Huang Liji pushed it, but tasted a piece of pastry recommended by Chongzhen, and then told Chongzhen the news he heard from Zhang Ruitu in 1510.

When he was talking, he carefully observed Chongzhen's face, and to his surprise, Chongzhen seemed very relaxed from beginning to end, as if he was listening to a rumor that had nothing to do with him.

Huang Liji finally couldn't help but say: "Your Majesty, the ministers don't agree with the other opinions put forward by the eldest prince, but the ancestral system stipulates that the vassal king is not allowed to stay in the capital for a long time, and there is always a reason.

Now that there are such rumors in the capital, no matter whether King Fu has any thoughts or not, His Majesty should not leave King Fu in the capital, and let people with good intentions take the opportunity to make trouble and disturb the court.

As for what King Fu said, he must serve Zheng Lao Guifei Yunyun. Lao Chen thought that the climate in the capital was dry and cold in winter, and it was not a place to raise people.

However, Luoyang City is known as the world, and it has been a prosperous place since ancient times, so it is better to let King Fu return to Luoyang with Concubine Zheng to support him, and let Concubine Zheng live for a long time. ”

Regarding what Huang Liji said, Zhu Youzhen actually understands it in more detail. He even knew how the rumor had first spread.

Under his hint, King Fu has mainly done two things in the past few months. One is to toss Rui Wang Zhu Changhao, and the other is to retry the case of the pseudo-Chu king.

Zhu Changhao's biological mother is Concubine Zhou Duan, and she is still living in the palace. Although Concubine Duan's status is second only to that of Concubine Zheng Guifei, neither mother nor son is liked by Emperor Shenzong.

Zhu Changhao did not choose a marriage until he was 25 years old, and the ministers of the court and the central government couldn't look at it, so they asked the emperor to complete his marriage, but Mingshenzong ignored it. This is a world of difference from the treatment of his much-loved half-brother Zhu Changxun.

And he didn't go out of Beijing to Hanzhong until the seventh year of the Apocalypse. But he was greedy for money, and he stayed in Hanzhong for less than a year, and because he came out to oppose the policy of unified purchase and marketing of grain, he was targeted by King Fu, who had just taken over the Zongren Mansion Zongzheng.

Although Zhu Changhao is a good Buddha, his personality is not so magnanimous. Maybe in the palace, because he was not valued by his father, he lived a more cautious life.

But after leaving the palace, when he arrived in his fiefdom, his actions became a little flamboyant.

And in a remote place like Hanzhong, as a vassal king, he is actually no different from the emperor of the soil.

In just over a year, Zhu Changhao has already judged him before leaving the palace. I can no longer see in him, the timid appearance of the past.

After running back and forth several times on the road between the capital and Hanzhong, Zhu Changhao finally couldn't bear it anymore.

Although in the palace in the past, he was very afraid of this brother who was favored by his father, but now he felt that he did not need to be so afraid of this brother.

First of all, everyone is a vassal king of equal status, and the current Ming Emperor is also the nephew of the two. Moreover, in order to compete for the throne, King Fu has been criticized by the Donglin Party, so his reputation among the scholars is not so good.

Zhu Changhao felt that he didn't need to be afraid of this brother as before, if he made a big deal, maybe he could drive this brother out of the capital.

And the retrial of the puppet King of Chu case, Chu Zong was quite excited at the beginning, but as the case continued to develop, both Chu Zong and Chu King found that they spent a lot of money, but they didn't get anything.

So at a banquet where Zhu Changhao and Chu Zong met in the capital, this rumor spread.

Of course, Zhu Youzhen didn't think that with the ability of these clans, he would be able to come up with such rumors.

The biggest purpose of this rumor is not to make him drive King Fu out of the capital, but to make him suspicious of those people around him and make him lose trust in these people.

Although he has almost unlimited power as the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, if he loses the throne, his fate will be extremely miserable.

The miracle that after being deposed like Yingzong, can be successfully restored again, it is simply an irreproducible story.

The person who created this rumor knew very well what the emperor was thinking, even if the rumor turned out to be all rumors. As the emperor, Chongzhen should also handle this matter with a rather credible attitude.

But Su Changqing, who crossed over from later generations, is not the real Chongzhen after all, he did not grow up living in the deceitful court. He will not think of himself as a loner, like a true emperor, and no one can be trusted.

For the current Zhu Youzhen, not all the people around him are credible, but not all of them are not credible.

There must be people who betray him, but there are certainly no people who betray him for no reason.

If you want to betray him and help King Fu ascend to the throne, then it will always be possible under the temptation of a benefit that they can't refuse.

And judging from the information he had, King Fu obviously did not have the ability to do so, nor did he take such actions.

So the best way now is to let this rumor slowly disappear, don't let it ferment, and let the situation in the capital continue to remain stable.

But today, Huang Liji directly found out this matter in front of him, and it was not good for him to continue to pretend to be deaf and dumb.

Zhu Youzhen motioned for Lu Qi to bring a document over, and then handed it to Huang Liji and said: "These rumors said by Mr. Huang, Jinyiwei also has a report, Mr. may wish to understand."

In fact, after receiving these reports, I was really angry for a while. It's just that this rumor involves two uncles and Chu Zong's lineage, and if I pursue this matter, my relatives may not look good.

These clans are accustomed to running rampant in the local area, and they have always been unconcealed. When he arrived in the capital, he didn't change his temperament, so he dared to unscrupulously arrange the affairs between Uncle Fuwang and me.

Dealing with this kind of rumor, whether I send Uncle Fu Wang out of Beijing, or punish Uncle Rui Wang and Chu Zong. In the end, public opinion is still not me. I really don't want to fall for this evil. ”

Huang Liji glanced at the ten lines, quickly flipped through the documents in his hand, and finally understood what happened.

After he closed the document, he said to Chongzhen with some concern: "What Your Majesty just said is indeed good, but now that the rumors have reached the ears of the cabinet ministers, it is obvious that the method of calming things down is still not successful, and some countermeasures must be taken after all." ”

Zhu Youzhen pondered for a while, and then asked: "Uncle Ruiwang's feudal country is in Hanzhong, Hanzhong is bordered by the Qinling Mountains in the north and Bashu in the south, which is really the first key point for Shaanxi to enter Shu.

And what is even more rare is that Hanzhong is rich in water sources, pleasant climate, and abundant products, known as the small Jiangnan in the northwest.

This year, there was a severe drought in Shaanxi, but only Hanzhong still had a bumper harvest. However, in such a precious land, a year after the country of Ruiwang's uncle, there were people who echoed the victims of the disaster in Shaanxi and tried to rebel.

Mr. Huang thinks that if this Uncle Ruiwang continues to stay in Hanzhong, will this Hanzhong still be the land of my Ming Dynasty? ”

Huang Liji didn't dare to speak, Chongzhen's words were a little heartfelt, but he really couldn't answer.

The emperor said that his own uncle, if others knew about it, they would treat it as if they didn't hear it. But if he picks up the sentence, I'm afraid those foreign clans won't give up with him.

King Rui's enclosure of the Han Dynasty is indeed inappropriate. As Chongzhen said, the geographical location of Hanzhong is particularly important. From Shaanxi to Hanzhong and under the chin Shu, it is now the richest Chengdu Plain in Shu.

Although there is a sword pavilion in the middle, northern Sichuan has not experienced war for a long time, and the local armament is slack, so it is impossible to stop the enemy army that may appear in Hanzhong.

However, when King Rui was canonized, it was the most staked time in the battle for the country, and the ministers at that time were bent on determining the status of the prince and the king of Fu, and no one cared about the question of whether the kings were appropriate to seal the country.

At that time, no one would have thought that Shaanxi would be continuously affected by disasters, and the victims might go south to Hanzhong. No one knew that a rebellion would break out at the junction of Sichuan and Guizhou.

And after these two things happened together, Hanzhong Mansion, the main road from Shaanxi to Sichuan, became extremely important.

Seeing that Huang Liji was silent, Zhu Youzhen had to ask: "Can you let Uncle Ruiwang transfer it elsewhere now?" ”

Huang Liji hesitated, and replied in a low voice: "At present, there is no piece of land in the provinces that can be canonized, even if there is still some land in the Huguang area, it is not as good as Hanzhong Mansion." I'm afraid that King Rui won't accept it, and His Majesty will be at a loss. ”

Zhu Youzhen thought for a while, and then said: "What if I leak this information to Uncle Fu Wang, let Old Concubine Zheng come forward to reprimand King Rui, and then use this as an excuse to transfer him to the overseas Jeju Mansion?" ”

Huang Liji thought about it carefully before he realized that this Jeju Mansion was Jeju Island, which had just been recovered from the subject country of North Korea.

He immediately persuaded: "Your Majesty, I'm afraid this won't work." When the minister heard that Jeju Island was a place where sinners were banished from a small country in Habang, King Seo said that he was open-mouthed, but after all, there was nothing wrong with him. If he is exiled to an overseas island, I am afraid that the people of the foreign feudal clans in the world will be panicked. ”

Zhu Youzhen thought about it, then sighed and said: "Then what do you think of reducing the feudal state of Uncle Rui Wang by half, and leaving it in the capital, no longer a country?" ”

After Huang Liji weighed it, he breathed a sigh of relief and said, "If this is the case, although the punishment is more severe, the outer clan should still be acceptable."

However, it is better to let King Fu play this matter, King Rui has no words, he should be transferred to an overseas island, and His Majesty will be better off lightly. ”

Zhu Youzhen bowed slightly and said: "Then this matter will be handled by Mr. Huang, in addition, the officials of Hanzhong Mansion blindly echoed the vassal king, which led to the withering of the local people's livelihood." The cabinet also discussed by the way, and dispatched cadres and officials to clean up the situation, and no more chaos in Hanzhong..."

At the same time, on the southern peninsula of Siam, controlled by the Ayutthaya dynasty, on the offshore plain of the mouth of the Pattani River, surrounded by countless rice paddies, a city towered to the right of the estuary.

This is an important trading port in the south of Siam, and although it belongs to Siam, the local people are predominant*.

Until the 16th century, it was an important trading hub, where goods from China and India were collected and exchanged throughout Southeast Asia.

Since the end of the 16th century, the Portuguese, the Dutch, the Spaniards, and the English have opened trading houses in this area, making Pattani a real international trade port.

The English arrived in 1612, although they received permission from the King of Siam to open a merchant house here. However, compared to other seafaring countries, the British at this time had neither precious metals nor excellent exclusive goods, and their commercial activities in this area were not developed.

These empty-handed British maritime merchants, who were more like pirates and sea adventurers than traders, were hiding in a two-story bamboo building in the merchant house, secretly discussing.