Follow Zhu Yuanzhang to conquer the country

Chapter 124: Home raids, Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhang Cheng teach Guo Tianxu to see the truth!
Ma couldn't help but look pale, and she felt a little unsteady on her feet.

Seeing this, Zhu Yuanzhang hurriedly supported her.

"Sister, don't be impatient. Let's ask Xu Da carefully about this matter."

then.

Zhu Yuanzhang persuaded Ma and looked at Xu Da and said, "Is this serious?"

"As if it were true."

"Our people got a handwritten letter from Xue Youliang, the governor, promising to give Dr. Xu three hundred taels of silver afterwards."

Xu Da said and gave the book to Zhu Yuanzhang.

Zhu Yuanzhang took the handwritten letter and asked: "What is Xue Youliang doing now?"

"These days, he has been in a brothel called Zuihonglou."

Xu Da replied.

After Zhu Yuanzhang said this, he looked at Ma and said, "Sister, please do your best and ask your godmother to come to the political affairs hall of the front office and tell her about this."

Xu Da nodded.

Ma nodded and went out holding her belly.

Zhu Yuanzhang choked up, and after speaking, he handed the letter to Zhang Tianyou: "Someone has plotted to kill my father!"

After thinking for a long time, Zhu Yuanzhang said: "This matter is not trivial. We must gather in the political hall as soon as possible."

Xu Da replied.

At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang was sitting in the first place, and said with a blushing face: "Because a major case just happened, I sent the news to you overnight."

"it is good!"

Later, Zhu Yuanzhang asked again: "Has the doctor Xu Tai taken control?"

Zhu Yuanzhang ordered Li Wenzhong and Zhu Wenying to follow Ma, and at the same time asked Zhu Wenzheng to inform Xing Zhongshu, Sheng Pingzhang, Zuo Cheng and Shenzhen to gather at the political hall.

After Zhu Yuanzhang said this, Zhang Tianyou asked: "What big case?"

Zhang Cheng, Guo Tianxu, Zhang Tianyou, Li Shanchang, Feng Guoyong, and Shao Rong arrived at the political hall and sat down in their respective seats.

"Although our school inspector had no time to notify us, we had already sent people to keep an eye on him, so we tracked him out of the city and captured him. Now it's about Jizo Temple outside the city."

Less than half an hour.

"What did you say?"

Zhu Yuanzhang immediately ordered: "Take him!"

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded after hearing this and began to think deeply.

Now that everyone is in power discussing affairs together in the political hall, Zhu Yuanzhang also changed his title.

"My uncle needs to make the decision on this matter!"

Zhang Tianyou then hurriedly read the letter in his hand, and was immediately shocked and said: "How can this not make sense? It really makes no sense!"

Guo Tianxu also stood up at this time and asked: "My father was murdered?"

"Pingzhang will know by looking at it himself."

Zhu Yuanzhang said.

Zhang Tianyou has already handed the handbook to Guo Tianxu.

Guo Tianxu also started to look at it, and after looking at it, he said: "This is the case, why would someone named Xue do this!"

"Yes!"

"Why did he do this!"

"Judging from the handwriting, it is indeed his handwriting!"

Zhang Tianyou also started talking.

Shao Rong couldn't help but ask: "What are you talking about?"

Zhu Yuanzhang ignored Shao Rong and only said to Zhang Tianyou: "We have already sent someone to take the person named Xue! It is said that this person has been fooling around in the brothel recently, so he did not show up today."

At this time, Xu Da came with a group of officials.

When Zhu Yuanzhang saw that he was carrying Xue Youliang, he hurriedly asked: "What's wrong with Xue Youliang?"

Xu Da replied with a gloomy look: "When we rushed there, he had already died."

"what?!"

Guo Tianxu exclaimed.

Zhang Tianyou looked at Zhu Yuanzhang at this time and said: "To silence him, someone must have silenced him in advance, fearing that the Dong Chuang incident would happen. This Xue Youliang is just a pawn in their hands."

"It's my uncle after all!"

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded and said: "We think so too, so we think we should search Xue Youliang's home first to see if we can find any clues from his home!"

Zhang Tianyou said: "This should be done."

Zhu Yuanzhang then looked at Zhang Cheng: "What do you think Mr. Zhang?"

"In order to prevent anyone from taking the opportunity to say anything, the Prime Minister deliberately took this opportunity to accuse Guo Pingzhang of instigating parricide. Please ask Guo Pingzhang to copy it personally!"

"In this way, we can convince the public with whatever we find." "At the same time, please ask Xu Zhenfu to lead people to assist in the search, so that the people around the prime minister can be convinced with whatever is found!"

Zhang Cheng spoke to Zhu Yuanzhang at this time.

Because it was an official occasion, he also treated Zhu Yuanzhang as prime minister.

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded, then looked at Guo Tianxu: "As Mr. Zhang said, it is best for Ping Zhang to copy this matter in person to avoid further misunderstandings."

Guo Tianxu glanced at Zhang Cheng gratefully and nodded: "Then the province should issue an official document immediately!"

soon.

Guo Tianxu took his people and Xu Da's people to Xue Youliang's residence and ransacked Xue Youliang's residence from top to bottom.

Finally, Guo Tianxu and Xu Da copied a book in which Xue Youliang wrote personal notes from Xue Youliang.

Guo Tianxu flipped through the notes and found that Xue Youliang was smug in his notes and said that he had done great service to the court by executing Guo Zixing, and he also instigated Guo Tianxu and Zhu Yuanzhang to turn against each other and let them kill each other, thereby making another great contribution to the court.

In this era, because the Yuan court was very relaxed about cultural restrictions, many people had no scruples about writing. So much so that by the early Ming Dynasty, many literati dared to directly use words to commemorate the Yuan Dynasty.

In addition, in the eyes of many landlords and intellectuals, Yuan Ting is the orthodox and the rebels are bandits. Therefore, even if some of them join the rebels, they will use some methods to try to prove that they are not bandits. One of them is very important. The way to do that is by keeping a diary by taking notes.

Although Xue Youliang was a military general, before he became a general under Guo Zixing, he was actually a down-and-out scholar among the landlord class. Therefore, he also had inner thoughts that he would rather regard Yuan Ting as orthodox, or he might have thought that if he died in battle in the future, the rebels would be behind him. After being wiped out by the Yuan army, people can know through his notes that he was not a traitor who violated loyalty and filial piety, but he just had to endure the humiliation and bear the burden in order to assist the court in wiping out the bandits as soon as possible.

And Xue Youliang did reveal such a reason in his notes.

However, Xue Youliang would not have thought that the rebels would suddenly raid his home, so he would not have guessed that his notes would be seen by the rebels.

After seeing the contents of this note, Guo Tianxu's face became very ugly.

Xu Da also read the notes and took the initiative to say to Guo Tiansu: "Now it seems that this Xue Youliang is a shameless person hiding around the commander. He has always regarded us as thieves."

"Are we really bandits?"

However, Guo Tianxu himself asked this question at this time, obviously having doubts.

"how come?!"

Xu Da smiled and retorted to Guo Tianxu, and then asked: "Who is a bandit who does justice for the people and even builds almshouses? How can any orthodox person use the people as food rations and only give princes and high officials to deceitful people?" Do?"

Guo Tianxu nodded after hearing what Xu Da said, and gritted his teeth and said: "You are right! This Xue Youliang only did such a despicable thing because Hu Yuan seemed to be stronger than the rebels now, not really because Because of his loyalty and integrity, he went behind our back to work for Hu Yuan, harmed our father, and even tried to drive a wedge between us and Guorui!"

"It also has something to do with him. Look at how many gold and jade jewelry he has in his home. It's obvious that he secretly accepts bribes from others!"

"So this person should be corrupt himself, Hu Yuan, who prefers corruption. He will also be dissatisfied with the current rebel commander's actions of cracking down on corruption and asking the prime minister to strictly supervise all political affairs."

"Although people have the desire to seek wealth and honor, they are often greedy and excessive. It is unavoidable that people in our rebel army will also have this kind of situation."

Xu Da knew that neither Zhu Yuanzhang nor Zhang Cheng wanted to push Guo Tianxu directly to the landlord, bureaucratic and reactionary faction, so he took the opportunity to ransack the house with Guo Tianxu and said a few more words.

Guo Tianxu understood what Xu Da said and said, "Let's go! We have to tell my wife and the prime minister that they know about this."

With that said, Guo Tianxu ordered: "Detain all the Xue family members!"

"Yes!"

Not long after.

Guo Tianxu came to the political hall.

At this time, Mrs. Zhang also arrived at the political hall. She cried through the bead curtain and asked, "My son, was your handsome father really killed?"

"Yes!"

"Mother!"

"We copied Xue Youliang's notes from him. In his notes, he blatantly said that he killed my father, the commander-in-chief, to serve Hu Yuan."

As he spoke, Guo Tianxu took out the notes and handed them to Zhu Yuanzhang: "Brother Guorui, you should also take a look."

Zhu Yuanzhang took it.

At the same time, Guo Tianxu said to Zhu Yuanzhang: "Fortunately, brother Qi Guorui got the handwritten letter indicating that Xue Youliang colluded with Xu Tai. Otherwise, the truth about our father's grievances will never be revealed, and we will not know that someone is really thinking of alienating us. .”

As he spoke, Guo Tianxu bowed to Zhang Cheng and said, "Mr. Zhang must have known about such a person for a long time, so he didn't directly join forces with Mr. Li and Feng to get rid of us just because we were close to the Guorui brothers. As expected, Mr. Zhang He is the wise man who sees through people’s hearts!”

"Pingzhang's praise."

Zhang Cheng replied.

"Xu Tai is here!"

Soon.

Doctor Xu Tai was escorted by Tang Shengzong.

Zhu Yuanzhang directly held the handwritten letter in front of Xu Tai and waved it: "Do you recognize this?"

Xu Tai already knew it at this time, so he replied: "I know!"

"Why do you want to harm our handsome father?"

Zhu Yuanzhang asked again.

Xu Tai hurriedly said: "Sir, spare my life! They said that as long as we accomplish this task of exterminating thieves, they will let His Majesty know about our achievements. Not only will we receive a reward of three hundred taels of silver, but we will also be made a medical officer for the imperial court!" I was obsessed for a moment, thinking that Marshal Guo was already seriously ill anyway, so I agreed. They agreed that they would secretly change the medicine shortly after Dashuai Guo left Hezhou and came to Chuzhou, so that Dashuai Guo would die as soon as possible, which would make everyone in Dashuai Guo's headquarters suspicious. It was Mr. Zhu who harmed the commander-in-chief!"

"You are so cruel!"

"Our Guo family has supported you for so many years, but in the end, it's not as good as a verbal promise from the Tatar court?! You actually help them harm the commander-in-chief, and help them alienate our rebel army!"

At this time, Mrs. Zhang couldn't help but question Xu Tailai inside.

(End of this chapter)