After five years of teaching support, Daming became an empire on which the sun never sets.

Chapter 558
"From now on, Ma Xiuying will be abolished as a queen and demoted to an ordinary concubine!" Zhu Yuanzhang once again threw a bombshell at the ministers, "As for who will be the new queen, we will discuss it another day."

Hearing this, the ministers were shocked again.

Zhu Yuanzhang abolished Empress Ma, and once again confirmed to the officials that the results of Jin Yiwei's investigation were not good for the prince, and Zhu Biao was not his own blood.Although he didn't say a word or mention a single word about this matter.

But judging from the results, smart people can guess the reason.

This is the emperor's family matter, related to the face of the royal family.

For such things, if the ministers want to die, it is best to keep their mouths in check.

When they first heard that Zhu Biao was abolished as the prince, the officials must have been unwilling to accept it.In their hearts, Zhu Biao is the best prince of Ming Dynasty. He is not only kind and friendly, but also has outstanding ability, so he is worthy of being a prince.

Zhu Biao is the hope of all the officials, and there is almost no one who does not support him.

If Zhu Biao was abolished for other reasons, many ministers would stand up to support Zhu Biao.There will even be people who remonstrate with death and save the prince with their own lives.

But now Zhu Biao is deposed because he may not be the blood of Emperor Zhu.

No one dared to stand up.

Coming out to intercede for Zhu Biao at this time is looking for death, and it is still a very wronged kind of death.

Empress Ma was abolished as empress. Li Shanchang, Liu Bowen, Song Lian and other veteran officials were definitely unwilling to accept it, because they had more or less been favored by Empress Ma.

They respect and love Empress Ma from the bottom of their hearts.

But now, Empress Ma may have greened Emperor Zhu.

These people did not dare to stand up and intercede for Queen Ma.None of them knew the truth, nor did they know the results of Jin Yiwei's investigation. What if the results were true?

This kind of right and wrong must not be contaminated, it is extremely stupid to take the initiative to participate.

It is best for the emperor to handle the emperor's family affairs personally.

But the emperor's family affairs seem to be the biggest court affairs, so some honest ministers are very entangled in their hearts.

Therefore, after the emperor issued these two decrees, the whole process was completely silent in the court.

"My Majesty..." After a long time, someone finally spoke up, and it was Liu Bowen.Liu Bowen stepped out of the train and said, "Some rumors... have to be carefully verified..."

"Get lost!" Zhu Yuanzhang said.

Liu Bowen's expression changed, and he retreated immediately.

"Retire!" Zhu Yuanzhang said.

After retiring from the court, all the ministers were silent, and on the road, a group of ministers dared not say a word.Even the usual pleasantries and small talk are completely gone.

The next day, countless people were arrested and countless people were killed.

The crowd didn't know whether those people who were killed were spreading rumors or discussing the matter indiscriminately.

Some people even think that those people were angered.

The entire Yingtian Mansion was filled with panic.

Emperor Zhu acted too realistically, not only abolished Zhu Biao and Queen Ma, but also killed countless people.Only the dripping blood will make those people feel that this is real, not a conspiracy.

This strategy not only blackmailed Zhu Biao, but also blackened the queen.

Before he started to hurt the enemy, Zhu Yuanzhang himself was hurt badly.

The power of those feudal aristocrats was too terrifying. Before the eyes of Emperor Zhu, they killed Chang Yuchun and Concubine Chang.All the local governments are all their people.

If it is not possible to use such extraordinary tactics, I am afraid that they will not be able to take them down.

Such a powerful strategy, who can guess?
Can they not be recruited?

"Report to the Emperor..." In the imperial study room, Erhu came back and reported to Emperor Zhu, "According to Jin Yiwei's secret investigation, the lieutenant who was next to King Kaiping was indeed bought by Lu Ben."

"The bribe he received was 10 taels!"

"A bribe of 10 taels killed our Huo Qubing! Our founding general, our life and death brother!?" Zhu Yuanzhang gritted his teeth with a frozen expression.

"Your Majesty, at that time the entire Ming Dynasty was short of silver, and 10 taels was already a lot." Er Hu said.When Chang Yuchun, king of Kaiping, died in the second year of Hongwu, how could the national power at that time compare with what it is now?

Now Zhu Yuanzhang feels that 10 taels of silver is not much. After all, the national treasury earns hundreds of millions every year, but in the second year of Hongwu, 10 taels of silver was an astronomical figure.

With 10 taels of silver, a trusted lieutenant took the risk and killed his coach.

Then he declared to the outside world that he died of a sudden illness, and he did everything impeccably.

"Have you found anything else?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked again.

"After the deputy general Wang Bi received the 10 taels of bribe money, he immediately sent a team of soldiers to secretly transport the money to his hometown and buried it in the ground." Erhu continued to report, "And that small team of soldiers were all silenced by Wang Bi later. After the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, Wang Bi did not dare to tell anyone about it, let alone use the money.”

"His life in the past three years has been trembling, like walking on thin ice."

"But it's not the reason. His wife found out about it. Wang Bi had no choice but to secretly dig out some of the money. He bought land in his hometown and hired tenant farmers."

"Wang Bi's wife's family is living a life that can be described as a master."

Jin Yiwei secretly checked all of Wang Bi's relatives, seven aunts and eight aunts. No matter how secretive he was, it was impossible not to expose him.

Unless he doesn't use that money for the rest of his life.

However, if you have silver, you can resist using it, which is something only a very small number of people can do.He seems to have done it, hiding it for three years, but in the end the matter was not hidden from his pillow.

"Is Wang Bi a Marquis now?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked.

"No." Erhu said, "Since Wang Bi colluded with those people, he has also learned their skills, that is, to be in harmony with the light, to hide behind the scenes by himself. Fried dough sticks. They have eaten decades more than others, and their minds are full of these things.”

"Before the emperor awarded the meritorious officials, he began to learn from Xiao He to blackmail himself, not to claim credit, so that he was not named a marquis."

"Behind Wang Bi, there is an expert pointing out!" Zhu Yuanzhang sighed, sneering secretly in his heart, no matter how powerful you are, you can't escape Mr. Qin's Wuzhishan.

Mr. Qin, he has long handled you like an ant.

Emperor Zhu has always believed that his strategy, vision of people, and scheming are no worse than anyone else, but compared with Qin Yu, he feels that he is just an enlightened schoolboy.

For example, he didn't see that the old feudal aristocracy was the biggest enemy of the dynasty.

For example, creating a nine sons to seduce the heirs to lead those feudal nobles to fight among themselves, he couldn't think of such a strategy.In the eyes of the emperors of all dynasties, it is a disaster for the court that the prince seizes the heir, so try to avoid it.

(End of this chapter)