Zhu Houzhao sent Li Xing to Shijiatai, and then waited for the arrival of the beautiful woman in the palace.

As a result, I waited for half a month and there was no news.

When Li Xing left, there was no news. Zhu Houzhao felt a little impatient and felt that he had been deceived by his eunuch. As far as he knew, it would take only two days to go from Beijing to Shi Jiatai.

"I believe in Li Xing so much. He dares to deceive me? If I see him, I will have to deal with him!"

It was already mid-March, more than two months after Emperor Xiaozong's death, and things in the big and small towns of the court were stable, and there was almost no way to see what impact the throne had on the court.

Even the war in the northwest was calm. Yisima Yin's troops did not achieve any results on the border. The reports of the Mongols harassing the three sides occasionally reached the capital. Because there was no city lost, it attracted little attention.

As for the war in the southwest, it has basically come to an end. As far as Zhu Houzhao knows, Chen Xi is no longer on the front line of fighting with Jiaozhi soldiers and horses. He seems to be leading his army to retreat north. As for where Chen Xi is currently in operation, the Ministry of War and the Cabinet have not reported it, he does not know. Zhu Houzhao has been emperor for a few days and has not yet had enough fun. He immediately set off south to find Chen Xi to lead his troops to fight with his teacher.

On March 18th, Zhu Houzhao got up at 3 o'clock in the morning. Last night, Zhang Yuan found a few more palace maids. During this period, Zhu Houzhao was singing every night, and she was seriously overdrawn and looked listless.

When they arrived at the main hall of the Ganqing Palace, the eunuch Xiao Jing, the chief seal supervisor, and the ministers in the court all arrived, and the Wu Dynasty officially began.

The first thing that the court talked about was the sensational case of robbing a civilian woman in the capital before, and the initiator of this case was Zhu Houzhao himself.

Zhu Houzhao listened to Liu Jian and others explaining the case, as if nothing had happened. She lowered her head and dozed off, which was basically the same as when he was listening to lecturers in the East Palace.

Liu Jian saw that Zhu Houzhao was a little absent-minded, frowned and asked, "I wonder what your Majesty judges about this case?"

Zhu Houzhao raised her head and yawned in the face of the ministers in the palace. She suddenly felt that it was inappropriate to do so. She covered her mouth with her hands, patted her twice and made a strange sound, and then said:

"Young Fu Liu is talking about the case in Beijing, right? Didn't the incident happen for a long time? Let's not say that it was just an attempted murder. Even if it really happened, the murderer was not caught, what's the point of saying this? You must naturally punish and warn the world. Now that people are gone, big things will turn into small things. There are so many big things in the court waiting to be dealt with. You can't just trace them every day for a thief. Is this meaningful?"

Liu Jian looked at Li Dongyang, with some concern in his eyes and explained: "Your Majesty, although this matter is not big, it is related to the weathering of the court, so we should deal with it with caution!"

"Does it be necessary to find a murderer?"

Zhu Houzhao seemed to understand something and said, "It is of course possible to find someone to come out to take the crime, but Shuntian Mansion has been investigated for a month before. If he could find someone to take the crime, he would probably have been introduced long ago, right?"

Liu Jian was so angry that he didn't take matters seriously when he heard that Zhu Houzhao did not take matters seriously. However, he was a minister and had no power to question the emperor's decision. Moreover, he had never asked Zhu Houzhao for his opinion on this matter before. Now he could not find clues, so he asked Zhu Houzhao to make a judgment. It would be strange if the naughty child could tell any opinions in the palace.

Zhu Houzhao was a little impatient: "It's over. I'm not feeling well today and I need to go back to rest. If you have any questions, I will submit the book to the Chief Secretary for Gifts. Eunuch Xiao will review it on my behalf. If there is any urgent matter, I will inform me in time!"

After saying that, Zhu Houzhao yawned without waiting for Xiao Jing to announce the "dispersed court", and stood up and left the main hall of the Ganqing Palace.

The officials behind the court squad were still saluting Zhu Houzhao, but the ministers in front just watched Zhu Houzhao leave, and had no intention of bowing and giving him respectfully.

When Zhu Houzhao left, Xiao Jing also left on his own. The ministers turned around and walked out of the hall. At this time, Li Dongyang said intentionally or unintentionally: "The case in the southwest is still not too late to talk about..."

Zhu Houzhao walked away and naturally couldn't hear this, but Xie Qian, who was standing behind Liu Jian, could hear it clearly. He glanced at Li Dongyang and felt that he was deliberately saying this to him. He immediately turned a blind eye. On the way out, several good ministers came closer to talk to Xie Qian, but he ignored it.

Xie Qian thought to himself: "Chin Xi's child will never do illegal things in the southwest. As for why the Nanning prefect framed him, the court has sent people to investigate anyway, so I don't believe that I can find out what real evidence... After working for a while, I simply resigned and left the capital and returned to Yuyao earlier, and I was silent!"

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...

As soon as Zhu Houzhao returned to the back hall of the Ganqing Palace, Zhang Yuan greeted him with an urgent secret message and said, "Your Majesty, this is a secret letter sent by Eunuch Li from the tomb of the previous emperor!"

"oh?"

Zhu Houzhao widened her eyes and said, "I don't know how long I have been waiting. He finally remembered to write a letter to me? Leave it to me quickly and let me take a good look!"

Zhu Houzhao picked up the letter, opened it and looked at the text on it carefully. In fact, the content was very simple. He first told Zhu Houzhao about a location, and then added that the errand was completed.

Zhu Houzhao's mouth was raised, and she felt extremely happy. She knew that Li Xing had found the beauty he wanted and had sent it to the residence in the capital, so he could go there to "go to the fortunate".

When Zhang Yuan saw Zhu Houzhao showing joy, he couldn't help but ask, "I wonder what happy things are there for Your Majesty?"

Zhu Houzhao wanted to tell the truth to Zhang Yuan, but thought that Zhang Yuan did not accompany him out of the palace last time, and would stay in the palace to take care of him in the future. He wanted to hide it and said unhappy:

"Eunuch Zhang, is this what you should ask? Eunuch Li is supervising the imperial tomb, and everything he does is naturally related to the imperial tomb supervision. He said that everything goes well after he gets there, and I am happy about it!"

He said he didn't explain, but in fact he still forced his explanation, but it was a matter of stealing the bell. Zhang Yuan would definitely not believe such nonsense, but he didn't have the courage to open the letter in advance and read it. As for what happened, he really didn't know.

Zhu Houzhao said: "What are you doing here? Go and find Eunuch Dai. I have something to ask him for help. I will prepare some clothes for me. I may have to go out of the palace in the next two days... to understand the customs and conditions of the people. It was said that someone forced a robbery of the people. I want to see what the atmosphere in the capital is like!"

It would be fine if Zhu Houzhao mentioned it, and Zhang Yuan thought about it: "Why did Your Majesty suddenly talk about this? The matter of not forcing the robbery of a civilian girl is related to Your Majesty? Oh, when the incident happened that day, Your Majesty happened to be outside the palace. When he came back, he was panicked and very suspicious!"

Thinking of this possibility, Zhang Yuan felt timid. He didn't ask anything and went to find Dai Yi quickly. He would rather avoid such a thing, knowing the emperor's secret is not a good thing.

At this time, Zhang Yuan no longer asked Zhu Houzhao to take him out of the palace. In fact, he knew early in the morning that with the silly nature of the master he served, he could do anything that could go out of the palace.

Dai Yi was summoned to come and saw Zhu Houzhao and quickly knelt down.

Some time ago, Dai Yi was completely hiding from Zhu Houzhao. He lost his ambitions when he was old, and he was kind by nature and was unwilling to do things that violated the law.

Zhu Houzhao held all the eunuchs and palace maids away. After Zhang Yuan went out to cover the door, he said to Dai Yi: "Eunuch Dai, don't be nervous. Today I asked you to come here to do something, but I wanted to discuss with you something! I am going to leave the palace. Eunuch Li found a few women for me outside the palace. You go with me to take a look!"

Dai Yi knelt on the ground with a "thump" and kowtowed and advised: "Your Majesty, you must not!"

This made Zhu Houzhao angry and blushed and scolded: "Eunuch Dai, what else would you say besides this sentence? I asked you to leave the palace to help me see the beauty. I didn't let you be alone, I would talk to you... We will come back before dark."

Dai Yi complained endlessly.

The previous time I left the palace, I caused a major case that caused a sensation in the capital. I might cause some trouble when I left the palace again.

Moreover, Dai Yi had observed before that the palace ban in the Forbidden City had been strengthened. If Zhu Houzhao was blocked from leaving the palace, it is likely that the last incident would be exposed.

Dai Yi cried and kowtowed: "Your Majesty, please think twice before you act. The capital is now in panic. If you leave the palace again, I am afraid... I am not good to explain to the late emperor and the queen mother!"

Zhu Houzhao said angrily: "You won't go, right? Believe it or not, I will just let someone kill you?"

Dai Yi begged hard: "The old slave devotes his whole life to the royal family. If Your Majesty wants to kill the old slave, it is the old slave's life... Please give your Majesty the order to kill the old slave. If this is why your Majesty can not leave the palace, it will be considered that the old slave has done his last effort for the royal family!"

Zhu Houzhao cursed angrily: "Okay, Dai Yi, you speak so badly. When did I treat you poorly? Okay, you won't go out, right? Then you stay in the palace, I will go out alone... After I come back, I will ask someone to chop you, see if your head is hard or your guillotine is hard!"

Zhu Houzhao got up and was about to go out. Dai Yi grabbed Zhu Houzhao's leg from behind, and never let go of his death, just not allowing Zhu Houzhao to leave.

When Zhu Houzhao saw this posture, she shouted: "Zhang Yuan!"

"Here, here! I'm here!"

Zhang Yuan was waiting outside, and when he heard the crying and making a fuss inside, he was curious about what happened. He rushed in immediately when he heard the summons. Seeing Dai Yi lying on the ground holding Zhu Houzhao's legs tightly, he knew that Dai Yi wanted to stop Zhu Houzhao from leaving the palace.

Zhu Houzhao said, "What else can you see? You won't come up and pull this old guy away? I want to leave the palace. Since he doesn't want to go, you come and accompany me out of the palace, don't say you don't want to go!"

Zhang Yuan naturally didn't want to go with him, but he knew that he had no choice at all, so he stepped forward and pulled Dai Yi away.

Seeing Dai Yi lying on the ground and crying, Zhang Yuan persuaded, "Eunuch Dai, what are you doing? Your Majesty is just leaving the palace for a trip. This is the world of His Majesty. What are you trying to do?"

Dai Yi didn't dare to tell the trouble Zhu Houzhao had caused before, but just kept wiping his tears.

Zhu Houzhao said angrily: "Zhang Yuan, why are you talking nonsense to him? Come out with me quickly. If it is too late, you will only ask! Let's go!"
Chapter completed!