Outside the official post.

A group of men dressed in casual clothes gathered into two teams, standing quietly outside the door. More than a dozen people were like one, and even breathing frequency was the same. Although they were wearing regular clothes of the common people's peddlers, they could not hide the tough and capable aura they emitted. When the Jinyi soldiers surrounded Xiao Fan and came out, they consciously gave it to the side, and then one team opened the way in front, and the other team was at the end of the back hall. Everyone hugged Xiao Fan like stars arching the moon, walking towards the east gate.

Xiao Fan was flattered by this treatment. He was surrounded by so many legions of brocade clothes. It felt like a group of cats surrounded by a mouse. You can imagine what the pitiful mouse was feeling.

Everyone arrived at the East City Gate, and dozens of horses were tied to the passage of the city gate. Without saying a word, they each stepped on their legs and got on the horse. Then they held the reins and kicked the horse's belly with their legs. The sound of horse hooves rolled up dust in the sky. The riders rushed away like arrows off the strings...

At the entrance of the East City Gate, Xiao Fan stood still and watched the Jinyi's personal soldiers riding on horses. He was like a lonely fallen leaf, floating and swaying in the dust all over the sky, with his expression so resentful and helpless...

"drive!"

The horse's hooves roared, and the legitimate soldiers of the brocaded clothes rode back again. They pulled the horse a few steps away from Xiao Fan. The horses gave the owner a great face. They stood up one after another, making long neighing sounds. The horse's posture was so coquettish...

Xiao Fan gritted his teeth with hatred. He really didn't like to deal with these people and showed off his face!

The Jinyi Captain who had just announced the order got off the horse, walked to Xiao Fan, and asked, "Why didn't Mr. Xiao get on the horse?"

Xiao Fan looked embarrassed: "…………”

Why don’t he get on a horse? Because he can’t ride a horse at all. He doesn’t even know which leg he will ride on the horse first. How can he ride? The Jinyi’s personal army is all from the army, so naturally everyone can ride a horse. But Xiao Fan is a time traveler. He lived in a steel and concrete jungle in his previous life. He couldn’t even see horse hair in the city. How could he ride a horse?

The Captain Jinyi saw his embarrassment, nodded, and said, "I understand... I'll come here, hire a carriage for Mr. Xiao, and pull him into the capital..."

Pull into the capital...

Entering the capital...

The capital...

division……

Xiao Fan wiped his sweat. He didn't expect that ancient people were so thunderous in their speech. He always thought that the verb "pull" was only related to excretion...

The carriage was hired soon, and the Jinyi soldiers changed their spirit of running wildly just now. They led a slow carriage and set off listlessly, and their morale seemed very depressed.

Xiao Fan was sitting in the carriage, suspicious and fearful. Zhu Yuanzhang personally issued an edict to summon an unsuccessful and nameless man. Why?

Zhu Yuanzhang must have known himself through Zhu Yunwen. What Xiao Fan is most confused about is what purpose Zhu Yuanzhang summoned him? It is unlikely that he would praise him, and Xiao Fan did not want Zhu Yuanzhang to praise him. In the history of the early Ming Dynasty, many people were praised by Zhu Yuanzhang, such as Li Shanchang, Hu Weiyong, Lan Yu, Song Lian... The outcome of these people was so miserable.

Screaming him? Xiao Fan thought about it. He felt that he was already very low-key and had never done anything outrageous. At best, he met a crown prince. It makes no sense to scold him? Besides, is Zhu Yuanzhang the kind of emperor who scolds people? When he was unhappy, he killed people directly, and was too lazy to scold him.

The more I thought about it, the less I felt. Xiao Fan couldn't help but lift the curtain of the carriage. The imperial captain who had announced the imperial edict was following the carriage. Xiao Fan lifted the curtain and saw him.

He smiled at him first. Xiao Fan's handsome face, who was always elegant, also had a bit of flattery at this time. There was no way. In the Ming Dynasty, he could not tolerate a time traveler playing with his personality. He could only adapt to this environment. He would have to be what kind of people he needed in this environment. History has fully proved that people who play with personality usually would not end up well, such as Senior Yang Xiu of the Three Kingdoms period.

On the bumpy carriage, Xiao Fan bowed his hand and smiled at the Jinyi Captain, "This... military master, your surname?"

The Captain Jinyi was very kind, not as cruel as the ones performed on TV. He smiled faintly when he heard this and said, "Young Master Xiao is polite. Yuan Zhong is just a small captain who is accompanying His Royal Highness the Grand Prince."

Xiao Fan hurriedly smiled and said, "It turns out to be Captain Yuan. I have long admired him for a long time. Caomin seems to have seen you before..."

Yuan Zhong smiled indifferently and said, "I have followed His Royal Highness the Grandpa to Zuixian Tower to find you many times, so you have naturally seen me."

Xiao Fan hesitated for a moment and said, "Person Yuan, can the Caomin ask if he is right? The emperor lives in the palace, why did he suddenly summon me, an incompetent and nameless Caomin?"

Yuan Zhong suddenly closed his mouth and looked straight ahead with a firm expression, as if he had heard nothing.

Xiao Fan smiled and said, "Personnel Yuan, can you give me some tips?"

After urging and asking several times, Yuan Zhong couldn't help but speak. This time his tone became much more stiff: "Your Majesty, your Majesty summons you, your Majesty's intention is your Majesty. We just need to be ordered to receive the order, and we must not randomly guess the will of God."

Xiao Fan was bored and had to put down the curtain awkwardly, and continued to be stuck in the carriage and think about it in a random way.

After thinking about it, Xiao Fan gradually let go of his worries.

He felt that Zhu Yuanzhang sent people from all over the world to summon him to the capital, and it was impossible to cut him with one knife, right? That was too troublesome. Since it was not for killing him, it would be fine.

The carriage walked slowly for more than an hour, and finally saw the towering city walls of Yingtian, the capital from afar. The ink-black wall bricks stood quietly under the warm winter sun, silently continuing its magnificence for thousands of years.

The ancient capital of the Six Dynasties, the mist and rain of Jinling Towers. In ancient and modern times, countless emperors have disappeared and all flowed eastward to the Qinhuai River.

At the end of the 29th year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, an ordinary young man drove into the city of the thousand-year imperial capital in an ordinary carriage.

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The carriage entered from Yingtian West City Gate. After entering the city, the army of brocaded clothes surrounded the carriage and headed towards the Forbidden City.

Not long after, the carriage entered Chengtian Gate. Chengtian Gate was the south gate of the Ming Imperial Palace and the main gate of the palace city. After arriving at Chengtian Gate, Yuan Zhong asked Xiao Fan to get off the carriage. After passing this gate, it was already within the scope of the forbidden palace. If there was no special order from the emperor, no one would be allowed to ride a horse and sit in a sedan chair here.

Outside the Jinshui Bridge is the clear outer Jinshui River. Outside the Jinshui Bridge is the location of the Ming Dynasty's government agencies, and the court office lobby is concentrated here. From Chengtianmen to the south central axis are the main offices of the court, the left side is the Zongren Mansion, the Ministry of Personnel, the Ministry of Revenue, the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of War, and the Ministry of Works; on the right side are the Central Army Governor's Office, the Left Army Governor's Office, the Right Army Governor's Office, the Front Army Governor's Office, the Back Army Governor's Office, and the Honglu Temple. On the left is the government agency, and on the right is the military agency, which is clearly divided into literature and military institutions.

Xiao Fan got off the carriage and looked at the layers of palace buildings in front of him, red walls and green tiles, with a grand and majestic momentum, emitting a strong royal majesty in the quietness, which made people unable to help but feel awe.

Xiao Fan sighed and tried hard to suppress the turbulent emotions in his heart. He traveled through hundreds of years and stood in front of the Ming Dynasty's palace today, and his mood could not be calm for a long time.

The Ming Dynasty was a glorious era. Before modern times, the last generation of Han people, the emperor who conquered this country was waiting for his audience in this magnificent palace.

Xiao Fan was full of respect at this moment. No matter how future generations viewed Zhu Yuanzhang, it cannot be denied that he expelled the Tartars, restored the Han people's territory, and opened up the Ming Dynasty that lasted nearly three hundred years in history. His cruel killings could not conceal his outstanding achievements.

More than ten years of blood-stained armor, wolf smoke, wind and sand, captured Zhu Ming's world. He, Zhu Yuanzhang, is worthy of being a hero of the world!

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Inside Wuying Hall.

Huang Zicheng, the Dongqing of the Imperial Academy and the Hanlin editor, Huang Guan, the right assistant minister of the Ministry of Rites, and Qi Tai, the left assistant minister of the Ministry of War, were gathered in the East Nuan Pavilion.

Zhu Yuanzhang was in a bad mood now. He frowned, obviously trying to suppress his anger.

Qi Tai is reporting bad news to him.

"In October of the 29th year of Hongwu, the Japanese pirates in the southeast attacked Fushan County, Dengzhou Prefecture, our Ming Dynasty. About a thousand Japanese pirates landed in Weihai and disturbed the people along the coast, plundered countless cattle, sheep, poultry, and property, humiliated and plundered hundreds of women and children, and quickly left after robbing. Liu Cheng, the magistrate of Fushan, gathered the people in the township to resist the Japanese pirates and died in battle. When the magistrate of Dengzhou, Zhou Changxing, heard that the Japanese pirates were attacked, his family abandoned and fled to Laiyang County. The Japanese pirates retreated before returning to the city..."

Zhu Yuanzhang's face twitched, and a strong murderous aura burst out in his eyes, but his tone was as plain as water: "I sent an order to pay tribute to Liu Cheng, the magistrate of Fushan, and pursued his title, and respected his son. Zhou Changxing abandoned the city and abandoned life, car split, and the three tribes."

All three people in the cabinet were shocked and responded respectfully.

After closing his eyes and pondering for a while, Zhu Yuanzhang opened his eyes and said in a deep voice: "Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Japanese pirates have frequently disturbed the borders, invaded the borders of our Ming Dynasty, and captured my people. My world, how can barbarians jump to the beam so rampant! Qi Tai!"

Qi Tai trembled all over and hurriedly replied: "I am here."

"I want to set up two more guards in Shandong. One is located in Weihai, called Weihai, and the other is located in Chengshan, called Chengshan. Each guard is under the jurisdiction of the two guards. Xu Huizu, Duke of Wei, set up a garrison to guard the border and ordered the five military governors' office to send military households to the next day, and hand them over to Xu Huizu to lead them to Shandong. If Japanese pirates disturb the border, they will attack them."

"I obey the order!"

At this time, Huang Zicheng stepped forward and reported: "Your Majesty, the King of Shu will report quickly for eight hundred miles. On the night of Renyin in the twelfth month of the 29th year of Hongwu, the dragon in Huayang County in Shu turned over, and countless people were killed and injured. The King of Shu reported that the King of Shu, who was far away in Chengdu, was also shocked. The King of Shu specially asked the court for the imperial edict to pay mercy to the people..."

When Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, he looked a little anxious and asked hurriedly: "Are the King of Shu injured?"

Zhu Chun, the king of Shu, was the eleventh son of Zhu Yuanzhang. He was a filial and friendly person, knowledgeable, talented and elegant person, and was very popular among Zhu Yuanzhang. Zhu Yuanzhang often praised him as a "Su scholar" and was the most famous wise king among the kings.

Huang Zicheng said: "Your Majesty is lenient, the King of Shu is safe."

Zhu Yuanzhang breathed a sigh of relief and said, "That's good..."

Then Zhu Yuanzhang frowned and said, "The earth dragon turned over. This is a natural disaster. You can order the Minister of Revenue Yu Xindiao to transfer food and grass into Sichuan to save the disaster victims..."

Huang Zicheng hesitated for a moment and said, "Your Majesty, I have heard that the Emperor of the Sage and Ming ruled the world with filial piety and turned the earth and dragons over. This is an ominous sign. From ancient times to the present, all natural disasters have been inappropriate in the emperor's governance. Therefore, he came to heaven to bring disasters to warn the world. Your Majesty was ordered to warn the sky. Since the heaven showed warning, Your Majesty's first priority should be to save himself from his crimes and issue an edict to eliminate natural disasters. Otherwise, I am afraid that the country will be in trouble, and the heavens will abandon it. I hope Your Majesty will understand clearly."

Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly lowered his face and said, "The natural disaster has fallen and the people are in trouble. The court is busy at this time to provide relief to the victims, sacrifice to heaven and guilt, and issue an edict to accept words. Where can I do these tedious things? Huang Zicheng, have you put the cart before the horse?"

Huang Zicheng stubbornly thrust his neck, knelt down with a pounce, and said, "Your Majesty, the country and the country of Ming Dynasty are the foundation. When you beg Your Majesty to provide relief to the people, you also issue an edict to blame yourself and accept the words of the scholars of the world. Otherwise, if you make the heaven angry and frequently cause natural disasters, the country will be in danger!"

Zhu Yuanzhang was furious and said, "Are you afraid of causing trouble to the heavens, so aren't you afraid of causing trouble to me?"

Huang Zicheng touched the ground with his head and cried: "Since ancient times, civil officials died and military generals fought to the death. This is the way for the ministers. I am not willing to cherish my death. I only ask Your Majesty to accept my advice, first pleading the heavens and then resting my wrath, and then resting my eyes to the people when I die!"

At this time, Huang Guan, who was standing beside him, also knelt down and said, "I followed what Master Huang said, "The virtue of ghosts and gods is so strong! I look at it and do not see it, listen to it and do not hear it, and do not leave it alone. The Book of Songs also says: God's thinking cannot be conquered, and you can shoot it! Your Majesty, respect God first and then calm the people, this is the right way. If Your Majesty only provides relief to the people and misleads the will of heaven, I am afraid that the heaven will abandon it, Your Majesty will clearly see!"

Qi Tai, the left assistant minister of the Ministry of War, looked at the two ministers who were kneeling on the ground and crying. He hesitated for a moment, and finally gritted his teeth and knelt down, saying, "Your Majesty, I will discuss what the two lords said."

Zhu Yuanzhang was immediately angry, his snow-white beard shook slightly, and his murderous intent on his face became stronger. Finally, he sighed heavily. The emperor had at least a reasonable reason to kill people. Even if it was an excuse, the three people kneeling on the ground now asked the emperor to respect the world and ghosts on the ground on the ground. It was correct. The civil officials directly advised him for death. If the emperor really killed the civil officials who advised him directly, the descendants would definitely call him a foolish king. That's all, Zhu Yuanzhang didn't care what the descendants said about him. The most important thing is that the three people in front of him were the ministers he left to his grandson Zhu Yunwen. If they were killed, who would assist Zhu Yunwen in the future?

In the past two years, Zhu Yuanzhang felt that he was getting older and he was afraid that the deadline would not be far away. It would be not hard to kill a few ministers, but he did not have the time and energy to train a group of ministers who could assist his grandson?

After taking a heavy photo of the Dragon Case, Zhu Yuanzhang shouted helplessly and angrily: "Pediacal! Pediacal!"

Huang Zicheng and Huang Guan, who were kneeling on the ground, had a stuttering neck, looking like loyal ministers who would rather die in defending the country. Qi Tai sighed quietly in his heart, touching the ground with his head, and did not move.

After Zhu Yuanzhang shouted, he suddenly felt powerless and felt very sad.

These ministers who only know the saint Confucius said all day long, speak and act so pedantic and poor, and do not know how to adapt. Can such ministers assist Yun Wen? Zhu Yuanzhang was covered with a deep worry.

In the warm pavilion of Wuying Hall, the charcoal fire was burning red, and the house was warm, but the hearts of the four kings and ministers were cold.

Eunuch Qingtong walked silently and said softly, "Your Majesty, Xiao Fan, a native of Jiangpu County, entered the palace by orders and listened to the Xuan outside the hall."

Zhu Yuanzhang waved his hand powerlessly and said, "Come in."

"Yes, your Majesty."

Huang Zicheng and Huang Guan, who were kneeling on the ground, frowned when they heard Xiao Fan's name.

For these two ministers, the name Xiao Fan is well-known. Needless to say, Huang Guanzi, the magistrate of Jiangpu, Huang Ruide, had already cried to him that he was seized by the county magistrate because of the plan by this lowly and unruly man.

However, Huang Zicheng heard Zhu Yunwen mention it several times. He was Zhu Yunwen's teacher and spent a lot of time together on weekdays. Zhu Yunwen had no idea and told him casually that he had made a common friend, how fun this friend told the story of monkeys, how novel his views were, etc. After saying it a few times, Huang Zicheng remembered the name.

However, the two of them did not expect that even the emperor knew about him and even summoned him to the palace.

Could it be... the emperor wants to grant him an official? How can this person be! If he doesn't have any fame and reputation, just because he talks nonsense and talks about something unreasonable in front of the Grand Historian Hall, the two ministers will definitely not tolerate him.

The grandson is simple and kind, and is a piece of uncarved jade. The two Lords Huang must not allow anyone to destroy it or defile it. A future emperor with the appearance of a benevolent monarch and wise monarch. If he is led to the desolate despot like Xiao Fan, it would be a disaster for the Ming Dynasty!

Everyone in the hall had their own thoughts, but saw the light outside the hall gate dimming, and a slender and handsome figure slowly walked towards the warm cabinet.
To be continued...