The sound of firecrackers bids farewell to the old year, and fireworks cluster another year.

This is Zhu Zhen's second year in Daming, once born and twice matured, he is no stranger to the process of celebrating the New Year in the palace.

On Chinese New Year's Eve, the ancestors are worshipped, and the whole family eats Chinese New Year's Eve dinner. On the first and fifth days of the first month, get up early to burn incense and set off fireworks, drop thousands of gold, drink pepper and cypress wine, and eat dumplings; Then he dressed up and joined a large group of brothers, and went to the temple with his father to worship his ancestors.

Come back from the temple and go to the pilgrimage again......

The New Year's Day Dynasty in the ninth year of Hongwu is still a hundred officials to congratulate, and all countries come to the court. It's just that the greetings of the old folks in Fengyang are missing, as well as the familiar Fengyang flower hub, which makes Boss Zhu's heart always empty.

"Fortunately, there are old brothers from their hometown who come to accompany us for the New Year." After the dispersal of the dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang left Li Shanchang alone and had lunch with him.

"Don't you have to be so serious? You can also let the old folks come again. Li Shanchang said with a smile.

"Well, it still can't." Boss Zhu shook his head and said, "We've already figured it out, that would actually harm them, let's let them live a good life at home." ”

"It's fine." Li Shanchang nodded.

"They're sure they're scolding us, aren't they?" Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly asked with some sadness.

"Hehe......" Li Shanchang shook his head with a smile and said, "The old minister hasn't heard of it." ”

"What about you? Did you scold us? Zhu Yuanzhang asked again.

Li Shanchang took a look at Boss Zhu, and saw that his eyes were lowered, and he couldn't hide his tiredness, so he said softly:

"The old minister was a little emotional at the beginning, but the upper position has the difficulties of the upper position, and the upper position has the consideration of the upper position, and you have to accept it if you don't understand it."

"Listen, your Uncle Li still has grievances." Zhu Yuanzhang said to the prince who was accompanying him: "Hurry up and give Uncle Li a full meal, and we will toast him together." ”

The prince smiled, twisted the sleeve of his right hand with his left hand, and poured a glass of wine for Li Shanchang with a pot in his right hand.

Li Shanchang hurriedly said that he didn't dare, picked up the wine glass with both hands, and touched a glass with the father and son of the heavenly family.

"After drinking this cup, it was all revealed." Zhu Yuanzhang said with a smile.

"Okay, what does the superior say." Li Shanchang hurriedly drank it all.

Zhu Yuanzhang watched him drink it, paused with his wine glass, and then slowly drank the wine in the glass.

Then the prince put the lamp, Zhu Yuanzhang and Li Shanchang chatted while drinking, and after chatting for a whole afternoon, the two sides went to the bottom again, and they reconciled as before.

At least that's what the Korean public thinks.

But Boss Zhu is still paralyzed, he is not paralyzed enough......

In the evening, Boss Zhu invited a group of Huaixi brothers as usual, although it was still four dishes and one soup, but there were chicken, duck and fish, which was much more normal than the meal when the green people were flustered last year.

At the banquet, Boss Zhu also did not refuse to come, got drunk with the old brothers, and sang with them those yellow songs that he sang in the army in his early years.

This made Li Shanchang and a cadre of Huaixi Xungui inevitably give birth to a kind of illusion, it seems that the emperor is still afraid of us making trouble, and feels that Boss Zhu is soft......

As everyone knows, a terrifying storm is coming.

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After the dismissal, Liu Ying and Eunuch Wu helped Boss Zhu back to the Qianqing Palace to rest.

When Gonggong Wu took off his boots for the emperor and took a hot towel to wipe Zhu Yuanzhang's face, he saw that Boss Zhu opened his eyes, and his eyes were as sharp as a falcon, how could he be half drunk.

"The queen's sobering soup, go and bring us a bowl." Zhu Yuanzhang commanded in a deep voice.

"Yes." Gonggong Wu responded softly, and quietly closed the door of the temple when he exited. He knew that the emperor was going to talk to Liu Ying alone.

"I didn't expect to become an emperor, and I had to entertain in a fake way." Boss Zhu rubbed his temples and said.

"The emperor has worked hard." Liu Ying had a straight face, not knowing what a smile was.

"Officials from all over the country have been in Beijing for a while, right?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked in a deep voice.

"Yes." Liu Ying nodded.

"Anything to gain?"

"Yes." Liu Yingyu reported: "There is a steady stream of reports from various groups of secret agents, but they are just ......"

"Just what?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked in a deep voice.

"It's just a mess, too much and too much of a mess." Liu Ying said in a sullen voice: "There is not much valuable information. ”

"What's the problem?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked.

"Because the Korean government didn't see those local officials, let them talk to Hu Xiang directly. If you want to investigate them, you will inevitably be involved in Hu Xiang. Liu Ying said helplessly: "And the emperor specially instructed that Hu Xiang would not be involved this time." ”

"That's right, Hu Weiyong can't do anything, it's still useful for us to keep him." Zhu Yuanzhang said in a deep voice: "So you have to start elsewhere." ”

He knew that Han Gong, the old fox, was deliberately commanding his own army.

"It's hard to be anywhere else. During the Chinese New Year, officials are busy socializing, talking about eating, drinking and having fun, saying that women talk a lot about gossip and talk less about business. It's too hard to find just the right amount of evidence to convict them. Liu Ying said depressedly:

"And the emperor, with all due respect to his subordinates, said that there are more than 3,000 officials in all provinces, provinces, provinces and counties. In a short period of time, it was impossible to verify all of their incriminating evidence. Even if we only check some people, it is beyond our current ability. ”

"No, we're going to convict them all this time!" Zhu Yuanzhang said in a deep voice: "For these stubborn guys, killing chickens is useless to set an example. ”

"The subordinates are foolish, please ask the emperor to show me." Liu Yingcheng said in fear.

"Yang Xian back then, there must be a way to ......" Zhu Yuanzhang was a little disappointed, his loyal chief of the guard didn't seem to be the material for intelligence.

"The subordinates are incompetent, please ask the emperor to punish the crime." Liu Ying hurriedly knelt on the ground and pleaded guilty.

"Get up, don't be nervous, let's just talk casually. Letting you engage in secret agents is originally to catch ducks on the shelves. Zhu Yuanzhang sighed and said:

"It takes talent to engage in intelligence, not that piece of material, you can't force it."

"That subordinate abdicates and makes Xian ......" Liu Ying didn't want to do it for a long time, and with a boss like Zhu Yuanzhang, incompetence is the biggest sin.

"There's no one else available, so you can make it difficult for you first." Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head, the first thing to engage in intelligence is loyalty, and the second is to be reliable. In the case that the whole Huaixi cannot be used, there are few suitable candidates.

"Yes." Liu Ying nodded.

"There's not much time left for you." Boss Zhu said in a deep voice: "We must find a suitable charge and catch them all." ”

"Yes."

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On the second day of the Lunar New Year, Zhu Zhen wanted to go out of the palace to pay New Year's greetings.

Concubine Hu Xian got up early in the morning and prepared New Year's gifts for the sixth child.

Today he is going to his grandfather's house, his master's house, his uncle's house, and his two brothers' house, and it is not appropriate to be empty-handed.

"Go to your uncle's house and kowtow to your grandparents for your mother, remember?" Concubine Hu Xian told the sixth child who was ready to go to the cow.

Although her mother's family has moved to the capital, only her mother and sister-in-law can come to the palace to visit her during the New Year's holidays.

Concubine Hu Xian wanted to meet her father, but she didn't have the opportunity.

"Okay." Zhu Zhen originally wanted to say that he was a dignified prince and did not kowtow to his relatives, but after the New Year, he still didn't make his mother angry.

(End of chapter)