When he returned from Huyanjin Mansion, Zhu Zhanji kept smiling until the James Mansion handed over a copy of the mansion newspaper to him.

Zhu Zhanji read it twice, threw the newspaper on the ground, and said angrily: "This is how you James Mansion sent the newspaper?" What happened ten days ago, Lone only sees it now! ”

Xu Zhanshi was so frightened that he hurriedly knelt on the ground, he was also wronged, the North James Mansion put this matter together with the non-urgent matter, and it was too late to send it, and they should also deal with it as a non-urgent matter, and they could see it in ten days, and it was normal, which was considered fast.

Hu Yanjin also knelt on the ground, guessing what was written in the newspaper, only to hear Zhu Zhanji say: "Lord Huyan, go and see, you also know this person." ”

He took a quick look at the Di newspaper, and there was nothing else special, only one, the people involved, he did know: Yi Chengjin in the Criminal Department, was promoted to the Imperial History of the Left Governor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and was the fourth product.

Hu Yanjin sneered in his heart: Shi Niang's death may not have been done by him, but he was the person in charge and beneficiary of the action...... Could it be that the crown prince was the one who instructed this?

"What? Don't you think it's strange? Zhu Zhanji asked lightly.

Hu Yanjin folded the mansion report, put it back on the dragon case of the imperial grandson, and arched his hand: "This matter started because of Hu Yan." ”

Zhu Zhanji was a little surprised.

I only heard Hu Yanjin continue:

"In the case of rebellion, Yi Chengjin and the lowly position of the criminal department were promoted for the same thing, but because of the recommendation of His Royal Highness Taisun, the lowly position was promoted by two levels, and the grade was above Lord Yi. The criminal department was in the hands of the crown prince, and he was slightly inferior at that time, and he must have been dissatisfied.

Now that I have found a reason for the reward, I have promoted Master Yi to the Metropolitan Procuratorate under your grandson, although it is only a fourth-grade official rank, it is not enough to affect the Metropolitan Procuratorate, but it is a response to the last reward. However, why should His Royal Highness the Taisun worry? ”

Zhu Zhanji just thought that this was his father taking advantage of his departure from Beijing to stuff people under him. His face softened, nodded and asked, "Why did Aiqing say this?" ”

"The right is the imperial history, in the Imperial Palace, the upper imperial history, the deputy imperial history, the four of them are Your Royal Highness's subordinates, or overhead, or sent out, or when to find a mistake and degrade, the crown prince will still be a fourth-grade official, and you can't be angry?"

Hu Yanjin was unhurried, and when it came to Zhu Zhanji's heart, he couldn't help laughing: "Xu Zhanshi, for Huyan's sake, for Huyan's sake, if you don't settle accounts with you, you can retreat." ”

When there were only two of them left in the main hall of the East Palace, Zhu Zhanji smiled and said: "Huyan, Yi Chengjin is now competing with you again, let Gu see if you have the ability to surpass him again." ”

"Thank you Your Highness for your cultivation, Jin will live up to His Highness's high expectations."

The same sentence also sounded in the main hall of the Shuntianfu Palace at the same time.

Yi Chengjin clenched his fists in the main hall and said to the crown prince: "Thank you Your Highness for your cultivation, Jin will live up to His Royal Highness's high expectations." ”

"This time, the Criminal Department went to Jiangnan to chase the murderer, and the two murderers who committed crimes in the capital quickly surrendered to the law and were able to reassure the people, and Yi Daren contributed a lot. Now that you are a lonely person, the Metropolitan Procuratorate may not be kind to you, and if there is anything, just report it, and you don't have to pay attention to the official rank. ”

Zhu Gaochi's words, even Wei Qian, the left attendant of the Criminal Department, was taken aback: Skipping the level to report, this is to treat Jin'er as a confidant.

Coming out of the palace, the father and son returned to the study of the Wei Mansion.

Yi Chengjin is an abandoned baby picked up by the Wei family from the door.

But because Mrs. Wei only gave birth to three daughters, Yi Chengjin has always been very loved by Mrs. Wei in the Wei family, so that he has always used the name given to him by his biological mother, and she also has a selfish intention, she wants to recruit this righteous son raised by herself as a son-in-law in the future.

Mrs. Wei was selected from the people together with her sister and sent to Daming as tribute, and they were called tribute girls. Every year, there are always many beautiful North Korean girls who leave their homeland and come to this strange country like them.

Emperor Yongle likes Korean concubines, and he doesn't look down on them because they are from a subject country, but he can't give them to the sister of the crown prince Zhu Gaochi, so he doesn't have this kind of luck.

Someone privately said that Emperor Yongle himself had Korean ancestry, so Zhu Gaochi was displeased when he saw him, a Korean lady.

When the Li sisters paid tribute to the Ming Dynasty, Wei Qian, who was still in the criminal department, made meritorious contributions, and as soon as Emperor Yongle was happy, he gave a Korean tribute girl to Wei Qian, who was later Mrs. Wei.

Wei Qian liked her very much, and later because he had no children, his mother gave him a concubine, and he rarely even stepped into the door.

Mrs. Wei often went to the East Palace to see her because she took pity on her own sister, which was also a reward that Wei Qian asked the prince for his meritorious service. Therefore, before Yi Chengjin was twelve years old, he often followed his stepmother to see Li Xuanshi.

Li Xuanzhi was fortunate to have the prince by chance.

said that it was a coincidence, that was because at that time, the crown princess Zhang and the talented Li were pregnant with the fourth and fifth, and the crown prince had no favorite person to serve, and one day he was reprimanded by the emperor in the main hall and returned to the palace to drink.

Li Shuren happened to come over to ask for peace, and Zhu Gaochi sprinkled the anger that his Lao Tzu made him suffer on this Korean concubine who was given to him.

I don't know that Li Shuren was blessed by misfortune, and she was pregnant by virtue of this luck. She wants to get pregnant when she is not pregnant, and she wants a son when she is pregnant.

Yi Chengjin was five years old that year, and followed Mrs. Wei and her eldest sister into the East Palace to greet the lady, and heard Li Shuren sigh to Mrs. Wei:

"My sister has no status in the East Palace, you see the princess of the Ming Dynasty, she is often given by the emperor casually, I only have such a chance in this belly, I can only give birth to a prince and grandson, in order to keep my palace safe."

At that time, Mrs. Wei had already given birth to three daughters, and she was blinded by her mother-in-law, let alone in this deep palace?

"Sister, I will arrange this with the adults, seeing that the child is about to be full-term, and the four nurses have already been arranged in the house, just wait for you to give birth here, and let them enter the palace. You can rest assured that my sister's wish will not be disappointed. ”

Yi Chengjin was hiding in the curtain to play, but when he heard his stepmother and mother say these strange words, the two of them hugged each other and cried quietly. So he was particularly impressed: it turns out that adults can cry too!

Later, Li Shuren gave birth to a son as she wished, but like the lady who gave birth to a daughter, she was just a waiter. Although the crown prince never blessed her again, with this son, she can be regarded as standing on her feet.

"Jin'er, it seems that the crown prince is quite satisfied with you, it is okay for you to go to the Metropolitan Procuratorate, don't rush forward, when the crown prince ascends the throne, you have qualifications again, are you still afraid that you will not be reused? Your stepmother died early, and before she died, she entrusted me with the choice of the maid...... Alas! ”

Wei Qian can be hard-hearted to anyone, but he has no principles at all for his wife, and he said:

"Before, your stepmother always hoped that Qing'er would marry you when she grew up, but Qing'er was blessed, so she just went...... The girls that your father-in-law picked for you are all the daughters of powerful families in the capital, and you don't fancy any of them? ”

Yi Chengjin smiled and saluted his father-in-law: "Father-in-law, my son already has a girl who is happy, she is now in Beijing, why don't you invite her to the house tomorrow and let you have a look?" "Yes, it's not bad to use Tao Qingyu to block it.

"Oh? Isn't her home in Beijing? ”

"Her home is in Yangzhou, yes...... Tao Wanhu's granddaughter. ”