Chapter 157 Entering the Prince's Mansion at night

The bitter north wind roared over the city of Beijing. The falling snowflakes came to the capital of the Ming Dynasty with the north wind. The snowflakes flying in the wind quickly covered the Sijiu City with a layer of white. The snow was about inch thick and thick on the streets. Teams of patrol soldiers walked slowly with swords and guns. At this time, the first update had passed, and the curfew in the capital had already begun. Many ordinary people's day had passed, and every family closed their doors and blew out the candles.

At this time, the palace of King Xin did not sleep like ordinary people. Zhu Youjian was wearing a thick fur cloak and was standing in the corridor watching the falling snowflakes, but his expression was not as relaxed and comfortable as he was enjoying the snow scene, but frowned. Beside him was Xu Yingyuan, an eunuch standing solemnly. He looked at King Xin with a worried look on his face. He had advised the prince to catch a cold several times, but the prince stood there motionlessly, turning a deaf ear to his words.

After a while, Zhu Youjian sighed heavily: "Ying Yuan, I want to go there freely like these snowflakes floating around. Unfortunately, I was born in this imperial family."

"Your Majesty, be careful!" Xu Yingyuan was shocked when he heard Zhu Youjian suddenly say this, and hurriedly advised, "What's the problem with the prince? As long as he instructs the slave to do it, even if he sacrifices his life, he will settle his mind for the king."

"You? Haha, I understand your loyalty deeply, but it is impossible to say that you can help me fulfill my wish. Do you know what I am thinking about now?" Zhu Youjian looked at Xu Yingyuan in a daze, and then said: "I am thinking that if I am an ordinary citizen, I can enter the officialdom with the imperial examination and thus serve my Ming court. However, now I am a king and will be in a vassal after two years. Even if I have the intention to do anything for the court, I will not be able to do anything for the court. So I said that this prince is still not as comfortable as the ordinary people."

After hearing this, Xu Yingyuan calmed down a little. Knowing that Zhu Youjian was not complaining, he comforted him: "The prince is loyal to the court. The court will always know that my Ming Dynasty is now in full swing. Even if you ignore the affairs of the court, I will..."

Zhu Youjian waved his hand and interrupted his praise, and sneered: "Those ordinary people may not believe what you said. Do you think I will believe it? Since the court affairs were controlled by Wei Yi's party, it has been decayed. It would be fine if you only have relatives. They also sell official positions and titles. Is there anything else in the world that they dare not do? Now their hands are even stretched to the border guards of the Ming Dynasty, Liaodong, and even the state-protecting ministers like Teacher Sun have been framed by them. If I really have the right to live and kill, I will take the head of this traitor!" At this point, Zhu Youjian's eyes were immediately filled with murderous intent.

But his words scared Xu Yingyuan around him so much that he was out of his mind. He didn't know if there were spies from the eunuch party in the palace, but he didn't dare to interrupt the prince, so he had to look around with a vigilant face. After Zhu Youxiao finally finished speaking, he advised: "Your Majesty, don't worry too much about state affairs. There will always be someone in the court to stand up and turn the tide..."

"Yes, I really don't have to worry about national affairs so much. After all, these things cannot be tolerated by me. I am just a vassal king, neither power nor soldiers, and I can only spend my whole life in the territory in the future." A lonely expression filled Zhu Youjian's face. He was very unwilling to just watch the Ming Dynasty fall into such a situation. He is a descendant of Taizu Chengzu. How could he watch a few traitors destroy the Ming Dynasty? But reality forced him to think so pessimistically, because now, both in the court and above the border are controlled by the Wei Yi party, and he even suspects that it will take not long before the barbarians in the north will break through the Great Wall and kill to the Central Plains.

Just when the two masters and servants were standing in the corridor and were speechless, a light figure flew into the palace of King Xin with the snowflakes. He saw Zhu Youxiao standing there at a glance. Because it was already dark and no candles were set up in the courtyard, it was not until the man suddenly came to Zhu Youxiao and the two of them that they realized it.

"Prince, be careful!" Xu Yingyuan was shocked when he suddenly saw someone appearing in front of him, but he did not forget his identity. He rushed to King Xin to protect him, and then rebuked loudly: "Where are you from the thief? You know that this is the palace, leave quickly!" He did not shout for help, because he was afraid that he would take the risk of hurting the prince after shocking the thief, but he still used loud rebuke to notify the guards of the palace around him.

I didn't expect that as soon as he finished speaking, he was thrown out by the man. Xu Yingyuan, who was in the air, was shocked and didn't know what to do. Zhu Youxiao also looked at the visitor with a pale face, thinking that the visitor was from the Dongchang or the Jinyiwei, and he warned him after hearing his complaints. He didn't expect that the visitor just looked at Zhu Youjian for a while and asked, "Are you the King of Xin? I've seen you before, and this was what my young master asked me to bring to you." As he said that, he handed a letter to Zhu Youxiao, and if he had already heard the sound, he would not see the Prince's Mansion Guard TV.

"Ah?" Zhu Youjian looked at the uninvited guest in front of him with a strange look, but his hand involuntarily took the letter. He could see that this person had no malice towards him, and it seemed that he had a slight impression of this young man.

"Who are you? Let the prince be released soon! Otherwise, it will be called a place where death is not burial!" A guard shouted with a stern look. Although they had sharp weapons such as bows and arrows, they did not dare to use them because they were worried that they would hurt the prince. They just wanted to keep the assassin away from the prince.

But the man turned a blind eye to these people's threats and just said softly: "You don't need to know who the villain is. As long as you read the letter, the prince will know that I have no malicious intentions."

After hesitating for a while, King Xin chose to believe this person's words, unveiled the envelope, took out the paper inside and looked at the dim lights in the corridor. The scene immediately seemed a little strange. Surrounded by the guards of the royal palace, he was a calm night invader. King Xin, who seemed to be a hostage, looked at a letter in his hand calmly, which made the guards not know what they should do.

"It turns out it's you. Why do I think you are familiar with me?" After reading the letter, Zhu Youjian's last doubts disappeared. Then he glanced at the guards around him and said, "This person is my king's friend, you all retreat."

"But the prince, this person enters the palace at night to make a mistake, how can he..." Someone said with concern. But before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Zhu Youjian's cold snorting: "I asked you to retreat, do you want to disobey?"

Although Zhu Youjian was quite easy-going, his natural royal style still made the guards afraid to disobey. After looking at each other, he retreated uneasy. Before Xu Yingyuan's face recovered from his fear just now, he saw that the guards had retreated, so he opened his mouth to persuade the prince again. Unexpectedly, Zhu Youjian said to him again: "You retreat too!"

Seeing Zhu Youjian's unquestionable expression and words, he had to retreat with the guards with uneasy heart. Until everyone left and only Zhu Youxiao was left, he smiled and said, "You are the master beside Tang Feng, right? I remember that it was you who took action to remove the encirclement of me and... in a restaurant in the capital that day."

The person who came here was to solve the problem. After returning from Liaodong, he had been staying in Tang Feng's mansion in Beijing to take care of Liu Hui. Fortunately, he served him like this when he was with Tang Feng before, so there was no stranger. However, in the heart of solving the problem, he was always worried that the young master in Liaodong wanted to go to Liaodong several times, but when he saw that the capital was a little confused after the eunuch party came to power, he suppressed his companionship with Liu Hui.

After answering the questions two days ago, he learned that the young master was in trouble, so he immediately went to find Sun Chengzong and Zhu Youxiao as Tang Feng said. The guards in Sun Chengzong's mansion were far less strict than the royal palace, so he saw Sun Chengzong last night and told him that Tang Feng was trying to guard Ningyuan, but because of the fall with Gao Di, he asked him to help. After thinking about it for a long time, Sun Chengzong had no way to achieve it.

In desperation, he had to come to the palace of King Xin again and ask Zhu Youjian for help. In order to win the trust, he brought Tang Feng's letter. Only with such a clever skill can he come and go freely in such an important place as the palace. If it were someone else, he would have been discovered by the patrolmen.

"The letter means that I will help Tang Feng raise food and grass from the court, but Tang Feng should also know that as a vassal king, I cannot pay attention to the affairs of the court. This is the system of the ancestors, and even I cannot violate it." Zhu Youjian said in embarrassment.

He immediately replied: "Your Majesty's words are not bad. In this battle, the rise and fall of the Ming Dynasty, how can you keep the prince alone? As for the family law of the ancestors, Taizu issued a strict order not to allow internal supervisors to interfere in the government affairs. Didn't Wei Zhongxian still control the government affairs? If things are urgently followed, it is not right!"

Seeing the young man say such mature words, Zhu Youjian was stunned, but then he guessed that the words should be based on Tang Feng's instructions. He smiled and said, "What you said is also reasonable, but my identity as a king cannot make any suggestions to the emperor. How can I help you?"
Chapter completed!