Zhu Youjian found a piece of his own clothes and spread it on the table. Queen Zhou held an oil lamp to illuminate it for him.
With other blood to replace it, he naturally doesn't need to cut the wound anymore.
His fingers were stained with pig blood in the jar and he began to write on the clothes.
Clothes are not as easy to write on as flat rice paper, and fingers are not as convenient as using a pen.
After a lot of effort, Zhu Youjian finally finished writing the blood letter that he was going to send to Nandu.
After the blood stains on his clothes were almost dry, he recited it silently again, then opened the curtain between the outer room and the outer room and handed it over to Xu Tong who was waiting in the outer room.
It was also the first time he saw Xu Tong's appearance.
Xu Tong didn't have a light in his hand to see the content of the blood writing on the clothes. He just glanced briefly to confirm that the words were indeed written in blood on the clothes, then folded them and put them in his arms.
"I excuse myself." Xu Tong bowed, took two steps back, and prepared to leave.
Seeing this, Zhu Youjian couldn't help but said: "Wait!"
"Your Majesty, do you have anything else to do?" Xu Tong stopped walking out and looked at Zhu Youjian in front of the east room door.
Zhu Youjian's lips wriggled a few times, and finally sighed and said: "When you go back, tell the cabinet for me to take good care of my prince."
"Please rest assured, Your Majesty, I will convey the message to the cabinet for Your Majesty." Xu Tong replied respectfully.
Zhu Youjian raised his right hand and waved it towards the door, and said: "Okay, let's go. Be careful on the way so as not to be discovered by the tiger thieves. Especially the blood letter on your body must not be left behind." It fell into the hands of tiger thieves."
"I promise with my own life that even if I die, I will never let the edict fall into the hands of outsiders." Xu Tong assured Zhu Youjian.
"Let's go!" Zhu Youjian uttered two words lightly.
"I excuse myself."
This time Xu Tong came to the courtyard from the outhouse without looking back, and quickly disappeared into the night.
Zhu Youjian stood in front of the door for a long time before returning to bed with a depressed expression.
Queen Zhou has been waiting for him.
Seeing him coming back, Queen Zhou asked eagerly: "Where is Jiong'er? Did you tell me more about Jiong'er's situation?"
"Don't worry, Jiong'er is fine." Zhu Youjian stretched out his arms and took Queen Zhou into his arms.
Queen Zhou did not let go of her worries because of Zhu Youjian's words. Instead, she cried out of control, sobbing even more: "My poor Jiong'er, he was taken to Nandu when he was only a little old. I don’t know if his life is good or not!”
"Don't worry, Queen, Jiong'er is living a good life. He is the emperor of the Ming Dynasty. No one dares to treat him badly." Zhu Youjian gently patted Queen Zhou's back with one hand and spoke words of comfort.
Empress Zhou said with a tearful tone: "He is only a little old, how can he understand the important affairs of the court? Everything is decided by those auxiliary ministers. If they treat Jiong'er badly, I will be his concubine." The queen’s mother can do nothing.”
The more I talked, the harder I cried.
Zhu Youjian had no choice but to continue to comfort him: "Queen, don't worry, it is precisely because of these auxiliary ministers that Jiong'er will be fine."
"But your Majesty, didn't you also hand over the power of the DPRK and China to the cabinet?" Queen Zhou looked at Zhu Youjian in confusion.
She also heard clearly the words of the Nanzhen Fusi Jinyiwei Baihu who came to request the order before.
Zhu Youjian laughed when he heard this, and said: "When I wrote the blood edict just now, Queen, you must not have read it carefully, otherwise you would not have asked such a question."
Queen Zhou looked puzzled.
Just listen to Zhu Youjian continue to say: "Although I gave him a blood edict, I did not ask the four auxiliary ministers to hand over the power of handling affairs between the DPRK and China to the cabinet. I only wrote on the blood edict that the chief minister of the cabinet Qian Qian Yitian was appointed as the auxiliary minister, so there were five auxiliary ministers in the court. The power in the court was divided and thinned, and Jiong'er's throne became more stable."
"Will this cause dissatisfaction among the auxiliary ministers?" Queen Zhou asked worriedly.
Zhu Youjian smiled and said: "There will definitely be dissatisfaction, but they know better that it is most beneficial to them if Jiong'er sits on the throne. Otherwise, no matter who the person on the throne is, as long as he is the emperor who can personally govern, We will not allow a few auxiliary ministers to exist."
Queen Zhou is naturally not the kind of ignorant village woman with little knowledge.
Following Zhu Youjian's few words of analysis, she quickly figured out that knowing that her prince was young, she could better protect herself.
"These ministers and the court are like this. They only want to fight for power and profit. It would be great if His Majesty could return to Nandu." Queen Zhou rested her head on Zhu Youjian's chest.
Zhu Youjian's face turned ugly after hearing this.
The assistant ministers in Nandu probably didn't want him, the emperor of tomorrow, to go to Nandu. Otherwise, they wouldn't have seen the army marching north for so long, and they wouldn't even have sent anyone to rescue him.
The first time they saw someone coming from Nandu, it was just for his blood edict. No one thought about how the emperor was living here in Tiger Flag, and whether he was living well.
Not to mention taking him back to Nandu.
The night was slowly lifted, and more and more light reflected from the eastern sky to the earth.
When the earth was completely lit up by the morning sun, Zhu Youjian walked out of the house with a broom.
There were several Ming vassal kings and nobles who were in a similar situation to him.
The job of these people is to clean the streets every day in exchange for a meager income to support their families.
In the Qianqing Palace.
Liu Heng finished his breakfast and began to deal with the day's government affairs.
Although the Tiger Flag only occupies a few provinces, it has a lot of government affairs to deal with every day.
Without the help of a team of attendants to handle government affairs, he felt that he would not be able to handle the government affairs that came to the table every day by himself.
"Lord, Director Yang of the Foreign Intelligence Bureau is here." Zeng Yuanxuan, as a bodyguard, came over to report.
Liu Heng, who was at his desk handling government affairs, didn't even raise his head and said directly: "Bring people in when they come!"
Zeng Yuanxun retreated.
Soon, Yang Yuan was brought in.
"See you, my lord." Yang Yuan bowed before meeting.
Liu Heng looked up at him and asked, "You, the director of the Foreign Intelligence Bureau, must have something going on when you come here. Tell me, what's going on?"
"Reporting to my lord, people sent by the puppet Mingnan capital went to Zhu Youjian's residence last night and stayed for more than an hour. Should we arrest Zhu Youjian?" Yang Yuan said.
Liu Heng put aside an official document in his hand and asked, "What is the other party here for?"
"This is the blood edict found from the people sent by the Puppet Ming Dynasty." Yang Yuan handed over the blood edict written by Zhu Youjian to Jin Yiwei with both hands.
Zeng Yuanxun, who was standing by, came over, took the blood edict and sent it to Liu Heng.
"Open!"
Liu Heng did not reach out to pick it up, but asked Zeng Yuanxun to open the blood edict.
