The First Corrupt Official of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 289 Zhu Yuanzhang draws the bottom line again, Lord Ye’s two old friends, the general rescues the princess at the border!

In fact, Yingtian Mansion is not far from Ningbo Mansion. It can be reached in one day on an [-]-mile express.

But their trip was not for some urgent military situation. When they knew the time of the public trial, they could just stick to the time and travel while on their way.

Because of this, Xu Da and the others only left for four days, while Zhu Yuanzhang and the others left for five days.

The day before Zhu Liujiu's fiftieth birthday and the day of the public trial, in the afternoon of Shenshi, Ningbo City.

Zhu Yuanzhang, dressed in plain clothes, was asking passers-by:
"Brother, I heard that your Majesty's imperial brother and nephew will be put on trial tomorrow. Do you know about this?"

In front of Zhu Yuanzhang, a middle-aged man in civilian clothes said: "Of course I know, this matter has been spread a long time ago, and our hard days are finally over."

"You don't know, that father and son are really nothing. They can buy people's land by force, rob people's daughters, raise taxes privately, they can do anything."

"The officials below him also followed suit because of his relationship."

Behind Zhu Yuanzhang, Queen Ma dressed as a lady, Zhu Biao dressed as a young master, and Mao Xiang dressed as an escort, all looked at Zhu Yuanzhang in front of him.

They only saw that Zhu Yuanzhang became less energetic and lowered his head the more he listened.

When I inquired, I was very upright, but after I inquired, I was so hunched over that I looked like a wilted eggplant.

But just when Zhu Yuanzhang was struck by lightning, the middle-aged man warned again: "Looking at you wearing brocade clothes and having martial arts guards around you, are you a wealthy businessman or some high-ranking official who colluded with their father and son?"

"It doesn't matter, Mr. Ye is not afraid of the powerful!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the middle-aged man just rolled his eyes at them and walked past them with his head held high.

Seeing this scene, Zhu Biao wanted to go up and comfort his father, but Queen Ma stopped him with her hand, and then shook her head with a solemn look.

All three of them knew the truth, Xu Da and the others also knew the truth, but Zhu Yuanzhang did not know and was unwilling to believe the bad truth.

The truth about scum will also appear in his old Zhu family, and he has to experience it himself!

Zhu Biao understood his mother's good intentions from Queen Ma's eyes, and just nodded lightly.

In this way, they were silent all the way, just following Zhu Yuanzhang and watching him asking around, but the results they got were the same, but everyone said it differently.

Finally, Zhu Yuanzhang stopped asking and just walked to the river without saying anything.

Zhu Yuanzhang stood on the Sanjiangkou Pier and looked at the passing ships plying the Fenghua River, Yao River, and Yong River.

If it weren't for the corners of his clothes blowing in the river breeze, one would have thought he was just a statue of a man looking at the river.

Zhu Biao looked at Zhu Yuanzhang like this with worry in his eyes.

Although Queen Ma's eyes were calm, she secretly bit her red lips and was as heartbroken as Zhu Yuanzhang.

Zhu Yuanzhang, who was currently serving as Wangjiang's official, was heartbroken for his imperial brother and emperor's nephew, but the only person Empress Ma was heartbroken about was Zhu Chongba, who was currently serving as Wangjiang's official!

Empress Ma still remembers that his family Chongba mentioned to him more than once how Zhu Liujiu gave him timely help and how he allowed his parents and brothers to be buried in peace!
The reason why Zhu Yuanzhang talked about this for a long time was because he was afraid that she would have objections to them!

"Chongpachi,"

"If they really think about you and don't use their status as royal relatives to smear you, I will definitely treat them well."

"But they are ruining your reputation!"

"You are the emperor. You can be sad for a while because of personal matters, but you must not stay sad because of personal matters!"

"The emperor is not qualified to discuss private matters!"

Thinking of this, Queen Ma's eyes began to twinkle, and there were some tears in her eyes.

After a while, Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes finally became slightly firmer.

He just walked up to Queen Ma and the others and said, "Go back to the inn."

Inside the inn, the housing layout is still the same as that of Yanmen. Zhu Yuanzhang and his wife do not live in the Tianzi room on the third floor, but in the middle of the second floor.

He was surrounded from top to bottom, left and right by the imperial guards who were following him.

In the suite-style guest room where the three of them were staying, Queen Ma sat quietly aside like an audience, watching the father and son discuss the matter.

In Empress Ma's eyes, the father and son were sitting opposite each other across the round table. You looked at me and I looked at you, but they didn't speak.

Finally Zhu Yuanzhang stood up and said: "Biao'er, if you are the emperor now, how should you make a decision?"

Zhu Biao looked at Zhu Yuanzhang in front of him and really wanted to complain.

Is there such a father?
Don't take him with you when traveling, let him be the hard-working emperor!
When you take him with you on a trip and encounter difficulties, he still lets him be the emperor who works so hard!
But he also knows that his father is doing everything for his own good, because sooner or later he will become the emperor that he really doesn’t want to be now!

Zhu Biao frowned and said, "Dad, this is difficult to handle!"

Zhu Yuanzhang immediately frowned and said: "It's difficult to deal with it, but you still have to make a decision!"

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the troubled Zhu Biao, and in his eyes, there was a hint of hatred that iron could not become steel.

He strengthened his tone again and said: "I am asking you how to make a decision. As an emperor, making constant decisions is the biggest taboo."

Zhu Biao looked at the serious Zhu Yuanzhang in front of him and said, "However, this kind of decision is too cruel, especially for you, dad!"

Zhu Yuanzhang walked around the round table, walked up to Zhu Biao, widened his eyes and said, "Do you think the emperor is so easy to do?"

"We were sad and heartbroken just now, but what can we do?"

"The fact is that our royal brother and your royal brother are not up to par. They are using our family's favor to smear our faces!"

Speaking of this, Zhu Yuanzhang gritted his back molars, his eyes full of anger and intolerance.

After Zhu Yuanzhang took a deep breath, he walked up to Zhu Biao, brought a stool and sat on an equal footing with his son.

Immediately afterwards, he said seriously: "Let me tell you, all major events in this world can only be decided by you alone."

"You have to judge for yourself whether the suggestions given by civil and military officials are loyal words, useful strategies, or slanderous words meant to deceive you."

"Dad still has a female Zhuge like your mother, but you may not have one!"

Queen Ma, who was sitting in the corner as an audience member, was definitely happy when she heard such words, but she still intervened: "Teach your son well and don't involve me, a womanly person."

In fact, Queen Ma's understanding of one thing was exactly the same as Ye Qing's.

Although Ye Qing wanted to die as a corrupt official, he hated other corrupt officials!
In his view, he can be corrupt without harming the country and the people, but he is just a special case that is equivalent to non-mainstream. Non-mainstream special cases can never refute the mainstream phenomenon of corrupt officials harming the country!

The same is true for Empress Ma. In her opinion, it is just an extremely rare case that she can become Zhu Yuanzhang's female Zhuge.

It’s best not to continue this kind of phenomenon after she leaves!

Therefore, she hoped that Zhu Yuanzhang would not mention her a word when teaching Zhu Biao how to be a king, and just treat her as if she did not exist.

After Zhu Yuanzhang nodded towards Queen Ma, he continued to teach Zhu Biao: "No, no, I tell you, in fact, the emperor is the biggest gambler. Because of one careless move, everything will be lost."

"One day when you become emperor, you will be alone."

"The reason why the kings before the First Emperor called themselves 'Ignorant' was because he was the only one who could care about the world, and he was the only one who could truly do it and care about the world!"

"So, the emperor's family has no private affairs, and we are not qualified to have private affairs."

"Let's talk about marriages in the past dynasties. Do you think those emperors were really so ruthless?"

"No, it's just because after careful consideration, he must force himself to be ruthless!"

"We said when we founded our country that we, the Ming Dynasty, would never make peace with each other. In fact, we were just deceiving ourselves and others!"

"If we let you marry Chang Shi and Lu, isn't that a marriage?"

"This is also a marriage. It's nothing more than the former emperor selling his daughter, and we selling our son. It's nothing more than the former emperor's daughter going with someone else, and we are letting someone else's daughter come to our home!"

"The essence is the same, both are sacrificing the happiness of the children in order to stabilize the relationship between the two parties."

At this point, Zhu Yuanzhang also felt that he had said too much and he had to take his time in teaching his son.

He just stood up again, walked to the window, looked in the direction of the prison, took a deep breath and said, "This is where the difficulty lies."

"You don't know that when my father was in the most difficult time, he watched the corpses of his family lying there stiffened."

"If Brother Six hadn't given us a small piece of land as a gift, your father really wouldn't have been able to hold on."

"Without him Zhu Liujiu, Zhu Yuanzhang would not have the dragon robe he wears now, let alone you Zhu Biao!"

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In Zhu Biao's eyes, Zhu Yuanzhang just lowered his head and closed his eyes, and shed a tear.

In Zhu Biao's memory, this was the first time he saw his father shed tears.

One can imagine how difficult Zhu Yuanzhang was in his heart!

Yes!

He Zhu Yuanzhang became the emperor, but now he wants to kill his sixth brother's son. An emperor who can't even protect the son of his benefactor is really laughable.

But precisely because he is the emperor, if he does not kill his sixth brother's son, he, the emperor, is taking the lead in bending the law for personal gain. Then the upper beam is really not straight, and the lower beam will be crooked.

Zhu Biao saw that his father was so uncomfortable and immediately said: "Dad, let me make this decision!"

"Zhu Huan took bribes and perverted the law, a capital crime!"

"Although Zhu Liujiu has indulged his fault, he is still kind to Your Majesty. His merits and demerits are equal to each other. All his property will be confiscated and he will be taken back to the palace for retirement!"

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at his son with firm eyes in front of him and nodded: "This is the best way at the moment."

But then, Zhu Biao said worriedly: "But Mr. Ye is trying this matter. Will he let uncle go?"

When Zhu Yuanzhang heard the words "Master Ye", he gritted his teeth with hatred and almost bulged his eyes out.

"If he dares to ignore Brother Six's great kindness to us, I will have his head on the spot!"

"This is not Yanmen County. His mere three hundred soldiers cannot make any waves!"

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When Queen Ma heard this, she was worried about Ye Qing, but she didn't say much.

It must be said that her son's decision was fair enough.

Throughout history, no dynasty or generation has ever been so cruel to the emperor's relatives.

According to common sense, judging from Zhu Liujiu's kindness to his family Chongba, it is indeed reasonable to spare the life of this old man.

But she really couldn't figure out Ye Qing's behavior.

Not only that, she also had a strong premonition, and it was an extremely bad premonition.

She only felt that Ye Qing's verdict tomorrow might not be as what their father and son wanted!
Just when Zhu Yuanzhang and his family of three made such a decision, Xu Da and the others also arrived at the gate of the government office.

Wang Baobao looked at the gate of the government office, which was much shabbier than the county government office in Yanmen County, and said with disgust: "They are all corrupt officials. This is the difference." "What we have seen and heard along the way is nothing compared to Do you have to go to Yanmen County?"

"In comparison, I only think that the prosperous Jiangnan is there, and this is just a slightly better city than other border towns!"

"Xu Shuai, look at the stone lion at the gate of the government office. He is the youngest son of the two stone lions at the gate of the government office in Yanmen County."

"He Emperor Zhu, no, the wisest thing your Majesty did was to let Mr. Ye come here!"

After Xu Da nodded, he reminded Wang Baobao again: "Can you please stop saying these remarks that are equivalent to surrendering because of Ye Qing?"

"It's not easy for a rival like you to become my friend. I don't want you to die too soon before me."

"I just hope you die ten days and a half months earlier than me, do you understand?"

Wang Baobao nodded happily, then widened his eyes and said, "You still want me to die in front of you?"

"Of course, in this battle to see who can live longer, I have to win against you!"

Behind them, Xu Miaojin, who was wearing a pale pink Ming Dynasty Hanfu, and Mei Duolam, who was wearing a men's escort uniform, stood side by side.

The two of them had no communication along the way, but they both knew each other's identities.

When the two met for the first time, they had an inexplicable affinity, and their intuition told them that they would become friends like their fathers in the future.

The two looked at each other's father and smiled secretly. They had truly become friends and lifelong rivals.

No, even competing to see who can live longer is regarded as a battle by them!

It was their soundless smiles that made passers-by and the gatekeepers notice their beautiful appearance.

Even if Medoram is wearing men's clothing, to outsiders, she is just a man who looks like a woman, but this does not affect her charm at all.

As the saying goes, beauty does not distinguish between men and women, and appreciation does not distinguish between men and women!
But the admiring looks in their eyes made these two fathers very disgusted!

Because in their eyes, their daughter can only be appreciated slowly by her good son-in-law!
"Stop looking, why don't you hurry up and inform Mr. Ye."

"Just say that his old friend is here!"

Wang Baobao looked at the doorman and said unkindly.

The temporary gatekeeper, who was temporarily appointed by Yanmen's elite soldiers, raised his head and said in disobedience: "Who are you?"

"Except for General Xu Da and the others, our Lord Ye has no friends at all."

At this moment, Xu Da took out the Qilin Fifth Army Order from the Fifth Army Governor's Mansion and said: "I am Xu Da!"

The doormen were stunned for a moment after seeing it, and then they revealed their true colors, wearing official uniforms of government officials, and also performed a military salute with cupped fists: "Meet the general."

Immediately afterwards, while one person ran quickly to report, another person led the way into the mansion and walked slowly.

Outside the government office hall, Ye Qing, who was wearing plain clothes, was very happy when he saw them coming towards them.

Not long ago, he had his personal memorial sent to the capital.

His personal memorial was very simple, that is, both Zhu Huan and his son would die under his execution first and then memorial.

He grasped the time very well. Only after Zhu Huan and his son passed away could his memorial be in Zhu Yuanzhang's hands!
He said that he must kill first and then report!

Therefore, when Zhu Yuanzhang saw his handwritten memorial, it must be the day when he, Ye Qing, was sentenced to death!

Thinking of this, Ye Qing became even more happy when he saw the two people walking towards him.

He never expected that before he died, he would see these two friends who had not interacted much in real life, but had been friends for a long time.

"Brother Ye, congratulations on your promotion!"

"No, we both know that you have arrived here, so we specifically asked Your Majesty for leave to come and see you."

"This Ningbo Prefecture is much worse than your Yanmen County. From now on, Lord Magistrate, I have to rely on you."

The two of them walked towards Ye Qing and said with a smile.

Ye Qing also held up his hands and said with a smile: "The Duke of Wei and the most amazing man in the world, whom Your Majesty personally conferred, actually took leave at the same time to visit Xiaguan. Xiaguan is really lucky!"

"The presence of two generals in this humble abode is really a blessing."

Before the polite words were spoken, Ye Qing felt something was wrong.

He looked at the two people walking towards them with smiling faces, still smiling, but there was a hint of inconspicuous scrutiny in his eyes.

The two of them were so full that they had nothing to do, and they took leave to see him at the same time?
Is the face of his, the prefect, really that big?

Even if they had this intention, would Boss Zhu, who wanted his staff to have [-] hours a day off, be so kind and grant them both leave at the same time?

It’s a lie that only a devil can believe!
Again, Ye Qing didn't bother to find out Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes and ears at all, but he was certain that Zhu Yuanzhang would definitely send people to guard him here.

Obviously, the arrival of the two of them was Zhu Yuanzhang's reaction after knowing everything here.

The two of them came here to see Ye Qing, but they also wanted to avoid Ye Qing from doing anything wrong.

Thinking of this, Ye Qing just thought to himself: "Your Majesty, how much do you like me?"

"A death decree will be enough. If you have to send someone to stop me, if you have to send someone to save my life, I thank you eight generations of ancestors!"

"However, they can't stop me!"

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Thinking of this, Ye Qing smiled and said the polite words, and then greeted him with a smile.

But before he took a few steps, his eyes suddenly lit up again.

Because he saw an old friend who should not have appeared in this era!

Ye Qing's eyes collided with Xu Miaojin and Mei Duolam who were behind Xu Da and Wang Baobao!

Looking at the oncoming Xu Miaojin, Ye Qing's eyes immediately flashed with a hint of reminiscence.

In the autumn of the 12th year of Zhenguan in the Tang Dynasty,

Tubo Songtsen Gampo Zampu failed in his marriage proposal, so he sent troops to attack Songzhou City in the Tang Dynasty.

Emperor Taizong Li Shimin of the Tang Dynasty ordered Hou Junji to be the general manager of Midao's march, and the champion general Ye Yun to be the vanguard general, leading [-] infantry and cavalry to attack them.

Before the main force of the Tang Dynasty, Hou Junji, took action, pioneer Ye Yun's troops had already defeated the Tibetan army with lightning tactics.

Songtsen Gampo was greatly shocked and immediately led his troops to withdraw from Dangxiang, Bailanqiang, Tyuhun and other places.

In order to apologize, Songtsen Gampo also sent his prime minister Ludongzan to Chang'an to apologize, and also donated 5000 taels of gold and hundreds of other treasures!

In the first month of the 15th year of Zhenguan,
Emperor Taizong Li Shimin of the Tang Dynasty decided to marry Tubo and named Li Xueyan, the daughter of Li Daozong, the king of Jiangxia County, as 'Princess Wencheng' and married her to Tubo.

But Li Shimin didn't know that Li Xueyan had already fallen in love with Ye Yun, who was stationed at Yanmen Pass at that time.

Ye Yun once personally promised Li Xueyan that as long as he built Yanmen Military Town, he would return to Beijing to propose marriage.

As a time traveler, Ye Yun naturally knew that Li Xueyan would get married in the 15th year of Zhenguan, so when he left Chang'an, he had such an eyewitness.

On the one hand, he speeded up the construction period as much as possible while maintaining quality and quantity!

On the other hand, he was wary of Li Xueyan getting married early because of his time travel!
Unexpectedly, the construction project of Yanmen Military Town was far more difficult than he thought, and there was really no way to effectively advance the construction schedule!

Finally, he received the news that Li Xueyan was married to Tubo!
In June of the 15th year of Zhenguan,
Shanzhou (now Xining), a border city of the Tang Dynasty, was a border land.

Under the sun and snow-capped mountains, on a high ground, Ye Yun and his soldiers were lying in ambush.

In Ye Yun's eyes, Li Daozong solemnly declared to the Tibetan delegation who came to welcome his bride:
"Under the door:"

"I specially give Princess Xueyan the title of 'Princess Wencheng' to marry in Tibet and become the Zanpu Princess."

But before Li Daozong finished reading the imperial edict, Ye Yun immediately got on his horse, pointed the tiger-headed golden gun in his palm at the Tibetan envoys and said: "Soldiers, follow my general and charge to kill!"

"Kill!"

next moment,
In Li Daozong's eyes, the rumble of horse hooves came from the northern highlands, and everywhere he looked, the sky was filled with dust.

Tubo saying: "Be on guard, get in formation!"

A moment later, Ye Yun pierced the body of the Tibetan envoy with a spear, picked it up with one hand, and threw it more than ten meters away.

Within a few moments, all three hundred elite soldiers of the Tibetan mission fell into a pool of blood.

Ye Yun got off his horse, walked up to Li Daozong, handed him his hands and said, "Your Majesty, I have killed all the Tibetan envoys. This battle is inevitable."

"I'm guilty, take me back to Beijing to face the Holy Spirit!"

Li Daozong pointed at Ye Yun and said: "You"

He's been like this to you for a long time, and you really can't figure out why, but he is definitely very angry.

But at this moment, in the carriage, Li Xueyan, who was dressed in red and had been crying all the way, smiled happily at Ye Yun.

Just like that, the two of them looked at each other across the angry father, and smiled sweetly.

But at this moment, Li Daozong suddenly fell to the ground, still suffering from convulsions.

"It's over!"

"Your father, my father-in-law, was so angry that I turned upside down!"

Li Xueyan and his entourage hurriedly sent Li Daozong to the carriage, and asked at the same time: "What is high-religion?"

"I couldn't explain it clearly for a while, but luckily I prepared medicine to treat high reflexes in advance!"

not far away,
The Ming Dynasty Ye Qing, who exists here in the state of his soul, looked at this scene and smiled unconsciously:
"My father-in-law, am I the most filial son-in-law in the world?"

"I'm afraid it's unprecedented and unprecedented to make my father-in-law so popular that he rebels!"

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Thinking of this, Ye Qing couldn't help but look proud.

Recalling this point, Ye Qing looked at Xu Miaojin walking towards him and felt that they were too similar.

They say twins are similar enough, but this is even more similar than twins.

He was certain that if the girl following Xu Da was brought back to the Tang Dynasty to pretend to be Princess Wencheng, as long as she didn't speak, even her biological father would not be able to recognize her!

Immediately afterwards, Ye Qing looked at the person behind Wang Baobao and saw that it was a woman pretending to be a guard.

After seeing the appearance clearly, Ye Qing's eyes lit up again.

What a coincidence!
She also looks very much like one of his old friends!
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