"That's it." After listening to Lao Liu's explanation, Luo Guanzhong suddenly realized. No wonder His Highness not only awarded 13 gang leaders, but also gave 650 guard positions. This would basically wipe out the best of the Jiangxi Beggar Clan.
And light.
In the loose organization of the Beggar Clan, it is always a small number of backbones who play the main role. The remaining scraps and followers cannot make a difference and cannot cause any trouble.
"But your highness, can they also serve as soldiers?" Hu Quan couldn't help but interjected and asked. He was worried that the Chu King's army would collapse if so many beggars came in at once.
"Don't worry, they won't enter the military camp." Zhu Zhen said with a faint smile: "I have another wonderful idea."
"Jinyiwei!" Luo Guanzhong's eyes lit up and he said. That organization that specializes in inquiring about information and spying on intelligence is the most suitable to settle this gang of beggars.
"Smart!" Lao Liu patted Luo Guanzhong on the shoulder again and praised: "Look, with me, the smart IQ has occupied the high ground again."
"That's bullshit again... you're so young." Luo Guanzhong held up his glasses and sneered to expose Liu's workplace bullying. "I won't accept this."
"Hahaha." Lao Liu laughed loudly and said, "What about publishing "Water Margin"?"
"I need to draw cakes again..." Luo Guanzhong was stunned as he said that, and couldn't help but ask: "Can we go out?"
"Of course." Zhu Zhen said with a smile: "Wang Ma, I bought a seal printing house at the beginning of the year. Now the engraving of the first volume has been completed. I'm just waiting for you to go back and proofread it again. If there are no problems, it can be published."
"Then... the relationship is good." Luo Guanzhong's lenses seemed to be covered with fog. He quickly turned away and took a deep breath.
This sixth child always beats himself up every time before giving him a favor. His temperament is too bad.
But the people are quite nice...
~~
When Zhu Zhen returned to the camp, it was already dark.
The eunuchs and maids are still packing their bags.
The normally orderly palace suddenly seemed a little messy. Fortunately, a cup of good green tea could make him happy.
Zhang Xunzhen had been waiting for him all day, sitting angrily on the imperial concubine's couch waiting for him. The fairy's angry look was even more touching.
"Hey, who made Fairy Zhang angry?" Zhu Zhen raised his hands and asked the palace maid to help him take off his coat.
"Who else could it be?!" Zhang Xunzhen gritted his teeth and glared at him fiercely: "You are going back to Beijing tomorrow, why don't you let my brother go?"
"So that's why." Zhu Zhen smiled and sat down next to her, raised his feet, put on his slippers under the service of the palace maid, and said: "Then you have wronged me, it's my father who wants to see you.
Zhang Daren, so I invited him to return to Beijing with us."
"Scared?" Zhang Xunzhen was startled, and gradually his face turned pale and he said, "Does the emperor want my brother to be good-looking?"
"Oh, it turns out that fairies are also afraid of people." Zhu Zhen laughed, took a few sips of the soup bowl to warm himself up, and handed it back to the palace maid holding the tray.
"As you said, is there anyone in the world who is not afraid of the emperor?" Zhang Xunzhen said speechlessly.
Zhu Zhen finally took the teacup, rinsed his mouth, and spit it into the spittoon in the hand of the palace maid. Then he leaned back on the pillow and said lazily:
"Don't worry, if my old man wanted to deal with Brother You, he wouldn't be so polite. He had already asked me to find a prison car and send him to Beijing."
"Really?" Zhang Xunzhen asked dubiously.
"Fake." Zhu Zhen laughed loudly, he liked to see her break through her defenses.
"You..." Zhang Xunzhen almost broke through her defense, but her worry finally outweighed her self-esteem. She held back her temper and asked pitifully:
"Can you beg your father to spare my eldest brother from going to Beijing this time?"
This is also what Zhang Maocheng meant. He knew that he was full of evil deeds, so how could he dare to meet Zhu Yuanzhang, who hated evil so much?
If Boss Zhu remembers all the good deeds he has done upon meeting him, it would be a trivial matter to deprive him of the title of Heavenly Master. Otherwise, he will never be able to figure it out.
It was he who encouraged the silly sister to come to Lao Liu over and over again...
"No." Zhu Zhen refused her request as before.
The first step in "Neptune's Guide to Drinking Tea" is to remember that it is you who is tasting the tea, not the tea that is teasing you.
Only in this way can you taste the aroma of tea and drink it.
If you offer it and respect it, you will never be able to drink it...
~~
"You!" Zhang Xunzhen has been rejected by him more times in the past few months than in the past twenty years combined.
She has obviously tried very hard to please him, how could this person be so cruel?
Zhang Xunzhen glared at him angrily for a while, then suddenly burst into tears. "Why are you like this? I've been begging you for half a year and teaching you for half a year, can't you be nicer to me?"
"My father always reminded me and taught me not to abandon public service for personal reasons, otherwise it is the country that will suffer in the end. Therefore, one code must be treated as one code, and official matters cannot be accommodated." Zhu Zhen blew the green tea soup in the cup and held the cup tightly. dead.
"What about private matters?" Zhang Xunzhen asked in a muffled voice.
King Chu smiled and said: "As for private matters, let's take a look."
"What do you mean, let's see..." Zhang Xunzhen gritted her teeth again. But after a while, she suddenly smiled again and said:
"Then let me go to Beijing with you."
"What are you going for?" Zhu Zhen asked warily.
"I wish my godmother a happy New Year." Zhang Xunzhen said with admiration, "I haven't seen her for several years."
"I left my mother alone and went to accompany my godmother. You are quite filial." Zhu Zhen smiled. Of course he knew that she came to Beijing to intercede with his eldest brother, but he no longer refused:
"Okay. But we have agreed that you are not allowed to speak ill of me in front of your mother. If you say that, I will demolish your Sanqing Palace."
"Don't worry, my whole family is now at your mercy. How dare I say bad things about His Highness?" Zhang Xunzhen looked weak and looked like he was at your mercy, which made people salivate.
Zhu Zhen showed no reaction, yawned and said, "If you have nothing to do, go back. I'm going to bed."
"..." Zhang Xunzhen's hair was instantly messed up, and his defense was finally broken.
Seeing Zhu Zhen pointing his butt at her, she gritted her teeth. This hurt her self-esteem too much.
"Master, please go back. Our Highness needs to take a rest." The maid on the side immediately chased him away...
Zhang Xunzhen had no choice but to leave. When she walked into the courtyard, she looked back at the slowly closing door and whispered with an unconvinced look on her face: "We'll see."
~~
The next morning.
A trumpet sounded from the city gate tower, and the gatekeepers slowly opened the city gate.
The officers and soldiers of the Dusi Yamen rumbled out of the barracks and lined up neatly on both sides of the road, from the gate of the Chief Si Yamen to the dock.
At nine o'clock, the main door of the Chief Secretary's Yamen slowly opened, and the official officials lowered the threshold. Another large group of Imperial Guards came out of the Yamen and lined up within the defense line of the Jiangxi Guardsmen.
Then came the mighty guard of honor. But today, the flags of the two princes could only be moved to the back row. On the big flag with a bucket occupying the first place, there was a line of gold characters flying -
"The imperial government created Jiangxi Chengxuan Political Envoy Secretary Huangce"!
After the ceremonial guard, King Yan personally led 400 horsemen to escort the carriages containing yellow boxes and slowly drove out.
When all the carriages drove out, His Royal Highness the King of Chu led four hundred horsemen to defeat the rear.
The importance of the Yellow Book can be seen as the two His Highnesses escorted him back and forth.
Then, it was Zeng Tai who led a group of Jiangxi officials and representatives of the gentry and common people, who followed behind and sent the yellow papers to Beijing.
Finally, another grand farewell ceremony was held at Zhangjiangmen Pier, and the protagonists were completely pornographic, and the two highnesses did not steal the limelight at all.
After all the yellow books were properly placed, the escort fleet slowly lifted anchor and headed east along the Gan River...
Such a grand scene made the people of Nanchang City both shocked and honored. Unexpectedly, the imperial court paid so much attention to them?
But little did they know that from now on, the imperial court would hold them firmly in its hands through the iron hand of the Yellow Book, the Fish Scale Atlas and the Lijia.
Bind them to this land for generations, let them pay taxes and serve the court honestly, and become the foundation of the empire's strength!
What is centralization of power? This is called centralization of power. It is far from possible to rely solely on force...
