All the way out of the gate of Jinyiwei South Yamen, the Jinyiwei governor did not show up. The people accompanying Jiang Wan and Sun Chengzong were just a Qianhu of Jinyiwei. As for Jinyiwei's commanding officer Luo Yangxing, he couldn't even see him at all.
trace.
Maybe the other party can't catch up, or maybe the other party thinks it's better not to come over, but no matter what the reason is, neither Jiang Wan nor Sun Chengzong takes this matter to their heart at the moment.
It was estimated that Jiang Wan was going to the palace to resume his duties, so Sun Chengzong did not go back to the Ministry of War Yamen with Jiang Wan. However, when the old man broke up with Jiang Wan, he still sighed several times unconsciously, but did not say anything.
As for the object of lamentation, is there any need to mention it?
However, when Jiang Wan was leaving, he asked Sun Chengzong curiously: "Your Majesty intends to arrange for me to go to Dongjiang. Could it be that the boss recommended it to your Majesty?"
Jiang Wan had doubts in his heart. If it weren't for Sun Chengzong's recommendation, this should have been the content of the discussion between him and the emperor. Now he leaked it to himself as the client. It seemed that this was too frivolous.
If the king is not secretive, his ministers will be lost; if the minister is not secretive, he will lose himself; if a few things are not secretive, it will cause harm!
There is no reason why an old minister like Sun Chengzong, who has been in high and low officialdom for so many years, should not know this truth.
"No!" Sun Chengzong categorically denied Jiang Wan's guess: "I am actually opposed to you going to Dongjiang. Although you are highly regarded, I feel that you are too young and have too little experience. If you have more experience, given time, you may not be able to succeed.
You are not a good general of our Ming Dynasty, but at this moment, His Majesty is eager to dispatch you to Dongjiang. The lives and deaths of tens of thousands of people depend on you, so I don’t think highly of you!"
He said slowly: "I have been plotted by others too many times in my life. Now that my time is running out, I naturally don't want anyone to plot against my descendants because of me in the future. Sooner or later, you will know that Your Majesty is against me."
With this arrangement of yours, if I express my attitude earlier, even if you fail to do so in the future, it will be because His Majesty’s attitude has changed, not because I am obstructing it!"
The old man smiled mockingly to himself: "If I were no longer here, those unscrupulous descendants of my Sun family might not be able to withstand the care of His Majesty's confidants!"
"My lord, you are worrying too much. Whether this matter is successful or not is a matter of state and has nothing to do with the feelings between your subordinates and your lord!" Jiang Wan said seriously: "Be a person first, then do things. My subordinates have always been
Adhering to this concept!”
"That's good!" Sun Chengzong drifted away and left a sentence: "You can take care of yourself!"
In the Qianqing Palace, Jiang Wan met Zhu Youjian again, and also met Wang Chengen, who was not seen next to Zhu Youjian last time. When he saw him walking into the hall, Wang Chengen gave him a slight smile as a greeting.
Already.
"Have you met Yuan Chonghuan?"
Jiang Wan nodded, and then heard Zhu Youjian continue to ask: "Why did you go to see Yuan Chonghuan with Sun Chengzong?"
Jiang Wan raised his head in astonishment and saw Zhu Youjian's face was calm, and Wang Chengen beside him also had a calm face. He knew that he had made the right move by coming directly from Jinyiwei Nanya to the palace to ask for an audience. In today's capital,
The capital is really Zhu Youjian's. As long as he is willing, he can probably know anything that happens anywhere in the capital.
"I went to the Ministry of War today and was inquired by Master Sun. Then Master Sun came up with the idea and said that he and I would go to Jinyiwei Nanya!" Jiang Wanqing said clearly: "Master Sun knows that His Majesty ordered his ministers to see Yuan Chonghuan!"
"He worries too much!" Zhu Youjian shook his head: "He still has the leisure to worry about this. I...forget it, let's not talk about him. What does Yuan Chonghuan say?"
Jiang Wan took a deep breath and spoke Yuan Chonghuan's original words.
"I, Yuan Chonghuan, have never failed my king! However, my king has wronged me greatly!"
After saying that, he looked at Zhu Youjian closely. He didn't know if Zhu Youjian had made up his mind to kill Yuan Chonghuan at this moment, but he knew that as soon as he said this, even if Zhu Youjian had no intention of killing Yuan Chonghuan before, I'm just afraid of it now.
Zhu Youjian was stunned for a moment, but there was no anger on his face. He was still calm, but the corners of his mouth were slightly raised, revealing a somewhat sarcastic smile.
"Have I mistaken him? Haha!" He sneered: "Haha, I have mistaken him???"
Zhu Youjian's somewhat creepy laughter echoed in the Qianqing Palace. From Wang Chengen to Jiang Wan, and then to the young eunuchs standing around, they all lowered their heads slightly, and they were all silent.
"It is not a pity to die!"
Zhu Youjian suppressed his smile, said coldly, and then looked back at Wang Chengen: "Big companion, ask everyone to step back!"
When only Zhu Youjian and Jiang Wan were left in the hall, Zhu Youjian glanced at Jiang Wan lightly: "I remember that in the Tenth Prince's Mansion, you once told me that your determination in this life is to let Everyone in the world performs their duties and keeps their duties. Now, has your ambition changed?"
"In reply to Your Majesty, my ambition has never changed!" Jiang Wan's face turned solemn and she replied solemnly.
"With a single edict, I ordered you to go to the chaotic place in Shaanxi and stay away from the central government. Even this year, I have ignored you and the Nanhai Guards, leaving them to fend for themselves. Have you ever felt resentful? Heart?"
"Your Majesty has given me a place to show my skills. I should be extremely grateful. How can I have any resentment?" Jiang Wan replied calmly: "If I have some resentment, I do have some resentment. It was when the Tartars attacked. Your Majesty Why don't you transfer the Nanhai Guards back to the capital to defend the capital? I, the Nanhai Guards, are in Shaanxi to share His Majesty's worries, but being in the capital at that time is even more important to share Your Majesty's worries!"
Zhu Youjian took a deep look at Jiang Wan, a trace of satisfaction flashed in his eyes, and for a long time, as if in reply to Jiang Wan's words, he shook his head.
"Yang He is useless. If the Nanhai Guards are transferred back to the capital, the chaos in Shaanxi may spread to Shanxi and Henan. I don't dare to bet!"
Zhu Youjian frowned. In the past year, he has frequently issued new policies, and both the Ming Dynasty and the public were in a state of resurgence. Now, this new policy has been put on pause due to the massive invasion of the Tartars. If he wants to recover, But I don’t know when it will be.
At this moment, all the national power of the Ming Dynasty is being used to resist the threat of these Tartars. At this time, if the civil unrest in Shaanxi spreads to Shanxi, Henan, or even Sichuan, then he cannot imagine how his empire will change. What a mess it has become.
Nanhaiwei is his trusted army, Jiang Wan is his confidant, and Nanhaiwei's combat effectiveness has also been proven in Shaanxi. At least, as long as Nanhaiwei is still in Shaanxi and Yan'an Prefecture, then the civil unrest in Shaanxi will be There will be no tendency to expand.
"Jiang Qing, you don't know my difficulties!"
Zhu Youjian's promoted body suddenly became shorter. He was sitting on the dragon chair, his whole body exuding exhaustion that could not be concealed. In front of all the courtiers, he maintained the majesty of his king, but at this moment, in front of
In front of Jiang Wan, an old member of the Tenth Prince's Palace, he really wanted to take a rest.
"Go over there and bring a Jindun over there and talk to me!" Zhu Youjian waved to Jiang Wan: "You can say whatever you want, just don't talk about Chao Gang!"
Jiang Wan was very obedient and moved a golden pier to sit next to Zhu Youjian. The dragon chair was a bit wide. Zhu Youjian leaned on the dragon chair and watched his movements.
"What does Your Majesty want to know?"
"You can say whatever you want, just say it and I will listen!" Zhu Youjian's pretty face showed a bit of a smile: "Even if you are a storyteller, I am also willing to listen. When you did "The Condor Heroes", I
I haven’t heard the end of the book, and I don’t know how it ends?”
"The ending, of course, is that the Condor Hero helped the court and resisted the Mongols' southward march...and then went to the sea with his heroic companion Xiaoyao!"
Jiang Wan said coquettishly that he didn't know that Zhu Youjian still had this resentment in his heart, but the ending of The Legend of the Condor Heroes was probably not what Zhu Youjian wanted to see, so let's just forget about it.
"Heroes, haha!" Zhu Youjian did not continue to worry about the ending, but said casually: "When I got married, you were in Shaanxi, and I didn't inform you, and you didn't know how to offer me your gift.
Please give me some gifts. As a minister, you don’t know the art of flattery. How will you be a high official in the future and how will you be granted the title of marquis or duke?"
"Your Majesty, if you say that, then I will start crying about poverty!" Jiang Wan chuckled: "Your Majesty allocated 10,000 taels of silver from your own funds to the Nanhai Guard, and I haven't starved to death yet.
I already have a great responsibility, and if Your Majesty still wants gifts from me, I will have no choice but to become a corrupt official!"
He frowned: "But if I become a corrupt official, my neck will definitely hurt when Your Majesty chops off my head in the future. So, after thinking about it, I might as well spare it!"
"Hahaha!" Zhu Youjian laughed. At this time, he was no longer the majestic emperor sitting on the dragon throne, but as if King Xin of the Tenth Prince's Palace was chatting with his subordinates.
"You don't know how poor you are, but you have only ten thousand taels of silver, and I gritted my teeth and gave it to you!" Zhu Youjian said: "The silver you got from Yangzhou back then, you can't get enough of it."
I've gone out of the inner treasury before I could cover up the heat, so I went out with my back legs. You're crying for poverty, and I don't know who to turn to to cry for poverty."
He said helplessly: "This is my internal treasury, my private money. When I was King Xin, I was never this poor!"
Jiang Wan thought for a while and gritted his teeth. He remembered that the one hundred thousand taels of silver had arrived from Fan Yongdou.
"How about I make up for the congratulatory gifts for Your Majesty and the Queen now?"
"Can this kind of thing be repaired? You don't want to be shameless and decent, but I still want to be decent and decent?" Zhu Youjian laughed and scolded.
"Forget it!" Jiang Wan was overjoyed: "These tens of thousands of taels of silver can't do much for Your Majesty. In this case, I must show some face and stop doing such ridiculous things!"
"Fifty thousand taels!" Jiang Wan was startled: "I can't even afford more!"
"What's the use of your face? My face is important!" Zhu Youjian glared at him angrily: "You said it yourself. If you bring it back to the palace, it will be regarded as a gift, so I won't reward you with anything.
.Who said fifty thousand taels of silver can't do anything? There are so many things that can be done!"
After saying this, Zhu Youjian sighed: "Jiang Wan, what do you mean by me being the emperor? They say that the whole world belongs to me, but all of you ministers are richer than me.
Even you, a guy who dare not embezzle, can easily take out tens of thousands of taels of silver. But as soon as I have money, I spend it on the world. And no matter how rich I am, this money will never be enough.
of!"
Jiang Wan smiled coquettishly, but did not dare to make such a joke.
"How are you getting along with the daughter of Duke Dingguo?" Seeing the awkward atmosphere, Zhu Youjian sighed and changed the topic.
"Your Majesty is talking about Xu Caining?" Jiang Wan blinked: "Not bad!"
"How about I point her out to you and become your first wife?" Zhu Youjian said: "The Empress Dowager also knows about this matter, and Duke Ding probably has no objection to it. As for her, she went to the South China Sea.
I have been guarding you for so long, let alone thinking about it, if you agree, then this matter will be settled!"
"ah!"
Jiang Wan was really surprised: "This..."
"Dong Guogong can't afford to lose this person!" Zhu Youjian shook his head: "I have agreed to this matter. You can handle it yourself later, but as promised, the palace will not give you many rewards.
At most, I can reward you with a piece of calligraphy and painting!"
"Chen Zhen, I really didn't expect..." Jiang Wan stammered: "Why did your Majesty think of this!"
"Thank you, why are you so verbose!" Zhu Youjian glared and slowly sat up.
After chatting for a while, his mood and mental state obviously improved a lot, and the majesty of the emperor seemed to slowly return to him as he sat up.
Jiang Wan knew that the heart-to-heart talk time was over and it was time for him to go down and continue being his courtier.
"After the marriage is decided, go and see Duke Ding yourself!" Zhu Youjian said slowly: "After this matter is settled, go back to Shaanxi!"
He looked at Jiang Wan: "Grow the food you stole from the people well, and quell the chaos for me. After autumn, I will use you and your Nanhai Guard. The next time I see you,
I hope there will be no more bad news from Shaanxi!"
"I will definitely live up to His Majesty's expectations!"
"I will keep this in mind!" Jiang Wan nodded: "I will be Jiang Wan who abides by my duty, and I will never be Yuan Chonghuan. Your Majesty, take care. I will retire!"
Outside the Qianqing Palace, Wang Chengen, who had been waiting for a long time, saw Jiang Wan withdrawing and greeted him: "Congratulations to Mr. Jiang, congratulations to Mr. Jiang?"
"Do you have such good ears?" Jiang Wan laughed and teased the other person, and then said with a straight face: "My lord, although your Majesty is young and strong, you must always remind your Majesty not to be too tired. I think your Majesty is a little haggard.
! I am fighting outside, and you are serving His Majesty in the palace. Everyone must perform their duties and don’t make any mistakes!"
"Of course!" Wang Chengen's face also became serious: "I am here to see Mr. Jiang out. This is your Majesty's personal order. There are not many civil and military officials in this dynasty who are worthy of your Majesty's request for me to personally see him off.