Daming: From the end of Hongwu

318 Chapter 316 - The Fire of Fengtian Temple

The fire in Fengtian Temple is getting stronger.

Starting from the Wenlou on the east side, it has spread to the main hall, and the heat waves in it are surging, and the flames are rolling from time to time, making people daunting.

In the courtyard in front of the hall, there were many people running and shouting, some running for their lives, some trying to put out the fire, including guards, civil servants, and eunuchs.

These mixed together formed a chaotic scene.

When Zhen Wu came here with his cronies.

With a wave of his hand, he ordered his subordinates to start putting out the fire. At the same time, he looked around, and naturally showed the aura of a general in charge of the army, and took advantage of the situation to organize the people in the courtyard.

Those people were a little confused.

Who is this?
However, for the sake of Zhen Wu's knife, they gradually stopped being confused, and began to follow Zhen Wu's command and participate in the fire fighting work together.

At this time, Zhen Wu stopped an old eunuch, and asked with a stern face: "I heard that before the fire started, the emperor stayed in Fengtian Palace at last, is this true?"

The old eunuch was first frightened by the shining waist knife in Zhen Wu's hand, and then lost two souls by Zhen Wu's stern shouting. How can he keep his mind clear? He only remembers that the emperor stayed in Fengtian Hall before the city was broken. , so he nodded without thinking too much.

"It's true, it's true, the emperor is in Fengtian Hall."

The words fell.

Many people present heard it. People who didn't know the truth didn't doubt what the old eunuch said. Many people even fell to the ground in shock.

And Zhen Wu's face also changed drastically.

The next moment, Zhen Wu gritted his teeth and shouted at the fire-fighting crowd, "Damn it, who the hell didn't work hard, I chopped off his head on the spot, we must rescue the emperor as soon as possible."

When the fire extinguishers heard Zhen Wu's murderous voice, they couldn't help but shudder.

But even so, Zhen Wu seemed to be too slow, he shouted worriedly towards Fengtian Hall: "Hold on, Your Majesty, I will rescue you right away."

After finishing speaking, Zhen Wu went into battle in person and began to participate in putting out the fire.

Some civil servants in the field seemed to recognize Zhen Wu's identity at this moment.

"Ah, isn't that Yanjun's Zhenjun horse?"

"It's him. The Zhenjun horse came to the capital many years ago. I had a conversation with him at that time. Although there have been some changes over the years, I definitely recognize it. It is definitely the Zhenjun horse."

"But...but isn't he from Yan Jun? Could it be that we misunderstood King Yan before?"

"Never mind if there is a misunderstanding, can't this performance alone prove anything? Just take a look, how many people ran for their lives when the emperor was in danger, and who once organized people to put out the fire like Zhenjun horses."

"Yes, yes, Zhen Junma's performance this time is enough to prove that loyalty can be learned from."

……

Not far away, Zhen Wu, who was putting out the fire, noticed the words of others, and couldn't help but a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, but before he was intoxicated for a while, Zhu Neng hurried over with someone.

Zhu Neng couldn't help but be taken aback when he saw Zhen Wu and his people trying their best to put out the fire. He came to Zhen Wu's side and stopped Zhen Wu from putting out the fire.

"What are you doing?" Zhen Wu glared at Zhu Neng dissatisfied.

Zhu Neng frowned: "What's going on here?"

Zhen Wu was in a hurry: "The emperor is in Fengtian Palace, what are you talking about, what the hell are you going to do to put out the fire, what are you asking me to do?"

"The emperor is in Fengtian Palace?!"

Zhu Neng was startled instinctively, and then he looked around, all the firefighters were shouting for help and trying to put out the fire with all their strength, Zhu Neng, who had no doubt about him, was also in a hurry.

He whispered eagerly in Zhen Wu's ear, "Are you really saving?"

"Abandon your mother's words."

Zhen Wu glanced at Zhu Neng, and said contemptuously: "I have looked down on people like you who have no sense of loyalty to the emperor since I was a child." After speaking, Zhen Wu stopped talking to Zhu Neng, and immediately got busy again.

And Zhu Neng looked at Zhen Wu's busy back, almost dumbfounded.

At this moment, he just felt that his brain was not enough.

Save Zhu Yunwen?

joke.

Even if he was beaten to death, he wouldn't believe that Zhen Wu, a bastard, would save Zhu Yunqi!
Zhang Yu also came here at this time. He looked at Zhen Wu who was putting out all his strength to put out the fire, and after thinking for a while, a smile appeared in his eyes. With a wave of his hand, his people also started to put out all their strength to put out the fire.

Seeing this scene, Zhu Neng looked at Zhang Yu suspiciously.

Zhang Yu stepped forward and patted Zhu Neng's shoulder, deliberately teasing Zhu Neng, saying: "Put out the fire, don't be dazed, rescue is important."

Help?

Save the motherfuckers!
He, Zhu Neng, wished he could stab Zhu Yunqi to death and let Zhu Di ascend the throne. How could he save Zhu Yunqi.

But the next moment.

Zhu Neng suddenly came to his senses, Zhen Wu and Zhang Yu, who is not a thief and a monkey, will really save Zhu Yunwen?

He looked at the busy backs of Zhen Wu and Zhang Yu, and started cursing for a while.

……

After everyone extinguished the fire together, the fire in Fengtian Hall finally gradually became smaller. When the last flame was extinguished, many people sat on the ground exhausted.

However, Zhen Wu and others rushed into Fengtian Hall immediately.

But under the desolation everywhere, there is no one alive.

Zhen Wu walked out of Fengtian Hall disheartened, and asked his subordinates to sort out the remains of Fengtian Hall. After a while, bodies that had been burned into charcoal and whose faces were indistinguishable were carried out.

Zhang Yu sighed, and went to find some old people in the palace and asked them to come forward and identify them.

After the old people in the palace recognized it for a while.

In the end, a person whose figure was very similar to Zhu Yunqi was selected, suspected to be the current emperor.

Zhen Wu and the others looked at the corpse and remained silent for a long time.

At this moment, there was a rush of horseshoes from the Inner Wulong Bridge. Zhen Wu and others looked back, and it turned out that it was Zhu Di who found Huo Qi and rushed here.

When Zhu Di came close, he got off his horse and looked at Zhen Wu and the others.

Zhen Wu and the others knelt down at Zhu Di with a heavy face, and Zhen Wu said in a mournful voice: "The crime of a humble position deserves death. There is a fire in the palace, and the lowly position and others will not be able to save him. It will harm the emperor... The emperor is trapped in the sea of ​​fire and has no life left."

Zhu Di was shocked, with a sad face.

He asked in a deep voice, "Why is there a fire in the palace?"

"Still investigating, can't make a conclusion, but..."

Zhen Wu raised his head and glanced at Zhu Di, and said, "However, it is possible that the palace accidentally caught fire because of the dry weather."

"fart."

Zhu Di coldly reprimanded: "Go to hell, check it out for me, this matter must be checked for me to get to the bottom of it."

"Yes." Zhen Wu took the order.

Only then did Zhu Di look at the charred corpse, he suddenly howled twice, threw himself on the corpse in three or two steps, and said sadly: "My dear nephew, why don't you wait for fourth uncle? Uncle has come to save you, Uncle Fourth has come, get up and look at Uncle Fourth."

Many people in the field listened to Zhu Di's crying, and felt a little sad for some reason.

Zhen Wu couldn't help but secretly looked at the sky.

He knew that Zhu Di's words had completely defined the matter.

Even if some people try their best to clear the fog and find out the truth, will the truth they get be true?Presumably the truly secret things will only exist in the hearts of some people forever, and will not be revealed for thousands of years.

After Zhu Di cried for a while, he was persuaded by Zhen Wu and others.

At this time, Zhu Di no longer said anything that he would not enter the city for fear of disturbing the emperor, and went straight out of the palace, and found a post station as a palace to live in.

But the whole capital was in chaos.

Zhu Yunwen died.

This confused many people who still had loyalty to Zhu Yunqi.

But at the moment, in a house, several civil servants are sighing here and there. This group of people do not seem to have high official positions. What are they all for? Little talented people.

Counting carefully, there are seven people in total.

These seven people were named: Yang Shiqi, Xie Jin, Hu Guang, Jin Youzi, Huang Huai, Hu Yan, and Zhou Shixiu.

These few people are discussing righteousness and loyalty intensely.

The only person was silent.

It took a long time before Zhou Shixiu understood what the other people meant. He chuckled and said, "I probably understand what you said. Can I understand that before you and I all agreed to die together?" Let go of the words of going to the country together?"

Yang Shiqi and the others looked a little ugly for a while.

Xie Jin said: "It's not easy for me to study hard. Now that the emperor has passed away, why should you and I say loyalty again? What's more, King Yan is also a child of the royal family. We should show our ambitions for the sake of all people in the world, so as to live up to this goal." You can learn by yourself."

Zhou Shixiu didn't speak, but just looked straight at Xie Jin.

Seeing Xie Jin embarrassed all the time, Yang Shiqi had to come out to smooth things over, and Zhou Shixiu took his eyes back.

It's just that Zhou Shixiu didn't say a word after that, even when the group of friends were about to leave and made an appointment to see King Yan tomorrow, Zhou Shixiu still didn't speak.

Yang Shiqi and the others were in turmoil, and no one noticed it, or even if they noticed, no one wanted to point out Zhou Shixiu's strangeness.

Then they dispersed and went home.

After Zhou Shixiu returned home, he thought for a long time and wrote a letter to his friend. Then he dressed neatly and went to Yingtianfu to study. Ge hanged himself.

He felt that there were some things to hold on to.

And his persistence.

He can also spur his group of treacherous friends to make them work hard to be good ministers in the days to come, even for their conscience, and to do their best for all the people in the world.

If you ask for a good minister, you will not become a good minister.

Unlike him, if you seek loyalty, you will get loyalty.

As time passed, the sun was setting, and the warm yellow orange sunset shone through the window in the Zunjing Pavilion, and Zhou Youxiu's reflection fell on the scriptures, reflecting each other.

On this day, various stories were staged in the capital. Some were secretly excited and regarded today as a turning point in life, while others were deeply saddened and regarded today as the end of the world.

But no matter what, when the sun set, the first day of Yan Jun's entry into the city finally came to an end.

On the second day, Zhen Wu had been busy for most of the night. He felt that he had just fallen asleep, so Zhu Di sent someone to call him. Zhen Wu rubbed his eyes speechlessly, washed his face soberly, and hurried to Zhu Di's room. and go.

After seeing Zhu Di, Zhen Wu was a little surprised. Zhu Di's dark circles were thick and dark, and he didn't need to guess to know that Zhu Di must have stayed up all night.

Zhu Di rubbed his eyebrows and said: "Finally, I have time for us to chat, please tell me what happened in the palace yesterday."

Zhen Wu nodded, and then told Zhu Di in detail what he heard, saw, and did after he arrived at the palace yesterday.

After Zhu Di digested it for a long time, he smiled and said: "No wonder someone came to see me last night, and secretly reported to me that Jianwen disguised himself as a monk, set fire to take advantage of the chaos, and came out of the ghost gate."

After finishing speaking, Zhu Di saw that Zhen Wu was a little puzzled, and explained: "It's Zheng Ci. They discussed escape with Jianwen in Fengtian Palace yesterday, and watched Jianwen go to the harem after he was shaved, so how could he believe that Fengtian Palace found him?" The dead body belonged to Jianwen, and according to what he said, this group of people who care about Jianwen intends to communicate secretly."

Zheng Ci is also one of the treacherous ministers that Zhu Di flaunts.

Zhen Wu suddenly understood that this person definitely didn't want to go all the way with Jianwen, so he surrendered to Zhu Di at night, but Zheng Ci was a blind cat who met a dead mouse, he didn't know that Zhu Yunqi was really dead, If you are still loyal to Zhu Yunqi, you will have nowhere to go.

Zhu Di rubbed his eyebrows again and said: "At first I was still a little worried, but hearing you say that made me completely relaxed, but you don't want to mention this matter in the future, and you know the seriousness if you think about it, as for what you said That Cao Cheng you mentioned, give it to me, I will train it for a few years before I give it to you, I don’t worry about your little way of training people.”

Zhen Wu naturally had no objection to this, so he nodded directly.

"By the way, there is one more thing. Tell me your opinion."

Zhu Di raised his head and looked at Zhen Wudao: "Since we know about Jianwen pretending to be a monk, you said we are going to announce it directly to the public to stop those people from thinking that Jianwen is still alive, or let them spread it in private?"

Zhen Wu thought for a while, and then said: "If you let me say it, it's better to make mistakes and make mistakes. Let's not say whether it is true or false. It is the most charming. Not only can it avoid the stigma of killing relatives in the history books of later generations, but we can also use this Clean up Jianwen's old ministers, and this incident is enough to test whether those who surrendered to His Highness are really sincere."

Zhu Di thought for a while and nodded, "That's not bad, but what if they use Jianwen's name to make trouble?"

Zhen Wu smiled confidently: "Your Highness is here, I'm waiting, so it doesn't matter what happens, not to mention that even if they use the name of Jianwen, His Highness knows well that no real Jianwen will stand up and call on the world. In this case, Why are you afraid, Your Highness?"

"well said."

Zhu Di was straightened out by Zhen Wu's two or three sentences, and smiled and said: "A fake Jianwen can not only deceive real talented people, but also can't make people gather from all over the world. It is really nothing to be afraid of. , so it is most suitable to sharpen a knife and test its authenticity."

Zhen Wu also smiled.

"Okay, there's nothing else to do, you go down, I guess I have to meet some people." Zhu Di waved his hand.

Zhen Wu nodded and retreated.

After Zhen Wu went out, Yang Jing came out from behind the screen.

He knelt in front of Zhu Di and said, "There is nothing hidden about what the right general said. It was exactly what the right general said at the time. However, after seeing that the right general took over, he secretly set fire to the Fengtian hall to cooperate with the right general. Otherwise, the Fengtian hall would not be able to rise." Such a big fire, but this will always destroy Fengtian Palace, I hope His Highness will not blame the humble post for making his own decisions."

Zhu Di nodded and waved his hand.

A Fengtian Temple?

hum.

Compared with the world, it is not worth mentioning.

And Zhen Wu had already come outside at this time.

He had just arrived here when he saw a group of scholars and guards arguing about something, Zhen Wu frowned and asked, "What are you arguing about?"

When the guard saw that it was Zhen Wu, he straightened up quickly, and facing Zhen Wu, he said solemnly, "General You, this group of people insists on going in to see His Highness, but His Highness has been up all night, so our Qianhu asked us to stop him." The people who are visiting, let them come back in the afternoon, but they don't listen, insisting on letting me go to report."

As soon as the words fell, the group of scholars became unhappy: "But I just saw that you informed Xia Shilang of the household department, why didn't you inform us."

The guard glanced at them, and said angrily: "What is the official position of Xia Shilang, what is your official position?"

The man was speechless immediately.

Zhen Wu became interested, and said with a smile, "Tell me about your official position?"

The man twitched for a long time, and choked out a sentence: "I was once awarded the position of 'Deputy Trial Officer of the Wu Mansion'."

Zhen Wu was stunned.

What kind of bullshit official position is this.

He has been in Daming for a long time, and he has never heard of it.

Afterwards, Zhen Wu waved his hand, wanting to leave with less interest, but just when he turned around and was about to leave, he heard one of the group call out to him: "Brother Shi Qi, there is no need to be sad. The official voice is not obvious, but who dares to say that he will not enter the cabinet to pay homage to the prime minister in the future."

Ok?
Regardless of other people's reactions, Zhen Wu immediately turned around and asked, "What's your name?"

The man looked at Zhen Wu, he didn't understand why Zhen Wu was interested in his name, but he also knew that Zhen Wu's status was good, so he said in detail: "My name is Yang Yu, and my name is Shiqi, from Ji'an Mansion..."

"Wait, that's enough." Zhen Wu interrupted him, looking at Yang Shiqi with interest.

But I couldn't help thinking about it in my heart.

So this is Yang Shiqi.

……

　Thanks to 'Ziyunqi' 12695 for the reward, thank you Boss Zi, and thank you Boss for being my fourth leader, thank you very much.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)