Emperor Ming Dynasty

Chapter 954 The king sees the king

"Go down first!"

The emperor turned his gaze, and his tone was unhurried.

"Yes!" Although he was very curious about what was going on, Zhu Mou was very sensible and left calmly.

Liu Afu understood what the emperor meant, and immediately whispered a few words, and the eunuch rushed away.

The emperor retracted his thighs, stood up directly, and cast his eyes on the lake.

The surface of the lake is sparkling, and fish jump from time to time, not like flowers and fruits hanging by the lake.

Suddenly, there was a bird that descended from the sky at a very high speed. Its wings spread over six feet. From a distance, the beak was sharp, with curved hooks, and its two claws were sharp, as if it could throw away a person's head.

"boom--"

When the bird touches the water surface, ripples appear on the lake instantly, water splashes drip from its feathers, and it soars into the air. A fish weighing more than ten kilograms is alive and kicking in its two claws.

The guards were shocked instantly and stood ready.

Sure enough, in the blink of an eye, the bird flew straight into the pavilion, and a big fat koi stopped three feet away from the emperor, jumping around alive and kicking, splashing the ground wet.

"Not bad!"

Zhu Yixi looked at the one-meter-tall Haidongqing in front of her, with black spots on her white feathers, majestic

He couldn't help admiring.

The eunuch at the side hurriedly handed over the shredded pork, and the emperor grabbed a few finger-sized pieces with his hands, and handed them to his mouth.

Hai Dongqing was not afraid of him, so he took a few steps, picked up the meat, and swallowed it quickly.

He rang a few words, crisp and loud, very satisfied with such food.

The eunuch at the side looked very winking. Although his legs couldn't stop swinging, he still brought a pot of shredded meat over and let the eagle eat it.

The emperor touched its feathers, but the latter was focused on eating and didn't care about it.

"Cook this fish, by the way, braise it in brown sauce, Qing'er caught it himself, I want to taste it."

"Yes!" Liu Afu responded with a smile: "This bird is filial, and knows how to occupy His Majesty!"

"People's minds are complicated, while birds and other animals have simple minds. They have no other pursuits except to eat, drink and reproduce."

At some point, Zhu Yixi had a small comb in his hand, combing his feathers.

This sea dongqing was presented by the general of Heilongjiang. It was originally a pair, and two eggs hatched at the beginning of the year, but only one survived in the end.

As for the pair of Hai Dongqing, according to the ancient custom, the emperor released them directly and let them go to the northeast to multiply.

Of course, sometimes Haidongqing fell in love with the master, and the hunters would send each other off again and again.

Soon, less than half a quarter of an hour after the feeding, the Commander of Jin Yiwei hurried over with an inexplicable expression on his face.

"Minister, Jin Yiwei Commander Chu Yu (commander Luo Zuowu), knock on His Majesty—"

Chu Yu, the commander of Jinyiwei, was the general of the search department as early as the Huguang period.

In Shandong, he encouraged the Yuyuan Army to attack the logistics of the Qing Dynasty. Later, he persuaded Gao Jie's generals to surrender and wiped out tens of thousands of Gao Jie in one fell swoop.

After more than ten years of development, he has reached the top of Jinyiwei and has become the much-anticipated commander of Jinyiwei.

When a person reaches middle age, he has put on a lot of blessings, but his eyes are bright and his legs are quick, so he is very competent.

The other commander of Jinyiwei, Luo Zuowu, was in his thirties, with a short beard on his lips, a square face, and sharp eyes. He wore a Jinyiwei Feiyu suit, which gave him a shrewd and capable look.

Compared to Chu Yu, Luo Zuowu got the emperor to pay more attention.

Luo Zuowu was from the Jinyiwei Luo family.

His family was a military household who followed Zhu Yuanzhang to conquer the world, and inherited it from generation to generation. Later, Luo Sheng entered the Huguang Xing Palace.

Although Lu Bing is the most powerful commander of Jinyiwei, the Luo family is a low-key and powerful faction.

Later, the Luo family took root in Jinyiwei. Luo An, Luo Chun, Luo Sigong, and Luo Yangxing, three generations and four people served as the commander of Jinyiwei. It can be called a family of Jinyi.

After Chongzhen's death, Luo Yangxing served as the governor of Tianjin. Later, during the Northern Expedition of Shaowu, although he was in time, his body was stained and he had to live in seclusion.

Because he was from a family of Jinyi, his nephew Luo Zuowu was only a small captain in the Jinyiwei, but with his outstanding ancestral skills, he became the commander of the Jinyiwei after more than ten years.

This is a fourth-rank official, second only to the commander and Tongzhi.

Network and ability are indispensable.

Luo Zuowu has both.

In this regard, the emperor acquiesced.

There is no way, although Luo Yangxing's virtues are not good, but the Luo family has served the old Zhu family for more than three hundred years from the Taizu to the present, and more than ten generations have been loyal ministers.

It's so fucking red.

Of course, if there is no ability, the emperor will look down on him at all.

"You go down too!"

Seeing his expression, the emperor began to back away from the left and right sides.

At this time, there were only Liu Afu, the emperor, Chu Yu, and Luo Zuowu in the corridor, and the other guards were waiting a hundred steps away.

Naturally, there was no danger, and those guards were eager for a chance to save him.

"Your Majesty, since the second year of Shaowu, the ministers have been following the footsteps of the Ding thief (referring to the three princes Zhu, referred to as the second son Dingwang), from Shanhaiguan, Gyeonggi, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Qinghai, and even Kangguo, No news was found."

"Later, I was afraid of Jiannu, so I went to Liaodong, Jilin, Horqin and even Monan."

"Two years ago, I sent people to the so-called Fengjing Mansion to inquire about the news, and secondly, it can also prepare for future wars..."

"Don't get too far away—"

The emperor lost his patience and said directly: "Pick up the short ones."

"Recently, the ministers and others finally found traces in Yongping Mansion and captured him in one fell swoop..."

Chu Yu smiled without embarrassment, and then spoke excitedly.

Those just now are just a retrospective of the credits of the first two commanders. After all, there is hard work without credit.

Although Jinyiwei is divided into factions internally, it is one with the outside world.

He had just become the commander of Jinyiwei, and he had achieved such a special achievement in less than a year.

Chu Yu took two steps closer, and a deep voice sounded:

"Zhu Da, Zhu Ding, and Zhu Zong, together with dozens of other members of his family, have all been locked up and will arrive in the capital tonight..."

Hearing that Chongzhen's three sons were alive and well, Zhu Yixi's expression was inexplicable and uncertain.

The few people on the side naturally didn't dare to disturb, so they could only remain silent.

Liu Afu had great envy hidden in his eyes, good guy, what kind of credit is this?He even let him get it.

After a while, the emperor recovered and continued to feed Hai Dongqing: "He has been hiding for more than ten years, how did you catch him?"

"A few days ago, a certain villager reported to the Hundred Households Office of Yongping Mansion that he was a thief who stole the imperial tomb..."

After listening for a while, the emperor suddenly realized.

It turned out that on July half day, after the three families pretended to worship their ancestors, they ran to the mountains in the middle of the night and secretly worshiped a lonely grave.

When Orion saw it, he muttered, maybe it has something to do with it!

Then I couldn't stop being greedy, and picked up the grave.

Now, you can see the jewelry in the coffin.

Take it to a pawn shop and see that people's words belong to princes in the palace.

Good guy, Orion was so frightened that he didn't even dare to go to the Yamen, so he went directly to Jinyiwei to report.

Who doesn't know that Jin Yiwei has great power?Straight to the emperor.

As long as you can get a little bit with the emperor, you may be rich and prosperous.

If you go to the yamen, you will be swallowed alive instead.

Sure enough, as soon as he got into the soul, it happened that Luo Zuowu came back from Liaodong, passed through Yongping Mansion, and directly won
Just like that, an earth-shattering case happened.

Chu Yuba watched, while Luo Zuowu was calm.

Although the time is not long, it is very tormenting.

"So, he has stayed in Yongping Mansion for nearly 20 years, and he just saw it?"

The emperor's tone was calm, but any fool could see the accusation in it.

The two knelt down helplessly.

Under the eyelids, under the lights, it was dark, and I searched all over the north before I realized that it was indeed negligence.

But Jin Yiwei was indeed wronged.

Because it was rumored at the time that the three brothers of the Zhu family were all killed.

One can imagine how difficult it is to find someone when there is no one alive or dead, and after several years of war.

And as time goes by, there will be more and more difficulties. When those three people die, they will naturally never be found again.

Zhu Yixi murmured in a low voice: "Why do you want to find out?"

Yes, for Zhu Yixi, he wished that these three people could completely hide their identities and return to normal.

Nobody knows it's the best.

Finding out is nice, but a tricky one.

As the founding emperor, he is naturally not afraid of the princes of the previous dynasty, the key is that future generations are afraid.

He can be safe, what about the second generation?What about the third generation?

As long as it is useful, once it is found out by ambitious people, it will be used as a handle to trace the original source, so it's okay?

For the sake of power, it is normal to directly change hereditary, change the world and justify one's name.

Japan's well-known Falling Curtain Movement, the shogunate demanded the founding of the country and opened its eyes to see the world, and then several feudal lords rebelled and set up the Falling Curtain Army.

Then push the emperor out, engage in the drama of returning the great government, and add a label of justice to himself.

Just like the independence movement in the United States, in order to pass on the loss of the Seven Years War, Britain exempted high import taxes and let the East India Company dump a large amount of tea.

The price is only half of the smuggled tea.

And US smugglers quit because it interferes with their profits:
"Why don't the people of North America drink high-priced tea?"

As a result, these smugglers pretended to be Indians and poured tea into the river, which is the famous Boston Tea Party.

The United Kingdom was furious and enacted laws to cancel the autonomy of the Massachusetts capital and to close Boston Harbor. Of course, the most important thing was to authorize the British army to break into houses and arrest criminals.

Good guy, facing the threat of life, the smugglers directly rebelled.

The independence movement began.

Of course, the watchword is freedom.

Ordinary people are dragged into war.

Therefore, Prince Zhu at this time is the "emperor" and "freedom", with endless troubles.

Even at this time, there are still so-called "Zhu Cihuang" rebellions in those remote places.

No matter how peaceful and prosperous times are, people will still rebel.

"Go down and settle down."

It took only a moment for the emperor to change his mind, but for the other two, it was like a year.

"Yes!" The two hurriedly stood up, ready to leave.

On this day, the emperor was in a calm mood, with a little worry about gain and loss in his impatience.

In the evening, the news came.

"My lord, Jin Yiwei painted a portrait, and I found a few old eunuchs to recognize him, the appearance is not far from the same, and the things are also in the style of the Eastern Palace..."

"Ok!"

Zhu Yixi calmed down and walked away with his head held high: "Lead the way."

Soon, in a remote courtyard, the emperor met the former prince's family.

Zhu Cihong, Zhu Cixuan, and Zhu Cijiong, that is, the crown prince, king Ding, and king Yong.

The three of them were neatly dressed. Although they were made of ordinary linen, they naturally had a certain air.

Although the spirit is a little depressed, it is also normal.

Jin Yiwei naturally didn't dare to make a move.

"Zhu Cihong?"

Following the emperor's footsteps, seeing these three people, Zhu Yixi immediately calmed down.

"You are Emperor Shaowu?"

Zhu Cihong stood up, trembling all over, then languished again, with a pleading expression on his face:

"Are you trying to kill us?"

"You can kill our brothers. Whether he can let those children live, they don't know anything, and they don't understand."

King Ding and King Yong remained silent, leaving elder brother Zhu Cihong to speak alone, obviously a consensus had been reached.

The three of them knelt down together, the desire to survive in their eyes couldn't be stopped, and tears streamed down their faces.

Zhu Yixi just looked at them like this.

After a long time, he said, "How did you survive?"

Zhu Cihong's complexion was slightly dark, but his facial features were quite beautiful. Seeing the emperor's appearance like this, he sighed: "Our brothers have been imprisoned in Beijing since they were captured by intruders."

"When I heard that my father had hanged himself, I felt panicked, and when I heard that the intruders ravaged the capital and plundered all the officials, I was very relieved..."

"Later, he was caught in the army and went to Shanhaiguan with him. He escaped in the chaos of a rock and went to Yongping Mansion to live..."

Zhu Yixi listened quietly, from the time he struggled to survive in the mountains to when he came out of the mountains to marry a wife and have children, more than ten years have passed without knowing it.

"Why are those jewelry buried there?"

"We didn't dare to hide it privately, lest people would find out the secret, so we built a grave in the middle of the mountain and hid all the clothes and jewelry there. After all, it was bestowed by the emperor. Seeing people with things is considered worship..."

Looking at the faces of the three brothers, their faces were ashen, and their hair turned gray at the temples in their thirties.

Zhu Yixi thought over and over again, wanting to kill the grass and roots, but even if he is a politician, the mind of a traveler always thinks about getting the best of both worlds.

Really annoying.

After all, I had robbed their house. If nothing else, the Forbidden City lived well.

"Da Ming, you can't wait any longer."

Suddenly, he sighed: "Go overseas! The whole family will go."

Not to mention that the three of them were ecstatic, while Chu Yu on the side said anxiously: "Your Majesty, think twice!"

"Cut the grass without eradicating the roots, and the spring breeze will regenerate."

"I see."

Zhu Yixi said with a sullen face, "Even if there is no real Prince Zhu, will there be fewer fake princes around the world?"

"Even if we beheaded to show the public, no one would believe it."

While walking, where Zhu Yixi was thinking.

North Korea?too close.

Japan?Also near.

South Asia?That is the future direction of the feudal kingdom.

Therefore, for the current plan, it can only be sent to Europe.

Yes, under the guise of sending envoys to Europe, they will be unloaded along the way.

Just buy him a title, buy some land and he will be able to live in peace.

(End of this chapter)