Seeing that he didn't refute, Zhu Yuanzhang's anger calmed down slightly, picked up the teacup on the table, and was about to drink.

Although Fang Xiaoru was a little afraid in his heart, his mind suddenly appeared that his father had worn a patched cloth robe at home for more than ten years before his death, and the tragic situation of being escorted to the execution ground, he only felt that his chest was surging with grief and indignation, and he couldn't help himself, he suddenly raised his head, and said with tears in the corners of his eyes: "My father is an honest official, and the court officials who are responsible for a thorough investigation do not have any real evidence that my father is corrupt and perverts the law. As for his mentor Song Lian, he has no relationship with Hu Weiyong, so how could he be involved in rebellion? ”

Zhu Yuanzhang heard him say this, his face changed, although it was easy to ask Fang Xiaoru to die, but this person was a well-educated person, knowledgeable, and the teacher was famous, so he was already quite popular in Shilin at this time, and killing him inevitably made the world's scholars shy away from choosing talents for the imperial examinations they opened. Thinking of this, Zhu Yuanzhang forcibly suppressed the anger in his heart.

Looking at Fang Xiaoru, Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly remembered his teacher Song Lian in his mind, and remembered those people who were called the "Four Bachelors" with Song Lian, Liu Bowen and Liu Ji in Qingtian, Zhang Yi in Longquan, Ye Chen in Lishui, Li Shanchang, who was known as the first founding hero of the Ming Dynasty, and even more remembered those scholars who were powerless but followed him through the troubled times at the end of the Yuan Dynasty and established the Ming Empire.

Now that the Ming Empire has been established for less than 20 years, it can be said that everything is waiting to be rebuilt, and it is inseparable from these scholars who are full of wealth. Hongwu himself issued an edict in the fourth year: starting from August this year, a special imperial examination will be held, and those who are worthy of the name and reality will be able to learn from the scriptures and practice the practice. I will personally advise the court, and the first to be an official will be the first to be an official, so that Chinese and foreign civil servants will all advance through the imperial examination, and those who are not subject to the imperial examination will not be allowed to be officials. Since the seventeenth year of Hongwu, the customization of holding the imperial examination every three years has been implemented. From bottom to top, it is divided into the hospital examination, the township examination, the meeting examination and the palace examination. Isn't all this just to win the hearts of the world's scholars and use them for my Ming Dynasty? Why can I be humble in the past when I was in danger, Song Lian and other "four bachelors said: "I am the fourth gentleman of the world." "Today, he has become the Ninety-Five Emperor above tens of thousands of people, but he can't allow him, a student, to tell two truths?"

Thinking of this, Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but let out a long sigh, and his complexion gradually softened. He has read countless people, and his heart is clear, dealing with these Confucian scholars who have read "Confucius and Mencius" since childhood, and pedantic scholars who advocate killing themselves and sacrificing their lives for righteousness, Huairou is often more useful than swords. Just as he was about to speak, he suddenly saw Fang Xiaoru's slightly trembling body with excitement and his stubborn eyes, a few thoughts turned in his heart, and he suddenly changed his mind, lowered his head and drank the tea in the cup, never looked at Fang Xiaoru again, just waved his hand and said coldly: "You go." ”

After Fang Xiaoru spoke, he was inevitably apprehensive in his heart, at this time, seeing Zhu Yuanzhang's reaction like this, he couldn't help but be surprised, and in a blink of an eye, he saw the pile of folds on the imperial desk, and he still knelt down and bowed under hesitation, and said in a low voice: "I hope Your Majesty will cherish it more, and the grass people will retire." With that, he bowed down and took a few steps backwards, turned around and walked out of the temple.

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Fang Xiaoru's back with cold eyes, and his mood was very complicated: this is a knowledgeable person, and what is even more rare is that he is not good at falsification, if Fang Xiaoru just said that he did not hate the emperor who killed his father and forced his teacher to death, then he must be a treacherous man, and at this moment, he would probably ask someone to put him to death. It is a pity that although this person is knowledgeable, he does not shy away from it at all, and it is not in line with the rule of law that he is currently promoting.

Jiang Xian, who was waiting outside the hall, looked at Fang Xiaoru's back as he walked away, with a complicated look in his eyes, and he was thinking to himself. I could hear Zhu Yuanzhang's voice from afar in the hall: "Is Jiang Xian here?" ”

Jiang Xian hurriedly turned around and entered the hall and walked towards the imperial study.

When he entered the room, he saw Zhu Yuanzhang at this time with a calm face, sitting behind the desk and staring at him coldly.

Jiang Xian bowed and said in a low voice: "Tonight on Luoyang Street, when the three lieutenants of the "Mu" character guard were arresting Hu Weiyong's rebel party Hu Ning, they were obstructed by a woman pretending to be a scholar in white and a teenager. After the woman killed two school captains Wang Gui, Qian Zong, she was captured by Zhao Qingfang, the captain of the Jinyi Guard, and is now imprisoned in Nanzhen Fu Envoy Prison. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang knew that if these two people didn't have some background, they would never be in prison, and Jiang Xian would not be verbose with such trivial matters, although this was the case, but he still looked as usual and did not ask.

Jiang Xian continued in a low voice: "Later, it was confirmed that the woman was Xu Ying, the eldest daughter of Xu Da, the Duke of Wei. As for the young man, he has not yet found out where he has come. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang's face was as heavy as water, but when he heard the words "Xu Da, Duke of Wei", his eyebrows couldn't help but wrinkle obliquely, the cold light flashed in his eyes, and he stared at Jiang Xian directly.

Jiang Xian was glanced at by his sword-like gaze, and couldn't help but feel a slight chill in his heart, and lowered his head.

Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly turned his head to the outside of the imperial study and asked, "Is the imperial doctor on duty here tonight?" Call him in. ”

Jiang Xian saw that Zhu Yuanzhang heard about such an incident, but he was still silent, and couldn't help but be secretly strange, knowing that Zhu Yuanzhang was not a king who liked to talk to people, and after the matter was explained clearly, he stopped talking.

Xue Jing, the eunuch in charge of the imperial book, answered outside the room and took the order. After a while, an old man dressed in the costume of the imperial physician in the palace, with white hair and white hair, and who was over the age of six, entered the imperial study, bowed down, and said loudly: "Weichen Lin Jun knocks to see Your Majesty." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang opened the desk drawer, took out a splendid small cloth bag, threw it in front of Lin Jun, and said coldly: "Let's see, what kind of diseases are these medicinal materials used to treat them?" ”

Although Lin Jun knew that on weekdays and evenings, Zhu Yuanzhang would occasionally summon the doctors on duty in the Tai Hospital, but today was the first time he was summoned at night, thinking that the emperor was unwell, but the tone of his speech at the moment was not like diagnosis and treatment, and he was slightly strange in his heart, and he didn't dare to ask more. I lowered my head and picked up the cloth bag, opened it, looked at it, looked at it carefully, and then took it to the end of my nose and sniffed it, and said in a low voice: This is the residue of more than a dozen flavors of Chinese medicine, and the person who took it must have suffered countless wounds in the past, and it has been greatly damaged. Speaking of this, Lin Jun shook his head lightly and sighed: "It's a pity that these medicines treat the symptoms but not the root cause, and they just delay the patient's life for half a year." ”

"Are you going to look away?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked with a frosty face.

Lin Jun sighed and said decisively: "Weichen has been practicing medicine for decades, and he has personally boiled countless medicinal materials, and there will be no mistakes in his judgment." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang stood up, paced back and forth for a few steps, suddenly turned his senses, waved his hand and ordered Lin Jun to withdraw from the hall, and said lightly to Jiang Xian: "Immediately pass on my message to Cao Wenbin, let him take care of Xu Ying, half a hair is missing, but he asked." In addition, he sent his capable subordinates to pay attention to "his" every move, and report any situation immediately. After speaking, he waved his hand lightly, walked back to the desk and sat down to read the recital, no longer paying attention to Jiang Xian, who was standing solemnly.

Jiang Xian withdrew from the hall. Who is the "he" in the mouth of this emperor? Naturally, he understands it. What he said in front of the emperor today is indeed flawed, and it is difficult to escape Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes, but Xu Ying's killing of officials is a combination of stolen goods, and there are murder weapons in the corpse, and it is difficult to wash away when jumping into the Yellow River.

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Jiang Xian, who was drifting away, and couldn't help sneering slightly, since the first commander of Jinyiwei made Mao Zhu involved in Hu Weiyong's case and was executed. In the past two years, Jiang Xian and Cao Wenbin have been divided into two factions, fighting openly and secretly.

In a blink of an eye, Zhu Yuanzhang thought to himself: Xu Da, the Duke of Wei, has always been clean and self-conscious, and he lived in a simple house, even when Li Shanchang, Hu Weiyong and Liu Ji were on the cusp of fighting a few years ago, they were also outstanding. How could his eldest daughter Xu Ying do such a move to kill officials and save rebellion? The two Jinyi Guard captains were killed by Xu Ying, which shows that she has some means. But how could he be obtained by the little captain "Zhao Qingfang"? It seems that after Jiang Xian arrested Xu Ying tonight, he imprisoned him in his nemesis Cao Wenbin, which is quite a bit of "killing two birds with one stone". Defeat may give Cao Wenbin an extremely terrible opponent. These intrigues of his subordinates, where can they hide from Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes, but this is also what he wants to see, thinking so in his heart, Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but smile on his face, this is a smile that only he has when he is alone.

In the mansion of "King Ning", Jing Kun listened to ** Bo repeating last night's experience several times word by word, and his words were already quite "natural", his brows stretched, and he smiled: "You have to rest well, and you will worry about it when Brother Qin comes in the evening." ”

**Bo followed Jing Kun's instructions, found a royal robe of Zhu Quan from the wardrobe and put it on, looked in the mirror and found that there was a nine-point resemblance, put his mind at ease, although his heart was a little hairy, he still reluctantly moved the body of the dead Ning King Zhu Quan off the bed, lay on the bed, and fell asleep deeply.

After eating the lunch sent upstairs by Zhou Jin, the head of the palace, **Bo stood in front of the window, looking at the bright eyes in the vast courtyard outside the window, listening to Jing Kun's introduction to the situation in the palace, and told the life experience of Zhu Quan, the king of Ning, it turned out that this Zhu Quan was the seventeenth son of Zhu Yuanzhang, the Hongwu Emperor, and was born to a concubine surnamed Yang. **Bo heard that his fake Zhu Quan not only looked similar to himself, but also averaged his age, and Zhu Quan's biological mother happened to be surnamed Yang, so he couldn't help but be surprised. After listening to Jing Kun's story, Zhu Yuanzhang actually gave birth to twenty-six sons and more than ten daughters in one go, and couldn't help laughing: "I have never known that Zhu Yuanzhang is like a murderer, but I don't know that his kung fu of "creating people" is also so good. ”

At this moment, I saw three people walking slowly in the courtyard from a distance, one was Zhou Jin, the head of the palace, and the other seemed to be dressed as a scholar, but the person in the middle was a person dressed in yellow clothes and dressed as a gorgeous son. The three of them walked along the pebble-paved path in the courtyard, and saw ** Bo standing at the window, and the noble boy waved his hand with a smile.

**Bo saw the other party walking towards the small building where he was, and couldn't help but be a little at a loss.