Because Zhu Houzhao has been unwilling to live in the Qianqing Palace since he ascended the throne, this palace, which has been the emperor's sleeping place for several dynasties, has inevitably gradually deserted. However, on this day, a large number of people rarely gathered outside the Qianqing Gate, all of them were high-ranking eunuchs wearing tooth cards. Seeing that there were seven or eight people lying on the ground, some people were talking, some people were shaking their heads and sighing, but more people were silently looking at Liu Jin, who was standing proudly with his hands in his hands, and Zhang Yonggu Dayong and others who were in high spirits beside him.

With such a big momentum as hundreds of officials, he couldn't help these eight people! And instead of losing their favor, they have all improved one level one by one!

Ye Guang was sick and did not come forward, and it was Li Yifeng who personally brought a group of good men from Beizhen Fusi to come today. Thinking of being detained in the Jinyi Guard's yamen for four or five days, it was rare for him to even move, and he naturally didn't have any pity for these unlucky eunuchs, and glanced at the eunuchs around him who were watching the execution, and he shouted at the captains who were executing: "The time has come, execution!" ”

"Wait!"

Liu Jin suddenly opened his mouth to stop, and when he saw Li Yifeng turning his head in surprise, he immediately stepped forward to ask for instructions, and then he said with a smile: "On this hot day, what's the matter with these people covering so many felt blankets?" If it is a rod, then it should be punished without clothes, otherwise what is the use of punishment? They are not ministers, they have come and stripped me of all these felt carpets and cotton clothes! ”

Since the Tang Dynasty, the cane blame minister was abolished, but the Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang re-enacted this matter, and the court staff was almost flooded during the orthodox Chenghua period, but the most vicious was the humiliation, not the pain of the court staff, and the execution was punished with full clothes, and even allowed to add cotton clothes and cover the body with a felt blanket to reduce the power of the cane. Therefore, at this moment, Liu Jin took off his clothes, even Li Rong, who had to come to watch the execution, suddenly changed color, not to mention other people.

Li Yifeng glanced around, and saw that Xu Xun, who had originally gone to Beizhen Fusi to call him, had disappeared at some point, so it was naturally inconvenient to disobey Liu Jin, who had just been proud, and immediately scolded several captains. The next moment, the felt blankets, cotton clothes, etc. on Wang Yue and the others were naturally stripped clean, and only the close-fitting clothes remained. According to Liu Jin's intentions, I can't wait to pick off the single clothes of these people, but thinking about it, this is enough to relieve my anger, so I didn't question it anymore.

Although Wang Yue and the others had already stuffed cloth rolls into their mouths to prevent their tongues from being bitten during the execution, when the torture rod fell high, the miserable humming was still endless. When the five rods were replaced, there were already faint traces of blood oozing between the two strands of several people, and in less than twenty, a eunuch who had been sent to the Guoyong camp with Fan Ting even fainted.

With the shouting of the real fight, some people were constantly beaten and fainted, and at the same time, people were constantly woken up by a bowl of cold water, coupled with the scorching sun, the surrounding onlookers were all sweating on their foreheads, and they didn't know whether they were exposed to the sun or frightened by this scene.

After the forty court canes were finally beaten, Liu Jin saw that Wang Yue's face was pale without a trace of blood, and the person was already dying, and his heart couldn't help but be very happy, and immediately said lazily: "After the execution, send it out immediately, your father-in-law will just take these people as a warning in the future, and our family will go to the emperor to pay the decree!" ”

Seeing that a group of Jinyi lieutenants were like dragging dead dogs, and one of them dragged Wang Yue and the others out, Gu Dayong and the eunuchs all followed Liu Jin with a smile, and the eunuchs who were forced to come here to watch the execution also dispersed. Chen Kuan saw Li Rong holding the hand of a small firefighter beside him and moving his steps step by step, his heart was full of sadness, he couldn't help but hurry up and catch up, but he opened his mouth but didn't know what to say, and asked without words for a while: "What about Du Jin, Gonggong Li, who has been with you?" "...," he? Someone in the Pioneer Palace sent an order out and transferred people to Xiyuan, and most of them didn't end well. ”

Li Rong couldn't help but shudder when he thought of the blood-red misery on Wang Yue's small clothes, and then said bitterly: "The emperor is thinking about the old love, and Lao Wang is a tough guy who takes everything on himself, but are we still staying in the celebrant supervisor?" Not to mention anything else, just when people cut meat with blunt knives and start with the people around us, and finally leave their own family alone, what is the taste? I've already thought about it, I'll get old after a month or two, Lao Jiao said, the matter has come to this, I can only really vote for Liu Jin, and then try to help me get through this hurdle, and when I turn back, I will retreat, so that he can try to keep me ......"

Chen Ba had already already had an idea, and couldn't help but ask at this time: "Why not now?" In another month or two? ”

"If you go now, you will be driven away in a miserable panic, and when the time comes, you will have to be trampled on, survive for a month or two, do two things to make the emperor happy and happy, and maybe you can keep the peace for a few days......"

Listening to Li Rong nagging about those little abacus, Chen Kuan couldn't help frowning, but he made up his mind to resign when he went back. Li Rong thought it was beautiful, but just because Liu Jin just insisted on asking Wang Yue to go to his clothes and accept the cane, and finally insisted on humiliating Wang Yue once, he knew that the temperament of retribution was intolerable, Jiao Fang, this guy was two-faced, God knows what calculations will be made at that time, even so, he is undoubtedly humiliating himself!

Li Yifeng walked halfway with a group of Jinyi captains, but encountered a small fireman, only to learn that Xu Xun had already gone to the school field in Xiyuan, and told him to go there. ordered someone to send Wang Yue and others out of the palace, he only took one henchman and captain, and hurriedly left the palace from Xihua Gate. Seeing a large group of young sergeants practicing in the inner school field under the sun from a distance, he couldn't help but speed up his pace, but when he got closer, he found that Xu Xun was standing under the sun, and the two people in front of him were kneeling on one knee.

"Uncle, which one is this? This time you quietly returned to Beijing, and quietly turned the situation over and won a big victory, I heard that the government army avant-garde surrounded the master of ceremonies at a critical moment is also a great achievement, why do you want to punish them? ”

Xu Xun turned his head to see Li Yifeng, bowed slightly, he glanced at Qian Ning and Ma Qiao, who were drooping their heads, and then said angrily: "Okay, get up, it's good now, outsiders are nitpicking!" Others don't know, but you should know what went wrong this time! Qian Ning, I'm not here, although you are not the palm print, but you, the commander, only care about the holy will, and forget all other things, and forcibly let people take advantage of the loopholes, although they deducted that Xu Zhi, but this is already so dangerous! And Ma Qiao, after the incident before, you know that you did everything possible to enter the palace to see Qian Ning, but before that, you didn't know to remind him? Okay, don't even think about justifying, I'm too lazy to listen to your explanations, and I'll give me some reflection and reflection when I go back, go down! ”

Seeing that the two of them retreated dejectedly, Xu Xun saw that Li Yifeng was also sweating profusely under the sun, so he greeted him under the willow shade with a smile. This is the Taiye pool, a gust of breeze hit, and gradually blew away the heat all over the body, Li Yifeng smiled and thanked the soldiers who brought herbal tea on the side, and after taking a sip, he smiled bitterly and said: "Uncle's reprimand, even if I listen to it, I can't help but feel a little weak." If I hadn't taken it lightly before・・・・・・"

"Eh, training them is training them, Jinyiwei is not under my control, Lord Ye and you were just doing me a favor before, it's too late for me to be grateful, how can I blame you?" Seeing that Li Yifeng was apologetic again, Xu Xun waved his hand and said, "As for reprimanding them, one is because I have already instructed them when I left, but they are still careless, and the other is because they have the audacity to surround the celebrant and the celebrant supervisor!" Although they didn't know that I had come back, this was a trick to survive in death, but after all, they were too bold, if the emperor didn't pursue it, he directly admitted that they were acting on orders, and how would I behave if I preached it? Now I don't want to teach these two daring people a lesson, and God knows what trouble they caused me! "..., fortunately, Zhu Hou recognized that this was the holy will, otherwise he would have become a disaster to the country and the people in a blink of an eye, and that little bit of fame would be over, how could he kidnap those Nandu bigwigs? It's Jiao Fang's good trick to instigate Liu Jin to let these two guys do this, and they are very skilled in these two ways!

Since Xu Xun said this, Li Yifeng understood in his heart, and he had to echo twice. When he finished drinking the cup of herbal tea, he only felt that his tongue was full of food, and the heat of the previous busy scene had finally passed temporarily. Therefore, he leaned over and asked, "I don't know if my uncle invited me here, what do you want to order?" ”

"I can't talk about orders, I just want to ask Lord Ye about his illness." Seeing that Li Yifeng's face suddenly became gloomy, Xu Xun suddenly understood that Ye Guang's condition was more serious than he imagined, and he couldn't help but raise his eyebrows for a while, "It's really bad?" Otherwise, I'll go to the Tai Hospital and ask two Tai Doctors・・・・・・ forget it, the Tai Hospital hasn't done anything good now, and you should also visit famous doctors in the private sector. ”

"The temper of adults is like this, they often say that life and death are in the sky, and they don't listen to persuasion." Li Yifeng said for a while, and said worriedly, "The doctor who was invited before was willing to say bluntly, the Dao is that the adults are too worried, plus they have been running around for many years, and the prison yin qi has invaded, so that this disease has taken root early, and now it is better in midsummer, I am afraid that the disease will worsen after winter...... Alas! ”

"I'll go see him in a few days."

Seeing that Li Yifeng was about to speak, Xu Xun immediately waved his hand to stop him, "Lord Ye and you and I have an unusual relationship, and it is also appropriate to go to visit." Besides, this time the labor brocade guard sent letters back and forth, I owe you a great favor. It's just that if Lord Ye's condition is really so serious, you have to discuss it with Lord Ye. The key to the Jinyi guard function has to be entrusted to someone who can be trusted. ”

After sending Li Yifeng away, Xu Xun went straight to Chengqian Palace to ask for a meeting. However, Zhu Houzhao was still sleeping soundly there, he waited for a while, did not wait for the little emperor to wake up, but waited for the summons of the Empress Dowager Zhang, and had no choice but to leave this head and go to Renshou Palace. In the face of this empress dowager, who was far more terrible than the Son of Heaven, he was very careful, and it was not until the Empress Dowager Zhang said the true intention of the summons that he was dumbfounded.

"Even if the things outside are turned upside down, it all depends on the emperor's will, I don't care, but I can't ignore the things in the palace. At the beginning of the year, you got married, it was given by me, so there is the harmony of your husband and wife, and now the emperor is changing color when he hears about the wedding, so you should persuade him! If this thing is done well, I will naturally not forget your merits, if you can't do it well, no matter what kind of son of heaven you are, I only ask you! ”

After thinking about it, Xu Xun remembered the awkwardness of Zhu Houzhao and Zhou Qiniang, and finally turned his heart sideways, and said hesitantly: "Back to the Queen Mother, the minister is not unwilling to take responsibility, but this matter is a little tricky・・・・・・ didn't the Queen Mother once ask, why did the minister always remember his fiancée Shen back then?" In fact, it's just one, let the weak water be 3,000, I only take one scoop to drink. The emperor has deep trust in the ministers, and he is willing to listen to the ministers in everything, in fact, in these subsections, it is almost the same. ”

Although Xu Xun said vaguely, although Empress Dowager Zhang said that she was impulsive and ignored the subtleties, she still understood at this time. She stared at Xu Xun with a shocked face, and only gasped for a while: "What you said is that the emperor has someone in his heart?" Okay, it must be you and Liu Jin who have been seducing the emperor to travel outside all day long, and they have fallen in love with a woman who doesn't know where! ”

If that's okay, it's okay to hide the beauty of the house, Zhu Houzhao may be interested in living an ordinary husband and wife life with someone, but the trouble is in the palace!

Xu Xun smiled bitterly in his heart, raised his eyes and glanced at Rong Shangyi beside the Queen Mother, and saw that people were anxiously glancing at him, as if he didn't see it, he lowered his eyelids again and said: "Hui Yu Queen Mother, it's not outside, it's someone in the palace." "Huh? ”

Empress Dowager Zhang's eyes widened suddenly, and her face was full of incredulity. However, although she asked Xu Xun alive and dead, Xu Xun insisted that she only knew that the little emperor's intended person was in the palace, and she didn't know anything else, so she could only give up, but the biggest worry in her heart before finally disappeared.

It wasn't until Rong Shangyi led Xu Xun out that she withdrew the palace maids around her and promised to put a stick of incense in the small Buddha shrine that she began to offer after the death of Emperor Hongzhi.

"Thank goodness that Houzhao finally has someone I like...... So I said, 'How can your son be inclear with a man......"

"Sneeze, sneeze, sneeze!"

After a night of tossing, Zhu Houzhao fell asleep without even eating lunch, and it was easy to wake up at this time, when he was in a daze and dressed by Rayson Service, he sneezed several times in a breath, and for a while tears and snot flowed, and he used a lot of fine paper, which barely recovered. He rubbed his sour nose inexplicably, and Ruisheng happened to report that Xu Xun had come before, but after waiting for a while, he was summoned by the Empress Dowager Zhang of Renshou Palace.

"It's bad, it's bad! I wondered how I could suddenly sneeze into the sky, but I dared to love that the queen mother couldn't catch me and found him to vent my anger・・・・・・Hey, quickly change my clothes, hurry up and go to Renshou Palace, it's too late!" ”

Although Rayson felt that Empress Dowager Zhang had found Xu Xun in the past, it might not be really a troublesome matter, but he didn't expect the little emperor to react so much, and immediately remembered the awkward incident between Zhu Houzhao and Zhou Qiniang before, and hurriedly turned over a plain shirt to serve Zhu Houzhao according to his words, and when he was tossing the amber-inlaid jade belt, a voice came from outside.

"Your Majesty, Pingbei Bo asks to see you."

"Oh, people are back so soon? It's a rarity... ・・・Quick, pass him in! ”

Zhu Houzhao was overjoyed, and he hurriedly ran out before he even had time to tie the jade belt, but as soon as he shook his hand and hit the curtain, he almost collided with a person. He hurriedly took a step back, and saw Xu Xun covering his forehead and grinning, but he still looked intact, he finally breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly asked, "What is the queen mother looking for you?" ”

"Can the emperor allow his ministers to go in and then slowly return?"

Xu Xun replied by covering the forehead that had just been hit by Zhu Houzhao's hand, and saw that the little emperor reflexively entered the room impatiently, so he followed in, while Latham sneaked out of the room on tiptoe, and stayed outside loyally like a door god, but in fact, he pricked up his ears with concern and listened to the movement inside.

One is the old master, the other is the new master, and now the old master is complete, of course he hopes that the new master can make his wishes come true!

Xu Xun naturally didn't know that the honest Ruisheng had now become a nosy person, and followed Zhu Houzhao into the warm pavilion, and when he saw that the little emperor didn't sit down, but suddenly turned around and stared at him like this, he simply said honestly: "Your Majesty, the Queen Mother summoned Weichen to persuade Weichen to persuade the emperor to get married as soon as possible." ”

"I knew that there was a **** for this!" Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but slap his face, and then said angrily, "The queen mother knew that she was urging me to get married, and she annoyed me, so I went outside to instigate those officials to write books!" The children of this folk eunuch, their father died and had to keep filial piety for three years, and I should have kept filial piety for my father for three years without touching women, this is etiquette! ”

Seeing that the little emperor even moved out with such a reason as etiquette, Xu Xun couldn't help but widen his eyes, and then coughed dryly and said: "Your Majesty, but the Queen Mother said that if she can't persuade the emperor to change his mind, she will only ask." Therefore, the minister couldn't help the Queen Mother and her old man pressing step by step, so he could only tell the Queen Mother the truth, the Tao is someone in your heart・・・・・・"..., "Ah, you dare to betray me!" Zhu Houzhao suddenly became angry, stepped forward and pointed at Xu Xun's nose and shouted, "Don't forget, your marriage to Sister Shen is still my credit, you are ungrateful!" ”

Outside the door, Ruisheng heard Zhu Houzhao's voice suddenly raised but he shouted this, his face was extremely strange for a while, he wanted to laugh but didn't dare, so he could only drive out a few idle people with a tiger face before continuing to return to the door, thinking about it again and again, he couldn't help but pick up the door curtain and peek at it, but found that Zhu Houzhao was staring at this with two round eyes, and quickly retracted his head immediately.

"Your Majesty, the conscience of heaven and earth, this is a ruined move. Besides, the minister only said to the Queen Mother that you have a sweetheart, who is the head of the palace, but he said that he didn't know who it was, just to see the Queen Mother's reaction. Looking at the queen mother's appearance at that time, although there was shock, but more of it was like it than angry, so the emperor might as well find an opportunity to have a heart-to-heart relationship with the queen mother. ”

"Are you serious?" Zhu Houzhao only felt that his mood went up and down, and he couldn't believe it for a while, and when Xu Xun swore and promised again, he couldn't help jumping three feet high, raised his fist happily and waved it, and then looked at Xu Xun's eyes and was much more satisfied, "That is the case, I turned back to visit my mother's reaction, if I really spared you this time・・・・・・ hey, you are really my lucky star, as soon as you come back, you will eliminate disasters and solve misfortunes, it seems that I had a good vision back then, and I fell in love with you at a glance!" ”

Speaking of the events of the year, Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but tilt his head and look at Xu Xun. Thinking of the day he saw people at first glance, he couldn't help but pour bitter water on it in the carriage and even poured out the words that he doubted whether it was Empress Dowager Zhang's own child, and now that the big change is imminent, Xu Xun hurried back as if he had a heart-to-heart connection, and he couldn't help but feel that his vision was beyond doubt, and after sitting down, he hooked his hand and signaled Xu Xun to step forward.

"I never had time to ask you before, so I have to interrogate you today! Say how the hell did you come back? ”

said that it was a trial, but Zhu Houzhao's smiling appearance was not serious at all, Xu Xun naturally would not be stunned, and immediately smiled hesitantly: "Your Majesty, do you want to go back to the old things when the minister entered Beijing." That time, when the minister passed through the Linqing Pass, he was left in trouble by an iron-faced father-in-law......"

Xu Xun stopped Du Jin from the boat of his and the Duke of Wei's mansion back then, and wanted to take the opportunity to stand up for his deeds, and said it in a different way, seeing Zhu Houzhao nodding again and again, he said that he later gave Li Rong the gift that Du Jin entrusted to him, and soon Li Rong transferred Du Jin back to Beijing to be on duty in the ceremonial supervisor and said one by one, and then shrugged his shoulders and said: "Du Jin is a celebrity in front of Gonggong Li, and Wang Yue will not hide anything from him." And Chen Mingli was struggling, and secretly found out that the matter of the banknote was almost done, so he simply quietly returned to Beijing. originally planned to surprise the emperor, but this return to the capital was a blow to the head. If it weren't for Du Jin's report, the minister wouldn't have been able to get Jingyang Bo Shenying to come

In this case, although Li Rong blindly hid behind the scenes, and Wang Yue was also a bachelor enough, he took all the blame alone, but Zhu Houzhao was a little annoyed with this eldest student who had taken him for a long time when he was a child, and at this time, when he heard that Du Jin, who was next to Li Rong, knew how to report to the outside, he couldn't help frowning, and then said in a deep voice: "This person deserves a reward!" ”

"Yes, naturally deserve the reward." Xu Xun has always adhered to the principle that his own people should be given enough benefits, and at this moment, he echoed the words of the little emperor, so he said in a casual tone, "Although Du Jin has been transferred back to Beijing, his talent lies in financial planning. Now that the situation of the banknote customs is serious, in the opinion of Weichen, it is better to send him the post of inspecting the banknote customs, let him select capable people to fill these gaps, and instruct him to pay the silver every year, and let him take care of the rest. ”

"Well, that's a good idea." Zhu Houzhao nodded heavily, and suddenly sighed again and said, "Before, it was Li Banban who told me that corruption was rampant in the banknotes, and this was the person I replaced just after I ascended the throne, and they were all recommended ......by Liu Jin."

As soon as the words fell, Ruisheng's voice came from outside: "Your Majesty, the celebrant Liu Gonggong asks to see you!" Liu Gonggong said that Liu Li Xie and the three elders of the cabinet, please write to you! ”

PS: I've thought of the title of the next chapter, it's called "Grab Liu Jin's seat and dig Liu Jin's corner", haha