If I fail to overcome the tribulation, I can only return to the Ming Dynasty and become a prince.

Chapter 249 Jinyiwei Commander
After receiving the news from the merchants in Nanjing, even Zhu Zhanquan had to secretly praise "good calculation" and lamented that there are indeed capable people in this world.

Although this strategy of confusing right and wrong and creating rumors to arouse public outrage is not on the table, and it sounds like it has nothing new and is not worth mentioning, the strategy does not need to be great, it just needs to be easy to use.

And this time, the scheme of the mastermind behind the scenes was just enough to work.

There is nothing else. What stands out is an unreasonable person who has set off a grand trend. When he uses his power to suppress others, even if he is reasonable, he can be distorted into irrational.

After all, your opponent no longer wants to reason with you, so it doesn't make any sense whether you are reasonable or not.

Faced with this situation, even Zhu Zhanqun, who was full of clever ideas, felt scratched his head.

It's like when you are competing with someone, what you do is to show your ability and talent to overwhelm the other party with irrefutable strength, but the other party doesn't compare with your talent and strength, and just hits you on the head with a brick and sends you to the hospital. , how should you deal with it?

Zhu Zhanqi was facing such a situation now, and for a while he really couldn't think of a better way to break it.

After all, the incited public sentiment is the most difficult situation for rulers to face. Unless the court completely ignores the surging public opinion and directly suppresses it forcefully, it will be difficult to suppress this momentum and will eventually have to accommodate and comply with public opinion. .

Fortunately, for Zhu Zhanchen, he did not need to face the outpouring of public opinion in person, or in other words, he did not need to directly suppress the incited public opinion.

Because compared to him, Zhu Di is the person who is truly the most intolerant and intolerant of people inciting public opinion.

"Do these people want to rebel? How dare they tamper with official documents and openly spread rumors to disturb the people's hearts!" Sure enough, Zhu Di became furious after hearing the news reported by Zhu Zhanju.

As a powerful Zhu Di, who was almost the same as the founding monarch, he would never allow anyone to use public opinion to coerce his superiors and force him to do things he didn't want to do.

If there are really people who plan to play tricks on Zhu Di without blaming the crowd, and want to rely on the power of numbers to influence and change Zhu Di's mind and prevent him from doing anything, then it can only be said that these people have forgotten that Lao Zhu was the leader of the Hongwu Dynasty. Why did you chop off someone's head?

Although the Yongle Dynasty did not set off a huge case like Hongwu, when Zhu Di came to the throne, he also chopped off a lot of heads.

In recent years, Zhu Di has just focused more on national affairs and does not like to chop off people's heads as much as Zhu Yuanzhang, but this does not mean that Zhu Di does not chop off people's heads.

You must know that the bloodiest era of Jinyiwei was not Hongwu, but Yongle. The so-called Guamanchao also appeared in the Yongle Dynasty.

So after getting angry, Zhu Di didn't ask Zhu Zhanjun for his opinion at all, and shouted directly: "Ji Gang! Get in!"

Hearing the emperor's call, Ji Gang, the commander of the Jinyi Guards, rolled in from outside and knelt in front of the emperor: "Ji Gang, please see the emperor!"

Others may not need to kneel, but the imperial guards...the emperor's personal army and the heavenly family's guard of honor. This is just a nice way of saying it. But in a bad way, they are the black gloves in the emperor's hands that do the dirty work, and they are the emperor's knife that kills people.

Only with the emperor's favor and trust can the Jin Yiwei flourish, set off heinous crimes, and become so majestic that people would change their minds after hearing about them.

The emperor no longer favors him, or the emperor has been changed, Jin Yiwei?That's the paper you use to wipe your butt, throw it away when you're done using it.Therefore, in front of the emperor, the Jinyiwei were just like the eunuchs in the palace, they could only be regarded as domestic slaves. It was just that the eunuchs were domestic slaves who served people, while the Jinyiwei were just thugs released to bite people.

"What do you, the Commander of the Imperial Guards, do for a living! It's okay if you can't find out someone assassinated me. King Zheng caught the assassin, but he was framed by someone who misrepresented right and wrong. He spread rumors in the capital and incited the students of the Imperial College to force the palace. You actually have no information at all. I don’t even know that you, the commander of the Imperial Guard, make me think you don’t want to do it anymore!” Zhu Di said, then threw a crumpled piece of paper into Ji Gang’s face.

A mere piece of paper was naturally light and harmless. Even if it was crumpled into a ball and Zhu Di smashed it out with force, Ji Gang's face just felt like a mosquito bite.

But the meaning of this action is not simple, because the emperor is angry with him, which means that the emperor's trust in him has been shaken.

If he loses the emperor's trust, his role as the commander of the Imperial Guard will really come to an end.

Although Ji Gang was very ambitious and later even had the idea of ​​becoming Zhao Gao, it was obvious that he was not bold enough to dare to jump directly in front of Zhu Di.

"Commander Ji, what is written on that piece of paper is a message from a businessman who is familiar with me in Nanjing. You can take a look at it." Seeing that Ji Gang did not look at the piece of paper, Zhu Zhanquan immediately reminded him.

Being reminded by Zhu Zhanjun, Ji Gang quickly picked up the crumpled paper ball on the ground, unfolded it and quickly browsed it. Then his expression changed drastically and he knocked his head to the ground.

It was obvious that he understood the seriousness of the matter.

"I don't care what means you use, find out the mastermind behind the scenes within three days and arrest all the people spreading rumors in the capital. Otherwise, you, the commander of the Imperial Guard, should find someone else to do it!" Zhu Di was furious at the moment, and he couldn't do it at all. No matter whether Ji Gang could do it or not, he immediately gave the death order.

After all, since the Ming Dynasty, few people who have sat in the position of commander of the Imperial Guard have died well. Replacing someone else means that your piece of paper is no longer useful to the emperor and must be thrown away. .

And the best result of being thrown away is to lose your head.

However, Ji Gang said at this time: "Your Majesty, even if we rush [-] miles, there is no way to send the news back to the capital within three days. Please give your Majesty a few more days..."

Before Ji Gang finished speaking, the tea bowl in Zhu Di's hand was smashed over. This time it was not as light as a ball of paper. Ji Gang, who did not dare to dodge at all, had a flower blooming on his head in an instant.

But Ji Gang didn't dare to wipe the blood from his head, and quickly put his head on the ground, for fear that the emperor's next move would be to chop off his head.

"If you can't do it, don't do it! You thought there would be no one to work without you, didn't you!" Zhu Di was really angry. In the past, there were the masterminds behind the scenes in the capital inciting public opinion, and later there was Ji Gang who pushed back and blocked him. Now Zhu Di is I really want to kill someone.

"Grandpa, calm down! It's not worth getting so angry over this kind of thing!" Fortunately, Zhu Zhanyu stopped Zhu Di and persuaded him. At the same time, he also turned his attention to Ji Gang and said to him coldly: "Commander Ji , within three days, arrest the masterminds behind the scenes and uncover those who incited public opinion in the capital. Is this the emperor’s order, or do you think that the emperor’s oral instructions are not enough, and I want to write you an imperial edict?”

"I don't dare! I obey the order!" Ji Gang was like a frightened quail at this moment, he could only kowtow in recognition.

(End of this chapter)