Zhu Xie led Xue Hong and ran towards the palace while shouting: "Come here!! Prepare a banquet! Bring over the good wine that I stole from the palace!!"
Zhu Xie led Xue Hong to the house quickly, waved his hand, and made all the maids in the house retreat.
Zhu Xie poured a cup of tea for Xue Hong and said, "Did the Yangzhou party encounter any danger?"
Xue Hong was indeed in trouble. The monk came over and wanted to kill Xue Hong. However, it was not easy to talk to Zhu Bie about this kind of thing, so he casually replied: "It's okay, everything went well."
Zhu Xie stepped on the stool with one foot, rolled up his arms and sleeves, and danced: "You don't know! Since I returned to the capital, my brothers got the news about sweet potatoes from nowhere.
It’s such a sideways attack! Even the two shameless people want to share the credit.”
Xue Hong was not surprised at all, after all, it was difficult to hide this kind of thing.
Xue Hong: "By the way, your Majesty hasn't made the sweet potato incident public yet?"
Zhu Xie: "Not yet. I guess my father will not announce it until after this year's general examination and palace examination. By the way, do you plan to end this year?"
Xue Hong: "What's wrong? Is there any difference between this year's meeting ceremony and the palace ceremony?"
Zhu Xie put away his playful smile and said: "Junchen, with our great achievements this time, there is a high probability that you and Gong will be granted the title of Marquis. You are already a candidate.
Once you get Jinshi again, you will inevitably be involved in party strife. I...I want to advise you to give up the imperial examination."
In today's Ming Dynasty, party disputes are becoming more and more intense, and the power of civil servants is complicated. Once they are involved, the trouble will definitely be huge. Moreover, Emperor Longqing has already thought of dealing with the party disputes seriously, but he has been missing an opportunity.
Seeing Zhu Jie's nervous look, Xue Hong raised his tea cup and said, "Then there will be no exam."
Zhu Xie was a little anxious: "I'm not joking, I really hope you can give up the imperial examination."
Xue Hong: "I'm not joking. I really don't plan to take the imperial examination anymore."
Zhu Xie's originally prepared words of persuasion were suddenly useless, and he said blankly: "Huh? Why."
Xue Hong: "It's nothing, I'm just afraid of trouble."
Zhu Ji blinked, then smiled and said: "It's better to be afraid of trouble! You are indeed my friend. It's good to be afraid of trouble! Wouldn't it be better to have less trouble in this life?"
Xue Hong looked at Zhu Jie's happy look and sighed: "The old Zhu family of the Ming Dynasty is really an alternative among the royal family!"
Most of the more than a dozen emperors of the Ming Dynasty were very affectionate and believed in the people around them. They were truly unique among the emperors.
Not long after, the maids placed the dishes on the table one by one, and then withdrew.
Zhu Jie greeted Xue Hong to eat food: "Eat quickly, Junchen. I estimate that my father will summon you directly into the palace after getting the news. If you really can't come out for a while, you may be hungry.
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"Not long ago, I was called into the palace by my father, and we had a long conversation. It made me hungry."
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In the royal study room of the palace, Emperor Longqing looked at the book in his hand and slammed the table: "Okay! I said why the tax revenue of the national treasury is not as good as every year. It turns out that these families have put it into their own pockets."
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Do they think I’m an old man and can’t lift a knife?”
With an angry shout, the frightened palace maids and eunuchs in the room fell to their knees.
Emperor Longqing looked at the people kneeling on the ground, a little upset and then said: "Everyone, get up and go to the imperial kitchen to get a bowl of porridge."
Dai Quan hesitated for a moment, but still stepped forward and said: "Your Majesty, I don't know which empress you want to sleep with today?"
Emperor Longqing endured his dizziness and picked up a memorial again to review it. He said casually: "I'm not going anywhere today. I'm just going to sleep in the imperial study."
Dai Quan knelt down and said: "Your Majesty, you have been living in the imperial study room for almost half a month. If you continue like this, your body will not be able to recover!"
Emperor Longqing said without raising his head: "Can't bear it? I am well-dressed and well-fed every day, but I can't stand it just by correcting some memorials? Where are my soldiers at the border who are waiting for food and wages? Where are my people in Hexi who are still hungry after being hit by the disaster?
?If they can’t bear it, who can they talk to?”
At this moment, a young eunuch came over and said: "Your Majesty, there is news from His Royal Highness Prince Fu's mansion that Xue Hong has arrived in the capital and is now at His Royal Highness Prince Fu's mansion."
Emperor Longqing put down the memorial and suddenly became interested: "Oh? Is it the Jinling Jieyuan Xue Hong? Quick, send someone to call him into the palace. I want to see this little lucky star of mine."
"By the way, call Prince Fu here too!"
Emperor Longqing suddenly thought that after the promotion of sweet potatoes, people would no longer starve to death, and couldn't help grinning.
Dai Quan hurriedly said: "It's because the emperor's great blessings moved the heavens, and then the auspiciousness came down..."
Emperor Longqing laughed and scolded: "You old guy, you are so good at flattering me. This sweet potato was made by my son and two teenagers. What does it have to do with God? If God is really wise, he shouldn't let me live until next year.
There will be disaster every year and the people will be hungry!"
Dai Quan repeatedly said: "His Royal Highness Prince Fu has made great achievements this time."
Emperor Longqing was feeling relaxed and happy at the moment, and said proudly: "Humph! This little king...bastard, he has only done one thing that satisfies me since he was a child."
Why was King Fu Zhu Xie given the title King Fu? Apart from Emperor Longqing’s blessing to him, it was more because there was no other title that could be given to him.
Xian, Duan, Hui, Xiu, I believe he doesn't occupy any of them. How can a prince who visited a brothel at the age of ten get any good titles?
Not only that, he beat the official, scolded the censor behind his back, the old bastard, and stole Emperor Longqing's wine, there was nothing he had not done before.
However, Zhu Jie still knows how to behave. He never interferes in government affairs, let alone bends the law. If he is naughty, be naughty. The most important thing for a person is to be self-aware. If there were more princes like Zhu Jie, I guess Emperor Longqing would be more like him.
Save a lot of worry.
Emperor Longqing suddenly remembered something again and asked, "Has anyone approached you to buy an official position today?"
Dai Quan said truthfully: "The Duke of Zhenguo spent 1,500 taels of silver for his youngest son, a concubine, and bought him the position of Long Jinwei."
Emperor Longqing sneered and said: "These nobles have very rich family backgrounds. It's just a false position. I can have as much as they want, as long as they have enough money."
"Don't forget to record the youngest son of the Duke of Zhenguo in the register."
Dai Quan: "I obey, Your Majesty."
Because the treasury was empty, Emperor Longqing repeatedly signaled to all the nobles to pay back the money owed to the treasury, but no one took action.
The Supreme Emperor missed his old friendship and protected many nobles many times. In desperation, Emperor Longqing came up with such an unethical method.
Let Dai Quan spread the word, saying that he can arrange some idle official positions, but they have officials but no power, but it sounds more prestigious.
In order to defraud these distinguished people for more money, Dai Quan even engaged in hunger marketing, selling one official, two or even three. In the end, whoever paid the highest price would get it. As for the remaining two, I'm sorry, no refunds will be given.
Who dares to speak out about buying an official position? In the end, it is just a mute eating Coptis chinensis and unable to express his suffering.
In this way, many nobles from the capital found their way to the palace, and Emperor Longqing made no less than one hundred thousand taels of silver by relying on a bunch of false titles.
Emperor Longqing was so cautious that he specially asked people who wanted to buy official posts to write down them in a separate booklet, waiting for him to settle the accounts later in the year. As soon as the Supreme Emperor dies...
And those nobles always thought that their positions were arranged by Dai Quan!
I don’t even have to think about it. Dai Quan, a great eunuch in the palace, no matter how courageous he is, he would not dare to sell his title to an official without permission!