Chapter XXXVIII
For the indigenous heroes of Dengzhou, Zhu Ping'an did not plan to kill them all, after all, these people lived here in the era, and they were intertwined with each other, and it was almost impossible to cut the grass and eradicate the roots, for their treatment, Zhu Ping'an had not come up with a suitable way for a while, but he did not expect that they took the first step to instigate Zhu Yihai, the king of Lu, to deal with themselves, so that Zhu Ping'an had to do something.
The lights in the Yamen of the Dusi were bright, and as soon as Zhu Ping'an arrived in Shandong, he began to restore his military strength. The new army, composed of 500 Fengyang veterans and 1,000 Hebei Minzhuang, showed its edge in the operation to pacify the four guards a few days ago, and took control of the overall situation with a force of only a few hundred troops. But this is only the beginning, Zhu Ping'an's idea is to use Yue Jinfeng, Qiu Ze, Li Dingguo and others to lead the three guards, start to recruit new soldiers, train people, and restore the combat effectiveness of the three guards of Dasong, Jinghai, and Chengshan, while he himself wants to select elite soldiers to form a new army.
The goal of the formation of the new army is very clear, that is, to take Sweden in the 17th century as a model, introduce the professionalization, specialization, and regularization of the army into all aspects of the army formation, and establish the first professional army of the Ming Dynasty. After achieving certain results, the structure of the new army will be extended to the whole army. This is also an important reason why Zhu Ping'an recruited Goethe and Meinhull into his command, and it is conceivable that more foreign officers will enter the system of the Dengzhou Army in the future, and the experience of the European professional army can also be brought into the Ming Army.
Therefore, Zhu Yihai wants to deal with Zhu Ping'an at this time, and a series of plans to disrupt Zhu Ping'an are absolutely impermissible.
The key is how to make Zhu Yihai stop here, considering his identity. This is indeed a tricky question. Zhu Yihai is different from Lin Deyuan and others, and straightforward killings are definitely not applicable to him, which involves a problem of method, which can not only warn him and let him retreat from the difficulty, but also not show the mountains and water, which really makes everyone have a headache.
It was almost midnight, but the guards in the courtyard were still as straight as loose, and the guards in charge of patrolling did not pass through the gate of the main hall, and the sound of neat footsteps interrupted Zhu Ping'an's thoughts.
"How many people do we have in King Lu's Mansion?"
Shen Ming first looked at Yin Shigang. Yin Shigang smiled. "Brother Shen said bluntly, I am still digesting the personnel list, and I am far less familiar with it than Brother Shen!"
Only then did Shen Mingxian reply: "If you go back to your lordship, the palace is quite harsh. There are five of us in it. One of them has already achieved the position of steward of the palace. But he is not Zhu Yihai's confidant! ”
Zhu Ping'an did not speak. From a hundred households to today's deputy chief soldier of the second grade, after all these years of training, even Zhu Ping'an himself has not found out. Although he treats people kindly on weekdays and has no official pretensions, in the eyes of everyone, he is becoming more and more powerful, because seeing Zhu Ping'an thinking deeply, everyone lowered their breath and did not dare to speak out.
"Find no injuries and let him work hard. Tell the brothers over there in Yanzhou to obey the unharmed dispatch, and prepare more fresh squid! ”
One sentence made everyone stunned.
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Zhu Yihai is only in his thirties this year. But the succession to the throne was only in March this year. I have lived for 30 years with trepidation, and it is only today that I have realized the beauty of being high. Although he is only a vassal king, in this palace, he is an out-and-out "king", life and death are all in his own thoughts.
Zhu Yihai, as the fifth son of Zhu Shouyong, the former king of Lu, really didn't expect that the crown of the king of Lu could fall on his head anyway.
The Qing army entered Koushan Mountain, the old father Zhu Shouyong died of fear, and the royal brother Zhu Yi sent to Jinan, but he became the turtle in the urn of the Qing army, and became a ghost under the knife, Zhu Yihai's heart blossomed, but he had to put on a grief-stricken look, and after receiving the imperial court's decree to canonize him as the king of Lu, he pretended to be worried and hid in the palace and did not come out.
Although it was the first time to ascend the throne, Zhu Yihai knew everything about the palace. The vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty could not be in power, but the accumulation of wealth was the default of the imperial court, and when his father Zhu Shouyong was alive, he colluded with Liu Zeqing and mastered several financial routes in Shandong. When Zhu Yihai succeeded to the throne, Liu Zeqing quietly seized the two salt farms that originally belonged to King Lu's mansion, which made Zhu Yihai feel distressed for two nights after learning about it.
But distress is distress, but Zhu Yihai didn't dare to talk to Liu Zeqing about any reason. In today's Ming Dynasty, the Tartars outside the Guanhai and the Liukou in the Guankou have risen and fallen, and they all have to rely on these generals who lead troops to quell the chaos everywhere, especially Zhu Yihai's Yanzhou is within Liu Zeqing's defense area. If he falls out with Liu Zeqing, and Kou and Tartar make trouble again, this guy will sit idly by, then Zhu Yihai will inevitably follow in the footsteps of King De, so Zhu Yihai can only swallow his anger at present.
But that's it, another Zhu Ping'an came out of Dengzhou. The person was sealed by Emperor Chongzhen, and Zhu Yihai didn't dare to say anything. But after this Zhu Ping'an arrived in Dengzhou, it set off a lot of chaos.
Not to mention anything else, just say that Lin Deyuan was imprisoned and Mo Gao was killed, you must know that the Lin family and the Mo family are both from the Lu Wangfu, and they have followed the Lu Wangfu for generations, just in the Dengzhou area, there are thousands of acres of fertile land in the Lu Wangfu to be taken care of by them, but now, Zhu Ping'an gave an order, Lin Deyuan and Mo Gao were reorganized, and even the thousands of acres of fields were taken back. Originally, these thousands of acres of land were nothing in Zhu Yihai's eyes, but no matter how much they couldn't stop the people of the Lin family and the Mo family nagging in front of them all day long, not to mention, now that the Lu Wangfu has already pressed Liu Zeqing, if he is soft on Dengzhou Dusi again, how can he gain a foothold in Shandong in the future.
Zhu Yihai has made up his mind, no matter how proud he is in the court, but now for the status and reputation of the Lu Palace, he must send someone to Beijing to impeach this Zhu Ping'an.
Last night's all-night banquet made Zhu Yihai wake up at noon, please the entanglement of the two favorite concubines, Zhu Yihai bathed and changed clothes, cheered up, and then remembered the matter of sending people to Beijing, and immediately went to the study surrounded by internal officials, planning to write two letters to the relationship between the DPRK and China, and asked them to also wave the flag and cheer from the side.
When I arrived at the study, I drank a cup of fragrant tea comfortably, and my confused mind was clear, and the internal officials on the side had already laid out the paper, picked up the pen, and waited for Zhu Yihai's narration, so that it could be waved away.
But Zhu Yihai found that on his large desk, there was a letter, and on the envelope was the words "His Royal Highness King Lu personally opened".
Zhu Yihai couldn't help but be stunned, and waved his hand at the attendant on the side, "Is this a letter to this king?" Who sent it? ”
The waiter's eyes widened, and he seemed to be a little flustered, but after thinking for a moment, he shook his head, "Back to the prince's words, when I cleaned the study in the morning, there was no such letter!" This is......? ”
"Bastard!" Zhu Yihai was furious, "How did this letter appear, could it be that the ghost sent it in!" ”
The chamberlain knelt down with a plop, "The prince's study is an important place, and on weekdays, slaves and maids take two little eunuchs to clean it personally, and they don't dare to neglect it!" But where this letter came from, the slave and maid really don't know! ”
"So confused, what do you want, pull out the cane and kill it!" Zhu Yihai snorted coldly.
Two wolf-like guards had already been ordered to come in, dragging the crying waiters out.
The henchman eunuch on the side couldn't help but be frightened, quietly put down the lake pen in his hand, came to Zhu Yihai's side, took the letter over, and was about to take it out and throw it away.
"Slow!" Zhu Yihai pondered for a moment and called the eunuch, "Since it was delivered, open it and take a look, you come to read it, this king listens!" ”
"Yes!" The eunuch's heart trembled, and he had to take a few steps back, muttering in his heart not to drop some poisonous powder or something, and opened the letter with trembling hands and took out a piece of letterhead.
Seeing that there was nothing unusual, the eunuch breathed a sigh of relief, but suddenly he smelled a fishy smell, and the eunuch had to wrinkle and not stretch out the letter paper, and read aloud.
"Wang Ye Junjian, leave a line in everything, and see you in the future! Zhu Ping'an! ”
"Finished?" Zhu Yihai was stunned.
The eunuch nodded inexplicably, "Yes, Lord Wang, it's over, that's all!" ”
"Zhu Ping'an!" Zhu Yihai suddenly came back to his senses, "What did he mean by this, could it be that he actually wrote to intimidate this king when he learned that the king was going to impeach him?" ”
Zhu Yihai swept the books, pen, ink, paper, and inkstone on the bookcase to the ground, scolded again and again in his mouth, his chest fell together, and he was angry for a while.
Zhu Yihai stood up, grabbed the letter paper in the eunuch's hand, and took a closer look, yes, it was indeed Zhu Ping'an's payment at the end.
"Zhuzi'an dares to intimidate the vassal king, is there any royal law in his eyes!" Zhu Yihai was about to tear the letter to shreds, but in the blink of an eye, he stopped moving.
No, how did this letter get to the desk in the palace study. Since he, Zhu Ping'an, was able to send a letter to the guards of Rulin who evaded the palace here, wasn't he hinting at himself? Since you can send the letter here, you can take the king's head silently!
For a time, Zhu Yihai's heart turned upside down. Such a means may not be able to be done by Liu Zeqing, he Zhu Ping'an, a hairy boy who has just arrived in Shandong, relied on what means to do this. He was warning himself not to meddle in Dengzhou's affairs, otherwise, there would be unpredictable consequences!
Zhu Yihai fell into an ice cellar, every sweat pore on his body felt an irresistible cold, and his trembling hands opened the crumpled letter again, but it was like five thunderbolts.
The original letterhead was actually clean, and the original line of fonts could only see some faint traces, and, in the case of being visible to the naked eye, these fonts were disappearing rapidly, and after a while, the letterhead in his hand completely turned into a blank paper. (To be continued......)