Hongwu Survival Guide

Chapter 101 Alienation
In Jinling, the East Pavilion of the Imperial Palace, Lao Zhu received an urgent letter from Wen Zao. It was March [-]th, the day before Grain Rain.

Hearing Wen Zao say that Zhu Yuan was assassinated, Lao Zhu's face tensed up.

After unpacking the package and seeing the testimonies, letters and pictures, Lao Zhu, who was already accumulating anger, suddenly smashed the desk several times. Voice: "You, go back to Mingzhou immediately, bring Yuan'er back to me, and tell Nahua Gao that an army escort has been arranged, and if Yuan'er really makes a mistake, you will never come back again."

Wen Zao could feel that his master was on the verge of eruption, and he was worried that it would harm Chi Yu, so he didn't dare to say a word, and kowtowed decisively: "The order is here."

Get up and leave in a hurry.

When Wenzao went out, Lao Zhu leaned back on the chair, gasped for a few breaths with his eyes wide open, looked at what was in front of him, and finally shouted: "Come here, come here!"

Two courtiers bowed and appeared.

Lao Zhu raised one arm and pointed in one direction randomly, obviously trembling: "Call me that Li Shanchang, call me!"

Gan Sui returned to Jinling a few hours earlier than Wen Zao, and Li Shanchang already knew about the changes in Mingzhou.

Came to the East Pavilion from the palace in the imperial city, seeing Lao Zhu's eyes wide open as if he wanted to choose someone to eat, he knew very well that his master was a donkey, Li Shanchang didn't dare to go up against the wind, so he knelt down honestly and said nothing .

Seeing Li Shanchang's reaction, Lao Zhu suddenly opened his mouth and smiled: "It looks like, Mr. Zuo Xiang knew the news earlier than I did?"

Li Shanchang remained silent.

Seeing this, Lao Zhu became even more angry, grabbed the letter and picture in front of him and threw it at Li Shanchang: "Look, look, it's all good deeds!"

Li Shanchang got up slightly, just happened to see the letter, took a brief look at it, and shook his head: "My lord, this letter was not written by me, I will not be so stupid..."

"I know you didn't write it," Lao Zhu interrupted before Li Shanchang could finish speaking, leaning forward with one hand on the desk and shouting, while pointing to the ground: "That... that picture, how dare you say Aren't you a servant of your family?"

Li Shanchang glanced at Gan Sui's image, paused, kowtowed and said: "Master, I just want to see the grain transportation in Mingzhou, and have no other thoughts."

"What a 'just want to see', look at it, what a fool, he was set up by Chen Ning without knowing it, and after being exposed, he dared to kill and set fire in Dinghai County, he really accepted his loyalty Come on, it's the courage to pierce the sky."

Li Shanchang was silent again.

Lao Zhu was furious, saying too much and making mistakes.

Seeing that Li Shanchang didn't respond to him, Lao Zhu let out his breath and sat back on his chair again. After a short silence, he said again: "A few days ago, I told all the generals that in recent years, new followers have been promoted above the old ones. , are all out of publicity, choosing the best. I forgot to wait for the courtiers and Chinese officials."

Although Li Shanchang murmured about this, he still didn't dare to accept it casually.

Lao Zhu didn't wait for him to answer, and continued: "Baishi, you have been loyal to me for more than ten years, and I will always remember it. At present, you are the left minister of the Ming Dynasty, the number one civil servant, and you are the same as Xu and Chang. Duke, ask yourself, have I ever treated you badly?"

Hearing Lao Zhu's words, even if Li Shanchang didn't know his expression at this time, he hurriedly paused tremblingly and said: "My lord has never treated me badly."

Old Zhu's tone changed: "Since that's the case, why are you staring at a junior?"

This is again an unanswerable question.

Lao Zhu didn't wait for an answer, and continued again: "Before Yuan'er left Jinling, he told me that he just wanted to do something with peace of mind, and didn't want to get into unnecessary disputes. It will happen to you every day."

Li Shanchang still didn't answer, but he was surprised in his heart.

this person...

Is it a prophet?
When Lao Zhu said this, he was also emotional.

Certainly no prophet.

The child came from hundreds of years later, and he has a thorough understanding of the various aspects of the Hongwu Dynasty, and he probably expected certain things early in the morning.

Sighing in his heart, Lao Zhu lost the idea of ​​continuing to chat with Li Shanchang in a blink of an eye, and just waved his hand: "Go on, Baishi, I will not pursue it this time because of your past achievements. But the person in the painting, you give me An explanation."

Li Shanchang opened his mouth, but in the end he just answered, and left the East Pavilion after kowtowing again.

Walking on the imperial road of the imperial city, Li Shanchang's heart was full of gloom.

If Old Zhu had said a few more words just now, he would have been very relaxed.At the moment, the lord is unwilling to gossip with him anymore, this is more serious than the superior continuing to hold on to the Mingzhou matter.

Because, this is alienation.

Back in the prime minister's residence in the imperial city, Li Shanchang thought of Gan Sui, who was so tired and paralyzed after talking with him on horseback in a hurry this morning.

Li Shanchang wanted to protect such a loyal servant.

only……

My lord wants an explanation.

I have to give it.

Li Shanchang could only secretly convince himself that he was willing to let himself fail to handle the matter well and kill everyone, and even left the letter behind.Even if anyone with a discerning eye could guess that the letter was a forgery, Naihe still held him firmly in the mud.

After making up his mind, Li Shanchang called a family member and ordered with a cold face: "Go back and bring me Gan Sui's head and tell him that I will take care of his wife and children."

It was also the old servant who had followed Li Shanchang for many years, who was a little bit surprised when he heard the words, he was startled, and left in a hurry after taking orders.

……

After such a big incident happened, Zhu Yuan didn't go out for the past few days.

I can't get out even if I want to.

Many things stopped for a while, but my energy improved a lot. I woke up earlier this morning than the girl beside me.

After Luoshui is freehand, and after freehand is blank.

Although Zhu Yuan really couldn't bear without some things, but a group of girls are also unwilling to sleep outside when it's their turn to be on duty at night.

Zhu Yuan also thought about this matter.

The answers that came out were interesting.

Zhu Yuan felt that he should not be too casual with the ladies around him, which is considered respect.However, for girls, certain things are rights that they must do everything possible to fight for.At the same time, due to the instinct of deep house women in this era, they should try their best to prevent other women from obtaining this right.

Ok.

what right?
Can't say it, it's a bit vulgar to say it.

However, Zhu Yuan remembered one more thing.

I forgot the specifics, I don’t know if it was an emperor of the Ming Dynasty, probably a young man ascended the throne, and was seduced by a group of concubines and court ladies in the harem who desperately wanted their mothers to be worthy of their sons. , or developed heterophobia, or was exhausted too early, but died without heirs.

Maybe it's because I'm too free, I've been thinking about these messy things for no reason recently.

This is the second day after Grain Rain.

March twenty-seven.

Grain Rain did not rain, a very good sunny day.

In the morning, I came to the gazebo on the top of the rockery in the garden, and finally browsed the copy that was completed in the past few days, revised some details again, and asked Xieyi to copy it as soon as possible.

Zhu Yuan himself still stayed in the gazebo, leaning on a comfortable recliner, basking in the sun, feeling the fragrant wind around him.

A group of girls, big and small, surrounded him, either needlework, or embroidery, or school books, or painting.

Lin Xiaoyu, who put on a brand new sack again, brought a glass of water over. Zhu Yuan took the tea and patted it on his lap. Lin Xiaoyu sat obediently in the arms of his little official, but Zhu Yuan didn't feel it. How much weight, I don't know where this girl is supporting it.

Thinking of the incident a few days ago, Zhu Yuan only felt that the world is really strange.

The person in her arms is also very strange.

Stretch out your arms and hug them, and the weight will be there.So he reached out to touch Lin Xiaoyu's front pocket, and sure enough, he found another copper ball, this time there were more than two.

He took out a copper ball the size of a pigeon egg, weighed it in his hand, looked at the sun again, smiled and asked Nizi in his arms: "There are no original two here, right?"

Lin Xiaoyu shook his head.

With a smile, he got closer, and there was a cool smell in his breath.

In ancient times, there were actually things similar to chewing gum, which were basically prepared with various expensive spices. Of course, they were not for ordinary people.

Once again, he pressed the little girl who was quietly propped up into his arms, and feeling the refreshing taste, Zhu Yuan leaned over and pecked the girl on her lips.

It's a pity that I can't see the reaction of blanking. In fact, after blanking a few times, the initial cute reaction is gone.

Lin Xiaoyu really wanted to lie in the arms of her little official like this, but she was always afraid of being crushed by the little official, so she just lingered for a while, then stood up and walked to a girl who was embroidering to watch her embroider.

This was ordered by the little official and given to her.

The sack girl left, and there was no one around Zhu Yuan. However, because Liu Bai was still guarding the vigilance of a cat, Lin Xiaoyu, a little girl who saved her master, could get closer, and other girls didn't dare to mess around. I can only watch helplessly.

Zhu Yuan narrowed his eyes and began to think about something.

Reminds me of the phrase 'People are in the rivers and lakes, they can't help themselves, and temples, let alone involuntary'.

I remembered reading history in my previous life.

Zhu Yuan could feel that in the early years of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Lao Zhu was so protective of the Huaixi nobles who fought together to the point of connivance.

Zhu Yuan understands that during this period of time, the old Zhu did not have the kind of too deep thoughts of an emperor later on, let alone a strategy like "Yu Gong's younger brother". To be precise, it is more like a kind of loyalty, a kind of brotherhood. Fight the country with me, since you are in the country, you naturally have the loyalty to share the blessings.

So, with Lao Zhu's protection, the Huaixi nobles...mainly the Huaixi civil servants went to extremes without knowing it.

What extreme?
In the court, you must either belong to the Huaixi family or be attached to the Huaixi family, otherwise, you have no other way to go.

For example, the most typical three people in the early stage of Hongwu.

Yang Xian chose to confront Huaixi Xungui. In the third year of Hongwu, he was executed.

Wang Guangyang, a good man, did not compete for power with the Huaixi nobles at all, and he had a posture of ruling by doing nothing, but he still failed to escape exile and death.

The last Liu Bowen, can't afford to offend, can I still hide?

No, you can't hide.

For a person His Majesty always talks about, how can people feel at ease if he is not dead?

So, after resigning obviously, he had to find a reason to recall Liu Bowen from his hometown in Qingtian to Jinling.

Seeing that it was not enough to be around, Hong Wu took another poison in the eighth year.It was not enough to poison Liu Bowen to death, but Liu Lian, Liu Bowen's eldest son who was also in officialdom, had to be thrown into the well together.

See it.

Whether you are "tit for tat", or being a "good man", or "resigning from office and returning home", there is no escape from the ending.

In the past, Zhu Yuan always thought about how he should survive to the end under Lao Zhu's hand in the Hongwu Dynasty in the Shura field of civil servants and generals, but he suddenly realized that the Shura field was far more than Lao Zhu's boss.

Shura is all around!

The ins and outs of the events of the past few days are very clear.

Chen Ning, who was dismissed from office and had no hope of reinstatement, forged Li Shanchang's handwritten letter and private seal, and persuaded a certain maritime merchant who was involved with pirates to launch the assassination.

The Chinese are the most introspective group of people.

Zhu Yuan hated this very much.

However, Zhu Yuan couldn't help but reflect for a while, and realized that he wasn't too innocent.

Because of the "Book from Heaven", Chen Ning, who was supposed to continue to flourish in the officialdom for more than ten years, was knocked down by Lao Zhu in advance, and the Yinghai Division incorporated the authority of Daming Shibo.And when Chen Ning asked to see him, Zhu Yuan didn't give him a good face, so he made this person go to extremes recklessly.

Really desperate.

The Naval Governor's Mansion sent people to Taicang to seize the Chen family, and the Chen family didn't even know what happened.

Even if Zhu Yuan wanted to let go of these people, it was impossible for Lao Zhu to forgive them.

Furthermore, in this whole incident, it seems that Li Shanchang was just framed. Zhu Yuan believes that the old Zhu in Jinling City can easily figure out that Li Shanchang was implicated. Will the narrow-minded Mr. Zuo, who has manipulated the court for decades and spared no effort to eliminate dissidents, just laugh it off?
Zhu Yuan only hoped that Lao Zhu could wake up this time.

If you want to start well and end well, you must not indulge blindly, which is the same as the principle of "habitual child is like killing a child".Perhaps, in the future, I still need to have an open and honest talk with my ancestors about this.

Thoughts were flying wildly, He Xuan trotted to the gazebo: "My lord, Wen Baihu has arrived, and brought your majesty's oral instructions."

Zhu Yuan nodded and stood up.

There are servants here who hastened to spread the shoulder pads.

While sitting on the shoulder, Zhu Yuan said to Liu Bai: "Let Xieyi and the others finish copying the thing just now and send it outside."

Come to the east courtyard.

As expected, the old Zhu's oral order brought by Wenzao was for him to return to Beijing immediately.

Hua Gao also came after hearing the news.

Master Hua very much agreed with his lord's order, and when Wen Zao finished speaking, he hurriedly arranged for escorts.

The food transportation has been properly arranged, and the little ancestor was sent back to Jinling earlier, so he doesn't need to worry all day long.

Zhu Yuan didn't want to go back.

There are still important things to do.

Also, some previous thoughts.

Going back, in fact, does not have much benefit, but it is easier to get entangled in all kinds of right and wrong, so it is better to avoid it far away like this.

The inner house quickly sent over the copied plan.

Zhu Yuan handed it over to Wen Zao, asked him to work harder, and sent him back to Jinling immediately, with full confidence that His Majesty the Emperor would agree with him to stay as long as he read the plan.

Wen Zao hurried away again.

Master Hua couldn't do anything about it.

The little ancestor refused to leave, he really couldn't force him to tie him up and put him on the big ship back to Jinling.I can only sigh and sigh, lamenting that my luck is bad and my fate is too short.

(End of this chapter)