Rebirth of Zhu Di's son

Chapter 31

After half an hour.

Qianqing Palace.

Zhu Di met Zhu Yuanzhang, who had not yet rested, and made a detailed report on the situation investigated by Zhu Gaoxu.

"I dare not deceive my father. Gao Xu has not yet obtained conclusive evidence to prove that it was the Crown Prince of Jin who ordered people to spread rumors and kill people to silence them."

After listening to Zhu Di's unabashed report and final conclusion, Zhu Yuanzhang, who was sitting on the couch and leaning on the soft cushions, let out a long sigh.

He looked at Zhu Di and was silent for a moment, then said slowly: "Just now, we have learned the ins and outs of this matter."

It turned out that the Jinyiwei spies lurking around the Crown Prince of Jin had found evidence that the Crown Prince of Jin had ambitions, discredited Zhu Di, and promoted his father, the Prince of Jin, to the throne.

It's a pity that there is no airtight wall in the world, not to mention that Zhu Yuanzhang's Jin Yiwei is pervasive. Even if there are no holes in the wall, Jin Yiwei can create holes.

Perhaps Zhu Di knew how terrifying Jin Yiwei was, so he chose to stop quietly during this period.

"As for the rebellion of King Jin and the blood-letting of all the people, we have also investigated clearly. It really has nothing to do with you. You can rest assured."

When Zhu Yuanzhang said this, he paused again and continued: "We will deal with the case of Prince Jin's spreading rumors impartially, clear the source, and give you justice."

Zhu Di was overjoyed when he heard this, lowered his head and said respectfully: "Thank you, Father."

"Now that things have happened, if you know anything else related to your third brother, you can report it to us without any worries."

Zhu Yuanzhang deliberately looked expectantly, stared at Zhu Di and said.

He deliberately concealed from Zhu Di the fact that the King of Jin colluded with Liang Guogong Lan Yu, in order to test whether Zhu Di knew about it.

Unexpectedly, Zhu Di looked confused and said, "Everything I know has been reported to my father."

"Your third brother has done many illegal things and even colluded with military generals. Did you know that?" Zhu Yuanzhang hinted directly.

Zhu Di remained indifferent, and even looked suspicious, saying in surprise: "Is this happening?"

Zhu Yuanzhang saw that Zhu Di's expression was natural and did not seem to be fake, so he changed the subject and said: "According to Jin Yiwei's investigation, it is true that your third brother used the Emperor's ceremonial guard, but his murder of Li Zhongyue's entire family was not his order, but there was another hidden reason."

Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang explained the hidden secrets to Zhu Di.

It turns out that the truth is that the royal team leader sent by the King of Jin to arrest Li Zhongyue took the opportunity to avenge his personal revenge and poisoned Li Zhongyue's entire family.

Soon after, rumors spread in the city that the King of Jin wanted to implicate Li Zhongyue's relatives, classmates and friends. This made everyone in Jin officials feel in danger.

A few years ago, someone reported that the King of Jin was treasonous. Later, Prince Yiwen Zhu Biao was ordered to investigate and found that the King of Jin was indeed not treasonous.

However, the King of Jin did a lot of illegal things, and the people complained a lot. After being criticized and educated by Zhu Yuanzhang, he restrained himself a lot.

At the Spring Festival family banquet at the beginning of this year, King Zhu Fan of Jin was given special attention by Zhu Yuanzhang. Many officials who had had bad relations with King Jin in the past were afraid that he would be liquidated after he succeeded to the throne, so they joined forces to create rumors and planned to bring down King Jin.

They took a fancy to Li Zhongyue, who was 83 years old and upright, and took advantage of his weakness to create a blood letter for all people.

As for the fact that Taiyuan colleague Yang Bangji took the blood letter and defected to Zhu Di, the Jinyiwei spies also investigated and found the result - Yang Bangji believed that King Yan Zhu Di had a good command and could compete with the King of Jin, and dared to expose the crimes of the King of Jin to Zhu Yuanzhang, so he fled to Peiping.

In fact, Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di did not know that the reason why those officials in Jin who had enmity with the King of Jin dared to unite and risk death to overthrow the King of Jin was not only because they were afraid of liquidation after the King of Jin succeeded to the throne.

There is another external factor, and that is Zhu Gaoxu's time travel, which indirectly caused Zhu Biao to live for more than half a year, which bought monk Daoyan time to deal with King Jin.

Monk Dao Yan concealed the truth from Zhu Di and secretly instigated Taoist Qingxuan to fan the flames and add fuel to the flames in Taiyuan Prefecture.

Taoist Qingxuan was a highly regarded counselor by King Jin. He had been lurking beside King Jin for more than three years, and everything he did in Taiyuan Mansion was very secretive.

He did not directly provoke conflicts between local officials and the King of Jin, but used many reasonable frictions to trigger opposition between the two sides, gradually leading both sides to a life-and-death situation.

It would be difficult for the Jinyiwei spies lurking in the Jin Palace in Taiyuan Prefecture to find out that Taoist Qingxuan was behind these frictions, and they would not take the initiative to investigate such incidents.

After all, the conflicts between these officials and the King of Jin all stemmed from conflicts of political philosophy and interests, not to mention that they did not do anything against the King of Jin.Since the King of Qin was poisoned to death by a palace servant not long ago, the spies in Jinyi who were ordered to lurk around the feudal kings, monitor and protect them, no one dared to be careless and let something like the murder of King Qin happen again.

The spies had no intention of paying attention to the conflict between "the lord and the local officials". They only wanted to ensure the personal safety of the lord to avoid being beheaded by the emperor.

It would have been fine if the King of Jin was content with peace, but he relied on his dignity as a prince, acted recklessly, and was domineering. Considering Zhu Yuanzhang's personality of loving his children but also strictly educating them, the fall of the King of Jin would be a matter of time.

The king of Jin fell off his horse because of his arrogance, and the blood-letting of all the people was caused by his deep grudges with the officials and people of Jin.

Taoist Qingxuan took advantage of the weakness of human nature and secretly added fuel to the flames, making the already arrogant King of Jin even more arrogant, and finally turned him against the officials and people of Jin. This led to the creation of the blood book of all people that did not exist in history.

Everything fell into place without any flaws, which ultimately accelerated the downfall of King Jin.

"Yang Bangji is talented and courageous, and is a good local official. We agreed to his request and allowed him to adopt Li Zhongyue's granddaughter. In addition, we plan to appoint him as the prefect of Taiyuan. In a few days, he will take office with the imperial edict. Go and appease the local people on behalf of the imperial court."

Zhu Yuanzhang mentioned Yang Bangji, who served the country and the people, and his mood seemed to improve. He said a few more words and briefly introduced the past of Yang Bangji and Li Zhongyue to Zhu Di.

It turns out that when Li Zhongyue was alive, he had been friends with 43-year-old Yang Bangji for many years.

Li Zhongyue was devoted to love and only married one wife in his life, and had three daughters and two sons.

However, his eldest son, eldest daughter, second daughter, and youngest daughter were not born at the right time. More than 50 years ago, at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, one son and three daughters died of war, famine, disease, and natural disasters.

The second son died of cold a few years ago at the age of 39. He has only one daughter, Li Yao, who is now nine years old.

Li Zhongyue regarded his granddaughter Li Yao as the apple of his eye and loved her very much. Before he decided to persuade the local people to sign a blood letter, he had already entrusted Li Yao to Yang Bangji.

That's why Yang Bangji asked Zhu Yuanzhang to allow him to adopt Li Yao, the only survivor of the Li family.

"Father is kind."

Zhu Di spoke from the bottom of his heart.

Zhu Yuanzhang paused and asked casually: "What do you think we should do with your third brother?"

This seemingly casual question put Zhu Di into a dilemma.

If he suggested "bringing justice" to the King of Jin, then Zhu Yuanzhang would definitely think that he did not respect brotherhood and would add insult to injury to his third brother.

On the contrary, if he emphasizes the merits of King Jin, plays the emotional card, and suggests a lighter punishment, Zhu Yuanzhang will definitely think that he is hypocritical given his temperament.

"Why don't you speak?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked.

Zhu Di responded quickly and said: "Although the third brother has committed an unpardonable crime, he has made meritorious service to the country and fulfilled his responsibility to protect the land. I hope that my father can treat the third brother lightly."

"Since it is an unpardonable crime, how can we be given a lighter sentence?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked in pursuit.

Zhu Di felt cold sweat oozing out from his back, and immediately bowed and whispered: "My son is stupid and doesn't know what to do."

"Are you afraid that we will be suspicious of you?" Zhu Yuanzhang said expressionlessly.

Zhu Di lowered his head and said, "I don't dare."

"Since you are responsible for investigating the rumors about your life experience, and your third brother was later implicated, you must give us an attitude on how to deal with him!"

Zhu Yuanzhang ordered very forcefully.

He didn't want to miss this opportunity to test and understand Zhu Di.

"Back to my father, I think the third brother cannot be killed!"

After Zhu Di hesitated for a moment, he showed determination and said firmly.

PS: When there is conclusive evidence that King Jin is treasonous and Zhu Yuanzhang knows it, not killing King Jin will do more good than harm to Zhu Di.The explanation will be given in the next chapter, and brothers can also guess the reason.

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(End of this chapter)