Early Ming Dynasty: Turning Clouds and Rains into New Learning Saints

Chapter 58: People are in the world, and they can’t help themselves (more updates during the Spring Festival)

In the end, the villagers of Liujia Village dispersed under Zhang Yifan's persuasion.As for the village community matter, he neither agreed nor vetoed it. He would wait and see first.

When Zhu San saw him, he wanted to teach Zhang Yifan some official etiquette.As a result, before he could open his mouth, he was asked by Zhang Yifan.

After this incident, Zhang Yifan fully realized that it was impossible to live happily in the countryside.

What he didn't expect the most was that just the advent of a cement product would attract the powerful forces of this era.

Although Zhang Yifan really did not want to get involved in the officialdom, especially the officialdom during the Hongwu period, as he said, people cannot help themselves in the world!

Originally, he thought that by uniting the people in Liujia Village and relying on Zhu Yuanzhang's severe punishment of corrupt officials, he could keep himself safe. At worst, beating the drum would cause trouble in the sky.With Zhu Yuanzhang's personality, he would never tolerate corrupt officials.

However, what happened today told him that this idea was still too naive.

If it wasn't because the other party thought he was a country boy with little knowledge, and showed his face of wanting to eat cement when he came, but used other methods, it was really beyond the reach of ordinary people.

For example, a very simple method is to show official authority when someone comes and ask you to kneel down, so you have to kneel down; if someone says that you are involved in a lawsuit with someone, they will arrest you directly. What can you do?
Once the county magistrate is caught and thrown into a jail without being interrogated, and the guards or simply the prisoners in the jail are allowed to intimidate, induce, or even kill themselves, those officials will be fine, let alone There is no chance of beating the drum.

Whether an official is reasonable or not depends on who the other person is.

He has no identity and is just a commoner. If he is killed, he will be killed. He will never be able to get in front of Zhu Yuanzhang.Even if the villagers of Liujia Village went to beat the drum afterward, they would be dead or disabled. The price was too high!

Thinking about these things, Zhang Yifan especially did not expect that Chang Jingjing, whom he originally thought was Zhu Yuanzhang's eldest daughter, was still deeply devoted to him.

In the face of such a huge opportunity, if you still avoid it and watch the person you like eventually marry into the family of the first hero in the founding of the Ming Dynasty, then you are not a man!
Based on this idea, Zhang Yifan no longer wanted to be an ostrich in the Hongwu Dynasty, but began to take the initiative to understand what was going on in the court.After catching Zhu San, I asked him about it, just to understand what the current situation was, and then to correspond with the history he knew.

In addition, we should also have a good understanding and understanding of Zhu Biao and Zhu Yuanzhang.Even if it wasn't for the officialdom, he would soon go to the woman's house to meet her parents. Only by being prepared could there be no danger!
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At the same time, Li You and others were on their way back to Nanjing City. Needless to say, their morale was low.

Especially those government officials, who were soaked in the rain in the spring, went to the countryside and didn't catch anything, and might get sick when they return, so they were even more dejected.

"Drive, drive, drive..."

When Zhu Di's cavalry surpassed them, it hit them even more.For no reason, the county magistrate, in order to please the Li family, ended up offending King Yan. What a bad luck!

As for Li You, he had been in the carriage, staring at Zhu Di and his group through the curtains as they walked away, especially at Zhu Jingjing's back.Seeing her next to Zhu Di, surrounded by a group of guards, her eyes were even colder.

This time he went out and didn't catch anything. He was even embarrassed by King Yan, which made him very unhappy as he had always been favored by others.

When he arrived at his mansion, as soon as he got out of the carriage, he saw the servants he had sent out waiting for him, so he asked coldly, "How is it?"

"It's just as the young master expected!" The servant immediately came closer and reported, "That woman went to the East Palace with King Yan."

Li You didn't feel happy after hearing this, his eyes were full of coldness.After returning to the palace, he directly found his wife, who was Hu Weiyong's niece, and immediately asked: "Did you see the eldest princess when you came to the palace to see her?" Usually during big festivals, civil and military officials The official wanted to congratulate the emperor, while the concubine went into the palace to congratulate the queen.His wife happened to be qualified to enter the palace, so she asked this question.

His wife was a little surprised that he suddenly asked this, but she didn't hide it from him and immediately told him that she had seen it before.

So Li You immediately asked his wife to draw a portrait of the princess.He wanted to confirm whether the identity of the woman was the same as he guessed?
But in the East Palace, Zhu Jingjing didn't expect that Li You was still thinking about her.At this time, she and Zhu Di went to find the princess first.

The princess was a little surprised. Zhu Jingjing went there and didn't bring back Zhang Yifan, but instead brought Zhu Di back.

Out of curiosity, after asking, I found out that something happened in Liujiacun.

Being sensitive, she immediately asked after knowing it was Li You: "Does he know your identity?"

She asked Zhu Jingjing, and Zhu Jingjing immediately replied: "Of course I know the seriousness of this matter, and my identity has not been exposed!"

The Crown Princess was worried and immediately asked, "What was the situation like at that time?"

After hearing this, Zhu Di added on the side: "These civil servants have the most thoughts. Please tell me clearly what happened before I arrived."

When Zhu Jingjing heard this, she was a little surprised. Seeing that they were so solemn, she finally told the details.

Of course she didn't know that the Crown Princess had some estimates and felt that her husband's family was most likely to be the Li family.As a result, Zhu Jingjing ran outside privately and happened to be bumped into by someone from the Li family, which made her a little worried.

After hearing what Zhu Jingjing said, Zhu Di also added the situation after he arrived. The princess did not find that Zhu Jingjing had revealed his identity, but she was still worried, and immediately said to Zhu Di: "You are going to welcome your relatives tomorrow, I guess it will be soon." Jing Jing's marriage has been arranged. If something like this happened today, I'm afraid that Jing Jing's event will happen sooner than we thought. Originally, I planned to talk to your elder brother first, but I'm afraid it's too late."

When Zhu Jingjing heard this, he hesitated for a moment and then said decisively: "Then stop procrastinating and go straight to a showdown with eldest brother!"

"What? No!" Upon hearing this, the Crown Princess immediately shook her head and said, "You only have one chance, so be careful!"

After hearing this, Zhu Jingjing glanced at Zhu Di and said, "It's okay. I'm sure I can persuade my eldest brother to help me!"

"..." When the Crown Princess heard this, she was immediately speechless.

She didn't believe Zhu Jingjing's words at all.If this is really the case, why did you go there earlier and encourage yourself to help her?

At this moment, footsteps were heard outside.

Zhu Biao appeared outside the door. When he saw them, he smiled and said, "Are you all here?"

He still loves and protects his younger brothers and sisters very much.

When Zhu Jingjing saw her, she immediately came over to her. Regardless of the way the princess tried to stop her with her eyes, she said to Zhu Biao, "Brother, I lost my virginity!"

(End of this chapter)