Forbidden City, Qianqing Palace.

Zhu Gaochi, who is becoming more and more wealthy, is covered in fat, probably the fattest emperor in history, and he will take a few breaths when he walks a few steps, and his legs and feet will be more burdened by his body.

The two slender North Korean concubines supported him on the left and right, their faces were blushing because of the struggle, and their demeanor was respectful and obedient, and Zhu Gaochi had reached the point where he had to take a chariot when he went out.

Xu Hao looked at him with some concern, and said slightly angrily: "How many times have you said it, exercise more, don't sit still all day." ”

Zhu Gaochi waved his hand and said: "I have a number of bodies, and there are imperial doctors watching them every day, so nothing can happen." ”

Concubine Li, who didn't want to stand aside, had just entered the palace, and said sharply: "Presumptuous, are you accusing Your Majesty?" How dare you commit it! ”

Xu Hao looked at her inexplicably, and said in his heart, where did the mallet come from? I saw Zhu Gaochi change color and said: "Be bold, get out of the way." ”

"Your Majesty." Wang immediately looked aggrieved.

"Pull her out of the city, abolish the concubine position, and reduce her to a permanent presence."

Zhu Gaochi didn't even look at the beauty who was still in love with her last night, and turned to Xu Hao with a wry smile: "It's all because I'm too soft-hearted, I want you to see the joke." ”

Xu Hao glanced at the Wang family who was dragged away in disbelief, and said: "Every family has a scripture that is difficult to read, and my brother can deal with the favorite concubine so cleanly, which has already surprised me." ”

"The iron tablet that the emperor's grandfather erected in the palace will not dare to forget it for a day." Zhu Gaochi smiled again: "I have always been in the future-the palace and relatives interfere in politics as a warning, I also agree that you want to suppress the eunuchs, I also often introspect, I am afraid that the imperial majesty is not strict and will leave hidden dangers to the children and grandchildren, but unfortunately it cannot be completely eliminated." ”

Xu Hao is unwilling to dwell on this issue, it is impossible to have an emperor without concubines, eunuchs and relatives, even if there is no emperor, interest groups will be replaced by officials and big landlords and big capitalists, to put it bluntly, this is human nature and society. Absolute equality actually means anti-social, anti-human, and simply unrealistic.

"What is the matter with Your Majesty calling your ministers?" Xu Hao asked.

Zhu Gaochi's face became solemn, and he said: "The king of Qi has a heart of disobedience, which makes me deeply uneasy, and it is time to reduce the power of the kings." ”

Xu Hao nodded, no matter how benevolent and righteous the emperor is, he will not allow the vassal king to sit big, Zhu Gaochi is not a dumb monarch after all, and now that he has secured the throne, he naturally has to learn from Zhu Yunwen and start cutting the domain.

Zhu Gaochi said slowly: "Uncle Qin and Uncle Jin died strangely. It was recently found that he had indeed died of poisoning. Hum! After the two royal brothers inherited the throne as they wished, the snakes and rats at both ends were neither loyal to Emperor Jianwen, nor did they help my father and son to calm the world, and they supported their own troops and sat on the mountain to watch the tiger. ”

Xu Hao is not surprised, the power of the Qin Palace, the Jin Palace, is the most feared by Zhu Gaochi. However, Zhu Shangbing and Zhu Jixi have been very low-key in recent years, and they always have an excuse to move others.

As a courtier, he naturally has the conditions to share the worries of the king, and if he has no conditions, he has to create conditions, and when he looks for the name, he will abolish the two vassal kings. Jointly and recognizably take back the military power of guarding and controlling local generals, so that the two royal palaces will become toothless tigers.

This kind of conspiracy is easy for Xu Hao, and it can be regarded as an upright conspiracy, who calls the situation stronger than people. The imperial court has the absolute strength to suppress all localities.

The problem is that after the cutting of the feudal domain, if the idle royal family does not take the plan to plan and plan for childbearing, they will have children in a nest to play. The taxes that feed them would put a heavy burden on the treasury.

Xu Hao suddenly remembered the ligation in later generations, and wondered if it was possible to carry it out, the Chinese advocate having many sons and many grandchildren, and giving people sterilization is no less than killing their father's revenge, it seems that the consequences are too serious, right?

While thinking wildly, Xu Hao said casually: "I have connived at King Qi for several years, and the evidence of rebellion is already conclusive, just wait for His Majesty to make an order." Well! This can be used as a warning to King Qin. Zhu Shangbing is a coward, and I hope that Your Majesty will read it in the face of my sister-in-law, punish the officials of the palace with his arrogance and rudeness, and take back the military power, so as not to hurt his life. As for the biological mother of his brother Zhu Jixi who was martyred by the King of Jin that year, Zhu Jixi has always been angry about this, and Zhu Jixi, the king of Jin, is dissatisfied with His Majesty, and the minister has arranged for Zhu Jixi to go to Beijing to file a complaint in the past few days, exposing that the King of Jin has usurper ambitions, and it is not difficult to get rid of it. ”

Zhu Gaochi sighed lightly: "I won't hurt the lives of my siblings, and I will probably be locked up and recuperated for a long time." Who are you going to send to take the troops to watch? How is Zhang Fu? ”

Xu Hao chuckled: "With the old general Song Sheng from the northwest, there is no need to send a single soldier." As for my brother-in-law, the Mongols were ready to move after recuperation, and I hoped that His Majesty would trust him and send him to the north to preside over the overall situation. ”

Zhu Gaochi said: "I can trust Zhang Fu, but have you ever thought that the first general to control the northern soldiers and horses, without the civil ministers and the supervision of the army to balance the future troubles, if there are generals who take the opportunity to support the army and divide one side, what will the court do?" ”

Xu Hao frowned and said, "I mean to let Zhang Fu lead the army to the Northern Expedition, not to let him stay in the north for a long time. ”

"Northern Expedition?" Zhu Gaochi hesitated a little, and took the initiative to provoke the Mongols for no reason, and had to mobilize the strength of the country to raise food and materials, etc., and it was just a victory, in case of defeat, it would be a major event that would shake the country's foundation, and it would never be as easy as conquest of Annam.

Xu Hao said: "Our dynasty has sophisticated firearms, if we can plan carefully, we don't need to use hundreds of thousands of troops, at most 100,000 can be invincible." Of course, we must be cautious in fighting a war, and we must not start a war hastily, but now Arutai supports Benjamin and is hostile to our dynasty, and it is difficult to deter the north without a war. ”

Two hours later, the two monarchs and ministers with bad stomachs had decided to discuss, and Xu Hao came out of the Forbidden City, and saw Zhu Gaoxu and Zhu Lu, the king of the valley, waiting for him at the noon gate.

Now Zhu Gaoxu has grown up, nine feet tall and with a big waist and a round waist, a head taller than Xu Hao. But Xu Hao knows him too well, and the so-called Jin Yuqi's empty outer abdomen refers to Zhu Gaoxu.

Zhu Gaoxu is completely the Ming Dynasty version of Lu Bulu Fengxian, brave is brave, emotional intelligence in politics and other aspects is too poor, people who don't even read books just rely on cleverness, and can't even train strategists to rebel? The most important thing is that if you don't have the ability, don't worry about the throne, what do you say you can do when you become the emperor? Do you want to be a faint king?

Zhu Gaoxu's biggest weakness is that he has no self-knowledge, he looks down on his brother who is powerless, and thinks that if he is invincible in the world, he should rule the Quartet, and being the emperor is much better than his brother.

Xu Hao was Zhu Gaoxu as his younger brother. Naturally, he won't watch him kill himself, and he plans to throw this guy to the Americas in the future, don't you like to expand your territory? If you have the ability, then dominate the Americas and lead a large army to counterattack your homeland.

Zhu Gaochu is relatively simple, although he has scheming and vision, but he is not in the right place, the government has raised some samurai, and he is very hostile to the ministers who may threaten him, and he often asks Zhu Gaochi to punish the ministers, but that's all.

When Xu Hao supported Zhu Gaochi to ascend the throne, Zhu Gaochi was very dissatisfied for several years. With the passage of time, the qi has almost disappeared, and it is also when he is older that he has learned to be patient, and he has learned that no one can offend Xu Hao, because among the heroes of the Jingjing, Xu Hao has more connections than him, and he is ruthless and ruthless to the enemy.

Qiu Fu's early death and the recent death of Zhu Neng undoubtedly cut off Zhu Gaoxu's right-hand man in the military, and Wang Ning, who used to support him very much, will support him as always unless his head is opened, and Zhang Yu, who has the highest status, has never been very close to him. has always been loyal to Zhu Gaochi.

There are 300,000 forbidden troops guarding Gyeonggi, as long as there are famous generals such as Xu Hao and Zhang Fu, then Zhu Gaoxu will never be able to reproduce his father's glory, and he is the younger brother of Emperor Hongxi. The imperial court was very kind to him, and it was unjustifiable to raise troops to plot against him, and he could not get the support of the army and the people at all.

Zhu Gaoxu was silently waiting for the opportunity when he saw Xu Hao come out. Excitedly walked over and hugged him, complaining: "I knew that going to sea was so interesting, so I would accompany you for a while." ”

Xu Hao smiled. nodded slightly to the smiling Gu King Zhu Lu, the twenty-seven-year-old Zhu Lu is the nineteenth son of Zhu Yuanzhang, who has been smart and studious since he was a child, and is deeply respected, canonized Xuanfu Town, one of the nine towns of the Great Wall, which is under the command of the King of Valley.

Zhu Lu was both civil and military, built Dushimen and Suoyang Pass and other passes in the fiefdom, and participated in the construction of the Great Wall from Changyukou to Dajingmen for more than 60 kilometers.

During the Battle of Jingyan, he led 3,000 troops to aid the capital, Zhu Yunwen ordered him to guard the Jinchuan Gate, and later saw that the general trend had gone, and followed Li Jinglong to open the door and surrender, which shows that his people are very city-like.

Zhu Di and the brothers of King Zhou died tragically, and Zhu Gaochi sealed the king of Gu in Changsha, gave 3,000 guards, and gave 2,000 stones.

Xu Hao knew that Zhu Lu Dao had recently looted the people's wealth in Changsha, secretly recruited troops and horses, built warships, bows and crossbows, etc., and tried to form an alliance with Zhu Chun, the king of Shu, but was reprimanded by Shu Xiucai Zhu Chun.

This is the advantage of having a name and righteousness, there is a change in the news from all over the country, and Xu Hao not only did not abolish the Jinyi Guard, but the number of people has more than doubled.

This year, Zhu Lu entered Beijing to face the saint and stayed in the capital for several months, perhaps he had a hunch that Zhu Gaochi's health was very problematic.

In the past few days, Xu Hao has sent people to invite Xu Hao as a guest, but Xu Hao has refused on the pretext that the officials cannot contact the vassal king privately, and today he found Zhu Gaoxu, and it seems that he can't hide.

On the colorful Qinhuai River, in a huge painting boat, Zhu Lu talked and laughed and frequently raised his glass to persuade him to drink, and Xu Hao poured it to the bottom of the glass, which gave the king of the valley face.

The poor people in the Kunshan area have the tradition of learning opera for a living, and Kunqu opera was called Kun dialect or Su dialect in the Ming Dynasty.

In ancient times, opera was one of the lower nine industries, and it had no status, and the families who sang opera for generations had no permanent production, and they had to earn money from singing all their lives, so as to send their sons to learn this art, and they would have to go out to sing to make a living in three or five years.

Many actors have to work part-time as Long-Yang because of their livelihood, and those who are ugly in the drama can only learn flower noodles, and they can't make money and complain about the bad feng shui of the ancestral tomb. A good-looking person will be warmly sought after when he is young, and once he is over twenty years old, he will be worthless, unless he has a rich old customer.

At this moment, the play in Zhu Lu's arms is also coincidental, it is a distant relative of Ying's wife, Yao Yuan, who ran away, named Yingyang!

Ying Yang is fifteen years old this year, and his family has been passed down from generation to generation, and he has never had brothers and sisters. When Ying Yang was six or seven years old, he was very handsome and looked like a woman, and his father regarded it as a strange commodity, thinking that his son would not only be able to conquer the ancestral industry in the future, but also revitalize the family, so he sent him into a small team to make a Zhengdan.

Ying Yang is very smart, he can teach any play, he is also very talented, and he is as thin as a bamboo pole, and he looks like a charming woman when she dresses up.

After only three years of study, he became an apprentice, and when he was twelve or thirteen years old, a big old official fell in love with him, and he was raised for two years, earning a lot of money, all of which were handed over to his parents.

It's a pity that the rivers and lakes are a big dye vat, those who are close to Zhu are red and those who are close to ink are black, and the young and proud Ying Yang was lured by his friends to learn to eat, drink, prostitute and gamble, and in less than half a year, his father was angry to death, his mother remarried, and his family fortune plummeted.

This year, Yingyang simply didn't want his family, and ran to the capital with a troupe, and in just a few days, he became famous in Jinling, and the dignitaries invited him to sing, and Zhu Qi, the king of the valley, loves men, and invited him to accompany him at a high price tonight.

Ying Yang was originally unwilling, because he knew Zhu Xi's privacy in this circle, but after learning that the guest invited was Xu Hao, the most famous person in the capital, he was happy to come.

Seeing that Xu Hao was really a handsome person, Ying Yang's heart was full of joy, and he frequently took the initiative to talk to Xu Hao, and couldn't help but snub Zhu Hao, and as a result, he planted a big disaster. (To be continued......)