First Prince of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 234 Yongjia Hou

In the evening, Zhu Biao's subjects were all waiting in the main hall, and Zhu Xi and others also returned. The three princes walked into the house with a straight face, which immediately made the atmosphere more dignified. At this time, Zhu Biao was still alone in the study, without People know how His Highness the Crown Prince will deal with this matter.

The three Zhu Xi brothers sat on the chairs, and the rest of them knelt down and saluted one after another. Except for Fei Ju, they were not high enough in rank, so they wouldn't need to salute normally, but now the three princes were obviously in a bad mood, so naturally they all followed the rules carefully.

Zhu Xi raised his hand and said in a deep voice: "Get up, everyone here is my eldest brother's confidantes, and these days are also working together with us. If any of you are involved in this matter, stand up now, This king can also intercede for you, at least save your life."

The other two princes also nodded. Xu Yungong, Chang Mao and others would naturally not participate in this kind of thing. Guo Chong, Zhang Fan, Wu Bozong and others were not so short-sighted, and those with guilty consciences had already knelt outside.

After expressing that they had absolutely nothing to do with this matter, the three Zhu Xi brothers stopped talking. The opportunity has already been given, and if they fail to grasp it, they don’t blame other people. exhausted.

Zhu Biao in the study took a sip of tea and told Liu Jin who was beside him: "Let the second and fourth come over, the people outside should leave, and we will deal with the rest tomorrow."

Liu Jin bowed and promised, and Zhu Biao put down the letter in his hand. It would not be difficult to find out if the incident happened, not to mention those timid ones had already taken the initiative to explain what they had done, and only hoped that the crown prince would be able to deal with it lightly.

According to their confessions, the highest official that can be found is the Tongjuan of Fengyang Prefecture who colluded with the prefect of Huai'an along the coast, and the two worked together to ship the materials directly to the north for sale.

But Zhu Biao naturally didn't believe it. It was impossible for these two people and a group of low-end officials to do this. Their energy alone was not enough to support these materials to leave Fengyang Mansion.

Now because there are princes and three princes in Fengyang Mansion, the entire Fengyang territory has been under martial law. The transportation of such a large amount of materials will inevitably require a large number of convoys. If you want to leave, you must go through the inspection of the garrison.

These civil servants couldn't reach the generals, so Zhu Biao thought that there must be a military general Xungui involved, but he still can't be sure who it is, but if he continues to investigate like this, he will not be able to escape sooner or later. Quan Xu has already started to investigate.

After a while, Zhu Xi and Zhu Di walked in, and after saluting, Zhu Xi said, "Brother, why don't you just take down all these guys, just as everyone in the corrupt official camp is about to die."

Zhu Biao knocked on the table and said: "The big fish are not in a hurry to take the bait, and the small fish and shrimp can't escape. You two take my warrant to go to Suzhou, Yingzhou, and Sizhou to dispatch city guards to protect Bozhou."

Zhu Di said suspiciously: "How much combat power they have, it's better to call the Marquis of Pingliang to lead elite soldiers, could it be..."

Zhu Di realized what he had said in the middle of his sentence. He saluted Zhu Biao with Zhu Xi and hurried out, planning to rush to the four states overnight. Fortunately, Fengyang Mansion is so big, and the states are not far away.

After sending them out, Liu Jin said worriedly: "Master, wouldn't it be better to invite the Marquis of Pingliang to enter the city alone? His whole family is in the capital, so he must not dare to disobey His Highness's order."

Zhu Biao said with a smile: "It's just in case, those who do this will not be lucky."

As I said just now, all roads in Fengyang Mansion are under martial law, no matter how you go, it is impossible to escape and be inspected by soldiers. No matter who gives the order to let them go, they will not be able to get around Fei Ju, the commander of Fengyang army.

Now most of Zhu Biao's subordinates have arrived, only Fei Ju, Marquis of Pingliang, sent a letter stating that they can arrive in the coming day. Fengyang Mansion is only a big place, even if there is wind and snow blocking it, it will take several hours to lead the army to attack.

It can be seen that Fei Ju has something to do with this matter, but he doesn't know whether it is the mastermind or the accomplice, but no matter what he did, he failed Zhu Biao's trust in him, and Zhu Biao felt a little regretful. Fei Ju, he added it on purpose.

I was thinking about his past achievements and wanted to get him out of Hu Weiyong, but I didn't expect that this person would go astray in the end, and now the elite brought by Zhu Biao is in his hands, and Zhu Biao will not be good for a while Send someone to take it down directly, otherwise it is easy to cause trouble.

However, although those elites belonged to Commander Fei Ju, the middle-level generals would not watch Fei Ju rebel. They were afraid that in case the thief shouted to catch the thief, taking advantage of the unknown situation, they threatened that His Highness the Crown Prince was being held hostage, and directly led troops to attack Bozhou. .

Since ancient times, emperors have disliked military generals because of this. Generals have to be cautious no matter what they do with military power, otherwise the emperor will wipe their ass if there is trouble.

Of course, the chances of this happening could not be lower. After all, Zhu Biao always has a chance to survive. If he rebels, there is only one dead end. Now is not the time to have tens of thousands of soldiers and horses to rule the world.

The second and fourth children were sent to guard overnight to dispel their delusions. Zhu Biao's own generals rebelled. Even if they were suppressed and killed in the end, he would be the one who spread the news and was ashamed.

After another two hours, Liu Jin walked in and said, "Master, the people kneeling outside have all froze to death."

Zhu Biao took a sip of hot tea and nodded, "It's still sensible, and their family members will not pursue it. Let someone carry it back."

Liu Jin went out to make arrangements, while Zhu Biao was waiting for Quan Xu's news. After more than an hour, Quan Xu walked in with a frosty air. Xu also understood, so he didn't approach Zhu Biao after entering the house, and just knelt down to salute.

Zhu Biao waved him to sit aside, and Liu Jin served a bowl of ginger tea to dispel the cold. Naturally, Quan Xu was too cold to ride a horse late at night in winter, so he quickly took a big gulp to recover some energy.

Zhu Biao was not in a hurry to urge him, and asked after seeing that his expression was much more comfortable: "Fei Juke has changed, has the mastermind been found out?" "

Quan Xu said in a deep voice: "The Marquis of Pingliang sent a general to pass the news overnight, and the minister tortured him after taking it down. Finally, he learned that the news was going to Zhu Liangzu, the Marquis of Yongjia who guarded the Xuzhou Mansion."

Zhu Biao frowned after hearing this. He didn't expect that there were other nobles involved, and it seemed that Zhu Liangzu was the mastermind. After all, Fei Ju was a man and Zhu Biao knew a little about him during the past few months. Not enough to plot corruption.

This matter is a bit difficult to deal with. After all, the people involved are beyond Zhu Biao's current jurisdiction. He can make a decision with any official in Fengyang Mansion, which is also the tacit consent of the court.

But now the prefect of Huai’an involved, the Marquis of Yongjia in Xuzhou needs an order from the imperial court to take it down. After all, Zhu Biao only received the errand of relocation. It is against the rules to directly take down Dazhou officials without the emperor. Can't do that either.

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(End of this chapter)