Chapter 173: The Prince Enters Beijing
Early the next morning, Xiao Fan went all over the house looking for thrushes. Finally, she was found in the treasury of the house.
The thrush is fourteen years old, slim and elegant, the petite body gradually shows a concave and convex curve, the originally flat small chest has now slightly raised two delicate and small arcs, and there is a little more girl's youthful and immature pure style between the eyebrows and eyes, which looks quite tempting.
Thrush sat alone in the warehouse on a book case dedicated to recording the entry and exit of items, the new monarch ascended the throne, Xiao Fan was deeply favored, and held the power of Jinyi Wei who made the people of the world talk about the tiger and change color, and the Chinese Wu Gongqing gave him gifts endlessly, the small warehouse was stuffed to the brim, and the rare and rare things inside were piled up into hills, gold, silver, jewelry, and coral pearls.
Thrush sat on the high desk table, wearing lake-green silk trousers tightly wrapping her two slender legs, a pair of embroidered shoes decorated with gold plates, embroidered with magpie spring patterns, hanging loosely on the two snow-white jade feet, the little feet hanging shoes volleyed in the air and swayed at will, very absent-minded.
A pair of clear black eyes aimlessly roamed the house full of rare gifts, the little face that used to be ecstatic when they saw silver and jewelry, but now it seems a little listless, as if this room full of rare things can not arouse the excitement of small wealth fans.
Xiao Fan stood quietly at the door of the warehouse and looked at her, more than two years have passed, the little beggar girl who almost starved to death on the streets of Jiangpu at the beginning, has now become a beautiful girl who is as beautiful as spring, she has grown up, she began to have her own thoughts, she began to pay attention to dressing up, caring about her appearance, she always reminded her age directly or implicitly in front of Xiao Fan, and she was full of joy looking forward to the day when Xiao Fan really turned her into a woman...... She is like a volcano buried deep in the ground, under the soft and quiet appearance, there is a fiery and stubborn soul, she can give her life for her beloved, she is willing to give everything for Xiao Fan, even if she hears rumors in the market that Xiao Fan wants to kill her brother who once loved her the most, she can also remain silent, she has never said a word of intercession, she takes Xiao Fan too seriously, far more than her own life, she does not want to spoil the big thing of the princess because of her intercession, she would rather hide alone in this warehouse, In such a way, silently mourn the brother-sister affection that once had.
Xiao Fan looked at her silent but sad little face, and felt sorry in his heart, this little girl is too dead-eyed! There is such a brother who once hurt her, but she has never heard her mention it, fortunately, she has not moved the idea of assassinating the prince of Yan Wang, otherwise, she will really hurt her brother-in-law, the little girl doesn't say it, and she can't regret it for the rest of her life?
Xiao Fan stood at the door and coughed lightly, the thrush turned his head when he heard the sound, and saw Xiao Fan standing at the door, the thrush's pretty face showed a happy look, and with a kick of his two long legs, he jumped from the bookcase to the ground, ran to Xiao Fan's side briskly, grabbed his arm, and said with a smile: "Is the prime minister also here to count the silver?" ”
Xiao Fan casually glanced at the warehouse, and suddenly said with some surprise: "There are so many treasures in our warehouse?" This...... How much is it worth? ”
The thrush smiled: "Xianggong's official has become bigger, and naturally he has sent more silver, Xianggong, I'm afraid our family will have to open up a treasury to come out, this treasury is already full......"
Xiao Fan stared straight at the room full of rare treasures and mountains of gold and silver, and couldn't help muttering: "Evil! Who are these people! Looting the people's fat and ointment is used to slap the power of the ministers, these corrupt officials, everyone will be punished! ”
Turning his head to look at the thrush, Xiao Fan said with a straight face: "Thrush, do you think the prime minister should carry out a vigorous action against corrupt officials in the court?" ”
Thrush naturally agreed without hesitation, and said: "Okay, Xianggong arrests corrupt officials, catch one and kill another!" Well, first catch the biggest corrupt official and come out, punish him properly, and make an example ......of him."
Xiao Fan scratched his head: "Who is the biggest corrupt official?" ”
The thrush's big eyes turned smartly, and then pointed at Xiao Fan very seriously, and then giggled, and the laughter was like a silver bell, sprinkled all over the small room.
After the bookcase in the warehouse, Xiao Fan hugged the thrush and sat on his lap, wrapped his arms around her soft waist, the thrush grew up, and now he is holding her, no longer like the feeling of adults holding children before, Xiao Fan has some strange feelings in his heart at the moment, like a pair of lovers in love hugging each other, the picture is very warm, and the heart is very peaceful.
The little face of the thrush has not seen any shyness, after more than two years of getting along, the thrush has long regarded herself as Xiao Fan's woman, and it is a natural thing to hug the lady, nothing to be embarrassed about.
"Thrush, why did you never mention that the prince of Yan and your brother and sister have a deep relationship?" Xiao Fan's tone was very low.
The thrush casually hugged Xiao Fan's neck, was silent for a while, and said: "It's a thing of the past, everything in Yanwang's Mansion has nothing to do with me......"
"Blood is thicker than water, you say it's irrelevant, is it really irrelevant? You are the daughter of King Yan and the sister of the prince of King Yan, this is a fact that can never be changed. ”
Thrush lowered his head and said quietly: "Xianggong is a big official, a person who does great things, if Xianggong really wants to kill the prince of Yan, there must be your reason, how can I ruin Xianggong's plan because of the love of brother and sister?" ”
Xiao Fan rubbed the thrush's head with pity and love, and said with a smile: "Silly girl, the big plan is not as important as your brother and sister's affection, there are many feelings in this world, love, friendship, family affection, with these feelings, it is what distinguishes us from beasts, these feelings make this world colorful, thrush, in addition to the love of Xianggong and you, you also need other feelings, such as family affection, you should learn to cherish it......"
The thrush nodded as if he didn't understand, and then hesitated: "But the people in the market all say that the prince wants to kill the prince of Yan...... If you change your mind for my sake, wouldn't it ruin your plans? ”
"The plan of the! Don't listen to the nonsense of those people outside, I have no intention of killing the prince of Yan at all, even if I really have this plan, now that I know the origin of you and the prince of Yanwang, how can I still do it? Your brother is my brother......" Xiao Fan hugged the thrush and said deeply.
The eyebrush's eyes gradually reddened, and he buried his head in Xiao Fan's chest with emotion, choking up: "Xianggong...... Thank you. ”
"Thrush, remember, cherish family affection, because in this life, only in the veins of relatives, there is the same blood as you, and every relative is your precious wealth......"
The thrush couldn't help nodding his head and choked up: "It's good to treat me well, I will cherish the ...... of family affection"
Xiao Fan breathed a sigh of relief, Thrush has lived too lonely in this life, and the miserable experience in the past has made her young heart and surname become cold and cruel, such a surname is really not a good thing for a little girl who is just fourteen years old, and today I tried to teach her to cherish family affection, but also to change her cold surname to a little more normal, and now it seems that family education seems to have achieved results...... Xiao Fan smiled with satisfaction: "Thrush, I entered Beijing with the prince of Yan, and the other two sons of King Yan, they are also your own brothers, when they come, I will arrange a time, you can get together together......"
Who knew that the thrush was shedding tears of emotion, but he shook his head quickly and said: "No need, in the Yanwang Mansion, only the eldest prince treats me well, and the other two brothers have not looked at me with their eyes, why do I want to see those two irrelevant people?" …… Xianggong, if you're not busy, you can kill those two. ”
Xiao Fan's relieved smile gradually froze: "............"
It turns out that in the thrush's outlook on life, family affection is a matter of scope, some family affection she cherishes very much, and some family affection she completely denies...... This fact is very puzzling, and the process of cultivating the love of the thrush seems to be long and arduous, full of unknown variables.
In the morning of the next day, Huang Zicheng did not meet Xiao Fan's expectations, united a group of Qingliu ministers, and criticized Jinyiwei's perverse behavior, as well as trespassing into the minister's mansion and beating the ministers of the court for no reason.
Huang Zicheng knelt in front of the Golden Palace with a blue nose and swollen face and wept bitterly, and with blood and tears, he accused Xiao Fan of being cruel and unkind, rampant, and beating the emperor into such a miserable appearance for no reason...... All the Qingliu ministers had a sad expression on their faces, and knelt down in unison to beg the Son of Heaven to remove Xiao Fan from his official position and arrest him in prison, so as to appease the anger of the Manchu civil and military forces.
Before the Qingliu ministers finished complaining, Ru Yu, Xie Jin and other members of the "Annihilation Party" immediately jumped out to refute and quarreled with the Qinglius.
Today's annihilation of the party in Xiao Fan's efforts over the past year, has gradually formed a relatively solid circle of alliances, the reason for the formation of this circle is a bit wrong, it is because Chen Yinger's Taifeng Rice Bank,—— has now developed into one of the top Taifeng firms in the Ming Dynasty.
Because of this common interest body, not only the Taifeng business name has developed and grown, but also because of this business, he and the interests of the ministers of the Annihilation Party are tightly tied together, forming a situation in which all losses are lost and one is prosperous.
Xiao Fan originally thought that people who were in a high position and held great power would inevitably look down on those extraneous wealth, but he didn't expect that the people of this era were not as noble as he imagined, the so-called thousands of miles of officials are only for money, they have been officials for many years, in addition to the ** of power, of course, there is only the pursuit of money, in the past, when Zhu Yuanzhang was alive, they were also greedy, but they didn't dare to be greedy too much, after all, they were under Zhu Yuanzhang's nose, and the Hongwu Emperor hated corrupt officials the most in his life, once it was discovered, the ending was in addition to cramps and peeling, There is no other good end.
Now that Zhu Yuanzhang is dead, Zhu Yunwen is obviously not as effective as Zhu Yuanzhang in anti-[***], and the annihilators can finally make money with their boldness, and it just so happens that Xiao Fan gave them shares of Taifeng Firm, which is a good opportunity to doze off and send incense pillows, such a good opportunity to make money in a bright light, who will let it go?
The annihilation party circle headed by Xiao Fan came together in this way, forming an alliance force that cannot be underestimated in the court, and this result made Xiao Fan couldn't help but be pleasantly surprised.
Huang Zicheng's blood and tears complained that under the mediation of this gang of ministers who had formed a rope to annihilate the party, it naturally did not have an effect.
The ministers of the Golden Palace were divided into several factions, and they quarreled fiercely, and the Qingliu people just said a few words, and they were interrupted by the annihilation party, and then they talked endlessly, quoting scriptures, and a very simple beating incident, they were pulled to the three emperors and five emperors, Yao Shunyu soup, and they quarreled around the three emperors and five emperors, after arguing for a while, the conversation changed, and the annihilators asked the Son of Heaven to revise the Daming law, especially about the identification of negligent injuries and deliberate injuries, etc....... Huang Zicheng knelt on the Golden Palace, his knees were numb, and the topic never turned back, but went farther and farther.
And Zhu Yunwen, who was sitting on the dragon chair, smiled helplessly and bitterly, closed his mouth and watched the ministers arguing, there was nothing they could do.
Huang Zicheng knelt for a long time, and finally figured it out, if he wants to bring down Xiao Fan today, I'm afraid it will be as difficult as climbing to the sky, and now that Xiao Fan hasn't said a word, a group of people have jumped out to cover him, and if he continues like this, I'm afraid that Xiao Fan won't be defeated, but he himself will kneel halfway...... Taking advantage of the fact that everyone continued to ruffle, Huang Zicheng quietly stood up with a face full of loss and grievances, and slowly retreated to the court, his old face drooped from the vicissitudes of life, and he looked like he had knocked out his teeth and swallowed in his stomach.
As soon as Huang Zicheng retreated, the annihilators closed their mouths as if they had discussed, wiped the saliva on the corner of their mouths, and retreated to the court, and the court suddenly returned to calm.
Zhu Yunwen yawned, resisted the urge to stretch his waist, and lost no time in signaling to the eunuch beside him, the eunuch was a clever person, hurriedly shook off the dust, and sang "After the state affairs are finished, the officials will retreat from the court——"
A political storm disappeared without a trace.
In the middle of summer, three ordinary carriages with blue tents quietly entered the Beijing Division under the siege of dozens of plainclothes guards.
As soon as he entered the Taiping Gate of the North City, the carriage stopped on the side of the road at the inner city gate, and three carriages came down in turn with three young men of different appearances.
The leader is a big fat man wearing a blue silk robe, this fat man is very fat, almost two hundred pounds, five short figures, fair skin, the fat on the face squeezes the facial features into a twisted ball, but the whole face looks very honest, giving people a very stable and harmonious sense of comfort, at first glance is the kind of person who can be trusted.
After the fat man got out of the carriage, two guards stepped forward, one left and one right supported him, the fat man took two steps forward, walked a little hard, and his shoulders went up and down, it turned out that the fat man was still lame in addition to body fat.
The two young men who got out of the other two carriages were obviously much thinner, their faces were dark, their expressions were cold, they looked a little similar, their eyes were narrow and slender, and they flashed a little gloomy and fierce from time to time, and they looked particularly calm.
The fat man turned around with difficulty, looked at the gate of Jingshi behind him for a while, and then turned his head and smiled: "It's finally here, Jingshi, hehe, I haven't entered Beijing for many years, and nothing has changed......"
One of the young men behind the fat man sneered: "Brother Huang, this time my father ordered us to enter Beijing, and the future is uncertain, you have the leisure to sigh, should I say that you are stupid and bold, or should I praise you for your courage and responsibility?" ”
Another young man also took two steps forward, with a sneering expression on his face, and said: "Of course the imperial brother doesn't have to worry about the surname, you are the eldest son of King Yan, the identity of the prince, even if you want to kill today, you will only kill me and my younger brother, you are the emperor, the Son of Heaven is definitely reluctant to kill......"
The guards beside the fat man couldn't help frowning when they saw that the two younger brothers were so disrespectful to him.
Usually there is discord between brothers, at least they will maintain a harmonious atmosphere on the surface, and few people are disrespectful to their brothers, these two younger brothers are good, and they sneer at their brothers directly.
The royal family, the struggle for fame and power, and the identity of a son of the world have made the brotherhood disappear.
The fat man looked kind, and he didn't care about the words of the two younger brothers, and when he heard the words, he waved his hand, smiled honestly, and didn't say anything more.
The fat man was supported and walked a few steps forward, and the two younger brothers behind him looked at the back of the fat man, and their sneering expressions gradually became resentful, one of them spat on the ground fiercely, and scolded in a low voice: "Fat like a pig, still a cripple, isn't it just luck, reincarnation ahead of us?" If it weren't for that, how could the father give the throne of the son to this fat pig? What kind of smugness is it, and you pretend to be generous...... Bah! ”
The other young man smiled coldly, then opened his big mouth, and was about to spit on the ground like his younger brother, but he heard a loud cry not far away.
"Spit everywhere, fine!"
The two turned around in shock, but saw a dozen men in flying fish suits walking over with a slender figure and a handsome young man around them.
The young man was Xiao Fan, he approached the two with his hands in his hands, then looked at them with a frown, and said in a deep voice: "Just entered Beijing? ”
The two looked at each other and nodded blankly.
Xiao Fan pointed to the ground and said, "Who spit out the saliva?" ”
A young man honestly admitted: "I. ”
Xiao Fan smiled happily: "Chenghui, a fine of five cents." You're so lucky, you just happened to run into me for a walk today, and if you meet other brocade guards, at least you will be fined a tael of silver. ”
The young man was not happy: "It's just spitting, why punish me?" Have you not set up a name and expropriated violently? ”
Xiao Fan's smiling face suddenly froze a little: "You don't want to pay the fine?" ”
The young man stiffened his neck: "I don't want to!" What can you do with me? ”
Xiao Fan sighed: "Since you resist law enforcement, I have no choice but to take you to the edict prison, and if you enter the edict prison, it can't be released with five dollars of silver......
The young man saw that this group of people were wearing flying fish suits, and their faces were not good, and they couldn't help but shrink slightly, flying fish suits, that represents the world-famous brocade guards, they don't even buy it very much, let alone the son of a vassal king...... Xiao Fan pointed to another young man and said, "You, you will be fined five yuan." ”
Another young man was stunned and said, "I didn't spit again......"
"You opened your mouth just now, were you about to spit?"
"Didn't I have time to throw up yet?"
"Very well, in Kyoshi, the amount of the fine is the same for spit and spit attempt...... Benefits, five money. ”
“…………”
“…… Rogue! Blacker than our dad! The two gritted their teeth and said in unison.
(To be continued)