The sky was not yet bright, and the huge candle with the thickness of the arm illuminated the upper study.

Feng Yuan, the chief eunuch of Huai'an Town, had been kneeling for a long time, and Wen Fangyan, Liu Wenbin, Niu Jizong, Yang Lin and other cabinet scholars were all sitting there silently.

Emperor Tianyou glanced at everyone silently and spoke, "God bless the Ming, ancestors bless!" Fortunately, I approved the excerpt of Zhongwu Bo going south to visit his relatives, otherwise the whole south would be in chaos, and there would be those grains that were already on the way. Let's not talk about the things that will be investigated, and first give the loyal martial arts who have made meritorious contributions to pacify. Prince. ”

Zhu Wucheng: "Erchen is here." ”

"You speak first."

Zhu Wucheng replied, "Yes." ”

After thinking for a while, he continued: "Uncle Zhongwu has made great contributions to the Ming Dynasty, and it is not too much to argue that he is a military marquis...... However, Zhongwubo is still young after all, and doing so will attract some criticism, so if he is promoted in his official position, he can consider hanging the title of secretary of the military department. ”

Speaking of this, he glanced at Niu Jizong, "In addition, the military position of Zhongwubo should be promoted, the big war is imminent, and it can't be suppressed, so the son asks his father to order Jin Zhongwubo to be the chief military officer, and the Ruishi battalion will be separated from the Royal Forest Army into a separate army!" ”

Everyone in the upper study was shocked.

Niu Jizong glanced at Zhu Wucheng quietly, before coming to the study, he read Jia Jue's private letter to the crown prince Zhu Wucheng in the Wenhua Palace, the content of the letter was to ask Zhu Wucheng to help him speak, so that he could be promoted to the chief military officer, and did not mention the Ruishi battalion, his eyes rolled, and he immediately understood Zhu Wucheng's intentions, this is worried that Jia Jue will share the military power in his hands, after all, Jia Jue did not become a supporter of the crown prince Zhu Wucheng like himself.

Emperor Tianyou didn't seem to care at all, and Wen Yan said: "What the prince said is right, the big war is coming, it's time to give Zhongwu Bojin a military position, you all tell your opinions." ”

Liu Wenbin owes himself, "Your Majesty, the minister has a doubt, I don't know if I should say it?" ”

"Say."

"Yes."

Liu Wenbin stood up, glanced at Wen Fangyan and a few people, and said loudly: "I don't know if you have such feelings, this farcical rebellion seems to be waiting for Zhongwubo to go to pacify, of course, I don't suspect that Zhongwubo has a connection with the Cao Gang anti-thieves, it's just ..... This matter is too strange, I think it is better to check it out and see if there is something unusual behind this...."

Chen Ruiwen interjected, "Slow, I understand the meaning of the second assistant's words, aren't you just suspecting that Jia Jue knew in advance that the Cao Gang was going to rebel, and deliberately concealed it for the sake of these military exploits, right?" ”

Liu Wenbin said directly: "Yes and no." ”

Emperor Tianyou's face sank, "What do you say?" ”

Liu Wenbin walked to the hall and asked Feng Yuan, who was still kneeling on the ground: "This recital was jointly drafted by Chief Feng and the prefect of Huai'an, presumably by remembering the content of the recital." ”

Feng Yuan replied, "Yes." ”

"Okay."

Liu Wenbin asked again: "May I ask Manager Feng, why did there be such a big loss in the town guard mansion that night?" ”

Feng Yuan: "These are clearly written on the chapter, because the town guard mansion has captured a leader of the Cao Gang. ”

Liu Wenbin nodded, "In other words, at that time, Chief Feng didn't know that the Cao Gang was going to rebel, or rather, he wasn't sure when the Cao Gang would rebel. ”

Without waiting for Feng Yuan to reply, Liu Wenbin immediately forced: "Dare to ask Manager Feng, why did the messenger you sent appear in Suqian, two hundred miles away?" Aren't you afraid of being charged with lying about the military? ”

Feng Yuan's brain exploded, in order to cover up his acceptance of bribes from the Cao Gang, and Xu Guangzhi in order not to be punished by the imperial court, the two hit it off and joined forces to concoct this concerto, but they didn't expect that something went wrong.

At this time, Liu Wenbin shouted and asked, "Say, why are you doing this!" What the hell are you covering? Or is the Cao Gang rebellion related to you? Or, the reason why the Cao Gang is so unscrupulous is all because of your indulgence on weekdays, how many bribes do you take from them? ”

"I, I, I...... Miscellaneous family, Your Majesty, the slave is wronged! ”

Emperor Tianyou waved his hand, "Go on." ”

Liu Wenbin arched his hand and said: "Your Majesty, there are too many unreasonable places in this recital, for example, it mentions that the government and the Caoyun yamen were besieged at the same time, but the result was completely different, the prefect Xu Guangzhi not only did nothing but held on until the arrival of reinforcements from the Ruishi battalion, while Dong Ping, the governor of Caoyun, was killed in battle. ”

Everyone noticed the abnormality, Chen Ruiwen's eyes flashed, and he immediately said, "What does Liu Ge Lao mean by this?" ”

Liu Wenbin glanced at him deeply, and said to Emperor Tianyou: "Your Majesty, this recital, except for the rebellion of the Cao Gang and the rebellion of the Rui Shi Battalion, the rest is all nonsense, and the minister implores His Majesty to send a heavy minister to Huai'an to investigate the truth in detail!" ”

is a fool, and he also understands that this is using the Huai'an matter to meddle in the officialdom of Nanzhili, Liu Wenbin is going to cut a knife in the Xungui base camp, so that he can make a noise.

Chen Ruiwen and Niu Jizong glanced at each other, and their faces immediately became gloomy.

Emperor Tianyou glanced at them, "Quasi." The Metropolitan Procuratorate took the lead in thoroughly investigating the matter. ”

Liu Wenbin replied: "Obey." Silently stepped aside.

Chen Ruiwen and Niu Jizong's faces were even more ugly.

At this moment, Feng Yuan had collapsed to the ground, Emperor Tianyou glanced at him in disgust, and waved his hand, "Pull it down." ”

At this time, Wen dialect spoke, "Your Majesty, about the crown prince's proposal, do you see?" ”

Emperor Tianyou smiled slightly, then looked at Zhu Wucheng and said, "That's it!" ”

Zhu Wucheng was stunned, and listened to Emperor Tianyou say again: "Since you have the title of secretary of the Ministry of War, it is not good to have the errand of the Hyogo Division, you can discuss with the first assistant to see who is suitable for this position." ”

As soon as these words came out, Chen Ruiwen and Niu Jizong were shocked.

Zhu Wucheng could no longer suppress the excitement and joy in his heart at this time, and replied loudly: "Erchen obeys the order!" ”

...............

Yeongkookfu, Ixiangwon.

Aunt Xue sat quietly in front of the window, looking outside, and sighed for a while.

It happened that Xue Baochai walked in to look at her, and said, "Mother, what's wrong?" ”

Aunt Xue turned around, looked carefully at her daughter's beautiful face, sighed again, and said, "Your second uncle just sent the news that the master of the Mei family has been recommended as the imperial history of Zuo Yandu, and he is already on his way to Beijing to take office." ”

Baochai was stunned for a moment, and then said: "This is a good thing. ”

Aunt Xue pondered for a while, "You don't understand, but I hope that the master of the Mei family will still stay in Jinling as a six-grade petty official......"

Baochai was said by Aunt Xue, only then did she react, and a dark color flashed on her face, this is the embarrassment of the Xue family, originally the Mei family was an official in Jinling, not to mention the relationship between the two families of King Jia, the relationship between the Xue family in Jinling alone can suppress the Mei family, but now it is different, the four products are the left and the imperial history, the Qing rumor official, the two identities are too different, and they have not made a marriage letter, once the Mei family regrets the marriage, the Xue family really can't do anything about them.

Suddenly, there was a noise outside, and I saw Ying'er running in, "Grandma, there is news from the front, the third master of Xifu has been promoted again, saying that he is the chief military officer, and he also hangs the title of secretary of the military department!" ”

Hearing this, the mother and daughter were slightly stunned.

Aunt Xue stood up and said, "At this time, we must go to Rongqing Hall, the old lady must be happy today.....

As he spoke, he walked outside, suddenly stopped again, and turned around, "You go and change into bright clothes, the old lady likes it..... It's been so long, you should see that the old lady is different from those rich and noble old people, don't measure it from the eyes of the world..... I'm going to prepare a gift, hurry up! ”

After saying that, he walked out quickly.

Baochai let out a lonely "um" and sat down weakly.

.........

Wenhua Palace, Niu Jizong was already waiting in the study.

After a while, the crown prince Zhu Wucheng walked in, and when he saw this, he hurriedly smiled: "This palace just went to Cining Palace to greet the imperial grandmother, and I have been waiting for a long time." ”

Without waiting for Niu Jizong to speak, Zhu Wucheng said: "This palace knows the intention of the Taibao, and it will not hide it from the Taibao, just like you think." ”

Niu Jizong was stunned, and said in his heart: "He's planning a showdown.....

Zhu Wucheng saw Niu Jizong stunned, and greeted with a smile, "If you have anything to say, sit down and say." ”

Niu Jizong came back to his senses at this time, and hurriedly smiled and said: "I was thinking about Huai'an just now, I was distracted, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince forgive me!" ”

Zhu Wucheng sighed, took a sip of tea, and then said, "Taibao should be thinking about how to explain to Zhongwubo, right?" ”

Niu Jizong also sighed, "Your Highness, it's not that the minister is biased towards Zhongwubo, don't be angry if you say something that doesn't matter." There are some things that you can't take into account for the moment, you have to take the long-term view, take today's things as an example, you don't need to do it at all..... In addition, there is the matter of Huai'an, no matter what kind of mind the second assistant has, once this matter reaches Jinling, everyone will think that it is your intention, which is not a good thing. ”

The crown prince Zhu Wucheng was not angry, but asked with a smile: "How do you know that this is not what your father meant?" ”

Niu Jizong's eyes flashed, and he looked at Zhu Wucheng fixedly.

Zhu Wucheng looked at him with a smile, "Do you really think that my father is unaware of the Cao Gang's rebellion?" It's just that there were some accidents in the middle, which led to the failure of the back hand of the arrangement, otherwise, the imperial court would have an extra two or three hundred thousand guilty troops, which not only greatly relieved the financial pressure of the imperial court, but also relieved the embarrassment of our young soldiers. ”

Looking at his demeanor, Niu Jizong knew that it was not a lie, and he couldn't help but feel a little frightened in his heart, such a ruthless emperor, this is planning to take the opportunity to completely solve the big problem of the Cao Gang, and by the way, he can also make a windfall.

Zhu Wucheng glanced out of the door and lowered his voice, "Tell Taibao one more thing, Manager Dai has already gone south to Huguang, and this time he should be escorting the grain into Beijing." ”

“.....”

Niu Jizong was taken aback.

Zhu Wucheng: "I just got the news. ”

Niu Jizong was silent.

Zhu Wucheng stood up, pacing as he spoke, "Father Emperor has agreed to Wang Ziteng's suggestion, and when the spies of Nanzhen Fusi send back the exact news from the Zabhan River, they will officially use troops against the Warats!" Taking advantage of the confrontation between the Warat people and the Tatar and Duoyan coalition forces in Helin, the army smashed the Warat royal court and made Zhu Houze a homeless lonely ghost! ”

Niu Jizong's heart tightened, "Is the prince Tengxing?!" ”

Zhu Wucheng walked to Niu Jizong's side and stopped, and said: "The palace transferred 10,000 elite horsemen from Shanhaiguan and Jizhou Town for him, and the chief soldier of Yulin Town, Hou Shi Nai, and the chief soldier of Datong, Xiangyang Bo Wang Bin, will be his deputy, if this can't be done, then he Wang Ziteng doesn't have to come back." ”

Niu Jizong's eyes widened when he heard this, and he said secretly: "Where did this prince get such a great charm, he can be cultivated by the emperor and the crown prince like this!" ”

Zhu Wucheng glanced at Niu Jizong first, and then said, "I hope this palace is not wrong!" ”

............

After coming to Jinling, Jia Jue was completely idle, worshiped the ancestors, the next morning, Jia Jue took Daiyu to Qixia Mountain, went to Qixia Temple together, and went to see the peach blossoms, although many flowers have been thanked, but Daiyu is still very happy, and the cheerful laughter along the way continues to echo in the carriage.

"Third master, this is sent by Uncle Zhen."

Sent Daiyu back to the governor's yamen, and as soon as Jia Jue returned to Rongguo Mansion, Jin Cai appeared at the door with a post.

"Come in."

Jia Jue put down the tea bowl in his hand, raised his head and looked at Jin Cai and said.

Hearing this, Jin Cai walked in slowly and put the post on the book.

picked up the post and looked at it carefully, and praised it, it is definitely not a good thing for this Zhen Yingjia to put his posture so low. Seeing Jin Cai's cautious and cautious look, "You told the people of the Zhen family that the post was accepted by Ben Shuai, but he has been unwell recently, and he will definitely hand over the post to visit when the time comes." ”

"Yes."

After speaking, he bowed respectfully and bowed before retreating cautiously.

I don't know why, this time I went south, Jin Cai saw himself from the first day, he was so cautious, he originally thought that he had done something wrong, and his heart was weak, but he asked Jia Gui and said that there was no problem, and he said him a few times, but he became more cautious and could only give up.

"Third master, this is sent by the town guard mansion."

At this moment, Jaffo walked in and pulled out a letter from his bosom.

"Who sent it?"

Jia Jue was stunned.

Jia Fu: "Back to the third master, he is the confidant of Mr. Qian, and he has met him a few times. ”

Jia Jue took the letter and looked at it silently, looking at it, his face showed unhappiness, this old eunuch's appetite is getting bigger and bigger, a mouth is 50,000 taels, but looking at the content of the letter, it is not too black-hearted, Qian Feng said two things in the letter: one is that the emperor sent him a secret decree, asking him to send the information collected by Nanzhili over the years into Beijing, especially the evidence of corruption and perversion of the law by officials from all over the country, it seems that the emperor is planning to smash the pot after eating, and easily hold Nanzhili in his hands.

Another thing is related to himself, he is talking about Jia Yucun, hehe, he fell on the thigh of the crown prince Zhu Wucheng so quickly, he is really a person with a desire for profit, well, I don't know where he can go, perhaps, he should push him and let him go to Shenjing, putting him in Nanzhili is a scourge after all!

Thinking of this, he glanced at Jia Fu.

Jaffo turned and took the candle from the window and lit it.

Jia Jue silently glanced at the letter, picked up the letter and stretched it out to the candle flame, the letter ignited, floated on the ground, and gradually turned into a piece of paper ashes.

I don't know how long it took, Jia Jue sighed, "Ask Jia Gui to come to see me." ”