Daming: I, Yang Xian, really govern Yang!

The whole thing started with a letter.

Li Jin, who had been promoted to the prefect of Yangzhou, looked at the letter in his hand with a serious expression and went to Beijing overnight.

Destination: Duke Yang’s Mansion.

At this moment, in the study room as bright as day, Yang Xian was drawing a latest design of a generator.

The First Industrial Revolution, the road to the steam age, was completed ahead of schedule by the Ming Dynasty under the catalysis of Yang Xian's design. The next step for the Ming Dynasty to prepare for was the electrical age.

Although Yang Xian invented the electric light several years ago, it has not been widely popularized because the basic conditions are not yet mature.

As long as the basic power supply facilities are solved, everything else will fall into place.

"You are now the governor of a state. Why do you come to see me at this time? Is there something important?" Yang Xian put down the pen in his hand, looked up at Li Jin and asked.

"teacher."

After Li Jin bowed respectfully, he took out the letter from his arms and handed it solemnly to Yang Xian.

"This is the letter Shaofeng sent to his students. Please take a look."

Yang Xian had some impression of Liu Shaofeng, who was one of the best graduates from Yangzhou University in the past two years. Although Yang Xian had basically been in Beijing in the past two years, he also paid attention to these outstanding students.

"If I remember correctly, he should have gone to his fiefdom, Annan Prefecture, to assist the Annan King Zhu Tan." Yang Xian said.

"What the teacher remembered is correct." Li Jin nodded.

Among the eight countries that participated in the siege of the Ming Dynasty, Annan was almost the first to surrender. Now it has become a state of the Ming Dynasty and was granted as the fiefdom of the tenth prince Zhu Tan.

Several years have passed since then, and the internal integration work has long been completed. Now it is already a real territory of the Ming Dynasty.

Yang Xian did not read the letter directly. Instead, he opened the drawer, took out a pile of secret letters and handed them to Li Jin.

"You take a look at this first."

Li Jin was stunned for a moment, a little confused. What he wanted to say was extremely urgent. He didn't know why Yang Xian wanted him to look at these other things at this time. However, out of unconditional trust in his teacher, Li Jin still took it respectfully.

After reading the contents, Li Jin's expression immediately became extremely shocked.

The contents of the secret memorials that Yang Xian gave him were exactly the same as those in the letter that he wanted Yang Xian to see, and the matters recorded were even more detailed.

"Teacher, you already knew this?!"

Yang Xian sighed and said, "I didn't know it much earlier than you did. I was thinking of finding someone to help me submit this memorial tomorrow morning."

"Now that the students are here, let me take care of this matter." Li Jin said with a firm look in his eyes.

Yang Xian looked up at Li Jin and finally nodded.

Morning the next day.

When Li Jin made public the crimes committed by King Zhu Dan of Annan in the court, the whole court was shocked.

Zhu Yuanzhang, sitting on the dragon throne, was also extremely furious and kept cursing his evil son.

The next thing to do was to send an imperial envoy to the Annan fiefdom to investigate the matter, and the selection of personnel became a big problem.

The target is a prince with a fiefdom, and ordinary people really can't control him.

The few people who have the qualifications are unwilling to wade into this muddy water, as this is a matter concerning the royal family.

At the last court session, someone mentioned Yang Xian's name. Yang Xian had resigned from the Grand Council shortly after marrying Xu Miaoyun, and had not attended court for two years.

But no one questions the weight of these two words.

At this time, Crown Prince Zhu Biao also stood up to support him.

After pondering for a long time, Zhu Yuanzhang agreed to this matter.

Ten days later.

Annan State.

When Zhu Tan was in Kyoto, he was a relatively well-behaved person and Yang Xian had met him several times.

But this guy, after becoming a feudal lord, probably because there was no one to control him, he completely let himself go, and he became more and more crooked, with an evil spirit all over his body.

Yang Xian had his own intelligence network, and the dirty things Zhu Tan had done were soon discovered, with all the evidence being available.

Small countries like Annan were re-established as fiefdoms and had ready-made palaces.

It was not just Annan. The countries around the Ming Dynasty were all treated in the same way after being conquered.

Before this group of princes took up their fiefdoms, Zhu Yuanzhang gave them earnest instructions: You already have palaces that were once the imperial palaces of those countries. When you arrive at your fiefdoms, don't build large-scale projects that will waste people's money and labor.

But Zhu Tan refused to listen.

When he arrived at the fiefdom, the original palace in Annan could not satisfy him, so he built a palace outside the city so that he could play with his princess at any time.

As for beating people to death and injuring them, it is commonplace.

In addition, because Zhu Tan had lost his virility due to excessive physical exertion, he listened to some alchemists and believed that like cures like, so he came up with the idea of ​​using the penis of a young boy to treat the disease.

Zhu Tan had a group of boys around ten years old captured from his fiefdom and imprisoned them in his palace.

Some of these boys were not released until three or five days later, while others were directly castrated and became eunuchs.

He not only harassed the children of ordinary people, but also the children of military officers, and brought them to the palace in batches. Those who were lucky were released after a while. Those who were unlucky did not know what miserable experiences they had in the palace.

For a while, in the entire Annan fiefdom, it was almost to the point where just saying that a eunuch from the Annan Palace had arrived could stop a child from crying.

Moreover, in order to prevent the absurd things he did from reaching the ears of Zhu Yuanzhang in the capital, Zhu Tan imposed extremely cruel military control on his fiefdom. This is why even Yang Xian learned the news so late.

Therefore, as the whistleblower, Liu Shaofeng would naturally not have a good ending after being discovered. By the time Yang Xian's men found and rescued him, although his life was saved, his body had already been tortured beyond recognition.

Inside the Annan Palace.

"He just broke into the cell and took the person away like that?" Zhu Tan asked coldly while sitting on a high seat, looking at his staff below.

"It's Duke Yang who's here, and he has an imperial edict with him, so the people below can do nothing about it." The aide smiled and replied carefully.

Zhu Tan picked up the wine glass in his hand, then looked at it and it seemed that there was no wine.

Then, before the aide could react, the wine glass and the wine burst into his face.

"This is my fiefdom and I am the king here. Even though Yang Xian is a duke, he is ultimately just a dog of our Zhu family!" Zhu Tan said angrily, his face looking a little distorted due to anger.

After Yang Xian came to Annan Province, the series of things he did did not give him, the King of Annan, the slightest face, especially when he took people to rescue the traitor without his consent.

The aide was completely terrified. As someone who worked for Zhu Tan, he was well aware of the tyranny of his master. He could only kneel on the ground, lowering his head and trembling. He didn't even care that his forehead was broken and bleeding. (End of this chapter)