Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1113
"You're running out of time."

As soon as Gao Wushi uttered these words, Liu Shouyou couldn't help but feel his heart tighten.He didn't know what Gao Wushi meant, and he couldn't help wondering whether he planned to mobilize his servants to resist forcefully, or invited "reinforcements"?
Liu Shouyou rolled his eyes and didn't answer, but he secretly thought: forcibly resisting should be impossible. In front of Yu Tingcha, Wang Shiqi and other scholars, Gao Yushi couldn't do such a stupid thing of severing himself from the world.Then it can only be that he has found "reinforcements", but who will the reinforcements be?
The first thing Liu Shouyou thought of was Chen Ju, because although Chen Ju was only the number two figure in the inner court, he was the admiral of the East Factory. If he came in person, no matter what he was doing, he had the right to forcibly suppress ——In fact, it can't be said that "the right to suppress", but once Chen Ju gives the order, the Jinyiwei people really dare not refuse to listen, even if Liu Shouyou expresses dissatisfaction on the spot, it is useless.

This situation is like a province's inspector censor forcing a certain prefect of the province to suspend something. Most of the inspectors are about to be dismissed from office, and relatively speaking, even if the chief minister participates in the impeachment of the prefect, the prefect is usually recorded by the Ministry of Officials and criticized.

The reason for this is simple: the job of the patrol is to supervise, and now I find that you have done something wrong, and the right to "make decisions on small matters" can be used, and if you refuse to implement it, it will be regarded as disobedience to the holy will.As for whether my "break" was right or not, there will naturally be an emperor's sanction afterwards, and it has nothing to do with you.

The admiral of the East Factory is in a similar situation to Jinyiwei. He supervises Jinyiwei. If he tells you to stop immediately, you have to stop, otherwise it will be tantamount to disobeying the holy will.As for whether his order is considered sacred, anyway, you don't care, it can only be judged by the emperor afterwards.

Of course, Liu Shouyou knew exactly how close the relationship between Chen Ju and Gao Yushi was, and he didn't doubt that Chen Ju would definitely help Gao Yushi in this matter.

However, after Liu Shouyou concluded that Gao Yushi did not intend to resist by force, he did not appear to be very panicked, because he also had backhands.

At the same time when Gao Wushi let Liu Shouyou search the Baiyu Tower, Zhu Yijun had just entered the Compassion Palace.

It was already afternoon at this time, of course Zhu Yijun couldn't come to the Palace of Compassion and Ning with the excuse of asking for peace, the reason he used was "to ask about the disease of Marquis Wuqing".

Li Wei, Marquis of Wuqing, is the biological father of the Empress Dowager Li, also Zhu Yijun's grandfather, who is nearly sixty years old this year.Due to the poor life in the early years, this man was greedy for money and indulged in pleasure after his daughter became prosperous. In the past two years, his health has not been very good, and he has been ill recently, so Zhu Yijun came here with the excuse of asking about illness.

But this is just an excuse. Zhu Yijun doesn't have much affection for his grandfather, and he also knows that he has a bad reputation. Except for some etiquette activities such as offering sacrifices to the ancestors of the emperor on behalf of the emperor, and the order of the emperors, other things are basically Keep him out of it.

Empress Dowager Li has a deep affection for her father, because her mother passed away early, and it was her father's decision that she herself could enter the Prince Yu's Mansion as a maid, so she was very happy to hear that her son came here for this reason.

It's just that she hasn't had time to talk to Zhu Yijun about this matter, because someone came to report a big event to her just now: Princess Yongning slipped out of the palace quietly!
It's not that Empress Dowager Li doesn't know what happened to her daughter. Although she is a traditional and typical patriarchal mother, a mother is a mother after all, and she feels guilty about her daughter's marriage.But in her opinion, this is not the reason for her daughter to sneak out of the palace!

Especially, Empress Dowager Li has gone through so many things before, and now she is very clear in her heart that her daughter's departure from the palace will definitely not be targeted for nothing. She is definitely looking for Gao Yushi!
Actually, Empress Dowager Li thinks that Gao Yushi is good enough, but for the Tian family, if this kind of excellence is to be used well, it should never be exchanged for the princess.As for the reason, Empress Dowager Li didn't really think about it, because her political ability is really average, and she just stubbornly defended the rules established by the previous emperors.

After all, in her opinion, the rules of the Tian family are above all else, just like her son will definitely be the emperor, which is determined by the rules, so for her, maintaining the rules means maintaining everything.

Only when Zhu Yijun came to the Palace of Compassion and Ning did he realize that his mother was not in the main hall, nor in the bedroom, but in the garden.He didn't think much, and went directly to the garden.

When they arrived at the garden, the maids of the Cining Palace told the emperor that the Empress Dowager Cisheng was in Hanqingzhai, so the emperor turned right.This Hanqingzhai would not have appeared in the Ming Dynasty, but now this place was built by Gao Yushi a few years ago for the Empress Dowager Cisheng at the suggestion of Zhu Yijun, under the name of Empress Dowager Christmas (there is no wrong word).

There is a couplet hanging on the gate of Hanqingzhai, and the inscription "The couplets in the Xuan couplet are not decorated with algae, and there are more than a few seats." This writing was written by Zhu Yijun himself.In the past, he would take a look at it when he came here, but today Zhu Yijun didn't look much, but rushed in.

As soon as he entered the front room of Hanqingzhai, Zhu Yijun saw that the empress mother was holding the rosary in her hand, turning it gently. He wanted to go up to greet him first, but who knew that Empress Dowager Li asked first: "Emperor, where is Yao?"

Zhu Yijun's heart trembled, and he thought to himself: Sure enough, someone has informed you.

But he was surprised and said in amazement: "Yao Yao? Isn't she in Changchun Palace?"

"You do not know?"

Zhu Yijun shook his head with an innocent look on his face.

Empress Dowager Li frowned slightly, and said to a female official beside her, "Go, invite the queen to come."

Zhu Yijun quickly stopped him first, and then asked: "Mother, what happened?"

Empress Dowager Li glanced at him, and said: "I heard that the queen gave Yao a piece of the banning phoenix tablet of the Kunning Palace a few days ago. The Ai family would like to ask the queen what she did."

"Then you don't need to ask the queen, this matter is what I mean." Zhu Yijun signaled the maid to step back, and then said to Empress Dowager Li: "Mother, I think that the weather is good in spring, so I borrowed the empress's help." Hands, let Yao Yao have a chance to go out for a walk, and have a good time to relax... Queen Mother, you also know that Yao Yao has been in a very low mood recently, and my son is worried that she will get bored."

Empress Dowager Li was noncommittal, and asked indifferently: "Although some people in the outer court may gossip about the princess going out for a spring outing, it is only a trivial matter after all. You can just give me a word of mouth. Why do you have to pretend to be the Queen's hand? Or, this outing? The place is very sensitive, and you know that it cannot be known by outsiders?"

"I don't quite understand what the queen mother said." Zhu Yijun said calmly: "I'm busy with things recently, and it's Chunwei and the war in Yunnan, so I don't have time to ask Yao Yao where he wants to go to relax, so then Ye just casually said something to the queen...why, she left the palace?"

Empress Dowager Li narrowed her eyes slightly, but she couldn't see any joy or anger on her face, she just said indifferently: "I heard that I went, and I went out pretending to be a court lady..."

"Really? Erchen just came from Qianqing Palace, so I don't know about it." Zhu Yijun's acting skills have also improved a lot now, and he started talking nonsense without changing his face and heartbeat: "But she went out of the palace for an outing, pretending to be a palace maid What to do? Oh, by the way, Erchen heard that she also set up a charity fund, could it be that she wants to serve Bailongyu and understand the people's sentiments?"

Empress Dowager Li said: "The Ai family doesn't want to care about charity funds and the like. After all, it's all about accumulating virtue and cultivating blessings. It's a good thing after all. But if she does something that damages the reputation of the Tian family, then the Ai family just wants to No matter what."

"How could this be?" Zhu Yijun smiled, and asked again: "Has the queen mother confirmed her whereabouts?"

In Zhu Yijun's sentence, he put the word "determined" with extra emphasis, which obviously meant something.

Empress Dowager Li's heart moved, and said: "The Ai family just got such news, and they haven't sent anyone to the Changchun Palace to check it out. It just so happens that you are here, the emperor..."

"I'm not sure, so it's meaningless to say these things now." Zhu Yijun turned around with a smile, and told Chen Ju, "Send someone to Changchun Palace immediately to see if Yongning is there. If she is, invite her to come over. If not, Come and report back immediately."

Chen Ju bowed and agreed, and went out to arrange for someone to go to Changchun Palace without mentioning it.

It stands to reason that this matter can be suspended for a while, after all, we have to wait for news from Changchun Palace.Fortunately, the Changchun Palace is not far from the Compassionate Ning Palace, so it doesn't take much time to come and go.

At this time, if Zhu Yijun really came to "ask Wuqing Houji", he could start "talking about business" now.

However, Zhu Yijun didn't mention this at all, but hesitated for a while, as if he wanted to ask something but it was not convenient to ask.

Empress Dowager Li frowned and said: "Say what you want, talk hesitantly, how can you look like an emperor?"

Zhu Yijun was waiting for this sentence, heard the words "Hao Ran smiled", coughed lightly, and said: "I am just a little strange, no matter whether Yao Yao has left the palace or not, I don't even know about this matter, how can the queen mother?" Know so soon?"

Empress Dowager Li's complexion changed, and she said displeasedly: "Why, the emperor is saying that the mother of the Ai family is too lenient in the palace?"

"The queen mother misunderstood, how dare my son have such a rebellious idea? My son is just discussing the matter." Zhu Yijun said seriously: "Although there are two queen mothers and empresses in the harem, I really don't have to ask anything in normal times, but Yaoyao It's my eldest princess of Ming Dynasty, if she really left the palace in low clothes, shouldn't she report such a thing to the son first? Why hasn't the son got the news yet, but the mother got the news here instead?"

As Zhu Yijun said, he bowed to Empress Dowager Li and said solemnly: "What I want to ask is whether the person who came here to report the news was arranged by the Empress Dowager, or..."

"Ai's family worships Buddha all day long, so you're too busy to arrange these things?" Empress Dowager Li felt a little strange when her son asked him this question, and frowned, "You mean, someone deliberately let Ai's family know about it before you do?" This news?"

Zhu Yijun thought to himself: It is impossible to be earlier, but the other party really meant that.

"I do have such doubts." After all, Zhu Yijun has been in power for a while, and during this time he has won consecutive victories in foreign wars, especially the victory in Monan, which allowed Ming to reverse the situation on the northern border in one fell swoop. He is now much less afraid of his mother's queen, at least he doesn't have to worry about his mother's threat of abolishing Jun Xinli, so the confidence in his words has obviously become much more sufficient.

Unexpectedly, Empress Dowager Li was not very disgusted with her son's attitude, but she was a little curious. After thinking about it, she asked, "Let's not say whether there is such a thing, let's just assume that there is—do you think so?" Why is this person doing this?"

Zhu Yijun said: "It's hard to say, this is exactly what Erchen has been thinking about just now." He paused slightly, and said: "A few years ago, Erchen and the history of seeking truth, he once mentioned a point of view: But every brain A normal person must have a purpose when doing something, and this purpose is usually to gain some kind of benefit. Then, if we want to infer who did something, the key is who can get the benefit from this thing .”

Empress Dowager Li asked: "Since this is the case, who can benefit from the news being known to Ai's family first?"

Zhu Yijun smiled slightly and said: "Are there usually two kinds of benefits, one is that you directly benefit, and the other is that your opponent is unlucky. Queen Mother, I think that person should have expected you to know about this matter first." After that, someone will be unlucky, and this unlucky person is that person's opponent, or at least one of his opponents."

This remark sounds a bit convoluted at first, but it is actually quite simple. Empress Dowager Li understood it all at once, and thought about it: "If you didn't come just now, and things developed according to that person's idea, who would be unlucky..."

Zhu Yijun smiled and said nothing.

Empress Dowager Li's complexion changed quickly, and she said in a deep voice, "Just now Aijia suspected that Mrs. Yao went to Gao Yushi's place, so what do you mean... that person wants Aijia to blame Gao Yushi?"

Zhu Yijun sighed, and said: "Qiuzhen, if there are any shortcomings, I really can't say anything. At most, he just loves making money. But although he loves money, he is a gentleman who loves money. It’s right. It’s a pity that the world clings to the word ‘copper smell’ and refuses to let it go, always thinking that love of money is a bad thing...so to be honest, ‘be famous all over the world, and slander will follow’.”

Empress Dowager Li was a little surprised, and asked: "You mean, Gao Wushi blocked other people's money, so someone wanted to frame him?" She was slightly disbelieving, and shook her head: "That's not what the Ai family heard, even you People with the temperament of the third uncle say that Gao is pragmatic and generous, and he never eats alone."

Zhu Yijun didn't answer immediately, but smiled wryly, then shook his head slightly and said: "My mother doesn't know something, the so-called shopping malls are like battlefields, and there are always enemies and enemies in the battlefield. If you can stand on the side of seeking truth, everyone will naturally feel that he is righteous, because You can always make money doing business with him. But what about the reverse? There are always some people who can’t stand with Qiuzhen, but can only stand opposite him, but Qiuzhen is very good at doing business. Money or less money, do you think they can not hate to seek the truth?"

Empress Dowager Li finally understood, nodded, and said, "The person who reported the letter just now is..."

Before she finished speaking, a eunuch outside suddenly shouted loudly: "His Royal Highness Princess Yongning is here—"
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