Ji Gang couldn't help but be annoyed when he saw that under his painstaking persuasion, the other party still had such a result, and scolded softly: "You rotten Confucians, you will be as smelly and hard as a stone in a pit all your life, and you will die on this word "sour". ”

At the same time, a long convoy slowly came to the gate of King Ning's Mansion under the escort of hundreds of Ming soldiers.

At the place where the curtain was lifted, a girl who had come from Daning all the way up and bumped all the way, was sullen in the carriage, and had long been attracted by the prosperity of Jingshi Yingtian, broke free from her mother's arms and got out of the gorgeous carriage.

Stopping in front of the palace gate, Zhu Quan, who was waiting for him, saw that this bouncing girl had clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, and looked like his wife Xu Ying, and it was difficult to suppress the impulse in his heart, and he wanted to hold her in his arms when he walked forward.

Zhu Ying was caught off guard and saw that this strange uncle with a scruffy beard actually wanted to hug herself, and when she was frightened, she jumped like a deer and got out of the car, and her mother Xu Ying, who was wearing a gorgeous costume, sought protection behind her, and looked at Zhu Quan with a probe.

Zhu Quan recalled that when he led the army to leave Daning and followed Zhu Dijing, his daughter still couldn't walk, and after not seeing her for several years, her daughter actually regarded herself as a stranger, and she couldn't help but feel sad.

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Xu Ying did not approve of Zhu Quan's participation in this battle of martyrdom in the same room, and it was inevitable that she would be resentful for a few years, but at this time, seeing the sad expression on Zhu Quan's face, she knew that it was because he had been away from home for a long time and her daughter was difficult to recognize, so she softened her heart and was full of resentment, and she picked up her daughter and handed it to her husband, and comforted her softly: "Ying'er, he is your father." ”

Zhu Quan held his daughter firmly in his arms, for fear that she would fly away like a bird and never return.

Zhu Ying only felt that her cheeks were stabbed by the stubble under the chin of this strange "father", tears rolled around in her big eyes, while slamming his chest with a pink little fist, and looking at her mother with helpless eyes, intending to get rid of the claws and return to Xu Ying's arms.

A young woman wearing a purple palace dress and a beautiful appearance came to her hand holding a boy who was about four or five years old and had a tiger's brain, and said to Zhu Quanfu: "Lord, the concubine is so polite. It is Feng Xuan, the righteous daughter of Feng Sheng, the former Duke of Song, and Zhu Hanmin, the son of Zhu Quan. In front of the public, she didn't dare to be as casual as Xu Ying, although she was quite resentful of Zhu Quan's behavior of only holding her daughter, she didn't dare to show it in the slightest.

Zhu Quan saw that his son was on the side, and immediately stretched out his left hand to hug him together, but Zhu Hanmin saw his sister's tearful situation of "falling into the claws of the devil", and he was already prepared, and after breaking free from his mother's hand, he lowered his head and slipped under his arm, and the rabbit fled into the palace.

Zhu Quan saw that this kid had just arrived, and he was not afraid of life, so he couldn't help but laugh and scolded: "This rabbit cub, he knows that this is his own home, and he drove straight in." He didn't know that when Zhu Hanmin was in Daning, he liked to pester his mother the most, went to the city wall to watch Yang Ling, Feng Tieling and others under the command of the military horses outside the city to drill the military formation, thousands of troops and horses have long been accustomed to the battle, although there are hundreds of soldiers with weapons in front of the palace, where can they frighten him.

When Zhu Quan turned his head, he saw Feng Xuan's pretty face, as before, he couldn't bear it, and immediately grabbed his shoulder with his left hand, and said softly: "No need to be so polite, let's go home." ”

Feng Xuan couldn't hide the joy in his eyes when he saw Zhu Quan's mother and son, and he made such an intimate move in front of the public, regardless of the identity of the prince, although his cheeks were flushed, he was very shy, and the little resentment in his heart had already disappeared when he stepped into the house.

Xu Ying saw the two of them entering the mansion side by side, and couldn't help but hate and say: These two guys actually treated everyone as if they were nothing, and regarded this place as their boudoir.

In the Forbidden City shrouded in night, in the imperial study of Wuying Palace, the commander of the Jinyi Guard looked at Zhu Di, who was wearing a dragon robe behind the desk, and said in a cautious voice: "According to Weichen's subordinates, Huang Guan, who refused to submit to His Majesty and recruited troops outside, is the champion of Lianzhong Sanyuan, and has now committed suicide, and his wife and daughter have also committed suicide. ”

Zhu Di couldn't help but turn cold when he heard this, and after a moment of silence, he said categorically: "What about Lianzhong Sanyuan?" I will decree tomorrow that his status as the champion will be removed. ”

Ji Gang bowed down and said: "Your Majesty, most of the real ministers of the past dynasties are not champions. And those seemingly glamorous champions often do not achieve much when assisting Ming Jun to govern the world. It can be seen that these guys have long been stubborn in reading, and they don't know what to change, and they are really a group of sour Confucians who can't be created. "He was also a scholar in the past, and he knew very well the difficulty of the imperial examination, and it was difficult to win the championship in the palace examination, let alone even win the three yuan? said words against his heart in his mouth, and when his cheeks were slightly hot, he couldn't help but feel sorry for this person who had only seen the three elements in the Ming Dynasty for more than 30 years.

"Gao Xianning, have you ever found it?" Speaking of Huang Guan, who was only eight buckets high, Zhu Di couldn't help but think of the Shandong scholar who commanded the army and approached the city, and refuted his martyrdom with "Zhou Gongfu Cheng Wang".

Hearing this, Ji Gang hurriedly replied: "This person is now in prison. Speaking of this, he looked up at Zhu Di, who did not show anger on his face, and hurriedly added: "Weichen has already persuaded him a lot, so that he understands the meaning of His Majesty's thirst for talent. It turned out that although he was very angry with Gao Xianning's ignorance of current affairs, he still did not send him directly to the palace, so as not to disobey Zhu Di in person, so that there was no room for each other to turn around.

Zhu Di asked in a deep voice, "What is this person's mind?" ”

Ji Gang knew that Gao Xianning's life and death were between his words, and he suddenly recalled in his mind that he was expelled from the school by the teacher when he was young, and was despised by his neighbors in the embarrassing days, only this stinky and hard Gao Xianning had written to him several times, and he couldn't help but say in his mouth: "He said that Weichen was expelled from the school in the past, and it is understandable to follow His Majesty Fengtianjing. ”

Zhu Di couldn't help but be silent for a long time when he heard this, and sighed: "He is a loyal man." ”

Ji Gang saw that His Majesty the Emperor was not angry, and when he was relieved in his heart, he saw Zheng He, the eunuch in charge of the imperial study, come to the door of the study and bow down and said: "Your Majesty, His Royal Highness King Ning has come with an edict, and now the marquis is outside the palace." It turned out that after Zhu Di ascended the throne, he remembered that Zheng He had repelled Li Jinglong, the Duke of Cao Guo, under the city of Beiping, and made a contribution to turning the tide for himself, so he was named the head of the imperial study.

Ji Gang saw Zhu Di waving his hand, and immediately walked backwards out of the study.

Zhu Di saw Zhu Quan coming slowly, and after entering the room, he knelt on the ground and saluted himself, and immediately ordered Zheng He to give him tea.

After Zheng He withdrew from the study, there was silence in the huge Wuying Palace, and Zhu Di said: "Brother Quan, I intend to move the Jingshi from Yingtian to Beiping, I don't know what the virtuous brother sees?" ”

Zhu Quan unexpectedly was summoned into the palace today for the purpose of moving the capital, and after thinking for a while, he replied: "The courtiers think that although the Northern Yuan Dynasty is destroyed, the Tatars who respect the Golden Family Tartar as the emperor are still there, and although Warat temporarily submits to my Ming Dynasty, it is still not to be taken lightly. The nine border towns are all garrisoned with heavy troops, but the road is too far away, and it will take at least a month to come and go. Although moving the capital to Beiping seems to be placing the imperial capital in the northern frontier, which is quite risky, in fact, it is always alert to the subjects of the world, and I am wise and cannot forget the war for a long time. It has played an incalculable role in consolidating the frontier areas in northern Xinjiang. ”

"What the virtuous brother sees is deeply in line with my heart, but I am afraid that there are not a few opponents of this matter." Zhu Di recalled that his father Zhu Yuanzhang had already intended to move the capital, but he did not implement it after all, and he had been on the scene since he ascended the throne, so he realized that the move to the capital involved too wide, involving the population of the north, the transportation of canals, and the garrison of the border passes. Thinking about this, Zhu Di couldn't help but sigh: "It's really hard for me to understand, how did my father manage everything back then? Since I ascended the throne, I have asked about everything, and this is really not a human job. He has been in the army for a long time with a group of rough generals, and he has been talking obscene from time to time, and since he ascended the throne these days, he must always pay attention to the etiquette of the king, that is, when he is alone with Zhu Quan, he can't help but vomit.

When Zhu Quan heard this, he secretly slandered in his heart: The top position of our Ming Dynasty is not so easy to sit on. If you sit on it alive or dead, you are destined to have no easy life. Civil and military officials can resign and go home to farm, you can't pick and choose, right? It's just that such a topic involving the throne is too sensitive, but it is not something that he can openly discuss, so he had to change the topic and say: "From what the courtiers can see, even if there are opponents of the relocation of the capital, they are all civil officials. If it drags on for two years, the heroes of Conglong who follow you are also accustomed to the land south of the Yangtze River, and the capital is prosperous, but I am afraid that there will be more and more opponents, so it is better not to have long nights and dreams. ”

When Zhu Di heard Zhu Quan's words, he couldn't help but feel a pang in his heart, and secretly thought to himself: What this kid said is true, Zhu Neng, Qiu Fu and other princes, the most loyal people are not from the north, and they have lived in Beiping for a long time.

Zhu Quan knew that the later Tsarist Russia's ambitions for the expansion of the northeast and the role played by the relocation of the capital was by no means as simple as moving the imperial palace to Beiping, but it was of far-reaching significance for consolidating the current situation of the Ming Dynasty and the unification of the north and the south. The move of the capital is related to the foundation of the Ming Dynasty, so only Your Majesty is arbitrary. ”

Zhu Di frowned when he heard this: "After I think about it carefully, I will make a decision." ”

When Zhu Quan slowly walked out of the hall, he couldn't help but look back, only to see the lonely figure of Zhu Di sitting alone in the study at the dim lamp, and suddenly recalled in his mind the Hongwu Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, who was also lonely here in the past, and sighed secretly: The king of the world is destined to be lonely for a lifetime.

At this time, outside the Wuying Palace, Yang Rong, the editor of the Hanlin Academy, who was waiting to be summoned, saw Zhu Quan's age and robe, and already guessed his identity, and immediately bowed to salute.

Zhu Quan thought about what Zhu Di said about moving the capital, so he nodded to this strange civil official, and under the guidance of the eunuch who carried the lantern, he walked out of the palace along the royal road.

Zhu Di was very appreciative of this civil official who dared to obstruct himself from entering the palace in front of the Hongwu Gate and advised him to worship his father's filial piety first. Yang Ronggong's act of holding the reins of the horse in front of the palace left a deep impression on him, and he knew that the Hanlin Academy was not allowed to enter the first-rate people of the imperial examination. He can rely on a military general to fight the world, but he can't count on this group of martial artists to govern the world, so he summoned this brave and knowledgeable Yang Rong to inquire.

Yang Rong pondered for a moment and then said categorically: "Weichen thinks that Wuchen Kejin is the tenth in the top three, and the Zhongshu Shu Jishi has been of great use to His Majesty Emperor Taizu's dedication to the "Taiping Ten Strategies". ”

Zhu Di heard that Xie Jin was not the champion, and he was born in the eyes of the list and the flowers, but he didn't care about it. In his opinion, Huang Zicheng, who was killed by himself, would try first, third in the palace test, and Tanhua and first, but he was just a misguided Confucian. It can be seen that being able to come out on top in the imperial examination may not be a waste. Hearing Yang Rong's recommendation, he couldn't help asking, "How is this person compared to Aiqing?" ”

"Xie Jin can write poetry at the age of six, and he is only eight buckets high, and he is not as good as Weichen." Yang Rong bowed slightly and said.

Zhu Di couldn't help but be slightly moved when he heard that Yang Rong admired Xie Jin so much. He knew very well that these Qingliu people of the Hanlin Academy pretended to be humble on weekdays, but in fact, they all had a sense of pride in their bones, if they were not extremely appreciative people, they would not make such a comment, and asked with a smile in his heart: "Since there are such characters, how can they not be reused in the past?" He recalled his nephew Zhu Yun's way of employing people, and couldn't help but feel a little gloating in his heart.

Yang Rong sighed lightly and said: "Xie Jin was deeply appreciated by Emperor Taizu in the past, just because he later replaced the Langzhong Kingdom with grass to express grievances...... "Originally, Li Shanchang, the Korean prince who Xie Jin was guilty of, Hu Weiyong's case was very taboo, but since Yang Rong saw Zhu Di stop in front of Hongwu Gate, and listened to his own first sacrifice to his father and emperor, and then took over the throne, he already knew in his heart that the Ming Emperor Zhu Di he was facing now was calm-headed, and it was by no means comparable to His Majesty the former Emperor Jianwen, Therefore, I still had the audacity to say this.

Zhu Di recalled that in the past, the civil and military of the Manchu Dynasty knew that the old Korean prince Li Shanchang was wronged by his father, but he was silent, and there was only a bold and bold supervision of the imperial history to ignore the past of grievances, and he couldn't help but sigh in his heart. I suddenly recalled my father's evaluation of this young official: I and you are morally a monarch and a minister, and in terms of kindness, like father and son, you should know everything. If you are a late bloomer, if you return to your son, you will be able to go to school, and in the next ten years, it will not be too late. Immediately said in a deep voice: "I should summon this person tomorrow morning, if you have real talent and real learning, you should not hesitate to use it." ”