Wei Ze thought for a while and said to Zhu Song: "Your Highness, there is a sentence you must have heard, that is, raising your own respect. ”

"What His Highness said is indeed good, and the lower officials also think that these bandits must have some contact with the local officials, otherwise there will be no correspondence all the time."

"But this matter is now beyond the scope of the authority, and it is necessary to inform His Majesty or His Royal Highness the Imperial Sun."

Zhu Song was silent after hearing this.

Now that Shandong Province has been killed by his father, the last time he went north to Liaodong, Zhu Yuanzhang saw with his own eyes how the people were doing badly, and it would be strange if he didn't kill people.

In addition, now that the father is already in a state of semi-retirement, there has been no major event in the court recently, and the father has been raising his body, which is good for physical recovery, so the vast majority of political affairs have fallen into the hands of the emperor's grandson.

Nowadays, officials hardly go to the court, and go to the East Palace when they have something, and the East Palace has now become a small court of the Ming Dynasty.

But if this matter is not investigated, according to Zhang Tiezhu's simple, honest and explosive temperament, I am afraid that this matter will always become a thorn in his heart, wouldn't it hurt the heart of this honest Shandong man?

"This king knows, thank you Lord Wei."

Wei Ze waved his hand: "After so much delay, the lower official is already very embarrassed, how can he still afford this thank you from His Highness?" ”

Zhu Song left the yamen of the criminal department, and after a while, Qi Tai, the left attendant of the military department, rushed over from the yamen of the military department.

"Lord Wei, did His Royal Highness King Han come down just now?"

Wei Ze nodded: "Yes, His Royal Highness King Han has already come just now, and the news of this matter has already been transmitted back a long time ago, if it weren't for His Royal Highness Taisun who kept telling His Majesty to press and not send it, how could it be delayed for so long?" ”

Qi Tai heard that Wei Ze had a lot of complaints, but he was not a person who was willing to make more fuss about these details.

"Lord Wei, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is far-sighted, how can you and I figure out his foresight, everyone is a courtier, as long as he does a good job for His Highness, he can do his part well!"

Wei Ze could only shake his head and sigh, what else could he say? Qi Tai saw that Wei Ze was so ignorant, and he didn't bother to continue to talk to him, anyway, this matter was finally suppressed.

Now His Royal Highness King Han can't go to His Royal Highness Taisun, as long as he goes to find it, he must owe a favor.

……

Zhu Song left the yamen of the criminal department and rode on a horse, did not walk, did not move, sat on the horse and thought for a long time, in the end he still couldn't resist the love for Zhang Tiezhu in his heart, got off the horse and went straight to the East Palace.

At this moment, all the ministers had finished discussing political affairs and left the East Palace.

happened to meet His Royal Highness King Han, and for this recently hot prince, the ministers rushed to say hello one by one.

His Royal Highness King Han responded to the greetings of the civil and military gods one by one, which can be described as courteous.

After greeting these civil and military ministers, Zhu Song was still ready to kneel at the door of the East Palace as usual, but at this moment, he saw the eunuch in charge of the East Palace hurriedly running out.

"Alas, His Royal Highness King Han, you don't have to kneel at the gate of the palace, the last time you knelt at the gate of the palace, His Royal Highness Taisun lost his temper with the minions, His Royal Highness said that if His Royal Highness King Han comes, you don't need to report, just go in."

Zhu Song was stunned after hearing this.

"How can this work?"

"Your Royal Highness King Han, even if you pity us who are slaves, you can just go in directly, otherwise, His Royal Highness Taisun will have to punish us later."

Seeing that it was not good for him to say this, Zhu Song knelt down and went directly into the East Palace.

Zhu Yunwen heard the sound outside, and he had already put down the music in his hand, Zhu Song was about to kneel when he saw his grandson at the door, and Zhu Yunwen stepped forward to help him up.

"Uncle Twenty doesn't have to be so polite, in addition to this courtesy of the monarch and ministers, according to the family etiquette, I have to kneel down when I see Uncle Twenty, even if we arrive, how about you not kneel and I won't kneel?"

Zhu Song couldn't continue to be hypocritical, so he had to give up his hand and say: "The ministers are all under the orders of the grandson!" ”

Zhu Yunwen smiled and took Zhu Song's hand: "Uncle Twenty, this is right, come on, come on, sit down, come on, serve tea to Uncle Twenty, Longjing before the rain!" ”

After the two sat down, the servants served tea and then retreated, and at this moment only Zhu Yunwen and Zhu Song were left in the room.

Zhu Yunwen almost wrote on his face what he asked me to do now, and looked at Uncle Twenty with a smile.

Zhu Song said: "Your Highness, the minister is here for a private matter, Chen some time ago asked the Minister of Criminal Affairs Shangshu Wei Zewei to do the minister a favor, there is a sergeant under the minister, he writes letters to the family every year to send money, but his mother and his eldest brother have long since died, so many years these silver have been taken, but this letter still has a relationship." ”

"Lord Wei said that this matter was done by the bandits near the sergeant's hometown, and there may be officials covering for it, Lord Wei said that this is beyond his scope of authority, involving the rule of officials, so the minister came to seek the help of Taisun this time!"

Zhu Yunwen actually knew about this matter for a long time, and he asked Wei Ze not to inform Zhu Song, but at this moment he still pretended to know and said with a serious expression.

"I see, Uncle Twenty, this is not a private matter, no matter which soldier under the command of the vassal king is my Ming soldier, my Ming soldier has been bullied, we are the prince of the grandson, if we don't give them a head, who will give them a head, wouldn't it chill the hearts of these soldiers who work hard for our Zhu family?"

"This matter must not stop here, it must be investigated! Check it hard! Whether it is the criminal department or the official department, it is necessary to investigate, arrest the corrupt officials who should be arrested, and all the bandits who should be suppressed, and raise their own respect, these officials know that they will harm the common people and deceive their superiors and subordinates! ”

Zhu Song breathed a sigh of relief after hearing this, although this favor was owed again, but fortunately, Taisun did not take this opportunity to put forward other conditions.

Zhu Song got up and was about to thank him, but was stopped by Zhu Yunwen.

"Uncle Twenty, don't be in a hurry to thank you, my nephew also has something I want to ask Uncle Twenty!"

Zhu Song lowered his head, closed his eyes, and chuckled in his heart. Oops, in the end, this is still for Taisun to seize the opportunity, but I'm afraid that what Taisun lets him do this time will definitely be difficult to do.

"Your Highness, please speak."

Zhu Yunwen smiled and played with the Buddha beads in his hand, and then his eyes suddenly became cold.

"The emperor's grandfather's body is not as good as day by day, the last time the emperor's grandfather was sick because the third uncle died of illness, I sometimes think that my father, the second uncle, or the third uncle, whether it is the death of illness or the murder, the life span is not long!"