Chapter 517: I Don't Want to Be at Peace (Part I)

"This time the opening of the grain is ten thousand thousand land and hundreds of stones?"

Zhu Di asked again, and after getting Yang Shiqi's affirmative answer, he couldn't help but take a deep breath. If according to the price drawn up by the household department before, the estimated figure in his heart was about 20,000 stones, and now that this number has suddenly doubled, he naturally felt surprised, and couldn't help but praise it: "Okay, Wu'an Hou Zheng Heng dares to let go, Zhang Yue dares to get started, if the martial arts in the world can work together like them, I can sit back and relax!" ”

Rao is Yang Shiqi has always been old-fashioned, and when he heard the emperor's biased judgment at this moment, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart. Yangwu Bo Mansion and Wu'an Hou Mansion are next to each other, and the two families often move around on weekdays, not to mention that Zhang Yue is not an ordinary civil official from those cold families. If you compare it like this, it's really unfair to others. So, even though he has always regarded Zhang Yue as his nephew, at this time, he felt that the emperor's praise was a killing, so he had to say another fair word.

"Your Majesty, Zhang Yue is indeed doing well in this opening, but now it is only the number that each business should undertake, and it has not yet been put into storage. Moreover, with all due respect, the reserve price of the household department was originally set too low this time, since it was a salt merchant who crossed the previous branch and did not pay salt, the price should not be pressed so low all of a sudden, Guo Shangshu ...... after all"

Yang Shiqi almost said in a voice that Guo Zi was not as good as Xia Yuanji, and when the words came to his mouth, he hurriedly changed his words: "After all, Guo Shangshu is afraid that the businessman will not want to open the middle school and delay the plan of the Northern Expedition, so he would rather set the price lower, so Zhang Yue can have such leeway." Besides, the most important thing is that the emperor is wise and allows no salt, otherwise the businessman will slip, and his trick will not work. And if there is no Mian Ren's idea, the emperor will not be promoted, and he will not have the name of the governor Xuanfu, and he will not let him preside over the opening of the middle school this time. ”

It is the emperor who loves to listen to Feng Ying's words, and Zhu Di is naturally no exception, but after all, he is the son of heaven who has won the world on horseback, and ordinary flattery has long been unable to impress him, and Yang Shiqi's all-round words are indeed his appetite. Haha laughed for a while, the more he thought about it, the more he felt that the two collegiate discussions between Xungui and Qiqing before were wonderful. The title of commander is easy, but even if Zhang Yue has some military strategy, after all, he can't lead his troops into battle to fight; As for the promotion of official positions to one or two ranks, it is undoubtedly idle. It was still these ministers who personally promoted themselves into the cabinet who knew his intentions well and put people in a position that was both important and did not need grade.

"Okay, I know you love the house and the black, but don't be too people. Young people can press it, but when it is time to praise, they should also be praised, can't I even praise him twice? ”

Casually put the notebook that made him in a good mood on the desk, he casually flipped through the other pieces of music forwarded by the East Palace, and when he suddenly turned to one of them, his movements stopped suddenly, and his face, which was still smiling just now, suddenly became gloomy. Squinting his eyes at the vermilion seal, he actually had an indescribable emotion in his heart.

Han King Zhu Gaoxu invites the New Year into the court!

Yang Shiqi saw that the emperor's face was not very good, so he naturally knew which piece of music was to blame. He didn't have the slightest good impression of Zhu Gaoxu, who caused Huang Huai and several other former officials of the East Palace to be imprisoned and caused him to go around in the Jinyiwei prison. However, the emperor decreed that he was demoted to Le'an, and it was also the Son of Heaven who said that he could not enter the Hajj if he had nothing to do, and since Yongle became a vassal in the fifteenth year, the King of Han has not taken a step out of Shandong for nearly five years. However, the situation of the Han King is just a thought of the Son of Heaven.

"It's going to be a northern expedition, what kind of fun is he doing at this time!" Zhu Di coldly threw the chapter on the table, and then said lightly, "Let the prince write back and tell King Han that he is now a vassal king, don't think about entering the capital at every turn, it is his duty to cultivate oneself well!" His son is now enough in Beijing, and after the first lunar month, I will lead the troops to the battle, and I have no time to deal with him! ”

The emperor's answer was very kind to Yang Shiqi, but as a courtier, sometimes he had to say two words against his will like the prince, and at this time he had to persuade two more sentences, but before Zhu Di became angry, he immediately changed the topic, and euphemistically reminded that King Zhou had stayed in Beijing for too long, and there were already some bad discussions in the court.

He is also thinking about his close friends, seeing that Du Yishan's son-in-law and disciple have made one merit after another, but the Son of Heaven still refuses to let go, when will this be? If he really suspects that he has collusion with King Zhou, he simply questioned King Zhou in person; If you don't believe it, you have to at least have an explanation. Chen Ying, the former imperial historian of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, was strict and mean, and this imperial historian Liu Guan saw that Qian was open-minded, and the official who was supposed to speak outright about state affairs became a swarm of buzzing flies!

Thinking of Zhang Yue's previous letter with passionate words and even fierce recitals, Zhu Di furrowed his brows again. Originally, he was imprisoned just for a momentary moment, but since the imperial history revealed that Du Zhen had a relationship with Zhu Hu, he couldn't help but think of the past when Du Zhen was repeatedly called. He punished Fang Xiaoru and the Ten Clans, and the clan punished Qi Tai, Huang Zicheng and others, and many famous scholars ran away without a shadow, including even those who did not receive much favor from Emperor Jianwen. If it weren't for the fact that he had a group of military attachés and nobles who could be used as arms at that time, and he didn't bother to pursue them, I'm afraid that a large number of them would have been killed at that time. At that time, when Du Zhen finally answered the summons to the court, he also questioned him face to face, but the answer at that time made him very satisfied.

"You go to Jinyi Weibei Town Fusi Prison, and ask Du Yishan on behalf of me, the impeachment of Yushi is true!"

Generally speaking, only the lieutenant officials came to deliver the decree in the Beizhen Fusi Prison, or directly raised the Jinyi Weiren, and the ministers of the DPRK and the central government rarely came here, so Yang Shiqi, who came by order, surprised everyone up and down. Fortunately, from the cell head to the jailer, they took good care of those important ministers, and Du Zhen was a person who they "cared about", and Yang Shiqi didn't think about what he shouldn't see on this trip. Fusizhen Fusi, who got the news, sent someone to report to Yuan Fang, and personally accompanied Yang Shiqi to the southern prison.

Yang Shiqi, who had experienced the taste of the edict and prison, was no stranger to this almost identical prison cell, and along the way, he found many familiar faces, from Huang Huai to Yang Pu to Jin Wen Ruishan, from Xia Yuanji to Wu Zhong, all of them were his former colleagues. Since he didn't slow down, occasionally someone would look up at him, and the gaze was as calm as a pool of stagnant water. When he arrived in front of Du Zhen's cell, he saw the person sitting in front of a simple table like everyone else, writing, with a charcoal basin next to him, and he blurted out without waiting for the door of the cell to open.

"Yishan!"

Du Zhen raised his head when he heard this, and after recognizing Yang Shiqi, he put the pen on the pen stand-since the family sent the four treasures of the study, he didn't ask the jailer to provide them for free, after all, he didn't pick anything else, but he was a little picky about this - rubbing his wrist and standing up, he walked around the small table and stepped forward.

"Why is Brother Shiqi here? Since you are accompanied by a calm man, your brother probably came by the emperor's order? Why, but something to ask me? ”

"It's been like this, and you're still like this!" Yang Shiqi shook his head with a wry smile, and then asked rhetorically, "Why do I have to be questioned by order, instead of being pardoned by order?" ”

"If you want to pardon me, an edict is enough, so why do you need to come here in person?"

Although he knew that Du Zhen was keen when he worked together in the Hanlin Academy, Yang Shiqi thought that he couldn't be so indifferent when he was in prison for a while. After sighing deeply, he said with a straight face: "Yang Shiqi, a scholar from Zuochunfang University, was ordered to investigate Du Zhen, the day before yesterday, there was an imperial history impeaching you for privately going back and forth with the vassal king when you lived in Kaifeng, is this matter true?" ”

There are several vassal kings in Kaifeng, but even if Yang Shiqi didn't point out it, Du Zhen also knew that the other party was referring to the most important one. He barely hesitated and replied, "Back to the emperor, this matter is true." ”

Yang Shiqi originally thought that this must be someone else's nonsense, but he never expected Du Zhen to admit it as soon as he opened his mouth, and he couldn't help but be dumbfounded. In desperation, he almost didn't want to ask, "You don't have any explanation?" ”

"The emperor only asks if it's true or not, Brother Shiqi, but please tell the truth and report back."

At this moment, even Yang Shiqi, who has always been good-tempered, has an impulse to get angry. Knowing that Du Zhen must not know what was going on outside in prison, he didn't care that there was Beizhen Fusi next to him, and his face was full of annoyance.

"Yishan, if you don't think about yourself, you should also think about your daughter and son-in-law! Zhang Yue was trapped in Xinghe for nearly half a month, and tried his best to thwart the Arutai offensive in a row, and it was easy to drag him to retreat because of Warat's attack on the situation, thus making a great contribution; The emperor ordered him to inspect the Xuanfu, and he completed the opening of the middle of the house beautifully; When this is put on everyone, he hasn't forgotten the last one to protect you...... Think about it yourself, at least you should explain it to the emperor in the last chapter! ”

Seeing Yang Shiqi angrily brushing his sleeves away, and hurriedly followed from the prison guards to the head of the cell, Du Zhen shook his head and sighed. It's not that he can't find out if he wants to admit it, and besides, the Son of Heaven doesn't mean to explain it to him at all, so why should he bother to provoke people to attack him? Besides, with Zhu Di's suspicious temperament, I'm afraid that he would have sent Jinyi Guard early in the morning. It's just that I can get Zhang Yue's news, which is really unexpected.

Squinting his eyes slightly, a smile appeared on Du Zhen's always cold face. When he was a teacher in the Zhang family, some of those students were more talented than Zhang Yue, and some were more diligent and attentive, but the little guy was angry with him. Now that the former student has become his son-in-law, what is even more commendable is that his mind is still the same as it was back then, which makes him feel more gratifying than doing great things. I don't want Qingyun to be at ease, this is really the student he taught. Thinking about it, a boundless thought suddenly came out of his heart.

The emperor often sent Zhang Yue to run all over the world, and if this continues, when will he be able to have a second grandson?