Brother Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 167 King Qi Supervises the Country
"Everyone in front avoid! Drive!"

On the morning of the twenty-sixth day of the twelfth lunar month...

It was supposed to be a peaceful day, but when the gate of the capital opened wide and the people flocked to the gate in an endless stream, there was the sound of iron hoofs, conspicuous red robes and shouts in the wind and snow.

The people outside the city walls and on both sides of the town streets scattered in all directions, and the figures in the wind and snow also revealed their true colors.

Hundreds of Jinyi Weiti came on horseback, and the one guarding them was the ashen-faced and anxious Zhu Youjian.

The Jinyiwei Tiqi of the brigade drove away the people, left a way, swept across the city wall and corridor, and rushed into the Forbidden City.

Zhu Youjian, who used to pay attention to the common people, did not stop him, but shook the rein vigorously.

"How did brother fall into the water?!"

Seeing that the palace was getting closer, Zhu Youjian questioned Lu Wenzhao next to him in a cold voice, but Lu Wenzhao's face was not good-looking, and he said in embarrassment:

"In the palace, it was only rumored that Long Live fell into an ice cave while fishing, and it was said that His Highness will enter the palace to see you soon, and nothing else was said."

"What does Wei Zhongxian do for food?!" Zhu Youjian's expression was a bit ferocious, which made Lu Wenzhao dare not look directly at him.

After Zhu Youjian scolded, he also understood that this matter had nothing to do with Lu Wenzhao, so he could only suppress his anger and continue to ride the horse.

In the end, Bai Yuti rode to stop at the Xuanwu Gate in the north of the imperial palace, and the one stationed here was the Yiluan Guard of the Three Guards of the Imperial City.

After seeing Zhu Youjian, the hundred households of Yiluan Guard immediately stood at attention with everyone, straightened their backs to show respect, and Zhu Youjian rode his horse into the palace without hesitation while the others were still dismounting.

Riding a horse in the palace is something only an emperor can do. Before Zhu Youjian rode a horse, it was to accompany his imperial brother, but now he has not received any permission.

After this happened, he would definitely be impeached by the officials of the Ministry of Rites and Rites, but he couldn't control so much.

"Falling into the water..."

This word is especially scary to Zhu Youjian, he can't believe it.

He obviously taught his brother to swim, and even led him a few laps himself, but why did he still fall into the water?And so many years in advance?
"Is the destiny inviolable?"

Zhu Youjian's heart was cold at the moment, and he couldn't care about etiquette. He went straight to the rear left door and asked the Yiluan guards on duty to open the door. Then he rode his horse over the gate and ran directly into the square of Jianji Hall. Qing palace gate.

He got off his horse, and the Jingjun eunuch at the gate of the palace didn't expect that His Royal Highness Qi Wang would ride his horse in the palace without hesitation, so cold sweat broke out on his forehead.

They didn't dare to stop Zhu Youjian, so they could only bow and salute and shouted that King Qi was a thousand years old.

It was Zhu Youjian who got off his horse and trotted all the way to Qianqing Palace.

But after running closer, he saw the doors and windows of Qianqing Palace were tightly closed, while Liu Ruoyu and Wang Tiqian were standing outside the door with a group of eunuchs.

Seeing Zhu Youjian coming, Wang Tiqian and Liu Ruoyu immediately greeted him, bowing obediently.

But after bowing, Wang Tigan said:

"Your Highness, Long Live has a decree that everyone should not be seen, and an decree has been sent to the cabinet, ordering your Highness to temporarily supervise the country."

"..." Wang Tiqian said, but Zhu Youjian frowned.

He didn't believe that his royal brother would not see him, and he knew something was wrong in an instant.

Thinking of this, he looked at Qianqing Palace with its doors and windows closed, turned his head to Wang Ti and said:
"Since brother Huang is so seriously ill, what about sister-in-law?"

"Eh... this... the empress also feels a little cold, resting in Kunning Palace..." Wang Tiqian paused, and Zhu Youjian understood everything in an instant.

"Go away!"

He pushed away Wang Tiqian and Liu Ruoyu, and strode towards Qianqing Palace.

"Your Highness, you can't go in. Long live has ordered..." Wang Tigan hurriedly followed, but he didn't dare to pull Zhu Youjian.

"I'm taking care of anything!" Zhu Youjian replied, then pushed away the two eunuchs in front of the door, and kicked them directly.

"boom!"

Sure enough, the door of the hall was not locked, and it was kicked open by Zhu Youjian, revealing the empty main hall.

"It's over..."

Wang Tigan knew that even the gods and Buddhas all over the sky could not save him now.

At the same time, Zhu Youjian stepped into the Qianqing Palace, and immediately walked towards the Hall of Mental Cultivation.

He strode over, and then heard a cough.

"Cough cough..."

The sudden cough made him suspicious, and he couldn't help but pause.

"Brother, I'm a little tired today, you should step down first, and supervise the country for me for a few days, and it's not too late to catch up on the old days."

The familiar voice appeared, and it was a little hoarse, which made Zhu Youjian feel cold, but soon he noticed something was wrong again.

With his own brother's personality, let alone fall into the water and get sick, even if he was seriously ill and dying, he probably wouldn't let him leave.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian regained strength in his body, walked into the Hall of Mental Cultivation with crotch steps, and went straight to the bed in the yellow tent.

"Brother, what are you doing?"

The voice sounded again, but with a hint of panic.

When Zhu Youjian sensed this sense of panic, he immediately opened the yellow tent...

"Your Highness, this servant deserves to die..."

"Get off!"

Looking at the eunuch kneeling on the bed, extremely terrified, Zhu Youjian's face was so gloomy that he could almost drip.

As soon as he drank, the eunuch rolled down and crawled down, while Zhu Youjian took a deep breath and shouted loudly: "Wang Tiqian!"

"The servant is here! The servant is here!"

Wang Tiqian trotted in and knelt on the ground, waiting to be scolded.

Unexpectedly, Zhu Youjian turned around and asked Wang Ti, "Where did brother go?"

"Long live went to Tianjin to observe the dock and got off the ship. Because he was impeached by all the officials when he left the palace last time, so this time, Long live asked His Highness to come down to the palace to supervise the country and shut up the mouths of those civil servants..." Wang Tiqian responded in panic, and Zhu You His teeth were clenched.

"What a "please"..."

Zhu Youjian never thought that he would have such a day.

"It's really hunting geese all day long, and being pecked by geese!"

He almost squeezed out these words, while Wang Tigan lowered his head with a guilty conscience and knelt obediently.

Zhu Youjian glanced at him. Although he was a little angry, when he thought that his brother hadn't fallen into the water, most of his temper went away, leaving only the depression after the prank.

"Get up, and tell me who is with my brother."

Zhu Youjian walked towards the dragon chair, grabbed a chair and put it next to the dragon chair, and then sat down on it.

Although according to the power of supervising the country, it is not allowed to sit on the dragon chair.

Although the dragon chair and Zhu Youjian sat down, it is estimated that Zhu Youxiao would just smile, but he still obeyed the rules.

As for Wang Tiqian, seeing that Zhu Youjian was not angry, he quickly got up and responded to him:

"Long live brought Li Ruolian, Cui Yingyuan, and Wei Zhangyin, and a thousand dragon and tiger guards."

"Okay..." Hearing this, Zhu Youjian leaned on the chair, waved his hands and said:
"Bring me all the memorials."

"Yes..." Seeing this, Wang Tiqian withdrew, while Zhu Youjian was leaning on the chair, doubting his life.

A quarter of an hour later, when footsteps sounded, he slightly raised his head to look at it, but then sat up straight.

The person who came was his not-so-familiar sister-in-law, and behind her sister-in-law Zhang Yan, there was a palace maid carrying dishes.

"Your Highness, why are you here..." Zhu Youjian stood up and saluted, and Zhang Yan also bowed slightly to return the salute, and then said:

"Long Live told me to take good care of Prince Qi before leaving the palace."

"In addition, Wansui has explained that [-] taels of silver will be allocated from the internal funds, as Tianli for Qi Wangdi who turned twelve years old a few days ago."

After finishing speaking, Zhang Yan turned around and picked up the wooden plate, stepped forward a few steps, put the wooden plate on the dragon case, and said softly:

"This is the bird's nest that I cooked specially, Prince Qi can taste it."

"Please trouble Your Highness." Zhu Youjian was a little ashamed, while Zhang Yan returned a salute after putting down the wooden tray, and continued:
"Brother Qi is slow to use, there are still some matters in the inner court, so I will retire first."

"Your Highness, go slowly." Zhu Youjian bowed back, but Zhang Yan just turned around, hesitated for a moment, then turned to Zhu Youjian and said:
"Although Prince Qi is still young, if Wan Sui is not here, it would be better for Jian Guo to go to the East Palace..."

Words are cold, but words have warmth. Adding expressions can alleviate most of the contradictions.

Right now, Zhang Yan's black eyebrows are slightly frowned, but it's not because of disgust, but because of worry.

Obviously, she also knew that the foreign court impeached her brother-in-law quite frequently. If Long live her family is not here now, there will inevitably be some rumors.

To put it bluntly, Zhu Youjian is not young anymore, he just passed his twelfth birthday a few days ago, so he is already considered half a child.

Therefore, when Zhang Yan said this, Zhu Youjian became alert, and hurriedly bowed and said:

"What Your Highness said is true, this time the main thing is that I don't know that the emperor's brother has left, so I will pay attention to it."

"Brother Qi, drink it while it's hot, and I won't bother you anymore." Seeing that the persuasion had worked, Zhang Yan also bowed slightly in return, and then led her back.

As for Zhu Youjian, he glanced at Qianqing Palace, put his hands behind his back, and walked out without looking back.

Seeing this, Liu Ruoyu at the door hurriedly bowed and said, "Where are you going, Your Highness?"

"I'm uncomfortable here, go back to my Xuqin Palace." Zhu Youjian pouted, and then he was about to go to Xuqin Palace.

Seeing this, Liu Ruoyu sent someone to inform Wang Tiqian to send the memorial to Xuqin Palace, and at the same time asked someone to drive the chariot.

Zhu Youjian walked out of the gate of Qianqing Palace, and immediately got into the chariot. It was pity for Lu Wenzhao, who ran over to Qianqing Palace, and had to take someone back to Xuqin Palace.

It's just that when the chariot just came out of the back left door and made a detour to the Jinshui Bridge in front of the East Palace, many officials from the Wenhua Palace in the distance were already looking towards this side.

"It's unreasonable! How can there be such a reason?!"

The roar sounded in the Wenhua Hall, and Gao Panlong, who had been demoted to the compilation of the Hanlin Academy, said loudly:

"Even if Long Live suffers from the wind and cold, you still need to discuss with the cabinet about things like supervising the country?"

"Now even the cabinet has been bypassed and directly issued an order, so what is the role of the cabinet?"

In the side hall, Gao Panlong roared, while more than forty officials including the cabinet, six departments, and six departments in the hall frowned, obviously dissatisfied with the emperor's move.

They still don't know that Zhu Youxiao went to Tianjin to watch the excitement. If they knew, they might go to Tianjin immediately to call Zhu Youxiao back.

But right now, what they are more melancholy about is the matter of Zhu Youjian and Jianguo.

The prince, the soldiers, and the money have now been given the power to supervise the country.

In this way, the politics, finance, and military affairs of the Ming Dynasty were all captured by Zhu Youjian. With such power, among the fifteen emperors of the Ming Dynasty in the past, there were only seven of them including Zhu Youxiao.

It can be said that the current Zhu Youjian is only one title away from the status of emperor.

Therefore, the officials of various parties all looked solemn, even Yang Lian, who had a good relationship with Zhu Youjian, remained silent.

They were all thinking, what does it mean that the emperor asked Zhu Youjian to be the supervisor of the country?Could it be that the emperor fell into the water too seriously to...

"Impossible!" Everyone expelled that unlucky thought, only thinking that the emperor was really sick and wanted to rest for two days.

"Wen Ru..."

Suddenly, someone uttered a voice, and everyone looked around after hearing the reputation, but saw Ye Xianggao's expression was a little...

"kindly?"

For a while, everyone thought it was absurd, how could Ye Xianggao still sit firmly on Diaoyutai when King Qi became the supervisor of the country?Could it be that this old guy has also become the Qi royal party?
"The next official is here..." Yang Lian bowed in response after realizing it, while Ye Xianggao said to everyone:
"Since Long Live Dragon's body is ill, and His Royal Highness Qi Wang is selected to supervise the country, then it is still necessary for His Highness King Qi to take the posture of supervising the country."

Having said that, Ye Xianggao continued to explain to Yang Lian:

"Wen Ru, I would like to invite you to come, and invite King Qi to come to the Wenhua Palace to supervise the country."

"Huh?" Hearing this, all the ministers' eyes lit up.

It would be very interesting to let King Qi come to Wenhua Palace to supervise the country.

It seems that it was because of annoying the civil servants, so after Zhu Youxiao was impeached by the ministers last time because of private salt, he resumed the tradition of one court every three days.

And in many cases, he would stop for one day, and the result was postponed for three days, and sometimes he would not even go to court for ten days.

Although compared to Jiajing, Longqing, Wanli, and Taichang, this is considered "hardworking".

But Zhu Youxiao is different from the previous four emperors!

For the four people in front, even if it is Jiajing who is the most skilled, the imperial power will at most walk around the Shuntian Mansion, and if they leave the Shuntian Mansion, they still have to look at the officials.

The only thing is that Jiajing has mastered Jinyiwei and knows the tricks and tricks among everyone.

Except for Jiajing, Longqing and Wanli Taichang actually ruled the world with the civil officials, but not the civil officials.

However, the two brothers Zhu Youxiao and Zhu Youxiao have been on the throne for less than [-] months, not to mention civil servants. Thousands of officials and subordinates have been killed.

I didn't see that Jiubian was half beaten by these two brothers, and the five-party alliance was almost as good as Donglin. Sun Ruyou and Fang Congzhe both returned to their hometowns and squatted to die.

The situation in Liao Town is the same, the situation outside the customs is better, and the current situation in the southwest is still within the controllable range.

Judging from the appearance, the weather in Tianqi Dynasty is almost comparable to that of Wanli Xinfeng.

But the difference is that last time it was Zhang Juzheng who brought Da Ming to life, but this time it was the emperor and prince.

Therefore, Zhu Youxiao is different from the previous emperors. His central purpose is in the north of the Huaihe River, east of the Yellow River, and southwest. It can be said that no one dares not accept it.

Qi Yuanbi has tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in the old nest of the Zhejiang Party, and no one dares to offend him.

Therefore, Zhu Youxiao is very stupid, before the daily court meeting, he will process and distribute all the memorials, and then announce that he will stop for one day.

This led to some things that could be discussed, and Zhu Youxiao was directly determined to be dead. If the civil servant wanted to see him again, he had to wait until three days later.

But for a dynasty as big as Ming Dynasty, all kinds of new things will be born in three days. At that time, the civil servants will have no time to talk about the previous things, so they can only admit it honestly.

Therefore, it can be said that it is too difficult to deal with Zhu Youxiao, and if Ye Xianggaoneng invites Zhu Youjian to Wenhua Palace to preside over the overall situation, then everyone will be given a chance.

Once Zhu Youjian handles the distribution of the memorial, the officials who find that there is room for manipulation will reject it, and then argue with Zhu Youjian.

For a while, everyone couldn't help but see Ye Xianggao pleasing to the eye, but only Liu Yixiu, Zhu Guozuo and others gave a "bah" in their hearts.

Ye Xianggao's move seems to be looking for opportunities for Baiguan, but the problem is that Zhu Youjian is not stupid.

He can handle government affairs in Xuqin Palace, so why should he come to Wenhua Palace?

Therefore, the two of them had no hope at all, and when Yang Lian heard Ye Xianggao's words, he could only bow in response, then exited the Wenhua Palace and walked towards the East Palace.

When he came to the gate of the East Palace, a team of Jin Yiwei stopped him.

"I was ordered by Elder Ye Ge to ask to see Jian Guo."

"Yang Du, please wait a moment for the matter. I'll go and ask His Highness for instructions." The General Banner of Jinyiwei bowed back when he heard the words, and after Yang Lian nodded, he turned around and went to report.

The notification process was not slow. After a cup of tea, the General Banner of Jinyiwei walked out of the gate of the East Palace, bowing to each other:
"His Royal Highness said that Yang Du can go in during the matter, but please think about the original intention."

"Original intention..." These two words made Yang Lian's expression a little weird, and he was also taken aback.

He didn't know how he got into the East Palace, he was just reminiscing about these two words.

"Yang Du, please..."

When the eunuch's voice sounded, Yang Lian came back to his senses, bowed back and followed him into Xuqin Palace.

As soon as he entered Xuqin Palace, Yang Lian saw Zhu Youjian sitting in the study, holding a bowl of bird's nest.

It has been several months since Yang Lian met Zhu Youjian last time. At the age of twelve, Zhu Youjian looked a little more mature than before, and his skin was much darker.

"Give Du Yang a seat in the middle of the matter."

Zhu Youjian said without raising his head, and Lu Wenzhao hurriedly asked someone to bring up the chair. Yang Lian bowed to express his gratitude when he saw this, and then sat down and said:

"His Royal Highness Jian Guo and Elder Ye Ge asked me to ask His Highness to go to Wenhua Hall to handle government affairs."

"No need, it's pretty good here, just send me any memorials that can't be dealt with." Zhu Youjian rejected Ye Xianggao's proposal.

He knew that Ye Xianggao was just going through the motions, and this truth was not only known by him, but also by Yang Lian.

Therefore, Yang Lian did not urge Zhu Youjian, but said to Zhu Youjian:
"Your Highness, do you think we can't succeed?"

His words were obviously asking about the system of the Donglin Party and the reforms they thought about.

The reason why he asked Zhu Youjian was because he saw Zhu Youjian's steps to change Daming step by step.

Last October, when Zhu Youjian told him that only Zhu Youjian himself could change Daming, Yang Lian just sneered.

But in the past year, how many major events have Zhu Youjian done one after another, and what about the Donglin Party?
Finally, Wang Yingjiao came up with a new policy to reduce the burden on farmers and increase taxes for the Ming Dynasty, but before it was implemented, it was stillborn.

Coupled with the disunity within the Donglin Party, all kinds of things made Yang Lian exhausted.

He wanted to know why the New Deal, which he had fought for for most of his life, could not be implemented, and why the officials who kept saying that they wanted to rejuvenate the Ming Dynasty bowed their heads in front of power and silver.

There were too many doubts in his heart, and he wanted to know why Zhu Youjian could judge so many changes in the current situation and use the current situation to expand the imperial power, while Donglin was repeatedly frustrated.

"I've already said..."

Zhu Youjian let out a breath, looked at Yang Lian calmly, and slowly said with his eyes facing each other:
"In the East Forest, there are filth and filth. Compared with the five parties, what can you do by relying on this group of people?"

"I don't deny that your New Deal is a feat for Daming to benefit the people, but why can't the New Deal be implemented?"

"Every time the New Deal is implemented, you will be in disarray internally, and you are reluctant to part with the "moistening pen" money."

"Such a group of people can succeed in the reform, so they really laugh out loud!"

Zhu Youjian stabbed Yang Lian in the heart with the knife, making him stoop a lot again.

The reason why Zhu Youjian is so merciless is that he really doesn't want Yang Lian to stay in the Donglin Party anymore, wasting time and wasting years.

Among the hundreds of people in the Donglin Party, there are not many who can do practical things, but although there are not many, they are very capable.

This is also the reason why the internal division of Donglin Party is serious, but it can still suppress the five parties of Qi, Chu, Zhejiang, Xuan, and Kun.

From Zhu Youjian's point of view, kicking out the mixed group of guys and leaving only a few dozen capable officials among them, maybe the Donglin Party can carry out reforms for a period of time.

If it was Zhu Youjian himself, he would have killed those dragging people long ago.

However, Liu Yixiu, Zhao Nanxing, Yang Lian and the others simply couldn't bear to part with this group of people who were slowing down, just because they had the same so-called idea, which was really ridiculous.

The biggest drawback of the Donglin Party is that the party unites against dissidents, and after the dissidents are defeated, some talented people are elected to the top.

Being virtuous but not talented is a good thing in the village and neighbors, but it is a wrong thing in national affairs.

No success is nothing!
How many heroes throughout the ages, no matter what their character is?Do you treat heroes well?They can't escape one characteristic, that is, when they break, they break.

In order to unify the world, Yingzheng can neglect the old Qin people, and Liu Che can neglect his relatives, but also take back his power and beat the Huns.

Li Shimin can kill his brother and force his father in order to survive, and Zhu Yuanzhang can wield a butcher knife at the heroes of the founding of the country.

These various, these stumbling blocks that stand in their way must be overthrown when they should be overthrown.

The fate of a woman's benevolence will only be decapitated!

Even right now, there is a general under Zhu Youjian's command who wants to hinder him from carrying out the New Deal, and he will reluctantly imprison, exile, and execute the other party...

What he has to do is not to let Shenzhou fall.

He knows better than anyone what the fate of Shenzhou's fall will be.

The foreign barbarians jumped the beams and the Japanese pirates were contemptuous, which made the Chinese culture decadent and numb the spirit of the world.

That kind of "hell", he doesn't want to let the Chinese people experience it again.

If it is only for personal fame and fortune, as far as the current Ming Dynasty is concerned, he can use the methods of the feudal dynasty to suppress the hungry people in the subsequent severe drought.

But if he really took that step, what is the difference between him and the officials of the feudal dynasty who slaughtered civilians and exploited the people in order to maintain the rule?

He clearly knows what he wants, he wants to let the people in the world live a good life while protecting himself and his brother.

He is different from Yang Lian and others. For this goal, he can sacrifice everything except his own life and that of the emperor's brother.

Even if the price is chaos in the world, as long as the suppression of the rebellion is profitable and the people are restrained, the temporary pain of the people will become a merit for all ages.

　There is one more at four o'clock in the afternoon

　　
　
(End of this chapter)