Zhang Yin was reprimanded by Zhu Youzhen, and he came to the foreign court to reply to Wei Zaode, he was a eunuch in the Qianqing Palace, but he didn't dare to offend the first assistant Wei Zaode.

Don't look at the hundred officials are afraid of the internal prison, but they are afraid of the prince and the prince Wang Chengen, they are little eunuchs, the ministers are not afraid, the first assistant said a word casually in front of the emperor, he may be unlucky.

Wei Zaode was shocked, "What? The emperor is drinking? Got half the night? Still drinking? ”

"Yes!" Zhang Yin replied honestly.

Wei Zaode felt bad, this thing was too abnormal, ordinary emperors were not like this?

"The emperor drinks alone? Or drinking with someone else? ”

Recently, the situation has been serious, and if the emperor drinks alone, it must be drunk, and I am afraid that something big will happen if I can't think of it.

Zhang Yin replied: "Drink with a young man." ”

Wei Zaode was shocked, "Drinking with a young man? Who? Don't you know? ”

Zhang Yin shook his head, "I don't know, I heard that the head of the third watch Heavenly King brought it in last night, before, the emperor drove out Wang Lian Nabo's people on night duty, and asked for wine and food in the second half of the night before letting them enter the palace." ”

"Then Wang Lianzhi doesn't know who the young man is? He said to you that he had not said it. ”

Zhang Yin shook his head again, "No, looking back, Wang Lian doesn't know who it is, they were freezing outside for half the night, when they entered the palace, the emperor and the young man had already entered the small living room, and Wang Lian told us to wait carefully." ”

He didn't tell Wei Zaode about Zhu Youzhen's almost anger just now.

Wei Zaode looked at Fan Jingwen, "Old Fan, what's the situation?" ”

Fan Jingwen pondered for a while, "I think it's definitely okay, the emperor and others want to drink in the middle of the night, they must have encountered something happy, since the emperor said that he won't go to court today, what should everyone do." ”

After speaking, Fan Jingwen was about to leave.

Wei Zaode pulled Fan Jingwen, "Don't! Old Fan, don't you think it's abnormal today? You see, when we first came in, the prince hurriedly left the palace with hundreds of eunuchs and a large group of brocade guards, and called Ni Yuanlu away. Look, none of the officials in the household department are there, what do you say they are doing? ”

Fan Jingwen also hesitated, "Who knows, since Ni Yuanlu also went, it is definitely not a bad thing." ”

Wei Zaode asked, "Old Fan, shouldn't you be going to raid someone's house?" ”

Fan Jingwen was stunned for a moment, and then felt that it was really possible, otherwise what would Ni Yuanlu and the people from the household department do, "What you said is possible, but I haven't heard of anyone committing a crime." ”

Wei Zaode felt that what Fan Jingwen said made sense.

Hearing that Zhu Youzhen was drinking in the Qianqing Palace and would not come to the court today, the line of officials dispersed.

Zhu Chunchen walked over, he had already heard the conversation between Wei Zaode and Fan Jingwen, "Look at who didn't come, don't you know?" No, who can make such a big fuss? ”

Wei Zaode said: "That's what I'm talking about, Cheng Guogong, I'm afraid it's not the prince and lord of that family who have an accident, right?" ”

Zhu Chunchen was taken aback, and felt that what Wei Zaode said was possible, this official went to the court, Wei Zaode and Fan Jingwen, the two cabinet ministers, would definitely pay attention to who came and who didn't, since neither of them said anything, there must be no shortage of officials, if something happens, it must be those nobles who usually don't need to go to the court, how can it be?

"Strange thing!"

Just when everyone was talking, Wang Jinlong came out of the Qianqing Gate and walked swaying.

Drink high!

Originally, he thought that the degree of wine he drank was very low, but in fact, Zhu Youzhen usually didn't drink much, and there were no banquets in the palace, a lot of wine has been cellared for many years, decades and hundreds of years, these royal wines are naturally mellow and fragrant, unlike those wines in later generations who just made them in the workshop and filled them with bottles and loaded them out of the factory, this royal wine tastes sweet, it does not mean that the degree is low, Zhu Youzhen is drunk, and a eunuch helped him to sleep in the bedroom next to him, Wang Jinlong bullied the low degree of wine, not only drank his own wine, also drank the bowl of wine that Zhu Youzhen didn't drink, and when he left the gate of the Qianqing Palace, he realized that it was not the case when the wind blew, and the degree of this wine was not low at all.

Wang Jinlong came out of the Qianqing Palace, followed by several eunuchs.

These eunuchs are very discerning, this person is a person who drinks with the emperor, and he is also drunk, so he must accompany and take care of him, otherwise, if something happens to this person, the responsibility is theirs, and the emperor is not a joke to pursue it.

Seeing Wang Jinlong staggering out of the Qianqing Gate, all the officials were dumbfounded, needless to say that the emperor was drinking with this guy, who was he? What is the reason for wearing dirty and not garbage?

Some officials began to ask the people around them, "Do you know who he is?" ”

The person next to him shook his head, "I don't know, I haven't seen it." ”

When Wei Zaode saw Wang Jinlong, he asked the little eunuch who was following Wang Jinlong: "What about the emperor?" ”

A little eunuch replied, "The emperor is drunk and has fallen asleep." ”

Wei Zaode was surprised, this guy was the one who drunk the emperor? Who is this? Why are you so awesome? I was able to drink wine with the emperor in the middle of the night.

This is not just Wei Zaode's feelings, all people are like this.

Li Banghua stood up, "Everyone listen, immediately return to their respective official offices, what should they do, what are they standing here talking nonsense!" ”

As soon as Li Banghua said this, the officials began to leave the palace in pairs.

Don't look at Li Banghua is only the imperial history of the left capital of the Supervision Yuan, a ministerial-level cadre, in fact, he has a very high prestige among officials, most officials are afraid of Li Banghua, some people dare to quarrel with the cabinet elders, but few people dare to talk back to Li Banghua.

This old man is the only elder of the four dynasties in the Chongzhen Dynasty, and he is unique.

Which four dynasties? Wanli Dynasty, Jingtai Dynasty, Tianqi Dynasty, Chongzhen Dynasty.

Didn't Emperor Jingtai Zhu Changluo just die after being the emperor for a month?

When a day is also a day, don't bully others, who have only been an emperor for a month, and can't even arrange the year.

The main departments of the central organs of the Ming Dynasty were six ministries, two courtyards and five capital governors' offices, and the organs were concentrated on both sides of Chang'an Street and South Zhengyangmen Street outside the palace.

Wang Jinlong staggered out of the palace.

When he came in, he followed Wang Chengen into Donghua Gate, but when he went out, he went out from Chengtian Gate.

There is no way to compare the small capital of the current capital with the capital of later generations, and when Wang Jinlong left the palace, he wanted to hire a sedan chair to go out of the city to find the twenty brothers who came with him.

Yesterday afternoon, a group of people rode horses to the outside of the west city, and chose a carriage shop outside the city to stay, and then, Wang Jinlong walked into the city alone, and found Wang Chengen's residence after three inquiries and two inquiries.

The follower Wang Jinlong didn't dare to take it, first, for fear that Wang Chengen would misunderstand, and second, these people from the countryside had never been to a big place, so they were stupid and loved to cause trouble.

The letter had to be sent to the emperor, and there could be no mistakes in the middle, so Wang Jinlong could only find Wang Chengen.

The little eunuch saw that Wang Jinlong was walking unsteadily, standing still on the side of the street, and knew that Wang Jinlong was going to hire a sedan chair.

But where is there a sedan chair to hire in this place, and who dares to come here to rent a sedan chair?

A little eunuch asked, "Master, where are you going?" ”

Wang Jinlong knew that he was a eunuch, so he replied, "Go out of the city." ”

The little eunuch was surprised, "Master, what are you doing out of the city?" ”

Wang Jinlong is not angry, this special little is too lenient, there is a lot of nonsense, "I live in a carriage shop outside the city, what do you say I am doing outside the city?" ”

Who would believe that this dignitary, who drank wine with the emperor in the middle of the night, lived in a carriage shop outside the city? What is a coach shop? Is it a good place for the next person to live? A few little eunuchs discussed, this master is drunk, we must follow, in case something happens, we can't afford to take responsibility.

So, a few people went to the Zongren Mansion to borrow a small sedan chair, what if this master drank wine and wandered around blindly? Since he is going out of the city, we will follow him, and wherever he goes, we will follow him, as long as nothing happens, and when this wine wakes up, it will naturally be fine.

The little eunuchs have a lot of eyes.

This capital, after all, is the capital of the country, not like Wang Jinlong feels, it is really big, the inner city, the outer city, together a radius of dozens of miles!

At that time, Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, in order to ensure the long-term stability of the old Zhu family, tried every means to strengthen the power of the royal family itself.

Zhu Yuanzhang said: "The world is so big, it will build a feudal screen, defend the country on the top, and live on the people. ”

From the perspective of the feudal territories, there are two main types of feudal territories, one is the strategic route in the interior, and the other is the important place in the border fortress; The feudal kings established their palaces in their fiefdoms, set up official subordinates, and the princes and ministers had to bow down and pay homage.

Zhu Yuanzhang's eldest son Zhu Biao died of illness, Zhu Yuanzhang decided to pass the throne to his eldest grandson Zhu Yunwen, the old rules, the elder does not pass on the young, the crown prince is gone, so he will pass it to the imperial grandson, so as not to have ideas in the future, and when he died, he also arranged for Zhu Yunwen to take care of his life.

In the thirty-first year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang died, and Zhu Yunwen succeeded to the throne for Emperor Jianwen.

The elimination of the feudal domain was undoubtedly correct, the Han was weakened because of the rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms, and the Jin died due to the rebellion of the Eight Kings, but Zhu Yunwen's method of eliminating the feudal domain was too extreme and too impatient, which caused the dissatisfaction of the vassal kings.

In order to revoke Zhu Di's King of Yan, Zhu Yunwen not only deployed troops around Beiping and in the city, but also transferred Zhu Di's elite guards out of the fortress to defend in the name of border defense.

The fate of the first few cut vassal kings was placed there, Zhu Di was unwilling to be captured, and rebelled in the first year of Jianwen, and then waved his army south, known as the "Battle of Jingyan" in history.

Emperor Jianwen used the veteran Geng Bingwen to lead the Northern Expedition, and sent Li Jinglong to continue the crusade, however, due to Emperor Jianwen's lack of strategy, the main force was constantly annihilated.

Zhu Di attacked at the right time, flexibly used strategies, and eliminated the main force of the Southern Army after several major battles, and finally took advantage of the victory to march and capture Nanjing in the fourth year of Jianwen, that is, the imperial capital Yingtianfu.

Zhu Yunwen fled and his whereabouts are unknown.

In the fourth year of Yongle, Zhu Di decided to move the capital to Beiping in order to resist the intrusion of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, which lasted 15 years, and the new capital was built according to the plan, with a circumference of 45 miles, named Shuntianfu, and the capital was officially moved in the 19th year of Yongle.

Later, as the population of the capital grew, there was no room for living in the city, and many people lived outside the city.

The biggest enemy of the Ming Dynasty came from the north, mainly the Northern Yuan forces, and its branch Warat had invaded many times, and in the twelfth year of Chenghua, the imperial court officially proposed the idea of building an outer city outside the capital, and it was obviously not possible to have a city without Guo.

Jiajing 29 began to build the first three gates outside the Guanxiang City, parenthetical remarks, mainly three independent of the city gate outside the small city, but because of the need to demolish the shop houses are very many, the people are afraid, the project was stopped soon, Jiajing 32 years decided to use the Yuan capital Tucheng ruins, surrounded by all sides to build the capital outside the Guo City.

The original planning of the outer city is 70 miles long, 17 miles from east to west, 18 miles from north to south, 11 city gates, 176 enemy platforms, two sluices outside the Xizhi Gate and Tonghui River, and eight water gates in other low-lying areas.

Due to the huge construction period, the country's financial resources can not afford it, at that time, under the suggestion of Yan Song, the first assistant at that time, it was changed to build the south first, and the large prosperous urban area outside the Zhengyang Gate was included, and the permission of Emperor Jiajing was obtained, and then because of the frequent use of troops, coupled with the Forbidden City fire, the financial and material resources were concentrated on the reconstruction of the palace, so the outer city has not been built again, until a few years later, the urn city of the outer city gates was added, in the early years of Jiajing, the Temple of the Earth was newly built in the suburbs, the Temple of the Sun, the Temple of the Moon, and the layout of the capital formed by this has continued for nearly four hundred years since then.

Looking down from the sky, the whole capital is like a convex character, and like two close together two mouthful words, small at the top and big at the bottom.

According to the regulations, civilians enter and leave the capital, usually only go through two gates, one is the west gate, the other is the east gate, the people who come to Beijing by water go to the east gate, and the people who come to Beijing by land take the west gate, therefore, the service industry outside the west gate of the capital has developed, and some people have built many inns and carriage shops outside the city.

Wang Jinlong came to the capital with twenty retinues, most of these brothers he brought were old hats, the people in the capital thought that they were superior to live at the feet of the Son of Heaven, and often bullied outsiders, in order to prevent extraneous branches, Wang Jinlong arranged for everyone to live in the carriage shop outside the Xibian Gate, and he walked into the city to find Wang Chengen.