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Chapter 333: Crossing Shandong and the White Lotus Sect

The two of them were talking to each other, and time passed quickly. | (8) At this time, Huo Zhen rode up to the carriage and said to Zhu Di through the curtain: "Your Majesty, it's getting dark soon.

Less than five miles away is the official post of Pennsylvania. Do you want to rest at the post or do you want to rush to Penn City?"

Zhu Di said: "Just rest for one night at the inn. There is no need to enter Penn City. It will be troublesome."

Huo Zhen responded, and then directed the team to march to the inn. Zhu Di and Concubine Xu talked for a long time, their lips were dry, and they both leaned on the cushions to rest.

After a while, the carriage stopped. Zhu Di got out of the carriage first, and when he wanted to ask how to settle down, the guard Wang Zhen came over and whispered to Zhu Di: "Your Majesty, His Royal Highness is also in the inn?"

Zhu Di was surprised: "How come he happened to be here?" But he immediately walked to the inn and asked Wang Zhen to lead the way to where he lived. He was an older brother and had no reason to visit his younger brother.

Then, after Zhu Di and his party were almost settled, Huo Zhen came in and announced: "Your Majesty, Your Royal Highness is here to visit your Majesty."

Zhu Di was not surprised. It was inevitable that King Zhu Song of England came to visit him, otherwise he would be too ignorant. However, Zhu Di had always been friendly to his brothers and immediately went to the door of his yard to greet Zhu Song.

When Zhu Song opened the door, he was still a little surprised to see Zhu Di waiting at the door. He immediately said: "Why did the fourth brother come to greet the younger brother in person? It's really embarrassing for the younger brother."

Zhu Di smiled and said: "If there is any trouble, we are all brothers." As he said this, Zhu Di welcomed Zhu Song into the door.

Then he entered the room and the host and guest took their seats and started chatting.

Zhu Di chatted for a while and then asked: "Brother 20, I remember you left the capital at the end of February, right? Why are you still in Shandong now?" Zhu Song left the capital in February, although he chose to leave.

I took Route 6, but I shouldn’t still be wandering around Shandong after two months.

Zhu Song said: "Hey, I have never been out of the capital, and I want to visit various places in the Ming Dynasty! And I also passed through Fengyang, why can't I go to worship the ancestral mausoleum?" It's not okay for the prince to go to worship the ancestral mausoleum.

, it can easily cause misunderstandings, but it’s okay to say hello when passing by.

"And when we were passing through Qingzhou, Brother Qi stayed with me for a few more days. Not to mention, Qi Brother is really amazing. There are all kinds of tricks that I have never seen before. Hey, stay in Qingzhou

Those days when I was sleeping were the best days I felt!" As he spoke, Zhu Song showed an intoxicated expression, as if he was accepting the new enjoyment he said.

Zhu Di said: "Twentieth brother, you'd better not get too close to Lao Qi. I see that he has ruined the people of Qingzhou, and your Majesty will punish him sooner or later."

Zhu Song said: "What the fourth brother said is that the seventh brother went too far, but as a younger brother, I can't say anything. However, your majesty probably won't punish him severely. At most, he will be called to the capital to reprimand him when his father is here.

Just a few words."

Zhu Di felt that if Yunxi really punished Zhu Shu, it would be impossible to treat him so lightly. Can he treat his son the same as he treated his uncle?

However, it was not easy for Zhu Di to discuss this issue with Zhu Song, so Zhu Di changed the topic.

Zhu Di was able to do so well in the position of King Yan, which made the people around Beiping Mansion feel good, so he was naturally very capable. At this time, Zhu Di picked out some of his experiences and introduced them to Zhu Song, which made Zhu Song feel that he had gained a lot.

.

After a while, Concubine Xu came out to say hello to Zhu Song. Zhu Song naturally stood up and bowed to see her.

Then Concubine Xu said: "It's quite late now. Let's talk about anything tomorrow."

Zhu Song looked at the time and saw that it was indeed very late, so he hurriedly excused himself and returned to his yard. However, before leaving, he specifically said that he would come to visit Zhu Di tomorrow.

As expected, Yunxi came to visit Zhu Di again the next day and asked about Zhu Di's experience in the local area. Although Zhu Di felt impatient, he did not have any precautions against his younger brother who had no conflict of interest at all and passed on his experience to him.

Zhu Song.

On the third day, Zhu Song set off and continued running northeast. Zhang Shu was already preparing to attack the Jurchen tribe in Kaiyuan City, so he couldn't wait too long.

After Zhu Song left, of course Zhu Di and his party would not stay in this small inn any longer. They wanted to get to the capital earlier, so they left immediately.

Zhu Di didn't have anything to say to Concubine Xu, so he rode a horse and walked beside the carriage with the guards. But just open the way. Although under normal circumstances no one would come back to assassinate a prince, he still had to be on guard against the abnormal.

situation.

Zhu Di was riding his horse while chatting with the guards. Zhu Di was good at chatting, and after a while they were laughing.

But after a while, Zhu Di suddenly noticed on the road ahead that there were a few people wearing low-class official uniforms dragging a few bald people along the road.

Zhu Di stopped talking, and the guards who were talking to him were also discerning and stopped talking.

Of course, the people walking across the street also saw the oncoming group of people. Although Zhu Di's guards were not ostentatious, Binzhou was not far from Qingzhou. These people recognized the special costumes of the palace guards at a glance.

When they were still about twenty or thirty meters away from the carriage, they stopped on the side of the road and waited for them to pass.

Zhu Di drove his horse to them and asked, "Who are you? Why are you escorting these people?"

Although Zhu Di was only wearing the clothes of a guard, they did not dare to offend him. One of them bowed and said: "Master Qi, we are from the Pennsylvania Senglu Division. This time we went to the countryside to catch illegal monks.

.”

According to the system established by Zhu Yuanzhang, a county can only have one temple or Taoist temple, and the number of people is limited to less than twenty, and must be registered with the court, otherwise it is illegal. Although the state and capital levels are more relaxed, there are still

limited.

Zhu Di knew what was going on, drove his horse back to the team, and continued to move forward with the team.

These people from Seng Lusi waited until Zhu Di and his party passed by and continued to move towards Pennsylvania.

Zhu Di told his bodyguard about this matter, and Wang Cong said doubtfully: "Your Majesty, I am from Shandong. In the past during the Hongwu period, there were monks and Daolu Division in the local area, but I remember that at that time, the central government issued an order to conduct an inventory.

How can anyone be so active when it comes to illegal monastic orders in the local area? There has been no order to investigate the monastic orders recently, right?"

Zhu Di understood why they were so active and explained it to them. Wang Cong suddenly realized and said: "So that's it. No wonder they became active."

Then the group of people continued chatting. Wang Cong said: "Your Majesty, speaking of it, there are actually quite a few people from the White Lotus Sect in Shandong, which is completely different from Peking."

Huozhen interrupted and said: "White Lotus Sect? Isn't that a cult that is strictly prohibited by the imperial court? Why, do they still dare to preach openly?"

Wang Cong said: "I wouldn't dare, but the White Lotus Sect in Shandong is quite powerful."

Wang Zhen said: "Why, don't the Shandong government care about it?"

Wang Cong said: "Why don't you care? Every time there are traces of the White Lotus Sect, they are pursued to the end. Many altar owners and incense owners in Shandong have been executed."

Wang Zhen said: "Then how come the power of the White Lotus Sect is not small?"

Wang Cong said: "The officials of the government are naturally diligent in collecting the money, but the government officials are not enthusiastic. There is not much benefit for the government officials to collect the people of the White Lotus Sect. Instead, they have to guard against the White Lotus Sect slipping through the net and attacking them. revenge."

"Killing an official who is officially registered in the imperial court is a big deal. Even the people of the White Lotus Sect would not dare to do it casually. But the death of a local government official is nothing. So for the sake of his own life, who will desperately investigate Things about the White Lotus Sect.”

Although Zhu Di didn't know what Wang Cong was talking about because of the small power of the White Lotus Sect in the Beiping area, he had been in the fiefdom for a long time and knew the attitude of the government officials, so he was not too surprised.

However, as the prince of the Ming Dynasty, he still attached great importance to the settlement of the White Lotus Sect. Although Shandong was not his fiefdom, he decided to go to the capital to mention it to Yunxi and let him pay attention to the settlement of the White Lotus Sect in Shandong.

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In the lobby of Pengjiazhuang outside Pennsylvania City, Peng Ju and Xu Dehu said, "How many people have been arrested in the past few months?"

Xu Dehu said: "Brother Peng, people from twelve villages have been arrested, at least number 70 or 80."

Peng Ju slapped his hand on the table and cursed: "Why are these bullshit monks from Dao Lusi so active in the past few months? What benefits did the court promise them?"

Xu Dehu didn't know why, so he could only curse: "The people from the Damn Monk Daolu Department, someday made me angry, and I went to the Yamen to kill you!"

Peng Ju knew that Xu Dehu was just talking. Going to the city to kill people at the government yamen was a big deal, and it would probably provoke the court to use the most severe methods to investigate and then eliminate him. Let alone Xu Dehu, even Peng Ju himself would not dare to do so.

The two cursed here for a while, and Li Er ran in from outside and said, "Brother Peng, I found out something."

Peng Ju immediately said: "What was found?" Xu Dehu was also staring at Li Er.

Li Er picked up the cup on the table and took a sip of water, and then said: "Brother Peng, Brother Xu, I found out why they turned a blind eye before. It turns out that the imperial court gave them salaries."

"In the past, the people in the local Sangdao Lusi had no salary and had to find money by themselves in order to make a living. Then who would work hard for the court? The small temples in the countryside would give them a little bribe. I just turned a blind eye and passed by.”

"Now that they have a salary, they don't have to rely on bribes from small temples to survive, so they will naturally investigate more frequently."

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