Huguang Wuchang Mansion, the thoroughfare of nine provinces, as an important stronghold of the Chu faction, although the prosperity is not as good as Nanjing, but it also catches up with the big cities in the south of the Yangtze River such as Suzhou and Hangzhou.

After Wang Yan inspected the horse army in Huguang, he came to Wuchang, but he did not stay in the line arranged for him by Wu Jinxi, the governor of Huguang, but next to the official school in Hankou New Town, and gave a lesson to the students here when he had nothing to do, and the rest of the time was to fish by the river and accompany his family.

He completely put on a posture of not leaving for the time being, as if he wanted to take a summer vacation in Wuchang, but the key thing is that Wuchang is not a place to escape the summer.

The time flashed to June, the vast land of the lake, the rice fields were golden, the summer wind blew, set off a golden wave, blowing bursts of rice fragrance.

Outside Wuchang Mansion, on a ridge of the field, Wang Yan sat on the edge of the rice field wearing a straw hat, rolling up his trouser legs, and sweating, and several officials around him also looked like this.

Helplessly, the king of Chu wanted to create an image of being close to the people and personally went to the field to harvest rice, and many officials could not stand on the side of the road to watch, so they could only sacrifice their lives to accompany the gentleman and go to the field to harvest together.

Wang Yan called a few old farmers, sat beside him, gave them some pastries, and asked them about this year's harvest and how they were doing.

Seeing the scene in front of him, Jinbao next to him immediately asked a painter to depict this picture, and then carved it and printed it on the newspaper of the government office for public circulation.

"Di Bao" is the earliest newspaper in China, which appeared as early as the Warring States Period, but some people say that it began in the Western Han Dynasty, in short, it is particularly early.

"Di Bao" is also known as "Di Bao", and is also known as "Chao Bao", "Article Newspaper" and "Miscellaneous Newspaper", which is specially used for the imperial court to disseminate government decrees and major events, and belongs to news copying.

Di Bao developed to the Song and Ming dynasties, and private businessmen also participated, copying the decrees of the imperial court, copying and printing, and some even attached comments, and then sold them in the market.

Wang Yan originally wanted to understand the people's feelings in Huguang, but when he did this, he made a sense of showmanship, which made him cry and laugh, but although Wang Yan felt a little awkward, he didn't say anything to stop it.

At this time, in the distance, a team of brocade guards wearing flying fish suits and carrying embroidered spring knives galloped from a distance on war horses.

The leader rode on the edge of the rice field and hurriedly pulled the war horse, afraid that if he didn't control the horse and stepped on the rice, Wang Yan would definitely not be able to spare him.

In the Ming system, Jinyiwei was directly under the orders of the emperor and was not subject to the control of the cabinet. Wang Yan is now the regent, acting as the emperor's authority, and Jinyiwei is under his command.

Wang Yan handed over the command of the Wuzhong Army, but the command of Jinyiwei was still in his hands, and he had no intention of handing it over for the time being.

The civil official group hates the organization of Jinyiwei, but Wang Yan is very cautious when using Jinyiwei, mainly to probe information, obtain intelligence, and even participate in anti-corruption.

In doing so, to a certain extent, he made the bureaucracy forget the horrors of Jinyiwei.

The person who came was Yu Taichu, he turned over and dismounted, handed over the reins of the horse to his subordinates, and hurriedly walked towards Wang Yan with the embroidered spring knife in one hand.

Wang Yan was talking to a few old farmers, and Lu Shikui next to him saw Yu Taichu running over, so he bent down and reminded Wang Yan in his ear.

Hearing this, Wang Yan turned his head and saw the Jinyi Wei who was walking from the ridge, his eyes changed slightly, and after a while, he turned his head and said to several old farmers with a smile that he still had official business to do.

Several old peasants left with great interest, and Lu Shikui immediately took the guards and formed a circle around Wang Yan, all pressing the hilt of the knife and facing away from Wang Yan.

"Humble duty, meet Your Highness!" Yu Taichu walked directly into the circle, and then saluted Wang Yan on one knee who was sitting barefoot on the ridge.

Wang Yan held an ear of rice in his hand, nodded, motioned for him to sit down next to him with his eyes, and then asked in a deep voice, "How is the investigation?" ”

After Yu Taichu sat down, he hurriedly replied in a low voice: "Back to Your Highness, Jinyiwei has already found out that the attack on the mission was indeed done by King Tang and King Lu in collusion with the Shimazu clan. ”

"Is the evidence conclusive?" Wang Yan's face sank.

"It's not wrong, Jinyiwei has already found out clearly, but Tang Wang and they are very cautious, from beginning to end, they have not left any handles."

Wang Yan frowned, "That means that even if you know that they are involved in this matter, there is no evidence to convict them." ”

Yu Taichu nodded, and said hatefully: "Humble duty sent a team of 100 households, disguised as a businessman, to Japan, and quasi-capture one of the key figures, Tagawa Nanazaemon. He thought that as long as he was brought back to China, he would be able to obtain key evidence, but he didn't want Nichizaemon to commit suicide as soon as Nishikiemon arrived in Japan! ”

"This Nanazaemon seems to be the elder brother of Zheng Guo's surname!" Wang Yan was a little surprised, when he was in Guangzhou, he also bought some weapons in Japan through this Nanzaemon, but he didn't expect Zheng Chenggong to be so ruthless that even his brother could give up.

"It is indeed the son of Zheng Zhilong who passed on to the Tagawa clan!"

"Did Jin Yiwei see the corpse?"

"That's not it, but there are quite a few Japanese who claim to have seen Nanazaemon die!"

Wang Yan shook his head and pondered: "Keep checking!" In addition, as soon as Jinyiwei arrived in Japan, Nanazaemon died, this matter is too strange, you have to check whether there is a spy inside Jinyiwei. ”

Yu Taichu nodded heavily, "I also feel strange about my humble position, and I have already asked people to check it again!" ”

Wang Yan bowed slightly, and suddenly asked again: "What about the private soldiers recruited by King Tang and King Lu on Taiwan Island?" ”

Tang Lu trained private soldiers on Taiwan Island, thinking that Wang Yan didn't know, but the Ming Dynasty clan was not one mind, not all clans had Tang Lu's ambition, they thought that Taiwan Island was hanging overseas, and it was not easy to know about worship, but Wang Yan was not relaxed about the clan on Taiwan Island.

There is a king Yu who wants his life on the island, it is not a peaceful lord, what if he is not prepared, what if he is not prepared for another ambush? Wang Yan is now guarding him, and half of the reason why he is so afraid of death is because of King Yu.

"Back to His Royal Highness, the inside report reported that they recruited about 30,000 people in the name of recruiting Zhuang Ding. In February, Pi Xiong, the former chief soldier of Guizhou, had quietly gone to the island to help them train their troops. It is said that they are attacking the potbelly country in the central part of Taiwan Island and preparing to train their troops in battle. ”

Pi Xiong turned out to be a warlord in Guizhou, has not been very obedient to the orders of the imperial court, insisted on recruiting troops and collecting taxes, He Tengjiao entered Guizhou, he overturned, collected his soldiers and horses, and almost went to prison, and finally he spent some money to avoid prison, but I didn't expect to take refuge in Tang Lu now.

Wang Yan heard that Tang Lu had raised 30,000 people so quickly, and he couldn't help but be a little surprised, if he allowed them to develop like this, when he went on the Northern Expedition, these people suddenly started from behind, and it was possible for him to be defeated and die.

After the Manchus controlled Zungar, their strength increased greatly, and the Ming Dynasty wanted to deal with the Manchus, it was necessary to enhance its own strength, and the strength of the cavalry was part of it, in addition, it was necessary to clear the internal threat, Tang Lu did this, Wang Yan did not dare to attack the Manchus in the north.

Wang Yan was silent for a moment after hearing this, and suddenly asked again, "What about the third prince Zhu?" Any news? ”

The third prince of Zhu is a folk name, and he has heard a lot, and Wang Yan usually says so.

Since the Jinhua Rebellion, in the south of the Yangtze River, there has been news that the third prince of Zhu is still alive from time to time, and there are even young people who can't be directors, and the third prince of Zhu should be allowed to ascend the throne, so that the Ming Dynasty can recover the voice of the north.

Wang Yan had a keen sense of smell and felt that this was not like a folk rumor, but like someone wanted to build momentum, so he ordered Jinyi Wei to investigate it strictly.

Hearing Wang Yan ask about this, Yu Taichu's face became solemn, "Your Highness, the Jinhua Minupun, and the case of Yuyao Hujiazhuang being destroyed, Jinyiwei has been investigating for a long time, and a few days ago, there was finally a breakthrough!" ”

"Oh?" Wang Yan looked at him and couldn't help asking, "What did you find?" ”

"I found an old pawn in Yuyao, judging from the information he learned, I'm afraid that the third prince is really true, and I'm afraid that the third prince has fallen into the hands of King Lu!"

Wang Yan raised his eyebrows, King Lu created so many incidents, it turned out that he had mastered the third prince of Zhu and wanted to play a big game of chess.

(End of chapter)