Father-in-law Zhu Di, I am so happy to marry the disfigured princess

Chapter 175 Entering Beijing to compete for the throne, famines everywhere, Beiping is safe, Zhu Di is ecstatic!
Disaster relief, Yang Zhudi's reputation.

Then the disaster relief must be people from the Yan Palace.

Now there is no one else in Yanwang Mansion.

So the task of disaster relief was assigned by Princess Yan to Li Xiao.

What's more, if the task is assigned to Li Xiao, there will be no such thing as filling his own pocket.

Wearing a helmet and armor, Li Xiao led a guard of the Yan army to fetch food from the granary, and escorted the food to Wanping County in a mighty manner.

"My God, there are so many disaster victims?"

Li Xiao stood on the city wall of Wanping County, looking around, thousands of disaster victims had already gathered under the city wall, and there were still dense crowds coming here from a distance.

This was the first time for Li Xiao to witness the scene of fleeing famine with his own eyes, and it was very shocking.It is not a last resort, who is willing to leave their hometown, leave their rooted homes, and embark on the road of fleeing famine.

He recalled his experience of coming to this world, and the good life almost made him forget that he was still in ancient times.

The people fleeing famine were originally pushing carts and carts, carrying all their belongings, and wanted to reach their destination in exchange for food.

But when we got here, those things were thrown away a long time ago, leaving us alone, walking forward in rags.

The animals pulling the carts also starved to death on the road long ago, sharing and eating them.

They had gone to several cities, but none of them were willing to open the city gates to let the victims in, so they fled towards Beiping.

In the queue, an old man stumbled forward, with white hair on his head, a cane in his hand, and a heavy package on his back, and his steps faltered.

This package contained the family's only remaining food and belongings, and the old man held it tightly for fear of losing it on the way.

The young mother hugged the emaciated child tightly, the color on her face had already lost its color.

The child cried and wiped the tears from the mother's face with her little hands.The mother coaxes the child with a weak voice
This scene is heart-wrenching to watch.

Li Xiao could tell that these people were almost at their limit. If Beiping was left alone, most of them would starve to death.

"Xiaolang, let's open the warehouse and release the grain."

Zhu Ningyun looked at the countless victims in front of her with a heavy heart, her eyes were slightly red, she looked at Li Xiao and said softly.

"Ah."

Li Xiao nodded and waved his hands: "Open the warehouse, release the grain!"

Nanjing City, the Imperial Palace.

Today is the day when Zhu Biao, the crown prince of the Ming Dynasty, was put into the coffin.

The mausoleum of Prince Zhu Biao is under construction at an accelerated pace, and he will be able to enter the mausoleum soon.

Zhu Yuanzhang set the mausoleum to the east of Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum, an "emperor's mausoleum", called the Ming Dong Mausoleum.

At the same time, Zhu Yuanzhang also set the highest standard of sacrifice.

The major events of the country lie in sacrifice and Rong.

In the feudal era, sacrificial sacrifice was the top priority alongside military affairs.

For this favorite son, Zhu Yuanzhang also set the highest sacrificial standards for Zhu Biao.

Set the standard of "nine major sacrifices, one grain sacrifice" every year.

It is higher than Zhu Yuanzhang's own "three major sacrifices and five grain sacrifices" and higher than all the emperors of the Ming Dynasty. It can be seen that Zhu Yuanzhang loves Zhu Biao.

At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang was sitting in front of the palace. He had already shed tears these days, and his eye sockets looked particularly sunken.

The vassal kings from all over the country have returned to Beijing, and they will be buried in the coffin after everyone sees Zhu Biao for the last time.

At this time, Zhu Biao's sons kept crying.

Especially Zhu Yunwen, lying on the ground and crying loudly.

"Father, you left so early, how would my son live without you?"

Zhu Yunwen cried a lot of tears and snot, and finally passed out from crying.

This trick was very effective, Zhu Yuanzhang helped him up with concern, and then arranged for someone to carry him down to rest.

Zhu Yunxi on the side thought something was wrong.

He originally wanted to use this trick, but he didn't expect to be slow.

After all the sons finished crying.

Zhu Yunxi had no choice but to sniff his nose and walk towards the outside of the hall.

At the same time, Zhu Di outside the hall kept looking at Zhu Yunxi from the corner of his eye.

As Zhu Biao's legitimate son, he will be his most important opponent in the fight for the throne.

"Yunxi!"

At this moment, Lan Yu, who was standing outside the hall, beckoned.

Sapphire, as a relative, is behind Zhu Di, who is a brother.

But he walked in front of Zhu Di with big strides, and hugged Zhu Yunxi into his arms.

Afterwards, Chang Yuchun's son Deng Guogong Chang Sheng also came over to calm Zhu Yunxi's emotions.

"Uncle, grandpa, second uncle."

With a lot of snot in his eyes and nose, Zhu Yunxi cried out loudly: "My mother left early, but now my father has also gone, and no one cares about me anymore."

"Silly boy!"

Lan Yu stroked Zhu Yunxi's head and said, "You still have my uncle and grandpa, and there are so many uncles, mother's uncle, all of us will love you."

As he said that, he glanced left and right, and his eyes deliberately swept over Zhu Di, "If anyone who doesn't have long eyes dares to show you embarrassment, we will deal with him!"

"Yeah." Zhu Yunxi nodded.

"Listen to your uncle and grandpa, with us here, no one dares to bully you."

Chang Sheng said: "Let Yunxi go back to rest first, don't be too sad, you will break your body from crying."

"Come here." Sapphire greeted the maid.

Let him take Zhu Yunxi away first, and then retreat to the back of the team.

All the vassal kings around were silent, and anyone with a clear mind knew that Zhu Di had been operating in the court this time, not only to express his condolences, but also to fight for the position of heir.

Brother and brother, King Qin, King Jin, and King Yan all have a chance.

However, King Qin did a lot of evil in the fief, and was reprimanded by Zhu Yuanzhang as "ignorant of human affairs, stupid as a beast". He had long been disgusted by Zhu Yuanzhang.

If the prince Zhu Biao hadn't interceded with King Qin, King Qin might have been under house arrest in the palace by Zhu Yuanzhang, and he was not allowed to be a vassal.

Qin Wang Zhu Yu himself knew that he had no chance.

Then there is Jin Wang Zhu Bian.

Zhu Yuanzhang likes Zhu Yuanzhang more because he is handsome and has both civil and military skills.

As one of the nine great kings of the Barbarians, King Jin and King Yan are equal in strength, and they often confront each other.

After Zhu Yuanzhang realized this situation, he established the feudal domain in Taiyuan near Yandi, forming a trend of squatting.

Both of them have strength, and they can join forces to fight against the enemy externally, and if there is any change internally, the other can immediately control it. In addition, Ning Wang Zhu Quan is also forming a corner.

However, although King Jin was comparable in strength to King Yan, and he was not afraid of King Yan at all, he had no intention of becoming an emperor for the same reasons as King Qin.

King Jin's original temperament was also extremely irritable, and he indulged people in the fief many times.

Finally, one time, Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't bear it and had the king of Jin abolished as a commoner and taken to Nanjing for interrogation.

Later, after some investigations, no signs of rebellion were found, and the prince Zhu Biao interceded, Zhu Yuanzhang quickly let him go and restored his title.

After this incident, Zhu Yan was frightened, he was so frightened that he lost his mind.

After returning to the fiefdom, his temper immediately changed and he became a gentle and refined prince.

And since then, he has a natural sense of fear of Zhu Yuanzhang.

With this experience, he knew he would never stand a chance.

So right now there is only one person who has the greatest chance, and that is Zhu Di.

After Zhu Di became a vassal, he made great achievements in foreign wars, and he also loved and loved the people in the inner fiefdoms, and his reputation spread far and wide.

This is the result of marrying a good daughter-in-law. In fact, Zhu Di himself has a bad temper. Most of those reputations were cultivated silently by Xu Miaoyun.

But at this moment, those reputations are all the more important.

Those who can manage a land so that it can live and work in peace and contentment naturally have the ability to govern a country.

The other princes didn't move at all, they kept their own place and remained neutral.

In fact, most of the princes believed that Zhu Di's becoming emperor would be beneficial to them.

After all, they all came from the same university, and there is still affection between brothers, at least deeper than that of nephews.

But they can't stand in line casually. If they don't stand in line, nothing will happen.

No matter who becomes the emperor, their princes still do the same.

Therefore, King Zhu of Jin is also polite when he sees Zhu Di now. If this younger brother becomes emperor in the future, he still has to rely on him.

Zhu Di naturally ignored Zhu Min's past and was kind.

Right now, there are only two groups of people operating in the court and contacting the ministers.

The first wave is Yan Wang Zhu Di.

Another group of people were the Lan family and Chang family who supported Zhu Yunxie.

The Lan family and the Chang family support Zhu Yunxie, they are Zhu Yunxie's natal family.

As long as Zhu Yunxi succeeds to the throne, it will undoubtedly be the best outcome for the Lan family and the Chang family. The two families will last for a long time and have great power.

Another group of courtiers supported Zhu Di, thinking that Zhu Di was originally the son of the emperor, and he had the qualifications.

Moreover, Zhu Di has made a lot of achievements in the fief, is well-known and has extraordinary abilities.

And if the emperor's grandson is allowed to be the crown prince, it will be suspicious of the young country, which is not conducive to the country.

Of course, this kind of standing in line is also for their own future interests. It is a great opportunity to get promoted and make a fortune by supporting one person to become the crown prince or emperor.

Now, the officials of the two factions of the imperial court are planning big moves one after another. After the prince's funeral is dealt with, they will start to make troubles on the grounds that "the country cannot live without a prince".

However, the two sides fought fiercely.

But no one paid attention to the eldest son of a man named Zhu Yunqi
"All the princes came to express their condolences"

At this time, an eunuch was calling outside the hall.

Immediately afterwards, all the princes stepped forward one after another, entered the hall, and began their acting performance.

Zhu Di walked in the front, and the other princes didn't fight for it when they saw this, they were half a step behind.

As soon as Zhu Di entered the door, tears rolled out, and then he knelt down on the ground with a stride, and began to cry loudly.

"Brother! Just leave as you say."

"I really didn't expect that losing a loved one and losing a brother is such a painful thing. I miss you every night in my dreams, big brother"

"I was brought up by you since I was a child, and I learned from you. You encouraged me, supported me, inspired me, and every picture you taught me is still in my brother's mind."

"Every step of my life is related to you. You are the closest to me, big brother, big brother, you are gone, what will you do little brother?"

Zhu Di knelt down and wailed loudly, beating his chest and stamping his feet in extreme grief.

Not to be outdone, the other princes knelt on the ground and cried, with a lot of snot and tears, but they were obviously far behind Zhu Di.

Zhu Di definitely rehearsed this in advance, crying to death, beating his legs and stomping his feet, and it seemed that there was no trace of gesture, it was completely sincere.

Because it was meant to reveal the truth.

What Zhu Di said is also true!
Zhu Di was brought up and taught by Zhu Biao.

Zhu Biao's relationship with Zhu Di is the best one.

Because Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to promote the relationship between brothers, the older prince led the younger prince to study.

The prince Zhu Biao led Zhu Di, and Zhu Di led Xiang Wang Zhu Bo.

This cry made Zhu Yuanzhang feel a little sad. Looking at the sad expression of the fourth child, Xin Daobiao really liked the fourth child the most when he was alive.
After crying for half an hour, all the princes cried dry, and Zhu Di was still crying.

Reluctantly, King Zhu of Qin and King Zhu of Jin pulled Zhu Di and comforted him:

"Fourth brother, it's all right, big brother is alive in heaven, and I don't want you to be too sad to hurt your body, go back and rest."

"No, I won't go, I want to stay here with elder brother, always with elder brother."

Zhu Di touched his tears and cried.

Seeing this, Zhu Yuanzhang waved to the princes, motioning to pull Zhu Di down.

So all the younger brothers also pulled Zhu Di one after another.

"Fourth brother, you are crying too sadly. If you continue like this, you will break your health. You still have to garrison the frontier for your father, so your health must not break down."

"Yes, fourth brother, go down and rest."

"Fourth brother, I'll help you. Big brother will be sad when he sees you so sad for him."

A group of princes pulled Zhu Di out of the hall, and called the eunuch to send him back to rest.

After all, howling and crying for half an hour is quite exhausting, and it really can't be done without some physical strength.

After the condolences of the brothers are over, it is the turn of the nephews.

Ever since, Zhu Gaochi, Zhu Gaoxu, Zhu Gaosui and a group of nephews entered the hall one after another.

These nephews didn't have much relationship with Zhu Biao.

Most of the nephews were born in the fief, and they have never even met the uncle Zhu Biao.

Before entering the hall, Zhu Gaoxu secretly took out a purple, ball-shaped object from his pocket and broke it open.

He swayed in front of his own eyes as well as those of Zhu Gaochi and Zhu Gaosui.

Then, the tears flowed out.

Therefore, before the three of them entered the palace, tears rolled down their faces.

"Second brother, what is this, hot eyes."

"Keep your voice down, hot eyes are fine, cry hard, behave well."

After entering the palace, the exciting feeling still had stamina, and the tears rolled quickly.

That's right, this thing is an onion.

Before leaving, Zhu Gaoxu asked his brother-in-law, what should he do if he can't cry when he mourns his uncle?
Brother-in-law Li Xiao took out a ball, saying that he couldn't cry, so he broke it apart and waved it in front of his eyes to ensure that the tears rolled straight away.

Therefore, in the mourning hall, the three nephews Zhu Gaochi performed the best.

Those tears were real.

crying

A five-year-old child actually laughed out loud at this time.

Zhu Yuanzhang was immediately upset, but he didn't say much. He just looked at Zhu Gaochi and the three of them, and felt that these three were pretty good, and they valued feelings.

After the nephew's condolences, the relatives and important officials of the court followed.

It's not over until the evening.

Tonight is the highlight.

The officials returned to the mansion one after another, removed their mourning clothes and changed into inconspicuous clothes, interspersed in the night
Originally, there was only one party in the court, and that was the princelings.

In previous dynasties, if the princelings were too powerful, they would arouse the suspicion of the emperor, and another party would be recruited to balance the princelings, so as to prevent the emperor from losing his power before he entered the soil.

There are many such incidents in history, and Li Yuan in the Tang Dynasty is a clear case.

But there was no such phenomenon in the Ming Dynasty. Zhu Yuanzhang would not care how powerful the princelings were. I am afraid that if Zhu Biao wanted to succeed, Zhu Yuanzhang would immediately abdicate.

It's a pity that the prince Zhu Biao had been the prince for decades, and if he didn't become the emperor one day, he would be gone.

Once the prince is gone, the princelings will naturally disintegrate, and they will find another way out.

At this time, in a certain mansion, the lights were brightly lit.

Many court officials sat around, and Yan Wang Zhu Di was among them.

These were all officials who were familiar with him and had been recruited. He scanned the audience and found that almost everyone came, but one friend was missing.

Zhu Di asked, "Why didn't Tie Xuan come?"

Because of his meritorious service last time, he was promoted to Minister of the Ministry of Officials Lu Zhen said: "Tie Xuan is a stubborn man, so it's worth noting if he doesn't come, so as not to spoil the prince's great affairs."

This Lu Zhen is the old man that Li Xiao helped last time. He won the favor of King Yan's mansion, got involved, and immediately joined King Yan.

Zhu Di frowned slightly, it was fine if Tie Xuan didn't come.

Xu Huizu, the Duke of the State of Wei from his own family, did not come, only Xu Zengshou, the brother-in-law who is currently the governor of the Zuojun Governor's Mansion, came, which made Zhu Di very unhappy.

In the 23rd year of Hongwu, Xu Zengshou was ordered to follow Zhu Di to fight against Hu Kou Naierbuhua, and made great contributions, so he was very close to Zhu Di.

But after all, he is not the son of the eldest son, he has no title, his speech is not enough, and his official position is not enough, so he cannot even enter the court.

After a long time, Zhu Di nodded: "It's fine if you don't come. Those who can come here are all my confidantes. I will definitely not treat you badly."

Then, a group of people began to discuss how to mention the matter of the prince in the early court.

After discussing for an hour, Xia Yuanji, the servant of the household department, hurried in from the outside, "King Yan, congratulations!"

Zhu Di showed joy, and hurriedly asked: "What's the happy event?"

"Just got the news."

Xia Yuanji smiled and said: "Last year, there was a drought in various places, farmers failed to harvest, and the disaster relief in various places was not effective. Now it has exploded, and many people have no rice to cook and flee collectively."

Lu Zhen interrupted: "The people can't eat, what kind of happy event is this?"

Xia Yuanji showed grief and sighed, "It's really not a happy event for the people."

As he spoke, he cupped his hands, and continued: "The people in many prefectures are suffering, but Beiping is safe and sound. The most important thing is that the victims of the disasters in several prefectures near Beiping are heading towards Beiping. King Yan, your son-in-law Li Xiao Opening warehouses in Beiping to release grain for disaster relief calmed the victims. Recently, it rained again in the famine-stricken area, and Li Xiao distributed rice seeds and provided simple vehicles and horses to help these victims go home and rebuild their homes.”

After finishing speaking, he bowed deeply to King Yan: "King Yan has such a good son-in-law, it is really a blessing for the people of Ming Dynasty!"

The household department is related to the people's livelihood, and Xia Yuanji is an official who cares about the people.

He followed Yan Wang not to pray for glory and wealth.

Instead, he felt that the prince Zhu Biao had passed away. Judging from everyone, King Yan was indeed the most suitable candidate, which was beneficial to the country and the family.

With the voice falling.

The officials present were all surprised and then overjoyed.

It really is a happy event. At this juncture, anything can change the mind of the Holy One, not to mention this important matter related to people's livelihood!

"Okay, okay! With this matter, I can make a big fuss by waiting above the court."

"That's true. The Holy One pays the most attention to the people. When the people are killed, the Yan Palace cares about the people. It solves the famine and helps them return to their hometowns. This is a great kindness!"

"This county horse, Li Xiao, has a deep kindness in King Yan's house. It's all taught by King Yan. It's because of the family tradition!"

"Zhang Shilang, I will be at the court in a few days and report this time"

All the officials beamed with joy, and began to discuss how to make a fuss about this matter to please the Holy One.

"Okay, that's great! I didn't expect my son-in-law, who is far away in Beiping, can also help this king! Master Yao is right, it will indeed bring good luck to the Yan Palace."

Zhu Di, who heard the news, was also ecstatic.

This matter can at least increase my chances of winning by [-]%!

However, Zhu Di was very familiar with the situation in Beiping, and he wondered where did he get so much food? It must be the military food that Li Xiao and Princess Yan discussed.

"Forget it, the son-in-law is not a reckless person, and there must be a way to solve it. The crisis of the military rations last time was also solved by his snowflake white salt."

Zhu Di didn't think too much about it, and the matter in front of him was the most important thing. He looked at everyone, laughed and said, "I will go to court in a few days, and we will discuss how to make a fuss about this matter."

at the same time.

Sapphire Mansion.

Also gathered a group of officials close to Lan Yu.

They are discussing how to deal with Zhu Di's party and push Zhu Yunxi to power.

In their view, Zhu Yunxi, as the son of Prince Zhu Biao, has the best chance.

Of course, we must also prevent accidents and beware of Zhu Di's mischief.

Lan Yu knew that if Zhu Di became the crown prince, he would probably become the Duke of 'Liang'. This is absolutely not allowed to happen.

What's more, Zhu Di's son-in-law and son killed his son, and this revenge must be avenged. When he was in prison, he prepared a big gift for King Yan!
While everyone was discussing, a head of the household department, Bo, came in and reported: "My lord, there has just been news that it concerns King Yan."

Lan Yu smiled and said: "Quickly tell me, give me advice, and when my nephew takes over, you will be the Secretary of the Household Department."

Bo, the head of the household department, nodded, and continued: "Only Beiping is safe for the disaster victims from all over the world, and it also helped the disaster victims in other places."

They are also officials of the Ministry of Household Affairs, so the news is figured out, but each is their own master, so Lan Yu also got the news.

"It's Li Xiao again, his grandma's, wait for death!"

After hearing the news, Lan Yu suddenly felt bad.

This move is very beneficial to the King of Yan, and has brought the King of Yan the reputation of loving the people like a son.

On this matter, the officials launched a discussion.

Soon, a guard came from outside the door, walked in and whispered something to Lan Yu.

After listening, Lan Yu burst out laughing, and said with a big laugh:
"Don't be impatient, everyone. I just got the news that this Li Xiao is in Beiping, using military rations. He is treating Beiping's border military affairs as a joke. I can make a fuss about it!"

Hearing this, all the officials showed joy.

Above the court is to seize the opponent's flaws, any flaw can become a weapon to attack the opponent!
At this time, a Yebugui also secretly got a discussion from Lanyu.

Then, Yebugui brought the news of Sapphire's strategy to King Yan
Fighting openly and secretly, doing everything.

This is the struggle between courts.

at the same time.

Just when the two sides were shaking hotly.

But there is a fish that slipped through the net, and it is also brewing in secret.

In a certain room of the East Palace, the son of Zhu Yunwen, the Lu clan handed over:

"Please, two adults, help my son."

The Lu family has no foundation. He is obviously a concubine, but his son is a concubine. There are almost no people who can rely on in the palace, only the two in front of him.

"Princess, I will do my best."

Huang Zicheng, who is also a Hanlin scholar and Zhu Yunqi's teacher, and Qi Tai, the head of the Ministry of War, clasped their hands together.

"Are you two gentlemen sure?"

Lu Shi was overjoyed and asked.

As a result, the two shook their heads.

Qi Tai suggested: "There is one person in the court who is neutral, available!"

Zhu Yunwen hurriedly asked: "Who is this?"

Qi Tai replied: "Tie Xuan. This person is so straightforward that even the Holy Majesty would occasionally summon him privately to inquire about matters in the court."

Zhu Yunwen frowned slightly: "Isn't Tie Xuan on good terms with my fourth uncle Yan Wang?"

Qi Tai said: "Although we can't win over, we can use it. However, even if we add Tie Xuan, it's still difficult to get things done. All of us keep our words light."

"Have it!"

Huang Zicheng came up with a plan, and said: "The two of us can't make things happen, but as long as there is one more person, we can definitely make things happen. This person's name is Fang Xiaoru, and he has the talents of the world. He has been filial piety for ten years, and he is the most filial person!"

After speaking, Huang Zicheng looked at Zhu Yunqi and said, "I also ask the emperor's grandson to find an opportunity to recruit this person into the court."

"There is such a great talent!"

Zhu Yunqi nodded, and said happily: "Okay, I will listen to the teacher. If you can help me become a prince, I will definitely enshrine some of you as Shangqing in the future!"

(End of this chapter)