After Zhu Yunwen returned to Duanben Palace, he couldn't help but smile bitterly, today seems to have scared the imperial grandfather, the imperial grandfather may think that he is a loser, but he can't defend himself, it's really embarrassing, if he is the emperor, then he doesn't have to look forward to doing things, there are some ideas that can be realized directly, and no one dares to ask more, the ministers will only think that they are geniuses, wise and martial, but now they can't, if grandpa thinks that he is possessed by ghosts, it will be troublesome, if that...... Zhu Yunwen couldn't help but shudder, then, then he might die of a silent violent illness. And if he has no children, the throne will definitely fall into the hands of his uncle.

Although Zhu Yunwen thinks that he has Su Hui (Master Dexuan also said so), he feels that he is similar to being possessed by a ghost, so he has always been cautious so as not to make people doubt himself. But if you are too cautious, wait until your grandfather is in the sky, and then make changes, it will be too late, and since God has opened his eyes to let himself know the future, he must do something, otherwise he will wait for the arrival of fate, how can he be worthy of his parents and those loyal ministers who died for him......

After calming down, Zhu Yunwen asked Liu Zhen to call Wang Du, Wang Du was in the Zhan Academy, so he came over after a while, and was led by Liu Zhen to Zhu Yunwen's study, where Zhu Yunwen was waiting for him. Seeing him coming, he waved him to sit down and said, "Zizhong, how is the matter with the textbook now?" ”

"Back to Your Highness, the idea is already there, and the rest is to repair and improve it, and it is estimated that it will be completed in a month."

"Very well, are all these people you brought with you absolutely trustworthy?"

Wang Du pondered for a while and said: "It's not to that extent, for example, that King Yan has a guard for hundreds of households Zhang Fu, the minister thinks he can't see through, he trains hard, studies seriously, discusses actively, and takes the initiative to do things, which looks very good, but the minister always feels a little estranged from him, it seems that what he said is not in his heart." ”

"Oh," Zhu Yunwen rubbed his brows, this Zhang Fu he asked Song Zhong to investigate, and he couldn't see any problems, but there was a problem with his background, and he thought about it: "Then how do you think it's more appropriate." ”

Wang Du was also a little embarrassed: "This Zhang Fu is a talent, but the minister doesn't dare to reuse it, for fear of problems, but if he doesn't reuse it, then he will definitely not be his own person. ”

"Then don't use him for the time being, you discuss it with Song Zhong, let him monitor this Zhang Fu well, see who he is in contact with, and whether he has sent a letter to Beiping."

Wang Du smiled bitterly: "This has been monitored, he often writes letters to his family, saying that his father is worried about him and wants to know about martial arts, even if we send someone to read his family letter, there is nothing to blame, and it is normal for people to write family letters, after all, his father is in his fifties, so he can't see any problems." ”

Zhu Yunwen thought for a while, and finally made a final decision: "This person can be cultivated, but it can't be reused, and it can't be put in our people, if it keeps being like this, let him go back to the right guard of King Yan." ”

"What if he pledges allegiance to His Highness?"

"Then transfer him to the northwest, and his father to the northwest, and if they don't want to, give up." If they want, after dealing with King Yan, reuse them. ”

"Your Highness, can you kill him?"

"In the son, he kills people just based on suspicion, and he doesn't take it."

"Yes, Your Highness."

"Okay, that's how Zhang Fu's matter is, other similar people will handle it accordingly, Gu came to you today to form my escort army, divided into left, middle and right guards, the emperor has already agreed."

Wang Du raised his eyebrows, and said with great joy: "Your Highness, you are very happy, Your Highness has your own escort army, so it will be much more convenient to do things in the future." ”

"Hehe, Zizhong, alone as a prince, you can always find people to do things, so you can form a guard army alone, just want to train an army according to your own ideas, try to see the effect, it may cost a lot of money, Zizhong can have more snacks, and the emperor is also watching? If you feel like you're alone, that's not good. ”

"Your Highness, please rest assured, the minister understands His Highness's painstaking efforts. I wonder what instructions His Highness has for forming a protectorate? ”

"Zizhong, Lone's idea is that the three guards on the left, the middle and the right are respectively commanded by Song Xuan, Guo Jian and Wu Sheng, and the other thousand households and hundreds of households are chosen by them, but you, Qi De, Fu Youde, Qu Neng, He Fu and Mu Sheng want to put forward their opinions, and in addition, please ask Jinyi Wei to check all the thousands of households and hundreds of households, and there can be no problems. There is also Gu Hope that Song Xuan's department is cavalry, Guo Jian and Wu Sheng use a combination of infantry and firearms, and the specific composition of the queue can only be tested in practice. Lone has a simple idea, the phalanx from the outside to the inside for the shield soldiers, pikemen, musketeers, the middle is mixed with the sword soldiers, the spear should be long, and the musket should be easy to fire. In terms of training, Fu Youde, Qu Neng, He Fu and Mu Sheng are in charge. ”

"In addition, each guard should set up a staff office, and there will be a number of staff officers under the chief of staff, and the rank of the chief of staff is only lower than that of the commander of the guard, and higher than that of a thousand households."

"Yes, yes, Your Highness." Wang Du took the pen and ink, waved the pen, and handed it to Zhu Yunwen: "Your Highness, please take a look, is it correct?" If you can, please use the seal! ”

Zhu Yunwen took it and looked at it, took out his private seal and stamped it, and said, "You immediately go to the martial arts school to announce this matter, and let the relevant personnel move, but pay attention to confidentiality." When there is a specific plan to report to Lone, Lone will then play the emperor to send soldiers and set up a guard. Also," Zhu Yunwen suddenly added: "When you go out, go to Jinyiwei, tell him about the matter first, and let him send twenty Jinyi guards to protect you, the assassination case makes Gu very afraid, and Gu feels that if the assassin finds that there is no hope of assassinating Gu, he may not point the finger at you." You and your colleagues in martial arts should also mention that you should pay more attention to safety, the security work of martial arts must be strengthened, and if you need to increase manpower, report to Gu Yu in time. ”

Wang Du knelt down movingly: "Thank you Your Highness for your compassion, the ministers will do their best, and their hearts and brains will be smeared!" ”

After Wang Du left, Zhu Yunwen called Wang Quan and others over, asked them about the progress of making glass, and found that making cups was no longer a problem, and large pieces of glass could already be made, Zhu Yunwen was overjoyed and said: "Then you first replace the window paper of the Qianqing Palace with glass, the imperial grandfather is old, his eyes are not good, and the light in the house should be better." ”

Wang Quan hurriedly received the order.

Zhu Yunwen asked them to continue their research, make the best set of tea sets for Zhu Yuanzhang, and prepare a few sets of ordinary ones, which will be of great use to him. In addition, let the camp study how to make the mirror, and Wang Quan and others happily accepted the order.

In the evening, Jin Yiwei commanded Song Zhong to ask to see the emperor's grandson, and Zhu Yunwen met him in the study. I haven't seen him for a few days, Song Zhong has been haggard a lot, maybe it's been too hard lately, seeing Zhu Yunwen, he fell to his knees, and said that His Royal Highness is a thousand years old.

Zhu Yunwen asked him to sit down and asked what was the matter.

Song Zhong pondered his words for a moment and said, "Your Highness, today's humble position is for the assassination case of His Highness, and there has been some progress recently. The humble position believes that this assassination was committed by the White Lotus Sect. ”

"White Lotus Sect? The White Lotus Sect remembered that Hongwu was banned in the early years, so many years? How could such a big case be planned? ”

"Your Highness, the White Lotus Sect is mainly spread in the countryside, villages and towns, and it has been repeatedly banned......"

Song Zhong gave Zhu Yunwen a little popularization of the White Lotus Sect, and Zhu Yunwen roughly understood the context of the White Lotus Sect:

The founder of the White Lotus Sect is Shamen Maoziyuan in Wujun County, Jiangnan, about the time of Shaoxing in the Southern Song Dynasty, originated from the Pure Land belief, revered Amitabha Buddha, advocated chanting Buddha and keeping precepts, and sought to live in the Western Pure Land. To put it simply, it is to organize a group of people to recite the Buddha and repent, and seek to get rid of the sea of suffering in the next life. Because his mother, who is still alive, also likes to chant Buddhism, Zhu Yunwen thinks this is also very good, leading people to be kind. Although orthodox Buddhism is regarded as a "demon evil party", but because of its simple teachings, easy to implement, so it spreads more and more widely, the Yuan Dynasty is more friendly to it, but in the Yuan Dynasty White Lotus Sect there is a change, that is, to worship Maitreya Buddha, according to the Buddhist scriptures, Maitreya Buddha is the future Buddha, is the next Buddha of Shakyamuni Buddha, so preach the prophecy of "Maitreya is born". Due to its growing scale, the Yuan court ordered a ban in the first year of the Great Dynasty, and the White Lotus Hall Master Pudu of the East Forest Temple in Houlu ran to the rescue, only to restore its legal status three years later, but after 11 years, in the second year of Zhizhi, the Yuan Court began to restrict the White Lotus Sect again, and since then the upper echelons of the White Lotus Sect have a hostile attitude towards the government, coupled with the tyranny at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the lower level of the sect are also extremely dissatisfied with the government, so the White Lotus Sect organization took the lead in opposing the Yuan. The leaders of the Red Turban Army, Han Shantong, Liu Futong, Xu Shouhui, Zou Pusheng, etc., are all White Lotus Sectists, it can be said that the anti-Yuan people in the north and south of the Great River are all White Lotus Sects, and the armies under their command also regard themselves as the White Lotus Sect, and Zhu Yuanzhang was originally named by Han Lin'er, so the White Lotus Sect and the Ming Dynasty are also involved. After the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang forbade the White Lotus Sect, so the White Lotus Sect went underground, and began to disperse, some places changed their faces, no longer regard the White Lotus Sect as self-proclaimed, the name has Jin Chan, Wu Wei, Longhua, Wukong, Huanyuan, Yuandun, Hongyang, Maitreya, Jingkong, Dacheng, Sanyang, Mixed Source, Wenxiang, Luo Dao and so on dozens of kinds, but there have been repeated riots, although the suppression is endless.

"Oh, Gu roughly understands, then Song Zhong, why does the White Lotus Sect keep banning it repeatedly?"

"This, the last general thinks that although the Ming officials rule the Qing Dynasty, far better than the previous dynasty, but it is inevitable that corrupt officials and corrupt officials, the small people suffer but have nowhere to report, so when gathering people to recite the Buddha and repent, it is easy to resonate with the people around them, if you add the instigation of people with bad intentions, it is easy to cause riots, against the government, and the White Lotus Sect believes in the reincarnation of Maitreya, so it is not afraid of death, so it cannot be stopped."

Zhu Yunwen keenly noticed that Song Zhong seemed to be a little sympathetic to the White Lotus Sect, so he said, "Commander Song, do you sympathize with the White Lotus Sect?" ”

Song Zhong immediately knelt on the ground in fright: "Your Highness, there is no lowly position, the lowly position is just, just ......"

"Just what?"

"Your Royal Highness, with all due respect to Weichen, the White Lotus Sect is endless, the small people are poor, unable to save themselves, pray for the blessing of the gods and Buddhas, and pray for a good family in the next life, it is human nature, so it can be widely spread, but it has been repeatedly banned."

"Yes, Commander Song is right, 'Chang Tai breathes to hide his tears, and mourns the hardships of the people's livelihood.' If the problem of food and clothing for the people is not solved, this kind of thing will never be solved. But the rebellion must be suppressed, otherwise the imperial court system will be destroyed, and the people will be even more miserable. ”

"Your Highness is wise, and the minister also knows, but this kind of problem cannot be solved by all dynasties, and this dynasty has done a very good job."

Zhu Yunwen sighed for a while, and suddenly said: "Commander Song, you seem to have a lot of sentimentality, and I feel that you are not suitable for the position of Jinyi Commander." ”

Song Zhong was silent for a while: "The last general risked his life to speak: His Highness has too many misunderstandings about Jinyiwei. ”

"Misunderstanding?"

"Jinyiwei's duty is to protect the safety of the royal family, so it is natural to take precautions, to carry out espionage, detective, and arrest, and Jinyiwei not only has secret agents in the country, but also in the frontier, vassal countries, subject countries and even Mongolia. It's just because no one knows what Jinyiwei does, those who know don't say it, and those who don't know only speculate based on superficial impressions. That's why the last general said that His Royal Highness had a misunderstanding of Jinyiwei. ”

Zhu Yunwen couldn't help but stand up: "There are still such things?" As a soldier in later generations, I have a heartfelt admiration for this kind of soldier who defends his home and defends the country and fights in a foreign country on the frontier.

"There will be a lie in the end, and the bones will be broken."

Zhu Yunwen thought for a while and said, "After a while, I will ask Wang Zizhong to go to your Jinyi Guard to check the file, and I hope you can cooperate." ”

"Jinyi Wei is a royal eagle dog, so he will naturally cooperate."

After being silent for a while, Zhu Yunwen said: "Lone retracts what he said just now, and then make an evaluation after understanding more, if what you say is true, Lone will definitely reward Jinyiwei, if you are negligent and exaggerated, Lone will be severely punished." ”

"The last general can swear, nothing is true."

"Okay, I'll get out of the way, and you can move on to the assassination."

Song Zhong hesitated, knelt on the ground and said: "Please atone for your sins, Your Majesty is in the hands of the eldest lady of the Bai family, Jinyiwei does not dare to embarrass it, but the emperor asked, the last general had to confess, the emperor was furious, took back the token, and re-interrogated the Bai family?" ”

"What?" Zhu Yunwen couldn't help but stand up: "Song Zhong, you are so bold!" The plot of Bai Fangrui being whipped by a whip, chili water, and a tiger chair couldn't help but appear in my brain, and my hands couldn't help but tremble a little.

Song Zhong saw it, and practiced kowtowing: "Your Highness is angry, and Jinyiwei has no choice but to do so, but Jinyiwei did not embarrass the old man Bai's family, but only tortured his slaves." ”

"Oh," Zhu Yunwen relaxed and couldn't help but find that he was out of shape, so he sat down: "Song Zhong, you can tell me about it." ”

"Okay," Song Zhong didn't dare to get up, peeked at Zhu Yunwen, and found that His Royal Highness didn't get angry again, and after a while, he pondered and said: "Your Highness, the last general tortured the Bai family's servants, shopkeepers, and men, and everyone unanimously said that Mo Xibao lived alone, had no relatives and friends, and did not interact with people during the New Year's Festival. ”

Later, a little guy inadvertently said that although Mo Xibao is not a woman, she occasionally visits the kiln. Jin Yiwei went to investigate according to this clue, and later found that Mo Xibao went to a flower boat on the Qinhuai River every time 'Qingyin Pavilion', and the top girl on it had a unique sound and timbre, and it was not easy for high-ranking officials and nobles to see each other, but every time Mo Xibao went, he could see Qingyin girl. This can't help but make people suspicious, but when Jinyiwei arrived, the flower boat suddenly caught fire, there was only one maid Xia Yu and the body of the boat, Xia Yu saw Jinyiwei coming, waved his sword to kill himself, the body fell into the fire, Jinyiwei struggled to snatch out the body, and later found the tattoo of the white lotus on his chest. ”

"A tattoo of the White Lotus? What does this mean? ”

"The White Lotus Sect is tightly organized, and only high-level disciples will tattoo lotus flowers on their chests, but there are no lotus flowers at higher levels, and the specific situation is not clear to Jinyiwei."

"Where's the clear sound?"

"After the incident, it will be salvaged in the Qinhuai River, but because the fire is very large, I don't know if that Qingyin is dead. But the last general estimated that Xia Yu was the dead soldier who stayed to kill people, so Qingyin should have fled. ”

Zhu Yunwen couldn't help but feel creepy, the White Lotus Sect was too terrible, killing all the insiders, and the dead Xia Yu died generously, what kind of faith is supporting them? Thinking that he would face the assassination of the White Lotus Sect, he couldn't help but fight a cold war.

"What about the Bai family? Questions? ”

"Your Highness, with all due respect, the Bai family is not necessarily innocent, but His Highness strictly ordered that the Jinyi Guard did not dare to investigate, but the last general suggested that it be observed for the time being, and not to meet with the Bai family, it is very dangerous."

Zhu Yunwen thought for a while, waved his hand to let Song Zhong leave, stood up and looked out the window, it was already dark, with a little moisture in the wind, it seemed that it was going to rain, does this mean that he has to experience more wind and rain? In the darkness of Jingshi, there may be someone planning his own life, who is the woman who resembles the beloved wife Qingwan in the memory of the world----- who is Bai Fangrui? Is it the White Lotus Sect? Do you want to see her in the future? If you don't see her, will you think about it? And he is destined not to accept her as a concubine, maybe it is the best choice not to see her......