After listening to Zhu Liu's words, Wang Xian felt depressed. It was like trying hard to pursue a beautiful woman, only to find out that she is actually a fake. The feeling of encountering a fake girl is as uncomfortable as it is.
After being silent for a while, he finally regained his composure and looked at Zhu Liudao with a half-smile: "Is this the same twelve years ago?"
"Twelve years ago..." Zhu Liu's eyes showed a look of reminiscence, and he said with some pride: "Of course not. At that time, the emperor rebuilt the Jinyi Guards. Each of our eight brothers held important positions. Although Ji Gang was in command, he also had to watch
Our faces... It's a pity..." He gritted his teeth angrily and said: "It's a pity that we are just a group of warriors after all, and our scheming can't compare to that of Ji Gang who drank ink.
The fourth brother and I are the only ones left in Jinyiwei, and the ninth brother is still holding on."
"Master Jiu doesn't seem to be very successful." Wang Xian felt... secretly happy when he thought that Master Zhu Jiu, who was so awesome back then, had become his subordinate.
"It's not just him. Although my fourth brother is a fellow intellectual, he has also been ignored like me." Zhu Liu sighed.
"It seems that Governor Ji is really good at it." Wang Xian had some doubts.
"That's natural, otherwise we can stand for more than ten years?" Zhu Liu smiled bitterly: "But we can't blame others for this. It was our brothers who felt that we should follow the emperor to conquer the world and we should enjoy it. At that time, we only knew how to fight.
A martial artist who lets others cheat him and is grateful to them, but when he reacts and wants to fight back, his balls have been pinched and he cannot move, so he can only let others slaughter him. "
Wang Xian's head was getting bigger. How could he not hear that this old guy was hinting that he couldn't help him openly? He couldn't help but feel angry: "My love journey will be in vain."
"No way." Zhu Liu shook his head and smiled: "I was quite respectful to Ji Gang before, so he has always been polite to me. It was only in the past two years that his disciples and disciples came up and started to ignore me.
." He said with a cold smile: "But I haven't just lived in the past twelve years. Most of the officials and junior officials in Beizhen Fusi were promoted by me at that time, although I don't dare to know it now.
Please help me, but there is something wrong in Jinyiwei, and it cannot escape my ears."
"That's good," Wang Xianxin said. As expected, none of these spirited guys wanted to marry each other. Unfortunately, I almost thought you were a martial artist just now. Then he asked in a deep voice: "What were they looking for at the fire scene last night?"
Zhu Liuye looked at him approvingly and said with a smile: "Sure enough, with such a great reputation, Wu Xu Shi can see the problem at a glance."
Wang Xian touched his nose shyly. This was the second person to say this today. It seemed that he was indeed somewhat famous... He was a fan of the authorities, and he had never returned to Beijing. He didn't know how famous he was now.
The game in Shanxi was regarded by the government and the public as the King of Han's final stranglehold on the prince. Everyone felt that the overall situation was decided and the prince had no hope at all... Think about it, the princelings were almost wiped out by the emperor, and in the end they had to give up.
The boy went into battle. In the eyes of the government and the public at that time, if the prince could win this battle, that would be hell.
The result was truly amazing. Wang Xian came out of nowhere and almost single-handedly suppressed the King of Jin. He wiped out all Shanxi official circles and cleared the wrongdoing of the prince. He then turned around and attacked Guangling County by surprise, defeating more with less.
The surrender of the White Lotus demon not only wiped away the shame of Jiulongkou for the grandson, but also won the grandson a good reputation for benevolence. This job was really and beautifully done.
So much so that both the government and the public were asking, where did Wang Xian come from? You have to be famous as early as possible. He was less than twenty years old, which gave him a dazzling aura. That is to say, he himself has not yet
He realized that he had become the hot and fresh fried chicken of the Ming Dynasty. His reputation was like the number one scholar who came out every three years. Otherwise, the emperor would not have handed over Beizhen Fusi to him. After all, even the dictatorial emperor of the Sacred Heart,
Qualifications should also be considered when employing people.
"They were looking for someone last night." Zhu Liu confirmed Wang Xian's guess and further revealed: "They are looking for a few North Koreans."
"North Koreans?" Wang Xian looked stern, "So, the fire last night was not an accident?"
"No," Zhu Liu said calmly: "It's right to say it wasn't an accident, because the fire was ignited artificially. It's right to say it was an accident, because no one expected that the wind would suddenly rise and the fire would spread instantly.
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"Who set the fire?" Wang Xianxin said that he had indeed made the right move. Although Zhu Liu was unable or unwilling to help him directly, he had enough information to give him some guidance.
"It's hard to say, anyway, it's not Jinyi Weiyu's." Zhu Liudao: "I was on the Wufeng Tower when the fire broke out. Others were watching the fireworks in the sky, but I kept staring at the scene and saw that the fire came from a lantern mountain.
It burned, and the intensity of the fire was beyond imagination. It must have used a lot of sulfur, saltpeter, kerosene and other things." After a pause, he decided to tell the truth: "Later I went down to take a look,
That lantern mountain was burned to ashes, but the framework of the other lantern mountains is still there." He looked at Wang Xiandao: "And I checked that lantern mountain and it was built by a North Korean businessman named Cui Chengtaek."
"Are they the Koreans again?" Wang Xian said calmly: "Are they the same group as the Koreans Jin Yiwei is looking for?
"It's not a group, but the relationship is very close." Zhu Liu said slowly: "What Jinyiwei is looking for is a North Korean official who disappeared from the mission and several of his subordinates. And the North Korean businessman Cui Chengze has settled in Ming Dynasty
It has been more than ten years, otherwise he would not have passed the review of Ying Tianfu and allowed him to erect a lantern mountain on Yuqian Street." He said with some gloating: "Erecting a lantern mountain during the Lantern Festival has become a way for wealthy businessmen to show off their wealth.
This is a way to please the emperor. In fact, people who are not of our kind should not be believed in him for many years in the Ming Dynasty. Only nerds like Xue Zhengyan believe in bullshit.
This is the end of Xia Ying Tianfu Yin. His responsibility for this fire is not small."
Speaking of which, Wang Xian admired Xue Fuyin even more. Ying Tianfu had found loopholes in the review and allowed too many lantern mountains to be set up too densely, which were the causes of the disaster. Xue Fuyin must have known that he could not escape.
However, he did not panic at all, nor did he hide anything. Instead, he actively helped himself solve the case. He never thought of shirk the responsibility, and did not even ask Wang Xian to help exonerate him. Is this the character of a scholar-bureaucrat? In any case, compared to the rats in Shanxi
, it’s really like heaven and earth. We are both scholars, so why is there such a big gap?
Zhu Liuye was talking eloquently, and unknowingly he was completely different from the rude warrior image Wang Xian saw at the beginning. It was obvious that he was pretending to coax Wang Xian just now. However, Wang Xian had no time to argue with him, so he continued:
"This fire probably has nothing to do with Cui Chengze. When Jin Yiwei came to the door, his whole family was still in the dark. No matter how crazy this guy is, he won't even ignore his son."
"Where is the missing North Korean official?" Wang Xian asked.
"Brother, can we not mention this?" Mr. Zhu Liu looked at him strangely and lowered his voice: "It's not that I don't want to tell you, but it's for your own good."
"I understand." Wang Xian nodded and said, "But you just say it and I listen to it. If you really can't listen, I just pretend I didn't hear it, okay?"
"Okay, then just think that I told you a story." Zhu Liuye picked up the wine cup and took a sip. He was so poisoned by the storyteller that he was almost shocked. "This matter has to start from the beginning.
Speaking of it seven years ago..."
"Pfft..." Wang Xian almost spat out his drink and said with a wry smile: "Sixth Master, where is your dragon gate array? Let's keep the story short?" Normally, he would like to hear secret gossip and the like, but this time
I'm pressed for time. I have to deliver the job in two days.
"Then let me tell you briefly." Zhu Liuye said sadly: "In the sixth year of Yongle, Huang and others were sent as envoys to North Korea and ordered the King of North Korea to select beautiful women to fill the harem. So the King of North Korea ordered a nationwide ban on marriage.
, select beauties for donation. At first, no one in North Korea was willing to send women to Jinling thousands of miles away to be palace maids, so the ones selected were all mediocre women..."
Wang Xian is so depressed. How can this be a brief statement? But this thing is indeed very interesting - I, the emperor of China, gave an order that Koreans could not get married in the whole country, so they obediently offered beautiful women. It was really a hegemonic style.
Although I can't enjoy it myself, it still feels a bit like a great country and a proud people, and a sense of glory.
Then I heard the old man continue to say in a measured tone: "As a result, Huang was furious, scolded the king of Korea, and ordered him to make a new selection. When the king saw the angel angry, he was frightened, and then he took action seriously and ordered all the officials.
The selection efforts were intensified, and local governments were notified at the same time that regardless of the size of the official position or the level of the title, all daughters should be sent to the government for review. If they are beautiful, they will be selected. If they are hiding or using acupuncture, hair cutting, applying medicine, etc.
Anyone who evades selection will be put to death."
Suddenly, Wang Xian found that his affection for Zhu Di increased a lot because of this. This is the whole world, could it be Wang Tu?
"In short, this time, we collected all the beauties from North Korea and sent them to the capital for Huang and the others to carefully select. Finally, they selected five stunning beauties." Although Zhu Liuye was extremely loyal to the emperor, when it came to those five
A North Korean beauty, she couldn't help but swallowed her saliva and said: "I went to Liaodong to welcome them, and I took the liberty to see the true appearance of these five empresses. They were really... all like gods, but compared to all the empresses in the palace.
Go down." After saying that, he quickly explained for the women of the Ming Dynasty: "This does not mean that the women of the Ming Dynasty are not as beautiful as North Korea. It is that the emperor drafted women in the country, and the people in the country were also very resistant. The saint is benevolent and unwilling to force, and as a result
Although the selected ones are all beauties, they are not enough to compare with the five most beautiful women in North Korea."
Wang Xian nodded, thinking that no wonder the concubines in the late Qing Dynasty looked so ghostly. It turned out that the imperial power was not clear, and the people below were so perfunctory.