"Emperor Taizu Gao of my dynasty once said that it is strictly forbidden to form a party with the Chinese court, but why is my Ming court still rampant? After thinking about it, there is only one reason, huddle together to keep warm! ”

In the hall of the Jinyuan Tea House, Mr. Lao Wang, the storyteller, was holding a copy of "Pravda" and shaking his head and reading, and in the hall of the tea house were sitting hundreds of tea guests who came to drink tea, and the table in front of these tea guests was placed with melon seeds, tea and fruits as before, but at this time, none of the tea guests were in the mood to eat these things, and they all opened their mouths wide to watch Lao Wang read the newspaper there.

"What is huddle for warmth? The so-called huddle heating originally meant that in the cold winter season, people hugged each other and warmed each other. It is a metaphor for helping each other and working together, accumulating strength to get through the most difficult times. But for the friends to warm up in a group, it has changed the taste, and the scholars form their own circles, and the relationship between them includes the same village, the same year, the same teacher, the same division and even the same party, and they rely on this circle to delineate each other's identities.

When scholars become officials, the first thing they think about before doing something is not whether it is beneficial to the court, but to themselves and those friends behind them. If it is beneficial to one's own side, even if the matter is wrong, it does not matter and can be forgiven. If it's not good for you, then I'm sorry, no matter how good this matter is for the country and the people, I have to drag you back, otherwise how can I explain to my friends behind me? ”

As Lao Wang read, the beads of sweat on his head also flowed down. And not far from him, the fat proprietress also stopped eating melon seeds and opened her mouth wide, and her face full of fat kept shaking.

After coming to Daming for so many years, this proprietress naturally knows what a lofty position a scholar has in this country, and the person who wrote this article is simply self-defeating as a reader. That is the murderous demon, if another person dares to write this kind of article, he will definitely not live for three days, she turned her head and said to Boss Jin beside her.

"When...... Boss, let's let Lao Wang be so emperor that he will openly read this article out, is it really okay? ”

"Afraid of what?" Boss Jin's face was full of excited expressions at this time, and his face was a little distorted because he was too excited, only to see him sneer: "People dare to write it, what's wrong with us reading it?" The teahouses in the entire capital are reading this article, and there are not 30,000 but 20,000 people who have read this article, and they have the ability to arrest all these people! ”

In Boss Jin's opinion, Yang Feng has gone farther and farther on the road of death, and no one can save him, he just gently pushed him in the back, as for the consequences, it is none of his business.

Almost on the same day, there were people reading aloud in restaurants, tea shops, and streets and alleys all over Beijing.

"Now there is only one friend party in the court, and that is the Donglin Party. What is the Donglin Party? The Donglin Party is a new group of friends dominated by Jiangnan scholars, who use the name of satirizing the government and commenting on the officials to shield the landlords and fight for the profits of the rich businessmen.

Although they put forward the slogans that appear to be grandiose on the surface, such as being honest and honest, revitalizing the rule of officials, opening up the way of speech, and eliminating the malpractices accumulated by the government and the opposition, in fact they have become the spokesmen for the interests of the major landlords and wealthy businessmen in the south of the Yangtze River, turning a blind eye to the tragic reality of the victims of the Ming famine, and vigorously obstructing the act of levying funds for disaster relief. The so-called empty talk and misleading the country are talking about a group of people like them......"

"Good...... What a "Friends Say"! ”

In Kunning Palace, Zhu Youxiao looked at this issue of "Pravda" and read it aloud, his face was full of admiration, he praised the queen Zhang Yan who was sitting quietly next to him: "Zitong, Yang Aiqing is really talented, first a "tax theory", and now a "Friends Party Say", these two articles simply deprived the Donglin Party and those rich gentry and big landlords of their true faces. ”

Zhang Yan smiled slightly, and for a while, the graceful and luxurious style immediately exuded, and she lightly opened her lips with some worry: "Your Majesty, Jiang Ningbo's two articles are certainly very happy, but they are undoubtedly offended by the Donglin Party and those people in Jiangnan, and the concubines are afraid that those people will be unfavorable to Jiang Ningbo." ”

"What are you afraid of!" Zhu Youxiao waved his hand and said loudly: "If they want to move Jiang Ningbo, they have to agree to it, Jiang Ningbo is a talent given to me by God and given to the Ming Dynasty, and I will never allow them to be unfavorable to Jiang Ningbo!" ”

Seeing her husband's high-spirited appearance, Zhang Yan was happy for her husband and at the same time persuaded softly: "Your Majesty is my great Ming hero, naturally I will not be afraid of those clowns who jump off the beam, but as the old saying goes, open guns are easy to dodge and dark arrows are difficult to prevent, if those villains hide in the dark and cast dark arrows, Jiang Ningbo will be recruited in the south even if he is re-attacked by His Majesty, so the concubine thinks that His Majesty is free and still instructs Jiang Ningbo, so that he does not want to provoke those Donglin Party again." ”

Zhu Youxiao snorted coldly, and clenched his hands a little unwillingly: "These parties are fighting for the country, in the future, I must sweep all these people out of the court, and I will be able to see a bright future!" ”

Zhang Yan looked at her husband, and her eyes showed a tenderness of admiration: "Your Majesty is wise and martial, and the concubine believes that Your Majesty will definitely be able to do it." ”

"Haha...... Then I will borrow Zitong's auspicious words! ”

The two talked for a while, and Zhu Youxiao shifted the topic to the situation in the palace.

"Zitong, I don't know what the situation in the harem is recently? Did you bother you with those trivial things? ”

"Back to Your Majesty, nothing major has happened in the harem recently, your concubines have recently been obsessed with the thing called TV that Jiang Ningbo brought back, and they have to catch up on dramas every night, and the film called Baolian Lantern that was released recently is very good."

"That's good...... That's good. Zhu Youxiao was very happy when he heard this, he is a person who attaches great importance to family affection, although he does not have as much affection for other concubines as he does for Zhang Yan, but he still hopes that his woman can live happily.

"That's right!" Zhu Youxiao suddenly remembered something, and asked Zhang Yan: "Zitong, why haven't I seen Yang Aiqing come here recently?" What is he up to? ”

Zhang Yan gave her husband a roll of her eyes: "Your Majesty, you are really a noble person." You forget, Jiang Ningbo's snatched concubine is about to give birth in the next few days, this is Jiang Ningbo's first child, and he naturally wants to accompany her in the mansion. ”

"Ahh......h

Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but pat his forehead.

"Don't you say that I really forgot, Jiang Ningbo mentioned it to me a few days ago, and I forgot it when I was busy these days, this matter is indeed wrong with me, come on......"

Following Zhu Youxiao's voice, a eunuch walked in from the door and said respectfully, "What does Your Majesty command?" ”

Zhu You proofread the eunuch and said: "You immediately pass on my will, and send someone to the inner library to select a few old ginseng and some gifts to send to Jiang Ningbo's mansion, Jiang Ningbo's first child is about to be published, and I can't miss the courtesy." ”

"Whoa!"

The eunuch quickly took the order and left.

Things are indeed as Zhang Yan said, Yang Feng no longer paid attention to the outside after a shot, and concentrated on staying at home to accompany Zhezhe, who was about to give birth, and Zhezhe did not live up to his expectations, and gave birth to a girl for him on the second day of the ninth lunar month.

Zhezhe's birth process was very smooth, after all, she was already a mother of two children before this, and this is her third time as a mother, so naturally she is familiar with the road and there are no difficulties and accidents.

After learning the news that Yang Feng had given birth to a daughter, the women in Jiang Ningbo's mansion and the officers under the command of Jiang Ningjun were happy and secretly relieved. Fortunately, it is a daughter, if Zhezhe gives birth to a son as a concubine, then I am afraid that there will be a lot of troubles in Jiangningbo Mansion in the future, after all, this era is very important to the order of the young and the old.

Everyone was happy, but Zhezhe, who had just given birth, was a little unhappy, she gave birth to two daughters for Huang Taiji in the past, but now she gave birth to a daughter after remarrying Yang Feng, is she only going to give birth to a daughter in her life?

After all, Yang Feng is a person who has received modern education since he was a child, and naturally knows that giving birth to a boy and a girl has nothing to do with women.

Yang Feng accompanied his wife in the house and ignored the outside affairs, but some things that should come are still coming.

One morning, Yang Feng was accompanying his daughters-in-law and newborn daughter in the mansion when he suddenly heard a loud noise that shook the whole city of Beijing.

It turned out that there was a bizarre explosion in the gunpowder depot of the Wang Gong Factory of the Ministry of Industry located in the southwest corner of Beijing, and the Wang Gong Factory was the largest gunpowder and firearms production base in Beijing, supplying most of the firearms supply of the Beijing battalion and the Beijing City Guard Troops.

According to later statistics, the radius of the explosion was about 750 meters, and the area reached 2.25 square kilometers. According to later statistics, within the scope of the explosion center, the sedan chairs of officials Xue Fengxiang, Fang Zhuangli, and Wu Zhongwei who were walking on the street were damaged, and many people were injured; Dong Kewei, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, broke his arms; He Tingshu and Pan Yunyi were shocked to death at home; the two families were "covered in the soil", and the seven people of Xuanfu Yang Zongbing and his entourage disappeared without a trace.

Even the Jiangningbo Mansion, which was far away from the southwest city, was also affected, and Yang Feng's family, who were sitting in the courtyard to enjoy the coolness, were also frightened, and the entire Jiangningbo Mansion was also thrown into a mess by the explosion, and after comforting the few women who were scared a lot, Yang Feng's face also became gloomy.

At this time, Yang Feng remembered that it seemed that in another historical time and space, there was also a big explosion in Beijing City in the past six years, and that big explosion was called the world's three natural mysteries. And the consequences of this explosion are also very serious, in this explosion in Beijing City killed and injured a total of more than 20,000 people, and the Donglin Party, which was suppressed by Wei Zhongxian at that time, also jumped up and down, blaming the cause of the explosion on the Emperor of the Apocalypse Zhu Youxiao, forcing Zhu Youxiao to make an edict of guilt, and this explosion also made the situation in the imperial court, which had been somewhat improved, worse again.

Yang Feng said to the women with a calm face: "We are in trouble this time, Hai Lanzhu, Zhezhe, Tu Niang, Bu Mu Butai, Xian Niang, a few of you stay in the house, take care of the children and appease the subordinates, I will go to the palace immediately." ”

The girls also knew that something big would naturally not stop them, and Hai Lanzhu said softly: "Don't worry, we will take care of the family, so you can rest assured that you can do things." ”

Yang Feng didn't talk nonsense, and immediately took more than a dozen family members to rush towards the palace, when he just came to the gate of the palace, he happened to see that the eunuch sent by Zhu Youxiao to announce his attack happened to go out to find him, Yang Feng didn't talk nonsense, and immediately followed the eunuch into the palace.

When Yang Feng came to the Qianqing Palace, he saw that Zhu Youxiao was protected by a group of eunuchs and guards, and the whole person's expression was a little panicked and nervous, next to him Wei Zhongxian was standing aside with his hands down to serve, after seeing Yang Feng coming, Zhu Youxiao seemed to see a savior, rushed to Yang Feng and grabbed his sleeve and said in a row: "Aiqing, is God warning me?" How can this be? ”

Yang Feng looked at the so many eunuchs and guards around him, and shook his head: "Your Majesty, it is useless to be anxious about what happened in the palace just now, please tell your Majesty and Wei Chen in detail." ”

"Good...... Good. ”

It turned out that just now, you were having breakfast in the Qianqing Palace. Suddenly, he found that the main hall was shaking, and he didn't know what was happening, so he fled desperately.

After running outside the door, he felt that something was wrong, and hurriedly ran desperately towards the Jiaotai Palace, and the guards around him were all shocked and at a loss, only a personal attendant followed him closely. As soon as he arrived at the Jianji Palace, tiles suddenly flew down from the sky, and happened to hit the head of this chamberlain, and the chamberlain burst his brain on the spot and fell to the ground and died.

At this time, Zhu Youxiao couldn't care about anything, and ran to the Jiaotai Hall in one go. There was a large table in the corner of the main hall, and he hurriedly got under the table before he took a breath, hoping that he could escape this catastrophe, until the eunuchs and guards found him, and he sent an order for Wei Zhongxian and Yang Feng to come over together.

After listening to Zhu Youxiao's words, Yang Feng said in a deep voice without thinking: "Your Majesty, although this matter is a natural disaster, we must also be careful that someone will turn this incident into a disaster. Those people in the Donglin Party will never let go of this opportunity, we must move immediately, and we must not let their conspiracy succeed. Grandpa Wei, I don't know what you think? ”

Wei Zhongxian, who was on the side, looked at Yang Feng with some surprise, a trace of admiration flashed in his eyes, and then he nodded and said, "Jiang Ningbo's words are naturally excellent, and our family has no objections." ”

"That's good!" Yang Feng said decisively, "Your Majesty, without further ado, please give an order immediately." He ordered Lu Xiangsheng, Hu Dawei and Yang Guozhu to lead 30,000 soldiers and horses of the Beijing battalion to the streets to maintain order. Then ask Gonggong Wei to send the fans of Dongchang to investigate everywhere, and if they encounter anyone who spreads rumors, they will all be arrested. Besides, we have to think about how to deal with those ministers who take advantage of the opportunity to make trouble tomorrow morning. ”

Seeing that Yang Feng said a series of suggestions in one breath, Zhu Youxiao's originally somewhat frightened heart calmed down......