Daming heir

Chapter 714: On the fourteenth day of the first lunar month, public opinion is boiling

Zhu Gaochi's mind went blank for a moment.

Logically speaking, Sun Cheng would never appear in front of him at this time.

Even if Ming's new warships were faster, he would not be able to return to Yingtian so quickly.

Even if the boat is that fast.

When the fleet entered the waters of the Yangtze River, I should have heard about it a long time ago.

It was absolutely impossible that when a living person like Sun Cheng stood in front of him, he still didn't know what was going on.

Sun Cheng just smiled silently, nodded and bowed to Zhu Gaochi: "I am here to see you, Prince Yan."

Zhu Gaochi was stunned for a moment, and then waved his hand in a dull manner: "You... no courtesy... no courtesy..."

After hesitantly finished speaking.

Zhu Gaochi stared at Sun Cheng with confusion on his face.

Not to mention how he returned to Yingtian quietly.

Sun Cheng's current appearance also puzzled Zhu Gaochi.

He, the governor of Jinyiwei, doesn't wear flying fish clothes and is not worthy of embroidering a spring knife. He is such a murderous person, but he even wears a Confucian uniform.

The square scarf on his head looks weird and awkward.

Sun Cheng ignored Prince Yan's doubts, but walked behind Zhu Yunxi and said in a low voice: "Your Highness, the news has been spread. It seems that it is in line with those people's plans. We can wait for these people next." Adding fuel to the flames will cause even greater chaos."

Spread the news?

Fit the plan?

Adding fuel to the flames?

Bigger mess?

Zhu Gaochi became more and more confused.

Zhu Yunxi said with a smile: "Thank you for your hard work, now let's wait and see if these people will take action. Otherwise, we don't know when they will take the initiative."

Sun Cheng sneered: "These people...according to His Highness's wishes, we have to force them. Right now, the Jin Yiwei from all over the country are rushing to the capital. Inside and outside the city, there are Jin Yiwei secretly watching everywhere. If there is any sign of trouble, we will We can all know immediately.”

Zhu Yunxi nodded.

He thought for a while, and then continued: "There is nothing to do here for the time being. You should go to Shanglinyuan Prison first. The young master has been waiting for a long time. I am afraid there will be a lot of things to discuss with you." Ask clearly."

Sun Cheng cupped his fists and handed over his hands, silently retreating from the direction of the mountain.

Zhu Gaochi's eyes widened throughout the whole process, but he found that he really couldn't understand what the current situation was about.

Gulu gulu...

In the pavilion on the viewing mountain, the only sound was the sound of Zhu Shangbing sipping tea heartlessly.

Zhu Yunxi looked at Zhu Gaochi's increasingly resentful expression and smiled silently.

"Do you really want to know what happened?"

Zhu Gaochi nodded and said angrily: "Did I come here in vain today?"

Zhu Yunxi shook his head: "It's not in vain, but what you said was actually what Sun Cheng and the others spread in the city today."

Zhu Gaochi's eyes widened: "You let Sun Cheng and others discredit you? Do you know what is being said in the city now?"

His voice was a little loud.

So much so that Zhu Shangbing, who was quietly drinking tea and eating, couldn't help but raise his head curiously and look at the two of them, with a hint of gossip in his eyes.

Zhu Yunxi was very calm: "Now in Yingtian City, everyone is probably talking about it. It is because of the increasing conflicts between me, the emperor's grandson, and the palace, and the resentment in his heart that all the thirty-seven people from the three families were killed." .”

"You still know!"

Zhu Gaochi jumped up immediately.

Now that Zhu Yunxi took the initiative to admit it, Zhu Gaochi completely exploded.

"Do you know what the situation is now?"

"Do you know what day tomorrow is?"

"Tomorrow is the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the day when the emperor's grandpa will hold the abdication ceremony! Tomorrow, the uncle will ascend the throne and proclaim himself emperor at the abdication ceremony!"

"Now that you have done this, the crowd in Yingtian City is already excited! Do you know why I brought these Jinyi Guards and Yulin Guards here? I'm just afraid that the people will not be able to control themselves, rush in, and kill you alive Curse me to death!"

"You know that right now in the city, the Governor's Office of Zhili! The Military and Horse Department! Yingtian Prefecture and Two Counties! Everyone is outside because they are afraid that the people in the city will be incited and then attack the Imperial City and Xicheng projects!"

Zhu Gaochi shouted angrily and slapped his thigh fiercely.

His thighs were almost swollen from being slapped.

But Zhu Gaochi still had a face full of hatred, and asked urgently: "The people are angry! The people are angry! You are so good, what are you trying to do to get involved? Do you think that our Ming Dynasty has committed a favoritism, bending the law, Is it a good thing to kill the bloodthirsty grandson of the emperor?"

Zhu Yunxi sighed: "Actually, I am just pushing the boat with the current of today's matter. If you think that I brought the young girls of the three families to my side, and then made them officials of the court, those three families would really say nothing and do nothing. Don’t do it?

Do you think it was just the end of it when the mothers from the three families died tragically in the house the day before yesterday?

When I received the news, I was thinking that there was only one possibility for the death of those three nannies! "

Zhu Gaochi gradually calmed down when he saw that Zhu Yunxi did not refute, but was explaining another incident.

He frowned, with a solemn look on his face.

Zhu Gaochi smacked his lips and said quietly: "Are you trying to say that the deaths of those three nuns were probably a ploy?"

At this time, Zhu Yunxi didn't need to explain, he had already started to deduce it himself.

After a while.

Zhu Gaochi made another sound from his mouth.

I saw him squinting his eyes and saying with a strange expression: "The deaths of the three nuns are just a foreshadowing. When the incident of the thirty-seven lives yesterday comes out, that's what they really want to do. Use forty lives. , it seems to be a very cost-effective thing to exchange for the emperor's grandson who is known for his bloodthirsty killing."

Having said this, Zhu Gaochi looked at Zhu Yunxi with ambiguous eyes.

Zhu Yunxi stood up and looked east.

That is the direction of Yingtian Middle City.

"Things can never stay the same. These people will try again if their plan fails."

"When the imperial power changes, the situation in the court is the most turbulent. Even if there is only a small possibility, these people will desperately seize it and try to expand this almost impossible possibility to a certainty."

"Now, Gu Jiang will give them this opportunity with his own hands."

"Now it depends on how they will take this opportunity."

Hongwu thirty-one years, the fourteenth day of the first lunar month.

Yingtian City was completely in chaos.

Countless people walked out of their homes and began to discuss the matter about the death of the emperor's grandson.

A huge wave formed at a speed visible to the naked eye.

at last.

When some people in the crowd began to shout the words "morality is not worthy of their place", the common people in the capital who sympathized with the 'victims' began to unconsciously flock to various government offices in the city.

Since the twenty-fifth year of Hongwu, Yingtian City has seen a continuous influx of people.

It was originally the most populous city in the Ming Dynasty, but now the permanent population is even larger.

Even though Ying Tianfu tried to conduct an inventory of the city's population several times, it failed due to various reasons.

But today, everyone has seen how many permanent residents there are in this largest city in the world.

Everywhere you looked on the street, there were dense crowds of people. The streets were crowded with people, and countless stalls were crowded by the crowd. Yingtian Magistrate's Yamen was the first to bear the brunt and was surrounded by countless people.

From Sanshan Street to the Jewelry Gallery, from Zhuque Street to Pishi Street, the huge area surrounding Yingtian Mansion has been completely paralyzed by the crowds of people.

People inside can't get out, and people outside can't get in.

The situation in Shangyuan County and Jiangning County was similar, and even the Zhili Governor's Yamen was blocked by the people.

This suddenly frightened all the government offices in the city.

The right guard of the government army was dispatched urgently and blocked the area from Taipingmen Street on the northwest side of the imperial city to Genbei Street in the west imperial city to prevent the rioting people in the city from attacking the imperial city from this direction.

The Fujun Guards on the East City side blocked the line from Tongjimen Street to Gennan Street in Xihuangcheng.

The Xuanjin Bridge outside Xi'an Gate was directly blocked by the military guards of Shangzhiqin.

Jinwu's avant-garde blocked Zhengyangmen and Chaoyangmen.

Under the continuous mobilization of the Metropolitan Governor's Office, the Imperial City area east of Yingtian City was finally completely sealed off.

But it was too late to control the area west of Dongcheng.

On the streets outside Xi'anmen, tens of thousands of people gathered together without knowing how.

Start from west to east and go to Xuanjin Bridge in front of Xi'an Gate.

Tens of thousands of people, with great momentum, have already shouted slogans.

"The emperor and his grandson are slaughtered, virtue is not worthy of the throne, the court is fair, and the people make decisions!"

In the imperial court area outside the imperial city, the front gates of various ministries and offices have been sealed off and protected by a large number of officers and soldiers.

All the officials have received the news, and they all know that they may not be able to return home today.

Pieces of news were circulating among various ministries and yamen.

Everyone knows that someone is behind the turmoil in the capital today.

After all, the three women of Song, Luo, and Qi could enter the court as officials, but it was Zhai Shan, a bachelor of the cabinet and minister of the Ministry of Personnel, who took the lead in proposing it.

Together with this, the Ministry of Accounts, Daming Commercial House, Daming Bank, etc. also proposed it.

This matter was discussed in the court at that time, and all the officials could see that it was the emperor's grandson who was pushing behind the scenes to let the three daughters of Song, Luo and Qi enter the court as officials.

And with what's going on these days.

Judging from the fact that the three women of Song, Luo and Qi who entered the court as officials did start to work for the court, the officials gradually began to taste some differences.

Most people have already understood that this was done by the emperor to pave the way for women to get out of the house and work in factories.

Regardless of whether they agree with women being officials or those who disagree, they all see the essence of this matter clearly.

Today, there was a sudden riot in Yingtian City. The people began to surround the government offices in the city and started walking along Xi'anmenwai Street toward Xi'an Gate. It was obvious that someone was secretly pushing it.

According to the rumors and slogans currently circulating in the city, the people believe that the three daughters of Song, Luo and Qi entered the court as officials because of the conflict between the royal family and the emperor's grandson. In order to remove the three daughters from the emperor's grandson, the royal family After taking them away, they decided to let the three women enter the court as officials.

Then the emperor's grandson became angry, and all the people from the three families who entered the capital died tragically.

This is ridiculous.

Some officials who were originally opposed to the three women becoming officials in the court now also became dissatisfied with the people behind what happened today.

No matter how much fighting goes on in the court, there shouldn't be such a big fuss in the capital.

No matter how great the struggle between the government and the government is, the people should not be implicated.

And here, especially the officials of the Ministry of Household Affairs.

These Hubu officials have already scolded those who were behind it for eighteen generations in the Hubu Yamen.

"Budang! Think of a way to calm down the chaos! If Yingtian City is shut down for one day, countless money will be wasted!"

"Grandpa Tian, ​​let me know who did it. If Yingtian City is in chaos, our Ministry of Revenue will lose a lot of tax revenue!"

"Where are the people from the Governor's Office? Why haven't they mobilized the Beijing army into the city to quell the unrest? Do they really think we dare not stop their military pay?"

"The unrest must be controlled!"

"Yingtian City must not continue to be in chaos! The more chaos there is, the greater the losses our household department will suffer!"

In the Hubu court, all the Hubu officials, regardless of whether they were in favor of the three women becoming officials or opposed to the three women becoming officials, were highly unified at this moment.

In front of Xia Yuanji, the Minister of Household Affairs, everyone showed the same hatred and hatred.

Who would have thought.

After the chaos in Yingtian City, the first urgent matter was the Hubu Yamen.

And in the imperial city.

It also seemed a bit chaotic because of the turmoil in the city.

Originally, everyone in the palace was busy due to the emperor's abdication ceremony tomorrow, the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

Now there is turmoil in the city. Soldiers and horses from the various battalions of the Imperial Guard rushed into the palace and stationed themselves in various places, making the palace suddenly full of people.

In the midst of chaos and order.

The cabinet ministers, headed by Ren Hengtai, the chief assistant of the cabinet, left the Wenyuan Pavilion and entered the Wenhua Hall.

Inside the Wenhua Hall.

Tomorrow is the day of the abdication ceremony, but the prince Zhu Biao, as the protagonist, seems very calm.

Only when Ren Hengtai and others rushed in did they cause a burst of noise in the side hall.

Zhu Biao frowned slightly as he looked at the people rushing in front of him.

"Your Highness, it's time to stop this evil trend in the city!"

Ren Hengtai had a rare firm tone and tough attitude.

A smile flashed across Zhu Biao's eyes, but his face looked confused: "What's wrong?"

Ren Hengtai was a little anxious: "Your Highness! Today in the city, there must be someone behind it. Tomorrow is the abdication ceremony of the country and the dynasty, which is the most important thing. If we don't calm down the turmoil and stop the evil wind, I will never dare to think about tomorrow. So what happens?”

As a conservative in the cabinet, Ren Hengtai showed a rare toughness.

If it weren't for national laws and court rules.

He wished he could order the Beijing army to enter the city now, drive away the people who had gathered in the city, and then ask the Jin Yiwei to send more people to track down the rats hiding in the dark, and send them all to prison.

Punish with the most brutal torture methods in the world.

Zhu Biao put down a memorial in his hand.

In fact, there is nothing interesting about this memorial.

It's nothing more than flattery sent in from the local government.

Since the beginning of the year, such memorials have begun to increase.

Probably because of the content of these memorials, the General Secretary and the Cabinet did not keep them as firewood, and sent them all to the Wenhua Palace.

Zhu Biao put down the memorial and looked at Ren Hengtai and others, with a calm and smiling expression on his face.

"Quiet the turmoil and stop the evil wind?"

"Then just follow the people's request and depose the great grandson."

(End of this chapter)