Chapter 21: The White Lotus Sect

Sai Hazhi was flustered when he heard it, he had actually asked for it many times, just because he wanted to help Yang Zhangde occupy the position, so although he was still in this position, he had already taken care of it.

He didn't want to cause a lot of disputes before he became a leader, and he didn't want to involve his juniors because of it.

But Taisun is so murderous now, he feels that he should get out of this quagmire as soon as possible.

Let's start tomorrow with illness, and send a letter to the emperor again, hoping to get the emperor's permission.

He panicked, but it was exciting news for the other young Jinyiwei.

The unique military household system of the Ming Dynasty made the son of the military household always a military household, and the son of a craftsman was always a craftsman.

Except for reading, which can change fate, all other channels have been blocked.

Specific to the details, most of the descendants of Yu Linwei are into Yu Linwei, and most of the descendants of Jinyiwei are also into Jinyiwei.

Even if there are some personnel transfers, basically this is the general environment.

Half of the Jinyi guards present here are because their elders are Jinyiwei, and then they inherited their father's position, entered Jinyiwei, and then worked up step by step.

Most of them have also experienced the golden age of the previous Ji Gang period, but if they have a little ideal, they don't want Jinyiwei to sink here.

The eldest husband is alive all his life, who doesn't want to be vigorous?

When he was a wolf during the Ji Gang period, who was not afraid of Jinyiwei when he saw the civil and military officials below the third grade? But how many people are still afraid of Jinyiwei now?

So with Zhu Zhanji's endorsement and Yang Zhangde's encouragement, at the time of a meal, the minds of everyone in Jinyiwei were unified.

The unity of thought is an increase in cohesion and combat effectiveness for a department.

These people with the same background and the same pursuit are the easiest to unify their thoughts.

In other words, if those literati want to truly unify their thoughts, it is an epic problem.

The later generations of Taizu killed the sky and the earth, and they were unable to solve this problem.

Of course, Zhu Zhanji will not face this epic problem now, he just needs those people to follow his direction.

Controlling the Jinyi Guard, the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses, can maintain the stability of the capital.

He also has Yu Linwei, more than 10,000 elite soldiers of the young army, and the men and horses of the First Fleet of the Navy, which is enough.

Zhu Di went on the expedition, and the Jingwei people would take away more than half of it. The only one left in the capital may be the Jingwei Command Division, and the Jingwei Commander is Zhang Fu's third brother Zhang Xuan, who is another person of his own.

Therefore, Zhu Zhanji has already controlled most of the soldiers and horses who will stay in the capital, and he is not afraid that someone will make trouble with the demon moth.

He left Zhang Fu in the capital, and used Zhang Fu to suppress the commanders and envoys of each capital, and the remaining generals of the five military governors' mansions, so as to completely ensure the stability of the country.

When he left from Yang's Mansion, Zhu Zhan basically wanted to go to Xiamaqiao Farm and his party. Chen Cheng is going to be sent to the northwest, and a large mess of affairs here in Xiamaqiao Farm needs to find someone to take care of it.

No one knows that in his heart, this is the place he attaches the most importance to, and its importance is even greater than that of the Jiajiang Industrial Zone, which now makes guns and cannons for Daming.

Because Jiajiang Industrial Zone represents the present, but Xiamaqiao Farm lacks the future.

Although he has been away from home for three years, the research and development of the ten research institutes here is not satisfactory. But it has not stopped, and has been developing steadily.

On the one hand, it is because all the appropriations of Xiamaqiao Farm are Zhu Zhanji's private funds and are not subject to the constraints of the imperial court.

On the other hand, this is all the role of Chen Cheng, who has traveled to many countries and has seen the importance of culture and research and invention in Timur and other countries, and knows how to guide the development of these research institutes.

But now that he is going to the northwest, Zhu Zhanji is ready to personally manage the affairs of these research institutes.

In this world, no one knows better than him the law of development and the direction of development of the whole world.

But as soon as his convoy entered the middle road of Chengtianmen, he met Xie Kuang, a lieutenant who was sent out to find him. "Your Highness, the slave is preparing to look for you, Your Majesty wants to have fun with the people tonight, and I order Your Highness to accompany you."

Xie Kuang is Wang Yan's apprentice, and now the inner service class does not have the atmosphere of recognizing cadres, but there are countless master-apprentice inheritances.

The eunuchs are from top to bottom, and the master-apprentice status has become an important way to climb up from the bottom.

For example, Liu Wan and Sun Lin in Zhu Zhanji's palace are all Jin Kuo's apprentices, and although Liu Wan is only in his twenties now, he has begun to find a few seven or eight-year-old clever little eunuchs in the palace, and began to teach them to read and write, and behave in the world.

Sun Lin is a little older, and he is now the Admiral Advisor, so he has more apprentices, many of whom are elites of the younger generation.

Wang Yan served as a eunuch in Liaodong in his early years, and he leaned towards one side, and now he is Zhu Di's most trusted chief eunuch, and he has even more apprentices, including dozens of people.

This Xie Kuang is one of the best, and has become a new generation of stars in the entire internal supervision system.

Zhu Zhanji nodded. "Get in the car and talk, why does the imperial grandfather think of this again?"

Xie Kuang got into the carriage, but he didn't dare to sit in, but sat on the skirt outside the carriage, only one layer of truss separated from Zhu Zhanji.

"The British government returned to Beijing this year, and the British government also joined in the Lantern Festival, and the lanterns made by their craftsmen were relatively novel, and the people in the capital flocked to them. His Majesty was also interested after hearing about it today, and had just sent someone to summon the British Duke and a group of nobles to prepare for a boat ride at night to enjoy the lanterns. ”

During the Lantern Festival every year in Tianfu, the royal family, the clan, and the nobles all have tasks. Each family has to make some lanterns, floats, patrol the streets for three days before and after the Lantern Festival, exhibit, and also carry out some activities such as guessing lantern riddles.

The lanterns are basically arranged on both sides of the Qinhuai River, all the way to the Chengtianmen Square outside the imperial city. The floats are on display on several major streets, so that everyone can enjoy it.

Originally, this was to shorten the distance between the noble class and the people, but over the years, it has become a major event in the capital.

The British government was relatively low-key in previous years, although they were the first nobles, but Zhang Fu spent most of his time fighting outside, and did not have much heart to participate, and only completed the lantern arrangement on a section of the riverbank every year according to the allocated quota.

Zhu Di greeted a group of nobles to enjoy the lanterns, this matter seems simple, but Zhu Zhanji doesn't think it's so simple, I'm afraid this is also to prepare for the expedition.

It is not a trivial matter for the royal family to go out on patrol and enjoy the lanterns.

In the evening, the entire Yingtianfu people came out, and the streets were overcrowded, and there were crushing incidents over the years.

Although the royal family is rafting, it will attract more people to watch the excitement. This added a lot of pressure to the officials of Ying Tianfu and the soldiers of the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses.

And the safety precautions along the way are a test of the ability of the major escort battalions.

Zhu Zhanji actually didn't agree with coming to join in the fun at this time, but Zhu Di had already decided.

And the concubines in the palace are difficult to leave the palace all year round, and now they can get permission to come out to enjoy the lanterns and have fun with the people. If it was because of Zhu Zhanji's opposition, they would inevitably be depressed and angry.

People in this era are more psychologically extreme because they have less contact with the world and less knowledge. Zhu Zhanji didn't want to cause all the women in the palace to hate him because of such a trivial matter.

What's more, he also thinks that his concubines and children should come out to see the world more.

When he returned to Xingqing Palace, he saw all the palace maids, and the concubines were very happy, and a group of four or five-year-old children were also running around excitedly.

This is the case in Xingqing Palace, and of course other palaces will be no exception.

Zhu Zhanji shook his head secretly, and could only hope that the major Beijing guards could do a little more today, and not let the people in the capital not be happy because of protection.

Jin Kuo was extremely busy today, because of Zhu Di's decision, he wanted to arrange preparations for the concubines in the palace to travel, and all the concubines who were not sick could basically travel.

And which palace maids can accompany them, and the list is reported one by one, they must be arranged one by one, and there can be no mistakes.

The building boats that can sail on the Qinhuai River are basically not very large, and the number of people that can accommodate them will not exceed fifty.

And the number of people in the palace who are qualified to travel is more than a hundred, plus their respective maids, and the accompanying eunuchs, it takes ten ships to load everyone.

Zhu Zhanji had just left here, and Jinyiwei had also received an order from the palace, and they also had to take on the task of guarding.

It just so happened that they were all gathering at Yang Zhangde's house, and they didn't need to convene any more people, so they could arrange it directly.

Yang Zhangde looked at Ergouzi and felt that this little guy could be regarded as his lucky star. The relationship between him and His Highness is actually very thin, and other people can take their place at any time as long as they are capable.

And Ergouzi, the little guy who was remembered by Zhu Zhanji, can deepen His Royal Highness's impression of himself from other aspects.

Thinking that he might meet Zhu Zhanji at night, he was ready to bring Ergouzi with him.

"Ergouzi, tonight, Your Majesty and Your Highness are going to have fun with the people. Our Jinyiwei is responsible for cleaning up the river of the Qinhuai River, I am going to let your sister go and have a good time, tonight, you will help me take care of your sister, can you do it? ”

When Li Zifeng heard this, he immediately straightened up his little chest and said, "The apprentice must take care of the master." ”

In addition to being excited, he thought of the three babies and Niuniu at home. "Master, can I bring Sanwa and Niuniu with me?"

These days. The people's boats were all cleared, and only the nobles and the families of officials above the fourth rank could raft on the Qinhuai River.

And enjoying the lanterns on the boat is much more comfortable than crowding people on the shore.

"Little bastard, I don't have any ...... at all." Yang Zhangde slapped him on the head. But he said: "Just follow your wishes, Shen Zheng is going to come back before, and he won't be able to catch the boat if it's late." ”

Li Zifeng smiled, the master promised him, even if he was slapped, it was worth it.

Out of Chang'anfang, he ran quickly, ran for more than three miles without stopping, and returned home to tell Sanwa, Niuniu, the good news.

The two of them are still children, and there is no need to shy away from going on the master's boat with him, but not like his father.

Sanwa and Niuniu were really excited, holding Ergouzi's hand, and a good second brother, so that Ergouzi couldn't find the north happily.

put on new clothes for his younger brothers and sisters, and the two dogs took the hands of their younger brothers and sisters, didn't even eat, and went out together.

It's just now that I've arrived in Shen, and there's still half an hour before Shenzheng, and I can walk slowly for three or four miles.

Except for Ergouzi who was wearing the student uniform of Yulin Weixue, his younger brothers and sisters were all dressed as civilians, and the three of them looked like their elder brother and sister coming out to play, and they were not noticed.

When they were about to arrive at Chang'anfang, there were three men and one woman in front of them, wearing some shabby clothes, sighing and talking in a low voice.

Suddenly, a heroic man shouted: "If you really can't find a way out, then kill these dog officials one by one, against the damn." ”

The two dogs were stunned for a moment, took their younger siblings' hands tightly, and deliberately pretended to follow them inadvertently and continued to eavesdrop.

After studying in Yulin Weixue for a year, he could hear that the other party's accent was from Shandong, the three men were all heroic, and the woman was also as beautiful as a flower.

The four of them were centered on the shortest man, who was supposed to be his wife.

It's just that their subsequent voices were lowered again, and he couldn't understand the Shandong dialect, so he had limited eavesdropping.

The second dog saw that he couldn't hear anything, and those few people couldn't wander by the Qinhuai River, so he stopped eavesdropping and walked towards Chang'anfang with his younger brothers and sisters.

As soon as he entered Chang'an Fang, he ran quickly with his younger brothers and sisters, Niuniu couldn't keep up with his footsteps, and said in a coquettish voice: "Second brother, slow down......"

The second dog didn't dare to let go of his younger siblings' hands, these are all powerful families, if he didn't lead the way, his younger siblings wouldn't have been able to get in at all.

But he was anxious to tell the master the news quickly, these people have foreign accents, and they can also say the opposite, this must be wanting to come to the capital to avenge their grievances, but they can't find a way.

If they really let them make a big deal, Ying Tianfu, the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses, including the Jinyi Guard, will not be able to eat and walk around.

When he came to the door of Yang's mansion, as soon as he entered the door, he was anxious to ask the doorman Xuan Lonely. "Uncle Shi, is the master here?"

"Your master just went to Jinyiwei, and I'll take you to the boat in a moment."

He had brought Sanwa and Niuniu to Yang's Mansion before, and Xuan Lonely Old Dao also knew them, and he wanted to tease a few words. Ergouzi couldn't wait to say: "Uncle Shi will help me take care of the third baby first, Niuniu, I have something urgent to find the master." ”

He didn't enter the house anymore, turned around and ran out quickly, Xuan Lonely Old Dao couldn't help but shake his head and smiled: "A child's family, what big deal can there be!" ”

The northeast of Chang'an Fang is the Imperial Palace, and in the interval of this mile, there are Honglu Temple, the Pedestrian Division, and the Teaching Workshop Division.

The southeast is Chang'an Xiejie Street, after the street, there is the avant-garde of the government army, the naval headquarters, and then forward is the General Administration Division, and the courtyard to the south of the General Administration Department is the Jinyiwei Headquarters.

On weekdays, these places are heavily guarded, but because of the lantern festival these days, the protection of Chang'an Xiejie has been released, so that the people can go directly to the Chengtianmen Square in front of the imperial city.

However, the protection of these yamen has become more stringent, and people cannot leave the street and enter the central area.

Ergouzi was wearing the clothes of Yulin Weixue, he was young, and those guards did not stop him, and when he heard that he was going to Jinyiwei, he called a Jinyi Wei's person to come out to recognize him, and when he heard that he was looking for his master Yang Zhangde, the Jinyi Wei Xiaowei took him in.

In today's Jinyi Wei, Yang Zhangde is still nominally the fourth-in-command, but he is the real first person, and Xiaowei is countless levels behind Yang Zhangde, and he doesn't dare to be sloppy about Yang Zhangde's land.

Entering the courtyard of Jinyiwei, a thousand households who had seen Ergouzi in Yang's Mansion at noon greeted him with a smile, but Ergouzi couldn't wait to shout: "Lord Xu, the little one met three men and one woman from Shandong on the street just now, and they actually shouted back, and the little one was afraid that they would make trouble, so they were in a hurry to report the news." ”

The smile on Xu Qianhu's face disappeared immediately, and the person who can shout the opposite words, in this era, is an anti-thief!

He immediately said, "You go and tell Lord Yang, and I will immediately gather people." ”

Finally met Yang Zhangde, and the second dog made things clear in a few words in the way of reporting in Yulin Weixue.

Yang Zhangde immediately took off the horizontal knife hanging on the wall and hung it on his waist. "Let's go, let's look for it, I hope we don't let them run away."

When a team of brocade guards came to the place where Ergouzi had met the four people, of course the people were gone.

Moreover, because of today's lantern festival, although it is not dark yet, many people have come out to seize the position, and now it is overcrowded everywhere.

However, benefiting from the strict household registration management methods in today's era, Yang Zhangde is not afraid that they will run away. Since he is from Shandong, there will definitely be a road guide when he comes to the capital, and there will be a record of the residence.

No one was found, so he focused on patrolling at night at this time, and just sent people to major hotels and restaurants to inquire about the Shandong people of these three men and one woman.

Ergouzi knew that at this time, there was nothing to do with himself, and at most when there was news of these people, he would let him, a witness, recognize the person.

He returned to the Yang Mansion with peace of mind, and then followed Xuan Lin and them, and boarded a small boat that could seat more than 20 people.

At this time, it was already five o'clock in the afternoon, that is, in the afterlife, and it was already dark. On the side of the palace, the royal family members got into a carriage and left the palace, and then boarded more than a dozen double-decker building boats on the bank of the Qinhuai River outside Chang'an Fang.

Zhu Zhanji deliberately let more than a dozen of his children stay on the same boat, accompanied by each mother, plus their respective maids, and happened to be on the same boat.

He himself was on this ship, but he was always ready for Zhu Di's summons.

These women rarely have the opportunity to leave the palace on weekdays, and today they are all very excited, of course, even more excited are these children, who are about to fall out on the boat.

The fleet departed on time at six o'clock in Youzheng, that is, in the later generations, and the fleet traveled slowly, sailing from Chang'an Fang to Qingliangmen in the west of the city, and then returning from there, back and forth for about an hour and a half.

As soon as the fleet set off, Zhu Zhanji was summoned by Zhu Di, and he took a small boat to the building boat that Zhu Di was on, and on this boat, there were also a group of nobles who had received invitations.

Seeing that most of these people are nobles with direct functions, Zhu Zhanji knew that this was the same as he thought, Zhu Di's trip was fake, and it was true to take the opportunity to contact these nobles.

Zhang Fu was also invited, and he sat beside Zhu Di with the Duke of Wei and Duke Ding of the Xu family.

However, the two princes of the Xu family are both in the third generation and belong to the younger generation, and they are not very liked by Zhu Di, so Zhang Fu can be regarded as the first person worthy of the name.

Today's joy with the people is just a ceremony, and it is a signal released by Zhu Di to the outside world. Whoever is invited, who is coldly treated, and who is not invited, is a clear signal.

So, it doesn't matter what is talked about, it's just this list that matters.

Tomorrow, the imperial court will officially open, and Zhu Di's actions will be faster and faster.

When passing through the Gongyuan, Zhu Zhanji met Yang Zhangde, Yang Zhangde entrusted Li Liang and expressed to him that he had something important, and he went down to the first floor to meet Yang Zhangde.

In an hour's time, Jinyiwei found out where the four Shandong clans lived, but they also went out to visit the lanterns today, and they have not returned to the hostel yet.

According to the shopkeeper's questioning, it can be determined that the four people came to Yingtianfu before the Chinese New Year, and the four of them used Qingzhou Road to guide them, and the purpose of coming to the capital was to ask for payment from a wealthy businessman in Yingtianfu.

But when they came to Yingtianfu, they stayed in the worst hostel, and their people were not like some wealthy vendors.

This was originally just a trivial matter, and there was no need to alarm Zhu Zhanji now, but Yang Zhangde himself was good at drilling, and his purpose was to let Zhu Zhanji know that he was working hard every day.

After listening to Yang Zhangde's report, Zhu Zhanji did not take it to heart as he thought, but said quite cautiously: "Is the second dog here, let him come over, I will ask him." And after these people are caught, don't torture them, I will personally interrogate them. ”

Yang Zhangde is a little inexplicable, a few mud legs, why does His Royal Highness attach so much importance to it?

He didn't know that when Zhu Zhanji saw the names on the note, his heart felt like a huge wave, if it weren't for the fact that the city government had been hidden all these years, he would have almost asked the whole city to search and arrest them, and he would have found these people.

Because there is a name in it that he is very familiar with - Tang Sayer.

This woman, who has been deified in folklore, in the Ming and Qing dynasties, I don't know how much prestige she has among the people.

Even in the new China of later generations, when he was a child, his grandmother coaxed him to sleep and told him stories, all of which were based on the stories of the White Lotus Sect of Tang Sai'er and Wang Cong'er.

He had never realized that he was living in the same era as Tang Sai'er, and it was not yet time for her to rebel.

Although he was not sure if this Tang Sai'er was the Holy Mother of the White Lotus Sect, Zhu Zhanji didn't dare to be careless, and he had to ask clearly.

After a while, Ergouzi was sent to the imperial boat by a small boat, and when he learned that the emperor was on the upper deck of this ship, Ergouzi felt that his legs were weak.

Zhu Zhanji didn't care about his weak legs that he was frightened now, and said in a harmonious voice: "Tell me what those four Shandong people look like......

(I drank too much yesterday, and I'm not in a good state today, so I'll come to six thousand words first, I'll squint for a while, and try to update a little earlier in the evening.) )

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