Chapter 12 Nursery Rhymes
"Liaodong is riding a horse, bang, bang, bang, there's a smelly wild boar coming in front."
"The stinky wild boar is ugly, but it's really vicious and unreasonable."
"Being unreasonable, rushing around, and a big black bear comes flying behind."
"Big black bear, so brave, defeating the wild boar!"
I don't know when, a nursery rhyme "Flying Bear" became popular in the palace, and it was sung among the servants and palace maids. Zhu Youxiao didn't care at first. Are there not many kinds of nursery rhymes in the palace?
One time, he happened to be going to the Imperial Prison and heard two little palace maids singing this nursery rhyme. So after listening for a while, he realized that this nursery rhyme was about Xiong Tingbi's trip to Liaodong.
"You guys," Zhu Youxiao walked down from the palace corridor, "where did you hear this nursery rhyme?"
"Your Majesty, forgive me!" The two little palace maids were having fun when they suddenly saw the emperor appear. They instantly turned pale, their calves trembled and they knelt on the ground with a thud.
"I don't blame you, just tell me." Zhu Youxiao smiled lightly.
The two little palace maids lay on the ground tremblingly and didn't say anything for a long time. But Chen Hong was anxious and said quickly: "Your Majesty is asking a question!"
One of the more courageous palace maids knelt and took two steps forward, kowtowed and said, "I heard this too. No one in the palace knows it."
"No one knows, no one knows..." Zhu Youxiao smacked these words carefully. He looked at Chen Hong and said lightly: "You know it too."
Oh my goodness! Chen Hong was so annoyed with this palace maid that he sold her out with just one sentence!
"Back to your lord, I have heard a little bit about it, but I am stupid and don't understand." Chen Hong bowed and said respectfully.
"Go and find out where this nursery rhyme came from." After Zhu Youxiao left these words, he left directly.
Chen Hong was stunned on the spot. Where else could it be spread? Didn't the emperor make it up himself? But since the emperor asked him to investigate, he didn't dare not to investigate.
After Zhu Youxiao returned to Qianqing Palace, Wei Zhongxian had already been waiting for the emperor at the entrance of the carpenter's studio for a long time.
He paced back and forth at the door, the fly whisk dangling in his hand, shaking his head from time to time and sighing, "What should I do..."
It seemed that Wei Zhongxian was bothered by something. He was always shrewd and did not even notice that the emperor was back.
"What should I do?" Zhu Youxiao stood behind Wei Zhongxian and said coldly.
Old Wei was so frightened that he almost jumped up. After he suddenly came to his senses, he quickly turned around and knelt down and said, "Your Majesty, I don't know how to talk about this."
"I have something to say." Zhu Youxiao opened the studio door, strode across the threshold and walked in.
"Old slave..." Wei Zhongxian followed in like a dog-legger and said hesitantly: "Old slave heard a nursery rhyme recently..."
"Flying Bear?" Zhu Youxiao picked up a log on the desk and tapped it lightly with his fingers.
"Back to the Emperor, it is exactly this nursery rhyme that has been widely circulated in the palace. The old slaves heard that it was introduced into the palace by people outside the palace... And some adults heard that the Emperor was deceived by evil ways...
..." As Wei Zhongxian spoke, his voice became softer and softer, and his posture became lower and lower.
He was afraid that the emperor would blame him. After all, he was the one who found the Taoist priest.
"Go and ask Chen Hong to come in." Zhu Youxiao picked up the carving knife with an expressionless expression and began to scratch on the log block, as if he didn't hear Wei Zhongxian's words.
Wei Zhongxian was stunned for a moment, not quite understanding what the emperor wanted to do, but he still responded respectfully and retreated slowly.
Zhu Youxiao paced back and forth in the hall with his hands behind his hands, thinking about what he should do.
At the same time, after Chen Hong came in, he saw that the emperor was thinking, so he knelt silently three meters away. He even thought about how to face the emperor's wrath.
After pondering for a long time, Zhu Youxiao slowly said: "Chen Hong, I have given you an errand. I will give you three days to lead people to clean up the palace."
After pondering for a moment, Zhu Youxiao continued: "You know what should be kept in the palace and what should not be kept, so go ahead and do it!"
"This slave is responsible for the order." Chen Hong was not blamed, but was entrusted with important tasks, not to mention how excited he was.
The last time the emperor asked him to deliver an order, if he can handle things well this time, then he will definitely be reused.
Seeing Chen Hong leaving, Zhu You checked Wang And, who was serving beside him, and said: "My lord, you are the old man next to the late emperor and the closest servant to me. There are many caring people in the palace. Chen Hong is young and incompetent in doing things."
No matter how serious it is, you take care of these things. If there is any trouble, even if you report it to me, you don't have to worry about it. I still trust you."
"Your Majesty, don't worry, I know what to do." Wang An naturally understood what the emperor meant, and replied respectfully after giving a salute.
The emperor asked himself to keep an eye on Chen Hong, not to let him take advantage of this incident to cause trouble, and at the same time, he also kept an eye on him to finish his errands.
The eunuchs in the palace are very familiar with this kind of thing. An old eunuch like him also has many channels of information in the palace.
"Get out! No one is allowed to come in without my permission." Zhu Youxiao finally ordered.
"Yes, Your Majesty." Wang An slowly withdrew.
Three days passed. At this time, Zhu Youzheng was sitting on the huge dragon chair in the Qianqing Palace.
In these three days, a lot of things happened. Two people were put under house arrest by the emperor, countless people were killed, and the original scent of plum blossoms in the air of the Forbidden City was replaced by the smell of blood.
The two people under house arrest were Li Xuanshi (Concubine Li Kang of Emperor Taichang) and Concubine Zheng (Concubine Zheng of Emperor Wanli). Concubine Zheng had a very famous son, who was the future Prince Fu Zhu Changxun, the father of Emperor Hongguang of the Southern Ming Dynasty.
There is a reason why Zhu Youxiao put these two people under house arrest, and that is because they are two restless women.
Li Xuanshi is better, she just wants to seize power; Zheng Guifei's purpose is not so simple, she wants her son to be the emperor wholeheartedly, not to mention, she is also involved in the Hongwan case.
My cheap father died after only being emperor for a month, and the incident probably involved Concubine Zheng.
On July 21st, the 48th year of Wanli reign, Emperor Wanli died of illness. He succeeded to the throne and changed his reign name to Taichang, and was known as Emperor Taichang in history.
On the first day of August, at the enthronement ceremony, Cheap Daddy said, "Jade shoes are peaceful" and "I have a clear and disease-free appearance", that is, I walk, my posture is normal, and there are no symptoms of disease.
Later, the eight daughters of Cheap Father Ye Yu were related to Concubine Zheng, and it was she who sent those women.
As a result, my father became weak overnight, and the eunuch who treated him, the eunuch Cui Wensheng and the eunuch Bingbi, who was in charge of the pharmacy, gave him rhubarb.
Cheap Dad had severe diarrhea after eating it and went to the toilet thirty or forty times in one night.
Let alone an extremely weak person, even a strong man cannot withstand such diarrhea.
Zhu Youxiao absolutely does not believe that there is no conspiracy in this. Thanks to the book friend for reminding me, the error has been corrected. The book has been signed, and everyone can vote for me! If you can, you can also give me a reward
Chapter completed!