King Luhuang of the Ming Dynasty: My father, Ming Taizu

Ye Shen was frightened by this sudden incident and his whole body began to tremble.

Wang and the old nanny were stunned. They came from a scholarly family, how could they have ever experienced such a thing?
Lu Zhu's words brought Ye Shen and his wife back from their shock. The old woman's eyes lit up when she saw her wife who had been away from home for almost a year.

Lu Zhu has been following Zhu Tan for nearly half a month. She was bullied by Zhu Tan in the palace before, but now she belongs to Zhu Tan from head to toe.

When he was in the mansion of Marquis Jianchang, he often heard from the servants how arrogant and domineering Marquis Jianchang was.

However, he had never thought of it this way. He wished Zhu Tan would be more arrogant, especially when he saw blood still dripping from his mother Wang's head. He even wanted Zhu Tan to kill those three people.

"Mother! Are you okay?"

Lu Zhu looked at the blood on Wang's head, then looked at her own injuries. She was so nervous that she didn't know where to put her hands. She subconsciously turned to look at Chu Tian for help.

Zhu Tan had been holding a medical kit in his hand. He walked to Wang's side and checked her injuries. He breathed a sigh of relief and comforted Lu Zhu, saying, "They are just flesh wounds. It's nothing serious."

As he spoke, he took out the medicine box, cleaned the rice grains and stains on it, then applied a little powder and wrapped Miss Wang's forehead with the gauze he made himself.

Although Ye Shen accused Li Guang of having a grudge against the emperor's uncle, he had never met Li Guang or the emperor's uncle.

He was only a seventh-rank alchemist and didn't even have the chance to fight against Li Guang and Zhu Tan.

So even though Zhu Tan was right in front of him, he didn't recognize that this was his uncle.

Seeing his daughter enter the palace after a year of "selection", Ye Shen calmed down and became even more surprised. Didn't his daughter enter the palace? How could she just leave whenever she wanted?
Who is this young man who is dressed in fine clothes and eats delicious food? What are the origins of those servants?
With a lot of doubts in his mind, Ye Shen still held back and said, "Hurry up and tell them to stop. Don't kill them."

Chu Pipa waved her hand, signaling Jia Zhang and others not to kill anyone, and then repeated what Lu Zhu had said before.

"what's the situation?"

Ye Shen: “…” As Wang spoke, she recounted what had happened, and Chu Tian became angrier and angrier.

Ye Xun, who was feared by countless corrupt officials in the court, had such a miserable family.

Not only was he living paycheck to paycheck, but he was also being taken advantage of, which made him feel very uncomfortable.

Zhu Tan thought this was a good opportunity to show off in front of Ye Qian and clear her name. She approached the debt collector and grabbed his hair:
"Okay, tell me who this person is. He was given to us by the late emperor himself. I know everything. Tell me!"

Zhu Tan grabbed the debt collector and slapped him on the face again and again, shouting, "Let me tell you, Du Cheng is my boss. Ask him yourself and don't piss him off. It's best to let us go now, or you'll be in trouble."

Zhu Tan felt that the two words "Du Cheng" were somewhat familiar, but he couldn't remember where.

When I went to Zhang Mao's mansion to attend a banquet yesterday, I didn't see any nobleman with the surname Du Cheng. I laughed immediately. Even if I knew, I wouldn't be afraid!
"Hit him, hit him, keep him alive, throw him out."

Jia Zhang and others punched again, this time even harder.

The three debt collectors were beaten to death and eventually driven out.

Zhu Tan wiped the blood off his palm, turned around, and clasped his fists towards Ye Shen.

"Master Ye, these people are all rats in the city. They dared to bully Master Ye. They deserve to die. However, today is a good day for me to go home. If they die, it will be bad."

Ye Shen blinked, not understanding what was going on. Qingzhu was talking about his parents?
Zhu Tan continued, "Bring the gift in, and consider it as a betrothal gift to Mr. Ye."

Zhang Laoliu brought a group of people and moved in from outside. There were twelve of them in total, and each of them was wrapped in red silk.

He opened the curtain and walked in.

In the two boxes, there was a stack of official silver neatly stacked, which glowed with a faint silver light under the sunlight.

The remaining boxes were filled with silk, headdresses, three kinds of meat, tea, gifts and so on, which left Ye Shen and his wife stunned.

Ye Shen was a scholar, and Wang had personally experienced the Three Books and Six Rites, so how could they not understand?

The gift sent by Zhu Tan was not only precious, but also had everything.

But when he saw these two things, the expression on his face became even gloomier.

A goose and two pairs of deerskins, this... this is a great gift for taking a concubine!

Although Wang came from a poor family, she was well-educated and realized that something was wrong.

Since Dayan was included in the betrothal gift, the best treatment would be to be a concubine. She couldn't help but look at her daughter Qingzhu and asked in a trembling voice, "Qingzhu, why do you want to be someone else's concubine?"

When Luzhu heard this, her face suddenly changed and then turned red. There was nothing she could do about it!

This was a marriage granted by the emperor himself, and Zhu Tan had destroyed her chastity, so it was a great fortune for her to become his concubine.

Chu Bosi finally reacted and realized this, and clasped his fists towards Ye Shenyi again.

"Mr. Ye, thank you very much for the emperor's marriage. I am really sorry to let you marry Miss Green Bamboo."

In fact, Zhu Youtang did not arrange a marriage for him, and Teng's status was higher than that of a concubine, so Zhu Tan did this in order to get close to Ye Shen.

Ye Shen is extremely powerful in the court. Even Li Guang was dismissed because of him. Now that he has Qingzhu as a reason, of course he has to tie him up.

Moreover, Qingzhu was the first woman he had seen since he came into this world, and everything about her would make him miss her unforgettable.

He didn't care about Qingzhu, which was why he came here today.

When Ye Shen heard that his daughter was going to be someone else's concubine, and that it was the emperor who wanted her, he suddenly didn't know what to do.

Wang was speechless and asked hesitantly, "Qingzhu, who arranged this marriage?"

Qingzhu was a little embarrassed.

Zhu Tan didn't want to embarrass Qingzhu, as he still remembered Qingzhu's gentle singing last night, so he took a step back and bowed to Ye Shen and his wife.

"Then call me son-in-law! I was born in Xingji. With the grace of my father and grandfather, I was canonized as Marquis Chang by the emperor. Now I am already a general."

Wang was stunned. This was a marquis, a first-level commander-in-chief. This was something that not ordinary people could compare to.

In this case, it was reasonable for him to take his daughter Qingzhu as his concubine.

Ye Shen felt that his hair stood up, and the hair on his whole body stood up, and he said in surprise: “Uncle Jianchang, are you Uncle Zhang?”

Ye Shen didn't even utter a word before spitting out a large amount of blood.

He first accused Li Guang and three members of the Zhang family. As a result, Li Guang was killed and two members of the Zhang family were also implicated.

In a blink of an eye, he became the son-in-law of Earl Jianchang.

If he didn't vomit blood, it would be a ghost. Wang and Lu Zhu both took a deep breath, and even Zhu Tan was stunned, thinking, is this too exaggerated?

His reputation is indeed very bad, but he has been working hard to redeem it!
At this time, the alley was already crowded with onlookers.

When everyone took out their gifts, everyone gasped.

Some people estimated that the price of those gifts was at least over 100,000 taels.

It is said that Mr. Ye, the old man, finally found a wealthy family.

When Zhu Tan introduced his identity, these people did not know the reputation of Earl Jianchang, but as citizens of the imperial capital, they also had a certain understanding of this political environment.

Perhaps after hearing about the level of officials in the Earl's Palace and the Governor's Palace, the people became even more excited.

Now seeing that Ye Shen was about to vomit blood, all kinds of discussions arose, and most people thought that Lord Ye Shen was overly excited and got carried away.

Before Ye Shen had time to breathe a sigh of relief, he heard the discussions of the neighbors around him.

It was over, everything was dark.

"Look, Master Ye fainted from excitement."

"Of course, if it were me, I would faint too!"

"I think this young man has great potential. The Ye family is really going to rise this time."

If Ye Shen heard this, he would probably be so angry that he would spit out blood.

Zhu Tan helped Ye Shen into the room. He was very familiar with emergency situations, so Ye Shen woke up quickly.

Ye Shen was completely confused, and felt that Emperor Hongzhi was joking with him.

She was attending Jianchangbo one second and marrying Jianchangbo the next. This is no joke.

Ye Shen didn't know the whole story, so he had such thoughts.

But things had already happened, he could not take his daughter back, nor could he go against the emperor's wishes.

Although Zhu Youtang is a kind person, he also has dignity!
Zhu Tan looked at Wang and Lu Zhu's worried eyes, smiled slightly, and said, "It's okay, Mr. Ye just has a rush of blood and qi, just take a breath and it will be fine. Zhang Laoliu, go out and get me some blood tonic."

Wang, who was unaware of the truth, became more and more satisfied with her future daughter-in-law.

Although his daughter seemed to be a concubine, Earl Jianchang treated his daughter very well, otherwise he would not value the Ye family so much!
Zhu Tan handed the gift list sent by Jia Zhang to Wang, which included not only a gift money, but also a dowry and a land deed.

Wang took a look and couldn't help but open her mouth wide.

The four-room house near the imperial city would cost at least ten thousand taels of silver as a betrothal gift!
Wang asked Ye Shen to look at the house deed and the gift list. As the head of the family, Ye Shen had no say in either the betrothal gift or the house.

Ye Shen also calmed down and raised a hand: "You and your daughter go first, I have something to say to Jianchang Bo."

Wang and Luzhu also looked worried, but they were worried about different things.

Luzhu naturally understood what Jian Changbo meant. He just hoped that the two of them would not get into a big fight.

"Marquis Jianchang, are you kidding me? Are you trying to embarrass me?"

The ancestor of the Ye family left with his men, clearly intending to make things clear. It would be easy for him to think that this was Earl Jianchang's revenge.

Zhu Tan said frankly: "Mr. Ye has wrongly blamed me. Half a month ago, the emperor gave me to be a concubine. At that time, Mr. Ye did not blame Li Guang and me! It was only after the incident with Li Guang that I learned about Mr. Ye's jewel in the palm of his hand. That's when I found out."

Ye Shen was stunned. In this way, it could rule out the suspicion that Zhu Tan deliberately provoked trouble to seek revenge.

But he really doesn't want to get married!
Although he was not a high-ranking official, he was an upright person. Especially when he was conserving floods in the south of the Yangtze River, he held up an umbrella for the people. As for Zhu Tan, there is no need to mention him!

The two were chatting! At this moment, there was a noisy sound outside the door. It was the debt collector who came back.

At this moment, the residents in the alley were alarmed and fled far away. This group of people were not vegetarians. There were more than a hundred of them, holding sticks in their hands, blocking Ye Shen's gate.

In today's incident, Zhang Wei and others were injured by Ding, a servant beside Shao Xi. In addition, Zhu Tan asked them to monitor Shao Xi, so Jia Zhang, Zhang Laoliu and others did not know the person who came.

The two had just had a fight and immediately started fighting.

Although Jia Zhang and his group were few in number, they had extremely rich combat experience. Even if they were fighting one against two, he was not afraid at all.

These men all had sticks in their hands, but they struck harder, using knives.

When Zhu Tan and Ye Shen heard the noise and came over, Jia Zhang's men had also been beaten to a pulp. More than thirty people fell to the ground, and blood had stained the floor and walls red. The alley was filled with a strong smell of blood.

Jia Zhang and Zhang Laoliu teamed up to kill Jiang Lun, who was in charge of grain, and were about to make the leaders bleed as well by breaking their limbs.

He saw Chu Tianxian at a glance and shouted loudly: "Master, Second Master, it's me! This is too outrageous! My name is Du Cheng!"

Chu Xian had long felt that the name Du Cheng was very familiar, and now when he saw him in person, he immediately remembered it.

This guy is a close confidant of Zhang Heling, the elder brother of the original owner of this body. The other guy is named Zhu Da, who is known as the left prime minister of Shouning Marquis Zhang Heling and is in charge of all the affairs of the palace.

When Zhu Tan approached, he saw Du Cheng with blood all over his face.

"What's going on? Don't you see where we are now?"

Du Cheng never expected to meet Zhu Tan here. Compared with his elder brother Zhang Heling, Zhang Yanling made him more afraid. This guy was really bold!
"Second Young Master, I'm here to collect a debt. Ye Qian has already given us our money, and now he wants to use this rotten rice to pay off the debt. This won't do! If you can't even do this, it will be a disgrace to you and the Second Young Master."

Zhu Tan said with a snort, "Do you have a pair of eyes on your head? You don't know Ye Shen, but he is my father-in-law from Taishan!"

Du Cheng shook his head repeatedly.

"This is an accident, an accident! Second Master, please forgive me, I really don't understand anything."

Ye Shen couldn't bear it any longer. The fight between Zhang Da and Xiao Zhang was a complete farce, but he was involved in this matter. If it got out, it would not be good for him.

But he was an official in the Imperial College after all, and couldn't help asking, "Your name is Du Cheng? I remember that you colluded with Zhu Da and secretly sold 900,000 salt permits, causing great losses to those merchants who took the Sino-French route."

Zhu Tan didn't hear anything. He was shocked by the 900,000 salt vouchers and blurted out, "Wait, 900,000 salt vouchers, why didn't I hear about it?"

Du Cheng's eyes immediately became vague, and he looked very unconfident. He didn't even dare to look into Zhu Tan's eyes.

The 900,000 salt permits originally belonged to my second uncle, but ended up in the hands of my eldest brother Zhang Heling. (End of this chapter)