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Chapter 24 Zhu Youjian's Story

Wang Wenyan was angry and said again: "Oh, I'm so polite. But don't forget that you are a thousand households and can't speak respect to others casually."

Zhu Cheng said: "First, I am indeed very polite; second, the "Da Ming Law" does not stipulate that officials cannot use respectful words; third, the person who comes has a special identity, even you have to ask for it."

Wang Wenyan was about to sarcastically again, but suddenly he thought that Zhu Cheng and Zhu Youjian were good friends. He was the witness he invited this time. He hurriedly said, "I don't have the same knowledge as you." He kept silent.

Emperor Aoki said, "Okay, please come up."

Zhu Cheng said a few words to a soldier from the Jinyiwei and handed him a note. The soldier left the hall and rode his horse towards the children's playground.

Emperor Tianqi waved, and Zhu Cheng stepped up the jade steps and stood next to the dragon throne.

Emperor Tianqi said softly: "Zhu Cheng, are you sure? Now you have very good reasons. Stop, and the world can't say anything more."

Zhu Cheng also replied softly: "Long live, we can make these self-proclaimed ministers more embarrassed."

Emperor Tianqi said happily: "Really? These days you left, I was so annoyed by these ministers. They all said something stern, saying that farming is the foundation of the world, and national tax can only be harvested from farming, not from merchants. The farming tax is already high enough, and farmers will rebel if they are harvested. Merchants are rich, but they are not shy. But I am stupid and can't say they are. I am very happy to let them embarrass them. Don't worry, I am your strong backing. With the orders of the late emperor and my support, I still don't believe it. The two emperors of the Ming Dynasty can't beat these selfish villains."

Emperor Tianqi looked at Wei Zhongxian and Zhu Cheng again. He suddenly laughed and said, "Love, do you think this scene is a bit familiar?"

Zhu Cheng understood it, went out through the back door and went to the imperial kitchen to make roasted lamb.

Gu Dazhang said to Gao Panlong: "Brother Gao, where did Zhu Cheng go? You can't just want to escape."

Gao Panlong said, "It seems familiar. Do you think this scene seems familiar? Zhu Cheng, a slander, has probably gone to make something delicious for the emperor again. The last time I made it in the Golden Palace, it seemed like roast lamb was made. I don't know how it was made. When I got back, I asked the chef to make it, but I couldn't make it. Hey, Zhu Cheng is not a good person, I eat alone."

The historian angrily wrote down a record of Zhu Cheng's crimes.

Sure enough, not long after, Zhu Cheng brought three large plates of roasted lamb to the jade stairs. Emperor Tianqi, Zhu Cheng and Wei Zhongxian feasted together.

The fragrance slowly rose and spread throughout the hall. Everyone swallowed involuntarily. Zhu Cheng was so disgusting. He wanted to eat and go home to eat. What's the matter with eating at the Golden Palace? It's still so fragrant. He wanted to study one of his books, but the emperor wanted to eat it. Although the emperor was inappropriate in eating and drinking in the Golden Palace, there was no special law to manage him. If he participated in the emperor's books, he would have committed the crime of going to the palace to slander the king. Zhu Cheng, who had sharp teeth, answered a few words, not only would he not be able to participate in the emperor, but he would have to take care of himself.

Suddenly, a child's voice rang in the Golden Palace: "Brother Cheng, it smells so good, I'll eat a little."

Everyone looked closely and found that the person who spoke was Zhu Youjian, and the witness Zhu Cheng invited was indeed him.

Zhu Cheng walked down the jade steps and pulled Zhu Youjian's hand and said, "A Jian, have you remembered the manuscript when you go back to eat roasted lamb?"

Zhu Youjian patted his chest and said, "Pack to me."

After saying that, he waved to the guards. Wu Hucheng carried a chair and the other two guards carried a table and placed it on one side of the Golden Palace.

Zhu Cheng looked carefully at the guards carrying tables and chairs, and found that there were guards from the children's playground, and asked, "How many people have you brought?"

Zhu Youjian said: "The twelve elite soldiers we trained, and there are ten guards from left-behind children's playground."

Zhu Cheng said: "Is it necessary to mobilize all the troops like this?"

Zhu Youjian laughed and said, "Today is my day to show off, how can I have no audience?"

After saying that, Zhu Youjian sat on a chair, slapped the wood and said, "Sweeping the remaining beards and setting up the imperial capital, dragons fly and phoenix dance in a towering manner; the left is surrounded by the vast sea and sky, and the right is surrounded by Taihang Mountains. The spears and halberds are majestic on the nine sides, and the clothes are endless. The people of Taiping are happy in the world, and the golden cups are shining together forever..."

Zhu Youjian began to talk about the storytelling "Du Shiniang's anger and sinking into the treasure chest".

The ministers looked at each other, not knowing what Zhu Cheng was trying to do. They were determined to ask, but they were inconvenient to interrupt Zhu Youjian's storytelling - that was the emperor's younger brother. Soon, they knew the answer, because the hero in the storytelling was Li Wentong, and they also specifically mentioned that Li Wentong's father was Li Sancai.

Li Wentong wanted to interrupt, but Wei Zhongxian had already seen it very clearly, and asked the two imperial guards to control him and once again stuffed the smelly sock into his mouth.

The Donglin Party members blushed and tried to interrupt Zhu Youjian's performance several times, but they did not dare. Because they saw Emperor Aoki listening on the dragon throne, they were so stunning.

The relationship between the non-Donglin Party members and Li Sancai was just as good as that. When Zhu Youjian spoke clearly, he felt happy. It was really strange that there were many things every year, and this year there were many. This year, two emperors died in a row and were forbidden to entertain. They had not been to listen to storytelling in teahouses and restaurants for a long time. Of course, it was a bit boring that it was not called storytelling at that time, but it was called storytelling, and it was a bit boring. I didn’t expect that I could listen to a free passage in the court today. Unfortunately, I didn’t have a chair and couldn’t cheer.

Zhu Youjian finally said: "Don't talk nonsense about the wind, the word "love" is just a word "love" is ginseng; if the word "love" can be understood, it is not ashamed to call it "style"." He slapped the wood and ended the storytelling.

Wu Huping led the guards to remove the tables and chairs. In the Golden Palace, everyone except the emperor could sit, had to stand.

Wei Zhongxian waved his hand quietly, and the two guards let Li Wentong go and took away the smelly socks blocked his mouth.

Li Wentong shouted: "I'm not going to be a slander. I don't know Du Shiniang!"

Zhu Cheng made a gesture and asked the guard to bring someone in.

The man trembled into the Hall of Supreme Harmony, and as soon as he came in, he knelt down at the emperor: "Little, old man Shen, third brother, come to see the emperor."

This old man was a poor scholar. The biggest official he had ever met in his life was the prefect. He suddenly entered the Golden Palace and was dizzy and could not even speak. He only remembered that others called the prefect the prefect the Grand Master Qingtian, so he called the Emperor and added the Grand Master.

Emperor Aoki laughed and said, "Get up, old man."

Seeing that Emperor Tianqi was kind, Shen Laosan gradually calmed down.

Zhu Cheng asked, "Mr. Shen, can you know the person opposite?"

Shen Laosan replied: "I know him. He claims to be Li Wentong, and his father is Li Sancai. He and his subordinates are so fierce. Look at my teeth, they are knocked out by his slaves."

Zhu Cheng asked, "Do you remember what he said when he beat Feng Menglong?"

Shen Laosan replied: "Remember, he said that Li Jia in "Du Shiniang's Angry Treasure Box" was talking about him."

Zhu Cheng smiled and asked someone to send Shen Laosan out.

Gao Panlong said angrily: "What do you mean? Can you prove your innocence?"

Zhu Cheng said: "Don't get me wrong, Lord Gao, I'm helping you. Didn't Li Wentong say that he beat Feng Menglong? If you don't verify this, how can you convict me?"

Gao Panlong was speechless because Zhu Cheng said it really makes sense. If Li Wentong had not had a conflict with Feng Menglong, there would be nothing that would happen next. Zhu Cheng did prove this, but this proof was not as good as not. Once this proof came out, it confirmed Li Wentong's identity as a unfaithful man. Although the unfaithful man was not subject to legal sanctions, it left the Donglin Party blank.

Gu Dazhang said: "Zhu Cheng, have you not proved that you are not guilty yet?"

Zhu Cheng said: "Shou, be impatient, I want to invite a second witness."

When the guard heard this, he brought another person in from outside. Many ministers recognized him as Shi Longyou, a famous doctor in the capital.

Shi Longyou was very excited. Although he was a famous doctor in the capital and had met many first-rank officials, it was the first time he had personally visited the emperor. After all, he was a person who had seen the world, so his response was very appropriate.

Gu Dazhang asked: "Mr. Shi, can you prove that Zhu Qianhu did not go out the night of the incident?"

In any era, doctors are always respected and rude as Gu Dazhang, and they are polite when they see Shi Longyou.

Shi Longyou said: "That night, Lao I was treating Feng Menglong in the Children's Playground. Although Zhu Cheng was not by Lao I've always been by my side, I could see him every time when I went in and out."

Gu Dazhang said: "You are not lying, are you?"

Shi Longyou was furious: "I have been practicing medicine for decades and never tell lies."

Wang Wenyan said to Zhu Cheng: "You are a Qianhu, Jinyiwei. If you want to kill someone, you can do it yourself. Just find your soldiers."

Zhu Cheng made a gesture, and Wu Huping and Jinyiwei brought in a wooden statue. It was Yue Fei's statue. Zhu Cheng didn't know who the spiritual leader of Jinyiwei was, but only knew that the spiritual leader of Dongchang was Yue Fei, and his portrait was hung in the main hall of Dongchang. Anyway, the factory guards were all mentioned in later generations, so he took his own initiative to regard Yue Fei as the spiritual leader of Jinyiwei.

Zhu Cheng said: "The Jinyiwei was loyal to the country, and Yue Fei from the previous dynasty was our role model. The twelve Jinyiwei who entered the hall were guards I brought from the imperial village in the west of Jing, and it was also the only military force I could mobilize. Now I let them swear in front of Yue Fei."

The twelve Jinyiwei knelt down at Yue Fei's statue and said, "We are the subordinates of Lord Zhu Cheng. We swear to you that we will never kill Li Wentong's kind and loyal slave with our hands."

People in the Ming Dynasty believed in oaths very much and never swear easily. But Zhu Cheng told the twelve Jinyiwei that this oath was issued because there was a language trap inside. First, the oath was killed by hands, but in fact, these slaves were killed by swords. Second, these slaves were called evil slaves, so how could they be related to kindness and loyalty? Therefore, the twelve Jinyiweis made an oath in front of Yue Fei's statue without hesitation.

Zuo Guangdou said: "Since Zhu Cheng and his men did not take action, it seems that this matter has nothing to do with him."

Gao Panlong said, "Slow down, maybe they made false vows?"

When the Dongchang Admiral Wei Zhongxian heard this, he was furious and shouted: "Our Dongchang and the Jinyiwei both regarded Yue Fei as a god-like figure. How dare you make false oaths to him?"

Emperor Tianqi said: "Wei Zhongxian said it politely. In theory, you suspect that Zhu Cheng was the murderer, so you should show evidence. If you can't show it, you still insist that it was him according to common sense. Okay, Zhu Cheng came up with evidence, but you still don't give up. You really think that the Yisun accepted by Emperor Shenzong Xian is easy to bully? This matter is settled. Zhu Cheng is not the murderer, so the prefect of Shuntian tried hard to investigate the case."

The Donglin Party members were all depressed. Why was Zhu Cheng so difficult to deal with? He always let him escape.

Li Wentong was so angry that he was so embarrassed this time. It was already embarrassing to have a long time in the four nude exhibitions in the most lively corridor in the capital. He also revealed his negative history in front of so many court officials.

He turned his eyes and came up with a vicious idea.
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