The Reborn Duke of Ming Dynasty

"You slave, quickly let me in." Zhu Yijun's voice was filled with anxiety, and he yelled loudly at the imperial physician who refused to let him in.

The imperial physician was very embarrassed and said: "Your Highness, Wang Baihu is suffering from severe wind and cold. Not to mention that he is still groggy now, if His Majesty and His Highness are also infected with wind and cold, the death of a humble minister will not pay off the crime." !"

Speaking of that day, Wang Chonggu's reinforcements arrived in time, but Zhang Fan was nowhere to be seen.The crowd searched with torches in the cold and dark desert, and finally found three horses lying on the ground on the bank of the fast-flowing river. Wang Meng fell into the water with injuries all over his body, and was about to be taken away by the river.They immediately carried him ashore and continued to search, but Zhang Fan and Li Yingyue were nowhere to be seen.

Wang Chonggu immediately sent people to escort all the members of the Ministry of Rites and the seriously injured Wang Meng back to Beijing.He was afraid that someone would come to attack again, and the thousands of I Da's troops would be in great danger, and he didn't return until the fifty thousand troops that I Da sent to summon.My answer is that I am very troubled by the uncertainty of Zhang Fan's life and death, but I really can't say anything.These days, he and Wang Chonggu sent people to search for hundreds of miles along the river, but they never found any trace of Zhang Fan and Li Yingyue. They only found Zhang Fan's Jinyiwei waist plate at a bend of the river more than ten miles away.

Long Qing was shocked when he heard the news after the members of the Ministry of Rites returned.The prince Zhu Yijun burst into tears when he heard the news.Long Qing immediately ordered Wang Meng to be sent to the imperial hospital for treatment, but when he was discovered, he had already suffered multiple stab wounds, and was thrown in the icy river and washed away for half a day, and he suffered from severe wind chill and fever , so many days have been sent to the capital quickly.The bumpy road aggravated his injuries, and he still has no sign of soberness, and sometimes talks nonsense.

Now Long Qing and Zhu Yijun are standing in front of Wang Meng's recuperating room, Long Qing really wants to go in, after all, Zhang Fan is someone he is very optimistic about, and he will definitely become Zhu Yijun's humerus in the future, but as an emperor, he also needs to have the majesty of an emperor .So Zhu Yijun was clamoring to go in, but he didn't stop him.Seeing the embarrassing look in the imperial physician's eyes, Long Qing said: "Jun'er, pay attention to your identity, how can you lose the royal etiquette."

"But, father!" Zhu Yijun looked at Long Qing, his eyes full of pleading.

Long Qing showed a helpless expression, and said to the imperial physician: "Open the door, I will accompany the prince in."

The imperial doctor was shocked when he heard this, and immediately stopped him: "But, Your Majesty..."

Before he finished speaking, Long Qing interrupted him and said, "Go and prepare some anti-cold medicine, I and the crown prince will take it when we come out."

"Observe the order." The imperial doctor looked at him, and had no choice but to accept the order, and opened the door.

Zhu Yijun ran in as soon as the door opened, and Long Qing followed behind.

In the room, in order to maintain ventilation, the doors and windows are still wide open even though the wind outside is not small today.Wang Meng was lying on a kang covered with thick bedding, and a fire was burning on the kang below.You can feel a burst of heat when you walk to the bed.

"Wang Baihu, Wang Baihu, where is the teacher!" Zhu Yijun pushed Wang Meng and shouted.

"Jun'er, Wang Baihu is seriously ill, don't you make his condition worse!" Long Qing scolded Zhu Yijun and walked to Wang Meng's bed.

At this moment, Wang Meng's face was flushed, his eyes were closed tightly, he was not asleep, but he was not awake either.On the neck where the quilt was exposed, it could be seen that it was wrapped in a thick white cloth, with some blood oozing from it.

"Doctor!" Long Qing shouted loudly.

"Your Majesty." The imperial physician outside the door came in immediately.

"What's wrong with Wang Baihu? Why is there still blood seeping out?" Long Qing asked.

After hearing his words, the imperial physician looked at Wang Meng, and hurriedly replied, "Your Majesty, Wang Baihu suffered multiple deep stab wounds. In addition, he was exposed to wind and cold, so the wounds were hard to heal. He used the best medicine in the palace. Golden sore medicine, but always wet with blood."

"Then why are you still standing there, you haven't changed his medicine!" Long Qing said sharply.The voice was not loud, but there was great anger in it.

"Follow... obey the order!" The imperial physician was shocked by his tone.Close the windows and doors quickly, and call the eunuch who came to help to bring gold sore medicine, bandages and hot water towels.

Throwing off Wang Meng's quilt, he was not wearing any clothes, but his whole body was wrapped in blood-stained white bandages.The imperial doctor immediately took off the bandage for him. Fortunately, there was only one eunuch who was neither male nor female besides the man, so there was nothing embarrassing about it.

Long Qing was present, the imperial physician and eunuch did not dare to be sloppy, washed Wang Meng's wound with clean water, gently blotted the blood from the wound with a cloth with excellent water absorption, sprinkled the golden sore medicine that did not survive much in the palace, and then Then wrap it carefully with a bandage.But the little eunuch carried a warm quilt from elsewhere and covered Wang Meng with it.

After everything was settled, the imperial physician covered Wang Meng's head with a towel soaked in cold water to lower his body temperature.

Only then did Long Qing come to Wang Meng, and said in a rather majestic voice: "Wang Baihu, Wang Baihu, do you know who I am?" Under his impatience, he forgot that besides himself, the emperor, who else in this world would dare to call himself the emperor? mine.

I don't know if it's the dragon's might or something, but Wang Meng actually opened his eyes when he said that, looked at Long Qing, and said: "Your Majesty... Your Majesty... Your Majesty..."

"That's right, it's Zhen." Seeing that he recognized him, Long Qing was very happy, and immediately continued to ask, "Wang Baihu, where is Zhang Tongzhi?" Zhu Yijun didn't dare to speak, and looked at him nervously.

"Zhang...Zhang Tongzhi..." Wang Meng muttered the name, still a little confused.

"Zhang Fan, Zhang Tongzhi!" Long Qing reminded immediately.

"Zhang Fan..." Wang Meng said, and suddenly shouted, "Master Zhang, Master Zhang!"

Seeing that he thought of Zhang Fan, Long Qing hurriedly asked, "Master Zhang, what's wrong!"

"Dead...dead..." Wang Meng said.

"Dead... dead?" Long Qing was a little lost.

After Zhu Yijun heard this, he pushed Wang Meng hard and shouted loudly: "You lied, you lied, the teacher is not dead. Quickly tell me where the teacher is, or I will ask my father to punish you for deceiving the emperor!"

But no matter how Zhu Yijun swayed, Wang Meng just kept saying the dead word over and over again.

Zhu Yijun was still trying to shake Wang Meng, but Long Qing stopped him and said, "Jun'er, don't do that!"

But Zhu Yijun still pushed Wang Meng.Distraught, Long Qing shouted sharply: "Emperor!"

Zhu Yijun was stopped by his sound, and looked at his father.Long Qing saw that his little face was stained with tears, and put his big hand on his head, comforting him and said: "Jun'er, Zhang... Zhang Aiqing is dead."

"Father..." Zhu Yijun shouted loudly, threw himself into Long Qing's arms and burst into tears.

The ministers outside the house were also very sad when they heard the cries inside the house. Most of them knew that Long Qing and Zhu Yijun admired Zhang Fan.On the other hand, Gao Gong, he has never been in touch with Zhang Fan, but he only heard about the relationship between Long Qing, Zhu Yijun and Zhang Fan from the court ministers, and he just thought that Zhang Fan was a favorite of the emperor and the prince, but he did not think of the emperor's relationship with Zhang Fan. So much concern for Zhang Fan, especially the crying of the prince, made Gao Gong very interested in Zhang Fan, and he couldn't help but regret that he didn't see this promising upstart.

Since Zhang Fan left, Zhang's family, Zhao's mother-in-law and Ru Xue's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law have been worried about their son and husband day and night, hoping that he will return soon.Now that they heard that the envoys from the Ministry of Rites had returned, but they didn't see Zhang Fan coming home, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law thought that Zhang Fan had gone to report an attack.But they waited and waited until Xu time at night, but Zhang Fan was still nowhere to be seen.While the two of them felt uneasy, Zhaoxue also comforted them, maybe there was a banquet in the palace to celebrate, but it was Zhang Fan who didn't let anyone come back to notify him, so as to make his family worry.

Zhang's family waited until the end of Xu Dynasty, when suddenly, a servant girl came to report Zhang Juzheng's arrival.Zhao Shi and Ru Xue asked people to welcome him in immediately.

"Master Zhang." The two immediately stepped forward to salute.

"Ma'am, Ru Xue." Zhang Juzheng greeted them and sat down, but he didn't know how to speak.After all, one is the mother of one of his students, and she has just lived a good life not long ago; while the other is the newlywed wife of one of his students, who is about to become a widow within two months of getting married.Zhang Juzheng was really speechless.

Both Zhao Shi and Ru Xue are smart women, how could they not see that he has something to hide.Ru Xue was very frightened, she was already trembling all over, her legs were weak, thanks to the support of her younger sister Zhaoxue, she did not fall down.Mrs. Zhao may have guessed a little bit, although her heart was pierced, she still mustered up her courage and asked, "Master Zhang, is it my Fan...Fan'er...he..." After speaking, his voice became more and more trembling, In the end, I was speechless.

Zhang Juzheng looked at her and Ru Xue's appearance, knew that they had already guessed it, so he could only say: "Fan'er, Fan'er, he is dead."

As soon as he said these words, Zhao Shi and Ru Xue immediately passed out. "Ma'am, ma'am!" "Sister!" The hall suddenly became chaotic.

In the court hall on the second day, the atmosphere was quite sad.Wang Xilie first reported to Long Qingzheng the various matters related to this mission to Tatar, and the people below began to discuss about Zhang Fan's funeral.

"Your Majesty, this time we were able to return safely, and even avoided the misunderstanding with me, and avoided the war between the two countries. It is all thanks to Mr. Zhang." Wang Xilie also heard that I said this, so he immediately stood up Said, "Although I don't know what Master Zhang and I Da said or promised, but if Master Zhang hadn't persuaded Me Da to lead 1 horses to guard me when I return, I am afraid that the old minister will also..."

Long Qing and Wen Wu of the Manchu Dynasty understood as soon as they heard it. When Wang Xilie and others just came back yesterday, Long Qing heard the report and said that when they were attacked, it was Ida who personally led people to help protect them. At that time, Long Qing felt that It's strange, after Wang Xilie said this, he realized that Zhang Fan must have promised something, and I would lead the army to protect him.

Sure enough, someone raised an objection: "Master Zhang's achievements are indeed admirable, but he is not the leader of this mission, but he promised me some conditions without permission, in case I answer once, it is a threat..."

"There is no need to discuss this matter again. Zhang Fan has indeed made great contributions to the court." Long Qing's voice came, "I personally gave Zhang Fan the qualification to negotiate with me. There is a record of this matter. If you don't believe me, you can go to the palace to check the copy. " After Long Qing said this, the voice of opposition disappeared immediately.

"Not to mention what agreement Mr. Zhang made with me, it's just that I see Mr. Zhang is dead, but I don't intend to pursue anything." Wang Xilie added this sentence and retreated.Now, no one in civil and military circles in the Manchu Dynasty has anything to say, since I don't want to pursue it, and Zhang Fan did save the special envoy of the imperial court, so what else can I say.

Long Qing said: "Zhang Fan was my minister of the Ming Dynasty, and even died for the imperial court, Zhang Qing's family."

Zhang Juzheng immediately came out and said, "The minister is here."

"To bury Zhang Fan generously, you are the Minister of Rites and Zhang Fan's mentor, so let you handle this matter." Long Qing said.

Zhang Juzheng said respectfully: "Chen, Zhang Juzheng complies with the order." He hadn't used such a formal and complete reply for a long time.

Long Qing seemed to be a little tired, but he pulled himself together and continued, "Zhang Fan has made great contributions to the imperial court. He not only persuaded me to make the special envoy of the Ministry of Rites return safely, but also saved me from a big battle between Ming and Tatars. There are countless civilian soldiers. Although Zhang Fan is dead, I will give him a good funeral and treat his family kindly. This matter, Gao Gong, you will handle."

Gao Gong came out and said: "I obey the order. Although I have never met Mr. Zhang, I have heard a lot about him from my colleagues. It can be seen that Mr. Zhang is loyal to His Majesty and the court, and he is a loyal and brave minister for the people." The minister suggested that Zhang Fan should be promoted to Minister of the Ministry of Rites, granted the title of Uncle Zhongyong, and given the title of Prince Taifu, and treat the descendants of the Zhang family well."

When he said this, the courtiers below felt a little pity for Zhang Fan.I think he is only in the weak year, so he occupies this high position. If he can come back alive this time, besides the title of Uncle Zhongyong, it is not impossible for Gao Gong to give him other positions. After all, he has also been the teacher of the prince. , Teaching the prince to read.But Gao Gong's last sentence, "Be kind to future generations who have raised prices", made everyone feel uncomfortable after hearing it.Everyone knows that he is the only man in the Zhang family, and he is newly married, so there are no descendants left behind!

"You have drawn up the imperial decree, just submit it." Long Qing said with a tired face, "I'm a little tired, let's retreat."