Zhu Youxiao made a great show of power in the Fengtian Hall today, ordered the beheading of an imperial historian on the spot, reprimanded a military secretary, and ordered all parts of the Jiangnan to increase the amount of salt tax not only caught the ministers off guard, but more importantly, the domineering he showed today greatly deterred the civil and military officials, and what frightened the hundred officials was that they faintly saw his ancestors, Comrade Zhu and Zhu Di, the father and son, from Zhu Youxiao's body.

And who are Comrade Zhu and Zhu Di? When these two people were still there, what cabinet chief assistant and six books were just scum, the father and son were all words, who dared to chirp crookedly about the things they decided, and what was waiting for him was either to be imprisoned or beheaded.

Let's take Comrade Lao Zhu as an example, killing corrupt officials is like mowing grass, killing tens of thousands of people in one go without blinking an eye. And Zhu Di is not a good stubble, the people Zhu Jiu clan is already the heaviest criminal law, but this guy thinks that the Zhu Jiu clan is too light, and he also pioneered the addition of a clan, the most famous Confucian comrade Fang Xiaoru at that time was punished by Zhu Di to the ten clans.

The clique became uneasy, and the atmosphere in the capital became particularly strange in the following days, with many officials secretly engaging in small conspiracies to discuss the impact of the emperor's actions on them.

"Your Majesty has really grown up, although our family does not have the blessing to see Emperor Taizu and Emperor Gaozu, but we can see the demeanor of the two emperors of Taizu and Gaozu from Your Majesty's actions today! It's just that I really don't know where Your Majesty has the confidence to dare to persecute those civil officials like this, isn't he afraid of causing a backlash from Jiangnan officials? In the signing room of the celebrant eunuch, the eunuch Wang Tiqian, who was in charge of the celebrant palm seal, shook his head and said while sipping fragrant tea.

And Wei Zhongxian, who was sitting next to him, snorted lightly: "Lao Wang, if it wasn't our family that attacked you, if the two first emperors Taizu and Gaozu were still there, people like us would have been dragged out and beaten to death." ”

Wang Tiqian's face stiffened when he heard this, and he laughed dryly and said haha and stopped mentioning this stubble, Ye Gong Haolong probably said that he was a person like him. Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di, father and son, are very strict with the control of eunuchs, especially Zhu Yuanzhang set up a stone tablet in the harem that eunuchs are not allowed to interfere in politics.

After scolding Wang Tiqian for a while, Wei Zhongxian said softly: "Your Majesty naturally has the confidence to do this, and his greatest confidence is the 30,000 new troops of the Beijing Battalion that are being trained now. Speaking of which, we have to admire Jiang Ningbo, and I don't know where he found the three people. Especially that Lu Xiangsheng, not only was he born as a jinshi, but he is also very proficient in martial arts, which can be described as both civil and military, and he is really a rare pillar!

Our family went to the camp in Dongzhimen a few days ago to see the training of those Beijing camp soldiers, and found that after several months of training, these 30,000 Beijing camp soldiers have faintly had an elite appearance. ”

When Wang Tiqian heard this, he asked with some curiosity: "How is that compared to the Jiang Ning Army under Jiang Ningbo?" ”

Wei Zhongxian gave him a roll of his eyes, as if he was despising his old partner for asking such an idiotic question.

Ignoring Wang Tiqian's question, Wei Zhongxian said to himself: "Our family estimates that if those civil officials do not compromise, His Majesty will not hesitate to send Jiang Ningbo to Jiangnan District in the next step, and at that time, there will be a lively scene!" ”

Wang Tiqian frowned and said: "Jiangnan is the base camp of the Donglin Party, is it possible that Jiang Ningbo still wants to repeat the experience of a trip to Yangzhou?" With the example of those salt merchants in Yangzhou, the salt merchants in other parts of the Yangtze River will definitely be on guard against him, but don't stand up to the civil unrest. ”

"Civil unrest?" Wei Zhongxian seemed to have heard the biggest joke, "Do you think Jiang Ningbo will be afraid that someone will make trouble, I'm afraid he still wants someone to jump out and find trouble, and then he will have the opportunity to take the opportunity to clean them up." Do you think that those battle-hardened armies in Yang Feng's hands are good-looking? As far as we know, Jiang Ningbo has now trained 8,000 cavalry and 12,000 foot soldiers in Nanjing, so he has 26,000 elite soldiers in his hands. ”

"Hiss......"

Wang Tiqian gasped.

"Then Your Majesty will allow him to expand his strength so unscrupulously?"

"That's what you've finally thought about." Wei Zhongxian glanced at him approvingly, and there was a hint of admiration in his eyes, and then he smiled slightly: "Do you know why Yang Fengkong now hangs the name of a governor of the Jingying Rongzheng, but almost never goes to the big camp to check or touch, but throws all the big and small affairs of the Beijing camp to Lu Xiangsheng, Yang Guozhu and Hu Dawei?" ”

"Oh...... We got it. Wang Tiqian slapped his thigh fiercely, and then he exclaimed: "FeelingsJiang Ningbo also knows that he has an elite soldier in his hand, and he is afraid of being suspicious of His Majesty, so he paid out of his own pocket to train an elite soldier for His Majesty, but he never touched it, but handed it over to other people, and his feelings are to avoid suspicion!" ”

"If only you knew!" Wei Zhongxian smiled, "Do you still think that Yang Feng is just a martial artist who can only kill?" ”

Wang Tiqian glanced at him: "Father-in-law Wei, it seems that your attitude towards Yang Feng is much better, our family remembers that you have a great prejudice against Yang Feng in the past!" ”

"Who said that, our family has never had any prejudices against Jiang Ningbo." Wei Zhongxian said seriously: "As a eunuch of the celebrant and the eunuch of Bingbi, it is too late to see such a pillar of the country happy, how can you have other ideas, don't slander our family!" ”

"Really?" Wang Tiqian chuckled and stopped mentioning it, and the two chatted a few more words, and then Wang Tiqian said goodbye.

After Wang Tiqian left, the smile on Wei Zhongxian's face slowly dissipated, and he only heard him say softly: "What you don't know, Yang Feng is now a shield, attracting the attention and firepower of all civil officials, how can our family be willing to let him have an accident?" ”

Yes, Wei Zhongxian's attitude towards Yang Feng has indeed changed, but this change is not unrelated to others, but Wei Zhongxian found that since Yang Feng entered Beijing, his life in the court has been much better. These few months were the easiest days for Wei Zhongxian, because the civilian officials who had been aiming their fire at him all this time ignored him.

At the beginning, Wei Zhongxian was still a little uncomfortable, thinking that if he was nine thousand years old and had less than thirty or fifty letters of impeachment one day, it would be God's grace, but now it has been three full months, and there are less than twenty letters of impeachment for him...... Twenty letters.

At the beginning, our 9,000-year-old was still a little uncomfortable, and there was a sense of desolation when people walked away from tea! But then he thought about it, this is a good thing, what's wrong with someone sheltering him from the wind and rain in front, is it possible that someone has to scold himself every day, isn't this cheap? So Gonggong Wei, who wanted to open it, looked at Yang Feng with a different gaze, such a humanoid shield is so rare, it has to be well protected.

So during this time, Wei Zhongxian would also openly and secretly let his people take care of Yang Feng openly and secretly when conditions permitted, which also made Wang Tiqian feel very puzzled.

While Wei Zhongxian and Wang Tiqian were chatting, Zhu Youxiao was also meeting with three generals from Beijing in the Dongnuan Pavilion.

Looking at the three generals in scarlet official uniforms standing in front of him, Zhu Youxiao said kindly: "Lu Aiqing, Yang Aiqing, Hu Aiqing, all three of you should sit!" ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Lu Xiangsheng, Yang Guozhu and Hu Dawei all saluted Zhu Youxiao, and then sat on the brocade bench that had just been sent by the eunuch and pulled their buttocks.

Seeing the sitting posture of the three of them, Zhu Youxiao couldn't help laughing and said: "I don't think you are as free and easy as Yang Feng, this guy doesn't treat himself as an outsider every time he comes to the palace, he should eat and drink, he is not polite at all, how can you be so careful even when you sit on a stool." ”

"Your Majesty laughed." Yang Guozhu smiled a little embarrassedly: "Jiang Ningbo is a pillar of the country, he is free and uninhibited by nature, but the ministers are a layman, so naturally they can't be compared with him." ”

"Which of us is not a layman?" Zhu Youxiao laughed: "Last time, I overheard Yang Aiqing sing a song, and this song was sung very well. You and I are mortal, born in the world. It's hard to run around all day long, and you can't be idle for a moment......"

After Zhu Youxiao finished speaking, he snorted lightly a few times, and then said: "Don't look at me as the Son of Heaven, but I am still a mortal, and I am busy every day." So don't say that the second is good! ”

Hearing what Zhu Youxiao said was interesting, several people laughed.

In fact, in the past few months, Lu Xiangsheng and the other three have been summoned by Zhu Youxiao several times, and he even went to the school to inspect the new army in person, and now everyone can see that Zhu Youxiao attaches great importance to this army.

Today, Zhu Youxiao summoned them and did not say anything, but inquired about the training of the new army. When Lu Xiangsheng and the others replied that the new army had been almost trained and would be officially formed in four to five months, Zhu Youxiao's face couldn't help but show a happy smile.

Zhu You was very fond of these three people, and he talked to them in Dongnuan Pavilion for about half an hour before letting them out of the palace.

After leaving the palace, Yang Guozhu looked back at the majestic palace and said: "Your Majesty really has nothing to say to us, not only often summoning us into the palace, but also shouting at us, we don't know how much incense we burned in our last life to be so loved by Your Majesty!" ”

Hu Dawei also said with emotion: "Yes, Your Majesty really didn't say anything to us, if only Jiang Ningbo could come with us, after all, he is the governor of Jingying Rongzheng, but he doesn't seem to care much about Jingying, except for sending people over every month to check the accounts and the allocation of weapons and materials, Jiang Ningbo is too lazy." ”

After listening to Hu Dawei's words, Yang Guozhu and Lu Xiangsheng glanced at each other, and the two of them were like mirrors in their hearts.

Where is Yang Feng lazy, he is clearly avoiding suspicion. You must know that Yang Feng already has such a hundred elite soldiers as the Jiangning Army, but any emperor with a little brain will not allow the elite soldiers of the Gongwei Jing Division to be in the hands of others, which is irresponsible for his own life.

And Yang Feng obviously realized this, so from the very beginning, he always kept his distance from Jingying, and no longer had too much contact with the people in Jingying except for constantly providing weapons and equipment to Jingying, which is also where Lu Xiangsheng admired Yang Feng. Just give and don't take, this is not something ordinary people can do, for this Lu Xiangsheng can see, Yang Guozhu can also see it, but Hu Dawei, an honest man, doesn't know. But the two of them don't plan to tell him, after all, you can see this kind of thing, if you can't see it, it proves that you don't have that eyesight, even if you tell you, it will only add to your troubles.

And Yang Feng has lived a limited life again since he fought another wave of people in the early dynasty, and he devoted his main energy to the training of the Ming Royal Commercial House and Jiang Ningwei, the former is money, and the latter is a soldier, which is the foundation of his foothold in this world.

As for the 30,000 new troops in the capital, to be honest, he didn't take it seriously. As a descendant, he couldn't be clearer, although on the surface he ignored the Beijing camp, but as a force that relied heavily on him for both materials and weapons, it really didn't pose any threat to him.

In the future, if someone wants to be unfavorable to Yang Feng through the Beijing camp, as long as he cuts off the supply to the Beijing camp, stops the replenishment of Sun Hao, the weapon of the Beijing camp, and the supply of a large amount of silver every month, the new army of the Beijing camp will be reduced from a modern hot weapon army to a cold weapon army in no more than a month, and this is where Yang Feng's confidence lies.

Controlling an army by mastering the supply of an army is a principle that later generations are familiar with, but it is limited by limitations, and this truth is not known to many people in this era, because they do not know how dependent a unit using thermal weapons is on logistics.

In this way, Yang Feng accompanied several wives in Jiangningbo Mansion every day, and then returned to modern society from time to time to comfort Sister Xu and Sister Chang'e. It's just that within a few days of such a day, a rumor began to slowly spread in the capital. It is said that Yang Feng not only married the most beautiful pearl Hailan Zhu of the Horqin tribe, but also snatched the two Fujin Zhezhe and Da Yuer of Huang Taiji to his own mansion.

This rumor soon spread in the capital, at first Yang Feng didn't care, but just a few days of effort, this rumor spread throughout the streets and alleys of the capital, and finally the rumor even evolved into Yang Feng colluded with the Mongols to try to subvert the Ming Dynasty, such a statement also intensified, and even spread into the palace.

Under such circumstances, Zhu Youxiao summoned Yang Feng close to the palace......