Chapter 580: True and False Rumors
The official road from Fanglin Gate to Yanshan was planted with weeping willows on both sides. The spring breeze was dozens of miles, and the willows were swaying. The avenue was full of carriages and horses for outings. The sun was shining and the spring breeze was warm, but Feng Zhong was brewing a rainy rain in his heart.
The two tall horses driving on the official road, one was as white as snow and the other as black as charcoal. They were tributes from the surrendered tribes of the emperor's northern expedition to the desert. These black and white horses became Feng Zhong's symbol in the capital. Even ordinary people knew that the carriage was sitting in the secret guards and commander Eunuch Feng.
This carriage was specially made by Feng Zhong by the Ministry of Works. It has two layers of iron birch wood, and a steel plate in the middle is placed in a sandwich. Even if the crossbow is shot on it, the car cannot be torn open. The internal mechanism can be installed, and the fender can be raised to seal the windows. Even if it falls into the river, the water cannot penetrate. The axle and the wheel are made of copper. The connection between the shaft and the wheel is Futu Country. When the rabbit is connected, it is made of leather, and the wheel is outlined with leather, so it moves quite smoothly.
The space inside the car was very large, enough for four people to sit cross-legged, and a small table could be placed in the middle. The thick felt produced by Shasuguo was placed at the bottom. Half of the foot was sank into it. The tea on the table was rippling with fine ripples, and there was no vibration. Feng Zhong held his elbow on the table and held his forehead with his hand. The emperor asked him to go to investigate the prince's manor in Yanshan, which made him feel very embarrassed. As the chief of the secret guards, the prince could not hide the matter of entertainment in Yanshan. He heard that there were many beauties from north and south in the manor, and the prince often drank and had fun with his close ministers. However, how to tell the emperor about such a thing? According to facts, the prince would have no good end in the future. He concealed it for the prince. Once the emperor learned the truth, his secret guards and even the chief of the seal would be done.
He picked up the slightly warm tea and took a sip. The tea is the newly picked nectar tea this year. It is fragrant, but Feng Zhong drank a bit of the bitter taste unique to Anlong tea. The current difficulties still need to be discussed. He sighed softly, and Feng Zhong remembered Huang Xilai. If this kid was going to come up with a good idea, but unfortunately he sent him to Lingzhou half a month ago, and Longwei found the traces of the Yuantian Cult there.
He gently knocked on the side panel. Feng An next to the car heard it and whispered a loud order: "The governor has an order, and the carriage and horses are suspended."
The carriage stopped beside the road, and the guards dispersed and pedestrians were not allowed to approach. Feng An came to the carriage and asked An, "Godfather, what's the point of asking the child?"
"Go and ask Mr. Yan to get in the car and talk." Feng Zhong's voice came from the car.
Mr. Yan Qingze, a native of Fangzhou, was the candidate of the current exam. Feng Zhong was moved by Huang Xi's gradually becoming in trouble, and he lacked some of his counselors. He took the opportunity of the imperial examination to find counselors in Beijing. Mr. Yan was the think tank he tried every means to find.
Both the Dragon Guard and the Secret Guard did not feel good to the world. Yan Qingze did not accept Feng Zhong's recruitment at first. Feng Zhong knew that talent was rare, so he repeatedly asked Yan Qingze to have a banquet, treated him with courtesy, and bought a three-entry house in the Buzhengfang for him to give it to him. Yan Qingze was moved by Feng Zhong and agreed to join the Secret Guard. Feng Zhong was overjoyed and immediately appointed Yan Qingze as the seventh-rank official, and promised to promote him to the sixth-rank historical in three years.
The top scorer was only the seventh-rank editor. Yan Qingze was moved and tried his best to drive Feng Zhong. After twenty days of taking office, he made plans and rectified the secret guard system, dismantled the power of Deputy Governor Huang Xi, and secretly made suggestions to Feng Zhong, so that Deputy Governor Huang would go out to compete with Long Guard more, and rarely appeared in front of the emperor.
Yan Qingze got on the carriage, bowed to Feng Zhong, and sat cross-legged across from him. The carriage was very big, and the two people didn't feel cramped at all. Feng Zhong poured Yan Qingze a cup of tea and knocked on the carriage. Feng An understood and the convoy moved forward again.
After tasting the tea first, Yan Qingze smiled and said, "
This is the new tea this year, good tea, it is Ganlu tea.”
"If sir likes, I will send someone to sir's house." Feng Zhong said. He has a good impression of Yan Qingze. This scholar has no sour taste and is free and easy. His eyes show integrity, unlike others who look at him.
"Thank you, sir," Yan Qingze bowed and said, "Yan sent someone to bring his family to the capital. He cooked a good dish in the lowly house. When will the governor have time to enjoy the food and have a meal? Yan expressed his gratitude."
Feng Zhong had countless banquets, and said bluntly that the imperial meals in the palace were also bored. However, the family banquet invited by Yan Qingze made him feel warm. He smiled and agreed, "Let's talk about it in a few days. Your family has just arrived in Beijing and needs some care at home, so there is no hurry."
"Director Governor is worried about the Prince Yanshan Manor?" Yan Qingze asked.
"I hope you will teach me?" Feng Zhong pulled open the curtain of the car, and a ray of sunlight shone through the window, shining on the yellow tea water. The mist of tea was growing upwards invisibly.
Yan Qingze is already thirty years old and has three-inch-long black beard. He habitually stretches out his hand to pick his beard when thinking. Feng Zhong looked at Yan Qingze's bright black beard with some envy. When he entered the palace at the age of seven, the beard was broken from him. The more he didn't have, the more he wanted it. As long as he went out to work, Feng Zhong always liked to stick fake beards.
"This matter is indeed a bit tricky," Yan Qingze pondered: "Since the emperor asked the governor to investigate, he must have heard some news. He just didn't know where the emperor got the news? The governor, but someone reported the prince's affairs to the emperor?"
Feng Zhong thought for a while and said, "No one should have mentioned this matter of the emperor being busy with the imperial examination. Today, Jiang Anyi, the governor of Huazhou, said something he said?"
"Master Jiang, it should not be him.Master Jiang is a direct scholar in Chongwenguan. I heard that he has a teacher-student relationship with the prince. Even if he wants to give advice, he will directly advise the prince and will not report to the emperor privately." Yan Qingze shook his head and said, "The incident suddenly started. The governor paid more attention to the situation in the palace during this period, so that he could respond in a few ways. In the current situation, Beizhi believed that the seven reals and three virtuals should be reported to the emperor." Feng Zhong had an idea after seeing Yan Qingze for a moment and asked with a smile: "What is the seven reals and three virtuals?"
"Since the emperor issued an order, the matter in the prince's manor could not be concealed, but the governor needs to downplay the part that was implicated by the prince. It might as well be pushed to the people around the prince. After all, the prince is only sixteen years old and is easily tempted by others. It is for the prince's taboo and the respected one to consider the country and the country. Even if the emperor knows the truth in the future, he will not blame the governor."
The carriage stopped at the foot of Yanshan Mountain, and Feng Zhong raised his head from his thoughts and said, "According to the words of Mr.
When Feng Zhong and Yan Qingze were discussing countermeasures, Princess Anshou brought her son Wei Yunlin into the palace. She thought that her mother missed her grandson, but unexpectedly found that Shi Fangzhen was there, and she was stunned. Now it was only the hour of You. It is said that the father should have reviewed the memorials in the imperial study room. Judging from the atmosphere, is there something wrong?
Wei Yunlin was really happy when he saw Shi Fang. He ran over and hugged his legs. He said, "Grandpa, you are busy every time you come. Dad said you eat ten thousand chickens a day. Can you eat so many chickens? Lin'er will be full after eating two chicken legs."
Shi Fangzhen was stunned by Wei Yunlin's words, saying that he would eat ten thousand chickens every day. An Shou smiled and said, "Lin'er must not be rude. Father, Youcheng said that you are busy with all kinds of things every day, and this kid remembers that he eat ten thousand chickens every day."
Everyone laughed. Shi Fangzhen picked up his grandson and sat on his lap and asked, "Does Lin'er like to eat chicken? Let's eat boneless chicken tonight?" Liu Weiguo laughed secretly, and the emperor was obsessed with it.
The lunch meal seemed to have not eaten well. When I was delivering the meal, I had to explain a few words to the imperial chef, otherwise the taste would not be appropriate and I would have to lose my job.
In recent years, several new princes and princesses have been added to the palace, but they are not as good as An Shou. The prince and King An of Chu are close to Shi Fangzhen. As the first grandchild, Wei Yunlin was particularly favored by his relatives from another generation. He was named Fu Kangbo without saying that he was born. The rewards during festivals are also compared with the prince.
With Wei Yunlin, the baby was there, and the family was talking and laughing. Liu Weiguo took the time to go to the Shichen Department and told him a few words of the imperial chef. The imperial chef who could hold the spoon in the palace was naturally a master. After listening to the instructions of Eunuch Liu, he naturally knew how to cook. When the meal was delivered, a table of fragrant dishes was served.
The dishes fryed from high heat were naturally crispy. Wei Yunlin held the chicken legs in his hand, held shrimp balls in his mouth, and stared at the lamb chops and shouted delicious. Even Queen Wang said depressedly: "Today's meal seems to be more delicious than before."
Shi Fangzhen knew the reason and smiled: "Today I went to the neighborhood restaurant in vain. The restaurant chef's technique is different from that in the palace. The heavy taste of the high fire is unique, but it is not advisable to eat too much, so it's okay to change the taste occasionally."
Turning his face to look at An Shou who was drinking soup, Shi Fangzhen suddenly said, "In the restaurant, I heard a few rumors about the prince. I wonder if An Shou had heard it."
The slightest aroused arousal. An Shou shook the spoon in his hand, and the fish soup spilled on the table. The monkey-headed mushroom held on Queen Wang's chopsticks slipped and fell on the braised meat. The mother and daughter looked at each other, and were extremely frightened.
Shi Fangzhen knew when he saw his wife and daughter's expression that they knew the truth. He couldn't help but be furious. He slapped the table hard and shouted, "You are so bold, you dare to deceive me."
The emperor was angry, and even as a wife and daughter, he was so scared that he knelt down and begged for mercy. Wei Yunlin didn't know the reason, but when he saw the emperor's grandfather got angry, he was so scared that he cried. Shi Fangzhen hurriedly said, "Don't cry Lin'er, you haven't sat back yet, so he scared Lin'er to tears."
Queen Wang and An Shou stood up as he said, and the matter involved the prince, and they did not dare to be careless. An Shou said carefully: "My daughter heard Youcheng mention it a few days ago. The close ministers beside the prince invited her brother out of the city to hunt on the grounds of practicing riding and shooting, and sometimes they would bring their prey to the manor to cook and have a banquet. The daughter thought that her brother had grown up, and these were all trivial matters. She dared not alarm her father. When she entered the palace, she mentioned it to her mother and asked her mother to remind her brother."
Queen Wang took over the conversation and said, "I have asked Wei'er specifically, and Wei'er said that she only went to the manor to rest occasionally. The manor was not cleaned, so the ministers of the Eastern Palace offered some women to clean up. The matter of raising singing girls was purely a rumor. If you don't believe it, you might as well call Wei'er to come and ask."
Shi Fangzhen had already believed in eight points. His son was better than his own. Wei'er was educated by himself. However, in the past two years, he was busy with the Northern Expedition and handed over the responsibility of the prince's cultivation to the people of Chongwenguan. Jiang Anyi and Zhang Zhicheng were appointed by him and left the position of Liu Yichen, Wang Zhixing, Cui Yuanhu and others who were left by the prince were mostly children of aristocratic families, which inevitably attracted the prince to be extravagant. After the prince got married, a group of assistants in the East Palace should be selected again. Wang, Cui and others should not assist the prince.
In the evening, Feng Zhong reported to investigate the situation of Yanshan Manor and learned that the prince rarely went to the manor, and the women in the manor were sent by close ministers around the prince. Shi Fangzhen breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that the prince was innocent and the rumors were really hateful.
Chapter completed!