The Spring Festival of the twelfth year of Hongzhi.

Zhu Youzhi was very happy to give a banquet at noon, and when he came back, the sky had darkened, and he was ready to go to Kunning Palace, and he had a good time with Queen Zhang with the strength of wine.

"The medicine Bingkuan gave me earlier really works. Better than Li Guang, gentle, and always ape-minded. ”

Zhu Youzhi has recently exercised in the sun, as well as drinking milk tea, eating eggs, gnawing stick bones, etc., a series of protein supplements and calcium, and his physical fitness has recovered a lot.

Xiao Jing followed aside, and he had to subconsciously help him when crossing the steps.

"No, I'll go by myself."

Zhu Youji's self-confidence is now coming up, and he feels that he has the conditions to take off.

Xiao Jing said: "Your Majesty, there will be a big ceremony tomorrow ......"

"I remember, you don't have to talk about it all the time." Zhu Youzhu raised his head and took a breath of air, thinking that he was going to be carried into Kunning Palace in a luan car like before, but after he only paused slightly, he sighed with emotion, "As Bingkuan said, this air is very fresh." What about Bingkuan? ”

Xiao Jing didn't expect that Zhu Youzhu would think of Zhang Zhou at such a time.

Xiao Jing said cautiously: "Back to Your Majesty, Mr. Zhang has gone to Xishan a year ago, and he hasn't returned yet." ”

"To West Mountain?"

Zhu Youzhu didn't understand for a while.

Xiao Jing said: "Your Majesty, didn't he say that he was going to Xishan to open a coal mine?" The slave didn't know what he thought, and he didn't come back to spend it with his family for years. ”

"Bingkuan is also right, while saying that he wants to prepare for the exam, he has no time to enter the palace, but he went to Xishan to open a coal kiln, he should be able to find it, right?"

"Mr. Zhang is good at calculating the heavenly machine, and he can still measure this after all."

"Yes, too."

"By the way, Your Majesty, before Mr. Zhang left, he also predicted three things for the next year, saying that they might happen in the near future, and that they were cooperating with tomorrow's ceremony, and the predicted things were reported to the Qianqing Palace."

When Zhu Youzhu heard this, his face was unhappy and said: "If there is such a thing, why don't you come to report to me first?" ”

Xiao Jing said with a bitter face: "I just submitted it." However, Mr. Zhang's prophecy, only the first sentence he gave a comment, seems to be that there will be ground movements in Shaanxi, Ningxia and other places in February, as for the second and third cases, he did not say, he also made it clear that he will not do this kind of thing again in the future, many things he is not sure of. ”

"What do you mean?"

Xiao Jing said: "It seems to say that it may involve disputes between nobles, and God will warn you." Because it didn't happen, it ...... He didn't say it explicitly......"

"This Bingkuan, how can he still learn to play dumb riddles?"

Zhu Youzhu smiled bitterly.

This doesn't seem to be quite consistent with Zhang Zhou's straightforward personality before.

Xiao Jingxin said, Zhang Zhou said that there was going to be an earthquake in Henan before, Your Majesty, you were so looking forward to it, and after the matter was fulfilled, you were so happy that you felt like God helped.

Feelings Now that Zhang Zhou predicted an earthquake, you should not be uncommon, just want to know what he predicted later......

Sure enough, even His Majesty's appetite is increasing one by one.

"Your Majesty, perhaps, some things are still uncertain, after all, Mr. Zhang said that when things come to an end, it depends on the signs."

"Hmm. Okay, with him, I can rest assured. Swing to the Tai Palace. ”

"Your Majesty, isn't it Kunning Palace?"

Xiao Jing realized that he had lost his words only after he spoke.

If the emperor wants to go to the Tai Palace, then he has to listen to the emperor.

Who made the previous Empress Dowager say in her dream that the former emperor was giving a warning to the Tai Palace? If it has always been because the emperor has taken Kunning Palace as his home, he has no heirs......

How can this be reasonable?

Superstition?

……

……

It is no longer possible for Zhang Zhou to be like before, he always wants to make a prophecy for the emperor or something, but now the emperor comes to ask for it, and he will give it, sometimes half-concealed.

After all, this is a kind of expectation of the emperor for him.

To put it bluntly, he can neither count nor count, that is, he hangs the emperor's appetite.

This shows the importance of the Jinshi examination.

If you are admitted to the Jinshi, then you don't need to rely on these crooked things, you can gain the trust of the emperor in the right way and become a good minister in governing the country, but if you don't get into the Jinshi to accept the emperor's release, then this kind of thing may often happen in the future.

If Zhang Zhou relied on his status as a jinshi and was favored again, he would only be an official in the East Palace at most, and it would be impossible to get today's favor.

If you want to change the times, you have to take a little path that no one else has taken, rely on the events that happened in history that you know, to make the emperor trust, and at the same time let the emperor cooperate with him to complete some things, such as mining and mobilizing craftsmen, etc., this is not smoother than the imperial examination on the right path?

Do you have to stay in the DPRK for a few years or even more than ten years, and wait for your status to be improved before proceeding?

Zhang Zhou was afraid that he would not be able to survive.

Knowing the events that may occur in history in the future, that is also the necessary knowledge reserve of the traverser, there is an emperor who believes in Taoism and metaphysics, and uses these things, as long as Zhang Zhouxin is not evil, he doesn't care what those civil officials will think of him.

It is good to leave a name in history with the integrity and integrity of civil officials, but obviously this road is not suitable for traversers, because any traverser is deviant and likes to do things that are not tolerated by the literati and the world.

It's all about breaking the rules, Zhang Zhou just feels that he has to do it more thoroughly.

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The next day is the Great Ceremony.

The ten-day holiday of the Shangyuan Festival has not yet come, and they still have to go up and down the court these days, and for Zhu Youji, even if he is sick, he will participate in this kind of court meeting.

But Zhu Youzhi did not appear at the noon gate on time that day.

The ministers are talking.

The three members of the cabinet separately called Ma Wensheng, the secretary of the military department, to the side.

"Negative map, Northwest Songbao, said that Xuanfu and Datong had military dispatches at the end of the year, and you, as the secretary of the military department, should know about this, right?"

There are no impermeable walls in this world.

Wang Yue's trip to the northwest was a very confidential matter, and only a handful of people in the court knew about it.

But with Wang Yue's arrival in the northwest, he was eager to fight, and there would always be some internal movements, and Liu Jian would usually pay attention to the performances in various places in the northwest, so he naturally found unusual signs.

Ma Wensheng shook his head, indicating that he couldn't say anything.

If Ma Wensheng expressed surprise or inquired in turn, Liu Jian might still think that there was no such thing, and that he was suspicious.

But looking at Ma Wensheng's face, he clearly knew, but refused to say.

Li Dongyang on the side asked, "Is it Wang Weining?" ”

Ma Wensheng glanced at him sideways, but didn't say a word.

The emperor only said that he would not let me tell others, but he did not fix how I should respond when others asked me, and I didn't admit it. Rely on me, please show me the evidence!

This almost acquiescing approach also made the three cabinet members look not good.

Liu Jian said: "Your Majesty, what are you going to do? As soon as the northwest stopped, it was about to start the war again? ”

Xie Qian smiled on the side and said, "Your Majesty shouldn't let Wang Weining send troops, right?" It's just a little scheduling, Liu Ge doesn't have to worry about it. ”

This is all deliberately testing Ma Wensheng's attitude.

Ma Wensheng is still the same posture that I know everything, but I just don't say anything, listening to the three cabinet members discuss it on their own.

"Your Majesty is here!"

As he spoke, the emperor came.

Zhu Youzhu also came on foot, perhaps because he was used to walking by himself now, so he came a little late.

The court meeting of the day also officially began.

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There was no wave in the court.

But after the court meeting, Liu Jian took the initiative to ask for instructions to meet with the emperor alone.

All the ministers left the palace first and waited to go to the Temple of Heaven and Earth in the southern suburbs, and only Liu Jian stayed at the noon gate for the time being.

“…… Your Majesty, the reports from Xuanfu and Datong show that the soldiers and horses have been dispatched recently, and they are leaning towards the Yatouguan and other places, and the 30,000 taels of silver allocated by the household department a few years ago were originally used for the repair of the earthen forts around Xuanfu Town, and it seems that they have also been misappropriated......"

Liu Jian's feedback from Ma Wensheng is almost certain to have such a thing.

But he still had to show the emperor from a "professional" point of view that this matter was discovered by himself through some signs, and it was not intentionally leaked by others.

Zhu Youzhu didn't have much change in mood after listening to it, he smiled and said: "Elder Liu Ge, rest assured, Wang Weining has been using troops in the northwest for many years, and he will be measured." ”

Liu Jian said: "But Your Majesty, now that the northwest is peaceful, why do you want to create an incident?" ”

When Zhu Youzhu heard this, he was a little unhappy.

Speak well, I am still willing to discuss with you Liu Ge, but I don't know why I want to hide it from you?

That's because you always like to use some big truths to plug my mouth, once it comes to military affairs, you want to persuade me to emphasize agriculture and mulberry and light conscription, talk about what to emphasize civil rule and ignore military equipment, and say that the people of the Ming Dynasty live and work in peace and contentment, and the northwest frontier defense will naturally follow......

Isn't this wishful thinking on the part of your civil servants?

Dai Yi reminded with a smile: "Elder Liu Ge, you are too worried, this time Your Majesty just asked Wang Weining to defend in the northwest, for fear that the Tatars would attack." ”

Liu Jian said: "Your Majesty, if the fortress of the northwest city is complete, and the patrol and dispatch of all places are also in the process of being perfected, why should you worry about this? ”

Zhu Youzhu frowned and said, "Liu Ge thinks it's because I'm worried about the sky? ”

Of course, Liu Jian would not say this, he continued: "Your Majesty, the transfer of troops and horses from the original defense town and gathering them in one place will lead to insufficient defense and reinforcements everywhere, which is the root cause of the danger of the northwest frontier fortress. ”

In fact, Liu Jian didn't understand it.

If you go to the northwest, forget it, and gather the soldiers and horses from all over the place in one place, what does this mean?

And said that you old boy didn't want to send troops to the grassland?

Zhu Youzhu said: "If there are signs that the Tatars may have plundered the Yatou Pass and other places before February, how does Liu Ge feel about it?" ”

Liu Jian naturally didn't believe this kind of thing, and he said: "Your Majesty, even if the Tatars have this plan, after they find out that I am dispatching troops and horses in the Ming Frontier, they will also choose another place to Koubian." The precautions in various places on the nine sides should not be completed by lowering the precautions of the surrounding border towns, and please think more about it. ”

Zhu Youzhu frowned and asked Dai Yidao on the side: "After Wang Weining arrived in the northwest, he wantonly mobilized troops and horses from Xuanfu and Datong?" ”

The emperor was very angry, and said that Wang Yue would go to the northwest and rely on himself, how could he be detected by Liu Jian because of the transfer of troops and horses?

Dai Yi also looked puzzled, and said: "Your Majesty, the current situation is that in addition to the soldiers and horses taken away from the Beijing camp, Wang Junmen has not transferred soldiers and horses from Juyong, Bauhinia, Xuanfu, and Datong, let alone ...... You didn't give him permission to transfer troops from these places! ”

(End of chapter)