Chapter 559: The meeting in the Lingji Palace, an unexpected class teacher

In the seventh month of the lunar calendar, there is a midyear festival called the Ghost Festival, so the temple and Taoist temple are the busiest. Now seeing the end of the month, the Buddhist temple and Taoist temple that have been lively for a month have gradually deserted, and even the Lingji Palace, the first view of the Jingshi, is also a few pilgrims. Lingji Hutong in front of the door is empty, not as busy as it used to be.

Although he had just arrived home and had something to do, Zhang Yue still took a half-day leave today and came to this Lingji Palace early in the morning. Zhu Zhanji specifically mentioned the blessing of Lingji Palace yesterday, he didn't pay attention to it at the time, but when he thought about it afterwards, he felt that there seemed to be something in it. It doesn't matter if you don't meet anyone on such a trip, after all, now that the grandmother of the family has seen the limit, and the wife is pregnant with Liujia, this prayer can also ask for peace of mind.

In turn, he visited the Jinque Zhenjun and the Yuque Zhenjun enshrined in Lingji Palace, and he had to fold his hands and pray in a low voice. When he stood up and walked out of the main hall, he had a knowledgeable Taoist who came up with a book - although it was a temple built and even canonized a Taoist official, the rules of incense money were the same everywhere - so Zhang Yue gestured to Lian Sheng on his side, and Lian Sheng sent a large burden of treasure money. As soon as the acquaintance was done, he wrote down the words "eight hundred ingots" in the book.

Today's treasure banknotes are worthless, although 800 yuan are new banknotes, but when they are on the market, they are exchanged for 10,000 copper coins, which is almost ten taels of silver. For those who are accustomed to seeing the generous sums of dignitaries and nobles, this money is naturally not in their eyes, and they will take the book and leave after the chief, but they will even save the accompanying guests. As soon as he left, Lian Hu suddenly pouted angrily: "Our family doesn't know how much money has been sent to these Buddhist temples and Taoist temples all year round, this guy actually dislikes incense and has little money, it's really snobbish!" Young master, let's go to the back and take a look, after giving so much, we should also eat a vegetarian meal and go back! ”

"If there is anything delicious about vegetarian food, you are not afraid of people saying that you take advantage!"

Zhang Yue slapped him on the head angrily, and saw that Zhang Bu and the others were still looking around with amazement on their faces, very obsessed with the golden splendor here, he couldn't help but smile slightly, and only after a while did he remind them, and then walked around the side of the main hall. Just as he was about to enter the small door on the left to go around the apse, he suddenly heard a sharp call, and quickly turned around. At this glance, he found that a young man was surrounded by seven or eight people, and at this time he had just entered the palace gate of Lingji Palace, and one of his attendants was running towards him quickly, shouting at Zhang Gongzi.

Although Lian Sheng Lianhu didn't know this group of people, he looked at the magnificent appearance and knew that it must be Zhang Yue's acquaintance, so he stepped aside. But Niu Dang's four were full of vigilance, and they were ready to step forward without thinking about it. Afraid that the four guards carefully trained by Peng Shisan would react too aggressively, Zhang Yue hurriedly stopped them, and he walked forward quickly.

"Zhang Gongzi, today is really a coincidence, our son-in-law also happened to come to Lingji Palace to pray for blessings and incense, who knew that he happened to meet you!"

Seeing that it was a young eunuch, Zhang Yue nodded, and then ordered Lian Sheng and them to wander around and leave him alone, and when these six people were reluctant to leave, he stood in place and waited. Not long after, Zhu Zhanji and the others stepped forward, and when they heard the emperor who quietly slipped out of his mouth and called him Yuanjie, he smiled and called Zhu Dashao.

As Zhu Zhanji entered the main hall and visited again, although he didn't know what the imperial grandson had prayed for, he knew that even if he didn't ask for blessings for Zhu Di and Zhu Gaochi, he would definitely pray for the safety of the concubine who was pregnant with Liujia. When this side was over, a little eunuch stopped the Zhike Taoist, and he followed Zhu Zhanji from the small door on the left to the back, and the other entourages only followed from a distance. Due to the small number of pilgrims today, these eunuchs finally have less to worry about, but how to explain when they go back is still a big problem.

Zhu Zhanji didn't care what others thought, and after walking a few steps, he asked dissatisfiedly: "Yuanjie, why didn't you say that you were assassinated at Jimingyi when you saw me yesterday?" ”

"Since it was unscathed, at that time, in front of the public, I opened my mouth to His Highness, wouldn't it be known to the whole city?" Zhang Yue saw that Zhu Zhanji shook his head disapprovingly, and knew that he couldn't hide this shrewd imperial grandson with this excuse, so he lowered his voice and said, "When His Royal Highness the Crown Prince finds out, he can have a statement that is enough to convince the public, and then it doesn't matter if others know." The emperor is thousands of miles away, and there are many rumors in Beijing, so why should I make people panic because of my affairs? ”

"Do you know that my father originally planned to let you go to urge the army rations, but when he learned about your assassination, he dispelled that idea. You guy still played tricks at the Chicken Song, and you killed all the assassins when someone was begging for mercy, and the news didn't come until last night. At first, I thought you were venting your anger, but when I figured it out, I realized that you have a lot of eyes! ”

Seeing Zhu Zhanji's angry and palpitating appearance, Zhang Yue knew what the imperial grandson was worried about. Seeing that there were no outsiders around, he pondered for a moment, then said with a smile: "Just like Your Highness said, I have more eyes, and I didn't leave a living mouth to avoid trouble." Those who can come to assassinate must be those who are resolute, and it is hard to imagine that they will beg for mercy. Fortunately, there was no room left, otherwise Miki would not know what kind of confession he would have tortured. At the moment, the local government is much easier, anyway, I have a lot of enemies, so I can either arrange it for the White Lotus Sect, or I can plant it on the head of the Japanese Kou, or simply say that it was done by the Tartars. ”

The apse of Lingji Palace is in an open terrain place, the two walked all the way and talked, no one had the intention of entering the apse to worship, and gradually walked into a bamboo forest. When entering the bamboo forest, Zhu Zhanji waved his hand and signaled the accompanying eunuchs to stay outside and guard, and no one was allowed to trespass.

Now the weather is cold, a gust of wind blows through the verdant bamboo forest, bringing the sound of countless leaves, and the dead leaves on the ground are also scattered in all directions, quite a kind of gloom. Seeing the wind blowing the bamboo forest and hearing those rustling sounds, Zhu Zhanji couldn't help but stop. Seeing this, Zhang Yue next to him hurriedly stopped, but heard a low voice coming from in front of him.

"Good and evil will be rewarded in the end, and some people will not be free for a lifetime."

If the crown prince Zhu Gaochi is the best at hiding pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger, then the young and vigorous Zhu Zhanji is by no means the kind of person who can't bear to be calculated. Remembering that people had asked the emperor to accompany him on the northern expedition, and now he was calculating his father with one move and one move to the right, he only felt that there was nowhere to come out of that anger, and when he put down this, he simply kicked on a thick bamboo, but he was still puzzled, followed by the second and third kicks.

Of course, he is the grandson of the emperor who was raised in the deep palace, but Zhu Di has selected many people to teach him martial arts. Zhang Yue slapped off the bamboo leaves on his head and body in twos, and when he saw Zhu Zhanji's embarrassed appearance, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart, and then hurriedly stepped forward to help. Seeing Zhu Zhanji blushing and smashing his fists on the bamboo tree with a blue face, he coughed lightly.

"Your Royal Highness, the crown prince stayed in Beijing to supervise the country, and the military grain transfer matter was not handled. Now the time of the emperor's northern expedition has been at least half a month longer than originally planned, so although a batch of grain will be transported to Kaiping in the future, it should only be just in case. But now it seems that the important thing is the people's husband and the summer tax. But as far as I know, at a time like this, there are still people in the Grange near Jingshi who are constantly accepting people to donate and dedicate, so it is twice as difficult for the government to recruit them. ”

In addition to the claimed 300,000 troops, there were also more than 200,000 people accompanying the Northern Expedition, and it can be said that Ding Zhuang in Beizhili, Shandong, Henan, Shanxi and other places was at least half siphoned out. Although Zhu Zhanji said that he was just the grandson of the emperor who didn't care about anything, he had also heard about this, and when Zhang Yue mentioned this, he couldn't help frowning thoughtfully, and then looked at Zhang Yue and said, "Is it King Zhao?" ”

Without waiting for Zhang Yue to answer, he sneered: "Although the grandfather once gave hundreds of officials public land, but after that, because the nobles occupied too much land, they had already accepted these public fields. The emperor's grandfather was very strict with the nobles, and the land was even less common, and when the nobles first came to Beijing, even the British Duke's grange was mostly bought in the past, which was very limited. But Uncle Zhao Wang has thousands of hectares of fertile land, that is, hundreds of thousands of acres, and now there are more and more, which is strange. ”

Knowing that this kind of thing was enough, Zhang Yue stopped talking. He had the heart to mention Liu Yongcheng's previous letter, but considering that it was related to the internal affairs of the East Palace, the old eunuch might not have a way to deal with it, so he only said some messy trivial things in response to Zhu Zhanji's question. When he was forced to ask the truth about the so-called divine shooting, he provoked a burst of undisguised laughter.

"Who's to say it's not a real skill, you think this kind of luck can be shared by everyone?"

A few days ago, playing cricket was sued by several officials of the East Palace to his father, Zhu Zhanji came out today firstly because he had something to ask Zhang Yue, and secondly, because he was really depressed in his heart. At this moment, he laughed heartily, which greatly relieved the breath-holding distress in the palace, and he felt that today's trip was extremely right. It wasn't until there was a reminder from his entourage outside the forest that he realized that he had to rush back before noon, and he couldn't help sighing, but when he remembered his mother's reminder, his face suddenly turned grim.

"Yuanjie, you have been out for more than a year this time, and you can be regarded as making a lot of contributions, and it stands to reason that it is not an exaggeration to overmove, but you are too young after all. You have served as a magistrate, served as a military department, and was ordered to patrol Xuanfu before, and then you could have gone to other state capitals in Beizhili to serve as a Zhengyin official, and you can go one step further when you come back, but because of your errand, the promotion is a little bad. It is not necessary to demote your position, but I am afraid that the emperor's grandfather will come back and get angry, and he will take the opportunity to hold you still. ”

Thinking about Zhu Zhanji's words, when Zhang Yue left Lingji Palace, he was a little absent-minded. From ancient times to the present, the children of the family have been born with high lords, but they have hardly heard of any high-ranking officials at a young age, Zhu Zhanji said this, which undoubtedly shows that he is afraid to continue to stand still. It's just that this is not a hurdle for him to overcome, and there is nothing to be embarrassed about. After entering the official from the imperial examination, he stepped into the Zhengwupin at the age of twenty, and his promotion was fast enough.

If the foundation is not firmly laid, it will fall quickly on another day!

Thinking of this, he suddenly woke up, looked around, and found that he had come to the West Fourth Archway not far from home. However, at this moment, he changed his plan to go home for lunch, and turned his horse's head around. Lian Sheng Lianhu, who had been wandering around all morning, still didn't understand who Zhang Yue had encountered, but they were more vigilant than the ignorant Niu Dare and others, and when they saw Zhang Yue suddenly turn around, the two brothers hurriedly greeted him.

"Third Young Master, aren't we going home?"

"Go to the military department!"

Although he wanted to go to Du's house to meet Du Zhen at this time, after thinking about it, Zhang Yue still decided to return to the Yamen of the Ministry of War immediately, and he couldn't relax too much. After all, the emperor didn't send him back to visit relatives and friends to live a peaceful life. In case Zhu Di has some kind of ghost temper and implicates his father-in-law and teacher, then it will be too much.

In the next ten days, the Jingshi was calm, and even the gossip stopped. The transportation of military rations gradually recovered from the initial hardship to the former efficiency, and the post road was constantly transported by car for a while. This afternoon was the time for Lu Zhen to go to the military department to sit in the office, and he went around the straight room of the four divisions of the Ministry of Staff, the Ministry of Selection, the Department of Arsenal, the Department of Vehicles, and the Department of Driving, and then returned to the lobby.

Just because of the sentence revealed by Zhang Yue, he spent most of the time in the household department these days, making an example of the chickens and monkeys, although he didn't find out the nonsense guy in the end, but he beat those subordinate officials hard. In his opinion, Xia Yuanji is too tolerant of his subordinates, and Guo Zi, who is a lot older, also turns a blind eye, which is why he indulges these guys who are supreme officials. If he had been replaced by a household secretary, he would have been able to put people in order. Look at so many people in the Ministry of Rites, from the waiter to the principal, who dares to disobey him?

"Your Excellency, Your Excellency, Your Majesty...... The emperor has issued an edict! ”

Hearing the news, Lu Zhen almost thought that there was something wrong with his ears, and after confirming it with the soap li again, he believed it, but he was still in his heart. Almost at the same time, the Duanjing Hall of the East Palace and the Six Ministries of the Five Mansions got such news at the same time, and Zhang Yue, who had just left the Houjun Governor's Mansion, happened to meet the messenger and rushed in to report the news, and he was also shocked when he heard the news.

Although he walked on the road for more than ten days, and it has been a few days since he arrived in Beijing, the military report in front of him was still there saying that the generals divided their troops to sweep away the Uliangha people, and judging from the emperor's angry tone, it seemed that he was ready to continue fighting. Is it really because of the lack of military rations, or because Yang Rongjin Youzi persuaded him, or because something really went wrong with the emperor's body? Thinking of this, he almost subconsciously turned around and walked inside, and when he reached the lobby, he heard the messenger's loud shout.

"Seven days ago, the generals offered victory, a total of more than 3,000 war horses, and all the departments of Wuliangha went to Yuanmen to surrender. The Wuliangha people rebelled against the imperial court and were not allowed to enter the nomadic city of Daning! August Xin Chou, the emperor edicted the world with a class teacher! ”