On the afternoon of July 20, Xie Qian went to discuss matters with Tu Tu.

Before they got into the carriage, they saw many people on the streets along the street and began to arrange their belongings for the night in the open air.

But not everyone has a tent at home, and you can temporarily erect one with a little torn clothes or bed sheets, but there are still many people who can only use some old clothes or something to block it.

"Demagoguery, bewitching the public! You have to impeach him! ”

In Tu Chu's words, he was very disdainful of Zhang Zhou's "demagogic" behavior of predicting earthquakes.

Xie Qian was embarrassed to say, if there was really an earthquake, then what to say? Still going to impeach him? Under what pretext?

Xie Qian said: "Don't say that it is a small person in the market, even if it is an official, I heard that there may be a ground movement, or what Zhang Bingkuan said, I am afraid that I have to be on guard." ”

"Humph!" Tu Tu said, "At least the Beijing officials in the six ministries should not do this, if anyone in the official department has such a reaction, then he doesn't have to be an official!" Listening to the demagogic words of those scholars, how can they gain a foothold in the DPRK and China? ”

Xie Qian thought about it, talking about political correctness, Tu Tu said it quite reasonably.

Whoever believes it is against the mainstream civil affairs forces in the DPRK and China...... But I can't stand it...... What the hell, no one needs to live with their own lives?

As he was talking, Han Wen, who was also the most likely to be promoted to the left waiter, came over and said, "The two ministries, each yamen here are asking, where will they work tomorrow?" ”

Tu Yun frowned and said, "What do you mean?" ”

Han Wen said: "Now everyone in the capital is in danger, if you are on an errand in the house tomorrow, you will be too late to escape if you are afraid of moving!" ”

"Huh." Xie Qian was laughing when he heard this, and he also glanced at Tu Yun.

Didn't you say that the officials of the Sixth Ministry should not listen to such nonsense, and that those who believe in it should not be able to gain a foothold in the DPRK?

But the right attendant of the hall seems to believe it, what do you say? Does this make you wise?

Tu Tu said angrily: "It's in the house, I'll see how this earth can come!" ”

Han Wen said with a distressed face: "Zhang Bingkuan may be demagoguery, but he can't stand everyone's trust, even if he wants to impeach him and confuse the public, he can also impeach him after tomorrow on the grounds that it has not happened, this is not a trivial matter......

Xie Qian said with a smile: "Yes, Tu Shangshu, there is no need to live with his own life, since Zhang Bingkuan has run away in disgrace after issuing a prophecy saying that there is a ground movement, or it is precisely because he is afraid of the punishment of heaven's will, I am afraid that this earth movement is to bury him alive." If his colleagues were buried in the collapsed house, it would be his favor. ”

Tu Tu was speechless for a moment.

Just now, he was still expressing his attitude to Xie Qian, and he made everyone look like they were united.

But as soon as he turned his face, not only did his subordinate squire muttered that he wanted to avoid the house in the coming day, but even Xie Qian was persuading him to "know the current affairs", which made his old face have no place to rest.

"Of course, you don't have to force it." Xie Qian added, "Those who are willing to stay in the house also show that they are honest and have a clear conscience in their hearts, and they are not afraid of strange forces...... It should be said that there is no fear of natural disasters. But also as close to the door as possible, okay...... Let's wait until tomorrow to decide how to deal with it, it's too early to talk about this. ”

Xie Qian seemed to want to comfort Tu Tu, but found that Tu Tu had a dark face.

And he didn't seem to stand on the matter of jointly impeaching Zhang Zhou before, Xie Qian was also afraid that Tu Qian would misunderstand that he was a traitor...... Then he was very interested, and he took his leave.

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East Palace, Duanjing Palace.

Zhang Heling and Zhang Yanling were tied up with five flowers and thrown into a temporary "house" composed of wooden shelves, on which there were many bricks, all more than two meters high, and the shelves were only tied up and reinforced with ropes, which were not reliable, as if as long as the wind blew, the shelves would collapse, burying the two brothers in it.

"Prince, you are doing nonsense, your father knows it, and he can't spare you." Zhang Yanling was finally taken off the gag and yelled at Zhu Houzhao.

Zhu Houzhao said: "I said second uncle, you are called having no eyesight, my father is busy preparing for tomorrow's ground movement today, and tents are being temporarily set up everywhere in the palace, who still cares about you?" ”

Zhang Heling's tone was much calmer than that of his younger brother: "But the prince, we really can't do this matter of letting us take you out of the palace." It is impossible for Your Majesty not to know, and you see so many people know that things can't be hidden at all! Any one of them will stab you on His Majesty's side, and you will be grounded. ”

"Humph!" Zhu Houzhao said, "You don't scare me less, thinking that this palace doesn't know the art of war?" This is called the real and the false! The more you cover it up, the more you think it's leaky, but in the end, the news will always leak out. But if this palace is so high-profile and threatens to kidnap you and take me out of the palace, the eunuchs around my father will also treat me as a fool when they hear about it, thinking that I will not succeed, and they will not mention it to my father. This is called fiction is reality! ”

"Fallacy, fallacy!" Zhang Heling was yelling.

Zhu Houzhao went up and gave Zhang Heling a kick and said: "Now give you another chance, if you two don't agree, I will tie you here and put you until tomorrow, as long as you don't come to move, or if you don't stoned to death when you move, I'll let you go, otherwise...... That can only be said that God wants your life, and it has nothing to do with me. It's no wonder that you usually do nonsense, you can't even stand it, and I'm going to accept you both! ”

Zhang Yanling said loudly: "No, your mother, my sister, and the people from the Shouning Hou Mansion and the Jianchang Bo Mansion will find it!" ”

"Hey, hey!" Zhu Houzhao said with a thief on his face, "Let's just say that you are not interested, this will be your sister and the queen mother of the palace think that you are out of the palace, and your family still thinks that you are fooling around, and then they themselves have to guard against the ground and have the heart to care about you?" Come on, add a few more bricks, I'm afraid that this 'house' won't kill them if they step on it! ”

"Yes." Liu Jin hurriedly beckoned someone to send bricks here.

Zhang Heling turned his head and said, "The prince is going to leave the palace, right?" You can help, you can help! ”

Zhu Houzhao said: "The palace is going out of the capital. ”

"It's okay, I'm going to find Zhang Bingkuan, right? He's already headed south, and he's going fast, and I'm afraid you won't be able to catch up. Zhang Heling said.

"Who said it had to be after him? Daming is so big, I want to see where the palace is, and you still need to take care of where the palace goes? Zhu Houzhao looked annoyed, "If you build another wall next to it, just use bricks, no live mud, just stack it vertically." ”

Zhang Heling said: "No, no, no, if you fall, you will be stoned to death." ”

Zhu Houzhao pouted and said, "That's really not necessarily, what if it falls to the other side and not to your side?" It still depends on whether God wants to clean you up, in case you are lucky and the bricks do not fall on you...... Then it's cheaper for you! ”

In case of luck......

And this statement?

Our brothers were surrounded by a pile of crumbling bricks, and no matter which direction we came, bricks were always being thrown on our heads.

Is it all about probabilistic multiple-choice questions?

"Shut them up, I'll come back tomorrow." Zhu Houzhao saw that the two uncles were "stubborn", and he was ready to leave the two uncles here.

Zhang Heling saw that there was almost no room for negotiation, and there might be an earthquake that night, if he didn't happen to bury his life here...... was killed by the crown prince, and it was likely to be a vain death.

No matter how much the emperor favors their brothers, can he spoil the crown prince?

"No, you can, you can do it now. Where do you want to go......"

Zhang Heling finally compromised.

Zhu Houzhao waved his hand at this time, and let Liu Jin, who was holding the torn socks, retreat, and said with a smile: "I, as a person, don't like to be fooled the most, saying that if you go now, you will leave immediately, and if you are late, it will change." ”

"But the prince, you are ...... age," Zhang Heling was a little worried.

If you don't promise this kid today, if you stay here, you will probably be a dead ...... And it was cleaned up by "God", and the ground moved, and everyone else was decent, but our brothers were stoned to death by bricks...... Go and listen to this grievance with Lord Yama, and Lord Yama is not uncommon to deal with them.

But if you send this kid out of the city, the emperor will be held accountable......

Unless the emperor doesn't know that the two brothers did it.

But so many eunuchs were around...... Wait, didn't they report it?

When the prince left, the emperor arrested the people, and at most taught the kid a lesson.

It's a big deal that we won't come to the palace often in the future, and even if we do, we will take a detour, so that this kid can't catch the opportunity!

Good!

That's it.

"What's wrong with my age? I'm ten years old, ten years old is no longer a teenager, in two years I can get married, that North Korean lord, three years older than me, but I heard that they are already married, and they are the lord of the country! I can also go to Daming to pay tribute, why can't I? As soon as Zhu Houzhao was told that he was young, he became angry.

You are all bullying children, and you always press me for my young age, as if I can't do what you adults can do.

Zhang Heling said: "But after you leave the city, how will you live?" People and money, do you have them? ”

"Hehe, you think this palace is poor, right? There is a lot of silver in this palace, and besides, this palace will still take people out of the palace, these ...... Will go with the main palace, you prepare two carriages, stuff us in, if the silver is not enough...... The two uncles took as much as they wanted! Remember to use your carriage, just say that it is to transport the things you have looted, and to transport them to your hometown, and they will not be interrogated when you leave the gate of the capital! ”

Zhu Houzhao looked thoughtful about everything.

This also made the Zhang brothers realize that they had fallen into a trap today.

This kid is only ten years old, does he really have such a good plan? Or is all this Zhang Bingkuan's advice?

Right!

If you want to put the responsibility on Zhang Bingkuan's kid, you must let him go to Nanjing.

"Okay, the prince earns a lot of money, and he will wait for me to leave the palace." Zhang Heling said.

Zhang Yanling said: "Big brother, listen to him? How do we explain to my sister and brother-in-law after we go out? ”

Zhu Houzhao sneered: "Explain to your father, queen mother, it's better to explain to Lord Yama, and don't think about playing after you leave the palace, my people will escort you out, if you dare to mess around...... After the palace becomes the emperor, I will behead you all over the house......"

"Impossible." Zhang Yanling is very confident.

The emperor killed us? And your queen mother protects us.

Zhu Houzhao grinned and said: "Then I will find someone to poison you to death, or let Jinyiwei kill you, just say that the person you offended killed you, and then I will find someone to symbolically investigate, and then make an iron case." Even the queen mother couldn't say anything. ”

At this time, Zhang Yanling's eyes were also round.

It is said that the companion is like a tiger, how do you feel that the companion does not have this trouble, but on this bear child prince, it is like being surrounded by tigers?

Zhang Heling scolded: "Second brother, you have no brains, the prince is going to find Mr. Zhang, he discussed it with Mr. Zhang, Mr. Zhang will protect his safety, we just send him out of the city, what does he like in the future, what are you doing with that useless idle mind?" ”

One bite of "Mr. Zhang" just wanted to remind his second brother that this matter must be thrown to Zhang Zhou.

"Okay, out of the palace, out of the palace!" Zhang Yanling also went up.

In any case, it is better than a brick collapse caused by the ground movement.

Neither of the brothers wanted to be damned.

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……

Zhu Houzhao took Liu Jin, Gao Feng, Qiu Ju and Ma Yongcheng out of the palace.

He also wanted to bring a few of the rest, but there were too many people, and it would be inconvenient when he left the palace, and even he himself changed into the clothes of a little eunuch, holding a wooden box in his hand, under the pretext that the queen gave gifts to the Zhang brothers.

There were many little eunuchs in the palace, and there were even more handsome and favored little eunuchs in Kunning Palace and other places.

The palace guards also didn't know what the prince was, and they didn't expect that someone would mix outside the palace, instead of going to the palace from outside the palace......

With the Zhang brothers and Liu Jin and others as cover, the group went out of the palace gate smoothly.

"It's out, it's out." After Zhu Houzhao walked out of Donghua Gate, he was extremely excited.

"There's a Dong'an Gate ahead." Zhang Heling reminded.

Zhu Houzhao said: "Where's your carriage?" Get on the carriage and go out of Dong'anmen non-stop! If you are questioned, reprimand them in a heavy tone! ”

When Zhang Heling heard it, this kid is so step-by-step when he leaves the palace, is he really a person who learns the art of war?

The group got into the carriage, and the two carriages carried a few more people dressed in eunuch uniforms, and there was nothing wrong with going out of Dong'anmen.

After waiting for him to come out, Zhu Houzhao saw the lively and prosperous scene outside from the air window, and he had a feeling of getting out of trouble after "escaping from prison", and he was excited.

Zhang Heling said: "Prince, look at your gift...... Can you give it to me? ”

Zhu Houzhao scolded: "You lack heart? It's all entangled on the road to the palace, for you? Saying that you have no brains, that's all to promote you, and you still go to the battlefield to fight? It's really better to live well than to be born well, or for the sake of you being the uncle of the palace, the palace will directly play and let your father send you to guard the emperor's mausoleum. ”

"......" Zhang Heling only then realized what it means to "the wicked have their own wicked grinding".

Zhu Houzhao this kid...... It's simply a demon reincarnation.

The kind that eats people and doesn't spit out bones.

"The capital is so lively, why are they doing?" Zhu Hou looked at the people on the street and couldn't help asking.

Zhang Yanling was also in his eldest brother's carriage, and when he heard this, he leaned on the carriage with a tired and confused look, and said, "Didn't you say everything?" The palace is all about preventing the ground from moving, do you think the people will not be guarded? ”

Zhu Houzhao said: "It's just right, the city is in chaos, so it's convenient to act, just go out of Dongzhimen." ”

When Zhang Heling heard this, he hurriedly said: "Didn't the prince say, let us prepare a car for you again?" ”

"You two cars, I think it's good, you can find a way back to the city after you get out of the city. And without you here, it's not convenient to go out of the city...... After fifty miles out of the city, I will give you some entanglements and let people take you back to Beijing. ”

Zhu Houzhao smiled thief.

"Prince, you don't talk about credibility." Zhang Heling protested.

Zhu Houzhao continued to laugh.

If everything is explained to you in the palace, you will still comply?

"This is to prevent you from going to the station immediately, and only if you are far enough out of the city that the pursuers will not catch up so soon. Hurry up! If you don't go out of the city, wait until it gets dark, and it's too late! ”

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……

For the first time in his life, Zhu Houzhao left the capital without being protected by any brocade guards and other guards, and he could run to his life destination, that is, Nanjing.

The Zhang brothers were almost kidnapping, and they followed out of the city together, looking at the sky and getting dark, the brothers were muttering.

"Don't worry, I'll give you two hundred taels of silver, and let you find a place to spend the night, two hundred taels of silver won't be enough, right? In the past two years, the palace can be regarded as frugal, and it is not easy to save three thousand taels of silver...... I didn't expect to give you two hundred taels ......."

"Prince, we gave you nearly seven thousand taels of silver before, and you have three thousand taels left?"

"Bastard! That's what you guys give? That's earned by Hongu! The palace still hasn't informed the queen mother of your evil deeds...... Hmph, if you dare to leak today's events, see if I don't tell the queen mother what happened......"

"Your Majesty's ......"

"Father already knew! Your little bit of caution, my father has long been clear, and he didn't expose you! Check you out, knowing that you used rotten materials to build a family temple, the queen mother must have skinned you! ”

The brothers looked at each other.

I really bumped into the hands of this bear child today, and I was pinched to death.

Zhang Heling said in a soothing tone: "His Royal Highness the Prince, didn't you say that I would give you the silver, and I won't mention it before?" ”

"Did I mention it? If you hadn't failed me first, I would have brought it up again? Don't worry, as long as you help me, when I become the emperor in the future, you will get what you want, what is a few thousand taels of silver? You don't plan for the future? ”

Coercion was followed by inducement.

The Zhang brothers can't do anything else, they are still a little "clever" in terms of calculation, or they are still a little bit of a crisis consciousness of the small people.

They also realized that don't look at the current scenery, once the emperor has three long and two short...... It's not impossible, because the emperor has always been not in good health, and he may burp at any time...... At that time, if the Zhang family counted on the protection of a queen mother, no matter how awesome it was, it would not be awesome.

Just like the Empress Dowager Zhou, no matter how filial the emperor is, the two brothers of the Zhou family are not as good as their brothers.

But if you get the approval of the prince, that is, the future emperor, help the prince do more things, and then have a good relationship with Zhang Zhou, a capable person next to the prince...... Even if the court changes, the Zhang family will continue to shine in the future.

(End of chapter)