After Zhu Youxiao finished feeding Zhang Yan, he let go of his hand and said, "Don't you think that you can bribe me with a pastry, why don't you hurry up and compose a poem?" ”

Zhang Yan smiled dumbly and asked rhetorically:

"How can a concubine have the talent of becoming a poet in seven steps? Besides, Your Majesty is not a serious examiner......"

Zhu Youxiao leaned on the railing and said, "Who said that I am not a serious examiner, I have always been very serious in the court." ”

"The Jinshi in the world are all my protégés, and the previous palace exams didn't ask me to personally test the best of those students in the world?"

"Tell me, if I am not familiar with the Four Books and Five Classics, how can I find out about this imperial examination case and decide it in one fell swoop?"

"Okay, good, Your Majesty is powerful, and the concubines admire it." Zhang Yan glanced at this side, raised her eyebrows, turned to look at the crescent moon in the sky, and entered the state in a blink of an eye.

This kind of teasing, Zhu Youxiao is happy in it, and he doesn't feel that this is presumptuous at all.

Seeing Zhang Yanxiu's eyebrows tightened, with a pensive look, Zhu Youxiao also leaned aside, and looked at Concubine Yu and Concubine Liang quietly compared to the gesture of "shhh".

After a while, Zhang Yan's eyes lit up, and she whispered: "The clouds are slender and the moon is hooked, and the clear light is not hung at night; It's like a daughter in a girl's daughter, knowing that tenderness is behind. ”

"Good!" Concubine Liu stroked her palms and laughed.

Tong Jing'er's eyes were full of surprise, and she quickly said: "Sister, these four lines of poetry are really deep and meaningful, and this is the name of a talented woman in vain." ”

Zhu Youxiao repeated, smiled and asked:

"Okay, this daughter of the boudoir, the queen is comparing herself, right?"

Speaking of this, Zhu Youxiao suddenly realized something, and said as he walked: "It's like a girl in the boudoir, queen, I understand your mind." ”

A touch of red light rose on Zhang Yan's face, and she smiled, noncommittal.

At this time, Concubine Yu Tong Jing'er and Concubine Liang's Wang couldn't hold it back, and they came out to chant a poem one after another to win the emperor's appreciation.

"Okay, you're all talented women!"

Zhu Youxiao was very surprised after listening to Tong Jing'er and Wang's poems one by one.

According to the concubine selection system of the harem of the Ming Dynasty, the concubines selected are all from show girls, that is, small people's background.

There are very few show girls who come out of such a background, and it is not easy to learn the complex and cumbersome regulations in the palace after entering the palace.

What is commendable is that they can still learn poetry, calligraphy and painting in the palace without a teacher, and they have learned a little.

This perseverance and persistence alone deserve Zhu Youxiao's appreciation.

Indeed, for a long time, Zhu Youxiao has been busy with government affairs, either dealing with the Jurchens in the east or dealing with the ministers in the court, ignoring these concubines in the harem.

Zhu Youxiao has always wanted to make up for it, and today's accompaniment is so, and the second is to congratulate Concubine Liu on her birthday, but he feels that it is not enough.

Zhu Youxiao thought for a while and said, "White jade tea set, reward you!" ”

"Wang Chengen, go and tell Wang Chaofu to send two sets of tea sets commonly used by Xinuan Pavilion to Xianfu Palace and Qixiang Palace."

Wang Chengen turned around and left.

After a while, Wang Chengen returned from Qixiang Palace and said something in his ear.

Zhu Youxiao nodded, got up and looked at the night sky that had gradually dimmed, got up and said, "It's not early, Cining Palace has already set up a meal, and I want to personally accompany the concubine to eat." ”

Next, it's dinner at Cining Palace.

A very normal dinner, for these harem concubines, it is a very rare experience that can accompany the emperor to eat a complete meal.

Not to mention that Zhu Youxiao was in a good mood today, not only rewarded the royal tea sets to Xianfu Palace and Qixiang Palace, but also rewarded the concubines of the rest of the palaces.

These women voluntarily entered the palace and wasted decades of their youth here, this is their own choice, Zhu Youxiao can't be wet with rain and dew, and of course he won't do nothing.

Zhu Youxiao was still in Cining Palace, talking and laughing with the concubines, and the poems made by Concubine Yu, Concubine Liang and Zhang Yan during the day, but the will was issued all the time.

No one could see the dark clouds echoing behind Zhu Youxiao's smile, and just as the dinner was underway, the superintendent of Zhangjiakou received the holy decree and immediately dispatched a large number of people to surround the most powerful local chaebol, the Fan family.

"Your Majesty, the Zhangjiakou Governor Yamen replied to the letter, the Fan family is finished."

Late at night, Zhu Youxiao returned to Xinuan Pavilion, looked at the long-awaited minister, sat back on the throne to breathe a sigh of relief, and waved his hand:

"Go down, I know."

"Yes."

He replied and turned to leave.

Zhu Youxiao watched him leave and began to close his eyes and recuperate.

Since the establishment of the Comparative Affairs Bureau, although the number of Ministers is not large, and there are only a few hundred people so far, the Inner Prison Departments and the various ministries and yamen of the imperial court have already had people from the Comparative Affairs Bureau.

The person who just left, who was on an errand in the East Factory, was Fu Yingxing's cronies, and at the same time a dead soldier trained by Zhu Youxiao.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youxiao sighed.

His heart has never been as calm as he showed in the harem today, and even when he accompanied the concubine to visit the Taiye Pool, Dongchang was arresting people in Zhangjiakou.

Zhu Youxiao can not do much, so that most of the people can live well, and it is enough to let the harem continue to be quiet like this.

......

At the same time, Zhangjiakou.

Zhangjiakou was not calm that night, and it could even be regarded as a little chaotic.

The Zhangjiakou government posted a notice that a curfew would be imposed that night.

For a while, rumors spread throughout the city, and before the people could figure out what was going on, the gates were closed one after another at dusk.

First of all, the local yamen dispatched a large number of officials to patrol the streets, and then even the thousands and hundreds of generals in the barracks led the officers and soldiers to guard the main roads.

Many people don't understand, what's going on?

Soon, a large number of footsteps sounded on the street, and the superintendent Yamen rushed out hundreds of school captains armed with waist knives and rushed to the Fan's various shops in Zhangjiakou.

"It's sealed!"

A brocade-clothed guard stood on the street, and naturally found the people looking out through the eaves of the window, and he stood in place with a golden sword, and announced:

"The Fan family had an affair with Jiannu and sold military funds outside the customs, and I supervised the division to seize all the shops, numbers, and acres of the Fan family in one piece!"

"The Fan family betrayed the country, the crime is unforgivable, and they are beheaded all over the house, and their heads are hanging in the city!"

After speaking, the captain smashed open the door of a shop, rushed in and grabbed the shopkeeper out, carried him to the street, and went down without saying a word.

There was a "poof", blood was dripping, and a frightened head rolled to the ground.

"The Fan family is captured, and the shopkeepers of shops all over the country are also guilty of knowing and not reporting, and they will be beheaded together!"

"The superintendent and the East Factory are ordered to seal up the Fan family, and don't go to the street without people!"

At the same time, the rest of the factory guards and local officials and officers and soldiers announced in various streets that the people at home who heard this were all frightened.

In a certain house, a woman with a child in her arms watched her man observe through the window eaves.

The sound of announcements and footsteps from the street uneasy the woman's heart, and the baby who had been crying gradually became quiet.

After a while, the woman asked:

"Did you hear clearly, who is the superintendent going to arrest this time?"

The man closed the window tightly, went over and pulled the door again, then he came back and sat on the couch, sighed and said, "I can't hear it clearly, the people outside are shouting, it looks like the Fan family." ”

"What, Fan family?" The woman gasped when she heard this, "Two days ago, I heard that the son of the Fan family went to the street to ride a horse and pretend to hurt someone, but I didn't expect retribution to come so soon." ”

"It's not this, it's every day, and it's not done by the Fan family, so how can you slowly copy it? This time, the imperial court, but to seize all the shops in all parts of the Fan family, must be a serious crime! ”

"I heard that it was the Fan family who had an affair with the Tartars, this time the Liaodong victory, the Tartars suffered a big defeat, and the Fan family sold grain and grass outside the customs for huge profits, and was arrested by the Yamen of the Supervision Division!"

When the man said this, he seemed a little excited, he clenched his fists and said to the woman: "If this is the case, this Fan family really should be arrested!" ”

"Alas, if you can't catch it, what are we doing!" The woman's thoughts were different, and while coaxing the child to sleep, he sighed and said:

"During this period of time, the imperial court is a big case and a arrest, and there must be hundreds of severed heads, what is this for?"

"In my opinion, this Ming is about to change the sky!"

"Let's just want to live in peace......"