Inside the curtain, Liu Jin didn't know what the prince's mood was now.
He also knew about yesterday's Qianqing Palace incident. The great uncle wanted to push away the Zhejiang incident but failed, and now he chose this ending.
It is obvious that there is something wrong with Zhejiang.
Over the past few years, they have all learned about the prince's temperament. For example, if they bumped into him unintentionally or accidentally broke a bowl while working, the prince was fine.
The most important thing is this kind of state affairs. Once someone has a problem, even ten layers of skin will be peeled off.
When they are eunuchs, it is a good thing to encounter someone like this. As long as they do things with their heart, nothing will happen. But it's not a good thing, it's just that it's not easy to talk about personal affairs. If something serious happens, you have to admit it.
No matter what, you always have to follow the prince's hair.
"Your Highness..." He said again.
"Get changed."
Zhu Houzhao replied.
I suddenly woke up and now I can't sleep. And the follow-up of this matter also needs to be dealt with.
"Then your Highness, please wait a moment. I will go and wake them up."
"No need to go to such trouble. Come and change my clothes."
As he spoke, Zhu Houzhao had already opened the curtain. To be honest, the sky was still a little chilly at this time, especially at this time. But he still walked straight to the wooden rack where the clothes were hung.
Liu Jin could no longer kneel at the first glance and hurriedly seized this opportunity.
The prince's regular uniform is a red round-necked dragon robe, with a jade belt around his waist and a black crown on his head. In order to keep warm, Zhu Houzhao also wore a dark blue round velvet cloak.
"Is Zhang Yong here?"
Liu Jin smiled and replied, "Yes. Your Highness wants to see him?"
"Well, let him work harder today. Let him come over."
"It's not hard work, it's the slaves' blessing to serve His Highness."
Zhu Houzhao didn't respond to this sentence and let him go find it first.
Then he came to the entrance of the palace and looked up, seeing the sky full of stars.
The bustling and noisy Forbidden City is so quiet at this time.
In the corridor on the right, someone lit a lantern and hurried over.
"This Liu Jin, tell him not to disturb you, but he still wakes you all up."
The person who came was none other than Qiu Yun, along with several palace maids and eunuchs.
Qiuyun is now a few centimeters taller than Zhu Houzhao, but the difference is not much different. The girl looks thinner than when she was young, and her eyebrows are very delicate.
"Your Highness has changed his clothes. If the slaves are still hiding under the covers, they will be said to be evil slaves." Qiuyun approached the prince, took a look at Zhu Houzhao with a lantern, and then stretched out his hand to caress the prince's chest. Those folds in the front.
Silk clothes wrinkle very easily after being washed once.
Unless they wear one thing and throw another away, this is generally the case for the royal family. There were various very solemn activities such as sacrifices and court meetings, and Zhu Houzhao inevitably threw away many clothes that were only worn once.
However, daily wear is generally worn more than once.
Qiu Yun straightened out his wrinkles and curled his lips, "Your Highness is staying awake for state affairs. Why are you working so hard?"
"I am fine. How is your brother's injury?"
In the tenth year of Hongzhi's reign, Zhu Houzhao offered to help her find her younger brother. Fortunately, Qiuyun was older and had memories, and knew that he was a domestic servant in a local family named Xu.
It's just that when I found him, this kid was a little miserable. He lost the little finger on his left hand because he was beaten. But he still wanted to beat him, very fiercely.
After arriving in the capital, he was still restless and was later thrown into the military camp. He went there in the 14th year of Hongzhi and suffered several injuries, large and small. At the beginning of this year, when he was fighting with the Tatars in Datong, Someone cut him in the back.
The blow was severe, and now he has to recuperate in the capital.
Because he was extremely brave in battle, Yang Shangyi gave him a hundred-household official with excellent horses. With the permission of his superiors, he also took a hundred elite soldiers with him. Well, now he can go wild on the grassland.
Qiu Baihui is already going to have a bad reputation.
But Yang Shangyi has said many times that this person is not easy to manage, and he must fight fiercely with others in the military camp.
He only lost once, to Ma Yihuai's eldest son Ma Sheng, who really couldn't beat him. There is no way, Ma Sheng is also a person who has been fighting since childhood.
Since then, Qiu Baihu has somewhat restrained himself.
At this time, Qiuyun felt a little warm when he saw the prince mentioning it, "He's fine, and everything is fine in the hospital."
Zhu Houzhao felt relieved after hearing this and walked out again.
The place where he lived was an open space outside the palace gate. Later, he had stone tables and benches set up on the right side. When the weather was nice, he didn't want to be bored in the house.
On the left hand side are several wing rooms, which are very simple.
Except for Qiu Yun, everyone else kept a close distance from him.
The prince was like this, much more silent than usual.
"Your Highness, you will freeze if you do this..."
Zhu Houzhao stretched out his hand and said, "Come here."
The girl's family seemed to understand something, and her heart trembled, but she was a little shy and spat out like a mosquito, "Your Highness, there is someone else..."
There is someone.
But Zhu Houzhao looked back and said,
For a moment, everyone's heads were lowered. The movements are very neat.
"Just letting you know, I'm not cold."
Qiuyun endured her shyness and put her hand on her. Only after touching her did she realize that His Highness's hand was soft and warm.
Perhaps because of the heat, Qiuyun felt a little dry.
However, although she was crawling all over her body like ants, she was a little reluctant to let go. She even took two steps forward to make it easier to pull up.
After a while.
Zhang Yong also arrived with Liu Jin, and they retreated when they saw the situation.
"return!"
So the two men lowered their heads and knelt down in front of Zhu Houzhao.
"Are you still sleepy?"
Liu and Zhang all shook their heads, "Go back to Your Highness, I'm not sleepy anymore."
"It's always a good thing to wake up. Tomorrow morning, someone will never wake up."
Liu Jin had already said it on the way, so Zhang Yong understood it.
Liu Jin then said: "Your Highness, is there someone else going to go to Zhejiang now?"
"The Minister of Rites has committed suicide, who will replace him now?" Zhu Houzhao thought about his people in Zhejiang, "You must take a warning from Wei Bin. I put Wei Bin in the position of guarding eunuch. I had placed hope on him. But look what he has done? I feel ashamed every time I think about it."
Liu and Zhang felt nervous after hearing this.
"Zhang Yong."
"My slave is here."
"I asked you to come because there is something I want you to do." Zhu Houzhao put his hands behind his back, "Stop sleeping for a few hours and set off for Zhejiang tomorrow to find Wang Hua and arrest Li Yancai and others first. ! Then go to Wei Bin and try to get him to tell who he has been in contact with in Zhejiang in the past few years and who is sending him money. Remember, bring the soldiers of Teng Xiang's left guard with you."
"Slave, you obey!"
"In addition, I will let Mao Yuwen and Jin Yiwei go with you. Sometimes you have to listen to Mao Yuwen. There are not many people who are braver and more cautious than him. But you are still responsible for controlling Mao Yuwen."
Mao's Chinese language sometimes kills innocent people indiscriminately.
It wasn't discovered at first, but now Zhu Houzhao knows it.
"Zhang Cheng doesn't dare to go. We people from the East Palace dare to go and destroy Zhejiang! Let's see who can turn the Ming Dynasty upside down! The corruption of many officials under the Zhejiang Chief Envoy , I must pull it out and take a look this time! Anyone who dares to stop it, please report it to me, I am not afraid of him!"
damn it!
Although the prince Zhu Houzhao does not have the prestige of Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di, he is still a prince.
Within the borders of the Ming Dynasty, now that he is eyeing this matter, who else can resist? Even if the situation is reversed, there is still Teng Xiang as the left back!
After hearing this, Zhang Yong was filled with passion, roaring and filial.
The crown prince sent his confidant out just to take action.
"Your Highness! This servant will definitely do the job beautifully this time and earn back the face Wei Bin lost for Your Highness!"
"There is still some ambition in these words."
Zhu Houzhao also found out. Several times, he originally wanted to send civil servants to use political means to solve the problem.
For example, the initial dispatch of Yang Tinghe to Qingzhou is not much different from the dispatch of Wang Hua to Zhejiang this time.
But in the end, the civil service system of the Ming Dynasty always forced him to use factory guards and use military force to solve the problem.
So now he understands more and more why eunuchs caused so much trouble in the Ming Dynasty.
This is the law of mechanics. Because the civil servants are very powerful, they have forced themselves to have a powerful opponent. The emperors of the past dynasties had no choice but to delegate power to the eunuchs.
"Go ahead and get the army ready."
"yes!"
Zhu Houzhao looked up at the bridal chamber, and some bright colors had already emerged.
Zhang Cheng's incident will definitely cause an uproar today. And looking at the time, the emperor must have woken up.
"Liu Jin," he called slowly,
"My slave is here."
"Let's go see our father."
At this time, Emperor Hongzhi also received the news. Like Zhu Houzhao, he was stunned when he first heard it. He looked around blankly and asked: "Where is the prince? Does the prince know?"
It is not that he has never encountered officials who committed suicide in the years since he took the throne, but Zhang Cheng is the Minister of Rites after all. I am afraid its impact will not be small.
How to deal with it is also a challenging job.
Fortunately, Zhu Houzhao came here on his own initiative, and he saw him soon.
The prince didn't say anything, "Father, son and ministers already know."
"Wasn't he fine during the day?" The emperor was puzzled. "He left so suddenly. I think there must have been a lot of discussion between the government and the public."
Zhu Houzhao said: "Yes. Zhang Cheng is the Minister of Rites, and he is also a minister whom his father relies heavily on. What to do after his death will definitely be mentioned in the morning. I thought that the Minister of Rites would kill himself to prevent officials from being restless. It is better to prepare a funeral for him according to the etiquette to calm people's hearts."
After all, the dead are the most important. The eucalyptus can be checked, but the funeral must also be done. Otherwise, there should be an uproar.
"My father is still recuperating recently, so there is no need to worry too much. The affairs of Zhejiang are left to my son and ministers. No one can overturn the sky in Zhejiang!"
Emperor Hongzhi's nose felt sore and he held his son's hand tightly, all kinds of emotions unspoken.
