Chapter 5: Knock on the Pieces
Accompanied by Zhu Yijing's words, the scene suddenly became quiet.
After a long time, Empress Corning's voice came from the sedan chair:
"Since the third brother said that, it seems that I was not strict with my subordinates, so I was caught by the thief and could even kill my son."
It seemed to be blaming myself, but it seemed to be meaningless. In the end, Empress Corning gave up the matter gently:
"Since the sin is not on you, let's disperse. Get on and go back."
Watching the eight-carrying sedan chair turn and about to leave, Zhu Yijing glanced at the eldest prince indifferently. He was about to say something but heard Empress Corning's instructions:
"By the way, I almost forgot about this. Third brother, go back with me. We two haven't played chess for a long time."
After forcibly retracting the words about to be spoken, Zhu Yijing just glanced at a figure rushing behind the eldest prince, and then got up and followed the team carrying the sedan chair:
"Abide by the order."
When the group left in a mighty manner, the eldest prince stood up with a gloomy face and turned his head to look at Zhu Yirui who had just arrived:
"You're here too late, there's no good show, second brother."
"Brother, don't make fun of me." The second prince, who rubbed the sweat beads on his face and his hair ran away, looked angry, "This time the third brother was assassinated, it's not that simple! What did Your Majesty say?"
To the second prince's expectation, the eldest prince was not angry after hearing his questioning, but said with a gloomy face:
"What else can I say? Her good son admitted that Ma Zhong was dissatisfied with being rushed to deliver food, so he secretly poisoned the prince, and then committed suicide by taking poison."
The second prince was stunned when he heard this, and it took him a long time to react:
"Huh--this is good, that's good, as long as the third brother is fine, and the eldest brother is also spared and has not been blamed by His Majesty."
The eldest prince found this sentence very harsh: "What does it mean to survive? This matter has nothing to do with me.... The second brother is just thinking about it!"
After saying this, the eldest prince turned around angrily, turned his back to the second prince and left.
That little bastard probably realized that he could not afford to be guilty of his crime, so he went back on his word and did not tell the truth.
As for whether Ma Zhong spoke... this doesn't matter, anyone is already dead anyway.
The eldest prince who had been in good condition had just taken the first step, and the second prince suddenly spoke coldly behind him:
"Brother, no matter what, the third brother is also covered with the blood of his father. The three of us are all a family. Among the family, killing relatives is the worst method."
Regardless of the eldest prince who suddenly turned around, the second prince continued to say to himself:
"The third brother has helped you once. I hope my elder brother can realize that the three of us are always from the Old Zhu family."
After looking at each other for a long time, the eldest prince nodded slowly:
"Learn, understand."
So, both of the princes, who were already adult, went all the way in the opposite direction.
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Inside the Fengtian Hall. (The Palace of Supreme Luan Palace, also known as the "Golden Palace, Supreme Golden Hall, and Golden Luan Palace", is located in the Palace Museum, No. 4, Jingshan Qian Street, Dongcheng District, Beijing. It stands in the center of the Forbidden City with a construction area of 2,377 square meters. It is the largest palace in the Forbidden City and one of the three major halls in the East. The central axis of the capital is ascended to three platforms along the dragon-patterned stone carving imperial road and passing under the throne of the emperor. It is the highest existing ancient palace building in China and the place where the emperor holds major dynasties. The interior and exterior of the hall are decorated with thousands of golden dragon patterns, and ten ridge beasts are installed at the corners of the roof. This is the only example of the existing ancient buildings. In the 18th year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty (1420), the Palace of Supreme Luan was built, and was originally named Fengtian Hall; after several disasters and reconstructions, the name of the Jiajing Dynasty of the Ming Dynasty was renamed Huangji Hall; after the Qing Dynasty built its capital in Beijing, it was changed to its current name.)
Pick.
A black piece fell onto the chessboard and cut off the almost powerful white piece dragon and had to surrender.
Seeing that the chess path that he had arranged for a long time was cracked by Empress Corning with a wonderful move, Zhu Yijing had no choice but to give up the long dragon and instead attacked at the four corners:
"His Majesty, it's getting harder and harder to live these days. Whether it's a prince or a poor person, I heard from Xu Yong that his relatives in the capital have recently seen many refugees who have frozen to death on the roadside, and they look quite indecent."
"There is no way. In the past two years, there have been droughts in Shaanxi, and there have been many fleeing famines. The Beijing Military Affairs Office really has no spare time to help the refugees from the border, so they can only leave them to fate."
Speaking of this, Empress Corning continued to chase and block the four corners of Baizi, while taking out a red memorial from her sleeve and threw it to Zhu Yijing:
"The news of the border was that the Tatars took advantage of the winter to offend him. Although the generals guarding the border temporarily repelled him, it is not advisable for the long run. Not to mention the increasing number of refugees, the border residents abducted by the Tatars is also a big problem."
He picked up the memorial and looked at it. Zhu Yijing put a idle hand in the place where neither of them had any layout:
"But it seems that this general is not unable to continue chasing, but is unwilling to continue chasing?"
"This involves another thing." After thinking for a moment, Empress Corning decided not to pay attention to this idle hand:
"Three years ago, the border general You Yunfeng was dissatisfied with my governance and joined forces with the North Prince to take the opportunity to reprimand, but his daughter cut his head off. Not only that, the North Prince was also deceived by her on the grounds of discussing the reprimand and chopped his head off together."
"Oh?" Zhu Yijing said that this was really a strange woman, "so the generals nowadays are dissatisfied with the Queen Mother, so they responded passively to the Tatars, just repel and take the initiative to attack?"
What Zhu Yijing didn't expect was that Empress Corning shook her head repeatedly:
"No, the current general is also a woman, so naturally there is no reason to hate me, just..."
After hesitating for a moment, Empress Corning continued helplessly:
"It's just that after the daughter of the You family came to Beijing with two heads to apologize, the civil servants unanimously believed that the merits and demerits were offset, but they left her in the capital under the pretext of repentance of the crime of father-killing, and then found a yard to find a way to enclose her."
"I think I'm afraid that one day the opponent will fight the king, so I'll cut off their heads together." Zhu Yijing desperately avoided the pursuit of Empress Corning, and it was becoming more and more difficult to deal with it:
"But what does this have to do with the current border general?"
With a black spot, she landed far away on the only way for the white spot to retreat. Empress Corning couldn't help but feel a little funny when she thought of the crazy girl:
"The current border general is not only a subordinate of the You family's daughter, but also has unreasonable thoughts about the You family's daughter."
"hiss--"
Zhu Yijing couldn't help but take a breath and said to himself that your Majesty, the world you governed is a little too free.
Despite his amazement, Zhu Yijing was still ready to continue to struggle to death, but found that his retreat at four corners was surrounded by Heizi with his horns, and there was no possibility of surviving.
In desperation, Zhu Yijing had to vote for his defeat: "I lost, Your Majesty, please ask what you want to know this time."
Empress Corning, who had already shut down all the guards, looked straight into the eyes of her own son and said without any surprise:
Chapter completed!