"How can you agree to this?" Mei Zhihuan shook her head and sighed.

Liu Jun sat in the living room of Meifu with a helpless expression, "Teacher, do you think I have room to refuse this matter?" The emperor suddenly came to my house in private clothes in the middle of the night, and then suddenly offered to accept me as a righteous son, I refused to come, but the emperor was angry, so I could only accept it. ”

"Hey, that's what happened." Mei Zhihuan shook her head. Originally, Liu Jun was not born on the right path, but he got to this point with his military exploits, and it was all based on his own ability. But after all, he was already a marquis at such a young age, and he also served as the commander who was difficult for the military ministers to sit on, and it was false to say that it was not red, and I don't know how many people were staring at Liu Jun.

Now that the emperor suddenly accepted Liu Jun as his adopted son, didn't this make Liu Jun more and more targeted. And Liu Jun is his student, if Liu Jun is attacked, it will also affect him as a teacher. Mei Zhihuan is not too worried about being implicated, he is afraid that Liu Jun will be labeled as a fortunate minister, and he is also worried that Donglin's current good situation will be ruined.

"I think the emperor is in a hurry, and the situation in the court has been getting worse every day over the years. And now that the big bandits in the Central Plains have basically been quelled, the emperor is a little impatient. The emperor accepted me as his son, and he also hoped to protect me with this, so that I could do things with peace of mind. Liu Jun said.

Mei Zhihuan kneaded his temples and agreed with Liu Jun's speculation. In fact, everyone in the court can see that the emperor has long been crazy about rushing to the doctor. At the beginning of his accession, the emperor got rid of Wei Zhongxian and reused Donglin, at that time the cabinet was full of Donglin people, and the important positions in the court were basically Donglin people.

At that time, Chongzhen still had great hopes for Donglin, but after Donglin came to power, he didn't do a few serious things, and he was busy liquidating the eunuchs, and the party went to the same place. From full of hope to disappointment, in the end, Chongzhen finally lost hope in Donglin, and began to appoint Zhou Yanru, Wen Tiren, Zhang Zhifa, Xue Guoguan and others who were not from the Donglin Party, and Donglin in the court was also degraded.

After Wen Tiren, Xue Guoguan, Yang Sichang and others. Chongzhen found that these people are actually not lonely ministers who do not form a party, they have the same party, they can't do anything serious, in addition to still fighting the same party, domestic affairs are not good, foreign politics are not good, and the situation in the world is only worse.

The Donglin people disappointed Chongzhen, and Chongzhen used non-Donglin courtiers, but it also disappointed him. In the end, he could only reuse the eunuchs and eunuchs, but although these eunuchs were more credible, they were far from being able to be used. At this time, Mei Zhihuan, Li Changgeng and other old Donglin people inadvertently turned on, but they established a great achievement all of a sudden, and in only half a year, they put down the Central Plains bandits who had been in trouble for more than ten years.

This is definitely a big surprise to Chongzhen, just like Liu Jun, a military general who is not from the right path. A little martial artist, he has won many battles on the battlefield of suppressing bandits, and even has extremely strong economic ability.

It can be said that Chongzhen was almost in despair, and suddenly found that there was such a group of capable officials. I just didn't find it before.

At this time, Chongzhen didn't care about Mei Zhihuan and Li Changgeng at all, they were old Donglin, and he didn't care that Liu Jun was a member of the Fushe Society, in the eyes of the emperor. He no longer stared at any faction of these courtiers, he only valued their abilities. It doesn't matter if you are a eunuch or a Donglin or a eunuch, as long as you have the ability. Just reuse you.

Perhaps it is precisely because of this that Chongzhen used Mei Zhihuan as the first assistant and Li Changgeng as the second assistant at this time, and suddenly accepted Liu Jun as his son.

However, Liu Jun is under a lot of pressure now, Chongzhen has done this, and now Liu Jun has almost become a fortunate minister in the eyes of many people.

Especially inside Donglin, it is said that there is already an undercurrent surging.

"Teacher, I heard that Zhou Yanru and Wu Changshi of the Restoration Society and Luo Yangxing, the former commander of Jinyi Wei, have been moving around very closely recently."

"Leave these people alone." Mei Zhihuan snorted coldly, although Mei Zhihuan is from Donglin, he is an old Donglin. Although there are many people in these old Donglin who are obsessed with the party and fighting differences, Mei Zhihuan is still a person who is more willing to do practical things. Returning to the center this time, Mei Zhihuan was not very satisfied with the many Donglins in the current dynasty, as well as those newly popped up called Xiao Donglin, he felt that these people had forgotten their original intentions and were too obsessed with party struggle.

"Teacher, this Zhou Yanru is a capricious person, although Wu Changshi is a person who has been restored, he is just a speculator, and Luo Yangxing is just a villain, such a group of people collude together, and they have to be guarded against."

"I stayed in the DPRK and China, and I just wanted to do something practical and do something for the common people, and I didn't want to engage in any party and dissent. Now many people from Donglin and Fushe have embarked on the wrong path, and these people just ignore it. ”

"You can't have the heart to harm others, but you can't have the heart to prevent people. Teachers still need to be more careful, the more they want to do practical things, the more difficult it is. Liu Jun tried to persuade him.

"If someone dares to do something wrong, then don't blame me Mei for being unkind. At that time, I don't care what kind of eunuch he is, Donglin, or Fushe. I don't care what party or faction he is, I just don't care if he does practical things, if he refuses to do things, then ask him to leave. Mei Zhihuan said.

"The teacher is so bold." Liu Jun gave a thumbs up and praised.

"Don't talk about those false things, I think it's better for you to leave Beijing early. After you return to Huguang, remember to keep a low profile, now during the critical period, many people are staring at you. Mei Zhihuan said, "After you go back, do three things." First, let the people have enough to eat, and there will be no more civil unrest. Second, train the new army and settle the dismantled guards. Third, clean up and manage the tuntian. ”

"Understood."

"There is one more thing, Fang Qing's temper, I can't persuade her, let her go, you be a senior brother, take care of her a little more." Speaking of her daughter, Mei Zhihuan sighed again and again, usually spoiling this daughter too much. As a result, I can't control it now if I want to, and I have to follow Liu Jun to lead the troops to fight in the army. Mei Zhihuan even had some doubts about whether her daughter meant that to Liu Jun. But he didn't have a good time asking about it, and his wife was in his hometown again, so in the end he wanted to open it and let her go. Maybe in the future, the Mei family will really have a female chief soldier like Qin Liangyu.

After sitting in the Mei Mansion for a while, Liu Jun said goodbye and left, Mei Zhihuan did not leave him to eat, the emperor had already sent someone to inform Liu Jun, and today the emperor asked him to go to the palace for dinner.

It would certainly not be easy to eat with the emperor, but he certainly could not refuse the emperor's invitation.

After entering the palace, Wang Chengen had already been waiting there for a long time.

"Master Hou, please come with me."

At this dinner, although there were not many people, all of them had extremely high status.

Chongzhen Zhu Youzhen, Empress Zhou, Yuan Tian, two concubines, the crown prince and the two kings of Yong and Ding, in addition to the empress of the Emperor of the Apocalypse, Empress Yi'an, Empress Zhang, and the two princesses Kunyi and Kunxing.

Chongzhen's family of ten plus Liu Jun sat around a table, like a civilian home.

According to Chongzhen's request, Liu Jun met with the two queens Zhang and Zhou and the second concubine Yuan Tian in turn.

"Erchen Ciye visits the queen mother!" Liu Jun bowed to Queen Zhou, and Queen Zhou smiled and greeted him cordially. Liu Jun saluted Empress Zhang again, Emperor Chongzhen respected this imperial sister-in-law the most, and Liu Jun called him the imperial aunt.

Zhang and the two queens prepared a meeting gift for Liu Jun, the righteous son, which was not a too precious gift, but a robe sewn by the two queens themselves, and Liu Jun was very moved to receive such a gift.

The two concubines of Yuan Tian are the more favored concubines in the palace, especially Concubine Tian, who is very beautiful, but compared to Queen Zhang, she is slightly inferior.

Empress Zhang is only thirty-four years old this year, and at the time of the apocalypse, the first beauty selected from the five thousand show girls in the country who passed eight levels in a row. According to folk rumors, it is said that Empress Zhang is one of the five most beautiful queens since ancient times.

Her beauty even made the eunuchs moved, after the death of the apocalypse, Empress Yi'an lived in Ciqing Palace, Wei Zhongxian Yu Dang, the chief eunuch Chen Derun coveted Empress Zhang's beauty and youth, one day, the queen got up in the morning, the palace people held the toilet utensils to serve, Chen Derun said something, couldn't help but go straight into the queen's room. The queen was busy reporting to Chongzhen and demoted him to Nanjing Xiaoling to grow vegetables.

Concubine Tian was born in a water town in the south of the Yangtze River, and she is also very beautiful, but she has a charming feeling, and she seems to have a bad relationship with the queen.

The crown prince Zhu Cihong was ten years old, and Zhu Cijiong, the king of Ding, was eight years old, these two princes were born by Queen Zhou, and Queen Zhou gave birth to a prince above King Ding, but died not long after birth.

Yongwang Zhu Cizhao was seven years old, and his mother was Tian Guifei. Tian Guifei gave birth to four sons successively, but only one Yongwang survived, and the other three princes died.

Chongzhen has only retained the crown prince and the two kings of Yongding until now. There are only two daughters, Kunyi and Kunxing, the eldest princess, Princess Kunyi, who is twelve years old, and Princess Kunxing, who is ten years old, are all older than the three princes.

Chongzhen asked the three princes and the two princesses to call Liu Jun the imperial brother.

"Ciye, you will be their eldest brother in the future."

Liu Jun thought in his heart that he was just a righteous brother.

The food is not very luxurious, compared to everyone's status, it is very simple. They eat hot pot and shabu mutton together.

Just like an ordinary civilian home, the family sits around a table and chats while eating, which really makes people feel very warm.

"When Emperor Taizu opened the country in a hundred battles, at the beginning of his business, he also adopted more than 20 righteous sons, such as Mu Ying, Li Wenzhong, Ping'an, He Wenhui, Zhu Wengang, Zhu Wenxun, Xu Sima, Zhentong, King Kong Nu, etc., the so-called father and son soldiers, fighting tiger brothers. Although Ciye is not an orphan, nor is he personally raised by me and the queen, I regard you as my own son like the crown prince and the second king. ”

Liu Jun thought in his heart that Zhu Yuanzhang adopted those righteous sons back then, but it was only because there was a custom of accepting adopted sons at that time, and Zhu Yuanzhang's own son was still young at that time. Receiving Yizi is not only the reserve of the general, but also the preparation of the supervising army. These righteous sons fought bravely for Zhu Yuanzhang, but later, when the situation in the world became clear and his own sons grew up, Zhu Yuanzhang immediately let these righteous sons restore their original surnames.

To put it bluntly, a righteous son is a righteous son, even a young adopted son, not to mention his twenty-year-old righteous son who was suddenly adopted by Chongzhen.

Life is like a play, it all depends on acting skills! (To be continued......)

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