"Second brother!" As soon as they entered the city, Duan Renzhi and Sunan poked their heads out from the second floor of a restaurant. Duan Renzhi didn't wear a military uniform today, and he was dressed like a rich boy.

His family conditions are good, and he has not been in the habit of saving money over the years, and he spends all the money he earns.

It's just that the wife he married is also rich and noble, and she has spent most of her money on him over the years.

However, he is now the number one star of the Navy Keju team, and he can also receive a large sum of money from the Keju team every month, and his life is much better than the average boss.

Ma Dezhong reined in the reins and jumped off his horse. "Big brother, third brother, His Royal Highness Taisun has summoned me, it's inconvenient to delay, when I go home, our brothers will get drunk again."

Hearing Ma Dezhong's words, Sunan and Duan Renzhi quickly came out of the restaurant. They first saluted the four attendants, and then said to Ma Dezhong: "We have already heard about the second brother, although the Kong family is a saint, they can't bully people like this. Commander Qian also told me yesterday that our navy is on your side this time, and you have to make the Kong family bow their heads. ”

On the way back, Ma Dezhong thought about various countermeasures, but he never thought that this time the navy could stand behind him.

He is an ant shaking a big tree for the Kong family, but if the forces of the navy support him, this justice will be easy to seek.

He was surprised: "How can I alarm so many people with a little thing?" ”

It is not strange that His Royal Highness Taisun knows about him, but if the city is full of wind and rain, it is not easy to form a consensus in the navy now.

Sunan patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Since His Highness has summoned him, you can hurry up and have dinner at my house at noon, and our three brothers will have a good drink." ”

Duan Renzhi also pretended to be heroic and said: "Although my alcohol consumption is poor, I will give up my life to accompany the gentleman today." ”

Ma Dezhong knew that this was his brother caring about him, but he didn't want them to worry too much, so he pretended to be fine, pushed Duan Renzhi's hand away disdainfully, and turned to get on the horse. "With your drinking, I haven't warmed up yet, and you're down. See you later! ”

Sunan watched Ma Dezhong leave with the four chamberlains, and then said to Duan Renzhi: "I don't know how long His Highness will meet him, and he will retire the banquet, let's buy some wine and meat, go home and wait." ”

"Second brother, this matter ......"

"Don't worry, Your Highness will call the shots for us."

He is not like Duan Renzhi who has no heart and lungs, and the matter spread from Shandong to the capital in less than half a month. In less than a few days, the city was full of wind and rain, and if there was no one behind it, Sunan didn't believe it.

Who's behind it? Who is going to deal with the Kong family? Sunan didn't dare to think about it.

In short, it's good to know that someone will make decisions for them.

Ma Dezhong arrived at the palace, but he was not immediately received, because Zhu Zhanji was accompanying Zhu Di to meet with Li Fangyuan, Taizong of North Korea.

Li Fangyuan was the first Korean king to be officially canonized by the Ming Emperor, and in today's North Korea, seals and edicts were given by the Ming Dynasty.

North Koreans pay annual tribute to local products such as ginseng, lacquerware, leopard and seal skin. In return, the emperor bestowed rich gifts on the king of Joseon and his envoys - silk, fine clothes, medicinal herbs, books and musical instruments.

Nowadays, all countries are short of precious metals, and they need to pay 150 taels of gold and 700 taels of silver every year, and they often can't get it.

In the sixteenth year of Yongle, there was a mutiny in the Joseon Palace.

Zhongning Dajun Li Yi is the third son of Li Fangyuan, who is talented and very popular with Taizong. On the contrary, Li You's two brothers did not have the demeanor of a king, and rudely obstructed Taizong from passing on the throne to Li You.

The two rebelled on the throne and were controlled by Li Fangyuan and expelled from the palace. Li Fangyuan's eldest son wandered in the mountains, and the second son became a monk. The prince was deposed, and the prince of Zhongning, Li Yu, was canonized as the prince of the king by Taizong.

But then, Li Fangyuan himself was also heartbroken, and had no intention of governing, so he simply ceded the throne to Li Yu and became the emperor himself.

Just after the Spring Festival this year, he came to Daming from North Korea as the emperor, arrived at Yingtianfu yesterday, and was summoned by Zhu Di today.

In the process of the interview, Zhu Di asked him in detail about the process of Zen concession and the distribution of power after Zen concession.

Although Li Fangyuan became the emperor and no longer took care of political affairs, it did not mean that he completely delegated power.

Most of the power in North Korea is still in his hands.

Zhu Di feels very fresh about this way of Zen, in the Ming Dynasty, since Yao Shunyu in all dynasties, even between father and son, there is no habit of Zen.

Zhu Zhanji wished that the more he knew, the better, and that it was best to wait for him to return from his expedition to the west, and then give way directly to himself.

Because he was afraid that some policies that needed continuity would be abolished after Zhu Di returned.

Although he will not live long, if some policies are repeated, the trouble will not be small.

Li Fangyuan is fifty-four years old this year, although he is seven years younger than Zhu Di, but his health is a little worse.

Facing Zhu Zhanji, who was appointed as a prisoner, the first request he made was to import copper coins from Daming.

Today's East Asian countries, except for some countries in the South Seas, most of them lack gold, silver and copper.

Like the Ming Dynasty, they used gold, silver, and copper as currency, but they did not have enough metal to mint coins.

And those countries in Nanyang don't even have smelting technology, so basically except for Dongying, every country has to import copper coins from Daming.

In the past, it was impossible for the Ming Dynasty to meet these requirements, but since the Beimingshan Copper Mine entered the vigorous development period, Iwami Silver Mountain, Zuodu Island Gold Mine has also been continuously supplied with gold and silver, and now the Ming Dynasty has greatly alleviated the shortage of gold, silver and copper.

Zhu Zhanji was bent on controlling the economies of the entire Asian countries, so how could he not agree?

Gold, silver and copper do not have much industrial value in this day and age, mainly as currency.

In the three years that Zhu Zhanji went to sea, now the Ming Dynasty has forged half a tael of silver coins, as 500 copper coins, plus 50 copper coins, forming a complete set of currency.

It's just that in recent years, because of the difference in the price of gold and silver in various countries, many people have joined the business of selling gold and silver, which can be regarded as the first batch of foreign exchange speculation.

However, on the whole, due to the establishment of the two banks, the current exchange rate has gradually stabilized.

Li Fangyuan also proposed to invite the Daming Development Bank to open a branch in North Korea, but this request was politely rejected for the time being.

Because North Korea's economic order is very backward, to include their economy in the territory first, it requires the Ming Dynasty to pay a lot of gold, silver and copper coins first.

But the Ming Dynasty is also having a hard time now, and it is okay to sell them some currency first, but if you want to integrate the economy of North Korea as a whole, you can't do it yet.

Banks were opened in North Korea, and they exchanged a large number of agricultural products for currency circulation, and the banks could not afford it.

But even so, Zhu Zhanji agreed to let them exchange agricultural products and local products for 10 million copper coins with Daming, which made Li Fangyuan very satisfied.

The meeting lasted until noon, when Zhu Di hosted a banquet in the Wuying Hall to entertain Li Fangyuan and his party, and then sent them to the North Korean post house.

Regarding Zhu Zhanji's contact with Li Fangyuan, Zhu Di did not express too many opinions. Because he found that although Zhu Zhanji was easy to make mistakes in small matters, he saw more thoroughly than himself on major issues of right and wrong.

As far as opening a bank in North Korea is concerned, if it were Zhu Di, he would have agreed.

But Zhu Zhanji would rather support them with 10 million copper coins than go to North Korea to open a bank. When Zhu Zhanji analyzed the amount of copper coins and silver coins that needed to be paid in advance to open a bank, Zhu Di knew that he had not thought it through.

The whole of North Korea is short of money, and if it wants to fill it, Daming doesn't know how much money to come up with.

And there was no one to remind him of this, it was completely his own thought.

Through this incident, Zhu Di is also more assured of Zhu Zhanji's ability in politics.

At this time, Zhu Zhanji returned to the Counseling Department at Donghua Gate and met with Ma Dezhong, who had been waiting for more than two hours.

Although he waited for more than two hours, the Department of Counseling did not treat Ma Dezhong as an outsider, and at noon, he specially brought a food box to Ma Dezhong, which contained four dishes and one soup.

Although Ma Dezhong didn't dare to walk around the palace, he just looked at the scenery of the palace at the entrance of the consulting department, and he already felt that the trip was worthwhile.

Facing Ma Dezhong, Zhu Zhanji didn't need to be vain, and when he finished the salute, he sat down under his hand and said: "I already know about you, but I don't want to target Confucius as an example, so I hope you wait for a month, and I will arrange for someone to send you to Shandong at that time." ”

Ma Dezhong clenched his fists and said: "Weichen naturally listens to His Royal Highness's orders, not to mention that even the county order of Naqufu has been arrested, and now no one in the county government accepts Weichen's case." ”

Zhu Zhanji shook his head and smiled: "A county order is not qualified enough, since this case has been pushed to the Shandong Political Division, then you will naturally go to Jinan to file a complaint." ”

Ma Dezhong asked again: "Since Your Highness let Weichen delay by a month, I don't know why." Weichen is afraid that he will act recklessly and spoil His Highness's affairs. ”

Sun Lin coughed and warned Ma Dezhong not to talk nonsense, how His Highness commanded, how to do it, where to ask so much.

Seeing that Ma Dezhong was a little frightened, Zhu Zhanji laughed. The fact that he can think of this shows that he is not a reckless person.

Zhu Zhanji said with a smile: "It just takes a while for the household department to form a new field inventory team with the local political department and the state government." Through the case between you and the Kong family, you must crack down on the families who are now forcibly occupying fertile land, restrict land distribution, and check hidden households. ”

Although Ma Dezhong knew that these things were very important, and His Highness was the master of the people, he did not understand the links.

But when he returned home and mentioned it to Sunan, Sunan suddenly understood. "The Kong family is going to be the target of public criticism this time!"

Sunan guessed correctly.

Zhu Zhanji just wanted to use this case to directly lift the lid of the pot on the land occupied by the Shi clan and the clan, and at this moment, everyone in the world would hate the Kong family who lit this fire.

Even if they are a saint family, they are not opponents of the world in the face of interests.

The more famous they are, the bigger the case, and the more people will hate them.

However, this was only part of Zhu Zhanji's plan, because before that, there were corruption cases of Shandong officials.

In this matter, the Kong family will shed their skin if they don't die this time.

Coupled with the case of Ma Dezhong, Zhu Zhanji believes that the Kong family will not dare to compare blindly for decades.

It's not a one-and-done solution, but at least it's the most effective one.

Drunk, Ma Dezhong woke up and it was already dark.

His wife Wen Xiu was originally a Guangxi beauty who was paid tribute to Zhu Zhanji by the King of Jingjiang in Guangxi, she was petite and raised by the palace since she was a child, and she did not suffer.

After marrying Ma Dezhong, the husband and wife blended oil in honey, Ma Dezhong went to sea for three years, and the three of them lived together, took care of each other, and did not worry about life.

This time, when the father-in-law of the three families came back, they had already made up their minds to give birth to a child for their father-in-law.

Now Wenxiu is pregnant, but she has not yet shown her pregnancy, sitting on the edge of the bed and sewing a child's belly pocket.

"Xianggong woke up ......, got drunk later, and the concubine cooked rice porridge at night, Xianggong got acquainted with it, ate rice porridge, and then rested."

Ma Dezhong took a cup of strong tea handed over by Wen Xiu and drank it all in one gulp. Wenxiu wanted to take the empty cup, but Ma Dezhong grabbed her hand. "Lady, as a husband, you will also be a rootless person in the future, and we will take Yingtianfu as our home in the future."

Wen Xiu smiled softly: "The concubine's parents are long gone, and she is married to Xianggong, where Xianggong is, where is home." ”

Ma Dezhong's heart was sweet, and he hugged her shoulders, but tears couldn't help but flow.

After crying once in Shandong, Ma Dezhong has never shed tears these days. But now, hugging his wife's delicate body, he couldn't help crying.

"My husband is incompetent and can't protect the bones of my parents, but in the future, I must protect your mother and son."

And at the Royal Hospital, which was not far from them, Zhu Gaochi, who had been recuperating here for ten days, was silent for a long time facing the half moon in the sky at this time.

In front of him, kneeling was Professor Kong Lenan. "Your Highness, the Kong family is in danger now, all within a year of His Highness, and I hope His Highness will have mercy."

Zhu Gaochi shook his head and sighed: "Gu is now in exile, if he didn't take the initiative to recuperate, I'm afraid he would be sent to the northwest to eat sand." If this case is closed before his father's expedition, it will be difficult for Lone to intervene. ”

Kong Lenan kowtowed again: "Your Highness, although my Kong family makes profits by refusing food, but all this is for the great cause of Your Highness, and I hope Your Highness will have mercy." ”

Zhu Gaochi let out a long sigh and said softly: "Get up, even Your Majesty will not wipe out the Confucian Mansion." The Kong family seems to be dangerous, but it is actually safer than Gu now. If the case has not been concluded before His Majesty sets out on the expedition, Gu will definitely help. ”

Although Zhu Di could not be persuaded to persuade, in front of Zhu Zhanji, Zhu Gaochi was still somewhat sure.

In the past few days, in addition to Yang Shiqi being by his side for a long time, even Yang Pu is still in prison.

Those court ministers were originally very close to him, but in the past few days, none of them showed up, just asked their families to send gifts.

Does he Zhu Gaochi lack these gifts again!

However, he doesn't know who to hate, because everything he has was given by his father, is it wrong for him to take it back now?

If he is not the son of his father, who will know him?

Thinking of Zhu Zhanji, his heart was also full of contradictions. I am glad that I have a capable son, and the court is stable these days, and the words that come out are praised by the ministers.

But at the same time, he felt sincerely jealous.

He is not like the second brother and the third brother, who has no hope in the country, and can still go to Xizhou to develop.

Although he was deposed, he could not go anywhere.

When Kong Lenan was there, he was a little upset, but after leaving, he felt extremely lonely.

He misses the delicate and beautiful concubines in the palace, but these days, they are restricted and cannot accompany them at night.

"He Chun, help Gu go back and rest!"

Kong Lenan returned to his home in Taipingfang, and in the study, there were several family members looking forward to it. Seeing his somewhat gloomy face, he hurriedly asked, "What did Your Highness say?" ”

"Those who have no responsibility dare not go against the emperor at all."

"If it's just a grain case, the perpetrators are numerous, and they are not afraid of anything, but now that my Kong family has been rumored to have dug up the ancestral grave of the Ma family because of the land occupied, this matter should not be underestimated."

They are all members of the Confucian family, and they naturally know that the Confucian family can survive for thousands of years, relying on fame.

In the past, many wealthy families were swept away by the waves, and only the Kong family is still standing, relying on the fame passed down from their ancestors.

If there is no fame, how capable is a scholar in the Confucian Mansion?

But this is the capital, and the current Kong family does not dare to make any moves at all.

"Zongzi is a big mistake! If this Ma Dezhong had been appeased in Shandong, where would there be such a big turmoil! ”

A strong thirty-year-old man said, "Where is it so easy! If it was just a loss of silver, it would have been wiped out long ago. But this Ma Dezhong relied on himself to be the grandson's pro-army, and dared to ask Zongzi to come forward to apologize, isn't this wishful thinking! When does my Confucian Mansion need to apologize to a martial artist? I also want my son to come forward in person! ”

Kong Lenan naturally knows that a martial artist is so arrogant, what is the background of a thousand-year-old family? That's the face!

But now the situation is not in favor of the Kong family, and they also feel that things are getting more and more difficult.

In particular, Gu Zuo, the newly appointed secretary of the Criminal Department, was originally not close to the Kong family, but now they can't get through if they want to get out of the relationship.

Kong Lenan said: "Zhiqian, you will go to Liu Guan's house tomorrow in the left capital and give him the authentic work of Yan Zhenqing in the Tang Dynasty that I have kept." ”

"This is Yan Zhenqing's real handiwork!"

"Compared to Confucius, a picture is nothing!" Although Kong Lenan said this, he was also quite reluctant in his heart. "I'll go to Jianfu tomorrow to find out the news, some things are difficult in our hall, but it's not a problem for him."

Although the palace gate has been closed, the news that Zhu Gaochi met with Kong Lenan of the Kong family was still transmitted to the palace as soon as possible.

Looking at Sun Lin, who personally delivered the news, Zhu Zhanji said with a smile: "This Kong family is still arrogant and disdainful of bowing to me, I want to see how long they can be tough." ”

Sun Lin sneered: "A Kong family, sending a guard can wipe them all out, His Highness is so cautious, it is too much to promote them." ”

As a disabled person, Sun Lin's thinking is more extreme, and he can't wait for everyone in the world to be like him. Such people are actually more comfortable to use.

If it were like Zheng He, I heard that he was going to deal with the Kong family, I am afraid that he would have been dissuaded a long time ago.

Zhu Zhanji shook his head and said: "The Confucian family is just a trivial matter, and the important thing is not to break the roots of Confucianism...... You don't understand this, go ahead, remember not to act rashly, and ruin my big things. ”

Zhu Zhanji is willing to let Jinyiwei do it, and he is not willing to let the consulting department do it, on the one hand, he doesn't want to give the eunuchs the right to enforce the law, and on the other hand, many of them are perverted.

Many of them take pleasure in abuse, and let them deal with a thousand-year-old family, I am afraid that they are extremely excited and cut down the roots.

Anyway, they themselves have no offspring, and they are not afraid of retaliation at all.

Xue Shanggong hugged Zhu Qizhen, and walked in with a few palace maids around him. "Your Highness, it's time to rest."

Today, Zhu Zhanji took the turn to spend the night in Lan Liangdi's palace, and now he saw Xue Shanggong hugging Zhu Qizhen, and asked curiously: "Why did you bring Qizhen here?" ”

"It's all slaves and maids, don't you tell the little prince the story of His Royal Highness when he was a child, and when I heard that His Royal Highness practiced martial arts, he also wanted to practice martial arts, and it made people can't calm down."

"Daddy, Daddy, I want to practice martial arts." Zhu Qizhen was a little afraid of Zhu Zhanji, lying on Xue Shanggong's shoulder, revealing a small face, and said a little timidly.

Zhu Zhanji smiled and said, "Your bones are still soft now, when you enter school, Daddy will find you a master, okay?" ”

Zhu Qizhen nodded, didn't dare to look at Zhu Zhanji, and when he was honest, Xue Shanggong handed him over to the nanny and let her hug her.

Xue Shanggong stood still behind Zhu Zhanji, helped him pinch his shoulder, and said softly: "The noble concubine Niangniang just talked to the slave maid and said that she wanted to thank His Highness." ”

Zhu Zhanji knew that this was because he said that he would leave Zhang Guifei in the palace to preside over the overall situation, and Zhu Di should have told Zhang Guifei.

accompanied an old man who rarely touched himself to go to sea to suffer crimes, so naturally he did not stay in the palace as the queen mother.

"Got it." Zhu Zhanji held her hand, turned around and said: "You are already familiar with the East Palace, I won't care about the harem, and you will pay more attention to the West Palace in the future." ”

"The slave knows that she has been familiar with the situation of the West Hall and the Imperial Kitchen these days."

The central axis of the palace is the three major halls of the Fengtian Palace. On the south side of the East Palace is the Wenhua Palace, the Wenyuan Pavilion, and the Book Library. In the middle is Yongfu Palace, Yongshou Palace, and Xingqing Palace.

On the south side of the West Palace is the martial arts arena, where Zhu Di deals with the Wuying Palace, then the imperial kitchen, and then the West Palace, which is symmetrical with the Xingqing Palace.

There are almost no people in the West Palace except for a few old concubines from the Zhu Yuanzhang period, but there is also a big imperial chef in the West Palace, which has always been a channel for everyone in the palace to understand the news of the outside world.

There are a mixture of dragons and snakes, eunuchs, and palace maids are all passable people with no future, and it is difficult to manage.

Zhu Zhanji couldn't interfere before, but now, he must intervene justifiably.

Today's West Palace is empty, so Zhu Di likes to deal with government affairs in Wuying Palace. Zhu Zhanji can also do it now, but if Zhu Di dies in the future, Zhang Guifei and they will have to move from the harem to the West Palace.

At that time, in order to avoid suspicion, Zhu Zhanji was not good at handling government affairs in Wuyingdian. But if Wuyingdian is not used, it will be a waste.

At the same time, in order to control the information channels inside and outside the palace, Zhu Zhanji's first fire in the palace was to separate the front and back of the West Palace.

However, this matter is not in a hurry, and when Zhu Di leaves, it is not too late to build the separation wall.

(I found that you are all too dirty, all of them are steam trains...... ）