On the second floor of the city tower, the eunuch who delivered the order knelt down to Chang Yu as soon as he came upstairs: "I have humble duty, strict moral character, and come to the factory supervisor."
"Get up and talk." Chang Yu waved slightly, then walked to the window and looked outside: "Does the Emperor have a secret decree?"
"Yes" Yan Deshou took out a letter from his arms and handed it to Chang Yu.
Chang Yu opened it and looked at it for a while, then stuffed it into his arms and took a long breath: "The palace has been peaceful recently."
Hearing this, Yan Deshou approached and smiled slightly: "The palace is very good, and the business of the Royal Horse Supervisor is also very lively."
Chang Yu also smiled. It seemed that the popularity of the boxing match was not diminishing: "How big is it?"
"I don't know exactly how low-level the position is, but I know that the people from the Royal Horse Supervisor have built a theater building in Dashilan and are renovating it!"
Chang Yu smiled again. This boy Zhu Cihong is really obedient and capable. It seems that the business is indeed good. Yan Deshou knew about this, which shows that he had met the prince before coming here.
"Sir, I have something humble to report to you.
Yan Deshou suddenly looked cautious.
"explain"
"The court has been very critical of you recently, and even the capital is full of rumors about you!" Yan Deshou said, secretly looking at Chang Yu's face.
"The prince asked you to tell the governor," Chang Yu said calmly, feeling helpless in his heart. The emperor's ability to control his subordinates really made people feel as good as ice and fire.
Yan Deshou nodded and said yes: "The civil servants and nobles in the court have scolded you for being dictatorial and arrogant, calling you the second Wei Zhongxian. However, various rumors in the capital are attacking you for plundering people's anointing, persecuting officials, and extorting nobles. You are a scourge."
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Chang Yu couldn't help but smile bitterly. Chongzhen used him and trusted him, but on the one hand, he had to prevent him from controlling him. On the one hand, he held you high and gave you a knife to help him do things and kill people. On the other hand, he made you take the blame.
Isolated, despised by thousands of people, and could only hide under his wings, isn't this what Wei Zhongxian is.
"I think all the civil servants in the court don't know who this governor is!" Chang Yu found it funny. He was famous in the inner palace, among the royal relatives and nobles who were blackmailed, but few in the court and the public knew about him.
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"No, the emperor issued an imperial edict. When the news of Jiang Quan's murder reached the capital, those ministers went crazy asking about you. Then all kinds of rumors spread in the capital to smear you," Yan Deshou said in a low voice.
"Even the chief assistant, Mr. Li, is very dissatisfied with you and has repeatedly advised the emperor not to follow the old path of Xizong."
With the civil servants of the Donglin Party who control the direction of public opinion, and the jealousy of those extorted nobles, Chang Yu doesn't even need to think about how far his reputation in the capital has reached at this time.
Qingliu kills people with his mouth and not with a knife. Even if he is lucky enough to escape, he will make a fuss. Chang Yu is well aware of the horror of public opinion persecution, but I have nothing to fear. As long as the people and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty say good things about me, it will be fine. As for those civil servants and nobles, I have to
I'm going to take my time to clean up and play with public opinion, right? I came from an era when there were v and weak trust in the circle of friends. I can drown you even if I buy trolls.
"Sir, I heard that the bandits are in Pingyang Mansion at this time. Taiyuan... are you sure you can hold it?" Yan Deshou asked suddenly.
Chang Yu raised his head and glanced at him: "To be precise, the rebel army is already in Fenzhou Prefecture at this time. If what is expected is true, Fenzhou Prefecture has surrendered at this time."
Ah! Yan Deshou looked horrified: "That, that, Taiyuan..."
"Taiyuan, our family will risk their lives to defend it!" Chang Yu looked out the window, his face extremely cold.
"The emperor said that if Taiyuan cannot be defended, those civil servants will be more radical, which may be more detrimental to you... If you defend Taiyuan, those civil servants will naturally shut up," Yan Deshou said.
Chang Yu smiled slightly. He didn't know what Chongzhen meant by beating, so he nodded: "I understand. You can go down and rest. If you are not in a hurry to return to Beijing, you can stay."
"Back to your lord, your Majesty asked me to leave my humble position as a footman," Yan Deshou said.
Chang Yu nodded: "Go find Zheng Xingguo."
Yan Deshou left, and Chang Yu came out of the side room, only to see Zhou Yuji, Cai Maode and others in the lobby looking at him silently.
"What are you doing? There are a lot of things in front of you. If you don't do them, why are you still sitting here?" Chang Yu frowned.
"Mr. Factory Supervisor, the Emperor asked you to..." Cai Maode said.
"Whatever the emperor asks our family to do is none of your business. Just do your own thing. General Zhou will still be in charge of military affairs, and you will be in charge of civil affairs. Our family can't do anything except abacus, so we should just take care of money and food."
He turned around and walked out: "Let's go to the Wang Mansion."
Everyone was stunned by what he said. This little eunuch really didn't follow common sense. He said he wouldn't interfere in military affairs, but he really didn't interfere! It seems that he is not completely a liar, well, he is a liar who keeps his word.
As soon as Chang Yu and Chun Xiang and others came down from the tower, they bumped into Tang Potian who was in high spirits.
When he got up and washed up, Chang Yu learned from Chunxiang that Tang Potian returned to the city at dawn. It seemed that he had slept until now, but Wu Mengming was missing. I guess he was still asleep.
"Where are you going, factory supervisor? Have you ever eaten? If you haven't eaten, I would like to ask you to find a place to have something to drink." Tang Potian smiled. He had a good personal relationship with Chang Yu and didn't always talk to him like others.
Be cautious.
"What time is it?" Chang Yu curled his lips: "It's almost dark before you have lunch."
"It's dark and I have nothing to do to drink." Tang Potian was still laughing and joking, and seemed to be in a good mood.
"Okay, you can't afford the wine at our house, so you should go to the palace to drink some fine wine."
"Oh, it turns out that your Excellency is going to the palace. I would like to accompany you there for my own good."
"Don't bother me. I'm going to visit you. I'm going empty-handed and talking so much. I can't afford to lose that person."
Chang Yu flatly refused, and then asked in a low voice: "Hide the money well."
"Well, the heavy defense is very low-key." Tang Potian winked.
"Let's give out all the money, as we agreed before. Besides, the brothers have been working too hard recently, so let them take the money to have some fun and relax," Chang Yu said.
Tang Potian was overjoyed: "To be honest, this is why I came to you in my humble position." He winked as he said this, looking wretched.
"As soon as you open your mouth, I know what you're going to do." Chang Yu said, "Remember to separate the camps. Don't run out all at once and no one will see the money. The money is our private property, and we have told them to find it."
It’s okay to have fun, but don’t cause trouble.”
"knew"
Tang Potian flew away.
"Would you like to go relax and have some fun too?"
Chang Yu turned around and asked Chun Xin, Jiang Quan and his attendants.
Three hundred people from the eunuch army left the capital this time. Several of the leaders were Chang Yu's confidants, who were living in the military camp at this time. Chunxiang and Jiang Quan were his confidants, and they took the twenty strongest men in the eunuch army with them.
Protecting Chang Yu closely, he never got a good rest.
"What's there to relax about?" Chunxiang pouted. The so-called fun is nothing more than eating, drinking, whoring and gambling.
Eat, he can eat whatever he can with Chang Yu.
Drink, eunuchs themselves don’t like wine, and it’s better to drink less when they are responsible for their duties.
Look, what, you fucking say it again.
Gambling, this thing is okay, but firstly, how many people have gambled in the palace, and secondly, it is easy to be cheated by people who are not familiar with the place.
Therefore, they and their attendants were not interested and thought it would be better to follow Chang Yu to the palace to learn more. As for those soldiers who like to have fun, it is completely understandable. They are all licking blood with the tip of a knife. After today, there is no tomorrow.
If you have wine today, get drunk today.
There is a popular saying in Taiyuan that first there was the Palace of the Prince of Jin and then there was Taiyuan City.
There is some truth in this saying. Taiyuan City was relocated in every dynasty from the Tang Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty. As early as the first generation of the Jin Dynasty, the third eldest son of Zhu Yuanzhang's family, Zhu Fan, entrusted his father-in-law, Marquis Yongping, to help him build the city before he came to dominate Taiyuan.
Why did Zhu Laosan build a city when others built a vassal palace?
In the Song Dynasty, Taiyuan was just a small earthen city with a circumference of less than ten miles. By the end of the Yuan Dynasty, it had gone through several wars and had already become dilapidated and dilapidated, with ten rooms and nine empty rooms, comparable to Lanruo Temple.
After Xie Cheng arrived in Taiyuan, he surveyed the geography and felt that the legacy of the old Song family was too dilapidated and not as rich as the Tang elders, so he wanted to rebuild here. However, as soon as the foundation piles were laid, a strong wind blew down these infrastructures. The ancients
Superstitious, I thought that the old Zhu family might not be able to suppress Elder Tang's heritage, so they had no choice, so they built the city on the foundation of the old Song family and expanded it in three directions: southeast, north and south. Of course, the palace also started construction at the same time as the city was being built. According to the west of the palace
The wall is the East City Wall from the Song Dynasty.
The palace has four gates, namely Donghua Gate, Nanhua Gate, Xihua Gate, and Houzai Gate. Nanhua Gate is the main entrance of the palace. Donghua Gate is adjacent to Yichun Gate, one of the east gates of Taiyuan City, and outside Nanhua Gate is the gate of Taiyuan Palace.
The government offices, the Chief's Office, the Governor's Office, and the Taiyuan Prefecture are all over there. As for the outside of the north gate, it is relatively desolate, with only the Bao'en Temple.
It was getting dark, so Chang Yu rode in a hurry. After a while, he arrived outside the Nanhua Gate of the palace. Only the servants of the palace came to report his name.
Unlike when he asked to see the king in Datong, Chang Yu had no power or influence at that time. He even had to pretend to be a young eunuch from Dongchang to visit him, and he also had to recruit Wei Jingyuan and Wu Mengming to strengthen his influence.
But this time it was different. He was the factory supervisor of the Ming Dynasty East Factory, and he was also ordered to supervise Taiyuan's military affairs. The rising tide lifted all boats, and he was confident enough to come to the door single-handedly.
The factory supervisor's sign really worked. In a short period of time, Chang Yu was welcomed into the palace by the palace chief, walked through the corridors and halls, and finally met King Jin in the Yinuan Palace.
When they met, both of them were shocked, obviously they didn't expect the other person to be so young.
The history of the Ming Dynasty has been tampered with beyond recognition, and there are countless contradictions. Take the king of Jin as an example. Many historical materials say that the last king of Jin, Zhu Qiugui, was born in 1610 and died in 1644. He was killed by bandits after they broke into the city.
In fact, Zhu Qiugui died in 1630, the third year of Chongzhen's reign. Did he only live to be twenty years old?
In fact, the birthday is unreliable. The last king of Jin was not Zhu Qiugui but his son Zhu Shenxuan (xuan), who only became king five years after his father's death. He was not killed by the Qing court until 1648, but his birthday is also unknown.
It's not reliable, but since his father died early, and he was hastily made the crown prince in the year of his death, and he was granted the title of prince five years later, it can be deduced that he should be young, so Chang Yu was mentally prepared.
However, when I first saw him, I was still shocked. At first glance, I saw that he was a young prince who was sixteen or seventeen years old.