The sun began to set slantingly. After more than an hour of tossing, King Yi's ceremonial guard parked outside the palace finally began to move again.
Only this time, among the luxurious carriages surrounded by people, there was a fat King Min.
As soon as they got on the carriage, Prince Yi and his son immediately took several sips of the tea prepared by the maid. Just as Zhu Mianxuan reached for the snacks, Zhu Yongming glared at him, which immediately made the latter a little embarrassed. , retracted his hand obediently.
After all, he is from a clan. Even if it is ridiculous in normal times, etiquette must be respected. Even now, Zhu Yongding himself is hungry and his stomach is growling. However, in front of Zhu Huixun, the King of Min, how can he be so hungry? Like a dead ghost?
After moistening his throat with tea, he finally felt a little better. Zhu Yongbing endured the signal from his stomach and cupped his hands.
"Brother Wang, I'm sorry. This time when the little king came to Beijing, I should have held a banquet to entertain him. However, since your majesty ordered my father and son to be banned from the ten princes' palaces, I am afraid that it will be difficult to see him for a while. Please forgive me. "
Seeing this situation, Zhu Huixuan was naturally very considerate. Looking at the eager Zhu Mianyuan, he thought for a while, reached out and pinched a piece of snack and said.
"Speaking of which, I am also a little hungry, so I won't be polite to you."
Seeing Zhu Huixuan putting the snack into his mouth with a smile, Zhu Yongyi blushed, but he still didn't resist the sound in his stomach, and he and Zhu Mianxuan pinched the snack together and started eating.
After a while, a plate of snacks was put into the stomachs of the three people, and two more cups of tea were poured into their stomachs, and they finally recovered.
After swallowing the snack in his mouth, Zhu Yongyi glanced at the snack that Zhu Huixuan took a bite of, and then looked at the snack plate that was almost completely eaten by the father and son. He smiled sheepishly and quickly started to move away. Topic, Tao.
"I saw that Brother Wang seemed to have difficulty moving when he came out just now, but was he punished in the palace?"
"well……"
Hearing this, Zhu Huixuan sighed and hesitated for a moment. He lifted up the hem of his robe and saw that the knees of the inner lining were stained with blood.
So, Zhu Yongyi was shocked and said.
"This...is this?"
"King Yi, you owe me a favor this time!"
After giving Zhu Yongyi and his son a resentful look, Zhu Huixuan said.
"You have been waiting outside for half an hour. I am in the palace, but I have been kneeling for less than half an hour. This is not counting the time when I was scolded by His Majesty!"
Ah this...
Zhu Yongyi did not expect that Zhu Huixuan would speak so directly, so he smiled bitterly and said.
"Brother Wang, don't worry, Xiao Wang will naturally keep this friendship in his heart."
"It's just, what's going on?"
"When I came to Beijing last time, I found His Majesty's temper to be quite mild. Why is he so violent this time?"
"It's just that they left me and my son to dry in the sun outside the Meridian Gate for an hour, but they didn't even give Brother Wang the face..."
When mentioning this matter, King Yi's tone was filled with both resentment and fear.
He had long expected that life would not be easy when he returned to the capital, but he did not expect that he would be treated like this when he first arrived.
Obviously, Zhu Huixuan dared to ask for favors from them so confidently, which meant that he had indeed suffered a great injustice in the palace this time.
To put it bluntly, the two of them did not enter the palace. If they had, they would probably be the ones to suffer the consequences of Zhu Huixuan.
Feeling the faint pain in his knees, Zhu Huixuan cursed the two eunuchs who claimed to be "professional" eight hundred times in his heart. After that, he glanced at Zhu Yongyi resentfully and said.
"Why didn't you tell me that today was not the day you were supposed to arrive? Not only that, but you also ran into Yu Qian's imperial envoy outside the city. I heard that there was also a conflict?"
"this……"
After hearing this question, Zhu Yongyi felt a little guilty and hesitated.
"Brother Wang, this is indeed the case, but I didn't think that no matter how powerful Yu Qian is, he is just a minister. He came out of the capital on orders and made it clear that he wanted to target Yifan, so, I just came two days early and wanted to talk to him."
"But who would have thought that this old guy wouldn't take anything hard, and in front of so many civil and military ministers outside the city gate, regardless of superiority or inferiority, he would dare to force his way into the ceremony and question me, such an offensive act , if this king doesn’t respond, won’t he make the world’s clan laugh?”
Seeing Zhu Huixun's face getting darker and darker, Zhu Yongyi quickly made up for it.
"Brother Wang, I didn't do anything!"
"That Yu Qian, on the other hand, just offended Wang Jia, but in the end he dared to threaten me overtly and covertly. That's all, I didn't do anything to him. Why don't I let him walk away in a big way? If this was in Luoyang City..."
"How was it in Luoyang City?"
Seeing Zhu Yongyi getting more and more excited as he talked, Zhu Huixuan snorted coldly, glared at him, and asked with a dark face.
"Are you going to find another gang of ruffians to attack the imperial envoy?"
Although the two of them didn't interact much, one thing is that Zhu Huixuan is older than him, and he is now in charge of Da Zongzheng's errands. In addition, although he still hasn't figured out what happened specifically, he is because of his help. They interceded and were punished. Zhu Yongding unconsciously became shorter.
What's more, he was at fault in this matter, so he could only say it calmly.
"This... of course you can't!"
"well……"
Sighing heavily again, Zhu Huixuan looked at Zhu Yongyi and said as if he hated iron.
"There are no other people here. Don't think that Brother Wang's words are unpleasant."
"It's okay for you to be arrogant and domineering in Henan Mansion. But, is it possible to hire people to attack the imperial officials?"
"Not talking about Yu Qian's status in the capital, do you know that last time because of the rectification of the army, Ningyuan Hou Renli secretly ordered the army to plot an assassination. Now Baizhan's title has been taken away, his head has been thrown to the ground, and his family has been exiled. It's so big In the Ningyuan Hou Mansion, only the orphans and widows are still guarding it."
"Just after this matter was over, the imperial court received Yi Fan's report. What do you want His Majesty to think? What do you want the civil and military officials of the imperial court to think?"
Zhu Yongding was a little confused by such a series of questions. After hesitating for a moment, he asked without confidence.
"Brother Wang, is it really that serious? Are you trying to scare me..."
"Scaring you?"
Zhu Huixuan glared and snorted.
"Believe it or not, if you touch Yu Qian's finger outside the city today, you won't be able to enter the city gate. You will be sent to Fengyang High Wall to guard the mausoleum!"
"Otherwise, how can you have the confidence to treat this Yu Qian? Since he is going to Yifan, doesn't he know what your temper is like? Now that he knows, he still does this, don't you think about why he does this?"
Zhu Yongbing blinked and said hesitantly.
"He wants to piss me off?"
Zhu Huixuan didn't say anything, he just gave him a look that made you understand.
This look made Zhu Yongding slowly believe this statement.
He thought about the scene when he met Yu Qian, and realized from the clues that Yu Qian did deliberately conflict with him at that time.
"But why is this? I have never offended him!"
Zhu Yongbing asked with a depressed look.
Seeing this situation, Zhu Huixuan seemed to hesitate. After a moment, he looked around and made sure that the people around him were all King Yi's people. Then he spoke cautiously and said.
"Originally, after you enter the capital, you and I should find a safe and secluded place in the palace to discuss this matter in detail alone. However, if you make such a fuss now, you and your son will soon be banned from the Tenth Prince's Palace. We only have this little time on the road, so I can only say it here."
Seeing Zhu Huixun's solemn look, Zhu Yongyi became a little nervous and asked.
"Brother Wang, what's going on? What are you..."
Zhu Huixuan looked at the father and son in front of him and pondered for a moment, seeming to be thinking about where to start. Finally, he asked first.
"Aren't you asking why His Majesty's temper is so violent?"
"Just a few days before you arrived in Beijing, there was an earthquake in the capital. Do you know about this?"
Zhu Yongyi did not expect that it was this matter that made Zhu Huixuan so serious. After hesitating for a moment, he nodded and said.
"I heard a little bit. It is said that it was predicted by Qin Tianjian?"
When the earthquake occurred, they were already only a few days away from the capital, and the earthquake was even felt at that time.
Later, I got the imperial report and sent people to inquire about the news. King Yi seemed to have some understanding of the matter.
Zhu Huixuan nodded and continued.
"After this incident happened, many people in the court accused His Majesty of being immoral and causing divine punishment. Although they were quickly suppressed, due to this incident, in recent times, His Majesty has been in a bad mood for a while."
"Of course, this is not the biggest reason why you have been treated so coldly. The Qin Tian Jian warned about this earthquake in advance, so it did not cause too much damage. The court's disaster relief matters are also progressing steadily. It is nothing. event."
"But the most difficult thing is that Qin Tianjian not only predicted this earthquake, but also reported to His Majesty that in the next few years, there will be natural disasters in various parts of the imperial court..."
Zhu Yongbing seemed to understand vaguely and asked.
"So, is it because of this reason that His Majesty is getting more and more angry about what I did outside the city?"
"Yes and no!"
Zhu Huixuan frowned, first nodded, then shook his head. After hesitating for a moment, he looked at Zhu Yongyi opposite and said meaningfully.
"King Yi, your father and son have been in Henan Mansion for a long time, and I'm afraid they don't know much about the situation in the capital. The water in the capital is very muddy now!"
His knees were still hurting, and while he was scolding the two eunuchs in his heart, Zhu Huixuan also secretly made up his mind that his crime would not be in vain...
Seeing Zhu Yongyi's confused look, Zhu Huixuan continued to explain.
"In the final analysis, this matter comes back to the matter of you sending people to attack the imperial officials."
"You are far away in Henan Prefecture, and you don't know how much of a shock this incident has caused in the capital. The rectification of military camps is a major policy promoted by His Majesty."
"For this matter, His Majesty almost wiped out all the nobles in the capital. Even the Marquis of Changping, who personally called back to the capital and entrusted him with important tasks, almost broke his family because of this. If it hadn't been for Yang Hong's death in the end. , after a fight with Ren Li, the one who fell now should be the Changping Marquis Mansion."
"It is against His Majesty's taboo to obstruct the reorganization of the military camp!"
Zhu Yongding was far away in the fiefdom and did not know these secrets about the capital in detail. Now that he heard it, he was somewhat dubious.
However, Zhu Huixuan ignored him and continued.
"Furthermore, you must understand that the civil servants in the court are all powerless, so they are extremely sensitive to attacks on court ministers."
"I just talked about Ren Li's matter, but unfortunately, as soon as Ren Li was dealt with, the news about you came out. What do you think these civil servants will think? How will they react?"
Poor Zhu Yongding is just a spoiled, arrogant and domineering vassal king. When it comes to eating, drinking, having fun, and bullying the people, he is very good at it.
However, for this kind of intrigue and speculation, eight of them tied together are not as good as one Zhu Huixun. Otherwise, he would not be able to do it. He attacked the court ministers and openly threatened the local officials. thing.
At this moment, being thrown around by one question after another, his mind had long been turned into a ball of mush. He was anxious and said in a low voice.
"What can they do? Is it possible that they can send me to Fengyang?"
"Do you think they can't do it?"
Zhu Huixuan sneered and choked him to death with just one sentence.
"Have you forgotten what happened outside the city just now?"
"this……"
Zhu Yongyi was speechless for a while, and finally whispered.
"Brother Wang, this is just an accident. After all, Yu Qian didn't know that I would be in the capital today..."
"He really didn't know that you would come to the capital today, but I'm afraid you haven't realized how dark the hearts of these civil servants are."
Zhu Huixuan shook his head and said.
"For a minister like Qian, it is already familiar to deal with emergencies. Even if he just bumps into you temporarily, induces you to conflict with him, and then makes you angry without knowing anything. Your Majesty, it’s not that difficult.”
"What's more, the consequences of this matter are far beyond what you see now..."
As he spoke, Zhu Huixun's face became serious, his fat face tightened, which inexplicably made the atmosphere in the carriage a little tense, and he asked.
"Do you think that you are the clan king, so even if you do something outrageous, these ministers in the capital can't do anything to you?"
This was obviously a rhetorical question, but that was clearly what Zhu Yongyi was thinking.
Therefore, he wisely did not nod or shake his head, but remained silent, waiting for Zhu Huixun's next words.
However, it didn't matter whether he answered or not, Zhu Huixuan continued immediately.
"If it's an ordinary thing, that's fine. But as I said just now, something like this happened to Yi Fan before the Ren Li incident was over. Many ministers in the capital felt that this was a provocation. Therefore, this momentum must be strengthened. Press it down."
"Yes, these ministers cannot do anything to you directly, but there are people who can!"
Having said this, Zhu Yongyi's chaotic mind finally had some inspiration and asked.
"You mean, Your Majesty?"
Zhu Huixuan nodded and sighed.
"Your Majesty attaches great importance to family ties and has always been lenient to the vassal and clan, but you have to know that although we are members of your own family, after all, it is these civil servants who stay with Your Majesty every day."
"The trouble caused by Yifan this time is another attempt to obstruct His Majesty's political affairs. This incident has already made His Majesty unhappy. For this group of civil servants, it is naturally even more powerful."
"Of course, with the ancestral system on top, even if His Majesty is displeased, it is difficult to touch the vassal king lightly. However, this is where things go wrong."
"This time, these civil servants have no good intentions at all."
"What they want to target is not you alone, but... Zongwu!"
(End of chapter)
