Zhu Zuo smiled and said, "That marquis drove the queen mother, concubines, palace maids and eunuchs out of the palace, and also filled all the real treasures and luxury utensils in the palace into the treasury. ”

Zhu Anming frowned and pondered, from the fact that Chu Anhou drove the concubine out of the palace, it could be seen that he was not a lustful person.

Filling the treasury with real treasures shows that he is not a person who enjoys luxury.

Although Zhu Anming admires such a person, he doesn't like it. Because such a person's hobbies are more difficult to figure out, it will be more difficult to do what he likes and please the other party.

"Where did the Cai family and the concubines go after they were kicked out of the palace?" He asked.

Zhu Zuo scratched his head and said, "Chu Anhou left a choice for all of them, either join the military camp, or take some money and go out of the palace to find a way to survive on their own."

All the people he spoke of included eunuchs and court maids.

"How did a woman enter the barracks?" Zhu Anming was stunned.

"You don't know, he has a women's battalion under him." Zhu Zuo smiled bitterly.

Zhu Anming nodded silently, the behavior of this Hou Ye is really difficult to fathom.

He has always been the best at speculating on the character of a person based on his behavior, of course, there are not many people who need him to speculate, and this Chu Anhou is the person he needs to know the most at this stage.

"Those palace maids, eunuchs, and concubines shouldn't have chosen to enter the barracks, right?" He touched his chin and said.

"No, you're wrong." Zhu Zuo said with a smile: "Although none of the concubines chose to enter the military camp, many palace maids and eunuchs chose this path. ”

Zhu Anming twisted his short beard, thinking that it was the same, some palace maids and eunuchs had no relatives outside the palace at all, and they couldn't make a living, so they made this choice.

"Did he live in the palace by himself?"

"You can count it as living in it, or you can count it as not living in it." Zhu Zuo scratched his cheek and said.

"What are these words?" Zhu Anming frowned.

Zhu Zuo smiled bitterly: "He re-established Shangshu Province, the Privy Council and the Spiegel Academy, all of which are in the imperial city, and he himself is also handling political affairs in the imperial city. ”

"Isn't that just living in?"

"But he closed the palace and prepared to build something else, and he himself chose a palace in the imperial city as his residence."

After saying that, Zhu Zuo touched his nose, until now, he couldn't figure out the reason why the other party did this, and he didn't know how good it was to live in the harem.

The Hangzhou Imperial Palace is divided into the Imperial City and the Imperial Palace, the Imperial City is where the upper dynasty and various departments worked, and the treasury and some other important warehouses are also in the Imperial City.

The palace is divided into the front palace and the harem, the front palace is the residence of the lord of the country, and the harem is the residence of the concubine and the queen mother.

Seeing his father's thoughtful look, Zhu Zuo expressed his feelings.

"I always think that Chu Anhou is a little weird."

"That's not weird, but far-sighted, you can't see through the mystery for the time being, the person who can defeat Hangzhou will never be a weird person." Zhu Anming said in a deep voice.

"That's what you said." Zhu Zuo nodded.

After this turmoil, the water chestnut in his personality has been worn away a lot.

"You tell me in detail about the current situation in the Imperial City." Zhu Anming said.

Zhu Zuo thought back to what he had heard, and said slowly:

"The Wende Hall next to the Daqing Hall was chosen by Chu Anhou as a daily office place. The offices of other Hui'an officials are centered on the Wende Palace, and the place where Chu Anhou lives is not far from the Wende Palace, which he named the Yangxin Palace. ”

Zhu Anming pondered for a moment, and a knowing smile appeared on his face.

"Father, do you see something?" Zhu Zuo said happily.

At this time, the two had walked into the lobby of the mansion from the gate, and Zhu Anming sat down at the top and said with a smile: "From your description, my father does see something." ”

"What do you see?"

"If my father is not mistaken, Chu Anhou Lu Yuan is a very pragmatic person."

Zhu Zuo touched his chin and thought.

At this time, the servant outside the door came in with tea, Zhu Zuo gave up thinking and asked, "How do you see it?" ”

Zhu Anming drank all the tea in one gulp and said: "No matter who it is, after conquering Hangzhou, if you want to take charge of Hangzhou, you will generally announce to the people of the city that you are the new master of Hangzhou, but Lu Yuan did not do this. ”

"Is that because of this?"

This point is enough to illustrate the problem, which shows that Lu Yuan does not value false fame. As long as the army is still there, Hangzhou is firmly in his hands. Judging from his every move, he should hope that his behavior in Hangzhou can have the least impact on Hangzhou. ”

"Is there any benefit to this?" Zhu Zuo was puzzled.

Zhu Anming glanced at him, a little dissatisfied with his son's lack of enlightenment.

"There are a lot of benefits, the easiest one, he can spare his hands to do something else!"

"What else is he going to do?" Zhu Zuo exclaimed.

"There are a lot of things to do, for example, the 20,000 forbidden army in Fuyang has not been solved, and with Wu Yueguo's current weakness, it is the best opportunity to seize more land, of course he will not let it go!"

Zhu Zuo took a deep breath and felt that he still had a lot to learn.

"By the way, how did you get all the information about the Imperial City that you just said?" Zhu Anming asked.

"I went to Han Shilang's mansion to inquire."

"Han Ji?" Zhu Anming was shocked: "How could he know this? ”

"Father doesn't know, since the Hui'an Mansion officials took over Hangzhou, all the adults are trying to find a way to tie up with those Hui'an Mansion officials, but the other party seems to have a tacit understanding, and no one will take care of us."

Speaking of these things, Zhu Zuo lowered his head a little sadly.

"It's human nature, go on."

Zhu Zuo nodded and said: "Later, everyone learned that there was a person from Hangzhou who actually entered the officialdom of Hui'an Mansion, and everyone made up their minds with that person, and I heard that the people who visited the gift giver every day broke through the threshold of his family. ”

"Who is it?"

"That person's name is Li Zhong, he is the son of a butcher, and he wrote a good poem, but unfortunately he didn't have a good ambition in Hangzhou, and later went to Hui'an Mansion, I don't know who took a fancy to him, and he was recommended for the inspection of the Supervision Yuan."

When he mentioned this person, Zhu Zuo recalled the scene when he was in Xifu Haitang, and he would never have thought that the scholar who stood behind Han Zi'er would become the target of all the officials in Hangzhou.

"How many officials are the inspectors?" Zhu Anming asked again.

"From Wupin, and I heard that this person has a very good relationship with Hou Kaishan, the commander of the Fifth Army of Hui'an Mansion, and Hou Kaishan's daughter also recognizes him as her father-in-law."

"Then how did the Han family get on this person?"

"I heard that Li Zhong used to be an accountant in the Han family, and he seems to be interested in the eldest lady of the Han family."

Zhu Zuo heard his father sigh, maybe he regretted not giving birth to a sister for himself, he secretly guessed.

"You should also visit his house." Zhu Anming commanded.

"Shall we go too?" Zhu Zuo was a little reluctant.

Zhu Anming nodded and said in a deep voice: "People with Li Zhong's experience are easy to become people with small energy. If everyone else goes and we don't, it is likely that he will feel that we look down on him. With his current energy, he can cause us trouble, and in order to avoid this, you go on a trip and go through the motions. ”

"The child knows." Zhu Zuo said in a low voice, feeling that the last trace of his pride was also shattered to the ground.

After leaving the lobby and preparing the gifts, he rode the carriage to the Li Mansion, and the habit of not taking the carriage was also forgotten by him.

As far as he knew, Chu Anhou Lu Yuan had arranged residences for those officials who had just come from Hui'an Mansion, and Zhu Zuo also understood that after all, Hangzhou was not built by him alone, and it was necessary to reward his subordinates for meritorious deeds.

Li Zhong's current residence is a mansion in the east of Hangzhou.

Soon, the carriage drove to the street where Li Zhong's house was located, the carriage stopped, and the voice of the coachman came in.

"Childe, the front is blocked, and the carriage can't go."

Zhu Zuo looked through the curtain of the carriage and saw that the narrow street where Li Zhong's house was located was already crowded with carriages.

In desperation, he had to get out of the carriage and walk instead.

After walking a few steps, a group of people appeared in front of them, all dressed in brocade clothes and jade clothes, and at a glance they knew that they were all people with status, and they were all gathered outside a small house, talking to each other.

When one of the chubby sons saw Zhu Zuo, he smiled and said, "Brother Zhu, you are here too." ”

"Brother Li." Zhu Zuo arched his hand, and the one in front of him was the son of the former Hubu Shangshu, Li Shang.

"Alas, it's only been a few days, and Hangzhou City has become like this, I really don't know what will happen in the future." Li Shang shook his head and sighed.

Zhu Zuoke didn't have time to sigh with him, and went straight to the point: "What's the situation inside, isn't Li Zhong at home?" ”

"He's at home." Li Shang smiled bitterly: "It's just that he refused to see us, so he invited the eldest lady of the Han family in." ”

Zhu Zuo didn't speak again, anyway, he just came on his father's orders, and if he couldn't get in, he just stood outside for a while.

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