General Constitution of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 223 The Battle Between Heaven and Man
It was Lu Bing and Mai Fu's memoirs that Zhu Zaiyu entered Beijing first.

Even if Jiajing doted on Zhu Zaiyu again, but when he heard that Zhu Zaiyu had intended to rebel in Nanjing, he couldn't help being furious.

"Okay, I selected a few servants for the prince. When the prince rebelled, one would help to collect the Guanfang seal, and the other would help to take over the prison."

"When things fail, my son insists on living with these criminals and protecting them well, okay."

Huang Jin lowered his head and said, "Your Highness is young, you don't know the depth, after all, it's a child's nature..."

Just as Gao Gong, Zhang Juzheng and others expected, Lu Bing and Mai Fu would wipe their butts.

As long as Jiajing doesn't want to abolish the prince.

Then we have to keep the old ministers of the East Palace for Zhu Zaixun to use in the future.

Without waiting for Huang Jin to finish speaking for Zhu Zaiyu, Gao Zhong walked into the middle of the hall and said, "My lord, Mr. Yuan from the East Palace is asking to see you outside the hall."

Huang Jin looked at Jiajing in astonishment, and Jiajing immediately said, "I told Yuan Qing, if you listen to it, you will understand. I am tired of hearing some things, and I have to listen to others."

Not long after, Yuan Wei walked into the hall and knelt down in front of Jiajing with a "plop".

Yuan Wei knew that this might be the only chance in his life.

"Report to Your Majesty, all criminals will die!"

"Although I serve as the minister of the East Palace, I cannot accompany Guo Ben and give detailed advice, which has led to the current troubles in the East Palace. It is all my fault. Please calm down, Your Majesty."

"According to what Yuan Qing saw, what should Ning Jue be guilty of?" Jiajing leaned on the dragon chair wearily.

Yuan Wei seemed to have made up his mind, gritted his teeth and said loudly: "Behead!"

"That's my son." There was a little displeasure in Jiajing's tone.

Yuan Wei immediately said: "Your Majesty! The chaos in the south of the Yangtze River has not stopped, and the rebellion will not be punished, and it is difficult to quell the anger of the people! The court is employing people, Zhang Juzheng, Gao Gong and other inherent talents, how can your majesty and the prince abandon you because of one or two rotten trees?" Lin! Your father is in the prime of life, and the crown prince is young, so the future will be long, Your Majesty!"

Yuan Wei's words reminded Jiajing.

Merchants cannot give power to the emperor, but scholar-bureaucrats can.

Not only that, if Jinshen wants to suppress the evil fire in the southeast, he must protect his father and son. At the very least, Jiajing must live a long life in order to digest these influences in the southeast.

This is Yuan Weijin's advice to Jiajing, who is also the landlord of the world, and the price offered to Jiajing, the landlord's spokesperson.

Regardless of the great changes in the southeast, Jiajing has already won the internal struggle between the feudal literati and the emperor.

People can be killed, and Donggong's team can be changed. As long as there is enough time, everything will be smoothed over.

It is true that Jiajing was moved.

"According to Yuan Qing's opinion, how should we depose the southeast?"

Yuan Wei, who noticed the change in Jiajing's mentality, immediately hit the rails while it was hot: "Gao Gong, Zhang Juzheng, Ning Jue, and Feng Bao are all serious crimes of treason, and they should be punished according to the law. However, Governor Lu reported to the cabinet that he was drinking and making trouble."

"Family ugliness should not be publicized. The minister thought that in the name of alcoholism, he could only be punished. Ning Jue was deposed in another case and executed for treason. Duke Cheng is a descendant of an honor, so he was dismissed from the military and returned home to stay idle."

Ever since he was thrown in the capital by Zhu Zaiyu, Yuan Wei once had the idea of ​​returning to his hometown as an official.

I thought Yuan Wei would be able to be Xie Wenzheng's second in the future by relying on the towering tree of the East Palace.

Whoever wants to hang out in the East Palace is worse than a dog.

Coupled with the changes in the sky in the south of the Yangtze River, if he doesn't go back, the Yuan family's property will almost be wiped out.

Today, after finally catching such an opportunity, Yuan Wei wished he could directly raise his sword and clear the prince's side.

"The prince follows closely day and night."

As soon as Jiajingfang finished speaking, Yuan Wei said decisively: "Your Majesty has learned! Although I am the master of the East Palace, I am still a minister, and the crown prince is a king after all. There are some things that a minister cannot do, and neither can the father-in-law in the palace."

"Although this matter is difficult, as long as Junfu is around, it will naturally be solved."

"As long as His Majesty summons his party to Xiyuan, and brings the prince back to the forbidden center for education, the rest will be done by his ministers."

In the final analysis, Zhu Zaiyu was Jiajing's son after all, and Jiajing was the only one who could teach the prince a lesson.

As long as Jiajing is present, it is impossible for Zhu Zaixun to cause waves.

After drinking heavily, Jiajing snorted coldly, and then said, "Huang Jin."

"The minister is here."

"According to Yuan Qing's play, after the crown prince returns to Beijing, he must call the man into Xiyuan immediately. There must be no mistake."

"Here."

As the first snowflakes fell outside the window, Xiyuan also got ready to go.

It's just that Yuan Wei knows that this alone is not enough. Jiajing said so now, and it's hard to say what will happen after the prince enters the palace.

We must find a way to stimulate the group of people around the prince again.
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The Grand Canal does not sail all year round. The section north of the Huaihe River, especially after entering the Shandong section, has a period of obvious freezing every year that makes the canal impossible to pass through.

The Tonghui River outside Tongzhou, the capital, is frozen for more than three months every year.

Therefore, every year in October, the tank boats on the canal start to compete with God for time. They would rather return empty boats, and return to the south of the Yangtze River before it freezes, otherwise they have to freeze the boats on the canal until the spring of the next year.

When the crown prince entered Shandong, the canal was already frozen, and everyone had to disembark at Dongchang Mansion and take a carriage to the north.

Zhu Zaiyu has always insisted on squeezing together with five people.

Fortunately, the carriage that Lu Bing prepared for Zhu Zaishun was big enough.

It can hold all six people.

And along the way, the only thing everyone did was to persuade Ning Jue.

Zhu Zaiyu even regretted mentioning that incident.

After all, I just want to die.

Ning Jue actually said, "Fuck him."

Theoretically speaking, the six people are now wearing the body of guilt, but Zhu Zaiyu's special status, forcibly ordering Ning Jue to stop, or separating Ning Jue from the others, is no different from directly finishing Ning Jue.

In this case, everyone can only choose the most primitive way.

Know it with reason, move with emotion.

"Brother Ning, if you are a minister, let's remonstrate to the death. You can't keep thinking about doing it."

"Success! If I don't do anything, you just pretend you didn't hear anything." These people chattered all the way, and Ning Jue couldn't help it.

"Mr. Ning, even if you don't think about your slaves, you also have to think about the gentlemen. It's really impossible. You can't implicate the crown prince. Don't do such a rebellious act that will harm the ages..."

"No, didn't I agree to everything?"

"Really?" Feng Bao looked at Ning Jue in disbelief.

"real."

"You can't even move your feet."

"Don't move your feet."

"Mr. Ning, stop joking with your servant, this servant is timid, it is really impossible for you to bet on your servant..." As soon as he finished speaking, Feng Bao realized a terrible fact.

There really are people like Ning Jue who are barefoot in this world!I can't even bet anything, so I really don't have any worries!
The group of people arrived at the capital in fear.

The closer they were to the capital, the more anxious the four of them became.

"Mr. Zhang, we've arrived... in the capital."

Zhang Juzheng took a deep breath, and then said: "I know, Su Qing, why don't you speak?"

"Uncle, I'm thinking, do you believe that Ke finally does nothing?"

"Do not believe."

"If Ke finally doesn't make a move, we can turn around a little bit. After Ke finally makes his move, will we still have a way to survive?"

Zhang Juzheng was silent. Seeing Zhang Juzheng was silent, Gao Gong immediately said a very philosophical sentence.

"Then why don't we follow along? You and I are both people with lofty ideals. I have studied hard for so many years to do something for the world! Even if I was saved by the crown prince this time, I was assassinated in the southwest, and the mountains in the southwest are far away. What's the point of us going?"

It was Ning Jue who said it, but the new law has been abandoned halfway, and the resentment in Gao Gong and others' hearts is also true.

"Su Qing, what are you talking about? Your Gao family has a hundred or ten people, and you can't report to the country, so you have to report to the family, right?"

After what Zhang Juzheng said, Gao Gong gradually extinguished those "disrespectful" thoughts in his heart.

Just when the whole group hesitated, Zhang Zuo came over with Ti Wei.

"There is a purpose!"

Everyone immediately fell to their knees, Du Ningjue stood on the spot alone, Feng Bao looked at Ningjue with a mournful face and said, "Sir, accept the order!"

"What I promise you is not to accept the order."

Unexpectedly, Zhang Zuo ignored Ning Jue, and said in a loud voice: "After the prince returns to Beijing, he will enter the palace immediately, without any delay."

Zhang Juzheng, Gao Gong and others winked at Zhu Zaixun.

"It's already night, I'd better wait until tomorrow to pay respects to my father."

Zhang Zuo bowed his head helplessly and said: "Your Highness, what the emperor means is that no matter what the time is, the emperor will always be waiting for you in Xiyuan. Father-son friendship, Your Highness."

As soon as the words fell, Lu Bing surrounded him with a team of guards.

Not entering the palace is indeed the best result, but whether or not entering the palace is obviously beyond Zhu Zaiyi's control.

"You gentlemen will also enter the palace with Gu Yi."

Zhang Zuo made it difficult, bowed his head and said, "Success."

But when everyone was changing their official uniforms, Feng Bao held Zhang Juzheng back.

"Mr. Zhang, do we have to enter the palace?"

"How about otherwise?"

"But gentlemen, when you enter the palace to face the Holy Spirit, you must bring your wat with you!"

Looking at the Chaohu that Ning Jue was caressing carefully, Zhang Juzheng couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart, subconsciously stepped forward and firmly held Ning Jue's hand.

"Brother Ning, this is really impossible!"

Gao Gong also came over, and the two supported Ning Jue, one on the left and the other on the right.

"Ke Zhong, you will follow us later, the crown prince will deal with you, and our painstaking efforts will not be in vain."

Ning Jue looked at the two of them in astonishment.

"No, why are you two grabbing my wat board? You two don't have it yourself?! I really don't want to do it. There are so many people around the emperor!"

What Ning Jue said was true.

After all, there were so many eunuchs and guards around Jiajing, and this was not the first time he saw Jiajing.

You can do it a long time ago, why wait until today.

Along the way, Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng guarded against Ning Jue like thieves, for fear that if one was inattentive, Ning Jue would rush in and fight desperately with the emperor.

Until they saw Yuan Wei outside Xiyuan.

Even though it was already midnight, Yuan Wei still stood outside Xiyuan, and after seeing Zhu Zaizhen, he deliberately saluted. After waiving the ceremony, Yuan Wei retreated cautiously behind Zhu Zaizhen, and turned to Zhang Juzheng. Salute to Gao Gong, but when he walked in front of the two, the smile on Yuan Wei's face was slightly sinister.

It's just that Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng couldn't help being surprised the moment they saw Yuan Wei.

broken.

Forget about this guy!
The point is that it's already this hour, and Yuan Wei is still waiting outside Xiyuan.

Obviously, Yuan Wei had already said something to Jiajing, and even got Jiajing's approval, so Yuan Wei stayed here to wait.

Judging by Yuan Wei's expression, the fact that he was allowed to play by the emperor did not seem to be very beneficial to them.

The big guy can swallow his anger for the sake of his family.

But if you can't keep your family by swallowing your anger.

The big guy has to reconsider, whether he still has to swallow his anger.

Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng fell into the battle between heaven and man by coincidence...

Some things come naturally once you look at them.

It is not impossible.

(End of this chapter)