"Hehe," after listening to the accusations of the two clans against King De, Zhu Youzhen sneered, "King De, you are really a good vassal king of the Ming Dynasty." Elder Wen Ge, what do you think about this? ”

Wen Tiren was taken aback, and hurriedly said: "Since there is a clan accusing King De, according to the usual practice, the Shandong Inspectorate Department can be responsible for the investigation, and once it is verified, it will be reported to the court for the crime." ”

The local government already had the responsibility of monitoring the clan of the vassal king, and Wen Tiren's words could not be miscalculated, but Zhu Youzhen was not satisfied, so he looked at Hong Chengchou and asked, "Da Sima, in your opinion, how should I deal with it?" ”

Hong Chengchou naturally understood the meaning of Zhu Youzhen's question, and immediately said: "Your Majesty, in the opinion of the minister, what Elder Wen Ge said is wrong. King Nade committed so many crimes, how could the officials of Shandong according to the Inspectorate be unaware? I'm afraid that as the two clan relatives said, King De really colluded with the Shandong locality, and asked the inspector to go to King Chade, wouldn't it be clear that he would eliminate the evidence of the crime? If the king of Germany is panicked and takes risks, if the local government is afraid that the court will ask for the guilt and attach it to the king of Germany, the minister is afraid that Shandong will not be owned by the court. ”

"Ahh Wen Tiren was really shocked, Hong Chengchou's words were clearly referring to the rebellion of King De, which was to put the crime of rebellion on the head of King De.

"Doesn't Elder Wen believe it?" Hong Chengchou turned to look at Wen Tiren, and said quietly, "King De has the palace guards, money and food, and Jinan City is bordered by Jishui in the north and Taiyue in the south, which is really dangerous for mountains and rivers." If the local officials in Shandong are also on the side of King De, the situation of secession can be achieved immediately. ”

Divide the country, are the officials in Shandong all fools, how can they support the self-reliance of King De, and what can they do with hundreds of guards in King De's mansion? It's clear nonsense! Wen Tiren complained frantically in his heart.

However, he was a smart man, and he did not refute Hong Chengchou directly, but carefully looked at the emperor's face, and saw that Zhu Youzhen's face was expressionless, and he was very calm, and there was no change in color at all because of Hong Chengchou's alarmism.

Wen Tiren's heart suddenly suddenly, and he suddenly remembered King Fu's rebellion a few years ago, this, I'm afraid this is history going to repeat itself.

"Da Sima is right, I thought about it, but I didn't expect the seriousness of the matter." Wen Tiren immediately changed his tone and said, "Your Majesty, Weichen suggests that according to what Da Sima said, immediately send troops to Jinan to control the situation first." ”

Hong Chengchou rolled his eyes, Lao Tzu said that King De was very likely to rebel, but when did he say that he sent troops to Jinan? However, Wen Tiren's words were still good, and Hong Chengchou was not in a hurry to refute.

"Don't talk nonsense, King De is the dignified king of the Ming Dynasty, my cousin, is he a rebel? What army to send to Jinan? Zhu Youzhen scolded softly.

"Yes, yes, yes, it's the minister's speech." Wen Tiren hurriedly said, but secretly complained in his heart, what vassal king will not rebel, your ancestor Zhu Di is not a rebel against the throne?

"However, since the two clan relatives accuse King De of colluding with the local government, it is not appropriate for Shandong to investigate King De according to the judges," Zhu Youzhen changed his words, "Since I came to Dezhou, it is only a stone's throw away from Jinan, so I simply went to Jinan Mansion, I want to personally inquire about this matter, if King De's crime is conclusive, it will be severely punished in accordance with the laws and regulations of the Ming Dynasty, and if it is a matter of chasing wind and shadows, I should also return King De's innocence." ”

"Your Majesty Shengming!" Wen Tiren, Hong Chengchou, Zhang Shize and others spoke loudly.

So the order was given, and the army stopped advancing and turned towards Jinan.

Originally, it was both land and water, except for the army guarding on both sides of the strait, most of the people and grain and grass were going along the canal by boat, but now to go to Jinan, they can only change to the land route, and the sudden change is quite inconvenient.

After discussion, Hong Chengchou suggested that the army could be divided into two, still marching along the canal under the banner of the emperor all the way, going south along the canal, and stopping to rest when it reached Jining. The emperor was escorted by 6,000 Praetorian Guards, leaving aside all the redundant personnel, and went to Jinan in a light car, so that the local government of Jinan would inevitably have no time to prepare, and there was no time to cover up the evidence. When he arrived outside the city of Jinan, he would reveal the identity of the emperor, and he would go straight into the city to investigate the case.

"Your Majesty's golden body, how can you endure the hardships of the saddle horse?" Wen Tiren objected.

Zhu Youzhen waved his hand: "It's okay, it's not that I haven't been personally recruited, or it's not a big deal to ride a horse." ”

Since Zhu Youzhen insisted, Wen Tiren could only shut up. Next, he followed the emperor's side, Wen Tiren had a dispute with Hong Chengchou again, and refused to give up the opportunity to go to Jinan with the emperor.

"Wen Ge Lao showed up along the way, all kinds of things are arranged by you, if Wen Ge Lao does not show up next, it is likely that people will detect the abnormality, if King De has an embankment because of this, I am afraid it will be troublesome." Hong Chengchou smiled and said with a smile.

"......" Wen Tiren couldn't refute, he could only retreat, and he could only give up the opportunity to serve the emperor.

For a long time, Wen Tiren regarded himself as the emperor's party and considered himself the emperor's most confidant minister, while Hong Chengchou did not show his eyes on weekdays, did not form a party or fight for power, Wen Tiren did not regard him as a threat.

And now it seems that this Hong Chengchou has a very high status in the emperor's heart, and he is even more trusted by the emperor than himself. It seems that he has to plan and plan, and he can't let Hong Chengchou get ahead of him, Wen Tiren said secretly.

Hong Chengchou was in charge of the escort, and in terms of escort, Zhu Youzhen pointed out that Cao Bianjiao took the Liaodong Janissary to accompany him, and Zhang Shize led the remaining soldiers and horses to escort the guard of honor to continue to go south along the canal and go to Jining.

However, to Wen Tiren's surprise, in addition to the 6,000 troops led by Cao Bianjiao, there were hundreds of other people accompanying him. Wen Tiren recognized that these hundreds of people were graduates of that business school. I don't understand why I took these people with me when I went to the southern tour, and now I am with the emperor again, but Wen Tiren is no longer in the mood to ask.

Cao Bianjiao's Praetorian Guards, all of them are Yansui veterans, is the most elite troops of the Ming Dynasty, there are many chariots and horses in the army, 6,000 troops, 3,000 cavalry, one person and two horses, and the rest are also firecrackers, artillery, there are more than 200 carriages in the army, most of which pull artillery, grain baggage, and some carriages are converted into vans, specially used to load wounded and sick soldiers, and now, Zhu Youzhen is sitting on such a van, with the march of the army, waiting by his side, only Wang Chengen and a few little eunuchs.

Cao Bianjiao was very strict in governing the army, and the speed of the march was very fast, and he did not slow down at all because the emperor was in the ranks. It took only two and a half days for 6,000 elite soldiers to reach the Jishui edge in the north of Jinan, and then quickly crossed the Jishui through the pontoon bridge.

After Jishui, there were village houses everywhere, Zhu Youzhen ordered the army to move slowly, not to disturb the people, and at the same time played the emperor's guard of honor, sent people to Pegasus to Jinan City to deliver a letter, and ordered Jinan City officials to come to meet him.

Attacked and seized the city of Jinan? The dignified emperor attacked his own city, that was the joke!

What King De rebelled, it was just an excuse to come to Jinan City, give King De a hundred dares, he would not dare to rebel!

And the sudden appearance of the emperor also made all the officials in Jinan City panic.

Governor Yamen, Shandong Governor Shen Xun is taking a nap, he is sixty-nine years old, he is too old and energetic to keep up, he has to sleep every day after lunch, otherwise he will have no energy in the afternoon.

Suddenly, someone rushed in: "Master, get up quickly, the emperor has arrived in Jinan City!" ”

"Bastard, Hugh is talking nonsense!" Shen Xun became confused and scolded. Yesterday, there was also news that the emperor had passed through Dezhou and entered Dongchang Mansion, how could he come to Jinan?

Before Zhu Youzhen left Beijing, he issued a holy decree to various places, and the places he passed through forbade local officials to greet and send him off. If it is next to the canal, Jinan is more than 100 miles away from the canal, Shen Xun naturally does not want to disobey the holy decree, so he stayed in Jinan City safely, to be honest, he is very happy about this. I feel that it is better to stay in the back garden of the yamen to drink tea and write poems, he is old, he is already satisfied to be the governor of a province, and he has no idea whether he can be promoted, so he naturally does not have to run to meet the emperor.

The emperor is on a canal hundreds of miles away, how can he appear in Jinan? So when he heard the servant's confession, Shen Xun thought that this slave was teasing him, and he couldn't wait to pick up a cane and beat him.

"It's true, sir. Thousands of troops have crossed the Jishui, and the messengers have gone to the outside of Jinan to report the news, and let the city officials go out of the city to meet them. The servant said urgently.

"Is the Emperor really here?" Seeing that the slave's anxious expression did not seem to be fake, Shen Xun suddenly woke up from his sleep.

"It's a real master, it's true." The house slave almost swore to the sky.

"Go and tell King De, and send someone to inform the chief minister, the judge, the capital and the officials of Jinan Mansion, you slave don't go quickly! Come, wait for the lord to wear an official uniform! Shen Xun shouted repeatedly.

After a stick of incense, Governor Shen finally finished freshening up, put on a brand-new official robe, and rode quickly to the city gate in a sedan chair.

On the way, I saw a sedan chair running on the street, which frightened the pedestrians on the street to avoid it.

At this time, I couldn't care about the humility of the upper and lower levels, and I didn't care about who gave way to whom, and the officials in Jinan City ran to the city gate like crazy.

Arrived outside the north gate, Shen Xun impatiently got off the sedan chair, looked around, left and right political envoys, Shandong envoys, Shandong capital divisions, Jinan prefects, Licheng county orders, Jinan City officials with names and surnames Most of them arrived, and when they saw the governor get off the sedan chair, all the officials stepped forward to salute.

"It's all here, I'm ready to pick up the driver, by the way, why hasn't King De arrived yet?" Shen Xun walked sidewalk.

In the whole of Shandong, Shen Xun is naturally the head of the official position, but if the status is the most respectful, it is naturally the king of Jinan City.

"The prince is here, the prince is here." At this moment, in a burst of shouting, I saw an eight-lift sedan chair coming quickly, and dozens of palace guards were running around the sedan chair. After the eight sedan chairs, more than a dozen sedan chairs were followed, and the county kings were sitting inside.