Hou Xuanyan won the first battle of the Northern Expedition in Yangzhou, but Fuzhou, as a temporary imperial court, was silent. Such an earth-shattering event, which should have been celebrated by the whole country, is like nothing has happened in Fuzhou.

In the palace of Fuzhou, Emperor Longwu Zhu Yujian and the queen hugged each other and cried bitterly in the inner palace, and their son died. Zhu Yujian was not a good woman in her life, and there was only one queen Zeng and two concubines in the harem, which was very different from most vassal kings in the late Ming Dynasty. He is forty years old this year, and in July, he was happy to have a dragon son, and Zhu Yujian was happily not able to do it, and he was named Prince Zhuang Jing. It's a pity that Prince Zhuang Jing died young, and he died after only a few months.

Zhu Yujian is frugal by nature, he has no other hobbies except reading, and it is forbidden to prepare gold, silver and jade utensils in the palace, stop using magnets, tiles, copper, tin and other pieces, and do not use brocade, sprinkled thread, velvet flowers, curtains, bedding, and ordinary cloth. The crown prince was gone, and the entire palace was searched, and a few white silk pieces were made. The whole palace was in a state of sorrow, and everyone wept for His Majesty and the Empress.

In the simple palace, Zhu Yujian's face was pale, and his heart was like ashes. Decades of imprisonment have not been able to destroy his will, but the death of his young son has made this middle-aged man age instantly.

At this time, the plain eunuch Wang Xiangnian came over, and saw the miserable appearance of the emperor and queen hugging each other and crying, which was even more pitiful than ordinary people's homes. Wang Xiangnian wiped a few tears, knelt on the ground and choked up: "Your Majesty, the scholar Su Guan is out asking to see you." ”

Zhu Yujian cheered up, motioned for the queen to get up and go back to the harem, and said, "Pass him in." ”

Su Guansheng suffered a big defeat in Ganzhou, but it actually had little to do with him, because although he was a university scholar, no one cared about him at all when he arrived in the local area. After Jin Shenghuan captured Ganzhou, the remnants of their defeated army fled to Xuemuling, where they happened to meet Qian Sule and Sun Jiaji, who rushed to support. The people and horses of these two provinces are the elite of King Lu in the past, and they are practicing day and night these days, and they are in Shaoxing, Hangzhou, and they are full of soldiers. Su Guansheng looked at it and thought that with this group of people, he would definitely be able to take revenge and wash away his shame. He set up a stand as a scholar, and when he came up, he wanted to seize the command of the two forces.

Qian Sule and Sun Jiaji didn't take him seriously at all, and after sneering at him, they expelled him from the barracks and continued to march to Ganzhou.

Su Guansheng was humiliated by this, he fell seriously ill, and returned to Fuzhou in a gray manner, and came to the palace before his family entered, and came to the emperor to complain.

As soon as he saw the emperor, he knelt on the ground and scolded Hou Xuanyan with his head and face. said that he connived at his subordinates, ignored the ministers of the court, and took in the remnants of King Lu.

The tears in Zhu Yujian's eyes had not yet dissipated, and listening to his crying and roaring, he was extremely upset.

Zhu Yujian waved his hand and said, "My young son died young, and I have no intention of dealing with political affairs, so let's play it again tomorrow morning." ”

When Su Guansheng heard this, he seemed to have been beaten with chicken blood, and it was like someone had dug up his ancestral grave. His eyes were bloodshot, his face was flushed, and he said loudly: "How can Your Majesty abandon state affairs because of family affairs, Hou Xuanyan is so rebellious, Your Majesty will not punish him, but mourn the late prince here, how can it be done by Ming Jun!" ”

He said that the righteousness was awe-inspiring, and he didn't expect that he was the one who was rebellious. Although Prince Zhuang Jing was young, he was the prince of the East Palace after all, and when Su Guansheng roared, he neither took into account the emperor's grief as an old father, nor did he think that as a courtier, he should mourn the death of the prince. The Wenchen of the Ming Dynasty had a common problem, that is, they played with prostitutes, embezzled and accepted bribes, and formed parties for personal gain. However, it is also required that the emperor must be a saint, and the criteria for judging saints are also very simple, listening to them is the son of the saint, and if he does not listen to them, he will be a faint king, and he will be admonished by death.

Zhu Yujian trembled with anger, and looked at the roaring bachelor in front of him, he suddenly laughed miserably. With a poignant laugh, Zhu Yujian stood up, turned around and picked up an inkstone beside him, and threw it towards Su Guansheng.

Su Guansheng was hit in the head, and blood suddenly oozed out, and he was stunned in place. In their impression, the emperor was a good emperor, because when they sprinkled, the emperor would never beat them and depose them from their official positions like the faint monarchs in the past.

In the eyes of these military attaches of the Longwu Dynasty, Zhu Yujian was a distant vassal and not close to the first emperor. So they have always looked down on Zhu Yujian, thinking that without their support, Zhu Yujian would not be able to be the emperor at all.

Zhu Yujian has always had this concern, and he is like a puppet, so he has more connivance with these ministers who are not with Zheng Zhilong. But the clay man still has three points of anger, and the anger of the honest man is even more terrible.

He opened an inkstone for Su Guansheng, and he was still angry, took off his boots and held them in his hand, and chased after him in the palace.

Su Guansheng panicked and ran around the pillars in the palace, and the guards didn't know what to do for a while, so they could only follow behind them, following in unison.

Zhu Yujian was missing a shoe, coupled with his eagerness, he accidentally stepped on his dragon robe and fell to the ground when he was chasing. The emperor lay on the ground, motionless, and everyone was so frightened that they were not possessed.

The guards hurriedly stepped forward and carried him to the dragon chair, and someone had already gone to summon the imperial doctor.

Su Guansheng was in a cold sweat, squatting on the ground, his eyes blank.

After a while, taking advantage of the chaos of the crowd, Su Guansheng sneaked out of the palace. He didn't dare to go home, so he hid in his friend Lu Zhenfei's house, and didn't say a word about the things in the palace. Lu Zhenfei only frightened him after the defeat, and after some kind words and persuasion, he stayed in the mansion.

In the palace, Zhu Yujian finally woke up, and after the treatment of the imperial doctor, Zhu Yujian spurted out a mouthful of black blood, and his face gradually became bloody.

The eunuch palace maid knelt in front of the bed, with tears on her face, Zhu Yujian was angry, and asked, "Imperial Doctor Wang, how is my body?" ”

The imperial physician surnamed Wang wiped the sweat from his forehead, bent down and said, "Your Majesty, rest assured, you are in a hurry, you are too anxious in one breath, and you will recover in less than half a month." Wang Taiyi said so, but in his heart he sweated for the emperor, he can be said to be a ghost door this time, if it weren't for his medical skills, there might really be the first emperor of the Ming Dynasty to be angry to death. Even so, this time it will leave the root of the disease.

Zhu Yujian retreated left and right, leaving only his henchman Wang Xiangnian, beckoning him to come over.

Wang Xiangnian didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly got up and lay on the bed.

Zhu Yujian said in a low voice: "Big companion, quickly recruit Wu Yuebo into the court, cough cough.. Don't let people know.. Ahem."