My father is Chongzhen? Then I have no choice but to rebel.

Chapter 68 The dead are sometimes more useful than the living!
Thinking back, Zhu Cilang looked at Li Ruolian again and asked:

"You said before that the fire Wang Er set didn't start and no one was injured, right?"

Li Ruo Lian nodded and replied:

"That's right! The fire was discovered and brought under control by the Royal Guards as soon as it started, so it didn't cause any substantial damage."

"wrong!"

When Zhu Cilang heard this, he shook his head.

Li Ruolian was slightly stunned. He didn't quite understand what Zhu Cilang meant.

Zhu Cilang then continued:

"What I know is that the fire started! Not only did it start, but it burned very big! And it killed many people! Do you understand?"

Looking at Zhu Cilang's half-smile, Li Ruolian suddenly understood!

The prince is trying to make things bigger!

Zhu Cilang looked at Li Ruolian, who seemed to understand immediately, and then continued:
"Send someone to set up a few piles of firewood in the open space inside the Daming Newspaper Office. The more vigorously the better! Pretend the fire is out of control!"

"Go to the charity cemetery outside the city and find a few corpses. Pretend they are Jinyiwei who were burned to death!"

"Also, don't tell anyone that Wang Er is dead! Just say that Wang Er is still alive and is being interrogated at the Northern Pacification Office!"

"Even though he's dead, the dead are sometimes more useful than the living! Do you understand?"

After hearing this, Li Ruolian felt cold sweat all over his body.

As a Jinyiwei, how could he not understand what Zhu Cilang meant?
This is obviously an attempt to make use of Wang Er's corpse!
He just didn't expect that the prince in front of him would be so "smart". He was so smart that he was a little scared.
If a living person wants to write an article, he needs to speak out and provide some evidence.

But if they're dead, then nothing is needed! Whatever the Jinyiwei says is what it is!
As for evidence, Jinyiwei is best at fabricating evidence.
Thinking of this, Li Ruolian hurriedly bowed and said:
"I understand!"

Gao Yushun and Fang Zhenghua now understood Zhu Cilang's meaning and hurriedly bowed and said:

"I understand!"

"I understand!"

Zhu Cilang nodded and continued:

"Also, today's Daming Daily is temporarily unavailable for sale. Wait for my notification!"

There's no other way, I have to act it out completely!
Since the fire of Daming Newspaper is to be started, the sale of Daming Daily must be postponed.

Otherwise this would be too fake!
In addition, it can also allow the people to accumulate their anger!
Who set fire to the Daming Newspaper?

Who wants to prevent them from knowing the court's measures and decrees?

Who has been fooling them with fake news?
It must be those civil servants!

In this way, public opinion can reach its peak!

When it comes to manipulating public opinion, Zhu Cilang will not lose to those civil servants!

After giving all the instructions, Zhu Cilang waved his hand:
"Get busy! Everything needs to be ready before the morning court!"

"I resign!"

"Slave, please leave!"

"Slave, please leave!"

When the three heard this, they bowed and left.

Everyone knew that this matter would not end so easily.

On the other hand, Luo Yangxing had already started arresting people overnight according to the list.

Countless officials and nobles had their homes broken into by the Jinyiwei in the middle of the night, and their family members and servants were arrested on the spot and taken to the imperial prison for trial.

Inside the Daming Newspaper, Li Ruolian directed the Jinyiwei to bring bundles of firewood, which they then set on fire in the yard of the Daming Newspaper.

In order to make the fire burn more fiercely, he asked someone to add kerosene.

In an instant, flames shot up into the sky, illuminating a large area of the city block!

Thick smoke even covered half of the capital city!
In addition, he also sent a team of people out of the city overnight to find the corpse that Zhu Cilang wanted to use.

Gao Yushun and Fang Zhenghua were also busy. They prepared evidence in advance for everyone involved in this incident so that Zhu Cilang could use it at any time.

It is hard to tell what is true and what is false even if I see it myself.

Don't ask why!

That's what they do!

The scene at the Daming Newspaper soon attracted the attention of some officials.

After all, the court session in the Ming Dynasty was generally around six in the morning, and those officials who needed to attend court had to get up at about four or five o'clock.

Zhou House.

Zhou Yanru smelled a strange smell as soon as he got up.

He frowned and shouted towards the door:
"What happened? Is the mansion on fire?"

When the servant at the door heard this, he hurried in and reported:

"My Lord, there's no fire in the mansion, but it looks like there's a big fire somewhere in the capital! There's thick smoke outside, and the fire is pretty big!"

what?
When Zhou Yanru heard this, his brows frowned even deeper.

"Do you know where the fire is?"

"I don't know. We're still under curfew, so I can't go out and find out what's going on."

The servant replied.

Zhou Yanru did not continue to ask because he felt that it had nothing to do with him.

It's just a fire, what's the big deal?

Anyway, he didn't set the fire!
At the same time, in the command center of the Five Cities Army, all the officials on duty were terrified.

The Wucheng Bingmasi was responsible for maintaining public security in the capital, cleaning streets, managing prisoners, and preventing fires.

Fires were always their responsibility! So when they noticed the fire in the capital, the officials on duty rushed out without even having time to get dressed, urgently gathering people to put out the fire.

If the fire gets out of control, they will be severely punished!

However, before they reached the scene of the fire, they were stopped by the Jinyiwei sent by Li Ruolian.

"This matter is temporarily under the control of the Jinyiwei. You all do not need to interfere. Please return!"

The leading Jinyiwei bowed.

When the officer on duty heard this, he knew that this matter was serious, because if it was just an ordinary fire, the Jinyiwei would not take action.

It is obvious that there must be something hidden behind this fire, and it may have alarmed the emperor.

Although the officials on duty were afraid, they did not dare to leave rashly for fear of being accused of dereliction of duty.

So they started to help the Jinyiwei to guard the surroundings.

The Jinyiwei did not drive them away when they saw this, as long as they did not cause trouble.

However, looking at the flames blazing in the Daming Newspaper behind them, the officials of the Wucheng Bingmasi felt as if they had fallen into an ice cellar.

You should know that the Daming Newspaper is currently in the limelight. It can almost be said that it is famous in the capital and attracts much attention!

What’s more, the imperial court and the emperor are behind the Daming Newspaper!

But some people dared to set fire to the Daming Newspaper, which was undoubtedly a provocation to the court and the emperor.

Everyone knew that this fire would set off another bloody storm.
The Jinyiwei's efficiency was still very high. After only half an hour, the Jinyiwei had found the person who poisoned Wang Er!

This man's name was Wang Zhong, and he was the steward of Tian Youlin, the Right Vice Minister of the Ministry of Revenue.

In other words, the mastermind behind this incident is Tian Youlin, the Right Vice Minister of the Ministry of Revenue!
According to Wang Zhong's confession, Tian Youlin hated the Daming Daily so much that he ordered his servants to buy it every day and use it as toilet paper.

Two days ago, Tian Youlin suddenly asked Wang Zhong to find out where the desperado was.

By chance, Wang Zhong heard that there were desperate criminals lurking around the ruined temple, and unexpectedly got a way to make them do things.

So Wang Zhong took the money given by Tian Youlin and went there, hoping to find someone to do the job.

However, Tian Youlin was afraid that the matter would be exposed, so he asked Wang Zhong to buy some arsenic and poison the silver.

The purpose is to kill and silence the witness!
Then, the following things happened.

In this way, the Jinyiwei quickly delivered the evidence to Luo Yangxing.

After getting the evidence, Luo Yangxing still frowned.

It seems like this matter is done, but it is not!
Because the people the prince instructed are not there.

But it doesn’t matter, he just added it himself!

After a while, Luo Yangxing left the imperial prison satisfied.

At the same time, the sky was already getting light, and officials began to gather at the palace gate to prepare for the morning court session.

But the atmosphere today was clearly not right. All the officials lined up in silence, and some even looked dazed.

It’s not their fault. After all, when they came, they saw the blazing fire in the direction of the Daming Newspaper.

Although I'm not sure if it was the Daming Newspaper that burned down, judging from the direction, it's basically the same.

What was even more terrible was that just now, many of them had their homes broken into by the Jinyiwei, who then took away their servants and slaves without explanation.

This reminded many people of the time when the nobles had their homes confiscated.

For a moment, everyone was in panic.

"Lord Zhou, Lord Zhou!"

At this moment, Zhou Yanru, who was standing at the front, heard someone calling his name.

Looking back, he saw Zhang Sizhi running towards him in a hurry, his face full of anxiety.

"What's wrong with you?"

Zhou Yanru asked with a puzzled look on his face.

Zhang Sizhi walked up to him and said nervously:
"Just now, the Jinyiwei suddenly broke into my house and took away one of my servants. Do you know what happened?"

Before Zhou Yanru could answer, an official behind him spoke up:

"It happened to my family too. This morning, the Jinyiwei suddenly broke in and took my housekeeper away."

"When asked what they were doing, they wouldn't tell me!"

"Me too!"

"Me too!"

Suddenly, more people around echoed.

This made Zhou Yanru feel incredible. Although he didn't know the reason, a terrible thought arose in his mind the next second.

Then he asked in a low voice:

"Wait, you guys weren't the ones who started the fire tonight?"

When they heard this, their faces changed drastically and they quickly shook their heads in denial:

"Lord Zhou, stop joking. How dare we do such a thing?"

"That's right, but it's a capital crime, and we don't even dare to think about it!"

"Don't say that, it could kill someone!"

Seeing the frightened faces of the people in front of him, Zhou Yanru felt that these people did not have such courage.

Because these people are his acquaintances, and based on his understanding of them, they should not do such extreme things.

"Since you didn't do it, then relax! His Majesty won't wrongly accuse you!"

Zhou Yanru advised.

However, such consolation was of no use, and the officials were still scared to death.
(End of this chapter)