high official

Chapter 628
After leaving the West Palace, Zhu Gaosui returned to his Prince Zhao's Mansion on Tingzi Street.During the Mongolian and Yuan Dynasties, the Privy Council and Yushitai Yamen, among the three central government offices, were located here.Emperor Yongle built the city of Beijing, and ordered several palaces to be erected on Tingzi Street, among which was Zhao Wangfu, which was bestowed on Zhu Gaosui.Today, other palaces are only rough in scale, but Zhao Wangfu has been basically completed. At least the area of ​​Zhu Gaosui's daily life is already beautifully carved and beautiful.

In the palace, all the beautiful eunuchs knelt down to welcome King Zhao when they saw him return to the palace. Zhu Gaosui stepped into the harem gracefully. Although the sun was scorching hot outside, the room was very cool. Around the palace, a number of hidden compartments are ingeniously arranged, in which are placed ice cubes dug from the Yongding River in winter and stored in the ice cellar until now.Of course, this method of cooling can only be used by top princes. For example, such a huge palace consumes two hundred cubic meters of ice a day, each square is two feet long and wide, and the cost alone costs one tael of silver.

That is to say, in order to keep the palace cool, it will cost 200 taels of silver a day.And it's not just this palace, King Zhao's main palace, study, bedroom and other places of daily activities must be kept cool at all times, so it costs more than a thousand taels of silver a day?Enough to live for ten middle-class families for one year...

While the rich wine and meat smell, the road with frozen bone.In the few decades since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the luxury of the princes has reached this level. How can the people not be poor and exhausted?
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Four handsome eunuchs in Chinese clothes stepped forward, and gently removed the prince's robe for King Zhao, and invited His Highness, who was wearing a gauze mid-sole, to enter the bathroom.In the bathroom, in the gorgeous white marble bathtub, there is milk bath soup sprinkled with flower petals.The eunuch, who only had wisps of beauty, removed his underwear for His Royal Highness, revealing the skin that bullied Saixue.

Zhu Gaoxu slowly sat down in the pool, enjoying the gentle rubbing and massage of the eunuchs, sweeping away all the heat and dust from the outside.

After taking a bath, Zhu Gaoxu put on an elegant embroidered silk robe. The silk was as thin as a cicada's wing, and it was made into clothes and worn on the body, like clouds and flowing water. The hem of the robe was also embroidered with colorful flowers. As His Royal Highness Zhao walked, the flowers on the Bees and butterflies seem to be dancing and lifelike.

Zhu Gaosui leaned on a gorgeous couch, unfolding an ancient book that he hadn't finished reading earlier.The beautiful eunuch served the chilled wine, and Zhu Gaosui picked up the crystal clear glass, took a sip, and continued to read his "Qing Jing Miao Jing".There was silence inside and outside the hall, not even the ubiquitous chirping of cicadas.

In this scorching summer, having a cool world is the most basic requirement of King Zhao.The so-called cool, in addition to cool, but also clean.So not only people have to be quiet, but even cicadas and frogs are not allowed to open their mouths.

Of course, this is not because the frogs are also afraid of King Zhao’s power and dare not open their mouths. It is because there are special eunuchs sticking sticky sticks everywhere in the palace. The frog in the house also had the same fate, so as not to disturb the purity of His Royal Highness Zhao Wang.

Zhu Gaosui was quietly reading a book when a young eunuch came in and reported softly, "My lord, Wei Wuque is here."

Zhu Gaosui frowned at first, but when he heard Wei Wuque's name, a faint smile could not help but appear on the corner of his mouth. "Let him in."

Not long after, Wei Wuque, a peerless and slender beauty in fluttering white clothes, entered the palace.

Zhu Gaosui leaned on the couch and said with a lazy smile, "Tian Cheng, why are you here?"

Feeling the coolness of the room, Wei Wuque sighed comfortably and said, "Something happened in the capital, so I came here to report to the prince."

Zhu Gaosui stretched out his hand to signal him to sit down by the couch, took Wei Wuque's hand, and said softly, "Thank you for your hard work."

Wei Wuque held King Han's hand instead, and said with a gentle smile, "For your big plan, it's nothing to work hard."

The little eunuch brought a glass of iced wine, and Wei Wuque then took out his hand, took the wine glass, and tasted it gracefully.

Zhu Gaosui looked at Wei Wuque's profile and movements obsessively, until Wei Wuque put down his wine glass, and then said softly: "I already know a general idea about the affairs of the capital, but I never expected that God would favor us so much and let Wang Xian wants to kill himself, and he also wants to take my elder brother into it."

"Not as optimistic as the prince thinks." Wei Wuque frowned slightly, "Wang Xian is as bold as a tiger and as cunning as a fox. He dares to do that, so he is sure."

"How sure is he?" Zhu Gaosui didn't believe it.

Wei Wuque then told Zhao Wang what happened in the East Palace that day.

After hearing this, Zhu Gaosui's expression became serious and he said: "So that's the case, if I let my father see their memorials first, I'm afraid they would have escaped this catastrophe."

"And the grandson has already entered Beijing," Wei Wuque said, "Speaking of which, I started half a day later than him, but he has a lot of followers, so I took the lead." Thinking of something, he said: "By the way, Our people took an urgent route of [-] miles, and should have been sent to the palace, but the emperor hasn’t responded yet?”

Zhu Gaosui shook his head, suddenly thought of a scene, sat up and said: "I remembered, it should have been sent to the palace, but was suppressed by the cabinet!" A hint of anger appeared on his handsome face as he spoke: You lied to me to say those things to open the window, and you played me like a fool!"

"What?" Wei Wuque asked.

Zhu Gaosui then told Wei Wuque what he had seen and heard in the cabinet.

"It should be." Wei Wuque agreed deeply: "My lord, you have to enter the palace quickly, get ahead of them, and expose this matter, so that even those in the cabinet will have to pay for it!"

"Hmm..." Zhu Gaosui nodded first, then rested his chin lightly, pondered for a while, and finally shook his head and said, "No, this is not in the interests of the king."

"How?" Wei Wuque asked puzzled.

"You don't know something." Zhu Gaosui told Wei Wuque what happened in Fengtian Hall today, and the conversation he had with the emperor in the apse, and said: "Do you think, which of these two things is right for me?" The benefits are great?"

"Of course it's about the prince." Wei Wuque was extremely clever, so he naturally understood it immediately after thinking about it: "The best thing about me is to tear Wang Xian into pieces, but as for the prince, at most he will be reprimanded by the emperor... …unless the emperor lets the king of Han supervise the country.”

"That's what I'm afraid of." Zhu Gaosui said lightly: "We help my second brother for our own sake, not to help him achieve a positive result. Once he supervises the country, won't we be dumbfounded?"

"Yes." Wei Wuque nodded, but thought to himself, killing Wang Xian would be more cost-effective than anything else.But although Zhao Wang looks gentle and elegant, his mind is extremely meticulous and vicious, and he dare not twist with him.

"And let my elder brother ban gold and silver in the capital..." Zhu Gaosui revealed a look of fascination: "I can't wait to see him mess up the capital and make all the officials and people who support him oppose him! My second brother can't clean up this mess. In the end I can only come forward...haha, everything will be decided in one fell swoop!"

"My lord is wise!" Wei Wuque complimented hastily.

"Tian Cheng, you will be my prime minister when the time comes." Zhu Gaosui reached out to caress Wei Wuque's face, but felt a layer of goosebumps. "What’s wrong with you?"

"It's so cold here." Wei Wuque sighed secretly, stretched out his hand to cover Zhu Gaosui's hand, and said with an expression of enjoyment, "Then I will thank Your Highness first..."

" Between us, is there any need to be polite?" Zhu Gaosui said with light in his eyes, "Serve Mr. Wei to take a bath."

"Yes." Zhu Gaoxu's eunuch respectfully invited Wei Wuque to take a bath in the bath just now. The bath has been replaced with another amber bath soup with peony petals floating on it.The eunuchs stripped Wei Wuque naked, and Wei Wuque sat in the bath, closed his eyes and asked them to scrub himself, but his expression was not as enjoyable as that of Zhao Wang, and his hands at the bottom of the pool were also tightly clenched into fists, revealing that Express the humiliation and pain in his heart.

Although Wei Wuque was as beautiful as a flower, he didn't like men. For the sake of the big plan in his heart, he couldn't commit himself to King Zhao. The humiliation in his heart can be imagined.But he told himself that those who achieve great things must not only be ruthless to others, but also ruthless to themselves.Only by enduring what ordinary people cannot bear can one become a superior person.So when he came out of the bath and put on pajamas that were as light as gauze, he had already adjusted his condition, followed the eunuch calmly into King Zhao's bedroom...

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Because Zhao Wang had his own calculations, when Zhu Zhanji entered Beijing the next day, the emperor didn't know what happened in the capital.Knowing that his grandson was here, Zhu Di was very happy and immediately asked him to meet him in the West Palace.

"Grandson pays respects to Grandpa Huang!" Zhu Zhanji quickly walked up to the hall, knelt down in front of Zhu Di, and said with tears in his eyes before speaking: "Grandson is unfilial, and has been separated from Grandpa Huang for so long."

"Good grandson!" Zhu Di was cruel enough to his son, but he doted on this emperor's eldest grandson who resembled himself in every possible way, just like an ordinary grandson.Seeing the long-lost grandson's strong admiration, he couldn't help but have a sore nose, got up and walked off the dragon chair, helped Zhu Zhanji up with his own hands and said: "We haven't seen you for half a year, and grandpa misses you very much too." Ah!" As he spoke, he looked at him carefully.He patted him on the shoulder vigorously and praised: "Okay, he has grown taller and stronger again, he is indeed my good grandson!"

"Grandpa Huang also has the spirit of a dragon and a horse, and my grandson is really happy to see it." Zhu Zhanji grinned and said, "Grandpa Huang was in poor health when I left, and my grandson was really worried..."

"Don't you know yet? I've suffered from that disease as soon as I went to Jinling, and it will be fine when I return to Beiping." Zhu Di laughed loudly and said, "Stinky boy, the emperor has reached the age where you need to worry? Go back and try it, and you can still throw you A big horse!" Seeing his grandson, Zhu Di was in a great mood.

"Hey, hey..." Zhu Zhanji said with a smile: "Of course, the emperor's grandfather is a god, and he can't compare with his eighty-year-old grandson."

"Then you are too bad!" Zhu Di scolded with a smile, and sighed: "Grandpa Huang is already over 50. Confucius said that at fifty you know your destiny. How can I not know how many good years I have left? So Grandpa Huang wants Before you get old and confused, do everything you need to do quickly, while you can still ride a horse and draw a bow, hurry up and consolidate the territory of the Ming Dynasty, so as to give my grandson a peaceful country..."

"Grandpa Emperor..." Zhu Zhanji choked up excitedly.

(End of this chapter)