"Minister, Qin Liangyu (Qin Minping, Ma Xianglin) ...... See His Royal Highness the Crown Prince......"

When the ship docked, Zhu Ciran disembarked under the escort of more than 100 Jinyi guards, and the children of the Qin and Ma clans led by Qin Liangyu, Qin Minping and Ma Xianglin saluted one after another.

Stepping on the land of Chungju, Zhu Ciran did not show his usual giggling side, but held his face and held the holy decree in both hands:

"Spread the Divine Decree ...... Long Live the Divine Decree"

As soon as he spoke, Qin Liangyu and the others immediately glanced at each other, and hurriedly knelt down while looking at each other.

"Fengtian carries the emperor and the edict says: The ancient philosopher king set up a program of Chen Ji, rewarded meritorious, punished the guilty, and followed this way and the world was safe."

"Since I ascended the throne, assisted by the king of Laiqi, and supported by the generals of Qin and Ma to pacify the Quartet, now the foreign Yi has been decided, and I have been thinking about the past for a long time and have been awarded the title of Gong Jue Yibo, and now I have reinstated the former Gong Ergong Dongping Jianyu, and the south has resumed diplomatic relations, and the long Luchuan has a lot of merit."

"Now I have reported the hard work of the past, and awarded the Marquis of Wulong and the Marquis of Shizhu, and I wish to be loyal to the descendants of Shilu in the drama and ministers, and Weifu is not specialized in wisdom, and it is appropriate for him to be cautious in guarding the road to train future generations."

Zhu Ciran took the holy decree, and as soon as he got off the boat, he first showed the emperor's grace to the Qin and Ma clans, that is, to add Qin Liangyu and Qin Minping as marquises.

It's okay to just seal it, but some of the warnings that follow are enough to explain everything.

"Ministers, Receiving Orders......"

Qin Liangyu and Qin Minping accepted the holy decree with the children of the Qin and Ma clans, whose faces were not good-looking, and Zhu Ciran also opened his mouth when he saw this:

"This palace came this time, but also for the long live, for the King of Qi to the King of Zhongzhou, the King of Youyang, I wonder if the two old princes are buried?"

Zhu Ciran paid attention to Qin Bangping and Qin Banghan, who had passed away, which made Qin Liangyu and Qin Minping feel a lot better.

Qin Liangyu, as the elder sister, took the lead in returning the salute and said: "The two brothers are still parked in the funeral palace and have not been buried. ”

Because Zhu Youxiao granted Qin Bangping and Qin Banghan the burial of the prince, after their death, they could enjoy the treatment of being suspended for seven days and moving the coffin to the funeral palace after the funeral.

Parking the funeral palace is a treatment only for princes, but the parking time cannot be too long, normally it ranges from one to three months.

Knowing that Zhu Ciran was coming, Qin Liangyu and the others set the time for about a month, preparing to wait for Zhu Ciran to leave before moving the coffin to the mausoleum.

"In that case, let's go through the condolences first."

Zhu Ciran returned the salute very politely, and this gesture made the faces of the two children of the Qin and Ma clans look a lot better.

The proper manners made Qin Liangyu and Qin Minping feel satisfied, after all, Zhu Ciran behaved decently, and they would be able to have a better posture to restrain the children in the family.

The two of them, Zhu Ciran and others led the way, and the mausoleum of Qin Bangping and the others was built on Jinhua Mountain near Zhongzhou, so everyone did not enter the city, but took a four-wheeled carriage and drove towards Jinhua Mountain.

It was just an hour later, and the carriage stopped in front of the funeral palace in Jinhua Mountain.

The mausoleum of the two is located in one place, and the funeral palace naturally shares a room.

The funeral palace sits in the north and faces south, facing Jinhua Mountain, the cemetery is magnificent, the entrance stands "Ming Youyang King, Zhongzhou King Shinto" archway, Shinto is about 200 steps long, after the archway is Shinto stone carving.

There are stone horses, stone sheep, stone tigers, samurai, and Wenchen on the left and right sides of Shinto.

"Let's erect a Shinto monument."

After coming to the archway, Zhu Ciran opened his mouth to Liu Shun, and Liu Shun also ordered more than 100 brocade guards to pull up the Shinto monument pulled by two carriages.

"Imperial Youyang King, Chungju King Shinto Tablet" is Zhu Ciran's carved tablet, two feet high, six feet, two feet thick.

The stele is divided into three parts: the upper is the relief cloud dragon inscription tablet, and the middle is engraved with the words "Imperial Youyang King Shendao Tablet" and "Imperial Zhongzhou King Shendao Tablet".

In the stele body, engraved with the inscription written by Zhu Ciran himself, a total of 14 lines, more than 1,200 words, recorded the exploits of Qin Bangping and Qin Banghan in their lives, the text is marked with a sentence comics, which is extremely rare in the ancient stele, and the stele body is the turtle stele under the stele.

The two Shinto monuments weighing thousands of pounds were dragged up the mountain by six charmalas in iron carts, and it is not so easy to unload the monuments now.

The two men of the Jinyi Wei and Qin Ma clans summoned the tomb guards to unload the monument together, while Zhu Ciran, Qin Liangyu and others entered the funeral palace.

The two coffins stopped in the funeral palace, and after Zhu Ciran entered, Qin Gongming and Qin Zhongming stepped forward to fetch incense for them.

After lighting the incense, Zhu Ciran respectfully saluted and inserted incense, and the whole process was very decent, so that the second and third generations of Qin Ma could not find fault.

Of course, the Qin and Ma clans were also suppressed by Qin Liangyu and Qin Minping's eyes, and did not do anything beyond the bounds.

"The two marquis are also people who have made meritorious contributions to the country......"

"The last general will not dare to be a ......"

Qin Zhongming, Qin Gongming, and Qin Yiming did not use their merits to bully Zhu Ciran, because before Zhu Ciran came, Qin Liangyu and Qin Minping had already enlightened them.

They know very well that Zhu Ciran represents the emperor and the king of Qi, so as long as they are disrespectful to Zhu Ciran, the three years of filial piety will be a light punishment, and if it is heavier, they may be directly excluded from the temple.

In the face of Zhu Ciran's flattery, they hurriedly shook their heads, not daring to admit it, and Zhu Ciran also took the opportunity to say a few words to them, making others feel that they had a good relationship.

Before coming, he knew all the battles of the generals of the Qin and Ma clans, knew the preferences of the other party, and would also brag appropriately when talking.

Such a comfortable face-to-face interaction makes it difficult to think that he is only fourteen years old now.

There are not so many thrills, and there are not so many conspiracies, even if the second and third generations of the Qin and Ma clans mostly want to be close to the Qi Palace, but in the face of the prince's wooing, even if they don't agree, they can't directly refuse.

King Qi's attitude, they know better than anyone else, and they are also very clear about what will happen if they annoy the prince.

There was nothing wrong in the whole condolence process, until the Shinto monument was erected, and Zhu Ciran and others had walked out of the funeral palace.

After simply looking at the inscription of the Shinto tablet with the two disciples of Qin Ma, the group walked down Jinhua Mountain.

On the way, Zhu Ciran, Qin Liangyu, and Qin Minping asked about the Battle of Fuliao that year, and the two of them also told the truth about the Battle of Fuliao.

During this period, Zhu Ciran naturally did not forget to brag about the white pole soldiers, which made many white pole veterans who had become generals have a good impression of him.

For Ma Xianglin and the others, Zhu Ciran also praised without hesitation: "If there is no Ma Zongbing, the two Hou Ye, and Qin Zongbing, Luchuan may not be able to recover so quickly." ”

In the face of Zhu Ciran's praise, everyone was also embarrassed, after all, in the battle to recover Luchuan, the greatest credit was still Hong Chengchou, and then Huang Fei.

As for them, they just took the decapitation skill, which is not worth mentioning compared to the first two.

Zhu Ciran also knew these things, but this did not prevent him from praising everyone to win people's hearts for himself.

All the way down the mountain, Zhu Ciran praised all the way, memorized every one of the generals of the Qin and Ma clans, and praised them all the way according to their experience.

This made the Qin and Ma clans embarrassed, and their attitude towards Zhu Ciran was not as bad as at the beginning, but they could show some smiles.

When they arrived at the bottom of the mountain, without Qin Liangyu and Qin Minping opening their mouths, the children of the Qin and Ma clans had already invited Zhu Ciran to stay in the Zhongzhou Hou Mansion.

However, Zhu Ciran did not live in the Chungju Hou Mansion, but lived in Chungju County.

In the next few days, he also needed to repeatedly test many children of the Qin and Ma clans, and win over some generals for his father and son.

His decentness was sent by Liu Shun to the Midsummer Palace in the north in an expedited manner of eight hundred miles.

When it was sent to the Midsummer Palace, it was already the fourteenth day of the winter month, and Zhu Youxiao, who was sitting in the Heart Cultivation Palace, looked at the contents of the letter and couldn't help nodding, and it could be seen that he was very satisfied with Zhu Ciran's behavior.

"Has my brother seen it?"

Zhu Youxiao sat in his position and asked Wang An in front of him without raising his head.

"I've seen it...... His Royal Highness thinks that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has done a good job. Wang An, who is already seventy-six, is dying of old age, but he is still very angry when responding.

Not far from him, Wei Zhongxian, who was already sixty-eight years old, glanced at Wang An, as if wondering how this old thing was not dead.

"Just read it." Zhu Youxiao bowed slightly.

Zhu Youxiao, who is already in his thirties, gradually began to look like a middle-aged man.

Obesity and beard, the two hallmarks of a middle-aged man appeared on his body.

"How are the eunuchs and palace maids in the palace arranged?"

Zhu Youxiao asked Wei Zhongxian, and Wei Zhongxian hurriedly smiled when he heard this: "It's all arranged, the eunuchs and palace maids in the Wanli and Taichang periods have been released, and there are only more than 13,000 eunuchs and more than 3,000 palace maids in the palace at the moment." ”

"Since it has been arranged, let someone send a message to my younger brother, and say that I will return to Beijing on the New Year's Day."

After playing outside for a few years, Zhu Youxiao finally remembered that he was the emperor and that he belonged to the Forbidden City, not Dading Palace and Midsummer Palace.

His news made Wei Zhongxian and others happy, after all, compared to Dading Palace and Midsummer Palace, the prosperous capital is the place they yearn for, and only there can they feel that they are "people".

"Stand down...... Zhu Youxiao waved his hand, Wang An and Wei Zhongxian also made a fuss when they saw this, and then slowly withdrew from the Heart Cultivation Palace.

With their retreat, the news of the emperor's imminent return to the capital sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, and in a short period of time, like a cold winter wind, blew through the mansions of all high-ranking officials.

"Now I want to come back...... But it's good to be back. ”

When Feng Quan in Dashi Yongfang learned the news that Zhu Youxiao was going back to Beijing, his first reaction was whether the meeting between the two brothers would cause discomfort to the people below.

However, he soon rejected this conjecture, because there was no one under Zhu Youxiao who could match the Qi Palace.

Under Zhu Youxiao, the only ones who can handle it are Wei Liangqing and Jin Qi, one of them is the commander of the three guards of the imperial city, and the other is the chief soldier of Duoyan Mansion.

Not to mention comparing with the five governors such as Man Gui, even Sun Shoufa, Cao Meng and others can't compare.

Not surprisingly, this time it should be Zhu Youxiao's unilateral setback, and Zhu Youzhen will defend Zhu Youxiao.

Feng Quan stroked his beard, and Wen Tiren, who was sitting next to him, also looked at the message in his hand, and only spoke after a while:

"For now, I'm afraid that after Long Live and the prince return to Beijing one after another, there will be a lot of gap between the prince and the Qi Palace."

"Hmm...... But after all, it is alone. Feng Quan agreed with Wen Tiren's words, in his opinion, Zhu Youzhen was supporting Zhu Ciran, and such a move would inevitably cause dissatisfaction among the people of the Qi Palace.

Needless to say, the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies is enough for Zhu Ciran to drink a pot.

Whoever supports him will be unlucky, and if he supports himself, he will hurt his brother and usurp the throne, so letting Zhu Youzhen get stuck in the middle is also a kind of torture for him.

"Recently, the Yanshan faction has made a lot of moves, and there are many students in the official school who are inclined to King Qi."

Wen Tiren said something that was worth caring about recently, but Feng Quan frowned and shook his head after hearing it: "Although there are some, there are more tendencies." ”

"There should be no change in the situation, as long as there are no extraneous branches, King Qi should be on time."

"Long-term regency and usurpation will disintegrate his own vassal system, and he won't be so stupid."

"Besides, the navy's pressure on Qi is not great, so it can also be seen that King Qi's mind is not in Daming, but in Qi country."

Feng Quan, Wen Tiren and others, as conservative parties, are the faction that supports the ancestral system and supports Zhu Youxiao and Zhu Ciran.

It's not that they don't look down on Zhu Youzhen, but they know that their value lies in supporting the emperor.

If they also go to the Qi Palace, who else can support the emperor in the entire temple?

Once they take refuge in the Qi Palace, then Gu Bingqian, the grass on the wall, will definitely fall to the King of Qi again, what can the remaining neutrals and the Donglin Party do in the end?

They defected to the Qi Palace, which means that they have no value to Zhu Youzhen personally, and it is only a matter of a few days before they are deposed and deposed.

So it's not that they are loyal, but that they have to be loyal, and only by being loyal to the imperial power can they reflect their value and let the Zhejiang Party survive.

At present, they want to stay up to Zhu Youzhen first, and then bet on the situation above the Daming Temple, as long as the bet is right, the Zhejiang Party can prosper for several more decades.

"In this drought, so many tenants have fled from Jiangnan, and the people below are a little dissatisfied."

Feng Quan and Wen Tiren discussed the matter of exchanging tenants for regular grain in the drought, but Wen Tiren frowned and waved his hand:

"The opinions of the people below don't matter anymore, King Qi will definitely take the three provinces south of the Yangtze River, and if you care about them, you will let us get involved ourselves."

Wen Tiren saw it very thoroughly, and almost every new policy implemented by Zhu Youjian put Jiangnan last.

This also means that Zhu Youzhen attaches great importance to Jiangnan, and this time the tenants were compiled by Qi Min, and after the registration was made, the population of the three provinces in Jiangnan increased dramatically.

For Zhu Youzhen, who has always taken "immigration to the real border" as his national policy, the people in Jiangnan will definitely be relocated.

"This year, 1.26 million people from the three provinces have been relocated, but fortunately, it snows in the winter, and the drought should subside."

Wen Tiren took a sip of tea, and Feng Quan kept bowing his head when he listened.

Just as Jiangnan used silver to coerce the imperial court, now Zhu Youzhen is also using grain to coerce Jiangnan.

Either the tenants were released and supported by the imperial court's policy of arranging households with the people, or they waited for the imperial court to continue to relocate the people in Jiangnan and distribute the excess land to the peasants and tenants, so that the tenants could escape.

Under the natural disaster, unless the gentry could come up with enough food for the tenants to eat for several years, they would not have the capital to fight with Zhu Youzhen.

What is the end of the confrontation between local forces and the centralized imperial court, Feng Quan and they know better than anyone else, so Wen Tiren will say that he doesn't care about the people below.

To put it bluntly, it is still a question of how many of the so-called people below will be alive after a year.

Demands and demands are changing every year, last year's flood was exempted, this year's drought is exempt and the grain is often closed, who knows what will be next year.

The two are ready to take the Zhejiang Party to endure the past few years, and after Zhu Youzhen becomes a vassal, they will bet on others.

Their ideas are also Gu Dang's ideas, but although Gu Dang's ideas are good, one person can't support them.

"Your Highness...... There was news from Gu Mansion Jinyiwei, and Gu Ge Lao didn't seem to be able to do it. ”

In the transportation hall of the Qi Palace, when Zhu Youzhen learned that his brother was going back to Beijing, he was in a good mood, but Lu Wenzhao brought a not good news.

"Gu Bingqian is also seventy years old this year, and it is normal for him to be in poor health, so let Wang Kentang go to diagnose his pulse and treat him."

For people like Gu Bingqian, Zhu Youzhen is not lacking, even if Gu Bingqian is sick and dies now, he can push himself to become the first assistant of the cabinet, and at the same time let Sun Chengzong serve as the second assistant of the cabinet.

As for the vacancy in the cabinet, then let Zhou Yanru and Wen Tiren make up for it.

It's just a cabinet minister, not a cabinet elder and a second assistant.

"Is my eldest nephew still in Chungju?"

Zhu Youzhen was writing, and he was dealing with government affairs while writing, which made Lu Wenzhao take a look with concern.

"The Law of the Ming Dynasty"

Judging from the title of the book, Lu Wenzhao knew that this was a "Law", but he didn't know how the content was different from the Da Ming Law.

"Back to His Royal Highness, the prince has already taken the Yangtze River waterway from Chungju to Huguang in the south."

"The accompanying Jinyi Wei came to report, it should be to go to the area of Huguang and Wuchang, and then go south to Changsha, and then go to Guangzhou to meet Fengguo Gong."

Lu Wenzhao responded to Zhu Youzhen, Zhu Youzhen also stopped what he was doing when he heard this, and after a few seconds, he continued to write the law, and said:

"The leave he will be postponed until September next year, so that he will focus on patrolling in Zhejiang and Nanzhili."

"Humble ......and orderly" Hearing Zhu Youzhen say this, Lu Wenzhao obediently responded, and turned around to let people deal with it.

While he was dealing with it, Wang Chengen also walked into the hall with a thick song and put it on Zhu Youzhen's desk.

"Your Highness, there is a message over there, saying that since you are coming back, these days must be busy, please continue to deal with the sloppiness for a few days."

Wang Chengen opened his mouth with a embarrassed face, and Zhu Youzhen suddenly lost his mood when he heard this.

He's only been resting for five or six days, and his good brother is starting to be lazy again?

"Except for the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Households, the Ministry of Officials, and the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, all the other recitals were sent to the Qianqing Palace."

Zhu Youzhen glanced at it, and only left half of the music, so he asked Wang Chengen to send the rest to the Qianqing Palace.

After a few days of rest, he also figured it out.

Maybe it's because he's so capable that his brother is so dependent on him.

The more dependent you are, the more you can't go.

Rather than drag it out like this, it is better to interrupt it as soon as possible and let Zhu Youxiao handle the government by himself, no matter how much he asks for help.

As for whether Zhu Youxiao will let Zhu Ciran return to Beijing to deal with the government affairs as soon as possible, this is a matter of their father and son, and it has nothing to do with Zhu Youzhen.

"Your Royal Highness, the princess sent someone to ask, saying that Zhou Niangniang asked, how should His Royal Highness's pedantic question be arranged......"

Wang Chengen opened his mouth cautiously and asked about Zhu Cihong's study.

In this regard, Zhu Youzhen was not in a hurry, he wrote lightly: "Literacy is enough, Brother Hong'er is still young, it is the age of playing, it is enough to practice calligraphy every day, and the pedantic things can be sent directly to the official school when he is seven years old." ”

Zhu Youzhen did not intend to spoil Zhu Cihong, nor did he intend to let him receive one-on-one teaching in the palace.

Regardless of whether Yuan Xi Concubine can give birth to a son or not, in short, what the Qi State needs is a king who can govern the Qi State.

Moreover, by the time the prince ascends the throne, it may be decades later, and the Qi State has not yet digested the entire continent of North and South Asia, and what is needed is the king of the guard, not the master of the pioneer.

If you want to keep it, you have to know what the people need, you have to understand what the people's sufferings are, and you have to have the determination to do it.

There are many talents among the people who have not been excavated, and it is impossible for Zhu Youzhen to implicate Zhu Cihong and others with the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, the Yanshan faction and others too much, which means that they need to maintain the existence of the two factions.

It is necessary to use new forces to counter the old forces, and there is a constant influx of fresh blood, so that the Qi country can prosper forever.

Thinking so, Zhu Youzhen also thought of his other three eldest nephews.

"How is Brother Yan and Brother Jiong?"

"The two highnesses will be in the fifth grade of the official school next year, and they are studying at the official school of Nanxunfang."

Zhu Youzhen and Wang Chengen asked and answered, which made Zhu Youzhen realize that his other two eldest nephews were about to graduate from school.

As a result, they will also face the problem of choosing a secondary school next year.

"Pick a time and let Brother Yan and Brother Jiong come to the house for a meal."

"Slave and maid receive ......"

Zhu Youzhen is ready to see how the talents, personalities, and conduct of these two eldest nephews are, and if he can, he will also cultivate them.

He is not afraid that these two will compete with Zhu Ciran for the throne, after all, as long as his brother's brain is not broken, it is unlikely that Zhu Ciran, who is already the crown prince and the eldest son, will be abolished and set up two concubines.

Even if he had a head pump, the ministers would not have agreed.

Moreover, judging from the current situation, the throne is a hot potato, and the growth of the prince is of great help to Zhu Youxiao and Zhu Ciran.

Zhu Youzhen carefully checked, among his brother's subordinates, if there is a talent, then I am afraid that only Zhang Xianzhong, who was appointed as the chief soldier of Kaiping Mansion.

Zhang Xianzhong is indeed good, but the imperial power is still alone after all.

Even if Li Dingguo, Sun Kewang and others are added, and even the two of them achieve the position of the governor and the first assistant, they may not be able to compete with the Yanshan faction.

At this time, it is a good thing that two more princes are in real power, and the faster they take power, the sooner they can get out.

Thinking so, Zhu Youzhen continued to paint, while Wang Chengen stepped back and rushed to arrange time......

The afternoon update is around six o'clock

(End of chapter)