Zhu Youxiao has been on the throne for six years, and in the first five years, he lived in the palace, handing over all the affairs of the court to Wei Zhongxian, and he concentrated on carpenter's work. In another historical time and space, people do not have a high opinion of Zhu Youxiao, saying that he is only a carpenter emperor at best.

But is it really what the history books say?

Emperor Zhu Youxiao of the Apocalypse was ridiculed the most by later generations, first, he was uneducated, he didn't know anything except he liked to do carpenter work, and there was even a wild history saying that this gentleman was almost illiterate, and he couldn't read all the words, and the minister's recital could not be understood, so he could only ask the eunuch to read it to him.

The second is that he doesn't work hard, he gives up all the government and politics, and studies carpenter craftsmanship in the deep palace all day long, and pretends to be okay when the water is in dire straits outside. But even the official Xiu "History of the Ming Dynasty" of the Qing Dynasty, which "stepped on" the most apocalypse, has actually been "slapping in the face" for this kind of ridicule.

So the question is, why is Zhu Youxiao, the emperor, really so obsessed with carpenters? In fact, it is really recorded in the "History of the Ming Dynasty" that when the Emperor of the Apocalypse was a prince, he not only listened carefully to the lectures every time he went to class, but also took notes carefully. Later, the king of the world, for national affairs, he did not dare to relax, especially the problem of Liaodong, which was full of artillery fire, Emperor Tianqi attached great importance to it, not only always asked the courtiers to report it, but also sent Jinyi guards to the front line to visit the border situation more often.

But why did there be rumors in later generations that Zhu Youxiao was a carpenter emperor? In fact, the answer is very simple, that is, Zhu Youxiao's hobby of being a carpenter was deliberately released by him, as for why it was spread all over the world, this has to ask these people in the Donglin Party.

Although Zhu Youxiao has been hiding in the deep palace to "concentrate" on being a carpenter over the years, in fact, he has controlled the government through the hands of Wei Zhongxian and some people, not that he is unwilling to "pro-government", but that he found that almost all the government of the Ming Dynasty has fallen into the hands of the civil official group.

From this point of view, Zhu Youxiao is a very smart person, and his way of governing the country is actually learned from his grandfather, Wanli Emperor Zhu Yijun. Controlling the government through one or more henchmen, so as to avoid directly tearing up with the courtiers.

However, those who are interested can find that in recent times, Zhu Youxiao has been in the front desk for more and more time, and he began to personally contact the courtiers and directly give orders to the courtiers, but today when he personally went to the court and was about to personally announce to the courtiers the news of the review of the Jiang Ningjun in three days, he was hit on the head.

Looking at the ministers kneeling on the ground in the black press, Zhu Youxiao finally understood what Yang Feng once told him about the fact that the current Ming Dynasty does not necessarily have the surname Zhu.

"Original...... In the hearts of these people, the Ming Dynasty has long been in their pockets, they can play how they want, they can deal with whoever they want, as long as they press a crime casually, as for whether the crime is true or false, it doesn't matter at all. ”

Thinking of this, Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but stand up anymore, shook his hand and strode to the back, and after a while, a slightly panicked voice sounded in the hall.

"Retreat from the ......"

"I'm so angry...... I'm so angry...... I'm going to drive them all out of the court......"

In Kunning Palace, Zhu Youxiao kept pacing in the queen's dormitory while losing his temper, and the queen Zhang Yan looked at her husband helplessly, with a distressed look in her eyes, and he comforted softly: "Your Majesty, why are you so angry, if you are angry, won't the gains outweigh the losses?" ”

"How can I not be angry? How can I not be angry? Zhu Youxiao stopped, his face flushed, pointed to the east and shouted: "You didn't hear it just now, they want to force me to take down a general who has just returned to the dynasty victoriously and put him in prison...... Hehe...... A general who has returned from a hundred battles, and before I can reward him, someone wants to arrest him and put him in prison on a trumped-up charge, is there anything more absurd in the world?

If I did do this, how will the world evaluate me in a hundred years? But they dared to do it, and a group of people knelt in front of me and forced me to make an order. Yang Aiqing is right, these people are a group of hypocrites under the guise of benevolence, righteousness and morality! ”

Seeing Zhu Youxiao's flushed face with anger, Zhang Yan was really afraid that her husband would be angry, so she hurriedly stepped forward and kept patting him on the back and comforting: "Your Majesty is relieved, now that the situation is like this, what can Your Majesty do if he is angry again, the concubine thinks that as long as you suppress this matter and stay in the middle and don't send it, those people can't do anything about you." ”

"Alas......"

Principal Zhu You sighed, "The state affairs are difficult, but those ministers will only fight for power and suppress dissidents, and how many people really put the Ming Dynasty and the people of Li in their hearts?" Yang Aiqing is such an outstanding talent, they have to suppress it, where is the reason? ”

Zhang Yan sneered: "Actually, according to the concubines, it is not Yang Feng who they suppressed, but the silver sent by Yang Feng!" ”

"Who's to say it isn't!"

Zhu Youxiao gritted his teeth and said: "These people can't see my goodness, in the past, my inner library was so empty that they could run rats, and none of them spoke, but a few days ago, after Yang Aiqing just gave me the 1.8 million taels of silver, some people said strange things, and some people even asked for the Daming Royal Bank to be taken over to the household department, what a big joke, why should Yang Aiqing's silver give me be distributed to those moths?" ”

Zhang Yan held Zhu Youxiao's hand, her beautiful eyes flashed a few times, and she suddenly said: "Your Majesty, since those people are so hollowed out to deal with Yang Feng, why don't Your Majesty summon Yang Feng into the palace to meet you, and Your Majesty should also ask Yang Feng's opinion." ”

Zhu Youxiao hesitated for a moment and said: "I have long had this intention, but Yang Aiqing only arrived in the capital yesterday, and I will be in Zhengyangmen to review the Jiangning Army in two days, he must be very busy at this time, I am worried that the summons at this time will disturb him!" ”

Zhang Yan couldn't help laughing, and glanced at her husband coquettishly: "Your Majesty, you are really smart and confused for a while, think that even if Yang Feng is busy, he can't do everything himself, right, his subordinates eat dry food?" If you can't even take out the effort to eat a meal, that's a joke, so let's do it, Your Majesty will send someone to the military camp outside the Xuanwu Gate to pass the decree, so that Yang Feng will bring his newly married Mongolian daughter-in-law into the palace tomorrow, and we will have a banquet in Kunning Palace, what do you think? ”

"This is good!" Zhu Youxiao was also happy, and his head immediately turned: "I want to see what kind of woman this guy marries, and he can let so many people impeach him." By the way, I heard that Yang Feng is not very old but quite romantic, but there are a few women around him, if they are willing, let them come together......"

Xuanwu Gate, formerly known as Shuncheng Gate, was built in Yongle 17, and was rebuilt in the first year of orthodoxy, and then renamed Xuanwu Gate.

Interestingly, outside the Xuanwu Gate is the Caishikou Execution Ground, and the prisoner car escorting the death row prisoners often enters and exits from this gate, so it is called the "Death Gate", and what is evocative is that the noon cannon on the urn city rings every day, and the sound shocks Jinghua, and the Beijing people use this to the time, and the people say: "Xuanwu Noon Cannon".

Later, some people said that there were too many people killed in the vegetable market outside Xuanwu Gate, and the yin qi was too heavy, and the evil spirit of the military was needed to suppress it, otherwise there would be trouble. In view of this, the military department built a school field and barracks outside the Xuanwu Gate, hoping to use the iron-blooded evil qi of the barracks to suppress the yin qi at the mouth of the vegetable market, and later it became a station in the Beijing camp. It's just that the Beijing camp has been abandoned for a long time, and the Beijing camp has also become a place for martial artists and nobles to earn qualifications and make a living, not to mention the combat effectiveness.

Just after lunch today, Yang Feng was convening a meeting of the officers, and he heard a report from the sergeant outside the door that Cao Dazhong was asking to see him outside the barracks. When he saw Cao Dazhong Yang Feng was also taken aback, Cao Dazhong in front of him was wearing a blue eunuch suit, the two gold wire trims on the cuffs and the animal pattern on the clothes were particularly eye-catching, he couldn't help laughing: "Lord Cao, congratulations, you have been promoted so soon!" ”

Cao Dazhong grinned so much that he couldn't see his eyebrows, and arched his hand at Yang Feng and said: "It's all the blessing of General Yang, our family has finally been promoted to the fourth grade after so many years." ”

"That's it." Yang Feng nodded: "As long as the grade is reached, then you are expected to go to the Master of Ceremonies or the Imperial Horse Supervisor next." ”

Cao Dazhong hurriedly waved his hand again and again, "Lord Yang has won the award, our family dare not think that our family can serve as the Imperial Horse Supervisor within two years." ”

Although Cao Dazhong said very modestly, the mouth on his face that was almost to the tooth socket could not be hidden, Yang Feng pursed his lips, "Okay Father-in-law Cao, I laugh when I am happy, why do you put on such a look, it seems too dishonest." ”

"You ......"

Cao Dazhong glared at Yang Feng for a long time, and then sighed helplessly, today's Yang Feng is no longer the Bai Ding who let him rub it round and flatten a year ago, and now Yang Feng is a big man with soldiers and money in his hands.

"Okay, let's get serious." Cao Dazhong coughed lightly before saying: "The emperor has decreed that Yang Feng will bring his wife Hai Lanzhu and his wife and concubine to the palace at noon tomorrow for a banquet, and I will do this!" ”

"What, Your Majesty asked me to enter the palace for a banquet? Do you want to bring Shanghai Lanzhu? Yang Feng's mouth was big, and he looked at Cao Dazhong in surprise, "No...... I said Lao Cao, do you know that in two days, Your Majesty will be reviewing the Jiangning Army in Zhengyangmen, and I am too busy these days, how can I have time to go to the banquet. Doesn't Your Majesty know this? ”

"How do we know this?" Cao Dazhong said angrily: "Our family is just Your Majesty's slave, how can Your Majesty tell our family what you do." ”

Speaking of this, Cao Dazhong hesitated for a moment and said: "Lord Yang, our family has one more mouth, it is rare for Your Majesty to invite you to the palace for a banquet, this is a rare opportunity, don't miss it." ”

"Okay, I got it." What else can Yang Feng say, he can only agree with a wry smile, Zhu Youxiao is also a big boss no matter what he says, he has to give this face......

Since the medical battalion and the baggage camp had taken more than 20,000 Mongolian prisoners and war horses back to Nanjing, Hai Lanzhu, Zhezhe and Da Yuer, Zheng Tuniang and others were all female dependents, and it was not suitable to live in the school field with the large army, so Yang Feng simply bought a courtyard in the capital and placed a few women in it, and Yang Feng came to the courtyard that night and told them about the emperor's invitation to the palace for a banquet.

"What...... Your Majesty invited us to the palace for a banquet? ”

In the courtyard, several of Yang Feng's women all looked at Yang Feng with wide eyes, even Zhezhe, whose belly was now slightly bulging.

"Yes, of course the will that His Majesty just sent to people today is true." Yang Feng looked at the women with some confusion and asked, "I said a few of you, just have a meal, are you so excited?" There are also Zhezhe and Bumu Butai, no matter how you say it, you are also people who have seen the world, how can you be happy to be like this? ”

"What are you talking about?" Hai Lanzhu took Yang Feng's hand, and the excited expression on his face was a little irrepressible, "That's the emperor of the Ming Dynasty inviting our family to dinner, how can you not be excited?" Besides, although Bumu Butai and his aunt lived in Shengjing in the past, how could they compare with the capital of the Ming Dynasty? Besides, His Majesty the Emperor invited us to a banquet with such great honor, how can you be so calm? ”

"Well, I'm too sluggish." Seeing that Hai Lanzhu, who had always had a light personality, also became so excited, Yang Feng couldn't help but be a little speechless, and finally he saw several girls get together and discuss what clothes to wear to the banquet tomorrow, and after leaving the courtyard, he rushed to the school to arrange the military parade in two days.

At noon the next day, Yang Feng took the four women in full costume to the gate of the palace under the escort of dozens of guards, to Yang Feng's surprise was that Cao Dazhong actually greeted him in front of the palace gate, and after doing some inspection, under the leadership of several eunuchs, he walked through countless pavilions and pavilions to Kunning Palace, the queen's residence.

What Yang Feng didn't know was that according to the rules of the palace, men were not allowed to enter the harem where the concubines were located, and it was because Zhu Youxiao had issued a special decree that he could come here today.

As soon as they came to the gate of Kunning Palace, they saw Zhu Youxiao standing in front of the door and looking at him with a smile, and beside Zhu Youxiao stood side by side with him a beautiful woman wearing a phoenix crown and a graceful and luxurious beauty

It must be the queen mother.

Yang Feng took a few girls forward to bow down, and said that he had seen His Majesty and Niangniang Chitose.

Zhu Youxiao laughed and stepped forward to help Yang Feng up, and said in his mouth: "Yang Aiqing, I remember that when I lived temporarily in the Thousand Households in Jiangdong Gate last year, you didn't have so much courtesy to me, but you were very casual!" ”

Yang Feng said helplessly: "Your Majesty forgives me, this time and that time, now Weichen is standing on your territory, of course, you have to be polite to the master, otherwise you will drive Weichen out in anger, you must know that Weichen's family has not eaten yet." ”

"Hahaha......"

Listening to what Yang Feng said was interesting, Zhu Youxiao couldn't help laughing, and even the queen Zhang Yan, who was standing next to him, couldn't help but cover her mouth and laugh, this Yang Feng spoke really interesting, no wonder His Majesty would never forget him.