The winter dawn is chaotic, and the air is filled with the unpleasant smell of soot and charcoal fire.
The Qianqing Palace began to light up the lanterns. Wang Bashi hung up the first lantern himself, and then carefully looked back at the emperor's palace behind him.
He was keeping vigil last night, and the sound of the emperor turning over could be heard from time to time in the palace. I guess the emperor didn't sleep well either.
"Li Buquan!" The bastard stood under the eaves and called his apprentice in a low voice.
"Master, here it is!" Li Buquan is a smart boy, seventeen or eighteen years old, fair and tender.
It is said that they are master and apprentice, but they are actually godfather and godson. However, in the palace, it is taboo to refer to the father-son title and relationship between eunuchs, so they have been changed to master and apprentice.
"Is the water hot?" Bastard looked into the palace and asked in a low voice, "Are you ready with hand towels, clean socks, and hot scented tea?"
Li Buquan smiled and said, "Don't worry, these are what Long Live Lord uses every morning. How can I make mistakes?"
As soon as he finished speaking, there was a thud.
But it was the bastard who knocked Li Buquan on the forehead shamelessly.
"The more commonly used it is, the more likely it is to make mistakes!" Bastard said sternly, "If you don't have a playful and smiling face, why should I give it to you?"
Li Buquan shrank his neck and whispered in fear, "Disciple knows!"
The bastard glanced at the surrounding palace people with shameful and majestic eyes, and continued in a low voice, "Cheer up the Zajia family. Lord Long live has been unhappy these days. If anyone offends Lord Long live, the Za family will make him look good!"
The surrounding palace people suddenly fell silent and nodded silently.
Afterwards, the bastard sorted out his robes, walked into the Nuan Pavilion, stood at the door, and whispered, "Long live sir, are you up?"
"Well!" came the emperor's vague voice from inside.
Immediately afterwards, the bastard opened the door of Nuan Pavilion, bowed and slid in gently.
"When will I be able to serve Long Live Lord like a master?" Li Buquan looked at the bastard's back, his face full of envy.
The next second, he suddenly remembered what the bastard had just told him. He quickly ran to the duty room and took the people to prepare everything the emperor would use, waiting for the bastard's call.
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Zhu Yunxi really didn't sleep well last night. Sitting in front of the mirror, he could clearly see the bloodshot eyes.
"What time is it?" Hearing the footsteps of the bastard, Zhu Yunxi opened his mouth and asked.
"Back to the emperor, it's Yin time!" The bastard walked softly behind Zhu Yunxi, picked up the ivory comb on the table, and began to comb his hair.
"Are you still kneeling outside?" Zhu Yunxi asked again.
"Half an hour ago, the Jinyi Guards came to report!" Bastard whispered, "In addition to a few old men who really couldn't stand it, there were hundreds of officials kneeling outside the Meridian Gate!"
As he said that, he looked at Zhu Yunxi's expression and continued, "Someone from the Taiyuan Hospital also said that these adults were very cold this night. If they hadn't prepared hot soup, fur cloaks and braziers, I'm afraid they wouldn't be able to survive." Just take a walk!"
"Ha!" Zhu Yunxi in the mirror showed a somewhat mocking smile, "Still kneeling? You are so stubborn!" He closed his eyes and leaned on the chair, "Then let them continue to kneel!"
Since the other party initiated the matter, it is best for the other party to end it.
Zhu Yunxi had no intention of coaxing his children and arguing with these civil servants.
He also had confidence. As the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, he wanted a money bag and a gun barrel.
So he had the capital to jump on the table without any hesitation, personally smashing and overturning this zz table that had been passed down for thousands of years.
If it were the emperors of the original Ming Dynasty, they relied on their ministers for their money and their ministers for their guns, how could they have the confidence?
If the officials want to exert pressure through this method of having more people and more power, then let them do it! Let's see who turns out to be disgraced in the end.
It is impossible for Zhu Yunxi to retreat, and all the officials must retreat, because only when all the officials retreat can this incident in front of the palace be called a farce.
These people have become the laughing stock of the world!
At this moment, a trembling voice suddenly came to mind from outside.
"Your Majesty... Your Majesty!"
The hand that the bastard was combing his hair stiffened, and the voice was that of his disciple.
"Well, what's wrong?" Zhu Yunxi said.
"General Manager Park, please see me!" Li Buquan stood outside the hall and said just one sentence, as if all his energy had been expended.
"Let him in!" Zhu Yunxi said with eyes closed.
After a while, the heavy curtain opened a crack.
The tall and thin Pu Wuyong stepped in, first glanced at the bastard who was combing the emperor's hair, and then said in a low voice, "Long live the Lord, the eunuch left behind in Fengyang has reported!"
This bastard is ashamed, so he pays attention to his words. As a eunuch in charge of rituals, he is nominally in charge of all the eunuchs in Fengyang Zhongdu and Sizhou Ancestral Tomb.
Zhu Yunxi turned his head slightly, and the bastard behind him immediately put down his comb, turned his back to the door, faced him, and bowed out step by step.
"Why are you leaving? Who asked you to leave?" Zhu Yunxi's words caused the shameless bastard to stop directly at the door.
Then, Zhu Yunxi looked at Pu Wuyong again, "What did the eunuch left behind in Zhongdu say?"
"The fifth master has passed away!" Pu Wuyong lowered his hands and whispered.
"Oh?" Zhu Yunxi frowned, very surprised, "What kind of disease? What do the eunuchs and imperial doctors in Zhongdu do? You reported to me a few days ago that they are all alive and kicking?"
"According to the imperial doctor, the Fifth Master cannot drink alcohol!" Pu Wuyong sighed, "The report from Zhongdu's stay at home said that the Fifth Master has been drinking heavily recently and has been drunk from morning till night...
...I vomited blood after drinking it for the past few days, but I didn’t listen to anyone’s advice and just wanted to drink it!”
"After several hangovers, the fifth master no longer recognized anyone. The report said that the fifth master drank alcohol at night, and the next morning the guard found that he was not up. When he went in to check, he found that he was... gone!
The imperial doctor looked at it and said it was the alcohol that blocked the brain orifices!"
"You're really good, you can drink yourself to death!" Zhu Yunxi snorted, "You can't carry it when you're alive, and you can't carry it when you die!"
In fact, they both knew exactly how Zhu Laowu died.
It's just that some things must be justified on the scene. Only if they are justified on the scene can others be silenced.
"Everyone is dead, and it's too late to say anything now! He is so narrow-minded that even if he doesn't drink to death, he will regret himself to death sooner or later!" Zhu Yunxi sighed, "Although he is guilty, he is mine after all.
My dear uncle, he is ruthless and I cannot be unjust!"
"Inform the Zongzheng Mansion and the Ministry of Rites that the funeral affairs of the five sinners should be handled according to the prince's specifications! I really remember that he had his own tomb repaired during his lifetime, so it will be as he wished!"
"My slave obeys the order!" Pu Wuyong lowered his hands and bowed without moving.
"Do you have anything else to say?" Zhu Yunxi asked.
"Yes, slave, I still have something to say!"
"Say!" Zhu Yunxi waved, and the bastard continued to walk behind him and comb his hair seriously.
"Although the fifth master is a sinner, he is also a bloodline of Emperor Taizu Gao and cannot be insulted by outsiders!" Pu Wuyong opened his mouth and said, "He is imprisoned in Fengyang, but he is not equal to a prisoner!"
"Yeah!" Zhu Yunxi snorted, "Keep talking!"
"The people who serve the Fifth Master in Zhongdu probably feel that the sky is high and the road is far away, plus the Fifth Master's status as a sinner, so they are neglectful, negligent, or maybe... they don't try their best!"
Pu Wuyong continued, "No servant who serves snacks can let the Fifth Master end up like this!"
"So?" Zhu Yunxi frowned slightly.
Because he suddenly felt that the bastard's hands were shaking when he was combing his hair.
"I believe that we should strictly investigate and prosecute the guilty. Otherwise, in the future, those slaves will also neglect the Sixth Master and the Seventh Master!" Pu Wuyong said again.
"It's up to you!" Zhu Yunxi waved his hand lightly.
"Then slaves, let me take a good look at the slaves over there!" Pu Wuyong said, slowly retreating out.
The bastard had a clear conscience. Pu Wuyong said that he wanted to investigate the slaves who serve people. Is this true?
It is true to let those people really die!
This chapter has been completed!