Chapter 3
Everyone in the world says that Yongle is a prosperous age, but is Yongle really a prosperous age?
Maybe it is, but Zhu Zhanhe feels that it must not be now, because what he sees and hears now is not up to the standard of the prosperous age.

Ever since he made up his mind to do something, Zhu Zhanhe left Yingtian Mansion "quietly" and came to Jiaxing Mansion with "some" guards.

yes!a little!
There are as many as 2000 people in this area.

Although Zhu Zhanhe is the heir of the King of Han, he is not the eldest grandson of the emperor, so he is not qualified to be equipped with 2000 guards. A large part of the guards here are drawn by him from his father's guards.

Besides, it is only seven years since Yongle, and the most favored Emperor Xuande has not yet been crowned as the grandson of the emperor. He doesn't even have young guards, and he is not qualified to be equipped with 2000 guards.

Zhu Zhanhe brought so many people to Jiaxing Mansion for a reason, not for fun.

This year, the people of Jiaxing Mansion are not doing very well. At the end of March, they were attacked by Japanese pirates. Although the old man sent Liu Shengwei to kill countless Japanese pirates, what the people have suffered is already an established fact.

In addition, a wave of soldiers was conscripted in Zhejiang this year to assist Annan in the conquest of Chen Jikuo.

Therefore, today's Jiaxing Mansion feels more or less destitute. Basically, all you can see are women and children except for the old and the weak, and you can rarely see the shadow of the young and old.

And August is the harvest season for early rice, and this season is also the time when "heavy rain falls on the summer solstice and floods rise in August". If no one helps, the rations of these people will basically be empty.

However, 2000 people want to solve the grain harvest problem of Jiaxing Prefecture, which is obviously not enough.

This is also the purpose of Zhu Zhanhe coming to the building in front of him.

"My humble minister sees the prince of the King of Han!"

Zhu Zhanhe had just arrived when Li Cheng, the prefect of Jiaxing Prefecture, ran out scrambling.

You must know that although the King of Han has always been overwhelmed by the prince, the possibility of competing for the heir is still very high. Naturally, the prince of the King of Han is an existence they cannot afford to offend.

"Jiaxing prefect Li Cheng?" Zhu Zhanhe raised his eyebrows, looking at the man kneeling on the ground in front of him.

Judging from this person's performance, there is something wrong with the prefect's designation, which is not too different from the news Zhu Zhanhe got, but he has no intention to take care of it.

The magistrate's crimes are under the supervision of the procurator, but if the procurator can't control it, there is also Jin Yiwei. What kind of hand does he, the son of the King of Han, have to intervene?

"His Royal Highness, this minister is the magistrate of Jiaxing." Li Cheng, who was kneeling on the ground, wiped his sweat tremblingly.

He received the news in advance that the inspector was going to come, but he didn't expect such a big man to come.

This is crazy, prepared, but not enough!

"Okay, I don't have time to talk nonsense with you, pass my order and send eight thousand Japanese soldiers!"

For this kind of official, Zhu Zhanhe didn't have a good impression, and he wouldn't give him a good temper. If he didn't have to go through the local prefect to mobilize the Japanese army, he wouldn't come here.

"Ah? This..." Li Cheng was frightened when he heard this.

Is the Japanese army so easy to mobilize?

Yes, there is indeed a procedure to go through the local prefect to mobilize the Japanese army, but the problem is that the Japanese army can't be transferred casually!
There is no Japanese plague and no natural disasters, so where is the reason to mobilize the Japanese army?

To put it bluntly, if the Japanese army is transferred, Zhu Zhanhe, as the heir of the Han Dynasty, may not be in trouble, but he, the magistrate of Jiaxing, cannot escape!
"His Royal Highness, I don't know that you mobilized the Beiwa Army to..."

Although stretching out his head was the same as slashing his head, but Li Cheng still had the courage to ask.

Although he could not afford to offend the son of the king of Han, it would be against the court regulations to randomly mobilize the Japanese army, and his fate would only be worse.

"Huh?" Zhu Zhanhe raised his eyebrows, he really didn't expect Li Cheng to dare to ask back.

"Li Cheng, a native of Wuzhou Prefecture, Shanxi Province, a second-class Jinshi in Yichou Division in the 18th year of Hongwu, and a second-class Jinshi in the Yichou Division in the 22nd year of Hongwu..."

"Your Highness...Your Highness!" Li Cheng interrupted Zhu Zhanhe tremblingly.

If it was normal to interrupt a royal relative, and he was still the heir of the King of Han, he would not dare to borrow his courage, but it is different now.

All fools know that Zhu Zhanhe has mastered some unknown things, if he doesn't speak up, the others will probably disappear.

"Wei...Weichen...Weichen will transfer troops now..." Li Cheng kowtowed several times, then ran away scrambling.

"Tch..." Zhu Zhanhe glanced at his lips in disdain.

Corrupt officials have no bones, which is really despised.

Zhu Zhanhe doesn't like corrupt officials, but you said that since you have the guts to be greedy, then at least you had a bit of backbone when the incident happened, didn't you?
Where did the courage to embezzle in the first place go?
"As the heir of the King of Han, it is against the rules to mobilize the Japanese army without permission?"

"Ok?"

Zhu Zhanhe was taken aback by the sudden sound of a voice, and then let out a cry of surprise.

"who are you?"

"Your Highness." Zhu Ling moved closer to Zhu Zhanhe's ear.

"This person's name is Zhou Xin, and he is the inspector of Zhejiang Province."

Zhu Zhanhe froze for a moment.

Zhou Xin, this name is no stranger to him, because this person is quite famous even in later generations.

Cold face cold iron.

"Zhou Xin." Zhu Zhanhe nodded slightly, not hiding the admiration in his eyes.

"It's true that it's against the rules to mobilize the Beiwa army privately, but do you know what I'm going to do when I mobilize the Beiwa army?"

"No matter what you do, you still can't change the fact that it's against the rules!" Zhou Xin's attitude was quite tough, and he didn't soften because Zhu Zhanhe was the heir of the Han Dynasty.

"This matter will be reported to His Majesty according to the facts!"

"It doesn't matter anymore." Zhu Zhanhe waved his hand.

It's true that Zhou Xin is cold and iron, but no one likes the feeling of hitting a wall, Zhu Zhanhe is no exception.

Besides, since he dared to blatantly mobilize the Beiwa army, he was not afraid. If Zhou Xin really reported the truth to the old man, it would be in line with Zhu Zhanhe's wishes.

He came out here just to get the old man's attention.

Looking at Zhu Zhanhe who turned around and left directly, Zhou Xin was obviously a little unresponsive.

He has seen this arrogant and domineering second generation a lot, but he also knows how to cover it up. This is the first time he has seen someone like Zhu Zhanhe who doesn't cover up at all.

It's just that although he is an inspector, he is only an inspector in Zhejiang. Let alone whether he has dealt with Zhu Zhanhe who is hanging in the fiefdom of the Han king in Yunnan, he can't deal with the status of a Han king's son.

Turning his head to look at the direction where Li Cheng left, and then at the direction of Zhu Zhanhe, Zhou Xin finally lifted his foot and walked in the direction of Zhu Zhanhe.

He came here to investigate, or deal with Li Cheng, but now it seems that there is no need, at least not in a hurry.

In contrast, he wanted to see what Zhu Zhanhe wanted to do.

(End of this chapter)

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