In the sixth year of Longqing, it has been the seventh year since Longqing ascended the throne, and this year coincides with a leap month, which is a bit rare.

Since Zhang Fan's son and daughter were born, it has been more than half a year now, and now they are all crawling all over the ground.

In the past six months, nothing has happened, on the southwest side, Zhang Fan is still sending people to investigate, but until now, he still has not investigated any abnormalities, which is really a bit incomprehensible, and even an impossible reason, if it were someone else, I am afraid I would not ask again, although this involves major events such as breakfast, but there has been no news for so long, and it can be determined that it is false news for others, But Zhang Fan has never given up the investigation there, after all, this matter involves the safety of the appointment, and Zhang Fan has to pay more attention.

I have to mention here that in the eyes of many people, the Ming Dynasty such as Jinyiwei or Dongchang is a formidable organization, should be full of some prestige, or fox fake tiger might, slack work people, but the situation of things is just the opposite, that kind of people naturally have, but in fact, the number is very small, you must know, want to be daunting, the first point, for their own requirements can never be relaxed, and Jinyiwei or Dongchang is even worse, These factory guards know how to obey the orders from above, not only because they know how to obey the orders, but more importantly, countless bloody examples of their ancestors tell them how miserable the consequences of non-stop orders will be, and they don't want to follow in that footsteps.

In short, no matter what, although there is no news from the southwest now, and there is no progress in the search for Fang Zhenqian, the investigation of the southwest is still ongoing.

There is another thing, at the beginning of the spring of this year, the ships going overseas for trade will set sail again, not long after the New Year this year, Zhang Fan sent someone to the south of the Yangtze River, called Zhao Xiande to the capital, and had a good talk with him.

Although as early as last year, when Zhang Fan was in Jiangnan, he had already discussed with Zhao Xiande, and Zhao Xiande at that time also agreed to come down, but since Zhang Fan left, Zhao Xiande didn't know what was going on in his heart, he always felt that something was wrong, and even felt that Zhang Fan had any bad intentions for him.

And this time, he was called to the capital, and his heart was even more worried, but when he arrived in the capital and talked to Zhang Fan again, his heart calmed down again, and he no longer had any doubts about Zhang Fan, and this time he sailed to sea after the beginning of spring, Zhao Xiande's fleet was even more envious of others, and this time he didn't know what spell Zhang Fan used, so he actually let Longqing agree to him to send a few warships to go to sea with the merchant ships, and escort the whole process. It is not uncommon for the imperial court to have the army of the imperial court to escort the merchants, but most of them are when they go to the north, with a lot of political factors, but this sea business can be regarded as a pure economic and trade action, and the imperial court specially sent troops to escort the pure commercial operation, which can be regarded as the first time in the world.

This time to go to sea, Zhang Fan deliberately added a lot of Jinyi guards to the army sent by the imperial court, and there was also Wang Xiliang and others who were sent to Fusang by him when they were in a crisis in the south of the Yangtze River, and Zhang Fan also secretly asked for a holy decree from Longqing, so that he could give full authority to order these soldiers who went to sea, after all, after going to sea, there was no way to contact these people in this era, so the orders given to them before going to sea would continue until they died, or after they returned, As for what Zhang Fan explained to them, it is unknown, those who are more concerned about this matter only know that the battleship was loaded with a lot of things before Lin went to sea, and as for what it was, no one knows.

This time to the sea, accompanied by Richard and Joanna, their mission here has been completed, Longqing is also very "reluctantly" agreed to Portugal's request to attack India, and in exchange for a lot of benefits, one of which is that all daimyo merchants doing business in Portugal can be exempted from taxes, such a benefit that has no interest in the Ming court, of course, there are also a lot of military equipment, this time, they want to go back together.

It is worth mentioning that before leaving, Joanna also went to Zhang Fan's house to visit, but after she saw Zhang Fan's two children and his wife and concubine, her originally happy face also became a little dull, and she left without saying a few words.

Leap March, this extra month, is now in spring, the so-called spring rain is as expensive as oil, moreover, spring is also the most good season of the year, there is no summer heat, there is no winter cold, of course, there is no autumn full of depression and inexplicable sadness, all is hope.

During this time, Zhang Fan still insisted on going to the early court every day, if the early dynasty ended early, he would go to the East Palace to teach Zhu Yijun, Zhu Yijun During this time, he went to Zhang Fan's house to play every once in a while, but there have been some changes, she is no longer just sticking to Ruan'er, but also playing with Xiangmei's sister Xue'er, from time to time, he will also go to see Zhang Fan's two children, the first few times Zhu Yijun still had a curious look, and gradually, he and Yanyi and Yanyue also became acquainted, a brother called himself, This made Zhang Fan, who knew it, quite helpless, he really didn't know what kind of impact this situation would have on the future of his two children, but he couldn't stop it, so he had to let Zhu Yijun do it.

Today, one day in the middle of the leap March, Zhang Fan is like usual, get up early to freshen up, go to the morning court, everything today is still the same as in the past, spring, people are easy to get angry and weak, outside the palace gate of the early dynasty, there are some people who stand there and look a little sleepy-eyed, of course, there are also some people who are staring at people and saying that there are people, and they are constantly looking for opportunities to attack their enemies, just like Gao Gong.

Entering the Imperial Palace, the hundred officials stood in line according to the civil and military grades, waiting for Longqing to come to the court, but today, it was really a little weird, this waited for most of the day, but there was no one from Longqing, and there was no news coming out, Longqing had not been so provocative in the past, but someone would have come over to say it early, but no one came after waiting for a long time today.

Just when everyone was suspicious, a eunuch from the inner palace came over and announced loudly in front of hundreds of civil and military officials: "Pass on Your Majesty's dictation, I am not safe today, if you have anything to do, you will hand it over to the cabinet for trial, and then send it to the boss and the eunuch, and give it,"

The officials heard such news, but they didn't make any fuss, after all, this is not the first time, besides, who here doesn't know Longqing, it is estimated that last night in which concubine was tired all night, and it is estimated that he can't get out of bed in the morning, in their opinion, this is too common.

"Another legend," Before the people below came to their senses, the eunuch continued: "Your Majesty refuses to see guests today, and if all the ministers want to play again, they will all come up with folds and retreat,"

With this retreat, the eunuch turned around and left, and the following immediately began to discuss, today's things are indeed a little weird.

This situation has also occurred in Longqing in the past, but it has never issued an order that the minister is not allowed to enter the palace for an audience, and there is definitely something wrong here.

Just when everyone was talking, Zhang Juzheng found Zhang Fan, came to his side and whispered: "Yuande, do you know what happened?"

"Teacher, students don't know," Zhang Fan said, "If you know, why do students need to come here today, just go directly to the East Palace,"

Zhang Juzheng thought for a while, what Zhang Fan said was indeed good, and then said: "You have the waist card given by His Majesty, you can enter the palace at will, but you can go and find out what happened,"

"But teacher, the student's waist card can only enter and exit the East Palace at will," Zhang Fan said helplessly, "Besides, the palace decree is that the minister is not allowed to meet His Majesty, and I am afraid that the student will also ......."

"Why are you so confused," Zhang Juzheng said, "Aren't you going to the East Palace, let the prince go and pass a message, just say that you want to meet him, even if His Majesty doesn't see him, can't he still ask for some news from the prince?"

When Zhang Fan heard Zhang Juzheng say this, he suddenly realized, yes, he can go to the East Palace to find Zhu Yijun for help, and even if Longqing doesn't see him at that time, he can also ask Zhu Yijun what happened, or how Longqing happened this time, is it still like before, it's just that he played too much with the concubines in the palace and made his body weak so that he couldn't go to court; Or maybe something really happened, or something like that?

Longqing's habits and hobbies, the Manchu Dynasty knows everything, if it is the latter possibility, I'm afraid this matter is really not easy to say, Zhang Juzheng now also has to make plans in advance according to the situation.

After listening to Zhang Juzheng's words, Zhang Fan also set off and walked directly towards the inner palace, but was stopped by the guards, but after he showed his waist card and indicated that he was going to the East Palace to teach the prince, he was released.

The ministers I saw in the back were all very envious, of course, the senior engineer showed a gritted tooth expression, but no matter how angry he was now, he couldn't help it, who told Zhang Fan to enter and leave the palace so conveniently,