Daming Jingtai: I am the eternal benevolent king Chapter 62 Make money! Collect protection gifts! May I be your wife in the next life! Kill the three family slaves of the Director of Ceremonies first
Chapter 62 Make money! Collect protection gifts! May I be your wife in the next life! Kill the three family slaves of the Director of Ceremonies first
"Jin Zhong, you and Feng Xiao go in person and recruit a group of rough eunuchs according to the number of eunuchs and maids in Qianqing Palace, and the maids will serve in front of the emperor."
"Except for the two of you, all the eunuchs and maids in the Qianqing Palace are organized into a group. An old man from the Qianqing Palace will lead a new person, and they will be paired randomly. Each group will supervise each other, report to each other, and will be together for twelve hours. , even when it is convenient, we are not allowed to leave each other's sight!"
"One made a mistake, the other didn't report it, and they were beheaded together! Their families were killed too!"
"Those who report and verify the truth will be rewarded heavily!"
"You then send out your confidants among the palace people to observe secretly and find out all the people with ulterior motives!"
"I want to make sure that no oil can be poured into the palace, and no needle can be inserted into it!"
"Can it be done?" Zhu Qiyu looked at Jin Zhong.
"You can do this even if you risk your life!" Jin Zhong knelt down and bowed.
"Go ahead and recruit more young palace servants. It doesn't matter if you are a little stupid. Loyalty is the most important thing. You should keep your eyes wide open when selecting people. Remember, try to select those palace servants who have a low status in each prison, who are angry and tortured. ”
"Understood? Don't shout to recruit people, observe first, watch quietly, don't listen to other people's opinions, believe your own eyes! Your eyes are my eyes! I leave my own safety to you, you Just keep your eyes open!"
Zhu Qiyu repeatedly warned that it was not that he had not cleaned up the Qianqing Palace, but he was still a sieve. If all these palace people were released, there would be no guarantee that those who came in would not be spies, so it would be useless to replace them.
We must use the method of supervision and continuous sitting to create terror, so that we can hold the Qianqing Palace in our hands.
But we must also be careful of spies who jump over the wall, so it is best to limit his scope of activities to the Xinuang Pavilion and have less contact with the palace people. It will be safe after the Qianqing Palace is cleaned up.
"This slave accepts the decree! If something goes wrong again in the Palace of Qianqing, please ask the emperor to pick out my eyes!" Jin Zhong was furious.
"There is no need to say such harsh words. You will follow me through life and death. I trust you." Zhu Qiyu helped him up.
Watching Jin Zhong off, Feng Xiao went to pick someone up.
"Your Majesty, Concubine Xian's body can't hold on anymore!" Dai Han, the eunuch in Concubine Xian's palace, cried.
"I'll go right away."
Dai Han was still crying and kowtowed: "I want to see you..."
"You go out first, I'll go when I'm done!"
Zhu Qiyu asked people to take Dai Han out and looked at Zhang Renxiao.
Zhang Renxiao's mouth was gagged, fearing that his crying would disturb the emperor.
"Your Majesty, please spare my life!" Zhang Renxiao was so stared at by the emperor that he cried and begged for mercy as soon as he could speak, regardless of the pain in his hands.
"I said I won't kill you. As long as you don't commit the crime of deceiving the king, I won't kill you!"
Zhang Renxiao cried and cried, his family is a wealthy man in Pingyang, how could he only have 500 taels of silver? He is really cheating, he is dead!
"Is Ai Gaofeng still alive? Come here, treat his injuries. Don't be too violent in the future. You chop off people's hands at every turn. It's too cruel. Throw these fingers out and feed them to the dogs."
Zhu Qiyu looked at the other merchants.
Everyone was frightened, thinking that the emperor was going to kill the chicken to get the eggs.
As long as you can save your life, that's fine. At worst, it's better to go to Wala than suffer in the Ming Dynasty.
"I'll give you one more chance to donate!" Zhu Qiyu's eyes flashed.
Coming!
A businessman knelt on the ground, kowtowing as if pounding garlic: "The common people are willing to donate all their wealth! It would be great if the common people only have one life!"
"So are the grassroots!"
Everyone wailed. Zhang Renxiao was so miserable. He lost one of his hands and his home was ransacked. It was so miserable.
"Ha, I'm not a robber, so how can I take your property for nothing?"
Zhu Qiyu sneered: "Who do you think I am?"
"Your Majesty did not ask for it, but we donated it voluntarily!" These businessmen burst into tears.
Zhu Qiyu snorted coldly: "You are all sent by Wang Zhen to buy my imperial village at a low price! You are obviously here to take advantage of me, but why do you act like I bully you?"
They just cry.
"That's all, I'm not a violent king, and I won't hold you and others accountable for the crime of bullying me!"
Zhu Qiyu saw that they were all frightened, so he stopped scaring them and asked: "How many shops do you have in Beijing?"
"Tell the truth!" Zhu Qiyu shouted coldly.
"Twelve families!" Someone reported it first, and others followed suit, not daring to hide it.
"What's the scale? What's the profit? Come on, I've delayed Concubine Xian's condition. I'll ask you all about it!" Zhu Qiyu asked.
It’s over, the emperor is determined!
I definitely can’t keep my property, but I’ll be content if I can keep my arms and legs.
They spoke out intermittently.
After Zhu Qiyu heard this, he knew what he was thinking, and said slowly: "According to the size of the store, the smallest store will pay one thousand taels of silver, and it will be paid every year, and it will be counted as a business tax!"
"Ah?" The businessman was stunned for a moment and said weakly: "We have paid the business tax."
You really want money rather than your life!
Zhu Qiyu's eyes widened: "Just call it a protection gift, and the people from Dongchang will collect it!"
The protection tax is for all merchants, and detailed collection rules need to be formulated. It will be implemented in the capital first, and finally collected nationwide.
Those businessmen lowered their heads and did not dare to respond. The emperor was just imposing extortionate taxes.
"Everyone, get up and sit down."
Zhu Qiyu asked people to go up to Jindun and ordered them to sit down.
But who dares to sit down? Zhang Renxiao sat down without hesitation, and then his hand was gone, and his home was gone...
These businessmen are still kneeling.
Zhu Qiyu did not embarrass them and spoke slowly: "I also know that doing business is not easy, and I do not discriminate against businessmen."
"Dongchang is not a money-grabbing yamen."
"When you are doing business in Beijing, do you need to have connections and find backers? Do people usually go to the store to cause trouble? The police in Beijing eat and drink for free in your store. Do you dare to be angry and dare not speak out?"
"But if you pay the protection gift, Dongchang will be your backstage! I will be your backstage!"
"Who is the biggest in this world? I am the biggest!"
"Do you still need to have a relationship? Are you still worried about being bullied?"
"As long as you operate legally, I will support you!"
"So, this money is not paid for free! Do you understand?"
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Zhu Qiyu had a sudden idea, and the details still needed to be filled in. He levied a merchant protection tax, and the money came in a steady stream, unlike a one-shot deal like ransacking a house.
It just gave Dongchang an opportunity to expand, and by the way, he placed spies among the merchants to expand his influence in the capital. The sphere of influence covered the entire capital, and the emperor's eyes could see the whole city.
Moreover, the money from the protection gift is enough to support Dongchang, and there will be a surplus in the future.
"What do you think of the protection gift?" Zhu Qiyu asked.
"Good! Very good!"
Who dares to say it’s not good, Your Majesty, the example of Zhang Renxiao is there. Look at the doctor who treated the injury. He was limping along the walk and had a sinister look in his eyes. He applied medicine to Zhang Renxiao and screamed louder than when Zhang Renxiao’s hand was chopped off.
Miserable.
"You take the lead and pay the protection fee!"
Zhu Qiyu turned to Xu Gan and said: "Let Yin make a batch of silver medals and hang them on all the shops where protection gifts are collected. Then notify Shu Liang and ask Shu Liang to make a detailed journey and then lead people to collect the gifts.
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"My slave obeys the order!"
Xu Gan dared to be presumptuous with the Supreme Emperor's Concubine Liu Jing, because he had the emperor's support. In the Qianqing Palace, he was naturally as honest as a kitten.
"Send some of you out of the palace."
Zhu Qiyu glanced at Zhang Renxiao: "Drag over here."
Zhang Renxiao took the medicine and the pain in his arm was unbearable.
"If I raid your home, will your family defect to Wala?" Zhu Qiyu stared at him.
"The common people don't dare! The common people don't dare!" Zhang Renxiao begged for mercy.
If you say you don’t dare in Qianqing Palace, you will defect after leaving Qianqing Palace!
We should have killed them directly, but Wala was at the edge of the town and Xuanzang was in a hurry, so we couldn’t cause trouble. If the Zhang family of Pingyang Prefecture defected and a passage was opened for Wala in Shanxi, the northwest would suffer.
"I'll give you a chance to atone for your sins!"
Zhu Qiyu asked someone to bring in pen and ink: "Write down exactly what Wang Zhen asked you to do. I will not only let you go, but also support you. How about it?"
Zhang Renxiao is still crying.
"Here come, search the house!" Zhu Qiyu didn't have time to talk nonsense.
"The people agree!"
Zhang Renxiao knew very well that the emperor was forcing his Zhang family to rebel against Chen Xun. The Zhang family gave Chen Xun a sum of money every year and became his disciple. But if he wrote it down, he would completely break up with Chen Xun and could only rely on him. Yu Emperor, but can the Emperor be trusted?
The signature is postponed.
Zhu Qiyu took a look and asked him: "How did you get this arm?"
"The commoner accidentally fell..."
Zhu Qiyu stared at him, could he have lost his arm? What a fool!
"It was done by the common people themselves! It has nothing to do with His Majesty!" Zhang Renxiao screamed.
The harder this person cries now, the more he will hate me when he gets home.
Zhu Qiyu doesn't believe in repaying evil with kindness, and what can't these businessmen do? Their consciences have been eaten by dogs since they were born!
"Go down."
Zhu Qiyu whispered to Xu Gan: "Tell Shu Liang to kill him at the palace gate and make the matter as big as possible!"
Doesn’t Chen Xun want to block my way?
I will use Zhang Renxiao to break the situation!
Jingyang Palace sent eunuchs to come again, and Concubine Li Xian was dying.
After the Wang family was deposed and the Hang family died, there were only three women in Zhu Qiyu's harem, Tang Guifei, Li Xi'er and the unpopular Concubine Li Xian.
In the original owner's memory, he can't even remember this woman's face.
Zhu Qiyu entered Jingyang Palace and smelled the pungent smell of medicine as soon as he was admitted.
Tan Yunxian was busy and didn't see the emperor come in.
When a maid came to talk to Yunxian, Zhu Qiyu waved his hand: "It is more important to manage the virtuous concubine. Go ahead and see the virtuous concubine."
Entering the dormitory, Zhu Qiyu asked Xu Gan and other eunuchs from the Qianqing Palace to accompany him.
Lifting the bed curtain, you can see a waxy face, withered and dying.
Dai Han whispered several times that the emperor was here before she reacted. She forced her eyes open and tried to see Zhu Qiyu clearly, as if she had an eye disease and couldn't see him clearly.
"Your Majesty..."
It was extremely difficult for her to speak, and tears flowed down her cheeks: "It is disrespectful for me to let your majesty see such an ugly side of me. Please forgive me."
"Don't say that." Zhu Qiyu was touched and sat on the bedside.
Concubine Xian tried her best to raise her wrist and grab his hand.
Zhu Qiyu handed over his hand, and she grabbed it hard: "I cannot serve your majesty. Please accept your majesty's concubines, enrich your harem, and extend your heirs... I am incompetent and cannot leave blood to the royal family... I am incompetent..."
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As I talked, tears fell like rain.
Zhu Qiyu was touched. He still remembered that when he first ascended the throne, Concubine Xian was pregnant. Later, for some unknown reason, the child died.
After several pregnancies, Concubine Xian was unable to keep her pregnancy, and she suffered miscarriages again and again, causing her body to completely collapse and turn into a medicine jar.
Zhu Qiyu vaguely remembered that during the wedding in Prince Xi's palace, the concubine Xian was also charming, gentle and pleasant. It had only been a few years, but she was gone...
"Stop talking, you will take care of her first. When your body and bones are healed, I will have another child with you." Zhu Qiyu held her hand.
But the wise concubine cried even harder: "Thank you, Your Majesty, for comforting me. I know that my body and bones are useless."
With tears in her eyes, she looked at Zhu Qiyu, and as she looked at him, she actually smiled and said intermittently: "I still remember you and me during the wedding. Your Majesty loves me so much. I will always remember it."<
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She lifted up the other sleeve with difficulty, and inside the sleeve were densely written in blood: "I am afraid that I will forget, but I cannot soil my body, for fear that His Majesty will not like it... Just, it is engraved on the inside of the clothes, every day I will."
Concubine, please write it down again, please forgive me for the crime of disrespect..."
Writing the word "Your Majesty" in blood is considered a curse.
Zhu Qiyu felt her deep affection.
But the original owner's feelings for her were too weak. No matter how he recalled it, he could not remember what this woman looked like when she was young.
"I don't blame you, it's my fault that I didn't come to see you." Zhu Qiyu said softly.
The original owner did not cherish such a good woman, but doted on Tuchang instead. What a fool!
"I have never blamed Your Majesty. It is my fault that I cannot give you any heirs because of my weak body. It is my fault! It is my fate. I am not lucky enough to serve Your Majesty..." She cried like a cuckoo.
Blood, every word screams.
Zhu Qiyu had tears in his eyes, but he didn't know how to comfort her.
"My beloved concubine, what else do you wish for?" Zhu Qiyu looked at her withered face. Although it was ugly, Zhu Qiyu saw the beauty of her soul.
"I only hope that your Majesty will accept many concubines, enrich your harem, and prolong your heirs!"
The Concubine Xian repeated: "This is my only wish. After I leave, I don't want to grant vassal status to my family. They are not so lucky and cannot stand the nobility. Please don't give me lavish rewards just because of my concubine."<
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"Don't get angry with the court because of this. You are right to be gentler; and don't criticize the imperial doctor harshly because of my concubine's illness. It's all because of my poor life. No wonder others..."
"Please, your Majesty, please agree to be my concubine!"
She looked at Zhu Qiyu with difficulty, wanting to remember his face completely before she died. She hoped to meet you again in the next life and be your wife again...
She suddenly grabbed Zhu Qiyu's hand tightly.
As if he wanted to say something else, he opened his mouth suddenly and vomited a mouthful of blood!
"My beloved concubine! My beloved concubine!"
Zhu Qiyu couldn't control his tears and grabbed her hand: "Where is the imperial doctor! The imperial doctor!"
He lowered his head, wanting to hear what she had to say!
"I hope to be you again in the next life, your wife..."
Concubine Jing's hand dropped, and she lost her life.
Zhu Qiyu's whole body was shaking.
She has no hatred. Zhu Qiyu has ignored her since she fell ill, but she has never hated Zhu Qiyu!
Even when he was seriously ill, Zhu Qiyu ignored him, but she still didn't hate him!
She actually said that she would like to be your wife in the next life...
These words pricked Zhu Qiyu's heart like a needle pricking his heart.
Tan Yunxian came over in a hurry, but there was no way he could save himself. He was already out of breath.
"Where's Jin Zhong!"
"Didn't the imperial doctor who treated the virtuous concubine say that the beloved concubine was fine?"
"Why did it suddenly disappear?"
"Come here! Go and chop them all down!"
"Kill the nine tribes!"
Zhu Qiyu's eyes were red, as if he was going crazy.
All the people in Jingyang Palace knelt on the ground.
"My slave obeys the order." Xu Gan whispered.
"Lingchi!" Zhu Qiyu still couldn't understand his hatred. He paced repeatedly in front of the bed, furious.
But he glanced at Concubine Xian, who had lost her life.
He suddenly remembered Concubine Xian's instructions before she died, and sat down on the bed dejectedly: "Come back! Concubine Xian did not allow me to kill them, I can't kill them! If Concubine Xian walks in front and they catch up later, why don't they torture my Xian Concubine?"
The concubine is gone!"
"They were all demoted to Qiongzhou. I spared their lives for the sake of the virtuous concubine, but it is hard to forgive the sin of living. The whole family was demoted to servants and will never be forgiven!"
Zhu Qiyu’s voice is deep.
"Your Majesty, please listen to my words!"
Tan Yunxian whispered: "Concubine Xian's illness has nothing to do with the imperial doctor, it is, it is..."
"What is it?" Zhu Qiyu was stunned.
"It's poisoning!" Tan Yunxian gritted her teeth, but there was something unspeakable. She wanted to explain in detail, but Zhu Qiyu was like a volcano erupting, and she did not dare to continue talking.
"What?"
Zhu Qiyu suddenly looked at everyone in Jingyang Palace: "Dai Han, get out!"
"My slave is here."
Dai Han crawled over, his face filled with astonishment: "Your Majesty's food and medicine are all handled by slaves, how can they be poisonous? Your Majesty, it can't be poisonous! Unless it's poisoned by slaves!"
It's impossible for him. He is an old man from the Prince's Palace and has been serving Concubine Xian for more than ten years. It is impossible for him to kill Concubine Xian.
Even if he were to die, he would not be able to kill Concubine Xian, because Concubine Xian had no status in Zhu Qiyu's heart.
"My daughter is definitely poisoned," Tan Yunxian said.
"Check! Check for me who is killing the concubines!"
Zhu Qiyu gathered his emotions and began to think, this is wrong. The concubine Xian's presence in the harem is very low, and she is not favored by the emperor. Why kill her?
Are you here for me? But what can you do by killing a woman?
"My slave, please go and invite Eunuch Shu!" Xu Gan accepted the order.
"Jingyang Palace is sealed. No one is allowed to enter or leave. All expenses incurred by the Concubine Xian in the past seven days are presented to me. All the people in the palace related to Jingyang Palace are arrested and questioned. No matter who they are, as long as they are
Anyone who has been to Jingyang Palace within seven days will be investigated!"
Xu Gan looked embarrassed. Dongchang fanzi was not a eunuch, so it was really inconvenient to enter and exit the inner palace. If something romantic happened, the emperor would be the one to deal with it.
Zhu Qiyu's eyes flashed, and he must form an internal eunuch, a special agent composed entirely of eunuchs.
I need money!
"Xu Gan, I asked you to be the governor and eunuch of the capital. You will recruit two hundred strong eunuchs from the imperial city to be responsible for the security of the imperial city. Is it possible that you are qualified?"
Xu Gan's eyes lit up. The emperor meant to turn the governor into a royal guard in the imperial city. He is familiar with this life!
"Thank you, Your Majesty, for giving me a chance!"
In fact, the imperial eunuchs did not supervise the eunuchs, because they were all about to be abolished. They only followed the emperor to lead the eunuchs, which had no practical use.
"Dai Han goes to be the eunuch of the palm print!"
Zhu Qiyu's cold light flashed: "The first thing you have to do is to find out the cause of Xian Fei's death. Do you understand?"
Who on earth poisoned Concubine Xian!
"My slave obeys the order!" Two eunuchs took the order.
Zhu Qiyu stood up: "Seal the palace!"
He looked back at Concubine Xian, a woman who had no sense of existence in his memory, but loved him so deeply that it made people cry.
"I will postulate the title of a noble concubine and bury her as a concubine. I looked at the clothes she brought with her and thought of her, so I will bury her with her, as if I have always been with her."
Zhu Qiyu sighed, feeling depressed.
After walking out of Jingyang Palace and boarding the royal chariot, Zhu Qiyu breathed a long sigh of relief: "When talking about female doctors, did you have any unspeakable secrets just now?"
Tan Yunxian went with him, hesitating whether he should say anything or not.
"Say, I don't blame you, and I won't kill anyone because of your words." Zhu Qiyu knew what she was worried about.
"Empress Xianfei has been taking Wuxiang for a long time to relieve her pain. The person who poisoned her was a man with good medical knowledge. He used special drugs to force out the poison of Wuxiang from the body of Empress Xianfei, which led to Empress Xianfei's death from poisoning."< /p>
Tan Yunxian carefully considered his wording: "This method is not easy to detect. Even if an autopsy is performed, it will be considered that the person died from an overdose of black incense, which is regarded as a normal death."
"I have been studying medicine since I was a child. My grandmother told me about a medical case in which I died after taking Wu Xiang. Her symptoms were very similar to those of the Concubine Xian."
"When I took the pulse of the Concubine Xian, I found that her pulse was empty and illusory. Therefore, I concluded that it was the poison of Wu Xiang that caused the death of the Concubine Xian."
Wuxiang is Fu Slim Cream.
Concubine Xian was in poor health, so the imperial doctor prescribed Wuxiang to her. It was true that she died with Wuxiang.
There are many people in the palace who are proficient in medicine, but why do they want to poison the virtuous concubine?
Zhu Qiyu was puzzled.
As soon as he entered the Qianqing Palace, he saw Shu Liang coming in a hurry: "Your Majesty, Zhang Jin is dead!"
"How did you die?"
"Back to your Majesty, someone from the British government said that Zhang Jin was playing in the garden yesterday and fell into the water and died. The servant looked at his body and found that it was swollen and his face could not be seen clearly." Shu Liang reported back.
"Hmph! Substituting one thing for another!"
"The British government really doesn't take me as the emperor seriously! It's so obviously rough that it doesn't even bother to fool me!"
Zhu Qiyu sneered: "Where is Zhang Fu?"
"Please plead guilty outside the palace."
"Let him kneel down." Zhu Qiyu walked into Xinuang Pavilion, feeling unhappy.
I've been being led around by others lately, and I can't take back the initiative.
"I want you to go to Dongchang to collect the protection gift..."
Zhu Qiyu told Shu Liang his idea, and saw that Shu Liang was confused: "Go to a trading company, recruit a few directors, and ask them to help you advise on how to collect taxes. This money will be enough for you to renovate the East Factory and strengthen it. Factory."
"My slave, thank you for your kindness." Shu Liang knelt down.
Zhu Qiyu helped him up: "Your eyes are red. You haven't slept for a few days, haven't you? Go and have a rest. You won't be able to recover the things in the library. Let's stop here. Kill the guilty and let go if not guilty. There's going to be a big battle soon, so keep your spirits up and go."
"My slave, thank you, Your Majesty, for your consideration." Shu Liang burst into tears. He was just an ordinary handyman in the Department of Cherishing Salaries. It was the Emperor who promoted him all the way to become the Supervisor of Ceremonies. He was a highly respected minister, but the Emperor cared for him so much. He was so kind. It's as heavy as a mountain, how can I repay him?
"Just rest in Xinuang Pavilion. With you by my side, I feel at ease."
Shu Liang knelt down to thank him.
Zhu Qiyu took a sip of water, sat down and continued to read the memorial. He was really confused when he read the memorial which was full of nonsense.
Xu Gan brought a plate of pastries, which looked very poor, but Zhu Qiyu didn't dislike it. It tasted very sweet and contained too much icing sugar.
He just frowned and ate it with water.
This is made by his personal eunuch. It’s so delicious, but at least it’s absolutely safe.
"Your Majesty, Lu Zhong has been waiting outside for a day. Shouldn't you meet him?" Xu Gan spoke cautiously.
Zhu Qiyu glanced at him: "Did he benefit you?"
"Ah? Absolutely not! Absolutely not, Your Majesty!" Xu Gan was lying on the ground, sweating profusely.
"If not, don't speak for him. I didn't kill him. I've already shown mercy outside the law. There's no harm in letting him stand for a day and wake up."
Zhu Qiyu said coldly: "Xu Gan, I know you are smart, and I have seen what happened to Li Xier..."
Upon hearing this, Xu Gan was shaking like chaff.
That's right, he deliberately took revenge on Li Xi'er because he had a sweetheart who was tortured to death by Li Xi'er, so he was filled with hatred.
Du Qing's plate of pastries was sent over without being tested for poison. He deliberately gave it to Li Xi'er to eat. He thought he had made it without anyone noticing, how clever he was.
"Your Majesty, please forgive me!" Xu Gan burst into tears.
"Hmph, don't be clever with me. I can see through your thoughts. Remember, I am your master. You can do anything I allow. If you don't allow it, touch your neck before doing it." Zhu Qiyu said with eyes.
Looking at the memorial, his tone was light.
But Xu Gan was so frightened that he kept trembling and kowtowed to beg for mercy.
"That's all, I'll give you some face this time and let Xuan Luzhong come in." Zhu Qiyu moved his fingers to get him up.
"Thank you, Your Majesty! Thank you, Your Majesty!" Xu Gan survived the disaster.
Zhu Qiyu said nothing.
But the people serving in Qianqing Palace are all afraid.
Fortunately, the emperor is not a ruthless person. He can at most scold him and never give him less rewards, but his desire for control is too strong.
Soon, a burly middle-aged man walked in, knelt down and saluted.
After Zhu Qiyu finished reading one memorial, he picked up another and glanced at him: "Aren't you pretending to be crazy?"
"I made your Majesty laugh!" Lu Zhong kowtowed.
"Huh, you're not making me laugh, but you're making me laugh!" Zhu Qiyu became angry when the Golden Knife Case was mentioned.
That was the best opportunity to kill Zhu Qizhen, but Lu Zhong ruined the good thing!
Lu Zhong didn't dare to raise his head.
"Why do you dare to enter the palace to see me?" Zhu Qiyu wrote a few words and put them aside.
"I heard that the rebels seized the door and your Majesty is in danger. I have received great kindness from your Majesty and I dare not not repay it with death..."
Zhu Qiyu interrupted his nonsense and said coldly: "Tell the truth!"
Lu Zhong trembled all over and said in embarrassment: "I am His Majesty's dog. Without Your Majesty, I will die even if I pretend to be crazy!"
"You are smart!" Zhu Qiyu sneered and put the memorial aside.
He sat upright: "Lu Zhong, why did you suddenly rebel during the Golden Knife Case?"
Lu Zhong gritted his teeth and dared not say anything.
"Drag him out! Kill him with a stick!"
What's the point of keeping an unfaithful dog?
"I, I say!"
Lu Zhong gritted his teeth and said: "After the incident of the Golden Knife Case, I was extremely frightened, so I asked Comrade Yin, a very famous fortune teller in Beijing, to give me a divination."
"I will never forget that hexagram. The Tianze Lu hexagram, Tong Yin said, Yi said: 'When you walk on the tiger's tail, it will be bad for others.'
Zhu Qiyu wondered, could the fortune teller make Lu Zhong pretend to be crazy and act like a fool?
"I know that your Majesty does not believe it, but at that time Tongyin lived in Shi Heng's house, and Tongyin was brought to the capital by Shi Heng!"
"So what he said was actually what Shi Heng wanted to say to me!"
"At that time, His Majesty trusted Shi Heng very much, and I did not dare to disobey Shi Heng's wishes!"
"So I just pretended to be crazy..."
Lu Zhong kowtowed: "But in the past few years, I have thought about it repeatedly, and I feel that those words were not what Shi Heng meant, because Shi Heng was a vulgar man, and he raised fortune tellers just to make friends with the powerful people in the capital. Why did he borrow fortune tellers?" Where is your mouth to scare me?"
Zhu Qiyu frowned, the golden knife case happened in the second year of Jingtai.
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At that time, Shi Heng was so proud that he probably had no intention of rebelling, so his colleagues were not necessarily instigated by Shi Heng.
"Who do you guess?"
"Xu Bin!"
Lu Zhong gritted his teeth: "That's the old thief! I checked Tongyin's past and found that his father, Tongqing, and Xu Bin were good friends. It was Xu Bin who advocated Tongyin's fortune-telling skills in the capital, so I concluded that he was the one who forced me to pretend to be crazy. It’s Xu Bin!”
If it is Xu Bin, the possibility is very high.
Because Xu Bin was Zhu Qi Town's lackey, when he welcomed Zhu Qi Town back, he also said that he would humiliate his ministers and die, so he resolutely went deep into Mobei to welcome Zhu Qi Town back.
"Is there any evidence?" Zhu Qiyu thought more deeply.
Xu Bin is Chen Xun's man. Did Chen Xun also know the news about seizing the door?
"Everything is my guess." Lu Zhong smiled bitterly.
"I asked you to form Tiqi, but do you dare to track down Xu Bin?" Zhu Qiyu's eyes flashed.
"Dare!"
Lu Zhong gritted his teeth and pretended to be crazy, but he couldn't escape the risk of being killed! It's better to give it a try!
"Okay, I allow you to select Tiqi candidates from the orphans of those who died in the Tumu Fort battle, and then you will be the admiral of Tiqi. You will first recruit 200 people and conduct special training in secret."
"I accept the decree and thank you for your kindness!" Lu Zhong kowtowed.
"I will give you two thousand taels of silver to use first. Clothes, armor, etc. will be used from the internal funds once they are used. I will give you a note. You can just go and get it."
Zhu Qiyu said again: "I will give you another sum of grain. If you don't have enough money, I will give you grain. Let's do this first."
He really couldn't come up with any money, and he didn't have much food, so he just held on and put up a shelf.
"I accept the order!" Lu Zhong accepted the order and left.
Zhu Qiyu continued to read the memorials, and the more he read, the more dizzy he became, and he had to read it.
The sky is getting dark, and light snow is falling outside.
At this time, Xu Gan opened the curtain, and the air-conditioning penetrated into the Xinuan Pavilion. Zhu Qiyu frowned, I am afraid it will be a cold winter again this year.
"Your Majesty, Chen Jing is here." Xu Gan reported.
"Xuan."
Soon, an old eunuch came in. After bowing and saluting, he waited aside with his waist hunched over.
Zhu Qiyu rested his eyes before looking at him: "Give me a seat."
"This servant dare not accept the gift from the emperor!" Chen Jing stood honestly.
"The eunuch in charge of the ceremony is hanging in the air. Is the conflict serious?" Zhu Qiyu leaned back and felt more comfortable.
Chen Jing considered it and said: "It's like a group of dogs robbing food. The emperor is the owner of the dogs. Whichever dog the emperor wants to give more to, it is the emperor's grace. If he gives less, he doesn't dare to complain.
Your Majesty, all your servants are dogs raised by your Majesty."
He is getting closer to the emperor and wants to be a palm eunuch!
But it’s Linglong’s thoughts.
Zhu Qiyu glanced at him and said calmly: "The chief assistant means that Chen Ding will serve as the eunuch of the palm seal. What do you think?"
Chen Jing's expression changed, and he knelt on the ground: "Your Majesty, the Chief of Ceremony is your servant, how can outsiders interfere? Whichever dog you want to eat the bones, that dog should eat the bones! Eat the inside and outside.
, they should be dragged out, beaten to death, and eaten as dog meat!"
"Haha! This is a fresh statement. It is quite appropriate to describe myself as a dog."
Zhu Qiyu's eyes darkened: "Do you dare to kill Chen Ding?"
Chen Jing trembled all over and did not dare to speak.
"If you kill him, I will allow you to be the palm eunuch." Zhu Qiyu said lightly.
Chen Jing did not dare to speak.
It seems that Chen Ding has become the second person after Xing'an.
But Chen Ding is obviously from Zhu Qizhen, when did he have such a close relationship with civil servants?
No wonder Xing'an asserted that Chen Ding would be the next eunuch in charge of the ceremony.
"If you really recruit him, you can just kill him. Chen Jing, do you dare?" Zhu Qiyu wanted to see what Chen Xun could do to him if he killed a slave of the emperor!
Chen Jing still didn't dare to say anything.
"Waste!"
Zhu Qiyu was furious: "Drag him out and chop him into pieces!"
"Your Majesty, please forgive me!" Chen Jing was about to cry. Why does Your Majesty always want to overturn the table? Wouldn't it be better if you just issued an imperial edict and let your slave serve as the palm eunuch?
It’s so cheap for you!
If you don’t accept the certificate of submission, why should I use you?
"My slave will do it! My slave will do it!"
Seeing that he was about to be dragged down, Chen Jing was so frightened that he kept screaming: "Your Majesty, if you kill Chen Ding, Wang Ding and Zhang Ding will come out. You are treating the symptoms but not the root cause!"
"Are you teaching me how to do things?" Doesn't Zhu Qiyu know?
But the Chief of Ceremony is clearly his territory. After killing Xing'an, his people should have been the eunuchs. Why did the civil servants intervene?
Isn’t Chen Xun plotting against me?
I will use Chen Ding to break the situation!
Kill!
"Go, bring Chen Ding here!" Zhu Qiyu's eyes flashed, and he pondered over and over whether he should kill Chen Ding.
The ceremonial supervisor is an extension of the imperial power and is used to check and balance the cabinet.
If the Supervisor of Ceremonies is purged and there are no capable eunuchs to step in, the cabinet will annex the power of the Supervisor of Ceremonies and the imperial power will be weakened.
But if we don’t clean it, does the Supervisor of Ceremonies belong to me?
Xinuang Pavilion is quiet.
Zhu Qiyu was undecided.
"Your Majesty, Governor Tang and Commander Hang came to the palace to cry!" The door opened and air-conditioning poured in.
"Tang Xing? Hang Yu?"
Zhu Qiyu's eyes darkened: "Xuan come in!"
"Chen Jing, go and stand at the door, sober up and think clearly, whose dog you are!"
If you can’t figure it out, start killing!
They are not his people anyway!
It’s fun to kill them all!
Zhu Qiyu's eyes were cold, and then Tang Xing and Hang Yu came in and cried.
"Your Majesty, today the people from the Ministry of Revenue went to my house to collect debts and said that I owe the Ministry of Households 50,000 taels of silver. How can my family have so much money?"
Tang Xing cried and fought for the land, which was so miserable: "Your Majesty, the Ministry of Finance is a robber. He asked me for 50,000 taels of silver and didn't take me seriously at all! That Zhang Feng was sarcastic,
All I have to do is point at my nose and call me a dog! If I were a dog, then..."
He didn't dare to say any more, because calling the imperial concubine a dog would be a serious crime of genocide! Even if he was the biological father of the imperial concubine!
"Are you trying to say that the imperial concubine is also a dog? I am also a dog?" Zhu Qiyu's voice was cold.
"I dare not be disrespectful, but Zhang Feng went too far and even asked me for fifty thousand taels of silver..."
"I asked him to ask for it." Zhu Qiyu interrupted him coldly.
Tang Xing, on the other hand, looked at the emperor stupidly, as if he was holding someone by the neck.
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"Is it also because of money?" Zhu Qiyu looked at Hang Yu.
Hang Yu shivered. Unlike Tang Xing, his daughter Queen Hang was already dead, so he was very weak.
"Chen, minister..." Hang Yu didn't dare to admit it, and he didn't want to really spend money.
"Hmph! Drag him out and beat him!"
"Ah?"
Tang Xing and Hang Yu were both shocked. They just cried and said, how could the emperor be executed directly?
But the eunuchs of Qianqing Palace didn't care whether they were relatives of the emperor or not. They only obeyed the emperor's order and dragged the two of them down directly.
"Your Majesty, please spare my life!" Tang Xing screamed, and then thought of the scene where the emperor forced him to watch a dissection, and he was so frightened that he lost control of his urine.
"Spare my life? It's you, Tang Xing, who should spare my life!"
Zhu Qiyu asked someone to drag them back: "Tang Xing, do you still remember your maid Xiao Tao?"
Tang Xing nodded stupidly.
"She tried to poison me! I ask you, was she under your orders?" Zhu Qiyu's eyes widened.
"Ah?" Tang Xing was stunned.
Zhu Qiyu looked at Hang Yu and said sternly: "And you, Hang Yu, what is your relationship with Liu Jing? Liu Jing offered Li Xi'er, and Li Xi'er tried to kill me, are you an accomplice?"
Hang Yu was also frightened.
"You two, do you still have the nerve to cry to me? I didn't kill your whole family because of the Hang family and the Tang family!"
"I asked you to contribute some money to serve the country. What's wrong?"
"Why don't I see you crying like this when you are enjoying the benefits that the country has given you?"
"You are enjoying the reward I gave you, why don't I see you crying?"
"You want to take advantage of it!"
"When you exert your strength, one can run further than the other!"
"Why do I raise you?"
"Do you want to have a casual meal?"
"I have a dog, and it is known to wag its tail at me. What will you do?"
"You can't hold up a wall with mud! If something goes wrong, push back and hold me back!"
"You're actually hanging out with those who are plotting against you!"
"I didn't come to settle accounts with you, but you actually took the initiative to come to settle accounts with me first?"
"Okay!"
"Then let's settle the old and new accounts together!"
"Pass an edict! Deprive Hang Yu and Tang Xing of all their positions! All titles! Take back all rewards! From now on, Tang Xing will be assigned to Liaodong, Hang Yu will be assigned to Yunnan, and he will not be allowed to return to Beijing without an edict! The entire clan will be assigned!"
Zhu Qiyu's eyes were filled with murderous intent.
"I'll punish you a hundred times with the rod, and then I'll throw you out of the palace!"
Tang Xing and Hang Yu burst into tears.
These two people deserve no sympathy at all.
"Come here, tell Xue Huan to enter the palace!" Zhu Qiyu was about to take action.
Look, he has even dealt with his father-in-law. If he deals with his consort again, it will be enough to leave the court speechless.
"Has Chen Ding arrived?" Zhu Qiyu's eyes were filled with murderous intent.
"Waiting outside the palace."
"Let them all get out." Zhu Qiyu exhaled. He used Tang Xing and Hang Yu to scare the monkeys, and the next ones were Sun and Zhang's relatives.
"Xu Gan, when Tang Xing leaves the palace, give him half of the imperial concubine's dowry and tell him to settle down after he goes to Liaodong. Give the other half to Hang Yu, and there is no need to tell him more." p>
Xu Gan was stunned and didn't understand what the emperor meant.
While Zhu Qiyu killed the chicken to scare the monkeys, he was also protecting Tang Xing and Hang Yu.
These two idiots cannot survive in the maelstrom of the capital. If they are sent away, they can at least save their lives.
If he is in power in the future, he can still order them to come back; if he is really dead, it will be considered a complete separation this time, and the new king will take the throne, so they will not be liquidated.
Zhu Qiyu has really good intentions.
"Your Majesty, the Governor of Tang and Commander Hang will understand your good intentions." Xu Gan understood.
"Huh, just be content if they don't hate me."
Zhu Qiyu sighed. If he wants to be a single husband, he must also consider the feelings of his family.
Tang Xing and Hang Yu, I don’t expect them to understand, I hope the imperial concubine can understand.
"Bring Chen Ding and Chen Jing in, and then announce Chen Xiang's arrival." Zhu Qiyu regained his sharp look.
"My slave, please pay your respects to the emperor." Chen Ding knelt on the ground, looking anxious.
Snap!
A knife was thrown on the ground.
Chen Ding was shocked.
Zhu Qiyu was too lazy to talk nonsense: "Chen Jing, let's do it."
Chen Jing is also stupid, really kill him?
Is the emperor crazy? The power of the Supervisor of Ceremonies was balanced, but the emperor suddenly overturned the table and used Chen Jing to kill Chen Ding without any explanation.
"Your Majesty, please forgive me! What did your slave do? Your Majesty wants to kill your slave!" Chen Ding was confused.
Zhu Qiyu stared at him: "Don't you know why I killed you?"
"I don't know, this slave." Chen Ding bowed.
"Stop pretending, you and I both know whose dog you are. There is no need to say it. This is the reason why I want to kill you."
Zhu Qiyu wants to deceive Chen Ding. He has something in his heart and will definitely be afraid. There may be an unexpected surprise.
Chen Ding swallowed his saliva.
"Kill!" Zhu Qiyu looked at Chen Jing.
But Chen Jing knew that if he really killed Chen Ding, he would never become the eunuch in charge of the ceremony, but would instead take advantage of Ruan Jian and Chen Xiang.
But he didn't know clearly, because he hesitated, Zhu Qiyu drew a red cross for him in his heart.
"Your Majesty, spare my life!"
Chen Ding gritted his teeth and said tremblingly: "I am a slave. In order to be able to become the superior eunuch, the ceremonial supervisor, I took refuge in Xiao Weizhen, the censor of Youdu!"
His face was filled with despair.
He took refuge in Xiao Weizhen, which was tantamount to joining the civil service group. In the end, he was sold out in the blink of an eye, which was tantamount to annihilating himself from the world.
Xiao Weizhen is Chen Xun's man.
No wonder Xing'an said that after him, Chen Ding would serve as the eunuch in charge of the ceremony. It turned out that Chen Ding had taken refuge with Xiao Weizhen.
But this is not the answer Zhu Qiyu wants.
"Go on, whose are you still?"
"He belongs to the emperor..."
Bang!
Xu Gan gave a heart-warming kick: "Thank you for telling me, are you one of the emperor's people? Don't you know who you are working for? Tell me! If you don't tell me, we will kill you and then kill Chen Jing."
!"
Chen Jing trembled all over.
Chen Ding's face was full of despair. It must be Xing'an who told him.
"Xu Youzhen has contacted the slave!" Chen Ding closed his eyes. There is only one way he can go now, to become the emperor.
"To put it mildly, you are actually the Emperor's servant, right?" Zhu Qiyu sneered.
Chen Ding kowtowed: "My slave has absolutely nothing to do with the Supreme Emperor. It's just that Xu Youzhen contacted my slave and promised me some benefits, but I refused! I don't dare to be disloyal to His Majesty in the slightest. I absolutely don't dare! Please ask the Emperor."
I believe in you! Your Majesty, please believe in me!"
"You are one of my people, and you have taken refuge with Xiao Weizhen, and you are not clear with the Supreme Emperor. Such a slave with three surnames! Do you deserve to be called loyal? Chen Jing, do it! Kill him!"
Zhu Qiyu is furious!
There are real historical figures in the book, so the names are very similar, so it’s not easy to tell them apart. I’m sorry.
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