Jinyi Night Walk

Zhang Rui, Minister of the Ministry of Industry, Xie Gui, Commander of the Henan Guard, and a group of officials who replaced the officials in Peiping have left Beijing by order, but Xia Xun has not moved yet.

Because the last time the court captured the King of Zhou for the crime of treason, they did not use some upright means. Instead, they announced with great fanfare that Cao Guogong Li Jinglong was going to patrol the border in the north. Using such a method is unavoidable to be ridiculed, and the king of Zhou has always had a good reputation, so this kind of behavior is even more disgusting.

Zhu Yunfen, Huang Zicheng, Fang Xiaoru and others also felt the pressure of public opinion. This time, they have taken many measures against Beiping, seizing military power, taking away soldiers and horses, and replacing officials. After a series of measures, they will surely be upright Brightly subdued King Yan, so he didn't want to let the notorious Jin Yiwei interfere again and ruin their reputation, so he was a little noncommittal about Luo Kedi's plan, and it has not yet been decided whether Xia Xun can make it.

Before Xia Xun left, another big event happened in Beijing.

Qi Wang Zhu Bo was deprived of his title and deposed as a commoner.

According to the strategy of Huang Zicheng, Fang Xiaoru and others, they first want to reduce the power of King Yan, adjust the soldiers of King Yan, and then replace all the officials in the Military, Political and Judicial Department of Beiping. Go back and take down all the vassal kings who may sympathize with, respond to, or support King Yan, and finally eradicate King Yan's confidant trouble in one fell swoop.

According to their plan, Qi Wang Zhu Bo would have had at least a few more months of comfortable life." But Qi Wang Zhu Bo himself couldn't wait to send it to his door, and he took the initiative to ask for an order to return to Beijing to meet the emperor.

He is the only Uncle Wang, Zhu Yunpo is not afraid of him" and agreed.

Who knows, Zhu Bo came to Beijing to ask for money.

The royal residence he built originally only said that the Ministry of Household Affairs would delay it for a while, but this delay was delayed until his father Zhu Yuanzhang passed away. Once Zhu Yuanzhang died, Zhu Yun's grave was "waiting for prosperity". Anyway, no matter what it was, he They all want to be unconventional” and the emperor’s grandfather is different, there are more places to spend money, and he has reduced the number of tax collectors, and there are more tax evasions. It was a bit tight, the Ministry of Households had to eat enough food, and the dispatch could not be made, so the money owed to King Zhu Bo of Qi had to be postponed indefinitely.

Zhu Bo was annoyed, and when he returned to Beijing, the first thing he did was to go to Xiaoling to cry at the grave. "At Xiaoling, King Qi finished crying for his father and his mother." Then he wiped away his tears and ran to the palace to meet his nephew. The emperor clamored for money.

Zhu Yunfen was very depressed: I used to be the grandson of the emperor, so it’s okay to be polite to you uncles, but now I’m the emperor. Would you dare to replace my imperial grandfather sitting in the Dragon Court?

This time, Luo Kedi seized the opportunity. King Qi was the "rebel target" he focused on training at the beginning. Luo Kedi had already collected all kinds of criminal evidence, but he never seized the opportunity to present it. Wang played a rogue in front of Emperor Jianwen, crying for his father and mother, embarrassing Emperor Jianwen, Luo Kedi immediately reported King Qi's illegal behavior in Qingzhou to Zhu Yunfen, and handed him a thick stack of prank materials .

Zhu Yunfen was overjoyed when he saw the grave: he made a rare decision, and without calling his think tanks to discuss, he ordered the king of Qi, Zhu Bo, to be demoted to a commoner, put under the custody of Jin Yiwei, and sent to Fengyang High Wall for custody soon. Send someone to search his home in Qingzhou, Shandong, and send his whole family to Fengyang to be imprisoned. Zhu Yunfen's action is really vigorous and resolute, quite similar to the thunderous method of Emperor Hongwu when he punished corruption Feng Fan, by the time Fang Xiaoru, Huang Zicheng and others got the news, the imperial decree from Zhu Yun's grave had already left Nanjing.

Xia Xun waited all day in Jinyiwei for the news that he was sent north, but before he left, King Qi was sent here as a prisoner.Xia Xun thought for a long time, although he and King Qi only used each other, after all, there is still friendship between old friends. When he went back to Qingzhou, King Qi also treated each other with courtesy. , When I was in Qingzhou, I was taken care of by King Qi, although King Qi is now a prisoner, but since he is imprisoned in Jinyiwei, I can't ignore him, I want to... go and see King Qi."

Luo Kedi frowned and said: "It's good that you know the truth and value righteousness, but..." He pondered for a moment, and then said: "Then go, your status is ultimately inferior to those high officials in the court, even if you go Seeing King Qi, there will be no consequences." "Thank you, my lord." Xia Xun's thanks are indeed sincere, and he knows that even though King Qi Zhu Bo is locked in Jinyiwei now, Luo Qian's affairs can cover the sky with one hand , but promised him to meet a deposed prince, he still took some risks. Although Xia Xun had already made a decision about his future, he was indeed grateful to Luo Kedi, who valued and promoted him wholeheartedly. of. ,

Xia Xun went to see Zhu Bo, and only brought some food and a quilt.The cell is a gloomy and cold place, even in the scorching summer, the place can’t be warmed up, not to mention the late autumn is coming to an end, the weather is damp and cold, and Jin Yiwei’s cell has not been imprisoned for many years, the beds and bedding inside are rotten, even if it is an ordinary It would be difficult for a prisoner to stay. Although Zhu Bo was once a prince, he only had these food and clothing at the moment, which was the most practical for him.

"Common Qi, our Master Baihu has something to ask you, so I can answer it!" The cell boss didn't care whether the prisoner was Feng Zilong or not, so he yelled loudly, bowed his head to Xia Xun's favor, and said flatteringly: "My lord, please, it's too dark here, and the ground is uneven, so be careful where you step."

Xia Xun walked in carefully, and said to the cell boss: "Okay, you go out and guard." It recorded the prince's python robe, with disheveled hair, wearing a moon-white small dress, sitting on a pile of straw.

"Yang Xu, it's you!"

With the help of the weak light, Zhu Bo suddenly saw that it was Fu Xun who was coming, and he jumped up in surprise and joy, and rushed to the prison door, holding on to the fence tightly.

Seeing him in a state of distress, Xia Xun couldn't help but sighed with compassion: "My lord, you're so good, why did you come to Beijing? Now that you've ended up in this situation..." Qi Wang Zhu Bo's face contorted, and he said in an evil voice: "Who knew that little..."

He suppressed the fire, and then said viciously: "Who knew that the emperor is so cruel and merciless, that for a small crime, he would abandon the orphan and make him a commoner." Xia Xun was silent for a moment, eating and holding the still warm food in his arms Passed in the roll of quilt, and sighed softly: "The prince's crimes may be said to be degrading, but the disposal may not be proper. Please rest assured, the prince, just go to Fengyang to live for a few years. Maybe one day the emperor will change his mind." You can let the prince go back."

Zhu Bo let out a laugh, shook his head, and his eyes were filled with tears: "You know the pines and cypresses in the cold, and you can see the truth in adversity. My nephew who is full of benevolence and righteousness is not as good as..." He gritted his teeth and said nothing. No matter what he said, his heart was already full of remorse. For his own remorse, he is a dumb man who eats coptis, so he can't express his suffering.

Zhu Bo regretted it, not for anything else, but because he went to Beijing to ask for the money to build the palace on purpose.Some of Zhu Yuanzhang's sons are good and some are evil, some are cruel and some are heroic, but none of them are idiots. Zhu Yun's tomb cut down Zhou Fan, and the ulterior motives are really the king of Yan. Zhu Bo has already seen some clues to this point. Going to Beijing to ask for money, deliberately playing a rogue, is actually using a method used by princes and ministers who have been feared by emperors since ancient times: self-pollution.

In order to dispel Liu Bang's vigilance, Xiao He deliberately accepted bribes and gambled, forced to buy land, and violated the king's law. He did this to make Liu Bang feel that he was greedy for comfort and had no ambitions.Zhu Bo did this to dispel Zhu Yunfen's wariness towards him, thinking that Zhu Bo was short-sighted and had no ambition to plot the world at all.

But he didn't know that Zhu Yunfen had such a big appetite, and he was not only planning for King Yan, nor was he planning for this life.If you don't, he's worried about your son's rebellion. If your son doesn't, he's worried about your other son's rebellion. In short, he wants to do it once and for all. Except for the flesh and blood passed down by his father Zhu Biao, all Zhu Yuanzhang's descendants All of them will be demoted to common people, and they will forever lose the chance to aspire to the imperial power. The only difference is who to cut first and then whom.

Now that Zhu Bo himself has come to his door, and there is indeed evidence of wrongdoing in the hands of the court, isn't that self-inflicted?

There are two people, one inside the prison and one outside the prison, one is full of worries, the other is bitter and outspoken, silent for a while, they can only sigh, in this lonely and cold prison, the sigh is so helpless, so desolate...

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The news that Qi Wang Zhu Bo was demoted to a commoner angered Dai Wang Zhu Gui. Dai Wang Zhu Gui and Qi Wang Zhu Bo once obeyed orders from Yan Wang Zhu Di, and they were brothers who fought side by side in the Northern Expedition to Mongolia.Moreover, the king of Qi, Zhu Bo, was also a martial artist, and the acting king, Zhu Gui, was also a martial artist. The two princes were violent masters.

The last time the court found no real evidence, it only cut off a prince based on the words of the second son of King Zhou, which already made Zhu Gui very dissatisfied. If it weren't for his cronies to appease him again and again, he asked him to wait for King Yan to clarify his attitude before making a decision , he had already written a letter accusing the court of unfair law enforcement.It has not been a few days since the petition for the king of Zhou was submitted, and the king of Zhou has no hope of getting it back from Yunnan, and the king of Qi was demoted to Jimin again. The first emperor was buried in the earth for less than half a year. The emperor wanted to do something to his uncles. What?

The Dai Wang was furious, and immediately wrote a stern memorial, and sent someone to the capital quickly, denouncing the emperor for ignoring the kinship, making things difficult for the kings and uncles, and even boldly ridiculing Zhu Yunfen's hypocrisy, Back then, he swore in front of the late emperor that he would treat his relatives kindly and convince others with virtue. Before the late emperor's bones were cold, he reneged on his promise and became fat.

After reading the memorandum written by Dai Wang Zhu Gui, Zhu Yun's face was burning hot. He tore up the memorandum into pieces in anger, patted the imperial case and shouted: "The Dai Wang despises the court and me, and must be severely punished, everyone! Sir, please don’t persuade me, I must severely punish the acting king, otherwise, where is the dignity of the court, and where is my dignity?”

Huang Zicheng didn't expect that the original good plan would turn into such a mess.But he didn't know that behind the reaction of King Qi on behalf of the king, there were all the reasons why Daoyan persuaded King Yan to resist the decree of King Zhou and ask for amnesty. The fire in Zhu Fan's heart was suppressed and suppressed again and again, and sooner or later it became an internal injury, and it couldn't be vented.

Huang Zicheng frowned and pondered for a while, feeling that it was an unchangeable fact that King Qi became a prisoner, and the move to cut down the vassals was bound to be impossible to implement slowly.However, he originally didn't want Jin Yiwei to intervene in the affairs of Beiping, but now King Qi and Dai Wang have provoked successively, disrupting the steps of the imperial court to cut down the vassal. Go to Peiping for internal response.

Zhu Yunfen was slapped severely by Dai Wang's memorial, which made him feel ashamed. Now he only wants to cut Dai Wang, and he will naturally agree to this bad breath.

Dai Wang is usually domineering and domineering, and there are indeed many illegal acts in the vassal. Once a lot of pigtails are caught, the imperial emissary is instructed the next day to accuse Dai Wang of greed, cruelty and illegal behavior.Emperor Jianwen acted resolutely, and immediately issued a public edict to abolish the acting king Zhu Gui Wang Jue, and the whole family moved to Shu, and handed over to Zhu Bang, the king of Shu, under strict supervision.

In fact, although the Dai Wang was arrogant, he dared not rebel.

Zhu Gui was only three years older than Zhu Yunfen. When they were young, the two went to school and played together. In Zhu Gui's impression, this nephew who was only three years younger than him was gentle, humble, mature, honest and simple.He thought that the emperor's nephew would do nothing to him if he reprimanded him like an elder, but he didn't know that this scolding would directly destroy his throne.

He was in Datong, Shanxi, and he didn't know that he was going to take his wife and child with him soon, and the whole family went to Sichuan to find Zhu Chun, the eleventh brother, for a meal.

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In the left side hall of Kunning Palace, [-] or [-] young girls from the families of princes and princes are attending classes. These are all girls who have not left the court. The oldest is sixteen or seventeen years old, and the youngest is eleven or twelve years old. They are all young girls. , The moon is beautiful.

Xu Ming'er is also inside. The little Princess Ming'er is eleven years old this year. It's about to celebrate the New Year. After the New Year, she will be a 12-year-old girl. Zhongshan King Xu Da died early. The elder brother is like a father. Xu Huizu thinks that the little girl Gradually growing up, she couldn't be crazy all day long, so she was sent to the palace to learn the etiquette knowledge of her daughter's family from the female officer of the Shangyi Bureau every day.

While class was in session, Mrs. Zheng from Shangyi Bureau suddenly barged in. Mrs. Zheng was serious and rigid, and the girls from the Duke’s family were a little afraid of her. When they saw her coming, they immediately became more honest, and quickly put on a face. With a gentle and virtuous appearance, I am afraid that Zheng Shangyi will find fault with her.

Holding a ruler, Zheng Shangyi walked past the girls with a straight face, stopped at the end of the hall, nodded with satisfaction, her tense face relaxed a little, and the girl quietly breathed a sigh of relief when she saw this.Zheng Shangyi turned her gaze, and suddenly stared at a fourteen or fifteen-year-old girl and asked, "Chang Juan, what are the two religions of my daughter's family?"

This Chang Juan is another daughter of Chang Yuchun, Duke of E. When Zheng Shangyi asked her, she quickly replied: "First, teach her to be silent and not to gossip; second, teach her to be simple and not to embellish her appearance."

Zheng Shangyi said with a straight face: "You just got married, and you just got married last month. You haven't become a woman yet. Why do you pay so much attention to grooming? You have a sachet around your waist, and it's embroidered with gold and jade!", Chang Juan Her pink face was flushed, and she quickly took off the sachet and put it in her bosom. Xu Ming'er, who was standing behind her, quickly hid her purse when she heard it. Taking a peek, Zheng Shangyi didn't notice it, so she couldn't help sticking out her tongue.Unexpectedly, this action of sticking out her tongue was noticed by Zheng Shangyi. Zheng Shangyi put on a straight face, and said again: "Xu Miaojin, tell me how your daughter's housewife looks like."

"Ah?" Xu Ming'er said with a bitter face, "Shangyi, it's been less than a month since I entered the palace to study rituals."

Zheng Shangyi shouted: "Back!" Xu Ming'er coughed with a small mouth, and said without looking sideways: "Every woman should first learn how to stand up and stand up. The only thing to do is to be chaste, clean and chaste, chaste and chaste. Rong. Don't turn your head when you walk, don't lift your lips when you speak, don't move your knees when you sit, don't shake your skirt when you are standing, don't laugh when you are happy, and don't raise your voice when you are angry.

There is nothing wrong with ordinary life, and the quiet place is deep.Seldom come to the front of the hall, no peeping outside, don't listen to obscene voices, don't look at evil looks, although brothers are close, don't sit at the same table, you must know men and women, whether to give or not to kiss..."

"Huh?" Zheng Shangyi glanced at her in surprise, his serious expression softened a lot, and said, "Women are married, back!"

Xu Ming'er coughed again, tilted her head slightly, thought for a moment, and then said loudly: "When a woman gets married, the husband is the master. The husband is compared to the sky, and the uprising is light. The husband is strong and the wife is soft, and love is due to each other. Treat each other at home. , Respect as a guest..." Share joys and sorrows, share wealth and poverty, die in the same coffin, live together in clothes...", "Okay, don't need to memorize. ", Zheng Shangyi smiled and said to the girls of the lord's family: "Look, Xu Miaojin can memorize "The Analects of Confucius" backwards in less than a month after entering school, you should learn from her.All right, you guys take a rest for a while, and then continue with the class. "

Zheng Shangyi left in satisfaction. As soon as she left, the group of young ladies immediately changed their appearance, and suddenly gathered around Xu Ming'er, chirping like a flock of sparrows: "Ming'er, thanks to your good idea, even Zheng Shangyi has concealed it." Xu Ming'er said triumphantly: "That's right, I just need to do a little trick, and I'm afraid I won't be able to fool her." Chang Juan took off the shawl from her shoulder, and the shawl It is densely packed with small characters, written neatly and beautifully, at first glance it looks like fine hua patterns, if you don't look carefully, you really don't know that it is a row of words, Chang Juan said: "Don't forget that you promised Yes, take me to visit Mochou Lake, and invite me to Yuejiang Tower for dinner."

Xu Ming'er smiled and said: "Got it, cheapskate." She waved her hand and said boldly: "Not only you are invited, but everyone in this hall is counted as one, and I invite everyone!" There was a burst of cheers, and at this moment, Princess Baoqing ran in. She was still young and had not yet entered school. Princess Baoqing squeezed into the crowd, grabbed Xu Minger's sleeve, and said reluctantly, "Sister Minger, Your Majesty yell at me."

Xu Ming'er bent down to pick her up, and said with a smile: "Are you going to be naughty again in Jinshen Palace? Didn't I tell you not to go there in the future? Now it's not your father who is the emperor, but your nephew. You can't ask your nephew to coax you to play."

Princess Baoqing pursed her lips and said, "I didn't ask him to play with me. I went to catch grasshoppers in the grass, and when I heard the loud noise in the hall, I ran over to have a look, and he yelled at me to go away.", Xu Ming'er hugged her and walked aside, and asked in a low voice, "What's wrong with the emperor, did someone make him angry?"

Princess Baoqing scratched her head and said: "It seems that there is an old man with a white beard who said that King Zhou and King Qi should not be cut off, and that he should not order King Dai to be arrested and his family to move to Bashu..." Xu Ming Er raised his brows, and his face changed a little: "Baoqing, please make it clear, the emperor wants to arrest the acting king, why?"

Princess Baoqing said blankly: "How do I know?" Xu Ming'er thought about it, and the more she thought about it, the more worried she became, and said, "Let's go, let's go to the emperor." Princess Baoqing timidly said: "Sister, we don't want to Go, he yells so fiercely!" Xu Ming'er's pretty face was covered with frost, and said: "No, I must ask clearly, for no reason, why did he arrest my second sister and second brother-in-law! ",! ~!