Invincible Zhengde

Chapter 460
After listening to his younger brother's words, Liao Zhong also fell into deep thought.Obviously things are not as simple as I thought.

Looking up at his younger brother, Liao Zhong asked, "Then why are they here this time?"

Liao Yuan said helplessly, "They want us to cooperate."

"Cooperate?" Liao Zhong said with a sneer: "They want to rebel and kill His Highness the Crown Prince. This is a crime of copying and beheading the whole family, and they might kill the nine clans. Let's cooperate, how can we cooperate? Do you think they can do it?"

Liao Yuan shook his head, but said hesitantly: "After all, there are not many people around His Royal Highness, maybe..."

"No possibility." Liao Zhong interrupted his younger brother and said, "Don't you know about His Royal Highness? Has His Highness been defeated in all these years? Who are His Royal Highness's Black Dragon Army? Who are they? Elites who have been on the battlefield and killed people without blinking an eye! We alone are not enough for others to stick between their teeth."

"When His Highness the Crown Prince went out for the first time, five thousand black dragon troops killed ten thousand cavalry. How old was His Highness the Crown Prince at that time? At that time, the Black Dragon Army had just formed an army, but they achieved such a record."

"What about now? His Royal Highness doesn't personally lead the army anymore. Do you know how strong the Black Dragon Army is now? Do you know that His Royal Highness brought all the Black Dragon Guards this time? Let alone us, even if there are another 1 people , 2, or even 5 people were defeated by His Royal Highness."

"Who are these people under our command? Will they be willing to sacrifice their lives for us? You must know that if we rebel, maybe our heads will be chopped off directly, and we will go to His Royal Highness to ask for credit."

"You have to know that there are people from His Royal Highness in my barracks now. At that time, we didn't even do anything, and the people were gone. This kind of thing must not be done!"

Seeing his elder brother's resolute attitude, Liao Yuan smiled wryly and said: "But I have nothing to do. His Royal Highness has been arresting people in the city these days, and chopped some people at the gate of the city a few days ago. We really found out If not, we will die.”

"In short, it's a dead end, why not give it a try? Maybe one day you will be a prince and general."

Glancing at his younger brother, Liao Zhong saw the madness in his eyes.

Liao Zhong narrowed his eyes, pressed the hilt of the sword at his waist with his right hand, and said, "You'd better explain the matter to me, otherwise I won't let you leave here today. I can't let you drag The whole family is going to die."

Seeing his elder brother like this, Liao Yuan calmed down instantly, and said with a wry smile: "These are what they said to me. They said that His Royal Highness will not let us go, we can only take a risk, otherwise there is no way out .”

"You also believe what they say." Liao Zhong gave his younger brother a look and said, "They are a bunch of liars."

Pacing back and forth in the room, Liao Zhong finally stopped, looked at his younger brother and said, "Now tell me about our family, what have you done?"

"As far as you know. We embezzled some fields and sold the silk produced to this gentleman, and there is nothing else. We bought these grains from him. We know there is a problem. But it did it anyway.”

"It's nothing more than money. We've made a lot of money from this over the years, and you know it, brother. We look good, but in fact we're not that good. If we don't have money, we can't do anything. The family will also fall, so the money must be earned."

Glancing at his younger brother, Liao Zhong said, "I didn't say it's wrong for you to make money. It's always been like this in the past, everyone did it, and it's understandable for our family to do it. But if you do it, you have to take responsibility, and if you make a mistake, you have to admit it. When we are beaten, we have to stand upright. We can’t think about other things, and nothing will happen unless someone checks. But now that something like this has happened, we can’t hide if we want to.”

"Get ready and follow me to see His Highness the Crown Prince. Let's confess our guilt and tell all about this gentleman. As for how His Highness the Crown Prince will deal with us, that's up to His Highness the Crown Prince." Liao Zhong said expressionlessly.

"What if we are executed all over the house?" Liao Yuan raised his head and looked at his brother with red eyes.

"That's our fault too." Liao Zhong looked at Liao Yuan and said with a sinking face: "But you must not rebel, that is really a dead end. Let's confess our sins. To be honest, His Royal Highness may leave us a way to survive. .You don’t have to think about anything else, if you don’t want to, I will escort you to go together.”

Liao Yuan looked at Liao Zhong, sighed, and said helplessly: "Okay, listen to the eldest brother. Anyway, it is life or death, we brothers are together. If His Royal Highness is really ransacked by His Royal Highness, there will be one of our two families on the way." Companion, it's pretty neat."

Gently nodding his head, Liao Zhong said, "Then let's go."

By the West Lake, Zhu Houzhao's residence.

Zhu Houzhao looked at the two people kneeling on the ground expressionlessly, and said coldly: "I didn't expect such a thing to happen in Zhejiang, and I didn't expect you to hide it from me. It seems that Bengong seems to be I did something wrong. Is this palace too soft-hearted? I should have killed you last time."

The two people kneeling on the ground were Han Tai, the chief minister of Zhejiang, and Zhou Yi, the chief inspector of Zhejiang.

Two people knelt on the ground.Hearing Zhu Youxiao's words, he quickly said, "The minister is guilty."

At this moment, Zhou Yi spoke first.He said helplessly: "His Royal Highness, the ministers do have selfish intentions."

"Then let's talk about it." Zhu Hou looked at Zhou Yi and said expressionlessly.

"The last time I confessed to His Highness the Crown Prince, although His Highness asked us to take the blame and make meritorious deeds, we also know that the crime is heinous. If we don't do something, there is no way to recover."

"We thought of this gentleman. It's just that we don't have evidence in hand. We want to capture him first, and then send him to His Royal Highness. But when we went, he had already run away."

"We have asked our subordinates to investigate. His Royal Highness can ask our subordinates, and they can all testify for us. We wanted to wait until we caught this person before reporting to His Royal Highness, but we didn't expect them to be so courageous. "

Zhu Hou looked at Han and Tai, nodded, and asked, "How do you know that he did the assassination?"

"Go back to His Royal Highness, he sent someone to look for the two of us." This time it was Han Tai who spoke.

Han Tai said a little excitedly: "He threatened us, saying that if we don't comply, our criminal evidence will be published. We will also die at that time; instead of dying, we should fight with him."

Zhu Houzhao nodded.Then he asked him, "What about the person you are familiar with? Don't tell me that the person is not there. Whether the person ran away or died, you can't get rid of it."

"Go back to His Royal Highness, no, that person didn't run away. He was captured alive by us." Zhou Yi on the side quickly said: "Now he is outside. We really regret it, and we will definitely not join forces with them. Maybe we are a little greedy , embezzled some money, but will never betray Daming. Although our conscience is not much left, our loyalty to Daming is still there."

Han Tai on the side nodded quickly, and cursed and swore: "We are loyal to Daming, and please His Highness the Crown Prince, please learn from us."

Zhu Houzhao glanced at Yang Lian beside him, and then said, "Take that person down for interrogation, and see if you can find out anything. If you can, then take someone to arrest him."

"Yes, His Royal Highness, the servants will do it." After saying this.Yang Lian turned around and strode out.

Zhu Houzhao sat on the chair.He reached out to pick up the teacup and took a sip, but he didn't intend to make the two of them stand up.Apparently he was dissatisfied with the fact that the two men had kept this matter from him.

But Zhu Houzhao already knew that there was such a person, but he didn't know who it was.

Because Chen Laosan of Qiqizhai had put this person down a long time ago.If he hadn't been able to find anyone, Zhu Houzhao would have sent someone over to take care of it.

Zhu Houzhao also knew what Han and Tai said, because he knew that these two people had been hiding it from him.Originally, I thought about killing them together when something happened, but I didn't expect them to run out by themselves.

Glancing at Liu Jin beside him, Zhu Houzhao asked slowly: "Have they handed over all their family wealth?"

"Back to His Royal Highness, everything has been handed in. The slaves have already checked, and they have nothing but some fields in their hometown, and all the shop titles have been handed in."

Zhu Houzhao nodded, then looked at the two and said, "Not bad.

Alright, that's the end of this matter, go back and get on with your errands!As for how to deal with you in the end, I will report it to my father, and I think there will be a result.As for whether there is a good result, it depends on how hard you work. "

According to their crimes of dereliction of duty and corruption, if they were in Taizu's time, it would be appropriate to cut off their heads.

But at his father's place, it is estimated that he will be sentenced to exile and will not be beheaded.If they made contributions in the follow-up matters, then they would probably be given a lighter punishment, but it still depends on themselves.

When Zhu Houzhao said so, it was tantamount to letting them live.

Han and Tai quickly knelt down and kowtowed, praising Zhu Houzhao in their mouths.

But Zhu Houzhao waved his hands expressionlessly, motioning for the two to back down.

Han and Tai didn't dare to say much, they just turned and left.

After the two left, Zhu Houzhao threw the teacup out of his hand.

Zhu Houzhao was not angry with Han and Tai, but to vent the anger suppressed in his heart.

Because Zhu Houzhao knew that Han and Tai were not special cases, and it didn't mean that he killed them and it was over, but that the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty was like this.

All the two big officials in Zhejiang Province fell into it.Even the original governor of Zhejiang is the same, and the newly appointed Zhang Xian just hasn't had time.

Zhang Xianming knew that there was a problem here but did not submit a memorial. What does this mean?He himself said that he had no objection, but in Zhu Houzhao's view, Zhang Xian was preparing to join forces.

It's just that the conditions between the two parties have not been discussed yet. Once the conditions are right, Zhang Xian will immediately fall into the arms of these people.

This is the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty, and this is the senior officials of the Ming Dynasty.This is the case in Zhejiang, what about other officials of the Ming Dynasty?

Will it be better than them?

In Zhu Houzhao's view, no, it will definitely be worse than this; even if it is good, it will not be much better.

No official can stand the investigation, as long as there is an investigation, there will be problems.

This reality makes Zhu Houzhao feel powerless, which is also the source of his anger.

As for that gentleman, Zhu Houzhao can guess where he is from.He was able to transport the silk away. To put it bluntly, he was a smuggler, and he dared to assassinate himself.

If this kind of person said that it had nothing to do with Jiangxi, even if Zhu Houzhao was killed, he would not believe it.

Otherwise, where would his food come from?

It can be said that the situation in several provinces in the south of the Yangtze River is estimated to be similar.

Perhaps the original situation was not so bad, but Zhu Houzhao's cleaning operations in Yangzhou and the salt field still left some traces after all.

At the beginning, Zhu Houzhao didn't go to arrest all of them, and he didn't investigate to the end. As a result, Jiangnan is now in chaos.

Clearly these men have not repented, and after they were out of the salt business, they set their sights elsewhere.

Some of them went to Zhejiang to cultivate fields, and then went to sea to smuggle them; those who were radical among them might have colluded with Jiangxi. Under such circumstances, their power and destructive power were obviously much greater.

Holding down the knife in his hand, Zhu Houzhao's eyes flickered.

He doesn't want to waste any more time here now, and originally thought he could delay for a few more years, waiting for King Ning to rebel.But now it seems that it can no longer be delayed.

King Ning's strength developed very fast, and he grew very powerfully.

It's not that he didn't do anything to King Ning, even if he was allowed to develop for a few more years, Zhu Houzhao was not afraid of him.

It's just that Zhu Houzhao can no longer let King Ning mess up like this in the future. If it really goes on like this, the whole Jiangnan will not be able to take it by then, so he can only send soldiers to Jiangnan to wash the land.

It is a great loss to myself to wash such a good place thoroughly.

Then force King Ning to turn against him once, and use this opportunity to let him die completely.

Glancing at Liu Jin standing beside him, Zhu Houzhao said, "Bring a pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and study ink for me. I want to write a letter."

"Yes, His Royal Highness, the servant girl will go right away." Liu Jin dared not neglect, and quickly agreed.

Things were brought over soon.

This first letter Zhu Houzhao was naturally written to his father.

In the letter, Zhu Houzhao did not hide anything, and told the old man everything that happened here, and then wrote his own guesses, and at the same time told the old man how he prepared.

In addition, the rest of the letter was written to his confidant ministers, asking them to cooperate with his actions this time.

As for Zhu Houzhao's method, it is actually very simple.That is to change a fief for King Ning.

Didn't Daming already recover Daning?Isn't that the fief of your King Ning?
Now return it to you, do you go or go?
This is Zhu Houzhao's plan to draw salary from the bottom of the pot.

(End of this chapter)