Chapter 6 Don't Guess the Emperor's Mind
At noon, the Sili Supervisor's room.
The king took off his red robe, opened his arms and exposed his furry chest, and was feasting with watermelon. Two little eunuchs holding palm-leaf fans stood behind him, trying to fan him desperately.
Suddenly, Wang Tigan stopped eating melons and looked out the door. He saw a group of eunuchs carrying a man and running into the yard quickly.
"Hurry up, my ancestors have heatstroke!" someone shouted.
Wang Tigan was shocked, and quickly threw down the watermelon, met him quickly, directed the eunuchs to put Wei Zhongxian on the cold and asked the eunuchs to quickly find the imperial doctor.
"No, we just need to lie down for a while..." Liang Dao, Wei Zhongxian reluctantly raised his head and said angrily.
Wang Tigan then had the opportunity to look carefully, and saw Wei Zhongxian's hair was scattered, his face was flushed, and his whole body was as if it had been fished out of the water. The python robe was dirty and rubbed into a ball, looking miserable as if it was ravaged by seven or eight strong men. Anime.
"How did my ancestors look like this?" Wang Tigan didn't know what to say. The Dongchang Factory Master, the powerful nine thousand years old, actually became such a miserable appearance.
Didn’t you go to Xiyuan to accompany His Majesty to train troops? Why do you feel like you were going to the battlefield to fight?
Li Chaoqin, who accompanied Wei Zhongxian to Xiyuan, said with grief and anger: "Your Majesty is not training troops, it is clearly a matter of killing our ancestors! In the hot weather, our ancestors stood under the sun for an hour, even moving If you can't move, you will get whipped as soon as you move. That dog Cao Huachun, holding a chicken feather as a command arrow, actually dared to hit his ancestors, and he hit five whips!"
"Ah!" Wang Tigan opened her mouth wide in surprise and turned her head to look. There were indeed signs of being whipped on the clothes her factory had just taken off, and the solid python robe was ripped. Looking at Wei Zhongxian's back, he said several times The whip marks were scattered and swollen.
"How dare Cao Huachun?"
When Cao Huachun saw him and others wagging his tail like a pug, why is he so bold now?
"What's there to be afraid of? Now he is a celebrity around His Majesty. I don't think it will take long to make the statute of the statute." Li Chaoqin snorted coldly.
Wang Tigan sighed, that's very likely. But he still couldn't believe it. This is the ancestor. How dare Cao Huachun take action? Could it be...
"Not blame Cao Huachun," Wei Zhongxian spoke, and actually excused Cao Huachun. "Not only me, basically everyone was whipped. Zhang Shize and the others were beaten even harder. Zhang Shize's grandson cried and begged for mercy, and His Majesty was not right either. He is quite polite to me, compared to this."
"But you are the ancestor, nine thousand years old, how can you compare with those young boys?" Li Chaoqin said angrily.
"I took the initiative to ask Your Majesty to join, I can't blame others. If you want to blame me, I blame me for not thinking clearly in advance. I thought Your Majesty was just a play, but I didn't expect that I really wanted to train troops." Wei Zhongxian sighed.
Li Chaoqin said: "We have seen soldiers training before. What is the way the soldiers training in Beijing look like?"
Wei Zhongxian sighed: "Your Majesty is only seventeen years old, but he just saw some things from books. How can he know how to train troops?"
Wang Tigan hurriedly asked, "Oncestor, will you go tomorrow?"
Wei Zhongxian smiled bitterly and said, "What else are you going? If you go, I'm afraid your life will be lost."
I originally wanted to curry favor with the emperor and consolidate my position, but now it seems that it is not possible.
Wang Tigan advised: "Ancestor, don't worry. Your Majesty is young after all. You may get tired of playing if you want it. Maybe you will get tired of playing in a few days. Maybe you will play other things. We still have opportunities."
Wei Zhongxian nodded, looking very melancholy: "I hope."
As the saying goes, the emperor and the minister, can he really stay in the Chongzhen Dynasty? Wei Zhongxian dared not think about it and was unwilling to accept it.
In the Duke of England, Duke of England, Zhang Zhiji frowned and looked at Zhang Shize in a very embarrassed manner, "Did you go to see the emperor or flee? Why did you become such a ghost?"
"Dad!" Zhang Shize slapped his mouth and cried, "Dad, I almost couldn't see you."
"Stop, stop, stop and talk well after breathing." Zhang Zhiji ordered his servant to change out the torn clothes for Zhang Shize, and then let someone pour a bowl of iced sour plum soup.
Zhang Shize recovered and began to talk about what had just happened.
"One stop is an hour, and I don't even let my breath breathe. I get whipped with a slight movement. Your Majesty is not training troops, it is clearly a steelmaking process. Dad, I was beaten with ten whips!"
"But I'm fine. Liu Shaozong's grandson was even more miserable. He was beaten more than twenty whips. He couldn't stand it and pretended to faint and lay on the ground. His Majesty ordered people to pour him into cold water to wake him up and continue practicing."
"The most terrible thing is that His Majesty said that starting tomorrow, we have to practice every day, and we must get it at three o'clock in the morning. I guess many grandchildren will not be able to get up tomorrow."
Speaking of people who perform worse than themselves, Zhang Shize couldn't help but gloat.
Zhang Zhiji thought deeply. The emperor's actions surprised him very much. It was not impossible to train troops. Emperor Zhengde of Wuzong liked to train troops in the leopard room. However, there were soldiers in the Beijing camp, and there were refugees outside the Beijing city, so there was no need to use a delicate body. Do you want the noble princess and sons to do it?
"Will you still go to Xiyuan tomorrow?" Zhang Zhiji asked his son.
Zhang Shize showed a look of hesitation on his face, but he nodded and said, "I'm afraid it won't work if you don't go. Who dares to disobey Your Majesty's imperial edict?"
Zhang Zhiji said: "Don't be afraid. If your father gave up his old face and pleaded for you, Your Majesty would agree."
Zhang Shize quickly shook his head: "Don't, don't! If you do this, dad, I'm afraid your son will be shameless in front of His Majesty in the future. If there are good things in the future, it will not be the turn of your son."
Zhang Zhiji nodded with satisfaction: "It's very good that you can think of this level. In the future, you will be well with Your Majesty to practice well, and be sure to work hard and not have any complaints."
"The border affairs are corrupt, the border army is ineffective, the civil servants of the court are fighting endlessly, Your Majesty is diligent, studious, young and energetic, will definitely have the ambition to revive the depressed and prosperous court. This opportunity may be a signal that Your Majesty wants to reuse us and other nobles. .” Zhang Zhi said with a tremendous laugh.
Since Tumu Fort, under the suppression of civil servants, the nobles' lives have been endless every day. Now they can live with the civil servants' breath. There is no turn to lead troops to fight, and they have no say in national affairs, and the nobles have not He only knows how to be corrupt, abuse the law, rob and oppress the people, and embezzle military fields and pay, and they all become waste.
There are also many knowledgeable people among the nobles who do not want to see the current situation, but they have no choice because civil servants do not allow them to rise.
Thinking of this, Zhang Zhiji became a little anxious.
But, does Your Majesty really think so? Will you be able to practice with Shize and the others because you are familiar with Shize and the others and you can’t find other people, just to survive the addiction to training?
Zhang Zhiji shook his head, feeling that he couldn't figure out the emperor's thoughts.
Chapter completed!