The Son of Heaven is the body of ten thousand times, and the country and the society are all in one, and the king of a dignified country leaves Beijing to go on patrol, which is a great event, and in view of the fact that the previous Emperor Zhengde regarded leaving Beijing as a common thing and indulged in touring and fun, not only put the country in danger of turmoil, but also seriously cost the people and money. Therefore, the first reaction of the court officials led by Yang Tinghe was to oppose Emperor Jiajing's southern tour, and they were fiercely opposed.

However, Zhu Houxi's determination to tour the south was very firm, and the reasons were quite sufficient. First, the southeast coast of the Ming Dynasty has just been plundered by pirates, and everything is in ruins, and I, as the king of a country, should come in person to appease the people and boost their morale. Second, while visiting the south to appease the people, I should go back to Anluzhou, Hubei Province to worship my biological father Xingxian Emperor to comfort the ancestral temple.

If Zhu Houxi's first reason is a bit far-fetched, then the second reason is irrefutable, in the feudal society of loyalty and filial piety, filial piety is greater than the sky, unfilial people will be poked in the backbone and scolded, and those who prevent others from fulfilling filial piety are even more intolerable.

Carefully calculated, Zhu Houxi has been on the throne for more than three years as the son of the vassal king, and it is completely reasonable to return to his hometown to worship his biological father at this time, and it can even be said that it is very appropriate.

Therefore, as soon as Zhu Houxi's second reason was thrown, all the court officials, including Yang Tinghe, were dumbfounded, after all, no one could afford to stop the emperor from fulfilling his filial piety. So, the matter of the Son of Heaven's royal tour of the south was decided.

However, soon, Yang Tinghe and other ministers of the Puyi faction sniffed out the conspiracy from the list of ministers who accompanied Zhu Houxi. It turned out that Zhu Houxi's list of escorts were: Fei Hong, the second assistant of the cabinet, Jiang Mian, the fourth assistant of the cabinet, Zhang Xuan in the household department, Gui Cao in the criminal department, and Huo Tao, the head of the household department......

The vast majority of these ministers are upstart factions who support Zhu Houxi's recognition of his biological father as the imperial examination, or moderates like Fei Hong, or neutrals.

It is worth mentioning here that since March last year, Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi recalled Zhang Xuan and Gui Cao to Beijing, the dispute over the "Great Rites Discussion" that had been silent for nearly two years has re-emerged, and it has become more and more intense, and the court officials are divided into two factions to argue inappropriately, one is the Puyi faction headed by Yang Tinghe, they advocate that Emperor Jiajing take Emperor Xiaozong Hongzhi as the imperial examination, and the other faction is the upstart faction headed by Zhang Xuan Guixu, and they advocate that Emperor Jiajing should take his biological father Xingxian Emperor as the imperial examination.

Over the past year, the two factions have been fighting each other, and some time ago because of the large number of thieves entering the coast of Kou Daming, the struggle between the two factions has temporarily slowed down, but since the end of last year, after Xu Jin pacified all the thieves along the coast, the war between the two factions has been rekindled, and it is more fierce than ever, even the first assistant of the cabinet, Yang Tinghe, went into battle shirtless, and was continuously reprimanded by Emperor Jiajing.

But at this juncture, Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi actually proposed to drive the southern tour, and most of the accompanying ministers were upstart factions, even fools could detect that there was something greasy in them, not to mention Yang Ting and these officialdom veterans.

As a result, Yang Tinghe instructed an official to raise objections to the list of ministers accompanying the driver, and as a result, after the court push, the list of ministers accompanying the driver changed greatly, generally half of the Puyi faction and the upstart faction, and Yang Tinghe also personally went out to accompany the driver, so that Mao Ji and Jiang Mian two scholars stayed in Beijing, making it clear that he did not want to give Emperor Jiajing any opportunity.

In this way, Emperor Jiajing left the capital with the ministers of the two factions, and went south along the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal from the Tongzhou wharf, and the whole team was like a moving "powder keg", and the ministers of the two factions were preparing intensively, staring at each day, and it was estimated that they would be blown up when they arrived in Nanjing.

The little emperor Zhu Houxi was extremely depressed, and he planned to play a clever trick and get rid of several heavyweight ministers of the Puyi faction first, but who knew that his trick could not be hidden from the world at all, Yang Tinghe not only saw the move, but even himself followed.

However, when he thought that he still had a heavyweight waiting in Nanjing, Zhu Houxi was still a little relieved. If Xu Jin knew Zhu Houxi's thoughts at this moment, he would probably be crying and laughing, the reason why he pushed Zhang Xuan and Gui Cao up was originally to borrow the hands of the two to fight against Yang Tinghe, and he himself stayed out of the matter, who would have thought that Zhu Houxi, this kid, would go all the way to bring this explosive barrel to him!

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On June 20, the royal driver and his entourage arrived in Dezhou, Shandong, and the Son of Heaven stayed overnight in the Dezhou Palace. In the middle of summer, the weather was hot, Zhu Houxi finished bathing and changing clothes under the service of the palace people, and after drinking a bowl of iced sour plum soup comfortably, he began to review the notebook. Although he is away from Beijing, the two left-behind scholars in the cabinet will still send people to Zhu Houxi every day to expedite some important scripts.

Zhu Houxi's mood is obviously very good, and it is no wonder that now that the coastal plague has been eliminated, the policy of promoting the cultivation of sweet potatoes and clearing the land has also begun to bear fruit, and the tax revenue of the state treasury has steadily increased.

In addition, although the coastal war from last year to this year cost more than two million taels, a considerable part of it was handled by Xu Jin himself, and the treasury only took out about half of the silver. This is not a matter, the key is that Xu Jin also got back nearly 10 million taels of property from Manlaga, which exceeded the treasury's Cairui income for two years, not only filling the deficit of the war, but also making a lot of money.

Can Zhu Houxi's kid be in a bad mood? Hehe, watching the treasury slowly fill up, that feeling...... Full of happiness!

There weren't many notebooks sent today, and Zhu Houxi quickly finished reviewing them, and Lu Bing's guy flashed in from the outside as if he had pinched the time.

Zhu Houxi put down his pen and stretched, and asked, "Ah Bing, has Xu Jin come back from Nanyang?" ”

Lu Bing is Zhu Houxi's hair, deeply favored, since the last time he was escorted back from Jiangnan to the Great Inner Sect and the shark king Xu Weixue, he was promoted by Zhu Houyi to Jinyi Wei Qianhu, and now he is even more favored, as if he has become Zhu Houxi's eyes and ears.

I only heard Lu Bing say with a smile: "I just received the news from below, the Marquis of Jinghai will return to Nantou City in Guangzhou Mansion on June 12, and it is estimated that he has received the news of the emperor's southern tour and is on his way to Nanjing." ”

Zhu Houxi couldn't help but frown when he heard this, nodded and said, "That's good, I thought he was still staying in Manraka." ”

Lu Bing was a little jealous when he saw Zhu Houxi's happy appearance, but he also understood that his weight in Emperor Jiajing's heart was not comparable to Xu Jin.

At this time, Zhu Houxi looked a little unnatural and asked, "By the way, how did Xu Jin react when he received my holy decree?" ”

Lu Bing's eyes flashed: "I didn't ask in detail under this mark, by the way, Lord Xu said...... The marquis is not my will, but it makes the sea peaceful. ”

Zhu Houxi's eyebrows fluttered when he heard this, and he said happily: "It is not my intention to seal the marquis, but it makes Hai Boping flat." Hehe, I know that Xu Jin won't be so shallow-eyed, that's good! ”

Lu Bing said with a smile: "Lord Xu is loyal to the monarch and loves the people, and he doesn't care about personal gains and losses. ”

Zhu Houxi scolded with a smile: "Come on, you, you should keep it and shoot it when you see Jinghaihou, and you can't hear it now." ”

Lu Bing said with a smile: "The emperor is right, but Lord Xu is loyal to the emperor and doesn't care about personal gains and losses, but other generals are not necessarily." ”

Zhu Houxi raised his eyebrows, and waited for Lu Bing's next words, and the latter said cautiously: "I heard that after Gonggong Zhang read out the holy decree, the generals under the command of Lord Xu seemed to be indignant. ”

Zhu Houxi was silent after hearing this, Xu Jin made such a great contribution, even if he was crowned the Duke of the Kingdom, he also thought so, but the court officials unanimously objected, even Xu Jin's mentor Fei Hong did not agree, and Mao Cheng, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, even sacrificed the Taizu's testament, no matter how great the merit of the civil official is, he can only be crowned Bo, and now Xu Jin is already the emperor's grace as a civil official, if he is crowned the prince of the country again?

The courtiers strongly objected, and Zhu Houxi could only give up, and finally changed Xu Jin to the Marquis of Jinghai, adding 800 stone years of Lu, and the title could be hereditary.

Although he had tried his best to fight for Xu Jin's interests, Zhu Houxi still felt guilty and felt that he had let others suffer, so when he heard that Xu Jin didn't care about the reward, he was quite happy in his heart, and the bad thing was Lu Bing's last sentence, and the generals were not angry after listening to the holy decree.

Generals only know that there is a handsome but not a king, which is a big taboo, and supporting the army and self-respect is even more vigilant for the emperors of previous dynasties.

Lu Bing couldn't help but be secretly happy when he saw Zhu Houxi being silent, but he learned the lesson of talking about the Xie family's background last time, and he didn't continue to add fuel and vinegar to it, the emperor is a smart person, and now he is getting more and more powerful, if he continues to provoke, it will inevitably make him alert.

As the so-called accumulation of broken bones, what Lu Bing has to do now is to plant a thorn in the center of Emperor Jiajing, and then slowly reduce Xu Jin's trust in Jiajing's mind.

There is a saying that Hades is hard to see, and little ghosts are hard to deal with. Lu Bing is the difficult little ghost, because of the killing of Ono Lily, Xie Erjian and Xu Jin hated, but this kid is very cunning, knowing that his current strength is not enough to defeat Xu Jin, so he took advantage of the proximity to the water to find an opportunity to provoke the relationship between the two in front of Emperor Jiajing.

Lu Bing's last attempt to provoke the Xie family's background was undoubtedly a failure, but this time it seems to have worked, at least Jiajing didn't look happy at this time.

At this moment, two palace beauties, one tall and one short, came over, and they were the two princesses Yongfu and Yongchun.

Lu Bing was slightly startled, and he didn't know when the two princesses came in, so he hurriedly saluted and said, "Lu Bing sees the two princesses." ”

"Excuse me!" Princess Yongfu frowned and glanced at Lu Bing, and then blessed Jiajing: "Yongfu see the emperor!" ”

Little Lori Yongchun has now grown into a fifteen-year-old girl, this girl loves to laugh very much, and after the salute, she smiled and said: "Brother Huang, why don't you look unhappy, what is unhappy to say to make the royal sister happy." ”

Zhu Houxi smiled dumbly and said: "Little girl, her mouth is getting poorer and poorer!" ”

Lu Bing retreated very interestingly.