Since the decision to crown Yunxi as the emperor's grandson on September 20, Lao Zhu began to look for a suitable candidate for the East Palace official. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

First of all, the six official positions of the crown prince and the prince, the prince and the prince, the prince and the prince, the young master, the young guard, and the young master are all held by the nobles. Taifu returned to Deng Yu, Taishi was Feng Sheng, and Taibao was Fu Youde; The young master is Lan Yu, the young master is Wang Bi, and the young master is Cao Zhen (Note 1).

As for the other officials below, Lao Zhu had a lot of brains. In order to avoid too much difference between the bureaucratic self-contained system of the East Palace and the ministers of the imperial court, Lao Zhu decided to follow Zhu's standard example, and Zhan Shi and Shao Zhan Shi were both concurrent. In order to show the importance of etiquette, the original name of Li of the Ministry of Rites is also the Zhan Shi of the third product; As for Shao Zhan's affairs, Lao Zhu thought about it and decided to be concurrently served by Ru Yu, the secretary of the Ministry of War, and Zhan Hui, the secretary of the Ministry of Officials. The Chunfang University scholars under him, because they were official positions for the prince to give lectures, were all civil officials of the Hanlin Academy, and Xu Zongshi and Chen Nanbin were concurrently served.

The official positions after that are important, because they are all real positions, assisting the crown prince's real positions, so Lao Zhu is very selective. Because of Yunxi's relationship, Lao Zhu noticed Qi Tai in advance, and then found that he had not made a single small mistake since he became an official in the eighteenth year of Hongwu, and he was greatly surprised and promoted to the left concubine of the fifth grade; Another right concubine appointed Geng Xuan, the eldest son of Geng Bingwen, Marquis of Changxing.

The left Yude appointed Chen Xingshan, and the right Yude was Guo Zhen, the eldest son of Guo Ying, the Marquis of Wuding; Zuo Zanshan is Lian Zining, and right Zanshan is Zhang Shu, the eldest son of Huining Hou Zhang Wen. There are other official positions under it, but none of them are important, the main thing is that.

Among these people, Yun Xi still knows only Qi Tai alone, and no one else has heard of it, and he doesn't know what his skills are, but in line with his trust in Lao Zhu, Yun Xi still boldly let them start doing things.

When these people arrived at the beginning of November, it was when Yun Xi began to take charge of the affairs of the martial arts, and immediately asked them to start helping. With the help of these people, Yun Xi completed the complete presentation of the lecture hall in November. Among them, Qi Tai, in particular, put forward a lot of good suggestions because of his relationship with the head of the military department, which played a big role.

The busy November passed, Yun Xi breathed a sigh of relief, and began to watch the main days of Lao Zhu's review, but this time he has his own think tank, and he often discusses problems with the think tank.

During the discussion, Yun Xi found that Chen Xingshan was indeed worthy of being a traditional literati from the Hanlin Academy, and he had been telling Yun Xi about the practices of various Confucian ideals, and there were many criticisms about Lao Zhu's handling of Confucianism. Yun Xi thinks that he and Fang Xiaoru are all the way, but they are still quite respectful on face.

Geng Xuan, Guo Zhen and Zhang Shu are all from a family of military generals, and they have all been on the battlefield, and they talked to Yunxi about things on the battlefield, allusions and anecdotes in the army, and Yunxi also felt very rewarding.

To Yunxi's surprise, it was Lian Zining. Lian Zining was also born in the Hanlin Academy, but he was not pedantic, and he was good at writing poems and compositions, and Yun Xi listed him and Qi Tai as important ministers.

For Yun Xi, life just went according to plan.

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Time back to November 15, Beiping City.

Dao Yan hurriedly walked in the Yan Wang's Mansion. Just now, Zhu Di suddenly asked people to summon him into the mansion to discuss matters, and he was in a hurry, and Dao Yan could only hurriedly follow the people sent by Zhu Di to the Yanwang Mansion. Along the way, Dao Yan repeatedly thought about what made Zhu Di so anxious to find him.

As soon as he saw Zhu Di, before Dao Yan had time to salute, Zhu Di said: "Master doesn't need to be polite, look at this!" As he spoke, he handed him a piece of paper full of words in his hand.

Dao Yan finished the salute and took the letter handed over by Zhu Di. The letter was written about the assassination of Concubine Lu on September 27. Modern people may find it unimaginable that in ancient times, there were no telephones, televisions, or even telegrams, and it took ten days and eight days for urgent documents to be delivered from the capital to Beiping, and ordinary documents had to go for twenty days; This is not bad, but it will only take fifty or sixty days for ordinary documents to die in Yunyun, Guangxi and other places.

And Zhu Gaochi had already written in the letter sent as early as September 29 that Yun Xi was officially canonized as the imperial grandson and Concubine Lu may have planned an assassination of Yun Xi, and has been looking for the truth of the matter since then, because Zhu Di wants to know what happened. But it was very difficult to find, and Zhu Gaochi also worked hard to find something that he thought was reliable, and then wrote it down and sent it back to Beiping.

Dao Yan read the content carefully, and found that the whole article was a description of Concubine Lu's assassination of Yun Xi and the current result, and couldn't help but wonder: Is this important? It's been so many days, and Yun Xi has become the emperor's grandson, and the result is irrevocable, why are you in such a hurry to let me come over?

Dao Yan looked at Zhu Di and said thoughtfully: "Your Highness, if you knew about this before the Third Highness was officially canonized as the imperial grandson, we would still have the use of activities; Now that more than a month has passed since this incident, why is His Highness still in such a hurry to call the old monk in? ”

Zhu Di said: "Master, do you think we can still take advantage of this matter?" Yun Xi's three brothers are all the sons of Concubine Lu, Yun Xi can't guarantee that he doesn't have a grudge against his brother after this incident, can we spread rumors in the capital, so that his father is suspicious of Yun Xi, so he has the idea of abolishing the grandson. ”

Dao Yan looked at Zhu Di and sighed secretly in his heart. Since the news that Yun Xi was canonized as the emperor's grandson, Zhu Di, who wanted to be the emperor very much, had gone insane. Although it is okay on the surface, it is still very normal to deal with other things, but once it encounters Yunxi's affairs, it is extremely abnormal. I'm afraid that the normal Zhu Di will not put forward this statement at all, because it is completely impossible. With Zhu Yuanzhang's perseverance, how could he remove the prince who had just been canonized because of some rumors.

Dao Yan could only cautiously reply: "Your Highness, if it was a month ago, it might have been useful, but now it's November, and it's been a long time, I'm afraid it will be difficult to have an effect; And the assassination of Concubine Lu is a secret of the palace, and very few people know about it, if there are suddenly rumors about this matter in the capital, His Majesty will inevitably suspect that someone has leaked secrets and strictly investigated, and it is difficult for His Highness to keep it completely secret. ”

Zhu Di was refuted by Dao Yan's words, and was very angry, and said: "The Lone King has such a clever plan, you don't think so, and someone ...... come."

As he was speaking, a woman's voice came from behind: "Your Highness! Then a woman dressed in the costume of the prince's concubine came out, first saluted Dao Yan, Dao Yan hurriedly returned the salute, and then instructed his eunuch to help Zhu Di into the backyard, during which Zhu Di kept struggling.

This woman is Zhu Di's wife, Xu Da's eldest daughter, and the Xu family, who was the queen in another time and space. After Zhu Di was put in, she also said to Dao Yan: "Lord Wang, he has been a little impatient these days, please forgive me." ”

Dao Yan hurriedly replied: "Don't dare." Can't. ”

Xu sighed, saw that there was no one around except his maid, and said, "Master, isn't it good to be a prince in Beiping?" When I first became a princess, I also went to the palace, and I know that your majesty is very hard every day, and there is no rest in the middle of the night; In these years in Beiping, although there are still big and small things to decide, His Highness still has a lot of free time every day. If you become an emperor and work all day long, it must be better than being a prince in Beiping? ”

"And now that Your Majesty has decided on the emperor's grandson, it is impossible for the prince to become the emperor, so why do you bother to think about being the emperor all day long. I have also read a lot of history books these days, all unified dynasties, except for Emperor Jin Hui who had a brain disease and let the vassal king go to the throne, how can any prince in other dynasties and generations successfully become the emperor? Why do you think about things that must not be done? ”

Dao Yan knew that the Xu family was against Zhu Di's thinking about becoming an emperor. Of course, if Zhu Yuanzhang canonized Zhu Di as the crown prince, he would definitely not object, but now it is impossible, and the success of the army may be very small, and it really shouldn't be thought about anymore. But......

Dao Yan replied: "Niangniang, what the prince thinks and thinks, non-old monks can control it." ”

Xu knew that he didn't mean what he said, so he stopped talking to him and turned around and went back to appease Zhu Di.

Dao Yan saw that there was no one in the study, and he thought that Zhu Di would not be able to come out for a while, so he turned around and went back to his temple.

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Note 1: Cao Zhen is also a general of the Ming Dynasty, and he was named the Marquis of Jingchuan, I think he is not inferior to Wang Bi or Mu Ying, but he has been in the Bashu and Yun Yan generations, so he is not very famous.