Chapter 111 What is covering the sky with one hand
Liu Jin, who had already gotten up from the ground, couldn't help but look at Li Huan with envy and jealousy after hearing Zhu Houzhao's words.
He did not expect that this incident would allow Li Huan to come to his rescue again, deepening his status in the eyes of the emperor Zhu Houzhao. Based on his understanding of Zhu Houzhao, unless Li Huan led his troops to rebel on the spot, no one would be able to think of it.
To alienate Zhu Houzhao's trust in Li Huan.
"Let this kid take advantage again!"
Li Huan did not know the jealousy in Liu Jin's heart at this moment, but after listening to Zhu Houzhao's words, he cupped his fists and saluted Zhu Houzhao: "Your Majesty, I do have something I want to ask your Majesty to do."
Zhu Houzhao was afraid that Li Huan didn't want anything, so when he heard what Li Huan said, his eyes lit up immediately, and he looked at Li Huan with some expectation and curiosity and said, "What do the Qing family want? Come and tell me."
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In Zhu Houzhao's view, with Li Huan's temperament, it was really rare for him to speak on his own initiative, so he became even more curious.
The others also came to their senses at this moment and looked at Li Huan curiously.
Li Huan said: "Your Majesty also knows that I was born in a military family since I was a child, and I have no other hobbies except practicing martial arts. However, my family only has a Kung Fu practiced by outsiders, and there is no internal practice, so
I would like to ask your majesty to give me an internal cultivation technique."
When Zhu Houzhao heard this, he couldn't help but be stunned for a moment. He thought what kind of request Li Huan would make. After all, he had said that as long as Li Huan made a request, he would definitely agree.
Although this promise is a bit exaggerated, after all, it would be difficult for Li Huan to agree to some requests for becoming a prince or becoming a prime minister.
But he didn't expect that Li Huan would just ask him for a skill.
Looking at Li Huan, Zhu Houzhao said: "Does the Qing family really only want one skill? They don't want high-ranking officials, good salaries, goodwill and family benefits..."
Li Huan smiled freely and said: "As the saying goes, fame can only be gained on horseback. If I really want what your majesty said, I will rely on my own hands to obtain it. Therefore, I only hope that your majesty can grant me a
The exercises are enough for your wish!"
Liu Jin, Qiu Ju, Gao Feng and others beside them couldn't help but look at Li Huan with complicated eyes, because in their view, Li Huan's request was a waste of the emperor's good intentions. Putting themselves in his shoes,
If it were them, they would definitely ask the emperor to reward them with high-ranking officials and hold such great authority, or they would ask the emperor to reward them with gold, silver and other rare treasures.
Zhu Houzhao looked at Li Huan, especially when he saw Li Huan's determined look, he knew in his heart that Li Huan really didn't want anything else, he just wanted a skill.
After pondering for a while, Zhu Houzhao looked at Li Huan and said: "I agreed to the request of the Qing family. If I remember correctly, since the founding of the country by Taizu, the royal family has indeed collected a large number of exercises, and among these exercises
, the top ones were selected and hidden in the Imperial Records, and the rest were hidden in the inner treasury. Emperor Wenzong ordered people to compile the Yongle Dadian, and it seems that there was a volume on internal martial arts in it, and most of the included exercises came from the inner treasury.
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Li Huan's eyes couldn't help but light up after hearing this. The amount of information revealed in Zhu Houzhao's words was not small, that is, the royal family did have many skills hidden in it. The top ones were hidden in Huang Shicheng, others were hidden in the inner treasury, and even in the Yongle Grand Ceremony.
Some of the exercises are also recorded.
He just doesn't know what skills the emperor will give him.
Just when Li Huan was thinking about this, Zhu Houzhao smiled slightly and said: "There are so many exercises, and I don't know which one is suitable for the Qing family. How about this? I, Xu Qing's family, go to Huangshichen and look through the inner treasury.
There are many techniques, the Qing family can choose one by themselves."
Li Huan couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, and then his face showed a look of joy. Apparently he didn't expect that Zhu Houzhao would wave his hand and let him choose by himself.
At the beginning, he just asked for a skill, and he didn't think too much about it. Who would have thought that Zhu Houzhao would directly let him go to Huang Shicheng and the inner treasury to choose. This meaning could not be more obvious.
As for the reward, it might really just be a skill, but if you let him choose it by himself, it means that he will be able to memorize as much as he can by the time.
For those who practice martial arts, this is probably the most exciting thing in the world.
Seeing Li Huan's distracted look, Zhu Houzhao coughed lightly and said: "Since the Qing family is practicing external martial arts, it must be that medicinal materials are needed to assist the practice. In this case, what medicinal materials are needed by the Qing family? Let's make a list.
, I ordered Taiyuan Hospital to select them and give them to the Qing family."
Many precious medicinal materials are really only available to the royal family. Even if they are available among the people, they cannot be bought with money. Therefore, Zhu Houzhao's reward is really not light for Li Huan.
Originally, Li Huan thought that it would take quite a while for him to make further progress after his cultivation reached the point where the golden body was indestructible. However, if he had the assistance of the precious medicinal materials gifted by the emperor, the speed of his progress would definitely be greatly accelerated.
Taking a deep breath, Chu Yi bowed deeply to Zhu Houzhao and said, "I thank you, Your Majesty!"
Gao Feng, Qiu Ju, and Zhang Yong also came over and looked at Li Huan with an envious look: "Brother Li, congratulations to you. There are many precious medicinal materials hidden in the Imperial Hospital, and even ordinary people can see it.
I can’t see it.”
Zhu Houzhao laughed loudly and said: "It's just some medicinal materials. Rather than leaving them in the Imperial Hospital and letting those people waste them, it's better to let Li Qing use them to assist in practice. The stronger Li Qing is, the more he will be able to assist me in the future."
No matter what danger I encounter, I can sit back and relax!"
Qiu Ju chuckled and said, "Your Majesty, what do you think should be done with the bodies of the two tigers?"
The eyes of several people immediately shifted to the two tigers that were beaten to death by Li Huan. They could be presented to the emperor. These two tigers were excellent in appearance and size. They were definitely caught from the mountains.
The king of beasts.
The corner of Zhu Houzhao's mouth curled up slightly and he said: "I heard that many people like to use tiger skins to make mats. Why don't I order people to skin these two tigers, keep one for me, and give the other to me along with the tiger bones and other items?"
Li Huanqing’s house."
As he spoke, Zhu Houzhao winked at Li Huan. Li Huan was slightly startled, and then quickly responded: "I thank your Majesty."
Zhu Houzhao waved his hand and ordered people to deal with the carcasses of the two tigers. He walked in front with his hands behind his back and said, "The Qing family will come with me for a walk!"
Li Huan followed Zhu Houzhao closely, while Liu Jin, Qiu Ju and others also followed a few steps behind.
At this moment, Zhu Houzhao turned his head slightly and looked at Li Huan and said, "What do the Qing family think of my leopard room?"
Li Huan said with a smile: "When I heard Brother Qiu mention this place, I thought it was a place built by His Majesty to play. However, along the way, I found that I was a little wrong about Your Majesty. In addition to being a place for His Majesty to play, this place is not only a place for His Majesty to play.
I'm afraid it has other uses."
Hearing what Li Huan said, Zhu Houzhao flashed a bit of joy between his brows, and at the same time said seriously: "Li Qing is not wrong, everyone thinks that this leopard house is really built for fun, but they don't know why I let such a good thing happen."
Instead of living in the imperial palace, we want to build such a place outside the imperial city."
As he spoke, Zhu Houzhao looked at Li Huan with a wry smile and said: "It's hard for me as an emperor. Not to mention, I am bound in the imperial city every day. I am also restricted by the cabinet. If I want to do something, I can't do it before I do it."
I was opposed by the cabinet, and sometimes even my mother would rather believe in the cabinet than in me, the prince's words."
Li Huan just followed Zhu Houzhao. He could see that Zhu Houzhao had been holding back some words in his heart for a long time, and he didn't even have anyone to talk to. It was obvious that his mood fluctuated too much today, so he opened his mouth to tell him these things.
At this time, he only needs to be a good listener, and it is best not to say anything else.
Zhu Houzhao sighed again: "I know my own temper best. If you want me to obey the civil and military officials in everything like my father, instead of being restrained in the palace, I might as well move out of the palace directly and save myself from being harassed by my mother every day."
Nagging, I was persuaded by the cabinet not to do this or that. I just closed the door and didn’t see them, so it’s okay..."
Unknowingly, a group of people walked in front of a pool of water, which is where the Taiye Pool is located. Looking at it, the water surface is like a bright mirror, with swaying water plants and occasional water birds passing over the water surface. The scenery is beautiful and refreshing.
Suddenly Zhu Houzhao opened his arms and laughed loudly facing Taiye Pool: "It's so happy, it's so happy!"
The rest of the people followed behind, all standing with their heads bowed, not daring to look at Zhu Houzhao.
It seemed that he had vented his anger. At this moment, Zhu Houzhao seemed to have thought that Li Huan was still there, and with a rare hint of embarrassment on his face, he said: "After talking so much to the Qing family, I feel relieved. I haven't seen him for a long time."
It makes the Qing family laugh at how relaxed it is."
Li Huan hurriedly said: "How dare I? In my opinion, this is your majesty's true temperament, and who can laugh at it?"
Zhu Houzhao smiled, calmed down his emotions and said, "Li Qing came to see me today. Is there something going on?"
Li Huan naturally did not forget that he came here mainly to ask Zhu Houzhao for instructions on replacing the palace guards and the emperor's honor guard.
Immediately, Li Huan said seriously: "Back to Your Majesty, I have risen to see Your Majesty this time to ask Your Majesty's permission to replace the palace guards and the Emperor's guard of honor."
After hearing what Li Huan said, Zhu Houzhao immediately reacted and looked at Li Huan with surprise on his face and said: "The Qing family said that the bodyguards and soldiers have been reorganized and are they ready for use?"
It had been some time since Li Huan was ordered to reorganize the bodyguards and troops. Although Zhu Houzhao occasionally paid attention to it, there were so many things going on every day that it was naturally impossible to keep an eye on it every day.
Now suddenly listening to Li Huan's suggestion, I naturally understood that Li Huan must have completed the reorganization.
Li Huan nodded and said: "I have lived up to your Majesty's expectations. Your Majesty can inspect the guards and troops at any time!"
Zhu Houzhao laughed loudly, looked at Li Huan with great satisfaction and said: "Okay, I know that the Qing family will not let me down."
Then he looked at the sky and said: "I'm afraid it won't work today. In that case, I will go to inspect the guards and soldiers tomorrow. If it is as your family said, then I will agree to your request."
Li Huan said: "I will greet His Majesty at the school grounds in the suburbs of Beijing tomorrow."
In Jinan Prefecture, Shandong Province, from a dense forest, a figure with disheveled hair walked out. At first glance, the man's clothes were in tatters. If he hadn't been carrying a long knife in his hand, he might have been treated as a beggar.
Cheng Yi glanced at the official road in the distance, spat suddenly, looked around, and seemed to be sure that nothing was wrong before he made a sound like a bird's song in the dense forest behind him.
Soon I saw a figure walking out of it. The person who came was also a big man, with the same ragged clothes, disheveled hair, and bulging bags in his arms. At first glance, he seemed to be hiding something.
This person was clearly Chen Yao who went to Fujian under Li Huan's order, but he didn't expect that Chen Yao and Cheng Yi would actually walk together, and judging from the situation, the two seemed to be still being hunted.
After Chen Yao walked out, he also looked around, and then he walked to Cheng Yi and cursed: "Damn it, these people are crazy dogs. They chased us all the way from Fujian to Huai'an Prefecture in Shandong Province, thousands of miles away.
They even refused to give up, acting as if I had killed his mother and stolen their wife."
Cheng Yi grinned when he heard this and said: "If you really killed their mother and married their wife, maybe they wouldn't pursue us so desperately."
Chen Yao subconsciously pressed the booklet hidden in his arms that recorded a series of criminal evidence of Cai Wen, the prosecutor of Fujian Province. He immediately looked at the pale Cheng Yidao: "Brother Cheng, how are your injuries? Does it matter?"
A long scar can be vaguely seen on Cheng Yi's back. Although the wound is scabbed, there is pus and blood in the wound. It is obviously infected. If it is not treated and delayed for some time, I am afraid that the person will not be able to survive.
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Seeing Chen Yao looking at him worriedly, Cheng Yi smiled and said: "I won't die yet. Don't worry, I can survive for a while. No matter what, I will accompany you to the capital to meet Li Huan."
Cheng Yi said with a serious look on his face: "Let's hurry up before those people catch up. Some of those people are good at tracking. I'm afraid they will find us again soon."
Hearing what Cheng Yi said, Chen Yao's expression also changed. When he heard the news that the Qianhu Han Ling family had been exterminated, he vaguely sensed something was wrong and left Fuzhou overnight.
Perhaps he left in time, or perhaps the people sent by Cai Wen focused their attention on Cheng Yi, so there were no accidents along the way.
But just a few days ago, when Chen Yao entered Shandong, he bumped into Cheng Yi, who was being hunted.
Although he only met Cheng Yi once in Qianhu, Fuzhou and didn't even speak to him, Chen Yao recognized Cheng Yi the moment he saw him.
Just seeing Cheng Yi being surrounded and killed by several murderers, Chen Yao didn't think much and just rushed out from the side. Unexpectedly, he cut down several of the opponents, and then took Cheng Yi with him, which took a lot of effort.
Escape and drag down the opponent's pursuit.
It was also that time that Cheng Yi suffered a knife wound on his back. The two had a brief exchange, and Chen Yao guessed the general story from Cheng Yi's story.
Although neither of them had any evidence, they both knew that the man behind the annihilation of Han Ling's family was none other than Cai Wen, the prosecutor who was in charge of the judicial power of the province.
Because these people who chased Cheng Yi for thousands of miles were obviously coming after the booklet Cheng Yi brought with him that recorded Cai Wen's series of criminal evidence.
If the two of them couldn't guess who sent the four people chasing them, they would have spent so many years in the Jinyi Guards in vain.
After rescuing Cheng Yi, Cheng Yi gave the booklet recording Cai Wen's evidence to Chen Yao for safekeeping. In the following days, Chen Yao felt the madness of those people.
In just a few days, they were attacked and killed several times. If they had not been alert enough and had good escape abilities, they might have been caught.
After identifying the direction, the two set off on the road again. They had to travel as fast as possible before the other party's tracking experts traced their whereabouts.
Originally, Chen Yao proposed to go to the Jinyiwei Qianhu Clinic in Huai'an Prefecture, Shandong Province for help, but Cheng Yi rejected him as soon as he proposed.
According to Cheng Yi, the people who were chasing them had already thought of this. There were dozens of people in this group, and they were divided into several small teams. Some teams were obsessed with Cheng Yi's whereabouts, and some were
They were lying in ambush near the government offices of thousands of households in a province, waiting for them to fall into a trap.
Cheng Yi tried to go to the Zhejiang Qianhu Office for help the previous time, but before he could see the Zhejiang Qianhu Office, he was surrounded by a group of people who had been ambushing him for a long time.
If he hadn't fought his way out of the siege and escaped through the crowds of people on the street, he might have been ambushed and killed on the spot.
Since then, Cheng Yi has never thought about going to Jinyiwei's stronghold for help. Obviously, whatever they can think of, the other party can think of, and there are even enough manpower to lay an ambush and wait for them to fall into a trap.
When Chen Yao heard this, his face was full of disbelief. Not only were they, a dignified official of the Imperial Guard, being hunted down, he couldn't even ask for help from his own people.
This made Chen Yao very puzzled as to how Cai Wen had so much energy that he dared to kill even thousands of Jin Yiwei guards and even sent people to hunt them down.
On the contrary, Cheng Yi seemed to accept these things as a matter of course, which in Chen Yao's view were unbelievable.
Chen Yao has lived in the capital all his life. He has never left the capital, but he doesn't know the situation here.
To put it simply, there is a word: the sky is high and the emperor is far away. The further away from the capital, the stronger the power and influence of local officials and gentry. In many places, these people even collude with each other, creating a nest of snakes and rats.
The earthly emperor who covers the sky with one hand.
A county magistrate or a local gentry can easily destroy their families. However, Cai Wen, who is in charge of the judicial authority of a province, has been rooted in Fujian for more than ten years. He has the support of senior ministers and the personal connections he has cultivated for more than ten years. He can be said to be powerful.
He is powerful and has a complicated network of connections. Even if he kills a few officials, he can just blame them on bandits, bandits, or people in the world.
After all, most people in the Jianghu are known for being disobedient to the imperial government. From time to time there are so-called righteous men in the Jianghu who kill corrupt officials and act chivalrously.
So sometimes, some things will be pushed onto these people in the world, and over time these people in the world become the best scapegoats.
Needless to say, the Han Ling family of a thousand members of the Jinyiwei family were exterminated. In the end, they were either blamed on the bandits or on the people in the world.
Even if you finally report to the Jinyiwei Yamen in the capital, you may simply acquiesce to the local report if you encounter irresponsible officials.
Even if it is dealt with by a responsible chief official, and someone from the Jinyiwei Yamen is sent down to investigate, it will be considered a strange thing if the people above can find anything in the face of a tangled local snake that covers the sky with one hand.
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