Daming: I am the most powerful emperor grandson, please abdicate the throne

Zhu Xuan was not like that. He never put pressure on officials and even replaced some officials.

Before, Ke Tianlang was the best example. Let Ke Tianlang tell the officials in the court that if you don’t want to work, you want to be old-fashioned and make trouble in the court, that’s your business, there are plenty of people willing to do those jobs.

The Ming Dynasty is so large that there are so many capable and hard-working officials. The worst that can happen is that we just need to replace them. There will definitely be people who are happy to replace the current officials in the court.

This imperial examination was also the time for him to make a major change.

Keep the capable ones and demote the problematic officials in the court to local areas, away from the center, to hone their skills in the local areas for a few years, and then see whether they should be transferred back based on the situation.

Zhu Xuan actually has a rule in his mind.

But after hearing what Jiang Li said, he was very surprised. He thought that such things should not be common in the court.

Even if the ministers dared to contact the princes, they would only simply maintain relationships and would not go too far. However, the facts were different from what he thought. They all worked together to manipulate the imperial examinations.

"Who owns the Ming Dynasty's imperial court, mine, my grandfather's, or my sixth uncle's?"

Zhu Xuan said coldly.

Feeling such a chill, Jiang Li and the others lowered their heads at the same time. This question was actually a life-threatening one, and no one dared to respond casually. They could only let Zhu Xuan talk to himself and ask and answer his own questions.

"Jiang Yu!"

Zhu Xuan said again.

"Chen is here!"

Jiang Li responded loudly.

"Follow the clues and arrest the person when there is evidence. Remember to produce evidence. I don't want to see the kind of arrests without warrants or torture to extract confessions." Zhu Xuan warned.

This is basically what the Jinyiwei used to do.

This is how the Jinyiwei worked in the major cases in the early Ming Dynasty, helping Zhu Yuanzhang to kill officials on a large scale.

Zhu Xuan was very angry and wanted to catch someone, but he couldn't do that.

"Yes!"

Jiang Li lowered his head and said.

Then, he got Zhu Xuan's nod and went down to continue investigating along the clues.

So far, only officials with problems have been found, but the people who cheated through those officials have not been found yet. The investigation has to continue, both openly and secretly. Since Zhu Xuan wants to get evidence, Jiang Lin dare not use the previous methods.

Watching Jiang Li leave, Zhu Xuan felt a little tired. He thought that being the Crown Prince was really not easy and the current ministers in the court had to be replaced as soon as possible.

He took another look at the information Jiang Li had just handed over.

Those ministers who had secret contacts with Zhu Zhen were distributed in various departments. It was a bit difficult to replace them all at once.

Zhu Xuan thought about it and said, "Send a telegram to tell Xu Qi to come to Beijing."

Some of them have to be replaced first, but those who are replaced are not allowed to leave Beijing. They have to stay in Beijing and wait for the Jinyiwei to bring evidence to arrest people. The others have to be replaced slowly.

The court was also very chaotic before. Li Shanchang, Hu Weiyong, Liu Bowen and others were constantly fighting each other, and there were also military generals from Huaixi. But later Zhu Yuanzhang found an opportunity to kill most of them.

The group of Huaixi military generals were killed particularly hard, but now it is different, they have all been exhausted.

"If Grandpa Huang can do it, I can do it too."

This is what Zhu Xuan was thinking in his heart.

This is how governing a country works. You have to do it step by step, not rush things, and don't expect to get to the end in one step. Doing so will easily lead to collapse.

After calming down, Zhu Xuan continued to handle other government affairs.

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Wuchang, the Palace of Prince of Chu.

Zhu Zhen waited anxiously at home for a long time. Now that he saw no Jinyiwei coming to arrest him, he finally felt relieved and at the same time felt that what Zhu Mengwan said was right.

I like Zhu Mengwan even more.

"Father." "I told you that the one above didn't want to make Grandpa Huang sad. As long as Grandpa Huang was still alive, he would never do anything to us, but things will be different in the future."

Zhu Mengwan said with confidence.

He was still a little proud of his guess, which was correct.

Zhu Zhen snorted coldly: "Pretending to be filial, humph!"

He was an unfilial person himself. When he learned that Zhu Xuan was filial, he felt unbalanced and jealous. In short, he just couldn't stand Zhu Xuan's behavior.

"It's only because my father dotes on him, otherwise he wouldn't have gotten that position at all."

Zhu Zhen didn't even acknowledge Zhu Xuan's abilities, and didn't think Zhu Xuan was that good. In fact, that was all.

The jealousy suddenly broke out at this moment.

Zhu Mengwan could feel the unhappiness in his heart directly.

Zhu Mengwan said: "In fact, the main reason why Grandpa Huang chose him is because he is really suitable."

Zhu Zhen snorted coldly, still denying Zhu Xuan's ability.

Zhu Mengwan said again: "Father, he won't do anything to us now, but what about the future? What should we do?"

In the future, what will happen when Lao Zhu is no longer around?

"You don't need to know these things."

Zhu Zhen has not yet told Zhu Mengwan about the alliance of vassal kings. The fewer people who know about this kind of thing, the safer it is. If Zhu Mengwan doesn't know about it, there may be less trouble in the future.

Zhu Mengwan could see that his father must have some plan that he didn't want him to know, but he hesitated for a while and cooperated without asking too many questions. He then said, "Father, you must be careful. We can't afford to lose."

"Don't worry, I know!"

Zhu Zhen nodded slightly, realizing that he really couldn't afford to lose.

Some things can only be done once. Once you fail, you will lose everything and there is no possibility of recovery.

"You go down!"

Zhu Zhen nodded.

Zhu Mengwan left.

Zhu Zhen stood there and thought for a long time. He did not regret doing this. If he did not do it, he would regret it in the future. It would be too late to regret it!

What he needs to do is not to grab that position.

But for the sake of one's own future and to avoid being held accountable, there is no way to stop many things and one has to grit one's teeth and continue doing them.

"Ugh!"

"We don't know whether the decision we made at the beginning was right or wrong. Perhaps we were all deceived by the evil monk Daoyan."

Zhu Zhen sighed inwardly.

There are undercurrents in the Ming Dynasty's court, and he is not sure if he can control it. Now he has one very important thing to do, which is to cut off all relationships in the court.

He was very cautious about breaking off the relationship first and then resuming it after the storm had passed.

However, no matter how cautious one is, one could never have imagined that the Jinyiwei had already targeted those connections and could arrest them at any time.

However, just when Zhu Zhen was hesitating, his son Zhu Mengjiong was quietly watching Zhu Zhen in secret, as if he was guessing or judging something.

"My dad is not normal!"

Zhu Mengjiong was thinking: "He must be hiding something from us!"

Then he thought about how good Zhu Zhen was to Zhu Mengwan, and he felt extremely unhappy. Why couldn't he get the position of crown prince when his eldest brother was gone?
Third brother, is it that good?

Zhu Mengjiong had a feeling that he wanted to be like Zhu Youjie and wanted to pass some special news back to Jinling and to Zhu Xuan. He wondered if he could make a contribution and be appreciated. (End of this chapter)