Chapter 16 Early Attached Phoenix Wings Climbing Dragon Scales (2)
"Just here. Arrange the guards opposite and don't let anyone live inside."
The prince finally spitted, which made Tian Cunshan feel relieved. He looked over the prince's gaze and suddenly realized that the dressing building was indeed very annoying. Not only was it annoying, it made people want to demolish it quickly! Not to mention whether the matter here can be heard, just thinking about someone looking at the prince condescendingly is enough to make people feel unhappy.
——If there is a ulterior motive, holding a powerful crossbow...
A thought flashed through Tian Cunshan's mind that made him even more creepy, and he quickly shook his head and threw it out.
Zhu Cixuan did not delay and said, "It's already noon. Even if my father is struggling, it's time to come down. Tian Cunshan, go and inquire, and then come back to report to me. I also bring some books I often read in the East Palace."
Tian Cunshan quickly responded to the order and told the accompanying eunuch to serve him well, and trotted away from the prince's sight.
Zhu Cixuan said to Zhou Jing again: "Zhou Jing, two things."
"I obey the order." Zhou Jing hurriedly stepped forward and responded.
"First, the guards in the secret residence should be launched as soon as possible." Zhu Cixuan said: "This place should be larger than Duan Ben Palace, and the manpower should be matched."
"If you have a minister here, please feel at ease." Zhou Jing quickly made a statement, letting the prince know that he has confidence, determination, and ability to protect the safety of a crown prince in a country.
Zhu Ciyang is a person who has the courage to walk in the plague area. How could he worry about the safety of his mansion? He has something to say, but Zhou Jing did not understand it. It is no wonder that if he had changed to a thirty-year-old prince, Zhou Jing would inevitably have to dig it out. However, the prince is only fifteen years old now. Isn’t this a very singular age?
"How many people do you want to be assigned?" Zhu Cixuan had to guide Zhou Jing to the right path.
"I think it's not too much." Zhou Jing did not understand the prince's real intention: "Although this place is bigger than Duan Ben Palace and outside the palace, there are royal palaces around it, and the fire shops are dense, and ordinary people have been driven away before they even got close. Seeing that the iron blocking outside was not damaged, I painted it..."
"Zhou Jing." The prince cried out earnestly.
"Your Highness?" Zhou Jing asked blankly.
"The vassal kings belong to the country, and according to the ancestral system, there are nine thousand guards." Zhu Cilang reminded.
"Your Highness," Zhou Jing smiled, "that's because if the vassal kings want to stay away from the capital, there will be someone to guard them. And since Hong Xi and Xuande, there will be fewer guards in the vassal kings."
Zhu Cilang raised his head and didn't want to speak anymore. Seeing Zhou Jing so foolish, he couldn't even say the second thing.
Song Hongye kept following the side carefully, and couldn't help but look at Zhou Jing like an idiot. He thought to himself: When I made money from the powerful people, I was more sophisticated than Monkeys. Is this person pretending to be stupid now? The prince is already trying to expand his personal guards!
——I am just a poor official, although it is a world of difference from this guard of the Eastern Palace, if I don’t step on him, how can I show my loyalty? The prince had warned himself before, that he would avoid being lazy, greedy and mediocre! If he doesn’t speak at this time, wouldn’t he confirm the word “Yong”? But... If this Master Zhou takes revenge, how can I block my official court?
Unconsciously, Song Hongye's heart beat like a drum, and his forehead was filled with sweat.
——Well! Just take it as a letter of fame!
Song Hongye gritted his teeth secretly, rolled his Adam's apple, moved forward, looked down at the ground, bowed, and said humbly: "Your Highness, you are in the Military and Ma Zheng. I often heard that there are thieves in the capital, and they are specializing in the new construction of the royal palace to break into the air. Now that your Highness comes out in a very low dress, the show is not obvious, so I am afraid that some thieves will break in blindly."
"What's the point of breaking into the royal palace that has been vacant for so long?" Zhou Jing disagreed.
"Haha, you are a rich man. How could you know that no matter how inconspicuous the things in this palace are, they can be enough for a few days or half a month to move out?" Song Hongye spoke humbly, and then raised Zhou Jing, not letting the uncle feel harsh, but there was a slight sense of superiority.
"Zhou Qing would not let these thieves succeed." Zhu Cilang said coldly.
No matter how dull Zhou Jing was, he finally heard the prince’s tone of badness and shouted in his heart: Why did I offend you, my Qiansui Master!
"Your Highness," said Song Hongye. "These thieves have been trained since childhood. They fly over the eaves and walls, drill holes and dive, and they are so numerous that they can't count them. As the saying goes, if you only catch thieves in one day, how can you defend against thieves for thousands of days? I dared to ask Your Highness to build a guard, set up flags everywhere, which shocked the young people. When they knew that the prince was staying in the secret residence, they naturally did not dare to have any bad thoughts."
Zhu Cilang nodded slightly, as if he was carefully considering Song Hongye's suggestion, and after a long time he said: "This is a way."
After Zhou Jing was beaten by the prince, he dared not object. Anyway, he was not the one who sent additional personnel.
"Zhou Qing, what do you think?"
"It is indeed not as good as it is in the palace, and what Song Hongye said should not be ignored." Zhou Jing said: "I will send additional guards to ensure that your highness is safe." Zhou Jing still didn't understand.
Zhu Cilang has lost his patience.
"This is still the Shiwangfu Street. So what if you go to the outer city?" The prince said coldly: "I was ordered to provide relief to the major epidemic in the capital. It is even more impossible to abandon the people in the suburbs and counties only within the nine gates. Furthermore, if there are major disasters and major epidemics, there are many rioters who reunite. As the commander of the Eastern Palace Guard, do you have any vain?"
Zhou Jing was asked by Zhu Ciyang in this way, and he was shocked. Finally, he realized that the prince mentioned the guards of the vassal kings before, and did not speak casually, but to enlighten himself! Although the vassal kings had three teams of guards of nine thousand troops, after Renxuan, there were only Emperor Wanli's beloved son, King Fu, who sent 10,000 troops and horses when he was in the vassal state, and sent them to the local area, the large group of troops came back. How could anyone dare to stay?
If you take a step back, can a fifteen-year-old prince give this matter to the military power?
Can you interfere with me as a relative?
"Your Highness," Zhou Jing said with a tough forehead, "I think that the son of a thousand gold cannot sit in the hall. In those places, I should go to your highness for you."
"What's the reason for leaving the palace alone? Is it just to let you run two less steps!" Zhu Cixuan's tone became more and more stern.
The prince always spoke in his voice, for fear that he would be in a period of voice change, so he would shout a broken voice once he shouted. Now this suppressed voice fell into Zhou Jing and Song Hongye's ears, which was like a thunderbolt. Zhou Jing was worried that he would lose the favor of the crown prince, but Song Hongye had read too many miscellaneous songs, especially "Three Kingdoms" and "Talk of Tang", which immediately made up Zhu Cilang's sincerity: The prince is to take charge of military power!
——It’s so hard to be surrounded by a bunch of idiots.
Zhu Cilang wanted to roar loudly. After turning his mouth for a few turns, he finally endured it and said calmly: "In ancient times, loyal ministers once said: If you benefit the life and death of the country, how can you avoid it because of misfortune and good fortune? What's more, Gu is a child of the Tian family. If you can't lead the way, why should you watch his children travel through the wind and snow? Zhou Jing, you are a royal relative, and you are not convenient to talk about you in many things, but in terms of being loyal to the country and doing your best to the world, you really have great improvements."
Zhou Jing was sweating coldly when he heard this. Although the prince was very polite, he said that he was incompetent and unfaithful inside and outside. How much criticism is this for a minister? Zhou made his fortune purely by the queen. Before Zhou Hou was granted the title, the Zhou family was a real low-key family. Zhou Kui even wanted to survive on the street by fortune telling. Now that he was criticized by the queen's legitimate son, Zhou Jing felt even indescribable pain in his heart.
"Clean up here, and I will summon the officials of the Eastern Palace after I take a nap." Zhu Cilang finally let him go.
Zhou Jing responded to the order, his lips squirmed slightly, and he plucked up the courage to ask: "Your Highness just said two things..."
"Forget it, if you can't do it well, I'll find someone." Zhu Cilang walked with his hands behind his back and greeted Song Hongye, "Come with me."
Song Hongye thought the prince was going to take a nap, but when he saw the prince calling him, he was happy: His Highness the prince said that rewards and punishments must be trusted. It is indeed a decisive act. Will this benefit me? As soon as he thought of this, the anxiety just now disappeared.
Zhu Cixuan took Song Hongye out of the big garden and took a winding walk along the small roads in the mansion, making it a way to eat. Zhou Jing did not dare to disobey the prince's orders, and personally supervised the arrangements and sent a guard to follow the prince. The prince did not say much, nor did he go to the bedroom, but entered another garden.
There is no pond in the garden, but there is a rockery made of Taihu stones, which is exquisite and transparent, and the stone paths are drawn through it. As the stone steps climb up, there is also a hanging octagonal spire pavilion on the rockery. The pavilion has no straight ridge, only a hanging ridge, like a bird pecking with five fingers together. In the middle of the top is a copper-golded ball roof, which is dazzling.
Zhu Cixuan left the guards and took Song Hongye to the rockery, entered the pavilion, stopped to look at it, and breathed a sigh of relief, saying, "How about this garden?"
As a clerk, Song Hongye had read some miscellaneous books. Although he could not blurt out like those talented men, he could also speak a few words and immediately praised: "The Qiandi has the exquisiteness of the Nanyuan, but the majestic nature of the Beiyuan. It should be a famous garden in the world, but ordinary people have no blessing to appreciate it, which makes the vulgar gardens outside noisy."
"Even if this garden is in the south, it is not embarrassing." Zhu Cixuan visited those famous gardens many times in his previous life. Compared with the two, he felt that Song Hongye was pertinent and objective. He reached out and patted the pillars, stirring up a layer of thin dust. He didn't mind, but rubbed his hands and said to Song Hongye: "It's a pity that this garden has not been living for a long time."
——What does the prince mean?
Song Hongye was shocked: He wanted military power again, and said that he could not live in the secret residence for a long time. Do you have the intention to win the title? But this is too urgent, he is only fifteen years old...
"I think you are a sensible person and loyal, so let's talk to you directly." Zhu Cilang looked at the garden without even looking at Song Hongye, and he had no idea that the little clerk was already scared. He said: "The divine people in the court are like crucian carp crossing the river. Now someone impeached the Qin governor Sun Chuanting, but he didn't know that this was destroying the city himself! Once Sun Chuanting did not exist, the fall of Beijing would be just around the corner."
Compared to being determined to seize the throne, making a pessimistic prediction is nothing to be a matter of making a pessimistic prediction. Song Hongye then gently wiped away the sweat from his forehead and breathed a sigh of relief. He said, "Your Highness does not need to be pessimistic. I think there are also discerning people among the court officials, so they will not let those mediocre officials succeed."
Zhu Cilang shook his head: "Even if there are discerning people in the court, they are no longer useful. Now this country has become a root of roots, and capable ministers like Li Banghua have also lost their aura. Among the border ministers, Lu Xiangsheng and Hong Chengchou are all considered commanders, but those who die and rebel are no one who can stand alone. Famous generals such as Cao Wenzhao, Cao Bianjiao, Man Gui, He Kegang, and Zhao Lujiao... have all died. Humph, look at the generals now, who really takes the emperor seriously?"
Only the emperor and the prince can say these words, and no one else can avoid a big stick.
Chapter completed!