On August 17, Zhu Houzhao and his entourage finally returned to the capital. Entering the city and seeing the bustling crowd, the two couldn't help but smile, thinking of their relatives who they hadn't seen for months, Zhu Houzhao asked the carriage to speed up and drive towards the palace.

It was already more than four o'clock in the afternoon when they arrived at the palace, and the two went directly to the leisurely residence where Hongji often stayed.

As soon as I entered the door, I saw Empress Zhang standing in the middle of the living room, flanked by her sister and the crown princess Bai Yulian.

Brother Zhu Houzhao walked a few steps and saluted.

Empress Zhang and Bai Yulian are the joy of their relatives going home, and the other is the joy of being comforted by lovesickness, Bai Yulian's sweet eyes staring at Zhu Houzhao made Zhu Houwei shudder, and then slightly restrained his smile, as if he thought of something.

As for her sister Zhu Xiuning, she pouted and made a "I'm angry"

look, but the joy in her eyes has betrayed her deeply.

The gifts were brought into the house by boxes by the palace maids and eunuchs, except for Zhu Xiuning, who glanced at them slightly, and did not disturb the rest of the people's narration at all.

At about five o'clock, Hongzhi returned to Youranju after handling political affairs, and after the two brothers Zhu Houzhao saluted, he just smiled and nodded, which was considered to be the end of the greeting.

Today's dinner was made by Empress Zhang and Bai Yulian themselves, as for Zhu Xiuning, she is still at the stage where I can only eat, but no one forced her to learn this, maybe in the future, for someone, she will learn on her own.

After dinner, the women consciously left the three of Hongji, and the three of them went to the study and began to discuss what happened some time ago.

Hongji's face was very serious, and he asked the two of them, "Who did the Texas thing?" ”

Zhu Houzhao replied, "I don't know, there are too few clues, but I have already asked Jinyiwei to investigate." In addition, Texas has met people from the White Lotus Sect, and is currently planning to let them come to the capital to open a store, and some of their news channels are also very useful to us. ”

Hongji frowned and asked, "White Lotus Sect?" ”

The scrutinizing eyes looked at the two sons.

Zhu Houwei opened his mouth and told Hongzhi how he knew and what the nature of the White Lotus Sect was at present.

After listening to this, Hongzhi said calmly, "The White Lotus Sect has been a little degenerated since the Yuan Dynasty, and it is not a good stubble in my dynasty, so pay attention to yourself." ”

Zhu Houwei glanced at Hongzhi and had some questions, "Daddy, although the evidence of our assassination has not been found, the people on which side also have a bottom in their hearts." It's just that I can't figure out why I use this method, and why at this time? ”

Hongji smiled when he heard this, "You guys don't know what you made yourself?" When you get outside, there is no news of the capital? This time, whether it's pirates or cults, those people don't care at all. But whose boat do you use? Who is the World Chamber of Commerce cooperating with now? Another point is that after this autumn, a lot of scholars came to the capital, and after the exam, they went to Huangzhuang to play. I didn't expect that someone didn't want to leave after visiting Chaoyang Courtyard, and stayed in it to continue studying, if it was an ordinary person, it would be fine, but there were two people in it who were also a little famous. ”

Zhu Houzhao came to his senses and asked with a smile: "Daddy, who is left there?" ”

Hongji didn't look at the two of them, but looked up and thought of something, and couldn't help laughing, and then got the surprised expressions of the two sons, couldn't help but return to seriousness, and said slowly, "One is quite famous among the people, but he is unlucky, he is from Jiangnan, called Tang Yin." ”

Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Zhu Houwei's exclamation, "Tang Bohu? ”

Instead of getting angry, Hongji asked, "Do you know?" ”

Zhu Houwei felt that he had overreacted, so he lowered his head slightly and said vaguely, "I've heard it, I've heard it." ”

Zhu Houzhao hadn't heard of it anyway, but he didn't care, and asked, "Daddy, who else is there?" ”

Hongzhi laughed before he spoke, and Brother Zhu Houzhao was puzzled, and he really couldn't think of anyone who could make his father so old.

Hongzhi said slowly, "You also know this person, and it has something to do with the two of you, that is your Master Yang's son." ”

"Huh?"

The two brothers couldn't help but scream, this was indeed beyond their expectations.

Speaking of Master Yang's son Yang Shen, he is really a celebrity, he has been brilliant since he was a child, and he was already a great talent in Shu when he was a teenager, and he had already won the promotion a few years ago.

The three of them met a few times, but didn't communicate much.

Zhu Houwei couldn't help asking, "Didn't he participate in this year's Autumn Festival?" With his talent and learning, he is not among the top three, at least he is a jinshi, and it is not a problem to step into the officialdom. ”

Hongji shook his head a little amusedly, "He's really unlucky." Originally, the chief examiner Wang Wei, Liang Chu had already listed his paper as the first, but because the candle flower fell on the paper and burned the test paper, Sun Shan fell to Sun Shan. A few days ago, despite the opposition of your Master Yang, I resolutely entered Chaoyang Academy, and now I am studying there and teaching students Chinese, which can be regarded as an independent portal. Your Master Yang has not been looking very well these days, and I advise you not to visit him recently. ”

Zhu Houzhao also had palpitations when he heard this, Chaoyang Courtyard was made by the two of them, Master Yang's anger towards the two of them can be imagined, and he muttered, "Hide if you can, hide if you can." ”

Zhu Houwei said with a smile: "Daddy, in this case, why don't you replace all the candles in the imperial court with kerosene lamps, which are not much expensive, and they are comfortable to use." ”

This is in the eyes of money, even Dad's money has to be earned, of course, strictly speaking, there is also a part of it is the money of the treasury.

Hongzhi said with a smile: "As soon as this list was posted, Wang Wei, Liang Chu and several examiners made a fuss. However, there was no way to change it even if it was posted, so it was changed to use all oil-extinguishing lamps to prevent such a situation from happening again in the future. ”

Zhu Houwei was very happy and looked at Hongzhi and smirked.

Hongji shook his head slightly angrily, thinking to himself, "As for you, how much silver is this?" ”

Next is what the Zhu Houzhao brothers and Hongzhi said about the things they encountered along the way in Shandong and the problems they found.

Hongji didn't smile after hearing this, and slowly rubbed his hand against his eyebrows.

I really didn't expect that the combat power of the Shandong Guard Station was so low, not to mention that it couldn't defeat the pirates, and it was also crushed in the face of the chaotic people with uneven armor, although it was a sneak attack, but it was already very telling that it was attacked by the chaotic people.

As for officialdom, the situation was exactly as Hongji expected, although the result was very disappointing.

The most important thing is that there are so many sectarian forces in Shandong, and they are basically ill-intentioned towards the imperial court, and there may be spies from the north hidden in it, which is really chaotic and chaotic, but the angry thing is that judging from the official performance of Hongzhi, Shandong was peaceful in the past.

It's really that the more you look at it, the more ugly you see, and it's chilling.

Although he hadn't finished speaking, it was not too early, and the Zhu Houzhao brothers went back to their respective homes to prepare for rest.

Zhu Houwei will have nothing to do tomorrow, but Zhu Houwei will return to the habit of going to court again, so he will get up at four or five o'clock.

Zhu Houzhao swore that one day he would be in power, and the first thing was to change the time of the dynasty, which was too painful.