Daming: If I find a great-grandson, I will teach an emperor through the ages

Chapter 226 The aftermath

The voice of abuse did not last long. There were more than two hundred people, but not too many.

In just a short cup of tea, all 231 people had their necks wiped! Or the head was cut off, and the body fell motionless on the ground. The whole square was filled with a strong smell of blood.

Lan Yu has killed many people, but he has never killed one of his own people like this, and all of them were very close to him. Looking at the corpses in front of him, Lan Yu felt uncomfortable.

Looking at the soldiers who were called over by him to do things, they were looking at him with fearful eyes, trembling with fear!

Lan Yu smiled bitterly in her heart. It's no wonder that she even killed her adopted son. Probably in their eyes, she was afraid that she had become a lunatic and there was nothing she couldn't do.

Looking at the corpse on the ground again, Lan Yu said:

"Clean up," then turned and walked away.

After Lan Yu left, the hundreds of soldiers at the scene began to breathe heavily in relief. Many people's legs were as weak as noodles.

Those people lying on the ground are usually their superiors! They could decide their life or death with just one word, but now Lan Yu's words cost them their lives!

What's more important is that most of these people are Lan Yu's adopted sons. They are not real father and son, but they are also close to each other. When Lan Yu killed them, his expression did not even change. He could only be said to be ruthless!

"Quickly, clean up the body."

Someone reacted first and started working, and the others followed suit.

They didn't know why Lan Yu did this, but they could still feel that... something was going to change!

After Lan Yu killed two hundred and thirty-one people in the military camp, he left the camp and returned to his home. What he had to do had been done, and now he just had to wait.

Waiting for Zhu Xiongying and Zhu Yuanzhang's reaction after learning about this incident, we will see if Zhu Yuanzhang will take action against him.

More than two hundred middle-level and high-level generals died in the military camp, and the situation became a mess. Someone from the Military Affairs Office quickly wrote up the incident in a report and submitted it to the palace.

Half an hour after Lan Yu killed 231 middle-level and high-level people in the army, the documents from the Military Affairs Office were rushed to Emperor Zhu Xiongying's study.

I believe that the chief eunuch is not very old, just over forty years old.

He hurriedly presented the newly obtained fold to Zhu Xiongying.

"Your Majesty, there's an urgent call from the military camp."

Zhu Xiongying is still reviewing other memorials. He has been in a bad mood these days because of Lan Yu's problem.

"Put it aside for now," Zhu Xiongying said without raising his head, still processing the memorial in his hand.

"Your Majesty, the Military Affairs Office of the military camp said that it is an urgent matter at this time. Your Majesty, please handle it as soon as possible."

When Zhu Xiongying heard this, his heart moved. The military camp was in a state of emergency.

Is it...

He suddenly raised his head and said, "Bring it to me!"

"No!" the chief eunuch responded, stepped forward and handed over the memorial in his hand.

Zhu Xiongying quickly opened it and read it, and was shocked when he saw clearly what was written on it!

Lan Yu went to the military camp today and killed two hundred and thirty-one generals in a row!

This……

Lan Yu will probably kill all the middle and high-level generals in this military camp soon.

Fortunately, this memorial also stated that the reason why Lan Yu killed these generals was because they withheld military pay and enriched their own pockets.

Even the names of the two hundred and thirty-one people killed by Lan Yu were recorded one by one at the back of this book. It is not difficult to find that most of the people here have the surname Lan. It was Lan Yu who followed Zhu Yuanzhang and went everywhere. Recruited adopted son.

The chief eunuch handed the fold to Zhu Xiongying, then stepped aside and stood there. He could only feel that his master's face had become extremely solemn after reading the fold!

After reading the memorial in his hand, Zhu Xiongying thought for a long time, and then, regardless of the memorial that had not yet been reviewed, he took the military emergency memorial and left the study, heading to Zhu Yuanzhang's palace.

Zhu Yuanzhang was slightly surprised to see Zhu Xiongying coming over at this time. Normally, Zhu Xiongying would be handling government affairs in the study at this time.

"What's wrong? Come here now. What's wrong?"

Zhu Xiongying first bowed to Zhu Yuanzhang and said, "I have met Grandpa Huang."

"Okay, why are we two so polite? If you have anything to do, just say it."

In fact, the relationship between Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Xiongying is somewhat cold these days because of the blue jade issue.

Because Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to kill and Zhu Xiongying wanted to stay, the two had different opinions. Neither of them could convince the other. They couldn't agree, so they naturally stopped talking.

Zhu Xiongying came to see Zhu Yuanzhang today, which made Zhu Yuanzhang very happy.

After all, Zhu Xiongying was his grandson. He pinned all his hopes on Zhu Xiongying. Zhu Xiongying might complain about Lan Yu, but Zhu Yuanzhang would not have any prejudice against his grandson.

"I came here now because of Duke Liang."

Hearing Lan Yu's name, most of the smile on Zhu Yuanzhang's face suddenly disappeared.

"Xiongying, haven't we already agreed? You don't need to take action. Wait until we get the blue jade..."

Zhu Yuanzhang stopped mid-sentence because he saw Zhu Xiongying handing him a memorial.

"Grandpa Huang, this is an urgent report just sent from the army. Please read it first."

Zhu Yuanzhang raised his eyebrows, reached out to take the memorial, took the reading glasses from the side, put them on the bridge of his nose, and looked at them carefully.

Zhu Xiongying stood aside quietly without making a sound, waiting for Zhu Yuanzhang to finish reading the memorial.

I don't know if it was because of his age, but it took Zhu Yuanzhang much longer to read this memorial than Zhu Xiongying.

However, Zhu Xiongying was not anxious at all. He looked at his nose and his eyes, and the room fell into silence for a long time.

After a long while, Zhu Yuanzhang put down the memorial in his hand, took off his reading glasses, looked up at Zhu Xiongying, and suddenly grinned.

"Hehehehe, Xiongying, is this the way you taught Lan Yu to survive?"

To Zhu Yuanzhang's surprise, Zhu Xiongying shook his head.

"No, I understand Grandpa Huang's good intentions, and I have not had any personal contact with Lan Yu."

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded again, "That's Cao Wei."

Zhu Xiongying did not refute this time.

"What a great trick!" Zhu Yuanzhang sighed with emotion.

With Lan Yu's temperament and IQ, there was no way she could have come up with such a way to protect herself. Someone must have given her guidance.

If this person is not Zhu Xiongying, then it can only be Cao Wei.

The method of preservation taught by Cao Wei to Lan Yu is to make Lan Yu completely a lonely minister!

Because I only have the emperor by my side, so I am absolutely safe!

After so many years of fighting in the army, Lan Yu's relationships were constantly cut and messed up, and he had a large group of adopted sons as a team in the army, so he could respond to everything at once.

With such a huge network of connections, it is not easy for Lan Yu to become a lone minister, but there is another way, and that is to kill someone!

Kill anyone who is close to you! After killing all the people close to him, the remaining partners who have interests will naturally shun them as they seek advantages and avoid disadvantages.

Lan Yu even dares to kill his adopted son, what else can't he do?

Not only that, someone might even write a letter to impeach Lan Yu.

Because the adopted sons killed by Lan Yu and some of the military generals themselves had a network of relationships involving many interests.

By doing this, Lan Yu undoubtedly harmed the interests of many people in the DPRK. How could they swallow this sigh of relief when everyone pushed down the wall?

At this point, Lan Yu has completely placed herself on the opposite side of many courtiers, and her reputation in the military camp has plummeted. No military general will dare to get close to Lan Yu anymore. Lan Yu has become a loner, and naturally he has changed. Can't afford any trouble. Now the only thing Lan Yu can rely on is Emperor Zhu Xiongying. If Zhu Xiongying lets him live, he can live well. If Zhu Xiongying lets him die, he can't live.

It is too easy for the emperor to move a general who has no team and no foundation.

There is no need to kill Lan Yu, Zhu Xiongying only needs to kick him to the bench. Lan Yu will never be able to stand up again in this life!

However, most things have pros and cons.

Lan Yu killed more than two hundred military generals in a row. Although his status in the court was devastatingly affected, Lan Yu's reputation for killing more than two hundred generals was indeed good.

They withheld military pay and enriched their own pockets. Lan Yu dealt with them according to military law, which was reasonable and reasonable.

In the military camp, the soldiers at the lowest level may feel grateful to Lan Yu because of this, and Lan Yu's reputation among the people will not drop too badly.

Once here, everything seems to be just right.

Lan Yu has completely lost his threat to Zhu Xiongying and the Zhu family. He can only act as the Zhu family's thug. Without the Zhu family, he is nothing.

As for Lan Yu, who killed more than two hundred army generals this time, he was naturally guilty, but because he was a well-known teacher, he was not guilty of death.

Even Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't get rid of Lan Yu at this time.

If the former coquettish Lan Yu did pose a threat to the Zhu family, although Zhu Yuanzhang would be scolded for killing him, it is not a bad rule, because emperors in history would do this, not only for their own imperial power, but also to avoid the country's turmoil.

However, Lan Yu had already reached this point, and Zhu Yuanzhang still wanted to kill them all, which would break the rules and directly chill the hearts of all the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty.

Could it be that after fighting for the Ming Dynasty for a lifetime, he will end up dead in the end? Then who will continue to fight for the Ming Dynasty and fight for the Zhu family?

Zhu Yuanzhang is not Zhu Qizhen, and he will not do things that break the rules, because once some things are opened, they cannot be blocked or made up for.

Just like Zhu Qizhen killed the loyal minister Yu Qian, other civil servants in the Ming Dynasty knew that it was useless to be a loyal minister who dedicated himself to serving the country and the people. In the end, he would still die, and no one would be such a loyal minister again.

Not only Yu Qian, but also Yue Fei in the Song Dynasty. Once Yue Fei died, the entire Southern Song Dynasty collapsed like a building, out of control!

That's why Zhu Yuanzhang would say that Cao Wei is good at tricks, but now... Lan Yu can't be killed by him.

"That's all, that's all." Zhu Yuanzhang pursed his lips.

"Actually, we are not such ruthless and unjust people. If we don't want to kill him, we won't kill him. It's not bad to let Lan Yu continue to work in your hands."

When Zhu Xiongying heard this, a smile appeared on his face.

"Grandpa Huang still has a broad mind."

Zhu Yuanzhang glanced at him sideways and snorted, like a child coquettishly, "Do you think we want to take care of this? From now on, we won't care about anything. Save some effort and we can live for two more days."

Zhu Xiongying smiled and said good things,

"Grandpa Huang is now in better spirits than ever before, and he will surely live a long life."

Zhu Yuanzhang also grinned after hearing this.

……

the next day,

When it came time to go to court, as expected, many ministers were not slow to get the news. They all knew that Lan Yu had killed 231 military generals yesterday.

Many officials even wrote letters to impeach Lan Yu for abusing his power and wantonly killing sergeants.

If there was one, then there would be two, and soon dozens of people would present their memorials of ginseng sapphire, and everyone would push them away, and that was it.

Lan Yu had obviously expected all this, and stood there with a sullen face, motionless.

Zhu Xiongying also had a headache looking at the reference books piled up on the table.

In desperation, he could only look at Lan Yu.

"Mr. Liang Guo, my dear friends said that you abused your power and killed soldiers wantonly. Now the evidence is conclusive. What do you have to say?"

Lan Yu took a step forward, knelt on the ground, cupped her hands and said in a deep voice:

"Your Majesty, the reason why I killed them is because I went to the military camp to inspect the military camp on your Majesty's order, but I found that they were secretly deducting military pay. I was so angry that I killed them all. Please Your Majesty convicts you!"

"You said they withheld military pay, do you have any evidence?"

"Yes!" Lan Yu replied decisively, then took out a booklet from his arms and handed it to the eunuch chief to present to Zhu Xiongying.

Even if he must die, Lan Yu will not do nothing. He still wants to find a chance in a desperate situation, so he collects evidence that those people enriched their own pockets and deducted military pay.

Zhu Xiongying read the records of the generals' embezzlement in the book, and he was angry and relieved at the same time.

Lan Yu has evidence, that is, he has a good reputation as a teacher, so his crime is not too big.

But these generals...

They really have the guts to embezzle the imperial court’s military expenses!

"Oh!"

Zhu Xiongying slammed the booklet to the ground!

"Okay! Look! These are the generals under my command. Look what they have done! All the military expenses of the imperial court have been put into their own pockets!"

"Investigate! Let me investigate this matter thoroughly! Anyone found to be corrupt and perverting the law will be beheaded! The crime cannot be forgiven!"

All the ministers in the court were silent at this time. Zhu Xiongying was so angry that no one dared to hit the gun.

"Dong Liangguo!"

"The minister is here."

"Although you found out about corruption in the military this time, according to the national laws, you did not report it to me first and executed it privately. You should be severely punished! Can you plead guilty?"

"My lord, plead guilty."

"Then I'll fine you three years' salary, and then go to the Ministry of Punishments to get fifty military sticks!"

When Lan Yu heard this, she suddenly felt a sense of survival after a disaster. She leaned to the ground again and kowtowed:

"My lord, take the order!"

Zhu Xiongying calmed down and said again:

"Because the army is about to go on an expedition, I will not take the army stick for the time being. If you are successful in attacking the Ottomans this time, I will spare you fifty army sticks. If the army goes unfavorably, I will punish you as well!"

Lan Yu was very moved and said with a trembling voice:

"My lord, thank you for your grace!"

At this point, Lan Yu's life is no longer in danger, but the implications of this matter are far greater than he thought.

Under Zhu Xiongying's imperial decree, the military in various places began to investigate corruption, and more than 500 people, large and small, were found to have been beheaded. The atmosphere in the military camps everywhere became solemn.

Judging from the results, Lan Yu did something good this time.

(End of this chapter)