At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the competition for the deer in the world

Chapter 216 The use of the cabinet and the loss of control of the carriage

"My subordinate pays homage to King Huai!" Cheng De was thinking, when he heard the voice of Zhang Qijiu who hurried over.

Zhang Qijiu lowered his head, a respectful look met Cheng De's eyes.

"From now on, you go to Huai'an City and keep an eye on Cao Linchen, the householder of Huai'an City. I want to know who has been in contact with him in the past month. You must investigate clearly. I will give you half a month. "

Hearing Cheng De's calm words, Zhang Qijiu responded heavily: "This subordinate obeys the order!"

"In addition, let your people secretly follow Li Feng, Wen Shan, Zhang Song, and Zhang Jiuwu. This king needs to know what they say and do every day, as well as their daily actions." Cheng De added suddenly.

Zhang Qijiu showed some hesitation on his face: "Prince Huai, these people are all generals in the army, and they all hold real power. I'm afraid it will be difficult for my people to get close."

Cheng De glanced at Zhang Qijiu: "The servants in their mansion, if you find a way to make them become members of the Jinyiwei, this king only cares about the result, and doesn't care what you do."

When Zhang Qijiu heard this, his eyes lit up, and he immediately saluted respectfully: "Thank you, Prince Huai, for reminding me, my subordinates have already understood."

"Well, go down and get ready." Cheng De waved to Zhang Qijiu.

"Yes, this subordinate is resigning!" Zhang Qijiu replied with a bow.

Cheng De kept wandering in the study, with many things in his mind, his brows were tightly frowned.

"Prince Huai, my humble minister Ni Zan is asking to see you."

"Come in!"

After Cheng De quickly sat down at the desk, he looked at Ni Zan who opened the door and entered, with a hint of surprise in his eyes.

"You're not doing research at the Academy of Sciences? Why did you come to my side? Is there something wrong?" Cheng De looked at Ni Zan and asked.

Ni Zan hurriedly replied, "I would like to report to King Huai that the purpose of my visit this time is for Prince Huai's palace."

Cheng De fell silent when he heard Ni Zan's words.

Yu Li, it's a bit inappropriate to stay in the General's Mansion.

Cheng De was well aware of this, so he looked at Ni Zan and said, "I will leave it to you to fully supervise the construction of this matter. As for the site where the palace will be built, you will be fully responsible. I don't know if you will build the Palace of King Huai." Do you have a plan in mind, how long is it expected to take?"

Ni Zan did not hesitate at all: "Reporting to King Huai, I have already discussed with the heads of other ministries before I came here. This time, King Huai's palace is going to be completed, and I have estimated that it will take at least four months. But, This humble minister begged Duke Huai about the matter."

"What's the matter?" Cheng De looked at Ni Zan with a gentle expression.

"I implore King Huai to hand over the craftsmen of the Academy of Sciences to my arrangement for the time being. I guarantee that a magnificent Huai Palace will be built in four months." Ni Zan respectfully bowed his head to Cheng De.

Cheng De was silent and did not answer directly.

He was thinking about whether to agree to Ni Zan's request.

"If you arrange them all, will the research on firecrackers and cannons be affected?" Cheng De turned his attention to Ni Zan.

Ni Zan pondered for a while: "Reporting to King Huai, I will naturally not use the craftsmen who participated in the research of firecrackers and cannons. The craftsmen I mentioned are other people besides these."

Cheng De nodded: "In that case, then do as you said."

"Yes! I promise to build an extraordinary Huai Palace within four months." Ni Zan's face showed a bit of excitement.

Cheng De looked at Ni Zan's appearance, and reminded him: "This king will give an order to the officials in charge of other ministries, asking them to cooperate with you in supervising the construction of King Huai's palace, asking for money, and asking for people to give. Of course, the account books that should be done are still to be done, and this king needs to know where the money has been spent."

Ni Zan said seriously, "Yes."

"Go down and get busy! Also, pass on my order to have all the cabinet members come to my place." Cheng De said to Ni Zan.

Ni Zan replied directly: "Yes."

After watching Ni Zan leave, Cheng De began to think about getting the cabinet on the stage of history ahead of schedule.

The cabinet cannot be given too much power.Its function is to lighten your burden.

Cheng De didn't want to spend a lot of time on correcting memorials every day, he just wanted to control the overall situation.As for the existence of the cabinet, it was born for this purpose.

As for how the future generations will treat the cabinet, it is not something he can worry about.

In his view, children and grandchildren have their own blessings.

Of course, before he died, he would kill the shortcomings of the cabinet in advance.

In this way, it is possible to prevent the cabinet from becoming bigger and thus threatening the power of future generations.

However, there is no perfect system in this world. As long as there are people involved in any system, there will be loopholes to exploit.

Cheng De is also very open about this.

It didn't take long.

Except for Liu Bowen who fought with Li Sanqi in Dangtu City, the other members of the cabinet, Hu Weiyong, Song Lian, Han Bogao, Gong Bosui, Wang Shilin, and Luo Gongfu, have all arrived.

After these people finished their salutes, Cheng De said, "Do you know why this king called you here?"

Everyone shook their heads one after another, and everyone guessed a certain possibility in their hearts.

After Cheng De glanced over everyone, he said slowly: "The reason why this king called you here is to answer your doubts. Since the establishment of the cabinet, you may have doubts in your hearts. This What exactly does the cabinet do?"

Everyone looked at Cheng De one after another, waiting for Cheng De to clarify.

Therefore, Cheng De continued: "The cabinet was set up to assist the king in handling political affairs. You all come forward, and the king will give you a demonstration first."

Hearing Cheng De's words, Hu Weiyong and others walked towards Cheng De's desk with doubts.

After a few people approached, Cheng De randomly took out a piece of memorials from the mountains piled up on his desk, handed it to Song Lian who was closest to him, pointed to it and said, "This king hasn't read this memorial yet. Read it first."

Everyone did as they were told.

After everyone read it as instructed, the memorial returned to Cheng De's hands, and he read it directly in front of everyone.

Everyone present was puzzled.

Although they were extremely curious, their patience was surprisingly good and they did not ask.

After reading it, Cheng De wrote a few lines at the end of the memorial:

[-]. The people of Suqian City aspire to Daming.

[-]. Assassins of the Yuan Dynasty assassinated the Cao households in Suqian, but failed, and all of them have been put to death.

After writing these two lines, Cheng De pointed to the two lines and said to everyone: "Look at it again."

The crowd did.

After everyone watched it, Cheng De said: "A memorial can be as short as four or five hundred words and as long as tens of thousands of words. However, there is not much really useful and critical information. Just like you just read It’s the same as the memorial to me, with more than a thousand words, but the useful information is the two I just wrote. Spending a lot of time reading the memorial like this, and then extracting the key information, will only cost me a lot of time. time."

"This king wants to insist on diligent administration, but according to the previous practice, not many memorials can be corrected in one day. This is something that this king cannot accept. After thinking about it over and over again, this king thought of such an approach. You should treat it as a Template. This process is the process of extracting key information, and it will be handed over to you in the future. On the one hand, it is my trust in you, and on the other hand, it is also my reliance on your abilities."

"Although your rank in the cabinet is not high, the things that each of you have come into contact with are real things that happened in various parts of Daming. In other words, you are in contact with important national affairs every day, and I may ask you for advice in the future. You are all members of the first batch of cabinet members of the Ming Dynasty, and you will definitely be included in the history books in the future."

"As for how you will be evaluated in the history books in the future, it depends on your future performance. If you perform well, then the greater the reputation you will leave behind, and it will not be difficult for your name to last forever."

After Cheng De finished speaking, he paused, waiting for everyone to think about it.

Song Lian, Hu Weiyong and others present showed excitement, and their hearts were extremely excited.

For them, leaving their names in history is a major event worthy of all their sacrifices.

This is too tempting for readers.

The prosperity of the world is all for profit, and the prosperity of the world is for profit.

They are keen to be officials, and the ultimate end is not a prison, but a name left in history.

"Thank you, King Huai, for your trust. I will die with dedication and devotion!" Song Lian took the lead in saluting his thanks with an extremely sincere expression.

Then, the rest of the people said one after another: "I thank King Huai for trusting me, I will do my best and die!"

Cheng De looked at the crowd with satisfaction, clapped his hands and said, "Good!"

Afterwards, Cheng De handed over the mountain of memorials piled up at his desk to the people present.As for himself, he left the General's Mansion with a dozen of his own soldiers, changed into a normal uniform, and prepared to experience the customs of Nanjing City.

After all, these days, he was either immersed in correcting memorials or busy in making military strategies, but he was too busy.

He didn't want to just be a machine for correcting memorials. Wouldn't it be that the fun of life would be lost?

Now with the help of the cabinet, he can get away from correcting the memorials and do other things.

For example, what he is doing now.

"What interesting places are there in Nanjing City?" Cheng De asked the soldiers beside him, looking at the passers-by on the street.

Among them, a soldier who looked a little clever quickly said, "Huai——"

Cheng De frowned: "Everyone calls me Young Master when you go out."

"Yes!" The soldiers beside Cheng De responded in unison.

"Young Master, if you want to talk about interesting places in Nanjing City, there are so many places to go."

Cheng De turned to look at the person who spoke and asked, "What's your name?"

"My lord, the younger one is called Chen Liuyi." A bright smile appeared on Chen Liuyi's face.

"Chen Liuyi, from your accent, are you a native of Nanjing?" Cheng De asked Chen Liuyi.

"My lord, the younger one was originally a soldier under General Chen Zhaoxian's command. Because of his outstanding military strength, the younger one was selected to be under your command after a great competition in the army." Chen Liuyi replied in a low voice.

Cheng De nodded: "Tell me about the interesting places in Nanjing City?"

When Chen Liuyi was about to answer, suddenly, out of the corner of his eye, he saw a carriage on the street out of control, causing a commotion on the street, and the direction that the carriage was running was Cheng De's left.

Suddenly, the out-of-control carriage was almost approaching Cheng De.

Cheng De naturally also noticed this scene, and frowned. When Cheng De was about to avoid it, he found a few naughty children playing on his right side. They didn't seem to notice the coming danger at all.

So, Cheng De suddenly stopped the thought of avoiding, and his eyes were fixed on the carriage that was coming towards him.

The groom on the carriage turned pale, his heart was in his throat, and he quickly shouted to Cheng De: "Get out of here!"

The groom was extremely flustered. He wanted to control the horse, but the horse became even more uncontrollable.

Seeing that the carriage was about to hit Cheng De, the groom thought to himself: It's over!
According to the express text contained in the "Sizhou Law", if this kills someone, he will at least spend the rest of his life in a cell, and he may also pay for his life.

At this moment, the groom's heart was ashamed.

Seeing that the carriage was about to approach him, Cheng De stepped sideways, then thrust his arms through his arms, and directly and ruthlessly wrapped the horse's neck with both hands.

The horse kicked its hooves and neighed violently.

However, under Cheng De's strength, it was difficult for the horse to make any further progress.

This scene immediately stunned everyone on the street.

The groom opened his mouth even more and his eyes widened.

When Chen Liuyi and other soldiers saw Cheng De's bravery, the excitement and admiration in their hearts reached their peak in an instant.

"This person is really amazing!"

"Yeah, the horse was obviously startled just now, but I didn't expect it to be subdued by this young master. It's an eye-opener!"

"Just now I saw that person was going to avoid it, but when he saw that there were children in front of him, he shot without hesitation. This person is really kind!"

Cheng De didn't listen to all the discussions going on all around.

After stopping the carriage, he took Chen Liuyi and left quietly.

Not long after they left, the curtain in the carriage was lifted, revealing a flawless right hand and a beautiful face.

She stared at Cheng De's leaving figure in a daze, and thought to herself: I never thought that this person would leave just like that, and it was useless to create a chance for him to get close.It seemed that getting close to him was not an easy task.Pity!

Afterwards, the curtain was closed again, and the carriage moved forward slowly.

"My lord, the most interesting thing in this city of Nanjing is Zuihongyuan. The top player there is not only beautiful, but also proficient in all kinds of piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. Especially the tunes she plays are really unforgettable! Little one I was lucky enough to hear it once, but it's a pity that the young one didn't have the chance to see her because of insufficient money. Let's go, this top card is also very good at playing the flute. Hehe."

Cheng De looked at Chen Liuyi who was showing a wretched smile with a dark face, and directly pointed at Chen Liuyi's forehead, giving him a brainstorm.

The pain caused Chen Liuyi to burst into tears.

Looking at Cheng De's face, he lowered his head, feeling aggrieved in his heart.

In Chen Liuyi's view, men are inherently interested in women.

"Chen Liuyi, I can't go to that place. Hehe, if sister Xiuying knows that you are the one who encouraged me to go, then you can ask for blessings!" Cheng De looked at Chen Liuyi and reminded him kindly.

As soon as Chen Liu heard the words, his expression froze on the spot.

He almost forgot that he has always been single, but Duke Huai has a family.

If this brings Duke Huai badly, even a well-known wife might not let him off lightly.

Therefore, Chen Liuyi smiled flatteringly at Cheng De: "Young master, I just misremembered just now. The most interesting place in Nanjing City is a snack street. There are all kinds of food there, and there are snacks. There are also various stalls on the side of the street, and the things sold on those stalls are also excellent, especially the rouge and gouache, which are really complete."

Cheng De glanced at Chen Liuyi, then said, "Then let's go to that snack street!"

Chen Liuyi breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that the matter was over.

So, Chen Liuyi took Cheng De to a snack street in the north of Jiangning County, Nanjing City.

(End of this chapter)