Chapter 301

The summer in Peiping is a little dry. For Zhu Di, the weather is the most comfortable.

After handling the memorial, Zhu Di got up and moved for a while, feeling his knees without pain.

"Your Majesty, King Zhao is here."

The eunuch glanced at Huang Yan on the side and bowed down to report.

Zhu Di's face floated a smile: "when is this upright so polite? Let him in."

As the saying goes, the royal family attaches importance to the eldest son, and the people love Yao'er, but when they come to Zhu Di, they lose their direction.

"Father."

Before long, a thin man came in and knelt down to salute before raising his head.

This man has beautiful facial features, but he was damaged by his chin similar to Zhu Di, otherwise he would be a beautiful man.

"Get up."

Zhu Di's tone was much softer, which made Huang Yan glance at the eunuch proudly.

The man was Zhu gaosui, king of Zhao. When he got up, he said with a smile: "father, yesterday, a pool of lotus opened in the son's house. Today, I want to invite the father to enjoy the flowers in the son's house?"

Zhu Di showed a rare look of kindness, "well, I have a lot of affairs here. If you have filial piety, please come in a few pots."

Zhu gaosui immediately said happily, "father, wait. My son will go now."

With that, Zhu gaosui ignored etiquette, turned and ran. He looked like a teenager trying to please his father.

Zhu Di looked softly at his back and returned to the imperial court for a long time, ready to continue to deal with political affairs.

Huang Yan lost no time on the side and said, "Your Highness King Zhao is really pure filial piety. The old slave is worried that your highness will come wet!"

Zhu Di put down his pen and said with a laugh, "I'll bet with you today. If so, this pair of paperweights will be yours."

A pair of sandalwood ruler shaped paperweights are placed on the imperial table. It seems that they have been played with.

Huang Yan smiled and knelt down and said, "the old slave will thank you first."

The eunuch looked at the scene without expression, but changed a cup of hot tea for Zhu Di.

As time went by, Zhu Di put down his pen and stared at the door when there were hurried footsteps outside.

"Father emperor! Father emperor! My son is coming..."

Zhu Di's mouth turned up and watched King Zhao rush in with a basin of lotus flowers.

"Look, father."

Zhu gaosui put the basin of lotus on Zhu Di's imperial table like a treasure, and then shouted out, "take it in quickly."

Smelling the faint fragrance of lotus flowers, Zhu Di looked at Zhu gaosui with a smile and directed the guards to place lotus flowers.

"This basin is here. When my father and Emperor are free, he can enjoy it."

"Take this basin to the place where my father and Emperor eat. How appetizing the lotus is!"

“…...”

It was easy to settle down. Zhu gaosui wiped the sweat off his forehead and smiled at Zhu Di: "father, please have dinner with you today."

Zhu Di nodded, then pointed to the pair of paperweights and said to Huang Yan, "you old dog is smart. Take it!"

"Thank you, your majesty."

Huang Yanxi Zizi took the Paperweight, then bowed to Zhu gaosui and said, "thank you, your highness King Zhao."

Zhu gaosui asked with an ignorant face, "why did father Huang thank the king?"

"Ha ha ha!"

Zhu Di laughed and told him the gamble just now. Then he looked at him with pity and said, "although it's summer, you have to be careful. Go back and change your clothes."

When Zhu gaosui went to the back room to change clothes, Huang Yan saw the opportunity and said, "Your Majesty, the old slave heard that someone went to mountain Xi a few days ago. It seems that he is asking about the military status of Gou Army..."

"Who?"

Zhu Di's eyes flashed bright.

Huang Yan said with a dry smile, "the old slave didn't know much, but he listened to it."

Zhu Di's eyes narrowed and said faintly, "go and check!"

……

"The army must be firmly controlled, or it will fall apart sooner or later."

In the study, Fang Xing is giving a lecture to Zhu Zhanji.

"So military power is a sensitive topic. For example, your father is going to check the pro military status. I think he is touching your emperor's grandfather."

Zhu Zhanji was silent, and then said, "yes, Grandpa Huang is good to those heroes and relatives, so at present, the army is still firmly controlled, and there will be no such situation."

Fang Xing smiled: "but what if Xun Qi is rotten?"

After Da Ming's civil castle, Wu Xun was basically finished. A small Shi Heng could control the overall situation and further began to touch the government.

At that time, the Ming army was not the kind of "milk is mother" in the later stage, so after the restoration, Zhuqi town did not hesitate to kill the Shiheng family.

But after Shi Heng's death, Daming actually had no outstanding generals. Gradually, those civil servants climbed onto the head of the military officials, bossed them, and regarded the military men as slaves.

The famous Qi Jiguang, while making such a great Wu Xun, had to hold Zhang Juzheng's smelly feet. The heads of letters to Zhang Juzheng were: Qi, the running dog under the door.

Moreover, Qi Jiguang has to often give confessions to Zhang Juzheng. He has to have all kinds of treasures and beauties. Otherwise, even if Qi Jiguang is an anti Japanese hero, Zhang Juzheng can still break you into the dust.

"... nothing comes first."

Fang Xing frowned and said, "but the most shameless is also a scholar!"

In Zhu Zhanji's dull expression, Fang Xing concluded: "green skin is not terrible, just afraid that green skin has culture!"

"And the literati are the green skin with culture!"

This was the first time Fang Xing had demoted the literati to this point in front of Zhu Zhanji, so Zhu Zhanji said, "brother Dehua, not really. At least the literati in this dynasty still know loyalty."

"Loyalty?"

Fang Xing disdained and said, "these loyalties were killed by Emperor Taizu Gao and his majesty today. Do you really think they have loyalties?"

"It's all right!" Fang woke up and saw the shock and entanglement on Zhu Zhanji's face, ended the topic, frowned and said, "no matter how much I say, it's useless. You should look at it slowly."

In the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang despised civil servants and eunuchs the most. Therefore, during his Hongwu Period, no eunuchs could stand up, and civil servants were killed trembling.

In the Yongle period, Zhu Di began to despise and guard against eunuchs. Now, there are signs of reusing eunuchs.

According to Fang Xing's faint memory, the official use of eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty seems to have begun in Zhu Zhanji's Xuande year.

Fang woke up and looked at Zhu Zhanji with a heavy face. He thought to himself: your baby is tangled now. Later, you don't think you can carry the civil service system. Don't you still have to push out the eunuch and fight with the civil service to check and balance each other?

After thinking for a long time, Zhu Zhanji finally felt that the civil service system was not so good, so he said, "brother Dehua, why don't you take the exam next year?"

There will be a subject examination next year, so Zhu Zhanji feels that Fang Xingxing will be able to take an examination of his birth. At that time, their father and son will operate. After that, Fang Xingxing will be able to seriously participate in the government.

Fang woke up and said, "don't go!"

Zhu Zhanji also wanted to persuade one or two, but Fang woke up and said firmly, "I won't step into the examination room in my life!"

In Zhu Zhanji's eyes, the future of civil servants is greater than that of Wu Xun, so he sincerely hopes that Fang Xing can get a Jinshi. When their father and son came to power, Fang Xing's position was extraordinary.

But Fang Xing prefers a title to avoid the open and hidden arrows in officialdom!