Zhu Hongsan sat here and listened to Zhu Hongyi's complaints, and suddenly Zhu Hongsan felt a sense of powerlessness coming over him, what this emperor did was really not fun.

Zhu Hongsan was only a grassroots cadre in his previous life, and if he used the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty to substitute him, he was just a white body, not even the lowest-level official, and he could barely be counted as a grassroots civil servant officially established by the state. In addition, Zhu Hongsan's intelligence was average, and it was okay to manage a small group of less than a few thousand people when he was in Wuchang before. But when you come to Guangdong to become an emperor, it's not a matter of a few thousand, it's a question of tens of millions. The official under his command is not a human being, he has not been in the officialdom for many years, and his intelligence level is definitely a few streets away from Zhu Hongsan.

In the past few years, Zhu Hongsan has been thinking about his own life, and he has to work late every day, and he has persevered for several years before he finally maintains a peaceful world in Guangdong on the broken basis of Nanming. And those officials, not only civil officials, but also some nobles and eunuchs, began to fight for power and profit after just a few days of stable life in Guangdong. The civil and civil officials are divided into factions, and the people around them are all together, and even their sons and wives are fighting for power.

Zhu Hongsan also thought about it in his free time, the position of emperor is really not a human job, no wonder Emperor Wanli has not been in court for decades, and he is angry with these bastard ministers. Zhu Hongsan sometimes had a whimsical idea, and after the elimination of the Manchu Qing Dynasty and the success of the Northern Expedition, he gave way to become the emperor, and he sent his love for the mountains and rivers every day. But Zhu Hongsan knew that this was his wishful thinking, and there was no emperor in history who voluntarily retired. There are only two results of abdicating the emperor, either he dies, or he is placed under residential surveillance for a lifetime, even if he is succeeded by your own son, Tang Gaozu Li Yuan is a ready-made example.

Zhu Hongsan looked at Zhu Hongyi, who was talking eloquently, and decided that regardless of the struggle for power and profit of these bastards, let them fight for themselves, as long as they don't threaten themselves.

Zhu Hongsan waved his hand when he thought of this, interrupted Zhu Hongyi's tirade and said: "Okay, big brother, you go and spread my will, order Dongchang to release Qian Lide and give him half a month off to recuperate!" ”

Zhu Hongyi was overjoyed when he heard that the emperor was willing to spare Qian Lide, and hurriedly bowed down and said, "Your Majesty, the minister will go to pass the decree!" ”

Zhu Hongsan watched Zhu Hongyi go out, and sighed in his heart, you guys can complain to me if they have suffering, but what should I do if I have suffering?

Zhu Hongyi happily went to save Qian Lide with the emperor's will, and Li Chengen, who was standing at the door, saw that Zhu Hongyi was so happy and knew that Qian Lide had escaped, and he was extremely remorseful.

Although Li Chengen muttered in his heart, he didn't take this matter to heart, as long as he was still by the emperor's side, there would always be opportunities. Li Chengen entered the big tent from the new, and saw Emperor Zhu Hong holding an empty bowl in his third hand and was stunned, Li Chengen hurriedly walked over and whispered: "Emperor, the porridge is cold, the old slave will change another bowl for you?" ”

Zhu Hongsan's thinking was interrupted by Li Chengen, and he nodded when he heard Li Chengen say this. Li Chengen hurriedly filled another bowl of hot porridge and handed it to Zhu Hongsan.

Zhu Hongsan slowly drank fragrant rice porridge and asked, "Lao Li, your nephew's leg was broken by Qian Lide?" ”

Hearing the emperor ask about Li Chengen, he quickly knelt down and shouted: "Emperor, the old slave is such a nephew, two years ago, thanks to the emperor's grace, he was taken to Guangdong by the old slave to prepare to inherit the incense, how could I think of Qian Lide's personal vendetta, and the old slave's dispute in the officialdom to take revenge on my nephew, and now the old slave's nephew is still lying on the bed, please let the emperor be the master of the old slave!" ”

"Lao Li, isn't it, how did I hear that your nephew took a fancy to the Ministry of Construction and will be the property of the Tie Niu family, and Luo Qifeng, who was in charge of the East Factory, went to seal the six shops of the Tie Niu family and prepared to hand them over to you to operate, Tie Niu was angry but found Qian Lide, and Qian Lide broke your nephew's leg, isn't that so?"

Li Chengen scolded in his heart when he heard the emperor say this, he knew that Zhu Hongyi must have been playing right and wrong in front of the emperor just now, and he didn't say anything good about himself. But now that the emperor knew what had happened, he had nothing to say.

"Emperor, it was the Tie family who secretly had dealings with the Zheng family, and the old slave just ordered Dongchang to inspect, and it was Tie Niu who falsely accused the old slave!"

"Fart!" Zhu Hongsan saw that Li Chengen was still not honest, so he angrily threw the bowl in his hand on the ground, and scolded: "Lao Li, didn't you understand what I said, investigate the case, but don't take the opportunity to crack down on dissidents, I will tell you again, don't move the Huguang people who went to Guangdong with me, if there is really something illegal, it will also be investigated by my special purpose!" ”

Li Chengen saw Zhu Hongsan like this and knew that the emperor was really angry, all the rights of his eunuch came from the emperor, if he lost the emperor's favor and was nothing, a small hundred households of Jinyiwei could make his family ruined. Today, when I heard Zhu Hongsan say this, he hurriedly grabbed the ground with his head, and even said that he should be damned, saying that he must report to the emperor first if he has any action in Dongchang in the future.

Seeing Li Chengen's appearance, Zhu Hongsan didn't want to delve too deeply, after all, there were still some shady things that Dongchang needed to do, so he gently spared Li Chengen.

"Lao Li, get out, go to the guard company and call Zhu Jiang."

Li Chengen heard that the emperor spared himself as if he was amnesty, and quickly stood up and went out to work.

Zhu Jiang has been very unhappy these days, because there is the emperor's holy purpose, and there is no fool to take care of Zhu Jiang in secret.

Today is Zhu Jiang's squad, he and ten soldiers are standing guard outside Zhu Hong's three major tents under the leadership of the squad leader, and at this time, the company commander Zhu Bao came over with Li Chengen.

Although Zhu Hongsan has the treatment of ordinary soldiers ordered by the holy decree to give Zhu Jiang, Li Chengen doesn't care about this, he is a eunuch, and he has to rely on the imperial power, seeing Zhu Jiang standing guard here, he quickly stepped forward and knelt down, "His Royal Highness the King of Qin, the old slave came to receive His Royal Highness at the emperor's behest, and the emperor wants to see you!" ”

Zhu Jiang has been choked by Zhu Bao in the past few days, and he is very afraid of his company commander and cousin, although he didn't dare to move when he heard Li Chengen say this, he just looked at Zhu Bao.

This is the emperor's will, of course Zhu Bao did not dare to disobey, and said to Zhu Jiang: "Since the emperor has a will, Private Zhu Jiang, give you half a day off, and come back to duty after noon!" ”

After receiving Zhu Bao's order, Zhu Jiang dared to come up to see Zhu Hongsan under the leadership of Li Chengen.

Zhu Hongsan was very happy to see his second son come in, he liked this second son the most. In fact, Zhu Hongsan is not bad for his eldest son Zhu Hai, but Zhu Hai, as the crown prince, shoulders the future of a country, and Zhu Hongsan is very strict with him in order to train Zhu Hai. But Zhu Jiang is different, Zhu Jiang's mother is also from the Ma family, and Ma Ruyan will not have a day when Ma Xiaofang is alive, so naturally even Zhu Jiang has no hope of competing for the throne. Zhu Hongsan, who did not participate in the seizure of the heir, was naturally very good to this son, and it can be said that Zhu Hongsan transferred his love for Zhu Hai to Zhu Jiang.

With the emperor's favor Zhu Jiang is naturally pampered, every day in Guangzhou City is really a flying eagle lackey, idle, in the past, the queen Ma Xiaofang was also happy to see this, with the emperor and the queen double insurance protection, Zhu Jiang is no one to care.

Zhu Hongsan was very heartbroken when he saw his son being whipped by the marching method a few days ago, although he knew that these people under his command were all pretentious, and the flesh and blood on the epidermis were actually some skin injuries, but Zhu Hongsan was also heartbroken for a few days when he saw his son being punished like this. But that was in the army, and Zhu Hongsan had to do it no matter how distressed he was in order to maintain his authority. I finally went ashore today, so I quickly called my son to care for him.

Zhu Jiang was frightened by Zhu Hongsan's ruthlessness more than ten days ago, and today he saw that his father didn't dare to be coquettish like before, so he hurriedly stood up and said: "Private Zhu Jiang of the guard company reports!" ”

Zhu Hongsan hurriedly waved his hand and said, "There are no outsiders here, don't do that, son, come over quickly, let your father see how your injury is?" ”

Zhu Jiang saw that Zhu Hongsan was a little uncomfortable like this, and said with Si Aiai: "Father, the injury has healed, the military doctor has come to see it, and it will not leave a scar!" ”

It's okay, although Zhu Hongsan knows that the guys under him won't really beat his son, but he is still relieved to hear Zhu Jiang say this.

"Son, how is it in the barracks? Can you eat enough? Lao Li, go and let the kitchen make a few more drawers of soup dumplings, King Qin loves to eat it the most! Li Chengen agreed, and hurried to the place to prepare.

"Father, I can eat enough in the guard company, but the food I cook is not very appetizing, and the bed is uncomfortable, but after going ashore yesterday, it is much stronger, at least I don't have to sleep on the artillery deck!"

Zhu Hongsan heard his son complaining here, sighed and said, "Son, do you know why your father treats you like this? ”

Zhu Jiang is only fourteen years old this year, and he knows this, and shakes his head to indicate that he doesn't know.

"Son, for your father's hundreds of thousands of troops, since you want to be a soldier, you must abide by military law, if your father is not strict with you, what do other soldiers think? How am I going to command them in the future? ”

Zhu Jiang has also learned through study in the past few days that there are orders and prohibitions in the army, and he can be regarded as understanding what Zhu Hongsan said, and he nodded again and again when he heard his father say this today.

"Father, the son didn't know before, but after today's study, the son knows the importance of ordering and prohibiting."

"Hey, you used to want to be a soldier in the palace all day long, saying that you wanted to be Wei Qing and Huo Quai, but the real military life is so easy there. You're still by my side, and if you go to the field army, the living conditions are not as good as this! Now for the father, I will ask you again, do you still want to be a soldier? ”

Zhu Jiang has suffered a lot in the past few days, Zhu Bao has the emperor's will and does not take any care of Zhu Jiang at all, everything is trained by ordinary soldiers, but are the soldiers in the guard company ordinary soldiers, these people are veterans, each of them has participated in an average of five battles, and coming to the guard company is to mix up qualifications by the emperor's side, and after half a year, they have to be released out to be grassroots officers, Zhu Jiang and these veterans have suffered from training together.