Brother Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 226
"Kill-kill-kill!"

"Bang bang bang-"

On the ninth day of November, accompanied by shouts of killing, Zhu Youjian finally returned to the Yanshan camp where he had been away for nearly half a year.

Compared with when he left, there are many more buildings at the foot of Yanshan along the way.

He took a look at the students of several universities. After the Liao Dynasty, more than [-] soldiers who died in battle, as well as tens of thousands of families of soldiers who died in the She'an Rebellion, Northwest and other places were sent here.

In the new year, new students will enroll again, and the number of Yanshan students has reached a terrifying level of [-].

Zhu Youjian didn't go to see Li Zicheng, Cao Bianjiao and others specifically, but let himself go and didn't take the initiative to intervene.

He always felt that as long as a platform is given, this group of people will show themselves on the platform, and too much intervention will make them lose their wildness.

"Your Highness, are you really going to have a frank and honest discussion about this matter with the nobles in the afternoon? I'm afraid the nobles are not so easy to deal with..."

In the Yanshan Mountains in winter, Zhu Youjian, dressed in armor, rides on horseback, holds a bow and arrow, and carries a long knife at his waist.

Compared with his appearance of riding a horse to hunt, Lu Wenzhao next to him frowned and looked worried.

On the contrary, Zhu Youjian reined in his horse, and answered the wrong question with great interest:

"In this Yanshan Mountain, the beasts may have been hunted many times. It's a pity that I haven't seen any footprints of the beasts after going for more than ten miles."

Seeing that Zhu Youjian didn't want to answer, Lu Wenzhao didn't continue to ask, but Zhu Youjian continued to ride his horse to the deep mountain.

I saw some roe deer, gazelles and other animals along the way, but Zhu Youjian didn't raise his bow to shoot them, because he wanted to find some wild animals to shoot them.

He has practiced bowing for more than three years, and the feeling of holding a five-strength bow gave him a feeling that he could shoot and kill ferocious beasts.

The five-strength bow is already the entry standard for Qingqi in the Ming army, and Zhu Youjian is only nearly fourteen years old.

It is indeed rare to be able to use the bow and five strengths at this age.

It's just that with the rise of hot weapons, the role of bows and arrows on the battlefield will only become weaker and weaker.

Therefore, Zhu Youjian also prepared a riding gun next to the bow bag of the Wuli bow.

"drive!"

Riding the horse on the mountain road, as the forest became denser, gradually some traces of beasts began to appear.

"Call..."

Reining in the horse in time, Zhu Youjian rolled over and dismounted as the horse raised its front hooves uneasily, and then took a few steps forward. After squatting down, he saw scratches the size of a baby's fist.

He glanced at the dry trees around, and there were indeed animal claw marks on the trunk...

"Your Highness..."

Lu Wenzhao rushed over, but Zhu Youjian raised his hand to signal him not to speak, and then whispered:

"It should be a leopard. Judging from the relatively new claw marks on the trunk, it should not have gone far."

"Do you want to fight?" Lu Wenzhao asked cautiously. Although the leopard is not a powerful beast compared to the leopard, the dense forest around it is still somewhat dangerous.

"Fight!" Zhu Youjian kept looking forward, and after he finished speaking, Lu Wenzhao immediately turned his head to look at a person in the rear team, and nodded slightly.

As soon as the man saw Lu Wenzhao's actions, he put his palms together and covered his mouth, while the other guards led their horses and retreated.

It wasn't until they retreated hundreds of steps that Jin Yiwei began to make a cry similar to that of a male leopard.

It was a long cry, resounding in the forest of Yanshan Mountain, while Zhu Youjian and others were leaning against the side of the tree, waiting for the movement of the leopard.

After a quarter of an hour or two, some voices began to be heard in the forest, and Zhu Youjian's ears moved in response to the voice, and then he put the bow and arrow he had prepared earlier on the string.

As the movement in the forest grew louder, Zhu Youjian pulled the longbow to the full moon in an instant, and shot an arrow in the next instant.

"Aww—"

"Shot!" Hearing the whimper of the leopard's arrow, Lu Wenzhao excitedly grasped the knife and prepared to go there, but at this moment Zhu Youjian got up directly, pulled out the long knife at his waist, and walked towards the grass.

When he pushed through the grass, he saw a leopard that was shot in the abdomen and tried to stand up.

Seeing Zhu Youjian coming, it bared its teeth and wanted to show its viciousness, and even prepared to pounce regardless of its injuries.

But in the next moment, Zhu Youjian raised the knife and slashed it in the abdomen, and the leopard was knocked to the ground in an instant.

Lu Wenzhao also caught up at this time, and stabbed the leopard into the eye socket with a dagger, silencing it.

"This leopard has never seen anyone, otherwise it would not dare to attack His Highness. Ordinarily, the first reaction of a leopard who has seen people should be to run."

Pulling out the dagger, Lu Wenzhao explained that he was afraid that His Royal Highness would think that he was good enough and wanted to challenge even more ferocious beasts.

It's just that Zhu Youjian didn't care what beast he killed, all he had to do was kill one.

Glancing at the leopard lying on the ground, Zhu Youjian put the Xiuchun knife back into its sheath and said:

"Pull the skin, wash it, and give it to the people in the Shangyi Bureau to see what my brother needs."

"As for the skinned corpse, hang it at the door of the big tent that has been prepared, and let the nobles passing by take a look..."

"Yes!" Lu Wenzhao agreed, and after Zhu Youjian shot and killed the leopard, he didn't say anything, and when someone brought the horse, he got on the horse and rushed down the mountain.

After more than half an hour, he returned to the Yanshan camp, washed up, continued to put on his armor, and rested for half an hour. When noon came, he got on his horse and faced the large square in front of Xuanfeng Building at the South Gate. Go to the account.

This large tent is not so much a tent as an open-air tent. Although there is an umbrella on the top of the head, you can see the white clouds and the snow on the top of the Yanshan Mountains in the distance.

It's just that for the dozens of nobles sitting in it, it's like sitting on pins and needles at this moment.

Half an hour ago, all the nobles arrived at the Yanshan camp one after another, and at the same time saw the leopard that was hung up, bloody and bloody.

Although many nobles also go hunting on weekdays, they actually seldom hunt their prey by themselves.

Suddenly seeing a skinned leopard, anyone who saw it would shudder.

The big and small Xungui sat in their seats, but Zhu Youjian, who was in charge, had not arrived for a long time.

Behind them, there are Shence guards standing aside with swords and armor, and more than [-] Shence guards are holding swords behind them.

Some timid nobles raised their teacups with trembling hands, wanted to drink but dared not, and finally put them down tremblingly.

In such an environment, even a small number of nobles who had their heart for the emperor and Ming Dynasty felt guilty for no reason, while Duke Zhang Weixian of England, Duke Zhu Chunchen of Cheng State, and Duke Xu Xigao of Ding State were thinking rapidly in their minds.

Nobility is no better than civil servants. After losing the army, they are just fish on the chopping board.

Not to mention them, even Nanjing Xungui can't protect himself right now.

Qi Jin, father and son's soldiers and horses had already arrived in the three places of southern Zhejiang and Fujian. Recently, Nanjing Xungui has been flying letters to Beijing continuously, eager to know the attitude of the emperor and the king of Qi towards them.

But... who knows?

In such a fidgeting environment, everyone was waiting, until the sound of horseshoes, a group of people breathed a sigh of relief.

At the same time, Zhu Youjian, who was wearing armor and holding a knife, also led Lu Wenzhao and others to the big tent after a dozen breaths.

Footsteps sounded, and everyone stared at the cloth on both sides of the big tent, waiting for Zhu Youjian to show up.

Next, as the white cloths on both sides were lifted, Zhu Youjian in armor appeared in front of all the nobles.

"His Highness King Qi is a thousand years old..."

Everyone stood up, bowed, sang a thousand years, and at the same time began to look at Zhu Youjian.

Since many nobles did not go to court, most of the nobles' impressions of Zhu Youjian were that the Wanli emperor in the [-]rd year of Wanli personally led the appearance of three grandsons, and the grand military parade organized by Zhu Youjian in the first year of Tianqi.

These two meetings spanned six years, and from the first year of Tianqi to the present, the span has also been two and a half years.

That is to say, in the past nine years, many nobles have only met Zhu Youjian three times, but even though there were only three meetings, it is still fresh in people's memory, and I am amazed at the speed of Zhu Youjian's growth.

They met for the first time on May [-]th in the [-]rd year of Wanli. I personally went to the Palace of Compassion to worship Empress Xiaoding Li, and then summoned the ministers together with the prince Zhu Changluo, and led Zhu Youxiao, Zhu Youji, Zhu Youjian, three grandsons of the emperor, and a granddaughter of the emperor from the left and right steps to the stone steps. Let the officials look closely at it to show that they have no intention of storing it easily.

This summoning was also Zhu Youjian's first public appearance. At that time, the feeling he gave to the nobles was...

Cowardly, with dodgy eyes, he doesn't have the attitude that a grandson and future prince should have at all.

Afterwards, during the Apocalypse military parade, many nobles met Zhu Youjian for the second time. At this time, Zhu Youjian was heroic, he was not timid when he saw officials, and he did not retreat when he watched honors. Compared with five years ago, he was completely different. two people.

I thought that Zhu Youjian's personality would be finalized at that time, but I didn't expect that in less than three years, Zhu Youjian's temperament changed again.

At this moment, he was born taller than some martial artists, and he is nearly fourteen years old but has a height of five feet and four inches. No matter if he is thrown anywhere in the world, he can be called tall. It's considered above average.

Compared with his height, his somewhat dark complexion, and the calluses on his fingers and palms, it all showed that this His Highness was not just for show, but a real horse king.

Zhu Youjian passed the crowd, walked to the main seat from the long road in the middle, then sat down, took off the Xiuchun knife, put it on the knife holder beside him, and then said straight to the point:

"The Battle of Restoring the Liao Dynasty is over, it's time to talk to all the honorable ministers about what needs to be said..."

Zhu Youjian didn't let anyone sit down, he was in control of the home court, and told many ministers in disguise that they were fish and meat, not Daozu.

"His Royal Highness, can you wait a little longer for the innovation of Xungui, hehe..."

Cheng Guogong Zhu Chunchen bit the bullet and bowed, and asked with a smile, but Zhu Youjian smiled lightly:

"Did Cheng Guogong see the leopard at the door?"

"..." The act of answering the wrong question made the hearts of many honored officials tense, while Zhu Youjian put his hands on the armrests, looked at the crowd with his back straight, and sat on a wooden chair with momentum. Mu Mu's eyes made people feel cold, and he didn't dare to neglect.

"People say that leopards are ferocious beasts, but after skinning them, they are still flesh and blood like cattle and sheep."

"Gu went to Liaodong this time and found an interesting thing in the barracks."

"Some people put on the skin of a leopard, pretend to be a guinea pig, pretend to be a beast, and pretend to be strong."

"But once you encounter a real beast, they are only worthy of being eaten without their skin!"

Zhu Youjian's words were so blunt that even Zhang Weixian, who had been helping the emperor, couldn't listen anymore, and tried to smooth things over:
"Hehe, Your Highness, although it is said that a sheep wearing wolf's clothing will be seen through one day, it also proves that the sheep once killed a wolf, otherwise how could there be a wolf's clothing to wear..."

"Yes yes yes... the British government said it is extremely, it is extremely—" many honorable ministers echoed.

What Zhang Weixian said was very sensible, because he heard the meaning of Zhu Youjian's words.

Zhu Youjian's meaning is very simple, right now he is the beast, Xunchen is just a guinea pig, whether Xunchen can rely on the imperial power to continue playing the beast, or directly cook Chinese food, these are Zhu Youjian's decision.

But Zhang Weixian's words are equivalent to pulling out a fig leaf. The so-called sheep have killed wolves is nothing more than that many noble ancestors were also beasts, and they helped your Zhu family, a beast, conquer the world. Don't make things too embarrassing.

This is also the reason why, as soon as he opened his mouth, many honorable ministers spoke in agreement.

Naturally, while they agreed, they also took a vague look at Zhu Youjian's reaction, but Zhu Youjian was not angry, but responded with a smile:
"It's natural. A sheep that can kill a wolf can naturally stay and guard the house for the head of the family, but if the sheep is unfaithful, it can only be cooked..."

Speaking of this, Zhu Youjian suddenly said loudly: "You say yes, Lord Gongshun!"

"Bam—"

Suddenly, a noisy sound appeared, like a thunderclap, and the guards and soldiers acted.

Wu Ruyin, the Marquis of Gongshun, was pushed down on the table by the magic guards. Many honored ministers were frightened instantly, cold sweat gushed out of thousands of pores, and they dared not move...

"What does this mean, Your Highness?!"

Dingguo Gong Xu Xigao couldn't sit still, and suddenly stood up and questioned Zhu Youjian, while Gongshun Hou Wu Ruyin also shouted in horror:

"Your Highness! What is the crime of the old minister to suffer such humiliation?!"

"Humiliation?" Zhu Youjian picked up the teacup, took a sip, and then said to Wu Ruyin:
"Marquis Gong Shun, I'm afraid you know what your third son did..."

After saying a word, many nobles hesitated, because they heard something wrong from Zhu Youjian's words.

Although Xungui is useless, he is not a fool after all. Combined with Zhu Youjian's previous words, they quickly guessed the possibility of the matter.

For a moment, everyone held their breath and did not dare to speak.

"Your Highness! I...I..."

Wu Ruyin hesitated to speak, if he hadn't been pressed on the table by the guards of Shence, he would probably kneel on the ground right now.

"According to the "Law of the Ming Dynasty", what should be calculated to resell salt and iron to support northern captives... Can anyone here tell Gu?"

Zhu Youjian spoke unhurriedly, and these words made everyone even more afraid to move.

Someone in Wu Ruyin's family secretly resold salt and iron to the northern captives!

Immediately, someone among the ministers stood up to express their loyalty:
"Your Highness! According to the "Law of the Ming Dynasty", capital punishment!"

The first one to jump out was Cheng Guogong Zhu Chunchen, and he himself was not clean.

"Cheng Guogong, I haven't said anything about you..." Zhu Youjian opened his mouth and said "you", obviously not showing respect, but sarcasm.

"Your Highness! This official is guilty—" Zhu Chunchen was very good at coming, and immediately knelt down on the ground, bowing to Zhu Youjian and kowtowed at the same time.

Not only him, most of the ministers who had ghosts in their hearts also bowed and knelt down, shouting their own guilty words.

There are more than thirty nobles, only eight of them can stand at a time, and they represent the eight noble houses with a slightly clean foundation.

After all, in this era, it is normal for officials to have a dirty foundation. To be honest, Zhu Youjian's own background is also not clean.

Compared with ordinary honored ministers who at most invaded the fields, Zhu Youjian was a little more unclean.

The allocation of money and food was ordered without going through the emperor, and the money was generous, and most of it was money from the Imperial Horse Supervisor.

In addition to these, there is also the act of first mobilizing troops and horses, and then notifying the emperor.

And that's just some big problems, he has countless little problems.

If he has no problems, then the civil servants of the various parties would have no reason or excuse to impeach him, but in fact most of the civil servants of the various parties also used Zhu Youjian's "overstepping" things to impeach him.

Not to mention, the first battle of the Liao Dynasty, the suicide of all Liao merchants, and the private expansion of the army many times, and various other things...

All of this was put in front of the suspicious emperor, not to mention how Zhu Youjian could help the emperor, anyway, he was the first one to be cut off.

But the problem is, where is the relationship between him and Zhu Youxiao, and everything he does, in Zhu Youxiao's view, is also done by his younger brother for him.

It seems that all the beneficiaries are Zhu Youxiao, which gives Zhu Youxiao no reason not to believe that he took care of his older brother.

Perhaps only Zhu Youjian knows that he does everything for himself, for himself not to hang on to the southeast branch...

"Your Highness! I don't know! Your Highness, please give me a way to survive. I will return to the capital right now, and take the offender to Xishi and behead him!"

In order to survive, Wu Ruyin even said that he wanted to kill the son himself, and the other ministers trembled when they heard the words.

"Lu Wenzhao..." Zhu Youjian said with a smile.

"Humble job." Lu Wenzhao stepped forward and bowed to respond, and Zhu Youjian also said:

"How many cases do you have?"

"Back to Your Highness, in the southern Beijing city, there are cases in all the residences of Xun Chen..." When Lu Wenzhao said this, he deliberately glanced at all the Xun Chen.

At this glance, Zhang Weixian and Xu Xigao felt guilty.

How can people living in this era maintain their status as rich and powerful without drinking "human blood"?How could it be possible to support a large family of hundreds of people with the land rewarded by the royal family?

At this moment, even Zhang Weixian couldn't bear it any longer. Only then did he feel that the one in front of him was more terrifying than the one on the dragon chair.

Zhu Youxiao will still care about Xunchen's contribution to the dragon, but Zhu Youjian...

Zhang Weixian didn't dare to raise his head to meet Zhu Youjian's eyes, he could only look at his nose with his eyes and his heart with his nose.

He is sure that if Xungui does not have the value that Zhu Youjian needs, then Beijing City Xungui may be wiped out today.

"Relax, this is not a Hongmen Banquet, and I am not the Overlord of Chu..."

Zhu Youjian opened his mouth lightly. As soon as these words came out, the two magical guards who suppressed Wu Ruyin immediately let go of their hands, and Wu Ruyin knelt on the ground the first time he was released, and bowed to Zhu Youjian:
"Your Highness, don't worry! The rebellious son in the family has committed such a rebellious thing, and the officials will definitely bring him to justice!"

"No need..." Zhu Youjian said indifferently: "From today onwards, the entire residence of the Marquis of Gongshun will be reduced to civilians and exiled in Yunnan. As for the sinner Wu Weihua, Tian Cewei will lead him to Xishi..."

He finished these words without looking up, disregarding Wu Ruyin's pale face, put down the teacup after speaking, leaned on the chair, looked at the numerous nobles calmly and said:
"It's time for honors to be reformed. From today onwards, all honors will be reduced to three generations, two generations to the princes, and one generation to the uncle."

"After the hereditary decrement of titles, the imperial court allocates one hundred taels of silver to the noble children every year, and takes back all power after another generation."

"If you don't want to lose your title, then all the honorable ministers are asked to hold up their long swords, pull up their strong bows, get on their horses, and fight for military exploits again."

"Don't say that you are old and don't know soldiers. If you really don't know soldiers, then take the initiative to come to Lu Wenzhao and apply for admission to Yanshan Military Academy."

"After studying for three years, let alone Bai Ding, a military strategist, even a child can lead hundreds of people to kill!"

Every word of Zhu Youjian's words struck the hearts of the ministers.

They had thought that Zhu Youjian would reform the nobles, but they didn't expect the reform to be so thorough.

Letting a group of nobles who are struggling to ride horses go to school for three years, and then lead the army to fight, this is basically telling a scumbag in a small town to let him be admitted to a world-class university in three years.

This is not impossible, but the probability of possibility is almost zero.

Therefore, even Zhang Weixian, who had always supported the emperor, couldn't bear it anymore, but he didn't dare to do it.

At this moment, he just wanted to end this farce as soon as possible, and then take people back to the capital, and go to the palace to ask if the emperor knows what his younger brother is doing!
Zhang Weixian really wanted to know why Zhu Youjian, who seemed so "weak" to the people of the Huaibei massacre, became so tough now?What did he learn in the first battle of Liao Dynasty?What have you been through?That's why he did this kind of disregard for etiquette.

It's just that he can't know that Zhu Youjian's weakness has always been left to the soldiers, the people, and his relatives, but he is often the killer of civil and military ministers and corrupt officials.

"Back off... think about it for yourself."

Zhu Youjian didn't answer any more, but let the honored ministers leave. As for the honored ministers, although they bowed respectfully and saluted, their panicked footsteps still showed their inner anxiety.

Zhang Weixian took Xungui away worriedly, and after they left, Lu Wenzhao couldn't help but said:

"Your Highness, I don't understand why you don't just reform all the nobles from the north and the south, or exile them all for their crimes and search their homes."

"Exile and ransack the house?" Zhu Youjian sneered: "And then? Who will receive all the benefits left by Xungui?"

"Of course it's the Imperial Horse Supervisor..." Lu Wenzhao replied respectfully, but Zhu Youjian frowned slightly.

"There will always be corruption in Jinyiwei, and there will always be Wei Zhongxian inserting nails. Don't you think there is no Yumajian? Is the Yumajian just pure and flawless white jade? Is your supervisory department just a decoration?"

Zhu Youjian's questioning made Lu Wenzhao break out in a cold sweat, and he didn't dare to say anything for a while, only waiting for Zhu Youjian to turn around and say:

"Let the people from the Supervision Department go to investigate the Yuma Supervisor, and supervise everything from top to bottom."

"I want to see how many intelligences and eyes of civil servants and martial arts have been mixed in the Yumajian!"

"As long as you catch it, you will be killed with a stick!"

"Yes!" Zhu Youjian said a few words, and ordered a large-scale investigation of tens of thousands of people, but Lu Wenzhao could only bite the bullet and agree.

However, just after he agreed, Zhu Youjian looked back at him worriedly and said:

"Are you sure that only Wu Ruyin's third son, Wu Weihua, is involved in the arms smuggling?"

"Sure!" Lu Wenzhao nodded, and replied:
"Judging from the situation in Gongshunhou's Mansion, Wu Ruyin should be partial to the eldest son Wu Weiye and the second son Wu Weiying, and Wu Weiye respects you, Your Highness. As for Wu Weiying's behavior is still a rule, but it is Wu Weihua who is unpopular and unwelcome, so he privately Smuggling armaments for money."

"However, judging from Wu Ruyin's reaction, although it is impossible for him to be ignorant of Wu Weihua's actions, he should know a little..."

"It's not surprising..." Lu Wenzhao's words solved Zhu Youjian's question.

He has always known that Wu Weihua had defected to the Manchu Qing Dynasty and secretly supported the nobles of the late Ming Dynasty in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but he was very strange. He had read the information in his previous life, and it was clear that many people in the Mansion of Gongshun Marquis died for the country, but Wu Weihua did not. By surrendering, he obtained the status of Gongshunhou in the Qing Dynasty.

Looking at it now, the father and son couldn't urinate in the same pot at all. It's no wonder that Wu Weihua not only defected to the Qing Dynasty, but also gave several daughters of his two brothers to the ministers of the Qing Dynasty.

But these are not what Zhu Youjian cares about. The reason why he didn't kill other people except Wu Weihua is because most of them defended the capital and died in battle in history.

Relegation to civilians and exile in Yunnan is already his greatest kindness to other people in Gongshunhou Mansion...

　This business trip is very similar to crossing robbery:
　　On the first day, I recorded a video of riding with the team and was chased by more than a dozen dogs in a village.

　　When I was filming the downhill video the next day, a reverse car came to compact the line, and then reversed and hit me in a wheelchair

　　On the third, fourth, and fifth days, I took a good rest in the hospital for a few days, but today I opened my eyes and saw that the place where I was on business was "silent for three days".

　　The bad news now is that I don't know if I can go home after surgery on the [-]th...

　　The good news now is that after receiving the compensation and the work-related injury subsidy, he can take a one-month paid vacation, so he can probably recover from his injury.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)