Zhu Biao quietly pulled Zhu Bai and whispered: "You will be rewarded if you are alone."
Zhu Bai grinned: "As long as I stay with my father, the emperor and my queen, I won't feel sleepy."
Over there, Zhu Xi took the jewelry back to the palace and gave it all to Deng Zhiqiu.
Deng Zhiqiu took a hairpin and put it in her bun, and asked Zhu Xi with a smile: "Does it look good?"
Zhu Xi was slightly drunk, so he held her in his arms and kissed her hard: "She looks good. My Qiu'er looks good in anything she wears."
The female officer in the palace timidly stepped forward to remind Zhu Ping: "Your Highness, the emperor's rewards should be given to the principal concubine, who will distribute them to the concubines and concubines."
Zhu Feng turned cold and cursed: "Fart, my king's things should be given to whomever you like. If anyone wants to be nagging again, please be careful that I serve you with a stick."
The female officer shrank and said, "Your Highness, this is a palace regulation. If the emperor finds out and blames you..."
Zhu Xiang became angry instantly. He turned around, drew a stick from the side and walked over, saying viciously: "Do I give you face on weekdays? You, a sixth-grade female officer, dare to point fingers at me. It just so happens that today
Let’s establish a prestige and see who dares to defend that woman.”
The female officer was so frightened that she knelt on the ground: "Your Highness, please calm down."
Wang Xiaoyue came to stop Zhu Xi: "Your Majesty, the female officer is just doing her duty, not deliberately protecting the concubine. According to the law, the female officer is the emperor's personal order, just like the ministers in the court. Even if she makes a mistake, she must report it to the empress and the emperor.
To punish."
Zhu Fang scolded: "You, a daughter of a subjugated country, have what qualifications do you have to wear our Ming Dynasty's jewelry, what qualifications do you have to manage my king's harem, and what qualifications do you have to speak about the laws of the Ming Dynasty? Get out of my way, or I'll beat you too."
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When the female officer saw that she couldn't stop him, she stood up and ran away.
Deng Zhiqiu hugged Zhu Ping and said, "It's Chinese New Year, please stop making trouble."
Zhu Xiang threw the stick away angrily and went in to sleep.
When he woke up and looked back, he regretted that he had been too impulsive after drinking last night.
Fortunately, I don't know if the female officer didn't complain.
Nothing happened all night.
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Zhu Biao and Zhu Bai accompanied Zhu Yuanzhang to play chess. When the time passed, Zhu Yuanzhang rewarded each of them with an additional ten taels of gold before letting them go back to sleep.
Zhu Bai drank a little vegetarian wine while having dinner.
The wine is sweet in the mouth, has no alcoholic taste, but has a strong aftertaste.
He was very sleepy now and yawned as he walked.
In the dark night sky, a ray of light flashed across, with a long tail, like a whisk or a broom.
Zhu Bai opened his mouth wide and stood there. Then he suddenly woke up and pointed over there: "Hey, comet."
Zhu Biao's face changed drastically: "The stars have changed. There will be a great disaster."
Zhu Bai comforted him: "Don't worry, it won't happen. I'm telling you, this is just a stone from the sky that has just fallen."
The little bit of reason he had left reminded him not to talk about the solar system or the eight planets, otherwise he would be regarded as a monster.
Zhu Biao couldn't listen at all. He thought he was just a child talking nonsense, and he just frowned slightly and said nothing.
Zhu Bai went back and fell asleep.
He was still a little confused when he was woken up by whispers outside. He stared at the carved mahogany bed top, and it took him a while to realize where he was.
Look, the sun is already rising outside.
There is no need to go to school or go to court today, which is a rare leisure time.
People outside continued to talk.
"The stars changed last night. The Heavenly Supervisor said that the five stars were out of alignment and the sun and moon were in phase..."
"Well, there was drought everywhere last year, and I don't know what kind of disaster there will be this year."
"Amitabha, I hope nothing big happens."
Zhu Bai listened for a while and suddenly realized that this was what Liu Bowen said in prison that day, an opportunity to persuade the kings to give up the idea of vassalage.
He frowned: That old sage wouldn't think that Lao Zhu would be afraid of some changes in the stars, and then he would give up the dark side and turn to the bright side, and his advice would flow from now on.
Just as he was thinking about it, another voice came from outside: "Hey, have you heard? The floor of His Royal Highness the Prince's palace collapsed last night and a big hole fell in."
"Ah, there is such a thing?"
"Yes. The emperor is furious and has already asked the Ministry of Industry to send someone to look at it."
Zhu Bai smacked his lips: It was really noisy this night.
There was another voice outside, and it was the little eunuch next to the eunuch in charge: "The emperor asked His Royal Highness King Xiang if he has gotten up. If he does, go to the East Palace. The emperor and the empress are waiting for him there."
Then Fugui knocked on the door: "Your Highness, are you awake?"
Zhu Bai sighed: Why should I be called over for a shoddy project?
I'm not a contractor.
The key point is that Lao Zhu specially asked someone to come and call me, so I had to go.
Zhu Bai got up as if being urged to death by wealth, slowly washed up, and then went over.
He stood at the door of Zhu Biao's bedroom and woke up immediately.
Mainly because the hole was so big that it occupied almost half of the room, and the crack extended to the edge of the bed.
If it were bigger, wouldn't Zhu Bai fall into the hole right after getting up at night?
He stared at the hole in a daze.
Zhu Yuanzhang said: "Here you come? Tell me what good ideas you have."
Zhu Bai turned around and found that Zhu Yuanzhang had stood beside him at some point.
Lao Zhu looked depressed as if he was "owed eight million dollars and has not paid back".
Zhu Biao and Queen Ma's expressions were not much better.
Zhu Bai could understand them: the new house that had been built at a large cost was about to collapse after only a few years of living there, and no one would be happy to replace it.
Zhu Bai's face wrinkled: "This is a matter of the Ministry of Industry. I'm still a child..."
Zhu Yuanzhang said: "The Ministry of Industry has been repeating the same sentence over and over again. It said that this place was built by filling Yanque Lake and the foundation is unstable."
Zhu Bai tilted his head and thought for a while: It is also possible. Since it was a lake before, the bottom must be full of silt, and maybe there is groundwater. Over time, the groundwater took away the mud, and the ground collapsed.
Zhu Yuanzhang gritted his teeth and said: "This land was chosen by Liu Bowen, the old magician. He said that the 'Zhongfu Longpan' here is the 'Emperor's House'. I asked 200,000 people to move three mountains of stones to finally fill it."
It was built flat, but after only a short time of living there, the wall cracked and the ground collapsed. Killing him to fill the hole would be just right!"
Zhu Bai's heart beat wildly twice.
Damn it, it’s Liu Shengun again.
Why am I always wiping his butt lately?!
Zhu Biao hurriedly said: "Father, the feng shui here is excellent. The subsidence is not Master Liu's fault."
Zhu Yuanzhang nodded: "Then the person who supervised the construction of the Ministry of Works was wrong, it was Liu Bowen."
Zhu Bai couldn't laugh or cry: When did Liu Bowen take charge of the Ministry of Industry?
The palace must have been built under the supervision of "Empire Grand Steward" Li Shanchang.
Isn't Zhu Yuanzhang just telling lies with his eyes open?
"Arrest Liu Bowen." Zhu Yuanzhang turned to Erhu and said.
"According to the order." Erhu left immediately.
Zhu Bai pursed his lips: Tsk, I’ve been working on it for a long time, and all my efforts have been in vain.
Lao Zhu let Liu Bowen out on New Year's Eve and took him back on the first day of the new year.
This is equivalent to letting Liu Bowen spend the New Year at home.
Zhu Biao wants to speak.
Zhu Yuanzhang raised his hand and said: "No need to persuade me. Don't arrest this bastard. He will definitely use the star change to stop the enfeoffment. This is called striking first to gain the upper hand."
