I Am the Grandson of the Second Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Earning 100 Million Taels at the Beginn

Chapter 112 Lao Zhu's family hates Lao Kong's family.

Now it's really exciting to watch.

In every calamity year, there will be grain merchants who will make money in the country, and the imperial court hates these people.

Many officials sent to disaster relief hated these guys with itchy teeth.

They all want to strangle these bastards if they can.

But the court law does not allow it.

They can only use various methods to deal with these grain merchants, asking them to voluntarily sell the grain at a reduced price, or donate it to the court.

There are very few officials who can do this.

Plus disaster relief is like putting out a fire.

Every day, a large number of victims starved to death, and the large amount of food from the imperial court could not be supplied. The disaster relief officials could only grit their teeth and buy these high-priced food to save the people first.

As for finding these guys to settle accounts afterwards, just think about it.

People who dare to make money like this naturally have their own network of relationships.

If one's own backstage is not strong, it's best not to touch such a person.

After the disaster relief is over, when you go back, you should be promoted and work.

As for those guys who make money in disaster years, let them go, anyway, there will be nothing to do in the future.

Instead of teaching these people to offend some big shots and not end well, it is better to pretend not to know.

Anyway, the victims of the disaster were saved, and their reputation and political achievements were also obtained. Those blood-sucking bugs will let God punish them.

Of course, more guys choose to collude with these people, sucking the blood of the disaster victims and eating the flesh of the common people together.

As for the life and death of the victims, it's none of their business. Anyway, if you can earn money, you can save a few people and feed the officials above.

As for the emperor, he can't leave the palace. What happens in the disaster area depends entirely on their reports.

Isn't it what they say, that's what it is.

As time went on, and the imperial court's indulgence to these grain merchants, these bloodsuckers became more and more excessive, and the disaster relief officials became less and less important.

They thought things like this would continue forever.

As a result, they did not expect that this disaster relief went to a ruthless person.

If you don't give food or lower the price, that's fine... I can't fix you in the face, so I'll turn into a bandit and rob the head office.

If you dare to bully me, I'll kill you all over the place.

"So, you are the subject of suspicion."

Ignoring all the civil and military officials with different expressions, Zhu Di looked at Lin Feng calmly.

Lin Feng, who was full of tears, nodded heavily, took out a playbook from his arms, and held it up high.

"The Caomin have all investigated and found out that it was the emperor's grandson Zhu Zhangui and his subordinate Shenjiying who pretended to be bandits and robbed food and killed my family."

No one was surprised, let alone exclaimed.

Everyone is like that.

Some of these officials have mixed feelings.

For Zhu Zhangui's formal means, he admires and is angry at the same time.

What I admire is that Zhu Zhangui pretended to be a bandit and robbed grain merchants at the expense of his own reputation for the sake of the victims in the disaster area.

What is angry is that the dignified eldest grandson of a country, the future great-grandson of Ming Dynasty, actually disregarded the court's law to save the royal family's face, and committed robbery, murder and arson.

This is a bad lead.

As the person who makes the rules, if you don't follow the rules, what's the use of the rules?

Reaching out his hand to take the playbook presented by Little Snot, Zhu Di flipped through the content with a blank expression.

The content is very detailed.

From Zhu Zhangui's arrival in Jinan Prefecture to massacre the victims, the strange dispatch of troops on the second day, the approximate number of bandits at night, and the large amount of food that suddenly appeared on the third day, almost everything was recorded in detail.

None of the people present made a sound.

They were all looking at Zhu Di, wanting to see how he would deal with his grandson who didn't follow the rules.

How to deal with it.

This kid is too bad at doing things.

You said that since you made a move, why didn't you cut the weeds and roots, and left a tail behind, and ran to the palace to sue.

Alas, this kid still needs to hone and hone.

On the surface, he pretended to read the memorial, but Zhu Di was actually thinking about how to deal with this matter perfectly.

It is impossible to punish Zhu Zhangui severely.

Regardless of whether this is true or not.

Even if it is true, shouldn't these unscrupulous grain merchants who have made a fortune for the country should not be killed?
Although Zhu Zhangui's method is disgraceful, his starting point is good.

Zhu Zhangui did this for the people affected by the disaster. If these grain merchants hadn't gone too far, Zhu Zhangui would not have used such disgraceful means.

Thinking of this, Zhu Di looked at Lin Feng and said: "I already know about this case, but I can't listen to your one-sided words. You are now waiting in a place in the capital, and I will send someone to collect clues and evidence. When everything is ready, I will Judge yourself."

After finishing speaking, he winked at Ji Gang.

Let him quickly take people away.

"Wait a minute!"

Just when Ji Gang led people to prepare to ask the two to leave.

Kong Xiwen, who hadn't spoken since Zhu Di's arrival, stood up.

Zhu Di frowned and looked at Kong Xiwen.

"What do you say?"

Kong Xiwen clasped his fists to Zhu Di and saluted, and said loudly: "Your Majesty, Xiaosheng has something to ask."

Zhu Di narrowed his eyes, "Ask!"

Kong Xiwen looked at Zhu Di, and asked in a loud voice: "Your Majesty, I don't know who you plan to send to investigate this matter. After all, the defendant is the emperor's grandson. If ordinary people go, I'm afraid they won't be able to investigate? Also, if the investigation results It is really the emperor's grandson Zhu Zhangui, what do you plan to do with the emperor's grandson Zhu Zhangui, Your Majesty."

Kong Xiwen just wanted Zhu Di to make a statement.

The defendant is your grandson, the emperor's grandson of Ming Dynasty. If ordinary people go to investigate, they may not be able to suppress him.

If it turns out that your grandson did it in the end, will you cover him up because it was your grandson?

Zhu Di's expression turned cold.

"Who to send and how to deal with it, the imperial court has its own rules and regulations, and it's not up to you, the Confucius family, to worry about it. Go back and study your knowledge carefully."

After all, he stopped talking to the other party and ordered the sedan chair to go back to the palace.

"Whoa!"

Without returning to Fengtian Hall, after Zhu Di told everyone to disperse, he took Prince Han, King Zhao, six cabinets and other bigwigs back to Shangshufang.

As soon as he entered the Shang's study, Zhu Di threw the memorial in his hand onto the table, knocking down a pile of pens, ink, paper and inkstones.

"Emperor calm down!"

Everyone quickly fell to their knees.

Ignoring everyone kneeling on the ground, Zhu Di angrily turned around on the spot, yelling loudly.

"The Kong family is getting more and more presumptuous. How dare an unknown junior question me? Who gave him the guts?"

Everyone was stunned.

Feelings are what everyone thinks wrong.

Just now they thought that Zhu Di was angry because of Zhu Zhangui's affairs.

Unexpectedly, Zhu Di didn't care about this at all. The reason for his anger turned out to be that the Kong family dared to question him in front of all civil and military officials.

"A group of idiots, if they didn't have the status of descendants of Confucius, I would have cut them all down."

Zhu Di looked down on the people of the Kong family from the bottom of his heart.

To be precise, from Zhu Yuanzhang onwards, people from the Zhu family didn't like the people from the Kong family.

After Zhu Yuanzhang ascended the throne, he ordered to summon Kong Kejian, the then "Yan Shenggong" to Nanjing. Kong Kejian thought that Zhu Yuanzhang would still respect him like the previous emperors.

In addition, he looked down on Zhu Yuanzhang's mud-legged background, so Kong Kejian replied to Zhu Yuanzhang that he could not go because of illness.

This made Zhu Yuanzhang very angry. He wrote a letter with harsh words on the spot, and to be precise, he sent back a letter full of cursing.

Later, Kong Kejian, seeing that the Ming Dynasty had the advantage over the Yuan Dynasty, was afraid of offending Zhu Yuanzhang, so he stopped pretending to be sick and ran over to them in fear of angering Zhu Yuanzhang.

Zhu Di was very clear about this matter at that time.

His father scolded his mother all night, and he heard it with his own ears.

Zhu Yuanzhang even said to the princes at the end that the people of the Kong family are not as good as animals.

It is also because of the influence of his father Zhu Yuanzhang that Zhu Di has never had a good impression of the Kong family from the beginning to the end.

But I don't like it, and I can't help it.

The officials in the court are all Confucian children. If he does something to the Kong family, these usually obedient ministers will definitely turn into death fighters and fight Zhu Di to the end.

"Your Majesty, please appease your anger. Although Kong Xiwen's words were a bit inappropriate, it is for the sake of the court's reputation. I hope Your Majesty will forgive me."

Lu Zhen, Minister of the Ministry of Rites, saw that Zhu Di's scolding became more and more unpleasant, so he stood up and reminded him vaguely.

You can just curse here, and we pretended not to hear.

But if it goes too far and really wants to attack the Confucian family, then we Confucian children can't just watch.

Zhu Di turned his head abruptly, stared fiercely at Lu Zhen for a few times, angrily kicked over an incense burner in front of him under his stubborn eyes, turned around and returned to the dragon chair, feeling sullen.

This is the emperor's helplessness.

No matter how much you hate the Kong family, you can't touch them.

The Confucian family is the spiritual belief of the literati in the world. Not only can the emperor not move, but he must also protect it well.

Once something unexpected happened to the Kong family, no matter if it was the emperor or not, even if it was done by bandits, your dynasty will not have a good reputation.

You can't protect the saints and descendants well. How can your dynasty have the confidence to protect the people of the world.

So for any dynasty, the Kong family is just a lump of disgusting shit that can't be touched.

"Your Majesty, what the grandson did in Shandong, after today's disturbance, it is estimated that it will soon spread all over the world. If the court does not deal with it as soon as possible, it may make people lose their minds. I hope that your majesty will send someone to investigate this matter as soon as possible. Clearly, the results of the handling will be announced to stabilize the hearts of the people."

Yang Shiqi was the first to stand up and express his worries.

"Hehe, people's hearts, it's about stabilizing the hearts of those businessmen and scholar-bureaucrats. It's too late for ordinary people to be happy when they know about this. Return the hearts of the people, haha."

Hearing Yang Shiqi's words, Zhu Di sneered disdainfully without opening his eyes.

He has already seen through the minds of these people.

The people they talk about are those rich merchants, landlords and scholar-bureaucrats, and ordinary people are not even considered as individuals in their eyes.

Yang Shiqi looked helplessly at Prince Zhu Pangpang for help.

Zhu Pangpang nodded slightly, took a step forward and said: "Your Majesty, although Zhan Gui's starting point is not wrong, it is also for the victims of the disaster, but the method is really not on the table. Now that the Northern Expedition is imminent, the world should focus on stability. , I hope the emperor will make a clear decision."

"Yeah, dad, although I'm happy to see what my nephew did, but now nothing is as important as the Northern Expedition. We can't fight the battle in the front and make a mess in the back. If there is a problem with the logistics, then Are we still fighting?"

Under Zhu Pangpang's wild winking, Zhu Gaoxu also stood up and tried to persuade him.

"Yeah, father, the most important thing is the Northern Expedition. Besides, if it doesn't work, let's procrastinate until the Northern Expedition starts. At that time, the whole country's attention will be on the Northern Expedition. This small matter in Shandong will Nobody noticed."

Seeing that both the eldest and the second stood up, Zhu Gaosui also stood up and expressed his thoughts.

The three sons miraculously stood together, which made Zhu Di feel better.

The children are sensible and know that the country is the most important thing.

Sitting up, Zhu Di looked at the three sons and nodded.

After thinking for a while, looking at the crowd, he asked: "It's such a big matter, Zhang Xuan and the others definitely can't handle it, who do you think should be let go?"

Hearing Zhu Di asking who to let go, everyone began to think.

Logically speaking, in Zhu Zhangui's capacity, it is most appropriate for the prince to go.

But the helpless thing is that Zhu Pangpang is Zhu Zhangui's father, how could his father investigate his son, even if the prince is willing to kill his relatives in a selfless and righteous way, if the investigation result is not as good as everyone wants, no one will believe it!

"Father, why don't you let me go!"

A flash of excitement flashed in the eyes of Han Wang Zhu Gaoxu, Mao then recommended himself.

He had wanted to teach this bastard a lesson for a long time, and now he finally had the chance.

Zhu Di shook his head and refused, "You still have to train the [-] Battalion, and after a while you will go to Beiping to lead the overall situation. Let others do it!"

Afterwards, Zhu Di looked at everyone present one by one.

The prince is definitely not good, let alone the relationship between him and Zhu Zhangui and his son, national affairs cannot be separated from him.

In addition, during this period of time, the boss's health is not getting better day by day, Zhu Di sees it in his eyes and hurts in his heart, and he doesn't want him to worry about this anymore, and wants him to rest more.

Not to mention Hanwang.

Don't look at the second child who usually looks like I love my eldest nephew very much, and treats Zhu Zhangui as his own son.

But if he was allowed to go, Zhu Di could imagine with his feet how bad Zhu Gaoxu would be.

Neither can Zhu Gaosui. He needs to be responsible for many intelligence aspects of Beizheng, and he can't spare time.

As Minister of the Ministry of War, Yang Shiqi has many things to do.

Yang Pu and Yang Rong couldn't spare their time to assist the prince in handling state affairs.

Among the others, Xia Yuanji was a good choice, but as the head of the household department, he was too busy to touch the ground.

But when other people went, Zhu Di was afraid that he would not be able to suppress that bastard.

After much deliberation, Zhu Di found that the most suitable candidate was him.

The Northern Expedition has almost been arranged, and the rest is to gather troops to Beiping.

Zhu Pangpang is in charge of state affairs, so he doesn't have to worry about it at all.

Now he spends every day self-cultivating, reading the memorials approved by the crown prince, or going up and down, every day is free time.

It happened that during this period of time he stayed in the palace and was bored, so it would be good to take this opportunity to go out and relax.

Thinking of this, Zhu Di slapped the table, looked at the crowd and said, "I've decided, I'll go personally to this matter, little bastard!"

(End of this chapter)