The two of you said a word, and soon time passed. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 At this time, Huo Zhen came to the side of the carriage and said to Zhu Di through the curtain: "Lord Wang, it's getting dark, less than five miles in front of you is the official post of Pennsylvania, is it to rest at the post station or rush to Penn City?" ”

Zhu Di said: "Just rest for one night at the post station, you don't have to enter Penn City, it's troublesome." ”

Huo Zhen answered, and then commanded the team to march towards the post station. Zhu Di and Concubine Xu talked for a long time, and the corners of their lips were dry, and they all rested on the cushions.

After a while, the carriage stopped. Zhu Di got out of the carriage first, and when he wanted to ask how to settle down, the guard Wang Zhen came over and whispered to Zhu Di: "Lord, His Royal Highness is also in the post station?" ”

Zhu Di was taken aback: "Why is he here too?" But he immediately walked to the post station and asked Wang Zhen to lead the way to where he lived. He is an elder brother, and there is no reason to visit his younger brother.

Then after Zhu Di and his party were almost settled, Huo Zhen came in and reported: "Lord, His Royal Highness the King has come down to visit the prince." ”

Zhu Di was not surprised, it was inevitable that King Zhu Song would visit him, otherwise he would be too ignorant. However, Zhu Di has always been friendly with his brothers, and immediately went to the door of his courtyard to greet Zhu Song.

Zhu Song waited until the door opened, and was still a little surprised to see Zhu Di waiting at the door, and immediately said, "How can the fourth brother come to greet the younger brother in person?" It's really a pain in my brother's life. ”

Zhu Di smiled: "What's the problem, they are all brothers." As he spoke, Zhu Di welcomed Zhu Song into the door.

Then he went into the room and sat down and began to talk.

Zhu Di chatted casually for a few words, and then asked, "Twenty brother, I remember that you should have set off from the capital at the end of February, right?" Why is it still in Shandong? Zhu Song left the capital in February, and although he chose to take the land route, he should not have been hanging around in Shandong for two months.

Zhu Song said: "Hey, I haven't been out of the capital before, and I want to go around all over the Ming Dynasty!" And I also passed by Fengyang, why didn't I go to worship the ancestral tomb? "It's not okay for the prince to go to worship the ancestral tomb, it's easy to cause misunderstanding, but it's nothing to worship when passing by.

"And when I passed through Qingzhou, Seventh Brother stayed with me for a few more days. Don't say it, enjoy the wheel, Seventh Brother is really powerful, all kinds of tricks emerge in endlessly, all of which I have never seen. Hey, the days I spent in Qingzhou were the coolest days for me! As he spoke, Zhu Song also showed an intoxicated expression, as if he was accepting the enjoyment of the renovation in his mouth.

Zhu Di said: "Twenty brother, you still don't get too close to Lao Qi, I think he has ruined the people of Qingzhou so much, Your Majesty will punish him sooner or later." ”

Zhu Song said: "What the fourth brother said is that the seventh brother is too much, but it's not easy for me to say anything as a younger brother." However, Your Majesty shouldn't punish him severely, at most, he will call the capital to reprimand him a few words when his father is there. ”

Zhu Di felt that if Yun Xi really punished Zhu Rong, it was unlikely that he would be so careless, and he would treat his son the same as his uncle?

However, Zhu Di was not easy to discuss this issue with Zhu Song, so Zhu Di changed the topic and talked about it.

Zhu Di can do so well in the position of King Yan, so that the people near Beiping Mansion feel good, naturally he is very capable. At this time, Zhu Di picked out some of his own experience and introduced it to Zhu Song, which made Zhu Song feel that he had gained a lot.

After a while, Concubine Xu came out to say hello to Zhu Song, and Zhu Song naturally wanted to stand up and salute.

Then Concubine Xu said: "It's quite late at this time, let's talk about something tomorrow." ”

Zhu Song looked at the time, it was indeed very late, and he hurriedly retreated to his yard. However, before leaving, he specially said that he would come to visit Zhu Di tomorrow.

On the second day, Yunxi really came to visit Zhu Di again and asked Zhu Di about his local experience. Although Zhu Di felt very impatient, he was not very defenseless against his younger brother, who had no conflict of interest at all, and passed on his experience to Zhu Song.

On the third day, Zhu Song set off and continued to run northeast. Zhang Shu was already preparing to attack the Jurchen tribe in Kaiyuan City, and he couldn't be too slow.

After Zhu Song left, of course Zhu Di and his party would not continue to stay in this small post station, they wanted to arrive in the capital earlier, so they also set off immediately.

Zhu Di didn't have anything to say to Concubine Xu, so he also rode a horse and walked beside the carriage with the guards. But just open the way, although under normal circumstances, no one comes back to assassinate a prince, but it is always necessary to guard against abnormal situations.

Zhu Di rode a horse while chatting with the guards. Zhu Di is very good at chatting, and after a while, they are already laughing.

But after a while, Zhu Di suddenly noticed that on the road ahead, there were a few people in unpopular official uniforms pulling a few bald people on the road.

Zhu Di stopped talking, and the guards who spoke to him were also discerning, and they also stopped talking.

Of course, these people who came across also saw the oncoming team. Although Zhu Di's guards were not ostentatious, Penn was not far from Qingzhou, and these people recognized the special clothing of the palace guards at a glance, and they were busy stopping on the side of the road when they were about twenty or thirty meters away from the carriage and waiting for them to pass.

Zhu Di drove his horse to them and asked, "Who are you?" Why are these people being held? ”

Although Zhu Di was only wearing the clothes of the guards, they didn't dare to offend, and one of the leaders bowed down and said: "Lord Qiqi, we are from the Pennsylvania Monk Lu Division, and this time we are going to the countryside to catch illegal monks." ”

According to the system set by Zhu Yuanzhang, there can only be one temple or Taoist temple in a county, and the number of people is limited to less than 20 people, and they must be registered in the imperial court, otherwise it is illegal. Although the state capital level is more relaxed, there are also restrictions.

Zhu Di knew what was going on, drove his horse back to the team, and continued to move forward with the team.

These monks waited until Zhu Di and his party walked over, and then continued to move in the direction of Pennsylvania.

Zhu Di told his guards about this, and Wang Cong said suspiciously: "Lord Wang, the minister is a native of Shandong, and there were monks and Taolu Divisions in the local area during the Hongwu period in the past, but the minister remembered that at that time, the central government issued an order to check the illegal monks and Taoists in the place, how could it be so positive?" There hasn't been an order to check the monastic path lately, has it? ”

Zhu Di knew why they were so positive, and explained it to them. Wang Cong suddenly realized: "So that's the case, no wonder they will become positive." ”

Then the group continued to chat. Wang Cong said: "Lord Wang, speaking of which, in fact, there are quite a few people from the White Lotus Sect in Shandong, which are completely different from Beiping. ”

Huo Zhen interjected and said, "White Lotus Sect? Isn't that a cult that the imperial court strictly prohibits propagation! Why, do they dare to preach openly? ”

Wang Cong said: "I don't dare, but the White Lotus Sect in Shandong is not small. ”

Wang Zhen said: "What, doesn't the government in Shandong care? ”

Wang Cong said: "Why don't you care? Every time I found traces of the White Lotus Sect, I chased them to the end, and many of the altar owners and incense masters in the east of the mountains were executed. ”

Wang Zhen said: "Then how can the power of the White Lotus Sect not be small? ”

Wang Cong said: "The officials of the government naturally paid it with their hearts, but the officials were not enthusiastic. The officials did not have much benefit in clearing the people of the White Lotus Sect, but they had to guard against the White Lotus Sect's fish that slipped through the net to retaliate against them. ”

"Killing the official officials of the imperial court is a big deal, even the people of the White Lotus Sect don't dare to do it casually. But the death of a local official is nothing. So for the sake of his own life, who would die investigating the affairs of the White Lotus Sect. ”

Although Zhu Di didn't know what Wang Cong said because of the small power of the White Lotus Sect in the Beiping area, he was not surprised that he had been in the fiefdom for a long time and knew the attitude of the officials.

However, as the prince of the Ming Dynasty, he still attaches great importance and seriousness to the liquidation of the White Lotus Sect, although Shandong is not his fiefdom, but he still decided to go to the capital to mention it to Yun Xi, so that Yun Xi attaches importance to the liquidation of the White Lotus Sect in Shandong.

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In the hall of Pengjiazhuang outside Pennsylvania, Peng Ju and Xu Dehu said: "How many people have been arrested in the past few months? ”

Xu Dehu said: "Brother Peng, there are people from twelve villages who have been arrested, at least seventy or eighty people. ”

Peng Ju slapped the table and scolded: "Why are these bullshit monks and Daolu people so active in the past few months? What benefits did the court promise them? ”

Xu Dehu didn't know why, so he could only scold: "The people of the bullshit monk Daolu Division, one day I made my grandfather anxious, and I went to the yamen to kill you!" ”

Peng Ju knew that Xu Dehu was just talking. Entering the city to go to the yamen of the official mansion to kill people is a big deal, and it is likely to provoke the imperial court to inquire and then exterminate it in the most severe way, not to mention Xu Dehu, even Peng Ju himself does not dare.

The two scolded here for a while, and Li Er ran in from outside and said, "Brother Peng, I found out something. ”

Peng Ju immediately said, "What did you find?" Xu Dehu was also staring at Li Er on the side.

Li Er picked up the cup on the table and took a big sip of water, then said, "Brother Peng, Brother Xu, I found out why they turned a blind eye before. It turned out that the imperial court gave them a salary. ”

"In the past, the people in the local monks and Taoist divisions had no money, and they had to find their own money in order to make a living, so who would do their best for the court? The small temple in the countryside gave a little bribe, and they turned a blind eye to it. ”

"Now that they have Yulu, they don't have to rely on the bribes of small temples and small temples to live, so they will naturally be diligent."