Zhu Zhang, the king of Qin of the Ming Dynasty, who dressed himself like a bear, dragged Zhu Yunxi from the corridor between Chengtianmen and Duanmen to the Taimiao area in the east with tears on his face.

Tian Mai, who was originally going to escort him, followed closely, and after seeing the true face of the 'villain', he looked helpless, turned sideways and looked up at the sky.

Zhu Yunxi also saw the appearance of the second uncle clearly, and helplessly used a trick to break free from the other party's restraints.

Rubbing his sore arm, Zhu Yunxi looked at Zhu Fan with a wry smile.

God knows where Zhu Fan got such a bear skin, with dark hair all over his body, and he has never mixed a single miscellaneous hair. The hair is even smoother, swaying slightly with the gusts of cold wind, and the snowflakes fall lightly, and they are tied to the bearskin hair.

"Second uncle, why are you still in Beijing."

Zhu Yunxi was suspicious, he hadn't paid attention to the second uncle's affairs recently, and when he returned to Beijing last time, he knew that he was called back by the old man.

It's just that it's been so long, and I haven't left Beijing to continue to run errands, but it's a little different from the previous two years.

Zhu Fan coughed lightly twice, and didn't speak, so he grabbed Zhu Yunxi to go forward.

Zhu Yunxi looked at the surrounding environment, and the corners of his mouth raised slightly: "Second uncle, you won't be punished by your grandfather to kneel in the Taimiao, right?" ”

was exposed to his face, and Zhu Fan couldn't go on. Stopped, let go of his hand, and his face was extremely resentful: "It's not because of you!" ”

Zhu Yunxi immediately took a few steps back, with an unheard of shocked expression on his face, and kept shaking his head and waving his hand: "Second uncle, don't you dare to say that!"

My nephew only returned to Beijing not long this year, and he was busy planting sweet potatoes, steam engines, etc., and later he was working on cement roads, and he was busy with his wedding some time ago.

Look at it, I wanted to add more children and grandchildren to our old Zhu family, but it was snowing heavily, and my nephew started to be busy with this matter as soon as he opened his eyes today. ”

After finishing speaking, Zhu Yunxi looked at Zhu Fan slightly. That look seemed to say: Look, I'm a busy person, so busy that I don't have time to give birth to a baby, how can I pit you?

Zhu Fan hated itchy, scratched his head and cheeks for a while, and stomped the snow with a bear paw: "Shameless!" This king has never seen such a shameless person! ”

After finishing speaking, Zhu Rong's face was full of grief and indignation, and he waved his hand at Zhu Yunxi: "Second uncle, if I don't go back to Xi'an, your aunt will run away with others!" ”

"Then wouldn't the second uncle have a chance to change to a younger and good-looking princess?"

Zhu Yunxi pursed his lips and muttered quietly.

Zhu Fan immediately glared: "What are you talking about!" ”

"My nephew said that my aunt's affection for the second uncle is stronger than gold, and the sun and the moon can be seen, and it is impossible to lose the second uncle." Zhu Yunxi hurriedly explained in a loud voice.

But he didn't want to be caught by Zhu Fan again, so he had to pull it into the Taimiao.

Two deep marks soon appeared in the snow.

Zhu Yunxi was helpless, and shouted: "I'll go with you, second uncle, you let me go first!" ”

Zhu Fan glanced back and saw that this eldest nephew, who had been classified as a cunning person by himself as early as when he was in Zhejiang Dao, really had no idea of escaping, so he let go of his hand.

Zhu Yunxi let out a sigh of relief, seeing that the second uncle was staring at him with faint eyes, it seemed that as long as he wanted to run, he would immediately continue to attack himself, smiled helplessly and shook his head, and walked straight to the Taimiao.

Although it is well known to the world that the old man has always advocated frugality, he has maintained a simple spirit by example. But he attaches great importance to the matter of sacrificing in the sect and society, and treats it with high standards.

On both sides of the road between the Wumen Gate and the Chengtianmen, there is a huge area with half the area of the imperial palace, and there are only two building complexes, the Taimiao Temple and the Shejitan.

The east is the Taimiao, which now enshrines the four generations of ancestors of the Ming Dynasty. Emperor Gaozu, Emperor great-ancestor, Emperor ancestor, Emperor Kao.

It can be said that the royal construction of the Ming Dynasty is basically the same.

Entering from the main entrance of the temple, you can see the main hall blocked by the front hall and located on the back of the triple Dan Majesty.

Since entering the Taimiao, Zhu Fan is like a different person, his expression is more soothing, and his demeanor is more natural.

It's like......

It's like going home.

"Let go, there is no one here, just like in your Taisun Mansion."

Zhu Fan smiled heartily, and took Zhu Yunxi through the front hall to the square in front of the main hall.

Zhu Yunxi looked around, and at a glance, he could see that there were dozens of forbidden officers and soldiers holding halberds on the left and right under the corridor of the main hall, even if the wind and snow were like a snow at the moment, these people were still guarding this temple like pines and cypresses.

Zhu Fan looked back at Zhu Yunxi and snorted twice: "They are all blind, you don't have to worry about them, come here." ”

As he spoke, Zhu Fan took Zhu Yunxi to a row of halls on the east side of the Taimiao Hall.

Creak.

The doorway seemed to have not been oiled in some days, and it creaked.

When I got to the house, the heat of the shop hit people.

Zhu Fan closed the door with a smile, blocked the wind and snow outside, then turned around and took off the bear skin, and walked straight to the charcoal stove placed in the middle of the room.

There was a clang, a clang.

Zhu Fan had already set up a charcoal stove, boiled eight-treasure tea, and roasted snacks such as oranges, dried dates, peanuts, and beans.

When he sat cross-legged on the thick cushion next to the charcoal stove, he looked up at Zhu Yunxi, who was still looking around, and hurriedly beckoned: "Big nephew, come and sit." ”

Zhu Yunxi glanced at him twice, and then sat down cross-legged, looking at Zhu Fan with a smile on his face, who had already begun to drink tea and chew food by himself.

"Didn't the second uncle be punished by his grandfather and think about it in front of the ancestral gods?"

Zhu Fan raised his head and glanced at Zhu Yunxi, threw the uneaten roast in his hand on the table, clapped his hands and rolled his eyes: "You remember that your second uncle and I were punished by the old man every day?" Can't I just live here because I don't have a suitable place? ”

Zhu Yunxi smiled and nodded, staring at His Royal Highness the King of Qin of the Ming Dynasty who should have lived in the Taimiao for three or four months this year.

I saw that the second uncle had already poured eight treasure tea for himself.

Zhu Yunxi silently held the teacup in his hands and tasted it in small sips, with honey in the sweet aroma.

Zhu Yunxi couldn't help but tremble his brows, thinking that the second uncle's eight-treasure tea was cooked well.

Then, he held the teacup in one hand and picked up the food that had been baked on the stove in the other hand and chewed it carefully.

Zhu Fan blinked, his brows furrowed silently, and the hand under the table quietly rubbed his thigh.

But Zhu Yunxi just didn't speak.

It's not drinking tea or eating baked food, it's just like eating.

Zhu Fan couldn't help but get anxious, but a smile brighter than a flower appeared on his face: "Big nephew, how is the second uncle's craftsmanship?" ”

Zhu Yunxi is eating roasted peanuts, which are very fragrant, and they are even more fragrant with Babao tea.

He couldn't help but nodded: "Second uncle has good skills." ”

Zhu Fan's brows are about to be clipped, this guy is too perfunctory!

In a hurry, Zhu Fan said with a smile: "Look, your aunt liked to eat these things made by the second uncle the most in previous years, and your aunt hasn't eaten them for two or three years now!" ”

Zhu Yunxi crushed a peanut shell, picked out the four peanuts that grew full and fat inside and put them into his mouth, tilted his head to look at the second uncle, and smiled slightly at the corner of his mouth: "Second uncle, I heard that my aunt has raised her very well in Xi'an in the past two years." However, it is the aunt of the Deng family, who often writes to Yingtian to ask Brother Bing'er when the second uncle and Brother Bing'er will return to Xi'an. ”

After finishing speaking, Zhu Yunxi glanced at Zhu Fan vigorously.

But it was such a look that made Zhu Zhang's old face blush, and his eyes moved elsewhere.

Zhu Yunxi sighed silently twice, and continued to drink tea and eat roasted food.

Who in the court doesn't know that the second uncle of his own family is the favored concubine Deng family, but he is extremely distant from the prince and princess Wang family, and even moves elsewhere, delivering food and food every day.

Zhu Fan saw that he was exposed, so he shook his head and waved his hands indiscriminately: "I'm talking about the Deng family, she...... She's your aunt too! ”

Zhu Yunxi smiled and didn't speak, but lowered his head and ate the last bit of tea in the teacup and the mess in it, then clapped his hands, and wiped his hands on both sides of his thighs.

In the end, Zhu Yunxi took a long breath and looked at Zhu Fan who was sitting in front of him: "Second uncle, my nephew knows that it is very hard for you to take on the errand of the tax envoy of the six fields now. But this is a national policy, and it is the Ming national policy determined by the grandfather's personal nod.

The nephew also understands that the second uncle knows these truths, and such matters related to the Daming Sheji must be personally supervised by my Zhu family clan.

Therefore, what is the reason why the second uncle is so reluctant to continue to do this, and even hid here for three or four months from the ancestors of our family. ”

After finishing speaking, Zhu Yunxi's eyes flickered and he sighed softly.

As the princes of the Ming Dynasty, especially the first few princes who grew up with the founding of the Ming Dynasty, regardless of their personal character and temperament, no one is a bad coward.

Just like now, the second uncle obviously has a hundred reasons in his heart and is unwilling to continue to do the errand of spreading the land into the mu and the official gentry paying the grain in one. Don't look at him like a ghost crying wolf now, unreasonably trying to unload his errand in front of him.

But when the second uncle arrives in front of the old man, he will only be more obedient than anyone else, and he will never say anything that he doesn't want to do.

Zhu Fan was obviously stunned for a moment.

He could have imagined that there was always a time to speak, but he didn't expect that it would be in this way, saying what he had just said.

Just after thinking about it briefly, Zhu Fan sighed: "Brother Xi, things are difficult!" Since you have said so, the second uncle will no longer hide it. ”

Zhu Fan straightened his back, coughed lightly, and then said solemnly: "Second uncle is not afraid of what infamy will be borne by doing these things, we were in Zhejiang Dao and killed half of Zhejiang Dao, did you blink when you saw the second uncle's eyebrows?"

No!

Your second uncle is not afraid of any infamy! The second uncle doesn't dare! The second uncle has been responsible for these things for two years, if you want to say who knows best about the restructuring of this field in the Ming Dynasty, except for the second uncle and me, no one dares to say that he understands better.

It was because of this that the second uncle didn't dare to continue to do it, and he was afraid to continue to do it. ”

Zhu Yunxi has been quietly looking at Zhu Zhang, who has used his true feelings to tell these things, the second uncle did not tell lies, what he said was what he said in his heart.

couldn't help it, Zhu Yunxi's brows furrowed.

What the second uncle said is not wrong, there is no one in the entire Ming Dynasty who knows better than him about the Tianfu reform.

"So, second uncle, why don't you dare, afraid to continue working?"

"They're so abnormal!" Zhu Fan spoke directly, and then he was sitting on the cushion, and he was almost about to stand up: "From the winter of the twenty-fourth year of Hongwu to the spring and summer of the twenty-fifth year of Hongwu, we are implementing the national policy in Zhejiang Province.

Then the beginning of the winter of the twenty-fifth year of Hongwu, I took on the reform of the six fields and the twenty-sixth year of Hongwu, you and Chang Sheng led the troops south, and the second uncle and I implemented the national policy alone. and even the twenty-seventh year of Hongwu this year.

In the beginning, there was occasional local resistance, not following the national policy. But what about then? Later, everyone seemed to be willing, and as long as our people went, they would obediently take out the account book of the number of fields and property.

Things are going so well! Brother Xi, I have never seen such a thing related to the society, and it can be done so smoothly! ”

Speaking of this, Zhu Fan suddenly trembled.

It was as if I had been surprised by something.

Then under Zhu Yunxi's gaze, he saw Zhu Zhang, who was originally calm, suddenly as if he had seen a ghost, with a frightened expression on his face.

And Zhu Fan was also more anxious: "What are they thinking?" What do they want to do? What are they preparing? Are they trying to overthrow my Zhu family's Daming? Brother Xi! Brother Xi! What do you think they want to do? ”

After a while, Zhu Fan began to pant violently, and his ruddy face, which had just been baked by the charcoal fire, turned white in the blink of an eye.

"Second uncle! Second uncle! ”

Zhu Yunxi called several times in succession, and even got up and stretched out his hand and pressed it on Zhu Rong's arm.

Zhu Rong's expression finally calmed down, and then he took a deep breath, and looked fixedly at Zhu Yunxi, who was comforting him.

"Yoon-hee! You listen to the second uncle's advice, this matter can't be done in such a hurry. ”

"The second uncle is really afraid, if he continues to do it, what will happen to the world."

Zhu Yunxi sighed faintly: "Second uncle, since ancient times, innovation has been bloodless. I'm waiting, waiting for them to jump out, Ying Tian's 100,000 forbidden army, 200,000 Beijing troops, have long been ready to go, sharpening their knives.

I'm waiting for them to show up, so that they can sweep away the world with the momentum of thunder, and take care of my Ming Dynasty, so that I can walk towards the prosperity of my Ming Dynasty safely. ”

Zhu Fan kept rubbing one hand on his thigh, his eyes were solemn: "Yunxi, you want to use soldiers, and the second uncle will be your pioneer!" But you don't know where they're hiding, how many of them there are. You don't even know how many of these people have been connected now.

In the countryside, there were county lords in the past, and now there are gentry, and the people are headed by them. If it is a place of chaos, it can still be suppressed by soldiers, but if it is a beacon fire everywhere, does my Zhu family follow the surname of the Dragon King?

At present, it is just the implementation of apportionment into the mu and the integration of the officials and gentry to pay grain, and they may feel that they are just giving more money and grain left and right. But they must have countless means to be able to settle this outing.

But you have already implemented the reform of the grain chief tax officer system in Yingtianfu, and the tax office is very popular, and even their last bit of local power will be taken away. ”

Zhu Fan stood up, his face full of worry: "My family is going to take away all their benefits, and I won't leave them a way to live." Rabbits are forced to bite people, forcing them to be anxious, do my family really want to sit back and watch the world everywhere? ”

Zhu Yunxi's face was gloomy, his eyes were shining, and he said with a slightly murderous aura: "Second Uncle may not know that I have sent 30,000 Beijing troops to leave Beijing this winter. Just now I came from the Qianqing Palace, and I have already explained to my grandfather, and the 200,000 Beijing troops can be used. ”

Zhu Fan turned around suddenly, his eyes widened, and then his gaze gradually eased, and he sighed: "Maybe there will be nothing wrong this winter, but once you implement the reform of the grain chief tax officer system in Liudao, there will be trouble!" ”

Zhu Zhang, who had done the language, walked in front of Zhu Yunxi in three steps and two steps, and patted his shoulders heavily with both hands.

"Yunxi, the second uncle knows that there is innovation in every dynasty. You are now the prince of my Ming Dynasty, although the old man is already old, but your father is in the prime of life, and you are even younger.

Isn't my family so good?

The second uncle can take care of the six land tax changes for you, but if it continues, something will collapse, and the second uncle will not be able to bear it! ”

Zhu Yunxi didn't speak, but sat down, his brows furrowed, and he thought deeply.

Zhu Fan said all the worries in his heart today, and he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and the burden that had been pressed on his heart in the past seemed to have been swept away at this moment.

Seeing that Zhu Yunxi was meditating, he also sat down and carefully poured a cup of eight-treasure tea for each of them.

After a long time.

Zhu Yunxi finally made a movement from his throat, and then opened his eyes that he didn't know when he closed: "Second uncle, Brother Bing'er should start a family, he has been strong since he was a child, and now he has superb martial arts, Jiaozhi Dao and his line, and his military strategy is advancing by leaps and bounds, and after getting married, he should be like Brother Chi'er and do things for my Zhu family." ”

Zhu Fan was stunned for a moment, and he didn't understand why he was still talking about the danger of Daming Sheji before, and this kid turned his head after thinking for a long time and talked about his son again.

Zhu Fan turned his eyes, suddenly slapped the table in front of him, and said loudly: "Zhu Yunxi!" Lao Tzu has already gone out to fight against you, you can't make trouble anymore! ”

Zhu Yunxi spread his hands: "It was Brother Bing'er who pestered me and shouted that he wanted to be a general, but I didn't agitate at all." ”

Zhu Fan suddenly became anxious.

Stood up and paced back and forth with his hands folded.

Then he stared at Zhu Yunxi fixedly, waved his hand, and said, "You want to use the Jing army, this is a matter for the old man to nod." I'm going to take the blame for you, and that's what I'm willing to do. If you let Brother Bing'er go down and kill people for you, this thing is impossible! ”

"I can't control this matter, my legs are on Brother Bing'er, second uncle, your own son, I suggest that if you don't feel at ease, just break his legs."

Zhu Yunxi snorted and muttered for a while.

Then, under Zhu Fan's questioning gaze, he slowly got up and walked to the door.

The door, which had not been oiled for a long time, creaked again.

The wind and snow outside the house squeezed in with their front and rear feet.

Zhu Yunxi faced the wind and snow and looked back at Zhu Zhang.

"Second uncle, the sky of Daming will not change, you can rest assured."

"Don't worry, don't be upset."

"The sun and the moon will be forever bright!"