After Zhu Si heard the story, his face looked sad.
At his age, he still doesn't understand what love is, but he always feels that the story should be about relatives getting married, otherwise it goes against the most beautiful things in the world.
Zhu Hao looked at Zhu Si's sad look and asked, "If it were you, what would you think and what would you do?"
Zhu Si asked in confusion: "Zhu Hao, don't you want to test me on this?"
"It's not a test, I just want to ask you what you really think."
Zhu Hao smiled and said to Zhu Sida.
Zhu Si had a sad look on his face, and his tone was particularly heavy: "If it were me, I would find a way to help them, but I am... powerless. Maybe... I will ask my father to take action."
"Um."
Zhu Hao nodded and said nothing more.
Gotta keep the suspense.
He would not immediately mention that the prototypes of the story are Tang Yin and Lou Suzhen, but he would want Zhu Si to feel that this is a poignant love story, full of regrets, and that he can use his unlimited imagination.
Better to indulge in it.
As for Zhu Hao telling this story to Zhu Si, the effect he wanted to achieve was not to get Zhu Si to help, but to make Zhu Si feel sympathetic.
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The Spring Festival of the fourteenth year of Zhengde arrived as scheduled.
As a widower, Tang Yin seemed to be alone when other people were getting together with their families. He could only pass the boring time by drinking with a few friends.
When Zhu Hao came to pay New Year's greetings on the first day of the Lunar New Year, he found that Tang Yin smelled of alcohol.
There was no woman to take care of him, he didn't buy any new clothes for the Chinese New Year, and his body smelled sour.
He is indeed a poor scholar!
"I said Mr. Tang, you should pay more attention to your appearance. Aren't Zhang Fengzheng and the others trying to arrange a marriage for you recently? If it doesn't work, that little woman from the street restaurant can do it... I sent someone to investigate recently, and she has not been there until now.
You're not married yet...I'm obviously waiting for you..."
Zhu Hao said this to test Tang Yin to see if he had his heart set on something.
Tang Yin said angrily: "Zhu Hao, you don't understand adults' affairs, so don't get involved easily."
Zhu Hao smiled and said, "Is it the old man's business that I don't quite understand?"
Tang Yin rolled his eyes at Zhu Hao, but said nothing and had no intention of chasing Zhu Hao away.
Don't reach out to hit the smiling person. Besides, Zhu Hao brought gifts when he came to pay New Year greetings.
Zhu Hao was about to say something serious. On the other side, Tang Yin's good friend in the palace, Jiang Lun, brought another friend, Lu Song, to pay New Year greetings. The two of them also brought their sons Jiang Rong and Lu Bing with them. By the way,
I brought some New Year gifts over...
"Look, we all know that you are single and living alone. I am afraid that you will not be able to think about things during the Chinese New Year, so I came here to give you a gift to make you happy."
Zhu Hao was still joking when he accompanied Tang Yin to the courtyard to greet him.
After greeting Tang Yin, Jiang Lun asked Tang Yin to organize a drink in the afternoon. He also said that he would introduce local officials and gentry to Tang Yin, and then took Lu Song away.
Originally, Jiang Lun wanted to keep Jiang Rong and start a fight with Tang Yin and Zhu Hao, but Zhu Hao wanted to have a holiday after the New Year and did not need anyone to follow him. Jiang Rong was eager to take advantage of the vacation opportunity to meet the local gentry he had just met.
Let's drink and have fun together, and now we have to act as Zhu Hao's disciple and bodyguard, which is a bit sad...
In the end, only Zhu Hao and Tang Yin were left in the house.
"Sir, let me remind you that this year Prince Ning will show his true self. I estimate that not long after the new year, His Majesty will issue an order to deprive Prince Ning of his palace guards, and Prince Ning will take advantage of the situation to rebel..."
Zhu Hao kindly reminded him, but Tang Yin responded: "I am no longer in Nanchang. Even if Prince Ning rebels, what does it have to do with me?"
Zhu Hao smiled and said: "Do you think I'm afraid that you will be implicated in Prince Ning's rebellion? You left without hesitation. Even if others criticize you, they will not think that you have anything to do with him in raising troops to rebel. But Nanchang has nothing to do with you.
People and things?”
Tang Yin's face turned cold obviously, he had something on his mind but didn't want to tell Zhu Hao.
You can't show your hidden feelings in front of this kid, right? Even if you are both a teacher and a friend, you are still half a gentleman. Do you still want this old face?
"If King Ning rebels, it will not be complicated for the court to quell it. With Wang Zhongcheng in Jiangxi, I am afraid that King Ning is just a paper tiger. Even if he cannot be poked through, he can be burned out by a fire... If that happens, I am afraid that
There are some things that I have to do temporarily because I don’t have enough time..."
Zhu Hao continued.
Tang Yin frowned: "What exactly do you want to say?"
Zhu Hao said with a smile: "Why don't we do something then? I'm afraid Mr. Tang won't dare..."
Tang Yin finally couldn't help it and asked in a bad tone: "I'm an old man, what can't I dare to do?"
"Sir, please don't tell me too much. If you do what I say, you may have to confiscate your family and exterminate your family... We are not involved in Prince Ning's rebellion. We will even remind the court that Prince Ning is going to commit rebellion. But after quelling the rebellion, we should at least do something.
I can't live up to someone's affection for my husband..."
Zhu Hao almost said, we are not trying to save Prince Ning, but Princess Ning.
Tang Yin is not a fool.
He will not forget that when he left Nanchang, Lou Suzhen personally sent him the money. Zhu Hao teased him when he first boarded the ship. Even if he didn't say it now... With Zhu Hao's shrewdness and ability, how could he be so easy to fool?
"Zhu Hao, I, Mr. Tang, hereby solemnly remind you that you are a bit impatient, but there are many things that are beyond your control. If you are not careful, you may confiscate your family and exterminate your clan, or at worst... it will implicate the people around you and the Xingwang Palace. You
You shouldn't do anything arrogant." Tang Yin suddenly warned.
Zhu Hao was speechless: "I forgot who told me before that an old man is not afraid of anything."
Tang Yin sighed: "The most important thing for people to recognize the reality is to recognize their own abilities. The most important thing for you now is to pass the provincial examination. You are already fourteen years old this year. If you pass the provincial examination, you will definitely achieve success in Huguang."
Good stories about talented people, this is what you should pursue."
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Zhu Hao didn't tell Tang Yinming, but Tang Yin probably guessed what was going on.
But there is such a layer of window paper that no one is willing to pierce.
Even if Tang Yin wanted to save Lou Suzhen from the fire and water, he still knew that a toad wanted to eat swan meat. It was not within his ability, and it would be futile to pursue it.
But Zhu Hao felt that he should do something, not only for Tang Yin, but also for himself.
He wants to try to change something, otherwise everything will follow the course of history, so what is the meaning of coming to this era?
Let the good things follow the trend of history and fade away? Let the dross take over the mainstream? If you have an idea in your heart, why should you suppress it and not do it?
In the past, he had no ability, but Zhu Hao felt that now that he could try to change some things, he should put it into practice.
Years later, Zhu Youqi's health deteriorated further.
Zhu Youqian rarely sees outsiders now. Even the affairs of the palace are basically handled by Yuan Zonggao, Zhang Zuo and others. It is really important that the important matters need to be decided by King Xing, so Princess Jiang will go alone to ask for instructions.
In the past, banquets were often held in the house, or some meetings were held in the study, but since the beginning of winter last year, such things have not happened again.
Even Tang Yin said that he had not seen King Xing for a long time.
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At the imperial court, Zhu Houzhao had been living in Xuanfu, waiting for the Tatars to invade again, and asked Jiang Bin to help him organize his troops. He wanted to further lead his troops out of the customs and conquer the grasslands.
This is what his ancestors did, and it is also what his ambition is based on.
But the biggest problem he faced was that, except for a few treacherous sycophants around him, none of the princes, nobles, civil servants and generals in the court supported his overestimating his abilities and wasting money and people. If others don't beat you, the border wars will disappear, and the country will be peaceful and the people will be safe.
, what a good thing is this?
If you insist on causing trouble, the people will suffer along with it, and the soldiers will risk their lives along with you. Isn’t this just fooling around?
Without support, it would be difficult to raise enough military pay and supplies, and it would also be difficult to motivate the soldiers in the army. Zhu Houzhao was very anxious and kept trying to find ways to get the North Korean and Chinese civil servants to agree to his proposal...
But the problem is that now the head of the court has become Yang Tinghe.
Yang Tinghe will not tolerate your bad habits. Do you want to fight?
Unless you step over my corpse!
Want to prove your mettle on the battlefield?
Sorry, unless you encounter a Tatar invasion and have to launch a counterattack, otherwise if you want to attack without permission... there is no way.
Historically, Zhu Houzhao was waiting for King Ning's rebellion in such a state of anxiety. This is why he was so eager to go on a personal expedition with his charioteer. He was eager to prove himself, but the problem was that before his charioteer arrived at the front line, Wang Shouren
Solved the problem...
So Zhu Houzhao in history was very aggrieved. Would you be angry when he met the ignorant Wang Shouren?
At least give the emperor a chance to show off!
I have been eagerly waiting for such a good opportunity to make great achievements, and let you, Wang Shouren, interfere with it. No matter how capable you are, it is still a sin!
But at this moment, Prince Ning's rebellion has not yet happened.
It seems that Zhu Houzhao still has a chance.
But the problem is that Wang Shouren has not been transferred from Jiangxi. As long as a war breaks out, it seems a bit difficult for Zhu Chenhao, a self-righteous arrogant, to rely on King Ning to deal with Wang Shouren, who is a god in military skills. Therefore, this personal expedition is not destined to bring peace to the people.
Zhu Houzhao proved his ability in order to speed up his demise.
Historically, the rebellion of King Ning and the death of King Xing Zhu Youqi both occurred in June of this year.
Even though Zhu Hao thought that his arrival would produce some butterfly effect, he expected that the two events happened at the same time. King Xing's condition became more and more serious, and King Ning's reverse phase became more and more obvious... These two things were not accidental.
Events can be changed.
But for Zhu Houzhao to fall into the water and get sick...it must be the right time, place and people. If some unexpected event occurs and changes Zhu Houzhao's itinerary, or he summons someone temporarily, the result will be changed. However, there is still one year left for this matter.
It will happen in many ways, so Zhu Hao has more than enough time to prepare.
Then there is the matter of rescuing Lou Suzhen...
It was also put on the agenda by Zhu Hao.
Historically, except for Lou Suzhen who committed suicide by drowning, none of Zhu Chenhao's other wives survived. Judging from what Zhu Hao had seen before, Lou Suzhen was only in her early thirties, so it was not impossible for her to be coveted by the emperor...
If you want to rescue, fishing from the water is not the only way.
Besides, even if you want to save her, she just wants to die... You can't stop her even if you want to.
If her husband rebels and is destroyed, it is only a matter of time, and her own children will also die with her. As a wife and mother, and a lady from a famous Neo-Confucian family, in this era of loyalty, it seems that the only way for a woman is to seek death...
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It's difficult.
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