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Volume One: The Past and the Present Chapter 742: Goodbye, Lord and Minister

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    Zhu Houcong didn't bother to go to Chengtianmen to appease the ministers, but hurriedly drove to Cining Palace.

    This move is the manifestation of "the Holy Emperor governs the country with filial piety". This sentence is not just a slogan, but what the emperor actually wants to do. Even if there are more than a hundred corpses of ministers lying outside the palace gate, Zhu Houcong must first  Go to Cining Palace and endure the Queen Mother¡¯s scolding.

    At this moment, in front of the palace gate, the more than 200 living ministers were covered in scars and looked at the corpses of their colleagues on the ground covered in blood. The autumn wind blew in waves in the square, but everyone's hearts were as cold as the blood on the ground.

    One hundred and thirteen ministers were killed by sticks, on the same day, at the same time, at the same place.

    Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, even the most murderous and cruel Emperor Hongwu has never killed so many ministers in one day. Liu Jin of the Zhengde Dynasty also killed ministers when he was in chaos, but he never dared to risk the disapproval of the world.  , killing so many people in one day, almost one-third of the courtiers in the Ming Dynasty were killed today. How cruel and unkind this is!

    In front of Chengtian Gate, the living ministers also gradually came to their senses.

    This is not a dispute over etiquette. It is clearly the new emperor who wants to establish his authority and strengthen his imperial power and kills his courtiers!  This twelve-year-old child has a cold and cruel soul hidden under his gentle and kind appearance!

    The ministers were chilled. They felt cold from head to toe. They realized what kind of tyrant they had brought to the throne.

    Yang Yiqing, the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, was covered in blood. He was hit with a stick just now. Fortunately, several old officials tried their best to stop him. Yang Yiqing was not injured, but the blood on his body belonged to his colleagues.

    He looked around blankly at the corpses in the quiet square, with muddy old tears flowing down in strings. He turned his head to look at Yang Tinghe, who had a dull expression. Yang Yiqing said in a trembling voice: "Jiefu. After Jiajing  , what kind of world will it be like tomorrow?"

    Yang Tinghe remained silent, suppressing the anger that was about to burst out.

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    The autumn wind swept the withered yellow leaves, forming a small whirlpool in the open field, and the fallen leaves were blown up by the wind.  It fell again, bleak and full of dilapidated scenery.

    At the same time as the murder at the palace gate occurred, Qin Kan and Tang Zihe were sitting in a carriage, which was driving leisurely to a farm in the southern suburbs of the capital city.

    Until now, sitting on the rickety carriage, Qin Kan was still confused.  He didn't understand why Tang Zihe suddenly wanted to drag him out, let alone why she had to leave the city for the southern suburbs.

    Inside the shaking carriage.  Qin Kan, who was wearing a sapphire blue scholar's shirt, looked at Tang Zihe in confusion. Today, Tang Zihe did not have the slightly sharp aura as usual. Instead, he seemed a little guilty. A pair of dark and bright eyes sometimes looked at the roof of the car, sometimes at the other side.  Outside the car, he just didn't dare to make eye contact with Qin Kan.

    Qin Kan became more and more surprised.  Tang Zihe's guilty conscience was rare to see in a hundred years. It had been more than ten years since he had known her, but he had never seen her look like this before, and he became even more curious about where she was going.

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    The carriage was neither fast nor slow, and the official road in the suburbs was not smooth. Qin Kan was a little dizzy sitting in the bumpy carriage, thinking about how to wait for the storm to pass.  You can consider submitting a proposal to the court to allocate the surplus from the national treasury and internal treasury. The Ministry of Industry recruits civilians to make every effort to widen or rebuild all the main official roads in the Ming Dynasty, and strive to cover the entire Ming Dynasty's prefectures and counties with a network of official roads. Convenient transportation is  The prerequisite for developing national strength is that the slogan of later generations, "If you want to get rich, build a road first" is not unreasonable. With a wide and smooth road, no matter merchants.  Whether military or civilian, its efficiency will be greatly increased. Taxes from the world will be returned to the world, and both officials, soldiers and civilians can enjoy the benefits and conveniences. This is a strategy for strengthening the country.

    A soft voice sounded in Qin Kan¡¯s ears.  It interrupted the vague thoughts in his mind.

    "My lord, the atmosphere in the capital city is not right today. Something big seems to have happened?" Tang Zihe asked gently.

    Qin Kan came back to his senses and said with a smile: "The new emperor has ascended the throne, the subjects are celebrating together, and the government is running meticulously. Today is like the past, and it is like this every day. What big thing can happen?"

    The curiosity in Tang Zihe's eyes has not faded at all. He curled his lips quietly and said: "You lied to me, something obviously happened"

    Qin Kan sighed: "Why does a girl with red makeup need to interfere with government affairs? Even if there is a big event, what does it have to do with you?"

    Tang Zihe was stunned for a moment, and looked at Qin Kan with more and more suspicion: "Is there really something big going on?"

    Qin Kan didn't want to pay attention to her and turned his head to look out the car window.

    Tang Zihe¡¯s expression gradually became excited, and even his tone of voice was filled with unconcealable excitement: ¡°Mr. Sir, are you going to take action?¡±

    "Nonsense, you can't do anything. I will be my father-in-law and no one will mess with me."Me, who should I fight with?  "Qin Kan stared at her fiercely.

    Tang Zihe chuckled: "You can't fool me. Last night you didn't go back to the foreign palace in the city. You slept at my foreign wife's place at night. You got up before dawn this morning. People kept coming to the front hall of the house.  Go, those people are coming and going in a hurry, something must have happened, sir, what on earth did you do?"

    Qin Kan sighed secretly, then closed his eyes and never wanted to talk to her again.

    This woman is too smart, and it seems that nothing can be hidden from her, but he really doesn't want to see her get involved in government affairs anymore. It's not that he looks down on women, but that this woman is too dangerous. Once he takes action, it will cause earth-shaking movements.  Ming Dynasty couldn't stand a few twists and turns.

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    The farm is located in a very remote mountain valley. Even Qin Kan couldn't name the mountain. When the carriage stopped, Qin Kan and Tang Zihe stepped out of the car. Qin Kan squinted and looked around at the undulating and lush mountains in the distance.  The mountains are covered with a layer of golden color in late autumn, as if they are covered with the afterglow of the setting sun, which is poetic and picturesque to the eye.

    At the foot of the mountains, there is an unpretentious small courtyard with a half-closed wood door in front of the courtyard. There are a few foraging chickens and ducks in the courtyard. There is a medium-sized pond outside the wood door. In autumn, the fish in the pond are getting fatter.  I saw one or two carps leaping out of the water.  Another heavy fall.

    Qin Kan glanced at everything in front of him and praised sincerely: "What a farmhouse scenery! In the future, when I am done with my secular duties, I will definitely find a place like this to spend the rest of my life"

    Tang Zihe's expression became more and more guilty, and even the tip of his fair and delicate nose was slightly covered with beads of sweat. He looked up at Qin Kan's face.  But he didn't answer and just took two steps behind.

    Standing in front of the chai door, Qin Kan turned his head and looked at Tang Zihe, feeling even more confused. Just as he was about to ask the guards to knock on the door, he saw the half-closed chai door being pushed open from the inside.  Two familiar faces appeared in his eyes.

    Qin Kan took a quick look and couldn't help being shocked, and said in a voiceless voice: "Liu Liangnu, Eunuch Gao!"

    The ones who pushed Chai Fei open were Liu Liangnu, whom they had not seen for a long time, and Gao Feng, the former internal treasury manager.

    Liu Liangnu wore a coarse floral skirt, her black hair was pulled into a high bun, and then wrapped with a blue floral scarf.  Gao Feng also wears a gray coarse cloth jacket and carries a cane. At first glance, the two of them look no different from ordinary peasants.

    Qin Kan stared at the two of them blankly. When he looked at Gao Feng, his eyes became fierce and he suddenly shouted: "Come here, capture the traitor Gao Feng! Give me a strict interrogation immediately and ask for His Majesty's whereabouts!"

    "Master. Mr. Qin, please calm down first. This old slave with old arms and legs cannot withstand the interrogation of your nobles" Gao Feng hurriedly smiled and arched his head, pointed to the courtyard with his hand, and said with a smile: "You have to know  There¡¯s no need to ask anything about it, you¡¯ll know it once you go inside and take a look inside.¡±

    Qin Kan's heart tightened, and he turned his eyes to look at the farmhouse not far away, filled with smoke.

    ¡° Inside that empty door, there seemed to be an answer that had been lingering in my mind for many days. This answer seemed reasonable, but I couldn¡¯t make myself accept it.  Relieve.

    Time and air seem to freeze at this moment

    A gray coarse cloth sleeve was first exposed from the side of the empty door, followed by a black soft-soled cloth shoe, gray linen trousers, and a cloth scarf tied into a knot at the waist.

    Familiar eyebrows and eyes appeared quietly in the autumn wind, with smiles on their faces.  There are tears in the smile, but the watery eyes are still so pure and bright, like dusty pearls and jade lying quietly among the tiles, still blooming with a completely different brilliance.

    Qin Kan stared at him blankly, his eye circles suddenly turned red, and tears immediately filled his eyes.

    We were separated for only a few months, but it was like we were separated by a lifetime. The familiar eyebrows and eyes when we met again seemed to be the impression of the previous life.

    The two looked at each other across the small courtyard, in silence, with tears flowing like a river.

    After a long time, Qin Kan lifted up the hem of his clothes, pushed the golden mountain and knocked down the jade pillar, and fell to his knees heavily.

    "Your Majesty, I finally see you again" Qin Kan choked up as he spoke.

    Zhu Houzhao was still smiling, but the tears were sliding down his face.

    "Qin Kan, I've been waiting for you here for a long time"

    "I have been searching for His Majesty's whereabouts. My Jinyi Guards have searched all over the world, but to no avail. Due to His Majesty's disappearance, dozens of Jinyiwei's North and South Town Fu Division were replaced by me"

    Zhu Houzhao said with a tearful smile: "If I don't want the factory guards to find me, who can?"

    Qin Kan wiped the tears on his face carelessly. After taking a few deep breaths, Qin Kan slowly calmed down, and many doubts came to his mind.

    "Your Majesty is drowning. The doctors are unable to save him. When did you wake up?"

    Zhu Houzhao smiled and said: "Although the lucky man has his own help from God, I can't thank God for being able to wake up. I have to thank you for marrying a layman with great medical skills."?Yeah.  "

    Qin Kan immediately turned to look at Tang Zihe behind him, but Tang Zihe lowered his head in guilt and remained silent.

    Qin Kan looked at Gao Feng again, who was bowing and laughing. Several clues connected into a vague outline in his mind. At this moment, he suddenly understood everything.

    Turning his head to look at Tang Zihe again, Qin Kan's eyes suddenly turned cold. Tang Zihe timidly raised his head and happened to meet his eyes. Seeing the anger in those familiar eyes, Tang Zihe's eyes turned red, but his heart felt like being tortured.  Pain as if stabbed by a knife.

    Suppressing the anger in his heart, Qin Kan still smiled and said: "Your Majesty is the emperor, and he is protected by all the gods and Buddhas in the sky. I am happy to see that your Majesty is fine, so I summon all the civil and military ministers to come to pick him up, and then ask Mr. Yang to start  The cabinet is discussing that His Majesty will follow the Yingzong's example and ascend the throne again. After all major events are settled, you and I, the monarch and our ministers, can reminisce about the past"

    "No, no no!" Zhu Houzhao shook his head unexpectedly and said: "I woke up after Gao Feng stole me out of the palace. These days in this farm, I heard that the courtiers had appointed a new king, and I heard that my cousin Zhu Houcong  Since ascending the throne, I have not made any move until now, Qin Kan, don¡¯t you understand why?¡±

    Qin Kan was stunned for a moment, then suddenly trembled all over and stared at Zhu Houzhao in shock.

    "Your Majesty!"

    Zhu Houzhao smiled and waved his hands, looked at the rolling mountains in the distance, and sighed: "Qin Kan, I am not a good emperor, or in other words, I actually don't want to be the emperor"

    "My father is the only son, and the succession to the throne is unavoidable, so I wore a yellow robe and was put on a high-profile stage by the courtiers. However, including my father, no one has ever asked me if I would like to be the emperor, let alone  No one has asked me whether I will be happy as the emperor. In the eyes of the world, they only see my splendor and my dignity Yes, I am sitting on thousands of miles of mountains and rivers, and I am a powerful person in the world. I should be the happiest person in the world.  How can I not be happy? How dare I not be happy?"

    Zhu Houzhao said with his eye circles turning red again: "However, during these fourteen years as emperor, I only felt truly happy when I played with Zhang Yong and Gu Da in the inner palace, or when I fed the tigers and elephants in the leopard room.  , in the past fourteen years, the ministers criticized and restricted everything at home and abroad, ranging from the world's money, food, rivers, and military preparations, to repairing the palace gates and replacing tiles. Everyone they saw and heard was scolded and scolded.  Shouldn't the most noble person in the world be the emperor? But why do I think the most noble people are those ministers and civil servants? I have been the emperor for fourteen years, and I have endured it for fourteen years"

    "I really like to have fun by nature, but as I got older I had already given up on it. However, the courtiers forced me to have fun, so I deliberately deviated from the norm and became absurd. I don't know whether it was because I wanted to fight or to be angry.  In the dead of night, I thought about all my deeds, and felt deeply ashamed and fearful. I was afraid that I would ruin my ancestor's reputation and bring shame to my ancestor's reputation, so I had to brace myself up to take care of the country that my father left to me. I am lucky to have you all these years.  , settled Liaodong, executed Liu Jin, King Pingning, and banned the sea I am not good at governing the country, but I only trust you in my life. You help me manage this devastated world properly, and all I have to do is just to  You are responsible for nodding your head when you make any suggestions, and then work together to deceive the ministers"

    Zhu Houzhao's face showed a smile of reminiscence: "For fourteen years, I have counted them carefully, but I didn't expect that you and I, our monarchs and ministers, would actually do so many things, let alone that you and I, our monarchs and ministers, would be able to govern the Ming Dynasty prosperously. Since Hongzhi,  , Zhengde becomes stronger and stronger in the hands of you and me, Qin Kan, I want to thank you very much, thank you very much for helping me to protect this country, and let it turn upside down under my rule, which is better than all previous dynasties, even if I die at this moment  Huang Quan is worthy of his ancestors"

    Qin Kan already knew Zhu Houzhao's answer, and sighed helplessly with his head down: "You and I, our monarchs and ministers, have spent more than ten years of effort and blood to rule the prosperous country. It could have been grander and more powerful. How could your Majesty bear to abandon it?"

    Zhu Houzhao sighed solemnly: "Because I am tired, really too tired Qin Kan, the life I want to live is not about fine clothes and fine food, not about being able to respond to everything at once. In fact, what I want is very simple. I just want to take the path I want to take."  That's all, when others look at me, they don't look at me as a lofty emperor, nor as a shadow piled up with a lot of rituals, crowns, and titles. I just want to be an ordinary person with a name, as ordinary as dust, small but small.  Really, I just hope that in the rest of my life there will be no more piles of memorials, no more courtiers nagging in my ears, treating me as a stepping stone for my reputation and pride, and no more people who can sit in the world but have to pay attention to which leg they walk on.  The constraints"

    Qin Kan nodded dejectedly: "I understand, what you want is freedom."

    Zhu Houzhao showed a strange look, thought for a moment, nodded and said: "This word is fresh and good. What I want is freedom, yes, freedom!"

    ???????????????????????????????????????????????? out outI really can't afford it anymore. In recent years, I have become more and more desperate day by day, until I drowned and fell into a coma. I was rescued by your wife, smuggled out of the palace by Gao Feng, and then the new emperor came to the throne For me  , this is simply a chance for me to be reborn. I finally got rid of that gorgeous cage. How could I go back?  "
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