Daming heir

Chapter 383 Daming is dying?

Three months have passed since the beginning of spring when the embankment of the Yellow River collapsed in Lanyang County under Kaifeng Prefecture on Henan Province, causing disasters in six prefectures.

The temperature on the Central Plains is getting hotter and hotter.

The grain and grass materials mobilized by the imperial court from Yingtiancheng Hubu Dacang, Hangzhou Fucang, etc. were also continuously transported to the ground of the disaster-stricken Liufu.

The governor's yamen of Zhengsanpin Yellow River Water Affairs tentatively established by the court was also formally established a few days ago.Pan Deshan, the former official of the Ministry of Industry, was promoted from a fifth-rank official position to the governor of the whole section of the Yellow River Water Affairs in the Ming Dynasty. He can prudently mobilize the forces of many counties along the coast and the third-rank seal of the border guards in the resident guards. official.

The moment Pan Deshan put on the bright red robe, he began to plan and dispatch the governor's yamen, which was constantly improving its structure.

And a few months ago, the pain caused by the raging Yellow River to the people of the six prefectures was gradually relieved by the comfort of the newly formed Henan Provincial Government and the imperial court.

Under a thriving scene, once again the situation became treacherous.

"Open the door!"

"Open the door!"

"Jin Yiwei, the Shangzhi army, is here to handle the case under the order of the emperor's grandson!"

"If you don't open the door again, don't blame the army for breaking in!"

In Changge County, the prefecture of Xuzhou, in front of a large high gate, there were many officers and soldiers in Jinyi guards wearing flying fish suits and embroidered spring knives on their waists.

In the courtyard, there seemed to be some panicked movements.

The Jinyiwei officers and soldiers didn't give them much time, and when they waited for a while, they didn't see the courtyard door open, so they immediately gave a cold shout.

Immediately, the officers and soldiers behind formed a team, carrying a thick bumper, shouted in unison, and rushed to the gate of the house in unison.

With a bang, the ram hit the door, and broken wood flew in an instant.

The riveted iron knobs on the gate shot out.

There was an exclamation in the house.

But the officers and soldiers outside the gate showed their swords and guns one after another, and merged into the house in groups in front of the formation.

a while.

The good people who were watching from a distance heard the constant screaming and begging for mercy in the house that attracted countless people's attention in the past.

Armored soldiers burst into battle, full of murderous aura.

When the tea is cool and fragrant.

Countless officers and soldiers escorted a man in shackles and shackles, wearing brocade and silk, out of the gate.

"Another family just disappeared."

"It's really ruthless."

The onlookers sighed cautiously, and when they saw officers and soldiers looking over, they immediately lowered their heads and pretended to be doing something.

……

Kaifeng Fucheng.

Recently, the city of Kaifeng has almost become a place full of complaints. Voices of grievances can be heard everywhere.

Outside the city gate, the crowd was crowded just like yesterday.

The officers and soldiers guarded the city gate heavily, and shouts of grievances entered through the wall.

It's just that these groups of people are not brought about by people's livelihood gradually recovering after the disaster, and merchants doing business again.

On the long official road leading to the city gate, there were soldiers armored like a cloud, detaining people in shackles one by one, and rushing into the city in a line.

These people are almost the same as the family in Changge County, all dressed in brocade, revealing their wealth.

"The prisons in the city can no longer hold people, even the military barracks in the city are now holding countless prisoners."

Upstairs above the city gate, Zhu Gaochi, with deep sunken eyes, black eye bags, and livid face, yawned, forgot to take a look at the scene outside the city as it was yesterday, and couldn't help admonishing him.

Standing in front of him, Zhu Yunxi's face was calm, although he was not as tired as Zhu Gaochi, but his eyes were still bloodshot visible to the naked eye.

"If they can't be shut down, they will build camps outside the city, and they will always be able to lock up these people."

Zhu Gaochi stared blankly at Zhu Yunxi who spoke indifferently, but his head was dizzy from working hard for several days. After taking a deep breath several times, he said in a hoarse voice: "Take a look at the local farms. Although there are endless deceptions, The number has also increased, but there are quite a few of them, it is not for capital crimes, let alone arrest them all and bring them to Kaifeng Mansion."

Zhu Yunxi turned his head to look at Xiaopang with a tired face, and said softly: "You should put everything down and rest for a day."

Zhu Gaochi snorted: "Do you know what rumors are going on in the place now? How can I sleep?"

Zhu Yunxi said: "What rumors? Isn't the current situation in Henan Province just what we expected?"

Zhu Gaochi glanced outside the city, then turned his head to look around the city wall.

Then he lowered his voice and said: "They are shouting! They are shouting that Daming is going to die!"

"Da Ming is going to die?"

Zhu Yunxi repeated it with a sneer, and then the laughter gradually became louder.

His laughter began to subside and gradually disappeared, and Zhu Yunxie's face also slowly darkened.

He said again: "Da Ming is going to perish? What a joke!"

"There is a criminal official in the Si Yamen in Henan. Please kill the memorial. Has the imperial court's approval ever come back?"

Zhu Yunxi asked another question.

Zhu Gaochi shook his head: "According to the days, even if Grandpa Huang gets the memorial and approves it on the same day, it will take another three days for the approval to be sent back."

Zhu Yunxi couldn't help but sighed softly.

Now I do have power that can be said to be almost impossible for any country's crown prince to grasp.

But there is another authority that he does not hold in his hands.

That is the power of life and death.

Under the will of the old man, he can appoint and remove all local officials and handle all local affairs, but he does not have the power to kill people wantonly.

He beheaded Cao Zhisheng, the magistrate of Lanyang County, in order to vent the anger of the people of Lanyang County.With the emperor's order in his hand, killing a county magistrate is insignificant.

But if it is like now, if you want to kill all the criminals in Henan Province, you must have the old man's Zhu Zhu.

Although he used the emperor's decree, coupled with the old man's will, which is as powerful as mine, he can also forcibly kill all the criminals in Henan Province.

But he just couldn't do it.

This must be reserved for the old man Zhu, and it is the old man's bottom line as the emperor of Ming Dynasty.

This is also the bottom line that Zhu Yunxi abides by.

After thinking about it for three to five days before receiving the reply from the court, Zhu Yunxi turned around and called softly: "Come here."

Yu Tian, ​​the general manager of the Taisun Mansion, appeared in front of Zhu Yunxi at the right time.

Yutian bowed and said, "Your Highness."

"I invited Shizi Yan to go back to rest, and don't let me deal with business today."

Zhu Yunxi raised his eyebrows and winked at Yutian.

Before Zhu Gaochi could react, Yu Tian had already summoned several personal guards.

Amidst Yan Shizi's babbling and shouting, he carried the other party down the city wall.

Not long after Zhu Gaochi's dissatisfied shouts disappeared from the city wall, Tian Mai and Zhang Hui quietly appeared behind Zhu Yunxi at the same time.

"Your Highness."

Zhu Yunxi looked outside the city, and was constantly being escorted into the city by the gentry families who obstructed and deceived the imperial court's plan to share their income, and hummed softly: "What happened?"

Tian Mai turned to look sideways at Zhang Hui.

Therefore, Zhang Hui took the lead to step forward, bowed his head and said: "Reporting to Your Highness, the news has been passed on to those families according to Pan Boyong's instructions. At present, the low-ranking people have deployed manpower to monitor these families secretly.

It can be verified that all the rumors and gossips on the ground in Henan Province in the past few days are all spread by these people.

The lower ranks also found out that these people were sending messages to Yingtian, Huguang, Shandong and other places.Among them, Shandong Road is the most, and there are many responses from here. "

Zhu Yunxi looked to the east with deep eyes, and said in a low voice, "Is there that one?"

Zhang Hui's eyes flickered for a moment, and he just thought about it for a while, then nodded and said: "There is that one, and the one with the most contacts. I thought that that one might cause His Highness a lot of trouble in Yingtian's way, It must be guarded against. It’s just because of the status of that family, the humble ranks did not dare to go deep, and the details have not yet been grasped.”

Zhu Yunxi snorted: "Tian Mai, ask someone to pass a message to Zhang Zhiyuan."

Tian Mai immediately stepped forward and bowed: "The humble job is here."

"Tell Zhang Zhiyuan, the sage is not wrong, the sin lies in all directions, and today's events should be blamed on today's people."

Tian Mai frowned slightly: "The humble job takes orders."

After writing down this matter, Tian Mai continued to bow, as if he forgot to get up because he was thinking about a certain problem.

Zhu Yunxi looked over: "What else?"

Tian Mai said in a low voice: "Recently, the humble officials have found out that there is a great flow of idlers in the local area, and there are some village guards and guarding thousands of households in the local area, and idlers frequently come and go. The humble officials think that if we want to properly arrange , this place must be guarded against.”

Zhu Yunxi could not help but sigh softly.

As things get deeper and deeper, more and more things are exposed, and the range of things and people involved becomes wider and wider.

He solemnly said: "Da Ming's army will gradually maintain a more pure nature, and keep an eye on it according to the previous plan."

Tian Mai nodded, some things cannot be announced to the public at the moment, a little carelessness will really lead to a really big mess.

……

Henan Road has completely entered the upsurge of vigorously reviewing the fields and arresting those who violated the law.

Under the active promotion of the new Henan Provincial Departments, the new government system has maintained a stable implementation speed with unprecedented energy and intensity.

Every day, there are families full of people who are arrested for questioning, and every day, a large number of fields are tracked down and corrected.

Wave after wave.

The tense breath almost stretched the entire Henan Road into a bowstring of a full moon.

In the city of Luoyang in Henan Province, as the thousand-year-old city of the gods of the former Tang Dynasty, this city gathered many high-ranking and powerful families, gentry and dignitaries.

Today, three more families in Luoyang City were detained by the whole family and sent to Kaifeng Mansion for prosecution.

Bang.

A huge sound resounded from a tall building in the city.

Bao Wenren, the patriarch of the Bao family in Luoyang, who used to have Bao Bancheng, slammed his fist on the table with his face livid.

And the previous resounding sound came from under his fist.

Bao Wenren gritted his teeth and looked around at the crowd: "If this continues, none of these people will be able to escape!"

There are a lot of people gathered indoors, all of them are Zhong Ming Ding cannibals.

But at this moment, everyone was silent.

"For the current plan, what should I do?"

After a long time, someone asked silently.

Bao Wenren's eyes swished over, and when he saw that person, he immediately sighed softly: "At first, I thought that the purpose of the emperor's grandson's trip was to relieve the disasters in the six prefectures. How could I have thought of that at that time?" , The disaster is small, but the government is big. Now, the local government of Henan Province, and even the two yamen of Henan Province, have been replaced by officials accompanying the emperor's grandson."

"In the beginning, I was thinking that the two yamen could save our property and life. But now, they can't protect themselves. Not to mention how many families in Henan Province have been detained for questioning these days. "

"Right now, we, the whole family, and the young and old can only rely on ourselves for our wealth and life. The people of the two yamen also need to rely on me to help them out."

Self-help, this is a situation that everyone knows well now.

At this moment when everyone is in danger, no one else can help them anymore.

It's just that the people present didn't expect that Bao Wenren even said that he wanted to save the people from the two yamen of Henan Province.

When someone raised a different opinion, he frowned and looked at Bao Wenren who hadn't revealed his intention yet.

"Brother Bao, the two yamen and others are all detained by the emperor's grandson. We are already in danger, so how can we save them?"

"That's right, Brother Bao, we don't know what to do now, so we don't have the energy to take care of them."

"..."

"Ten more days at most. If there is no other way...Brother Bao, don't blame my younger brother. At that time, I can only take my wife and children at home and flee to the west."

"..."

What's more, someone has already proposed the intention to escape.

Bao Wenren's complexion sank, and he stared at the man who said he was going to run away with an ugly expression, and snorted coldly: "Where are you going to trap? I don't know that there are three guards and horses guarding there behind Tongguan! "

Bao Wenren scolded angrily, and then glared at the man angrily.

It wasn't until the other party turned red-faced and lowered his head that Bao Wenren snorted coldly and patted the table.

"I don't know what's going on in Henan Road now, you can go out and ask."

"No one should even think about having a chance to escape."

"Why did the three guards and horses of Prince Qin's Mansion run behind Tongguan? That's to block the escape route for us people to escape west."

"In the south, the army and horses in Zhongdu are more prosperous, and there are thieves in Xuzhou. It's not an easy way to go right now. In the southwest, most of us will be found by the imperial court's eagle dog Jinyiwei before we walk out of Huguang Road."

In the room, most of the people looked ugly and panicked according to what Bao Wenren said.

But someone also opened their mouths.

Bao Wenren sneered: "There is still the north, right? That's wishful thinking! Do you think you can escape the defenses of the Nine Frontier Army? Or do you think you can stay with the remnants of those picky yuan thieves?"

After Bao Wenren erased the last impossibility, no one opened their mouths again.

"Right now, my Henan Road can be described by a sentence of being besieged on all sides." Bao Wenren recalled the news sent from Kaifeng Mansion, and said slowly: "We people, no one can escape, and we can't go anywhere. It's like being caught in a urn, being dug out one by one by the court's hawks."

The tense and condensed atmosphere made even the sound of breathing seem to disappear in this room.

There is great terror between life and death.

Under the besieged situation, Bao Wenren could see the fear of these people with his naked eyes.

See the time has come.

Bao Wenren said in relief: "But if you think about it from another angle, isn't this the only chance I'm waiting for?"

Sure enough, after Bao Wenren's words came out, everyone present looked at him with anticipation in their eyes.

"Brother Bao, please save me!"

"As long as we can get through this test, Brother Bao will be our reborn parents."

"Although my family is poor, as long as Brother Bao is useful, just take it."

"..."

For a while, everyone present heatedly discussed.

Bao Wenren's face remained unchanged, signaling for everyone to calm down.

After that, he slowly opened his mouth and said: "At present, Henan Road is surrounded by enemies. But Henan Road is also the land of the Central Plains. As long as we can make Henan Road completely chaotic and make the imperial court restrained, we will be at a loss. Can they still have the energy to talk about our affairs?"

"Can the court let me go if we mess up?"

Bao Wenren nodded heavily: "As long as the chaos is complete and the court and the emperor's grandson are worried about throwing rats, it is my chance to get through this crisis safely."

"Why did the chaos happen, and how bad is the chaos?"

"If the imperial court is to be wary of rats, this chaos may not only be caused by civil chaos."

Bao Wenren snorted and said, "People's chaos can be calmed down, but what if there is chaos in the country?"

Bao Wenren summarized the instructions he received from Kaifeng Mansion.In an instant, the room was in an uproar, and then they all fell silent, and the sound of breathing became heavier and heavier.

Let the society be in chaos.

Is this an act of treason?

Bao Wenren turned his palm over, tapped his fingers lightly on the table, and made a few noises. He slowly stood up and looked at the people present: "Let the people in Henan Province think that Ming Dynasty is going to die! Let the people in the Central Plains, too. Everyone thought Daming was going to die! Let everyone mess up, that's our way of life!"

"The Zhu family won't let me wait for work, and I won't let the Zhu family live in peace!"

Bao Wenren's tone was gloomy and his face was gloomy.

"What shall I do? Brother Bao only talks, if you need me to do something, I will do it."

Bao Wenren squeezed his hands and said softly: "When the Ming Dynasty established the country, it emphasized civil and military affairs, and Confucianism took officials. How did the court do it these years? Can you say that the Zhu family wants to destroy Confucianism?

This time, the emperor's grandson was in Henan Province, not only to check the government, but also to check my family and others.Even those temples and Taoist temples outside Fangwai are also on the list of investigations.Is it because the Zhu family wants to destroy fo and Dao?

The emperor's grandson was only a weak crown year, but he already had such a murderous intention. It seems that Hongwu has nine points, and the world may not be able to breathe for a hundred years.Today the Zhu family can slaughter all the officials of Henan Province and us, disregarding the laws and regulations, will they be kind to the common people in the future?
All these, I have been thinking about it day and night recently, and there are all kinds of good strategies, which can be discussed and discussed with you. "

Bao Wenren's tone was low, and he started to shuttle between the banquets.

He turned around and looked around at the crowd.

"Everyone, I have the land in my hands, and I can do all these things. As long as the Zhu family loses the official, popular, and popular support, the Zhu family will really panic, and will be wary of rats, and will be at a loss."

"As long as the world is lit up, we can enjoy a peaceful year!"

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