Chapter 15: The Pattern of Men (I)
Ning An shifted the topic to the affairs of the court, and King Yu immediately looked sad: "Yes, Hu Zongxian, the governor of Zhejiang, put the charge of arson and escape to Yu Dayou. Mr. Gao's intention was to let Yu Dayou sue Hu Zongxian for corruption, arrogance, and picking melons in front of the emperor, so as to get rid of Zhao Wenhua, the head of the General Political Department, and shake his father's trust in the Yan family. But the third brother is always unsteady in his heart, and he pulls Hu Zongxian off the horse, in case the new governor is not as good as Hu Zongxian, we are the sinners of the southeast! ”
Ning An disagreed: "Third brother, you don't have to worry so much at all. If this Hu Zongxian is a clean official, others will not be able to sue him, and if there is really a problem with his conduct, it is understandable to punish him according to the laws of the Ming Dynasty. ”
King Yu shook his head: "In recent years, there has been a saying in the government and the opposition - the court cannot be without the southeast for a day, and the southeast cannot be without Hu Zongxian for a day. It seems that even if he is corrupt, he is a capable person, the so-called 'gold is not enough, no one is perfect', according to the current situation in the southeast, the feudal officials who guard there are more important than virtue. Moreover, Mr. Gao decided to engage him because he belonged to the Yan Party and was from your fourth brother's side. Mr. Gao looked at this person from the standpoint of Yuwangfu, and it was inevitable that he would be biased. I heard that Yu Dayou was upright and loyal, and the third brother planned to meet him in person after he arrived in Beijing, and personally asked him whether the advantages outweighed the disadvantages or the disadvantages outweighed the advantages in the southeast now that he was pulling Hu Zongxian off the horse. If it belongs to the latter, then this matter cannot be listened to by Mr. Gao. ”
Ning An sighed lightly: "When you encounter trouble, you always think about the profits and losses of the people of the society, without considering the success or failure of your own camp. If you inherit the great unification in the future, you will definitely be a benevolent and wise monarch. ”
King Yu smiled bitterly: "Mr. Gao often tells me this. Hey, we all know very well in our hearts that the candidate for the prince in my father's heart is your fourth brother, and I should take the initiative to ask for a fief to leave Beijing as soon as possible. But because I was born a month earlier than your fourth brother, I was unwilling to fight, so I deceived myself into thinking that I would really become an eternal emperor and benevolent monarch like Tang Taizong and Song Renzong. Since Mr. Gao made this plan, I didn't dare to look at Jun'er's eyes as clear as dewdrops...... Zhen'er, the third brother thinks that even if he accumulates some virtue for his newborn child, he should go to a place far away from the emperor and go to live that kind of quiet life that is not free! ”
Ning An retorted angrily: "My Ming ancestral system: there is a grandson, and there is no grandson. The fourth brother is simply not in the right name and his words are not in order, and he will not let you go in order to prevent the world from treating him badly. ”
King Yu immediately soothed: "Okay, okay, I'll just casually say why are you so excited!" Aren't you talking about you, why are you pulling the third brother on me? Okay, hurry up and go to bed, you just need to be responsible for raising yourself refreshed, and hand over everything to the third brother, to be precise, to the think tank in King Yu's mansion. ”
The huge dormitory was dark and quiet, Princess Ning'an picked at the corners of the quilt with her ten fingers, and tears slipped from the corners of her eyes - although Zhu Xixiao was imprisoned in the edict for more than half a year, his heart has not changed at all, and if his father plans to reuse him, he will definitely not let him be a concubine. If he likes me as much as I like him......
Princess Ning'an sat up suddenly: "I must fight for what I want, no, what originally belonged to me, I will definitely not lose!"
Yu Dayou's hands trembled slightly and unfolded the driving sticker. After a moment, he suddenly raised his head to the sky and let out a burst of wild laughter: "I, Yu Dayou, have been in the army for decades, put forward the strategy of leveling the Kou, but I was inexplicably reprimanded and belittled, and won the battle, but I was also inexplicably deprived and stopped. I have never taken these things to heart, because I am a soldier, and it is my duty to fight against the enemy and protect the people, and those official titles are not what I want. But why, why should such a stigma be poured on me, and my desire to do my part in the great cause of peace and happiness of the people is deprived, why!? After a mouthful of blood spurted out, he fell unconscious.
"Quick, call the doctor!"
After Li Jianyuan finished diagnosing Yu Dayou's pulse, he got up and arched his hand at Wang Wei and said, "I don't care if you are the captain of the governor's personal army or the captain of the Jinyi Guard, the next few words are what I, Li Jianyuan, said to you as a friend. First of all, I would like to ask, do you really believe that General Yu will flee the enemy? Also, General Yu's body has already been injured in five tuberculosis and seven wounds, and now he has been so stimulated, if he goes all the way to Beijing after being imprisoned and tired, even if the imperial court finally returns his innocence, I am afraid he will not be able to go to the battlefield again. ”
Wang Wei also immediately gave up his hand and said sincerely: "I have been by Governor Hu's side for three years, so I naturally know that General Yu is innocent. There are some things that I can't say, but I can only tell you that the only way to save General Yu now is to let him go with me immediately. As for General Yu's body, you can rest assured that I will not let him suffer from the shackles of a prisoner like a criminal. Also, please let Ling Mei Xia Ting also go to Beijing together. To tell you the truth, the order from above is for me to send General Yu to Beijing safe and sound, otherwise...... I can guarantee that by the end of the year at the latest, General Yu and Ling Mei will be sent back safe and sound. ”
"Lord Qiqi Qianhu, Mr. Yu has been taken away by others first, it turns out that the lowly driver's post has been dropped by someone at some point, and the lowly crime deserves death."
Looking at the letterhead in his hand, Zhu Xixiao hooked his lips and smiled coldly, picked up the pen and wrote another one according to the handwriting on the letterhead: "Lord Qiqi Qianhu, the person has been obtained, everything is going well, and he will return to the capital in a few days."
Zhu Xixiao took the two pieces of letterhead and looked at them for a long time before handing the one he wrote to Lu Yanyuan, and put the other one in front of the candle flame and let the flames quickly devour.
Lu Yanyuan smiled and looked at the letterhead in his hand, and praised it in his mouth: "Your work of imitating other people's handwriting is really becoming more and more perfect, if one day you copy the handwriting of an official to write a letter to the Japanese or Tatar, and then turn your head and present it to the emperor, then that official will not die without a place to be buried and will be punished by the nine clans!"
Zhu Xixiao didn't pay attention to Lu Yanyuan's jokes, but looked around: "Send a few brothers to clean up this cell in two days."
"When you said you wanted to clean up, you also reprimanded me and Shaoting, saying that you are in prison and not the upper room of the guest house. Now that this cell has been cleaned up every once in a while, there is no musty smell and no rats, so good are you not used to it? ”
"General Yu has old wounds on his body, and the living environment should be clean and comfortable, so it is easier to clean up this room. In addition, the weather will soon turn cold, and the humidity in the cell is heavy, and before General Yu moves in, the charcoal stove and bedding must be properly prepared. Also, Yuwang's side ......"