"Smack!" With Wei Zhongxian's single palm opening the stele, five clear fingerprints immediately appeared on Guan Ning's face.

"Godfather, spare your life! Godfather Rao..."Guan Ning hurriedly knelt on the ground, dodging Wei Zhongxian's slap while telling forgiveness, but he received a solid Foshan shadowless foot in his chest.

"You idiot, you're getting better at playing! I lost 10,000 taels of silver at once, and I was embarrassed to borrow it from our family? Did you think our money was blown by the wind? Fuck off, not a single one! ”

Wei Zhongxian scolded a few words angrily, and wanted to scold Guan Ning again, but he was finally persuaded by Xu Xianchun and others on the side.

These days, Wei Zhongxian was anxious because the Donglin Party openly declared war on him, and including himself, there were countless recitals to impeach members of the Eunuch Party.

Before this, Wei Zhongxian had not been impeached, but it was all trivial things. He only had to pick up the apocalypse when he was busy with carpenter's work, and read it to him lightly. Apocalypse is busy with his work, how can he have the heart to listen to this, and often just say: "You don't have to read it, you can watch it yourself!" ”

That's what Wei Zhongxian wanted. With the emperor's authorization, he could leave the music unpublished, and even issue an edict on behalf of the emperor to reprimand the people who were sparse. If it really doesn't like the eye, he will simply be dismissed from office, or even directly imprisoned. As long as he goes to prison, the chances of this person coming out alive are slim.

This trick has been tried and tested, and Wei Zhongxian thought that no one would dare to oppose him anymore. Unexpectedly, his perverse actions finally aroused the strong anger of the Donglin Party. Starting with Yang Lian's recital, the Donglin Party members have gone up to the impeachment, and even dozens of people have joined the concert, and they have the determination to break the net.

But this time, although Tianqi still doesn't look at the chapter, he doesn't make a clear statement. Without the emperor's full support, Wei Zhongxian couldn't help but panic. In the past few days, he has been secretly discussing with Cui Chengxiu and other henchmen in Dongchang every day how to fight back against the Donglin Party.

When he was in a hurry, Guan Ning, a minion, actually came to make trouble again. He actually lost 20,000 taels of silver to Zhu Youzhen in a game of chess, and ran to borrow money from Wei Zhongxian with a salivating face, how could he not make Wei Zhongxian angry?

Seeing Guan Ning's pitiful appearance, Cui Chengxiu and the others had no misfortune. Li Chaoqin also pretended to be surprised and asked: "Father-in-law Guan, I heard that when you were in Shangshan Prison, you had a lot of savings, and you didn't spend a lot of money when you played horses and hangs. Why is it that today, with more than 10,000 taels of silver, you still have to find a factory to borrow it? ”

Guan Ning has a hard time, although he is usually greedy for ink and silver, but he often enters with his left hand and goes out with his right hand, and most of them are filial to Wei Zhongxian. The remaining savings, but there are 30,000 or 40,000 taels, but they are put outside the palace, eating two cents of interest per month, and they can't be recovered for a while.

He originally wanted Zhu Youzhen to give him a few days of grace, but Zhu Youzhen glared at him and said, "Father-in-law, your gambling is not very good!" You don't say anything when you win money together, and you want to smash the can when you lose? No, today you must hand over the 14,000 taels of silver you owe to the king, otherwise, hey, hey, hey, you can return to the celebrant to report! ”

Guan Ning was about to cry, and he only scraped together 4,000 taels, but the big head of 10,000 taels couldn't be made up anyway, so he had to ask his godfather Wei Zhongxian for help.

How do you know that Wei Zhongxian seems to be a Pixiu, and he has always only been in and out. Just in time for a bad mood, Guan Ning bumped into the muzzle of the gun, how could he still please the fruit to eat.

It was Xu Xianchun who relieved Guan Ning and said: "Father, you can't blame your father-in-law. The child couldn't have imagined that although this King Ning was not very old, he could use such a plan to capture and indulge, just to remind his father that he must not take him lightly. ”

Wei Zhongxian bowed slightly: "What Xianchun said is true. Our family has long seen that this kid is not a fuel-efficient lamp! ”

Xu Xianchun saw that Wei Zhongxian's mood calmed down a little, and took the opportunity to speak: "Therefore, my father inserted the public security by his side and monitored his every move, which is still a clever move, and you must not lose a big one because of a small one!" And although this King Ning is treacherous, he is greedy for money and lustful, and if his father-in-law monitors him for a while, he will definitely be able to catch his handle. The father-in-law is in a hurry to use the 10,000 taels of silver, and the child still has some spare money in his hands, so let's lend it to the father-in-law first. ”

Seeing that he didn't have to pay for it himself, Wei Zhongxian's mood suddenly eased a lot, and he deliberately said with a straight face: "Actually, our family is not reluctant to pay silver, but we just prepared 500,000 taels today, and we will soon send it back to Suning to repair the city wall." The city defense is a major matter, how can this slave be delayed? ”

Xu Xianchun saw that Wei Zhongxian was no longer pursuing it, and was busy giving Guan Ning a look. Guan Ning hurriedly kowtowed a few times at Wei Zhongxian, and then ran out of the East Factory with a lot of urine. While he was grateful to Xu Xianchun for saving his life again, he also gritted his teeth and secretly thought: Damn King Ning, find a chance, you have to die!

At the same time, Zhu Youzhen was in the Qianqing Palace and accepted the summons of the Apocalypse again.

Apocalypse didn't look very good today, and his face was even paler than usual. But he still laughed and said, "Fifth brother, didn't I say the day before yesterday that I was going to appoint you to do a fun errand?" Come and see," he said, pointing to the messy furniture in the hall, "I have driven out a lot of new furniture according to your design these days. Coupled with the construction of the previous months, the Qianqing Palace is almost unable to let go. But I don't know if people outside the palace like these furniture. Today, you will take a trip for me, go out of the palace in micro-clothes, and sell all these furniture! I also want to know how much money these pieces of furniture can sell for! ”

Zhu Youzhen had to bow down to receive the order, but he was thinking in his heart that this apocalypse is quite economical, but unfortunately it is not used in a place. If you are so careful in state affairs, why is the Ming Dynasty like this!

Unexpectedly, the apocalypse followed with another sentence: "How much silver has been sold, you can just tell me." I will reward you with the money. ”

Only then did Zhu Youzhen know that Tianqi was not really financially minded, but just wanted to affirm his self-worth and see how much his craft was worth.

"You are out of the palace, and I am a little worried." Tianqi continued, "Let Lin Youkun take more hands, personal support, and help you take care of specific matters." In addition, you can also bring a few palace maids to serve and live. I want the fifth brother to live in the deep palace for a long time, and I haven't visited the Jingshi yet, right? I also heard that Princess Ning is very strict with her fifth brother, and you just take this opportunity to have a good time! Hey, hey, hey..."

Zhu Youzhen listened to the apocalypse and went down the road as he spoke, and he had to smile bitterly: "The minister obeys the order!" ”

After receiving the king's order and following the order, this is called "Your Majesty's resignation". Until the errand is completed, you can't go back to the Mandarin Palace. Fortunately, Lin Youkun took care of everything, changed a set of more ordinary clothes for Zhu Youzhen, and then escorted him to a spacious carriage from the gate of Donghua.

As soon as Zhu Youzhen entered the carriage, he saw that the four sisters of Meilan and Zhuju were already seated in the carriage. Seeing Zhu Youzhen coming in, he hurriedly said in unison: "Lord, the princess knows that the princess is going out of the palace on an errand, so let the slaves and maids wait with her." ”

Zhu Youzhen wanted to take Rui'er with him, and after leaving the palace, he would find a chance to slip away directly. But seeing that Rui'er couldn't follow out of the palace, and thinking that Lin Youkun was following, if he wanted to escape, I was afraid it would be difficult to go to the sky.

Moreover, his money is still in the palace, and he doesn't have any escape plans, so it's too hasty to want to leave.

However, since he crossed over, he has been circling in the Forbidden City, and every day is basically two points and one line from Wenhua Hall to Qianqing Palace, and he also feels very bored, and he has long wanted to breathe outside the palace. Now that he has been out of the palace by the holy decree of the Apocalypse, and he is accompanied by beautiful women, he also feels very comfortable.

Not long after, Lin Youkun completed the formalities of leaving the palace, urged the carriage, and slowly walked out of the Donghua Gate. Lin Youkun led a few of his subordinates to follow on horseback and secretly protect.

When he came out of the palace, Zhu Youzhen picked up the curtains in the carriage and watched the scenery outside, but he also felt a little overwhelmed.

Outside, it's a completely strange world.

Looking out from outside the Forbidden City, there is still a magnificent and tall city wall. In addition to the Forbidden City, this city wall has red walls and yellow tiles, and it also vaguely contains dozens of exquisite buildings. Jingshan and Beihai in the north of the Forbidden City are also within the scope of this city wall. Between these buildings and landscapes, there is a meandering river, but it is now frozen like a mirror.

Zhu Youzhen guessed that this was the imperial city that no longer existed in his previous life. Back then, the Xinhai Revolution ended the imperial system that had lasted in China for more than 2,000 years in one fell swoop, the Qing Emperor abdicated, and the Jingshi was renamed Beiping, and its status plummeted.

Since the twenties of the twentieth century, most of the walls of the imperial city have been demolished one after another on the grounds that the old city has been renovated and hindered the development of the city. A beautiful city with a history of hundreds of years has almost disappeared in just a few decades, and slowly disappeared in the memory of the old man, and the last thing left is the unknown place name of "Huangchenggen".

When later generations of people were lost in the labyrinthine concrete jungle of Beijing, could they have imagined that hundreds of years ago, this was the scene?

In a short time, the carriage came under the walls of the imperial city and slowly passed through the tall Dong'an Gate. Of course, this imposing city gate has long since ceased to exist in later generations.

After passing through Dong'an Gate, I came to the outside of the imperial city, and the atmosphere suddenly changed. The grandiose and solemn feeling in the imperial city is gone, and the atmosphere of the market is blowing in the face.

Seeing Zhu Youzhen looking out the window in a daze, Lin Youkun, who had been following on horseback, asked in a low voice: "Your Highness, not far from here, is Shiwangfu Street, which is a very lively place. It's almost noon now, please show me how to go there first? ”

Judging from the direction, Zhu Youzhen also guessed that the so-called "Shiwangfu Street" was Wangfujing Street in the previous life. It is a famous commercial street in Beijing, and is known as "China's No. 1 Commercial Street".

Of course, in his previous life, You Jian has always stayed away from such a place. The reason is also very simple, there is no money in your pocket!

The so-called time and time, today's Zhu Youzhen has changed his shotgun, and he is naturally full of confidence. He waved his little hand heroically and said, "Go!" ”