Brother Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 3
On the square of the Qianqing Palace in the Forbidden City, Zhu Youjian dragged Zhu Youxiao, who was six years older than himself, along the avenue to the Qianqing Palace under the eyes of a group of Jing soldiers, court ladies, eunuchs, and Concubine Li Kang. Door.

"Eunuch, don't you see that the crown prince doesn't worship?!"

Looking at the Jingjun who put their hands on the handles of the swords in Qianqingmen, Zhu Youjian yelled at them angrily, scaring several Jingjun eunuchs to kneel on the ground quickly, bowing their heads in panic.

Zhu Youjian's appearance made Concubine Li Kang's teeth itch with hatred, who followed them with the eunuchs and maids more than ten meters away.

She knew that once Zhu Youjian and Zhu Youxiao walked out of the Qianqing Gate, they would be only three hundred steps away from the Jinshen Hall when they reached the front court.

Although she is domineering and domineering in the inner court, and can control the Jing army and maids, but the big Han generals in the three halls of the front court and the East Palace are all acting as Jin Yiwei, and she is absolutely incapable of commanding them.

In other words, once Zhu Youjian and the others walk out of the Qianqing Gate, she will be finished...

Concubine Li Kang suddenly became frightened. She recalled that she once bewitched Zhu Changluo and killed the concubines in the palace at will.

Among them, the most terrible ones are the mothers of Zhu Youjian and Zhu Youxiao.

Liu Shunv and Wang Cairen both died at her hands. No matter who their sons sit on the throne, they will not have their own good fruit to eat.

Thinking of this, Concubine Li Kang was terrified, with cold sweat dripping from her forehead. She wanted to stop the two young men, but she was afraid that Zhu Youjian would use her daughter Zhu Huiti as a threat.

She saw Zhu Youjian's fierceness just now.

If she dared to bring someone forward, Zhu Youjian would definitely dare to attack Zhu Huiti.

It's just that Concubine Li Kang didn't understand, why did that cowardly boy change so much in such a short period of time?
However, perhaps no one can explain her doubts, and Zhu Youjian also took Zhu Youxiao across the Qianqing Palace.

"Crown prince thousand years old! Thousand years old! Thousand years old..."

The chorus of singing rang out, making Concubine Li Kang almost bite her tongue.

On the palace road outside the Qianqing Gate, a Jinyiwei Baihu led dozens of big Han generals in armor half-kneeling on the ground, crossing their hands to compose, saluting and singing to Zhu Youxiao and Zhu Youjian.

"How could it be..." Concubine Li Kang didn't understand how Jin Yiwei came to Qianqing Gate so quickly without anyone's order.

Unable to figure it out, she put her eyes on Zhu Youjian, secretly hating in her heart: "It must be this little bastard..."

"Lu Wenzhao, take the two of us to escort the two of us to the Wenhua Hall, and order the bells and [-] pestles in all temples and Taoist temples in the capital!"

At the gate of Qianqing, Zhu Youjian gave Zhu Huiti, who was leading him, to the man in Jinyiwei Baihu costume, and gave his order.

This Jinyiwei Baihu is in his early thirties, with a slender body, mantis legs, and a horse's waist, with a goose feather knife on his waist, slender and heavy.

He was the first person Zhu Youjian wooed in Jinyiwei, and he was also an important pawn in Jinyiwei.

In a month's time, Zhu Youjian made a lot of preparations to deal with the case of moving the palace, and in order to complete his future plan, he must have someone in Jinyiwei, so as not to be like the Chongzhen in history, who was caught blind.

Just like Lu Wenzhao, as early as three days ago, he told Lu Wenzhao that he would bring Jin Yiwei to the Qianqingmen at five o'clock tonight, so far, it seems that he has not let himself down.

"Your Highness, do you want to take the prince to change first?"

When Lu Wenzhao heard Zhu Youjian's words, he couldn't help but carefully glanced at Zhu Youxiao. After all, Zhu Youxiao was wearing a regular uniform. It was obviously not good to go to the Wenhua Palace in such a dress.

Hearing his words, Zhu Youjian shook his head and said, "You order to take the imperial brother's royal robes to the Wenhua Palace first, and I will escort the emperor to the Wenhua Palace to enthron."

"The minister leads the decree!" Lu Wenzhao had no objection to Zhu Youjian's arrangement. After indicating that he could get up, he quickly got up and arranged for a team of brocade guards to go to the Chunhe Palace to get the crown clothes, while he took the remaining [-] or so There are two guards named Jinyiwei Gongwei Zhu Youjian.

Zhu Youjian has been holding Zhu Youxiao's hand tightly all the time. After seeing safety, he let go of his hand and said to Zhu Youxiao:

"Brother Huang, forgive me, I was rude to Brother Huang just now."

Seeing Zhu Youjian let go of his hand, and being rigid about etiquette, Zhu Youxiao felt a little lost, but after leaving the oppressive feeling brought by Concubine Li Kang, he regained his former composure, and comforted Zhu Youjian:
"Don't be afraid, little brother, I was lucky to be rescued by my little brother, otherwise I'm afraid I'm still in that poisonous woman's palace right now."

Zhu Youxiao has a very good feeling for Zhu Youjian, just because Zhu Youjian is the only surviving one of his few younger brothers, and he is also the one who was brought up by him.

He comforted Zhu Youjian, then took the initiative to grab his hand and said:

"At this time of crisis, when you and my brothers work together, deal with that vicious woman well."

Zhu Youxiao was still thinking about how to avenge Concubine Li Kang, but Zhu Youjian smiled wryly in his heart.

In his opinion, as long as he walked out of Qianqing Palace, it would be easy to deal with Concubine Li Kang. Even Concubine Zheng Gui who was behind Concubine Li Kang could easily handle it.

The most important thing right now is how to deal with those hypocritical civil servants from the previous dynasty.

"Chitose!"

Just when Zhu Youjian was thinking this way, a group of civil servants ran out from the back door of the dilapidated Jinshen Temple ruins. They didn't care about etiquette, for fear that Concubine Li Kang would hold Zhu Youxiao hostage.

Since the three halls were destroyed by fire in the [-]th year of Wanli, and the Ministry of Industry quoted [-] million taels of silver to repair the three halls, the three halls have not been repaired.

At present, apart from the Huangji Hall, which has undergone simple repairs, the Huagai Hall and the Jinshen Hall appear to be very dilapidated.

The two brothers Zhu Youjian watched a dozen civil servants in uniforms (gowns for national mourning) trot over from the ruins of the Jinshen Hall. The leader was an old civil servant whom Zhu Youjian was very familiar with...Fang Congzhe.

Fang Congzhe is sixty-three this year. He was a Jinshi in the eleventh year of Wanli. He is quite talented. Officialdom is everywhere.

However, in the history books, this fellow, by virtue of his ancestral home in Zhejiang, mixed into the circle of the Zhejiang Party, and took good care of the officials of the Zhejiang Party.

When Nurhachi founded the country, he asked Emperor Wanli to distribute internal funds, and allocated two or hundreds of thousands of dollars to quickly settle the Liao affairs.

It's just that after Wanli allocated [-] taels of silver, the officials who occupied the main force of the ruling and opposition parties and the party began to argue again, wasting a lot of time and letting Nurhachi sit in the big seat.

Zhu Youjian looked at Fang Congzhe, who was hunched over, with white hair and beard, very old, and his face was a little thin.

He never thought that Fang Congzhe would dare to come, but since he came, it would not be the Donglin Party's turn to pick the fruit of the palace transfer case.

"Long live! The late emperor passed away, please long live to the Wenhua Palace, and ascend the throne to preside over the overall situation!"

Just as Zhu Youjian was sizing up Fang Congzhe, an official pushed the golden mountain, turned down the jade pillar, and directly shouted long live, making Zhu Youxiao take over immediately.

His actions caused many civil servants to frown, including Zhu Youjian who was also very speechless.

Logically speaking, he should be the most anxious person, but he also knew that it would be rude to let Zhu Youxiao wear regular clothes to succeed him, but he didn't want a more anxious person to appear now.

He looked at the official, but he didn't want this person to be over fifty, but he kept flattering him.

Zhu Youjian carefully recalled this person, and the words "Yao Zongwen in the Zhejiang Party and the Ministry of Household Affairs" soon appeared in his mind.

"So it's you..."

After knowing the identity of this person, Zhu Youjian's sense of him suddenly dropped.

(End of this chapter)