My father Yongle, building a five-good family

Chapter 119: Demoted to a commoner and exiled to Qiongzhou

Zhu Youjie is basically useless.

When Zhu Yunwen heard the conversation between Prince of Yan and his youngest son, he wanted to roast Zhu Youjie over the fire.

He couldn't help but glance at Zhu Youjie who was kneeling in the hall, and cursed him in his heart as a waste.

Being disloyal and unrighteous would be fine, but the key is that he wanted to be a hero, but he lacked the wisdom and strategy of a hero. In the end, he ended up betraying Zhu Yunwen.

Although Zhu Yunwen seemed calm on the surface, he actually hated Zhu Youjie to the core.

If this guy hadn't shown up so rashly, would he be in such an embarrassing situation now?

After thinking about it, Zhu Yunwen's eyes gradually turned cold:

"Zhu Youjie's behavior is perverse, contrary to human ethics, immoral, and he framed the princes and the crown prince of the court. This is truly a heinous crime and his crime is unforgivable."

"In order to uphold the law of the land, I am demoted to a commoner and exiled to Qiongzhou."

After the decree came down, Zhu Youjie knelt on the ground, his eyes were empty and lifeless, as if all his strength had been drained. For a moment, his lips moved as if he wanted to say something, but in the end, he closed his mouth tremblingly.

King Zhou looked indifferent.

As early as when Zhu Youjie took out the secret letter, the father-son relationship between him and Zhu Youjie was completely severed.

Zhu Gaoyu was still peeking around.

If he remembered correctly.

Speaking of settling the accounts, there is still one person who has not been liquidated.

Finally, after looking around for a while, Zhu Gaoyu's gaze fell on Ge Cheng.

Ge Cheng turned his head and happened to meet Zhu Gaoyu's eyes. After seeing the smile on Zhu Gaoyu's face, he shuddered suddenly and felt as if a disaster was about to happen.

Sure enough, the next moment, before Prince Yan opened his mouth, Zhu Gaoyu, the petty-minded guy, started talking again.

He pretended to be surprised, his dark eyes widened:

"Ge Cheng? Why are you here? Aren't you the chief official of the Prince of Yan's mansion? Why did you come into the palace?"

As he spoke, Zhu Gaoyu frowned slightly and pulled Zhu Di's sleeve:
"Dad, why is Chief Clerk Ge Cheng coming to the palace? It seems that he arrived before us..."

Zhu Di and Zhu Gaoyu are indeed father and son.

Although Zhu Gaoyu was young, he already showed signs of being thick-faced and black-hearted.

As his biological father, Zhu Di was naturally far superior to Zhu Gaoyu in the art of being thick-skinned.

Even compared with the two, it can be said that the big one is compared with the small one.

I only heard Zhu Di speak:
"The Prince of Yan's Mansion serves the imperial court, and Ge Cheng is now also helping the imperial court by removing treacherous officials. He is also serving the court. Gao Yu, you should be happy."

After a pause, he continued:
"Gao Yu, don't think that this is a stab in the back, or a betrayal, or selling out for fame... Everything that Ge Cheng Changshi did was painstaking..."

At the end, Ge Cheng almost knelt down before the King of Yan.

Please!
If we continue to "excuse" him like this, even if Ge Cheng is right, it will become unreasonable.

The key is that Zhu Gaoyu and his son, one plays the good guy and the other plays the bad guy.

After Zhu Di finished speaking, Zhu Gaoyu still seemed a little confused:

"But Chief Clerk Ge Cheng is from the Prince of Yan's Palace. He has come to complain before he has fully understood the matter. Doesn't this mean that he has long had a rebellious heart?"

"At the same time, he is not doing this for the imperial court, but just wants to get promoted and make money."

Zhu Gaoyu raised his head and asked in confusion:
"Dad, such a traitor who only wants fame and fortune can betray his old master for the sake of profit. Can the new master be completely confident in him in the future?"

Zhu Gaoyu's last words were truly heartbreaking.

Not only Ge Cheng, but even Zhu Yunwen felt a chill in his heart.

Who knows whether Ge Cheng came here today for Zhu Yunwen and the court, or simply for wealth and glory?
Fortunately, Ge Cheng is just a minor character.

Zhu Yunwen even demoted his cousins ​​to commoners, so he wouldn't be a big problem now.

After considering for a moment, Zhu Yunwen slowly spoke:
"Ge Cheng, the Chief Clerk of the Prince of Yan's Palace, should have performed his duties conscientiously, been loyal to the emperor and loved the people. However, during your tenure, you had evil thoughts and were rebellious and rebellious. I will now demote you to a commoner to rectify the government, and you must not make any mistakes."

When Ge Cheng heard this decree, he felt a chill in his heart.

It would be fine if I was demoted to a commoner.

There are ups and downs in the officialdom.

Even if you are demoted today, you may rise again in the future.

But what really chilled Ge Cheng was that... Zhu Yunwen actually suspected him.

Without the trust of the new monarch, he had offended King Yan, and King Yan didn't even have to take action himself.

The people in Yingtian Prefecture would naturally treat Ge Cheng differently and make sure that Ge Cheng would never have a chance to turn things around.

In addition, Ge Cheng has made many enemies...

Ge Cheng seemed to be able to imagine the difficult days that he would be facing after today.

What happened today has become a farce.

Qi Tai stood aside and saw Zhu Yunwen let the Prince of Yan and the Prince of Zhou leave like that. He opened his mouth, as if he wanted to say something but stopped, looking extremely anxious.

As soon as Zhu Di and his companions stepped out of the palace gate, Qi Tai couldn't help but whispered:
"Your Highness, why don't you go with the flow and keep the King of Yan and the King of Zhou? Who can tell right from wrong and true from false after a hundred years? Now is truly a godsend opportunity!"

Zhu Yunwen had always trusted Qi Tai, but after hearing Qi Tai's words and comparing them with what Fang Xiaoru had said before, "cultivating Confucianism and cultivating literature" and "governing the world with culture", the balance in his heart tilted towards Fang Xiaoru's direction.

He thought for a moment, then frowned:
"My dear Qi, please don't say that. As the emperor, I should use my great power to suppress the people and handle government affairs with benevolence and virtue."

"What's more, with Duke Cao and all of you here, we are better than thousands of troops and horses. With Zhuge Kongming assisting us, what is there to fear?"

"The reduction of vassal states will continue, but now is not the time."

After these words were spoken, Qi Tai's brows relaxed, but for some reason, he still felt a little uneasy in his heart.

Today's matter is over, and the kings have returned to their fiefdoms. He always feels like a fish in the sea, a bird in the sky, and he is not bound by a cage!
Just looking at Zhu Yunwen and others who were getting along well with each other as emperor and his subjects, Qi Tai kept telling himself in his heart that the overall situation was on their side.

Zhu Yunwen was the new emperor who succeeded to the throne in the orthodox way.

Since ancient times, rebellion and treason have been a matter of putting one's head on the belt, but how many of them can ultimately succeed?
……

When walking out of the palace gate.

Qin Yun seemed to have heard some noise and turned his head to look at the person who came.

However, to his surprise, the Prince of Yan and his entourage left in the same clean and tidy manner as when they came. They were not in a mess at all and even gave him a sense of calmness and ease.

On the other hand, Ge Cheng and Zhu Youjie were crying bitterly, with their arms held up as they were dragged out by the eunuchs on their left and right, like a dead dog.

Qin Yun stared at this scene in a daze, and subconsciously raised his eyes to look at the King of Yan who was walking away.

Prince of Yan Zhu Di seemed to sense something and turned around.

He looked at Qin Yun, their eyes met, and Zhu Di smiled.

When Qin Yun saw this, he felt the hairs on his back stand up, as if he was being stared at by a ferocious beast or bird of prey.

he knows.

The King of Yan remembered him.

……

Leave the palace.

The sound of horse-drawn carriages clattered along the street.

After Zhu Di returned to Prince Yan's Mansion, the smile on his face disappeared at some point, and instead became somewhat mysterious.

He sent Zhu Gaoyu away, walked around the eaves of the corridor, and came to the courtyard where Monk Daoyan was.

Seeing Monk Daoyan clearing the snow, Zhu Di stood in front of him with a serious look in his eyes:

"Master, there are no honest officials in the court, and there are treacherous people in the court. We must train soldiers to fight against them and eliminate the evil around the emperor."

When Yao Guangxiao heard this, the broom in his hand fell to the ground. He raised his head and looked at Zhu Di with squinted eyes.

I don’t know if it was a coincidence or not, but after Zhu Di said this, the originally gloomy sky suddenly cleared up, revealing a little blue sky, and the light illuminated the earth from top to bottom.

Yao Guangxiao first chuckled, then laughed out loud, until finally, he threw his head back and laughed wildly.

After several dozen breaths, Yao Guangxiao calmed down and looked happy, with a smile on his face:

"Since Your Highness has such great ambitions, I am willing to gamble my life with Your Highness for the throne of the emperor."

Zhu Di's brows were full of sharpness at this moment:
"Starting today, we will leave for Peking."

"Then the safety of the prince, His Highness, and others in the capital..."

Zhu Di and Yao Guangxiao looked at each other, and the next moment, they said in unison:
"The Great Ming Unified Map!"

……

As the deadline for the princes to leave Beijing drew closer, Zhu Gaoyu did not just sit there and wait.

He found an old acquaintance.

Sudan.

"Prince...you haven't come to see me these days, I thought you had forgotten me..."

The Sultan's tone was resentful.

At first glance, it sounds like a woman in the boudoir who is resentful.

But Zhu Gaoyu had no idea about him.

This guy smelled of cumin, and sometimes when Zhu Gaoyu got close to him, he couldn't help but want to sneeze.

He jumped up, slapped the Sultan's thigh, and started talking again:
"Sultan, do you want to be an official?"

Hearing this, the Sultan's expression became even more resentful.

"If I remember correctly, before the prince came to Jinling, he told me that I would be an official. What happened?"

So much resentment.

Zhu Gaoyu touched his arm, and the smile on his face became a little brighter, showing his little white teeth:
"Sultan, you are not from our Ming Dynasty, so you naturally don't know the principle that a new emperor appoints new ministers. But I have a way to guarantee that you will become an official."

This man from the Western Regions is also a fan of officials.

The Sultan hesitated for a while, but finally couldn't help being fooled by Zhu Gaoyu.

In fact, everyone knows now that he is a foreigner brought here by Zhu Gaoyu, and a real member of the Prince of Yan faction.

If he doesn't follow Zhu Gaoyu to cause trouble, what other options does he have?

Sudan looks a little silly, but he is not really stupid.

Seeing that the Sultan agreed, Zhu Gaoyu whispered for a while.

The Sultan's eyes became strange.

"You want me to make cannons again? And matchlock guns? You don't want to..."

Zhu Gaoyu's smile was pure and harmless:

"Sultan, you must remember that the Prince of Yan's Mansion is your greatest support in the Ming Dynasty. Besides us, who can you trust? The new emperor? Even if you trust him, will he trust you like we do?"

The Sultan looked at Zhu Gaoyu deeply, and then let out a long breath.

He said with some venting of anger:

"I'd rather have never met you! Has anyone ever told you that sometimes you don't act like a child at all!"

Finished today, see you tomorrow! ^_^
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(End of this chapter)