The battle between Zhang Xuan and Xia Yan was repeatedly defeated and frustrated, but he was not discouraged, stabilized his mind, and attacked Xia Yan again. The reason is this, Xia Yan used to work in the Pedestrian Division, and he was friends with Xue Kan, the Sizheng of the Pedestrian Division, and Xue Kan handed over a copy to Peng Ze, the secretary of Taichang Temple. It was mentioned above that Zhu Houxi should be trained by a royal family so that he could be appointed as a crown prince at any time, unlike when Zhu Houzhao died, there was no successor who was in a hurry, and his eyes were black.

Xue Kan gave Peng Ze what he meant to ask him to help him palm his eyes, but Peng Ze sent Xue Kan away with his front foot, and told Zhang Xuan about it with his back foot. Zhang Xuan instigated Peng Ze to play the imperial court and told the emperor that because Zhang Xuan knew that this was the emperor's reverse scale, he could not touch it casually.

Recently, Zhu Houxi's mood is not very good, there are several reasons, the first is that he often talks about his lack of children, counting the sixteenth year of Zhengde's accession to the throne, it has been almost eleven years, and he has no children, not to mention that the emperor is a flat-headed common people, not to mention that the heirs need to use children to stabilize the saint of the society.

Secondly, recently, the queen has become more and more annoying to Zhu Houxi, Lu Bing protects the Empress Dowager of the Zhang family, Zhu Houxi, and knows that Lu Bing and the first emperor have a good relationship, but Zhu Houxi didn't think much about it, because he knew Lu Bing, and he also understood Lu Bing's righteousness.

Now that Lu Bing has gone out to fight for himself, he can just take the opportunity to rectify the Empress Dowager Zhang, of course, the first thing to cut off the limbs and feet of the Empress Dowager Zhang, the Zhang brothers, who were already degraded, have been devastated again. And at this time, Zhu Houxi's own queen came out to intercede without opening her eyes, and the harem was not allowed to interfere in court politics, which was a ban. The queen's repeated offenses reminded Zhu Houxi of the relationship between the queen and the Empress Dowager Zhang when he first discovered it, and the shame of deceiving himself. How can you not be angry? This can be regarded as not dying if she doesn't die, and Empress Zhang can be regarded as hitting the gun's eye.

The family and everything are prosperous, and the queen has a conflict and is unhappy, can Zhu Houxi not hold back the fire, but now he saw such a performance, the "buzz" exploded, and the whole person fell into a very bad state.

Sure enough. As soon as Xue Kan's remarks came out, Emperor Jiajing, who was already in a bad mood, made it even worse, so he was imprisoned for making the emperor blatantly embarrassed.

Zhang Xuan instructed Peng Ze, the secretary of Taichang Temple, to sue Xue Kan. wanted to use Xue Kan's performance to invite him to go up first, so as to implicate Xia Yan and his death. But such a grandiose negligence is inevitably equivalent to exposing Xue Kan at the same time, and bringing the problem of Zhu Houxi's lack of children to the court again. But this also gave Zhu Houxi a reason. It is possible to thoroughly investigate the government and the opposition. Because in Zhu Houxi's view, this rash mention that he had no children was deliberately disgusting to himself, and it was a premeditated decision to compromise Tianwei.

A big investigation began, and the breakthrough point was chosen on Xue Kan first, but no matter how many people Zhang Xuan found, how many interrogation experts he used, and how many coercive users he used, Xue Kan just didn't let go. Resolutely do not lead the disaster to Xia Yan. Zhang Xuan can't be tortured publicly, after all, this is the emperor's main case. It is risky enough to instruct him in private, if he is tortured in a grand manner, he is afraid that he will make the cautious Zhu Houxi unhappy.

But the two officials, Sun Yingkui and Cao Bian, stood up and asked Zhang Xuan to avoid handling the case, and the matter became bigger and bigger, and it came to Zhu Houxi, so Zhang Xuan was avoided and the case was on the right track. Zhang Xuan and Lu Bing's method of rectifying people is different, Lu Bing usually finds clues, so as to dig deeper, and involve the big head, if there is no fault, Lu Bing will dig a pit to lure Jun into the urn and get all the stolen goods, and then start to rectify others. Don't look at Lu Bing's arrogance, but he is slightly vicious in the political struggle.

Zhang Xuan is different, he has his own set, he does everything to frame him, and most of the theories he provides cannot stand up to scrutiny. There is no excuse for creating something out of nothing and wanting to add sin, which is good when the instigator is powerful, but the presiding judge of this case is the saint, so it is not easy to use anyone's backstage. Zhang Xuan is also a literati, and his style of political struggle is indeed simple and rude, which is just the opposite of Lu Bing.

In the end, although Xia Yan was imprisoned, he was not implicated, and Peng Ze, the secretary of Taichang Temple, was assigned to the army out of nothing because he framed Xia Yan. And the fuse of this dispute, the pedestrian Si Si Zheng Xue Kan was demoted to a commoner. Publicly exposing the emperor's shortcomings, it is already a good result to be able to live with his life.

At the end of the tenth year of Jiajing, Xia Yan was promoted to the Ministry of Rites, and the disheartened Zhang Xuan wrote a letter to Lu Bing, who was fighting abroad, and sent a letter to Emperor Zhu Houxi of Jiajing. Zhu Houxi allowed Zhang Xuan to serve temporarily, go home to recuperate, and it was not a problem to go home or stay in the house in the capital.

When Lu Bing rushed back to the capital, it was already late autumn, and Lu Bing didn't go home and went directly to the palace. Lu Bing, who was in the dust, entered the palace and was recruited into the back garden by Zhu Houxi, Lu Bing clasped his fists and saluted on one knee: "The minister sees the saint." ”

"Brother Bing, get up quickly, there are no outsiders here." Zhu Houxi greeted him, pulled Lu Bing up, and patted the dust on Lu Bing's body.

Lu Bing saw that there was a woman beside Zhu Houxi, who he hadn't seen before, but he should be a concubine. Ministers usually don't see concubines, but once they do, they have to salute, this is a holy woman, and she is naturally a generation higher than her courtiers. But Lu Bing's case is an exception, he is the Dragon Shadow General, and he is the emperor's stand-in, so he didn't kneel, but just clasped his fists for a while. Zhu Houxi was secretly happy in his heart, Lu Bingguang saluted himself, it seems that such an unruly man can be caught by himself, and it is still not possible to change others, even the laws and etiquette of the Ming Dynasty can't restrain Lu Bing, he is too powerful.

Zhu Houxi said: "This is Concubine Cao Duan, the last time I went to the Qilu Academy Women's College in Dengzhou, she was the one who came out for me, you have to thank others, by the way, I heard that she and your wife have become sisters?" Hehe, speaking of which, Meng Xueqing is really powerful, it's just a matter of helping you run the family business, and she has a good time with the wives of officials at all levels, and she has become a sister with my beloved concubine. Zhu Houxi laughed again and again, his attitude was very intimate, not at all like the dialogue between the emperor and the courtiers, like a brother talking.

"That's it, Sister Meng is also proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, Lord Lu. Do I have to call you brother-in-law? Cao Luoying said.

"Go and go, what nonsense, this is my Dragon Shadow General." Zhu Houxi smiled. Although the words meant reprimand, there was no blame in the tone, but I liked Cao Luoying's unscrupulousness and indescribable pampering in her eyes.

Lu Bing smiled, didn't say much, sometimes too much is lost, you have to learn to shut up properly. Zhu Houxi asked Cao Duanfei to step back for the time being. said that he and Lu Bing had a few more words to talk about.

After Cao Duanconcubine gave the emperor and Lu Bing a blessing ceremony, Shanshan retreated, and Zhu Houxi said: "A few days ago, Zhang Xuan and Xia Yan and a group of people were noisy. I was distraught, and that's why I called you back. Now that the war has basically stabilized, I dare you to come back to see me in your spare time. In fact, this matter can be big or small. It's nothing more than that I want to take in a righteous son. ”

"Huh?" Lu Bing was surprised: "Although the previous dynasty is not without precedent. But there are definitely not many, especially the orthodox emperor who has a unified regime like Xiang Shengshang, there are really very few, and you can count them on your fingers. ”

"I'm different from theirs, I don't have an heir, and I don't know what year and month I will have to wait until I give birth to the prince, and besides, don't we all say it, it's that rainy night." Zhu Houxi said with a wink at Lu Bing.

Lu Bing was taken aback and said, "Your Majesty." You mean, "

"That's right, I just want to recognize Lu Play as my righteous son." Zhu Houxi said excitedly: "Tell Feiyan about it." Let's pass Lu over to the concubine. Duan Concubine is my favorite pet, so in short, it can be regarded as allowing me to try the taste of being a father, it is better to have a son than no son, and a righteous son is better than nothing. ”

Lu Bing suddenly laughed and said, "Why is Your Majesty so eager to find a righteous son?" Within two years, His Majesty will be able to give birth to a dragon son. ”

Zhu Houxi suddenly tensed up, jumped up two steps, looked directly at Lu Bing and said, "Are you serious?" ”

"Absolutely." Lu Bing said confidently.

"Who gave birth to the prince for me?" Zhu Houxi said: "When exactly?" ”

"Heaven must not be divulged." Lu Bing said with a profound face, and Zhu Houxi nodded: "Then I will listen to you once, and I will stop the matter of recognizing Lu for the time being." ”

Lu Bing's face did not change, but he breathed a long sigh of relief in his heart. This seems to be the supreme glory, but in fact, it is just Zhu Houxi's wishful thinking, which will not bring any benefit to Lu Bing, and will also bring death to the Lu family.

First of all, Lu Bing's identity is even more sensitive, maybe he will be called a usurper of the Mu Dynasty, pretending to be the emperor, and so on. And now everything Lu Bing has done, what was originally normal is not normal, there is a feeling of impure purpose, there will always be people involved in His Royal Highness Lu Xiangan. There is no excuse for the crime that you want to add, even if Lu Bing's power is monstrous, it will be difficult to stop everyone from destroying the collarbone.

Second, when you are the emperor's godson, you must often enter the palace gate, and if you talk too much, you will lose the right and wrong of people, and sooner or later you will have a fork. If Zhu Houyu has no son, then it should be inherited by the son of the nearest vassal king, of course, this generation should be at least Zhu Houxi's younger brother or nephew. If Lu Play becomes His Royal Highness, although it is designated that he will not be able to inherit the throne, and the throne must be seated by the surname Zhu, he will also have some power accordingly, which will attract jealousy. When Lu Bing was there, he said that once Zhu Houxi died, Lu Bing was gone, if the family was not prosperous enough and did not have enough power to keep the family business, he was afraid that the Lu family would suffer a catastrophe because of this, so the matter of admitting his son was not a blessing, but a buried disaster.

Zhu Houxi's interest was very high, because in his opinion, Lu Bing was always omnipotent, and what he said should be very accurate, this is a kind of personality cult of Lu Bing himself. However, Zhu Houxi, as the king of a country, did not forget the matter, and said at this time: "The war is stable, Lu Bing, you have made great contributions, I will retain your name as the general of the Dragon Shadow, and still let you be in charge of the world's military power, what do you think?" ”

Lu Bing hurriedly clenched his fists and said: "This is a last resort in wartime, and now it is no longer necessary, the Holy Lord still withdraws the canonization of his ministers, and just let me be in charge of the border war." The reason why the country is called a country, and the reason why the saint is the king of a country, is very important is that he has military power, so the military power should be properly controlled by the saint himself, and what can be transferred without a tiger charm can be taken back together. ”

"Lu Bing, do you really think so?" Zhu Houxi smiled happily and said, he couldn't use his belly full of manuscripts, Lu Bing preemptively said his thoughts, this Lu Bing is really good at being a man.

"Seriously." Lu Bingdao.

Zhu Houxi nodded: "I didn't see the wrong person, I thought you had to be reluctant." Don't go, who is your family in the capital now? Let's all come into the palace and eat together. Zhu Houxi did not mention the matter of recalling or not recalling his name, and turned to the line of family affection, which is unpredictable and quite a king.

"Thank you, my lord, Ron." Lu Bing hugged his fists and thanked. (To be continued......)