The emperor is a body of thousands of chariots, and the country is all about one. It is a great event for a king of a country to leave Beijing to go on a tour. Moreover, since the last Emperor Zhengde regarded leaving Beijing to go on a tour as a common occurrence and was addicted to tours and entertainment, not only putting the country in danger of turmoil, but also seriously exhausting the people and causing money. Therefore, the first reaction of the court officials led by Yang Tinghe was to oppose Emperor Jiajing's southern tour, and to oppose fiercely.

However, Zhu Houcong's determination to tour the south was very firm, and the reasons were quite sufficient. First, the southeast coast of the Ming Dynasty had just been plundered by Japanese pirates and was in ruins. As the king of a country, I should visit in person to appease the people and boost morale. Second, while I was pacifying the people's hearts, I would go back to Anluzhou, Hubei to worship my biological father Xingxian to comfort the ancestral temple.

If Zhu Houcan’s first reason is a bit far-fetched, then the second reason is irrefutable. In a feudal society where loyalty and filial piety are established, filial piety is greater than that of heaven. Unfilial people will be poked and scolded, and it is even more inconsistent with the will of heaven to prevent others from fulfilling their filial piety.

After careful calculation, Zhu Houcong has been in the throne as the prince of a vassal prince for more than three years. It is completely reasonable to return home to worship his biological father at this time, and it can even be said to be very appropriate.

Therefore, as soon as Zhu Houguan's second reason was released, all the officials including Yang Tinghe were silent. After all, no one could bear the charge of preventing the emperor from fulfilling his filial piety. So, the matter of the emperor's southern tour was decided.

However, soon, Yang Tinghe and other ministers of Puyi sent to smell the scent of conspiracy from the list of ministers listed by Zhu Houcan. It turned out that the list of accompanying officials listed by Zhu Houcan were: the second assistant of the cabinet, the fourth assistant of the cabinet, the fourth assistant of the cabinet, the Zhang Cong of the Huo Department, the Gui E of the Criminal Department, and the head of the Ministry of Revenue Huo Tao...

Most of these ministers supported Zhu Houcong's upstarts who recognized his biological father as the imperial examination, or moderates or neutrals like Fei Hong.

It is worth mentioning here that since the reign of Emperor Jiajing Zhu Houcong and Gui E back to Beijing in March last year, the "Great Ceremony Discussion" dispute that had been silent for nearly two years has caused another stir, and it has become more and more intense. The court officials have been divided into two factions of debate. One is the Puyi faction led by Yang Tinghe. They advocate that Emperor Jiajing should use Emperor Hongzhi as the imperial examination, and the other is the upstart faction led by Zhang Cong Gui E. They advocate that Emperor Jiajing should use his biological father, Emperor Xingxian as the imperial examination.

Over the past year, the two factions have been in great conflict. Some time ago, the struggle between the two factions has temporarily slowed down due to the large-scale invasion of the Ming coast. However, since Xu Jin wiped out all the Japanese pirates along the coast at the end of last year, the war between the two factions has been rekindled, and it is more intense than ever. Even the chief minister of the cabinet, Yang Tinghe, has been bare-handed in battle, and has been repeatedly reprimanded by Emperor Jiajing for this.

At this critical moment, Emperor Jiajing Zhu Houcong actually proposed to go to the southern tour of the imperial guards. Most of the ministers he brought were upstarts. Even fools could detect something was a trick, let alone Yang Ting and these veterans in the officialdom.

So, Yang Tinghe instructed an official to object to the list of ministers. As a result, after the court's recommendation, the list of ministers of ministers changed greatly. Generally, the Puyi faction and the upstart faction each accounted for half. Moreover, Yang Tinghe also personally took the opportunity to accompany the officials, allowing two great scholars, Mao Ji and Jiang Mian, to stay in Beijing, clearly not wanting to give Emperor Jiajing any opportunity to take advantage of.

In this way, Emperor Jiajing led the ministers of two factions to leave the capital city in a mighty manner and headed south from Tongzhou Wharf along the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal. The entire team was like a moving "powder barrel". The ministers of both factions were preparing in a hurry, staring at each other every day, and they probably would have to explode when they arrived in Nanjing.

The little emperor Zhu Hou was extremely depressed. He planned to be clever and get rid of several heavyweight ministers of the Puyi Sect first. Unexpectedly, his tricks could not be hidden from the truth. Yang Tinghe not only dealt with the moves, but even followed him.

However, when Zhu Houcong thought that there was another heavyweight in Nanjing, Zhu Houcong was still a little relieved. If Xu Jin knew Zhu Houcong’s thoughts at this moment, he would probably be amused and crying. The reason why he pushed Zhang Cong and Gui E up was originally intended to use the two to fight against Yang Tinghe, while he himself was out of the matter. Who would have thought that Zhu Houcong would actually bring this explosive barrel to him from afar!

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On June 20, the imperial guards and his party arrived in Dezhou, Shandong. The emperor stayed overnight in the Dezhou Palace. In midsummer, the weather was hot. Zhu Hougui finished bathing and changing clothes under the palace servants. After drinking a bowl of iced sour plum soup comfortably, he began to review the memorials. Although he was away from Beijing, two left-behind Grand Secretary of the Cabinet would send people to Zhu Hougui every day to rush to deliver some important memorials.

Zhu Houcong was obviously in a very good mood. It is no wonder that the Japanese disasters along the coast have been eliminated, and the policies to promote the planting of sweet potatoes and clear land have also begun to show results, and the tax revenue of the treasury has steadily increased.

In addition, although the coastal war from last year to this year cost more than 2 million taels, a considerable part of it was handled by Xu Jin himself, and the treasury only paid about half of the money. This is not a problem. The key is that Xu Jin also brought back nearly 10 million taels of property from Manlaga, which exceeded the treasury's income for the two years. Not only did he fill the war's deficit, but he also made a lot of money.

Could that boy Zhu Houcong be in a bad mood? Hehe, watching the treasury slowly fill up, it feels... full of happiness!

There were not many memorials sent today, and Zhu Houcong quickly finished reviewing them. Lu Bing, the guy, seemed to have pinched the time and flashed in from outside.

Zhu Houcong put down his pen and stretched his waist, asking, "A Bing, has Xu Jin returned from Nanyang?"

Lu Bing is Zhu Houcan's childhood friend and is deeply favored. Since he took back Danei Zongshi and Shark King Xu Weixue from Jiangnan last time, he has been promoted to the Qianhu of the Jinyiwei by Zhu Houcan. Now he is even more favored and has become Zhu Houcan's eyes and ears.

Lu Bing smiled and said, "Just just received the news from below, Marquis Jinghai returned to Nantou City, Guangzhou Prefecture on June 12th. He probably has received the news that the emperor's southern tour was on his way to Nanjing."

Zhu Houcong couldn't help but be happy when he heard this, nodded and said, "That's good, I think he is still staying in Manlaga."

When Lu Bing saw Zhu Hou's joyful look, he felt a little jealous, but he also understood that his weight in Emperor Jiajing's heart was incomparable to Xu Jin.

At this time, Zhu Houcong asked with a somewhat unnatural expression: "By the way, what did Xu Jin react when he received my imperial edict?"

Lu Bing's eyes flashed: "I didn't ask this mark in detail. By the way, Lord Xu said... It's not my intention to be a marquis, but it's a pacified sea wave."

When Zhu Houcong heard this, he immediately looked up and said with great joy: "It's not my intention to be a marquis, but it's smooth. Haha, I know that Xu Jin won't be so shallow, that's good!"

Lu Bing smiled and said, "Mr. Xu is loyal to the emperor and the people, and does not care about personal gains and losses. He is actually a model for us."

Zhu Houqi smiled and scolded: "Come on, you should keep this flattery before you see Marquis Jinghai before taking pictures. Now he can't hear the filming."

Lu Bing smiled and said, "What the emperor said is, but Lord Xu is loyal to the emperor and does not care about personal gains and losses, but other generals may not be sure."

Zhu Houxiang raised his eyebrows and waited for Lu Bing's following text. The latter said carefully: "I heard that after Eunuch Zhang read out the imperial edict, the generals under Lord Xu seemed to be unhappy."

Zhu Houcong was silent after hearing this. Xu Jin made such a great contribution, and it was not an exaggeration to be named Duke. He thought so. However, the court officials unanimously opposed it. Even Xu Jin's mentor Fei Hong disagreed. Mao Cheng, the Minister of Rites, even gave the teachings of Taizu. No matter how great the civil servants have, they can only be named Bo. Now Xu Jin is a marquis as a civil servant, which is already a great emperor's kindness. What if he is named Duke again?

The court officials strongly opposed it, and Zhu Houcong had no choice but to give up. Finally, Xu Jin was renamed Marquis of Jinghai, with an increase of 800 stones of annual salary, and his title could be hereditary.

Although he had done his best to win the benefits of Xu Jin, Zhu Houcong still felt guilty and felt that he had suffered a loss. So when he heard that Xu Jin didn't care about rewards, he was quite happy. The bad thing was Lu Bing's last sentence. The generals were not angry after hearing the imperial edict.

The general only knows that he has a commander but not the king. This is a taboo. He has a military force and self-respecting himself has made emperors of all dynasties alert.

Seeing Zhu Houguang silent, Lu Bing couldn't help but feel secretly happy, but he learned from the lesson he had used the Xie family's background to talk about the last time, and was very sensible and did not continue to add fuel to the fire. The emperor is a smart person, and now he is getting more and more powerful. If he continues to be selected, he will inevitably be alert.

As the saying goes, destroying bones, what Lu Bing has to do now is to plant a thorn in the center of Emperor Jiajing, and then slowly reduce Xu Jin's trust in Jiajing's mind.

There is a saying that the King of Hell is hard to see, and the little devil is difficult to deal with. Lu Bing is the difficult little devil. Because of the murder of Ono Yuri, both Xie Erjian and Xu Jin were hated. However, this kid is very cunning and knows that his current strength is not enough to defeat Xu Jin, so he took advantage of the opportunity to find an opportunity to challenge the relationship between the two in front of Emperor Jiajing.

Lu Bing's last time was undoubtedly a failure to pick up the Xie family's background, but this time it seemed to have worked. At least Jiajing didn't look happy at this time.

At this moment, two beauties in palace costumes, one tall and one short, came over, and they were the two princesses Yongfu and Yongchun.

Lu Bing was slightly shocked, not knowing when the two princesses would come in, so he quickly saluted and said, "Lu Bing meets the two princesses."

"No gift!" Princess Yongfu frowned and glanced at Lu Bing, then said to Jiajingfu: "Yongfu meets the emperor!"

The little loli Yongchun has grown into a fifteen-year-old girl. This girl loves to laugh very much. After giving the gift, she smiled and said, "Brother, why do you look unhappy? If you have any unhappy things to tell the emperor to make the emperor happy."

Zhu Houcan laughed in silence and said, "Little girl's movies are getting poorer and poorer!"
Chapter completed!