As soon as the wax moon passes, the first month of the second year of the apocalypse will naturally come. The firecracker slag of the New Year has not been swept away, the red lanterns are still hanging in the streets and alleys of Beijing, the spring season is coming, but the breath of spring has not come to Beijing at all, the weather is dry and cold, and many people's hands are cracked.

In the main hall of the Heart Cultivation Palace, Zhu Youxiao looked sullen, because from last year's lunar month to the first month of this year, there was not a single snowfall...... Although Zhu Youxiao plays carpenter work and all kinds of juggling all day long, this situation is obviously a bit ominous, and he knows this very well. Ruixue Mega Year, there has been no snow for so long this year, is it another disaster year? Zhu Youxiao was very depressed in his heart, and the more he felt that this leaky home was not very good.

He listlessly pushed the wood in front of him with a planer, and the whole hall was full of tools, and the floor was full of sawdust, and the splendid palace looked like a workshop. The weather was not good, and the eunuchs were also very careful, and they did not dare to move when they stood beside them one by one, for fear of making a little movement and annoying the emperor and making them angry.

Zhu Youxiao basically did not go to the early dynasty, there was a fine tradition of his grandfather and grandfather two emperors who did not go to the court for decades, Zhu Youxiao also learned not to go to the court, and the ministers were not so excited after seeing it, everyone knew that Zhu Youxiao was illiterate, so it was not so difficult for him. In fact, although Zhu Youxiao often does some serious things such as carpenters, he still works very hard as an emperor, and every night he asks the eunuch of the celebrant to teach him to read, and he has known a lot of words in the past two years as an emperor.

He doesn't go to the court, but he doesn't completely ignore the court, for example, last year's case in the West Lake Chess Gym caused trouble in Beijing, if there was no acquiescence of Zhu Youxiao, Wei Zhongxian dared to kill so many ministers, and even killed Shoufu Ye Xianggao?

That case was so big that it was unexpected, and it caught everyone off guard, Zhu Youxiao was also good at seizing the fighter and making good use of it, directly getting rid of all those who were specifically working against the emperor, and letting Wei Zhongxian carry the black pot. Damn, those old guys just talk about this one and that one is a eunuch all day long, and they are fighting endlessly.

But this series of subtle actions was completely seen by Zhu Youxiao, Zhu Youxiao said in his heart: There are many henchmen in the palace of this eunuch, I only cared about dealing with those courtiers who bullied the lord, why didn't I think of guarding against this eunuch? Now that it's like this, I don't dare to act rashly, otherwise even if I just want to be an emperor for pleasure, it's a bit mysterious.

After a while, Wei Zhongxian suddenly rushed back, but this time he made a lot of movement, raised a bamboo tube in his hand, and shouted: "Emperor, good news, emperor, good news from Fujian......"

Zhu Youxiao stopped what he was doing, and when he heard the good news, no matter what, he was also happy in his heart, and hurriedly said: "Good news from Fujian? Zhang Wen won the battle? ”

Wei Zhongxian fell to his knees with a thud, presented the things in his hand with both hands, and said excitedly: "Emperor, it is the good news from Zhang Wen, the governor of Zhejiang, that the officers and soldiers have eliminated all the rebels in Fujian, captured Ye Feng, the grandson of the traitor Ye Xianggao, and recovered all the lost territory!" The emperor is eternal, and his longevity is boundless! ”

Zhu Youxiao pulled out the recital inside and laughed. The eunuchs next to him all bowed to the ground and shouted long live. Zhu Youxiao laughed for a while, suddenly stopped laughing, and turned his head to look outside the main hall. When the eunuchs looked back, they saw white snowflakes floating in the sky, and everyone's eyes immediately radiated brilliance, as if silver was falling from the sky.

"Ruixue! Auspicious sign! Auspicious! Emperor, auspicious from the sky, auspicious ...... of the Ming Dynasty"

Zhu Youxiao looked at the snowflakes in the sky in a daze, looked down at the good news in his hand, and laughed again, he paced back and forth on the ground for a few steps, scratched his head, and said excitedly: "Zhongxian, you immediately order Shu Jishi to give an order, let Zhang Wen enter Beijing to Xianfu, and let the cabinet ...... The cabinet Gu Binglian discussed and discussed, how to reward meritorious generals, and when Zhang asked them to come to Beijing, he issued a holy decree at noon. ”

Wei Zhongxian kowtowed and said, "The slave obeys the order." ”

Zhu Youxiao waved his hand, and Wei Zhongxian went down. Zhu Youxiao sat and relieved his breath for a while, looked at the snowflakes in the sky for a while, and didn't have the heart to do carpentry work, and read the good news in his hand several times.

This Bingbi eunuch Wang Tiqian has been working in the ceremonial supervisor since Wanli time, but he is not illiterate like Wei Zhongxian, Wang Tiqian entered the palace at the age of ten, because of his literacy and clever sentences, he was directly sent to the eunuch school to study, and he was specially trained for the celebrant eunuch. At this time, he was already in his forties, and he was already full of knowledge, and he was already proficient in chess, calligraphy and painting, and Baguwen may not be as good as those ministers in the outer court, because the eunuchs don't need to study that thing at all, but the etiquette of poetry and books is definitely not much worse than that of the Shuji of the Hanlin Academy.

Wang Tiqian received Zhu Youxiao's call, and soon came to the Yangxin Palace, he trotted over, saw Zhu Youxiao, and immediately knelt down, full of auspicious and auspicious words such as Tianyou Daming.

I saw that Wang was thin and tall, with a pair of peach blossom eyes, his skin was very smooth, and his appearance could be described as handsome, but he was only in his forties, his temples were already white, and the head exposed from the edge of the steel fork hat was gray.

Zhu Youxiao handed over the piece in his hand and said, "Read it to me, if there are any allusions in it, explain it." ”

"Yes, Emperor." Wang Tiqian got up from the ground, bent over to take the good news with both hands, cleared his throat, and read it fluently, and the sentence pause was just right.

After Zhu Youxiao listened, he closed his eyes and recuperated, people's bodies and bones are not good, and their energy is not good, and after using their brains for a long time, they will be groggy. After a long time, Zhu Youxiao asked: "When Fujian Jie reported to the celebrant supervisor, where were you, do you know about this?" ”

Wang Tiqian said: "Back to the emperor's words, the slave and maid are in the celebrant supervisor, and the slave and maid know the good news in Fujian." ”

Zhu Youxiao said coldly: "When the good news entered the palace, Wei Zhongxian was in this Heart Cultivation Palace, but he still reported the good news, do you know why?" ”

When Wang Tiqian heard this, he was taken aback, what did the emperor mean by telling him this? Wang Tiqian quietly glanced at the eunuchs standing in the Heart Cultivation Palace, one of them was a deacon, but Wei Zhongxian's godson, these words must not reach Wei Zhongxian's ears today? Wang Tiqian didn't understand why the emperor wanted to say bad things about Wei Zhongxian in front of him, and he immediately understood: Isn't this provoking Wei Zhongxian's concern?

Wang Tiqian's brain is good, he used to see that Wei Zhongxian won the trust of the emperor and had deep feelings, and regardless of whether Wei Zhongxian was illiterate or not, he succumbed to Wei Zhongxian's subordinates as soon as possible. However, recently, Wang Tiqian always felt that his relationship with Wei Zhongxian was not as good as before......

He didn't think much about it, and concentrated on the emperor's questioning, and at this time he didn't say much, so he said carefully: "The slave doesn't know. ”

Zhu Youxiao snorted and said, "Just now, one of your celebrant eunuchs wandered around the door and reported to Wei Zhongxian, so that Wei Zhongxian could come forward to report the good news!" This old slave has more and more eyes in his heart, I don't want to ask someone to beat him up for the sake of his loyalty for so many years! ”

Wang Tiqian hurriedly said: "Father-in-law Wei is also happy for the emperor, the good news in the south and auspicious rain from the sky are all great news." ”

Wei Zhongxian went to the cabinet room to convey the emperor's affairs to Gu Bingyao, the first assistant of the cabinet, and asked them to vote. Gu Bingyi was promoted to the position of the first assistant of the cabinet with Wei Zhongxian, and he had no prestige in the government and the opposition at all, compared to Ye Xianggao, who was highly respected by the elders of the Three Dynasties. However, Wei Zhongxian couldn't find an obedient and qualified person for a while, and with the emperor's approval, he let Gu Bingyao become the head of the cabinet. Gu Bingyao is also in his sixties, he has experienced so many bloody things, he has already come to his senses, and he doesn't mention any political ideas at all, and he will do whatever the emperor and the celebrant who represents the imperial power say. For a while, the inside and outside of the palace became harmonious, and the former form of incompatibility between the cabinet and the celebrant disappeared.

Gu Bingyi heard that it was Zhang Wen's matter, and immediately pondered, this good news came that it was snowing in the sky, and the emperor must be very happy, it seems that this reward has to be more festive, but he quickly thought again: The West Lake Chess Hall case not long ago, this Zhang Wen is responsible, the dead Donglin Party naturally can't be completely counted on his head, Zhang Wen just reported the matter, but the case also involved Cui Chengxiu, the secretary of the Ministry of War, and others, these people are all people who call Wei Zhongxian's godfather. Although he finally made a move on the confession, Wei Zhongxian protected Cui Chengxiu and others, but Cui Chengxiu was not scared when he saw so many people dead, can they hope that Zhang Wenqing will be better?

So Gu Bingyi asked: "I hope that Gong Wei will mention something, how should this matter be prepared?" ”

Although Cui Chengxiu and the others offended by Zhang Wen were Wei Zhongxian's people, Wei Zhongxian couldn't care so much, he just thought that Zhang Wen had sent him silver a few times, and he had also thrown it over early, Wei Zhongxian said: "Gu Ge is always the first assistant, just talk about things, what should we do about this matter, let's do it." ”

Gu Bingyao said: "Okay, the old man will do what Wei Gong said." ”

Wei Zhongxian came out of the cabinet duty room and went back to the celebrant yamen in a sedan chair. The celebrant is in the alley of the celebrant in the "auspicious place", and the yamen is in the high wall, with three halls as the main body...... This place later became a morgue, and the yin qi was extremely heavy, which is a later story, and now it is still a yamen.

When Wei Zhongxian was not by the emperor's side, his waist was straight, and as long as he didn't smile with a horse face, it was like an elongated face, and it was impossible to say that he was not angry and arrogant, but such an impermanent face made the people next to him more afraid.

He got down from the sedan chair, a eunuch opened the curtain for him, and Wei Zhongxian walked out in a big way. The eunuch held Wei Zhongxian and said carefully: "It's snowing today, the road is slippery, the ancestor is slow." ”

"Hmm." Wei Zhongxian's small eyes were half-open, and he hummed a sound from his nose.

The eunuch said again: "Lord Shangshu Cui of the Ministry of War has been waiting in the flower hall for a while. He said that he had something to report to the old ancestor, didn't the old ancestor just come back from the emperor, and the slave maid asked Master Cui to drink tea and wait. ”

Wei Zhongxian said indistinctly: "Ah, then let's go to the flower hall and meet Cui Chengxiu." ”

The eunuch helped Wei Zhongxian to walk towards the flower hall, and there was a eunuch next to him holding an umbrella for him, and a eunuch behind him followed with a whisk, and the whole person hugged him.

Wei Zhongxian walked into the flower hall, and there were two people sitting inside, one was Cui Chengxiu, who was short, and the other was Li Yongzhen, the eunuch in the clerical room.

When Cui Chengxiu saw Wei Zhongxian, he hurriedly stood up and walked in two steps in three steps, ran to Wei Zhongxian, and said with a sad face: "Ouch, godfather, you are still running back and forth in such a big snow, you have to pay attention to your body bones." ”

Wei Zhongxian scolded with a smile: "The old man is not dead yet, why are you crying?" ”

"My son begs his godfather to live a long life every day, you are my son's father!" Cui Chengxiu, who was full of beard, said sincerely, completely ignoring his face, his own father had already been ancient, and at this time, I don't know if he would be so angry that he jumped out of the coffin.

Wei Zhongxian is very satisfied with Cui Chengxiu, a minister of the outer court, who can call his father like this, people are determined to follow our family!

Li Yongzhen, who was standing on the side, also recognized Wei Zhongxian as his godfather, but at this time, he was preempted by Cui Chengxiu, and before he could speak, Wei Zhongxian turned around and pointed at Li Yongzhen and said, "You godson, you are not as hot as Cui Chengxiu." ”

Li Yongzhen immediately fell to her knees with a thud, crying with tears and snot, and couldn't help but show her loyalty. Wei Zhongxian said impatiently: "Okay, don't be verbose, get up, what's the matter, tell me quickly." ”

Cui Chengxiu helped Wei Zhongxian sit down and said, "The commander of Zhejiang has sent a secret message to his son, and Zhang asked about it." ”

"Oh?" Wei Zhongxian picked up the teacup and said, "Let's talk about it first, what's going on." ”

Cui Chengxiu put a letter on the coffee table, bowed down and said: "My son used to be the governor of Zhejiang in Suzhou, and there are some old people on the ground in Nanzhili and Zhejiang......

Wei Zhongxian snorted quietly.

Cui Chengxiu hurriedly said: "Godfather, my son is not a personal vendetta, the matter of the West Lake Chess Hall, my son's wealth obsession was pulled into the water in a daze, fortunately, it is okay to have a godfather to protect him, and we just take this opportunity to remove those who stare at the nose." The son has no personal grudges against Zhang Wen, this time the son is definitely for the sake of the country's social welfare and godfather, you don't know what Zhang Wen's family is doing in the south. There is a woman named Han Amei, who is the goddaughter of the leader of the White Lotus Sect, who calls herself a holy aunt, that is a traitor among the traitors, Zhang Wen actually took this woman into the room! Therefore, he also released those people under Han Amei and went to the court to let their people be the general soldiers of Fujian! Godfather, think about it, after this rebellion in Fujian, the government is ruined and all kinds of waste are waiting to be revived, can this chaotic party court of Zhao'an be able to control it? Zhang asked what he wanted to do if he hooked up with them and wanted this gang of rebels to control Fujian's military power? Also, Zhang Wen built a Wenzhou camp in Wenzhou Mansion and collected a group of henchmen...... Zhejiang has a command department and generals in various places, so why doesn't he let local generals recruit soldiers if he wants to use soldiers? However, he cultivated his own henchmen, and his intentions could not be guarded against. This is not over, Zhang asked the lady of the order, the queen's sister, that is really pouring dirty water on the emperor's face, forming a gang in Zhejiang, what kind of luck, illegal salt, smuggling tea are all hands on the hands, the rivers and lakes are mixed with a well-known reputation, what is it called the Xuanyi Gang, if it weren't for the person who wrote the letter is his son's protégé, the son really doesn't believe that the person who manipulates the gangs in the rivers and lakes behind the scenes is Mrs. Zhang's order. These people are hiding in the city to steal chickens and dogs to find out the news, and their eyes are extremely wide, I am afraid that they were also instigated by Zhang Wen. Godfather, Zhang asked this person, we have to guard against ......"