Try your luck, who doesn't come here to try your luck? Chang Yu, who was washing his face by the river, looked at the slowly opening city gate and raised the corner of his mouth, calling his men to pack up quickly and prepare to enter the city.
The plan for the day is in the morning, when the city gates are wide open and there is a constant flow of people. Some are entering the city to make a living, and some are leaving the city to work. Chang Yu and his party are divided into two groups. One group goes with him to try his luck at Prince Lu's Mansion, and the other group is led by Qiao Sanxiu.
He went to spread rumors in the city. The reason why he was asked to go was because Qiao Sanxiu looked honest and simple, while Chen Wangting's appearance was too eye-catching and obvious.
As a prefectural city, there are gatekeepers at the city gate, only three or five of them, even sleepy-eyed. Looking at Jia Chang Yu and his group of dozens of riders, they are a little confused and want to ask but don't dare to open their mouths.
"What are you looking at!" Wuzhong raised his whip, frightening several guards to avoid retreating and retreating in embarrassment, but this man laughed and walked away.
"Fuck, what's the background? It can't be thieves," one person muttered, but was kicked by another person: "I'm blind, didn't you see that their weapons, bows and arrows are all issued by the imperial court, and the brands on the war horses are all official horses.
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"Hehe, Boss Xiang still has good eyesight, but I don't know where he came from?"
"No need to ask, who else is so arrogant in Shandong Province besides Liu Zeqing's troops from Jinan? I guess they are going... Hey, look, they really went to North City."
Although Yanzhou is a capital city, it is not very big. Prince Lu's Palace is located in the north city, accounting for one-third of the city and is comparable to Prince De's Palace in Jinan.
Chang Yu asked for the way, and after a hundred steps on horseback, he saw the cornices of Prince Lu's Mansion in the distance. Chen Wangting was slightly surprised and said: "Two years ago, the Tatars broke into Yanzhou City and the Prince Lu's Mansion was robbed. The repair speed is so fast, it seems that there is a way to do it."
It’s not necessarily true that King Lu has no money.”
"No, no," Chang Yu shook his head: "Although the palace was robbed, there was very little damage, and although the family property was dispersed, it is still there."
In fact, this is indeed the case. In the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, the Qing army broke into Yanzhou City. Three of the four city gates were burned down. All the houses in the city were burned down. The wealth accumulated by the Lu Palace for more than 200 years was also looted. However, the luckiest thing among misfortunes was that
, the palace buildings were not greatly damaged. This is proved by some documentary records in the early Qing Dynasty. For example, the poet Fang Wen (Er Zhi) of the early Qing Dynasty visited Yanzhou in the seventeenth year of Shunzhi (1660), and his "Tushan Collection"
There is a poem titled "Yanzhou" in "Lu Youcao": "Everyone in a county is destroyed by war, but King Lu's palace is alone in peace. The survivors should not go to the top of the city to look, because the grass is so luxuriant that it is unbearable to look at it."
There is another song "Lu Forbidden City", in which there is a sentence "There are doubts that the spiritual light will not be destroyed", and the self-note says: "Yanzhou was repeatedly destroyed, all the people's houses were burned, but the Duxi Palace was intact." However, after the middle of the Qing Dynasty, the poet wrote another story.
What a scene. Zhang Tinggui's poem "Nostalgia for the Palace of Lu" goes: "Lu Feng has not seen the Linghuo Palace, but the towering walls here are still there. The green tiles are piled with long autumn grass, and the path is covered with moss and covered with cold smoke. Half a bay of flowing water is outside the lonely temple.
A few trees are perched with crows falling by the side. It is like a place of singing and dancing in Hengyang, with wind and cold rain coming every year." It was prosperous back then, but now apart from the ruined walls, only the farmland of grain and millet is left.
It can be seen from this that compared with the devastation of the family in Prince De's palace, there is at least another family in Prince Lu's house.
However, the palace that has been abandoned for two years still looks dilapidated, with mottled walls and overgrown vines and weeds. However, the gate of the palace is still clean.
When Chang Yu arrived in front of the palace, two servants were spraying water. Seeing such a group of people, he was slightly nervous: "You, what are you doing?"
"Please inform me that Chang Yu from Dongchang is here to visit the prince." Chang Yu raised his hand on the horse, and the servant said: "Wait a moment" and turned around and trotted into the prince's palace.
After a while, the door to the palace opened with a creak, and a young man came out panting and looked at Chang Yu and his party: "Who is Eunuch Chang?".
This young man is the current King of Lu Zhu Yihai, the sixth younger brother of the former King of Lu Zhu Yi. He is now twenty-six years old.
Chang Yu hurriedly greeted him and saluted: "Chang Yu pays homage to the prince."
But I was surprised that King Lu was too polite. After all, the vassal king did not need to greet a eunuch in person, and even the eunuch did not need to run over.
But in the blink of an eye, he understood the key
First of all, Zhu Yihai must have heard of his reputation.
Secondly, the reason why Zhu Yihai lowered his figure like this is because he is a Diaosi vassal king.
The German King Zhu Youli was miserable enough. He took over a ruined palace, had no power, no money, and even had the great warlord Liu Zeqing riding on his head and was unable to resist. But at least he had land and food.
As for Zhu Yihai, he was just a fool. Two years ago, the Qing army broke into Yanzhou and almost slaughtered all the princes. He escaped with his life and wandered among the people, no different from a beggar. It was not until February this year that the imperial court issued an order for him to attack the prince. The change of begging.
As a vassal king, he has been a lord for only a few months. Apart from the title of vassal king, he has no money, food, power, influence or hair.
Although most of the buildings in the palace are still there, they have been in disrepair for two years and it will cost a lot of money to repair them. He didn't have any, so he could only clean them up first and make room for them, and do the other things slowly. After all, as long as the palace fiefdom is still there, there will always be some.
Money.
But right now, he is a real loser.
So when he suddenly heard that the most powerful eunuch of the Ming Dynasty came to visit him, how could he not be excited and put down his posture? To put it bluntly, he had the same thoughts as Zhu Youli and hugged him.
But in front of me, this young man is really the legendary eunuch of Dongchang who is invincible in all battles? Are you sure he is not a bandit leader?
Shouldn't eunuchs all have fair faces, feminine and evil looks, talk like a woman, and go out either in a car or a sedan?
Although the man in front of me is young, he has a tall and straight figure and an extraordinary strength. His complexion is not white, and it looks like he has been exposed to wind, rain and sun for a long time.
Zhu Yihai hesitated.
He raised his eyebrows: "Your Excellency, you are really..."
Before he finished speaking, Chang Yu took out all his ID cards, and his subordinates also showed their Dongchang waist badges. Zhu Yihai had no doubts and enthusiastically welcomed Chang Yu and his entourage into the palace: "How come Eunuch Chang is here?"
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"I was ordered to go south to quell the chaos. When I came, the emperor told me to pass by Yanzhou and see you," Chang Yu said casually. Zhu Yihai almost burst into tears and kept thanking him.
Chang Yu quietly looked at the young prince next to him, because in historical materials, Zhu Yihai was also a legendary figure. It was rumored that after the city of Beijing was captured, when the Qing army entered the pass to attack Yanzhou, the then guard Liu Zecheng accepted bribes from the Qing army and abandoned the city.
, when the city was broken, Zhu Yihai disguised himself as a shepherd and escaped, but was exposed. A Qing army killed him with a knife, but missed three times. The Qing army was shocked and said, "You are very lucky, I will not harm you" and let him escape. Later, he became the leader of Nanming.
Supervise the country and almost become emperor.
I don’t know whether the theory of three missed swords is true or not, but it is true that he is a great blessing. He lived for decades longer when he became a prisoner, and he died a good death compared to other vassal kings.
The main hall of the palace was still dilapidated, even the furniture, but it was very clean. Chang Yu glanced around, picked up the teacup and took a sip, and sighed secretly. It was a waste of time to come here, let alone the oil in this place.