Both Jiaofangsi and Daotong went back, and Li Wei was brought into the palace alone by Zhu Yuanzhang.
Entering the main hall, Li Wei stopped and stood with his head lowered, not daring to say a word.
Zhu Yuanzhang returned to the dragon chair and sat down, and then said: "You don't want the music girl to sing for us, right? OK, then you sing for us!"
"Ah, your Majesty, I can't sing that!" Li Wei lied after making an excuse.
He taught Xu Yao that song, of course he knew it, but as a grown man, he sang "Do you know" to an old man? The scene was so beautiful that he didn't dare to sing!
"If you don't know that, just sing about serving the country with loyalty and singing it for us!"
"..."
The corners of Li Wei's mouth twitched. He really couldn't say he didn't know how to sing this song.
Helpless, Li Wei could only sing weakly: "The smoke is rising..."
boom!
"Louder for us!"
Zhu Yuanzhang slammed the table and roared.
Li Wei trembled in fright, immediately straightened his body, and sang loudly: "Looking to the north as the smoke rises from the mountains and rivers..."
Zhu Yuanzhang snorted coldly and left him here to deal with government affairs.
A few minutes later, Li Wei finished singing and stopped. Zhu Yuanzhang immediately stopped what he was doing and looked up.
Li Wei quickly explained: "Your Majesty, I have finished singing!"
"Sing it again, we can't stop until we shout stop!"
Zhu Yuanzhang decisively chose the single cycle.
Li Wei suddenly turned pale: "Ah this..."
"Do you want to sing?"
Seeing that the player was not working properly, Zhu Yuanzhang stood up and rolled up his sleeves with an evil look, and was about to go up to repair it.
As we all know, if the machine doesn't work well, just "beat!" a few times and it will be fine!
Li Wei quickly waved his hand to stop: "Sing, sing, sing now, the smoke is rising..."
Seeing that the player returned to normal, Zhu Yuanzhang sat down with a cold snort, glared at him, and then continued to deal with the memorials.
Li Wei: "The smoke is rising..."
"The smoke rises..."
"Wolf...cough, the smoke is rising..."
…
I don’t know how many times the cycle went through, but the wolf was out of smoke, but there was still smoke in his throat.
Li Wei opened his mouth, but couldn't sing anymore, so he had to stop.
Zhu Yuanzhang's anger was almost gone. He held the memorial in his hand, glanced at him, and asked lightly:
"Why do you want to prevent our concubine from entering the palace?"
"Ah this..."
Li Wei was stunned for a moment. He definitely couldn't tell the truth about this matter. If he dared to tell Zhu Yuanzhang that I suspected you wanted an old cow to eat young grass, then Zhu Yuanzhang wouldn't have to beat his butt to pieces?
"I am also thinking about His Majesty's reputation!"
Li Wei imitated what Daotong said before and said in a hoarse voice.
Zhu Yuanzhang glanced at him and knew without guessing that he was not honest.
In fact, Zhu Yuanzhang had other arrangements when he asked Xu Yao to come in, and it was not just to listen to a ditty.
Of course it's not about eating young grass.
However, he would definitely not tell Li Wei about this matter, so he put it aside for now and said lightly: "This song of yours is very suitable for boosting morale. You arrange the musicians to use this song." Go and sing the song in the army, we want all the officers and men in the army to listen!"
"Okay, okay!"
Li Wei finished speaking in a hoarse voice and pinched his throat with his hands.
"In addition, the soldiers of the Northern Expedition will go out next month. We are going to give a banquet to the generals before they go off. Your Jiaofang Division will be responsible for the dance and music for this banquet. You go back and prepare it!"
"Okay, okay!"
Li Wei quickly agreed. Now he just wanted to leave quickly and go back to drink some water to moisten his throat.
"Okay, get out!"
After Zhu Yuanzhang finished his instructions, he didn't stay with him anymore and just waved him away.
Li Wei was overjoyed and hurriedly resigned: "Then I will retire first!"
After saying this, Li Wei bowed and walked backwards out of the hall. It wasn't because he was very respectful when he walked backwards, he was just afraid of being attacked from behind.
After leaving the main hall, Li Wei hurried back to the Jiaofang Division.
After singing "Wolf Smoke Rises" N times, my throat was so uncomfortable that I had to get some tea to moisten it when I got home.
Zhu Yuanzhang looked at his leaving figure, narrowed his eyes slightly, and whispered to himself: "Did this bitch guess something?"
He wanted to cultivate Li Wei into a force that could restrain Huaixi. It was not enough to just give him power. He also had to make him stand on the opposite side of these Huaixi nobles.
This banquet was a game arranged by him.
In fact, among the Huaixi nobles, there were many people whom Zhu Yuanzhang trusted very much, such as Xu Datanghe, Muying and Li Wenzhong. But unfortunately, these people were all members of the Huaixi nobles.
These people have good relations with Li Shanchang and other nobles and cannot be a force to contain Huaixi.
Like Li Wenzhong, he often interceded for those illegal nobles, which made him very unhappy!
In fact, strictly speaking, Zhu Yuanzhang himself was also a member of Huaixi, and he also benefited from the support of these people when he conquered the country. But now and then, he became the emperor, and everything was different!
After pondering for a moment, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered the young eunuch outside the door: "Go and summon Mao Xiang!"
"My slave obeys the order!"
The little eunuch hurried away, and after a while, Mao Xiang came in and saluted respectfully.
Zhu Yuanzhang casually waved his hand to let him get up, and then asked directly: "Is there anything unusual happening at Li Wei's side recently?"
When Mao Xiang heard this, he lowered his head and thought for a moment, and then said: "It's nothing else, it's just something that happened in the Chamber of Commerce before, because Wu Qi's people embezzled the money from Shen Jing Workshop, and Mr. Li was also involved. Mr. Li's servant Laifu also secretly deducted some money from the Chamber of Commerce to make up for it.
When Lord Li found out, he reprimanded his servants but still hid the accounts. "
Mao Xiang told in detail the little tricks Li Wei made in the chamber of commerce.
After Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, he immediately understood that Li Wei's purpose was to protect the servant. He frowned slightly and said, "This servant is quite interesting. Did you leave any evidence?"
"this……"
Mao Xiang hesitated for a moment and said: "When Wei Chen got the news and went to investigate, he had already reorganized the accounts. Mr. Li's arithmetic skills are amazing, and his calculations are flawless. Wei Chen could not find any conclusive evidence."
His main concern was still on Li Wei. Although there were people in the chamber of commerce monitoring him, they couldn't do everything in detail, so he really couldn't discover Laifu's actions in time. It wasn't until later that Laifu took care of Li Wei at Li Wei's house. He only found out after the accounts were handed over and his men snooped and reported them.
Li Wei hurriedly went to the Chamber of Commerce to correct the accounts the next day. He couldn't interrupt him at the risk of being exposed. After all, there were more important things.
After Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, he glanced at him dissatisfied, and Mao Xiang quickly lowered his head slightly.
This time the Minghuang Chamber of Commerce split the accounts, Li Weiming got 60,000 to 70,000 guan, and Zhu Yuanzhang got nearly 150,000 guan. To be honest, he was very satisfied with getting so much money for nothing.
However, Wu Qi and Li Wei, the servant, were doing little tricks behind their backs, which still made him very unhappy, especially Wu Qi!
He wanted to train Li Wei, and the servant of Li Wei's family was considered loyal. Since Li Wei wanted to keep him, let him keep him first.
As for Wu Qi, Li Wei is the president of the Chamber of Commerce, so let him take care of it himself.
As for the money, well, it can’t escape! .
"What about the others? Why did he suddenly stop Le Nu from entering the palace this time?"
Zhu Yuanzhang asked again.
Mao Xiang pondered for a moment and said, "Wei Chen really doesn't know this. Mr. Li has not done anything unusual before."
Mao Xiang couldn't even think of it. The reason why Li Wei blocked Guangnu from entering the palace was because he was afraid that the old man Zhu Yuanzhang would eat young grass and ruin Xu Yao.
Zhu Yuanzhang frowned and said nothing, and after a moment he ordered: "You must do a good job in giving us the banquet this time, and we must not make any mistakes!"
"Yes, Your Majesty, don't worry, I have already made arrangements to ensure that nothing goes wrong!"
"Ah That's good!"
Originally, he wanted to give Xu Yao some instructions and listen to some music, but he was unexpectedly stopped by Li Wei. However, Xu Yao is just a musician, so it doesn't matter if she doesn't cooperate, as long as Mao Xiang arranges it here. That’s it.
Three days later, Zhu Yuanzhang gave a banquet to all the military generals, and it was held at Wuying Palace. The attendees were all military generals, except for one person, Li Shanchang.
Although Li Shanchang was a civil servant, he also had a very good relationship with the generals and was a founding hero. Although he had nothing to do with this campaign, he was also invited.
In the Wuying Palace, all the military generals accompanied Zhu Yuanzhang to drink and eat meat. Li Wei stood in the corner like a follower, arranging the performances of the Jiaofang Division.
In fact, he doesn't need to worry about it. Now he is familiar with these programs, and Feng Jingchun is enough to keep busy.
Of course, a large group of military generals are not as elegant as civil servants when drinking, and they are shouting at every turn.
Zhu Yuanzhang was also very easy-going today, constantly accepting toasts from Xu Datang and these people.
After three rounds of drinking, Zhu Yuanzhang excused himself to be busy with government affairs, encouraged the generals and left the table.
A good leader should be like this. With him around, others will inevitably feel restrained. If he leaves the table early, his subordinates can relax while eating, drinking and having fun!
Originally, when Zhu Yuanzhang was there, although the generals were noisy, they were still sitting peacefully in their seats. When Zhu Yuanzhang left, these generals suddenly looked like unchained dogs, wandering around the table in a merry way. , the atmosphere became even more lively.
The official in charge of etiquette in the palace looked at these unruly generals and secretly despised them, but he did not dare to say anything. After all, these rough and rude men with titles were all of the highest grade, and those without titles were far better than They are high.
Moreover, these people are having a good time drinking. The drunken people are timid, not to mention these already brave generals. If they dare to take risks, they might really get beaten.
Although Zhu Yuanzhang was very strict, these generals were still so bold that they even secretly killed their subordinates frequently. Zhu Liangzu had done this before, but Zhu Yuanzhang only canceled the military reward for him when he found out.
Had he not deceived the emperor and put Zhu Yuanzhang in an embarrassing situation this time, this disaster would not have happened.
In general, before the vassal kings grew up, Zhu Yuanzhang was very lenient to these nobles.
Mao Xiang, as a minister of the pro-military governor's office, was also at the banquet, and he came with a mission.
While everyone was walking around the table, Mao Xiang also stood up, first walked around and had a few drinks with a few familiar generals, and finally came around to Lan Yu's table.
(End of chapter)
