Watching Huang Huatang leave Nanyuan step by step, Zhu Youxiao put down the shelf, put his feet on the table, leaned on the white stone pillar behind him, changed his comfortable posture, and asked as if he had no intention of asking:

"Wang Chaofu, tell me, this Huang Huatang, is it the right choice?"

Wang Chaofu said with a smile: "There will be no mistake in the person chosen by Your Majesty, Huang Huatang can become the owner of the Suzhou Chamber of Commerce in two years, and he must have some real skills." ”

Zhu Youxiao sneered and said casually: "What real skills can he have, it's not that he relies on the big tree of the imperial court to do some stealing chickens and dogs behind his back." ”

When he heard the movement outside the courtyard, he looked at the door.

Huang Huatang left with his front foot, and after three or two sentences, Wei Zhongxian walked into Nanyuan with a pile of music outside, with old folds piled up on his face, and said with a smile:

"Master, this is the book of the last month Jifu and the imperial court, and the slave and maid have presented it."

Zhu Youxiao's bright yellow soap boots rested on the table, paused slightly, turned his toes, put his hands together in front of his lower abdomen, and exhaled.

Zhu Youxiao looked up and down, and naturally understood that Wei Zhongxian had something to say, and there was nothing big about it now, he would not come to hand over the book in person, and said with a smile:

"What other books are there today that are worthy of being sent to me by you, the factory company? Or to Nanyuan, Wei Zhongxian, it's not close to me from Dongchang..."

After speaking, Zhu Youxiao looked at Wei Zhongxian with a smile.

"The emperor is making fun of the old slave again..."Wei Zhongxian heard the word 'factory father' in the emperor's words, sighed helplessly, and said:

"The Liaodong General Soldier who was guilty of the First World War in Liaodong is now beheading in Shimenfang... Do you want to go and see it? ”

"Oh?"

Zhu Youxiao took the notebook, sat on the stone bench seriously, began to look through them one by one, and asked, "Then come and tell me how this traitor subdued the law?" ”

Wei Zhongxian said with a smile: "If you go back to your grandfather, after the old slave got His Majesty's will, he let his nephew Fu Yingxing go to Shanhaiguan to arrest Na Gaodi and return to Beijing. ”

"In the past few days of interrogation in Dongchang, Gao Di's teeth are very soft, and he has truthfully confessed to the crime of avoiding the war and avoiding escape, without the slightest quibble. After the old slave asked Shuntianfu to inform the people, he asked the Ministry of Punishment what it meant, saying that it was beheaded today. ”

"You have completely skimmed yourself in these words..."Zhu Youxiao laughed and said: "This is also the so-called wicked people still need to be grinded by wicked people?" ”

I know that no matter how hard the bones are in this world, those torture tools that go into the East Factory and try your torture tools will loosen their mouths. This Gaodi is also a person who understands and knows that he can suffer less. ”

Speaking of this, Zhu Youxiao snorted coldly, his face still lingering with anger: "This traitor killed one of my fierce generals, and he was cheaper with a knife." ”

Wei Zhongxian hurriedly asked: "Then the old slave will pass on the word, and set a time to execute him Ling Chi to eliminate the hatred in His Majesty's heart?" ”

Zhu Youxiao thought for a while, waved his hand and said: "That's it, if you leave him to live for a few more days, he will earn it, and there is my Ming soul's soul waiting for him underground." ”

"Sending him down early is also considered a good deed."

Wei Zhongxian lowered his eyes and sighed: "Your Majesty is really wise and compassionate, and the heavens are wise, even if it is the living Buddha in that temple, it is not half of the heart of Your Majesty's Bodhisattva!" ”

Zhu Youxiao scolded with a smile: "You old dog, don't make sycophants." ”

As soon as the words fell, he picked up a notebook, Zhu Youxiao's face sank again, and said, "This is the result of the three trials of the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Crime?" ”

Wei Zhongxian nodded and sighed: "Yuan Chonghuan refused to know the crime, on the grounds that the general would not accept the life of the foreign monarch. What is it that Ning Yuan's military salaries were not complete at that time, and the food and salary reserves were insufficient, so rashly sending troops would only reap the consequences..."

"A good general is outside, and the king's order is not subject to it!"

Zhu Youxiao sneered, threw the notebook into the pavilion, and said with a gloomy face:

"If the generals of the world are like him, arrogant, with no one in their eyes, and they don't even listen to my holy decree, then can I, the emperor, still do it?"

"The arrears of military salaries in the towns of the nine borders have been made up this year, why didn't Zu Dashou say that the food and salary were insufficient when he sent out the army?"

"It's clear that he Yuan Chonghuan is strong and reasonable, and he doesn't want to send troops to fight the enemy."

"What a Ning Yuan soldier, he dares to follow me to supervise the teacher's score!"

Wei Zhongxian came to Zhu Youxiao and knelt down straight: "The emperor is angry..., it was the old slave who was blind and failed to persuade Lord Sun at the beginning." ”

"This matter has nothing to do with you, it's only Yuan Chonghuan's lack of king's law!" Zhu Youxiao gasped a few times, leaned on the stone pillar, and said coldly:

"Order to urge the military department and the criminal department to ask them to retry!"

"Repeatedly resisting the decree, if you connive at him this time, I don't have to do it as an emperor!"

The meaning of these words, Wei Zhongxian heard it clearly, the emperor's implication, Yuan Chonghuan is dead this time, there is no second possibility.

No matter how many people want to be protected, the emperor's intention is to kill Yuan Chonghuan.

After all, it is not an ordinary thing to repeatedly resist the decree, if this precedent is opened, and the generals in various places will follow the same example in the future, and the majesty of the imperial court will be greatly reduced.

Wei Zhongxian smiled bitterly in his heart, the emperor is still pretending to be confused, playing the emperor's technique...

If he is really angry, he will never urge a retrial, but will directly order to kill Yuan Chonghuan, this is to kill people with a knife, and kill people to punish their hearts!

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The Midyear Festival is an annual event in Beijing.

Every year on this day, dignitaries, scholars, merchants, and even high-ranking servants all go to the market to watch the lantern festival.

People from all over the country gather inside and outside the Beijing Division, and there will be an endless stream of people a few days in advance, and tens of thousands of people come in and out every year, and it is crowded to the point that it is impossible to get through.

Despite this, the rich owners naturally have their own good methods, and pay a lot of money to rent the best locations, located on both sides of the chess and card street in the middle of the house, pavilions.

This year, due to some events, more people are coming to Beijing than ever before.

On the day when Huang Huatang entered Beijing, there were still five days to the Lantern Festival in the middle of the year, and I thought that it was enough to arrive in Beijing five days in advance, but when I arrived, I found that it was almost the same to come to Beijing a few months in advance.

Due to the scramble for rent, the rent price of all the anti-houses on both sides of the street in the capital that are slightly better located is getting higher and higher.

An ordinary private room on the second floor of Mingfang Pavilion on Chess and Card Street was rented for five hundred taels of silver on the day of the Midyear Festival.

It is Shimenfang, which is separated by two streets of Chess and Card Street, and the rent of an ordinary house along the street is as high as 20 taels of silver a day.

Of course, there is also a promotion role played by the three-year examination of the Apocalypse, which will be held next month.

Anyway, since the victory in Liaodong, the news that the head of the thief will be sealed and inspected in Beijing has come out, and the whole country is cheering, and more people have come to Beijing. It's been crowded to death for a long time!

After a few months of hard work, many new houses have been built on both sides of the moat outside the capital, and there is a faint scale of a large town.

There are really a lot of people in the Ming Dynasty, and they are developing rapidly every day, and every decree of the imperial court has a corresponding promotion effect, but the speed is just fast or slow.

Some people are smarter than those who rent houses, and they have a way to make money, and they fill the seats around the lantern festival and set prices according to the distance and proximity.

From far to near, the price also ranges from a few cents to three thousand cents.

Some people made money because of this, so they simply stayed in Beijing, planning to open a store after the Midyear Festival, and then open a small shop, to be proud of Kyoto people.

Huang Huatang shuddered, because he came too late, let alone rent a house, he almost didn't even rent a seat on the street.

The feeling of having money and nowhere to spend it, he can be regarded as having experienced it.

In the end, it was easy to say that after spending 3,000 yuan, Huang Huatang finally bought a seat from a farmer with an original price of only a few dozen yuan.

The seats were far away to Shimenfang, two streets away, and Huang Huatang was thinking about whether to leave directly back to Suzhou, and when he didn't look at this lantern festival, he found that there was a noise in the distance.

It looks like an execution over there?