high official

Chapter 1015 Powerless
"Father said so, the only thing I can do is to die." Facing the emperor's censure, Zhu Gaochi wept and said, "No matter how wolf-hearted my son is, I can't harm my flesh and blood brothers!"

"Yes, Grandpa Huang." At this time, Zhu Zhanji had to stand up and speak for his father: "The most urgent task now is to quickly order Liu Sheng to send troops to meet the second uncle, and don't let him make any mistakes!"

"Don't cry like a cat here!" Wang Zhao said with red eye circles and full of grief and indignation: "It's too late to say anything now, I'm afraid my second brother is in danger!" Then he leaned over and cried bitterly: "Royal father! , The second brother has probably been killed by them! Then Wang Xian is Hei Jian, and they conspired to kill the second brother! Father, you have to avenge the second brother!"

In King Zhao's view, the emperor would probably send the prince down with his crying.Anyway, with the excuse of a one-month appointment, Zhu Di should be able to make up his mind this time.

"Shut up!" Unexpectedly, Zhu Di yelled at him irritably, making King Zhao tremble in fright.

"You pretend I don't know, what good intentions do you have?" Zhu Di said in a cold voice, "The second child is still alive and dead, if he really can't escape this, you can't absolve yourself of the blame!"

"What the father said, the son is the only one who dies..." Zhao Wang said with a full face: "I just said a few words of justice for the second brother, is there something wrong?"

"Do you dare to say that you don't know anything about the good things he did?" Zhu Di raised Wang Xian's memorial and wanted to throw it to Zhao Wang, but when his hand was in the air, he stopped abruptly!Zhu Di looked at the two sons coldly, gritted his teeth and said, "Let's not talk about the second brother, your eldest brother, you are all brutes with no conscience, no father and no relatives! Cough cough cough..."

As soon as Zhu Di got excited, he couldn't help coughing violently. The sound of the cough affected the internal organs, and the pain made the emperor dizzy, and a bloody smell wafted from his mouth.Zhu Di covered his mouth with a yellow handkerchief, and Zheng He hurriedly pushed the emperor's palace acupuncture point again. Zhu Di coughed for a while before calming down.

"Your Majesty, take care of the dragon's body!" The princes and ministers hurriedly comforted in unison.

"Don't worry, I won't be pissed off by you!" Zhu Di clutched the handkerchief tightly, and said with bruises on his forehead, "There's no need to pretend to beg for death from me one by one! When the time comes, I will kill you all." These rebels!"

The prince and King Zhao bowed their heads, not daring to say a word.

"Get off!" Zhu Di tried his best to say these three words, then closed his eyes and curled up on the recliner, panting heavily.

The princes and ministers looked at each other, and seeing the crown prince and King Zhao got up and retreated, they also left the Hall of Zhaohe.

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Zheng He was the only one left in the hall to accompany the emperor.

Zhu Di rested for a while before he opened his eyes weakly, and Zheng He hurriedly brought the ginseng soup.

Zhu Di shook his head slowly, signaling him to change the tea.

Zhu Di took the tea and rinsed his mouth, but the water that spit into the spittoon was light red.

Seeing this, Zheng He's expression darkened, and he said in a low voice, "Your Majesty, are you coughing up blood again?"

"..." Zhu Di nodded slowly, as if his strength had been drained, he said, "I don't know if I can survive this winter."

"It's definitely possible!" Zheng He hurriedly comforted the emperor softly, "It's not the first time that the emperor has been sick in winter, and it will be cured as soon as spring begins."

"I know my body, even if I can survive this winter, it will be several years." Zhu Di shook his head dejectedly, and said with a sneer, "If I were ten years younger, which one of them would dare to challenge me?!"

Hearing the emperor's words, Zheng He also felt sad. Indeed, as the emperor was old and sick, the court situation was no longer as stable as Mount Tai.The minds of the ruling and opposition parties have begun to become active, and everyone is planning for their future...

Zhu Di looked at Zheng He, who was also aging, and laughed at himself: "This emperor is a failure. My son doesn't take me seriously, and my ministers dare to challenge me!"

Zheng He didn't know how to answer, so he could only comfort Zhu Di in a soft voice: "The emperor has the final say in the Ming Dynasty, who dares to challenge you?"

"Huh..." Zhu Di snorted coldly: "They see that I am old and dying, and they have long since ignored me." His eyes fell on the memorial: "I didn't expect that the second child To be so frantic and insane, to dare to openly instigate against our army and kill local officials!" He said angrily, "Of the three sons, he is said to be the most like me, and if I say too much, I will believe it! Knowing that he is simply an arrogant fool, there is no shadow of me!"

"Your Majesty, you can't just listen to one side of the story." Zheng He said softly.

"I've noticed some things a long time ago, but I just don't want to think the worst about my son. Wang Xian's memorial is nothing more than confirming my guess." Zhu Di threw the memorial away as he spoke. into the fire!

The flames devoured the silk cover of the memorial in a blink of an eye. Zheng He looked at Zhu Di in surprise, not knowing what to say.

"But, that's my son!" Zhu Di's face was so ferocious in the light of the fire, he gritted his teeth and said, "How dare they deny him a way out!"

"..." Zheng He didn't want to say more, but he had to say: "Your Majesty, the King of Han just disappeared, Your Highness has his own destiny..."

"Don't comfort me. If I were them, I would never let the tiger go back to the mountain again. I was bitten by a snake instead of dying." Zhu Di said coldly.

Zheng He couldn't help asking softly, "Who are they referring to?"

"Prince! Wang Xian! Liu Sheng!" The names burst out from Zhu Di's teeth, and the emperor said murderously, "It's them! They must have done it!"

"Your Majesty..." Zheng He persuaded in a trembling voice, "It's about the state system, so don't jump to conclusions lightly! We still have to investigate clearly and let the facts speak for themselves!"

"Hmph, with Wang Xian's ability, what evidence can I find?!" Although there is no evidence, and he will never find any evidence, Zhu Di is sure that there must be a **** playing tricks here!You can't go wrong!But after the anger passed, Zhu Di was firmly nailed to the chair by the feeling of powerlessness from the bottom of his heart, and he could only let the feeling of powerlessness spread to every corner of his body.

"Then what should we do next?" Zheng He asked softly.

"Wait." Zhu Di looked at the memorial that had been burned to ashes, and said depressedly: "Since they have sung such a big play, there will naturally be an end. Let them sing and see what they can sing After speaking, Zhu Di looked at Zheng He and said, "Has your navy been transferred to the north?"

"I have already passed Yangzhou, and I will be able to arrive in Denglai within a few days." Zheng He hurriedly replied: "But I didn't bring enough infantry, let alone cavalry. I'm afraid I won't be able to do the landing." Zheng He's fleet, originally There are elite infantry and cavalry, but they were all transferred to the canal line by Zhu Di to protect the main artery of the imperial court.

"Secretize the coast of Shandong first, and don't allow them to enter the water." Zhu Di also knew that he couldn't force others to do what he wants, so he slowly ordered: "First cut off the water passage of the White Lotus Sect."

"Yes." Zheng He accepted the order with a nod, and asked again: "Shandong, do you need to send more troops?"

"Hey..." Zhu Di shook his head, and laughed at himself: "The emperor is almost as good as a hungry soldier. In the past two years, the imperial court has been short of money and used precious banknotes as military pay. Real money, I just ask them not to mutiny, how dare they work for them.”

"Then Shandong," Zheng He said in surprise, "is there really nothing the imperial court can do?"

"It's only temporary... I have already transferred Zhang Fu back, and Annan's soldiers will be withdrawn one after another." Zhu Di said with a gloomy expression, "Stop Annan's bottomless pit, and next year I can send [-] troops, with Zhang Fu in command , to pacify Shandong."

"That's good..." Zheng He said in his heart, the matter of the new year will not be delayed for too long.

"But the premise is that there will be no major disasters next year, but there will be no snow this winter, who knows what it will be like next year?" Unexpectedly, Zhu Di changed the subject, and said dejectedly: "Hey, the sky is not a holiday, and the sky is not in time. Take one step at a time."

"God bless Ming, God bless my emperor, there may not be a famine in the coming year, and everything will get better soon." Facing such a decadent and powerless emperor, what else could Zheng He say other than cheap comfort?
"I hope..." Zhu Di did not refuse Zheng He's consolation, even though he knew it was just consolation.The emperor closed his eyes tiredly and said, "I'm tired, really tired..."

There was silence inside and outside the Zhaohe Hall, only the north wind whistling wantonly.

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As soon as the battle between Liu Sheng and the White Lotus Sect was over, Wang Xian knew the situation.The result was no surprise. Most of the exhausted and centrifuged White Lotus Army was almost collapsed at the first touch. They had no decent resistance at all, and fled in all directions under Liu Sheng's fierce attack. It was completely unimaginable that this army had just defeated the mighty The King of Han Army!
Only the Qingzhou army of Tang Tiande's direct line was unwilling to give up Qingzhou, and stubbornly resisted Liu Sheng's attack.

An Yuanhou is worthy of being a famous general of a generation. Under his command, [-] troops repeatedly interspersed, smashing the stubborn Qingzhou army into a sieve, Liu Sheng took away the banner of the Chinese army, Ding Gugang was killed in battle, and Tang Tiande himself was injured by an arrow !
If Liu Xin hadn't led his younger soldiers to fight a bloody way to escape, Tang Tiande and his son would have been captured by Marquis Anyuan in the first battle!

Fortunately, Liu Sheng had other thoughts in his heart and did not lead his troops to chase after him. This allowed Liu Xin to gather up the remnants of the soldiers and take Tang Tiande, who was injured and unconscious, to the north to flee for his life.

At that time, Wang Xian was warming up the fire in the cave, and after listening to Dai Hua's report, he lost his spirits and said, "Just as others didn't expect the King of Han to lose so badly, I also didn't expect that Tang Tiande would lose everything in one battle! "

"Fortunately, Marquis Anyuan withdrew his troops in time, otherwise, if Tang Tiande and his son died in this scene, I am afraid that the Buddhist mother would not cooperate with us." Dai Hua said happily.

"Buddha mother..." Wang Xian saw the stunning beauty on the side of the water, and sighed softly: "Anyway, it shouldn't be difficult for her to subdue the White Lotus Sect now."

After finishing speaking, Wang Xian stood up, took the cloak and put it on his body, looked at the wind howling sky outside, and said in a deep voice, "Let's go too!"

"Yes!"

(End of this chapter)