Ming Dynasty: pacifying the rebellion and defending the border, dominating the world

Chapter 179 Zhu Jinzhen arrives in person, things get out of control

Self-defeating?

Zhu Wusi suddenly had a bad premonition in his heart.

"What do you mean?"

"The emperor means that you have paved a dead end for yourself."

A sudden sound, without any warning, exploded in everyone's ears.

Everyone in the hall was horrified.

Zhu Wusi suddenly turned around and saw a young man wearing black brocade clothes. He had calm eyes, a handsome face, and was surrounded by a thin cloud of gauze. He was not a trace of worldly worldly. He was looking at them with a faint smile on his face.

The warm morning breeze seemed to have stopped blowing at this moment.

Zhu Houzhao, Zhu Wusi, Yang Yanhe, Li Dongyang, the Queen Mother and all the others stared in amazement at the young man who looked like a banished immortal, as if he had walked out of a painting.

He stood tall, his clothes white as snow, his face handsome and his aura unparalleled. It seemed as if all the praise in the world could not describe him in the slightest, he was truly so extraordinary and extraordinary.

There are many handsome men and beautiful women in this world, but there is only one who can capture their hearts and minds.

There is only Zhu Jinzhen.

"Why is he here?" Zhu Wusi's pupils shrank into pinholes, his heart was pounding, and a look of fear flashed across his face. What made him even more desperate was the scene behind Zhu Jinzhen, the figures of those Tiance soldiers who could not be ignored.

Before entering the palace, he confirmed it several times.

The troops of Prince Su's Palace had not been mobilized, so how come Zhu Jinzhen appeared in the palace in the blink of an eye?

Also, are the Imperial Guards and Embroidered Uniform Guards outside all dead?
Zhu Wusi roared inwardly with rage, venting his fear, but he didn't dare show it on his face.

"Prince Su Zhu Jinzhen?"

The two old foxes, Yang Yanhe and Li Dongyang, as well as the cabinet elders beside them, all had their pupils shocked.

They had all seen the young prince who came to Beijing to be conferred the title that year.

I never expected that our next meeting would be in such an occasion.

"What a fake palace coup."

Zhu Jinzhen walked in casually, as if this was not the most prestigious place in the world, but a teahouse on the roadside. He walked past the people whose faces changed drastically and sat in Zhu Houzhao's seat.

"My arrival won't affect your performance, right?"

"Keep going!"

After hearing Zhu Jinzhen's words, the faces of the people present changed again and again, as if they had eaten something stupid.

Do you think this is a monkey show?

Continue? Zhu Jinzhen has already come in person, can we still proceed?
"Your Highness, Prince Su, pays homage to His Majesty."

Li Dongyang and Yang Yanhe bowed almost at the same time.

"I dare not, I dare not." Zhu Jinzhen waved his hand with a playful expression and sneered, "Two elders, even the emperor dares to pass himself off as the emperor and manipulate the sacred artifacts of the country. How dare I, a mere prince, accept such a great gift?"

As soon as these words were spoken, Yang Yanhe and Li Dongyang were choked.

I want to refute, but I don’t know how to say it.

Are they saying that they are not trying to seize the sacred artifacts of the country, nor are they trying to manipulate the succession of the Ming Dynasty throne?
That also depends on Zhu Jinzhenxin.

At this moment, a senior minister in the cabinet said in a deep voice, "Prince Su, Taizu established the ancestral precepts when he founded the country: no one may leave their fiefdom without an imperial decree. Do you have an imperial decree with you? Also, this is the Palace of Heavenly Purity, in the presence of His Majesty and the Empress Dowager. You are so disrespectful to them. Aren't you afraid that we will report you for deceiving the emperor?"

Zhu Jinzhen looked at Zhu Houzhao, Li Dongyang and others with some doubt: "Who is this?"

"Cabinet Minister Yang Ji." Zhu Houzhao replied.

"Oh!" Zhu Jinzhen pretended to be surprised, but still looked confused. "You were just forcing the emperor to abdicate, deposing the new emperor, and mixing up the real with the fake, right? Your Majesty? Which one? Is it the one in front of me, the one you've already agreed to depose, or the imposter over there?"

As for the Queen Mother?

Zhu Jinzhen doesn’t even have the emperor in his eyes, so how could he see an old woman?
"You..." Yang Ji pointed at Zhu Jinzhen, trembling with anger, puffing his beard and glaring: "I, we are the ones who are responsible for the country, how could we be a traitor like you who covets the country..." "Crack!"

With a flash of sharp knife light, Yang Ji's hand pointing at Zhu Jinzhen was instantly cut off.

"Ah~!" Yang Ji reacted and fell to the ground screaming in pain, covering his broken arm that was bleeding profusely.

"I really should learn to reflect on myself."

"You dare any cat or dog to prance around in front of me? Do you really think I'm too easy to talk to?" Zhu Jinzhen glanced at him and feigned dissatisfaction at Yang Ning, who was accompanying him. "Your hands have been chopped off, why are you still standing there? Drag him out and chop him into pieces to feed the dogs."

"Yes."

Yang Ning waved his hand with a cold expression, and an accompanying Tian Ce soldier immediately stepped forward and grabbed Yang Ning's neck, turning all his screams into whimpers, and then walked out step by step.

"Wait!"

Zhu Jinzhen suddenly called out, not because he was soft-hearted, but because...

He looked at Zhu Wusi, whose face had turned pale and whose body was shaking uncontrollably. "The Divine Marquis has been in charge of the Hulong Villa for many years. Do you remember the Ming Dynasty law? What is the punishment for treason?"

Zhu Wusi's body shuddered violently. He raised his head and met Zhu Jinzhen's calm eyes, his face trembling. "Treason is a capital crime. The principal offender and his accomplices will be executed by slow slicing, and... their entire clan will be exterminated."

As the voice fell, Zhu Wusi seemed to have been drained of all his strength.

Li Dongyang, Yang Yanhe and others had the same reaction.

The chief minister of the cabinet, who used to be powerful and influential in the court, has now become as weak as a puddle of mud.

Zhu Jinzhen nodded in satisfaction upon hearing this, and smiled as he looked at the Tiance soldier who was dragging Yang Ji out: "Did you hear that?"

"Yes, Your Highness."

"Yang Ji is a traitor and a traitor. He deserves death by slicing and the extermination of his entire clan!"

How could that Tiance soldier not understand?
Yang Ning, with his eyes bulging and even forgetting to scream and breathe, strode out of the Qianqing Palace. This was a merit that came to him, and they, the Tiance brothers, were so eager to improve.

Only after he was out of sight did Zhu Jinzhen's face return to a faint smile. "Actually, I didn't want to come, but who made you jump like that? Rumors of treason are still swirling in the capital, and you're just trying to pin the blame on me, convincing me that I've been plotting rebellion for a long time and that I was the mastermind behind the creation of a false emperor."

"Furthermore, the Imperial Decree to pacify the rebellion was an agreement reached between me and the Emperor. Who are you to presume to make such assumptions and even want to take back the Imperial Decree from me?"

"Where do you think I am with your actions? It really makes me feel disheartened!"

Zhu Jinzhen looked heartbroken, as if he had suffered a great injustice.

Several people in the Qianqing Palace trembled and wanted to roll their eyes, but were afraid of angering Zhu Jinzhen. Some dared not speak out.

On the contrary, Zhu Houzhao's lips kept rising and he kept laughing in his heart. A group of traitors met the biggest rebel leader of the Ming Dynasty. Did they finally understand how he was treated before?

Should!
The depression that was stuck in my heart suddenly dissipated a lot, and I wanted to laugh out loud.

I would like to say to Zhu Wusi and the ministers in the cabinet, why do you deserve this day?

Fortunately, Zhu Houzhao still had some rationality. He understood that although the main venue was in the Qianqing Palace, he was no longer the protagonist. He could only try his best to suppress the corners of his mouth, which he could not suppress at all, and watch the show from the side.

At this time, Zhu Jinzhen looked at Zhu Wusi, who was standing aside with his lips turned pale. "Oh, by the way, Lord Shenhou, kneel down. I have some questions for you."

He, Zhu Wusi, was the Iron-hearted Marquis and the emperor's uncle.

He is only half a step away from reaching the emperor's supreme throne.

Make him kneel down?
"Crack!"

Just as Zhu Wusi was stunned, accompanied by a "bang", Zhu Wusi's legs were broken and he knelt in front of Zhu Jinzhen with blood all over his body.

Immediately afterwards, Zhu Wusi's screams like a pig being slaughtered were heard in the Qianqing Palace.

Zhu Jinzhen turned a deaf ear to him, and ignored the resentful look in Zhu Wusi's eyes: "Goddess, you didn't take my warning that day to heart at all?"

"Hmph." Zhu Wusi groaned, circulating his Qi to seal the major acupoints around his body, forcibly suppressing the pain. Then, with a pale face, he raised his head in embarrassment and replied, "If I don't fight, I will be nothing but fish under your knife in the future. So I might as well give it a try."

"Besides, doesn't Prince Su want to know the truth?"

(End of this chapter)