December 23, the 14th year of Daming Shenwu, today happens to be the small year, and it is also the traditional Chinese folk festival stove day, after which today will enter the most important Spring Festival of the year for Chinese.

As the master of Zhongxing in the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Hongsan, the Emperor Shenwu, is of course much more enlightened than his cautious ancestors. Zhu Yuanzhang was probably abused by officials when he was a child, so when he became the emperor, he couldn't wait to kill these officials. Zhu Yuanzhang stipulated that he had to go to work every year except for Chinese New Year's Eve and his own birthday. But officials are also human beings, and they also need to rest and go home to accompany their wives and children, so after Zhu Yuanzhang's death, the rest time was immediately changed to ten days a year. In the Wanli period, it was changed to three days a month, and at the same time, the Spring Festival had to be a half-month holiday.

Zhu Hongsan, as a notoriously lazy person, naturally does not want to be as tired as the ancestor Zhu Yuanzhang, and after becoming the emperor in Guangdong, he will change the three days of Mu to four days per month, and the emperor's birthday will be three days off every year, in addition to these, there are several major festivals such as Chongyang, Dragon Boat Festival, and Mid-Autumn Festival. As the most important festival of the year, the Spring Festival, Zhu Hongsan was even more generous from the beginning of the year, and did not officially go to work until the sixteenth day of the first lunar month.

Because of the emperor's policy, the entire city of Beijing is considered to have officially entered the Spring Festival since childhood. All yamen have also been on holiday, and except for some key departments with people on duty, everyone has gone home to prepare for the New Year.

The whole city of Beijing is enveloped in a joyful atmosphere, but in the Toutiao Hutong of Beijing's eastern city, a group of people are walking on horseback with their heads down. The leader was a tall young man, in his twenties, wearing a black mink coat with a dark blue cotton robe inside, riding a tall horse.

The young man was followed by ten equally tall and tall guards, who looked like martial artists at first glance, and their faces were full of murderous anger. The people of Beijing are all people who have seen the world, and they are not easy to mess with when they see this group of people, and when they see them riding over, they quickly avoid them from afar. The young man at the head was none other than the current emperor's second son, King Zhu Jiang of Qin, and the ten people who followed him were all guards of his palace.

The people living in Dongcheng of Beijing are all Huguang Xungui, and today Zhu Jiang came here to go to his third uncle Ma Rufeng's house for a banquet.

Although Ma Rufeng did not get any position in the knighthood, after all, he was the commander of the capital garrison, in charge of the security of the nine gates of the capital, with 50,000 soldiers in his hands, and his rights were very heavy, and the natural mansion was not bad.

Zhu Jiang is also a frequent visitor, and when he came to the door of Ma Rufeng's house, he didn't wait for a notification, directly handed over the horse to the family guarding the door, and walked in directly with his legs.

The porter at the door saw that King Qin was coming, and quickly knelt down and saluted, Zhu Jiang was not in a good mood, and asked, "Get up, take your master to see your master!" ”

The porter hurriedly nodded and said, "Your Highness, my lord is waiting in the second hall!" ”

"Who did you invite today?"

The porter said while accompanying the careful guide in front, "The villain doesn't know, but Jiang Ye has already come and is chatting with the master inside!" ”

Jiang Peng came, it seems that this is just a small gathering. Zhu Jiang also knows that he has a special identity, and it is very difficult for him to make friends with ministers as a prince, but fortunately, Ma Rufeng is his uncle, and it is not illegal to come to his uncle's house during the New Year!

Thinking of this, Zhu Jiang scolded in his heart: "Prince, that guy must be behind his back, I don't know what happened to remember Lao Tzu."

Heavenly account, anyway, Lao Tzu is like this, how do you love it! ”

Zhu Jiang followed the gatehouse to the second hall in the backyard of Mafu, Zhu Jiang picked up the door curtain and walked in, there were two people sitting in the room, Ma Rufeng in the center, and Jiang Pengju, the blind man below.

The two of them stood up and saluted when they saw Zhu Jiang come in, although Ma Rufeng was Zhu Jiang's uncle, and Jiang Pengju was Zhu Jiang's teacher in the army, but Zhu Jiang's identity was there, after all, he was the prince of the country.

Zhu Jiang smiled and said, "Uncle and Brother Jiang, don't be polite, you and I are our own family, why are you so foreign?" ”

Zhu Jiang looked at whether there was anyone else in the house and asked, "Uncle doesn't know what happy events there are today, looking for a nephew to drink, is it a new concubine?" ”

Ma Rufeng's wife is Ma Jiyuan's concubine of the same year, and she has a very hot temperament, and she manages Ma Rufeng to death, where do you dare to take a concubine? Ma Rufeng heard Zhu Jiang say this, and hurriedly waved his hand and said: "King Qin, don't laugh, it's really easy to kill people when it reaches the backyard!" ”

Jiang Pengju said with a smile, "Haha, I didn't expect Brother Ma to be afraid of his wife!" ”

Zhu Jiang felt a lot relieved when he heard the two of them laugh, and asked with a smile, "Uncle, how many of us are there today?" Didn't look for an uncle? ”

The uncle in Zhu Jiangkou's mouth is Ma Shaoguang, and he is also the think tank of the Qinwang Group. Jiang Pengju heard Zhu Jiang say this, and hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Don't let him come, I will have a headache as soon as he comes, so are you still in the mood to drink?" ”

Because Ma Shaoguang is a scholar, he naturally looks down on these soldiers, but Ma Rufeng is his younger brother and Zhu Jiang is the prince, he can't say about these two, so naturally he can only say that his status is not as good as his Jiang Pengju, so every time he drinks Jiang Pengju has a headache when he sees Ma Shaoguang.

Seeing Jiang Pengju like this, Zhu Jiang smiled and said, "So there are no outsiders?" Let's have a table! ”

"There is one person who didn't come, it's Jin Daoming, the prince of Nanchang County, today we have a gathering of our own people, and I will be the master to find him too!" Jiang Pengju grinned on the side.

Zhu Jiang frowned when he heard that Jin Daoming was coming, Zhu Jiang looked down on this soldier who escaped from the battle, if it weren't for Jin Daoming's wife blowing pillow wind for the emperor, he should have been beheaded according to Jin Daoming's charges. But Jiang Pengju didn't know what was going on, he hit it off at first sight with this soft egg, he liked to find Jin Daoming for everything, although Zhu Jiang was not satisfied, but there was no way, Jiang Pengju had already said so and had to give up.

The three of them sat in the room and chatted, and after a while, the porter outside the door reported that the prince was here.

Jin Daoming has been chubby for nothing at home in the past few years, and when he entered the house, he saw the three of them hurriedly saluting, claiming that he was guilty of being late.

Ma Rufeng saw that they all came to order their families to have a banquet, these four people are all soldiers, so they naturally don't like the kind of wind and snow of the literati, and the food they eat is not so particular, Ma Rufeng directly prepared a spicy hot pot.

Now spicy hot pot is popular in the capital, after all, eating spicy hot pot and drinking high spirits on this cold day is really a fairy-like life.

However, spicy hot pot is also divided into three, six, nine and so on, and now because it is winter in Beijing, there are few green vegetables, so the hot pot on the market is mainly meat-based. But what kind of person is Ma Rufeng, the family is rich, not to mention the power, the hot pot he prepared is not only the normal beef and mutton rolls, but also green leafy vegetables, which is worth a lot of money in the cold Beijing.

But here

The other three were a prince, a prince, a prince, and an earl, and this kind of dish seemed to them to be just commonplace.

The four of them sat down according to their status, and began to push the cups and change the glasses and drink. As a soldier, Ma Rufeng naturally did not prepare the kind of low-alcohol rice wine that literati loved to drink, but prepared highly distilled liquor shipped from Guangdong. The four of them are all their own people, so they naturally don't need to pay attention to anything when they speak, and they talk about current politics when they talk.

Jiang Pengju sighed and said, "Everyone, half a month ago, an old comrade-in-arms of mine came to the capital and stayed at my house for a few days. ”

The four of them are all soldiers, and they naturally care about their former comrades-in-arms when they are not doing well, and they all ask about it.

Jiang Pengju sighed and said, "That comrade-in-arms of mine is not bad, he broke his leg during the Northern Expedition, and thanks to the great grace of His Majesty the Emperor, he was given the position of hereditary governor of Jinyi Weidu, and he also divided six hundred acres of land, and his life was not bad." But now I have heard that His Majesty the Emperor is going to carry out military reform, and all the land rewarded for military merits must pay taxes, and my comrade-in-arms will have to pay a tax of nearly two hundred silver dollars a year. It's not bad for him to follow His Majesty like this, I heard that those company commanders and platoon commanders are even more miserable, and less than 30% of the land is deducted from their hands, but the tax is indeed collected according to 10%! ”

The Ming Dynasty's guard system was a major drawback at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and Zhu Hongsan did not occupy the whole country before and did not dare to move this big tumor, but now that he has stood firm, he naturally wants to cut off this tumor. Zhu Hongsan was going to give the land of those guards to local military households for cultivation free of charge, but he had to pay taxes in accordance with national laws. Of course, this policy can't just be aimed at those guards, and the upstarts in the army under Zhu Hongsan have also become unlucky ghosts under this knife.

Zhu Jiang was born in the army, so he naturally doesn't like this policy of cutting the welfare of soldiers, but what can he do as an idle prince? Therefore, in the past, Zhu Jiang dared to be angry about this policy but did not dare to speak.

But today Zhu Jiang drank some wine, plus there are no outsiders in the house today, and Zhu Jiang has been persecuted by the prince for the past year, and he is very resentful. Now when I heard Jiang Pengju say this, I couldn't help but scold: "It's all those fucking literati who are ghosts, and the prince is a bastard, he is the dog leg of those literati!" ”

The crown prince is the prince of the country, although Zhu Jiang is the younger brother of the prince, he is also a courtier, if this sentence is heard by outsiders, it is a big crime, but the house is full of his own people, and naturally no one has to file a complaint.

Jiang Pengju listened to Zhu Jiang scolding the prince, and said on the side, "Yes, the literati standing behind the prince, now the emperor is at the peak of the Spring and Autumn Period, but if the emperor has a good prince on the throne, where is there still a way for us to be soldiers?" ”

Zhu Jiang was a little drunk at this time, and he also scolded, "Damn, if you let Lao Tzu become the emperor, you will definitely kill these stinky old men!" "What Zhu Jiang said is good, but it is difficult to say things, what can he do as an idle prince? Now that the position of the crown prince is becoming more and more stable, and the DPRK, China and Malaysia are all over the place, Zhu Jiang can really only be happy and happy. When the crown prince ascends the throne, Zhu Jiang's best way out is to go to a city to become a vassal and become a prince who can't go out of the city and is drunk and dreams of death.

Jiang Pengju heard Zhu Jiang say this, and asked in a low voice, "Your Highness, I was listening to a book at home a few days ago, and the storyteller told me that the romance of the Sui and Tang dynasties was good, and I happened to hear the Xuanwu Gate these days, I wonder if the King of Qin has ever thought about the story of Xuanwu?" ”

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