I, Zhu Youjian: the first prodigal son of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 243 Do you want to be emperor?
Li Sanniang is Li Sancai's granddaughter?
Mao Yuanyi's complexion finally turned serious, he solemnly bowed and saluted, cupped his hands and said: "Girl, Xiaosheng's words used to offend me a lot before, please forgive me.

Li Sancai, the boss, once taught me the study of Yi Li.

It's a pity that the boss is caught between the Donglin Party, the Zhejiang Party, the Chu Party, the Jin Party, and the Eunuch Party. The opportunity, but finally failed to come true.

Unexpectedly, after his death a few years ago, his family has fallen to this point..."

Li Sanniang clasped her fists and remained silent.

Mao Yuanyi sighed and stopped talking.

Unexpectedly, what happened to the famous ministers of the Ming Dynasty who had been in the wind and cloud for decades, and their descendants became figures in the world, it is really embarrassing.

Mao Yuanyi felt that Li Sancai was a man of great talent in economics and strategy, and he was fairly clean as an official, but he cherished his reputation too much, so he neither wanted to get close to the Donglin Party, Chu Party, Zhejiang Party, etc. at that time, nor did he want to join the eunuchs. party.

Therefore, this was attacked by many parties.

Only the Donglin party members defended him vigorously, and ran away from the coldness and injustice he suffered from the emperor.

It has to be said that it was the superficial praise of the Donglin party members that was one of the main reasons why Li Sancai was so neglected by the emperor...

……

"The girl was born in a family of officials and eunuchs. She is well-versed in poetry and books, and has a good understanding of Yi Li. How did she end up in the world?"

More than half an hour later, Mao Yuanyi gnawed off a whole roe and rabbit leg roast, and asked suddenly: "I only heard that Mr. Li was finally appointed by the emperor in the third year of Wanli, and was awarded the Minister of the Jinling Household Department. died of illness.

It is really regrettable. "

"Grandfather did not die of illness, but was murdered."

After eating a few mouthfuls of hot barbecue, Li Sanniang's complexion gradually improved, not only was she no longer pale and bloodless, but also a smear of blood appeared on her cheeks, adding to her beauty and elegance.

Mao Yuanyi stared for a moment and asked, "Murdered?"

"Yes, it was murdered by the current idiot emperor and the former letter king Zhu Youjian, which caused my grandfather to die of a sudden illness before he took office..." Li Sanniang gritted her teeth, as if she wanted to bite the idiot emperor who was far away in the capital It took a few mouthfuls to relieve the hatred.

Mao Yuanyi frowned slightly.

Li Sancai died of a sudden illness in the third year of Tianqi, and failed to go to Jinling to take up the post of Minister of the Household Department.

In the third year of Apocalypse, Zhu Youjian, who was the king of Xin, was still a boy of twelve or thirteen years old. Because his mother was born in a humble and humble background, no one noticed her existence at all. unwelcome...

How could this matter be involved with the idiot emperor?

There must be some reason for it?

Mao Yuanyi pondered a few times, and said: "My lady said that Master Li Sancai's sudden illness was related to the idiot emperor Zhu Youjian. What is the basis or evidence? You must know that when Master Li suffered a sudden illness, King Xin was a twelve-year-old three-year-old boy;

Moreover, in the blood of the royal family, it is still very unpopular..."

"The concubine has evidence. How dare you talk nonsense and spit blood on such a thing!" Li Sanniang said with certainty.

Mao Yuanyi stretched out his hand: "Bring out the evidence."

"If there is real evidence to prove that the idiot emperor killed your grandfather Li Sancai, and Xiaosheng avenged you, try to trick him into leaving the capital and let you assassinate him seven or eight times;

If it is true, let's find a way to find the real culprit. "

Looking at Mao Yuanyi's greasy hands, Li Sanniang bit her lip, hesitated for a moment, reached into her bosom, and took out a small purse.

Then, in front of Mao Yuanyi, carefully opened the purse, and took out a small item from it.

"Look at this, is it something from King Xin?"

Mao Yuanyi's hands were smeared with oil from the barbecue, so instead of reaching out to pick it up, he turned slightly sideways and took a closer look at the "King of Faith".

Suddenly laughed.

"Silly girl, do you take this seriously?"

"This is a letter from King Xin, which made my grandfather decide to die. Don't delay the Ming Dynasty any longer. How can it be fake?"

Li Sanniang was stunned, and asked, "Could it be that you are the idiot of the emperor? Do you want to clear him of the crime?"

Mao Yuanyi smiled, and said softly: "Don't say whether I'm a fool to the emperor, let's talk about your forged letter to the king first. He was only a boy of twelve or thirteen years old, and because his biological mother came from a humble background, Very unpopular among royal blood relatives;

For a long time, he was like a transparent person. Although he was in the royal family, in fact, he was not as good as even the children of ordinary people.

Moreover, as far as I know, he was smart since he was a child, loved reading, and didn't pay much attention to national affairs at all.

Later, when his elder brother, the carpenter emperor, died, because he had no heirs, he issued a will to make him the crown prince.

Of course, there is also a power game and balance between the Donglin Party, Chu Party, Zhejiang Party, Jin Party, and Eunuch Party. It is impossible to say, it is very likely that it is just a stupid emperor created by those scholars of the Ming Dynasty.

However, you said that he interfered in the government in the third year of Tianqi, I can tell you clearly that it is impossible. "

This time, it was Li Sanniang's turn to be in a daze.

Back then, after her grandfather had an accident, when the house was in a mess and preparing for the funeral, her father solemnly handed over the matter to her, and asked her to find a way to escape and go to the depths of Zhongnan Mountain to learn from a teacher.

She was sent into the mountains overnight by a donkey cart.

Then, three months later, I received news that on the night of grandfather Li Sancai's funeral, the Li family suffered a catastrophe and was bloodbathed by a group of masked men. None of the hundreds of people survived...

Later, she learned art and came out of the mountain, searched and investigated everywhere, and finally figured out that the "secret letter" in her hand was the "handwriting" of Zhu Youjian, the former king of letter and current emperor of Ming Dynasty.

So, she started to wander around the rivers and lakes, determined to assassinate the idiot emperor, and avenge more than a hundred lives of the Li family...

"Wait, wait!"

At this moment, Mao Yuanyi suddenly made a sound, and asked with some doubts: "You said that you only went to learn art three years after Tianqi, how old were you at that time?"

"16 is old."

"In the third year of the apocalypse, you were 16 years old. In the seventh year of the apocalypse, the carpenter emperor passed away, and the idiot emperor ascended the throne. It is only the second year of Chongzhen. You are only 22 years old, right?

However, you said before that you died as a man and became a widow?

Among them, the time is not right? "

Mao Yuanyi looked Li Sanniang up and down very seriously, shook his head again and said, "The age is not right."

Li Sanniang touched her cheek with her hand, and asked with a frown, "Why don't you agree? Am I very old?"

"No, you are too young."

Mao Yuanyi said seriously: "When I first saw you, I thought you should be 34 or 30 years old. Later, I found out that you are only about [-] years old, but now you look like you are only seventeen or eighteen years old.

It's strange, is it my eyesight? "

As he spoke, he gestured to rub his eyes, and looked at Li Sanniang's face again.

Li Sanniang blushed slightly, and said in a low voice: "Actually, the so-called dead man becoming a widow is all made up by me for the convenience of traveling in the rivers and lakes..."

Only then did Mao Yuanyi nod, and said with a smile: "Haha, fortunately, I'm quite shrewd, and I was almost tricked by you little girl.

By the way, let's get down to business.

From my point of view, the murder that happened in your Li family should have nothing to do with the idiot emperor. I can tell you this with certainty.

The so-called secret letter in your hand...

You unfold it, and I'll take another look. This matter is quite strange, and I'm a little confused. "

Li Sanniang unfolded the letter in her hand, brought it to Mao Yuanyi, and asked him to read it carefully.

"...You are a great talent, don't you know that the salt and iron mine tax is the foundation of the country... Your request to exempt the mining tax in the south, in the name of An Min, actually harms the people, harms the country, and pits the people of the world..."

A few seven or eight sentences are well-founded and methodical, and indeed there is a bit of domineering air.

"No signature?"

Mao Yuanyi noticed that at the end of this "confidential letter", there was only a proper "censorship" character, stamped with a thumb-sized seal, and nothing else.

"Even though this letter was written by King Xin in the past, it only talks about the mining tax in the south and has no other content. How can the girl be sure that the tragedy of the Li family is related to King Xin?"

"Besides, as far as I know, King Xin's handwriting... ahem, it doesn't match."

Mao Yuanyi is very familiar with the idiot emperor's "calligraphy". That kind of calligraphic calligraphy is simply horrible, and it is not the same as the handwriting of the letter in front of him.

"Forget it, let's leave it to you to solve the case."

Mao Yuanyi turned his head and thought again, smiled and waved his hands, and said: "When you subdue the idiot emperor and hold his throat with a sword, you can question him carefully, he did those stupid things back then.

Let's hurry up and roll the skewers.

After eating and drinking enough, I still have to go to Erlong Mountain to challenge Zhang Xianzhong, hahaha. "

After listening to Mao Yuanyi's analysis, Li Sanniang still had doubts in her heart, but she no longer entangled in the matter of the idiot emperor, her mood gradually improved, and she began to munch on the barbecue.

Looking at Li Sanniang who can eat more meat than herself, Mao Yuanyi is in a good mood, and can't help but want to recite a poem.

However, after holding it in for a long time, I still couldn't hold back a decent rhetoric.

After following the idiot emperor for a long time, he felt that besides being more and more capable of fighting, he had less and less background as a scholar. Not only did he speak rudely, but what he thought in his heart and what he saw in his eyes became a bit vulgar...

That's all, if you are close to vermilion, you will be red, and if you are close to ink, you will be black.

What else can you do with an idiot emperor, let's think about how to rebel and fight well...

……

Near noon, the weather was so hot that the birds in the forest became hoarse.

The sound of insects chirping, but very energetic.

In the yard, a big yellow dog lolled its tongue, lying on the ground weakly, and barking at the sky from time to time, as if complaining about what God did, it was such a hot day, whether the dog was allowed to live.

In the same way, the thieves and bandits in the cottage were looking for shaded places such as the shade of trees, cliffs, etc., lying on the ground in twos and threes, without any energy.

In one of the tallest stone houses, Huang Hu Zhang Xianzhong had a stern look on his face.

Flying reports came that the two teams sent out to arrest Li Sanniang two days ago were completely annihilated. It turned out that there was an internal strife fighting each other, and no one was spared.

According to the report from the counterfeit spy, the deaths of those people were extremely tragic. Everyone had a strange smile on their faces, as if they had been poisoned by some kind of strange poison...

The murderer must be an expert.

He didn't do anything at all, just casually killed seventy or eighty of his subordinates, and it was the kind of self-killing of his own people!
Wang Wang Wang!
In the yard, the big yellow dog barked towards the sky a few times, changing from one shade to another, but it still couldn't calm down.

"Damn, I don't even know how to raise a dog, barking and biting, biting you XX!"

Zhang Xianzhong felt dry for a while, and felt that the roots of his teeth were itchy.

It's the kind of person who can't wait to tear off a piece of flesh and blood, bite to death, bite into scum, bite into meat, and swallow blood and bone scum into the stomach, it seems to be able to relieve hatred!

"Come on!"

Zhang Xianzhong was also hot, shirtless, and roared angrily.

After more than a dozen breaths, a strong man pushed open the door of the stone house, walked in cautiously, bowed and said, "Big... Big boss, what are your orders?"

"Command, command your mother X!"

Zhang Xianzhong looked at his subordinate's obsequious look, he looked like a dog-legged, soft-boned, useless softie, and couldn't help but get furious.

He jumped up, kicked his subordinate's belly fiercely, kicked the strong and strong man seven or eight steps, rolled on the ground a few times, and was finally blocked by the rough stone wall.

"Don't let me die!"

Seeing his subordinates moaning for a long time and unable to get up, Zhang Xianzhong became more and more annoyed, and pulled out a machete.

There was a soft "cha".

A pine table in front of him was cut in two, and the wine bowls and seasonal fruit platters on it were smashed to pieces.

"Trash, it's all trash!"

"Don't let me get up!"

"Believe it or not, I chopped you up and fed it to the dogs?"

The strong man hurriedly got up from the ground, exerted his energy, and quickly came to Zhang Xianzhong, knelt down on one knee, and said: "Please punish the boss!"

Zhang Xianzhong suddenly sighed.

His anger came quickly, but it also disappeared very quickly. Even he himself felt that it was a little too much. Recently, he had a problem with his mood.

But in front of his subordinates, he still can't show it.

"Forget it, Tie Lao Er and Liu Si'er, the two teams of beasts failed to live up to their expectations. Seven No. 80 people dealt with a seriously injured woman, and they were all killed. No one escaped back. Tell me, are they right? waste?
Should they die! "

While speaking, Zhang Xianzhong felt his teeth itch again, and his mind was a little out of control.

He simply shut his mouth and stopped speaking.

Ever since he was assassinated by the Northern Man wizard on the grassland last time, he began to lose his mind from time to time, and, as time went by, this disease became more and more severe, and he almost couldn't suppress it.

'It's all the fault of that shit Mr. Li, mother, if I hadn't helped him sell horses, I would have ended up like this? '

"And that idiot emperor, I can't wait to kill him..."

Sitting furiously on a tiger skin, Zhang Xianzhong once again stared at the strong man in front of him, and said coldly, "Jiang Bagang, do you want to be emperor?"

(End of this chapter)