Whether Zhu Houzhao has lived up to his ancestors' foundation or not, this question is really impossible for Qin Kan to answer.

In the fourteen years since he ascended the throne, what has Zhu Houzhao done?

Most of the time in the struggle, in the competition, in the ministers, and kowtow to the head of the blood, the tit-for-tat scene on the Golden Palace is like a group of half-hundred-year-old men around a lonely beggar orphan on the street punching and kicking, outsiders look at the eyes of indignation, but after carefully exploring the reasons, you will feel that the poor person must have something to hate, I have to say that Zhu Houzhao is really undersmoked sometimes, his absurdity, his rebellion and madness, even Qin Kan sometimes hates itchy, if it weren't for the fear of being punished by the Nine Clans, Qin Kan had already whipped him ten thousand times.

Zhu Houzhao favored traitorous ministers, but he did not kill loyal ministers indiscriminately, he restored the notorious Xichang, and also indirectly caused a lot of killings because of his favor in Liu Jin, but he has the lofty ambition of enriching the country and strengthening the army, and he still has a relatively simple heart at the age of 30......

However, it is not appropriate to say that Zhu Houzhao has failed in the past 14 years, and he has not won any of them. From the beginning of Liu Jin's new policy, and later supported Qin Kan to open the sea ban, again and again in person, he personally pacified the domestic rebellion, resisted the Tartars in the border towns to plunder the border, and sent the victory of the good news back to Beijing again and again, so that the ministers of the court wanted to scold and could not scold, and unconsciously fought the internal and external wars of the imperial court in a daze, and the invincible spirit of the two emperors of Hongwu Yongle more than 100 years ago had faint signs of recovery and transcendence in the Zhengde Dynasty......

The fourteen-year Zhengde Dynasty, whether it is merit or fault, good or evil, Zhu Houzhao said that it doesn't count. Qin Kan said that it doesn't count, and even the historian's "Zhengde Record" doesn't count, this question can only be left to future generations to judge, and future generations are the most fair and objective, because they have not personally experienced the ups and downs of the Zhengde Dynasty, nor have they seen the loneliness and helplessness of this legendary emperor under the absurd and frolicking skin.

Qin Kan has been helping him, for this suffocating Han dynasty, and for the promise he once made. For the past fourteen years. Qin Kan leaned against the big tree, silently, step by step, realizing his ambitions, some of which had already been realized. Some are still working on it.

Zhu Houzhao is still young. Qin Kan is also young. They are all in the prime of a man's prime, and they still have a lot of time to carefully compose all the beauties they want to paint on this piece of paper for posterity. It's a great pen.

Of course, there is such an emperor who does not distinguish between good and evil, and there is also Qin Kan, a useless courtier of good and evil.

"Whether His Majesty has lived up to the ancestral inheritance, the minister thinks that it will be thousands of years before he can find the answer." Qin Kan said in a deep voice.

Zhu Houzhao looked stunned: "Thousands of years later? I'm afraid I won't be able to wait......"

After a moment of silence, Zhu Houzhao smiled again: "Think about thousands of years later, countless future generations of historians have finished reading the Zhengde Benji, some people cover the volume and sigh, some people throw books and scold, if it is fair, maybe there are still people who applaud me, the merits and demerits of my life can affect the joys and sorrows of thousands of years later, it's good to think about it, it's good to scold, it's good to praise, I have finally become a handful of loess, a pair of rotten bones, what can the world do to me?" Ha Lu Ha. ”

Qin Kan said with a smile: "Those whose merits are as high as the ancestors of the Tang Sect and Song Dynasty will inevitably have a ruined reputation for future generations, that is already the business of future generations, what does it have to do with you and me?" ”

Zhu Houzhao smiled: "Yes, I study Buddhism every day, but I am not as open-minded as you, I am in the same phase." ”

The tea in the roadside tea shop is very rough, Zhu Houzhao and Qin Kan are both luxurious characters who are used to brocade clothes and jade food, but at this moment, they don't care about raising their glasses and saluting each other, drinking it all in one gulp, and the unfamiliar bitterness in their mouths is like a new life experience, and the two look at each other and smile.

"Qin Kan, I know you...... Fifteen years, right? ”

"Sixteen years, Your Majesty, the minister is Hongzhi and His Majesty met in the eighteenth year."

Zhu Houzhao smiled: "Well, sixteen years, it sounds so long, it will be half a lifetime in confusion, but if you look carefully, I feel that my acquaintance with you is as clear as yesterday, I remember that I was still the prince of the East Palace at that time, and that day Xu Pengju took me out of the palace to play, saying that I wanted to let me know a very novel friend......

Qin Kan smiled and continued: "Your Majesty's first impression of the minister is probably not very good, especially after losing a lot of money playing cards with the minister, at that time, Your Majesty is afraid that he will want to get rid of the minister and hurry up, right?" ”

Zhu Houzhao said with a smile: "Yes, I was going crazy at that time, in the past I used Zhang Yong with Gu Da in the East Palace to play mahjong, play leaf cards, play dice, every time I kill the Quartet, those dogs are better than me even if the cards in their hands are better, which one dares to really win me?" Only on the day I met you, you unceremoniously let me lose thousands of taels of silver, to be honest, if it weren't for Xu Pengju's face, I really wanted to ask the guards to pull you out of the city and cut you down......"

Qin Kan muttered: "Cards are character, and playing cards with people with this kind of character under Your Majesty can actually survive until now, the ancestral tomb of the minister must have spewed a lot of green smoke over the years......"

"Over the years, our monarchs and ministers can be described as an outlier in the past dynasties, not brothers and friends but better than brothers and friends, we have done a lot of bad things together, whenever the minister is in trouble, the golden palace can tacitly solve each other's siege with a look, let's pit people together, and suffer together......"

Qin Kan said with a smile: "Our monarchs and ministers have also done a lot of great things over the years, quelling the chaos, killing thieves, opening the sea, suppressing the power of the vassals, and fighting a decisive battle against the Tatars...... I still remember the Hongzhi promised when His Majesty ascended the throne that year, and said that he would be better than the Tang Dynasty and Song Zu, these years, the minister felt that His Majesty was slightly worse than the Tang Dynasty and Song Ancestor, and it was not far away, but fortunately, we are still young, and His Majesty is now less than thirty years old, and there is still a lot of time to conquer the four seas, so that all the barbarians compete to come to the court, and create a more brilliant Zhongxing prosperous era than Hongzhi. ”

Zhu Houzhao smiled: "Yes, you and I are still young, we have time to prove to the ministers and the people of the world, I like to play, but I am by no means a faint king, I have done many things in my life, and some things have not even been done by the previous emperors of the past dynasties, but I have done it, I am worthy of my ancestors and ancestors!" Qin Kan, you are only in your early thirties now, it is the prime of life, next year I plan to conquer the grassland again, completely conquer the north, pacify, and collect the Mongolian tribes into my Ming Dynasty, you have a few military achievements for me, I have the confidence to crown you as the king with a different surname, the first king with a different surname after Hongwu, our monarchs and ministers will undoubtedly get along for a lifetime. ”

"Minister. I am willing to serve His Majesty in this life. ”

"If there is an afterlife, you will be the emperor, I will serve you and repay you for the hardships of this life."

Qin Kan looked up at him in surprise: "Your Majesty ......"

Zhu Houzhao smiled: "I feel something, just talk about it." ”

Zhu Houzhao left, and surrounded by the guards, he disappeared into the sea of people like a son.

Qin Kan stood upstairs in the tea shop, staring at his back, and inexplicably felt a sense of sadness.

Life is only like the wind before the wind, and the joy is also sporadic. Sadness is also sporadic. All do Lianjiang and a little Ping.

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In an alley in the inner street of Jingshi East City. There is a tasteful and restrained mansion.

This house originally belonged to a criminal servant, but ten years ago he was ousted by political enemies in the court dispute, and the whole family was exiled, and the house was naturally taken over by the household department. Later, a mysterious person bought the house.

The house is huge. Five into three classes. There are courtyards on all sides, and there is a small but delicate pond in the middle, with weeping willows on the edge of the pond. The pavilion on the pond, the summer breeze is coming, which makes people feel refreshed.

In this capital city, where every inch of land is valuable, the person who can own such a mansion is an extraordinary rich and powerful person.

The house changed to a new owner, and naturally a new servant was also replaced, and the day after the mysterious person bought the house, a group of housekeepers wearing brand new clothes, handymen, nurses, maids, and cooks entered the house, and removed the door face plaque, but did not install a new plaque, and the house has been popular since then.

The servants cleaned the house inside and out every day, and no one had ever seen the new owner of the house, until one day, a brightly dressed and beautiful woman stepped on the Yingying steps, and the housekeepers and maids lined up to greet them, and the neighbors around them realized that the owner of the house was such a beautiful woman.

Women, especially beautiful women, are the source of right and wrong everywhere, and the mistress of this house is no exception.

The stunning appearance of the hostess soon spread all over the eastern city of Beijing, attracting the attention of many gentlemen and magnates in Beijing, but everyone was very patient, because they only knew that there was a hostess in this house, but they had never seen the male host, and the people who could buy a huge mansion in the inner street of the eastern city of Beijing were not only things that money could do, but they were used to bullying men and women, but they were not fools, and no one dared to act rashly before they figured out the situation.

Until one day, there was finally a living Lei Feng who helped everyone wade thunder.

A deputy commander surnamed Zhou of the Five Cities Terracotta Division drank too much wine with his cronies, and when everyone bragged, they talked about the hostess of the mysterious mansion in Dongcheng, and the deputy commander of Zhou drank a little high, and his face was red and red, even if he patted his chest, he said that no matter who was behind the house, he would swear to break down the door and snatch out the stunning hostess tonight to open everyone's eyes.

Men who drink too much will inevitably have some deathly behaviors, especially men with a little power in their hands, after drinking too much, they will find that their power is infinitely magnified, and the invincible state of death in the world will quietly raise its head unconsciously.

So Deputy Commander Zhou heroically embarked on the road of bullying men and women in the compliments of a group of cronies.

It's a pity that the result is not ideal, walking to the door of the mysterious house on the inner street of Dongcheng, Deputy Commander Zhou raised his fist with a sand bowl and smashed the door, only to smash it twice before he found that he was surrounded.

It was a real seamless encirclement, less than a foot behind him, three layers inside and out, countless crossbows and arrows and steel knives were aimed at him, arrows and blades glittered in the moonlight, and Commander Zhou, who had been awake for eight points, had a face that was more ugly than a dead man, because he saw the familiar brocade-clothed guard flying fish robe, and a pair of eyes that were as cold and cruel as hungry wolves......

The next day, someone found the body of the deputy commander of Zhou on the moat of the Beijing Division, the corpse was full of holes, countless wounds, obviously tortured before death, the soldiers and horses and the Shuntian Mansion were shocked, and hurriedly sent people to investigate, and when they found the mysterious house, they couldn't investigate it anymore, because Jinyiwei took over the case, and the case was not clear until ten years later.

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PS: There is one more ...... (To be continued......)