In addition to Wan Zhi continuing to serve as the commander of the Han General Battalion, Song Nan added him the position of Jinyiwei's pro-army commander Tongzhi, which is nominally already the status of the second person within Jinyiwei. Wang Yong served as the commander of Jinyiwei, and concurrently held the position of the Supervision Division, promoted Hou Dabiao to the commander of Jinyiwei, and increased Huang Hui to the position of Tongzhi of Jinyiwei South Town.

Basically, it can be seen that Song Nan has the arrangement of the future Jinyiwei internal personnel in his heart, once Song Nan steps down in the future, the position of commander will be produced among Wanzhi, Wang Yong and Hou Dabiao; And the candidate for Nanzhen Fusi to take over in the future is Huang Hui, who has been all the way up from Zhengnanfang; Beizhen Fusi Ruohou Dabiao was promoted, and Zheng Da became the first candidate for the position, these people were all cultivated by Song Nan, no matter who eventually became the lucky one, the Jinyi Wei Yamen was firmly in the hands of Song Nan.

Subsequently, Song Nan issued an order, ordering the North and South Zhenfu Division and the Supervision Department to launch together to carry out the second major purge of the entire Jinyi Wei system after a lapse of seven years, requiring that all kinds of problem officials that have arisen in these seven years be investigated and eliminated, and maintaining the purity of the team is the biggest task at present.

Song Nan did not announce in public that he was going to leave the capital and go to Gannan to assist Wang Shouren in suppressing bandits, but only explained the matter in a small area after the meeting, so the matter can be related to the evidence of King Ning's misdeeds, and everyone has no objections, after all, what Lord Song wants to do can't be stopped if he wants to. But deep into Jiangxi, but also to go to Nanchang Mansion, that is the territory of King Ning, protecting the safety of Lord Song is the top priority, in view of this, the four unanimously agreed to let Wang Yong lead the team to accompany him, originally the thousand households of the Jinyi Guard Fire Battalion are already Zhao Dapeng, but Zhao Dapeng has little experience after all, and is not as experienced and experienced as Wang Yong.

Song Nan agreed with them, this trip was not easier than any adventure, he needed Wang Yong's right-hand man, so he ordered Wang Yong to select five hundred fire guns to accompany him, and prepare to go to Jiangxi.

Song Nan's time was very urgent, and Zhengde clearly told himself that before the seventh morning of the first lunar month, if he could not come up with evidence of King Ning's misdeeds, Zhengde would have to be forced to announce the decision of King Lining as the emperor's heir, and today is the third day of the first lunar month, and it is definitely too late in time.

In any case, while King Ning was still in the capital, it was much safer and more convenient to go to his lair to do errands, and if King Ning himself was in Nanchang Mansion, Song Nan would have to consider whether to go on such a trip.

In the evening, Song Nan entered the palace non-stop, in the Qianqing Palace, in Zhengde's violent coughing and bellows-like panting, Song Nan handed over the life of the new candidate of Jinyiwei, Zhengde had the heart to manage the change of positions of the internal candidates of Jinyiwei, waved his hand and said: "Listen to you, there is no need to bother me with such things, and it will be directly handed over to the red-haired court of the celebrant in the future." ”

Song Nan thanked him and said: "Your Majesty, the minister wants to leave the capital for a few days, please ask the emperor for permission." ”

Zhengde frowned and said, "Where to go?" You know that I need you by my side urgently, so why did you leave the capital? ”

Song Nan said: "The minister wants to do something, this matter is about the emperor's most accurate decision on the emperor's heir, and the minister has to go; Originally, the minister promised the emperor to submit the relevant evidence to the emperor before the seventh day of the first lunar month, but now it seems that it will not be possible, please let the emperor postpone the time of decision, and wait for me to come back before making a decision. ”

Zhengde said dissatisfied: "Needless to say, you are going to find evidence that King Ning's son is not suitable to inherit the imperial heir, I have thought a lot in the past two days, and the things you said about King Ning in Nanchang are not substantiated, I feel more and more suspicious, tell sù me, is there anything between you and King Ning, so you insist on obstructing his son from inheriting to me?" ”

Song Nan was shocked and hurriedly said: "The emperor must not guess, what the ministers are doing is just for the sake of the future of the Ming Dynasty, the selection of the emperor's heir cannot be cautious, Prince Ning is the Prince of the Ming Dynasty, what can the minister have with him?" If the emperor is suspicious, the minister ignores the matter. ”

Zhengde covered his mouth and coughed a few times, and said after a long time: "That's it, I can only give you grace until before Shangyuan, the Queen Mother is urging tightly, and Prince Liang and several ministers of the outer court have played again to let me make a decision as soon as possible, my body is getting more and more painful, and I don't want to bother more in this matter." ”

Song Nan sighed secretly, and said in his heart, Zhengde is a broken jar, this kind of saying is extremely inappropriate for an emperor who has a heavy responsibility for the Ming Dynasty, but maybe the illness has made him torture and emaciated, or maybe the pressure from the Queen Mother and Prince Liang is huge, or Zhengde thinks that he has some intentions, so he just wants to solve this matter as much as possible, and be quiet and undisturbed; No matter what the considerations, Song Nan understands that if he doesn't hurry up, this matter will probably develop in the direction he least wants to see.

"The minister will definitely rush back to the capital before the Yuan Festival, and the emperor is waiting for my news. The emperor takes care of his body, the emperor has been very unwell in the past few days, which is an inherent disease after stopping taking Dragon Tiger Rejuvenation Pills, after this time, the body will become more and more refreshing, but in any case, it can't be taken, that is to drink to quench thirst. ”

Zhengde waved his hand weakly and said, "I know, you can go." ”

Song Nan knelt down and retreated, and Zhengde suddenly stopped him and said, "Song Nan, go and see the imperial sister." ”

Song Nan was startled, and hurriedly lowered his head and said, "The minister doesn't dare." ”

Zhengde sighed and said, "I'm not tempting you, I know that since you came back from Nanjing, you haven't crossed the line for more than half a year, and I'm very happy." It's just that...... The love of the imperial sister during this time is not very good...... Ay...... In a word...... I may let you see her, but you need to be in control. ”

Song Nan agreed in a low voice and said goodbye. Zhengde sat in a daze for a while, slowly got up and returned to the bedroom to sit on the soft couch, and a figure walked out softly from behind the curtain and said in a low voice: "Your Majesty." ”

Zhengde woke up from his contemplation, raised his eyes, his eyes became eager, and shouted, "Ma Yongcheng, do you want to bring something?" ”

Ma Yongcheng stepped forward quickly and said with a smile: "The emperor explained something, how can the slave and maid not care?" As he spoke, he took out a small porcelain vase from his bosom and offered it with both hands.

Zhengde gasped excitedly, his eyes lit up, his hands trembled a little, he snatched the porcelain bottle, shook and poured out five or six pills to send to his mouth, excited, a small pill fell to the ground from his shaking palm, Ma Yongcheng was busy pouting his ass to find it on the ground, and finally found the pill under the bed, when he got up, he saw that Zhengde's hand was empty, leaning on the pillow, his face was slightly red, and he was enjoying himself with a slightly drunk smile.

Ma Yongcheng carefully put the pill into the porcelain bottle and said in a low voice: "Emperor, emperor?" ”

Zhengde snorted unconsciously, and after a while, he let out a satisfied sigh, opened his eyes, his eyes were bright, he got up and staggered a few steps and sighed: "It's really a wonderful thing, as soon as I take this thing, I suddenly feel that all diseases are gone, and my mood is very good." ”

Ma Yongcheng said with a sad face: "Your Majesty, you can't let Gonggong Zhang and Song Nan know about this matter, otherwise they will definitely skin the slave and maid alive, and the slave and maid will secretly go to King Ning to ask for pills at the risk of death, if this leaks out......"

Zhengde waved his hand and said: "They won't know, you can rest assured that there is a qiē." ”

Ma Yongcheng said: "This medicine still has to be hidden, and if it is placed here by the emperor, I am afraid that it will be discovered, so it is better to bring the slave and maid on the body, and the emperor will order someone to call the slave and maid to come and serve when he needs it." ”

Zhengde thought for a while and nodded: "Okay, just do as you say, I don't want Song Nan to know about it, I promised him not to take this medicine, if he knows that I take it secretly, it will be a little difficult to do." ”

Ma Yongcheng agreed in a low voice, with a strange sly look in his eyes, and bowed to leave. Zhengde slowly lay down, silent in the boundless happy situation.

……

The palace is quiet, although it is still the weather of the New Year, and the palaces are hung with lanterns, but it feels very strange to Song Nan, no matter how dazzling the palace lanterns are, the fate of the master who lives here does not seem to be as gorgeous as the palace lanterns. Not to mention that Zhengde is young and seriously ill, but to say that the person she is about to meet, how happy can her life be?

Shouning Palace is not far away, the whole palace is also quiet and silent, Song Nan stepped into the steps of the front yard of the palace, a palace maid carried a lantern to greet her, looking at Song Nan's dress and stunned, a foreign minister came to the princess's dormitory without notice, this is the first time she has seen since she was on duty.

"Dare to ask what this lord is doing? This is the princess's bedroom in the apse of the palace, so you haven't taken the wrong path. ”

Song Nan smiled and said: "Of course I made a mistake, I came to see the princess, and I will know when I go back to Cui Shang Palace." ”

"Cui Shanggong?" The little palace maid was stunned for a moment, lowered her face and said, "Cui Shanggong has passed away, why do you mention her?" ”

Song Nan woke up in shock, remembering that the two female officials, Cui Shanggong and Hongyu, were no longer alive, and he actually said it in passing, he was really confused, so he said: "Go to Tongyu, tell Princess Sù, Song Nan, the prince of Zhenguo, came to see him." ”

The palace maid was startled, the person in front of her was Song Nan, the prince of Zhenguo, although she had not been in the palace for a long time, but the relationship between the prince of Zhenguo and Her Royal Highness the princess had been heard in private I don't know how many times, so far there was nothing more, and Ju said with a salute: "Grandpa Guo, please sit in the hall of the front yard for a while, and the slave and maid will go to the courtesy." ”