After finishing the memorial, Qi Tai asked: "Your Highness, a messenger has reported that the three guards of King Lu and the officials of Yanzhou Prefecture appointed by Your Majesty will arrive this afternoon. When will Your Highness set out for the northern tour?"
Yunxi said: "We will set off tomorrow. I don't want to stay in Yanzhou anymore."
Qi Tai asked again: "Who can handle the affairs of Yanzhou Prefecture temporarily?"
Yunxi thought for a while and said: "Now that our colleague Qiao Yi has not been found to be involved in corruption, let him temporarily serve as the magistrate of Yanzhou, but he cannot be allowed to handle corruption cases."
Qitai agreed and went down to prepare for the handover of matters in Ziyang County.
Not long after lunch, the officials from various Yamen in Yanzhou newly appointed by Lao Zhu arrived in Yanzhou City. Yunxi met these officials at King Lu Sanwei Yamen and said to them very solemnly: "You should know why the Yamen in Yanzhou are so big."
The reason for the change. Such a major corruption case has been second only to the Kongyin case since the founding of the People's Republic of China. I hope you, the officials of the Ming Dynasty, will take this as a warning and not repeat the same mistakes. You must know that the law will not tolerate mercy." Then let them.
Let’s go and take care of everyone’s reception.
Then Yunxi happily said to an official who had not left: "Qing Lian, you are finally here."
Lian Zining saluted and said: "Your Highness, things in the capital are in chaos. It took me two days to complete the handover with Jing Qing, so I just came to Yanzhou Mansion today."
Yunxi joked with him: "I'm really uncomfortable without you these days; Qi Tai is not rigid, but he is very business-like; Qin Song doesn't talk much; Guo Zhen and others don't know what to do.
Get along with me in private."
Lian Zining pretended to be angry and said: "Your Highness, you treat me as an actor or something? I don't think so." Then he laughed.
Yunxi also laughed. Then Yunxi told him what was happening in the capital these days.
Lian Zining said: "Your Highness, after receiving the letter from Your Highness, the Holy One immediately sent the Chief of the Palace of Lu to see him and asked him about the matter. The Chief of the Palace of Lu could not answer, so the Holy One ordered him to be detained and his home to be searched.
On top of the money I got, I also have a lot of jewelry and antiques."
"His Majesty ordered that the chief historian of the Prince of Lu's Palace be skinned and dried like a local official, his eldest son was executed, and the rest of the family was exiled to Lin'an Prefecture in Yunnan Province. His Majesty also called His Highness the Prince of Lu to his side and said a few words, and re-appointed the chief historian of the Prince of Lu's Palace."
"Furthermore, Duke Xin passed away on Wuchen Day. His Majesty took the title of King of Kaiping, King of Jining, and King of Qianning to express his condolences in person. He was also granted the posthumous title of King of Dongou and his posthumous title of Xiangwu."
Yunxi couldn't help but feel sad when he heard the news. By the time of Tang He's death, all the dukes and counts conferred by Lao Zhu in the third year of Hongwu, except Geng Bingwen, had all passed away. (Guo Ying, Cao Zhen and others were later conferred titles.
) The generation of military generals who were so powerful in the East has withered away. I hope their descendants can achieve the same reputation as their predecessors.
Then Yunxi told Lian Zining about other things in the capital. After everything was finished, Yunxi was about to go back to where he was staying, but Lian Zining took out a letter and handed it to Yunxi without saying anything.
Yunxi took it, and then Lian Zining bowed and left.
Yunxi was confused. As he walked back, he opened the envelope casually. When he opened it, he saw on the letterhead: My concubine Xue Xiyao bows down.
Yunxi was stunned for a moment, then quickly walked a few steps back to his dormitory, unfolded the entire letter and read it.
Xiyao didn't have anything to do in the letter. She just said that she had left the affairs of the Wenhua Palace to her sister Xiyi, and that she was now concentrating on the care of the fetus. The imperial doctor checked her pulse every day, and that she, Wenying and others
The meeting, as well as the summons of His Majesty Meng, Concubine Guo Ning and others, are all trivial family matters. At the end, I wrote: 'The flowers are blooming on the road.'
It was Xiyao's own idea to write this letter. Although she did not dare to go beyond the limits in Wenhua Hall, she felt Yunxi's love and care for her, like a family member; Lao Zhu was also quite kind, especially after she became pregnant.
She was even more concerned about her; other people didn't dare to put on airs in front of her, they were all kind or respectful. Yunxi himself was not bad, so Xiyao, who was only fifteen years old, was lost in such a life, and she was very interested in Yunxi.
He gave his sincerity.
So Xiyao wrote such a letter to Yunxi based on the relationship between her parents and asked Lian Zining to deliver it on her behalf.
If it were another emperor or quasi-emperor, Xiyao's final outcome would have been to show his sincerity to a blind man and then be deposed, or to be completely frustrated and fall into the struggle for power in the harem. But who made Yunxi a time traveler?
Yunxi was very disgusted with the cruel political struggles in the harem in the past dynasties. After marrying the Xue sisters, he considered whether to admit new people into the palace several times. Although he had not yet completely made up his mind to "give up an entire forest for two trees", he still liked it.
This kind of harmonious situation between husband and wife.
So Yunxi was very moved after reading Xiyao's letter. Especially the last part "Flowers Blooming on Moshang", which is a subtle expression of missing him!
He started to write a reply: 'Is there anything troublesome in the palace? You are raising a baby now, so don't worry about everything and let Xiyi take care of it. If anything happens to the Xue family, wait until your husband returns to Beijing...'
Yunhe wrote a lot, and until he finished the whole piece of paper, he was still unfinished. He found another piece of paper and wrote: "Although I don't read much, I have heard this sentence; I wish my husband and I to
In this life, people are like King Qian Wusu and Queen Wu.'
Then he took an envelope, folded the letter paper, put it in, sealed it, and pasted a piece of paper on it that read: My wife personally opens it.
Then he put an envelope in, put the envelope in, sealed it, and called the young eunuch who was accompanying him to come over and said: "Seal this letter with Gu's seal, and then send it to the hereditary commander of the Jinyi Guards in the capital (Jilu), King Wu
The rear guard commanded the Xue family." The young eunuch took the order and went to the inn.
Then Yunxi read Xiyao's letter several times before dealing with other matters.
In the morning of the next day, the handover of affairs in each yamen had been completed, so everyone packed their bags and set off from the north gate to continue their northern tour.
Qiao Yi, the acting magistrate of Yanzhou Prefecture, and the newly appointed commander of King Lu's three left guards, and the former commander of Wu Dewei, Chu Zhi (Chapter 45), represented officials from various yamen in Yanzhou to see Yunxi off.
Yunxi saw that Chu Zhi was an acquaintance and chatted with him for a few words.
Then a formal farewell ceremony was held. After Yunxi finished talking to them, he officially set off to continue his northern tour.
After listening to the report of his subordinates, Xie Cheng said: "I understand, you did a good job, go down." The subordinates bowed and left.
When his men retreated, Xie Cheng's expression suddenly changed, he leaned back on the chair with his head tilted up, tears streaming down from the corners of his eyes, and said sadly in a low voice: "My poor child." It turned out that Cao Yu was actually his illegitimate son!
