"Jin Zhong, you and Feng Xiao go in person and recruit a group of rough eunuchs and maids to serve in front of the emperor according to the number of eunuchs and maids in Qianqing Palace."
"Except for the two of you, all the eunuchs and maids in the Qianqing Palace are organized into a group. An old man from the Qianqing Palace will bring a new person, and they will be paired randomly. Each group will supervise each other, report to each other, and will be together for twelve hours. , even when it is convenient, we are not allowed to leave each other's sight!"
"One made a mistake, and the other didn't report it. They were both beheaded together! Their family members were also involved!"
“Those who report and find out the truth will be heavily rewarded!”
"You can then send out your confidants among the palace people to observe secretly and find out all the people with ulterior motives!"
"I want to make sure that no oil can be poured into the Qianqing Palace, and no needle can be inserted into it!"
"Can it be done?" Zhu Qiyu looked at Jin Zhong.
"You can do this even if you risk your life!" Jin Zhong knelt down and worshiped.
"Go ahead and recruit more young palace servants. It doesn't matter if they are a little stupid. Loyalty is the most important thing. You should keep your eyes wide open when selecting people. Remember, try to select those palace servants who have a low status in each prison, who are angry and tortured. "
"Do you understand? Don't shout to recruit people. Go and observe first. Watch quietly. Don't listen to other people's opinions. Trust your own eyes! Your eyes are my eyes! I leave my own safety to you. You Just keep your eyes open!”
Zhu Qiyu repeatedly warned him that it was not that he had never cleaned up the Qianqing Palace, but he was still a sieve. If all these palace people are released, there is no guarantee that the people who come in are not spies, so it is useless to replace them.
Only by using the methods of supervision and continuous sitting to create terror can we hold the Qianqing Palace in our hands.
But we must also be careful of spies who jump over the wall, so it is best to limit his activities to the Xinuang Pavilion and have less contact with the palace people. Once the Qianqing Palace is cleaned up, it will be safe.
"This slave accepts the order! If something goes wrong again in the Qianqing Palace, please ask the emperor to gouge this slave's eyes out!" Jin Zhong was furious.
"There is no need to say such harsh words. You will follow me through life and death. I trust you." Zhu Qiyu helped him up.
Watch Jin Zhong and Feng Xiao go to pick people.
"Your Majesty, Concubine Xian's body can't hold on any longer!" Dai Han, the eunuch in Concubine Xian's palace, cried.
"I'll go right away."
Dai Han was still crying and kowtowed desperately: "I want to see you..."
"You go out first, I'll go when I'm done!"
Zhu Qiyu asked Dai Han to be taken out and looked at Zhang Renxiao.
Zhang Renxiao's mouth was gagged, fearing that his crying would disturb the emperor.
"Your Majesty, please spare my life!" Zhang Renxiao was so stunned by the emperor's gaze that he cried and begged for mercy as soon as he could speak, regardless of the pain in his hands.
"I said I won't kill you. As long as you don't commit the crime of deceiving the king, I won't kill you!"
Zhang Renxiao cried, his family was very rich in Pingyang, how could he only have 500 taels of silver? You really deceived me, you are dead!
"Is Ai Gaofeng still alive? Come here, treat his injuries. Don't be too violent in the future. You chop off people's hands at every turn. It's too cruel. Throw these fingers out to feed the dogs."
Zhu Qiyu looked at the other merchants.
Everyone was frightened, thinking that the emperor was going to kill the goose to get the eggs.
As long as you can save your life, it's fine. At worst, it's better to go to Wala than suffer in the Ming Dynasty.
"I will give you one more chance to donate!" Zhu Qiyu's eyes flashed.
coming!
A businessman knelt on the ground, kowtowing like he was pounding garlic: "The common people are willing to donate all their wealth! Just leave the common people's lives, that's all!"
"So are the grassroots!"
Everyone wailed. Zhang Renxiao was so miserable. He lost one of his hands and his house was ransacked. It was so miserable.
"Ha, I'm not a robber, how can I take your property for nothing?"
Zhu Qiyu sneered: "Who do you think I am?"
"Your Majesty didn't ask for it, it was donated voluntarily by us!" These businessmen burst into tears.
Zhu Qiyu snorted coldly: "You are all sent by Wang Zhen to buy my imperial village at a low price! You are obviously here to take advantage of me, but why do you act like I bully you?"
They just cry.
"That's all, I am not a violent king, and I will not hold you and others accountable for the crime of deceiving the king!"
Seeing that they were all frightened, Zhu Qiyu stopped scaring them and asked, "How many shops do you have in Beijing?"
"Tell the truth!" Zhu Qiyu shouted coldly.
"Twelve families!" Someone reported it first, and others followed suit, not daring to hide it.
"What's the scale? What's the profit? Come on, I've delayed Concubine Xian's condition, so I'll ask your whole family!" Zhu Qiyu asked.
It's over, the emperor is determined!
I definitely can’t keep my property, but I’ll be satisfied if I can keep my arms and legs.
They spoke out intermittently.
After Zhu Qiyu heard this, he knew what he was doing, and said slowly: "According to the size of the store, the smallest store will pay one thousand taels of silver, and it will be paid every year, and it will be counted as a business tax!"
"Ah?" The businessman was stunned for a moment and said weakly: "We have paid the business tax."
You really want money rather than life!
Zhu Qiyu's eyes widened: "Just call it a protection gift, and the people from Dongchang will collect it!"
The protective tax is targeted at all merchants, and detailed collection rules need to be formulated. It will be implemented first in the capital and finally collected nationwide.
Those merchants lowered their heads and did not dare to respond. The emperor was nothing more than imposing extortionate taxes.
"Everyone, get up and sit down."
Zhu Qiyu asked people to go to Jindun and ordered them to sit down.
But who dares to sit down? Zhang Renxiao sat down without hesitation, and then his hand was gone, and his home was gone...
The businessmen were still kneeling.
Zhu Qiyu did not embarrass them and spoke slowly: "I also know that doing business is not easy, and I do not discriminate against businessmen."
"Dongchang is not a money-grabbing yamen."
"When you are doing business in Beijing, do you need to have connections and find backers? Do people usually go to the store to cause trouble? The police in Beijing eat and drink for free in your store. Do you dare to be angry and dare not say anything?"
"But if you pay the protection gift, Dongchang will be your backstage! I will be your backstage!"
"Who is the biggest in this world? I am the biggest!"
"Do you still need to have a relationship? Are you still worried about being bullied?"
"As long as you operate legally, I will support you!"
"So, this money is not for free! Do you understand?"
Zhu Qiyu had a sudden idea, and the details still needed to be filled in. If he levied a merchant protection tax, the money would come in a steady stream, unlike a one-shot deal like ransacking a house.
It just gave Dongchang an opportunity to expand, and by the way, he placed spies among the merchants to expand his influence in the capital. The sphere of influence covered the entire capital, and the emperor's eyes could see the whole city.
Moreover, the money from the protection gift is enough to support Dongchang, and there will be a surplus in the future.
"What do you think of the protection gift?" Zhu Qiyu asked.
"Good! Very good!"
Who dares to say it’s not good, Your Majesty, the example of Zhang Renxiao is there. Look at the doctor who was treating the injury. He was limping along the walk and had a sinister look in his eyes. He applied medicine to Zhang Renxiao and screamed louder than when Zhang Renxiao’s hand was chopped off. miserable.
"You take the lead and pay the protection fee!"
Zhu Qiyu turned to Xu Gan and said, "Let Yin make a batch of silver medals and hang them on all the shops that collect protection gifts. Then notify Shu Liang and ask Shu Liang to come out with a detailed journey and then lead people to collect the gifts. "
"My slave obeys the order!"
Xu Gan dared to be arrogant with the Supreme Emperor's Concubine Liu Jing, because he had the support of the Emperor. In the Qianqing Palace, he was naturally as honest as a kitten.
"Send some of you out of the palace."
Zhu Qiyu glanced at Zhang Renxiao: "Drag him over."
Zhang Renxiao took the medicine and the pain in his arm was unbearable.
"If I raid your home, will your family defect to Wala?" Zhu Qiyu stared at him.
"The common people don't dare! The common people don't dare!" Zhang Renxiao begged for mercy.
If you say you don't dare in Qianqing Palace, you will defect after leaving Qianqing Palace!
He should have been killed directly, but Wala was at the edge of the town and Xuanzhen was in a hurry, so he couldn't cause trouble. If the Zhang family of Pingyang Prefecture defected and a passage was opened for Wala in Shanxi, the northwest would suffer.
"I'll give you a chance to atone for your sins!"
Zhu Qiyu asked someone to bring in pen and ink: "Write down exactly what Wang Zhen asked you to do. Not only will I let you go, but I will also support you. How about that?"
Zhang Renxiao was still crying.
"Here come, search the house!" Zhu Qiyu had no time to talk nonsense.
"The grassroots agree!"
Zhang Renxiao knew very well that the emperor was forcing his Zhang family to rebel against Chen Xun. The Zhang family gave Chen Xun a sum of money every year and became his disciple. But if he writes it down, he will completely break up with Chen Xun, and he can only rely on the emperor. But can the emperor be relied on?
The signature and painting are postponed.
Zhu Qiyu took a look and asked him: "How did you get this arm?"
"The grassroots accidentally fell..."
Zhu Qiyu glared at him. Could he have lost his arm? What a fool!
"It was done by the common people themselves! It has nothing to do with His Majesty!" Zhang Renxiao screamed.
The harder this person cries now, the more he will hate me when he gets home.
Zhu Qiyu doesn't believe in repaying evil with kindness, and what can't these businessmen do? Their consciences have been eaten by dogs since they were born!
"Go down."
Zhu Qiyu whispered to Xu Gan: "Tell Shu Liang to kill him at the palace gate and make the trouble as big as possible!"
Didn’t Chen Xun want to block my way?
I will use Zhang Renxiao to break the situation!
Jingyang Palace sent eunuchs to urge her here again, but Concubine Li Xian was dying.
After the Wang family was deposed and the Hang family died, there were only three women in Zhu Qiyu's harem, Tang Guifei, Li Xi'er and the unpopular Concubine Li Xian.
In the memory of the original owner, he could not remember this woman's face.
Zhu Qiyu entered Jingyang Palace and smelled the pungent smell of medicine as soon as he was admitted.
Tan Yunxian was busy and didn't see the emperor come in.
A palace maid came to talk to Yunxian. Zhu Qiyu waved his hand: "It is more important to manage the virtuous concubine. Go ahead and see the virtuous concubine."
Entering the dormitory, Zhu Qiyu asked Xu Gan and other eunuchs from Qianqing Palace to accompany him.
When he lifted the bed curtain, he saw a waxy yellow face, withered and dying.
Dai Han whispered several times that the emperor was here before she reacted. She forced her eyes open and tried to see Zhu Qiyu clearly, as if she had an eye disease and couldn't see him clearly.
"His Majesty……"
It was extremely difficult for her to speak, and tears flowed down her cheeks: "It is disrespectful for me to let your majesty see such an ugly side of my concubine. Please forgive me."
"Don't say that." Zhu Qiyu was touched and sat on the bedside.
Concubine Xian tried her best to raise her wrist and grab his hand.
Zhu Qiyu handed over his hand, and she grabbed it hard: "I cannot serve your majesty. Please accept your majesty's concubines, enrich your harem, and extend your heirs... I am incompetent and cannot leave blood to the royal family... I am incompetent..." "
As he spoke, tears fell like rain.
Zhu Qiyu was touched. He still remembered that when he first ascended the throne, Concubine Xian was pregnant. Later, for some unknown reason, the child died.
After several pregnancies, Concubine Xian was unable to keep her pregnancy, and she suffered miscarriages again and again, causing her body to completely collapse and turn into a medicine jar.
Zhu Qiyu vaguely remembered that during the wedding at the Prince's Palace, the Concubine Xian was also charming, gentle and pleasant. It had only been a few years, but she had disappeared...
"Stop talking, you will take care of her first. When your body and bones are healed, I will have another child with you." Zhu Qiyu held her hand.
But the wise concubine cried even harder: "Thank you, Your Majesty, for comforting me. I know that my bones are useless."
With tears in her eyes, she looked at Zhu Qiyu. As she looked at him, she actually smiled and said intermittently: "I still remember you and me at the wedding. Your Majesty loves me so much. I will always remember it."
She lifted up the other sleeve with difficulty, and there were densely written words in blood on the inside of the sleeve: "I am afraid that I will forget it, but I cannot taint my body, for fear that Your Majesty will not like it... Just, it is engraved on the inside of the clothes, every day I will." Concubine, please write it all, please forgive me for the crime of disrespect..."
Writing the word "Your Majesty" in blood is considered a curse.
Zhu Qiyu felt her deep affection.
But the original owner's feelings for her were too weak. No matter how he recalled it, he could not remember what this woman looked like when she was young.
"I don't blame you, it's my fault that I didn't come to see you." Zhu Qiyu said softly.
The original owner did not cherish such a good woman, but pampered Tuchang instead. What a fool!
"I've never blamed Your Majesty. It's my fault that I can't give you any heirs because of my weak body. It's my fault! It's my fate. I'm not lucky enough to serve Your Majesty..." She cried like a cuckoo. Blood, every word screams.
Zhu Qiyu had tears in his eyes, but he didn't know how to comfort her.
"My beloved concubine, what else do you wish for?" Zhu Qiyu looked at her withered face. Although it was ugly, Zhu Qiyu saw the beauty of her soul.
"I only hope that your Majesty will accept concubines, enrich your harem, and prolong your heirs!"
The Concubine Xian repeated again: "This is my only wish. After I leave, I don't want to grant vassal status to my family. They are not blessed and cannot bear the nobility. Please don't give me lavish rewards just because of my concubine."
"Don't get angry with the court because of this. You are right to be gentler; and don't criticize the imperial doctor because of my concubine's illness. It's all because of my poor life. No wonder others..."
"Please, your Majesty, please agree to be my concubine!"
She looked at Zhu Qiyu with difficulty, wanting to remember his face completely before she died. She hoped to meet you again in the next life and be your wife again...
She suddenly grabbed Zhu Qiyu's hand tightly.
As if he wanted to say something else, he opened his mouth suddenly and vomited a mouthful of blood!
"My beloved concubine! My beloved concubine!"
Zhu Qiyu couldn't control his tears and grabbed her hand: "Where is the imperial doctor! The imperial doctor!"
He lowered his head, wanting to hear what she had to say!
"I wish I could be you and your wife in the next life..."
Concubine Jing's hand dropped, and she lost her life.
Zhu Qiyu was shaking all over.
She has no hatred. Zhu Qiyu has ignored her since she became ill, but she has never hated Zhu Qiyu!
Even when he was seriously ill, Zhu Qiyu ignored him, but she still didn't hate him!
She actually said that she would like to be your wife in the next life...
These words pricked Zhu Qiyu's heart like a needle pricking his heart.
Tan Yunxian came over in a hurry, but there was no way to save his life. He was already out of breath.
"Where's Jin Zhong!"
"Didn't the imperial physician who treated the virtuous concubine say that her beloved concubine was fine?"
"Why did it suddenly disappear?"
"Come on! Go and chop them all down!"
"Kill the Nine Tribes!"
Zhu Qiyu's eyes were red, as if he was going crazy.
All the people in Jingyang Palace knelt on the ground.
"This slave obeys the order." Xu Gan whispered.
"Lingchi!" Zhu Qiyu still couldn't understand his hatred. He paced repeatedly in front of the bed, bursting with anger.
But he glanced at Concubine Xian, who had lost all her life.
He suddenly remembered Concubine Xian's instructions before she died, and sat down on the bed dejectedly: "Come back! Concubine Xian didn't allow me to kill them, I can't kill them! If Concubine Xian walks in front and they catch up later, why don't they torture my Xian Concubine?" The concubine is gone!"
"They were all demoted to Qiongzhou. I spared their lives for the sake of the virtuous concubine, but it is hard to forgive them for living sins. The whole family was demoted to servants and will never be forgiven!"
Zhu Qiyu's voice was low.
"Your Majesty, please listen to your words!"
Tan Yunxian whispered: "Concubine Xian's illness has nothing to do with the imperial doctor, it is, it is..."
"What is it?" Zhu Qiyu was stunned.
"It's poisoning!" Tan Yunxian gritted her teeth, but there was still something unspeakable. She wanted to explain in detail, but Zhu Qiyu was like a volcano erupting, and she did not dare to continue.
"What?"
Zhu Qiyu suddenly looked at everyone in Jingyang Palace: "Dai Han, get out!"
"My slave is here."
Dai Han crawled over, his face filled with astonishment: "Your Majesty's food and medicine are all handled by slaves, how could it be poisonous? Your Majesty, it can't be poisonous! Unless it was poisoned by slaves!"
It's impossible for him. He is an old man from the Prince's Palace. He has been serving Concubine Xian for more than ten years. It is impossible for him to kill Concubine Xian.
Even if he were to die, he would not be able to kill Concubine Xian, because Concubine Xian had no status in Zhu Qiyu's heart.
"My daughter is definitely poisoned," Tan Yunxian said.
"Check! Check for me who is killing the concubine!"
Zhu Qiyu gathered his emotions and began to think, something is wrong. The concubine Xian's presence in the harem is very low, and she is not favored by the emperor. Why kill her?
Coming for me? But what can you do by killing a woman?
"My slave, please go and invite Eunuch Shu!" Xu Gan received the order.
"Jingyang Palace is sealed. No one is allowed to come in or out. All expenses incurred by the Concubine Xian in the past seven days are presented to me. All the people in the palace related to Jingyang Palace are arrested and questioned. No matter who they are, as long as they are Everyone who has been to Jingyang Palace within seven days will be investigated!"
Xu Gan looked troubled, Dongchang Fanzi was not a eunuch, and it was really inconvenient to enter and exit the inner palace. If something romantic happened, the emperor would be the one to deal with it.
Zhu Qiyu's eyes flickered, and he must form an internal supervisor, composed entirely of eunuchs.
Need money!
"Xu Gan, I asked you to be the governor and eunuch of the capital. You will recruit two hundred strong eunuchs from the imperial city to be responsible for the security of the imperial city. Is it possible that you are qualified?"
Xu Gan's eyes lit up. The emperor wanted to turn the governor into a royal guard in the imperial city. He was familiar with this!
"Thank you, Your Majesty, for giving me a chance!"
In fact, the Dou Zhijian did not supervise the eunuchs, because the Dou Zhijian was about to be abolished. They only followed the emperor to guide the eunuchs, which had no practical use.
"Dai Han goes to be the eunuch of the palm print!"
Zhu Qiyu's cold light flashed: "The first thing you have to do is to find out the cause of Concubine Xian's death. Do you understand?"
Who on earth poisoned Concubine Xian to death!
"My slave obeys the order!" Two eunuchs took the order.
Zhu Qiyu stood up: "Seal the palace!"
He looked back at Concubine Xian, a woman who had no sense of existence in his memory, but loved him so deeply that it made him cry.
"I will postulate the title of a noble concubine and bury her as a concubine. I saw the clothes she brought with her and I miss her, so I will bury her with her as if I have always been with her."
Zhu Qiyu sighed, feeling depressed.
After walking out of Jingyang Palace and boarding the royal chariot, Zhu Qiyu breathed a long sigh of relief: "Talking about female doctors, is there anything unspeakable just now?"
Tan Yunxian accompanied him, hesitating whether he should say anything or not.
"Say, I don't blame you, and I won't kill anyone because of your words." Zhu Qiyu knew what she was worried about.
"Empress Xianfei has been taking Wuxiang for a long time to relieve her pain. The person who poisoned her is a person with good medical knowledge. He used special drugs to force out the poison of Wuxiang from the body of Empress Xianfei, which led to the death of Empress Xianfei from poisoning."
Tan Yunxian carefully considered his words: "This method is not easy to detect. Even if an autopsy is performed on the deceased, it will be considered that he died from an overdose of Wuxiang, which is regarded as a normal death."
"My daughter has been studying medicine since she was a child. My grandmother told my daughter about a medical case in which she died after taking Wuxiang. Her symptoms were very similar to those of the Concubine Xian."
"When I took the pulse of the Concubine Xian, I found that her pulse was empty and illusory. Therefore, I concluded that it was the poison of Wu Xiang that caused the death of the Concubine Xian."
Wu Xiang is Fu Shou Cream.
Concubine Xian was in poor health, so the imperial doctor prescribed Wuxiang to her, and she was indeed dying from it.
There are many people in the palace who are proficient in medicine, but why do they want to poison the virtuous concubine?
Zhu Qiyu was puzzled.
As soon as he entered Qianqing Palace, he saw Shu Liang coming in a hurry: "Your Majesty, Zhang Jin is dead!"
"How did you die?"
"Back to your Majesty, people in the British palace said that Zhang Jin was playing in the garden yesterday and fell into the water and died. My servant looked at his body and found that it was swollen and his face could not be seen clearly." Shu Liang reported back.
"Hmph! Substituting one thing for another!"
"The British government really doesn't take me as the emperor seriously! It's so obvious and rough that it doesn't even bother to fool me!"
Zhu Qiyu sneered: "Where is Zhang Fu?"
"Please excuse me outside the palace."
"Let him kneel down." Zhu Qiyu walked into Xinuang Pavilion, feeling unhappy.
I've been being led around by others lately, and I can't take back the initiative.
"I want you to go to Dongchang to collect the protection gift..."
Zhu Qiyu told Shu Liang his idea, and saw that Shu Liang was confused: "Go to a trading company, recruit a few directors, and ask them to help you advise on how to collect taxes. This money will be enough for you to renovate the East Factory and strengthen the East. Factory."
"My slave, thank you for your kindness." Shu Liang knelt down.
Zhu Qiyu helped him up: "Your eyes are all red. You haven't slept for a few days, right? Go and have a rest. You won't be able to recover Li Ku's things. Let's stop here. Kill the guilty and let go if not guilty." It’s time. There’s going to be a big battle soon, so keep your spirits up and go.”
"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your consideration," Shu Liang said with tears in his eyes. He was just an ordinary handyman in the Department of Cherishing Salaries. It was the Emperor who promoted him all the way to become the Supervisor of Ceremonies. He was a highly respected minister, but the Emperor cared for him so much. It's as heavy as a mountain, how can he repay it?
"Just rest in Xinuang Pavilion. With you by my side, I feel at ease."
Shu Liang knelt down to thank him.
Zhu Qiyu took a sip of water, sat down and continued to read the memorial. He was really troubled by the nonsense in the memorial.
Xu Gan brought a plate of pastries, which looked very poor, but Zhu Qiyu didn't dislike it. It tasted very sweet and contained too much icing sugar.
He just frowned and ate it with water.
This was made by his personal eunuch. It’s so delicious, but at least it’s absolutely safe.
"Your Majesty, Lu Zhong has been waiting outside for a day. Shouldn't you meet him?" Xu Gan spoke carefully.
Zhu Qiyu glanced at him: "Did he benefit you?"
"Ah? Absolutely not! Absolutely not, Your Majesty!" Xu Gan was lying on the ground, sweating profusely.
"If not, don't speak for him. I didn't kill him. I've already shown mercy outside the law. There's no harm in letting him stand for a day and wake up."
Zhu Qiyu said coldly: "Xu Gan, I know you are smart, I have seen what happened to Li Xi'er..."
Upon hearing this, Xu Gan was shaking like chaff.
That's right, he deliberately took revenge on Li Xi'er because he had a sweetheart who was tortured to death by Li Xi'er, so he was filled with hatred.
Du Qing's plate of pastries was sent over without being tested. He deliberately gave it to Li Xi'er to eat. He thought he was so clever at making it without anyone noticing.
"My lord, forgive me!" Xu Gan burst into tears.
"Hmph, don't be clever with me. I can see through your thoughts. Remember, I am your master. You can do whatever I allow. If I don't allow it, touch your neck before doing it." Zhu Qiyu's eyes Looking at the memorial, his tone was light.
But Xu Gan was so frightened that he kept trembling and kowtowed to beg for mercy.
"That's all, I'll give you some face this time and let Xuan Luzhong come in." Zhu Qiyu moved his fingers to get him up.
"Thank you, Your Majesty! Thank you, Your Majesty!" Xu Gan survived the disaster.
Zhu Qiyu said nothing.
But the people serving in Qianqing Palace were all afraid.
Fortunately, the emperor was not a ruthless person. He would only give him a scolding at most, but the rewards he deserved were never less, but his desire for control was too strong.
Soon, a burly middle-aged man walked in, knelt down and saluted.
Zhu Qiyu finished reading one memorial, picked up another, and glanced at him: "Aren't you pretending to be crazy?"
"I made your Majesty laugh!" Lu Zhong kowtowed.
"Huh, you're not making me laugh, but you're making me laugh!" Zhu Qiyu became angry when the golden knife case was mentioned.
That was the best opportunity to kill Zhu Qizhen, but Lu Zhong ruined the good thing!
Lu Zhong didn't dare to look up.
"Why do you dare to enter the palace to see me?" Zhu Qiyu wrote a few words and put them aside.
"I heard that the rebels captured the door and your Majesty is in danger. I have received great kindness from your Majesty and I dare not not repay it with death..."
Zhu Qiyu interrupted his nonsense and said coldly: "Tell the truth!"
Lu Zhong trembled all over and said in embarrassment: "I am His Majesty's dog. Without Your Majesty, I will die even if I pretend to be crazy!"
"You are smart!" Zhu Qiyu sneered and put the memorial aside.
He sat upright: "Lu Zhong, why did you suddenly rebel during the Golden Knife Case?"
Lu Zhong gritted his teeth and dared not say anything.
"Drag him out! Kill him with a stick!"
What's the use of keeping an unfaithful dog?
"My lord, my lord, tell me!"
Lu Zhong gritted his teeth and said, "After the Golden Knife Case happened, I was extremely scared, so I asked Comrade Yin, a very famous fortune teller in the capital, to give me a divination."
"I will never forget that hexagram. Tianze Lu hexagram, Tong Yin said, Yi said: 'Lumbering on the tiger's tail, it will be bad for others.'
Zhu Qiyu wondered, could the fortune teller make Lu Zhong pretend to be crazy and act like a fool?
"I know that your Majesty does not believe it, but at that time Tongyin lived in Shi Heng's house, and Tongyin was brought to the capital by Shi Heng!"
"So what he said was actually what Shi Heng wanted to say to me!"
"At that time, His Majesty trusted Shi Heng very much, and I did not dare to disobey Shi Heng's wishes!"
"So I pretended to be crazy and acted like a fool..."
Lu Zhong kowtowed: "But in the past few years, I have thought about it repeatedly, and I feel that those words were not what Shi Heng meant, because Shi Heng was a vulgar man, and he raised fortune tellers just to make friends with the powerful people in the capital. Why did he borrow fortune tellers?" Where is your mouth to threaten me?"
Zhu Qiyu frowned, the golden knife case happened in the second year of Jingtai.
At that time, Shi Heng was so proud that he probably had no intention of rebelling, so his colleagues were not necessarily instigated by Shi Heng.
"Who do you think it is?"
"Xu Bin!"
Lu Zhong gritted his teeth: "That's the old thief! I checked Tongyin's past and found that his father Tongqing and Xu Bin were good friends. It was Xu Bin who advocated Tongyin's fortune-telling skills in Beijing, so I concluded that the one who forced me to pretend to be crazy was It’s Xu Bin!”
If it is Xu Bin, the possibility is very high.
Because Xu Bin was Zhu Qizhen's lackey, when he welcomed Zhu Qizhen back, he also said that he would humiliate his ministers and die, and resolutely went deep into Mobei to welcome Zhu Qizhen back.
"Is there any evidence?" Zhu Qiyu thought more deeply.
Xu Bin is Chen Xun's man. Did Chen Xun also know about the seizure?
"Everything is my guess." Lu Zhong smiled bitterly.
"I asked you to form Tiqi, but do you dare to track down Xu Bin?" Zhu Qiyu's eyes flickered.
"dare!"
Lu Zhong gritted his teeth and pretended to be crazy but could not escape the risk of being killed! Why not give it a try!
"Okay, I allow you to select candidates for the Tiqi from the orphans of those who died in Tumu Fort, and then you, the admiral, will be the commander of the Tiqi. You will first recruit two hundred people and conduct special training in secret."
"I accept the decree and thank you!" Lu Zhong kowtowed.
"I will give you two thousand taels of silver to use first. Clothes, armor, etc. will be used from the internal funds. I will give you a note. You can just go and get it."
Zhu Qiyu said again: "I will give you another amount of food. If the money is not enough, I will give you food. Let's do this first."
He really couldn't come up with any money, and he didn't have much food, so he just held on and put up a shelf.
"I accept the order!" Lu Zhong accepted the order and left.
Zhu Qiyu continued to read the memorials, and the more he read, the more dizzy he became, and he forced himself to read.
The sky is getting dark, and light snow is falling outside.
At this time, Xu Gan opened the curtain, and the air-conditioning penetrated into the Xinuan Pavilion. Zhu Qiyu frowned, I am afraid it will be a cold winter again this year.
"Your Majesty, Chen Jing is here." Xu Gan reported.
"Xuan."
Soon, an old eunuch came in. After bowing and saluting, he waited aside with his waist bent.
Zhu Qiyu rested his eyes before looking at him: "Give me a seat."
"This servant dare not accept the gift from the emperor!" Chen Jing stood honestly.
"The eunuch in charge of the ceremonial department is hanging in the air. Is the conflict serious?" Zhu Qiyu leaned back to feel more comfortable.
Chen Jing considered it and said: "It's like a group of dogs robbing food. The emperor is the owner of the dogs. Whichever dog the emperor wants to give more to, it is the emperor's grace. If he gives less, he doesn't dare to complain. Your Majesty, all your servants are dogs raised by your Majesty."
He is getting closer to the emperor and wants to be a palm eunuch!
It's Linglong's thoughts.
Zhu Qiyu glanced at him and said calmly: "The chief assistant means that Chen Ding will serve as the eunuch of the palm seal. What do you think?"
Chen Jing's expression changed, and he knelt on the ground: "Your Majesty, the Chief of Ceremony is your servant, how can outsiders interfere? Whichever dog you want to eat the bones, that dog should eat the bones! Eat the inside and outside. , he should be dragged out, beaten to death, and made to eat dog meat!"
"Haha! This is a fresh statement. It is quite appropriate to describe myself as a dog."
Zhu Qiyu's eyes darkened: "Do you dare to kill Chen Ding?"
Chen Jing trembled all over and did not dare to speak.
"If you kill him, I will allow you to be the palm eunuch." Zhu Qiyu said calmly.
Chen Jing did not dare to speak.
It seems that Chen Ding has become the second person after Xing'an.
But Chen Ding was obviously from Zhu Qizhen, so when did he have such a close relationship with civil servants?
No wonder Xing'an asserted that Chen Ding would be the next eunuch in charge of the ceremony.
"If you really recruit him, you can just kill him. Chen Jing, do you dare?" Zhu Qiyu wanted to see what Chen Xun could do to him if he killed a slave of the emperor!
Chen Jing still didn't dare to say anything.
"waste!"
Zhu Qiyu was furious: "Drag him out and chop him into pieces!"
"Your Majesty, please spare my life!" Chen Jing was about to cry. Why does Your Majesty always want to overturn the table? Wouldn't it be great if you just issued an imperial edict and let your slaves serve as palm eunuchs?
It’s so cheap for you!
If you don't accept the certificate of submission, why should I use you?
"My slave will do it! My slave will do it!"
Seeing that he was about to be dragged down, Chen Jing was so frightened that he kept screaming: "Your Majesty, if you kill Chen Ding, Wang Ding and Zhang Ding will come out. You are treating the symptoms but not the root cause!"
"Are you teaching me how to do things?" Doesn't Zhu Qiyu know?
But the Chief of Ceremony was clearly his territory, so after killing Xing'an, one of his men should have been the eunuch of the palm print, so why did the civil servants intervene?
Didn’t Chen Xun plan to deal with me?
I will use Chen Ding to break the situation!
kill!
"Go, summon Chen Ding!" Zhu Qiyu's eyes flashed, and he pondered over and over whether he should kill Chen Ding.
The ceremonial supervisor was an extension of the imperial power and was used to check and balance the cabinet.
If the Supervisor of Ceremonies is purged and there are no capable eunuchs to take over, the cabinet will annex the power of the Supervisor of Ceremonies and the imperial power will be weakened.
But if we don’t clean it, does the Supervisor of Ceremonies belong to me?
Xinuang Pavilion was quiet.
Zhu Qiyu was undecided.
"Your Majesty, Governor Tang and Commander Hang came to the palace to cry!" The door opened and air-conditioning poured in.
"Tang Xing? Hang Yu?"
Zhu Qiyu's eyes darkened: "Xuan come in!"
"Chen Jing, go and stand at the door, sober up and think clearly, whose dog you are!"
If you can't figure it out, start killing!
They are not his people anyway!
It’s fun to kill them all!
Zhu Qiyu's eyes were cold, and then Tang Xing and Hang Yu came in and cried.
"Your Majesty, today the people from the Ministry of Revenue went to my house to collect debts. They said that I owe the Ministry of Households 50,000 taels of silver. How can my family have so much money?"
Tang Xing was crying and fighting. It was so miserable: "Your Majesty, the Ministry of Finance is a robber. He asked me for 50,000 taels of silver. He didn't take me seriously at all! That Zhang Feng was sarcastic and sarcastic. All I have to do is point at my nose and call me a dog! If I were a dog, then..."
He didn't dare to say any more, because calling the imperial concubine a dog would be a serious crime of genocide! Not even if he is the biological father of the imperial concubine!
"Are you trying to say that the imperial concubine is also a dog? I am also a dog?" Zhu Qiyu's voice was cold.
"I dare not be disrespectful, but Zhang Feng went too far and even asked me for fifty thousand taels of silver..."
"I asked him to ask for it." Zhu Qiyu interrupted him coldly.
Tang Xing, on the other hand, looked at the emperor stupidly as if he was holding someone by the neck.
"Is it also because of money?" Zhu Qiyu looked at Hang Yu.
Hang Yu shuddered. Unlike Tang Xing, his daughter Queen Hang was dead, so she was very weak.
"Chen, chen..." Hang Yu didn't dare to admit it, and he didn't want to really spend money.
"Hmph! Drag him out and beat him!"
"ah?"
Tang Xing and Hang Yu were both shocked. They just cried and said, how could the emperor be executed directly?
But the eunuchs of Qianqing Palace didn't care whether they were relatives of the emperor or not. They only obeyed the emperor's order and dragged the two of them down directly.
"Your Majesty, please spare your life!" Tang Xing screamed, and he thought of the scene where the emperor forced him to watch his heart dismembered, and he was so frightened that he couldn't control his urine.
"Spare my life? It's you, Tang Xing, who should spare my life!"
Zhu Qiyu asked someone to drag them back: "Tang Xing, do you still remember your maid Xiao Tao?"
Tang Xing nodded stupidly.
"She tried to poison me! I ask you, was she under your orders?" Zhu Qiyu's eyes widened.
"Ah?" Tang Xing was stunned.
Zhu Qiyu looked at Hang Yu and said sternly: "And you, Hang Yu, what is your relationship with Liu Jing? Liu Jing offered Li Xi'er, and Li Xi'er tried to kill me. Are you an accomplice?"
Hang Yu was also frightened.
"You two, do you still have the nerve to cry to me? I didn't kill your whole family because of the Hang family and the Tang family!"
"I asked you to contribute some money to serve the country. What's wrong?"
"Why don't I see you crying like this when you are enjoying the benefits that the country has given you?"
"You are enjoying the reward I gave you, why don't I see you crying?"
"You want to take advantage of it!"
"When you use your strength, one can run farther than the other!"
"Why do I raise you?"
"Do you want to have a casual meal?"
"I have a dog, and it is known to wag its tail at me. What will you do?"
"Mud can't hold up a wall! Push me back when something happens! It's holding me back!"
"You're actually hanging out with those who are plotting against you!"
"I didn't settle accounts with you, but you actually took the initiative to settle accounts with me first?"
"OK!"
"Then let's settle the old and new accounts together!"
"Pass the decree! Deprive Hang Yu and Tang Xing of all their positions! All titles! Take back all rewards! From now on, Tang Xing will be assigned to Liaodong, Hang Yu will be assigned to Yunnan, and he will not be allowed to return to Beijing without an edict! The entire clan will be assigned!"
Zhu Qiyu's eyes were filled with murderous intent.
"One hundred punishments with the rod, and then you will be thrown out of the palace!"
Tang Xing and Hang Yu burst into tears.
These two people deserve no sympathy at all.
"Come here, tell Xue Huan to enter the palace!" Zhu Qiyu was about to take action.
Look, he has even dealt with his father-in-law. If he deals with the consort again, it will be enough to make the court speechless.
"Is Chen Ding here?" Zhu Qiyu's eyes were filled with murderous intent.
"Waiting outside the palace."
"Let them all come in." Zhu Qiyu exhaled. He used Tang Xing and Hang Yu to scare the monkeys, and the next ones were Sun and Zhang's relatives.
"Xu Gan, when Tang Xing leaves the palace, give him half of the imperial concubine's dowry and tell him to settle down after he goes to Liaodong. Give the other half to Hang Yu, and there is no need to tell him more."
Xu Gan was stunned and didn't understand what the emperor meant.
While Zhu Qiyu killed the chicken to scare the monkeys, he was also protecting Tang Xing and Hang Yu.
These two idiots cannot survive in the maelstrom of the capital. If they are sent away, they can at least save their lives.
In the future, if he has great power, he can still order them to come back; if he is really dead, it will be considered a complete separation this time, and the new king will take the throne, so they will not be liquidated.
Zhu Qiyu has really good intentions.
"Your Majesty, Governor Tang and Commander Hang will understand your good intentions." Xu Gan understood.
"Huh, just be content if they don't hate me."
Zhu Qiyu sighed. He wanted to be a single husband, but he had to consider his family's feelings.
Tang Xing and Hang Yu don't expect them to understand. I hope the imperial concubine can understand.
"Bring Chen Ding and Chen Jing in, and then announce Chen Xiang's arrival." Zhu Qiyu regained his fierce look.
"My slave, please pay your respects to the emperor." Chen Ding knelt on the ground, looking anxious.
Snapped!
A knife was thrown to the ground.
Chen Ding was startled.
Zhu Qiyu was too lazy to talk nonsense: "Chen Jing, let's do it."
Chen Jing was also dumbfounded. Should he really kill him?
Is the emperor crazy? The power of the Supervisor of Ceremonies is balanced, but the emperor suddenly overturned the table and used Chen Jing to kill Chen Ding without any explanation.
"Your Majesty, please forgive me! What did your slave do? Your Majesty wants to kill your slave!" Chen Ding was confused.
Zhu Qiyu stared at him: "Don't you know why I killed you?"
"The slaves are not clear." Chen Ding worshiped.
"Don't pretend, who you are, I know and you know it, there is no need to say it. This is the reason why you want to kill you."
Zhu Qiyu had to deceive Chen Ding. He had a ghost in his heart, and he would definitely be afraid. Maybe there was an unexpected surprise.
Chen Ding swallowed.
"Kill!" Zhu Qiyu looked at Chen Jing.
However, Chen Jing knew that if he really killed Chen Ding, he would never become the eunuch of the prison of Si Li, but cheaper Ruan Jian and Chen Xiang.
But he didn't know, because he was hesitant, Zhu Qiyu drew a red fork in his heart.
"Emperor's forgiveness!"
Chen Ding gritted his teeth and trembled: "Slave is to be a printed eunuch in order to be a prisoner to be a prisoner, and voted for the right capital of the Emperor Xiaowei!"
He was desperate.
He voted for Xiao Weizhen, which was equivalent to the Corporation Group, and sold people in a blink of an eye, which is equivalent to being self -contained in the world.
Xiao Weizhen is Chen Xun.
No wonder Xing'an said that he was then Chen Ding served as the eunuch of Si Li Jian.
But this is not the answer that Zhu Qiyu wants.
"Continue, who are you still?"
"It's the emperor ..."
Bang!
Xu Yingwi's heart: "If you say that you can say, are you the man of the emperor? Who do you give your life, don't you know it? Say! If you do n’t say it, our family has killed you, and then Chen Jing also killed Chen Jing too !”
Chen Jinghun shook.
Chen Ding was desperate, and it must be Xing'an and explained him.
"Xu Youzhen has contacted slaves!" Chen Ding closed his eyes, and now he has only one way to go and be the emperor.
"It's euphemistic enough. In fact, you are the people of the emperor?" Zhu Qiyu sneered.
Chen Dingzheng's hoe: "The slave and the emperor had no relationship, but Xu Youzhen had contacted the slaves and promised to have some benefits, but the slaves refused! The slaves did not dare to have a half -score to His Majesty, definitely dare not! Lord believes in slaves! Please believe in the slave! "
"You are a person of me, and you have voted for Xiao Weizhen, and they are still unclear with the Emperor Tai Emperor. Such the three surnames! It is also worthy of loyalty? Chen Jing, do it!" He killed him! "
Zhu Qiyu was furious!
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