The First Corrupt Official of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 356 Zhu Yuanzhang knelt to receive the imperial edict, Lord Ye regarded the edict as toilet paper, Xu Da defeated Wang Baobao again!

Under the dome of the Imperial Study Room with its golden dragon coiled around it,

In front of the empty dragon chair, Xu Da, who was sitting on the chair on the left, said this and then read the memorial seriously.

When he looked at these memorials, he sometimes looked happy, thinking that the minister who presented them was a talented person.

But most of the time, his brows were furrowed, and he wished he could just tear up this memorial that was nothing.

After reviewing a few books, he became deeply aware of the difficulties faced by his brother, the emperor, and his nephew, the prince.

But at the same time, I also feel that although Hu Weiyong has selfish motives, he is indeed a rare talent.

You must know that the memorials reviewed by Hu Weiyong are much more than those in the imperial study.

The memorials that can appear in the imperial study are all those that Hu Weiyong felt necessary to appear here.

There are piles of memorials here, so one can imagine how much work Hu Weiyong had.

But he, Hu Weiyong, was not only able to handle the prime minister's affairs flawlessly, but he could also take care of his own selfishness and the affairs of Huaixi nobles.

It's no wonder that Zhu Yuanzhang knew that Hu Weiyong was seriously selfish and knew that he was running a small team behind his back, but he still pretended not to know.

Of course, Xu Da also knew that Zhu Yuanzhang was such a ruthless person, and he definitely did not tolerate it just because of Hu Weiyong's talent.

One is that he still misses his old relationship, the other is that Empress Ma is trying to manipulate him, and the third is that these people haven't gone too far to make the emperor completely forget about his old relationship.

But if this momentum continues, if they still persist in their obsession, one day his emperor brother will no longer miss his old relationship.

Thinking of this, Xu Da just sighed, and then continued to review the memorial seriously.

Wang Baobao, who was sitting on the chair on the right, only thought that Xu Da's words were farts. He rolled his eyes at Xu Da, lifted up his clothes, flicked his sleeves, and strode out of the threshold of the imperial study.

But as soon as he stepped out of the threshold, he saw a hundred Jinyi guards standing in the yard, looking at him eagerly.

"Step aside!"

The deputy commander of the Jinyi Guards, Jiang Wei, just said coldly: "General Wang, don't let the enemy be in trouble."

"If you dare to walk past me, they will really chop you to death!"

As soon as Jiang Wei finished speaking, the one hundred Jinyi guards behind him all pressed their right hands on the hilt of their saber between their left waists.

"You, you guys."

Wang Baobao really wanted to rush out, but after thinking about it, he still couldn't act impulsively.

Even if he breaks through the encirclement of a hundred royal guards, can he break out of the palace?

Even if he can break out of the palace, so what?

His daughter is still in the 'Prince's Mansion' opposite Xu Da!

Now, in Yingtian City, where his wealth and life are all at the feet of the emperor, he can be considered a man under the roof and has to bow his head.

Of course, if Zhu Yuanzhang wants to kill Ye Qing, he will still drag his family to death. This is his unchanging principle!

But it's obviously not that time now. In the final analysis, it's just a 'daily game' between him and Xu Da!

As soon as he said, "You'll be cruel", he was no longer ready to say it to them.

It has nothing to do with these people who obey orders. The initiator of everything is Xu Da who is bitterly reviewing the memorials inside.

After Wang Baobao returned to the Imperial Study Room, he just grinned and said, "Well, Xu Da, are you really kidding?"

"If you were on the grassland, believe it or not, I would hang you up and beat you!"

Xu Da didn't even raise his head to look at Wang Baobao. He just looked at the memorial and said, "When did I start playing tricks with you?"

"Playing fake games with you means disrespecting you, right?"

"Look, how much I respect you!"

"Actually, this is your fault. Since we have turned our hostility into friendship, and since we have shaken hands and made peace, we should move forward and retreat together!"

"I was tricked by the prince, and you should be tricked by me too. Otherwise, how can I balance my heart and be worthy of the friendship between you and me?"

"You have to know that when we go to the battlefield in the future, we will leave our backs to each other's feelings!"

Wang Baobao looked at Xu Da and felt that this man looked more and more like Ye Qing, and his face was even thicker than the city wall.

He just smiled coldly and said, "Is it still my fault?"

Xu Da said seriously: "You must be at fault first. We are now soldiers in the same military camp. If we don't advance and retreat together, we will be dealt with according to military law."

"I didn't use military law to deal with you. It's already considered that I missed my old feelings."

"Okay, don't complain, just to make me feel balanced, just endorse it properly!"

"I can tell you what I said until the beginning of the Ming Dynasty. I have finished reviewing the memorials. If you recite it to my dissatisfaction, I will give you twenty pieces of paper and I will type it myself!"

Having said this, Xu Da put down his work again, looked at Wang Baobao and said with a smile: "Also, even on the grassland, you don't have the ability to hang me up and beat me!"

"Didn't you catch me the only time you were proud of defeating me?"

"When speaking, it's better to say something you can do!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Xu Da continued to work hard, striving to end the work as soon as possible.

Wang Baobao pointed at Xu Da, with scarlet eyes, biting his back teeth and said: "You, you"

Zhu Yuanzhang is not here. If Zhu Yuanzhang saw this scene here, he would definitely think of the most classic scene between him and Ye Qing!

Just when Wang Baobao was about to explode, the eunuch on duty in the study room brought three not-so-thick books.

It is not so much a book as it is a handwritten copy of "Xiaoyaoyou", "Lisao", and "Chushibiao"!

"Xu Shuai, I brought the book you asked for."

Xu Da just nodded and said: "Bring it to General Wang, and then make two new cups of tea."

"I am here to help His Highness the Crown Prince with work. I don't care about food or tea."

The eunuch bowed respectfully and said, "Yes, I will prepare now."

As soon as he finished speaking, three antique thread-bound blueprints were placed in front of Wang Baobao.

Wang Baobao looked at the words on these three thread-loading blueprints and felt numb!

He was born in Gushi County, Gwangju, and received Chinese education since he was a child. Naturally, he had read these three articles.

But in his opinion, it was his childhood nightmare!

Not only were these three articles difficult to memorize, but they also contained a lot of uncommon words. Because he failed to memorize these three articles well, he received a lot of beatings.

I never expected that today, after putting on Hanfu again, I would experience my childhood nightmare again in this way.

But there was nothing he could do. In order to avoid being beaten, he could only grit his teeth!

He knows what Xu Da needs. What he needs is that he himself will not be happy, and he, Wang Baobao, must follow him to make Xu Da miserable.

If he dares to be lazy, Xu Da will definitely do what he says.

For dinner, the palace still took care of the food for the two of them.

The two of them worked hard while grabbing food, and finally stayed up until midnight.

Xu Da stretched himself, looked at the finished memorial, and once again lamented the difficulty of the emperor and the prince.

When he thought of Wang Baobao, he found that Wang Baobao had used the book as a shroud, covering his face, and snoring from time to time.

Xu Da just kicked Wang Baobao and said, "You're up, are you still sleeping?"

Wang Baobao said with blurred eyes: "Have you finished reviewing?"

Xu Da adjusted his clothes and said, "Well, let's go!"

On the way out of the palace, Wang Baobao suddenly realized something was wrong.

Wang Baobao raised his eyebrows and said coldly: "Don't you want to do a spot check?"

Xu Da just raised the corner of his mouth and said: "Only fools take it seriously. I just don't want you to feel better. In fact, you are sleeping there waiting for me and nothing has happened to you." "If you can't recite it, I can really beat you." ?”

As he said that, Xu Da smiled mischievously and said, "How can I, Xu Da, be that kind of person?"

"Hahaha!"

"Wang Baobao, you lost again!"

"If you can beat me once, you will be able to brag about it for a lifetime. If you want to win a second time, what are you thinking about?"

Wang Baobao was furious when he saw Xu Da riding away on horseback.

"stop!"

"Stop!"

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Early the next morning,

In the court, Zhu Biaozhen directly announced that he had come up with four national policies.

The general meaning is that, in view of Ye Qing's success in Yanmen County and Ningbo Prefecture, he will also open industrial parks in Zhengzhou and Kaifeng, which are located in the Central Plains of the Ming Dynasty.

Not only do local governments have no power to manage, they must also provide absolute support in terms of policies.

The armed security forces in the industrial park are not under the control of the local army and the imperial war department.

Zhu Biao left some room when announcing the decree and did not say that their military power belonged directly to Ye Qing. Xu Da could understand what this meant. This was foreshadowing that their military power belonged directly to the emperor.

To put it bluntly, it means that 'the final right of interpretation belongs to the emperor'!

Xu Da was quite satisfied with this, and felt that His Highness the Crown Prince already had the demeanor of an emperor.

Xu Da and other generals were satisfied, but Hu Weiyong and other Huaixi nobles were extremely dissatisfied.

However, with the strong support of Xu Da and other generals, they, who know nothing but talk about benevolence, justice and morality, could not stop this imperial edict from heading towards Ye Qing.

After the morning dynasty, the imperial edict left the palace and headed towards Zhengzhou.

On the way down to the court, Hu Weiyong and Kong Kebiao walked side by side.

Kong Kebiao frowned and said, "Xiang Hu, what should we do?"

"Ye Qing is getting more and more attention and power. He now has Yanmen County and Ningbo Prefecture. Now he goes to Zhengzhou and extends his tentacles to Zhengzhou?"

"His territory is getting bigger and bigger, but we are weaker!"

Hu Weiyong just rolled his eyes at Kong Kebiao. He just felt that this person's thinking was too shallow.

Is it true that Ye Qing's territory is getting bigger and bigger?

You must know that behind Ye Qing is the emperor's family, and everything Ye Qing does is under the instruction of the emperor's family.

In the final analysis, it is still a battle between imperial power and prime minister power, with imperial power becoming more and more dominant.

In fact, Hu Weiyong was wrong.

These things were not ordered by the emperor's family at all. At most, they could only be regarded as the emperor's family being shameless and pretending that Ye Qing's idea was theirs, and then using it to their advantage.

Of course, if Hu Weiyong didn't know the mystery, he would naturally think wrong.

Thinking of this, Hu Weiyong only felt that he had to take action to counterattack. If he did not counterattack, the prime minister's power would really be completely crushed by the imperial power.

If you want to counter the imperial power, the most effective way is to ask the emperor to punish Ye Qing for his crimes. Even if you don't want to punish him, you have to punish him.

After Hu Weiyong had such an idea, he immediately looked at Kong Kebiao next to him.

Although this man is not very smart, his status as a direct descendant of Saint Kong is a priceless treasure.

Whether Zhu Yuanzhang can get Ye Qing to punish him depends on Kong Kebiao.

Thinking of this, Hu Weiyong just smiled and said: "Master Kong, don't be anxious, come to my house for dinner tonight."

As soon as he finished speaking, Hu Weiyong quickened his pace and distanced himself from Kong Kebiao.

Behind them, Lu Ben, the father of the crown prince's concubine and Minister of Civil Affairs, Lu Ben, looked at this scene and just looked in the direction of Zhengzhou with deep eyes.

If he could contact Ye Qing, he would definitely tell Ye Qing that Hu Weiyong and Kong Kebiao were going to stumble him again.

The reason why he had such an idea was because he hoped to have a good relationship with Ye Qing so that Ye Qing could become his grandson's teacher.

Let this talent, who is favored by the emperor's family, become his grandson's teacher, which is enough to increase the chance of his grandson becoming the 'emperor's grandson'!

Unfortunately, he had no way to contact Ye Qing.

Of course, even if he did, he wouldn't dare to contact Ye Qing rashly!

Therefore, he could only hope that Ye Qing could come to this court smoothly!

Thinking of this, Lu Ben also walked to the official department silently.

Behind Lu Ben, Xu Da looked at this scene and said to Wang Baobao, Li Wenzhong, Lan Yu and others beside him: "It seems that our Brother Ye is quite popular."

As soon as the words fell, these warriors, who only had eyes for the son of the Crown Prince and Concubine Chang Shi, just smiled sharply and went to their official offices.

A few days later, the first imperial edict issued by Zhu Biao imitating Zhu Yuanzhang's handwriting and praising Ye Qing for his rush to buy people in Zhu Yuanzhang's name came to Zhengzhou.

The main entrance of the business house,

Ye Qing, dressed in official uniform, welcomed the imperial edict together with Shen Waner, Mr. Guo and his entourage.

The Jin Yiwei who was delivering the order felt a little weak in his feet when he looked at Zhu Yuanzhang and Queen Ma in front of Ye Qing.

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at this scene and immediately reminded Ye Qing loudly: "Why don't you kneel down to welcome the imperial edict?"

As soon as he finished speaking, he knelt down decisively and at the same time winked at the Jin Yiwei who was delivering the order.

And at this moment,

Ye Qing didn't take it seriously. It would be great if he could come out wearing official uniform.

It's not impossible for him to kneel down if he wants. As long as the content read out is what he wants, it doesn't matter if he kneels down once.

Ye Qing, who had suffered losses many times, would not only not kneel down, but also not even give him the basic respect before hearing what he wanted.

No, he didn't even allow Shen Wan'er to kneel down this time.

He just looked at the imperial guard who passed the imperial edict and said, "If you have anything to say, just say it. After you finish speaking, if I am in a good mood, I will kneel down to welcome the edict!"

"you"

Zhu Yuanzhang, who was kneeling on the ground, tilted his head and glared fiercely at Ye Qing, who treated the imperial edict like toilet paper.

Watching this scene, the imperial eunuchs finally understood why Ye Qing was put on the 'blacklist' by the eunuchs.

awkward!

It’s so embarrassing!

Looking at this scene, he really didn't know whether he should read out this so-called imperial decree!

Finally, Queen Ma tugged at the corner of Zhu Yuanzhang's clothes and said, "Okay, Your Majesty doesn't mind. Why are you so anxious here?"

"We just need to kneel down."

Zhu Yuanzhang really wanted to get angry!

He himself had to kneel down with his sister to listen to the imperial edict issued by his son to Ye Qing in his name.

But Ye Qing is better off. Whether he kneels down to accept the imperial edict depends on the content of the edict. Will it put him in a good mood?

Thinking of this, Zhu Yuanzhang only felt that there was really no one else who regarded him as the emperor.

At this very moment,

In order to ease the awkward atmosphere, Empress Ma directly sent a wink to Jin Yiwei, signaling him to quickly read out the so-called imperial edict! .

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