Unofficial History of Emperor Wuzong of the Ming Dynasty

After Emperor Zhengde brought the Hongyi cannon back, he handed it over to the Shenji Battalion, one of the three major battalions of the Beijing Imperial Guard under the jurisdiction of Zhang Yong.The Shenji Battalion specializes in firearms, and is responsible for the important task of "guarding the capital inside and preparing for war outside".Emperor Zhengde ordered to study the structure of Hongyi cannons and increase the number of artillerymen.

The civil servants who relied on the doctrine of the mean to rise to the top would naturally "praise" Emperor Zhengde's act of advocating martial arts that was carried out quietly without telling them, and even "praise" his militarism.

Emperor Zhengde boasted that his skin was thick and fleshy, and he only said that the money would not come out of the treasury, so he let the civil servants go.It was only then that Jiang Bin realized that Emperor Zhengde was serious when he said that he wanted to find another way to earn money and reduce expenditure.

In the next few days, Emperor Zhengde took Jiang Bin to Shenji Camp to see how it was going.Jiang Bin also did research on firearms, and discussed some suggestions for improvement with the admiral of the battalion. Emperor Zhengde was delighted to hear Longyan from the sidelines, and patted Jiang Bin's thigh from time to time and said, "As expected of you, friend!"

Jiang Bin was praised as insensitive, and suddenly thought of Qian Ning, whom he hadn't seen for a long time.

Qian Ning didn't have a surname of Qian, but was sold to the eunuch Qian Neng's family as a slave when he was young, so he changed his surname to Qian.After Qian Neng's death, Qian Ning was cast as an adopted son and became a Jinyiwei, and was awarded the position of a hundred households. Later, he was able to get close to Emperor Zhengde because of his attachment to Liu Jin. Because of his good archery and ability to shoot from both sides, he was appreciated by Emperor Zhengde and was given the surname Zhu , was accepted as a adopted son, and was raised as a thousand households.Later, he was the commander of Jinyiwei, in charge of Fusi in Nanzhen, and Dianzhao Prison.A person who was so invincible before, disappeared overnight after Jiang Bin rescued Emperor Zhengde from the tiger's mouth.It is true that a companion is like a tiger.Jiang Bin didn't dare to make mistakes.

A few days later, the "No. [-] Restaurant in the World" opened in a bustling Fengshui treasure near Yongdingmen.The signboard was personally inscribed by Emperor Zhengde, and there was a wine-watching fruit hanging on the watch pole in front of the restaurant, which read, "This store sells fine wine from lotus flowers in four seasons".

Amidst the sound of firecrackers, Emperor Zhengde, still dressed as a Confucian scholar, pulled Jiang Bin and the people of the capital to watch the grand occasion together under the covert protection of several Jinyi guards.Jiang Bin still remembers that the civil servants did everything possible to prevent him and the cabinet's ultimatum, but Emperor Zhengde was stubborn and threatened not to have an early court, so the cabinet had no choice but to compromise.

"All the iron coupons have been issued?" Emperor Zhengde held a peach blossom fan in his hand, and he pushed the late autumn fan straight into Jiang Bin's neck.

Jiang Bin stood a little farther away, and said respectfully: "Back to the emperor, it will be issued according to the grade." Then he took out a piece of iron coupon that he had been assigned and looked at it carefully, but after looking at it for a long time, he didn't know the three-pointed iron coupon on the iron coupon. What is the symbol.

Seeing him like this, Emperor Zhengde smiled contentedly, and clapped his palms together with his fan: "VIP."

"I love spleen?"

Emperor Zhengde laughed even more happily: "Yes, there will be iron coupons for my love liver, my love kidney, and my love chrysanthemum in the future. You can save [-]% of the price by holding the iron coupons to restaurants, and you can spend [-] taels a year." You can save [-]% of the price."

Jiang Bin understood that this thing was an attractive gimmick when the restaurant first opened.Taking a closer look, there was a line of petite characters engraved on the bottom of the iron coupon, vaguely saying "No alcoholic beverages allowed."

Just as Jiang Bin was pondering, Emperor Zhengde's fan drew a circle in his hand, pointing at Jiang Bin's burden.It was given to Jiang Bin by Emperor Zhengde before he left the Leopard Room, and it held a lot of weight.Jiang Bin untied the burden, found a hidden wooden table in the nearby teahouse and spread it out, and saw a pile of iron coupons.Jiang Bin looked at Emperor Zhengde puzzledly, Emperor Zhengde shook his head and said: "The grown-ups don't like these small favors, so they rewarded the subordinates, and I pushed people to take some back."

"But why does the emperor want these?"

Emperor Zhengde shook his fan "swish", shaking it coquettishly: "Be a scalper!"

So Jiang Bin, who didn't know why, and several Jinyiwei were assigned by Emperor Zhengde to sell "VIP" iron coupons "not for external circulation" to passers-by in front of the "No. [-] Restaurant in the World" at a price higher than the market price.There are many wealthy people among the common people, they just want to take a fresh look, dragging their families to see what the grandeur of the No. [-] restaurant built by the emperor's order is.Emperor Zhengde in the teahouse shook his head and Jiang Bin, who was counting money seriously, talked about the idea of ​​opening branches in Nanjing and other places in the future.Jiang Bin listened in one ear and out the other, and finally couldn't help asking: "Doesn't the Emperor still have Huangzhuang?"

Huangzhuang was operated by eunuchs personally appointed by Emperor Zhengde, and it was mainly located in Shuntian and other eight prefectures in Beizhili.

"Recently, there are eunuchs from Guanzhuang in various prefectures in Baoding who seized the people's land as the Huangzhuang. Wang Jing, the censor of the capital, once asked me to abolish the Huangzhuang and benefit the people on the grounds that "the trivial benefits may not be enough to support the two palaces". It was reduced to one internal officer and ten lieutenants, but they still insisted on saying, 'There is no greater filial piety than winning the hearts of the world'..." Emperor Zhengde put down his teacup and looked at the bustling streets, "My emperor, I’m so useless, and I’m only surrounded by petty profits in the eyes of these wealthy adults, and only these, they will force me to spit it out with a posture of worrying about the country and the people!”

Jiang Bin fiddled with a few pieces of silver in front of him. The expenditure of those fake cannons in the Xindao Shenji Camp was indeed not a small amount.

Emperor Zhengde saw that Jiang Bin didn't answer, so he took him and several Jin Yiwei to the restaurant he opened to try something new.

Soon, the dishes came up - jar meat, jar duck, fish in spicy sauce, spicy ginger, spicy fresh bamboo shoots, beef in black bean sauce...

"Try these signs." Emperor Zhengde pointed to the special dishes he was proud of with his chopsticks, and then the tip of the chopsticks stopped on the two bright red dishes. Suddenly smelled a spicy fragrance, ate a few small dishes, sneezed a few times, and healed without treatment. I heard that

This pepper has the effect of dispelling cold and eliminating stagnation, you are born with a cold body..." He took Jiang Bin's hand as he spoke.

Jiang Bin was startled, he didn't expect the Emperor Zhengde to act in broad daylight, and he wanted to withdraw his hand amidst the "turning a blind eye" of the Jin Yiwei around him, but suddenly there was a melodious piano sound.

The diners by the window calmed down one after another, listening to the melodious melody.The chopsticks in Emperor Zhengde's hands also stopped, and a piece of fat fell under the table, where the dog by the door waited for an opportunity to grab it.

Emperor Zhengde listened engrossed, but the qin player didn't do it all at once, he tried the tune over and over again, often stopped after playing a section, and continued after a while.But even so, none of the listeners felt bored. The final coherent song made people feel as if they were in the mist and mist, flowing like clouds and flowing water, like a spring breeze.At the end of the song, there are a few lines of words written in sauce by Emperor Zhengde in front of the table.Emperor Zhengde asked Jiang Bin to ask the clerk in the store for pen and ink, and copied the lyrics to the person who composed the music in the teahouse.After a while, the guy came back and said to Emperor Zhengde that the person who composed the music in the teahouse would like to have a narration with Emperor Zhengde.

Emperor Zhengde straightened his clothes and said, "Please come over here, young master, and serve two good dishes and two jugs of good wine."

The buddy took the tip and went, and after a while, he attracted a handsome and handsome Confucian scholar.

The Confucian scholar was dressed in green cloth with a straight body, a square scarf on his head, and a burnt-leaf guqin in his arms.

Emperor Zhengde got up and looked at him from a distance.Between the lightning and the flint, the mountains and rivers are overwhelming, as before.The corporal of Li Xian took a few steps forward and bowed, the Confucian soldier returned the salute calmly and said: "My surname is Xu Minglin, and my name is Ziren."

Emperor Zhengde's eyes lit up when he heard the name: "Mr., is the person from Xushan recommended by the Li capital?"

Xu Lin is from Huating. He is good at calligraphy, good at painting, and good at rhythm. He was recommended by a friend to visit Li Dongyang, the capital of the cabinet, who is known as the "sage of seal seal". Entering the palace as an official was rejected several times by him.Today, I was surprised to hear Emperor Zhengde mention Li Dongyang.

Emperor Zhengde knew that it was Xu Lin himself by looking at his expression, and he couldn't help but said happily: "It's God's will to see you today. It doesn't matter if you don't want to be an official, how about I often come to find you to write lyrics and compose music?"

As soon as Xu Lin heard this tone, he knew who was in front of him, but he was not afraid of the status of the Ninth Five-Year Lord. Knowing that he was a sincere friend, he responded boldly: "I can't ask for it."

At this moment, a Jin Yiwei entered and whispered a few words into Emperor Zhengde's ear, and Emperor Zhengde said to Xu Lin: "I have something important to do first. Mister might as well stay in the capital for a few days, so that we can catch up with Chief Li."

Xu Lin agreed, and Emperor Zhengde took Jiang Bin and others downstairs.

Jiang Bin was still thinking about Xu Lin just now. He always felt that his appearance here was a bit too coincidental. He thought about it and wanted to remind Emperor Zhengde, but he turned a corner in front of a medicine shop.The pharmacy store is not big, and the medicinal materials displayed are quite ordinary.

Emperor Zhengde made a gesture and asked Jin Yiwei to stand guard outside, while he stepped in, nodded to the white-bearded old man in front of the table, and lifted the curtain to go to the back.Jiang Bin didn't know what Emperor Zhengde was going to do, so he put his hand on the knife and followed closely.

When Emperor Zhengde walked into the East Wing, there were already two people waiting for him. One of them was the Jin Yiwei that Jiang Bin had seen before, and the other was Cong Lan, the envoy in charge, who wore a variegated collar.

A few days after Xuanfu came back, Jiang Bin spent most of his time in the Shenji camp. He didn't know that Emperor Zhengde had gone to the cabinet to look through the silk book during this period, and went to Chuke to look through the compiled red book.The Silk Lun Book is the original copy of the decree, and the imperial decree approved by the daily inscription must be copied into a book one by one by the on-duty middle book at the cabinet ticket signing office for future verification.The inscriptions submitted by local officials had to be inspected and accepted by the Tongzheng envoy and sent to the officials, and submitted to Emperor Zhengde after being drafted by the cabinet, and a copy was sent to the Shizhong office, that is, the six-section gallery.After Emperor Zhengde's red book was transferred to the Sixth Division, the Sixth Division sent a copy to the relevant government offices for implementation, and recorded the second pass, which was divided into volumes. One volume was sent to the cabinet for historians to record, and the other volume was sent to the undergraduate department for compilation.Emperor Zhengde ordered Jin Yiwei to secretly find Cong Lan, the envoy of the administration, when the restaurant opened today.

The general administration envoy is in charge of matters such as internal and external chapters, releases and rebuttals, cashiers of the emperor's orders, understanding of the situation, customs and defense of the official documents of various divisions, reports to the subjects of the Quartet for their suggestions, appeals for grievances or accusations of wrongdoing, etc.Cong Lan, who is proficient in classics, history, military affairs, medicine, etc., has been conscientious in recent years. Today, Emperor Zhengde came to find her in private, so she couldn't help but feel puzzled.Emperor Zhengde didn't play charades with him either, he sat on the armchair beside him, and straight to the point said to Cong Lan who was kneeling on the ground:

"Where did all the inscriptions of the commander of Xuanfu Wanquan go?"

When Cong Lan heard it, she was sweating profusely.

"Why? Can't answer?" Emperor Zhengde seemed to have expected Cong Lan's silence, took out a question book from his arms, and asked Jin Yiwei to pass it to Cong Lan: "I think you have contributed to defeating the little prince of the enemy chief, I will not pursue this matter .You hand this over and make up for it.”

Cong Lan tremblingly took the book, opened it, and found that the content was exactly the same as Wang Ji's inexplicably missing books. It was nothing more than a proposal to repair the Suspension Bridge in Xuanfu City, clean up the imperial moat, and build turrets and paved buildings on the city. , expanded Guancheng, sent more troops, and only signed it as "Mighty General Zhu Shou".

Cong Lan was stunned for a moment, and looked up at the tall Ninth Five-Year Lord in front of her. This thick-skinned master only smiled coquettishly and said, "Pen name."