After pondering for a moment, Qi Jiguang said: "Once the wheel turns, it is difficult to stop, especially when the driver is still the Son of Heaven, even if all the people in the world want to stop, the Son of Heaven will not easily let the car stop, after all, if you really stop, who knows if you will change the driver and change the lane?" ”

"Subordinates get it!"

Zhu Geng replied.

Tongzhou.

A deep house in the compound.

The two doctors were standing facing the chess table.

"What a pity!"

"Chen, Xue and the others were beheaded and shown to the public."

"Asking for directions eventually became asking for directions."

"The crown prince also went to the southern capital to supervise the country."

"Zhu Saijiu is also going overseas to be Zhu Fangbo."

"This brilliant Ming, because they are controlled by the people who are really learning, for their own status, they let the world's corporal doctors keep working hard because of them, they can't want to travel in the forest, they can't talk arbitrarily, they can't be respected, and now they even have to guard against their families!"

"In short, it seems that our scholars and doctors have less constraints on learning, can study any knowledge, and even have fewer burdens, the subsidies have increased, and the forced labor has been exempted forever, but they are more behaving than before, because there may be people who complain everywhere."

"I heard that Chen, Sun and other gentlemen were betrayed by their families, just like Wuxi Gu Gong was sued by his son."

Li Song also stood under a big locust tree on this day and told Zhu Jimao about the latest news.

Zhu Jimao nodded after hearing this, and said: "Yes, now it's too hard for the corporal doctors in the world, but the common people are becoming more and more leisurely, and many of them are still wandering around. ”

"But because of this kind of respect and inferiority, even if it is the eyes of the court everywhere, it will make the world complain, and this complaint will not affect the saint, but will also affect the prince, and put pressure on the prince."

"Exactly!"

Li Song nodded and said, "I really don't know what kind of storm the prince will set off when he goes to the south." ”

……

"It's better to be a virtuous than a virtuous!"

The summer of the twenty-sixth year of Wanli.

As soon as the prince arrived in Zhenjiang, he saw that the outer brick wall of a farmhouse had been brushed with such a line of big characters, and his face sank.

"Your Highness!"

"This white paint hasn't dried yet, it must have just been painted at night."

"The minister is guilty of failing to let the people below completely put an end to this kind of remarks!"

Li Chunguang, the governor of Yingtian, who was driving the car, also immediately went to the brick wall in person at this time, and then ran back to the crown prince and replied.

The prince said, "It's okay! Fu Yuan doesn't have to blame himself, his slogan is just a point of view. ”

When the prince had said this, he ordered the men to continue driving.

In fact.

Although Chen Yuwen and others tried to slander the prince's lustful nature without success, the remarks that Liyan was not as good as Lixian continued to be widely discussed among the people under the impetus of people with ulterior motives.

And many people also continue to imply that the current prince is not virtuous behind their backs, trying to make the prince infamous.

Especially the many landowners in the South.

These people seem to deliberately want to put pressure on the prince who went south, so that the prince feels afraid, so they desperately hype up this topic of "establishing a successor or establishing a virtuous".

"The prince came to the southern capital to supervise the country, and he has decided to choose a concubine in Nanzhi!"

Even.

There are also people with ulterior motives who secretly create rumors that the prince is coming to Nandu to choose a concubine, in order to confirm the prince's lascivious and lascivious image and turn the false into true.

"Really! It was rumored everywhere that the prince had flower willow disease, but he was still inappropriate. ”

"Whoever makes his daughter the prince's concubine will be upside down."

"So, whoever has a daughter, hurry up, marry if you can, don't be really harmed by the prince then!"

On this day, there was a leisurely green skin in a teahouse, so vividly said to a few fellow villagers who knew him, and only walked away quickly after an official came.

The prince also heard such remarks, and said with a cold expression:

"Sure enough, even if the truth is clarified, as long as someone wants to make this palace an unvirtuous prince, then there will always be remarks about the immorality of the palace, and there will be people who will always try their best to slander!"

"Your Highness, don't worry too much, the factory guards of the imperial court will not allow these people with ulterior motives to wantonly slander and spread rumors."

Zhu Guozhen said at this time.

The prince nodded: "I understand, those who are clear are self-purifying, and those who are turbid are self-turbid." ”

"Let Zhang Tishuai, who came to the southern capital with us, send Jinyiwei to pay an unannounced visit to see if the people in the south are so panicked that they marry a girl overnight because of these rumors."

The prince smiled and commanded.

"Yes!"

……

"How?"

"Did anyone marry a girl overnight?"

On this day, on the bank of the Qinhuai River, Li Daozhao, the director of Nanjing Engineering, asked Tang Chou, who was the director of the Nanjing Criminal Department, in a boat.

Tang Chou said in frustration: "Just listen to it!" In this city, there are not many suona at all, and I haven't seen any matchmakers busy pulling strings, and it seems that the people have no reaction to this matter at all. ”

"How can this be?"

"Is there not enough rumor about the prince's lewdness and lust that has appeared recently?"

"Or are the people all over the world greedy for wealth and are willing to push their daughters into the fire pit?"

"If this is the case, then it is really the implementation of the new rite and the prosperity of commerce, so that the hearts of the whole world are more and more utilitarian!"

Li Daozhao was also very disappointed after hearing this, and said.

Then.

Li Daozhao said again: "Why don't we let the boat dock and go into the city to have a look, and see what the people of Ying Tianfu think." ”

"Okay!"

Tang Chou nodded.

Subsequently, Tang Chou and Li Daozhao entered Nanjing City together.

As soon as he entered the city, Tang Chou found a matchmaker Yan who had been bribed by himself and was ready to tell him a few more concubines, and asked:

"Mother Yan, how is it, are there any people who are willing to marry women?"

"Oops!"

"My lord, although the daughters of those families you fancy are all beautiful and moonlight, they are not willing to marry their daughters to be concubines."

Yan replied embarrassedly.

After hearing this, Tang Chou asked, "Didn't you tell them that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was going to come to Nandu to choose a concubine to fill the harem?" ”

"Say it!"

"But they don't believe it!"

"They all said that many knowledgeable people in the workshop have said that this is a rumor, not only is His Royal Highness not lewd and lustful today, but also not stubborn and perverse, otherwise, he would not have been sent by the emperor to Nanjing to supervise the country."

"Those people all said that they were sent to Nanjing now to benefit our people in the south, so that there is an emperor in the north, and there must be a prince in the south, otherwise, don't make the corrupt officials in the south bolder than the north."

"As a result, the people all believed it, and said that they hoped that their daughter could marry the prince and become the crown princess, and have the opportunity to join the army, but they didn't believe what I said, and some of them even said that I was deliberately alarmist, rumor-mongering and slandering in order to make more money, and threatened to arrest me to see the official."

"Where do I dare, I don't dare to mention it."

After Yan said this, Li Daozhao and Tang Chou both darkened their faces.

After a while.

Tang Chou said with a smile: "In this way, what I said is actually the same, very good, the people of this dynasty are becoming more and more discerning." ”

"yes!"

Li Daozhao echoed.

Yan couldn't help but say at this time: "What the old man said, I don't really understand? ”

"What do you understand?"

Tang Chou said with a smile and left with Li Daozhao.

After walking a few steps, Li Daozhao sighed at Tang Chou and said in a low voice:

"I have to admit that more and more of the atmosphere in this place is beyond the control of our scholars, and it is indeed becoming more and more difficult for the people to agitate."

"yes!"

Tang Chou echoed and asked: "Has the public found that although Dongchang doesn't arrest people much, we can't manipulate and control the world's speech, if this continues, does it mean that we will be easily spilled with sewage?" ”

Li Daozhao suddenly came to his senses and said: "Although Dongchang doesn't arrest people much now, I heard that the power of Dongchang is much greater than before!" Many Jiangnan Literary Society, Poetry Society, and Theater are supported by them, you know, those poor scholars have always been short-sighted, selfish, and shameless, as long as they give money, they will speak for whom. ”

"But we also have our own literary society and troupe?"

Tang Chou said suddenly.

Li Daozhao smiled helplessly: "Although there is, but as soon as the two types of words are confused, the people can only believe their own analysis, and if the Son of Heaven has been promoting good governance, the people are indeed getting richer and richer, and the country is indeed getting stronger and stronger, I am afraid that the people are more willing to believe that the Son of Heaven and the court have good words." ”

"After all, everyone prefers to believe that the Son of Heaven, as the Lord of all peoples, is the Holy Lord and Benevolent, and that he is living in a happy and prosperous world, rather than a filthy last days, who doesn't like to listen to the words of the ear?"

"That's right!"

Tang Chou sighed, then gritted his teeth and looked at the people coming and going on the street, and scolded: "A group of foolish people! When they have read books, become scholars, and even become officials, they will know how stupid and naïve they are now! ”

……

"Daughter, that's His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!"

"Heroic, it's really like a jade!"

"It is said that Lao Tzu is a hero, the emperor is heroic, and this prince is also personable, not like a drunken man!"

"In any case, with a prince, our south is still not just a world of corrupt officials and inferior gentry."

"If you want to welcome the prince, be louder, so that as long as the prince is a good prince, he will have more courage to compete with corrupt officials and gentry, if not, there is no loss."

And after the crown prince Zhu Changxun was in the southern capital, many people really cheered and excited, and it did not seem to be affected by the rumors.

The crown prince Zhu Changxun himself said in a letter to Zhu Yijun because of this:

"Father, rest assured, now that the people's wisdom is open, the son comes to the southern capital, although it is inevitable to see that some local forces deliberately spread rumors and leave a post to the son to get off the horse, but fortunately, the people still believe in the son's minister, and they are not so easy to deceive, although most of them don't care much about political affairs, but as long as they care about political affairs, they are not really stupid, and they also know checks and balances!" (End of chapter)