Chapter 31: The Tiger Fu Case (II)
The East Palace of Luojing is completely modeled after the East Palace of Yongjing, and basically continues the pattern of the Tang Dynasty and Wu Zhou, there are more than 20 palaces and palaces, the scale is large, magnificent, among them, the Advisory Palace is the official court room of the hundred officials of the East Palace, more than 100 officials of the East Palace and more than 600 are engaged in working here, secondly, the Mingde Hall is the place where the prince of the East Palace deals with court affairs and discusses political affairs, and the Hongwen Hall is the place where the library and the children of the nobility are cultivated, and these three palaces constitute the core of the East Palace.
The Daning Dynasty learned the lesson of Wu Zhou's imprisonment in the East Palace, which caused the emperor to be mediocre after his accession to the throne, and was open to the prince of the East Palace, and established the system of monarchs, before becoming the prince, the prince mainly focused on learning, except for not being allowed to interfere in court politics, the others were more open-minded, such as allowing contact with hundreds of officials, the prince must go out on patrol three times a year to understand the people's suffering, and after being canonized as the prince, he must participate in state affairs, master the 20,000 East Palace army, observe the meetings of the political hall, and be able to express his own opinions, etc., very tolerant of the prince, which is conducive to the prince not to be mediocre after ascending the throne, and to be able to maintain the continuous surname of various decrees.
But tolerance is also relative, and the position of the prince is not as stable as a rock, in the three hundred years since the founding of the Daning Dynasty, there have been eight incidents of the prince being deposed, but only two times the prince was deposed.
It is not so easy to abolish the prince, and the iron tablet of the Taimiao has a clear regulation: 'The prince is immoral, and all officials will abolish it.'" ’
One is the condition for the abolition of the prince, there is only one: immorality, and the other is the procedure for abolishing the prince, the abolition of the hundred officials, that is, the emperor is not qualified to abolish the prince, and the hundred officials must jointly abolish the prince, which is to prevent the emperor from abolishing the prince at will with his own preferences and shaking the country.
It is precisely because of the difficulty of abolishing the prince that although the current emperor intends to change the king of Chu, he does not dare to act rashly, so he can only create some conditions for the king of Chu as much as possible, such as reusing Uncle Shen and some royal families who support the king of Chu, and turning a blind eye to some actions that damage the East Palace, just like the household department deducting the tax and silver of the East Palace, etc.
Donggong Hongwen Library Library Building, here is the second largest library in the capital, second only to the Guozijian Library Building, there are more than 800,000 books, and here is also the place where the crown prince Fuheng reads and learns, but for the crown prince Fuheng, there is another extremely important special feature here, only the library has no historian to record the living records of the East Palace, whether it is the Mingde Hall where the prince works, or the harem of life, or the official patrol of the prince, there will be historians around, recording the prince's words and deeds, even who the prince sleeps with at night, They must be recorded one by one to form a record of the prince's daily life, which serves as an important basis for whether the prince or the prince is immoral.
Of course, the prince's living record is the same as the emperor's living record, which is a document that avoids the surname, mainly used for compiling historical books in the future, and the parties cannot consult it, and even the emperor must have a legitimate reason to check the prince's living record on a certain day for the surname.
Despite this, Huang Fuheng was still very taboo about the presence of historians when he did certain things, and in such cases, he would come to the library to secretly meet with some important people.
At this time, Huang Fuheng met with an important person in the library building, Li Yan, the general of Meihuawei.
Just like Shao Jingwen of the embroidered clothes guard, Li Yan is also the third person in Meihuawei, in charge of the second, third, and fourth military offices, exactly the same as Shao Jingwen.
"I'll give you a piece of information first."
Huang Fu Heng spoke to Li Yan in a very casual tone, showing his absolute trust in Li Yan, Li Yan is about thirty-four or five years old this year, more than ten years ago he was a shadow warrior, guarding the prince or so, at that time he was called Man Jiangyue, five years ago, he restored his real name Li Yan and became the captain of the plum blossom guard, in just five years, he was promoted from the captain to the general, and he was the spokesperson of the crown prince Huang Fu Heng in the plum blossom guard.
He was very respectful, lowered his hand and listened to the prince's words, Huangfu Heng was very satisfied with Li Yan's low profile, his respect in front of him had never changed in the past ten years, he smiled, and continued: "This is Zhou Shangshu of the Ministry of War told me that the emperor may want to expand the plum blossom guard and embroidered clothes guard, the specific plan has not yet come down, but the emperor already has this plan." ”
At present, the embroidered guard and the plum blossom guard are ten military offices, by the general is in charge, there are three generals below, each general governs three military offices, of which the first military government is directly under the jurisdiction of the general, and the plum blossom guard and the embroidered guard have the distinction of Beijing and the outer army, the outer guard is the place outside the capital, at present there are only two states in the outer war, Yuzhou and Yongzhou, Yuzhou belongs to the territory of the embroidered guard, Yongzhou belongs to the territory of the plum blossom guard, basically the well water does not violate the river water.
Li Yan nodded, indicating that he understood, and if the prince didn't let him express his opinion, he wouldn't say a superfluous word.
Huang Fuheng only told him the news, he knew that Li Yan would have a countermeasure, so he didn't need to say anything, he smiled and asked, "Do you have anything important to find me?" ”
Li Yan usually doesn't see the prince easily, more often, he will write a note for the East Palace guards to bring to the prince, but today he urgently asked to see him, and Huang Fuheng knew that a major incident must have happened, and he waited quietly for Li Yan's report.
"Back to His Royal Highness the Prince, his subordinates have just received a secret piece of information that Uncle Shen has already attacked Zhang Chongjun."
Huangfu Heng was taken aback, Zhang Chongjun had an army of 200,000 in his hands, and Uncle Shen Guo attacked him, what did this mean?
"What the hell is going on?"
"Your Highness, according to the information obtained by his subordinates, Zhang Chongjun seems to still have the tiger talisman given to King Liang by Emperor Jin'an in his hand, and Uncle Shen Guo bribed Zhang Chongjun's personal soldiers and stole this pair of tiger talismans."
"What!"
Huang Fuheng's eyes widened, and he still retained the tiger talisman of Emperor Jin'an, which.... This Chongjun's courage is too big! Once his father saw this pair of tiger talismans, Zhang Chongjun would definitely die, and when Uncle Shen planned it, he didn't even know at all.
"So what's going on now, did Uncle Shen get the tiger talisman?"
"An insider placed by his subordinates also participated in today's operation, he told his subordinates that there are a total of two Zhang Chongjun's personal soldiers, each holding half of the tiger talisman, and there will be a pro-soldier near Tianji Temple at noon today to hand over the tiger talisman, but there was an accident, the pro-soldier saw that they had the intention of killing and destroying their mouths, so they killed the encirclement, but they were seriously injured and died on the way, and Bao Hongwu got a fake tiger talisman, and the real tiger talisman was missing."
Huangfu Heng breathed a sigh of relief, Uncle Shen Guo did not get the real tiger talisman, which means that there is still hope, he walked a few steps in front of the high bookshelf with his hands behind his back, although Zhang Chongjun is not his person, but he is very clear about Uncle Shen's motives, the biggest weakness of the King of Chu now is that there is no army support, if the King of Chu gets the support of the army, his momentum will rise, it is obvious that Uncle Shen Guo has taken a fancy to Helong's 200,000 army.
In any case, he had to prevent Uncle Shen from getting the Tiger Talisman, thinking of this, he said to Li Yan: "You are personally responsible for this matter, and you will stop Uncle Shen at all costs, but the matter must not be big, it must be done in secret, and report the progress to me at any time." ”
"The subordinates understand that the subordinates have already deployed manpower."
At this time, Huang Fuheng's henchman guard Tianxing appeared on the other side of the bookshelf, "Your Highness, Wu Jin has brought it!" ”
"Just in time!"
Huangfu Heng smiled slightly, he came to Wujin to introduce him to Li Yan, but unexpectedly Zhang Chongjun's tiger talisman case happened, didn't Wujin have anything to do with the king of Lanling County? It happened through him that he conveyed to the king of Lanling County that he had helped Zhang Chongjun.
"Bring him here!"
Huang Fuheng asked Li Yan with a smile, "Do you know who this Wujin is?" ”
Li Yan shook his head, and Huangfu Heng gave him a brief explanation, "It is the young man who escorted the tax silver from Donghai County into Beijing, he successfully deceived the water army and Shao Jingwen of the King of Qi, and pledged one million taels of taxes to the East Palace, and I have made him a first-class guard." ”
"It turned out to be him!"
Li Yan suddenly, his subordinate Song Yansi led four hundred plum blossom guards to secretly go to the Yellow River in Yuzhou to meet the East Palace tax silver, but did not receive it, and later he heard that Shao Jingwen intercepted the tax silver in Yanshi County, but he didn't expect it to be a fake silver ticket, he had to admire the wit and courage of this silver protector, I heard that it was a young man, and he was also eager to see it in his heart.
"This person's subordinates also want to see it."
Huangfu Heng smiled and didn't answer, for a moment, Tianxing brought Wujin in, Wujin was a little surprised, he couldn't have imagined that the crown prince would meet him among the high bookshelves in the library building, so mysterious, although Tianxing had told him that it was to avoid the historian's record, but he still felt a little ridiculous, the dignified imperial prince, even did not have a little **.
Wu Jin stepped forward and bowed: "Wu Jin see His Royal Highness the Prince!" ”
"Excuse me!" Huangfu Heng smiled and introduced Li Yan to him, "This is the famous Plum Blossom Guard General Li Yan, you should have heard of it!" ”
Wujin was a little ashamed, he hadn't heard of it at all, he still knew on the way to Beijing that in addition to the embroidered guard, there was also a plum blossom guard, he apologized to Li Yangong, "General, Wujin has just come from Donghai County, lonely and unheard, please forgive me!" ”
Li Yan saw that Wujin didn't say polite words like Jiu Yang's name like others, but frankly said that he didn't know, he immediately liked Wujin, he liked this kind of honest person, he hurriedly returned the salute and smiled: "It's normal not to know, but if you hear someone in the capital mention Jiang Yanluo, that's my bandit, but that's someone else's misinformation, but don't take it seriously, I'm not Yanluo." ”
Huang Fuheng laughed on the side, he knew that Li Yan had always been a man of few words, and he said so much to Wujin today and joked with him, which was very rare, which showed that he had a good impression of Wujin, so it was good.
"Wu Jin, where are you staying in the capital these days?" Huangfu Heng asked quietly.
Wu Jin smiled and saluted, "Back to Your Highness, the King of Lanling County and my grandfather are world friends, and I have been living in the palace for the past few days." ”
Wu Jin took this opportunity to tell the prince the reason why the king of Lanling County saved him, intentionally or unintentionally.
Huang Fuheng nodded, he glanced at Li Yan, and smiled faintly at Wu Jin: "General Li's side has a tiger talisman case that lacks manpower, I hope the East Palace can help, I think about it, you and Tianxing will temporarily seconded Meihuawei for a few days, no problem!" ”
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(To be continued)