Two years later, the New Year.
Every household set off firecrackers and pasted couplets. Northern Zhili was thriving.
However, no one expected to see the factory guards come out on New Year's Day.
Every factory guard was holding a name list in their hands.
From Kong Hongtai's mouth, Huai 'en had found out too many people who had colluded with him.
Some of the higher-ups of the Imperial Army were even involved.
Of course, most of them were students from the directorate.
Back then, Emperor Taizu skinned the Imperial College's students.
Emperor Taizong killed ten families of Fang Xiaoru.
During the reign of the two emperors, the Confucians were dormant and dared not speak out.
However, after Hong Xi, the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty spoiled these Confucian students to the point that they dared to do anything. Anyway, the Emperor hoped that the literati would govern the country, so he would not torture them too much.
However, they still underestimated the extent of Zhu Youtang's tyranny.
This time, almost all the Confucian students who were caught by the factory guards lost their lives.
In the second year of Hongzhi's New Year, Zhu Youtang punished Confucian scholars so severely and implicated them so widely that it was rare in the world.
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Ministry of War.
Ever since Liu Daxia became the Minister of War, he had never dared to slack off.
After half a year, Da Ming's heavy weapons were developed one after another.
Divine Fire Flying Crow, Eight-sided Divine Wind Cannon, and other heavy firearms.
Three-eyed muskets and four-eyed muskets for individual combat.
A multi-shot handgun.
From the 3-shot Divine Armament Arrow to the 100-shot Hundred-Tiger Charge Cluster Rocket.
Large scale explosive incendiary weapon, able to fight ten thousand enemies.
The ones recorded in the Fire Dragon Scripture and those that weren't recorded were all developed in the second year of Hongzhi.
With the support of the Emperor's massive military expenditure, the Han people of Ming launched an unprecedented brainstorm, and all kinds of heavy weapons emerged one after another.
This New Year, Liu Daxia did not dare to slack off, nor did the craftsmen of the Bureau of Military Personnel.
All the weapons that were in disrepair were transported to Bei Zhili and returned to their original location after being repaired.
As for the newly developed firearms, Building Liu had been suppressing them and did not mention them to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Only after the second year of Hongzhi did he tell Zhu Youtang about these secret firearms.
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Yangxin Palace Hall.
"Your Majesty."
Huai 'en was draped in a python robe. He patted the snow off his body outside the door before entering Yangxin Palace Hall.
"Kong Hongtai's case involved 1231 people and they have all been killed.”
Zhu Youtang nodded casually, as if the lives of these thousand people were nothing.
"How's the investigation on Consort De?"
"Replying to the Emperor, Consort De has nothing to do with assassins."”
Zhu Youtang waved his hand.”
After Huai 'en left, Zhu Youtang left Yangxin Hall with a mink coat draped over his shoulders.
After thinking for a while, he came to Qinxin Palace.
Yesterday, when the troupe leader tried to assassinate him, Zhu Youtang had already seen through Zhang Qin's scheme.
In other words, her action of pouncing to block the stab should have been done after she was fully confident.
"Your Majesty."
Zhang Qin walked over in a dignified manner and took off Zhu Youtang's cloak.
"ChenQie will warm the tea for the Emperor."
Zhu Youtang nodded and sat on the table. He turned the jade ring in his hand and looked at Zhang Qin's graceful and busy back. He suddenly said,"Did you save me intentionally or unintentionally?”
Zhang Qin's hand that was pouring tea paused for a moment before he calmly said,""Replying to the Emperor, it was intentional."
"This concubine has been in the palace for more than half a year, but I have never seen the face of the heavens once. Yesterday's timing, this concubine was selfish, hoping to attract the emperor's attention.”
Her voice was a little hoarse and low as she admitted it generously.
"Did you consider the possibility of death?" Zhu Youtang spoke again.
Zhang Qin shook his head." He shouldn't have died. I'm from a family of Chinese medicine. I could tell that the dagger wasn't poisoned."”
"This concubine is lower than the emperor. According to the traces of the assassin's assassination, this concubine can judge that at most, it only injured the shoulder armor.”
Zhu Youtang looked at her deeply. This woman not only had a high EQ, but she was also able to remain calm in the face of danger and had such strong judgment.
As expected, this batch of beautiful women who were selected to enter the palace were all outstanding people from the various prefectures.
Zhu Youtang liked to deal with smart people.
Zhang Qin had already poured Longjing tea and brought it to Zhu Youtang." Have some tea, Your Majesty."”
After saying that, she knelt respectfully in front of Zhu Youtang."Emperor, please forgive me. ChenQie did not deliberately deceive Emperor. At that time, I wanted to talk to Emperor, but Emperor came quickly and left quickly. ChenQie could not find an opportunity.”
Zhang Qin didn't dare to hide any of this.
If he admitted it now, he could still leave a good impression on the emperor. If he played tricks on the emperor…
Zhang Qin thought that she couldn't beat Zhu Youtang and didn't dare to play!
Reality proved that Zhang Qin's choice was correct.
Today, if she hid anything, she would be banished to the cold palace by Zhu Youtang and never see him again. Of course, the result might be even more serious.
Zhu Youtang first gave Zhang Qin the title of Consort De, which was for the harem to see.
He had to let the people in the harem know that there would be rewards for meritorious deeds and punishments for mistakes.
"Get up." Zhu Youtang said in a deep voice.
"ChenQie thanks the emperor for his mercy."
Zhu Youtang didn't stay any longer and left.
After Zhu Youtang left, Zhang Qin took a deep breath.
She held onto the desk and sat down step by step. At this moment, she realized that her legs were trembling uncontrollably.
A thought of life and death, a thought of heaven.
It was not that she had not considered deceiving Zhu Youtang just now.
But in the end, she still wisely chose to be honest with him.
When he finally saw Zhu Youtang's eyes, Zhang Qin's heart jumped to his throat.
It turned out that…the Emperor already knew everything.
Fortunately, he did not play any tricks!
Until now, Zhang Qin still had a trace of lingering fear.
After Zhu Youtang left for a long time, she took a teacup and took a big gulp.
Now, her heart was inexplicably filled with joy.
Because she realized that Zhu Youtang did not punish her, nor did he take back the consort position and reward because of her scheming.
Not making a sound was the loudest sound.
The Emperor…did not hate him!
Knowing this information was enough.
As for accompanying the king and sleeping with the emperor, Zhang Qin believed that it wouldn't be long before these things would be realized.
A few days ago, Concubine Ning had been spoiled, but her stomach had been disappointing. He had to get pregnant with the dragon seed first!
The principle of survival in the harem was that simple. The intelligent Consort De had already begun to familiarize herself with the harem.
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