Several major events happened one after another in the capital, which made many people have a premonition that Da Chu would be shaken.

The Duke of Jin was worried, and not long after, the old lady of the Xinguo Mansion was assassinated, implicating many spies. Many officials and eunuchs in the capital have been arrested, so that before going to court in the past few days, the words when all the adults greet each other are not "Have you eaten", but "Has anyone in your family been arrested?" ”

The law does not blame the public, they are at most a "negligence", even if it is the Imperial Historical Tower, the famous imperial envoy Zhongcheng Zhou Qingjia also caught the remnants of the two previous dynasties.

Another major event is related to the imperial envoy Zhongcheng Zhou Qing.

Zhou Qing "escorted", or "escorted", Zhenbei General Yuan Xi into Beijing. At the same time, thousands of former Wang Taihe's subordinates were arrested. The Western Army has already pulled out the camp and returned to Liangzhou, and this group of people was escorted back by the Chinese army this time.

Li Mao went to pick up this team outside the city with the adults of the Criminal Department, Dali Temple and Yushitai early in the morning, Yuan Xi was not convicted, and now he is naturally not a sinner, and he was picked up and placed by Honglu Temple. It is said that so many remaining rebels have filled every cell in the capital, and it is not known how the emperor will be dispatched.

The shock was also caused by the fold of Liu Pengshang, the political envoy of Fenzhou, and traces of private coinage were found in Fenzhou and Tongzhou.

All the relevant yamen in Fenzhou took action, carefully investigated the matter, and finally speculated that these people had been privately minting official money for more than ten years, and most of the private money flowed to Tongzhou, circulated among the major grain merchants, and finally dispersed to various places.

Fenzhou has found out that a private money workshop is the property of a local tycoon.

This person is the largest grain merchant in Fenzhou, and after being arrested, he confided the truth.

According to him, he was offered large quantities of copper and silver in exchange for food, and when he obtained it, he began to mint it privately, usually two hundred more out of a thousand wen. Because the quality of the copper he used was not good, he had to melt the copper coins and add to his copper, making a lot of extra money. But because the amount of his private coinage was not much different, it was also circulated.

In the end, several grain merchants and cloth merchants were found, and they were taken down one by one, vowing to find out the suspicious people who traded behind the scenes.

Privately minted official money, as well as a large number of copper and silver mines of unknown origin, hoarding grain, grass and cloth...... This is already the rhythm of someone who wants to rebel.

Then I think of the tens of thousands of extra horses in Fenzhou Horse Farm, so many horses and the food and grass of the people in the horse farm......

It goes without saying what the remnants of King Qiyang want to do.

The last thing is related to Zhang Xuan, the five senses of Qin Tianjian.

He's been famous again lately.

He predicted that after June, there would be continuous rain in the south, and heavy rains would cause levee bursts and flash floods, and there would be severe flooding in the Jiangnan area. In addition, this winter's cold has caused a large amount of river ice to break up due to warming, and it has been washed downstream to accumulate, and if the weather gets hotter, it may also break through the levees.

All in all, Zhang Xuan is reminding the emperor -

It's time to reinforce the dikes everywhere.

Chu Rui has been very troubled recently.

He has been deploying the first few things for a long time, and now he is gradually closing the net. Although the frequent actions of the remnants of the Yin Dynasty and the remnants of the King of Qiyang are really like a man's back, the reason why the remnants are remnants is because they can't set off too much wind and waves when the country is prosperous, and they can only make small moves in secret, which can be controlled at present.

But the last thing is to quickly consume the treasury and manpower.

Now that the Great Chu has only been established for more than ten years, although the channels and dikes left in various places have also been fully strengthened when the country was first founded, due to the smooth wind and rain in the past ten years, the matter of river construction has been temporarily pressed. At that time, a hundred wastes were waiting to be rebuilt, but the people withered, every labor force was very precious, the emperor and he were in light labor, and the manpower went back to farming, and the hundred laborers would only spare one or two months a year to repair bridges and pave roads, as for the embankments......

I don't know what it looks like now.

The Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Household love and hate Zhang Xuan of this Qin Tianjian. Love is because Zhang Xuan's repeated predictions are very accurate, and the previous hailstorms and snow disasters are precisely because of his inference, which gave the ministries a lot of opportunities to prepare, so that they did not cause a catastrophe.

Hate because Zhang Xuan's upward fold is very clear, this is just a speculation he made based on celestial phenomena, it may not happen, but it is very likely.

Is it possible for him to spend countless manpower in the south to investigate the situation of dikes and rivers in various places, and then carry out major reinforcements? How big of a project is this?

The silver of the fee is still a trivial matter, mainly labor. Now is the time for farming, will it cause resentment if people are dispatched to do this? And the household department has just been relieved of the snow disaster, and now it is coming to the flood again, looking at this way, it seems that there are still people who have been planning a rebellion, should the military budget be kept?

No matter how rich the household is, it can't withstand such a toss!

Chu Rui didn't dare to bet.

The flood is not like the snow disaster, the snow disaster occurs in winter, the autumn harvest has ended, although there are casualties, but the aftermath of the increase in pension, will not cause much impact, and even take the opportunity to collect a group of hidden households.

However, the flood is not, if the flood system in the summer floods, flooding crops and destroying houses, it will not only cause the destruction of people's families, but also affect the harvest of the year.

If food prices skyrocket, people will panic and take risks.

Usually after a flood, there is a flood of diseases, and once the disease spreads, the consequences are unimaginable.

Now the grain merchants in Tongzhou and Fenzhou have been arrested for privately minting money, and if there is a real food shortage, these grain merchants are in prison again, and they don't know what will happen.

Now we can only continue to lock them up, keep beating, and if there is a real flood, let them out to calm the price of food.

As soon as Zhang Xuan's recital came out, what was even more floating was people's hearts.

For a while, I don't know where the rumors came out, saying that there was a catastrophe in the sky, and it must be a warning from heaven to remind the emperor that there was something unkind about what he was doing. The Son of Heaven is commanded by Heaven, and if the Son of Heaven is not benevolent, Heaven will be unkind.

Chu Rui has been so angry recently that even the palace maids and eunuchs don't dare to speak loudly. The second prince was reprimanded by the emperor a few days ago because he didn't deal well with the school exam, and was scolded as "stupid as a pig".

Chu Rui has never used a big sword soldier since he ascended the throne, and at the beginning of this year, he encountered a rebellion in the horse farm, so he temporarily gave the soldier talisman and Li Mao just in case, and later found out the remnants of the king of Qiyang, so he naturally wanted to send an army to quell the chaos.

Where the hell did the "unkind" news come out!

Now that he is only making a slight move, he has not really taken anyone under the knife, and all kinds of rumors among the people are boiling, if he really does something, won't the people be instigated to rebel?

Not to mention the catastrophe, internal and external troubles, and all kinds of remnants!

"Li Guogong, what do you think of this situation?" A minister of the Xungui faction asked Li Guogong in a low voice, "If the Imperial Doctor really asks for the establishment of a prince, which side are we on?" I heard that your nephew is reading with the eldest prince......"

Li Mao's eyes shot out coldly.

"Now if you dare to ignore the matter of the prince, you are really asking for your own death. Your Majesty is prosperous in the Spring and Autumn Period, as long as I assist Your Majesty, even if the eldest prince is the oldest, it will take at least five or six years before he can assist the government, the emperor does not want to establish a prince, I will wait for the opposite side, is it to send the handle to the family to catch? ”

"But if we don't mention it now, the clan will also mention ......"

"It's normal for them to mention it, the harem is full of family members, what are we doing with it?" Li Mao looked at the minister, "This is the emperor's family matter, and we are not even relatives." ”

There are many noble women in the harem of the first emperor, but to this day, the earliest election was presided over by the queen mother, and all the children in the palace were the sons of the family, and then the first emperor died, the queen mother was overly bedridden, and the emperor had not chosen a concubine for five or six years for filial piety, and all the heirs in the harem were all women of the family.

What are they doing with this? No matter which one helps, there is the clan standing behind him. If the family has not been weakened to a certain extent, the emperor will not establish a prince.

Sure enough, as soon as the imperial envoy's recital was released, the emperor roared directly.

This imperial historian can't help it, and now there are rumors everywhere, saying that the reason why natural disasters may occur is because the emperor has not established a prince, and the imperial spirit cannot be transmitted; It was because the emperor was unkind and suddenly swordsman......

It was just a book of Qin Tianjian, which was only a routine report of "predictions", but it was widely disseminated and caused turmoil in the hearts of the people. It hasn't spread to the south yet, and if it does, I don't know what kind of chaos it will cause.

This imperial envoy himself is not a family member, but countless people behind him pushed him up, and he had to play.

Although he knew that he might be scolded by the emperor, or that he might lose his office, the matter of the throne had indeed dragged on for many years, and now that the emperor was obviously targeting the clan, how could these people not be in a hurry?

"The minister thinks it's inappropriate. Just for the sake of unwarranted speculation, it is a bit child's fun to suddenly decide on the matter of the prince. The position of the prince is related to the society, and now the princes are still young, how can they see whether they are virtuous? ”

"The eldest prince is benevolent and moderate, and the palace people often praise him; The second prince acted vigorously and resolutely, and he seemed to be pioneering. People say that three years old looks for life, but now that the two princes are in their teens, how can they not see their character? ”

"Presumptuous! Spying on harem news is a big crime! Lord Liu, where did you get the news! ”

"Is this still going to be spied on? The children of each family are all in the palace to read, and they can know without asking! ”

Chu Rui rubbed his forehead and looked at the quarrel below, now it is the world clan and the world clan who are quarreling, one side supports the eldest prince, one side supports the second prince, and some do not support both sides to add fuel and vinegar.

Fortunately, neither the Xungui faction represented by Li Mao nor the neutral faction represented by Zhang Ning spoke, but just waited and watched.

He's only forty, not seventy!

So many children have died over the years, if it weren't for these people who put their hands into the harem, why would he have so few children! If it weren't for the fact that the queen cleaned the harem for the sake of the children, and "invited" his mother and the concubines to recuperate in the harem under great pressure, there were not many children in the East Palace until now.

This group of people is simply killable!

Unexpectedly, Lu Yuanhao actually came out to express his opposition to the current Lichu.

His reasons are also very sufficient, if the emperor is immediately appointed as soon as there are rumors now, it will only be the emperor's mistake. What should be done now is to dispel rumors, not compromise. And the biggest urgent thing now is to strengthen the dikes in various places as soon as possible, and if there is a flood, it will really stir up public resentment.

And he also said that a discerning person can see at a glance that someone is fueling the troubles, because the common people don't care who the prince is, they only think that the emperor can let them be fed and clothed, and at this time, so many remnants of the previous dynasty have been caught, maybe it is someone who wants to mess up the court, and it just happens to fish in troubled waters.

These words just spoke to Chu Rui's heart. Although he knew that a large part of the reason why the Lu family said this was that he was worried that the floods in the south would have a catastrophic blow to the Lu family, and now he was showing favor in exchange for his support, but sometimes as long as there was an opposing voice, he could use the topic to play.

He thought that Li Mao would speak out, but he didn't expect that he, like his father, would never intervene in the emperor's family affairs, which made him feel relieved and helpless.

Fortunately, Lu Yuanhao gave a step.

Chu Rui immediately grabbed Lu Yuanhao's words and extended them, and then quickly dismissed the excerpt of the imperial historian and announced the dissolution of the dynasty.

After the dispersal of the dynasty, a group of ministers of the clan surrounded Lu Yuanhao.

"Lord Lu, it's not kind for you to do this, you ......"

"As the emperor's courtier, this official naturally has to be loyal to the saint, since the prince is the prince of the saint, you should not interfere and wait and see what happens, otherwise it will backfire. That's all I say, farewell! ”

Lu Yuanhao left their encirclement and walked away under the gaze of many ministers.

"Phew! What is it! The ancestor of the Lu family saw it and wanted to crawl out of the ground! ”

"Don't say it, it's useless to say it. His family is also struggling now. A more kind person patted the minister's shoulder, "Isn't your wife's maiden family also in Jiangnan?" ...... for this year's floods"

Lu Yuanhao forcibly walked out of the Zichen Hall calmly, and exhaled a long breath at the cloudless clear sky.

Although the path chosen by his daughter is difficult, she can give it a try.

But until then, the prince must not be established.

As soon as the prince is established, all the princes will leave the capital and go to the fiefdom, and the family affairs will naturally be determined by the emperor in advance. At that time, even if his family successfully withdraws from his family, it will be time for me to wait.

It seems that the eldest prince is not good, with the alliance between the Zhang family and the Jiang family, if the queen instructs, the eldest prince is likely to marry the third lady of the Jiang family.

The position of the second prince's concubine has become fat in the eyes of the family. But the third prince is only eight years old now, and his daughter is already twelve years old, which is not the right age.

He had to plan it carefully.

The first thing to be resolved is the marriage contract made by the Lu and Li families back then.

"Lord Lu!"

Li Mao's sudden call frightened Lu Yuanhao.

As soon as he was thinking about how to solve the matter of the marriage contract, Li Mao appeared behind him!

Walking without a sound, isn't it a thief!

Li Mao didn't know why his call scared Lu Yuanhao so much that he almost didn't roll down the steps.

Naturally, he didn't know what the girl of the Lu family had done, but the Lu family thought that Li Mao knew something.

After all, no old lady will endure this kind of anger when she goes home.

But he couldn't imagine that Gu Qing was a person with very strange ideas, even if he felt that this little girl's second middle school was very problematic, he still didn't say it at home to hurt Li Rui's heart.

Lu Yuanhao was shocked in his heart. He didn't know what Li Mao was looking for him to do.

Did he know that his family was going to withdraw from the marriage contract, so he came to discuss the matter? Is it to condemn his daughter's actions? Or did they question his daughter's character and wanted to quit the business?

Li Mao saw Lu Yuanhao standing on the emperor's side in the court, and thought that they had the possibility of forming an alliance, so he wanted to make friends. The two of them were originally engaged, and if they could assist each other in the court, it would be beneficial to both parties.

Just as his father-in-law, Dali Siqing Fang Xing, often secretly supported him in the court, sometimes, as today, a critical opposition can change many things.

"Lord Lu's efforts to overcome public opinion in the DPRK and China today make me very impressed. If it's still early today, why don't you come and sit in my yamen? Now that there may be a flood, Lord Lu must be very anxious? I think the rebels from the north will be sent to clear the river and strengthen the embankment, and there should be enough manpower."

Being able to immortalize is of course the best, this Lu family lives in Jiangnan, and they should be very concerned about the water situation.

These rebels are still in the military department, and if Li Mao's military registration is released quickly, and he will soon be turned into slavery, these rebels will be able to go to the south to repair the river as quickly as possible.

'Hmph, this kid is threatening me with a flood!' If he really dares to delay the big thing, see that I don't join him! Lu Yuanhao thinks that he is a real celebrity, so he naturally doesn't look down on Li Mao's elm head, and seeing that he looks at everything in the court with the emperor's head as a horse, he has no own opinions like an echo worm, and his brain is really difficult to use.

If Li Meng was still there, why would his family be so trapped!

"No, I still have something to do in the ministry today." Lu Yuanhao waved his hand, "Li Guogong's kindness, I understand it." ”

Li Mao didn't expect him to refuse so simply, but he still showed a smile: "It's hard for me to be strong." If Lord Lu is free these days, why don't you make an appointment to talk about it? The relationship between my two families is not ordinary people, and it is okay to move around from time to time. ”

He also thought that Lu Yuanhao was avoiding suspicion, after all, the Lu family was in an embarrassing position now, and if he was closer to his family more, he would really be squeezed out by the clan.

'This Li Mao, I can't imagine that the city is deeper than Li Meng! If Li Meng knew my family's thoughts, he would have come over to beat him now, but his younger brother was even stronger, and he even pretended to know nothing about it! Lu Yuanhao found that he had underestimated this Li Mao in the past, and it turned out that he was also a smiling fox!

Dealing with such a person, Lu Yuanhao didn't dare to despise it.

Li Guogong sincerely invited, but Lu didn't want to refuse. Why don't you go down tomorrow and go to my Ministry of Rites for a walk? ”

"That's it!"

"Very good, very good."

East Palace, Shangyang Palace.

The front is scattered, and the back is also resting.

The education of the princes of Da Chu is staged, from the age of eleven to sixteen, they study together, and the princes from the age of four to ten are a group, and most of the teachings are enlightenment.

Now that the eldest prince and the second prince are studying together, since the companion reading is called companion reading, they naturally follow the class.

Now the main hall of the East Palace, the Mingde Palace, is still vacant, and when the position of the prince is established, he will move into the Mingde Palace, and the older prince will move to the fiefdom and give the empty hall of the East Palace to the younger brothers.

The companions don't know how long they can accompany the princes to read, and if the prince they serve can't become the prince, most of the companions will go home as soon as the prince leaves the palace, instead of following them to the fiefdom.

Li Rui had a very weak foundation because of some calculations of his uncle and aunt, and he was very difficult when he first went to class.

Thanks to the eldest prince who has been making up for them at night, they didn't make a big joke.

Why use "they"?

Because there is also a worse homework general, Qin Bin, the son of General Shence, is at the bottom. This person's homework is simply outrageously poor, a fifteen-year-old man, he has only read one of the four books and five classics, "The Art of War" and "Six Taos" can be memorized backwards, and the head of the story is the Tao.

Since he entered the palace to accompany him, he didn't know how many times he had been beaten, and Chu Yingnian, the companion of the second prince, was even more ridiculous and sneering at him. This Qin Bin is a character who is rough on the outside and fine on the inside, and he found an opportunity to teach Chu Yingnian a lesson behind his back, and from then on, Chu Yingnian, a cheap child, will no longer dare to talk nonsense.

Xiong Ping took leave of the palace with Li Rui because of the news of the accident of the county lord of Deyang, and went home to visit his relatives. Li Rui only stayed in the house for one night because he was driven back by his grandmother, but Xiong Ping only came back last night.

"Is the county lord of Deyang feeling better?" Li Rui saw that Xiong Ping had lived for several days, and he couldn't help it, "Thanks to the county lord's sacrifice to save me, my grandmother escaped, and I will remember your family's great kindness." ”

Xiong Ping grinned, "My mother is fine, it's just that she has always forgotten things these days, and she has gotten out of bed and walked around yesterday." It's that I'm lazy as soon as I go home, and I always want to go back to the palace in a few days, you don't know, I slept at home until three poles on the day, and when I got here, I got up earlier than the chicken, and finally found a chance to sleep a few more times, where do I want to go back to the palace? ”

"I can talk to my father and ask him to send you home to sleep." The eldest prince said slowly.

"Your Highness, why are you always elusive!" Xiong Ping was startled, "Come a few more times, and I'll be carried out!" ”

"The gentleman is frank, the villain is a relative, if you don't have a ghost in your heart, why should you be afraid of ghosts?" The eldest prince's personality is actually very interesting, but because he is the eldest son and the son-in-law, he has to pose as a young man and an old man with a stable personality in front of people.

And in fact, it's really a personality that can amuse you by jumping into the bottom of the pit while talking and laughing.

"Who did I hear say that the gentleman is gone? Which one is off? "Qin Bin has just been called by the lecturer to beat the handboard, but he is used to it, when he was practiced by his father at home, there are broken thorns, and this handboard is not as heavy as his old man's thorns, so he runs after the fight, and there is no psychological burden at all.

"Oh, we're saying, if you can't answer the question next time and embarrass my face, I'll ask the bachelor to punish you for stripping naked and running around the East Palace." The eldest prince said seriously, "Come a few more times, and you will become a 'gentleman'." ”

"Great Prince, don't! How can you be a gentleman, this is turning me into a monkey and showing everyone 1 fart! Qin Bin's face changed greatly, and he jumped up in fright, "I must not be sleepy in the evening make-up class!" Don't toss me! ”

Qiu Mu and Xiong Ping laughed, this Qin Bin is the living treasure among them, with him, there is often laughter and laughter in the Shangyang Palace. I don't know if it's because he has many sisters in the family, but he loves several classmates who accompany him very much, saying that he finally found his brother.

Regarding his statement, everyone agrees:

"Get out!"

He was very satisfied with these companions, that is, if Qin Bin could study as hard as Li Rui, Qiu Mu could act as open-mindedly as Xiong Ping.

Of course, if Li Rui wants Qin Bin's pleasure, Xiong Ping can have Li Rui's carefulness, it will be even better!

Hey, people are really greedy. When he first chose to read with him, he thought that Li Rui was not a fat man with a round top and a round bottom, and he could bear it. When Li Rui is not a fat man, he thinks that it would be good if this companion was not so self-disciplined and self-reliant.

He studied until the third watch every day, just to not hold him back, although it satisfied his vanity, but if Li Rui forced himself down, it would become his sin.

And Qin Bin seems to be sure that he will enlist in the army in the future, and he disdains the knowledge in the book, he is still stubborn, and he can't correct it.

Qiu Mu is a little cautious, his personality is a bit like a girl, Qin Bin and Qiu Mu can sometimes quarrel without speculation.

Xiong Ping and his father have a temperament, laughing all day long, his temperament is extremely slow, and he is not shocked when the sky falls, although he is a very good character as a clan, but what Chu Chengxuan wants is someone who can assist him in the future, such an indifferent character, he really doesn't feel at ease to leave anything to him to do.

Looking at it this way, among the four, only Li Rui is really reliable.

Father, why did you find me such a bunch of pit goods!

Seeing that the four companions were idle, Chu Chengxuan squinted his eyes and said:

"I was also relieved to learn that my aunt and Mrs. Qiu were fine. Now the front is not stable, Yin Dynasty Yu and Qiyang Wang Yu have not rested, Zhang Xuan predicted that there will be floods after the summer this year, my father has a headache, these days to the East Palace examination school we are very strict in our homework. ”

He went to the queen every day to say goodbye, and he was very clear about the situation ahead.

"You'd better be serious these days, especially Qin Bin, if you don't do your homework again, you're really going to drag me to death!"

"Got it, the little one must read it at night, and the hanging beam will stab the strands!" Qin Bin held his head and promised. "But the crow's mouth is open again? Where is there a flood this time? ”

Zhang Xuan's prediction of disasters has been fulfilled repeatedly, and the good deeds of the household department have given him the nickname "Zhang Crow", which is completely different from the folk saying "Zhang Tianshi".

Because every time there is a disaster, the household department has to open the treasury, these people obviously know that the money belongs to the state, but when the money is spent, it is still sad that it seems that their own money has been used, and the name of "Zhang Crow" has also been spread.

"There is a disaster in the south. It's about time to reinforce the embankment. Qiu Mu, I'm afraid your father won't be able to return home for a long time. Qiu Mu's father was a waiter of the Ministry of Industry, and it was the task of the Ministry of Industry to explore the rivers in various places.

"Oh......" Qiu Mu fell on his face.

At this moment, Zhang Crow was happily walking towards the Xinguo Mansion.

May 25 is a good day to open, and there must be no rain that day, I think that Mrs. Qiu will be very happy to learn that this day is so good.

When he heard that Old Taijun Qiu had been assassinated, he was sure that Old Taijun Qiu would definitely not lose a single hair, and he would protect other people.

Although I don't know why Tianjun is still frightened, ......

If you are shocked by this kind of thing, you naturally have to let the professional come!

Tianjun, what happened to the rescuer that the monkey found?

The author has something to say: Little Theater:

Father, why did you find me such a bunch of pit goods!

Author: Plus you, just a problem with the Child Corps.