"Oh, come in!"

After Zheng Yuanxun saluted, but when he heard a knock on the door, it was Zhu Cihong who came over and opened the door of the hall.

Seeing the two Wenchen kneeling on the ground, Zhu Cihong smiled and stretched out his hand, one left and one right, and pulled the two Wenchen up. While using his hands, he smiled and said, "It's early and late, you guys are still rushing over, there must be something important?" ”

"Yes, the minister has something important to play."

"Oh," listening to Zheng Yuanxun's words, Zhu Cihong responded and said with a smile: "It's a big deal, let's come in and talk about it, my father sent a special messenger over, there are a lot of ice cubes stored in the garrison in Nanjing, and I sent some to me, and I mixed it with sour plum soup here, you guys are really coincidental." ”

Zheng Yuanxun was originally most concerned about the father-son relationship between Chongzhen and Zhu Cihong.

Although, this is a great test of running thousands of miles to escape from life and death, in addition to the original family affection, many extraordinarily powerful elements have been added.

However, it is the most ruthless imperial family!

Now that the prince is out, who knows if there are rumors inside? Will Chongzhen change his mind?

Now I know that there is constant communication between father and son, and Chongzhen also gives special items, which shows that the relationship between father and son is still deep, and this time, my heart is also a lot more relaxed.

"What's the fuss?"

Zhu Cihong didn't seem to notice anything unusual at all, he sat down first, and then raised his hand to beckon the two of them to come in together.

His residence, said to be a temple, in fact, the regulations are also very ordinary, the middle and both sides of the main room are sand table wooden drawings, on both sides are the corresponding ten chairs, and a few small ones, other than that, there is no other advantage.

The ice sent by Chongzhen has melted, and in the brass bucket is the sour plum soup, which the nobles enjoyed the most in the middle of summer, and that's it.

After Zheng Yuanxun and Gong Dingyu thanked them for the seat, they sat down in turn, and the little servant who was waiting next to the prince stepped forward and filled two bowls for the two of them with a celadon bowl.

Rao is two of them are full of worries, and they hurried over, sweating on their foreheads, and two bowls of cold plum soup were in their stomachs, and they were also cool for a while.

At this time, I had time to look around, but I noticed that something was different.

When the prince usually goes out, there are Liu Zhaohui, the sons of the ministers, who lead the guards to guard the guards around, and when they are in the residence, the guards are on duty in shifts, and there are a few small servants who serve in shifts.

Previously, Chongzhen asked Zhu Cihong to bring some palace eunuchs out, but Zhu Cihong refused.

Outside the town, bring a group of eunuchs and palace people, what kind of system will it become?

The words are reasonable, so Zhu Cihong, the crown prince, did not have a palace eunuch beside him, and after arriving in Qingjiang, many courtiers persuaded the crown prince to choose some women to serve in the people, and he was even more reprimanded.

As soon as the draft is said, as long as it spreads, isn't it a repetition of the story in the Zhengde years?

At that time, in the Yangzhou area, in order to extort local money, the eunuch used the pretext of the draft, I don't know how many people were harmed.

After these incidents, everyone is also deeply respected, Zhu Cihong can make the upper and lower hearts in such a short period of time, and this kind of self-restraint has really played a big role.

At this time, there are several women in the house, one is delicate, is sprinkling and scrubbing in the prince's bedroom, and the other has a pretty face, with a little vigor in her body, and her complexion is also a little wheat, and she is looking at the sand table wooden map in the palace with her hands behind her back, and there is another one, with a beautiful face, who is helping the prince sort out the books and documents.

"Oh, they are ......" Zhu Cihong was also a little embarrassed, these three little girls, who have made great contributions, don't seem to be able to come to see as ordinary people, put them on Wei Yue's side, it's not very appropriate after a long time, and now there are five or six courtyards here in Xingying, and the surname Suo asked them to move in too.

Originally, they were fine, but they only pestered Wei Yue when they had something. But now the training is too tight, Wei Yue is in the barracks almost day and night, idle and bored, and he also came to Zhu Cihong to take a look, there is no one around the prince to serve, they also know, come and go, these days they come every night to help sprinkle and clean up, Zhu Cihong really needs girls to clean up here...... Men are no match in this regard.

"The slaves and maids have retired."

Huimei and Fei Zhen'e couldn't see anything, and when Wei Qinghui saw the two young officials coming, she also knew very well that she and her two companions were not suitable here, so she stood up first, squatted down and was blessed, and then went out with her two female companions.

"Your Highness here, you really need a woman to serve you." Zheng Yuanxun said tentatively: "The minister knows that these three people have made meritorious contributions, Your Highness might as well choose one or two of them and stay first?" ”

"No, not necessarily."

Zhu Cihong shook his head and waved his hand, knowing that this matter must not be done, it was the beginning of the group, the end of the knot, and the time when he was mean to himself, Zheng Yuanxun said this, of course, he could not agree.

He put a smile on his face and said, "Let's get down to business." ”

So Zheng Yuanxun said first, and told the situation of the salt merchants, 1510 and 150.

At this time, he couldn't help but retreat, so he had to pick up the movements of Nanjing Donglin that he thought he could say, and roughly said it.

Even so, what he knows and Zheng Yuanxun are confirmed, which also shows that there is indeed a big crisis, which is imminent and imminent.

"Gong Qing!"

Zhu Cihong glanced at Gong Dingyu deeply, and said in a deep voice: "You are too busy to take care of yourself, and you are so loyal and sincere, for the country and the people, you can not get rid of your true character of Confucianism, those who are trapped in party disputes and do not know it, hold on to their defects, and stick to their prejudices, they should be ashamed to die." ”

In this way, he is straightforward and powerful, and he has a very high evaluation of Gong Dingyu, and he does not mention his surrender in Yanjing at all, such a comment is spit out in the mouth of the crown prince, and in a few words, the grievances in Gong Dingyu's heart are washed cleanly, for a while, this talent and experience are outstanding, and he has been a well-educated genius who has been a scholar of the Qing Dynasty in real history, and after listening to Zhu Cihong's words, he couldn't help but shed tears.

"It doesn't have to be this way." Zhu Cihong stood up straight, looked at the two people in front of him, and said with emotion: "I am willing to settle the matter, who will not let me?" In that case, why not use thunder means, like using a broom, to clean up a house of dust? ”

Zheng Yuanxun knew that the matter of the salt class was extremely complicated, and if he blindly pressed it, there would be chaos in the future.

But his identity is complicated, and what he is doing now is already breaking the door and betraying his family, and then the prince is admonishing him, but he is easy to be suspicious. Even though Zhu Cihong was very generous and did not show the same suspicious surname as Chongzhen, but over the years of vigilance and fear of imperial power, he still didn't say anything.

"Gong Qing, you seem to have something to say?"

At this time, Zhu Cihong had already turned around and said softly: "Here, there is no end to what can be said. ”

"Yes!" Gong Ding received Zhu Cihong's comforting words, and felt that it was worth it, so he bowed down and said loudly: "The university scholar Shi Kefa and others used the alliance to capture the thieves, and did not let the town soldiers go north, only appointed Wang Yongji Governor Shandong, Chen Hongfan Governor Lianghe, and commended the two rivers and Shandong righteous men at the same time. In this way, Wang Yongji and others did not dare to take office, so what good is it to put an official? This dynasty is like this, but the regent of the eastern captives has heard of many moves, and has sent envoys to pacify all parties...... Your Royal Highness, this matter should not be delayed sooner rather than later, of course, it is very important to train troops in Huaishang, but Shandong, Lianghe, and Jinan, if they can manage in advance, the Dongyu will only occupy one Beijing division, and the situation will be very different. ”

Zhu Cihong also considered this matter for a long time. At the current stage, although the former Ming Dynasty officials in Shandong and later Hebei and Henan killed the officials of the Shun Dynasty and almost completely recovered the lost territory, the original Southern Ming and Northern Expeditions were not effective, and did not send troops to respond, and the famous ministers in Shandong were all northerners, and later they were directly swept away and surrendered, and no one threw themselves to the south at all. Lianghe and Shandong, the Qing army is a partial division, and if they focus on cloth to the north, there will be at least a strategic buffer zone with an area of thousands of miles.

Gong Dingyu's suggestions can be said to be a hundred times more clever than Ma Shiying and Shi Kefa and others in terms of vision.

Among them, of course, there is Zhu Cihong's own responsibility, during the Southern Ming Dynasty, the military and political power was in the hands of Shi Kefa and Ma Shiying, and now at this time, he annexed Liu Zeqing's department, and the situation in Xuzhou is unknown, which is also his responsibility.

"What Qing said is very true." Zhu Cihong leaned slightly in front of him, and said happily: "Now I have entrusted Governor Kong Zhao with military affairs in Henan, and assigned 3,000 Ma Bu to supervise the standard, Zhu Dadian as the governor of Shandong, and also assigned to the Fubiao horse infantry, Jining, Dezhou, and Jinan in Shandong, and then he can recruit and organize the army, so that the situation may be very different." ”

In fact, if Xuzhou is the stamina, things may be easier to do, but Sun Chuanting has not moved for a long time, Gao Jie is very unruly, and there is still a latest, and the words are very rude to resist, but his strength is strong, and he can't help him for a while.

Moreover, Shi Kefa and Ma Shiying have the same opinion on the matter of Dongyu, and they always feel that people have never gone south, and it is even more unwise to take the initiative to provoke them.

Shi Kefa's meaning was to send envoys into Shandong to recruit talented people to go south, but in fact, he was asking Shandong scholars to go south and give up Shandong.

In this kind of matter, the high-level officials are unanimous, Zhu Cihong was already too strong when he swore an oath, and it is one thing to continue to force everyone, and the public will not be attached, but Chongzhen's perception is much more important.

This layer of hidden worries, even for the two people in front of them, cannot be explained!

But with such an arrangement now, it is also very exciting for Gong Dingyu, he and Zheng Yuanxun glanced at each other, they both felt excited, and they all bowed to the ground at the moment, kowtowed: "Your Highness Yingming will be longitudinal, and the Ming Dynasty will be prosperous, and it can be expected." ”

(To be continued)