The First Gongsheng of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 44
"Zhang Jieyuan, be careful! Be careful!"

Dai Yi was thinking, what's wrong with this kid, but he was busy reminding him.

Zhu Youtang's expression was also calm, as if reminding the younger generation: "Bingkuan, you are new here, don't be impatient when you encounter problems, and it's not too late to play later. Sit down."

Zhang Zhou insisted: "I don't vomit."

Hey!
Even Zhu Youtang felt that Zhang Zhou was competing with him. If you say this is a reckless person, but this is Daming's Xie Yuan, and I have read the article, it is indeed good.

I just said that you know etiquette, but now I feel that you don't understand etiquette at all.

"Speak!" Zhu Youtang gave Zhang Zhou some face.

Zhang Zhou talked eloquently: "When I entered the palace, I saw the evil spirit hanging over the palace, so I counted it out, and suddenly I was shocked. There will be a catastrophe in the Qingning Palace in the palace tomorrow night!"

"what!?"

Dai Yi almost went crazy after hearing this.

He hurriedly came out from behind the emperor, knelt down on the ground and kowtowed to Zhu Youtang, "Your Majesty, it's because this old slave failed to teach Zhang Jieyuan court manners well, and made him speak so rudely... Please punish him. "

Zhu Youtang frowned, and said impatiently: "What did he say, what does it have to do with you? Get up!"

Dai Yi stood up, this time he did not stand behind the emperor, but stood aside in despair.

It is estimated that there is a seam in the ground now, and he will definitely sneak into it.

Zhu Youtang's face was a bit sullen, but he still said patiently: "Bingkuan, you should know the seriousness of what you said, let me ask you again, are you talking nonsense? I heard that the folks There are alchemists who like to scare people, predict disasters, and make people take precautions. In the end, the disasters do not happen, but they claim to be able to prevent disasters..."

Zhang Zhoudao: "Could it be that Your Majesty thinks that the minister is the kind of person who makes trouble out of nothing?"

"This……"

Zhu Youtang was silent.

Being an emperor also has a steelyard in his heart.

The young man in front of him seemed a little reckless, but two months ago, he dared to come to Nanjing to prevent and cure the princess's disease, donating medicine for thousands of miles, and he succeeded in the end.

The little princess's acne was entirely due to the epidemic in the capital, and it was obviously not Zhang Zhou who was behind it.

After a moment of silence, Zhu Youtang asked coldly, "What disaster?"

"Fire!"

Zhang Zhou said it without thinking.

"On the night of Jiaxu in October, the Qingning Palace suffered a disaster."

This is the root of Zhang Zhou's prophecy.

In the 11th year of Hongzhi in history, Li Guang was also unlucky. He was favored by the emperor, but because of the construction of the Yuxiu Pavilion on the Longevity Mountain, the death of the little princess from smallpox, and the disaster in Qingning Palace, Li Guang was scared to commit suicide, but even Li Guang After he died, the emperor still thought that Li Guang had a strange book in his hand, and he also saw that the emperor had no intention of killing Li Guang.

Because of Zhang Zhou's appearance, the calamity of the little princess' death has been resolved.

But for the fire in Qingning Palace, Zhang Zhou must make up for it, and make another blow to the situation.

Originally, Zhang Zhou planned to have another joint performance with Zhu Feng, but now that he has the opportunity to face the saint, the trouble is saved, and it is more direct and shocking to speak face to face.

……

At this moment, not to mention Dai Yi, even Xiao Jing who was standing beside him didn't even dare to breathe.

Zhu Youtang said: "Bingkuan, there is a fire in the palace, you should know what it means, right?"

Zhang Zhou cupped his hands: "I naturally know that this is an early warning from the heavens, or it involves something about the country and the country. I can pretend not to know it. After all, this is a big matter. If it doesn't happen, I will be guilty of lying about the early warning of the disaster. But If it happened later, because I didn't mention it, I didn't take precautions... I am ashamed to be a minister."

If he had heard Zhang Zhou say that there would be a catastrophe in Qingning Palace, Dai Yi felt that Zhang Zhou was talking nonsense, and after hearing Zhang Zhou's generous statement, he gradually tended to believe Zhang Zhou's prophecy in his heart.

"Your Majesty." Dai Yi said respectfully, "What Zhang Jieyuan said seems to have some truth."

reason?

Zhu Youtang squinted at him!

If it wasn't for him saving my daughter, I would have condemned him right away and put him in prison for interrogation to see if someone instructed him to scare me here!

You still say that such nonsense makes sense?He doesn't know the rules, don't you have no brains?

Zhang Zhou looked at Dai Yi coldly. He didn't expect that Dai Yi would speak for him at this moment.

From Zhu Feng's reply, Zhang Zhou already knew the process of donating the medicine and Dai Yi's role in it.

It seems that the old eunuch has tasted the sweetness of helping to speak when he offered the medicine before, and he wants to speculate this time.

What's more... Li Guang destroyed the balance of the power ecology of the imperial palace.

I'm not the only one who wants him to die.

And it's not me who wants him to die the most.

Zhu Youtang said: "Bingkuan, you reported earlier that there was an alchemist who gave you advice and asked you to donate medicine to the princess. Honestly, did you do it yourself, or did someone else guide you?"

Zhang Zhoudao: "In the matter of offering medicine earlier, there was indeed an expert behind the scenes to give advice, but the matter of the fire in the palace was what I saw after I arrived in the palace. Therefore, I am willing to bear the consequences of falsely reporting the disaster."

"What did you see?"

Zhu Youtang seems to be quite convinced of this stuff, and with the mentality of believing it or not, he wants to ask a few more questions.

Zhang Zhou was talking eloquently again: "After the minister entered the palace, he first found that the aura of the purple dragon in the palace was suppressed, and there seemed to be a haze above the imperial palace, and when passing by the Jinluan Hall and Fengtian Hall, the haze was even more intense. Fire Ke Jin, so I had a premonition that there was a fire, but the haze tilted towards the west side of the Jinluan Hall, and I knew that that was where the Qingning Palace was, so I made this prophecy. If there is any offense or disrespect, please forgive me I hope Your Majesty will forgive me."

"Cough cough!"

Zhu Youtang coughed again.

When he was in a hurry, he would cough, which made Zhang Zhou feel that the emperor was really hypocritical.

Originally, your health was not bad, it’s all your fault that you have taken so many elixirs with excessive levels of metals in the past few years.

Xiao Jing quickly stroked Zhu Youtang's back.

At this time, Dai Yi obviously wanted to go up, but he didn't dare to go up.

Zhu Youtang asked Xiao Jing, "Is there any debris placed in Qingning Palace recently, or is there a risk of fire?"

From this sentence, Zhang Zhou felt that the emperor was a very cautious person.

Xiao Jing was momentarily at a loss for words.

He thought for a while, shook his head and said, "Not really."

It's okay, who cares about the Qingning Palace where the Empress Dowager Zhou lives?That was the palace where the emperor's grandmother lived. As we all know, the emperor had no mother since he was a child. He grew up under the shadow of the concubine Wan Gui. It is extremely filial.

In history, after the Qingning Palace Disaster, although the Empress Dowager Zhou was only frightened and not injured, Zhu Youtang still blamed herself and even issued an edict of guilt. As a result, there was a stir, and the courtiers headed by Liu Jian also pleaded guilty and resigned one after another.

Fortunately, Li Guang committed suicide, and the emperor found out that he was corrupt and broke the law behind him. In the end, the emperor didn't really blame others for this kind of thing.

"Then send someone to Qingning Palace to check to see if there is still a fire hazard! Cough cough!" Zhu Youtang obviously hurt his vitality when he said this, and coughed again.

"Yes." Xiao Jing also accepted the order.

While taking the order, he didn't forget to glance at Zhang Zhou.

The eyes probably said.

You kid can do it, don't think that you don't know who you are targeting, you are also a top brat, even Li Guang, who we dare not offend, but you say it so seriously, why Ziqi is under pressure...

Is it true that neither His Majesty nor we can hear your subtext?

Zhang Zhoudao: "Your Majesty, I have finished what I want to say in my heart, and I plan to go back and wait for punishment. I have no intention of disturbing the peace of the palace, so I will leave!"

"you……"

Zhu Youtang originally wanted to say, don't leave in a hurry, I have something else to talk to you about.

But now, Zhu Youtang feels that he has nothing to say.

If the fire hadn't happened, Zhang Zhou would have been convicted of scaremongering. Although the culpability would not be too great, after all, merits and demerits could be offset, but at that time there was no need to treat Zhang Zhou as a person, just as an ordinary person. If you take the exam, you can give me a little benefit in the future.

But if Zhang Zhou's words are true...

That's amazing.

Even Zhu Youtang felt that it would be more appropriate to wait two days later to see what happened or not before deciding what to talk to Zhang Zhou about.

(End of this chapter)