"You go down first!"
The emperor turned his eyes and spoke calmly.
"Yes!" Although he was very curious about what was going on, Zhu Mou was very sensible and left with a calm face.
Liu Afu understood what the emperor meant and immediately whispered a few words, and the eunuch flew away.
The emperor retracted his thighs, stood up directly, and looked at the lake.
The surface of the lake is sparkling, and fish are jumping from time to time, as are the flowers and fruits hanging down by the lake.
Suddenly, a bird descended from the sky at a high speed. Its wingspan was more than six feet. From a distance, the bird's beak was sharp and hooked, and its claws were so sharp that it seemed to be able to throw away a person's head.
"boom--"
When the bird touches the water, ripples appear on the surface of the lake instantly, water drops drip on its feathers, and it rises into the air. A fish weighing ten kilograms is jumping around in its two paws.
The guards were instantly frightened and prepared.
Sure enough, in the blink of an eye, the bird flew straight into the pavilion, and a big fat koi stopped three feet away from the emperor, jumping lively and splashing on the ground.
"good!"
Zhu Yixi looked at the one-meter-tall Haidongqing in front of her. Its white feathers were speckled with black spots, and it looked majestic.
He couldn't help but admire.
The eunuch on the side hurriedly handed over the shredded meat, and the emperor picked up a few finger-sized pieces with his hands and handed them to his mouth.
Hai Dongqing was not afraid of him. He took a few steps, picked up the meat and swallowed it quickly.
I chirped a few times and it was clear and loud. I was very satisfied with the food.
The eunuch on the side was very eye-catching. Although his legs couldn't stop swaying, he still brought the pot of shredded meat over and let the wither peck at it.
The emperor touched its feathers, but the latter was focused on eating and didn't care.
"Cook this fish, yes, braise it. Qing'er caught it himself. I want to taste it."
"Yes!" Liu Afu responded with a smile: "This bird is really filial and knows how to occupy His Majesty!"
"People's minds are complex, while birds and other animals are simple-minded and have no other pursuits except eating, drinking and reproducing."
At some point, Zhu Yixi had a small comb in her hand, combing her feathers.
This Haidongqing was presented by the Heilongjiang general. It was originally a pair. At the beginning of the year, two more eggs were hatched, but in the end only one survived.
As for the pair of Haidongqing, according to ancient custom, the emperor directly released them and let them go to the Northeast to thrive.
Of course, sometimes, when Haidongqing falls in love with his master, the hunters will send him off again and again.
Soon, less than half a quarter of an hour after feeding, the commander of the Jinyiwei came in a hurry, with an incomprehensible look on his face.
"My lord, Chu Yu, commander of the Jinyi Guards (commanding Qianshi Luo Zuowu), is here to see your majesty——"
Chu Yu, the commander of the Jinyiwei, was a general of the Search Department as early as the Huguang period.
In Shandong, he encouraged the Yuyuan Army to sneak attack on the Qing Dynasty's logistics. Later, he persuaded Gao Jie's generals to surrender and wiped out tens of thousands of Gao Jie in one fell swoop. For his outstanding achievements, he was awarded the title of Viscount.
After more than ten years of development, he has reached the top of the Jinyiwei and has become the much-anticipated commander of the Jinyiwei.
As a middle-aged man, he has gained a lot of weight, but his eyes are sharp and his legs and feet are nimble, so he is very competent at his job.
Another Jinyiwei commander, Luo Zuowu, was in his thirties. He had a short beard on his lips, a square face, and sharp eyes. He was wearing a Jinyiwei Feiyu suit, which gave him a more shrewd and capable look.
Compared to Chu Yu, Luo Zuowu got a few more looks from the emperor.
Luo Zuowu was born in the Luo family of Jinyiwei.
His family was a military household that followed Zhu Yuanzhang to conquer the world, and it was inherited from generation to generation. Later, Luo Sheng entered the Huguangxing Palace. His son Luo An inherited his father's duties and followed Jiajing northward, serving as a fellow advisor and commander in the Jinyi Guards.
Although Lu Bing is the most powerful commander of the Jinyi Guards, the Luo family is a low-key and powerful faction.
Later, the Luo family took root in Jinyiwei. Luo An, Luo Chun, Luo Sigong, and Luo Yangxing served as commanders of Jinyiwei for three generations. It can be said that they are a Jinyi family.
After Chongzhen's death, Luo Yangxing served as the governor of Tianjin. Later, although he was able to correct the situation in time during Shaowu's Northern Expedition, he was stained and had to live in seclusion.
Because he was from a Jinyi family, his nephew Luo Zuowu was only a small captain in the Jinyi Guards, but with his excellent ancestral skills, he became a commander of the Jinyi Guards after more than ten years.
This is a fourth-grade official, second only to the commander and Tongzhi.
Connections and abilities are indispensable.
Luo Zuowu had both.
In this regard, the emperor acquiesced.
There is no way, although Luo Yangxing has shortcomings in virtue, the Luo family has served the old Zhu family for more than three hundred years from Taizu to the present, and everyone in the Luo family has been loyal ministers for more than ten generations.
His roots are so red.
Of course, if you don't have the ability, the emperor will completely look down on you.
"You guys can go down too!"
Seeing his expression, the emperor began to retreat.
At this time, there were only four people, Liu Afu, the emperor, Chu Yu, and Luo Zuowu in the corridor, while the other guards were waiting a hundred steps away.
There was no danger, of course, and the guards were eager for a chance to save him.
"Your Majesty, since the second year of Shaowu's reign, I have been following the footsteps of the Ding thieves (referring to the three princes Zhu, and referring to the second prince Ding), from Shanhaiguan, Gyeonggi, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Qinghai, and even to the state of Kang. No news has been found."
"Later, I was afraid that I would be a slave, so I went to Liaodong, Jilin, Horqin and other tribes, and even to Monan."
"In the past two years, I also sent people to the so-called Fengjing Mansion to inquire about information. Secondly, I could also prepare for future wars..."
"Don't go too far—"
The emperor lost his patience and said directly: "The one who picked up the shortcomings said."
"Recently, I finally found traces in Yongping Mansion and captured..."
Chu Yu smiled without embarrassment and then spoke excitedly.
What we did just now is just to trace the merits of the first two commanders. After all, there is hard work even if there is no merit.
Although Jin Yiwei is divided into factions internally, externally they are united.
It took him less than a year after becoming the commander of the Jinyi Guards to achieve such extraordinary achievements.
Chu Yu took two steps closer and a deep voice sounded:
"Zhu Da, Zhu Ding, and Zhu Zong, along with dozens of members of his family, have all been locked up and will arrive in the capital tonight..."
Hearing that Chongzhen's three sons were alive and well, Zhu Yixi looked incomprehensible and uncertain.
Naturally, the people on the side did not dare to disturb him and could only remain silent.
Liu Afu had huge envy hidden in his eyes, "Good guy, what kind of incredible achievement is this?" He actually got it.
After a while, the emperor recovered and continued to feed Hai Dongqing: "He has been hiding for more than ten years. How did you catch him?"
"A few days ago, a villager reported to the Yongping Mansion Hundred Household Office that he was a thief who stole the imperial mausoleum..."
After listening for a while, the emperor suddenly understood.
It turned out that on the half day of July, after the three families pretended to worship their ancestors, they went to the mountains in the middle of the night to secretly worship an isolated grave.
When Orion saw it, he felt guilty. Maybe it had something to do with it!
Then he couldn't stop being greedy and picked up the grave.
Now, I saw the jewelry in the coffin.
I took it to the pawn shop and saw that the words belonged to the princes in the palace.
Good guy, Orion was so frightened that he didn't even dare to go to the Yamen and went directly to Jinyiwei to report it.
Who doesn't know that Jin Yiwei is powerful? Direct access to the emperor.
As long as you can have some connections with the emperor, you will definitely be rich and prosperous.
If you go to the Yamen, you will be eaten alive.
Sure enough, as soon as Luo Zuowu returned from Liaodong, he passed by Yongping Mansion and captured it directly.
Just like that, an earth-shattering incident occurred.
Chu Yu looked eagerly, while Luo Zuowu remained calm.
Although it didn't last long, it was very torturous.
"So, I have been in Yongping Mansion for nearly twenty years, and I just saw this?"
The emperor's tone was calm, but even a fool could see the blame in it.
The two of them knelt down helplessly.
It was dark under the lamp under my nose, and I searched all over the north to realize that I had indeed neglected my duty.
But Jin Yiwei was indeed aggrieved.
Because there were rumors at the time that all three brothers of the Zhu family were killed.
You can imagine how difficult it is to find someone with no one alive or dead, and after several years of war.
And as time goes by, the difficulties will become more and more difficult. When those three people die, they will naturally never be found again.
Zhu Yixi murmured in a low voice: "Why do you want to find out?"
Yes, for Zhu Yixi, he wished that these three people could completely remain anonymous and return to normalcy.
Not everyone knew it was the best.
It's nice to find out, but it's tricky.
As the founding emperor, he was naturally not afraid of the princes of the previous dynasty. The key was that he would be afraid of future generations.
If he can be stable, what about the second generation? What about the third generation?
As long as it is of use value, once it is found out by careerists, and it can be used as a handle to find the original Shuoyuan, what's the point?
For the sake of power, it is normal to directly change the hereditary system and change the world to rectify one's name.
Japan's famous overthrow movement, the shogunate demanded the founding of the country and opened its eyes to the world, and then several feudal lords rebelled and formed an overthrow army.
Then push the emperor out, engage in a drama of returning the great power, and add a label of justice to himself.
Just like the American independence movement, in order to pass on the losses of the Seven Years' War, Britain waived high import taxes and allowed the East India Company to dump a large amount of tea.
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The price is half that of smuggled tea.
But American smugglers don't do it because it interferes with their profits:
“Why shouldn’t the people of North America be allowed to drink overpriced tea?”
As a result, this group of smugglers pretended to be Indians and dumped tea into the river, which became the famous Boston Tea Party.
The British were so angry that they promulgated laws to cancel the autonomy of the Massachusetts state capital and close the Port of Boston. Of course, the most important thing was to authorize British troops to break into houses and arrest criminals.
Good guy, faced with a threat to their lives, the smugglers rebelled directly.
The independence movement began.
Of course, the slogan is freedom.
Ordinary people were dragged into the war.
Therefore, at this time, Prince Zhu is the "Emperor" and "Free", with endless troubles.
Even at this time, there were still so-called "Zhu Cixiang" rebellions in remote places.
No matter how peaceful the times are, people will still rebel.
"Go down and settle down properly."
The emperor's thoughts were spinning for just a moment, but for the other two people, it was like a year.
"Yes!" The two hurriedly stood up and prepared to leave.
On this day, the emperor was in a calm mood, a little worried about gains and losses in his impatience.
In the evening, the news came.
"Sir, Jin Yiwei painted a portrait and asked a few old eunuchs to recognize it. The appearance is almost the same, and the things are also in the style of the East Palace..."
"Um!"
Zhu Yixi calmed down and walked away with his head held high: "Lead the way."
Soon, in a remote courtyard, the emperor met the family of the former prince.
Zhu Cixuan, Zhu Cixuan, and Zhu Cijiong, namely the Crown Prince, King Ding, and King Yong.
The three of them were neatly dressed. Although they were made of ordinary linen, they naturally had a certain air of dignity.
Although he is a little depressed, it is normal.
Naturally, Jin Yiwei did not dare to touch him at all.
"Zhu Cixi?"
As the emperor stepped forward and saw these three people, Zhu Yixi calmed down instantly.
"Are you Emperor Shaowu?"
Zhu Cixi stood up, his whole body was shaken, and then he became sluggish again, with a look of pleading on his face:
"Are you trying to kill us?"
"You can kill a few of our brothers, but can he let those children live? They don't know anything and don't understand anything."
King Ding and King Yong remained silent, leaving their eldest brother Zhu Cixiang to speak alone. It was obvious that a consensus had been reached.
The three of them knelt down together, unable to stop the desire to live in their eyes, and burst into tears.
Zhu Yixi just looked at them like this.
After a long time, he said: "How did you survive?"
Zhu Cixiang's complexion was slightly dark, but his facial features were quite beautiful. Seeing the emperor's appearance, he lamented: "We brothers have been imprisoned in the capital since they were captured by the intruders."
"When I heard that my father had hanged himself, I felt terrified and uneasy. And when I heard that the intruders were wreaking havoc on the capital and robbing hundreds of officials, I was greatly relieved..."
"Later, he was captured in the army and followed him to fight in Shanhaiguan. He escaped from the chaos in Yiyishi and lived in Yongping Mansion..."
Zhu Yixi listened quietly. From the time he struggled to survive in the mountains to the time he left the mountains to marry a wife and have children, more than ten years had passed unknowingly.
"Why are those jewelry buried there?"
"We didn't dare to hide it privately, for fear that others would discover the secret, so we built a tomb in the mountain and hid all the clothes and jewelry there. After all, it was given by my father. Seeing people with things is considered a sacrifice..."
Looking at the three brothers, their faces were ashen. They were in their thirties, and their hair was already gray on their temples.
Zhu Yixi thought over and over again and wanted to eradicate the problem, but even though he was a politician, the time traveler always wanted to have the best of both worlds.
Really annoying.
After all, I robbed their things, and if nothing else, I lived well in the Forbidden City.
"Da Ming, you can't stay here any longer."
Suddenly, he sighed: "Go overseas! Let's go with the whole family."
Not to mention that the three of them were ecstatic, Chu Yu on the side said anxiously: "Your Majesty, think twice!"
“If you cut the weeds without removing the roots, they will grow again when the spring breeze blows.”
"I see."
Zhu Yixi said with a sullen face: "Even if there is no real Prince Zhu, will there be fewer fake princes in the world?"
"Even if we behead our heads and show them to everyone, no one will believe us."
While walking, Zhu Yixi was thinking.
North Korea? too close.
Japan? Also close.
South Asia? That is the future direction of the domain.
Therefore, for now, we can only send it to Europe.
Yes, under the pretense of sending an envoy to Europe, I unloaded him on the way.
Just buy him a title and some land and he will be able to live in peace.
