The invisible majesty of the superior and the evil spirit of fighting in the army have been cultivated on Zhu Yuanzhang for many years. With his emotional ups and downs, all the court ladies and eunuchs were silent, and the slightly heated room with the ice basin seemed to have entered winter all of a sudden.

The light outside the window refracted on Zhu Yuanzhang's body, his eyes seemed to change color, showing a kind of light golden brown, staring at Dao Tong's gaze, revealing a very cold look.

Zhu Biao glanced at the blanket on the ground, the ink on it had been wiped clean by the eunuch on duty last night.

"Father, my son Qi Zuo, let's send the censor to investigate." He said, "Let Liu Bowen choose someone, just to send some achievements and handles to Zhedong."

"Okay." Zhu Yuanzhang said immediately, "Let Yang Xian go, finish this matter, and promote him to the Ministry of Education."

"Yang Xian?" Zhu Biao was stunned, "Father wants him to enter Zhongshu?"

"What do you think?"

"My son is not familiar with Yang Xian..." Zhu Biao thought for a while, "I've only met him a few times. This man looks shrewd, as if he has a lot of vigor."

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled: "It's not true to say that it is sharpness, it should be called arrogance."

He didn't talk much about Yang Xian's situation, and decided in his heart to let Zhu Biao observe and figure it out by himself, so he said: "Biaoer, Yang Xian is your Donggong Zhan thing, after that Lu Jin'ai arrives, you put the two of them together." After the matter has been arranged, let them go to Guangzhou together, and if the matter is true, send me the playbook, and escort Zhu Liangzu to Yingtian, let's ask those loyal ministers to see what will happen if they don't listen to us."

"Yes."

After leaving Wuying Hall, Zhu Biao went to Kunning Palace to visit Ma Xiuying and her younger sister Zhu Jingning. He didn't go in the direction of Chunhe Hall until the moon rose high.

The summer wind caressed the leaves on the treetops, and the palaces were lit up, but it only set off the huge and solemn Forbidden City more coldly.

Zhu Biao was walking on the road, and the exhaustion caused by dealing with government affairs gradually came to his heart. The moonlight was like flowing silver water, sweeping over his boots, moving lightly with the tree shadows, breaking into several pieces, and falling on the red wall and green tiles On, flickering coldly.

Wei Zhongde turned his head to take the lantern from a young eunuch, twisted his neck, and signaled them to stay away, and soon the prince's guard of honor fell a certain distance.

Sensing the change, Zhu Biao raised his spirits and asked, "What do you want to say?"

"Returning to Master, when I went to the Sixth Section Corridor today, I also inquired about other news." Wei Zhongde bent over, "Prime Minister Li has been to the Corridor these days, and besides that, an eunuch surnamed Yang has also been there. "

Zhu Biao said: "What's wrong with the Prime Minister going to the Liuke Gallery? It's you, I told you to find the memorial, why did you inquire about the news without authorization?"

Wei Zhongde was stunned.

Zhu Biao continued: "Now you're still whispering these tell-tale words in my ears, do you not take the iron plate that the father put up outside the palace gate seriously, or don't you take me seriously?"

Wei Zhongde fell to his knees with a plop, holding a lantern in his hand to illuminate Zhu Biao, his head was on the ground: "Master, this is not what this servant means, and this is absolutely not what this servant has in mind."

The team not far away stopped. Because of the light problem, they couldn't see what happened. They only noticed that a shadow in front of them suddenly became shorter and then stopped moving. They knew that Wei Zhongde knelt down.

The prince has a good reputation of benevolence and gentleness among the palace people, so he will not get angry easily, not to mention that Eunuch Wei has always been favored, what happened to be punished suddenly?They were inevitably panicked at this time, and their hearts were beating their drums up and down, praying that the crime would not fall on themselves.

"If you say you don't have it, you don't have it?" Zhu Biao said calmly, "Is it because I trust you to do things, and you forget your identity."

"The servant did not forget." Wei Zhongde's head began to sweat, "The servant just, just wants to help the master..."

"Why do I need your help?" Zhu Biao said, "Are all the staff members of the Eastern Palace dead? Or are the spies from the Guard Division all limping? Have you asked their opinions? It's not your turn to worry about Daming."

These words can be said to be heart-breaking words, and if they are true, they are enough to kill a person's head. Wei Zhongde could no longer support his arm, and the lantern fell out of his hand and rolled onto the grass beside him.

Zhu Biao stared at Wei Zhongde expressionlessly, bent down and picked up the lantern by himself: "You don't know how the other eunuchs in the palace survived. You are still young, and you are by my side. It is really special. When you meet There are too many things. If there are too many things, there will be more temptations and stories, and there will be more people who fawn on you. If you don’t make it right for a while, no one can save you.”

"Master." Wei Zhongde thought that Zhu Biao was going to drive him away, and his whole body trembled, like a rabbit being lifted up after falling into the water, tremblingly crying, "I know I was wrong, master, I will definitely be obedient in the future, never Don’t dare to do any more…”

Zhu Biao interrupted him: "Don't go back to the palace with me, just kneel here for one night today, so that these people in the palace can see the majesty of Eunuch Wei."

"Yes." Wei Zhongde choked back, raised his head and said to his back, "Are you all stupid? Come and send His Highness back to the palace!"

Those dozens of people just woke up like a dream, ran over in a panic, surrounded Zhu Biao, and walked towards the Hall of Spring Harmony, but Zhu Biao didn't even look back.

Groups of candles swaying in the wind were shining on the lampshade, passing by Wei Zhongde's drooping head until his face was blurred and finally plunged into complete darkness.

The next day, Wei Zhongde, who knelt on the road and passed out, became the latest talking point in the Forbidden City.

When the person in the center of the topic woke up in bed, he felt groggy, with severe pain in his knees, and chills all over his body, as if he had been severely beaten, dizzy and dizzy, and couldn't tell the time. It took a long time for him to recover Some gods clutched the quilts on their bodies and stared at the ceiling in a daze.

After a few breaths, footsteps came from outside the door. Wei Zhongde didn't want others to see his weak appearance, so he immediately tried to sit up.

It was Huang Xi who came in, holding Fuchen in his arms.

When he saw Wei Zhongde woke up, he was overjoyed at first, and then he said angrily, "Why are you sitting up? Lying down is good for your health. I went to the imperial hospital to get the medicine, and it will be ready after a while. You may have caught a cold. Summer It’s not too bad, but kneeling is punished in winter, but you have to lie down for a while.”

"Master." Wei Zhongde called out the title hidden in his heart, "You know it all."

Hearing the word master, Huang Xi's expression became more gentle, and he replied, "Can I not know, the whole Forbidden City knows."

"Master." Wei Zhongde said, "Does your Highness despise me? Your Highness has never punished a palace servant for kneeling."

"If His Highness despises you and the eunuch intervenes in politics, your kid's skin will be gone long ago, and I have to collect your body." Huang Xi sat down by the bed and sighed, "It's you who didn't live up to it."

"You know!" Wei Zhongde said in surprise, "Last night, His Highness and I were the only ones there."

"There is no impenetrable wall in the world, silly boy." Huang Xi looked at him and said, "Everyone says you are clever, but I really can't see it."

"...Master, me."

Huang Xi said: "As soon as you came back from the Sixth Section Corridor, the news spread everywhere. Everyone knows the prince's temperament. If there is something to punish you, it will only be because of this. Tell me, what happened."

Wei Zhongde told the story again. As the eunuch who served by Zhu Yuanzhang's side, Huang Xi knew all kinds of things in Panyu very well. Once he said this, he immediately understood.

"Stupid." Huang Xi scolded, "His Highness is saving you!"

"You go to ask those people what they are doing. You think that the spies of the Guards Department are free. What you can think of, His Majesty will only think of it before you. You know, Your Majesty will know it before you. The same is true for His Royal Highness. "

"If His Highness doesn't punish you today, His Majesty will punish you tomorrow. Don't you know what the result will be?"

"I know I was wrong." Wei Zhongde said, "Master, you believe me, I am not here to climb. I have already reached this point, how can I climb?"

Huang Xi said: "That's true. Your Majesty doesn't like us eunuchs very much. The only one you can count on in the palace is the prince. You are the one who gets the moon first."

Then his expression changed: "But because of this, there are not only so many people who want to drag you into the water, but also eunuchs, you are young and have short qualifications, why should you serve His Highness? Anyone can do the job of cleaning the table and pouring the basin! "

"You think you are going smoothly, that's because everyone respects the prince behind you."

"Who is Yang Gaomeng? Notoriously ruthless. Why did you just happen to find a well-informed eunuch?... Zhongde, think about it for yourself."

After Huang Xi finished the last sentence, he tucked Wei Zhongde in the quilt and left.

The door closed, and the light was retracted.