Daming: I was exposed by Zhu Di's Sims life!

Chapter 121 Zhu Di: Why are you still a prince!
Zhu Gaoxuan raised his brows: "You can sneak in the imperial study room, what else are you afraid to do?"

"To be precise, I am more familiar with this place than your Prince Qi's Mansion."

Wearing a ghost mask, dressed in black, and with a full moon scimitar on his waist, Ah Qi came out from behind the screen.

Su Wu held his breath, not sure about Ah Qi's identity.

Ouchi deep in the palace, covered with a knife, this doesn't look like a good person no matter what!

The corners of Zhu Gaoyi's mouth turned up: "You old fellows, are you allowed to come in like this?"

The shadow waiter is the most mysterious person in the palace. No one knows how many shadow waiters there are, nor the name of the leader of the shadow waiter.They are like guards in the shadows, everywhere, always guarding the emperor's side.

Besides the emperor himself, the only people who knew Shadow Waiter were Zhu Di's four princes.

When Zhu Gaoyi went south, the old man transferred Ah Qi to guard him. Since then, Ah Qi's status as a shadow waiter has been deprived, and he has become Zhu Gaoyi's shadow.

"No, they probably won't let me in." Ah Qi said indifferently, "It's just that they are all in Jiming Temple now, not in the palace."

"You're looking for me, don't you just want to climb over the palace wall?" Zhu Gaoyi laughed.

"I'm not as free as you think." Ah Qi took out a secret letter and threw it to Zhu Gaoxuan, saying angrily, "This is what you want."

"Thanks for your hard work."

Zhu Gaoxuan received the secret letter of perfunctory thanks, which made Ah Qi feel a little toothache.

King Qi is a bastard who smiles sweeter than anyone else when he asks for something. Once you are of no value to him, he will immediately turn his face and deny anyone.

……

Zhu Gaoxuan opened the secret letter, looked at the scribbled words on the page, and frowned slightly.

After a long time, his brows relaxed, and he said with a smile, "It's getting more and more interesting?"

Ah Qi was a little curious: "Who are you thinking of cheating?"

"You wronged me this time." Zhu Gaoyi said innocently, "I didn't provoke anyone, he provoked me first."

Ah Qi turned his head, and asked tentatively: "King of Han, or the prince?"

"I have no grievances with the crown prince, why go to trick him." Zhu Gaoyi smiled lightly, "Next, it depends on what the crown prince wants to do."

……

Jiming Temple

"Long live, the crown prince asks to see you." Tang Cheng said respectfully, holding a whisk in his hand.

Zhu Di sat on the chair, Long Yan stretched out: "Xuan."

"No." Tang Cheng bowed his head slightly and walked outside.

Zhu Di looked at Yao Guangxiao, and found that the old monk was sitting on the futon and chanting sutras.

"Old monk, what do you think the prince will say when he comes?" Zhu Di asked lazily.

Yao Guangxiao paused for a moment: "It's nothing more than the more than 40 officials from the East Palace and Prince Qi's Mansion who were imprisoned."

Zhu Di asked with great interest: "You said, what will he say to me when he comes in?"

Yao Guangxiao pondered, "I don't know."

"Is there anything in this world that you don't know?" Zhu Di raised his eyebrows.

Yao Guangxiao said leisurely: "People are not gods, how can they know everything and know everything."

"Well, don't let me talk about the big reason, it's all nonsense." Zhu Di laughed, "You old monk, the more you live, the more you can pretend. If I didn't know what kind of virtue you are, I'm afraid it's true. your evil."

Yao Guangxiao smiled without saying a word.

After a while, Zhu Pangpang, who was wearing a black gauze wing crown and a red round-necked panlong robe, walked over panting, and bowed to Zhu Di: "My son, Zhu Gaochi, greet the saint."

"I'm safe." Zhu Di waved his hand casually.

Then, the crown prince bowed his hands to Yao Guangxiao and saluted: "Master."

The monk in black nodded slightly: "Well, how is the crown prince?"

The crown prince Zhu Gaochi smiled shyly: "I have relieved the burden of supervising the country. Recently, I have a lot more leisure and my health is much better."

"Huh?" Zhu Di joked, "Why, before I let you supervise the country, could it be that it made things difficult for you?"

The prince wiped off the sweat from his forehead, and resentfully said: "Father entrusted my son and minister with the important task of supervising the country, and my son and minister dare not complain. But now that the fourth younger brother is in charge of the country, the country is peaceful, and the court is peaceful. From the perspective of my son and minister, only the fourth younger brother can win." If you have surpassed your ministers a hundred times and a thousand times, you can take on a great cause."

Zhu Di said contemptuously: "Why, you are so flattering about the fourth child, do you still want to give him the crown prince?"

The crown prince knelt down and said calmly: "I dare not ponder the holy will, and I will listen to my father's arrangement. If the father does not let my son be the crown prince, my son will not do it. If the father asks the fourth brother to move to the East Palace, The son-in-law tried his best to cooperate."

"You bastard!" Zhu Di looked gloomy, "Why did I give birth to such a bastard son like you, who doesn't want anything, doesn't fight for anything, what kind of prince are you!"

The prince smiled honestly and did not refute.

This move of his is called advancing by retreating.

Zhu Di is a dog with soft temper and not hard temper, the more stubborn he is, the more he will get on top, maybe he will do something irrational.But if he greets with gentleness, the old man may not be amiable, but after all, no major incidents will arise.

Don't look at the "abandoned prince" one by one, Zhu Di has said "abandoned prince" for so many years, and he has never seen the prince move out of the East Palace.

The harder the old man scolded, the more stable Zhu Pangpang's position as the crown prince became.

But if one day the old man suddenly treats the prince very well, Zhu Pangpang will be really vigilant, just like the calm before the storm.

"Just tell me if you have anything to say, and get out of here." Zhu Di said angrily.

The crown prince made a series first, and then he said: "My son heard that Lu Chaoyang, the governor of Jinyiwei's North Township and the governor of the South Township, was ordered to go to prison. I wonder if it's true?"

Zhu Di said indifferently: "So what, Lu Chaoyang and Ji Gang conspired against each other, and now he is sent to imperial prison, which is justified."

The prince seemed to have suddenly realized, and then said respectfully: "I think that Lu Chaoyang should not go to prison."

"Why?" Zhu Di asked.

"Lu Chaoyang has just made great achievements in Shandong. At this time, the evaluation of Lu Chaoyang in the court is mostly praise, and the emperor's father ordered him to also be in charge of Nanzhen Fusi's award, which is even more acknowledging this intention." The prince said, "Now Sending Lu Chaoyang to prison, isn't this saying that the father wronged Lu Chaoyang?"

Zhu Di snorted coldly, and said: "So what if you have done meritorious service, I always distinguish between rewards and punishments, and ordered him to also manage Nanzhen Fusi is a reward. He colluded with Ji Gang to rebel, the evidence is conclusive, and the crime is unforgivable!"

The prince looked naive, and said: "I have the guts to ask, can Lu Chaoyang's charges of collusion and treason really be confirmed with just a letter of unknown authenticity?"

"What do you mean?" Zhu Di looked at the prince with menacing eyes, "Are you questioning my judgment?"

The prince bowed his head and said, "I dare not."

"Why don't you dare, you are the crown prince of the Ming Dynasty." Zhu Di said in a strange tone, "Is there anything else your crown prince dare not do, I am afraid that the person in the court will support you as emperor, There is more sand than Mobei."

The prince remained silent, refusing to answer the hot words.

The more Zhu Di thought about it, the angrier he became, he pointed at the prince and said angrily, "Get lost!"

"My son, leave." The prince got up and saluted, and left silently.

After the prince left, the anger on Zhu Di's face suddenly subsided and turned into indifference.

"My prince of the Ming Dynasty really understands tricks and tricks." Zhu Di said coldly.

Yao Guangxiao said flatly: "The prince made it clear that he came here for the officials who were imprisoned because of Ji Gang, but after he came, he did not intercede for those who were imprisoned in the East Palace, nor did he accuse Luo Xiu of the Hanwang Party of acting recklessly. Bring out Lu Chaoyang from Prince Qi's residence."

"Hmph, the prince is clear in his heart. Whether he pleads for the people in prison in the East Palace or accuses Luo Xiu, it will have no effect in the end." Zhu Di said coldly, "Lu Chaoyang is from Prince Qi's mansion. It has nothing to do with it. And the crown prince brought Lu Chaoyang out to speak out, which can test my attitude and won't implicate the East Palace. It's really a good method and a good plan."

Yao Guangxiao said with a smile: "The prince is resourceful, isn't this the blessing of His Majesty?"

Zhu Di shook his head and said, "He is too close to civil officials, and his style of doing things has assimilated into the style of civil officials. I don't like it."

Yao Guangxiao didn't quite understand it, he thought it was Zhu Di who valued martial arts over literature.

As everyone knows, Zhu Di not only values ​​martial arts but despises literature, he hates civil servants more.

Emperor Xiaozong Hongzhi and Wuzong Zhengde, the emperors of the two dynasties were suppressed by civil servants like puppets.

In the Jiajing Dynasty, the civil servants were played by Emperor Jiajing, and the result?
The Ming Dynasty is almost gone!
During the reign of Jiajing, civil servants found that they could not fight Jiajing, nor could they kill Jiajing. For the power in their hands, they could only try their best to please Jiajing.

It would be too paranoid to say that civil servants harm the country and the people. A country cannot lose civil servants, but if civil servants are praised too high, it is also the way to subjugate the country.

The emperor accounted for half of the reason why the Jiajing dynasty was so dark, and the civil officials accounted for half of the reason.

This is also the reason why Zhu Di didn't like the prince. Zhu Pangpang had been immersed in Confucianism since he was a child. The reason why he received the support of a large number of civil servants from the ruling and opposition parties was precisely because once the crown prince ascended the throne, the civil servants would have a chance to rise.

Zhu Di's eyes were sharp, and he didn't know what he was thinking about.

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Imperial Prison, also known as Tianlao, is a case where criminals are mostly high-level officials such as Jiuqing and county guards, and the emperor himself needs to issue an edict to convict the case.There are different names in all dynasties. For example, there was Ye Ting in the harem of the Western Han Dynasty. Among them, Ye Ting Prison, or Ye Ting Secret Prison, was used to imprison guilty concubines and clans.At the end of the Han Dynasty, Liu Gong thought he was guilty of serious crimes, so he was in prison.

For example, the Northern Army Prison in the Han Dynasty, the Tang Nei Shi Prison, and Luoyang Temple are also edict prisons.

In the Ming Dynasty, there was only one imperial prison, and that was the "Jinyi Prison" of Fusi in Beizhen.

In the deepest compartment of the prison, a man with disheveled hair and messy prison uniform, his hands and feet were shackled with iron chains as thick as a baby's arms, his eyes were empty and silent.

His name is Ji Gang, and he used to be the master of Jin Yiwei.

(End of this chapter)