The eldest grandson of Emperor Ming Dynasty!

Chapter 335 Blood Stained Capital

In Kunning Palace, Zhu Ying was reviewing the memorial.

Seeing the time for dinner, he casually asked Guo Zhong who had been waiting by the side: "Grandfather has arrived at Qianqing Palace now, what is the arrangement for dinner?"

Having breakfast and dinner with grandpa every day is already a must for Zhu Ying.

Whenever I didn't go, someone in charge came over.

The reason why Zhu Ying asked the question today was because he felt it was a little strange. As usual, Liu He had already come to urge him.

Guo Zhong was a little flustered when he heard this, and he hesitated for a moment before replying; "Your Majesty is dealing with affairs in the Huagai Palace at the moment. Not long ago, an eunuch was sent over to ask for today's meal, and he sent it directly to His Highness."

Zhu Ying immediately noticed the panic.

He turned his head to look at Guo Zhong, examining him.

Under His Highness Taisun's eyes, Guo Zhong avoided subconsciously and lowered his head a little guilty.

"Yueqing didn't come over today, but she seemed relatively clean."

Zhu Ying said calmly.

Guo Zhong didn't dare to speak.

"Tell me, what happened in the end, you have to know that it is very difficult to hide this palace, is it possible that this palace can restrain me?"

Hearing His Highness Taisun's flat tone, Guo Zhong knew that he was already unhappy, so he knelt on the ground in fright, not daring to speak.

"I'm going to Grandpa's place now, everything will come to an end naturally. But you, as my close confidant, what should you do."

Zhu Ying already guessed that it was probably the old man's handwriting, but Guo Zhong's attitude made Zhu Ying feel uncomfortable.

He doesn't want a close confidant like Guo Zhong to hide something from him no matter when or what the situation is.

Guo Zhong knew in his heart that he was following His Highness the Grandson, and at this moment, he could no longer hesitate. If he lost the trust of His Highness the Grandson because of this, the loss outweighed the gain.

Even if he was punished by His Majesty, it doesn't matter which one is more serious. It is obvious that Guo Zhong gritted his teeth and said directly: "Your Highness, someone outside the palace conspired to assassinate His Highness today, and Jin Yiwei got the news in advance and arrested him."

"Your Majesty was so furious that he ordered the capital to be sealed off, a large army to be sent into the city, and the entire city searched."

"In order to prevent His Highness from worrying about this matter, it is specially decreed not to disturb His Highness."

Zhu Ying was a little upset at first, and suddenly disappeared.

Assassinate me?
Make no mistake.

As soon as the assassination happened, a figure jumped out of Zhu Ying's mind.

What is Zhu Di doing? He didn't kill him in Peking, and he didn't kill him in the capital. Now that I'm a grandson, if he wanted to assassinate me, could it be that he wanted to kill him?
Undoubtedly, Zhu Ying's first thought was Zhu Di, King of Yan.

Looking at Daming, only Zhu Di has the guts and thought to do so.

And recently, Zhu Di has this ability, commanding an army of more than [-]. With Zhu Di's personal charm, Zhu Ying believes that he has gained many friends in the army.

Prior to Beiping, Zhu Ying knew that Zhu Di had an organization similar to Jinyiwei, which was dedicated to Zhu Di's personal service. If anyone wanted to do something, this organization was the only one.

Thinking of this, Zhu Ying suddenly smiled.

Obviously, under the old man's Jinyi guard, Zhu Di's side was still not qualified, and he was caught before he even made a move.

Zhu Ying got up and wanted to ask what was the situation of this assassination.

Most importantly, has fourth uncle been arrested?

Seeing that His Royal Highness was about to go to the Huagai Palace, Guo Zhong quickly winked at the eunuch at the farthest distance, and the little eunuch immediately understood, and quietly withdrew from His Royal Highness's sight, and then ran quickly.

Zhu Ying saw it and didn't care.

These are eunuchs, the way of life.

In the Huagai Palace, five books of ministers gathered, and there were also the governors of the Dudu Mansion, including Lan Yu, who were also here.

In the middle, Jiang Yu was reporting everything Jin Yiwei had collected so far, and Zhu Yuanzhang listened with a gloomy face.

"That is to say, among these people, there are not only the ministers in the court, the chambers of commerce in various places, the gangs of the Jingshi Wharf, and even the foreign ministers are involved."

Zhu Yuanzhang asked in a cold voice.

Jiang Yu bit the bullet and nodded heavily.

He really can't help it. The current case can only be made bigger. If he tells His Majesty, Gu Shuanggui who said this is just a complaint.

Heh, I'm afraid that the first one to lose his head will be him, Jiang Yu.

At present, only such a situation can meet His Majesty's ideas.

Zhu Yuanzhang's face was gloomy, and his complexion was not good today, anyone could feel the coming storm.

The current situation is that the deeper the investigation, the more people involved.

At this time, a little eunuch came to the door, and after Liu He responded, he went to Zhu Yuanzhang and whispered in his ear: "Your Majesty, Your Highness Taisun knows."

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded when he heard the words.

From the very beginning, Zhu Yuanzhang didn't want Dasun to know about the assassination of Dasun.

Or let grandson know for the time being.

He knew Dasun's character, so he didn't think too much about getting too involved and killing too many people.

But Zhu Yuanzhang is different. Anyone who dares to touch the eldest grandson must die.

Must kill, kill fiercely.

Only when enough people are killed, others will be afraid, and when they are afraid, they will not dare to move such crooked thoughts.

In fact, in Zhu Yuanzhang's heart, he probably knew some key points. After all, Jiang Yu dared not lie on the dossier.

Zhu Yuanzhang just glanced at the file that was sent up, and then put it aside.

Some things do not require too much evidence, or the depth of investigation, as long as this matter must be vigilant, it is enough.

"Dasun is not suitable to be this executioner. We have already killed a lot of people in our hands, and if there are more, that's it. '

Zhu Yuanzhang never thought of letting go of this case.

Seeing that the eldest grandson was about to come, Zhu Yuanzhang directly issued an order to Jiang Yu: "According to the information we have now, anyone who is involved will be arrested and brought to justice. After interrogation, they will be executed immediately."

Everyone was startled, and Jiang Yu asked even more: "Your Majesty, there are currently hundreds of people involved in this case, please show Your Majesty."

Hearing this, Zhu Yuanzhang frowned and said: "How can there be only a few hundred people who are planning to assassinate the grandson of today. Among them, there must be more people who are manipulating behind the scenes. If you continue to investigate, you will be implicated. No one can be let go." .”

"Especially the Gu family, we let them come from the south of the Yangtze River, I'm afraid we don't think of our good in our hearts, among them, other family members are also secretly colluding, waiting for opportunities."

"This time, these people must be uprooted, so that no future troubles will be left!"

Jiang Yu immediately bowed and said, "Observe the order."

At this moment, his heart trembled, and the heartbeats of the civil and military officials present even slowed down by half a beat.

This implication, who can not know.

Your Majesty thinks that a few hundred people are too few, and the scope should be further expanded.

I'm afraid that if there are not thousands of people, this case cannot be stopped.

Jiang Yu led the decree to go out, and happened to meet Zhu Ying coming over.

"I have seen His Royal Highness."

Zhu Ying nodded slightly, glanced at Jiang Yu, but still didn't say anything.

In fact, the current him should know what the old man thinks in his heart.

After entering the door, the governors of all the prefectures and the ministers of all the ministries were there. Seeing His Royal Highness Taisun appear, they hurriedly saluted.

"Let's all go out, let's have a chat with Dasun alone."

Zhu Yuanzhang drove them away, and soon there were only two grandparents left in the room.

"Grandpa, grandson heard that someone is going to assassinate me?"

Zhu Ying asked frankly, of course, the object of his suspicion is Yan Wang Zhu Di.

Zhu Yuanzhang said: "This time, some of us made mistakes. These people who want to assassinate mainly come from the rich households we once migrated from the Jiangnan area. It may be Dasun's chamber of commerce, which has moved their interests."

"Just sit together and do the assassination. Everyone has already been arrested and interrogated in Jinyiwei's imperial prison. If you want to come to the back, you will almost be caught."

Hearing this, Zhu Ying was a little surprised.

It wasn't Zhu Di who conspired to assassinate him?
Instead, a group of businessmen?
It's not that he underestimates businessmen, but that Zhu Ying's connections and control over the current business are extremely high.

Once there is news of the assassination, he should know it.

Furthermore, it is difficult for individual businessmen to have this strength.

Zhu Ying continued to ask: "Grandpa, how did you deal with the assassin?"

Zhu Yuanzhang snorted coldly, and said: "What else can I do, if you dare to assassinate the grandson, you will kill the nine clans."

Zhu Ying's heart trembled.

Killing the nine clans can be said to kill all the relatives of the perpetrator.

In today's Qing Dynasty with strong clan relations, almost a village was directly slaughtered.

What is the concept of the Nine Clans? Those who are almost a little bit related by blood have to be implicated.

According to the current Ming law, there are nine families in total, including father, four mothers, three wives and two wives.

Counting from the father, the relatives within four generations, the mother within three generations, and the wife within two generations are all implicated.

To put it simply, the father-in-law's family, including the mother-in-law's natal family, must also be implicated.

You must know that in this society, the so-called married daughter is the water that has been poured out. In theory, it has no connection.

But the Nine Clans are on it, and even the mother-in-law's natal family has to be killed.

Some of them are relatively distant, and maybe they don't even know Gu Shuanggui, but when they were arrested, they were all arrested according to their household registration and genealogy.

what is this concept?It is equivalent to a person who works well in one place and has not committed any crimes, but suddenly one day someone cuts off his head.

The reason is that one of his brothers from the clan who can't reach him has committed a crime. Even if he doesn't know his name, he will inevitably die. Who knows that he belongs to the same clan!
"Grandpa, does the Zhu Jiu Clan involve too many people? My grandson thinks it's just the Yi Clan."

Zhu Ying hesitated for a moment, and persuaded.

Relatively speaking, the Yi family is a weakened version of the Zhu family, and it was used most frequently during the Eastern Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms period.

It refers to the three groups of father, son and grandson.

That is, all my father's brothers, all my brothers and all my sons.

And there is no killing of women in the family.It also does no harm to cousins, cousins, cousins, and cousins.

However, under normal circumstances, female relatives were punished for multiple crimes and sent to the Jiaofang Division.

Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head and said, "Grandson, sometimes if you want to scare people, you must have enough people to fill them. We know you don't want to implicate too many people. Among them, we also know that there are many wronged people."

"However, only in this way can some people's eagerness to move will be extinguished, and only in this way can the majesty of our old Zhu's family be established."

"Let the subjects of this world know clearly that no one in our old Zhu family can touch them. Even if it is such a thought, we should wipe out the nine clans and burn incense!"

Hearing this, Zhu Ying was silent for a while, and didn't say much.

Naturally, he would not ask about Zhu Di.

But at this moment, the real turmoil in the entire capital began to descend.

With a fierce expression on his face, Jiang Yu brought dozens of Jinyiwei to the Jinyiwei yamen.

"Boss, His Majesty has peace orders."

Song Zhong had been waiting for a long time, and when he saw it, he immediately came up and asked.

Jiang Yu replied briefly: "This arrest is based on the number of three thousand."

Song Zhong was shocked, and he said hesitantly, "Boss, your Majesty's dossier has been handed over."

Jiang Yu took a deep look at Song Zhong and said, "Your Majesty has read the file, but such things as assassinating the grandson cannot be taken lightly."

"Catch it along the way, there are hundreds of thousands of people in these chambers of commerce, and if it's not enough, follow his friends all the way."

Song Zhong bowed and said, "This subordinate understands."

Gu Shuanggui, as a wealthy family in the south of the Yangtze River, has many friends even after migrating here.

It's a pity that these friends, one by one, turned into ghosts under the sword.

Following Jin Yiwei's departure, the entire capital began to become chaotic.

The occurrence of a major case has caused a storm in the capital, which is extremely shocking. These Jinyiwei are not easy to talk about.

Especially in the streets where wealthy households in the south of the Yangtze River lived, groups of Jin Yiwei rushed over without any scruples.

But if there is an obstacle, he will just draw his sword and cut him. In most places, he will kill him directly.

3000 people are too many, and it is difficult for Jin Yiwei's prison to hold them. It is said that they will be executed at a later date after being arrested, but in the current situation, these implicated people do not need to go through the three-divisional trial at all, and the case is finalized directly up.

Jin Yiwei's reputation is very bad, and it has something to do with their behavior habits.

For example, if a passer-by just stopped to take a few more glances, he would most likely be directly arrested, or even killed on the spot.

The streets are quiet and quiet. It is just dusk, but all the shops and houses have closed their doors.

According to the list, Jin Yiwei kicked open a certain gate, and went in to arrest him directly.

Jin Yiwei is very efficient.

This case of assassinating the grandson started in the morning and was almost finished in the afternoon.

In ancient times, such a speed was unimaginable, but it happened in the capital.

This is the real Jin Yiwei. When he goes into action with all his strength, no one can escape in the huge capital.

This catch and kill lasted all night, because there were too many places involved, after all, the whole of Nanjing is also very big.

Most of the action is Jinyiwei, and the other armies are only maintaining the curfew, and there are not enough manpower.

And when the next morning came, the streets of the capital were filled with a strong smell of blood.

(End of this chapter)