The emperor wants to swim in the lake.

It will inevitably take a lot of twists and turns, and the lives of Nanjing scholars will naturally be affected by it.

The officials in Nanjing may not have done a good job in training the army, rectifying the city defense, and benefiting the people and strengthening the country, but they are still very good at letting Emperor Zhu Hou take care of a good snowfall.

By the time Zhu Houzhao came out of Yuyuan, the entire city of Nanjing had been completely renewed, the snow-covered roads had been cleared, and the soft loess was also covered.

There was not a single common man on the road that the royal car had to pass, and the officers and soldiers who had changed into new armor stood neatly on the side of the road, and the whole city of Nanjing seemed to become quiet all of a sudden, so quiet that only the sound of snowflakes turned on the ground.

Zhu Houzhao could guess that in order to achieve this effect, the officials of Nanjing City must have spent a lot of people's financial resources, and it also greatly affected the lives of the people of Nanjing.

But now that Zhu Houzhao has decided to be a faint monarch for the time being, he naturally can't consider these things, and he can't put the interests of the people at heart.

It should only be about enjoyment.

This time, Zhu Houzhao naturally did not ride a horse, but sat on a fragrant car covered with thick felt and walked slowly towards Xuanwu Lake.

Because Zhu Houzhao did not ride a horse, the officials who accompanied him did not have to follow him on horseback, and even got Zhu Houzhao's permission to come by sedan chair or carriage.

At this moment, the ministers were naturally grateful to Zhu Houzhao, and they didn't have to worry about losing face because of their negligence in riding.

The snow scene of Xuanwu Lake is also good, the sky and water are the same color, and the top and bottom are white, but Zhu Houzhao did not take a boat, but changed to a sedan chair and only walked on the shore of Xuanwu Lake, and the officials got off the sedan chair and got off the car to follow.

"Your Majesty, you see that the scenery on the lake is very beautiful, and there are even more delicate plum blossoms standing on the isolated island, which is extremely gorgeous!"

"Your Majesty, the minister has prepared a painting boat, and there is already Mei Ji serving tea waiting in it!"

"Your Majesty, why don't you take a boat trip?"

Wang Xianchen suggested from the side, Zhu Houzhao only smiled, and never refused to go to the lake, only picked a plum blossom and threw it into the water: "Wang Qing, I heard that you are excellent at poetry, so you will play for me for a while, take a boat to the opposite side to bring me the beauty who hugged the plum blossom on the island, and make a poem before coming back." ”

Wang Xianchen was a little surprised, and his heart became a little nervous: "Minister, minister doesn't dare, this lake has not been visited by the Son of Heaven for the first time, how dare the minister take the lead!" ”

"This is the Holy Decree!"

Zhu Houzhao said coldly, and then Qi Jingtong and Guo Rong on the side pulled out their knives.

Seeing this, Wang Xianchen had no choice but to give up: "Yes, the minister obeys the order!" ”

Zhu Houzhao smiled slightly, stood on the shore, and watched Wang Xianchen board the painting boat.

Wang Xianchen got on the painting boat tremblingly, and instructed Mei Ji on the painting boat: "Don't open the boat plug, Zhu Houzhao didn't come up!" ”

After Wang Xianchen finished speaking, he glanced at Zhu Houzhao on the shore.

Zhu Houzhao saw that the painting boat was fine, and his heart was a little calm, and he secretly thought that these Nanjing officials and gentry did not dare to stage a scene of falling into the water for themselves.

Not long after, Wang Xianchen brought back the beauty who hugged the plum, and the beauty only asked Wang Xianchen: "Father, what should I do if this faint gentleman refuses to come to the painting boat?" ”

"Then you will stand on the painting boat and don't come out later, just say that you want Your Majesty to come to the boat to meet you! I'm sure that the faint gentleman will not be indifferent when he sees my daughter's beauty. ”

Wang Xianchen stood at the head of the painting boat and came to the shore.

At this time, Wang Xianchen's daughter Wang Yunniang had lifted the veil and saluted with Mei.

The officials on the shore all whispered when they saw this: "Sure enough, it is Tianxiang Guoshi, who thought of this, I am afraid that His Majesty's soul will be hooked away!" ”

At this time, Wang Xianchen also arched his hand to Zhu Houzhao and said: "Your Majesty, the poems that the minister made just now are all in this woman's mouth, and Your Majesty can let her read them." ”

"Yes, let her read it!" Zhu Houzhao nodded.

This Wang Yunniang read it.

Zhu Hou looked at the other officials who were all fascinated, thinking that in this era when there is no voice actor, just a good-sounding female voice makes these officials lose their hearts one by one, but as a person who has lived in the Internet era, he has never seen anything, so he only waved his hand: "The poem is too bad, let this woman shut up!" ”

"Your Majesty, shut up immediately, the poem is too bad!"

The eunuch Fojun shouted.

Wang Xianchen immediately blushed and was suddenly slapped by someone.

Wang Yunniang couldn't help but keep her mouth shut.

Wen Zhengming almost didn't laugh out loud.

And at this time, Jinyi Wei Liu Shi ran over: "Your Majesty, Elder Wang Ge has arrived in Nandu, and he is waiting to see him outside Hongwu Gate!" ”

Zhu Houzhao nodded: "Guo Rong, pass a few good ones to take the painting boat where Wang Yushi is located!" Before taking away, probe the bottom of the ship. ”

"Yes!"

After Guo Rong finished speaking, he instructed a few people to go.

So, a few brocade guards jumped into Xuanwu Lake and came towards the painting boat.

Wang Xianchen didn't hear what Zhu Houzhao and the brocade guards on the shore said, and when he saw these brocade guards swimming over, he was also a little flustered: "Your Majesty, what are you doing here, minister, the minister doesn't understand." ”

"Your Majesty, there is something wrong with this ship!" As soon as a brocade-clothed guard finished speaking, he felt his throat tighten, and he immediately floated on the water, and blood was pouring out.

Zhu Houzhao glanced back at Xu Pengju and Li Zhan: "What do you want to do?" ”

"Your Majesty, the minister doesn't know!"

Xu Pengju and Li Zan were so frightened that they knelt down, and the other Nanjing officials also knelt down.

"Quick, quick, this plan has been revealed! Fast! ”

Wang Xianchen panicked, as soon as he finished speaking, he felt a chill on the back of his neck, stretched out his hand and touched it, it was full of blood, and then fell to the ground.

Guo Rong was quick and fired a shot, killing Mei Ji who tried to sneak attack her in the back of Wang Yunniang on the spot, and then ordered: "Be careful underwater!" There's also a painting boat inside! ”

At this time, Qi Jingtong also took more than a dozen tall brocade guards to take care of Zhu Hou in the middle, and the people were attached to a layer.

The assassins hiding in the shadows also knew that it was impossible to assassinate Zhu Houzhao, and they didn't design this link at all, only hunting and killing the people on the painting boat and some officials and gentry on the shore.

They're killing their mouths!

Zhu Houzhao's first reaction at this time, but he didn't know which of the officials and gentry kneeling in front of him were involved in this matter and which ones would be killed, the only thing he could be sure of was that the beautiful man holding Mei on the painting boat was definitely involved in this matter.

Therefore, Zhu Houzhao instructed: "Protect the Meimei woman, if she is killed, you will cut yourself!" ”

"Yes!"

Guo Rong immediately slapped the shore up, turned over, put on a set of duck shoes, and swept the water, as if the assassin had already known his purpose, and first four or five sharp arrows were shot at him, but Guo Rong had fallen into the water at this time, and with a spin of the blade, he also swung away the sharp arrows, and only entered the water.

The Jinyi guards on the shore are armed with short crossbows or muskets to control the water surface around the painting boat, and all the Mei Ji on the painting boat are shot or injured before the next move, and anyone on both sides of the painting boat who dares to take the lead is immediately shot in the head.

At this time, Guo Rong and the Jinyi guard in the water had already begun to fight with the assassin who tried to sneak attack the Meimeiren.

Zhu Houzhao and Baomei both looked at the water, saw blood emerging from the water from time to time, and saw the blade stirring up waves in the icy water.

Zhu Houzhao smiled playfully at the beauty.

Yes!

But at this time, a scream came, and an official was hit by an arrow, and he was killed on the spot!

The Ming Dynasty's firearms and gunpowder were strictly controlled, and they were all numbered, and it was difficult to control the use of new firearms without professional training, and the old firearms, namely arquebuses, were not suitable for assassination at all, and could not be assassinated in water, so this kind of assassination could only be played with crossbow arrows.

Seeing that this official was killed, Zhu Houzhao did not have any regrets, because the assassins at this time were all accomplices.

Yes!

Another scream!

An official gentleman also fell to the ground on the spot and died of exhaustion!

Mei Ji, who is not dead in the painting boat, is also killed by an arrow by the assassin in the shadows! Died of anger one after another!

"It's really ruthless for these people to kill their own people!"

Zhu Houzhao thought to himself.

The boat began to sink.

Only the Jinyi Guards were left around the painting boat, and it could be seen that with the help of the firearms of the Jinyi Guards on the shore and the heroic battle of the Jinyi Guards in the water, the Assassins were no match.

And the Meimei man was also brought ashore, but he was captured to death, and even his throat was choked by Guo Rong to avoid swallowing poison and committing suicide.

Wen Zhengming consciously stood on the outermost, but was not killed by the assassins, which made Zhu Houzhao very pleased.

"A place like Xuanwu Lake can also be mixed with assassins! You're in good jobs! ”

Zhu Houzhao reprimanded the Nanjing officials who were still alive on the shore, and then returned the same way under the escort of Qi Jingtong and others.

Looking at the dozen or so officials and gentry on the shore who had been killed, Zhu Houzhao only sighed: "I disappointed you!" I'm so embarrassed! ”

"Meet Wang Shouren! Let him come to Mochou Lake to see me", Zhu Houzhao said and saw that Xu Pengju was not beside him, and couldn't help but look back, but saw Xu Pengju behind, so he hurriedly summoned him: "Wei Guogong!" ”

"Your Majesty, yes, what do you command!" Xu Pengju hurriedly ran over.

As soon as Xu Pengju approached, Zhu Houzhao smelled a smell of urine, and couldn't help but block his nose with his hand: "You go to Yuyuan to save people!" That's your Xu family's property, it would be a pity if it was burned! ”

Xu Pengju couldn't understand it a little, but he still obeyed the order.

After an hour, as soon as Xu Pengju arrived at the Qinhuai River, he heard a loud bang, and then saw a fire in his Yuyuan, which reflected half of the sky.

"This, this, who did this! Hurry up and put out the fire, find someone to put out the fire! ”

Xu Pengju hurriedly shouted.

……

Zhu Houzhao was already upstairs in the victory period of Mochou Lake at this time, and said to Wang Shouren: "The water in the south of the Yangtze River is still really deep, and I have become a faint king, they still want to get rid of me and change the emperor." ”

"Your Majesty's move is just to deceive Wei Guogong and others, who doesn't know Your Majesty's means, they are also calculating, knowing Your Majesty that you are pretending to be a faint king, so they are desperately trying to please Your Majesty, and then lure you to the water, and you will fall into the water and get sick, and then the ministers can only say that Your Majesty is caused by your playing in the water;

This plan can be described as seamless, and there are beauties to tempt each other, Your Majesty, you can suspect that the food is poisonous, you can suspect that the ministers have bad intentions, you can worry about someone assassinating, but there are only a few beauties on the boat, and the lake is calm and waveless, you should not be able to suspect that there is fraud in this, but Your Majesty's wisdom is not comparable to them, and the minister believes that Your Majesty must have seen some flaws! ”

Wang Shouren replied.

"I'm not that smart, not even as smart as these people who make means behind their backs, I thought that pretending to be discouraged and learning Li Longji to be a virtuous monarch would make these people relax their vigilance, but I didn't expect that they wouldn't believe it at all, it can be seen that I am not as cunning as these people, I am just more sensitive to swimming in the lake! I hate to swim in the lake! It is also the most annoying that others suggest that I travel to the lake! ”

After Zhu Houzhao finished speaking, he ordered: "Pass the decree, and in the future, advise the emperor to visit the lake, and kill him!" ”

Wang Shouren was very shocked, thinking to himself that His Majesty the Emperor hated swimming in the lake? In the early years of Zhengde, didn't His Majesty swim across the lake with Bachelor Yang, but that time Bachelor Yang fell into the water and died of illness.

The more Wang Shouren thought about it, the more shocked he became, and said in his heart: "Your Majesty is so sensitive to swimming in the lake now, could it be said that it is also related to the incident of Bachelor Yang visiting the lake?" ”

Wang Shouren unconsciously thought about it and became extremely frightened.

……

"Your Highness, the matter of Xuanwu Lake has failed, but fortunately, everyone involved in this case has been wiped out, and only one Wang Yunniang was saved by Jinyiwei!"

On a flower boat on the Qinhuai River, a boatman knelt in front of a curtain, and the person in the curtain kept covering his face and refused to show his face, and he was dressed as a daughter, and only made a voice with the voice of a male duck:

"Fortunately, she Wang Yunniang is willing to participate in this matter with her father, just because her cousin Gan Yi lured her wife as a condition to kill Gan Yi, including her entire family, and even those who are related to Gan Yi, leaving no one alive!"

"Yes!"

The boatman replied and said: "The subordinates thought that the emperor would return to Yuyuan after the incident at Xuanwu Lake was revealed, so he used the informant we arranged in the Wei Mansion to enter the back kitchen in the name of sending oil and salt, and took the opportunity to break into Yuyuan and burn Yuyuan, but it still fell short, and the emperor did not go to Yuyuan, but went to Mochou Lake!"

The Xu family now does not dare to be careless, at the request of the emperor, Xu Pengju transferred all the non-family children (please Baidu for the concept of family children, not explained here), and now the Mochou Lake area is full of the emperor's private and the three generations of the Xu family's old people. ”

"What a recklessness! Even if he Zhu Houzhao returns to Yuyuan, you will not necessarily be able to threaten Yuyuan if you burn Yuyuan, but now it will increase his vigilance! Lone has said countless times, don't act recklessly, don't act recklessly, don't be very sure of the assassination, why don't you understand! ”

The shipwright hurriedly apologized: "Your Highness has taught you a lesson! ”

"Go, after destroying Gan Yimanmen, don't go back to Jiangnan within three years!"

After the man said this, he said: "Lone also has to leave Jiangnan for a few days!" This is the medicine left for you, only a three-month supply, and you will come to the old place to find the orphan in three months! ”

"Your Highness!" The boatman said and stepped back.

……

Zhu Hou looked at Wang Yunniang, who was biting her thin lips and looking lonely and cold: "Tell me, why did you want to murder me with your father?" ”

"Because you're a faint king!" Wang Yunniang replied.

Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but laugh dumbly: "You can say that I am a tyrant, but if you say that I am a faint monarch, you are biased!" ”

"You're the Faint King! As my cousin said, as soon as you came to Jiangnan, you slept with your wife and daughter, accepted property, forcibly occupied the Gongxun's house for your own prostitution, and made the city of Nanjing miserable! My father couldn't bear to fall into the hands of the faint monarch, and he also intended to eliminate the harm for the people, so he asked me to tempt with lust, but I didn't expect you, the faint monarch, to be so vigilant! ”

This Wang Yunniang said loudly.

Zhu Houzhao instructed Guo Rong: "Go and check, who is her cousin?" ”

However, at this time, Liu Shi ran over: "Your Majesty, I recently got the news that within one day the day before yesterday, all 57 members of the family of Ganyi, a member of Suzhou Mansion, were killed!"

At the same time, forty-six students of Suzhou Fuxue were also killed!

Seventeen members of Suzhou Xinde Cultural Society died violently one after another!

According to the local Jinyi guard, all the people who were killed were related to Gan Yi! It is estimated that soon, the Suzhou prefect's note will be presented. ”

"Kill the mouth!"

Guo Rong said first.

"One hundred and twenty lives! These black forces are really straightforward enough to do things! ”

When Zhu Houzhao was talking, Wang Shouren glanced at Wang Yunniang: "Your Majesty, the clue is broken!" ”

Zhu Houzhao didn't answer, but he knew that what Wang Shouren said was right, a family of fifty-seven was killed, it may be a vendetta, but not only one family but also those related to it were killed, which shows that the murderer really just wanted to kill him.

"Cousin!"

Wang Yunniang's cry with sorrow proves this even more.

But Zhu Houzhao also looked at Wang Yunniang because of this, and ordered: "Look at her well!" When she recovers, ask her about her cousin! ”

As Zhu Houzhao spoke, he asked Wang Shouren again: "Has Nanjing's city defense and surrounding areas been completely taken over by the Guards?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, you have completely taken over," Wang Shouren replied.

"Then tomorrow in Mochou Lake to announce the Jiangnan ministers, a splendid and rich land, but there are frequent life cases, and the market is even more armed fights, beatings, murders, robberies, thefts, domination of the market is not uncommon, the rich get richer, the poor get poorer, the density of roads and bridges is not as dense as the border towns, the taxes are not as good as the two Guangzhou, this is the loss of the politicians!"

Zhu Houzhao gave an order, and by the way, expressed the purpose of his court meeting.

As the emperor, he naturally will not focus on solving this assassination case, but he also found that no matter whether he is a faint monarch or a bright monarch, as long as he rules this empire, there will be people who are ambitious or dissatisfied with the status quo who are disobedient to him.

In this assassination case, Zhu Houzhao could see that this was all a situation set up by the local forces in Jiangnan in advance, and they were waiting for themselves to come to Jiangnan to teach themselves a lesson, and they naturally did this because they were worried that they would come to Jiangnan in person to reform the tax administration in Jiangnan again as before, and strengthen the control of the imperial court and government over Jiangnan.

However, Zhu Houzhao didn't know if there was any involvement of other forces, because with his understanding of the gentry in Jiangnan, he could kill people so simply, and these literati in Jiangnan could do it.

……

"Most of the world's taxes come from Jiangnan, and you see, what Jiangnan has asked you to manage! Since you can't manage it, I'll take care of it myself! ”

Zhu Houzhao said again: "Wang Shouren listened to the order, and I decided to establish the Jiangnan Special Management Zone, with Yingtian, Suzhou, Songjiang, Huzhou, Zhenjiang, Changzhou, Wuxi, Suzhou, Hangzhou, Jiaxing, and Shaoxing as its jurisdiction, and ordered Wang Shouren to supervise Jiangnan and rectify the military and political affairs of Jiangnan for me!" ”

"Command!"

Wang Shouren stepped forward and replied.

In the past few days, Zhu Houzhao has taught him face-to-face, and he also knows what His Majesty the Emperor wants him to do, among them, the most important thing to do is to perform the functions of the imperial court, rectify the commercial order in Jiangnan, eradicate all the local forces that hinder Jiangnan trade, and let the interests be concentrated in the hands of the people and the imperial court.

The officials in Nanjing were also shocked at the moment, and they did not expect that the emperor, who had begun to indulge in indulgence and indulgence these days, would suddenly make such a big move, and also set up a special management zone in the south of the Yangtze River, and he was still in charge of the richest prefectures in the world.

"Wei Guogong Xu Pengju, Peng Chengbo Zhang Qin, Fu Qiang Bo Mao Rui supervised Jiangnan military affairs, Nanjing Jing Army, the Fourth Division and the Seventh Division of the Guards Army, temporarily organized as the first, second, and third divisions of Jinyiwei, wearing brocade uniforms, obeying Wang Shouren's instructions, and rectifying the public security and commercial order in Jiangnan! Li Zhan, the secretary of the Nanjing Military Department, is responsible for the government affairs organization and logistics of the Third Division! ”

After Zhu Houzhao said, the above-mentioned officials all stepped forward to accept the order.

Several other officials were fine, but Xu Pengju didn't know what he was going to do for a while, and asked Li Zan in a dazed low voice: "Li Butang, Your Majesty wants this?" ”

"Your Majesty wants to kill people, Your Majesty wants you to be Your Majesty's knife!" Li Zan replied.

"Murder?"

Xu Pengju couldn't help but be shocked, and almost collapsed to the ground in fright: "Your Majesty, do you want me to kill someone?" But I don't even dare to kill chickens! ”

"You are the representative of Nanjing, the first family in the south of the Yangtze River, and even the only few princes of the Ming Dynasty since the founding of the country, if you don't kill for Your Majesty with your Majesty's sword, Your Majesty will only kill you! You should know what happened to the Duke of England and the Duke of Chengguo," Li Zan said.

"What do you mean by that?" Xu Pengju asked.

"The British Duke made His Majesty's knife and killed the court minister for His Majesty, and now the British Duke Zhang Lun's reputation in the government and the opposition has become the first noble of the Ming Dynasty, and the Duke of Chengguo was exterminated by His Majesty because of collusion with civil officials not to be His Majesty's sword!"

As soon as Li Zan said this, Xu Pengju suddenly realized, and for a while his head was sweating, secretly wondering who His Majesty wanted to kill himself.

Zhu Houzhao really wants to kill people, but now he can't kill people casually, according to the original intention of governing the country according to the law, he has to legislate before killing people.

The outline of the constitution provided that legislative power was in the hands of the emperor.

Therefore, this makes Zhu Houzhao's idea of wanting to govern the country according to the law not contradictory to his idea that he sometimes wants to be independent.

Zhu Houzhao asked Wang Shouren to draw up the strictest law in history to crack down on non-evil and eliminate evil, no matter who it is, as long as they obstruct commercial trade, engage in malicious competition, maliciously operate, form gangs, evade taxes and avoid taxes, and do not allow the people to trade freely, they will be immediately beheaded!

Wang Shouren is a military strategist, good at military management, and the implementation of his laws is as strict as the implementation of military laws, not to mention that the three armies he now holds in his hands to rectify Jiangnan In addition to Xu Pengju's Nanjing Jing Army, the other two are regular armies.

"Wei Guogong, you lead the first division to be responsible for rectifying the Yingtian and Zhenjiang areas, Peng Chengbo, you lead the second division to be responsible for rectifying the Susong Changwu area, Fuqiangbo, you lead the third division to rectify the Hangjiahu area! You are responsible for the suppression by force, and Li Butang is responsible for informing in advance! The official will patrol at any time! ”

After Wang Shouren said, these officials were ordered to leave.

However, at that time, the local forces in the provinces above the south of the Yangtze River did not take this seriously, and a few Qingpi still went their own way outside Nanjing and pressed the peasants who had entered the city to sell cotton yarn privately to the ground and beat them.

Peng Chengbo Zhang Qin happened to lead the troops out of the city, and without saying a word, the Jinyi guards under his command directly obeyed the order and went up to hack these Qingpi to death on the spot!

……

"Robbery!"

In Zhenjiang Mansion, a merchant pointed to the robbers who drove away by boat, and at this time, it happened that Jinyiwei came by boat, immediately chased after him, and immediately shot all the robbers on board!

Coincidentally, Zhu Houzhao's re-expanded Jinyiwei is playing the role of a law enforcer everywhere in the south of the Yangtze River, using violence to rectify commercial order and maintain law and order!