Chapter 175: A intensive layout

Before dawn, Su Tong opened her eyes. She felt that the chest was heavy and reached out to touch it. It turned out that her husband's arm was on her. She gently took her husband's hand away and sat up slowly. Su Tong had been married for almost two months, but she was still immersed in sweet love. Her husband was busy during the day and rarely at home. She longed for the joy of having a family to eat together at night. But what she was more looking forward to was the communication between the two, especially in bed. Her husband's tenderness and passion melted her almost every time. After the passion, it prefers to lie leaning on her husband's arms and tell him about his trivial and ordinary day.

He told his joys, sorrows, and at this time, he always listened calmly and patiently, kissed her cheeks from time to time, and waited for her to fall asleep, and could still feel his vigorous and powerful heartbeat. It was these seemingly ordinary subtle actions that made Su Tong deeply intoxicated. She lived happily. In two months, she also changed from a pure and flawless girl to a beautiful young woman. The nourishment of love made her skin whiter and more elastic. Her whole body seemed to be filled with a dazzling brilliance, but she was still as quiet as water. Her gentleness and reasonableness made Li Weizheng completely lose any worries.

Su Tong got up and put on a long skirt, and carefully wiped away the sweat from her husband's forehead with a cold wet towel. The weather was already hot, and there was a suffocating and stuffy heat in the room. Su Tong pushed open the window, and a cool morning breeze blew towards her, which made her feel relaxed and happy.

"Su Su, when is it?" Li Wei was asking in a dreamy way from the bed. Su Tong hurriedly walked to the bed, pursed his lips and smiled: "It's not dawn yet, it's still early, so you can sleep for a while!"

"This stuffy ghost weather makes you unable to sleep when you wake up." Li Wei was turning over and sitting up. He stretched his waist, suddenly frowned, rubbed his waist and smiled, "I was too indulgent last night, and I felt a little sore in my waist."

Su Tong glanced coquettishly and complained: "You must blame yourself. As soon as you go to bed, you think about that, and you have to deal with your elder sister and Yao Ji. You don't rest every day. Do you think your body is iron-clad? From now on, you can only go back once every three times."

Li Wei was hugging her from behind and teasing her in her ear: "Your husband's demand is very strong, which is different from ordinary people. If you don't give it to him, you will go to find others. In the end, you will suffer."

A hint of anger flashed in Su Tong's eyes. She broke free from Li Weizheng's arm and said with a gloomy face: "Then go find someone else! I'm hurting you, and I dare not ask you for pity."

After getting married to Su Tong for two months, Li Weizheng gradually got to know her. She was gentle, intelligent and understanding, but she was extremely strong in her bones. She really messed with her and could not speak for a few days. He knew that he had said the wrong thing and wanted to say a few words to smooth things over, but he didn't dare to speak easily, for fear of provoking her even more. Li Weizheng's lips moved, but he couldn't speak for a while. Su Tong also knew that he was trying to make fun of him. Seeing that his face was sweating, his anger also subsided, he stretched out his jade-like finger and poked his forehead, saying, "You! You still have to do big things. If you don't learn to control your desires, how can you do big things?"

Li Wei was solemnly reverent, he bowed and said, "Thank you, Madam, for reminding me, I remember."

Seeing that he was politely politely, Su Tong looked very funny, he couldn't help laughing, and the little unhappiness in his heart disappeared. She took Li Weizheng's long gown and put it on him, and said gently: "Didn't you say you were going to the Central Army's yamen last night? Although you are not subject to any time limit, going too late will always leave a bad impression. Besides, our family lives far away, so you should set off earlier."

Li Weizheng nodded and said, "I understand, but I can't go too early today. I'll set off after washing up later. Tell Zi Tong, I'll come back early to have dinner in the evening."

Li Wei was washing up briefly, eating a little more, and then walked quickly to the yard. The family no longer lived in Liujun Shiqiao, but moved to the southern suburbs outside the capital. They spent 5,000 taels of silver to buy a manor at the foot of Fangshan in the upper reaches of the Qinhuai River. The manor covers an area of ​​30 acres, surrounded by mountains and rivers, and the scenery is beautiful. It is about twenty miles away from the capital. The road is flat and wide. It takes half an hour to get to the capital by carriage. Due to the beautiful scenery and convenient transportation, many princes and nobles bought manors here.

Li Weizheng's manor is not only filled with houses, but also lush trees. A small river passes through the manor and flows into the Qinhuai River. The banks of the river are green and grassy. When spring comes, colorful flowers bloom on both sides of the river, as if people are in a paradise. Only then can the family truly settle down.

The place was getting bigger, and the family had a lot of servants, bought more than a dozen maids and three or four male servants. In addition, Fitingan also used his power to send more than 20 former Jinyiwei soldiers from Li Weizheng to the vicinity of the manor, nominally monitoring the officials living in this area, and actually protecting their former masters.

Li Wei was coming to the outer house and turned over. Shisanlang also rode on his horse. In addition, he followed several Jinyiwei lieutenants. Before dawn, there was a squid moon hanging in the sky. It was early June. It had been almost two months since Li Wei was entering the capital. Although the position of the Eastern Palace was still empty, the struggle between the various vassal kings suddenly became calm. Ten days ago, the case of the King of Qi ordering people to fake the stone tablet of "Ming Generals Promoting Qi" in Taishan Mountain occurred. Zhu Yuanzhang was furious and personally swung his stick in front of the Taimiao Square to beat the King of Qi fifty sticks, and issued an edict: "I will decide the establishment of the Eastern Palace. Anyone who dares to fight for the Eastern Palace will be severely punished." The kings were frightened and did not dare to act rashly.

This matter was planned by Li Weizheng. He received a secret report from Fiting'an. The Jinyiwei discovered that the King of Qi was fake. Li Wei immediately ordered Luo Guangcai to arrest the counterfeiter and forced the confession with severe torture. Then he instructed Fiting'an to report to Zhu Yuanzhang secretly, which made Zhu Yuanzhang finally realize that his son had begun to make up for the Eastern Palace to fight for the Eastern Palace. It was this incident that made Zhu Yuanzhang make up his mind. The dispute between the Eastern Palace finally came to light. Zhu Yuanzhang spoke when he sacrificed the late Queen Ma that it was not the prince that inherited the Eastern Palace, and the emperor's grandson could also consider it. The meaning of this sentence pointed directly to Zhu Yunwen. Then Zhu Yuanzhang sent someone to repair the residence of the Crown Princess Chang's East Palace, which was to imply that the Crown Princess might have to live in the Eastern Palace for a long time.

These two things surprised all the vassal kings and court officials. Many people realized that the emperor had actually had this idea. Didn’t Ye Tianming, a member of the former crown prince, pave the way for Zhu Yunwen to take office? Ye Tianming also became the number one auxiliary minister of Zhu Yunwen’s sect. The threshold of his family was almost broken. Countless officials came to visit him, all wanting to express his desire to be loyal to Zhu Yunwen through him.

Li Wei suddenly became silent after this incident and was almost forgotten. He was nervous than anyone else these two days. Two days ago, he received information from Sun Ji from Anyuan Town close to Goryeo. As he expected, the Goryeo people immediately betrayed their faith after taking back Danluo Island, and sent troops to Tumenjiang again to regain the land they had just promised to return to the Ming Dynasty. Li Weizheng knew that the court must not know about this. Sun Ji was a pigeon letter sent on the most dangerous front line. Zhu Yuanzhang knew about this matter, and at the earliest half month later, and the time difference of this half month was Li Weizheng's last chance. He had to seize this opportunity. This was a plan that had been made half a year ago.

Li Wei was riding a horse on the official road. In less than half an hour, the group rushed to the capital like lightning and went directly outside Zhengyang Gate of the Forbidden City. Shisanlang and five Jinyiwei were waiting outside Zhengyang Gate. Li Wei was dismounted and entered the Forbidden City. The morning court had just begun. There was no official on the streets of the Forbidden City. There was only a carriage that sent various documents to run back and forth on the street. Li Weizheng soon arrived at the Central Army Mansion. Today is still the same as before. The military mansion was quiet, and the generals of all sizes did not come. Even if they came, they would not be so early. Only officials from the department went to court on time.

"Have Guo gone to court after going to court?" Li Weizheng came to the door and asked a genius.

The minor official hurriedly bowed and said, "Report to the deputy governor, Guo Weng has gone to court and has not come back yet."

"Then I'll wait for him in my cemetery room. If he comes back, please come and see me."

Li Wei was coming to his court room. His court room was next to Changsheng Chau Room. The room was spacious, but also empty. It was not without furniture, tables and chairs. The cabinets, tables and chairs in the room were all complete, but there were no documents. Unlike his desks in the Jinyiwei Institute and Weihaiwei, there were only a few court newspapers on the table in the room at this time. This was an internal official newspaper issued by the Tongzhengsi, which published the emperor's edict, ministers' memorials and some major events in the Ming Dynasty. Only officials with certain qualifications could read it, which was a bit like the internal reference of later generations.

Li Wei was sitting in his seat and took the mansion that he had just sent to read. He suddenly sat up straight and his heart was pounding. There was a small news in the lower left corner of the mansion that King Wei was ordered to enter the capital yesterday.

With just the six-word news, Li Weizheng felt like a storm in his heart. King Wei, Zhu Zhi, the fifteenth son of Zhu Yuanzhang, was renamed King of Liao in the 25th year of Hongwu, in order to deal with the increasingly rampant Goryeo. Li Wei knew this history. It was exactly the 25th year of Hongwu. Zhu Yuanzhang summoned him to the capital to rename King of Liao.

But the problem is that the history of Goryeo's invasion of the land of the Ming Dynasty has been changed by him because of the capture of Danluo Island. The Goryeo people agreed to return the land, so there was no need for Zhu Yuanzhang to be named King of Liao again. Of course, in order to consolidate the situation in Liaodong, Zhu Yuanzhang still had a chance to still be named Zhu Zhi as King of Liao. However, Zhu Zhi had just returned to the vassal state more than 20 days ago, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered him to enter the capital again. Why is this? If he was named King of Liao according to the plan, he could have completely changed the title together more than 20 days ago. According to Zhu Yuanzhang's detailed thinking, it is impossible to let him go again because of forgetting. This shows that Zhu Yuanzhang decided to change Zhu Zhi as King of Liao just now. In other words, Zhu Yuanzhang was too unbelievable that Goryeo would return the land north of Motianling in half a year, so he temporarily decided to sign Zhu Zhi as King of Liao.

Li Weizheng's heartbeat was extremely fierce. If he had the right guess, Zhu Yuanzhang's thoughts would coincide with his plan. At this moment, a cough came from the door, and Guo Xun appeared at the door, "Mr. Li, are you looking for me?"

Li Weizheng quickly stood up and smiled, "Have Guo experienced the court?"

"The emperor asked the court meeting to be held for a short time, and the morning court would end early." Guo Weng walked into the room and bowed: "Please give orders to the governor."

Li Wei took out a memorial from his arms and handed it to Guo Jue, saying, "I want to give this memorial to the emperor. Chang Tongzhi has signed and approved it. Please submit it to the emperor for me."

Li Weizheng could not directly submit the memorial to Zhu Yuanzhang. He had to submit it to his superiors for approval before submitting it to the Central Army Office's experience. Since the Central Army Office's governor Lan Yu was not in the capital, the general was criticized by the Tongzhi Chang Sheng. Last night, Li Weizheng went to Chang Sheng to approve his memorial. Today he came to the Central Army Office to hand over the memorial to Guo Jing and ask him to submit it to him.

Guo Xue took the note and looked through it. Seeing that Chang Sheng had signed and approved it later, he smiled and said, "It has been almost a year since our Central Military Office has not submitted the memorial to the emperor. Lord Li's memorial is the first book to open this year, but the time for giving the note today has passed. I will hand it over for you tomorrow morning."

"Then it's a pain to Guo."

Li Wei was bowing his hand and left the Central Army Mansion and quickly headed towards the Eastern Palace. His plan was to be linked together. If one link was not in place, all his efforts might be wasted. He came to take a step tonight just to miss the time to deliver the memorial today. His memorial will be given to Zhu Yuanzhang tomorrow, so that he can make arrangements today.

When he came to the East Palace, Yang Ning happened to come out of it. He saw Li Weizheng at a glance, then walked up and bowed and smiled, "Is the fifth brother here to find the little prince?"

Li Weizheng nodded and smiled, "Is he here?"

"You came by chance. The little prince happened to finish class and was reading in the study. I'll report it for you."

"Thank you!"

Yang Ning was the commander of the Eastern Palace, not Zhu Yunwen's subordinate, but because of Zhu Biao, he was actually Zhu Yunwen's confidant guard. Seeing that Li Wei seemed to have something important to look for Zhu Yunwen, he hurried in to report. After a moment, he quickly walked out and said, "Fifth brother, the little prince invites you in."

Yang Ning accompanied Li Wei to the East Palace. Halfway through the way, Yang Ning whispered: "Fifth Brother, I have a word to remind you that you should fight for your own merits. You should fight for it. At that time, you were the first to propose the title of the crown prince. You often provided various information to the young prince, and even decided on the case of the Qi King. Now the young prince has a good reputation in the East Palace. Everyone is competing for merit, but you have retreated. This is not OK!"

Li Weizheng smiled faintly and said, "The great scholars around him are very alert to me. If they get too close to the little prince, they will say bad things about me."

Yang Ning was stunned and then smiled bitterly, "You said that, I really don't know why they are so afraid that you will approach the little prince?"

"They were afraid that I would take the little prince out of trouble. Didn't Fang Xiaoru strongly oppose the prince's acceptance of me as his subordinate?"

As the two said that, they came to Zhu Yunwen's study. A eunuch went in and reported it and asked Li Weizheng to go in. Li Weizheng had seen Zhu Yunwen four times in the past two months. At this time, Zhu Yunwen was no longer as willful as before. Perhaps because of his father's death, he seemed to have matured overnight, and began to learn to hide his true feelings and to deal with people. Every time he saw Li Weizheng, he was very polite and would never ignore him like before.

However, he is indeed very grateful to Li Weizheng now. He could see that Li Wei was sincerely helping him enter the Eastern Palace. Every two days, he always sent someone to send him information about the emperor's uncles on time, so that he could always grasp the movements of the emperor's uncles. Especially, he fabricated the case of the King of Qi being beaten in the Taimiao, which eventually prompted the emperor's grandfather to end the five-month investigation. Although the emperor's grandfather only hints to all officials, he explained it to him that Zhu Yunwen was to establish the crown prince.

When Zhu Yunwen saw Li Wei coming in, he smiled and put down the book, stepped forward and bowed, "Welcome to the East Palace."

Zhu Yunwen and Zhu Biao are different. He is still white and can't put on airs. Of course, he also wants to act as a polite and polite person.

Li Weizheng quickly gave a deep bow, "I dare not accept the courtesy of Your Highness."

When Zhu Yunwen heard him call him "Subordinate", he was very respectful and couldn't help but feel very helpful. He smiled and waved his hand and said, "Please sit down!"

A eunuch brought a chair to Li Weizheng. Li Weizheng sat down and smiled and said, "I heard that the emperor has spoken, congratulations to your highness."

Zhu Yunwen nodded, and he said sincerely: "I know this is because everyone is entrusting me later. Lord Li's contribution is even more important. If I ascend the throne in the future, I will definitely not forget Lord Li's contribution."

Li Wei was delighted and immediately knelt down on one knee and said in a deep voice: "I am willing to be loyal to Your Highness."

Zhu Yunwen quickly helped Li Weizheng up and smiled and said, "I know you are loyal to me. You are here today just to say this!"

Li Weizheng shook his head, "Of course not. I came to ask the suggestion I made last time, how are your highness thinking?"

Li Wei came to pay a special visit to Zhu Yunwen half a month. On the one hand, he told him about the fraud of King Qi, but on the other hand, he suggested that he should start to consider cultivating his own military power and not follow the old path of his father without an army."

Zhu Yunwen knew that he was referring to the suggestion of cultivating power. He pondered for a moment and said, "I don't have any good ideas for this matter yet, and Mr. Huang and Qi also said that it's not the time yet."

"Your Highness, you should prepare for the future. Without troops in your hands is your greatest weakness. Your Highness can no longer follow the old path of the prince. The emperor is old and your Highness must prepare for possible emergencies. If your Highness is willing to listen, I have a plan."

Zhu Yunwen was also quite moved. Li Wei was right at the point. His uncles all had tens of thousands of soldiers. Once the emperor and grandfather suddenly had a problem with the imperial power handover, how could those uncles miss this opportunity? If they had more direct troops in their hands, it would indeed help them ascend to the throne. Thinking of this, he hurriedly said: "Please tell me directly, Lord Li."

Li Wei nodded and said solemnly: "The powerful soldiers of the Ming Dynasty must be on the border. If any accident occurs, those who peek at the throne must also come out here. In the border of the Ming Dynasty, only Liaodong has the opportunity to intervene. I have a deep understanding of Goryeo. They are fickle villains and will inevitably break the contract soon. I have written a letter to the emperor, asking the emperor to pay attention to Goryeo's ambitions. Once the emperor does not forgive Goryeo, he may consider letting his subordinates lead the troops, because they are His Highness, and the emperor should ask His Highness for his intentions. I hope His Highness can strongly recommend his subordinates to go to Liaodong. He is willing to establish a direct army for His Highness."

Zhu Yunwen looked at Li Weizheng for a while, and he smiled slightly and said, "You are unwilling to be in trouble last time in Goryeo!"

Li Wei blushed, nodded, and admitted frankly: "There is a reason for this, but my subordinates are indeed willing to establish a direct army for His Highness. My subordinates have already put all the glory and wealth of the rest of their lives on His Highness. I really don't want any accidents to happen to Your Highness."

Zhu Yunwen stared at Li Weizheng. After a long time, he suddenly asked, "Are you really loyal to me?"

Li Wei was walking to the window and knelt down towards the prince's mourning hall. He said word by word: "I, Li Wei, is a small official in the county. The prince's kindness is included in me and cultivated step by step, so that I can be promoted to commander in just two years. Even when I am about to be destroyed, I will save me from danger. How can I not repay this great kindness!"

He took out the silk satin that Zhu Biao gave him from his arms, shook it open and said, "The prince asked me to die. Does your highness think my loyalty is fake?"

Zhu Yunwen took the silk satin and looked at his father's handwriting silently. After a while, he finally sighed softly and nodded, "Okay! I promise you that if the emperor and grandfather really ask me, I will highly recommend you..."
Chapter completed!