and get out

Author: Potato Sweet Potato Pie

and get out

The Forbidden City is tightly guarded, with tall walls and airtight defenses. However, the crisis is often not outside, but within these palace walls.

There are at least tens of thousands of palace maids and eunuchs in this palace city. Where do these people come from and what are their intentions?

Even if your wealth is innocent and your intentions are pure, and you just want to be a palace servant, will you be bribed by someone with money in one, two, or three years after entering the palace?

Those ordinary palace maids and eunuchs may have murderous intentions hidden in them.

The emperor, empress, queen mother, and concubines who lived in the palace often turned a blind eye to these slaves, unless they went too far.

Just like a female official in the princess palace accepting bribes, even if the palace knew about it, she would choose to ignore it. Only when she went too far would she be reprimanded or even slapped.

Just like King Zhu of the Jin Dynasty whipping the cook because the food was not to his taste. When Zhu Yuanzhang learned about it, Long Yan was furious, frightened and frightened. He immediately wrote a letter and sent someone to deliver it quickly.

The content of the letter was concise and to the point. It started with a scolding, and then came with a stern warning: You must treat the servants around you, especially the cooks, well.

Just like Emperor Wanli went crazy after drinking and cut off some strands of hair from two palace maids, Empress Dowager Li sued the Ancestral Temple that night to depose him.

It is self-evident what these people are worried about.

This huge Forbidden City is by no means safe, not to mention that there are a group of daring ministers outside.

To deal with this situation, Emperor Hongzhi's choice was to be patient, release the generous side of his character, and show kindness to everyone.

Xia Yuan didn't know whether this kind of tolerance that was almost weak was good or bad.

Emperor Hongzhi wanted Zhu Houzhao to learn to be tolerant, but that boy was not a tolerant person.

Perhaps the future Zhu Houzhao also felt that the Forbidden City was dangerous, so he moved out to the Leopard Room and replaced the entire Leopard Room with trustworthy people.

But even if he moved, he could not escape the unclear fate of death.

So hiding seems to be useless, suppression will be counterattacked, and blind tolerance is only a temporary solution after all.

Emperor Hongzhi lacked family affection since he was a child. His childhood experiences made him attach great importance to family affection. He doted on his wife, his daughter, and his son. Perhaps it was because of his love for the house and the crow that he treated his son-in-law very well.

But in the face of the father-in-law's inquiry, Xia Yuan was silent for a long time and could only say solemnly: "I don't know."

"You don't know, and I don't know either, but I can only do it."

At this moment, there was a sound of soft footsteps, and Emperor Hongzhi suddenly stopped talking. After a while, several eunuchs came in with ginseng tea and waited for these eunuchs to put the ginseng tea on the imperial desk.

, after pouring the tea, he said warmly: "You all can go out."

"Here."

Several young eunuchs responded and backed out, closing the door of the Nuan Pavilion.

Looking back, Emperor Hongzhi took a sip of ginseng tea from the tea cup and asked, "Where did I just talk?"

Xia Yuan was holding a teacup and sipping tea. Hearing this, he said: "Your Majesty said that I can only do it."

"I just don't know how to handle this matter. I can only place my hopes on you." Emperor Hongzhi put down the tea cup and looked at him deeply with his eyes.

"When you have a dispute with someone, you should first examine yourself. Listen to the truth and believe the truth at the same time. Don't make enemies, let alone be aggressive. Examine yourself first, and then plan things. Examine yourself that you are not at fault, and then think about what the dispute is about.

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Xia Yuan listened silently, knowing that this was an emperor teaching him how to behave and how to be patient.

As an emperor, his son Zhu Houzhao could not learn to be forbearing. The emperor could only place his hopes on his son-in-law.

Xia Yuan felt not only responsibility, but also trust.

Most emperors are suspicious and headstrong. Emperor Hongzhi certainly had such characteristics, but he was open to trust in himself.

Perhaps it was because he regarded himself as one of his family members, as a relative; perhaps it was because he and the prince had a close relationship; perhaps it was because his consistent behavior had gained his trust;

Xia Yuanwen has never had any intention of fighting for power, at least not yet.

So he gained the emperor's trust.

Maybe he couldn't find anyone to trust except himself.

All these factors contributed to the sentence - I can only place my hopes on you.

"I have read many books of the Han Dynasty. In the two Han Dynasties, the success and failure of the foreign relatives were also related to the foreign relatives. In order to prevent the foreign relatives from getting bigger, the Taizu of this dynasty established all kinds of ancestral family laws. I dare not slander the ancestors, but there are advantages and disadvantages to this matter. The foreign relatives do not

If you want to become big, you will have honorable ministers to make it big. If you don’t make it big, you will have scholars and civil servants to make it big.

It can be seen that everything does not depend on relatives, civil servants, honorable ministers, or internal officials, but on people's hearts.

I can't see through your heart, I can't see what you are always thinking. But I am willing to trust you, and I want you to be a trustworthy son-in-law, so that you can help the prince in the future, but you have done all kinds of things

It seems that I want to be a lonely minister, and I want to be a lonely minister who makes me feel at ease."

"I won't let you be this lonely minister. Once a lonely minister loses power, he will never recover. This is why I transferred your student and other classmates and friends to your command. This is why I helped you keep that number.

The reason for hundreds of prisoners.”

Hearing this, Xia Yuan couldn't help but raise his eyes. Zhu Youtang looked at him, "Everything in the world cannot be managed by a single tree. Do you understand?"

Xia Yuan nodded slowly and solemnly said, "I understand."

Looking at the serious look on his face, Zhu Youtang couldn't help but ask: "What do you understand?"

"I understand what I need to understand."

"What should I not understand?"

"Then I don't understand."

Emperor Hongzhi was speechless for a while, then frowned angrily and said: "At this time, you have become more cautious. Do you think I am testing you?"

"I don't have it."

Zhu Youtang frowned and stared at him for a long time, then his eyebrows gradually relaxed, and he sighed: "That's all, you understand what you should understand, and you don't understand what you shouldn't understand. It seems that you understand better than me."

Xia Yuan didn't answer. He didn't know if the two of them meant the same thing. It was just the Riddlers communicating with each other.

"I didn't listen to your previous advice on this road construction matter, and I didn't communicate with the important officials. Now that this matter can't be implemented, what do you, my son-in-law, think should be done?"

Xia Yuan only felt that his tooth hurt. You didn't listen to what he told you last time. Now he is licking his face and asking.

Well, for the sake of being my father-in-law, I'll bear with it.

He said in a loud voice: "Son-in-law listens to his father-in-law, and whatever his father-in-law says is what he says."

"Then I, my father-in-law, will leave this matter to you, my son-in-law."

Xia Yuan's eyelids twitched, "What does my father-in-law mean?"

"Go to the houses of the three cabinet ministers and have a friendly chat with them. Make sure they agree to this matter."

Hearing this, Xia Yuan's teeth hurt even more. He wanted to convince those three old guys to go to the mountain. Isn't this embarrassing?

"Father-in-law, if they don't agree, can my son-in-law take some radical measures?"

Zhu Youtang frowned: "What are radical means?"

"It's like putting a knife to their neck."

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After a moment of silence, Zhu Youtang suddenly straightened up and asked, "Do you understand what I am telling you?"

"Oh, I probably understand."

"Then put your knife away and get out of here."
Chapter completed!