Chapter 295: The Emperor's Grandson's Troubles

Now has not officially moved the capital edict, the Ming Dynasty's capital is still Nanjing, and Beijing is called the line, because the emperor lives in Beijing, the prince is in Nanjing, and the fast horses on the road to and from the two Beijing posts are endless all night, which can be busy along the way. It should be known that if the replaced horses are not properly cleaned and fed, the horses after the loss of strength are extremely easy to die, and then the guilt will be great.

Early in the morning, not long after the Shence Gate of Nanjing City was passed, the people who were queuing up to enter the city heard a rush of horses' hooves. Turning their heads to see that it was a fast horse that had come from the dust, the people were accustomed to turning their heads and going to their own business, except for the tax collector who collected the tax and looked at the messenger with interest.

I heard that the health of these crown princes is good and bad, and most of the affairs of the state are jointly handled by the imperial grandson and the ministers such as Yang Shiqi who stayed behind.

The messenger is accustomed to going back and forth between the two Beijings, and is extremely familiar with the streets and alleys of Nanjing, passing through the Shence Gate, from Anren Street to Hongwu Street, Pearl Tower West Eighteen Guards, and then sticking to the west wall of the imperial city to walk, and finally rolled the saddle in front of the Xi'an Gate and dismounted, and showed the waist card to the guards guarding the door. This is a common thing, and the guards will let them go immediately after checking the waist card. The messenger hurried to the noon gate of the palace to present the book, and his own eunuch took the letter and sent it to the east palace, and he was led to the duty room as usual to wait.

As soon as Zhu Zhanji returned to the Rouyi Hall after visiting his father Zhu Gaochi, a eunuch sent a book to the city of Beijing. Although he is taking care of his father these days, he has to listen to the minister's affairs at the same time, and he can hardly find even a little free time, but he does not dare to slack off at this time. opened the book and took a closer look, but the unfamiliar but somewhat familiar handwriting in it made him frown, until he saw Zhu Di's imperial approval at the end, he stretched his brows.

The righteousness of the monarch and the ministers overshadowed the ancestors and grandchildren, so this letter, which was mostly written by the courtiers, only meticulously explained some of the recent personnel promotions and appointments and some measures of the Beijing Bank, and Zhu Di did not mention any family affection, but directly asked Zhu Zhanji what books he had read recently, how his homework was, etc., and only asked Zhu Gaochi about his illness lightly at the end.

As usual, there is a clip at the back of the letter, which is just a straight and round small letter. Zhu Zhanji flipped through it at random and found that it was a note on the Analects, which couldn't help but be a little strange, but since Zhu Di specially ordered someone to send it, he still read it patiently, and when he saw the final payment, he suddenly realized.

"When did Zhang Yue's Analects go to the emperor's grandfather? Could it be that Jinyiwei ran to Zhang's mansion to steal chickens and dogs? ”

Seeing that Zhu Zhanji was in a very good mood, the young eunuch who sent the letter in next to him smiled playfully: "The emperor has always loved young talents, maybe it is really as the emperor said, let the spies of Jinyiwei pay attention." Having said that, the imperial grandson asked Cheng Guogong to bring that box of jewelry to the Du family last time, wouldn't it be better if he sandwiched a letter in it? ”

"You know what!" Zhu Zhanji laughed, "If I don't be named, even if the imperial grandfather knows, I will just laugh at it, and if others guess, I have nothing to say." If I were to name it, who knows if anyone would be scratching at it? I'm just saying it casually, I don't have time to do a serious errand in Jinyiwei, how can I have time to pay attention to these, it should be ......"

Thinking that he had deliberately begged for mercy before, he couldn't help but smile even more proudly. No one knows his grandfather's temper better than him, if no one intercedes, after the officials are in the Jinyiwei prison, Zhu Di often kills him, although sometimes he regrets it afterwards; But if someone argues and pleads, Zhu Di will certainly be angry for a while, but he will think about it carefully, and the possibility of keeping people under the knife is very great. It's like the last time Du Zhen interceded for Liang Qian, although it seemed to take a risk, but in the end, didn't Liang Qian survive?

Liang Qian once told him about the scriptures and history for three years, and for this life-saving grace alone, he owed Du Zhen a favor from a boss. What's more, Zhang Yue married the daughter of the Du family, and he couldn't help anything else, what was there to pity on this gold and silver?

Now that he had received a letter from the capital, Zhu Zhanji had no choice but to draft a reply. Due to the influence of Zhang Yue's family letters when the British public Zhang Fu was seriously ill before, he has now learned to be obedient, and he actually told everything about the major matters handled here in Nanjing, and wrote down the progress of his father Zhu Gaochi's illness one by one, and this letter was written for an hour and a half. It wasn't until after the payment was stamped that he rubbed his sore wrist and smiled bitterly.

It's a trick that not everyone can learn!

After sealing the credit fire paint, he ordered the little eunuch to send it to the previous messenger, and he summoned two more imperial doctors who were in charge of diagnosing and treating Zhu Gaochi, and asked for a detailed look at the medical case. It's all a daily routine, and even the questions are almost identical. However, looking at the thick medical case, he suddenly had a thought.

Everyone knows that his father Zhu Gaochi is fat and incapacitated, and he is a medicine jar for many diseases and disasters, so doesn't that mean that if anything, it is not conspicuous at all? At the beginning, King Zhao of Han used great efforts to entrap the eunuchs in the palace, but his father did not pay any attention to this, if the two of them bought one or two secret murders...... It's impossible, even then there is still him, the imperial grandson!

Suddenly, this sudden thought was suppressed by him. However, at that moment, he no longer had the heart to look at any medical cases, and after asking two more questions, he sent the two imperial doctors away, and an indescribable irritability suddenly arose in his heart.

Du Zhen Zhang Yue teachers and students extinguished the trouble of the bandits in Shandong, and even pulled out some clues, Zhang Yue went to Qingzhou to supervise and behead, but on the way back was inexplicably attacked, to say that there was no Han King Zhu Gaoxu from the trouble, he would never believe it. But since there is such obvious evidence of guilt, why does grandfather Zhu Di have to cover it to death, is it because of Zhu Gaoxu's past military exploits, or because of something else?

Although Yang Shiqi is a minister of humerus who can be relied on, this person is too upright and gentleman, and when it comes to the flesh and blood of the heavenly family, it has always been a cliché, often saying that the emperor is to protect the king of Han and Zhao, but the preservation should also be limited!

"Imperial grandson, Lord Yang asks to see you."

Regarding this kind of scene where Cao arrived, Zhu Zhanji couldn't help but smile bitterly at the corner of his mouth, and immediately ordered to meet him in the main hall. He is not a rigid and polite character, but now that Yang Shiqi is staying, he has to be cautious and careful in everything, so as not to be caught by Yang Shiqi and admonished by any mistakes. So, when he sat down on the throne and saw Yang Shiqi saluting meticulously, the expectation in his heart was even stronger - if Zhang Yue was in Nanjing, he would at least have more people to talk to, right?

"The emperor's grandson, more than 20,000 soldiers who returned from the West are now stationed near Nanjing. Although this is all an old routine, but now it is about to be the season of balking rice, the emperor ordered Pingjiang Bo Chen Xuan to supervise Cao, most of the rice and grain will be sent to Beijing through the canal, removing the cost of grain transportation, plus the expenses of more than 20,000 people, I am afraid that this year's Nanjing officials' Nianlu rice can only support 40% of the rice, and the rest can only support treasure money. ”

"Forty percent?"

Zhu Zhanji once under the command of Zhu Di was accompanied by Xia Yuanji and others to visit the people privately, although it was just a quick look, but he also faintly heard that the treasure banknote can now be exchanged for 1,000 copper coins in eighty square meters. Thinking of his grandfather's several expeditions to the north, Annan's expedition to quell the rebellion, and the treasure ship to the West, all of which were all expensive and food-consuming things, he frowned more and more.

Yang Shiqi knew that Zhu Zhanji had always been smart, and immediately bowed down and said: "Xia Yuanji, the secretary of the household department, once sent a private message, saying that it was due to the construction of the three major palaces in Beijing, and the treasury surplus over the years was not much, and the emperor was sympathetic to the people, and there was a will for the provinces to provide relief first and then report if there was a disaster, it is said that there are floods and droughts in the northern provinces in the summer this year, so that most of the northern grain this year will rely on the south of the Yangtze River. Moreover, the tributary envoys of various countries who came with the treasure ship this time brought a lot of tribute, and the reward was also a large amount. ”

Although Zhu Zhanji is not yet the son of heaven who reigns over the world, as the emperor's grandson, he must always have such a consciousness. In this case, it was really difficult for him to imagine the empty treasury, and naturally he understood the purpose of Yang Shiqi's visit.

"Lord Yang, but you want me to mention this matter tactfully to Grandpa Huang?"

Although he was the chief cabinet minister who stayed in Nanjing on the order of Qin, for Yang Shiqi, the eight words "walking on thin ice" and being on the edge of the abyss to describe his situation were not heavy, but light. He and Liang Qian had a good relationship in private, but at that time, he could only watch the other party be imprisoned by Jinyiwei and taken to Beijing, so now he, the left-behind minister, is even more cautious.

"Although Xia Shangshu takes care of the treasury in an orderly manner, it is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice, so she has to take precautions. According to the military situation in the north reported by the Ministry of War, Arutai now seems to have the intention of asking for peace and paying tribute, and if this is the case, the north can breathe a sigh of relief. The minister just hopes that the emperor's grandson can probe the emperor's tone, after all, the emperor is old, if he wants to go north again......"

"Good!"

Hearing Yang Shiqi's reason, Zhu Zhanji suddenly remembered the time when he followed Zhu Di to the north and was in danger, and immediately made up his mind. Although the words of the army marching into the enemy sound majestic, it is only after experiencing it on the spot that you know what is really going on in the ever-changing battlefield. So, when Yang Shiqi reported a few more important things and retired, he hurriedly instructed a little eunuch to ask if the messenger had left, and when he learned that he had not left, he wrote hard at the desk.

Ordering this letter to be sent together with the first letter, he summoned the confidant Huang Eunuch with a slight groan, and said in a deep voice: "You also said before that Zhang Yue has a cousin who is studying in Guozijian and has not yet traveled north. Aren't there another batch of inmates to be transferred to Beijing this month? You think of a way to ask him to send a message to Zhang Yue, and say that I have read his Analects. ”

Even if the illiterate Huang Eunuch has always been a smart person, there are some monks who are confused at this time. Don't say anything else, what does it mean to read a sentence?