Smuggling Daming

It's rare to have time to spend time with his family, but he saw Wu Shan poking his head outside the restaurant. Zhou Zhong wanted to ignore him, but Wu Shan, who is usually very clever, looked very blank at this time, and was still waiting outside and refused to leave. Zhou Zhong was very annoyed, but at this time Jinxuan also found Wu Shan outside, and looked at the annoyed husband-in-law, then smiled helplessly, and then said softly to Zhou Zhong: "Your husband, go if you have something to do, there is a concubine here. Here it is!"

Zhou Zhong also knew that since Wu Shan dared to disturb his family when they were eating, there must be something very important, so he could only say to Jinxuan with an apologetic face: "I wanted to accompany you well, but I didn't To think of being interrupted by such mundane things, I'm so incompetent as a husband and father."

"Hehe, my husband is in a high position now, so he is naturally involved in government affairs. It is very rare to be able to take time out of his busy schedule to accompany us for a while. Sister Jinxuan and I will not blame you. As for Xia Xia, she is now I only focus on eating, and I won't pay attention to you until I'm full!" At this time, Lingyun also said with a smile.

Hearing Lingyun's words, Zhou Zhong looked at his daughter's eating appearance which was very similar to his own when he was a child, and immediately smiled silently, winked at Jinxuan and Lingyun, and then left the restaurant gently. Wu Shan who was outside had been waiting anxiously for a long time, and now seeing Zhou Zhong coming out, he hurriedly said, "My lord, the imperial court..."

"Okay, go talk with me in the study. When I eat with my family in the future, even if the sky falls, I can't barge in again!" Before Wu Shan could finish speaking, he was interrupted softly by Zhou Zhong.

Although Zhou Zhong's voice was not heavy, Wu Shan was taken aback.After all, he has been with Zhou Zhong for so long.Naturally, he knows the temper of the governor.Knowing that Zhou Zhong must be very angry now, but he also feels very wronged. If it is not a big matter, he would not dare to enter and leave the inner courtyard of the Governor's Mansion at will, let alone disturb the Governor's family for dinner.

After arriving in the study, Zhou Zhong sat down and took a sip of tea before he asked, "What happened to the imperial court that made you come to me in such a panic?"

"My lord, something really big happened this time!" Hearing Zhou Zhong's question, Wu Shan didn't care about his grievances, and immediately told the news he had just received, and Zhou Zhong had just heard the news related to this matter. When a person was named, he was also shocked. No wonder Wu Shan came here in such a hurry. It turned out that something really happened.

It turned out that Wu Shan had just received the news from the capital that Zhengde suddenly transferred an instructor named Jiang Bin from the general school to his side some time ago. together.Zhengde also obeyed Jiang Bin's words, and even Qian Ning couldn't compare with Jiang Bin for a while.

Originally, it was fine for Zhengde to favor Jiang Bin.After all, there were quite a few favorites around Zhengde, but this Jiang Bin didn't know why he went crazy, and he boasted to Zhengde every day that the military strength of the frontier army was unparalleled, which was far from comparable to that of the Beijing camp. The frontier troops from the four towns of Liaodong, Xuanfu, Datong, and Yansui were actually going to be transferred to Beijing. It was useless to persuade Li Dongyang, a scholar of the cabinet, and others. Was transferred to the capital.

Zhou Zhong is naturally very familiar with Jiang Bin, the person who influenced Zhengde's life and destiny. After all, Zhengde's death is also inextricably linked with this person. It is not an exaggeration to say that without Jiang Bin, he would have a strong physique. Zhengde will never die in his prime of life. After all, an emperor like Zhengde who dislikes government affairs, eats, drinks and has fun every day, and likes to practice martial arts when he has nothing to do, is absolutely in line with the way of health preservation, and he can live at least five or sixty years old.

It's a pity that because of Jiang Bin's influence, Zhengde died in Nanjing for no apparent reason when he was just over 30 years old. According to official history, he fell into the water and died of an illness. There is no problem in winter swimming in the water, how could it be possible to die of illness just because of falling into the water once, and when Zhengde died, only Jiang Bin and others were by his side, and even outsiders didn't know when he died, there are simply too many doubts .

According to the original history, Jiang Bin should have gotten acquainted with Zhengde a few years ago, and then called the wind and rain in the capital, overpowering Qian Ning to become Zhengde's number one favorite, but because of Zhou Zhong's influence, Jiang Bin lost his progress. Zhou Zhong also left Jiang Bin behind, thinking that the other party would not get acquainted with Zhengde as he did in history, but he did not expect that the inertia of history was so great that he had clearly brought the history of Ming Dynasty into a But in the end, Jiang Bin's rise could not be prevented, and Zhengde still transferred the four towns of the frontier army to the capital as in history. In this way, Jiang Bin would have a reliance, and his power would naturally be even better.

Thinking of this, Zhou Zhong couldn't help sighing. Seeing Wu Shan still standing carefully in the study, he waved his hand to let him back down. After all, such a big thing happened, he needed to be alone for a while.Wu Shan also knew Zhou Zhong's habit, so he exited the study carefully and closed the door gently.

Zhou Zhong sat behind the desk, tapping his fingers unconsciously on the table, which was his habitual action when thinking.Speaking of which, Jiang Bin is notorious in the history books, but after Zhou Zhong travels, he finds that the records in the Ming history books are not completely trustworthy, such as Jiao Fang, although this old man is very disgusted with the southern officials, and he once joined forces with Liu Jin , but generally speaking, he is still a person who cares about the country and the people. When he was an official, he was also a capable official. At least he could benefit one party. The records are far apart, so there should be too many descriptions of Jiang Bin in the history books.

However, although the records about Jiang Bin in the history books cannot be counted, at least one thing is correct, that is, after Jiang Bin gained power, he first fought for power with Qian Ning, and then took advantage of the opportunity of King Ning's rebellion to kill Qian Ning in one fell swoop. Even the famous Eight Tigers like Zhang Yong were suppressed by Jiang Bin, making Jiang Bin Zhengde's most trusted person.

Speaking of which, although Zhou Zhong is Zhengde's brother, his identity has not been made public. On the surface, Zhou Zhong is also Zhengde's favorite minister. In this way, Zhou Zhong worried that Jiang Bin would be like Qian Ning and work hard on his work. He was excluded in front of Zhengde. Although he and Zhengde were brothers, he was far away from the capital after all, and he hadn't seen Zhengde once in a few years. In this way, the relationship between the two was only maintained by the blood relationship. There will always be a little indifference, and Zhou Zhong has money and people in his hands, so he can be said to be the most qualified person in Daming to rebel. If Zhengde is persuaded by Jiang Bin and becomes suspicious of himself in the future, it will be troublesome.

In addition to worrying about his own safety, Zhou Zhong is also worried about Zhengde. Speaking of which, since Zhengde knew that he had a younger brother who was a compatriot living in the world, his whole person has also undergone great changes. It is impossible for him to have children, so he doesn't pay much attention to government affairs. Anyway, the throne will fall into the hands of his uncle's cousins ​​or nephews in the future, so to him, it doesn't matter whether Daming is good or bad.

But now it was different. Zhou Zhong's appearance gave him infinite hope. After all, they were brothers, and the two were almost identical in blood. In this way, Zhou Zhong's son was actually no different from his son.It was precisely because of Zhou Zhong that Zhengde felt that he had an heir to the throne. He would just adopt a child from his own brother to be the prince in the future. If he died early, he could pass the throne to Zhou Zhong at worst.

It is precisely because of this that Zhengde changed his previous absurdity and slowly began to focus on government affairs, such as the promotion of two high-yield crops, sweet potato and corn, support for Zhou Zhong's overseas layout, and military academy The opening of the Ming Dynasty and so on, these are Zhengde's efforts to change the status quo of Daming.

However, although Zhengde is slowly changing, from the perspective of personality, he is still a person who lacks self-control. He still likes to have fun and cannot withstand any temptation. Moreover, Zhengde is very emotional, and he is easily attracted by those close to him. Left and right, it is precisely because of Zhengde's character that once the favored ministers around him gain power, they can easily become powerful ministers who control the government.

Now Jiang Bin has become the closest courtier to Zhengde. According to the information obtained by Wu Shan, now Zhengde and Jiang Bin often go in and out together. Both of them wear the same armor. Emperor, who is Jiang Bin.In addition, in order to cater to Zhengde, Jiang Bin secretly searched for many beautiful women and sent them to the Leopard Room. As a result, Zhengde returned to his original absurd appearance. Although he still occasionally intervenes in the government, he is not as diligent as before.

Thinking of this, Zhou Zhong couldn't help sighing. Originally, Zhengde had been slowly correcting himself. Unfortunately, he met Jiang Bin, a bad friend again. As a result, all the roles he played before are now in vain, and if Jiang Bin is allowed to act like this again Go on, I am afraid that the absurd Emperor Zhengde in history will appear again, and history will go on the original track.

In addition, Zhou Zhong is still worried about another thing, that is, Zhengde has now transferred the frontier troops from Xuanfu and other four towns to the capital. According to the time, Zhengde's departure from Xuanfu in history is about to happen Yes, it is said that the reason why Zhengde left was because Jiang Bin told Zhengde that there were many beauties among the musicians in the Xuanfu, but Zhengde ran over in a hurry, so he met Liu Liangnv there, that is, folk The legendary Sister Li Feng, who just doesn't know what Sister Li Feng looks like, can become Zhengde's most beloved woman? (To be continued..)