Chapter 648: Evil News

The new monarch ascended the throne and granted amnesty to the world and promulgated a new edict, which was the common sense of all dynasties. After this matter, it is natural to canonize the queen and the crown prince. Whether it is the crown princess Zhang or the former imperial grandson Zhu Zhanji, they were deeply trusted when Zhu Di was alive, so this was a matter without suspense.

Compared with these high-sounding things, Zhu Gaochi's spirit was mainly focused on Zhu Gaoxu, the king of the Han Dynasty who came to Beijing, and at the same time, he was also distracted from other princes such as Zhu Quan, the king of Ning, who were not careful, and had to deal with the funeral, and it was inevitable that he would be physically and mentally exhausted after several times. He was in poor health, so he simply reported the state affairs to the cabinet, and ordered Yang Shiqi and others to prepare all the folds on the ballot every day for submission. Even so, he still didn't have time to check them one by one, and naturally Empress Zhang, who had just been registered, checked them on his behalf.

The emperor and empress are all very busy, but Zhu Zhanji, the crown prince, is also not easy. The funeral was extremely complicated, and now that he was the crown prince, he couldn't make the slightest mistake, so he was exhausted for more than a month. If it weren't for the fact that he was not a weak nobleman who was better than the hands of the women of the deep palace, and he could ride a horse and get a bow, it would be difficult to survive even the way back from the initial mourning.

After Zhu Gaochi ascended the throne, he had moved to the Qianqing Palace, and now that Zhu Zhanji is already the prince, he naturally entered the Duanben Palace in the name of justice. Now that the period of decay has passed, he finally has free time, and on this day, he went out of the palace for a walk, and he remembered the edict of amnesty to the world when Zhu Gaochi succeeded to the throne.

This is to stop all non-urgent matters, to stop all the procurement of gold and silver bills, the purchase of iron pear wood for shipbuilding, the construction works, and so on, which is certainly not disturbing the good government of the people; The suspension of the Western treasure ship is because the criticism between the DPRK and China is too big, and it is just that; But he just saw someone from his mother, Empress Zhang, asking for the dismissal of Ningbo City Bosi to apply for Taizu's ban on the sea; The Kaiping Daning garrison in the north suffered from labor and money, and was also gradually dismantled. Seeing these things in the folds that his mother had picked out, his heart was throbbing.

Father seems to be going to completely overturn the many decrees of the Yongle Dynasty!

Because of the mourning, the large area of the East Palace seemed a little deserted, and he was not in charge of the country like his father back then. Just as he was turning the corner, he suddenly heard a voice on his left.

"Taisun...... His Royal Highness the Prince. ”

Zhu Zhanji turned around when he heard the sound, and when he saw that it was Zhu Ning, he turned around. Seeing that Zhu Ning was dressed in linen, without fat powder, and had no other accessories, he waved his hand to stop her salute and asked, "Aunt Ning is from the queen mother?" ”

After Empress Zhang was in the middle palace, the other concubines in the palace also entered their own titles, and on this day, the palace concubines and the foreign relatives ordered the ladies to enter the meeting. Zhu Ning congratulated her early, and then changed her body to go to Renzhi Hall to pay respects, because Empress Zhang had instructed her, she planned to meet the crown princess Hu and leave the palace again. At this time, she nodded and answered, and seeing Zhu Zhanji's thin face, she remembered that when she saw Zhu Gaochi before, the emperor was just full of tiredness, and her heart couldn't help but move.

"His Royal Highness the Prince, although he is in mourning, after all, his body is still important, I saw that the emperor is also struggling to support, and your face is not good, so pay more attention. After all, the Prince of Heaven is related to the overall situation of the world, and he must not give people an opportunity to take advantage of. If you are in good health, it will always be useless for others to do all kinds of things. ”

Although Zhu Ning was still younger than himself, hearing this elder tone at this moment, Zhu Zhanji felt happy in his heart, so he nodded. After a while, he was about to leave, when he suddenly remembered something, he hurriedly stopped her and asked: "Father, Aunt Zhun Ning entered Beijing this time, because when Emperor Daxing was still there, he always regarded you as his own daughter. I know that you are here because the Zhou Wangfu is not very stable, so you might as well stay in Beijing for a while and don't rush back. ”

Zhu Ning had already mentioned this matter to Empress Zhang politely, and Zhu Zhanji said so, she was reassured and hurriedly thanked her. Since he had spoken the words, Zhu Zhanji simply accompanied her to the crown princess Hu, but he was impatient to talk to Hu, so he sat down and left first. When he returned to his palace, he sat down and saw a large stack of recitals that had been forwarded to his side for reading, and he calmed down to read them one by one, and when he reached the middle two, he froze for a moment.

"Chen Wu!"

Chen Wu, who had been accompanying him, hurriedly leaned over, raised his eyes and looked at the two books spread out on the desk, he caught a few eye-catching words, and quickly lowered his head. Sure enough, Zhu Zhanji nodded heavily with his index finger, and was silent for a long time, before he ordered: "You go to the crown princess to see if Aunt Ning is still there, and if you leave, you can hurry to Donghuamen." I remember that someone brought some good gastrodia to her, and you brought it to her, and said that I gave it to her. You take a look at these two notes first, and tell her what happened above, and you don't need to say anything else. ”

"Yes, little one understands!"

Chen Wu nodded understandingly, and left immediately after reading the twists and turns at a glance. He first went to the treasury of the East Palace to pick up a box of gastrodia, and hurried to the crown princess Hu's place, but it was empty. He didn't dare to delay, and hurriedly rushed to Donghua Gate, where he intercepted Zhu Ning, who was about to get into the car. Approaching the object, he brought it up with both hands, and he mentioned two things in a low voice, and finally added another sentence.

"The emperor has ordered the increase of the kings, except for the king of Han and the king of Zhao, the king of Zhou is the first. The little one also heard that the emperor said to people that the county lord was the daughter of Emperor Taizong, and he should choose a son-in-law without sticking to one pattern, and asked the county lord to relax. ”

"I know, there is a reminder from Lao Chen's father-in-law." Zhu Ning took out a purse from his body and handed it to Chen Wu, "If you run like this, you will keep this little gadget and play with it." Thank you to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince on my behalf! ”

When the carriage left Dong'an Gate and went to the Zhou Wang's Mansion, a middle-aged eunuch who happened to meet next to him had the courage to ask: "County Lord, in that purse is the golden Buddha personally opened by the presiding master of Daxiangguo Temple, which is your personal accessory, and it is too heavy to use as a reward." Besides, Chen Wu made it clear that he came by the will of the crown prince, and he was just a favor......"

"The person in the palace is an errand runner and can't be underestimated, what is a golden Buddha!"

Zhu Ning glanced at the eunuch dissatisfied, and when she saw that he was no longer speechless, she said lightly, "The first two things were just His Royal Highness the Crown Prince asking me to pass on the word, and they have nothing to do with Chen Wu's later words, which shows that he added it on his own initiative, in order to deliberately curry favor." Since others have expressed it, if I still remain quiet, who will have more trouble in the future? Emperor Taizong died, and in addition to the Han Domain, only my father can send me to worship the spirit, and the rest can only send a long history at most. If you really want to maintain the lineage of our King Zhou, the reserve that should be thrown away must be lost, and the current vassal king is not as good as before! ”

The eunuch was speechless, he was specially selected by Zhu Hu, the king of Zhou, to accompany him, just to be able to mention one or two points in important places, but he didn't expect to be mentioned by Zhu Ning at this time. When he returned to King Zhou's mansion, he no longer dared to put up a shelf for the old man of the palace, so he served Zhu Ning into the house, and then invited someone to go according to the instructions.

The Son of Heaven was mourned, and the Ministry of Rites was naturally the busiest, however, after Zhang Yue came back from Shandong to hand over the errand, Lu Zhen, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, gave him three days off unusually. Although he has a lot of things on his mind, but now there are too many idle people in the Beijing division at this time, and it is not good to go out casually, and there has been no response from his father Zhang Zhuo, so he decided to take this opportunity to accompany his wife and children at home.

But Zhang Yue was idle, but Du Juan was so busy that her feet didn't touch the ground, early in the morning, Lingxi came to invite her to the British Mansion, and she didn't even come back to eat, and before she came back in the afternoon, King Zhou's Mansion sent someone to invite, and when she learned that the person was not there, she immediately chased her to the British Mansion. Since his wife is simply not idle for a moment, Zhang Yue can only play with his children for a whole morning, try on clothes made of autumn marks and amber, and settle down in the afternoon to deal with the patriarchology and things in the manor, until the evening, Du Juan came back with two girls, and his face was full of fatigue.

Now in the days when slaughtering and marriage are still prohibited, it is inconvenient to cook in the small kitchens of each room, and the family simply eats together. After the brothers and concubines finished dinner, they served tea, and Zhao Fen kept chattering, but she said that many of the nobles in the mansion died one after another because of the hard crying spirit in front of them, and even some children of the younger generation fell ill one after another, so they all said things like bad weather. Everyone changed their faces when they heard this, and finally they opened up and shouted in annoyance, which stopped her chatter. But since they were worried in their hearts, the family didn't dare to slack off, and went to settle the children as soon as they dispersed.

Even if Zhang Yue didn't believe that there would be any bad weather in this winter, this kind of thing had to be guarded against, so after returning to the room, he accompanied Du Juan to arrange the child's care, and had to warn Zhang Jing, who was twisting and turning, not to go out these days. When he had dealt with all this, and seeing that it was not early, he said to Autumn Scar and Amber, "You two go back and rest early, you have been busy and busy these days." I still have a holiday, and the day after tomorrow, everyone will go to Chongguo Temple to pray for blessings. ”

As soon as he heard this, Autumn Scar immediately smiled, curtsied in agreement, and then happily pulled Amber away. As soon as the two of them left, Zhang Yue sent the little girl to go outside to urge hot water, and then found the crystal from the head, and when only the husband and wife were left, he asked: "Sister Juan, I saw that your face was wrong when I was having dinner, what was the matter?" By the way, in the afternoon, Chen Liujun sent his mother to invite you, and when he learned that you were not there, he left immediately. What did the county lord say to you? ”

Du Juan couldn't maintain the calm face she had just now, she stretched out her index finger and thumb and rubbed her temples, and she showed a worried expression: "Sister Ning came to me for two things. First, in the imperial history book of the Imperial Inspectorate, the Duke of Dao is now a prince, and he is in charge of the military governor's mansion, it is not appropriate for you to stay in Beijing, Sister Ning said that you are about to release the Tianfu Mansion. Second, Warat is now holding on to the envoys, and Xinghe said that the grassland is closed by heavy snow and cannot act, and they can't find out the news of the World Festival......"

Although neither news is good news, Zhang Yue was not surprised to hear the release of Nanjing in front of him, because that was what he quietly designed; But when he heard that there was no news from Wanshijie, he only felt a loud bang in his head, and stood up suddenly. The fist clenched and then released, released and clenched, and after two or three times, he finally came to his senses and sat down slowly.

Forcing himself to calm down, Zhang Yue thought of the key to this matter: "I haven't heard any news from Lao Wan's side before, the county lord is a foreign clansman, how did she know?" ”

"It's His Royal Highness the Crown Prince." Du Juan said bluntly, "Sister Ning went to the palace today, this was specially told to her by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince Chen Gonggong, Sister Ning thought that it should be like this, so she invited me over." As for the news that didn't leak the news, according to Sister Ning and I, it was because the five governors including Uncle Tang lived in the barracks in the past few days and couldn't predict state affairs, and Daddy and they all stayed in the palace cabinet room, so he couldn't send news out for personal gain. Daddy has always loved Xiao Wu, and he also attaches great importance to the festival, and I don't know how he felt when he learned about it...... I really don't know if I should tell Xiao Wu or not. ”

"Tell her!" Zhang Yue made a decision at once, and immediately said categorically, "I will find someone to inquire about this matter, and I will definitely give her a letter." Today's Warat is not the Warat of the past, there are endless disputes between the three departments, and when the pioneer Lao Wan arrived, the emperor had not yet died, and the joy should not be unfavorable to them. He is a blessed and fateful person, and nothing will happen! ”

Seeing that Du Juan nodded slightly, he thought that Zhang Zhuo had also said that Yuan Fang was also sent to Nanjing to retire, so he raised his eyebrows: "Now that the capital has been moved to Beijing, everyone thinks that Nanjing is a place for idle retirement, but the truth is not necessarily. I have also discussed this matter with you, it is beneficial and harmless, but it is not the state capital near Nanjing but Yingtianfucheng, which is an unexpected joy. Today's emperor is different from Emperor Taizong, and I stayed in the capital to give people the opportunity to find faults, and it is convenient to go farther. ”

Du Juan didn't care about the size of Zhang Yue's official position, the only thing he was worried about was that he would be sent to some dangerous place, and when he heard him say this, he felt relieved. Thinking of the few words she heard when she was in the British Mansion today, she asked again: "I heard those ladies today mention the matter of the daughter of the Marquis of Ningyang, it is said that the first emperor had the intention of taking the daughter of the Marquis of Ningyang as a concubine?" ”

"How could this rumor be revealed? What else do those people say? ”

"Although there are many rumors, Ningyang Hou is now second only to Uncle Tang, and the official title is Taibao, and they are just whispering. However, Sister Ke's marriage made them very concerned for a while...... And when Sister Tian came out to meet guests, she attracted everyone's attention, I really think it's strange, she is only five years old now, even if she wants to get married, it will be early. ”

"That's the cousin of the hall uncle and the eldest uncle, and it's not surprising that someone likes it." Zhang Yue pondered for a moment, and then said to Du Juan, "First of all, I went to Shandong before I could go home after returning to Beijing, and I don't have time to talk to you these days." Before the first emperor died, I wrote a decree that the current emperor would hire Tian's sister as a concubine. ”

Du Juan changed color all of a sudden. Let's not mention that Zhu Gaochi is about to be fifty, even Empress Zhang is not an ordinary woman. If the emperor promised Zhang Fu's daughter to Zhu Zhanji, wouldn't it be a mess to make such a promise?