Jiajing Chengming

Chapter 317 The eldest prince is fine, Xie Qian wants to see him!

Zhu Houcong has always been very concerned about internal security.

to this end.

He would not set up a secret informant box inside the palace, nor would he rather use loans to withdraw money from the treasury than directly transfer money from the treasury to the outer court.

But Zhu Houcong did not expect that the eldest prince would still go missing.

Zhu Houcong forced himself to calm down and think about what the other party could do to make his son disappear.

When I think of the cute and tender eldest prince, who is just learning to speak and walks with a shaky step, I wonder if he has already been tortured in the hands of someone unknown.

He still couldn't calm down, as if his heart was being gripped.

Zhu Houcong had no choice but to hit his forehead with both hands to force himself to calm down.

Zhu Houcong always placed the most reliable palace maids by the side of the eldest prince.

Therefore, he did not think that any palace maids around the eldest prince would betray him.

Moreover, even if there were palace maids around the eldest prince who betrayed him, it would be impossible for them to take the eldest prince away. If they wanted to take action, they could only do it in the palace.

But what is the motive for doing this?
Zhu Houcong asked himself that the people he arranged to be around the eldest prince were not allowed to go out easily, and even if they really had to go out, they were not allowed to go out alone.

So, it is difficult for others to provide them with motivation.

As for whether they themselves will have motivation?
That would be even more impossible.

After all, Zhu Houcong asked himself whether he had treated these people well, both in terms of material and spiritual needs.

Moreover, the people chosen to be around the eldest prince are all people who strictly meet the standards of loyalty and filial piety and personal morality in this era.

Such people, even if they are dissatisfied, are more likely to commit suicide than to kill others.

After thinking so.

Zhu Houcong instructed Gu Dayong, "Tell them to search carefully. The eldest prince is probably still in the palace, or he may have been hidden away secretly."

"If you find it, there will be a huge reward. My family will be given a hereditary position, and I will get an extra half year's salary!"

Gu Dayong bowed and agreed.

In fact, the palace servants had been actively searching, and after hearing such an imperial decree, they naturally became more enthusiastic in searching, almost digging up the entire Forbidden City. Some even went to search the homes of the eunuchs in the lower corridors, and checked all their unflushed toilets.

So, not long after, the palace servants really found the eldest prince.

"Where did you find it?"

When Zhu Houcong heard the news, he naturally breathed a sigh of relief. Then he walked towards Kunning Palace while asking Gu Dayong.

Gu Dayong said: "It was in the flowers in the backyard of Kunning Palace. The eldest prince had his mouth blocked by a cloth ball. His wet nurse, Madam Zeng, was also there, but Madam Zeng swallowed gold and committed suicide!"

"Mrs. Zeng?"

Zhu Houcong stopped, stood in the sun and asked a question.

"Back to your lord, yes."

"When we first checked the people around the prince, only Madam Zeng was not there."

Gu Dayong replied.

Madam Zeng had been with the emperor's mother since she was in the palace. She was a very loyal and honest person, but she ended up hiding the eldest prince and even committed suicide by swallowing gold beforehand.

There's something obviously weird about this.

But Zhu Houcong did not say anything after listening to Gu Dayong's report.

It is naturally a good thing that the royal heir is fine, which proves that his strengthened management of the harem was not in vain.

However, he could also guess that this was probably a warning from the wealthy coastal families who opposed the strict maritime ban, indicating that they were keeping a close eye on his royal heir.

In Zhu Houcong's view, the other party's meaning should be that even though the emperor has done a lot of internal security work, there is no reason to guard against thieves for a thousand days.

A man of many plans is bound to make mistakes.

Even if you, the emperor, are extremely intelligent, it is difficult for you to take care of everything.

So, we can make your royal heir disappear for a moment now, and in the future we can kill your royal heir directly.

There are always times when you are careless.

How about your great ancestor Zhu Yuanzhang?

Smart enough, right?

Isn't there a possibility that the crown prince and grandson were not protected?

Your most fundamental solution is to compromise! To give in! To hand over Hailey to us! Moreover, you have to make concessions at the cost of sacrificing power!

When Zhu Houcong thought of this, he couldn't help but clench his fists.

His face was gloomy! But after thinking about it, Zhu Houcong felt that it was undoubtedly stupid for these people to scare him in this way.

Although he knew that there were many people in the world who would do what Kennedy did, riding in a convertible, if pushed to the limit.

Such as pouring boiling water, poisoning or something like that.

But after all, there is a saying from the ancients, "He who first made burial mounds of clay will have no descendants."

I really want to flip the table.

Doing things that don't follow the rules.

To whom is it most beneficial?

It is undoubtedly most beneficial to those who possess the strongest violence.

And now in the Ming Dynasty, the one who possesses the most powerful violence is still the emperor.

Although the rules help him, the emperor, to rule the world and gain benefits from it, they also protect everyone.

Therefore, if someone acts recklessly and breaks the rules, and the emperor also breaks the rules, then the instigator will undoubtedly pay a greater price.

Forcing the emperor to become a tyrant would not be good for anyone.

Zhu Houcong didn't know what such people thought.

He felt that these big coastal companies might just be trying to scare him, or they might really be blinded by greed and desperate, and never thought about the consequences of their actions, nor did they have the habit of reflecting on and examining themselves.

Especially those big guys who are directly involved in smuggling, they are so bold that they are even willing to sell the rope to strangle themselves, otherwise they would not do such business that will lead to property confiscation and beheading.

But whatever it is.

All Zhu Houcong could do was to fight back against the enemy with his generals and block the water with his earth.

If you oppose yourself within the rules, then I will deal with you within the rules.

If you insist on breaking the rules and confronting me, then I won’t follow the rules either and will also overturn the table to see who has more cards!
What Zhu Houcong was least afraid of was that he still had a lot of cards to play.

Maybe someone was so impatient that he was about to overturn the table, thinking that this would scare the emperor.

But what such people don't know is that Zhu Houcong still has cards such as Japanese silver mines, Philippine copper mines, Australian iron mines, and American gold mines in his hands, as well as sweet potatoes, corn, potatoes, nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium fertilizers, steam engines, internal combustion engines, radio communications, and cards such as Wang Chuanshan and Gu Tinglin.

Although, I don’t know if or if these cards can be played in his lifetime.

But he knew about the cards.

After all, each of these cards is a king bomb.

These people are turning the table now because they are too impatient. They think that the emperor will soon be completely isolated because the reforms have affected the interests of too many people, and he cannot suppress the increasing number of complaints. They think that a little threat will make them back off.

Zhu Houcong therefore really wanted to say to these people: "Look, they are anxious again!"

While Zhu Houcong was thinking this, he arrived at Kunning Palace.

He held the sleeping eldest prince in his arms, looked at his delicate face with a smile, and blew on his long eyelashes from time to time.

He had never loved this child so much before.

Even at this moment, looking at his young son sleeping peacefully in his arms, he even really had the idea of ​​just giving up and living a peaceful life in the harem.

After all, the Ming Dynasty has not yet reached the point of decline.

Can't we just leave the problem to future generations to deal with?

Wouldn't it be nice to hide in Xiyuan and practice Taoism and make elixirs?
What's more, there will really be people like this who are willing to save the world.

For example, the famous Zhang Juzheng.

He learned from the historical Jiajing and, with the help of the Taoist's words, decided that the two dragons would not meet each other and handed the royal heir to the upright people who were trusted by the gentry of the world.

Such an imperial heir is undoubtedly the safest.

No?
But people are alive, so they should do something, right?

It's not impossible to live like a walking corpse. The key is that the less a person knows and the lower his status, the more willing he will be to be a walking corpse.

But Zhu Houcong knew too much and stood too high.

Many people are looking eagerly at him, the man who holds the highest authority, always hoping that he can do something and govern the country according to his position.

If he follows the wishes of the person on his right, he will have to disappoint the person on his left.

To make the person on the left happy, you have to disappoint the person on the right.

"Your Majesty, the Grand Tutor requests an audience!"

When Zhu Houcong was visiting the eldest prince in Kunning Palace and was lost in thought, the eunuch Qin Wen came and informed him that Xie Qian wanted to see him.

(End of this chapter)