Mixed with salted fish in Hongwudang

Chapter 149 His Royal Highness is an Expert in Interrogation!

The reason why Lao Zhu set up another intelligence network besides Jinyiwei was because he was afraid that the fellow Erhu would not know how to measure, and let his eldest grandson do whatever he wanted.

That's why Qin Deshun accepted Wang De as his adopted son. At the same time, he connected the eunuchs of the royal residences in Beijing to form a secret intelligence network to keep an eye on Xiao Nisun for him.

"Did you say something?"

"Before, Wang De sent someone to spread the word that there were students from the Imperial College hand-copied the books of the Third Emperor's Sun for sale, and the Third Emperor's Sun once threatened to catch them all..."

Old Zhu fell down on the bed depressed when he heard this, and scolded a certain rebellious grandson for not opening his eyes.

"This Nisun is out of money's eyes, why doesn't he even let this little money go!"

Seeing the emperor like this, Qin Deshun felt a bit of slander in his heart, as if you always take money lightly.Maybe the problem of the third emperor is learned from you, hehehe...

"Send someone to Beizhen Fusi to keep an eye on it. If the rebellious grandson dares to implicate him wantonly, you don't need to ask for an order, you can tie him up and send him to the palace on the spot!"

"promise!"

……

Beizhen Fusi Prison.

Since Xie Kui was arrested, he has been interrogated repeatedly by several Jin Yiwei.

Although Jin Yiwei didn't torture him, they did torture others.Hearing the sound of ghosts crying and howling wolves coming from the corridor, he was so frightened that he peed several times...

"Several military lords, please forgive me, Wansheng really didn't know that this was breaking the law!"

"The military lords let Wan Sheng go, and Wan Sheng promised not to do this job again after he got out, woo woo woo..."

Xu Liuzi stepped on the chair and stared fiercely at Xie Kui.

"We let you confess to your accomplice!"

"Does your partner know, he is the one who does this business with you!"

"If you don't confess 500 people, you will never get out of here!"

"I... I... woo woo woo..."

Xie Kui almost confessed to his accomplice several times, but he swallowed the words again, leaving only the sound of sobbing.

He knew too well that Jin Yiwei was terrible. Once the students of the Imperial College had anything to do with them, even if they were only framed and arrested, they would be immediately expelled from the school by sacrificial wine!
After all, looking at every yamen in Ming Dynasty, who would dare to fight against Jin Yiwei?
Xu Liuzi had been silently observing Xie Kui's reaction, and seeing that his psychological defense was about to be broken, he couldn't help but yelled at the next door.

"What are you doing over there, why is there no movement, hurry up and make some movement, and let our master scholar listen!"

When the people in the next cell heard the words, they immediately agreed, and then the whip cracked, making the people in the other cell scream.

When Xie Kui heard this movement, his face became paler with fright, and his body trembled even more...

Just when he couldn't bear it any longer, he suddenly heard footsteps and a few jailers' fawning voices.

"Third Emperor's grandson, why are you still here waiting for pickling!"

"You didn't torture anyone, did you?"

"No, no, Master Liu is very gentle this time!"

"Third Highness, this is the cell!"

With a "creaking" sound, the door of the cell was pushed open from the outside, and a young boy in fine clothes walked in.

As soon as Xie Kui saw this person, he immediately crawled over crying.

"Your Majesty, please spare me, Wansheng won't dare anymore, I beg your lord to let Wansheng survive, woo woo woo..."

Zhu Yunxi didn't look at Xie Kui, but at Xu Liuzi first.

"Are you sure the procedure is legal?"

"Don't worry, the grandson of the third emperor, this time is absolutely legal. We have verified that his family's ancestors were married to someone surnamed Hu 100 years ago, and his grandparents came from the surname Hu, so they can barely be identified as the Hu party!"

"However, to be on the safe side, Beizhi just issued a summons document. Now we just send him over to ask a few words. It is definitely not a detention!"

Zhu Yunxi nodded when he heard the words, expressing his satisfaction with Xu Liuzi's civilized law enforcement.

"Just do it like this in the future, and don't let it be true!"

"Understandable!"

"Has this person been recruited?"

"Back to His Royal Highness the Third Emperor, this man is still a bit stubborn, and he has not been recruited until now."

"But the humble job probably won't be able to bear it any longer, and if I starve him twice, I'm sure I can recruit him for anything!"

Zhu Yunwen waved his hands when he heard the words.

"It's fine if you don't recruit, it's not a big deal, just put a few boards on it and let it go!"

"Follow your orders!"

Zhu Yunxi saw a chair next to him, just glanced at it, and immediately Jin Yiwei Xiaoqi wiped it clean with his sleeve, and then moved it over for him.

Zhu Yunxi sat on a chair, chatting with Xie Kui casually.

"I don't ask your accomplices, I just ask about your business."

"I heard that your copy is quite expensive, even more expensive than the genuine ones in bookstores. Is this true?"

Seeing that Kui was still silent, Xu Liuzi couldn't help shouting out.

"The grandson of the third emperor asked you something, but you dare not say it, are you asking for a beating!"

Xie Kui was just shocked at first, but he never thought that Sanwei Bookstore could be related to the emperor's grandson.

Hearing Xu Liuzi's bluff now, he was frightened and went all out.

"I said I said it!"

"Indeed, as the nobleman said, our review version is sold more expensive than the original version..."

Hearing the words, Zhu Yunxi only felt that this was a huge business opportunity, so he couldn't help asking.

"Why is this?"

"Also, who are the people who bought the reviews?"

"Reporting to you, because the review version looks more interesting and lively."

"Some places in the Jinmei vase are too cryptic, and at first glance it is not so clear. But with the review version, it is different. You can directly know where the subtleties are, which adds more fun."

"As for who they are buying... Generally speaking, they are outsiders with a certain wealth, or scholars, juren and so on."

"There are also a lot of foreign students who buy a lot. Their official language is generally not good, and they know one-sided meaning of our Ming Dynasty characters. They don't understand it at all without the commentary version!"

Zhu Yunxi was stunned on the spot after hearing this.

"What did you just say, there are foreign students in our Guozijian?"

"Of course there is!"

"Last year, His Majesty also rewarded more than 70 people including Teng Yushou, the son of the Japanese king, and Yizuo, the son of a native official in Yunnan, with clothes and uniforms!"

"You envy our group of students from Yingtian Prefecture, tsk tsk..."

When Xie Kui said this, there was a clear expression of injustice on his face.

But I can understand it when I think about it. In later generations, I heard that foreign students are subsidized, and domestic students are still broken.

Zhu Yunxi was shocked by Daming's openness. He always thought that Daming was not allowed to go to the sea, but he didn't expect that even the prince of Japan came to Daming to study, and he was in the Imperial College.

"In addition to this, there are dozens of sons of chieftains in Korea, Ryukyu, and the Southwest, plus their followers and accompanying readers. The total number is at least a thousand. They are all willing to buy our review book, and they also Not bad for money..."

"This……"

When Zhu Yunxi heard this, he repeatedly said in his heart that this is a genius!

Such a subdivided market can be grasped by him keenly. If he is thrown hundreds of years later, he will be a unicorn in everything!

"that whoever……"

Xu Liuzi hurriedly reminded.

"Your Highness, his name is Xie Kui!"

"Oh!"

"Student Xie Kui, I will give you a chance now. I wonder if you would like to work for me!"

When Xu Liuzi heard these words, his heart felt faintly sour. The reason why he was running around was because he wanted to hear these words.

As long as you catch the line of the Three Emperors and Grandchildren, not only will you not have to worry about yourself in this life, but even the three generations of descendants will not have to worry about jobs.

However, the stupid scholar in front of him actually heard this sentence before himself!

Xie Kui was stunned for a long time when he heard the words, and when Zhu Yunxi thought that he was looked down upon, he saw that Kui kowtowed to him like crazy.

"Late birth, thanks to the third emperor's grandson!"

"Wansheng is willing to work for the grandson of the Three Emperors, willing to serve as a dog and horse, woo woo woo..."

Xie Kui's sudden performance stunned Zhu Yunxi.

He originally thought that even if the other party agrees, it will take a lot of bargaining, and then he will reluctantly give your royal family a face for the sake of you being the emperor's grandson.

Unexpectedly, the other party knelt so simply and thoroughly that his waist was almost broken in a flash.

"Xie Kui, it's fine if you don't want to, don't deliberately perfunctory me, I'll just find someone else."

Xie Kui cried anxiously when he heard this, grabbed Zhu Yunxi's feet, and refused to let him leave.

"His Royal Highness, Wansheng is sincerely serving you, and I don't mean to be perfunctory for you!"

Seeing what he said, Zhu Yunxi couldn't help asking in doubt.

"Aren't you a student of the Imperial College? It will be easy to become an official in the future. Why do you despise yourself so much?"

"Besides, I haven't said what conditions I can give you, and you agreed without hesitation. It's hard for me to believe!"

After hearing what Zhu Yunxi said, Xie Kui realized that he was too eager to frighten this nobleman.

Then, he brewed his feelings and cried out with a "wow".

"His Royal Highness, you don't know, our Imperial College students are really suffering!"

Seeing him complaining to himself, Zhu Yunxi couldn't help asking.

"How hard it can be, isn't it just memorizing books, and I am forced to memorize books every day by the emperor's grandfather, and I didn't complain!"

"How bitter is it?"

Xie Kui smiled bitterly upon hearing this.

"Let's tell His Royal Highness, since the spring of this year, three people in our Imperial College have hanged themselves!"

"what?"

Zhu Yunxi almost dropped his jaw when he heard this.

Guozijian!
This was the largest teaching institution in the Ming Dynasty, and the court raised a lot of money every year, and then these students hanged themselves?

Zhu Yunxi looked at Xu Liuzi suspiciously, and Xu Liuzi nodded when he saw this.

"His Highness the Third Emperor, this person is not talking nonsense. The Imperial College has indeed hanged many people."

"Six were hanged last year, and seven were hanged the year before last. There are still five months to go this year. By the end of the competition, it is expected that three or five more will be hanged. There is no problem with the number of suicides exceeding last year."

Zhu Yunxi was even more confused when he heard the words, and muttered to himself.

"how so!"

"Isn't a person from the Imperial College able to become an official directly? Why do you have to think so hard?"

Scholars in the early Ming Dynasty were very valuable for raising people. They could not only become officials directly, but also be promoted to very high positions.

As for why this is so, of course, the elimination rate of officials is too high, and there are not enough undergraduate Jinshi...

So Zhu Yunxi couldn't understand why these people committed suicide. In his opinion, no matter how hard it is, as long as they survive for a few years, they can become officials, which is not a loss at all.

Xie Kui cried when he heard the words.

"Report to the nobleman, because the Imperial College is too hard!"

"School burden is hard, life is hard, all kinds of hardships."

"If you want to be an official, you have to go to the government for an internship. Only the Shangguan can pass the examination."

"Many senior brothers have worked for the government for nothing for several years, but they haven't saved a penny, and they haven't been regarded as officials, woo woo woo..."

"A few years ago, there was a senior brother named Zhao Lin who couldn't bear it. He just complained a few times, but His Majesty chopped off his head on the spot and hung it on the pole of the Imperial College for public display!"

When Xu Liuzi heard someone slandering the emperor, he immediately refuted it.

"What nonsense!"

"Did Zhao Lin complain a few words?"

"He wrote big-character posters to scold the masters of the Imperial College. This kind of scum who insults the teachers will not be enough to anger the people if they don't kill them!"

When Zhu Yunxi first heard "a bunch of nonsense", he had a faint hope in his heart, thinking that someone was slandering the bad old man, but he didn't want to go through Xu Liuzi's refutation and directly give this matter a real hammer!

This old man is too ruthless. Just because the student complained a few words, he cut him off and hung him on the flagpole?
Is this what people do?

Zhu Yunxi recalled what he had experienced in the palace during this period, and only felt a chill behind his back.

It seems that old Zhutou treats him pretty well, no matter how big a mistake he makes, it is nothing more than a whipping, and he should be content...

When Xie Kui heard Xu Liuzi's refutation, he immediately shut his mouth in a murmur.

He was a bit of a boss just now, how could he complain about his grandfather in front of his grandson.

"His Royal Highness, Wansheng is sincerely serving!"

"The Imperial College is really suffering. There are more than 50 charges of corporal punishment alone. The students are often punished and beaten. Many people can't bear it and commit suicide..."

"If it hadn't been for Wan Sheng's honor from His Royal Highness, earning some money and bribing the teaching assistant, Wan Sheng would have been unable to endure it long ago, woo woo woo..."

"I implore His Royal Highness to accept Wansheng, Wansheng is willing to work for you!"

Zhu Yunxi's heart softened after being cried by Xie Kui, and his nose was a little sore.

This is all the evil done by my grandpa, let me, my grandson, pay it back for him!

"Since you are so earnest, I will accept you."

"From tomorrow, you will go to Sanwei Bookstore as the editor-in-chief, and be responsible for helping me with buying and selling books."

"In addition, I have a lot of things to do next, and I still lack hundreds of scholars. I wonder if you can introduce one or two, so that I don't have to look elsewhere."

"Yes, I have!"

Xie Kui's eyes lit up when he heard this.

"His Royal Highness, tell me the number, how many people do you want? I'm not a late student bragging to you. I can recruit three to 500 people for you right away!"

Xu Liuzi's eyes widened when he heard this, for His Royal Highness is an expert in interrogation.

Without saying a word of cruelty, the criminal's words were set out!
Three 500 people?

These must all be Xie Kui's accomplices?
hum!

If he names these people, we can capture them all within a day!
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