Daming: I am the most powerful emperor grandson, please abdicate the throne

Those who dare to cheat in the imperial examinations are basically not good people.

Even if they have a little confidence in themselves and some ability, they would not do this. This is the first time they were caught cheating in the capital. It is certain that they have done it more than once and may have been cheating all the time.

I definitely did this a lot when taking local exams.

It is inevitable to check the local area.

"Now that we have evidence, we have arrested those who should be arrested. Don't be lenient. The prerequisite is that those who are arrested must have evidence and proof."

Zhu Xuan urged, "Bring the evidence and arrest people. Even if something unexpected happens, if someone makes trouble or opposes your Jinyiwei, I can help you suppress it. I don't care about the previous way of doing things, but what I want now is that everything is done according to the rules. Bring the evidence and arrest people. Of course, in special cases, special means are needed. You have asked me for instructions, so it's okay."

"Yes!"

Hearing this, Jiang Li responded.

In fact, he could clearly feel that His Highness and His Majesty had completely different attitudes towards the Embroidered Uniform Guards.

That’s because Zhu Xuan knew that the Jinyiwei would get out of control in the future and become a historical criticism, so they had to be corrected and not allowed to grow wildly.

Zhu Xuan had actually considered the Western Factory, which was similar to the Embroidered Uniform Guard, but he had never made up his mind, and perhaps it would not be needed for the time being.

However, Jiang Li thought of another problem and asked, "If... I mean if, there is an emergency that requires some covert means, and there is no time to inform Your Highness, what should I do?"

Zhu Xuan thought about this question and said, "When you act, record everything. As long as the result is correct, it doesn't matter!"

"Thank you, Your Highness!"

Jiang Li breathed a sigh of relief.

When they are the Jinyiwei, conventional means are of little use. When necessary, they have to use unconventional means.

Since Zhu Xuan can still relax his authority, this is actually not a bad thing.

"continue!"

Zhu Xuan said again.

"As for the candidates' registered residence, our investigation is ongoing. It is actually very easy to check. All the evidence is available. It's easy to get rid of the dirt."

Jiang Li continued, "But in terms of retrospective investigation, it is often difficult to investigate after a long time! In addition, we are now alerting the enemy, and many officials with problems will be on guard in advance and destroy evidence, etc."

You must know that the retrospective investigation was requested by His Majesty.

Jiang Li was worried that he might not do a good job and cause Zhu Yuanzhang's dissatisfaction, and thus he would not be reused.

Zhu Xuan sighed, "It is indeed difficult to trace back a matter."

Hearing that His Highness could understand, Jiang Li breathed a sigh of relief.

"Your Highness!"

“It’s actually difficult, but not very difficult.”

"As long as we can catch one person, we can pry open his mouth and follow the clues to investigate. But we, the Jinyiwei, have already caught some people and interrogated them."

"But, they are not."

"We couldn't find any evidence and couldn't confirm whether he was involved in cheating, so we had to let him go in the end."

Jiang Wei said.

Zhu Xuan had heard about this matter.

Jiang Li had said before that he had arrested some people, but it turned out that those people were not real people.

Zhu Xuan thought for a moment and said, "You can start with the King of Chu."

"King Chu?"

Jiang Lin had never dared to touch upon Zhu Zhen's affairs. After all, he was a vassal king and a prince, and he was afraid of any accidents.

However, Zhu Xuan's words implied that he could do so.

"Excuse me, Your Highness, may I?"

Jiang Li asked cautiously.

Zhu Xuan said: "Don't touch the King of Chu, but investigate the people related to him. He must have connections in the court. Follow this and investigate, but be careful not to let the emperor know." "I understand!"

Jiang Li secretly breathed a sigh of relief, finally finding the direction, but asked again: "What about the White Lotus Sect?"

Zhu Xuan said: "Let's pretend to check. The most important thing for us now is fishing. Don't let the White Lotus find out anything."

"Yes!"

Jiang Wei responded.

After confirming these things, he stepped back.

Zhu Xuan watched Jiang Li leave, then thought back to the entire imperial examination process, muttering to himself, "Although there were some twists and turns, it finally went smoothly!"

If it goes smoothly, that's it!
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Prince Heng's Mansion.

Zhu Yunwen went to Japan to be a fief, and now only Zhu Yunxi is left in the entire palace. Without his third brother, Zhu Yunxi is in a bad mood.

In fact, Zhong Shaoyuan’s mood was not much better.

Because the Jinyiwei were investigating the White Lotus Sect, Zhong Shaoyuan was so scared that he dared not go out. He also received news that the White Lotus Sect was involved in cheating in the imperial examinations.

This made Zhong Shaoyuan completely confused. When did the imperial examination cheating happen? He actually didn't know anything about it. No one had ever told him about it. He was really confused.

In addition, he had asked many members of the White Lotus Sect who were hiding in the capital, and they all shook their heads and said they didn't know about it.

The other members of the White Lotus Sect were now confused, wondering when exactly they were going to cheat.

The Ming King has never issued a similar task. Without a task, it is impossible for them to do anything else because it would easily expose themselves.

"Your Highness, are you sure you didn't?"

Since it was impossible for a member of the White Lotus Sect to do such a thing, Zhong Shaoyuan cast his suspicious eyes on Zhu Yunxi.

You should know that this person is the one who has the closest contact with the White Lotus Sect outside of the White Lotus Sect.

"no!"

Zhu Yunxi said: "I have said it many times, I have never done this, but you just don't believe it."

He had a somewhat bad temper, mainly because Zhu Yunwen was very unhappy and in a bad mood because he went to Japan to be a vassal.

When Zhong Shaoyuan asked him again, his unhappy mood burst out and he even scolded Zhong Shaoyuan.

Zhong Shaoyuan: “…”

"If it's not you, there can't be anyone else. This shouldn't be the case!"

Zhong Shaoyuan talked to himself.

He had no idea that he was being blamed, but he was very worried that the Jinyiwei would take this opportunity to find out where they were.

It is very likely that I will fail completely again, or even die here.

Zhong Shaoyuan was having a headache now, but he also said, "Your Highness, I think too much, but cheating is not a good thing when it involves our White Lotus Sect."

"If it's not good, it's not good."

Zhu Yunxi said nonchalantly: "It has nothing to do with me."

Zhong Shaoyuan sighed and felt that he couldn't communicate normally with Zhu Yunxi at the moment, so he had to ignore Zhu Yunxi for the time being.

He hesitated for a moment, but decided to take the risk and go out to see if the widow had received any news.

You have to know that the widow has been outside all the time, and she has relatively wide channels of information.

Although the news from all walks of life in the market cannot be made public, it is still very useful at certain times.

At the same time, the person who wanted to find the widow and Zhao Yunsheng, their feelings for each other continued to deepen.

Zhao Yunsheng knew that he had successfully joined the White Lotus Sect, but he was still only a junior believer and had not yet been able to infiltrate the core of the White Lotus Sect. He still needed to work harder. (End of this chapter)