Rebirth of Zhu Di's son

Chapter 263: Deal with the law and never give mercy lightly

a few days later.

In the evening, the sun is about to set.

Longevity Palace, study room.

Zhu Di retreated, leaving only Zhu Gaoxu alone.

"Lv Zhen and Huang Yan are all ready?"

Zhu Di put his hands behind his back and paced back and forth in the room. From time to time, his murderous eyes fell on the dried sweet potatoes that were smashed into several pieces on the ground. Like a manic lion, he asked in a deep voice.

"Hire."

Zhu Gaoxu saw that in Zhu Di's right hand behind his back, he was holding the all-metal five-shot revolving flint blunderbuss that the Bingzhan Bureau had just successfully developed last month. He was not sure whether there were bullets in the blunderbuss, so he stared at it intently. Zhu Di's hands were extremely tense and he spoke as concisely as possible.

The case of Lu Zhen secretly communicating with Huang Yan to frame Yin Changlong started ten years ago.

In the 13th year of Yongle, Zhu Di officially moved the capital to Beijing.

In October of the 15th year of Yongle's reign, Zhu Di wanted to personally conquer Mobei and wipe out the enemies on the grassland. Zheng Ci, the Minister of Rites, tried to dissuade him, but his inappropriate words offended Zhu Di. Zhu Di dismissed him from his post and changed his post to Lü Zhen, Minister of Dali Temple, as Minister of Rites. Yin Changlong, the young minister of Dali Temple, was ordered to take charge of the affairs of Dali Temple.

In February of the following year, Zhu Gaoxu stayed behind to supervise the country, while Zhu Di led three battalions to personally conquer the desert, restrain Shi Yanran, and seal the wolf as a Xu.

In March of this year, the Ming court held an examination according to the rules as usual.

According to convention, the Minister of Rites, as the highest examiner of the imperial examinations of the Ming Dynasty, was responsible for overseeing the imperial examinations of nine subjects, and each subject had a separate examiner.

Lu Zhen, who was the Minister of Rites at the time, was sinister, mean and jealous.

When he was alone and deep in thought, if he shaved his eyebrows with his fingers, there must be a conspiracy. When his subordinates found out, they warned each other that no one dared to report to the Yamen on duty at this time.

Yin Changlong, then the Shaoqing of Dali Temple and one of the examiners of the legal examination that year, went to the duty room of the Ministry of Etiquette to report to Lu Zhen, the Minister of Rites, about the official affairs of the examination. Lu Zhen, who was shaving his eyebrows with his fingers, was angry and did not respond.

After a while, Yin Changlong went to report again. Lu Zhen became even more angry and stood up.

Yin Changlong retreated and reported to Prince Zhu Gaoxu. After obtaining the order of supervising the country, he continued to handle matters related to the legal examination.

After Lu Zhen learned about it, he thought that Yin Changlong was arrogant and was very angry. He wrote to Zhu Di that Yin Changlong, under the guise of relying on the officials in the Eastern Palace, secretly wanted to form a clique and hide his treason.

At that time, Zhu Di was sharpening his sword in the desert and had no time to care about the affairs of the court, so he did not approve this memorial.

At the same time, Zhu Gaoxu received a secret report from a court official who had a good relationship with Yin Changlong, saying that Lu Zhen was not interested in the examination affairs and did not understand many etiquette regulations. Jealousy and grudge arise in things.

After the implementation of the new imperial examination policy, every March was the time when the Ming Dynasty held the Spring Festival. As the prince overseeing the country, Zhu Gaoxu had no time to pay attention to the friction between Lu Zhen and Yin Changlong.

What's more, Yin Changlong was the Hanlin editor who supported Zhu Gaochi as the prince in his early years. Because of his talent and public spirit, he was saved from being demoted during the turmoil over the establishment of the crown prince in the early years of Yongle.

Therefore, Zhu Gaoxu's attention was not on Yin Changlong.

Huang Yan, who was the eunuch in charge of rituals at the time, told Lu Zhen about Zhu Gaoxu's attitude through his spy.

Therefore, Lu Zhen teamed up with Pang Delin and others who were the Prime Minister of Yousi of Dali Temple at the time to concoct the Yin Changlong leak case.

Not long after, Zhu Di's squadron returned to the court. Under the frame-up of Lu Zhen, Pang Delin and other officials, Yin Changlong, one of the examiners of the law examination, was sentenced to death.

Zhu Di returned triumphantly and was in a good mood. Regardless of the past grievances, he ordered Zheng Ciguan, the former Minister of Rites, to be reinstated and renamed Lu Zhen as the Minister of Dali Temple. Pang Delin, the Prime Minister of the Right Temple of Dali Temple, accused Yin Changlong of cheating and had meritorious service, and was transferred to the position of Doctor of the Ministry of Punishment.

A few years later, there was a vacancy for the right minister of the Ministry of Punishment. With the recommendation of Lu Zhen, the minister of Dali Temple, Zhu Di promoted Pang Delin, a doctor in the Ministry of Punishment, to the position of right minister of the Ministry of Punishment.

Since Zhu Di pacified the desert in the first battle, he and Zhu Gaoxu's main thoughts at that time were on pacifying the desert.Although the father and son sent people to investigate the case of Yin Changlong's leak, Huang Yan, the eunuch in charge of rituals, and Lu Zhen, the minister of Dali Temple, jointly bribed too many people, so the Jinyiwei did not find anything.

Moreover, Yin Changlong died of physical exhaustion after being tortured to extract a confession.

In order to calm down the chaos caused by the leaked questions in the law examination as soon as possible, the dead Yin Changlong was reported by Pang Delin and others and was identified by Zhu Di as the mastermind of the leaked questions.

This is the whole story of Lu Zhen’s case of framing Yin Changlong.

At this time, while recalling the past, Zhu Di walked to the desk, slammed the blunderbuss on the table, suppressed the anger in his chest, and laughed at himself: "I was really blind back then!"

Zhu Gaoxu, dressed in regular clothes, stood quietly beside him and did not answer.

"How do you plan to deal with Lu Zhen and Huang Yan?"

Zhu Di opened the musket's loading accessories, poured out five lead bullets, and asked while playing with the lead bullets.

"For his own selfish reasons, Lu Zhen framed the imperial minister Yin Changlong, and he should be executed in Lingchi. As for the dog slave Huang Yan, as an eunuch in the inner court, he repeatedly committed the crime of deceiving the emperor for the sake of political achievements. Even if he is divided into five horses, it is a minor crime!"

Zhu Gaoxu said fiercely.

Zhu Di asked again: "Where are Hai Shou, Pang Delin, Ji Gang and other accomplices?"

"In my son's opinion, if Nian Zai Haishou takes the initiative to expose him, it will be considered a meritorious report. I will spare his life and exile him to the old port capital of Nanyang."

"Although Pang Delin also contributed to exposing Lu Zhen, he intended to murder Xiong Gai and participated in the frame-up of Yin Changlong. He was found guilty and sentenced to death."

"Ji Gang is a military general, but he colluded with the eunuchs in the palace, deceived the king, and had evil intentions. He should be executed in Ling Chi and beheaded for his crime!"

Before Zhu Gaoxu came to see Zhu Di, he had already thought about how to deal with Lu Zhen, Huang Yan, Ji Gang and others. At this time, he was just telling what he had in mind.

"Haha, it's a good thing that I abdicated to you early. If you succeed me again a hundred years later, you will be Yin Changlong Zhaoxue. Scholars in the world will have to call me a 'foolish king' in their hearts. Otherwise, how could you be blinded and betrayed by a treacherous minister?" Lu Zhen was deceived?"

Zhu Di laughed self-deprecatingly again.

Zhu Gaoxu waited quietly and did not answer.

Zhu Di paused and put the lead bullets back into the revolving short gun nest one by one. He said with murderous intent: "Since it is my fault, then I will personally execute Lu Zhen, a traitor who has brought disaster to the country and the people! Tomorrow At noon, I will personally kill Lu Zhen with a flint blunderbuss! I will clear Yin Changlong's name and give an explanation to the world!"

"As for the dog slave Huang Yan, I don't want him to see the sun tomorrow again! You will ask Zhao Junchen to do it himself later. After cutting his five horses into pieces, he will throw them to feed the dogs!"

"All the eunuchs and palace servants who are involved in Huang Yan's case of deceiving the emperor, no matter who they are, will also be executed. When the execution is carried out, all the eunuchs and palace servants of the ninth rank and above in the inner court will be allowed to watch the execution!"

Zhu Gaoxu responded: "Yes."

Seeing that Zhu Gaoxu had no intention of leaving after Zhu Gaoxu agreed, Zhu Di asked, "Is there anything else?"

"Dad, Ji Gang is the official of Qianhu in the Shenji Camp. The person who promoted him back then was the first commander of the Shenji Camp, Wu'an Hou Zhengheng. His direct superior officer was Guangning Bo Liu Tuan (second generation), and his father-in-law was Anyuan. Hou Liusheng.”

The implication of Zhu Gaoxu is that Ji Gang, who colluded with Huang Yan to commit the crime of deceiving the emperor, had a close relationship with the two marquis and one uncle among the nobles of the Ming Dynasty.

Especially Anyuan Hou Liu Sheng, among the marquises conferred by Zhu Di during the Yongle period, his popularity was second only to that of Xincheng Hou Zhang Fu.

"No matter who it is, anyone who has anything to do with Ji Gang's deception of the emperor will be punished in accordance with the law and will not be treated lightly!"

Zhu Di said with murderous intent: "Anyone who deserves death will be punished with death!"

(End of this chapter)