Tall war horses carrying sturdy knights, simple carriages carrying jade-faced Yiren, walking in the sunset.

The battle of hundreds of cavalry discouraged the thieves along the way, and the flying fish suits worn by those cavalry made some powerful mountain bandits choose to retreat.

When he came to Datong for half a month, Zhang Ru, who felt that he had ignored Su Qiqi's feelings, rarely did not ride a horse and gallop, but sat in the carriage and gossiped with Su Qiqi.

The three carriages were carrying four people with completely different identities, one was Jiang Wei, who was seriously injured but had to follow the brigade to set off, and the other was Tu Hu, the only survivor of Yajiao Mountain, a fortress in the Datong frontier. One of the remaining two is Su Qiqi, the only daughter of the leader of the Wuwei Sect, and the other is Zhang Ru, the high-ranking governor of the Ming Dynasty and the commander of the Jinyi Guard.

The decision to bring the young man who changed his name to Tuhu back to Beijing was not a casual move by Zhang Ru, but the so-called alliance on the grassland was too noisy, and from time to time he would send people to Datong to look for the traces of their khan, so he had to make this decision. The real Batu Mengke has become a ghost under the sword of the brocade guard, and this Gabatu Mengke can't be seen by those people for the time being.

After all, a twelve-year-old boy only took a few months to work, and no matter what, he couldn't look like a sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy.

didn't go to see the cheap old man, because when Zhang Ru was going to meet him, he unceremoniously asked Luo Fu, the eldest disciple of the seat, to send a farewell poem.

The meaning is nothing more than to threaten Su Qiqi to leave Zhang Ru by severing relations with his daughter, saying nonsense such as different ways and not conspiring with each other. After Zhang Ru read it, he burned it, and he had no intention of showing it to Su Qiqi at all.

Of course, he didn't know that Luo Qing was no longer free, otherwise, he would have to spend some time in Datong. No matter how cheap this old man is, he must fulfill his responsibilities as a son-in-law.

The identity of the heroine with thirty or fifty horsemen under her hand has become clear, and the news from Xinyang clearly shows that this chivalrous woman who does not let her eyebrows come back to attend the funeral.

With this clean foundation and life-saving grace to Jiang Wei, Zhang Ru naturally will not embarrass her. But this woman is also strange, what do you want to know what Jinyiwei is doing, and she wants to follow Zhang Ru.

In the end, it was Su Qiqi who came forward, and three moves beat this high-eyed Jianghu heroine, which made the arrogant Jiang Caiwei leave Datong in a gray way.

Before leaving, Jiang Caiwei waved her small fist at Su Qiqi provocatively, as if to say You wait for me, sooner or later, I will have to get this scene back.

Zhang Ru naturally didn't bother to care about these trivial matters, and had a three-hour conversation with Yang Rong in a hurry, and then refused to follow Ma Xuan back to the capital, and left Datong in a hurry with a group of brocade guards without waiting for the night.

The capital is still prosperous, and it has been seven days since he returned to the capital, and Zhang Ru, who was covered in dust, was invited to the Qianqing Palace by Qin Ji, who was waiting for his mouth to be blistering, without even entering the mansion.

Zhu Youzhu was a lot haggard, and during Zhang Ru's absence, he fought wits and courage with the courtiers, but he still didn't let the title of the Marquis of Dingbian fall smoothly on Zhang Ru's head.

The hundred officials boycotted the court again, as if to welcome the young and vigorous governor of the nine sides.

Seeing Zhang Ru was like seeing a life-saving straw, Zhu Youzhu gave Zhang Ru a bear hug as soon as they met, and then threw out the hot potato: "Those old masters don't give you the title of Marquis of Dingbian, what should I do?" ”

Zhang Ru raised his eyebrows and said, "Your Majesty just wants to give the minister the title of Marquis of Dingbian?" ”

Zhu Youzhu said angrily: "When I ascend the throne, they will give me a dismount, if I am soft this time, I can't say that they will ride on my head again." ”

The contradiction between the monarch and the minister is not too deep in the Chenghua Dynasty, and Zhu Jianshen does not have such and such troubles at all. In the first half of his life, he was busy eliminating dissidents and working with ministers of one heart and one mind; In the second half of his life, he was busy alchemy and seeking immortals, and he didn't have so much time to take care of the affairs of the dynasty.

But Zhu Youzhu is different, he is a king who wants to make a difference, so he can't tolerate courtiers climbing on the king's head.

The decree out of the cabinet is not what he wants, the decree he wants is out of the emperor.

Zhang Ru can still figure out this little imperial thought, and he got straight to the point: "Does Your Majesty want the courtiers to return to the court, or do you want the courtiers to be soft on the title of Marquis of Dingbian?" ”

Zhu Youzhu pouted: "Is there a difference?" ”

Zhang Ru said: "The difference is big, if Your Majesty wants the courtiers to be soft, the ministers will immediately go back and summon the fourteen thousand households of Jinyiwei to beat those civil officials." There are few officials in our Ming Dynasty who really have clean butts, even if they can't catch them all, with the crimes in the hands of Jinyiwei, it is enough to take down most of the courtiers. If His Majesty wants the courtiers to recognize the title of the Marquis of Dingbian, the courtiers can't use such reckless means.

The first emperor seems to have left a mess for His Majesty, but in fact, the mess left by the first emperor is exactly what His Majesty had best clean up. Li Zixing, Liang Fang and others are the things that His Majesty sacrificed to the flag after he ascended the throne. ”

The relationship with Liang Fang is okay, but with Li Zixing, Zhang Ru really can't talk about any friendship.

Except for the fact that Li Zi Province sold him a little face when he first came, there was no intersection between him and Li Zi Province.

In the court, the people who Wenchen hated the most were Liang Fang and Li Zi Province, except for Wang Zhi, who was in power and the opposition.

Zhu Youzhu frowned and shook his head: "It's not appropriate to kill people as soon as you ascend the throne!" ”

Zhang Ru said coldly: "Some people just deserve to die. Your Majesty might as well think about it, if it weren't for Li Zi Province refining the Nalao Shizi Pill, the first emperor would not have been so early. ”

Zhu Youzhu is a filial son, unlike the Qing Dynasty, many emperors in the Ming Dynasty were filial sons, and they may rather not be the emperor than have something to do with their father.

Therefore, Zhang Ru's words gave Zhu Youzhu a reassurance, and also brought the good life of Li Zixing and other officials to an end.

The next day, the courtiers who had been given a good gift by the Jinyi guard the night before reluctantly appeared in the court, and Zhu Youjiao, who was standing in the queue, squeezed his eyes at Zhu Youjiao, who was on the dragon chair, and the emperor knew that it was very likely that his brother had done something unseemly.

Zhu Youzhu was not ambiguous, and stood up directly from the dragon chair as soon as he came up: "Since I ascended the throne, you Aiqing have not been in the court many times, and I should not be in chaos to seal the honorable nobles and nobles, and I have opened a precedent for the great dynasty since the founding of the Ming Dynasty.

I don't want to be a faint king, and it is rare for you to come here today, so I will take advantage of this great court meeting to announce a few things.

First, Liu Jue, a cabinet scholar, is very old and accurate. Liu Jichong, a scholar of the Cabinet University, served as the Wenyuan Pavilion, Liu Jianchong, a waiter of the Ministry of Rites, served as the cabinet, and Qiu Jun, a scholar of the Ministry of Officials, served as the cabinet.

Li Zi Province bewitched the public with his fallacies and confused the first emperor, so he was arrested and put in the prison of the Criminal Department, and three days later, he was beheaded at noon to show the public. A cadre of henchmen was arrested by Jinyiwei, and all of them were exiled to Lingnan.

Nanjing Ministry of Officials Shangshu Wang Shu ......"

A large number of personnel appointments and dismissals continued, and hundreds of officials were shocked, and many of those whose names were read were panicked, except for a few who were promoted, and the others were either degraded or deposed.

Liu Jue didn't say anything, he was a cabinet scholar, and he already knew this when the new emperor ascended the throne. With the character of the crown prince, he will never leave him, a cabinet scholar who does nothing.

The reason why Liu Ji was left was mainly because when the crown prince ascended the throne, this cabinet scholar who was not firm in his position was very smart to hug the thigh of Zhang Ru, the commander of Jinyiwei, and there were many Chinese officials in the court, and the emperor could not take them all at once.

Liu Ji's stay in the cabinet is just a transition.

Liu Yu even had a guess that even if Liu Ji sat in the position of a cabinet scholar, many emperors would not let him participate.

Zhu Youzhu was very satisfied with the reaction of the courtiers, and after being the emperor for so long, it was the first time he had such a hearty feeling.

Without waiting for the courtiers' panicked mood to calm down a little, Zhu Youzhu threw another bombshell: "Summoning Huaien back to Beijing, serving as the eunuch of the celebrant and the eunuch of the seal, dismissing Liang Fang from the post of eunuch of the ceremonial supervisor Bingbi, and Qin Ji taking over Liang Fang's position, Dudong Factory." Jin Yiwei commanded Zhang Ru to work hard, seal the border marquis, eat 3,000 households, reward 10,000 taels of silver, and 300 horses of silk. If there is any dissent among the ministers of the court, the court staff shall be thirty. ”

A group of officials who lost their black gauze hats basically had no power to fight back in the face of the emperor's thunderous methods, and they were too busy to take care of themselves, where did they have the time to care whether to give Zhang Ru a lord who was a marquis of Dingbian.

The imperial history of the two capitals directly died down, and most of the six branches were directly taken by the emperor in the matter, and the rest of the people did not have the courage to contradict the emperor.

Zhu Youzhu can be regarded as venting the anger in his stomach this time, and the anger that was oppressed by the courtiers before was also vented.

Among the courtiers, there are only a few people with the most normal looks, Zhang Ru barely counts one, and Liu Ji counts one.

Before the courtiers could react, Qin Ji's duck voice had already shouted, and sometimes as soon as the words of the early song and retreat from the court came out, Zhu Youzhu disappeared on the dragon chair like a mouse burrowing into the ground.

This emperor of the Ming Dynasty still has some youthful temperament, and he is also afraid that the matter of temporarily coming up with the title of Zhang Ru will make those courtiers continue to make noise, so he simply can't see it.

This matter is decided, the cabinet is still easy to talk to, Qiu Jun and Liu Jian are both old rivers and lakes, and they will not give Zhang Ru a deflated, Liu Ji is even more dependent on Zhang Ru, so the cabinet approval came down quickly.

The next thing is that the Ministry of Rites is busy with all the treatments that Zhang Ru deserves to the Jiubian Governor's Mansion, and the plaque on the mansion has also been replaced with the Dingbian Marquis Mansion.

There are few servants in the Dingbian Marquis Mansion, and Su Qiqi is even treated with a three-grade order, which makes Su Qiqi, who is not Zhang Ru's actual wife, smile all day long.

The happiest thing is the little guy Ma Tongtong, he likes to see his Aunt Qiqi laugh, and Su Qiqi is happier than anyone else.