The Lantern Festival in the fourteenth year of Yongle, because of the heavy snowfall, this year's lantern festival has a special interest, attracting a large number of people to Qingliang Mountain, Jiugong Mountain, and the Qinhuai River Basin near the Jiangnan Gongyuan to watch the lanterns.

Although Zhu Zhanji also wanted to have fun with the people, he would use a large number of people to defend his trip, so he finally canceled this plan.

But at this time when the whole country is rejoicing. On the last day of the Lantern Festival, Zhu Gaochi organized a group of students from Guozijian to hold a poetry meeting in Guozijian in Jilong Mountain, but suffered from the cold. Vomiting and diarrhea for a while, it is in danger.

There was no connection between the wind and cold and vomiting and diarrhea, and it seems that he drank a few more glasses of cold wine during the banquet, which caused such a consequence.

For a moment, the atmosphere in the palace was tense. And outside Miyagi, a crooked atmosphere also began to spread.

It is rumored that it was because of the grandson's hard life that he rejected his father, which caused Zhu Gaochi to be sick all the time and was not good at walking.

Although it is nonsense, in this day and age, there are still many people who want to believe it.

When this unhealthy trend spread, the whole capital was discussing, thinking that Zhu Zhanji should go to the temple or Taoist temple to pray for his father, which is what a filial son should do.

There are even rumors that Zhu Zhanji's life is too hard and he should not stay with his father, and he, as the grandson, should take the initiative to avoid his father and go to Fengyang, the central capital, or the north parallel, so that it will be good for Zhu Gaochi's condition.

Although Zhu Di was furious after learning of this situation, he had no good way to face the rumors that had spread.

Zhu Zhanji has been busy dealing with the expedition in the past few days, and then he has to serve Zhu Gaochi in the palace, and when he knows this rumor, it will be three days later.

At this time, the rumors had already spread throughout Ying Tianfu.

Zhu Zhanji suddenly experienced the passivity of Ji Gang not being in the capital, if Ji Gang was still there, he would be the first to know if there was any disturbance in Ying Tianfu.

The current Sehazhi is not a chip or two when he is weak in ability.

What's more, under his leadership, the tiger Jinyiwei seems to have no sharp teeth, and in the long run, this institution will be abolished.

But Ji Gang, Zhuang Jing, and Pang Ying are not in Yingtianfu now, and they just don't have a good manpower to find a competent person.

Regarding this matter, Zhu Di has a different opinion. "Although the efficiency of Jinyiwei has been reduced a little now, but now that the officials are in charge of Qingming, in order to reassure the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs, Jinyiwei has reined in his minions and will also help him recuperate."

Zhu Zhanji really wants to ask, is there still a Jinyiwei without deterrence? But in the end it was not spoken.

This world is still Zhu Di's, he just has a different opinion, and he can't question Zhu Di's methods.

Of course, he also knew that this was done by Zhu Di on purpose, that is, by giving the ministers a more relaxed environment, some corrupt officials would come out on their own.

Jin Yiwei is not corrupt now, but under a moderate leader, it has become much more restrained, and the framework structure of the entire institution has not been damaged.

It's just that the loss of minions made Zhu Zhanji a little unaccustomed. He liked to take everything into his own hands, but now he was like a deaf and blind man.

What's more, through the rumors that are spreading now, Zhu Zhanji feels deep malice again.

It wasn't his style to be beaten like this, and he had to know who was behind it.

According to the principle of who benefits and who is the master, this matter is the most beneficial to the Han King.

Then there are the Dongying people who Zhu Zhanji wants to mobilize, but everything cannot be based on speculation, there must be evidence.

Zhu Gaochi was seriously ill, leaving Zhu Zhanji ill, but the imperial court's policy of preparing to exert pressure on the Dongying shogunate and daimyo in the name of the Japanese would not change.

If this matter is instigated by the Dongying people, it will not change the general trend.

Today's Ming Dynasty has not become a waste, and there are countless generals who want to make meritorious contributions, and even many Wenchen may be promoted to knighthood by virtue of this war.

Even if Zhu Zhanji had to serve his illness, war was imminent.

And although there are many Dongying people in Daming, they have been subject to strict household registration review, and it is not easy to connect them in series. It is absolutely impossible for a single Dongying person to cause such a big momentum.

Zhu Zhanji suspected that the king of Han was the most. Because if he wants to serve the sick because of this matter, or in order to avoid his father's illness and stay away from Jingshi, then he will benefit the most.

Although Ji Gang and the others have left Ying Tianfu now, Zhu Zhanji still has Feng Xiaonian, Jiang Wanli, Chu Song and others in his hands.

Zhu Zhanji has not relaxed the monitoring of the Han Palace. Several pawns and subordinate officials who are now left in the capital of the Han Wangfu are under strict surveillance, and their actions are not seen in this matter.

This also made Zhu Zhanji more and more cautious, could it be that there is another force against him in the capital?

He is not afraid that this force belongs to the hostile side, and he is most afraid that this force belongs to Zhu Gaochi.

"Your Highness, Xue Lu, Marquis of Yangwu, asks to see you."

Zhu Zhanji heard the report of General Jinyi Wei Dahan, and then looked at Feng Xiaonian and the others who were next, and his heart moved. "Xuanyang Wuhou is here."

The door opened, and the burly Xue Lu entered the small reception room wrapped in a cold wind. "Minister Xue Lu greets His Highness."

"Excuse me, Marquis Yangwu, please take a seat."

In this room, except for Yiqingzi, there are a few brocade guards and thousands of households, which are of course not worth mentioning compared to Xue Lu, the Marquis of Yangwu. So Li Liang directly arranged him to be the first on Zhu Zhanji's left hand.

Yangwu Marquis Xue Lu's original name was Xue Liu, a native of Jiaozhou, who was powerful and brave in battle.

Zhu Di, the king of Yan, raised an army to settle the country, and Xue Lu accompanied the army to capture the nine gates of Beiping. During the Battle of Zhending, Xue Lusheng captured Li Jian, the deputy general of the left, and was promoted to commander for his merits.

After that, Xue Lu followed Zhu Di to rescue Yongping, conquered Daning, Fuyu, Huizhou, and Kuanhe, and returned to Beiping.

Xue Lu is a typical military general of this era, powerful and lustful. In order to compete with Ji Gang for the first beautiful female Daogu in Yingtianfu, the two of them made an appointment to compete.

Ji Gang played a conspiracy and tricked and hid an iron melon as a weapon, which directly shattered his skull and almost killed him.

In terms of archery, he is not as good as Ji Gang, but in terms of fighting, Ji Gang is probably not his opponent. This battle not only made him lose a stunning female Taoist aunt, but also made him a joke in the army.

Because of this, he formed a mortal enmity with Ji Gang and never died.

When Ji Gang left Ying Tianfu, no one else was worried, they were worried that he would take the opportunity to retaliate.

A few years ago, he was a scoundrel and wanted to marry Ji Gang's sister-in-law as a concubine, Zhu Zhanji summoned him and reprimanded him, making him dispel this idea.

Of course, Xue Lu didn't really want to marry Ji Gang's widowed sister-in-law as a concubine, he also knew that Ji Gang was not there, and joined under the protection of Zhu Zhanji, he did this just to take the opportunity to contact Zhu Zhanji, a big celebrity today.

Although Zhu Zhanji reprimanded him, the two also became acquainted with each other, and Xue Lu thought that he was also Zhu Zhanji's person, and he pasted it with a dead face.

The two actually hit it off, Xue Lu wanted to hug Zhu Zhanji's thigh, and Zhu Zhanji also needed the allegiance of such a general in the army. Since Zhu Di did not explicitly object, Zhu Zhanji also took advantage of the situation to include him in his command.

At this time, Xue Lu was very happy, because Zhu Zhanji did not receive him behind his back, but kept other henchmen next to him, which was equivalent to promoting their relationship in front of others, and did not treat him as an outsider.

"Your Highness, the minister has heard some rumors in the past few days, and originally wanted to inform His Highness, but now it seems that His Highness has already known about this."

Zhu Zhanji glanced at Feng Xiaonian and said with a smile: "Yangwu Hou came just in time, you forced Ji Gang out of the Beijing Division, and now the lonely Beijing Master has become blind, and Yang Wuhou needs to relieve his worries." ”

This is a blatant scoundrel, Xue Lu couldn't help but smile bitterly, this is the way he is best at, but now it is the first to be used by Zhu Zhanji.

Of course, Ji Gang was not forced out of the capital by him, but he couldn't distinguish it from Zhu Zhanji because of this, so he could only smile bitterly: "Fortunately, the minister came today to find something else, otherwise he would be ashamed of His Highness." ”

"Oh, what did Yang Wuhou find?"

"I don't know if Your Highness still remembers Qiu Fu, the Duke of Qi Kingdom?"

Qiu Fu was originally a guard for thousands of households in Yanshan, and repeatedly made military exploits during the Battle of Jingnan, and was promoted to the Zuo Governor of the Chinese Army's Governor's Mansion, and was named the Duke of Qi, ranking first among the meritorious heroes, and later added the prince and the prince.

In the seventh year of Yongle, Qiu Fu led the army to the north to attack Tatar, and when he went, Zhu Di told him to advance steadily, and wait for him to lead the army to conquer in person in the second year.

As a result, Qiu Fu was eager to make meritorious contributions, lightly advanced the enemy, and died in an ambush, so that the whole army was annihilated and deprived of the world.

Waiting, his family was assigned to Hainan, a great honor of the Ming Dynasty, and since then he has withdrawn from the court.

Qiu Fu was also the staunchest supporter of Zhu Gaoxu, the king of Han, and his death made Zhu Gaoxu lose his help and his power in the army was greatly reduced.

Zhu Zhanji didn't have much contact with Qiu Fu, and when he grew up, Qiu Fu was already dead.

Zhu Zhanji looked around and said, "There are no outsiders here, Yangwu Hou has something to say." ”

"A few days ago, the minister met Qiu Changqing, the second son of Qiu Fu, because there was some incense at the beginning, he came to persuade the minister to serve the king of Han for the king of Han. But since the minister has decided to serve His Highness, he naturally ignored it. It's just that I didn't expect that there would be rumors about His Royal Highness's father in Beijing a few days later, so the minister wondered if there was something to do with it. ”

Zhu Zhanji glanced at Chu Song, Chu Song didn't dare to raise his head, knelt down on one knee and bowed: "Weichen is ineffective, please punish His Highness." ”

"Get up, you are in a humble position, and you don't have many people, and some omissions are inevitable. Grant you the credit to atone for your sins......"

Chu Song has worked in the most departments in Jinyiwei, and is most familiar with the basic situation inside and outside the court, and belongs to the category of know-it-all.

Therefore, even if Zhu Zhanji leaves Beijing, he will remain in Beijing to act as his eyes and ears. It's just that he didn't expect that he didn't even know about such a thing as Qiu Changqing going to Jingshi.

Zhu Zhanji asked Xue Lu again: "Since the Qiu family has not exonerated the crime, then Qiu Changqing can come to the capital, it should be against the law, right?" ”

Xue Lu nodded and said, "It's officially, it's just that the minister has received great favor from the Duke of Qi, but it's not good to do it to Qiu Changqing." ”

"I understand...... Chu Qianhu, this matter will be handed over to you, within five days, I hope to see Qiu Changqing appear in front of me. ”