Ming Dynasty: Tanks blocked the door and you said to me, "Long live Ming Dynasty"

"You can do whatever you want, but remember, there must be a bottom line for everything."

When Sun Kangwang saw that his proposal was accepted, he bowed hurriedly.

Zhu Youxiao did not go to meet those scholars. He just stood on the palace wall, watched from afar for a while, and then went back.

A bunch of idiots who don't even know their own names after being provoked a few times, it would be mercy if we don't send them back home with a big stick.

Thinking of this, he explained to Sun Kangwang again.

"Collect all the information of those scholars, and do not recruit any of them within three years!"

"I have noted it down."

It was already noon when I returned to the harem, and Liu Yue brought the medicine on time.

After drinking it for nearly half a month, Zhu Youxiao felt that his physical condition was much better than before.

The other things are not so obvious, the most obvious one is that you won’t lose control when you feel sleepy.

But when he asked whether he could sleep with the concubine, Liu Yue still blushed and shook her head repeatedly.

According to her, this situation needs to be persisted for another half a month.

In the evening, Sun Kangwang came to report that all the scholars kneeling outside the palace had dispersed, and two of them were even carried back. Their knees were so rotten from kneeling that they could not even walk.

The next morning, Zhu Youxiao had just given the order to return to Beijing when he saw Zheng Zhihu coming to him in a hurry.

"Your Majesty, something happened!"

"A huge fire broke out in the Min family last night. All 33 members of the Min family, including Min Hongxue, were burned to death!"

Zhu Youxiao's eyes widened immediately: "What's going on? Have you found out how the fire started?"

The Min family was such a big family with dozens of people. If the fire was really an accidental one, it would be impossible for all of them to be burned to death inside.

This is not a high-rise building in later generations. Even if there is a fire, there is enough time to escape!

Zheng Zhihu knelt down directly, with a hint of panic in his expression.

"In reply to your Majesty, we can only confirm that someone threw a torch in and sealed the gate from the outside."

"Your Majesty, I hope to kill him, but I will not do it this way."

"Your Majesty, this is none of my business!"

Zhu Youxiao glared at him angrily: "I didn't say it was you who did it, why are you panicking!"

"Lead the way, let's go to the Min family!"

The entire family of the Left Vice-Minister of the Imperial Censorate was burned to death, which forced him to put his plan to return to the capital on hold.

Zheng Zhihu stood up and secretly wiped the sweat from his forehead.

It wasn't him who started the fire of Min Hongxue!

Although he wanted to kill Min Hongxue, he also wanted to follow the rules of the Jinyiwei and look for evidence first. If he couldn't find any, he could frame him. There was no need to do it so blatantly.

Zhu Youxiao also understood this, so he did not suspect him.

Such a big incident shocked the whole city of Nanjing.

The street where the Min family lived was already crowded with people who came to watch the fun.

The Nanjing garrison, Huaiyuan Hou Chang Yinxu, led his troops to keep the people out.

Sun Kangwang led the Jinyiwei to search carefully for clues in the ruins of the Min family.

The once good house had now become a ruin, with white smoke still emitting from the collapsed beams. The ground was covered with water stains from the fire, mixed with charcoal ash, and your shoes would get dirty if you stepped on them.

Rows of corpses filled the street outside the Min family's house, and several coroners in white linen clothes were examining the corpses.

Upon learning that Zhu Youxiao had arrived, Sun Kangwang and Chang Yinxu hurried over to pay their respects.

Zhu Youxiao looked at the ruins in front of him, frowned and asked, "Have you found out anything?"

The Left Vice-Minister-General was a third-rank official, equivalent to a vice-ministerial official in later generations.

Therefore, this matter must be thoroughly investigated!

Chapter 190 Wall Silver

The fire started at the hour of Yin, which is around four in the morning.

At this time, people were sleeping the deepest, and the Min family and the neighbors on both sides of the Min family did not notice anything wrong.

It was not until the night patrol soldiers saw a red light coming on that they rushed over to check. They immediately reported the news to Chang Yinxu and organized people to put out the fire.

But most of the houses at that time were made of brick and wood, and the winter was dry, so how could a fire be easily extinguished?

Even more unfortunate was that the Min family's servants were very hardworking. Although there were several snowfalls before the New Year, not a single bit of snow accumulated on the roof of the Min family's house!

There were three courtyards and dozens of rooms. By the time they had completely put out the fire, it was already the beginning of the morning hour, and an hour and a half had passed since they discovered the fire!

The fire was put out, but the Min family's house was already in ruins, and only thirty-three charred bodies were carried out from inside.

Neighbors on both sides of the Min family were not spared and large areas of their houses were burned. Fortunately, there were no casualties.

In this case, the Jinyiwei only found traces of burning torches in the ruins of the Min family's firewood room and determined that someone had set the fire in the middle of the night, but they were unable to find the arsonist.

It was late at night and there were no cameras, so it was difficult to find a witness.

Just after Chang Yinxu finished speaking, he saw Zhen Beiwang jogging: "Your Majesty, we have found something in the backyard."

Under his leadership, everyone stepped on the black ash on the ground and came to the backyard of the Min family.

As soon as he arrived here, Zhu Youxiao saw something unusual.

I saw silver light flashing in some places among the burnt black walls.

"Smash it open!"

A group of Jinyiwei found tools and started smashing the walls.

After the bricks and stones were broken and peeled off, the contents inside were exposed to everyone.

Those were walls made of silver on all four sides!

Perhaps these silver pieces were originally just sandwiched in the wall, but with the fire last night, they were melted and solidified together by the high temperature.

Sun Kangwang walked forward to check it out, then turned around and said.

"Your Majesty, this amount of silver is at least 500,000 taels!"

Zhu Youxiao's face was gloomy and he slowly uttered two words.

"Look again!"

There are as much as 500,000 taels of silver hidden in the wall, which shows how wealthy Min Hongxue's family is!

Left Vice-Minister of the Imperial Court, a clean official?

Ha ha!

This is simply a slap in the face!

Slap the imperial court in the face!

The fire was so severe that all the calligraphy and paintings, jade articles, house deeds, and land deeds were burned.

But gold and silver cannot be burned!

Afterwards, a large number of gold and silver nuggets solidified into irregular shapes were dug out from the ruins in various places.

These things prove one thing, that is, Min Hongxue's death was too easy!

But we still need to investigate who started the fire, otherwise everyone in Nanjing will be in danger!

After having the silver sent back to the palace and emphasizing that the arsonist must be investigated thoroughly, Zhu Youxiao left Min's house.

Doing everything personally is not a habit for an emperor. He does not want to be like Chongzhen in history, who was only in his thirties but ended up looking like an old man in his seventies or eighties.

After returning to the palace, I wanted to change my clothes and exercise, but before I knew it, I strolled all the way to the West Palace.

Although the Nanjing Imperial Palace has not been used for a long time and all the halls in the palace are vacant, the Kunning Palace is the residence of the Queen. Even if it is empty, no one else can live in it.

There was nothing wrong with Concubine Rong living in the West Palace as the Imperial Concubine. Besides, the palace was deserted, so she let Concubine Cheng live in the West Palace as well.

Reaching out to stop the eunuch who was about to report, Zhu Youxiao walked into the courtyard of the West Palace with his hands behind his back.

Suddenly, I seemed to hear the conversation between a man and a woman coming from inside.

"Don't move!"

"Sister, be gentle, it hurts!"

"You deserve it. Who told you to move?"

"Okay, okay, I won't move. Please be gentle. My skin is all swollen..."

"Why didn't I cut it off for you? Tell me the truth, what are you doing here?"

"Nothing. I just missed you, so I came all the way here."

"You still have some conscience..."

Zhu Youxiao: ???

Damn it, what's going on?

He was sure that the woman speaking inside was Concubine Cheng, there was no way he was mistaking the voice.

But who is this man?

Damn it, you came into my harem and messed around?

Who gave him the courage!

"boom!"

He went up and kicked open the palace door, and the figures of Concubine Cheng and a man came into view.

The man was seen lying on the table with his upper body naked, while Cheng Fei was standing there holding a porcelain bottle, and there was a very conspicuous bruise on his back.

As if they were frightened by the sound of kicking the door, the two of them were staring at this side blankly.

"His Majesty?"

When Concubine Cheng saw that it was him, she quickly put down the porcelain bottle and came over. She noticed that his face looked a little strange and asked with concern.

"Your Majesty, what's wrong? Why are you so angry?"

The man lying on the table also quickly stood up and saluted.

"See Your Majesty!"

Zhu Youxiao didn't know this man, but seeing Concubine Cheng and his reactions, he felt that he didn't seem like an outsider.

This is a bit embarrassing.

Is he an adulterer?

Or a royal relative?

What if I kill the wrong person? Wouldn't that be a bit bad?

Just at this moment, Concubine Cheng's words saved him.

She took two quick steps, picked up a robe from the screen next to her and threw it to the man.

"Bu Bai, why don't you put on your clothes quickly!"

Not white?

Li Bubai?

Only after hearing this name did Zhu Youxiao breathe a sigh of relief.

It turns out that this guy is Concubine Cheng’s younger brother, Li Bubai!

That is, his brother-in-law.

At the beginning, Wei Zhongxian had suggested that he test Sun Kangwang's martial arts.

The unhappiness on his face quickly disappeared, and he looked at Li Bubai and asked.

"Aren't you in the capital? When did you come to Nanjing?"