Just as the hour of You, Zhu Gaoxu and others returned to the palace from Xuanwu Gate.As soon as he arrived at the Ganqing Palace, he met the eunuch Wang Gui.
Wang Gui stepped forward and said: Report to Emperor, Hou Zuo Envoy (Hou Hai) has been waiting on the slanting corridor for almost half an hour.
He then whispered again, in the afternoon, Hou Zuo's envoy went to Wuying Hall to Rouyi Hall and asked a eunuch on duty, where was the emperor.The servant had to let the eunuch pass the message, saying that the emperor had returned to the Ganqing Palace to rest.
Hou Zuozun seemed to have something important, so he invited the Donghunting Pavilion to visit and asked us to inform us. I went to see Hou Zuo Envoy, thinking that the emperor went out in the morning and that he should return to the palace now, so I asked Hou Zuo Envoy to wait. Unexpectedly, he waited for half an hour.
Zhu Gaoxu looked down at the straight robe on his body and said: I will go to Dongnuan Pavilion now.
After a while, Zhu Gaoxu walked to the slanting corridor and saw Hou Hai still standing in the corridor.
Hou Hai was not tall, wearing a loose red robe and looking a little thin. When he looked back, he immediately knelt on the brick floor: I bow to the emperor, long live the emperor.
Zhu Gaoxu stretched out his arm and held Hou Hai up, and let you wait for a long time.
Hou Hai said: I thank you, it’s okay to wait for the emperor.
What's the matter?Zhu Gaoxu asked directly as he walked in.
Hou Haidao: Return to the emperor and guard the affairs of the Northern Office of the Ministry of Justice.
Zhu Gaoxu turned his head to look at him again. Hou Hai seemed a little nervous and reached out to wipe his forehead gently with his sleeve.The two walked past the partition one by one, and there was no one inside.
When Zhu Gaoxu sat down on the chair, Hou Hai bent down and bowed: I have been negligent, please ask the emperor to sue him.
Zhu Gaoxu frowned and looked at him, waiting for the following text.
Hou Hai continued: Huang Yan, who fled to Mongolia, once contacted the mainland through the Urianha people.But I overlooked this matter.
He pondered for a moment and said: The Tatar commander originally set up by the Northern Administration was named Guo Ang, and his branch was stationed in Beiping City.
A few years ago, Guo Ang reported something that a man from Urianha, named "Hua Tong", came to Peiping; Hua Tong brought Huang Yan's token, and the first person he looked for was Gu Sheng, the chief of the Zhao Prince's Mansion, in order to withdraw the money stored by Huang Yan from the money house.
I vaguely remember that I have read this report myself.
In the report, Guo Ang said that after Gu Sheng told him the reason, he believed that he could use Huang Yan and the Urianha people to get some news from the Tatar tribes; so Guo Ang asked for his orders to continue to maintain contact with the Urianha people.
At that time, the minister was not very concerned, so he thought it was nothing more than an ordinary method of the Tatar commander of the Northern Bureau, so he ignored it.He never told the Lord this news.
Zhu Gaoxu asked: Then why are you concerned about it now?
Hou Haidao: Guo Ang sent another secret letter back to the Northern Office of the Defence Office, saying that Gu Sheng accepted the bribe!Guo Ang received news that the Tatars were going to send envoys to Beijing, and found that the chief of the Zhao Prince's Mansion had collected money from the "flower boy" of the Urianha people.I realized that the situation was not that simple, so I quickly came to report to the emperor.
After listening to the narrative, Zhu Gaoxu subconsciously thought of a question: Did Hou Hai collect money before?But Zhu Gaoxu didn't ask.
Hou Hai is a very spiritual person, as if he could guess Zhu Gaoxu’s thoughts, and suddenly said: I have never gained money from it, and I was indeed careless before.
Zhu Gaoxu nodded and said: Of course, there is no need for Hou Zuozhang to seek the little profits.Lost your identity.
Hou Hai breathed a sigh of relief and clasped his fists and said: The Lord has taught me the truth.
Zhu Gaoxu used his palm to rub his broad forehead a few times. He thought for a while and said: Gu Sheng, the chief of the Zhao Prince's Mansion, told Guo Ang at first, which can be understood as trying to reduce the risk of collusion with the enemy.But this time Gu Sheng dared to accept bribes privately again, so what happened?
Hou Hai frowned and thought: The joint mentioned by the emperor is indeed a bit strange.
Zhu Gaoxu asked: Did the bribes sent by the Urianha people take from the money house?
Hou Haidao: I will say back to the emperor, no, it is the gold brought to the Ming Dynasty by the Urianha people themselves.After saying that, he took out an envelope from his sleeve bag and presented it with both hands. This is the original secret letter from Guo Ang. Please read it.
Zhu Gaoxu took out the paper and browsed it quickly.Then he stretched out his hand and said, "Have you brought the letter from Guo Ang a few years ago?"
Hou Hai bent down awkwardly and said, "I will go back to get it right away."
Zhu Gaoxu withdrew his hand and said: Take it to Rouyi Hall tomorrow.
Hou Haidao: I obey the order.However, I have read the secret letter roughly again today and remember the reasons for it.
Zhu Gaoxu said with certainty: I still have to look at the details.The same thing, different narrative methods, may differ.It's getting late, so go back and rest.
Hou Hai bowed and said, "I thank you, I will leave."
Zhu Gaoxu sat alone in the East Warehouse for a while.
He remembered the clumsy conspiracy deployed by the King of Dai before, and was bewitched by his aide Yang Pu.
And this Zhao Wangfu chief Gu Sheng and Emperor Taizong personally selected him, so he should not be a talent like Yang Pu who is born in a wild way.
Moreover, Gu Sheng may not dare to take away the money he received.
Gao Sui's appearance appeared in Zhu Gaoxu's mind again. After thinking for a long time, he shook his head gently again.
He picked up the letter from the imperial desk and looked at it in detail.The secret letter also described the story of the bribery in detail.
Guo Ang's people first discovered that the Urianha flower boy had been to Zhangde Mansion, and then they decided that the flower boy had met the chief secretary Gu Sheng.When Guo Ang saw the flower boy from Urianha, he exclaimed him.
Guo Ang told Hua Tong that when Gu Sheng helped and took out Huang Yan's frozen money from the money house, in addition to cash, there were also a large amount of land deeds and land deeds.
After Gu Sheng's several tricks, a large part of the latter has fallen into the pockets of Gu Sheng and others; these things are the big ones.
The cash money the Urianha people received was less than one-tenth of Huang Yan's money.
The flower girl was very angry.Guo Ang promised some benefits to let the flower boy tell the story of his private encounter with Gu Sheng.Only then did I learn that the flower boy took 100 taels of real gold and a letter to meet Gu Sheng.
But I didn't know anything about the letter from the Mongolians. Zhu Gaoxu even flipped the letter and found no more content...
That night, Chen Baoyan came to the Ganqing Palace to accompany him, and Zhu Gaoxu felt much more relaxed. He only felt that today's time to see the favor was right.
After the etiquette the next morning, Hou Hai was the first person to wait in Rouyi Hall.
Hou Hai submitted the old letter from the Northern Department of the Guardian Bureau.
The old letter is also the handwriting of Guo Ang, the commander of the Tatars in the Northern Administration, which is no different from the handwriting of the letter Zhu Gaoxu saw yesterday:
Huang Yan was involved in the case of rebellion by King Dai. He was afraid that the old enemy Wang Jinghong Houxian and others who had turned over in the court would kill him, so Huang Yan fled to the Tatars through the Urian Hamong people.
Huang Yan promised great benefits to the Urianha people and Tatars who responded to him, but he had no money. So he asked the Mongolians to arrange another Urianha people to return to Peking to get the money, which was the flower boy.
The court did not want Huang Yan, and the person was not arrested, and even Huang Yan's charge was not officially decided.
So Huang Yan's property in the Zhao Palace was divided up by the people in the Zhao Palace; and the things that exist in the money house required Huang Yan's specific tokens and official documents from the government.
Gu Sheng and others could not get it by their own means and were always sealed in the money shop.
Huang Yan also thought of some ways and brought some news about the Tatar leader.
He intends to conduct a transaction through the old friend of the Zhao royal family Gu Sheng and contact the Jinyiwei (Huang Yan thought it was still the Jinyiwei who was in charge of these matters).
Asked Gu Sheng to help, the flower boy took Huang Yan's token to get the property; while Huang Yan and his Tatar friends provided information to the Jinyiwei.
The person who took over this matter was not the Jinyiwei, but the Northern Office of the Guardian.
Guo Ang, who was stationed in Peiping, sent a letter to the Northern Office of the capital, but because Hou Hai didn't care much at all, the matter was not stopped; so the transaction ended successfully.
In fact, the North Bureau did not receive any useful news in this transaction. Of course, the North Bureau did not suffer any losses and Huang Yan and the others did not care about the liquidation.
From the mouths of the Urianha people, I only got the news that Arutai and the Korchin tribe were married, and other things.
What exactly did the letter Hua Tong wrote to Gu Sheng recently? This is what we should know. Zhu Gaoxu said casually.
But he quickly came to his senses, because his words might misunderstand the ministers, so he immediately reminded Hou Hai: Don’t worry about this matter for the time being, so as not to cause trouble.I turned around and asked Gao Sui in person.
Hou Hai bowed and said: I understand.
After Zhu Gaoxu said that, he walked around in the Rouyi Hall, still remembering some things in his heart.
Most of the time, he will not write down his ideas. Once these ideas are known to others, it is dangerous to keep them in his heart.
He made some judgments: Zheng He's remnants, led by Wang Jinghong and Hou Xian, suffered a fatal blow during the Hongxi Dynasty.
Nowadays, the connections in the court seem to be not very wide, at least the Shouyushi did not buy Wang Jinghong and others' accounts at all.
Otherwise, Huang Yan, the mortal enemy of Wang Jinghong and others, would not be able to trade with the imperial government by defending the State Administration of the Northern Territory.If there is a way, Wang Jinghong and the others will kill Huang Yan.
Hou Hai's voice said: I am ashamed and unable to share my worries for the emperor.
Zhu Gaoxu came to his senses, turned around and saw Hou Hai standing in the middle of the hall, and said kindly: You don’t need to think too much. Just reading the report a few years ago was not a big deal.Who can do without mistakes without a sage?Having said that, if even the Hou Zuo Envoy is not reliable, who else can I rely on?
Hou Hai looked relieved and bowed and said, "I will work diligently and plan for the emperor."
Zhu Gaoxu also felt that the position above was not easy to sit.
The key is to have a group of people, so that people can listen to their own words and make decisions effective; and you must also have a more realistic decision, otherwise you will have bad things.
At this time, Hou Hai said: Please give up.
Zhu Gaoxu said: Let’s do your business.After a while, he watched Hou Hai's back disappear at the door of Rouyi Palace.
Wang Gui stepped forward and said: Report to Emperor, Hou Zuo Envoy (Hou Hai) has been waiting on the slanting corridor for almost half an hour.
He then whispered again, in the afternoon, Hou Zuo's envoy went to Wuying Hall to Rouyi Hall and asked a eunuch on duty, where was the emperor.The servant had to let the eunuch pass the message, saying that the emperor had returned to the Ganqing Palace to rest.
Hou Zuozun seemed to have something important, so he invited the Donghunting Pavilion to visit and asked us to inform us. I went to see Hou Zuo Envoy, thinking that the emperor went out in the morning and that he should return to the palace now, so I asked Hou Zuo Envoy to wait. Unexpectedly, he waited for half an hour.
Zhu Gaoxu looked down at the straight robe on his body and said: I will go to Dongnuan Pavilion now.
After a while, Zhu Gaoxu walked to the slanting corridor and saw Hou Hai still standing in the corridor.
Hou Hai was not tall, wearing a loose red robe and looking a little thin. When he looked back, he immediately knelt on the brick floor: I bow to the emperor, long live the emperor.
Zhu Gaoxu stretched out his arm and held Hou Hai up, and let you wait for a long time.
Hou Hai said: I thank you, it’s okay to wait for the emperor.
What's the matter?Zhu Gaoxu asked directly as he walked in.
Hou Haidao: Return to the emperor and guard the affairs of the Northern Office of the Ministry of Justice.
Zhu Gaoxu turned his head to look at him again. Hou Hai seemed a little nervous and reached out to wipe his forehead gently with his sleeve.The two walked past the partition one by one, and there was no one inside.
When Zhu Gaoxu sat down on the chair, Hou Hai bent down and bowed: I have been negligent, please ask the emperor to sue him.
Zhu Gaoxu frowned and looked at him, waiting for the following text.
Hou Hai continued: Huang Yan, who fled to Mongolia, once contacted the mainland through the Urianha people.But I overlooked this matter.
He pondered for a moment and said: The Tatar commander originally set up by the Northern Administration was named Guo Ang, and his branch was stationed in Beiping City.
A few years ago, Guo Ang reported something that a man from Urianha, named "Hua Tong", came to Peiping; Hua Tong brought Huang Yan's token, and the first person he looked for was Gu Sheng, the chief of the Zhao Prince's Mansion, in order to withdraw the money stored by Huang Yan from the money house.
I vaguely remember that I have read this report myself.
In the report, Guo Ang said that after Gu Sheng told him the reason, he believed that he could use Huang Yan and the Urianha people to get some news from the Tatar tribes; so Guo Ang asked for his orders to continue to maintain contact with the Urianha people.
At that time, the minister was not very concerned, so he thought it was nothing more than an ordinary method of the Tatar commander of the Northern Bureau, so he ignored it.He never told the Lord this news.
Zhu Gaoxu asked: Then why are you concerned about it now?
Hou Haidao: Guo Ang sent another secret letter back to the Northern Office of the Defence Office, saying that Gu Sheng accepted the bribe!Guo Ang received news that the Tatars were going to send envoys to Beijing, and found that the chief of the Zhao Prince's Mansion had collected money from the "flower boy" of the Urianha people.I realized that the situation was not that simple, so I quickly came to report to the emperor.
After listening to the narrative, Zhu Gaoxu subconsciously thought of a question: Did Hou Hai collect money before?But Zhu Gaoxu didn't ask.
Hou Hai is a very spiritual person, as if he could guess Zhu Gaoxu’s thoughts, and suddenly said: I have never gained money from it, and I was indeed careless before.
Zhu Gaoxu nodded and said: Of course, there is no need for Hou Zuozhang to seek the little profits.Lost your identity.
Hou Hai breathed a sigh of relief and clasped his fists and said: The Lord has taught me the truth.
Zhu Gaoxu used his palm to rub his broad forehead a few times. He thought for a while and said: Gu Sheng, the chief of the Zhao Prince's Mansion, told Guo Ang at first, which can be understood as trying to reduce the risk of collusion with the enemy.But this time Gu Sheng dared to accept bribes privately again, so what happened?
Hou Hai frowned and thought: The joint mentioned by the emperor is indeed a bit strange.
Zhu Gaoxu asked: Did the bribes sent by the Urianha people take from the money house?
Hou Haidao: I will say back to the emperor, no, it is the gold brought to the Ming Dynasty by the Urianha people themselves.After saying that, he took out an envelope from his sleeve bag and presented it with both hands. This is the original secret letter from Guo Ang. Please read it.
Zhu Gaoxu took out the paper and browsed it quickly.Then he stretched out his hand and said, "Have you brought the letter from Guo Ang a few years ago?"
Hou Hai bent down awkwardly and said, "I will go back to get it right away."
Zhu Gaoxu withdrew his hand and said: Take it to Rouyi Hall tomorrow.
Hou Haidao: I obey the order.However, I have read the secret letter roughly again today and remember the reasons for it.
Zhu Gaoxu said with certainty: I still have to look at the details.The same thing, different narrative methods, may differ.It's getting late, so go back and rest.
Hou Hai bowed and said, "I thank you, I will leave."
Zhu Gaoxu sat alone in the East Warehouse for a while.
He remembered the clumsy conspiracy deployed by the King of Dai before, and was bewitched by his aide Yang Pu.
And this Zhao Wangfu chief Gu Sheng and Emperor Taizong personally selected him, so he should not be a talent like Yang Pu who is born in a wild way.
Moreover, Gu Sheng may not dare to take away the money he received.
Gao Sui's appearance appeared in Zhu Gaoxu's mind again. After thinking for a long time, he shook his head gently again.
He picked up the letter from the imperial desk and looked at it in detail.The secret letter also described the story of the bribery in detail.
Guo Ang's people first discovered that the Urianha flower boy had been to Zhangde Mansion, and then they decided that the flower boy had met the chief secretary Gu Sheng.When Guo Ang saw the flower boy from Urianha, he exclaimed him.
Guo Ang told Hua Tong that when Gu Sheng helped and took out Huang Yan's frozen money from the money house, in addition to cash, there were also a large amount of land deeds and land deeds.
After Gu Sheng's several tricks, a large part of the latter has fallen into the pockets of Gu Sheng and others; these things are the big ones.
The cash money the Urianha people received was less than one-tenth of Huang Yan's money.
The flower girl was very angry.Guo Ang promised some benefits to let the flower boy tell the story of his private encounter with Gu Sheng.Only then did I learn that the flower boy took 100 taels of real gold and a letter to meet Gu Sheng.
But I didn't know anything about the letter from the Mongolians. Zhu Gaoxu even flipped the letter and found no more content...
That night, Chen Baoyan came to the Ganqing Palace to accompany him, and Zhu Gaoxu felt much more relaxed. He only felt that today's time to see the favor was right.
After the etiquette the next morning, Hou Hai was the first person to wait in Rouyi Hall.
Hou Hai submitted the old letter from the Northern Department of the Guardian Bureau.
The old letter is also the handwriting of Guo Ang, the commander of the Tatars in the Northern Administration, which is no different from the handwriting of the letter Zhu Gaoxu saw yesterday:
Huang Yan was involved in the case of rebellion by King Dai. He was afraid that the old enemy Wang Jinghong Houxian and others who had turned over in the court would kill him, so Huang Yan fled to the Tatars through the Urian Hamong people.
Huang Yan promised great benefits to the Urianha people and Tatars who responded to him, but he had no money. So he asked the Mongolians to arrange another Urianha people to return to Peking to get the money, which was the flower boy.
The court did not want Huang Yan, and the person was not arrested, and even Huang Yan's charge was not officially decided.
So Huang Yan's property in the Zhao Palace was divided up by the people in the Zhao Palace; and the things that exist in the money house required Huang Yan's specific tokens and official documents from the government.
Gu Sheng and others could not get it by their own means and were always sealed in the money shop.
Huang Yan also thought of some ways and brought some news about the Tatar leader.
He intends to conduct a transaction through the old friend of the Zhao royal family Gu Sheng and contact the Jinyiwei (Huang Yan thought it was still the Jinyiwei who was in charge of these matters).
Asked Gu Sheng to help, the flower boy took Huang Yan's token to get the property; while Huang Yan and his Tatar friends provided information to the Jinyiwei.
The person who took over this matter was not the Jinyiwei, but the Northern Office of the Guardian.
Guo Ang, who was stationed in Peiping, sent a letter to the Northern Office of the capital, but because Hou Hai didn't care much at all, the matter was not stopped; so the transaction ended successfully.
In fact, the North Bureau did not receive any useful news in this transaction. Of course, the North Bureau did not suffer any losses and Huang Yan and the others did not care about the liquidation.
From the mouths of the Urianha people, I only got the news that Arutai and the Korchin tribe were married, and other things.
What exactly did the letter Hua Tong wrote to Gu Sheng recently? This is what we should know. Zhu Gaoxu said casually.
But he quickly came to his senses, because his words might misunderstand the ministers, so he immediately reminded Hou Hai: Don’t worry about this matter for the time being, so as not to cause trouble.I turned around and asked Gao Sui in person.
Hou Hai bowed and said: I understand.
After Zhu Gaoxu said that, he walked around in the Rouyi Hall, still remembering some things in his heart.
Most of the time, he will not write down his ideas. Once these ideas are known to others, it is dangerous to keep them in his heart.
He made some judgments: Zheng He's remnants, led by Wang Jinghong and Hou Xian, suffered a fatal blow during the Hongxi Dynasty.
Nowadays, the connections in the court seem to be not very wide, at least the Shouyushi did not buy Wang Jinghong and others' accounts at all.
Otherwise, Huang Yan, the mortal enemy of Wang Jinghong and others, would not be able to trade with the imperial government by defending the State Administration of the Northern Territory.If there is a way, Wang Jinghong and the others will kill Huang Yan.
Hou Hai's voice said: I am ashamed and unable to share my worries for the emperor.
Zhu Gaoxu came to his senses, turned around and saw Hou Hai standing in the middle of the hall, and said kindly: You don’t need to think too much. Just reading the report a few years ago was not a big deal.Who can do without mistakes without a sage?Having said that, if even the Hou Zuo Envoy is not reliable, who else can I rely on?
Hou Hai looked relieved and bowed and said, "I will work diligently and plan for the emperor."
Zhu Gaoxu also felt that the position above was not easy to sit.
The key is to have a group of people, so that people can listen to their own words and make decisions effective; and you must also have a more realistic decision, otherwise you will have bad things.
At this time, Hou Hai said: Please give up.
Zhu Gaoxu said: Let’s do your business.After a while, he watched Hou Hai's back disappear at the door of Rouyi Palace.
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