Chapter 332.

Zhu sighed a short sigh.

Empress Xu, however, did not continue to pursue the matter.

It is not that she has no interest at all in the foreign affairs, but she consciously minded her own business in the palace. Outside matters, their own husbands and sons to worry about.

Only by this time it was slightly light.

Zhu Di shot up, “I’m going to Qixia today, to see the world, both in front of the world, to the top and bottom of the Qixia flags, but also want to go and see with my own eyes.”

“Zhang Anshi this kid ……” Zhu Di paused, continued: “These days, can not come to the audience, I also heard that he is often so busy that the family has no time to go back, visible in order to manipulate this Taiping House, he is really Doing his best.”

“Hey, it’s hard for me, and it’s hard for him too! He is surrounded by wolves and tigers. Can become a great man, these and what can be counted? Yang Qing talking about good family, I would like to see a two nine counties good family is what it looks like.”

Zhu rambled on.

This allows Empress Xu to take a closer look, Zhu Di is indeed old, actions are not as convenient as in the past, the corners of the eyes are born fish lines, the tips of the hair more white silk.

In fact, in the past, he was the same, only today’s ramblings, but made Empress Xu realize that the husband who was unbeatable, spirited, and had millions of soldiers in his chest, was indeed dying with her.

Zhu Di did not notice the deep meaning in Empress Xu’s eyes and only ordered the eunuchs on night duty to come in and wash and change their clothes.

Then he ordered all the officials to go to the Damien Gate.

Of course, the decree, again, was unique in that, in order not to disturb the people, everything was kept simple and plain clothes were sufficient.

The hundred officials had already gotten the news that what was going on in the palace could not be hidden, so when many of the ministers came to the Damien Gate.

However, there were quite a few people that looked at Yang Rong and Hu Guang with strange eyes.

Hu Guang’s popularity, this is the best, everyone thinks he is modest to treat people, like a spring breeze.

But today, although there are also a lot of people with the salute and pleasantries, just …… this day but it seems to be more than a few points rusty.

No matter how stupid Hu Guang was, he could also realize all this and his heart was suffocated, so he couldn’t help complaining to Yang Rong in a low voice: “Lord Yang, I am losing my reputation.”

Yang Rong smiled and said: ”Bathing fire can be reborn, do not admire the false name but in the real disaster, this party is also a master of man.

Hu Guang: “……”

Well, he could never talk his way out of this Yang Rong guy.

The Daming Gate opened, and immediately, the ministers followed Zhu Di in a hurry.

A large number of great Han generals, as well as drawn from the East Chamber of Fans, Jinyiwei lieutenants, all plainclothes, lurking everywhere, or have绶归獞 plainclothes to open the way, and a team of forbidden guards, under the name of the school parade by order, vastly copied the other way, straight to the Qixia.

Zhu was very satisfied with this arrangement, in his opinion, the supreme state of formation is not to charge in formation, but to launch a running attack.

Just running, for the organization of the strength of the test is great, the formation, the commander-in-chief stared at the generals, the generals stared at a thousand households, a hundred households, a thousand households, a hundred households to monitor the pawns, who has a change, or who stagnated, can be immediately sentenced to death.

But historically, running raids require a hundred battles of elite soldiers, this is because running raids in order to speak of suddenness, even if it is not in the night action, but also all the way to the speed.

In this way, the method of using the general to keep an eye on the soldiers is not available, which requires initiative from the lowest rank of the pawns.

When no one is watching, they can still fulfill their orders without fail, and without eyes behind them, they can still do what they are told.

The East Chamber’s soldiers are fewer, but the brocade guards are scattered, lurking everywhere, well organized, Zhu Di, where this team of men passes, they have made careful arrangements to ensure that nothing goes wrong.

This is something that greatly impressed Zhu Di, who was riding along on horseback.

So to the subsequent also lost ha said: “When Ji Gang in the time, by my will, built this jinyiwei, known as the pro army, extraordinary, but now it seems to …… also but er, but I see these绶归獞 and lieutenants, but each extraordinary, teach people to scratch the eye to see first.

Also lost Ha also heartily said, “This is the credit of the government school academy, East factory side, also from the government school academy selected a lot of tomatoes, recruited, can be used.”

Zhu Di nodded, “Zhang Anshi’s side, have you been informed?”

“It’s already known. But ……”

This was said halfway and there was a pause before Yiluoha added: “But he was supposed to be organizing an event. Who would have thought that His Majesty was going to go, and thus …… had to ……”

Zhu Di said: “He is busy with his, I am not a child, still need him to manipulate? Call a person, fast horse to pass my oracle, Taiping House weekdays is what appearance, today is still what appearance. The matter at hand, no one can not delay, I this …… is just a trekking tour. That guy if he dares to delay the big thing at hand, run to receive the driver, I first scolded him.”

Yilungha laughed, and then hurriedly ordered a fast horse to send a message. Then he came back and said, “Your Majesty, it has already been called.”

At this time, Zhu Di did say with a few moments of curiosity, “You just said that he was organizing the event, what event is he drumming up?”

Also lost ha chagrined, “It seems …… to be some kind of poetry conference, the slave girl does not know much about this.”

“Not to mention that you don’t understand, I also don’t understand.” Zhu Di raised his eyebrows and said, “This Zhang Anshi, when did he hang out with the readers again? Isn’t this …… just ……… turned against someone? What, this kid still thinks that, by getting a poetry club, people will read his favor?”

“This ……” also lost ha said: “slave girl …… also can not guess his mind, think … … is also the Duke of Wei he is kind-hearted ……”

“This is confused.” Zhu could not help but whine, “He is still too young, has not really been to the battlefield hammering, more do not know that there is a kind of enmity in this world, can not be resolved, he Zhang Anshi all planed people’s ancestral graves, but also pointed to be able to re-establish the old good?”

Said, he sighed: “Hey …… this point, he is not as good as master Yao. Master Yao acted very old-fashioned, planning to move, but once the action, never expect to be able to reconcile, and seek to do in addition to the evil, must be cut down to the last, and never leave any aftermath.”

Zhu Di said, suddenly mentioned Yao Guangxiao, suddenly, the mood are not inevitably low.

After all, for many years, Yao Guangxiao had been accompanying him, and to suddenly say no, until now, he felt that he hadn’t come to terms with it.

Also lost Ha seems to have felt Zhu Di’s mind, so it was busy deliberately digressing from the topic: “Yes, Wei Guo Gong has not seen the battlefield, if when His Majesty’s personal conquest, will also bring Wei Guo Gong, so that Wei Guo Gong also feel it, this nature of the heart can also be sharpened out.”

Zhu only gave a hmmm, his eyes falling elsewhere, his face slightly raised, looking up at the appearance of the sky.

At this moment, the dawn of the morning like a golden glory sprinkled down, the sky suddenly white, that a golden aura, fell into Zhu’s moist eyes, suddenly, this was always always murderous depth of the eyes, welled up countless mourning.

It also lost its haze of silence.

…………

Zhang Taigong came to Qixia with great excitement.

The last time he’d been to Sukiya had been over a year ago, and he’d found it quite lively then.

But today I realized that after a year’s absence, the place has changed again.

A forest of wharves, a trestle bridge sticking out from the river, countless passenger and cargo ships, and at that wharf, another cargo inn.

Farther away, is the bustling bazaar, the bazaar has been the former humble, this original barren land, now …… actually really become a government city, a city without walls border.

No, it was much more lively and crowded than the usual Prefecture. Even farther away, if you look away from here, you can see in the distance, the magnificent library, a huge building, and many other buildings, construction supports have not yet been removed.

The flow of people arriving here by land and water was endless, like countless streams running into the ocean.

On the wharf, it is a variety of accents in the yelling, everyone is trying their best to speak the official language, but this official language, but inevitably with a few points of the home accent, and thus …… listen to it carefully, and even feel funny.

Countless horse-drawn carriages, carrying goods, spacious streets, stretching out in all directions.

Every now and then, there is a bell that chimes the time, and that bell sounds mellifluous, but you can judge the time from the frequency of the striking.

People ran to the marketplace, to the schoolhouse and library, or to the workshops.

Li Xiu Cai was a frequent visitor, and thus first guided Zhang Tai Gong off the boat, and then hired a carriage and sedan chair.

Zhang Taigong fries a look of displeasure, he didn’t like this kind of clamor, so he held up his spandex with a look of pride.

It s a pity …… that here, no one because of this spandex Confucian shirt and obviously have the merit of the old scholar to stay for a moment more, people traveling in a hurry, even the eyes, have not had a stay.

This was unthinkable elsewhere, and Zhang Taigong felt as if his greatest pride had been trampled on.

“It’s worrying that the world’s winds are like this.” Zhang Taigong said with a few moments of indignation.

“Out of sight is out of mind.” Li Xiucai saw Zhang Taigong s mind, this kind of feeling, he also has, just some people …… can not accept it, some people slowly get used to it, and slowly take it for granted.

“This place is indecent.” Zhang Taigong pointed out, wanting to give a few examples to scold.

But he found that he couldn’t be accused of anything, except that there was a lot of pedestrian traffic, people were in a hurry, and no one looked up to him.

It was mostly a moment of emotion, so it seems like I’ll have to go back and take my time to think about it.

“Taigong, it’s still early, do you want to take a look at …… the price of food ……”

“That’s all.” Zhang Taigong put away the thoughts that displeased him, so he was calm and relaxed again, saying, “Today is a poetry event, why do we need to stir up the cleanliness with those things?”

Li Xiucai snapped and smiled, he found himself ultimately secular, and then said: “Also, yesterday fell some, today must go back up, look at all the same, and then again, I’m afraid that the good in the palace is also going to come out, and now the various provinces have reduced production, this Taiping Province if it is again reduced production, this price …… ”

With a few moments of impatience, Zhang Taigong said, “Alright, let’s not discuss this, this is after all a foreign object.”

At that moment, the two departed to the venue.

The venue is huge, and now there are many colored flags, which is quite refreshing.

Moreover, this is near the river, to here can look out over the Yangtze River, such a building, it seems to have spent a lot of money to build. Than the Yellow Crane Tower, Tengwang Pavilion, Yueyang Tower is more magnificent.

Mainly covers a larger area, twenty feet high, there are seven floors, using is the style of the Tengwang Pavilion, is also the main cabinet is also using the “bright three dark seven” format, and also set up corridors, in different floors, can look out over the distant river view.

Underneath this building, the floor is paved with tiles and covers a much larger area, like …… a square.

The most strange thing is that this square, actually is not forbidden to outsiders to enter and exit, so …… there are actually a lot of people who come here to idle after leisure.

So when Zhang Taigong and the others arrived here, they found that in this square, there were already no less than a thousand people.

Today came to the readers especially more, there are also some good people who do not have to work today, and nothing else, just to make fun.

“What is this pavilion called?”

“It’s called the Qunru Pavilion.” Li Xiucai said.

Zhang Taigong came a few points of spirit, said, “I did not think, such a filthy place, there is such an elegant place, Qunru Pavilion …… but I do not know the owner of this building, and who is it, this must be a high priest in a high position.”

Li Xiucai looked embarrassed and didn’t say anything for a long time.

Seeing this reaction of his, Zhang Taigong asked, “Why are you stammering?”

“Ahem …… Taigong …… this building, is the property of the Duke of Wei, which was built in honor of …… the six Confucian scholars in the capital city ……”

Zhang Taigong immediately felt suffocated.

Not a word from the old half.

Li Xiucai let out a bitter laugh.

After slowing down, he said, “The six Confucian scholars of the capital, which six scholars are they?”

Li Xiucai seriously pondered, “Let me think about it, Zhang Anshi is one, there is Zhu Yong, this person is the son of the Duke of Cheng Guo Zhu Neng, there is also a Zhang Yoking, this person is the second son of the late Duke of England, and Qiu Song, this person is ……”

Zhang Taigong had already covered his own heart, and his mouth let out, “Uh uh uh ……”.

Li Xiucai was busy and concerned, “Tai Gong, what’s wrong with you, what’s wrong with you.”

Zhang Taigong said with a pained face, “Don t say it, don t say it, don t dirty my ears, this …… this must be a fake, I don t believe it.”

“Do not dare to deceive Taigong, that group of Confucian Pavilion … the lower head has a stone tablet, is so carved, also said to commemorate the six Confucian light Confucianism, so far for the world to praise, so it spared no expense to set up this building, for the world travelers, in this to enjoy the scenery of the Qixia River.”

Zhang Taigong took a deep breath with great effort, as if this was the only thing that could make him still stand strong.

But these words directly silenced him dry.

“Lord Zhang.”

Just at this moment, someone joyfully went up and came towards Zhang Taigong, bowing and saluting, “Zhang Gong, it’s been a long time since I’ve seen you.”

It was only then that Zhang Taigong’s face barely regained a little bit of redness.

He fixed his eyes, but it is the county’s lifer, surnamed Zhou. And this Zhou lifer, and he is a family friend.

So he was busy returning the salute and said, “Wise Brother Zhou is also here.”

“It’s just a matter of having fun.” Lifu Zhou smiled faintly and said, “I just never thought that Duke Zhang would have such a taste for fun.”

The two met, and they were very intimate, so they just made a companion, and when they entered this Qunru Pavilion, they saw that the Poetry Society had already begun.

This is actually in the form of a riddle.

There is a lot of ink and paper here.

The readers who come here can just put down their pen and make poems, and then they can hang them up.

Afterwards, everyone stops here to look at the poems hung up and make comments.

At this time, there have been many readers, waving ink, and many poems hung on the walls.

Instead of rushing to compose poems, Zhang Taigong first looked at other people’s masterpieces.

At last, he was able to put the party’s troubles, out of his mind.

And Zhang Taigong was pleasantly surprised to find that here, he met many of his old friends, and when they met at this time, they were all very intimate.

There is even an old man, is his young classmates, have studied under the famous teacher, but we are in the counties, although there is correspondence, but almost difficult to meet the opportunity. At this time to meet, extraordinarily warm, each other holding hands, catching up for a long time.

“How come there are still merchants coming?” Zhang Taigong glanced at him, but he saw people in cloth clothes and shoes coming in.

He frowned, merchants are very recognizable, Taizu High Emperor did not allow merchants to wear silk, so many merchants, then let people cut good Songjiang cloth to wear, some good cloth, the value is not lower than silk.

“It is rumored that anyone can come to this poetry meeting, there is no gate.” Lifter Zhou whispered from the sidelines.

Zhang Taigong shook his head disgustedly and said, “Big spoiler, big spoiler.”

It was at this moment, but a group of people stepped into its midst.

These were not many, only seven or eight.

Zhu Di was at the head, and with him, Yang Rong, Hu Guang, Xia Yuan Ji, Jin Chun, and Jin Zhong Ren, in addition to two Hanlin scholars.

Zhu Di also just wanted to see what this poetry meeting was like, therefore, when the large group of people was about to arrive at Qixia, he took a step ahead and waited until he reached the Qunru Pavilion, and then skipped the accompanying escorts and brought in only a few important ministers.

“Qunru Pavilion ……” Reading these three words, Zhu Di was somewhat speechless.

It’s a good thing there’s nothing Zhang Anshi can’t do here, he’s used to it.

See the many poems posted here in front of you.

Many readers stopped and whispered excitedly.

Some people even finished the poem and couldn’t get enough of it, so they started talking about the Peace House again.

“Taipingfu this time, I am afraid to suffer, I heard …… that Hu Gong went to the palace yesterday.”

“The courtiers, Hu Gong is the most virtuous, with him in ……”

The sound of the latter words became lower and lower.

Readers, when they get together, they love to discuss this.

Hearing that someone was discussing Hu Guang, Zhu Di landed his gaze on Hu Guang with a smile.

Hu Guang: “……”

“Now the price of food has gone up so much, in my opinion ……”

Food Prices ……

Zhu was thoughtful.

Yet another person excitedly said, “I am afraid that it will also go up, at least it must be ten taels of silver, wait until after the ten taels of silver ……”

I don’t know who, talked about the price of food, and almost everyone, became excited.

Most of those here are of squire origin.

This time, a lot of additional grain, originally readers should not talk about profit.

But the price of food is related to, but the Taiping House and the Duke of Wei, but can not help but let a person breed endless interest.

Zhu silently walked to a corner and took a seat, the person who organized this side of the poetry meeting, immediately someone served tea.

Zhu sipped his tea, still not making any noise, only quietly listening to the others.

“I heard that …… many places have appeared starving corpses, this grain price is not crazy rise is strange, I see not only ten taels, that is, twelve taels, thirteen taels is also possible, a few days ago, the old man heard that Fengyang out of the starving corpses, and immediately will be another east and west to put together to add a barn of grain, and so on, and now the sky is angry and the people are angry, this is the natural and manmade disasters Now the sky is angry and the people are angry, this is a sign of natural and man-made disasters, at that time, grain is gold and silver.”

“You added a position too? I added three positions.”

“Brother Liu is generous!”

“Earning money is small, defending the name and religion is big, now there are many people outside saying, what Taipingfu this year grain is big ripe, I don’t believe it, he Taipingfu ……… such nonsense, can still have a good harvest! Must be someone is anxious, know that this Taipingfu is going to have a big event, when there is no food, so think of a way to release these news, so that they can buy food at a low price, want to relieve the urgent need.”

“It’s just that you’re funding this food purchase ……”

“I am against the land, raised, hey …… really hate the weekdays do not have much gold and silver in hand, but instead cheap money bank.”

“No harm, no foul ………”

The debate grew more and more heated.

For a while, no one cared about poetry.

That Zhang Taigong see many young people talking excitedly, he is old, did not rush to discuss, but the heart is also happy, just not good to show, just implicitly with a smile.

“Today’s His Majesty …… confused ah!” Someone whispered in a very small voice: “All the great traitors seem to be loyal, the Taiping House and other means of deception, which is the usual tactics of the treacherous ministers of successive dynasties, but His Majesty can not even notice.”

“This you don’t understand ……” someone’s voice pressed lower: “In my opinion, some things ah …… people are not unaware of, such as that Zhang Dun, the poor and fierce The most important thing to remember is that he is a good person, but he is not a good person. Is not still because ……”

As he said this, the man pointed a finger at the beams of the room in a meaningful way.

Someone then interjected, “This is …… also true that the upper beam is not correct, and the lower beam is crooked.”

Zhu Di was still drinking tea, only when he heard this, his body paused slightly.

“In any case, this time …… after the summer grain levy up, the truth is clear, all the treacherous evil, there will be nothing to hide. At that time, the dynasty has Hu Gong and other such a gentleman, necessary to speak out for justice, I and other small people have a way out.”

The crowd nodded their heads, and Zhang Taigong also listened with excitement.

At this moment, however, I heard a voice from someone on the other side of this cloister, “What’s that?”

When the crowd heard the man’s words, they too looked toward the cloister.

The cloisters are there to look out over the river.

So someone paced around, took a look, and was actually silent.

Zhang Taigong saw the situation, naturally also went forward, then saw that the river, vast, actually all cargo ships.

Countless cargo ships, back and forth, vast and endless, actually filled the entire river.

Some people look carefully at the flag hanging on the cargo ship, although the words on the flag are impossible to recognize, but the style of the flag, in fact, many people are familiar with.

This is the unique flag of the grain ship, the government levies grain, transportation, must use the grain flag as a sign, signaling along the way of the police and inspectors, shall not be obstructed.

Then someone exclaimed, “Grain …… grain ship ……”

“Where do the grain ships come from ……”

The crowd stirred a bit.

More and more people appeared on the cloisters, many holding onto the railings and looking intently at the freighters.

But he saw that the grain ships, hundreds and thousands of them, were like long dragons on the river, one by one, docking at the wharves of various places.

“This is like …… like …… a grain ship that can transport to Qixia, it should be from the nine counties of that Taiping Province.”

“No way, never, how could there be so many!”