Brother Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 75 Returning to Beijing
"Boom! Boom! Boom..."

Morning bells and evening drums, when the last drum was beaten, the sky was already dark, and the Beijing camp personnel in charge of guarding the Anding Gate were also preparing to close the city gate.

But just when they were about to act, a royal guard rode over from afar and said loudly:

"Don't close the door! His Royal Highness is about to enter the city!"

As soon as the sound sounded, the Beijing soldiers who wanted to close the door immediately looked at each other, and the movements of their hands slowed down.

Failure to close the city gate on time is a felony, but it does not necessarily result in death.

If His Highness the Fifth Highness is not allowed to enter the city, it can be said that people will die now.

They still have a deep memory of what Zhu Youjian did nine days ago. No one wants to make a fuss, not even the guard of Andingmen.

Fortunately, Zhu Youjian didn't make it difficult for them. In just a cup of tea, the brigade Jin Yiwei escorted his carriage and appeared on the streets of the market town outside the capital.

As the carriage passed by, the Beijing soldiers who were relieved closed the city gate.

Despite the curfew laws, when the patrolling soldiers and horses saw such a large group of Jinyiwei, they didn't dare to stop them at all and gave way one after another.

Judging from this behavior, Zhu Youjian has a little knowledge of breaking the law.

But at the end of the Ming Dynasty when the rites collapsed and music was broken, the common people didn't care about the "Law of the Ming Dynasty", so what's the use of him sticking to it alone?

What's more, it is estimated that Brother Huang knows and will urge him to hurry up.

"Cheng En, ask someone to enter the palace and tell Brother Huang that I will see him later."

"Yes..." Wang Chengen nodded, and then asked Lu Wenzhao to send a Jinyi guard to the palace.

After entering the Anding Gate, Zhu Youjian and his team soon arrived at the Donghua Gate, and entered the palace after showing the token.

After crossing the bridge behind Donghua Gate, Zhu Youjian saw the brightly lit Wenhua Palace.

He knew that in that palace, there were all opponents he needed to fight wits and courage.

The smartest group of people is not dead yet, the best way for him is to lie dormant obediently.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian's carriage also stopped, and he also got out of the carriage and got into the chariot.

Horse-drawn carriages cannot travel in the palace, so the chariot must be replaced.

During the transfer, an official saw Zhu Youjian who showed up, a glimmer of light flashed in his eyes, and then he turned and walked towards the Wenhua Hall.

But Zhu Youjian didn't find out, and urged the chariot to rush to Qianqing Palace.

Although the Qianqing Palace is the inner court, the good emperor has no concubines, and Zhu Youjian is only ten years old, so frequent entry will not cause impeachment.

In just one cup of tea time, Zhu Youjian was brought to the Qianqing Gate of the Qianqing Palace by the burning chariot.

But before he got out of the car, someone opened the window, revealing a familiar face.

"A few days have passed, and my brother has lost some weight."

Zhu Youxiao looked at Zhu Youjian in the carriage, and smiled, and Zhu Youjian said helplessly:

"Brother, wait for me to get out of the car..."

"Get off, I didn't stop you?" Zhu Youxiao smiled, and Zhu Youjian could only get out of the car in speechlessness, and then faced Brother Haohuang face to face.

"Let's go!" Brother Hao Huang grabbed his hand and dragged him to Qianqing Palace, saying as he walked:
"Yesterday, I was worried that you would not eat well in Changping. I thought you would not come back, so I specially asked Zhongxian to send some food."

"It never occurred to me that you came back before the things were delivered."

"Knowing that you didn't have dinner, I asked the imperial chef to cook more dishes. You and my brother will have dinner together, and I will tell you about Changping by the way."

"Your letter is too short, so you can't explain the matter clearly. We will stay overnight in Qianqing Palace today, so you and my brother can have a good chat."

Speaking of this, Zhu Youxiao stopped, turned around and complained to Zhu Youjian:

"When others go out of the palace, they mostly miss their family members, and when they write letters, they miss each other."

"It's good for you, when you leave the imperial city, you don't even know where to go."

"Writing a handwritten letter with more than [-] characters, but the ones concerned with me are only more than a hundred characters, which are more like memorials than those of civil servants."

"Eh..." Zhu Youjian couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed when he heard Brother Haohuang's complaint.

How could he write any nasty sentences, and the more than a hundred words in the letter were not in his tone, it was Wang Chengen who felt that the family affection was too weak, so he added it for him.

If this matter is known to the good emperor brother, he will probably be lectured again.

Thinking about it, he could only say:
"I went to Changping this time and found out a lot of things, so I left my brother cold."

Zhu Youxiao didn't take it seriously, and pulled him to continue walking, and soon walked into the gate of Qianqing Palace, entered the Hall of Mental Cultivation from the main hall, and saw a table of food.

"Let's sit down and talk while eating." Brother Haohuang ordered, and then he pulled Zhu Youjian to sit beside him.

On both sides of the dining table, there were Wang An, Wei Zhongxian, and Ke Shi.

Zhu Youjian nodded to the three of them as a greeting, then sat down, picked up his chopsticks, and told Zhu Youxiao what he knew about the situation in Liaodong while picking up vegetables.

Zhu Youxiao didn't relax his brows after hearing many of these things, and kept frowning for a quarter of an hour.

After a few seconds, he opened his mouth and said:

"According to my younger brother, the group of officials in the south of the Yangtze River deliberately suppressed Caoyin and Caoliang, and then let the price of grain in the North rise, first asked merchants to go north to sell grain, and then the price of grain was stabilized in the north to transport grain?"

"That should be the case, but the matter of Cao Liang can't be taken lightly." Zhu Youjian was afraid that the emperor's brother would be superior, so he asked someone to investigate the case, and continued:

"Currently Qi, Chu, Zhejiang, Xuankun and many other parties are showing off their articles on food for personal gain."

"My idea is that the situation in Liaodong is currently in chaos. First, control the situation in Liaodong, guard the two cities of Liaoshen and Shenyang with Sichuan soldiers and Zhejiang soldiers, and then reduce the army a little bit to control the situation in Liaodong."

"As for Liaoxiang, in order to avoid deduction, it will be released after the two armies have arrived in Liaoshen and disarmed."

"In order to prevent the Liao people from continuing to go north to captives, they should buy grain from Sichuan, Huguang and other places, and sell it by sea in Liaodong."

"This..." Zhu Youxiao immediately frowned when he heard that he was going to go by sea:

"As my younger brother said, if it is shipped by sea, it will naturally be embarrassing for all officials. If this decree is issued, it may be rejected by the cabinet and the six divisions immediately."

Zhu Youxiao was very helpless. During the time when Zhu Youjian left, he could only talk to Ke Shi and Wei Zhongxian. There is no good way.

Now that Zhu Youjian came back, he also started to complain.

First of all, many of his imperial decrees were rejected by the cabinet and the six departments, one of which was the imperial decree that Qi Yuanfu wanted to lead the troops to escort Cao Yin to the north.

Therefore, regarding Zhu Youjian's idea of ​​going by sea, he could only sigh.

However, Zhu Youjian had already had an idea on how to transport by sea and stabilize the grain in Liaodong:

"Brother, don't worry. I already have an idea about how to go by sea, but I just need my brother's help."

"Oh? Let's talk about it." Hearing this, Zhu Youxiao also came to his spirits, wanting to know what good method Zhu Youjian has, and Zhu Youjian also said slowly:

"The method is very simple..."

(End of this chapter)