Chapter 46                                                             �

In the 51st year of Jiajing, the court was very peaceful inside and outside.

It was a little unusual to be calm.

The cabinet seemed to have no sensational edicts again, and many of the previous things were just in accordance with the circumstances. It seemed that Zhou Mengchen's drastic moves came to an end now.

In October, if you fool a guest star from the northeast, it will first be like a projectile. The light is not big, and then for more than ten days, the light becomes bigger and bigger. So that you can see it in the sun. Such a celestial phenomenon has been rarely used for decades.

There were more than ten days in total, and you could see it even during the day. Then the light was slightly dimmed. But at night, it was still full of light and could compete with the moon.

For a time, it became the biggest issue in the government and the country.

Although Zhou Mengchen made many refutations, people are still panic. It is said that this celestial phenomenon represents everything. It is more about attributed to the warning of God. In other words, Zhou Mengchen's way of reform has too many things that are not in line with God's will.

Zhou Mengchen was extremely angry and didn't take it seriously. Zhou Mengchen no longer needed to take action on this matter. He just needed to place the Imperial Heaven Supervision.

If it is said that in the court, Zhou Mengchen, the yamen, had the deepest influence, and even if Zhou Mengchen died in the future, this influence would not dissipate. The Imperial Heavenly Prison was relatively closed compared to other yamen. He was even more consuming astronomy, so he naturally knew how great Zhou Mengchen had in the way of astronomy. During his several years in power, Zhou Mengchen also took care of the Imperial Heavenly Prison.

There has never been a shortage of updates to various instruments, and even the latest astronomical telescopes.

This time, the entire process of a supernova explosion was clearly observed, verified many of Zhou Mengchen's theories. They were naturally willing to speak for Zhou Mengchen and correct their reputation.

Zhou Mengchen didn't have to worry about anything, what to explain to these people.

However, there is one person Zhou Mengchen who still wants to explain.

It's none other than Jiajing.

Jiajing ordered Zhou Mengchen to accompany him to watch the stars very early.

Zhou Mengchen knew that there would be an accident today, but he had to go.

The status gap between the king and the minister gave Zhou Mengchen a big package. Even if he really knew that Jiajing had other thoughts, Zhou Mengchen would not be able to do it first. Because once he took action, he would not say the outcome, and the situation would be uncontrollable.

Now the grand occasion of the Ming Dynasty has been wasted.

Zhou Mengchen could not speculate what it would be like in the future. But one thing is a high probability event. The world will not fall so easily in the past two hundred years of the Ming Dynasty. It is very likely that Zhou Mengchen himself will lose.

Human hearts are never predictable.

It is impossible to test in advance. Even though many people speak generously in front of him and are loyal to the chief assistant, there is really one day when Zhou Mengchen doesn't know what they really will do.

This is also the reason why Zhou Mengchen could only take action later. He could only let Jiajing take action first and let the Zhou party members know that Jiajing was going to have a great purge, and that they would fight to the death for their own interests.

The story of Xia Yan is not far away. What is the end of the Xia Yan faction? Almost everyone knows that the abandoned market is the suicide, and even pursues the descendants too much. Some people even lose their descendants.

Most people are watching these things.

Zhou Mengchen himself refused to die because of his loyalty to the emperor. But the Zhou party was willing to do so?

To be honest, the Jiajing dynasty was the worst relationship between the monarch and the ministers of the Ming Dynasty. The crown prince had a Gao Gong who was willing to fight to the death. But who was there in Jiajing?

It's really hard to say.

Before leaving, Zhou Mengchen called Xu Wei and He Xinyin together and said, "Our Majesty is extremely proud. Even if we want to kill me, we will not cause blood to splash the palace. We will definitely understand the punishment of the canon. Anyway, there is no reason to be a crime. At worst, it's okay to have nothing to do. But our Majesty is also extremely careful. We will definitely clean up the Ministry of War and the old army to prevent accidents. Moreover, His Majesty also has a habit of watching someone carefully before taking down. It seems that a hunter will struggle to watch the prey again."

"Your Majesty takes down Duke Xia, and Yan Song has done this."

"Now I have been in power for ten years, and I have been in power all over the world. I ask myself that I am not under Duke Xia and Yan Song. How can Your Majesty not know? He took action rashly, afraid that I would escape from the capital. He would definitely control me first and then do something else."

"I'm not sure whether it's tonight or not. But I'm prepared for it."

"What should be prepared is ready. If the Jinyiwei, Dongchang, and Jingying start, you will take charge of the overall situation on my behalf. Whether I can come out of the palace depends on you two."

Xu Wei felt very stressed.

Xu Wei was one of the most outstanding aides Zhou Mengchen had ever met. But the aide was the aide.

Sometimes, the chief official may not be smarter than the aide. But he must be more responsible. If one word determines life and death, the life and death of other people may be the life and death of one person, or the life and death of oneself. This kind of pressure is not something that ordinary people can bear.

Xu Wei took a deep breath and said, "Sir, I can't guarantee anything. But my mother has gone. Thanks to the respect of the adults, I have a family, a career, a wife and a child. I have been promised that I will be defeated in this life, and I will just die after death."

Zhou Mengchen looked at He Xinyin and said, "Everything is fine, there is no need to say anything. If things fail, please take my wife and children to Taiwan and join the dog son. However, he went out to sea immediately and did not return to the Ming Dynasty from now on. There is also a world overseas."

He Xinyin said, "Sir, please rest assured, I will definitely do it. I will take the young master and the two ladies to sea, but my wife will probably not leave." Zhou Mengchen was slightly stunned.

He has two sons and two daughters. The eldest son has now joined the army in Nanyang and is a member of the Nanyang Governor's Office. He does not control many naval troops. However, the situation in Nanyang and the Ming Dynasty is very different. It can even be said that although the fleet under Zhou Datong was wearing the Ming flag, it is essentially the private army of the Zhou family.

If this private army is in the territory of the Ming Dynasty, it is a taboo.

But it is different in Nanyang. The Nanyang prefectures and counties are newly built, and the government has very weak power. In order to quickly be included in the jurisdiction, it must rely on the big clans. The resources in Zhou Mengchen's hands are just a little exposed. It is enough to give Zhou Datong a lot of things.

After all, Zhou Mengchen was going to retreat. He didn't want to make much money for himself. For him, the money was just a number. After all, the Zhou family's wealth was nearly 100,000 taels, which was not what Zhou Mengchen did. It was not that the prosperity of the outside city of Beijing had made all these shops multiply. And after all, it was the shop of the Zhou family. Not to mention anything else, the gangsters in the capital dared to cause trouble in the Zhou family's industry after eating their hearts and leopards.

The famous capital is that there are many gods and immortals, and the Zhou family’s shop is also a guarantee. So even if the Zhou family’s shop is a little higher, countless people are willing to rent it. Sometimes, Zhou Mengchen couldn’t figure out whether he was renting a house to clean up the bribes.

After all, these merchants took advantage of Zhou Mengchen's little power to do business in the capital.

However, Zhou Mengchen was very satisfied with the current situation, but he had to consider the descendants of the Zhou family.

Because of the issue between Zhou Mengchen and Duke Feng, Zhou Datong's wedding was very low-key. Almost no one knew that it was low-key. It was not held in the capital, but was held in Taiwan. Yu Dayou hosted it.

Li Yunzhen feels very sorry for this.

Although Zhou Mengchen doesn’t have a grandson yet, I think he will have it soon.

He understood very clearly that the wealth of the next few decades will be on the sea, and the Xu family will come to the scene to make a fortune, and Zhou Mengchen will not plan for his descendants. With this idea, Zhou Mengchen then did some tricks and let Zhou Datong control a fleet and thousands of soldiers in the name of Qianhu, the governor of the South China Sea. He also wanted to have a resident in the future. Although he could not be said to be an overseas prince in the future, he was also a local tyrant overseas. The court had to rely on it for its management of Nanyang.

However, under the changes of the times, it has become the most likely way for the Zhou family to live.

Zhou Mengchen also knew even more that he had been in love with Li Yunzhen for many years. If he died in the capital, Li Yunzhen would never leave.

After all, Zhou Datong has grown up, and this twenty-year-old man has followed Yu Dayou several times and has presided over the bandit suppression several times. Zhou Mengchen has also read the records. It is better not to say it, but it is also qualified.

The future of the Zhou family depends on Zhou Datong.

Zhou Mengchen said, "Then don't worry about the wife."

Living and dying together is also a kind of romance.
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