Chapter 145
Hu Weiyong was frightened by Chu Nan’s chapter!
Chapter 145 Hu Weiyong was frightened by Chu Nan’s words!
Hu Weiyong? Chu Nan frowned. It turned out that Hu Weiyong had sent him.
"Prime Minister Hu?" When Fu Zhong heard that it was Hu Weiyong who arranged it, he felt a little discouraged. After all, he was the prime minister of the Ming Dynasty and he couldn't afford to offend him.
"How is it?" Seeing that Fu Zhong and the others were dispirited, Tu Jie also looked at Chu Nan and asked.
"Lord Chu, why don't you go to Prime Minister Hu's residence? Prime Minister Hu wants to meet the Imperial Envoy to discuss official business. Is that too much?"
Isn’t that too much?
Chu Nan sneered. At this time, the court was divided into several factions, the Imperial faction, the Huaixi party, and the Zhejiang East party. However, with the fall of Yang Xian, the Zhejiang East party was almost scattered.
But the Huaixi Party is still there, and now that Zhu Yuanzhang has returned to Beijing, if he investigates who is behind this, the Huaixi Party and Hu Weiyong may be implicated.
If Chu Nan went to see Hu Weiyong at this time, wouldn't he be associated with Hu Weiyong? So this is not too much?
Chu Nan smiled. He was not that stupid. Then he shook his head: "What if I don't go?"
Then he narrowed his eyes and said, "Master Tu, will you ask the bailiffs of the Jinling government and your own servants to deal with me?"
"Hahaha, Lord Chu is joking." Tu Jie seemed to have anticipated that Chu Nan would not go, and then.
"If Lord Chu doesn't want to go, then he doesn't have to go. Lord Chu is an imperial envoy, representing the majesty of heaven. Who dares to stop him?"
"But Lord Hu has already prepared the banquet. If Lord Chu doesn't go, the banquet will be left unattended, which would be a pity."
"After all, your majesty advocates frugality. Food is precious and waste is shameful."
"Hehe." Chu Nan sneered when he heard Tu Jie's words.
If you, Hu Weiyong Tu Jie, really cared about Zhu Yuanzhang like this, then the world would have been peaceful long ago.
And what is Zhu Yuanzhang talking about now? However, Chu Nan also understood Tu Jie's intention. If he didn't go, it would be a disgrace to Hu Weiyong, and their relationship would be as cold as a dish.
Chu Nan didn't want to go, after all, he didn't want to have anything to do with Hu Weiyong. But he thought again, there were Jinyiwei watching Hu Weiyong's mansion anyway, so as long as he didn't stay alone with Hu Weiyong, he wouldn't arouse Zhu Yuanzhang's suspicion.
Moreover, he was here to act as a smokescreen for Zhu Yuanzhang, not to take action on his behalf, so there was no need to offend too many people.
After thinking for a while, he said to Tu Jie: "Then please let Censor Tu lead the way!"
"Open the way?" Tu Jie was a little confused. What was this word? He had never heard of it before?
But then I thought about it and thought it might be some dialect from Chu Nan’s hometown, which had the same meaning as “lead the way”, and then I started speaking.
"Okay, Lord Chu, follow me." Then he ordered his men to drive the carriage towards Hu Weiyong's mansion.
Chu Nan's team also followed him to Hu Weiyong's residence, but Chu Nan was more cautious and called Fu Zhong to give him some instructions.
Then Fu Zhong took some things from Chu Nan, left the team and headed towards Jinling City.
The residence of Hu Weiyong.
At this moment, quite a few people were already standing at the door. All of them were officials of the third rank or above in the court, wearing gorgeous clothes. The leading man, about forty years old, wearing a first-rank civil servant robe, was none other than Hu Weiyong, the current right prime minister of the Secretariat.
Although he is the right prime minister, the position of left prime minister of the Ming Dynasty is currently vacant, so he is now the number one person in the Ming Dynasty.
But today, there is someone worthy of him coming out to greet.
"Prime Minister, he's here!" Just as Hu Weiyong was waiting, another trusted official beside him, the Left Censor-in-Chief Chen Ning, spoke to him.
When Hu Weiyong saw it, he also looked up and opened his eyes. Sure enough, he saw a convoy of vehicles coming in front of him with fluttering flags. It was obviously Chu Nan's imperial guard.
"Interesting." Hu Weiyong smiled when he saw it.
"I didn't expect that Chu Nan would actually come."
In fact, when Hu Weiyong was preparing to invite Chu Nan, he was prepared that Chu Nan would not come, but he did not expect Chu Nan to come, which was a bit unexpected. Now that Hu Weiyong was meeting him, he was afraid that it would be bad for Chu Nan.
But since Chu Nan dared to come, Hu Weiyong was not afraid anymore, and he was already prepared for Chu Nan to come.
Thinking about it, he directly said to the people around him: "Since the guests are here, let's welcome them!"
"Yes!" Then Chen Ning shouted towards the front.
"A distinguished guest has arrived, welcome him!"
"Bala bala!" Then, the servants of the Hu mansion directly lit the firecrackers. The sound of firecrackers echoed throughout the entire street, making it very lively.
"Swish, swish, swish! Bang, bang!" At the same time, some people actually lit fireworks. Although the fireworks were set off in broad daylight, it still felt lively in a different way.
"So lively?" Chu Nan, who was sitting in the carriage, laughed when he saw this situation. Is Hu Weiyong afraid that the whole city doesn't know that I, Chu Nan, am here to meet you?
But, would I, Chu Nan, be afraid of this?
Soon, Chu Nan's bicycle frame came in front of Hu Weiyong, and then Chu Nan got directly off the bicycle frame.
"Lord Chu, long time no see!" When he saw Chu Nan, Hu Weiyong smiled as if he were in spring breeze.
He looked at Chu Nan with admiration in his eyes: "Lord Chu, I heard that you are very brave. You shot down Wang Baobao with one arrow. It's a pity that you didn't shoot him to death!"
"Yes, yes." Other officials around also gathered around.
"Lord Chu is truly a young hero. I think his bravery is no less than that of Lu Bu!"
"Hehe." Chu Nan didn't care what other people said, but after hearing what Hu Weiyong said, Chu Nan smiled, with a gloomy look in his eyes.
"If I shoot Wang Baobao to death, will Lord Hu be happy or unhappy?"
"What are you talking about, Lord Chu?" Hu Weiyong burst into laughter when he heard it.
"Wang Baobao was the prime minister of the Northern Yuan Dynasty and the mortal enemy of the Ming Dynasty. If he died, I, Hu Weiyong, would definitely celebrate with loud drums and gongs and firecrackers. How could I not be happy?"
"Yes." The other officials were also surprised when they heard it.
"Lord Hu is the prime minister of the Ming Dynasty. The enemy's prime minister is dead, so Lord Hu must be happy. How could Lord Hu be unhappy?"
"Lord Chu is a good fighter and a very humorous person when he speaks."
But as they spoke, they did not notice the expressions of Tu Jie and Chen Ning beside them. They had smiles on their faces, but there was shock in their eyes because of Chu Nan's words.
As for Hu Weiyong, there was not even a hint of shock in his eyes, and his expression remained unchanged, as if Chu Nan's words had no effect on him at all.
But in fact, his heart was already in turmoil and he was very shocked.
What did Chu Nan mean by this? Did he know that he was in collusion with the Northern Yuan people?
But how did Chu Nan know about this? Only the top leaders of Beiyuan and his confidants knew about this?
Now that Chu Nan knows about it, will Zhu Yuanzhang know about it?
These thoughts made Hu Weiyong break out in a cold sweat.
But Hu Weiyong remained calm: "Lord Chu's words are still as interesting as ever, but we should not stand here. Come with me into the mansion. I have prepared many delicious side dishes."
"Oh!" Chu Nan immediately became excited when he heard about food. He had been sleeping in the open air on the grassland during this period of time, and on the way back to Beijing, he almost all his meals were eaten in the carriage. He really hadn't eaten anything delicious.
Now it depends on what Hu Weiyong gives me to eat, but it shouldn't be poisonous.
(End of this chapter)