Emperor Zhengde of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 166

Tie Dan Shenhou remembered one thing.

When he practiced martial arts back then, he was focused on nothing else, because the royal family provided him with the perfect foundation. If Haitang were allowed to go there and learn some martial arts, maybe her future martial arts would be greatly improved.

Besides, all the martial arts in the world belong to the royal family, if there are one or two books suitable for Haitang to study, it will not only help her, but also let her go into battle whenever she needs it in the future.

Shangguan Haitang wept and walked out of Shenhou's room, and went directly to Duan Tianya. She wanted to make it clear that she dedicated herself to others. If Duan Tianya could not accept her, she would go to other places to practice.

In a room in Shenhou Mansion.

"Senior brother, I am no longer perfect, can you still accept me?"

Duan Tianya was a little hesitant. People in this era place a lot of importance on women's chastity.

Zhu Xi believed that a woman cannot marry two men, and good shoes cannot be worn by two people. Women are like clothes. If someone takes away their virginity, they are like water that is thrown out and cannot be taken back.

"Haitang, what did you say?" Duan Tianya couldn't believe his ears, and asked again.

"Brother, I have been in a lot of pain during this time. After thinking about it for this period of time, I don't think I can just be ruined like this, and I am not reconciled, so I told Master everything, and if I have a chance in the future, I will take revenge !"

After Duan Tianya heard this, he didn't say anything for a long time. He readily accepted the matter of revenge, and he could even help Haitang to complete it. However, she was not a virgin, so it was hard for him to accept it.
He clenched his fist tightly, his blood swelled, and he wanted to punch the man in Shanghai Haitang to death, but what could he do at this moment?

The two were in a stalemate, and the time passed by every minute and every second.
The matter of Yuhuatian being ordered to inspect the vassal king soon came to fruition.

In Zhu Houzhao's eyes, none of the guards raised by these vassals reported to the court or mentioned it to him. This is the crime of deceiving the emperor.

What is it for a vassal to raise these people? The biggest problem is that they did not report to the emperor, and they were too courageous to install military artillery secretly. This is simply bad intentions.

Qi Jingtong is patrolling the sea area in name, but he is also investigating all the feudal lords in secret. Yu Huatian is secretly investigating the matter of the vassal kings raising soldiers. They will never let these vassal kings have the opportunity to rebel.

"If you have the intention to rebel, I will let you all die!"

Since this conversation, Zhu Houzhao's defense against the vassal king has become increasingly serious.

In particular, Zhu Houzhao's guard against Zhu Lu, the coastal vassal, became even stricter.

As for those court officials who concealed everything but did not report it, Zhu Houzhao had no intention of letting them go.

To a certain extent, these officials are the accomplices of the prince.

Holding money from the imperial court, but doing something treacherous, I don't know what benefits those vassal kings gave you one by one?
This matter is also related to the supply of arms. It is not just something they learned from foreigners, there are still traitors in the imperial court.

The tiger crouching cannon is such a difficult weapon to make, the core secret must have been spread out, otherwise, how could the feudal king's cannon-making technology be so high?
Inside the Hall of Mental Cultivation in the Forbidden City.

Cao Zhengchun and Minister of Rites Yang Tinghe came to see him.

Zhu Houzhao sat on the dragon chair and hadn't seen his confidants for several days. Now they have a lot of things to report to Zhu Houzhao.

"Yang Shangshu, is there any whereabouts of the extraterrestrial expert I asked you to find last time?"

Yang Tinghe stepped forward and cupped his hands and said: "Returning to His Majesty, I haven't found him yet. It is said that he has traveled all over the world. It is estimated that it will be difficult to find this person in recent years."

Zhu Houzhao was a little annoyed after hearing this. If such a person is willing to work for him, it will be a blessing to Ming Dynasty.

"The imperial examination will start tomorrow. You are here to ask me the exam questions, right?"

"In my opinion, this exam question should focus on how to deal with it after leaking the question?"

As soon as the words were finished, Yang Tinghe came up, cupped his hands and said: "Returning to Your Majesty, the test questions at the beginning of this test have been sealed up. Only Your Majesty and the veterans know about it. I hope Your Majesty will stop talking about it."

"Oh? Did I say that?" Zhu Houzhao asked with a puzzled expression.

"Your Majesty, have you forgotten that day when His Majesty was in the Hall of Mental Cultivation, the ministers came forward to inquire, and His Majesty stretched out three fingers, and the ministers understood it, so they came up with this exam question."

"is it?"

Zhu Houzhao felt that everything was illusory. He didn't remember anything about his illness, but Yang Tinghe was always upright and would not lie to him. In this case, just wait until the exam starts tomorrow.

"Your Majesty, I have one more thing to tell Your Majesty, that is, the shop that sold the test questions that day. He is not a businessman, but a businessman who specializes in buying and selling test questions."

"What? There are such people in my Ming Dynasty?" Zhu Houzhao was slightly angry, but what Yang Tinghe said did exist, and there were such a part of them as a profession, specializing in the sale of test questions.

"If you don't talk about this matter, it's fine. If you want to say, I didn't even settle accounts with you. Before, only I knew the test questions with you. You insisted that the Taoist priest calculated it. Who on earth leaked it to those candidates? "

After Yang Tinghe listened, he shook his body slightly, cupped his hands and said: "Your Majesty, I am willing to guarantee with the head of the old minister that I will never leak the test questions, and you must not believe everything that Taoist said."

"I feel that the Taoist came across this incident by accident. As for the leak, it was naturally the people from the Imperial College. Some of them dedicated their time to speculating on the emperor's heart. Every time I read what kind of book your majesty was reading, it was in these books. Guess the test questions."

After Zhu Houzhao listened, he nodded slightly. He felt that Yang Tinghe's analysis was well-founded.

"Since you are from the Imperial Academy, then Cao Aiqing, you have another case to handle." Zhu Houzhao turned to Cao Zhengchun who was beside him.

Cao Zhengchun was holding Zhu Houzhao's shoulders, and when he heard what he said, he naturally accepted it.

He can't provoke outsiders, but dealing with insiders is his forte.

"Okay, tell me about tomorrow's test questions!"

"Your Majesty, when you were on the bed, you stretched out three fingers. I knew that you were talking about the three mountains and five mountains, and Mount Tai, the head of the five mountains, came from Shandong. Therefore, what Your Majesty meant was that this time the exam questions were rebelled with Shandong poles. As a topic, solicit these candidates' strategies for governing the country!"

After hearing this, Zhu Houzhao nodded in satisfaction.

This Yang Tinghe is worthy of being the No. 1 talent of the Ming Dynasty. Zhu Houzhao really thought so at the time.

I didn't expect him to know people and faces better!
"Well, yes, you understand what I mean. Tomorrow's chief examiner is Wang Ao. Tell him to be careful! This time is to select talents for my Daming. If there is a delay, I will use his head for interrogation! "

"According to the order!"

"Also, if there is another problem with leaking the title this time, you, the minister, will stop being a minister!"

As soon as Yang Tinghe heard it, he understood what Zhu Houzhao meant.

Cao Zhengchun, who was standing aside, had a smug smile on his face, but Zhu Houzhao caught such a small detail.

"Cao Aiqing, are you convicted?"

Cao Zhengchun was standing beside Zhu Houzhao, when he heard what Zhu Houzhao said, his heart was so frightened that his heart rose to his throat.Hastily knelt down and said:

"I don't know, I don't know"

(End of this chapter)