Chapter 205: There is a tiger son in the family

In the capital, in the vast fields outside the suburbs, dozens of war horses were shouting and galloping by, and the hunting dogs barked and ran in front of them. It can be seen that this was a group of noble men hunting. The leader was a young man of fifteen or sixteen years old. Although he was not old, he had a big waist and a round waist. Kong Wu was powerful. He was wearing military armor, a silver helmet, and a pair of tiger eyes were bright and energetic.

At first glance, this young man looked very similar to Zhu Di, the second son of Yan, Zhu Di. Zhu Di's eldest son Zhu Gaochi was very fat and had to breathe when he walked a hundred steps. However, Zhu Gaoxu was different. He was strong in physique and had high martial arts skills, which made Zhu Di like him more than his eldest son. Because his father was a vassal king outside, he stayed in the capital as a qualifier. This made Zhu Di feel very guilty about him and even more arrogant, and gradually developed his arrogant personality.

Today Zhu Gaoxu went out to hunt, but he was not very lucky. He had not even seen a rabbit for an hour. At this time, with a 'huh!', a gray shadow rushed past him. It was a deer. Zhu Gaoxu saw it clearly. He was overjoyed. He took an arrow and shot it away with an arrow, but the deer was extremely cunning. When his arrow was about to be shot, he suddenly turned to the left and avoided the arrow. Zhu Gaoxu was furious and shot three arrows in a row, all of which were avoided by the deer. Zhu Gaoxu couldn't hold back his face. He shouted: "Brothers, kill it for me, whoever kills it first, I have a great reward."

The servants behind him shouted at war horses and fought bravely to kill the deer, but before their arrows arrived, a cold light flashed by, and the deer fell to the ground, and it was shot through its head by a flying knife.

"Wu Si, did this? Well done!"

A guard with only one hand walked out of the team. He looked extremely ugly, half of his face was sauce-blue, which made people dare not look closely. But his eyes were as cold and sharp as a knife, which made people feel chill when they saw him. He slowly stepped forward and bowed, "Little Prince, I'm sorry, I can't use a bow."

"Hey! Isn't it the same thing? If you hit it with a stone, I will admire you even more!" Zhu Gaoxu turned over and dismounted. He walked forward, weighed the deer with his hand, and said in a striking manner: "Be good, it's at least thirty kilograms."

"Good sword technique, what reward do you think you want?"

The blue-faced guard shook his head and said, "I don't want any reward. If the little prince had not saved me, I would have died of poison. The little prince is my master. How could the slave ask the master for the reward?"

Half a year ago, Zhu Gaoxu met this blue-faced man on the way to Fengyang. At that time, he was poisoned and dying. Seeing that his eyes were different, and one hand could fly stones to hit birds to satisfy his hunger, he felt that he loved talents and ordered people to save him. Afterwards, the blue-faced man did not disappoint him. He showed an extraordinary martial art, especially his swordsmanship. No one in the mansion could compete with him for three moves, but he never revealed his origin, just saying that he had deep hatred.

After all, Zhu Gaoxu was young, so he didn't take his origins to heart. He named him Wu Si and made him his servant. At this moment, he saw Wu Si being humble and enjoying it even more. He smiled and said, "After I say something, how can I speak without trust? Let's do this! From now on, you are one of my three trusted guards."

Wu Si quickly turned over and got off the horse and knelt down: "I am willing to be a little prince, and I will die after death."

Zhu Gaoxu was excited, and he turned over and said loudly: "We continue to move forward and never go back until we shoot a deer."

The guards shouted loudly and rode their horses to follow him to the distance.

Zhu Di stayed in the capital because of Fengxiang's military exercises. When other vassal kings returned to their vassal states, only he and the King of Qin did not set off. He had been watching the Feng Fu case that had happened in the past six months. More than 13,000 people had been implicated and killed. However, the case was still getting worse and worse, without any intention of stopping. Especially the soldiers were killed even more fiercely. The dozens of governors of the Five Army Mansions were only Duke of Wei, Duke of Cao, Li Jinglong, and Geng Bingwen of Changxing. The commanders of the various places had been caught in one go, and the commanders of each guard were also killed in 100. Zhu Di knew that his father was disappointed by Lan Yu's rebellion, so he wanted to kill all those who threatened Zhu Ming's world before he went there. He would rather kill three thousand people by mistake than let anyone go.

Then all the new senior officers were appointed by Zhu Yunwen, so that the new emperor would firmly control the army in his own hands.

Zhu Di admired his military advisor Daoyan more and more. He saw it very accurately. Everything was within his expectations. Even if he asked Li Wei to go out to avoid disaster, it was a masterpiece. Obviously, his father could no longer control himself. Since even the small commander was going to kill him, let alone the Liaodong general who held the heavy army?

More importantly, the father's father can let Zhu Yunwen control the army personally through this major military transformation, so there is no need for Li Weizheng to stay. However, now Li Wei is not returning from the sea, and his father has no choice but to do anything. At the same time, he is also afraid that Li Weizheng will follow Lan Yu and support his troops in Liaodong to stand up for his own troops, so he will not alarm the enemy. To kill Li Weizheng, he must first find an excuse to summon him to Beijing and then kill him.

The second person Zhu Di admired was his second brother, King Qin Zhu Ting. He was not impressed by anything else, but his thick-skinned face. His father fell ill. He immediately went to the palace to serve him and took care of him. He had been holding on for a month, and it was really difficult for him. How could he be crazy if he wanted to be an emperor? If his father was moved by this little favor, he would not be able to defeat Zhu Mingtianxia.

The King of Qin went to show off his charm, but it was just a fool. Zhu Di snorted coldly, and his mind was on Lan Yu again. According to the information sent by Lu Siyuan, Lan Yu had killed Tang Shengzong and Zhang Long, firmly controlled the military power of Guizhou in his hands, and Lan Yu had reached an alliance with the King of Qin, which made Zhu Di very excited. He knew that as long as his father made a little mistake, Zhu Xi would immediately raise an army to go south, and he could send troops to Shaanxi in the name of civil strife in the Qing Dynasty, capture the two armies of the King of Jin and Qin into his hands, and revive the name of Qing dynasty, point the sword to the capital, and seize the throne in one fell swoop.

Just as Zhu Di was considering taking the next step, one of his confidant guards came in to report: "Report to Your Highness, someone in the palace has sent news."

He presented a roll of paper, and Zhu Di opened it and looked at it. There was only one sentence on it: "The emperor is in a coma, and the King of Qin wants to give medicine, but the imperial doctor does not allow it."

After a moment of stunned silence, Zhu Di recovered a little. Could it be that the second brother wanted to enter the palace to make such a stupid thing? Want to poison his father? Zhu Di felt a little incredible. He did not believe that the eldest son of the emperor, His Highness of the King of Qin, was so obsessed with the emperor's death for the throne that he personally poisoned his father. If this is true, it would not be just a matter of ethics and morality. Zhu Ren's intelligence also had problems. He could use his hands to poison his father. Can he still leave the palace alive if he poisoned his father?

Zhu Di couldn't help laughing. At this time, when he saw that the guards from the sending letter had not left, he asked in surprise: "What else do you have?"

"Report to Your Highness, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue Ye ordered his son to send two bottles of good wine, saying that this was his little intention. The housekeeper didn't know what to do with it. I'll report it to the Lord."

Zhu Di was really strange. Is Ye Tianming not the backbone of the Grand Grand Sect? He came for no reason to send him some wine. Could it be because of Li Weizheng? Zhu Di immediately shook his head and denied it. He knew Li Weizheng, not to mention that he had not returned overseas, even in Liaodong, he would never reveal to anyone about his alliance with him, so this matter must have nothing to do with Li Weizheng. Why? Did he know some news?

Thinking of this, he quickly ordered: "Does Ye Tianming's son go back to see if he wants to see? If not, please come to my study immediately."

After a moment, Ye Rutang hurriedly walked in with the guards. He is now very successful. After the large-scale purge of the court officials, there was a huge gap in the central government of the Ming Dynasty, and the experienced old officials in the local area were almost completely cleaned. The rest were young juniors. In order to make up for the serious shortcomings of officials, the Minister of Personnel Ye Tianming reported to the East Palace to agree. On the one hand, he promoted a large number of tribute students from the Imperial College to local officials, and on the other hand, he mobilized young officials with little governance experience to supplement the court from the local area. He did not avoid relatives and friends. His son Ye Rutang also jumped from a small official in Beijing to a doctor in the Ministry of Revenue, in charge of Zhejiang Qingguan.

It should be mentioned that most of Fengyang officials were implicated because of Lan Yu's rebellion. Lan Yu's hometown is Dingyuan County. During festivals, no grassroots officials would come to the door to give gifts. In this way, the list of gifts became the death talisman of the King of Hell. No officials in Fengyang Prefecture were implicated. Among them, Linhuai County, Dingyuan County, the magistrate and the magistrate of the chief clerk were unfortunately killed. There was no general in Shu, and Liao Hua was the pioneer. After he could not find an official who could serve as the magistrate.

The Ministry of Personnel selected experienced officials from the old officials of the two counties to be the magistrates of neighboring counties. In this way, Zhang Erhu, the Dingyuan County dictionary, transformed into the magistrate of Linhuai County, and Qin Dianshi of Linhuai County became the magistrate of Dingyuan County. He also selected a few slightly famous children of the big clans to serve as county magistrates and chief clerks among the scholars of the two counties, and barely maintained the operation of the two counties. The same was true for other Fengyang counties. This kind of appointment of officials that broke the rules was a last resort.

If you talk too much, let's go back. Ye Rutang came to send two bottles of wine to the King of Yan today on his father's order. Two bottles of wine were not a gift, but this was a gesture, which was a kindness released by the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel in the court to the King of Yan. And he sent his eldest son to deliver it to the King of Yan. This gesture became even more formal.

Ye Rutang walked into the study and knelt down and bowed: "My minister Ye Rutang met His Highness, King Yan."

"No! No!" Zhu Di took two steps to help him up, "Dr. Ye won't have to kneel down to me in the future."

Ye Rutang stood up and replied respectfully: "This is the court's rule. When you see the prince, you must kneel down and you will not dare to violate the rules."

Zhu Di glanced at him and suddenly laughed: "That means meeting in business, and now we have a private conversation, so of course it is not a violation."

When Ye Rutang heard the four words "Private and Secret Talk", he was frightened. Recently, the officials of the court were all afraid of being killed. As long as the words "Private and Secret" were involved, they were all signs of beheading. However, the King of Yan also said these two words to him, so how could he not be afraid? Moreover, he did not know the true intention of his father asking him to send him wine. He thought he could leave as soon as he was put at the doorman, but he didn't expect that he was invited into the study by the King of Yan. Ye Rutang was extremely nervous and did not dare to say a word.

Zhu Di looked at him for a while and suddenly raised his head and laughed. His laughter gradually subsided. Then he said with emotion: "There are talents in the country and the powerful ministers of the Ming Dynasty who appeared in the court like a lantern. They were all in charge of the trend for several years. When Li Shanchang left, Hu Weiyong came again, and then Zhan Hui was Zhan Hui. I was wondering who would be after Zhan Hui left? But I didn't expect that it was still from Fengyang. Ye Tianming had a sudden rise. He served as the Ministry of Personnel, the Minister of Revenue and the Minister of the Left Censor. His only son-in-law was the general of Liaodong who had the most troops except the prince. The Ye family was so powerful that no one could match the world. Ye Doctor Ye, I also know that you definitely don't understand the intention of your father sending you to deliver wine, but I have a word to tell Ye Shangshu that water will overflow, and the moon will lose. If his official position wants to be a longer time, he must learn to make choices. Have you remembered it?"

Ye Rutang nodded silently, "I understand. If your highness has nothing else, I will say goodbye first."

"Go!"

Ye Rutang left, and Zhu Di came to the yard with his hands behind his back. He looked at Ye Rutang's back as he walked away, and couldn't help but smile faintly. He made a choice. I wonder what Ye Tianming would take? What to give up?

At this time, a sudden burst of people shouting and neighing from the yard in the distance. Zhu Di frowned and said to the guards beside him: "Go and see, what happened?"

After a moment, the guard ran back and reported: "Your Highness, the second prince has returned from hunting."

"Hunting?" Zhu Di smiled and said, "Let Gao Xu come to see me."

Zhu Gaoxu walked over happily. Today he was lucky. After hunting the deer, he shot five deer and dozens of hares, deer, pheasants, etc. in a row. Especially his confidant guard Wu Si made extraordinary moves. He killed more than a dozen deer, hares and pheasants alone, which made him return with a full load. Zhu Gaoxu was superstitious. He believed that Wu Si had opened up his luck and looked at him even more differently.

"Father, are you looking for me?"

Zhu Gaoxu came up to salute his father. Zhu Di especially liked his second son, thinking that he was more like him. A real man should be powerful, with swords and weapons in the desert, and had ambitions for thousands of miles. On the contrary, he did not like his eldest son Gao Chi very much. He was too fat and even riding a horse was a problem. He was lustful, which was something that Zhu Di didn't like, but his father liked Gao Chi very much, thinking that he was generous and kind, and that he would be the prince in the future and be a blessing for the people of Yan.

Therefore, when it comes to establishing a prince, Zhu Di could not resist his father and had to make his eldest son Gao Chi the prince. For this reason, he has always felt quite guilty about Gao Xu. Seeing his son coming with a majestic temperament, Zhu Di was even more happy and smiled and said, "My son goes hunting, can you get any gains?"

"Reporting to the father, I have gained a lot. The child hunts five deer, fourteen deer, twelve pairs of hares, and countless pheasants. The child is willing to offer it to the father."

Zhu Di laughed, "You can reward these prey to your subordinates! The father doesn't need it."

He suddenly lowered his voice and said: When you hunt the deer in the world in the future, it will not be too late to offer it to your father again."

Zhu Gaoxu was stunned. He immediately understood. He nodded heavily, "Please rest assured, with Gao Xu here, your father will surely achieve all his wishes."

"Okay! My son has ambitions, but you can't imagine that although you have good martial arts, you are not good at writing. My father has a very powerful adviser, but he is not by my side now. When he comes back, I will ask him to assist you. You must learn to win over talents yourself. In short, the father values ​​you very much. Whether you can have a great future in the future depends on you to strive for it."
Chapter completed!