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Chen Ju said in a low voice: "When Eunuch Huang told me about this matter today, he mentioned it separately, telling you not to drink too much during the New Year, as it is easy to cause bad things."

"Ok?"

Wei Guangde looked at Chen Ju in surprise, the connotation in his words was a bit rich.

After Wei Guangde was surprised, he lowered his head and thought.

Chen Ju said it very clearly, it was only Huang Jin's reminder, Wei Guangde would not think that Huang Jin said this at will, there should be some allusion.

After thinking for a while, Wei Guangde looked up at Chen Ju and said, "Brother Chen, did you get any news from the palace?"

"I don't know, I haven't heard of it."

Chen Ju shook his head directly, "Even if there is any hint, maybe only the core members of the East Factory will know."

When Wei Guangde nodded slightly, Chen Ju added: "My godfather doesn't know, otherwise he wouldn't have told me."

Wei Guangde doesn't doubt this, Gao Zhong and Chen Ju, no matter what, they are showing their favor to King Yu now, if someone really threatens King Yu's safety, they will never stand by and do nothing.

Even if you can't do anything, it's still possible to tip off the news secretly.

"Did you remind them in Yu Wang's Mansion?"

Chen Ju didn't pay much attention to Huang Jin's last words before, but at this moment he was a little bit behind the scenes.

"I often remind Eunuch Li that he is a little impatient."

Wei Guangde smiled wryly.

After all, Chen Ju reminded him at the beginning, so he has always paid attention to precautions in this regard.

However, as the saying goes, you can only be a thief for a thousand days, how can you guard against a thief for a thousand days, it is definitely not enough to be so careful all the time, even if you pay attention to it carefully at the beginning, you will relax after a long time, and it is inevitable that people will take advantage of it.

"Perhaps the emperor knew about it, that's why he asked King Jing to leave Beijing as soon as possible, and asked Concubine Lu Jing to bring a letter to let him go away with peace of mind."

At this time, Chen Ju had already figured out what was going on. What Emperor Jiajing said when the concubines left and the hint in Huang Jin's words perfectly matched a certain possibility.

Perhaps, the reason why Huang Jin said that to himself was also because of Emperor Jiajing's last words.

Then, Chen Ju told Wei Guangde the last words of the emperor to Concubine Lu Jing in Yongshou Palace today, and Wei Guangde just felt a little dazed, his hands and feet were a little weak, and there was sweat on his forehead.

Is it really time?
Disaster caused Xiao Qiang.

This word was hovering in Wei Guangde's mind at the moment. He used to watch movies, TV, and novels, and the princes would fight each other for the position of prince and even fight each other with swords. At that time, he had no idea.

But when he was really caught in it, a strong sense of crisis completely penetrated Wei Guangde.

Although the relationship between King Yu and King Jing has not yet reached this stage, after all, the current Emperor Jiajing is too strong.

The reason why Li Er dared to launch the Xuanwumen Change back then was not because their father Li Yuan was not strong enough. His imperial power was supported by three very powerful sons.

Almost everything in the world was not fought by him, Li Yuan, but by the second and third sons. He just cast a good baby and raised a few good sons, so he picked up a country for nothing.

And Li Er was indeed ruthless. For that day, he had already started silently preparing for that day even more than ten years ago, and in the end he was ruthless enough to kill his nephew.

Cut the weeds and eradicate the roots, but that's all.

As for the history of later generations to whitewash him, saying that he is a sage, and saying that he was forced to launch a mutiny for self-protection, it is okay to deceive children.

If Li Yuan really had great prestige at that time, he wouldn't dare to do this even if Li Yuan had twenty guts.

Now, Emperor Jiajing is strong enough, and King Jing would definitely not dare to mobilize swordsmen to openly mutiny, so the choice is assassination, but this is also the most difficult to prevent.

"Did King Yu go to Xiyuan?"

Wei Guangde thought that today is Zhengdan, and as usual, King Yu and King Jing would both enter the palace to pay their respects.

"I went early this morning, and now I have returned to the palace."

Chen Ju replied.

Wei Guangde heard the words, thought for a while, the emperor's words spread to Prince Jing's mansion today, he might have to be more careful in the next few days.

Before Wei Guangde thought that King Jing might use the means he used against Lu Bing to deal with King Yu, but he didn't expect such a thing to happen.

"I'll go to Prince Yu's mansion in a while, and remind King Yu to be more careful in the near future."

Wei Guangde said to Chen Ju in a low voice, and at the same time bowed his hands to thank Chen Ju.

"You people in Prince Yu's Mansion have to be more careful, because you are afraid that King Yu won't be able to move and blame you."

Chen Ju shook his head and reminded in a low voice.

"Understood, Big Brother Chen, I'm sorry for your trouble this time."

Wei Guangde nodded to show that he knew, and thanked Chen Ju again.

"As long as King Yu is doing well, those of us who have no roots can rely on us. Now we rely on the emperor, but in the future we will not rely on His Highness King Yu."

For the eunuchs, from the moment they purified themselves, they were no longer acceptable to their ancestors, and the emperor became their only reliance.

For people like Huang Jin, being able to accompany Emperor Jiajing until now is a good fortune-telling, not to mention that Huang Jin is already in his seventies and eighties, and he can serve him for a few more years.

But for Chen Ju, or even Gao Zhong, there is still plenty of time. ,

Showing loyalty to King Yu actually felt a little bit guilt-free for them. After all, King Yu was the designated successor of Emperor Jiajing, and the emperor still had to pass on the throne according to the ancestral system.

While the two were talking, an ordinary-looking carriage drove in from the side door of Prince Jing's mansion, and the carriage stopped after entering the second gate. The stool is placed next to the frame.

At this time, the curtain of the carriage was lifted, and a beautiful woman in a palace costume came out of the carriage, stepped on the horse stool and got out of the carriage.

"Happy New Year, Aunt Zheng."

When King Jing saw the people getting off from the car, he quickly stepped forward to say hello.

Aunt Zheng is the benefactor next to the mother concubine Concubine Lu Jing, that is, a female official, King Jing is naturally very familiar with it.

Not only that, when King Jing was young, he had served as his maid-in-waiting for many years. If the princes of the Ming Dynasty were more close to the nanny, then they were more afraid of these maid-in-waiting.

The person who can be sent to the little prince's side is naturally the person trusted by the prince, mother and concubine. In a place like the palace, it is necessary to be more careful in everything you do.

And such people, most of them are not afraid of the little prince, and often teach their mistakes, and if they can't teach them, they will tell the prince's mother, and they will come forward to teach the prince a lesson.

Zheng Huiren, the woman in front of King Jing now, is such a person. She was responsible for taking care of King Jing's life when he was a child. Naturally, King Jing was taught by her many times during this period. It is not surprising to see her fear.

And the stricter Zheng Huiren is to the prince, the more points he will get from Concubine Lu Jing, because it will be considered as being good to the prince.

She is a trusted person, so when King Jing left as an adult, she returned to serve by Concubine Lu Jing's side. Now that she is here, in King Jing's opinion, there is no need to come here with his mother concubine Concubine Lu Jing in person. Big difference.

"Happy New Year, Your Highness, I have something to bring to you, Your Majesty."

Zheng Huiren saluted King Jing and said.

"Auntie, please come inside."

King Jing hurriedly invited Zheng Huiren into the palace, found a secluded room, and ordered other servants not to be summoned and not allowed to enter the house, and then followed Zheng Huiren into the room.

"Auntie, is there any errand for the concubine mother?"

In King Jing's opinion, there should be no shortage of things for the mother and concubine for the New Year's Eve, and sending someone to his place, maybe there is something to do by himself.

"Your Highness, the people on your side, let them stop."

When King Jing's voice fell, the first sentence Zheng Huiren uttered made King Jing a little confused.

"Auntie, who are you talking about?"

King Jing was very surprised and asked immediately.

"It's not like your mother doesn't know about Lu Wenfu, although you haven't told her all this time."

At this time, Zheng Huiren showed her strong style in the face of King Jing, and said bluntly.

Hearing Zheng Huiren mentioned Lu Bing, although King Jing felt a trace of fear in his heart, he still pretended to be calm and said, "What did Auntie say? I don't understand."

"It doesn't matter whether your Highness understands it or not. Your Majesty is doing her best today for the sake of His Highness."

"what?"

While Zheng Huiren was speaking, King Jing interjected in surprise.

Being interrupted by King Jing, Zheng Huiren naturally did not show any dissatisfaction, but continued patiently: "Your Highness, everything you have is given by His Majesty, and everything around you is arranged by Your Majesty.

What did you do, you know, the empress also knows, before"

Zheng Huiren was still talking, but Jing Wang, who was opposite him, felt a little dizzy at this time, and the thing he was most worried about had happened.

Just now Zheng Huiren said that everything around him was arranged by Concubine Lu Jing, the meaning in this statement was too obvious, some of the things he did secretly were known to his mother and concubine, but they didn't stop him at first.

Thinking about it, at that time, Emperor Jiajing didn't show his heart, and hopeful people would naturally try their best to fight for the top position.

Although Lu Bing did not oppose King Jing's ascension, at least he did not show any inclination on the issue of establishing the crown prince, but he and Yan Song who supported King Jing did not deal with each other, so they were naturally enemies.

So even if King Jing attacked Lu Bing, Concubine Lu Jing just chose to deal with it by pretending to be deaf and dumb.

"Those people were secretly executed by Dongchang. Although I don't know how much they confessed, His Majesty was aware of what you did. Although he didn't do anything to you, do you think you can still hide it?
Your Highness and Yan Shifan discussed a lot of things, and the empress also knows that the previous ones are fine, but from now on, you are not allowed to have any contact with Yan Shifan.

Before, the empress wanted to ask for a favor, to leave you with a glimmer of hope, to change your fief to the north, closer to the capital, but His Majesty flatly refused. Do you know what this means? "

At this time, Zheng Huiren suddenly asked King Jing.

"what?"

At this time, King Jing was a little dizzy and said casually.

"Your Majesty said, remember it. His Majesty already hates you. He just wants to throw you far away and never see you again."

Zheng Huiren looked at King Jing and said word by word.

"How is this possible? Why is this happening?"

King Jing was a little unsteady at this moment, holding on to the table beside him and asked.

"The ancestral system, although His Majesty seems to be a bit rebellious, but for the continuation of the Great Ming Dynasty, he has to follow the ancestral system in matters such as the succession of the throne.

Regardless of whether His Majesty had any plans to appoint you before, but until now, you can no longer have extravagant hopes, that position does not belong to you. "

Looking at King Jing's appearance at this time, Zheng Huiren also felt that the corners of her eyes were swollen, but when she thought of Concubine Lu Jing's instructions when she came, she still maintained a frosty expression and continued: "Your Majesty only has one child, he hopes you can live It's not that he really did something wrong and was punished to suffer under the high wall of Fengyang.

Anyway, if you go to De'an, you are still a prince, and you can enjoy the glory and wealth for generations. "

Seeing King Jing's crumbling state, Zheng Huiren paused for a moment, and then continued to speak harshly to him: "Your Majesty knows all the things you do, do you think Dongchang, your father and emperor don't know?"

With a plop, King Jing couldn't stand upright and fell down beside the table.

Dongchang, Father Emperor.

These two words broke King Jing's psychological bottom line.

In fact, at the very beginning, when Aunt Zheng said that, King Jing already had a premonition that there were people arranged by Concubine Lu Jing by his side, and they had been secretly watching his every move, perhaps just to take good care of him at first .

But now, these people have become people who monitor him instead of Concubine Mu, fearing that he will make mistakes and continue to make mistakes.

The mother and concubine knew what he did. King Jing was not afraid, but the mother and concubine could put people by his side to watch over him. What about Dongchang?
In the past, King Jing also heard people say that among the eunuchs sent by the various palaces, there were people arranged by Dongchang, who were responsible for monitoring the movements of the various palaces.

It's just that he didn't expect that, as a prince, he was not yet the prince of the old clan, and there might already be people from Dongchang lurking beside him.

He didn't doubt his mother's concubine's judgment at all. Today, his mother's concubine was only tentatively asking Emperor Jiajing if he could change his fiefdom, but he waited for the emperor's fury and reprimand. It can indeed be seen that his father has already had a deep feeling for him disgust.

Otherwise, in a day like today, even if Emperor Jiajing is unwilling to agree, it should be a tactful refusal rather than anger.

King Jing is really scared now.

As I said before, even if he doesn't do anything, he can still be a prince of peace in De'an and enjoy the glory and wealth of his life.

And once the Emperor Jiajing knew what he had done, he would really be caught and suffer under the high wall of Fengyang.

The "Da Ming Hui Dian" stipulates that "all offenses are serious or minor. Those who are less serious will govern their party and others. Those who are more serious will have high walls or idle houses. Children and grandchildren will be demoted to common people, or they will all be banned."

Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang really planned too thoughtfully for future generations. In "Emperor Ming Zu Xun", the highest penalty for clan crimes was set as "life imprisonment".

It not only avoids killing each other among descendants, but also embodies the "friendship" between the clans of Zhu Ming Dynasty from generation to generation.

The so-called Fengyang High Wall is actually a prison dedicated to detaining the clan. Of course, the judges in various places cannot try or imprison the clan, so there is such a place.

In fact, for criminals to be imprisoned, this is both punishment and protection for the clan. At least they will not be beheaded. Imprisoned here, at least until the emperor thought of releasing him.