Chapter 298: Dutiful Son Zhu Gaosui

The summer in Beiping is a bit dry, and for Zhu Di, this kind of weather is the most comfortable.

After dealing with the memorial, Zhu Di got up and moved around, feeling his knees without soreness.

"Your Majesty, King Zhao has arrived."

The eunuch glanced at Huang Yan who was beside him, and bowed to report.

A smile appeared on Zhu Di's face: "Since when has this Zhuzi been so polite? Let him in."

As the saying goes, the royal family favors the eldest son, and the common people love the younger son, but when it comes to Zhu Di, they lose their way.

"Royal father."

Not long after, a thin man walked in, knelt down and saluted before raising his head.

This man's facial features are delicate, but his chin, which is similar to Zhu Di's, ruined him a bit, otherwise he would be a handsome man.

"stand up."

Zhu Di's tone was much softer, and Huang Yan couldn't help but glance at the eunuch proudly.

The man was Zhu Gaosui, king of Zhao. He smiled and said after getting up: "Father, a pond of lotus flowers bloomed in my son's house yesterday. Today, I would like to invite father to come to my son's mansion to enjoy the flowers, okay?"

Zhu Di showed a rare look of kindness, "Forget it, I have a lot of affairs here, if you are filial, then you can buy a few pots."

Zhu Gaosui immediately said happily: "Father, please wait, my son will go right away."

Zhu Gaosui didn't even care about etiquette after speaking,

He turned around and ran, looking like a teenager trying to please his father.

Zhu Di looked at his back with soft eyes, and returned to the case after a long time, ready to continue dealing with political affairs.

Huang Yan said without losing the opportunity: "His Royal Highness Zhao Wang is so pure and filial, this old slave is worried that His Highness will come here all wet!"

Hearing this, Zhu Di put down the vermilion pen, laughed and said, "I will make a bet with you today, if it is true, then this pair of paperweights will be yours."

A pair of ruler-shaped paperweights made of sandalwood are placed on the imperial case. It seems that they have been played with.

Huang Yan couldn't see his eyebrows with a smile, knelt down and said: "The old slave will thank you first."

The eunuch watched the scene expressionlessly from the side, and just exchanged a cup of hot tea for Zhu Di.

Time passed, and when there were hurried footsteps outside, Zhu Di put down his pen and fixed his eyes on the door.

"Royal Father! Royal Father! My son is here..."

The corners of Zhu Di's mouth turned up, and he watched Zhao Wang rush in with a pot of lotus in his arms, all wet.

"Look, father."

Zhu Gaosui placed the pot of lotus on Zhu Di's imperial case as if offering a treasure, and then shouted outside: "Hurry up and bring it in."

Smelling the faint fragrance of lotus, Zhu Di smiled and watched Zhu Gaosui command the guards to place the lotus.

"Put this pot here, and the emperor can enjoy it when he is free."

"Bring this pot to the place where father eats, what an appetite to look at the lotus!"

"..."

After finally being settled, Zhu Gaosui wiped off the sweat from his forehead, and said to Zhu Di with a smile: "Father, let me have dinner with you today."

Zhu Di nodded, then pointed to the pair of paperweights and said to Huang Yan: "You old dog is smart, take it!"

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

Huang Yan happily took the paperweight, then bowed to Zhu Gaosui and said, "Thank you, His Royal Highness Zhao Wang."

Zhu Gaosui asked with a confused face: "Why did Eunuch Huang thank the king?"

"Ha ha ha ha!"

Zhu Di laughed and told him the gamble just now, then looked at him pitifully and said, "Although it's summer, you have to be careful, you go to the back and change your clothes."

When Zhu Gaosui went to the back room to change clothes, Huang Yan saw the opportunity and said: "Your Majesty, I heard that someone went to Shanxi a few days ago, and it seems to be inquiring about Gou Jun's military status..."

"who?"

There was a gleam in Zhu Di's eyes.

Huang Yan said with a dry smile, "I don't know much about it, I just listened to it."

Zhu Di narrowed his eyes, and said lightly: "Go and check!"

...

"The army must be firmly controlled, otherwise it will be a matter of time before it falls apart."

In the study, Fang Xing was teaching Zhu Zhanji.

"So military power is a sensitive topic. For example, your father is planning to check the military status of his relatives. I think he is touching your grandpa's inverse scales."

Zhu Zhanji was silent, and then said: "Yes, Grandpa Huang is good to those relatives, so the army is still under firm control at present, and such a situation will not happen."

Fang Xing smiled: "But what if Xun Qi is rotten?"

After Daming was in Tumubao, Wu Xun was basically finished, and a small Shi Heng could control the overall situation, and further began to meddle in the government.

Simply because at that time, the army of Ming Dynasty was not the kind of "milk is mother" in the later period, so after the restoration, Zhu Qizhen killed Shi Heng's family without hesitation.

But after Shi Heng's death, Daming actually has no outstanding generals. Gradually, those civil servants climbed over the heads of the military officials, bossing them around, and treating the military officials as slaves.

The well-known Qi Jiguang, while making great achievements in martial arts, had no choice but to praise Zhang Juzheng's stinky foot, and the letter to Zhang Juzheng always addressed: "Qi, a young lackey under the door."

Moreover, Qi Jiguang had to make offerings to Zhang Juzheng frequently, all kinds of rare treasures and beauties, otherwise even if you, Qi Jiguang, were an anti-Japanese hero, Zhang Juzheng could still drive you into the dust.

"...Wen Wu No. 1."

Fang Xing frowned and said, "But the most shameless one is also a literati!"

In Zhu Zhanji's dull expression, Fang Xing concluded: "Qingpi is not scary, I am afraid that Qingpi is educated!"

"And literati are educated green skins!"

This is the first time that Fang Xing has belittled the literati to such an extent in front of Zhu Zhanji, so Zhu Zhanji said nastily: "Brother Dehua, it's not enough, at least the literati in this dynasty still know loyalty."

"Loyalty?"

Fang Xing said disdainfully: "These loyalties were forged by Taizu Gao and His Majesty with knives. Do you really think they have loyalty?"

"That's all!" Fang Xing saw the shock and confusion on Zhu Zhanji's face, so he ended the topic and said with a frown, "It's useless to say more, just take your time."

During the Ming dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang disdained civil officials and eunuchs the most, so during his Hongwu years, no eunuchs could take the lead, and civil officials were killed with trepidation.

In the Yongle period, Zhu Di started to disdain and be wary of eunuchs, but now, there are signs of reusing eunuchs.

According to Fang Xing's vague memory, it seems that the official use of eunuchs in Ming Dynasty began during Zhu Zhanji's Xuande period.

Fang Xing looked at Zhu Zhanji with a heavy face, and thought in his heart: Your baby is struggling now, in the future you feel that you can't handle the civil service system anymore, why don't you still have to push out the eunuchs, and fight with the civil officials to check and balance each other?

Zhu Zhanji thought for a long time, and finally felt that the civil service system was not enough, so he said in relief: "Brother Dehua, why don't you take the exam next year?"

There will be an exam next year, so Zhu Zhanji thinks that Fang Xing will be able to get out of a family background, and then the father and son will work it out, and then Fang Xing will be able to participate in government affairs seriously.

Fang Xing sternly said, "No!"

Zhu Zhanji still wanted to persuade one or two, but Fang Xing said firmly: "I will never step into the examination room again in my life!"

In Zhu Zhanji's eyes, the future of civil servants is greater than that of Wu Xun, so he sincerely hopes that Fang Xing can take the Jinshi examination. After their father and son came to power, Fang Xing's status was extraordinary.

But Fang Xing prefers to get a title, to avoid the open and hidden arrows in the officialdom!

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