Another day.
Zhu Yuanzhang was in high spirits.
King Baling and Yan Hong's eyes were blue and black, their eyes were dull, and their feet were almost swaying, eating one bean and nine.
If you want high-intensity work as an emperor, you must have a good reputation. If you deliberately take trivial matters to find trouble...
General Dou is watching you!
This also requires them to torture themselves first and list something reliable and meaningful before using their work to torture the emperor.
But yes...but yes!
Why did several of them join forces to fight, but they couldn't defeat the emperor!
Yan Hong raised his hand and rubbed his temples, and smiled miserably at King Baling: "Little Pengjie, you didn't lose unjustly!"
King Baling: "..."
Pei Renfang asked from the side: "Do you want to continue? Your strategy of killing one thousand enemies and damaging yourself eight hundred?"
Yan Hong said angrily: "If you continue to do this, our faces will turn green! Your Majesty is indeed the chosen one. After so many days, you are still in high spirits!"
They all stopped for the time being, but Zhu Yuanzhang refused to give up. Seeing that they did not come to see him again, he took the initiative to call them over: "My beloved ministers were so diligent a few days ago, why have they suddenly become lazy again recently? This is terrible. It shouldn’t be.”
King Baling: "..."
Yan Hong: "..."
Pei Renfang: "..."
What an act of throwing stones at someone's feet.
Yan and Pei were ministers, so there were some things that were hard to say. Only King Baling, who was half a minister and half a brother, said with a drooped face and aggrievedly: "Brother, please spare me, my brother. I'm so tired, especially We are still in the internship period, and we don’t even have a salary..."
Zhu Yuanzhang frowned when he heard this: "Brother, don't think about what you can get, think about what you can contribute to the court! Selfish people are not qualified to be my ministers. Opportunity. It is only reserved for those who are prepared. If you don’t work hard or make progress, you will only become the dregs of society!”
King Baling: "..."
Ah this.
Brother Huang, are you at the KTV? !
Zhu Yuanzhang looked sideways at Yan and Pei again: "Those who are messing around are not my brothers, Mu Yikang. If everyone is like this, how can the country have a future?"
Yan Hong: "..."
"Brother," do I alone have it, or does everyone else have it?
Pei Renfang: "..."
We really should drink one for our false brotherhood between king and subject.
Several people chatted and retreated.
At night, after eating only one bean and nine meals, we were all dejected and unable to cheer up.
King Baling asked his uncle: "Isn't your brain easy to use? Can't you think of another way?"
"Think about it," Yan Hong said angrily: "Do you think His Majesty is stupid? He summoned us here today, so he just ordered us! Your Majesty didn't have an attack on the spot, so just have fun!"
The tofu in King Baling's mouth instantly flowed to his chin: "Ah! Aba Aba!!!"
Pei Renfang noticed that Yan Hong's expression was really bad, and he couldn't help but expressed concern: "Shen Zhi, your body..."
Yan Hong made a sound and said with a forced smile: "Looking at the bright side, you are doing something for the people of the world, aren't you? It's worth it."
He also sighed and said: "Although I am a bit stingy today, I am still a wise king and he is willing to provide good governance to the people of the world. What can we say? It is just a sacrifice to death." And that’s it.”
King Baling was wondering, when did his uncle become such a person who understands justice?
He just heard Pei Renfang agree with him, his expression was solemn, and his face was full of sincerity when he saw his uncle again, as if every word came from his heart, so he suppressed the doubt in his heart and did not express it.
But he never noticed a figure flashing behind the curtain in the room next to him.
On the second day, Zhu Yuanzhang still sent people from the anti-996 group to discuss matters, but the look on his brows was slightly more kind than before.
Yan Hong and the others were not aware of it either. Instead, they swept away their previous salty fish aura and concentrated their attention.
When Zhu Yuanzhang saw this, he actually felt a little apologetic. Looking at Yan Hong's face, it looked as if he was going to die in a few days, so he advised him: "Things can never be done, Shen Zhi must take care of himself." .”
Yan Hong agreed, but still went his own way.
Until one day when he was discussing matters at the Chancellor's Desk, he suddenly fell on his back and spurted out a mouthful of blood.
The people around were shocked: "Shang Shu Yan!"
Yan Hong was so angry that he took out the memorial from his sleeve with difficulty: "Don't delay the important affairs of the family and the country because of me..."
Everyone on the left and right burst into tears when they heard this.
…
When Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, he was stunned for a long time, and his heart that had been frozen for a long time could not help but be shaken, but he said stubbornly: "It's not that we didn't remind him to rest early, it's because he didn't listen..."
Li Shimin sneered in the space: "Didn't you see through their intentions and deliberately use their strength to fight against them?"
Zhu Yuanzhang snorted and said nothing.
At midnight, he tossed and turned, thinking of Yan Hong's death, and finally couldn't help but sit up from the bed: "I'm really not a human being!"
After all, I stood up with my clothes on, dug out the dusty salary increase memorandum, approved it with the word "accepted", and sent it out.
…
He didn't sleep well that night, and Zhu Yuanzhang got up before dawn the next day. After getting dressed, he finally ordered people to prepare horses and left the palace to visit Yan Hong at Yan's house.
Unexpectedly, even though he got up so early, the Yan family had many visitors first, and he even saw two people among them who he knew should not be here.
Yuan Niang and Yuan Niang’s sister Liniang.
When Zhu Yuanzhang saw this, he couldn't help but have some doubts in his heart. He took a few steps closer and asked Yuanniang: "Why are you here?"
Yuan Niang glared at him angrily: "Shang Shu Yan is an old patron who has a lot to eat."
Zhu Yuanzhang said "Oh", his mind changed slightly, but he didn't say anything.
The bedroom window is open, and the scene inside can be seen clearly from the outside.
Yan Hong was lying on the couch, his face as white as paper. Sitting on the embroidery stool next to him was a young woman, dressed as a woman, with a bright face and heroic brows, but her expression was very cold and frosty.
Zhu Yuanzhang asked Yuanniang: "Who is that?"
Yuanniang answered him in a low voice: "She is the former wife of Yan Shangshu."
Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly understood - Geng Rong's cousin.
Before appointing Yan Hong, he had also done some background training.
Jiang Liniang stretched her ears forward with a "Wow, there are melons" mentality, and muttered: "You look like a talented man and a beautiful woman. Mrs. Geng is so beautiful, and she is a good person at first glance. How could there be a quarrel and divorce?"
No one spoke.
Zhu Yuanzhang was very proud of his sister-in-law and looked at the confidant behind him who was responsible for intelligence work.
The latter lowered his head slightly and whispered: "It seems that because of the quarrel between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, the couple finally moved their hands and saw blood..."
Jiang Liniang angrily condemned: "Men who beat their wives are trash bastards!!!"
The corner of the confidant's mouth twitched twice and added: "Mrs. Geng was born in a general and has always been brave. Yan Shangshu was the one who was beaten..."
Jiang Liniang: "..."
Jiang Liniang immediately performed the famous double standard in China: "It is difficult for an honest official to deal with household affairs, but outsiders should not interfere with the affairs of beautiful sisters!"
Confidant: "..."
Over there, the ex-couple in the bedroom said something unknown, and they parted on bad terms.
Mrs. Geng came out with her skirt in hand. When she saw the guests outside, she was slightly startled. After nodding in salute, she turned and left.
Zhu Yuanzhang then walked to the inner room.
Yan Hong was lying on the couch with a white face. When he saw the emperor coming, he forced himself to get out of bed to see the emperor, but was stopped by Zhu Yuanzhang.
His face showed emotion and his eyes were slightly red: "I can no longer serve the Holy Lord..."
When Zhu Yuanzhang saw this, he was also sad.
He sighed: "Now that things have happened, is there anything else Yan Qing wants to teach me?"
Yan Hong repeatedly declined: "As a minister, how dare I teach your Majesty?"
When Zhu Yuanzhang asked again, Qiqi Ai Ai said: "Your Majesty, I am not doing this for myself, but for the sake of the world and your reputation..."
He quoted from scriptures and said a lot, but in the end he only condensed it into three words - you have to pay more!
Zhu Yuanzhang laughed in anger, and the boot that had been hanging in the air since he saw Yuanniang here finally fell to the solid ground.
He finally understood what Yan Hong was planning!
All the deliberate wheel fighting and physical and mental competition with him were all fake. Yan Hong never thought of hiding it from himself from the beginning - he just wanted to use this to make himself unhappy, and deliberately competed with that person again. Several people resisted, and in the end they couldn't stand it anymore, and they vomited blood and staged a cruel trick!
It's a pity that he was actually fooled!
In the space, Liu Che was all "Wuhu": "I walked a lot at night and finally saw a ghost!"
Li Shimin chuckled and said: "The iron cock has been plucked!"
Li Yuanda also said meaningfully: "Lao Zhu has deceived many people by going back and forth, and this time it is finally his turn!!"
There was also a smile on Ying Zheng's lips: "This Yan Hong... is really a talent. It's a pity that he fell into Lao Zhu's hands."
Zhu Yuanzhang was extremely angry and laughed: "Shang Shu Yan is so calculating."
Yan Hong observed the words and responded: "If that's not the case, how could you be so lucky as to be chosen by His Majesty's wise eyes?"
Zhu Yuanzhang did not accept this flattery and stared at him coldly, the smile on his face slowly faded: "How dare you?"
Yan Hong said: "I am not doing this for my own selfish gain, but for your majesty's eternal reputation and for the country's common people. Just support a few officials, how much money in total? If a little bit leaks out from the cracks of your majesty's fingers, it will be enough." It's enough. But just these few dollars can make people feel lost, their subjects uneasy, their families at home uneasy, and their offices uneasy. How can this be worth it?"
He knelt down and kowtowed a few times: "I know that your Majesty is not reluctant to part with these few dollars, but it is just to test the hearts of the school ministers. If the ministers and others are loyal to the emperor, The country must speak up for what is right. If I and several other newly promoted ministers are all sycophants, how can they dare to speak out and offend the king? Your majesty has no fault in your sage, that's all!"
Zhu Yuanzhang sneered: "Do you think I won't kill you if you flatter me like this?!"
"Your Majesty!" Yan Hong said: "I am humble and insignificant, how can I be righteous? If you want me to die, I have to die, but your majesty's thousand-year-old Qingming Festival is so precious, how can you destroy it on me? I am scared, I am afraid. Death!"
