This is probably true of human nature.

Zeng Jie wanted to speculate, hoping to take this opportunity to rise to the top and soar into the sky.

And now......

At this time, he was a little panicked, and he was busy looking at Xiao Jing.

Xiao Jing was so frightened that his face turned green, and he immediately shouted: "Zeng Jie, you are vainly speculating on the heavenly machine, can you be guilty?" ”

Zeng Jie's teeth rattled, his heart was extremely cold, and he opened his mouth to say something.

But I don't know how many people want to put him to death.

Emperor Hongzhi had a cold look in his eyes, and said lightly: "Come on, take down this person, hand it over to Jinyiwei, and ask if he still has party members." ”

Zeng Jie's face was pale, and he suddenly felt that all thoughts were burning in his heart, so he had to kowtow: "Minister...... Minister......"

But someone was about to enter the hall and dragged Zeng Jie out without hesitation.

After a period of chaos, the hall fell into a deathly silence again, and Emperor Hongzhi smiled: "Zhuqing is tired of thinking about it, retreat." ”

As he spoke, he glanced at Xiao Jingren and the others beside him: "You guys also step down." ”

The ministers retired.

Xiao Jing looked a little unwilling, but when he saw that Zhu Houzhao and Fang Jifan stayed, he had to lead the eunuchs to retire.

Emperor Hongji's eyes looked at the void, and his face showed indifference.

In fact, in his heart, Emperor Hongzhi was quite excited.

This time, the crown prince supervised the country, which was extremely successful, which made him, a father, really gratifying, and there were successors to the country.

Emperor Hongzhi said with a smile: "That Zeng Jie, he actually dared to speculate on my thoughts, it is really bold, but I don't see it so simple, originally I still wanted to lead but not provoke, to see who colluded with him......"

When Emperor Hongzhi said this, he paused for a moment, and then said: "But you two really gave me a big gift, and I had to clean him up." I ordered the factory guards to take him into custody, just to see who was panicking after Zeng Jie was taken into custody. ”

Zhu Houzhao said very straightforwardly: "Father, isn't it enough to be punished directly, where is such verbosity." ”

Emperor Hongzhi looked at Zhu Houzhao with a smile, and sure enough, his guess was right, this time the prince was in charge of the country, Fang Jifan wanted to come and give a lot of advice, and the prince's temperament was too anxious.

Emperor Hongzhi was in a good mood, and patiently said to his son: "If the punishment is moved, even if he confesses, it is inevitable that in order to suffer less crime, he will indiscriminately accuse many people of coming out, if he just makes him believe it, it will inevitably wronged a lot of good people, I don't want to be wanton, naturally, with the so-called torture, it is useless, this is not your business, I ordered you and the successor to be the Shuntian Mansion Yin and the Shaofu Yin, so that you can hurry up and make a difference in the capital, and do your own things well." ”

Zhu Houzhao listened, so he had to say obediently: "Obey." ”

After that, he said goodbye to Fang Jifan.

Along the way, Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but say to the other party: "Old Fang, why did my father order me to be the Yin of the Shuntian Mansion, the palace always felt that this Shuntian Mansion Yin was too small, and I had dozens or hundreds of official positions, which of them were more majestic than the Yin of the Mansion." ”

Fang Jifan had actually figured it out, so he said: "Because Your Majesty is not only testing you, but I am afraid, but also the idea of retreating bravely in the rapids, Your Royal Highness the Prince, Your Majesty hopes that you can share your worries for him, he is old after all." As for Fu Yin, he is indeed quite unlucky, this is Jingshi, he is a parent official here, and anyone above can bully him, of course he is pitiful. But His Royal Highness the Prince, the power and responsibility of the Shuntian Mansion is not small, it can be said that the upper inheritance of the Mandate of Heaven, the lower An Limin, the Prince is the Mansion Yin, this is different, you look at this capital, who will dare to treat the Shuntian Mansion in the future? It can be seen from this that it doesn't matter how big or small this official position is, it depends on who Fu Yin is, if it is someone else, it is a dog thing, a house slave named Deng Jian in our family can beat ten of them one by one, but when the prince comes, it is completely different. ”

Zhu Houzhao listened, still had some doubts, frowned and said: "It's not good, is it possible to let this palace be in charge of the arrest of thieves and the release of grain in the future?" ”

Fang Jifan said with a smile: "This may not be, in fact, you can also manage the planning of the new city and the old city, and you can check which house has encroached on the people's land...... In this way, all matters involving people's livelihood can be asked, such as ......"

Fang Jifan looked at Zhu Houzhao with a smile, and then said: "For example, if His Royal Highness the Crown Prince feels that Shuntian Mansion is not satisfied, he might as well move Shuntian Mansion to other places, let's ...... Repair the ya. ”

"Repair the Ya ......" Zhu Houzhao was dumbfounded: "Where to repair?" ”

Fang Jifan coughed: "Your Highness is outside the Fifth Ring Road, doesn't he have a lot of land, nearly half of which has settled a lot of disaster victims, these disaster victims are in the new city outside the Fifth Ring Road, but no one cares about it, if His Royal Highness moves Shuntianfu there, you see, can't you take care of the disaster victims at any time?" ”

Zhu Houzhao's eyes suddenly lit up, and he said happily: "This is the best, so as not to get too close to my father and the emperor, and be arrested and reprimanded in the palace every once in a while, okay, the first thing the palace does is to repair the ya." But...... Don't they all say that officials don't repair their offices? ”

"It's different." Fang Jifan said: "The official does not repair the government, this is following the tradition of inaction, that is, the government tries its best to reduce its own rights and responsibilities, the so-called people do not lift, officials do not investigate, in fact, this is also the reason, this is His Royal Highness the Prince, in this world, the government does not take care of things, can the people take care of themselves?" No, in fact, there are some things that the government does not take care of, and there will naturally be some guilds, daomen, and gentry to take over these powers, and if His Highness wants to do something, the first thing to do is to recruit a group of capable errand officers and take care of more 'idle things' that should not be taken care of. Once you want to recruit capable strong officials, there are many people, the yamen is in disrepair, and the pattern is small, what is the use? Therefore, it is necessary to make the function of the yamen complete, and it is necessary to repair the yamen. ”

Zhu Houzhao listened, nodded seriously, and said, "Okay, just listen to you, repair!" It's just that I'm afraid that this repair will cost a lot of money, and my father is so stingy......"

Speaking of this, Zhu Houzhao's face wrinkled directly.

Fang Jifan sighed, His Majesty is back, and the chance of being a loser is already very small, and after thinking about it, he said, "Otherwise, the minister is here...... Take out hundreds of thousands of taels of silver to ......"

Zhu Houzhao looked at Fang Jifan with a serious face: "What is this like, our own brothers, how can this palace ask for your money." Ah, I thought about it, this palace went to borrow money. ”

Zhu Houzhao is a real man of action, as soon as he said that, he swooped directly and ran away.

Fang Jifan looked at his back and shook his head, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince ...... Truly specialized in borrowing money.

…………

Shen Wen was on duty, and was inexplicably invited to the East Palace.

Every time he came to this East Palace, he felt a little trembling in his heart.

Well...... Guilty.

Then, he found that this place was already full of people, and in the entire main hall, there were seventy or eighty people kneeling and sitting, some of them were fresh, some were familiar, and everyone looked at Shen Wen, a scholar of Hallym University, and Shen Wen also looked at everyone.

Then, everyone smiled reluctantly embarrassedly.

Shen Wen probably knew who they were, and they happened to have such a daughter just like himself.

In this way, Shen Wen and everyone can be regarded as peers.

Peers are enemies.

Although it maintains a superficial friendliness, it ......

A eunuch led Shen Wen to sit down, but Shen Wen was beating a drum in his heart.

He suddenly had a bad feeling.

I chuckled in my heart: "It's going to be bad." ”

…………

Emperor Hongzhi looked at the latest report with a surprised expression.

He was shocked.

The crown prince was appointed as the Yin of the Shuntian Mansion, and Fang Jifan was the Yin of the Shaofu.

Originally, this decision, after Emperor Hongzhi issued it, he was somewhat weak-hearted, these two guys are uncontrollable people, once they are appointed, Emperor Hongzhi doesn't know what will become of this son of heaven.

But...... Now this report is very unexpected to him, after the news came out, all the listed commercial banks, the market value has actually risen strongly.

Obviously, this is great good news for countless businessmen, and it is like a shot in the arm.

When Emperor Hongzhi saw this, he couldn't help but feel relieved, if he continued like this, he was afraid that the silver that he lost last time in the inner treasury would be able to return to his original source in a few months.

"It's ......strange to say," Emperor Hongzhi said lightly: "Many courtiers don't like them, and the scholars also have a lot of criticism about them, but these businessmen are really bold, they really dare to put their lives on the prince and the successor, they are so confident?" ”

No one responded.

Emperor Hongzhi pulled down his face, looked up at Xiao Jing who was distracted on the side, coughed, and said sharply: "I'm asking you." ”

Xiao Jing came back to his senses.

In the past two days, he has been nervous, Zeng Jie has been imprisoned, but Xiao Jing didn't dare to ask, and I don't know if Zeng Jie pulled himself into the water, now he is a hot pot ant, as if he is about to be in trouble at any time, at this time, seeing His Majesty's angry face, he didn't know what His Majesty just said, he knelt down with a click, and said hysterically: "The slave is dead, the slave is dead, the slave and the maid have served Your Majesty for so many years, there is no merit and hard work, before the slave and the maid entered the palace, in fact, he was an ordinary person, and after entering the palace, he was loved by His Majesty, This is in the palace, in a prominent position, a slave and maid...... Slave ......"

Emperor Hongzhi was first stunned by Xiao Jing's sudden situation, and then his face became more and more gloomy, he was not stupid, how could he not hear what Xiao Jing said, so he asked in a deep voice: "What, what are you hiding from me?" ”

"Slave maid......" Xiao Jing shuddered, his face pale.

He cried.

"Slaves don't."

Emperor Hongzhi thoughtfully: "Yes, you have to think about it yourself, what will be the end of deceiving me, you have followed me for so many years, I think you know that I am nostalgic for the old feelings, but if you are obsessed again and again, I will never spare you!" ”