fake prince

Chapter 594

Back then when Cen Rubai led him to see Su Ziji, at that time he was ashamed, for the sake of his brothers and for his own survival, so he temporarily took refuge in Su Ziji. In other words, it also has some influence, after all, Su Ziji, the temporary lord, is very courteous.

But Zeng Nianzhen couldn't let go of what happened back then, couldn't forget the old master, and finally chose to say goodbye.

Good luck tricks people, if I knew that Su Ziji was the young master, Zeng Nianzhen would not leave that day even if he died.

Thinking of the scene of parting that day, he felt regretful and ashamed. Looking at the young man in front of him, he was mixed with surprise and joy. As soon as they met each other, he immediately fell to the ground, with tears in his eyes, and choked up a voice: "The deputy of the Prince's Mansion Team Zeng Nianzhen, meet the young master!"

"Mr. Zeng, please get up quickly!" Su Ziji got up and helped him up himself.

Zeng Nianzhen looked at the young man in front of him, and once again regretted in his heart. When we got along with each other before, he felt that Mr. Su was a bit like His Highness the Crown Prince more than once, but he didn't go into it. As a result, he came late and failed to escort His Highness to Beijing. Cen Rubai wrote a letter to himself, didn't he add to his mistakes and directly missed this matter?

"I'm guilty of failing to recognize you that day..." He thought and said the same thing.

Su Ziji hurriedly comforted him: "Even I only gradually learned about this in the past two years. It's human nature for you not to recognize it. Why blame yourself? Don't blame anyone who doesn't know. If Mr. Zeng feels uncomfortable, why don't you Just stay by my side and do things for me, how about it?"

"I can't ask for it!" Zeng Nianzhen immediately responded.

Su Ziji then asked him to sit beside him for a while, and then asked about the current situation of the prince's former ministers.

In fact, I asked Cen Rubai about this matter, but Cen Rubai explained to Su Ziji that when the crown prince had an accident, most of the former officials of the East Palace were convicted. Those who were not convicted were low-level officials and family soldiers. For more than ten years, although Cen Rubai had a little contact with some of these people, the person who had the most contact with them was Zeng Nianzhen.

Hearing Su Ziji ask about the current situation of those people, Zeng Nianzhen, who just secretly wiped his eyes just now, was red-eyed again.

"My lord, the former ministers of the East Palace who were not imprisoned back then are all petty officials and family soldiers. Most of them turned to other ways to make a living."

"But there are still some who are grateful for the prince's kindness. Although they have not been convicted, they don't want to be an official again. They prefer to live in poverty. Some have passed away, and some are still alive. maintain lifehood."

"There are three other people. Although they were not prosecuted and convicted, they returned to their hometown, but they were deliberately charged by local officials and thrown into prison. They only came out a few years ago. I was afraid that I would not be able to take care of them in my hometown, so I brought them back to the vicinity of the capital. Easy to take care of."

When Zeng Nianzhen told them one by one, Su Ziji was moved and asked, "Is there a list?"

"My lord, before I came, I wrote down the list carefully. Those who have been in contact with me over the years are all on it." Zeng Nianzhen took out a roll of paper from his bosom and handed it up respectfully. Ziji may have such inquiries.

Su Ziji quickly picked it up, started to watch, and found that there are 23 households on it, all of which are in and around the capital, most of them are unremarkable people, they should all come from family soldiers, only one of the 23 people was a regular The ninth grade is also an official.

"This Donggong team is Sun Ping, I will personally invite him." After reading, Su Ziji sighed.

Although he knew that the tree fell and the monkeys scattered, and most of the officials were targeted, died or demoted, not many survived until now, but the small number of people still made Su Ziji's heart sink and filled with emotion.

These are all loyal ministers, and they have all withered.

Originally, Su Ziji made a plan, knowing that there were not many people belonging to the East Palace, so he wanted to display it publicly, so as to appease the emperor's jealousy.

Now there is no need to worry.

"Mr. Lu and Jian Qu, you will go on your own business, and I, Cen Rubai and Zeng Nianzhen will go out of the residence."

The mansion has its own ox cart, and Zeng Nianzhen became the driver, when he went out, he saw snowflakes falling from the gloomy sky, it was snowing again, and there was a vast expanse of whiteness.

Living in the capital is not easy. Sun Ping's home is outside the city, not far from the capital, in a small village on the outskirts.

After walking for half an hour, they saw a bridge. Although it was not a single-plank bridge, the ox cart could not drive across it. Su Ziji got out of the car and walked. He pointed to a shrine and asked Cen Rubai, "Whose shrine is this?"

"It's not the main shrine, it's basically the land ancestral hall!" Cen Rubai stepped on the slippery road and said, "Wei Shizu custom-built the Town God's Ancestral Hall."

"Taoism and folks say that this is the spirit of so-and-so."

"There is a special account of this matter. The Ministry of Rites wrote a letter saying that those who build a country must set up high city gods and deep gods to protect their people. Therefore, all states, counties and counties in the world have town god temples, and those in Beijing call them capital city gods."

"The gods of the Husband City God are not human ghosts. How can there be so-called birthdays? Celebrating birthdays, this is embedding flowers and trees, and it is appropriate to dismiss them all."

"As for the land public temple, if it does not belong to the formal system, it is a fake."

"The system of the imperial court has profound meaning!" Su Zi had been enrolled in the Taixue, so he naturally knew that the court sacrifices, the major sacrifices were heaven, earth, ancestral temples, and shrines, not human beings. "

The middle sacrifices are the sun, the moon, agriculture, stars, wind, cloud, thunderstorm, mountains and rivers, etc., and the gods are minor sacrifices.

It can be said that among the middle priests, only the emperor and the ancestors are human beings, while the minor priests worship the gods, and half of them are not human beings. There are very few people in the national sacrifices.

Is this a materialistic sacrifice?

Su Ziji didn't think about it, and asked Zeng Nianzhen with a smile: "How far is it from here?"

Zeng Nianzhen smiled and pointed with his hand: "The village is to the north of Xiaolin, and the village entrance is there. It's not too far to walk there."

The three of them were walking in the snow on the embankment, and felt that the snowflakes were blurred and the world was confused. Su Ziji stood in the snow, looked at the dark and gloomy forest, and looked at the person with a resolute and vicissitudes of life. After a long time, he said: "Mr. Zeng , I didn't give you a captain, do you have any ideas?"

Zeng Nianzhen hurriedly said: "The young master only knows me, this is a prudence, and I am the team deputy, Sun Ping and Sun Da are the team leader, he should have been the captain."

"It's not for this reason." Su Ziji shook his head, his footsteps were very small, and his voice was very soft: "I don't grant you a captain, because I have something important to tell you, and only you can do this task."

"Mr. Zeng, do you have a reputation in the world?"

Zeng Nian was really touched by Su Ziji's words just now. Hearing this, he was a little embarrassed and said, "It's just a little bit of a bad name."

"As Yijian Chunhan, even I have heard about it, Mr. Zeng, you are too modest." Su Ziji laughed when he heard that.

After a long time, I whispered: "The errand I gave you is to let you raise five hundred soldiers outside, and the location is on an overseas island. I wonder if you are willing to take this task?"

Raise five hundred soldiers on overseas islands?

When Zeng Nianzhen heard about this, he seemed to realize something. This is because His Royal Highness has learned from the prince's lesson, saying that the Eastern Palace actually has a large army, with a thousand soldiers.

But when the imperial decree was issued, all the thousand armored soldiers obeyed the order and imprisoned the prince instead.

Even some people who are loyal to the prince can't help, they can only bend down and obey orders.

"Your Highness is going to have his own soldiers."

(End of this chapter)