Chapter 586 Priority

After the Chinese New Year, it was a new year for the people of the world, but for Zhu Houzhao, it meant that he was one year older. "Since he suddenly lost his father the next year, his willful temper was still there, but he had become much more calm in his work. At least when he was attending the lectures and reading the sutra, he could barely get down. When Wenhua Palace was discussing politics, he, the little emperor, became angry less and less.

On the morning of the 15th day of the first lunar month, the Luang Kai-shek did not wait for Chengqian Palace, but stopped in front of the Ganqing Gate. After a while, Zhu Houzhao, wearing a crown, slowly walked out of the main hall. Last night, he rarely stayed in the Ganqing Palace for a night, but he couldn't close his eyes at all in the first half of the night, but gradually fell asleep in the second half of the night. In a daze, he seemed to vaguely hear the faint sigh of his father coming from his ears, but his eyes couldn't be opened until he finally opened his eyes in the morning, but he was hard to find the familiar trace around him. Therefore, although his steps were calm at this moment, his eyes showed a little tiredness.

Father, how great would it be if my son could bring his wife to see you when he got married?

Although he was not energetic, Zhu Houzhao did not show any fatigue during the day of the day. As usual, after giving the banquet to the ministers, he would have to wait until the evening to watch the lanterns of the two Empress Dowagers. Empress Dowager Zhang watched coldly, and saw Zhu Houzhao's always a little depressed. He mistakenly thought that his son was absent-minded because he was pretending to be someone else in his heart, so he waved to him and said in a low voice: "The Empress Dowager is so excited. You can laugh at me. When you don't want you to make trouble on weekdays, you have a lot of tricks. Now you want to entertain your relatives in colorful clothes, but you look like this!"

When Zhu Houzhao heard this, he turned his head and looked at the Empress Dowager Wang. Seeing that he really looked at him, he quickly showed a smile, and then hid next to Empress Dowager Zhang, and said softly: "Mother, I stayed in the Ganqing Palace for one night last night. It seemed that I dreamed of my father, but when it dawn, I opened my eyes, but I couldn't even remember the content of the dream."

When Empress Dowager Zhang heard this, she was slightly stunned and showed deep regret. The couple for twenty years, now her husband has left behind the orphan and widowed mother. If she had dreamed at midnight, she didn't know how many tears she had quietly shed. But she didn't expect that her son who was laughing at all times was like this. So she forgot that there were still many people on the Donghua Gate Tower, and tightly grabbed Zhu Houzhao's hand and walked forward two steps.

"Don't think so much. If your father knew that you, the emperor, could be very happy!" At this point, Empress Dowager Zhang paused, looked at Zhu Houzhao for a while, and then smiled, "I heard that the clothes you made for practicing archery and horse martial arts are not allowed to wear? In the past year, you have grown taller and stronger!"

Zhu Houzhao is naturally the one who knows the most about his physical condition. Not to mention that when a person grows up one head, the muscles on his arms are strong, and even his appetite increases very quickly. He can continue to have his snacks for three meals and two snacks a day and one midnight snack. However, Ruisheng also needs to keep his snacks with him to prevent him from being hungry when he was practicing martial arts and military training in Xiyuan.

On this day in the Xiyuan martial arts field, when he easily pulled his bow and shot the arrow at the target in the distance, he knew that he must have hit the arrow without waiting for the loud call.

"Your Majesty, the heart is right!"

In this cold weather, although the big men couldn't help but have fun, they wouldn't stay for too long. With Liu Jin taking the excuse to leave first, it was a bit difficult for the other big men to stand in the ice and snow, and they naturally took it off one after another. Qian Ning wanted to stay for a while, but he was not the leisurely commander of the avant-garde commander of the government army, but the admiral's inner factory. In a moment, subordinates came to report the matter. He had to give up his thoughts to show off his current skiing skills and rush back to cook. (") In the end, only Xu Xun, who had pushed the matter early to the god of hero Chen Xiong and Zhang Yong, and the old Miao Kui who was idle, was accompanying him.

The people who were in the way were not here. Xu Xun turned around and smiled with a bow in his arms, "Your Majesty, the weather is too cold, and it is not easy for the East and West Government Office to train soldiers every day, so I want to take the time to talk about things. I have to use a lot of pictures these days, and I want to ask the Ministry of War to review..."

Zhu Houzhao was trying to get the bow he had just changed, and while chanting, he said casually: "Pictures? This is easy to deal with. Just say it to Liu Yu, the Minister of War. He would give him whatever he wanted. He would not dare to return the ticket! Okay, Lao Miao Kui has already skied, so let's not lose to him!"

The person who won the final victory on this day was not the originally confident little emperor, but Miao Kui, who was old and strong, could almost be called a perfect shot, making Zhu Houzhao, who was determined to be the first to be depressed. Of course, it was because he knew that the little emperor didn't care about others' defeating his temperament that Miao Kui dared to perform like this, and Xu Xun showed his courage. Zhu Houzhao was once again arrogant and glared at the two of them after she sat down at Ningcui Pavilion, and then ordered Ruisheng to siftly sift wine.

After drinking a few cups of hot wine, everyone felt warm. Zhu Houzhao looked at Xu Xun with interest and said, "Tell me, what medicine are you selling in the gourd, what picture are you looking for?"

When Xu Xun saw that there were thick barriers around Ningcui Pavilion, Ruisheng was watching outside after drinking. He said, "Your Majesty, what I want to find is the picture of Zheng and Zheng's eunuch in the Western Paradise during the Xuande period of Yongle and Yongle."

As soon as these words came out, Miao Kui's face changed suddenly, and then he forgot that he was in front of the emperor and blurted out and asked, "What are you looking for this thing?"

"I just recall the treasure ships traveling south to the West, and all the foreign countries surrendered. That great cause is really admirable, so I just want to remember it." Xu Xun looked leisurely and fascinated. Seeing that Zhu Houzhao and Miao Kui were both strange in their faces, he couldn't help but say innocently, "What's the emperor and Eunuch Miao looking at me like this?"

"Xu Xun, do you think I will believe you?" Zhu Houzhao snorted lightly, then said with a smile, "You can hide from others, but I can't hide from me. When you say those passionate words, you must have a change of ideas in your mind. Don't think that you are so confident that I just agreed to you. Be careful that I will immediately take back the preface and see if Liu Yu will ask you for something! However, as I grew up so old, I have seen the small boat on Taiye Pool and the canal boat on Tongzhou Caohe. I have never seen other boats. I don't know how mighty the treasure ship looks! Zheng He's treasure ship... If he really finds the chart, I really want to imitate Emperor Taizong and send a boat to the West. Then all countries come to pay tribute... That's really awesome!"

Xu Xun knew that his words would arouse the idea of ​​Zhu Houzhao. Just as he was about to speak, Miao Kui, who had been silent for a while, suddenly spoke: "Other classics and albums are easy to say, but if they were the charts of treasure ships, they were probably not so easy to find. After Xuanmiao sent Eunuch Zheng to the West for the last time, these books were always locked. Whether it was Ying Temple or Xian Temple, they had the idea of ​​re-entry to the West, but they were eventually advised by the ministers. I still remember that during the Xian Temple period, I asked the Ministry of War for these albums. At that time, Liu Daxia was a doctor in the Fangsi and replied that he could not find them. Later, he had no results in searching for several days, so he had to give up. Therefore, it is easy to say about other things, and I don't know whether this thing is there or not."

"This is actually happening!" Zhu Houzhao suddenly changed his color and said angrily, "The officials' treasury is deficient and should pay compensation. If such an important book is lost, will they not have to bear the responsibility!"

Xu Xun had heard of the rumors that Liu Daxia burned the nautical charts in the past, but now he is in this great era and has some understanding of Liu Daxia's temperament, but he dare not believe it easily. Liu Daxia started from the Ministry of War. Although he was far inferior to Ma Wensheng's military strategy, he also knew the importance of those nautical books. How could he really burn it? If this is true, even if the emperor is tolerant, the court's public opinion will drown him. The latest chapter of the Holy Temple must know that the crime of losing the classics is not a minor crime!

Therefore, seeing Zhu Houzhao getting angry for a moment, he quickly smoothed out and said, "I don't know whether the thing is there or not, so the emperor will calm down. I am looking for this thing because I have just read the "Grand of the University of Yanyi Bu" by the late Qiu Ge Lao, which mentioned the insufficient transportation of sea transportation. I was moved by something and thought of the charts of Eunuch Zheng that year. I went to the Ministry of War to find it first. If I can't find it, I will ask for an eunuch Xiao Jing and Xiao. He has been in the palace for many years and he should have known the old things. If I have nothing to gain, I can only ask for an order to find Liu Daxia to ask the reason for the matter."

The book "The Great Learning Yanyi Bu" was given by Xie Duo before. Although Xu Xun may not be able to pass the first county examination for the imperial examination now, at least the reading and writing of classical Chinese is no longer a big problem. After reading such a 160-volume book, it took several months to read. For this cabinet master who advocated the launch of shipping in the Ming Dynasty, he felt that people at that time had foresight, so as to him, and now he has established a stable foothold, he has secretly allowed Zhang Wenmian, who was in Liu Jin's curtain to pass the exam. Although he was concerned about patrolling the border, his eyes on the other end could not be ignored.

Zhu Houzhao was interested in anything fresh. When he heard Xu Xun mention such a set of books, he immediately asked and then remembered it in his heart. Finally, he ordered: "You must find this sea chart, otherwise you will be sorry to Emperor Taizong, Zheng Hexing, who went to the West for seven times and eventually died on the sea, might die with his eyes open. If Xiao Jing didn't know, he would send someone to bring Liu Daxia to the capital. He kept in the Ministry of War. He had to be responsible for such a big thing!"

When he left Ningcuiting, Xu Xun walked and pondered while walking, and then suddenly felt that it was a little quieter around him. Seeing that Miao Kui was also absent-minded, he couldn't help but stretch out his hand and shook it in front of Miao Kui's eyes.

"Eunuch Miao?"

"Uh?" Miao Kui suddenly came to his senses. Seeing Xu Xun looking at him thoughtfully, he coughed awkwardly, and was about to find a topic to go over, but by the way he was so stupid that he actually spoke, "Civil officials often feel that Eunuch Zheng's seven trips to the West were useless and food, and wasted the people's money and money. But when I think about the overwhelming scene of treasure ships at that time, why didn't we, the younger generation, sigh. To be honest, if our family could show our national prestige in foreign countries like Eunuch Zheng, it would be a pleasure in life, and we will die without regrets!"

After spending a long time with these eunuchs, Xu Xun also knew that they were all ordinary people with flesh and blood—some are as ambitious as Liu Jin, as Gu Dayong as contented as Gu, as greedy as Qiu Juwei Bin, as Miao Kui and Zhang Yong were determined to establish achievements—so he naturally would not joke about Miao Kui's sudden thought, but said with a smile: "Eunuch Zheng first fought in the world from Emperor Taizong, and then went to the West seven times. Such achievements are indeed unprecedented. As for whether there is no future, it is hard to say, and Eunuch Miao doesn't have to keep the word "death" on his lips."

It seemed as if his words had come to people's hearts. Miao Kui stood for a moment and suddenly said, "Pingbei Bo, our family heard from Jingyang Bo mentioned that you have the intention of a northern tour. Our family still said that things in the north are the only things that our family will take charge of will be the beginning and the end. And if we really have the opportunity to set sail in the future, I hope to leave a seat for our family. In this life, we have fought on land, and I hope we can also fight a war at sea to promote our national prestige!"

"It's easy to say." Xu Xun couldn't say that this matter is still on paper. He smiled and nodded and said firmly, "If there really was a day, Eunuch Miao would definitely get what he wanted!"

Although Liu Yu, the Minister of War, knew that his position was stolen from Yang Yiqing, was a little wary of Xu Xun's sudden arrival at the Ministry of War, but he did not dare to disobey him. Xu Xun personally took office and checked the old file. In the past few days, he sent a trusted chief officer to follow him without hesitation, reporting everything to him, and he ran to Liu Jin every night to report. The first day or two was fine, but on the fourth day of the third day, Liu Jin became impatient, and said he had a sentence to find out and then came to report him. So, he had no choice but to vent his anger on the chief officer, which made the person so bloody.

However, Xu Xun only had a clear understanding of Zhu Houzhao and Miao Kui. When he was in the office, he was interested in everything. He looked through this and that, and took notes on the book from time to time. The head of the company could not ask Xu Xun what he had remembered after asking for it. Even if he complained, he could only follow him with great pain. However, from the old Xuande file to the old Yongle file, Xu Xun discovered that all the records about the sea chart, the South China countries and the various records of Zhang Fuzheng's communist army in Yongle were gone. He couldn't help but feel confused, but he didn't say a word to others, which made the head of the company even more confused. Finally, he scolded Liu Yu again.

After leaving Xuanwu Gate this afternoon, he went to Xiao Jing's private residence, he asked about this directly. Although Xiao Jing was not the number one figure in Silijian during the Chenghua period, he was already an eunuch in Silijian after all, and he had some impression of this old thing. After asking Xu Xun to sit down, he sighed after boiling water and brewing tea himself.

"At that time, Wang Zhi was in charge of the border merits. Because Chen was defeated in Laos, Wang Zhi wanted to take the opportunity to make more contributions, so he instigated Xianmiao to follow the old story of Yongle and take the opportunity to obtain the site. However, during the Yongle period, he invested a lot of personnel and food in. The site was like a bottomless pit. After the rebellion, he rebelled and fought again. The court officials disagreed. Therefore, Xianmiao sent people to the Ministry of War to ask for the geography of the Ministry of War for the geography of the Ministry of War and the number of troops transferred back then. Liu Daxia lied that he was old and had lost all the pictures and books, and he also reported the interests of the Minister of War at that time. Later, Wang Zhi still refused to give up and instigated Xianmiao to go to the Ministry of War to investigate again and again. At that time, the old lady Huaien Huai, who was still in charge of the seal of the Ministry of War, blocked it. I don't know who mentioned the treasure ship again, so Liu Daxia simply hid the charts together."

Burning and hiding are two completely different concepts, so Xu Xun felt relieved when he heard this, and hurriedly asked, "Does Eunuch Xiao know if these picture albums are still there now? Where are they?"

"If you ask Liu Daxia openly, you won't have to travel all the way to Huguang. Even if he goes, he may not tell you if he gets stubborn. In addition to the original library of maps, Fangshi, the Ministry of War, should have another secret library, which is known to only the Minister of War and the Ministry of War and the Ministry of War, which have been known to each other. Most of them are important things, but they don't want the emperor to see. I heard that Zhang Cai, under you, is the person Ma Wensheng is interested in, and you have some connection with Ma Wensheng. It's better to ask Ma Wensheng for a while than to find Liu Daxia."

Liu Jin's major events were in full swing. With a test method, he felt that this was the most confident moment in his life. The high-sounding reason, coupled with this useful method, he had been holding his head high since he became the eunuch of the boss, Li Jian, and now he was raising his head higher. When the matter of Ning Wangfu's guard who had been dragging a lot of time was finally tinkered with by him, facing the generous gift he gave to him again, he burst into laughter.

"Your Highness Ning is really too polite, but how can our family afford it if you give it again and again?"

"This matter can be accomplished by my father-in-law, and my highness is very grateful. Not to mention such a gift, even if it is twice as much, it cannot express gratitude in my heart." Rodick, who came to give gifts again, was more humble and warmer than before, and then said with a smile on his face, "If it weren't for the officials from all over Jiangxi, they would always be very close to my highness. Originally, my highness wanted to cast a golden Buddha to give to my father-in-law to show that his father-in-law was a virtue of living Buddha for thousands of families."

Since Liu Jin was an eunuch, he naturally believed in these Buddhist and Taoist sayings. At this moment, he was polite, but his eyes were swaying. When he learned that several local officials in Jiangxi had repeatedly impeached King Ning, he waved his hand disapprovingly: "This matter is easy to deal with. Now that the test is done, we won't be afraid that they will not make any mistakes at that time! Go back and tell your highness, the nobles are so dignified that they are golden branches and jade leaves, and you are afraid that those guys will do what they do. Just tell our family if you have anything to do, and we will support him!"

"Thank you, thank you, thank you!"

When he ordered Zhang Wenmian to send Rodick away, Liu Jin asked Sun Cong to bring the gift list. He had just prided himself on his identity and didn't go to see what kind of thank you gift this time, but when he opened it, he saw that there was a set of gold and silver sacrificial vessels inside. He remembered that he was about to ask someone to return to his hometown to rebuild the ancestral hall for his parents, his eyes lit up. When he later offered another land deed for the suburbs of Beijing, he was even more happy.

"Okay, very good. Our family has not read the wrong person. This King Ning is a kind and righteous person!"

As soon as he said this, Sun Congshang had no time to answer, and a voice came from outside: "Uncle, you have time, and my nephew is asking for a meeting."

"Is it the second man?" Liu Jin himself has no son, so he attaches great importance to his nephews. Liu Erhan and Liu Kui were both the first to be taken to the capital, so he naturally was more cared for. At this moment, he waved his hand to Sun Cong and immediately ordered, "Come in."

When Liu Erhan entered the door, he saw Sun Cong coming out with a gift list, and he knew that someone had given Liu Jin another gift. Although he was quite favored, Liu Jin had more than one nephew, and only one he would have in the future. Therefore, after entering the house, he kowtowed obediently, followed the pole and flattered Liu Jin first. Then he spoke, "Uncle, my nephew was having a drink outside today and happened to meet Qian Ning, so he wanted to invite him to the same table. In his words, he was very grateful for his uncle's gift to him for sending him to Mingyue in the small building. Later, he drank a few more drinks and revealed another thing."

Liu Jin asked Qian Ning out of the vanguard of the government army, not just to try to pry Xu Xun's corner, but mainly because he had no foundation in the army. Now he is in charge of the seal and the Lijian, so he is even more unlikely to go to the 12th Regiment of the Beijing Camp to take charge of the army. He has to win over a few truly military achievements. Qian Ning did not disappoint him. Although both sides were good at both sides, the important matter was not revealed to Xu Xun. If Shang Fenfen was asked to blow more pillows and give him information in the future, it would be a good move.

Therefore, when Liu Erhan revealed something, he immediately asked with great interest: "What's the matter?"

Although he was very dissatisfied with Qian Ning's big and sturdy old lady, Liu Erhan still knew the importance of it. At this moment, he stood beside Liu Jin and bent down deeply and said, "Qian Ning said that Xu Xun, the boss of Pingbei, seems to be interested in going out of Beijing to inspect the border defense."

"Is this true?"

Liu Jin stood up suddenly, and when Liu Erhan nodded vigorously, although he was a little disbelief, he still breathed a sigh of relief. One mountain could not accommodate two tigers. In the past six months, he fought back and forth with Xu Xun. Although he had accomplished several major events, he had failed more things. If Xu Xun was not here, he would have been much more calm. Thinking of his new policies, Xu Xun never really stopped him, but he just grabbed the people from the left and right to the door. He thought he had seen the boy's ambitions clearly.

He had no ambitions and just wanted to be equal with him, Liu Jin, and had no ambition to dominate the court. If he wanted to go out to patrol the border at this time, he might have been hoping to make military achievements in a battle and return to the court to be promoted. But this kid didn't think about where to win the war?

"Uncle, this is a rare opportunity..."

Liu Jin remembered that Xu Xun returned to Jinling to move his grave last time, but suddenly came back and turned the situation around. He turned his back so much that he could not help but feel a little afraid. After thinking about it, he said firmly: "No need to say, this kid is more slippery than a loach. He left Beijing and we have our own business to do!"

There is no need to deal with the people of Xu Party. He just needs to expand his strength, which is enough for the boy to catch up with him!

ps: Although it is said that Liu Daxia burned those things, after checking countless information, the words of the person involved or others were misunderstood, which proves that there is no such thing at all... Although Liu Daxia is a stubborn person, as the chief official, he is not afraid of the censor's neglect of his duties...


Chapter completed!