Jinyi champion

Chapter 937
Renshou Palace.

Zhu Si came to pay respects to Empress Dowager Zhang, not because he wanted to come, but after he re-initiated the ceremony, he kept avoiding coming to see Empress Dowager Zhang. He had no family ties to Empress Dowager Zhang, and this time he came purely because Empress Dowager Zhang sent someone to tell him, You can stand by his side on some matters of the Great Ceremony.

Zhu Si didn't know what kind of medicine was sold in Empress Dowager Zhang's gourd, and when he arrived at Renshou Palace, his attitude seemed to be a bit raw.

"...The emperor, the two younger brothers of the Ai family are now in the northwest. They wrote to the Ai family, saying that they have suffered a lot on the way to the northwest. Someone deliberately made things difficult for them. There is no place to live, and people are mean everywhere. You can call them back to the capital."

Empress Dowager Zhang wants to support her "son" to pursue the imperial order for her biological parents, and there is a condition, that is, to spare the two brothers of the Zhang family.

Zhu Sidao: "Queen Mother, it's not that I'm being mean to them. After all, they are exiled. How can they be treated so well? They have titles, and I don't believe that the Northwest generals will embarrass them. It must be that they can't bear the hard work, so they wrote to appeal. .”

The brothers of the Zhang family are unlucky, and it's too late for Zhu Si to watch the excitement, so he will help?

Zhu Hao had already analyzed it with him. The key to the success or failure of the ceremony was not at all on the Empress Dowager Zhang. Even if the Empress Dowager Zhang supported it, the ministers still had to fight. Now it was the disagreement between the monarch and his ministers, not the conflict between him and the Empress Dowager Zhang.

Empress Dowager Zhang looked stern: "But... the emperor, don't you think that you are making things difficult for your own family?"

Zhu Si greeted: "Is there anyone outside?"

Without knowing it, Zhang Zuo stepped in, bowed his head and appeared in front of Zhu Si.

Zhu Sidao: "Ask you, you answer truthfully, how did I arrange it when Marquis Shouning and Marquis Jianchang went to the northwest?"

"Ok?"

Zhang Zuo didn't quite understand, but he had a bright mind. Now in front of the Empress Dowager Zhang, of course he had to show the emperor's courtesy to the brothers of the Zhang family. Bring your family belongings and some servants, you can stay in post houses along the way, and the local people will treat you kindly, and everything will be taken care of with the etiquette of a marquis."

Zhu Si nodded, and asked again: "Has there been reports of their faults in that place?"

Zhang Zuo said: "When Marquis Shouning traveled to Shanxi, he once attacked and hurt people by robbing local rich merchants and their concubines. Later, the local government came forward to mediate, and the matter was finally settled. Marquis Jianchang was relatively quiet, but it is said that he asked for bribes along the way. Received a bribe of more than 3000 taels of silver..."

Only then did Zhu Si look at Empress Dowager Zhang and said: "Empress Dowager, you have also seen that no one treats them badly. On the contrary, they live a very happy life."

Empress Dowager Zhang was surprised by these news.

In the letters from the two younger brothers, they said how much they had been wronged, and they didn’t mention what they got on the way, they only talked about being mean. Now I know that the two younger brothers took this trip to the Northwest as a public trip, and they are still there. Running amok on the way?

Zhu Sidao: "This time, Marquis of Shouning and Marquis of Jianchang will be exiled to the Northwest for two years. During these two years, they will not be expected to make merit. As for minor faults, I can let them go. If we let them come back halfway, it will be really unkind to the courtiers." It’s easy to explain, after all, Daming is also a law-abiding one.”

Empress Dowager Zhang said angrily: "What laws does my family teach? Don't you think you are the Zhu family?"

Empress Dowager Zhang has been holding back on Zhu Si's pursuit of his biological father, which doesn't mean she doesn't have anger in her heart.

Zhu Si is very proud.

He was still thinking, why didn't you come forward to help the old man surnamed Yang get out?Do you regret it now?Now that you don't have the support of old man Yang, what can you do to me?

Zhu Sidao: "Immediately pass an edict to let the northwestern region be given the best mansions of Shouning Hou and Jianchang Hou to live in, and each will have 300 servants to serve, [-] generals to serve, [-] pieces of silk and [-] silver each. Two. The family members of the two in the capital, who have not yet gone to the northwest, will be given chariots and horses and sent to them... Queen Mother, it should be no problem, right?"

After talking for a long time, Zhu Si just didn't let go of the Zhang brothers' return to Beijing.

Although Queen Mother Zhang was angry, she heard that Zhu Si's conditions for the two younger brothers were indeed good, and she was also thinking in her heart, could it be that the two younger brothers could not bear a little bit of hardship?No matter how you look at it, the emperor didn't mean to embarrass them.

"Empress Dowager, since they are courtiers, they must act according to the rules of the Ming court. It is not easy for me to be benevolent and righteous. I also ask the Empress Dowager not to interfere with court affairs too much. If everything is investigated according to law, then the crimes of Shouninghou and Jianchanghou It's not something that can be solved by going to the Northwest for two years of training... I'm resigning!"

Before Queen Mother Zhang could answer, Zhu Sigong bowed his hands and left Renshou Palace.

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Zhu Si left Renshou Palace, still a little angry, thinking that Empress Dowager Zhang was deliberately making trouble for him.

"I haven't asked you specifically yet, the general of the Northwest Army is really good to them, or... did you hide something just now?" Zhu Si asked Zhang Zuo.

Zhang Zuozhi hesitated: "Your Majesty, in fact, Marquis Shouning and Marquis Jianchang are on their way to the northwest. Life...is indeed a little hard."

As soon as Zhu Si heard it, his mood immediately improved a lot: "Really? Tell me."

Zhang Zuo said: "The Jin Yiwei who escorted them reported that no matter what they wanted to do, they would be stopped, and their accommodation was not as good as that of ordinary soldiers. They spent a lot of time eating and sleeping in the open along the way. When they arrived at Yulin Acropolis, they only arranged for them to live in houses with air leakage. He also complained endlessly because of the leaking rain, and was left on the school ground by the soldiers for two days and no one responded."

Zhu Si nodded in satisfaction: "That's right, exile should look like exile, do they really regard themselves as my uncle?"

When Zhang Zuo heard it, he probably understood the emperor's state of mind.

At this time, Zhang Zuo was also thinking, why did the emperor treat the two incompetent relatives of the Zhang family so harshly?Even if they did some wrong things, it seems that they didn't do anything to Xing Wangfu or the new emperor, did they?Are they so hated?
Zhang Zuo couldn't understand Zhu Si's fickleness and ungratefulness. Zhu Si didn't have a whole-hearted attitude towards his own people, let alone two unrelated nominal uncles?
"Keep it well! In the future, if they want to write a letter to the palace to complain, they will all seize the letter. In addition, if the woman inside wants to send something to her two younger brothers, she will also seize it, but they must be smarter. Claiming that I am still very good to the two uncles of the Zhang family, is simply a model of courteous treatment by monarchs and ministers."

Zhu Si had a smug smile on his face.

With a forced smile on Zhang Zuo's face, Zhang Zuo agreed: "I understand."

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Zhu Hao returned to the Hanlin Academy again, and he went back with Xu Jie.

Zhu Hao's sudden appearance was a rare event for the members of the Imperial Academy, but Zhu Hao didn't study the writing room when he came back this time, so he asked to find Yang Shen.

Yu Chengxun greeted him with a smile, and said: "Jingdao, it's better to come early than coincidental. How do you know that Yongxiu is in Hanyuan today? Speaking of which, he has been just like you recently. He never sees the end of the dragon. After the autumn lecture, he is now in Hanlin. The hospital is also light, in fact, you don't have to come often, but it's not good to never show up."

Zhu Hao seemed to be the only one in Yu Chengxun's eyes, and Xu Jie next to him was blushing and embarrassed.

Zhu Hao said: "I'm here to talk to him about the things he entrusted to me before, and I'll leave after I finish talking."

"Farewell, you returned to the Imperial Academy by the emperor's order, and you haven't been in the Imperial Academy until now. By the way, have you received your salary from last month?" Yu Chengxun was curious.

The Imperial Academy is Qingshui yamen, and they all care about the two salaries, but Zhu Hao doesn't even ask about it.

Zhu Hao sighed: "It's the same whether the Imperial Academy comes or not. I'm not feeling well recently, and I'm recuperating at home..."

If you want to skip work, you have to find a reason for yourself. Otherwise, your immediate superior will ask you later, and Zhu Hao can say that he didn’t miss work on purpose, but because of physical discomfort. Or whether the other party believes it or not, it doesn't matter.

"Take me to see Yongxiu first." Zhu Hao said.

Yu Chengxun shook his head, and then took Zhu Hao to see Yang Shen.

Just as Yang Shen came out of Shi Ping's room, his face was still full of anger, probably something unpleasant happened to him.

Seeing Zhu Hao, Yang Shen just nodded his head and greeted him. He led Zhu Hao outside the remote library and said, "Now the Imperial Academy is not peaceful, and the villain is in charge."

This villain is either Huang Zan or Zhang Cong.

Zhu Hao asked, "Did they offend you?"

"It's not just a crime, it's just..." Yang Shen hesitated to speak, and looked up at Zhu Hao and Xu Jie, "So soon, you have already found out clearly?"

Zhu Hao took out a file from his pocket, a thick stack, and handed it to Yang Shen: "As for their opinions, I have sorted them out here. I am too slow to record by myself. With Zisheng's help, I even asked someone to listen in. , Now they are preaching some views in the capital, a bit outspoken, that is to say to the general public... How should I put it, the popular response is quite large, and many people who don't know what is going on support them."

Yang Shen said: "It's really bewitching people."

Then Yang Shen opened it, and found that it was sorted out in detail, and there were records of whoever raised what point of view, but it didn't seem to be the information he needed, but he couldn't speak harshly, because he asked Zhu Hao to inquire about the opinions promoted by these societies. At the time, it did not specifically say what should be checked.

Yu Chengxun roughly glanced at it, and asked with a smile: "There are so many, it's rare that Jingdao has sorted them out one by one, who is there?"

Zhu Haodao: "There are quite a lot of people, but most of them are sour scholars who are not well-known. I heard that most of the students in Jiangnan are heretics when it comes to the ceremony. In Nanzhili, Jiangxi, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, etc., most of the students in Beijing actually stood on the sidelines. They are on one side. I don't know if it has something to do with the faction in the court."

Yu Chengxun and Yang Shen looked at each other, and then Yu Chengxun asked: "What about Huguang?"

Zhu Hao smiled awkwardly: "I didn't go to the academy formed by Huguang students... As you know, I am from Huguang and have many acquaintances, so it is not convenient to do things. In fact, even if I go to an academy in other places, sometimes people will still recognize me. Thinking that I have some ulterior motives, wanting to spy on me secretly, I just drove away... Sven sweeping the floor..."

(End of this chapter)