Yang Yiqing's matter still gave Zhu Houzhao some trouble, in his memory, the history books all record that Yang Yiqing was both a capable and loyal minister, and he also became the first assistant in the later Jiajing period.

But Xu Jin, the squire of the military department, went to Shaanxi at this time, didn't he clearly say that Yang Yiqing was his Liu Daxia's person?

The separation of reality and memory made Zhu Houzhao a little uncomfortable.

But it is not easy to move Yang Yiqing, from Wang Yue to Qin Hong to Yang Yiqing, there is a strong person in the northwest.

So he thought about it in the hall of the East Palace, and it was better to stabilize the situation temporarily, no matter what, at this time in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the courtiers could not shake the foundation of the court.

But he will reply to this letter well.

"Let's write this letter myself."

Feng Xi was slightly stunned, the crown prince attaches great importance to these important local officials, even no less than some elders in Beijing, which actually also sees the prince's ruling ideas. Ordinary people may simply respond to things, but if you want to be a caring person, in fact, the prince's behavior can be touched.

"Yes, Wechen obeys."

Zhu Houzhao scratched his nose, "What do you think Yang Yiqing is in at the moment?" Fengxi, you say it first. ”

Wechen thinks...... He should be a bit of a maze. His Royal Highness is a momentary master who is working hard to govern the country, and it is also a strategy to deal with the harm of the empty salaries of the troops in the border towns, but this is mixed with the big Sima, so he is afraid that he will not be able to understand His Highness's intentions. Hence this letter. ”

"Liu Jin, what do you say?"

Liu Jin did not have Feng Xi's immaturity, and said more boldly, "What kind of person is Yang Yiqing... His Highness is also clear. He has always had a strong personality as an official, and he will do things that benefit the country and the people, and he will not dare to openly resist the decree if it is not for the benefit of the country and the people, and he will secretly find a way to delay. Therefore, this letter is not to touch His Highness's intentions, but to reduce His Highness's suspicions. ”

Feng Xi didn't dare to say this. Because if what Liu Jin said is true, he actually has some heart for Yang Yiqing, because he is playing with the prince.

Yang Yiqing is indeed very personal, so far, Zhu Houzhao has not met a similar official.

"What do you think of this letter?"

Liu Jin pondered for a moment, "Weichen thinks that when he replies to his honest work, he should focus on the court and the overall situation." ”

Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but glance at him, this old eunuch was also slippery enough.

"By saying this, you are going to make it difficult for the governor of the three sides of the court to die. Focusing on the court and the overall situation, what is the overall situation? Which big picture? ”

Emperor Jiajing likes this, let the courtiers guess, and make the court above the snake, snake, scorpion, and scorpion.

The prince sat down and put pen to paper, "This palace gave Liu Daxia this errand, why don't you want him to succeed?" Even if it is just a little to clean up the accumulation of cheats in the airspace salaries of the border army towns, it will also be of great benefit to the imperial court and the country. If Liu Daxia can always make such a contribution to the imperial court, what about him as the secretary of the military department? So the first point is to tell Yang Yiqing not to have other thoughts and cooperate with the military department to do this errand. ”

"Besides, what do you think Xu Jin can do when he goes to Guyuan Mansion at this time?"

Feng Xi and Liu Jin both frowned and fell silent.

"We know Yang Yiqing, don't Liu Daxia and Xu Jin know Yang Yiqing? Cleaning up the empty salary, as long as the court supports it, without Liu Daxia, Yang Yiqing himself will do it. So Xu Jin must have gone to Guyuan in person for other reasons, and he wanted to win over Yang Yiqing. ”

"So His Highness wants to directly find out with him?" Feng Xi can probably guess, because the prince likes to go straight in the past, and he doesn't like to guess with his courtiers, which reduces efficiency.

Zhu Houzhao nodded appreciatively, "A person like Yang Yiqing is determined, very assertive, and has a clear mind, if he wants to fool this kind of person, even if he can do it, he will be very tired, and the risk is extremely high." It's better to tell him directly the intention of the East Palace, this palace wants this, you Yang Yiqing can do it, and if you can't do it, you can't do it, and then it depends on his choice. ”

At this point in time, Zhu Houzhao on the side can not care, there is only one way, the northwest has hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses in Gansu, Ning, and Yu, and faces the Mongolian tribes in the Hetao area, he will definitely not be able to uphold the attitude of focusing on peace and avoiding war as much as possible like Liu Daxia.

This can be regarded as grasping the main and ignoring the secondary in a complex political situation. As long as this is okay, the rest will be discussed later.

So Zhu Houzhao was going to write this letter, and when he was ready, he instructed Liu Jin, "This letter is sent in the palace, you go and send someone." When I saw Yang Yiqing, tell him that he understands the echo and must not delay! ”

"Yes!"

After this incident, Zhu Houzhao stretched his waist, "Fengxi, is there anything important in the future?" ”

"His Royal Highness announced that Zhang Chengtian of "Ming Pao" entered the palace."

Zhu Houzhao remembered.

"Oh, yes. Take out all the notes you have prepared before, and tell him to bring them back later. ”

These notes were excerpted from military newspapers by Feng Xi, Jin Gui, and others, and some sensitive information could not be brought to Ming Pao by Zhang Chengtian. The rest is roughly the border situation in recent years:

In April of the thirteenth year of Hongzhi, thieves entered Kou Datong, martial law was imposed in Beijing, and the people's hearts were distant. From the 17th to the 23rd, they slaughtered and plundered the left guard of Datong; In the middle of May, from Weiyuan, Pinglu, Jingping and other health centers in the west, from Yanghe, Tiancheng, Shunshengchuan in the east, to Ying, Shuo, Shanyin, Mayi, Hunyuan, Ulzhou, Guangchang and other prefectures and counties in the middle of the ring Tun Liezhai, stretching for thousands of miles, fireworks settlements more than one million, production between ten days and days, people and animals are exhausted.

In August of the 14th year of Hongzhi, about 780,000 horsemen from the Mongolian tribes such as Huosiao joined forces with Huosi, and rode from Huamachi in Ningxia to Guyuan to the south, plundering by separate roads, and the fire camp was more than ten miles, which was very rampant.

In the seventeenth year of Hongzhi, the Mongolian right-wing fire sieve led hundreds of people to attack Jiaoshan......

Every time these military reports came, the reaction of the court was to be indignant and excited, and when Emperor Hongzhi really said that he wanted to do it, it was prudent to be cautious. After a lot of times, everyone slowly got used to it, anyway, they just plundered the border and went back after that. Day by day, the situation at the border is really a erosion.

The music that Zhang Chengtian is holding in his hand is also heavy,

Zhu Houzhao confessed to him: "These notes record in detail the invasion of the Mongolian tribes against our Ming Dynasty in recent years, almost every year, and there are also many details recorded in it. Don't stop every day, or it will give people a sense of exhaustion. ”

Zhang Chengtian was strange, but he didn't dare to ask.

As a result, Zhu Houzhao also saw his doubts and explained: "The purpose of ranking the 108 generals before was to make their faces blush, not really to make the people see the jokes of the court." This time, these things should be taken into the heart. Do you have someone under you who writes brilliantly? Preferably one that has written a story. ”

Zhang Chengtian's eyes rolled, "There is one person." ”

"Then you look at the arrangement, in short, an effect, to reflect the ferocity of the enemy, our patience, in addition, we must not describe the imperial court blindly avoiding war, we want to guide the public to be dissatisfied with the Tatars, not with the imperial court. Moreover, in the fourteenth year of Hongzhi, he commanded Wang Taishi to die, and in the seventeenth year of Hongzhi, he commanded Zheng Yu to die, which shows that the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty are fighting to the death with the enemy. ”

That's easy to understand.

To tell the truth, Zhang Chengtian is in control of Ming Pao, and it is not the first time in recent years that he has deliberately arranged some articles for a special purpose to build momentum.

These are the battles...... Da Ming mostly didn't play beautifully. Your Highness, this is to raise troops......

"Questions?"

Zhang Chengtian shook his head, whether to raise the army or not is the decision of the imperial court, and it has nothing to do with him, "If you go back to Your Highness, no." There's just one thing...... The villain wants to report it. ”

"Say."

Zhang Chengtian took out something from his bosom, like the typesetting of the "Ming Pao" newspaper, "Recently, there have been "Zhi Bao" and "Xian Shu" that imitate "Ming Pao" in circulation, and the content of the report is still some literary articles at first, but gradually it will also involve some things such as people's livelihood, discontinuity, and political commentary. The villain remembers that His Royal Highness said that the war of public opinion is a bloodless war, like this kind of newspaper, can it be circulated? ”

Zhu Houzhao's eyebrows flashed, and he took the newspaper from Zhang Chengtian's hand. The above is indeed the word "Zhibao", which records the life scene of a family of three who fled to Beijing, as well as the upcoming New Year, some New Year's customs of the royal family, many people don't know, it's good to use it as a fun reading.

"Who's doing this?"

"Your Highness, do you remember Jiang Tongzu?"

"Ah, it's him, these people are depressed in the court, and they want to do these things." Of course Zhu Houzhao remembered, and he already had a plan in his heart, "Let them get it first, this palace knows about this matter." ”

Zhang Chengtian didn't say anything else, packed up and left the palace.

Jiang Tongzu and Ma Yiqian...... Zhu Houzhao is now waiting for these names to slowly gather, they are already a little resentful of themselves, and one day they will say disrespectful words and do things that cross the line, and by then many things will be justified.

After Zhang Chengtian left, Zhu Houzhao asked someone to change his clothes, and he was going to Emperor Hongzhi's side.

This winter, the emperor's health was very bad. It was a little better before, but now the situation has taken a sharp turn for the worse, which is actually very dangerous, and many times it is like this, and it will never get better.

So much so that even Zhu Houzhao's wedding was actually in a state of stagnation. It's fine, it doesn't make a difference. But every year, there will be many sacrificial activities, and the emperor is always lying down, which is not very good. Isn't there a saying called: The major affairs of the country are in worship and Rong. In ancient times, sacrifices had to be taken seriously.

In the warm pavilion of the Qianqing Palace, it was as warm as turning on the heating, but even so, Emperor Hongzhi was still covered with a thick futon.

When Zhu Houzhao walked to the door, he still asked the eunuchs to keep silent as usual, he was afraid of disturbing the emperor's rest, but this time it was different, there was a voice inside.

It was Xiao Jing's, and the old eunuch said, "Does the emperor want to meet His Royal Highness?" ”

“…… Ahem. This is the emperor coughing, and his voice is a little hoarse, "I still don't want it, now the government is on his shoulders, and it is already very hard every day, so let him rest more when he has a little time...... My father is not good, people say that the children of poor families are in charge of the house early, how can my crown prince be in charge of the house so early,"

Zhu Houzhao, who was outside the warm pavilion, retracted his steps and smiled warmly when he heard this.

I only heard Xiao Jing say again: "The emperor shouldn't think like this, His Royal Highness is very wise, it is a good thing to be able to take charge of the house early, the slave maid heard the British Duke Zhang Mao say last time that he was very envious of the emperor, he couldn't give birth to such a good son." The slave said, "Can that be the same?" His Royal Highness is the son of a dragon and a grandson of a dragon. ”

Emperor Hongzhi sighed, "You, you will say nice things." But you don't have a son, so you can't understand. I tell you that a true father doesn't care how good his son is, I ...... I just hope that he can be happy and healthy. ”

Zhu Houzhao is not a person who likes to fan love, and his emotions are difficult to be fanned. But Emperor Hongzhi's words still made his nose a little sour. From the tenth year of Hongzhi to this year, Emperor Hongzhi gave him the appearance of a real loving father, perhaps at this moment, this father-son relationship really emerged in his heart, so that his adult soul can recognize a father again.

But God is not beautiful, and in the blink of an eye, it has been 18 years since Hongzhi......

Thinking of this, his eyes couldn't help but redden.