Ming Dynasty: pacifying the rebellion and defending the border, dominating the world

Chapter 71 Zhu Houzhao: I personally drafted an edict to help you quell the crisis
With the experience of the first time, several people were already prepared to wait.

But Zhu Jinzhen suddenly frowned, thinking of someone he had forgotten: "Wangqing, Chengen, Xueyang, you stay here and wait for the synchronization of the martial arts furnace to end."

"Yes, Your Highness."

Several people seemed to have guessed what Zhu Jinzhen was going to do, and they bowed in agreement at the same time.

Zhu Jinzhen nodded and shouted into the martial arts furnace, "Yang Ning, when the time is up, the furnace will open automatically and you can come out then."

"You will finally understand."

Yang Ning's answer came from the martial arts self-cultivation furnace.

He was in the martial arts self-cultivation furnace, and all kinds of past memories and insights kept bursting out in his mind. The experience was good. Except for the waiting time being a bit boring, there was nothing to adapt to.

Zhu Jinzhen looked at the martial arts self-cultivation furnace deeply, then turned and left.

It took an hour to replicate the power of the Celestial Realm, and who knows how much longer it would take for the Divine Realm on Earth. He laughed inwardly, "The Emperor must be getting impatient, right?"

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In the Palace of Prince Qin, when the dishes had become cold and Zhu Houzhao, who had drunk pot after pot of wine, could not help but overturn the sumptuous food in front of him along with the table.

Zhu Jinzhen, who was late, walked in with a happy face.

Seeing Zhu Jinzhen, Zhu Houzhao was furious. Even though he knew he was being controlled by someone, he still sneered under the influence of alcohol and said, "Prince Su is really arrogant. He wanted to see me at 9:00 PM, but he didn't come until 3:00 PM."

The attitude was just short of asking Zhu Jinzhen, "Do you still have me in your eyes?"

Zhu Jinzhen sat down in front of Zhu Houzhao. Facing his questioning, he did not explain. Instead, he looked him over and said, "Drinking will lead to mistakes. Your Majesty, are you drunk? Why are you talking nonsense?"

"I only said I would meet you later, but I didn't agree on a time."

As he spoke, Zhu Jinzhen ignored Zhu Houzhao's ugly expression, picked up the tea brought by the maid next to him, took a sip, and showed his disrespect for the emperor to the fullest.

He needs to swallow his anger until he can lie dormant and accumulate strength.

If he was still enduring even though he had already started cheating, then why was he lying dormant before?
This arrogant look made Zhu Houzhao furious, but also made him sober up a little. He knew that if he continued to act like an emperor, based on Zhu Jinzhen's previous performance, he might really bring the "spy Zhu Shou" to justice.

Taking white fish and dragon food will backfire on yourself.

Zhu Houzhao finally tasted the bitter fruit of his own cleverness.

Before Zhu Houzhao could speak, Zhu Jinzhen had already put down his teacup and said slowly, "Your Majesty, at such a young age, has already achieved the level of Zhixuan cultivation. Looking at your peers, there are only a handful of such people. Yet, there has never been a rumor in the world that an emperor knows martial arts. This shows that your talent and character are extraordinary."

"But I have a question. Why did you endure it for so many years and suddenly you can't bear it anymore?"

"Is the threat I pose too great?"

These words made Zhu Houzhao's pupils shrink slightly.

He possessed such profound attainments in the art of divination that even his former companion Liu Jin, the governor of the East Factory Cao Zhengchun, and his cunning uncle Zhu Wusi, who lived with him day and night, failed to notice it. But now, Zhu Jinzhen revealed his true abilities.

But when Zhu Houzhao thought that the other party was the youngest land sword immortal, he was not surprised.

"The rumors in the capital were not spread by me."

"I know." Upon hearing this, Zhu Houzhao was immediately furious and glared at Zhu Jinzhen, as if wanting to say, "You knew this and still brought me here by force?"
Zhu Jinzhen snorted noncommittally, "I know better than anyone that if the emperor hadn't tacitly approved, or even instigated, this incident wouldn't have caused such panic throughout the capital, shaking the government and the people."

"You won't be here either."

"Prince Su, you misunderstood."

Zhu Houzhao didn't expect Zhu Jinzhen to get straight to the point, so he had no choice but to bite the bullet and try to explain.

Zhu Jinzhen interrupted him, "Lu Xiaofeng was able to appear in Jiayuguan, and the East Factory, the Embroidered Uniform Guard, and the Six Gates all came to Shaanxi in disguise, either openly or secretly. Are you telling me that this is to find out the truth?"

"Yansui, Datong, Xuanfu, Shanxi, and other places are frequently deploying troops."

"What do you mean? Do you really think I'm a fool?"

Faced with the questioning, Zhu Houzhao fell silent.

Of course he knew that Zhu Jinzhen was not a fool, and it was not Zhu Jinzhen's attitude that made him silent, but his last words. He lowered his head, and a bone-chilling chill surged through his body.

A bitter smile crossed Zhu Houzhao's face. "The six ministries of the cabinet and the nine departments of the court have submitted 149 impeachments in seven days, demanding a thorough investigation of Prince Su's mansion and the purging of the border towns to prevent another rebellion by the Border Prince. I have no choice but to compromise and let them investigate."

"But I really don't know about the troop deployments from all sides."

"Your Zhenguo Mansion is in Xuanfu. Don't you know about the troop deployment?" Zhu Jinzhen seemed to have heard something out of the ordinary. However, Zhu Houzhao's reaction made him fall silent. He couldn't help but frown: "The emperor really doesn't know?"

"Haha, isn't it ridiculous?" Zhu Houzhao laughed at himself, picked up the wine jug and poured it directly into his mouth. Then he became angry and threw the wine jug to the ground.

Zhu Jinzhen glanced at the broken pieces on the ground and reminded him, "The wine pot you just smashed is the Jade Pot of the Sea and Jade, worth 17,000 taels of gold."

Zhu Houzhao's eyes widened and he stood there in a daze.

What kind of shabby wine jug is so expensive?

It’s actually worth 170,000 taels of silver?
Is Prince Su planning to blackmail the emperor?
Seeing Zhu Houzhao making such a fuss, Zhu Jinzhen couldn't help but show a look of contempt, waving his hands and said: "Forget it, although you are the emperor, you are also as poor as a ghost. Just think of it as something I accidentally broke."

"You keep talking..."

When Zhu Houzhao heard this, his teeth almost broke.

He, Emperor Zhengde, who made great contributions to the Ming Dynasty, was actually ridiculed as a pauper?

But when he thought about the wine pot that had just been broken, which was worth 170,000 taels, and that he had only spent 230,000 taels to build the Leopard House, the civil officials in the court impeached him every day and used this as an excuse.

Zhu Houzhao decisively chose to put the matter aside and managed to regain some composure: "I admit that when I first received the news, I did have the idea of ​​using a knife to kill someone."

"You command a million soldiers, are younger than me, and are a thousand times more powerful than me. You are the youngest land-based sword immortal in the Ming Dynasty, and perhaps even the entire world. Your prestige in the army and among the people of the Ming Dynasty is too high. It will be easy for you to repeat the path of Emperor Taizong."

"Fengtian Jingnan, a good choice."

Zhu Jinzhen echoed nonchalantly.

Zhu Houzhao was shocked when he heard this. He looked at Zhu Jinzhen deeply and nodded bitterly. "I, the emperor, was unaware of the mobilization of troops from all directions. The Cabinet, the Ministry of War, the Left Army Commandery, and the Right Army Commandery have overstepped their bounds. If you truly wish to quell the rebellion, I will personally write you an imperial edict."

(End of this chapter)