Chapter Seventy-Eight: The Night Banquet in the Palace
In fact, in the dark side of the hearts of many civilian officials, they hope that this battle can be defeated by a small amount rather than a big victory.
It is best to let this emperor suffer a little and cut off his thoughts of driving in person in the future.
However, it is a pity that the battle of Yingzhou achieved a complete victory, Dayan Khan fled north with the remnants of the defeated army, leaving more than 10,000 ranks in the first rank, after which the Zhengde Emperor sent troops into the desert several times, and the Mongolian army did not dare to be the one, and the whole line retreated north.
Once again, the Ming Dynasty won the war with the north, and Dayan Khan led his troops north, and the Ming army also sent small units to harass the defeated enemy forces and further attack their living forces.
However, this also made Zhu Houzhao realize that the civil officials couldn't stop him.
In the next two years, he traveled many times, and became more and more blatant, and the scope became larger and larger, from the vicinity of Beijing at the beginning, to Shandong, and then to the northwest of the Central Plains, he traveled all over the north, and there was a great posture of Qianlong going down to the south of the Yangtze River in later generations.
The government was fully entrusted to the cabinet.
Of course, Emperor Zhengde is not a fool, and major matters still have to be handed over to him for a purpose, not to mention that there is Yan Yuan as a check and balance in the court, and Yang Tinghe can't make big waves.
In this way, the imperial court is barely functioning.
It ran like this for two years.
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Fourteen years of Zhengde, Jiangxi, Nanchang.
At this time, King Ning's Mansion is full of lights, it is very lively, and His Royal Highness King Ning will entertain his two distinguished guests in the mansion tonight.
One is Sun Sui, the governor of Jiangxi, and the other is Wang Shouren, the military capital of Southern Jiangxi.
Yan Ling also followed Wang Shouren, but as an entourage. Since he was an entourage, he was naturally not qualified to go to the main table, so he was arranged under the corridor and ate with the rest of the entourage guards.
Yan Ling didn't care, he wasn't a particularly particular person, and Ning Wangfu wouldn't give them anything too bad.
While gathering in a bunch with a few people in the courtyard and eating wine and food, his eyes were not honestly peeking around.
However, King Ning dared to open the mansion and let them in, so he was naturally prepared, and anything that exceeded the etiquette system was not visible, just like an ordinary prince.
After a few bites, one of the staff members came over and greeted them.
Then there was no politeness, and he directly sprinkled a bag of silver on the table.
"You have come from afar, hard, hard, this is a reward for you." The staff grinned:
"I also hope that in front of the two adults, you will have a lot of good words for our prince! It's up to you! ”
The entourage who can follow the two big men to such an important banquet is naturally also a confidant old man, and this staff member is with such a mind to win them over.
A few followers, you look at me, I look at you, some people are a little moved, but some people look disdainful.
The staff saw it in their eyes, and a trace of pain flashed in their eyes, but they still took out a stack of papers from their arms.
"Here is the title deed of 500 acres of fertile land, and I will also give it to several people."
This time, the eyes of the attendants couldn't help but shine.
Five hundred acres of fertile land, King Ning is really generous!
At this moment, no one showed a disdainful expression anymore, and they were obviously already a little moved.
The corners of the staff's mouth crossed a satisfied smile, and he was just about to speak, but a shout suddenly came from not far away, and his voice was a little sharp:
"I'm a distinguished guest of King Ning's Mansion!"
This terrible cry immediately attracted everyone's attention, but the staff member shook his hand and raised his head when he heard the voice.
I saw an unkempt man in tattered clothes walking towards him, he was crazy, with a stupid smile on his face, and when he saw someone passing by, he immediately leaned over, and said again:
"I'm King Ning's military advisor!"
The man seemed to be a little accustomed to it, spat on him, and walked away scolding.
At this time, the madman noticed the people in the courtyard, and as if he were even more excited, he took off all the clothes he did not have, and then pointed to them and laughed:
"Dying, a group of dying!"
Hearing that someone cursed themselves, the entourage suddenly sank their faces, their faces were full of unhappiness, and when they saw the man's nakedness, they turned their heads and shouted in their hearts.
The madman, however, paid no attention to them, but giggled to himself, and when he saw the staff glaring at him, he seemed to be even more excited, and his whole body shook pathologically, and the silver needles shook wildly, showing his carcass wantonly.
Everyone's eyes converged, but he became more and more unbridled, learning the dancing girl at the banquet to twist his body, as if he could get a different kind of pleasure from it.
I still don't forget to shout:
"I'm a distinguished guest hired by King Ning!"
Suddenly, the strange eyes of the entourage turned to the staff-
That's it, a lot of money, and still hire?
King Ning, his old man is not sick, right?
In such a situation, the staff also felt embarrassed, and the matter at hand naturally could not continue, he forcibly pushed the silver to the side of the entourage, and then showed an ugly smile:
"Everyone, I will prepare a generous gift to visit one by one another day."
Saying that, he left in a hurry, only feeling that as a member of King Ning's Mansion, the other party's behavior made him embarrassed.
When I go back, I must make a statement to King Ning and expel this madman from the house!
He was ruthless in his heart, and this was not the first time.
There was a commotion in the lobby, and it was obvious that the movement here had affected the banquet in the main hall.
In a short time, some able-bodied servants rushed out, forcibly wrapped the madman, and then dragged him away violently.
And the madman, even when he was dragged away, was screaming excitedly and babbling nonsense.
The entourage looked at this scene and only felt extremely ridiculous - this is the palace?
They touched the silver in their hands, and they only felt extremely hot.
can hire such a madman with a lot of money, most of this prince is not very nervous.
This silver...... Forget it.
And this became a topic of conversation when they drank next, and there was a burst of laughter when they talked about what the madman had done.
Only Yan Ling didn't laugh.
When he had not yet drunk, he stood up and, under the pretext of relieving himself, disappeared into the darkness.
But for five taels of silver, a servant happily took him to the madman's dwelling.
Yan Ling pushed open the door and saw the madman sitting at the table.
At this time, his nose was blue and his face was swollen, and his body was full of bruises, which showed that the strong man greeted him well, obviously what he did just now really provoked King Ning.
It's just that the "madman" at this time, his face is full of calm, quietly gnawing on the steamed bun in his hand, how can he have the color of madness just now?
It wasn't until he heard the sound of "squeak" from the door behind him that he suddenly turned around, and when he saw Yan Ling's arrival, he was stunned for a moment, and then his facial muscles twisted, and that grotesque smile appeared again:
"Hey, hey, hey."
In the moonlight, the young man quietly watched the madman, and the madman tried his best to show his madness.
After a long time, the madman finally got tired, and he stopped, and looked at the little man in front of him with a suspicious gaze.
The young man's throat moved, and he finally whispered:
"Brother Bohu, why is this so......"
The madman was struck by lightning, and he froze in place, motionless.
The young man took out a jade pendant from his bosom and handed it over.
"If you have to get out of this palace prison one day, you can go to the Yan family in the southeast to have a look."
"Brother Tai is talented, it's a pity to bury it like this......"
The moon hung high, and the madman looked at the figure that was gradually moving away, and looked down at the jade pendant in his hand again.
Tears blurred his eyes, then ran down his cheeks, dripped to the ground, and in an instant soaked the ground.
A choked voice came from under the unkempt hair.
The young man's words seemed to take him back to the distant past, the time when he was so close to glory.
Before stepping into the city of Beijing, he was still a world-famous Wuzhong talent, and he was still the township test Xie Yuan of Tianfu!
Southeast Yanjia ......
The madman's hand gripped the jade pendant tightly, like the last straw grasped by a drowning man.
(End of chapter)