The sound of the slurry and lights all dissipated, but the outline of the ancient city did not open as clearly as usual. The night was so hot that it was suffocating. If you grab a handful of air, you could wring out sticky sweat. The ten miles of Qinhuai were no longer as busy as usual. I was used to the noise of the night. When I heard the quiet sound of water, my scalp would burst out bit by bit. The sparse candlelight emitted a dizzy light, making all the objects blurry and bleak, and it seemed to be thicker and dark.

"I can't bear this day. I'd better take the girls on the boat to Yangzhou. It should be better there, not so turbulent," said the owner of the boat after taking a sip of tea, sighed and said to the tent sitter opposite.

The gentleman stopped habitually and sighed with the boss, and said, "It may not be easy to go to Yangzhou. Half of the officials in the capital have gone, and there are probably not many left in Yangzhou. At this moment, officials are not too late to save their lives. Who has the leisure to support the girls? Even the most red card Qing'er girl on the river has no one. Think about how big the chaos is."

"Yes," the owner stood up and closed the window. There were children on the shore crying twice, which scared him so much that he shivered and almost lay on the ground. The tentman quickly reached out to help him, and the two brothers looked at each other and sighed again.

"You said that the officials are no guarantee. If you want to say that we are a grass-roots person, it would be fine if something happened to me. The high-ranking officials and nobles also fell down and fell directly from the sky to the Hall of Yama." The ship owner said depressedly that the capital was in a panic these days. Every day, I heard that officials were being dragged into a rebellion case, and the whole family was arrested, and the prison was full of people. In the end, the Jinyiwei confiscated someone's house and found several houses in his own house to lock people in, eating, drinking, or scattering.

"What's the matter? They are fighting with gods. The people below will be attracted by anyone. They will suffer. Grandma Liu's younger brother is a servant in the Imperial House and becomes a Hu party. He can't get his share when he gets the benefits. He can't escape during this lawsuit. It is said that he is shackled and is waiting to go to the court. His sister is a widowed woman. Seeing that something happened to her brother and she was unable to save her. No one has any time to take care of her. She didn't have any kung fu to yell injustice. She didn't jump into the well with a stone in her arms. She was so miserable that she didn't even have a corpse collector.

"This is not a miserable thing. Do you know Mr. Zhang who was newly joined last year? He was the one who invited someone to listen to music on the river a few days ago. He didn't have anything to do. The girls on the river said that Mr. Zhang and his wife were very affectionate. These days everyone was in danger. No one knew whether they would go to court this morning and come back to the evening. When he was confused, he told his wife that if they couldn't come back one night, it would be an accident that would offend Tianwei. He told the wife not to inquire at that time and quickly clean up and take care of the children. Back in the countryside, the emperor was discussing matters and promoted him to the post and asked him to ask the question. It was too late to go home. He didn't see his wife when he got home. He thought he was not good. When he went to the back hall, the wife thought that something had happened to him, so she sent the maid away and secretly hanged her to death. Poor that Mr. Zhang lost his wife as soon as he was promoted, and helped the body cry. The worst thing was that the two children were still ignorant, and kept calling her mother in her arms..." The accountant felt miserable when he said this, and stretched out his sleeves and touched the corners of his eyes, and stopped talking.

The owner of the other side had already had his eyes red, and said, "God is not a kind person. This adult Zhang is cautious in doing things. He comes to the river just to listen to music and never does anything irrelevant. Instead, he is retribution. Those who are really unethical and change their responsibilities quickly when they see the wind. They have already changed their houses. There are also those who take the opportunity to falsely accuse and receive rewards, and they are not afraid of thunder."

The tent fibrillation stood up slightly, and looked at the hatch. Seeing that the lights in other cabins on the boat were turned off, he turned around and whispered, "Boss, whisper, don't let people listen. Who knows where the Jinyiwei is wandering around? People's hearts are separated from their belly! You said, let's see the man surnamed Wu that day, and look at the soldiers and big boats that I have never seen before, and I am happy for the power of the Ming army. Who knows that this boy surnamed Wu killed the Tartars and captured his own people so hard."

"Hey, Marquis Wu is just a knife in the hands of the emperor. What can he do if the knife is held in someone else's hand? Seeing that he brought tens of thousands of troops and beat the Goryeo sticks and played like a play. But if he didn't listen to the emperor, wouldn't he be killed? Who is the emperor now? Look, the day before, the Northern Army hit the shore, and the next day, Marquis Mu entered the city. It probably had been arranged long ago." The owner of the ship recovered from the flood of sympathy and began to analyze the situation for the accountant. After all, the emperor saw a lot, and the two of them contacted each other, which was really the same.

"That's right, Chen Ziyong and Wang Ziwei are both hereditary marquises. They have always been an official in the imperial guards. How powerful is they? They just want to arrest them. They don't know what they did when they arrested them."

"If you want to say that this man surnamed Hu is not unfair. After being prime minister for several years, it is said that his family has collected millions of taels of silver. He dared to take down the gifts given to the emperor by himself. It is said that there are dragon robes, white tiger skins and other dirty things that are plotting against each other. But I can't tell the others clearly. The Grand Tutor's Mansion on the street was surrounded by soldiers. I wonder if it is related to this matter. The emperor seems to be going to start a big killing this time, and even his in-laws will not let him go."

"Why are you letting go? You have never heard of brothers who want to be together, let alone the in-laws. Which emperor talks about human feelings and can't become an emperor? Do you think it's our little brothers, and you feel satisfied if you have a boat."

"Oh, the Mongolians finally got out of here. After two days of peace, the world is going to be in chaos again."

"Oh," sighed one after another.

In the imperial study room, Zhu Yuanzhang could not hear complaints from the bottom. The square deep palace guaranteed the emperor's safety and dignity of imperial power, and at the same time made the people inside more and more closed. Although he was obviously confused about the outside world, he closed his eyes and thought that he could control the whole world. Throughout history, the emperor was like this, and the ministers were like this. One executor was the law, and the other held half of the broken book and refused to look up. That night, it became darker and darker.

The bright tribute candles through the glass lampshade illuminated the picturesque landscape on the walls with a very clear picture. Small flags with sun and moon patterns were moved back and forth by Zhu Yuanzhang. Every time they were inserted into one place, it meant that another piece of land was taken back to the territory. Liaodong was already full, where should the next flag be inserted?

Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes were no less fanatic than the boy who had first love. The bronze pillar world was re-marked and Yumen Pass was not set up. A dream of an emperor for thousands of years burned his blood. The combat power of the new army can be seen from the good news from Liaodong. It was possible to see that in three months, tasks that could not be completed in the past few years were completed. Even in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, it was not so fast. He thought proudly. Genghis Khan, just a barbarian leader. When my Ming army inserted the flags for me, let you see the power of my Han family.

"Your Majesty, it's late at night." The eunuch, the close eunuch, reminded him carefully.

Zhu Yuanzhang turned around, smiled at him, and said, "No hurry, I don't want to sleep. You see, this is a picturesque country, I can't let it go." He stretched and sighed: "The prince is still unable to bear to be entrusted with state affairs. My life is not as good as a rich man."

Eunuch Wang's expression changed, and he took two steps back and did not dare to reply. Zhu Yuanzhang stipulated that eunuchs should not participate in state affairs, and those who violated the situation would be killed without mercy. His ex-Eunuch Liu accidentally made a statement and was dragged out. He did not dare to follow this mistake.

"Look, I'm scaring you, I won't blame you when I talk to you," Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly became more excited, "You know what the ministers outside view the crown prince, tell me the truth, I won't ask you about your crime of interfering in politics."

"I dare not," the prince announced a crime and replied carefully, "I often heard people outside say that the prince is kind-hearted and has the image of the ancient saint."

There is no parent who doesn’t like to listen to others praise their son, even if the son was just called a little beast by himself. Zhu Yuanzhang smiled again and said happily, “You can’t tell that you are still good at speaking? This prince is good at everything, but he is too weak.”

Too weak temperament is Zhu Yuanzhang's greatest dissatisfaction with his son. Such a peaceful son was born on the battlefield with sword light and blood. Zhu Yuanzhang sometimes doubted whether God had made a mistake. Son, do you really think that you can be an emperor by virtue of benevolence? Since ancient times, which emperor has not had piles of bones under his feet? How many people have been thinking about this position day and night, why don't you understand the painstaking efforts of being a father? Thinking of the dispute between father and son in the day, a faint helplessness surged in his heart. Let the father finish it for you, so that you can be a saint who has been famous throughout the ages in the future.

The country was established more than ten years ago, relying on a group of civil officials to formulate a series of systems based on the old examples of the Tang Dynasty. The tragedy of Zhao Song's national demise was not far away, so he did not dare to learn from the national policy of Song. Although the Tang Dynasty was strong, the separatist vassal states and the disaster of eunuchs finally caused great flaws. It was not easy to repair these flaws. None of the great scholars who were familiar with the classics and history could make effective suggestions, but instead quarreled for the bias of understanding the words of the saints. Fortunately, in recent years, with the wit of Li Shanchang and Hu Weiyong's cunning, he used the method of gradual reduction to successfully prevent the generals from gaining troops. Until last year, Xu Da, the core figure of the general, surrendered power and retreated to the military academy to teach, no longer had to worry about separatist situations of vassal states. Although the new army has strong combat effectiveness, as the boy named Wu said, leaving the ammunition supply of the court, the weapons in his hands were not as good as a fire stick.

After tackling the old generation of military generals and dealing with the increasingly large civil servant group was put on the agenda. The emperor wanted to express his constitution, how could he be influenced by the civil servant class? Zhu Yuanzhang turned around and found that under his deliberate indulgence, the Hu Weiyong group had gradually become a big shot. He was originally holding a glimmer of hope for a good start and end between the monarch and his ministers. However, when he sent someone to investigate who was buying the white tiger skin in Wu'anguo, he did not wait for the Jinyiwei to find the relevant person. Zhao Wuji of Peking fell into the valley in the wild while hunting, and the shopkeeper Hu, who was handling fur, fell into the Yongding River while on a boat.

Some people in the Wei Dynasty colluded with court officials, but they didn't understand how much they colluded with. Zhu Yuanzhang was shocked, but he was so scheming that he no longer pursued the court officials and directed all the attention of court officials to the new policy in Peking. In fact, the matter of who had collected tiger skins was obvious. It was probably destroyed before Wu'an Kingdom entered the capital. As long as Zhu Yuanzhang did not show off and the time was not ripe, the people who collected tiger skins would naturally not jump out first. Over the past year, the calm capital on the surface was surging undercurrents, and the subtle balance made everything stable until new forces broke this balance.

Mu Ying was ordered to train the new army. Peiping's slow weapon production capacity made this army inadvertently become a force to deter the capital. The military academy's non-commissioned officers were drawn from all over the country. Under Xu Da's training, they were loyal to the court. After nearly a year, Zhu Yuanzhang quietly set up a large net, waiting for the opportunity to close it.

Wu'anguo was considerate and the Zhenbei Army returned to the army quickly. It was not until he reached the shore that the ministers in the court realized that there was an invincible army in the capital. When two thousand Zhenbei Army troops were drawn to replace the palace guards, Mu Ying returned to Beijing to temporarily take over the defense of the capital, and the imperial edict to replace all the imperial officers in the military academy officers, the ministers were stunned. No one opposed it, everything had become a foregone conclusion, and the opposition was just a fire. There would definitely be a major change in the court. It was just not clear which unlucky person touched the scales.

In the morning, Tu Jie, who was like a verbal worm behind Hu Weiyong, stood up and cried and exposed Hu Weiyong's plot to rebel. Shang Hao, the former censor, was demoted for offending Hu Weiyong, the first to stand up and agree with Tu Jie, and listed the "things that harmed the country and the people" that Hu Weiyong had been in power for several years. Zhu Yuanzhang was furious and ordered Hu Weiyong to be taken down on the spot for strict trial, and the whole family was imprisoned and the house was raided. Within a few days, the Jinyiwei fully utilized their "case handling efficiency", and Hu Weiyong's disciple. Old officials, relatives and friends were involved one by one, and all kinds of evidence of rebellion were "searched" from various unimaginable places. Most of the Chinese officials in the court were arrested, and even the prince's teacher Song Lian, who had long been inquired about the affairs of the court, were imprisoned at home. Many military generals and local officials were also implicated, because a painting collected by Hu Weiyong was written by Wang Shuming. Wang Shuming, a great painter who lived in seclusion for many years, was arrested from the mountains and could not withstand the torture and died before he could be interrogated.

The huge civil servant group was instantly destroyed. The Secretariat, the Prime Minister and other officials were abolished, and the six ministries were also set. With the power of thunder, Zhu Yuanzhang completely took control of the entire government affairs in his own hands. "From then, no one from the capital to the outside of the pass, could stop my will. As long as I waved my hand, all the people of the Ming Dynasty would move around my arms." He was full of confidence. The whole process of destroying the civil servant group was like a game of chess. He beat Hu Weiyong and won clean and beautifully, without a drop of blood on the surface. The only regret was that for the sake of safety, he used a few more pieces on the chessboard. Although it was not a fatal negligence, it looked very annoying.

Just during the day, the prince came to see the emperor and knelt on the ground to plead for the civil servants, asking Zhu Yuanzhang to kill only the evildoers, and never asked, pardoning most of the civil servants involved in the Hu Weiyong case and their families. This weak son was so angry that he shuddered and pardoned the rebels. Has the emperor ever done such a thing since ancient times? Isn't this encouraging others to follow others? Isn't this anger, such officials who control the government, have to be quickly resolved without charges, and they have to be pardoned if they have a charge. How can I give the country to you in peace in the future? He could not say some words, so he could only let his son understand them, but as a son, he obviously could not understand his father's painstaking efforts and repeatedly advised himself to kill less. "Kill less, I killed more people for this country back then, so there were no more people. If you want to pardon them, wait until you become emperor, then say them." The words that came out completely cut off the prince's hope. The father and son parted in disagreement. Listening to the guards' return, the prince actually had the idea of ​​committing suicide. He committed suicide for a few ministers. Is there such a master? Zhu Yuanzhang smiled bitterly.

"Gugu, Gugu, Gugu, Gugu", the self-ringing bell reminded him that it was late at night again. The small wooden cuckoo jumped out of his nest and sang delicately. The cute movement attracted Zhu Yuanzhang's attention. At this autumn, the tributes sent by Peking in this autumn, the gentry in the places with titles but no honors knew how to repay kindness and would pay tribute from time to time. The new fiefdom policy of the fourth brother was indeed very vivid, but the civil officials usually slandered them. After this blow, they would restrain themselves a lot. However, the little beast was not grateful and even joined in the fun with his brother. The book advised himself to keep talents for the country, keep talents, and what talents should be kept? Is it not that the talents who serve the royal family, and keep them for the remnants of the tiger.

But they can't completely ignore the children's intentions. Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the memorial on the table and thought a little depressedly. The sons were all older, and the two had become independent forces, one in charge of the customs and the guards, and the other in charge of the Zhenbei Army. Their words also represent the opinions of all the officials behind them. The candlelight in the hall suddenly jumped, and when he thought of the independent power, the game was not so clear. Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly found that he had ignored a person. If this person was unfaithful to him, everything would be doomed.

At night, it suddenly made people feel a little cold, and it was windy outside.

Well, there is no need to go to the morning court tomorrow, so I ask my two sons to come and ask them together to see what they want. Apart from this time it is not up to me, the two sons are the best among the kings, especially the fourth brother, who is resolute and decisive, and his character is very similar to himself when he was young. Fortunately, they are brotherly and brotherly, otherwise it would be difficult for me to deal with it. Call the boy named Wu, too, this guy always makes amazing moves, and see what he says this time. For many days, he has been guarding the Zhenbei Army base and has repeatedly asked for a visit. If he doesn't pronounce the order, he will not be able to get out of Taiwan. After all, it is his son's arm and he cannot make his heart feel cold.

"Issuing an order, Prince Xuan, King Yan, and Marquis of Ping Liao come to see me tomorrow morning." He put down the small flag in his hand and ordered Zhu Yuanzhang.

"The imperial edict, the prince, the king of Yan, and the marquis of Pingliao together." The long message continued alternately. Many people on duty in the palace heard it and quietly spread the news. Many numb hearts trembled slightly, igniting a faint trace of hope.

What will happen tomorrow?

Notes from Drunk Master: 1. In history, the Jinyiwei was called the Imperial Guardian at this time. For convenience, Drunk Master directly wrote the Jinyiwei.

2. Wang Meng, whose courtesy name was Shuming, and his pseudonym was Xiangguang Jushi, a great painter, from Huzhou (now Wuxing, Zhejiang), was one of the "Four Yuan families". He died in the Hu Weiyong case, and his grandfather was Zhao Mengfu.

3. The Hu Weiyong case has been investigated for many years in official history. It was not so intense at the beginning. Zhu Yuanzhang slowly killed people. The emergence of Wu'an Kingdom in this alien space has had a great deviation from our history. Because the emperor's status is stable, the changes are also more drastic. Drunkards tamper with history, so don't worry.
Chapter completed!