Ming Dynasty: The ghost betrays the Confucian sage, my son Zhu Yuanzhang

Chapter 282 Zhu Yuanzhang’s method, the iron coupon to avoid death becomes a death talisman

Lu Mansion.

A subordinate hurriedly came to the backyard and saw Lu Gui who had just gotten up. He quickly ran forward and reported: "Master, something big has happened. The city gate has been blocked by officers and soldiers who appeared out of nowhere and no one is allowed in or out. "

"What?" Lu Gui was shocked, "Why don't you go to the magistrate and ask for clarification?"

"People have been sent." The servant frowned, "Master, I always feel uneasy, afraid that something big will happen."

"All the thousand people you trained will be transferred from Zhuangzi." Lu Gui waved.

"Yes!" The retinue took the order and left.

A cold light flashed in Lu Gui's eyes, and he laughed ferociously: "If you force me, the worst is possible!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard the sound of footsteps. With a swish, a ball of something was thrown in and rolled on the ground. Lu Gui took a closer look and saw that it was the head of the retainer just now.

Then, a large number of soldiers rushed in and took advantage of anyone they saw. They surrounded Lu Gui. Guo Ying strode over, glanced at Lu Gui, and snorted: "Are you Lu Gui? Take it!"

Everyone in the Lu family was arrested and escorted out, bursting into tears. They were escorted to the magistrate's hall. As they passed through the streets, people crowded around to watch. They never expected that all of the Lu family would be arrested.

"Haha, I, Guo Ying, of course know that your eldest brother is Lu Ben, the Minister of Civil Affairs." Guo Ying chuckled, "Your Lu family has come to an end, and Lu Ben's Minister of Civil Affairs has also come to an end. They were all ruined by yourselves."

"Impossible! Impossible!" Lu Gui was horrified.

The prefect's lobby.

"I heard that the Queen is here. The young master of the Lu family is robbing a common girl, and the Queen happened to catch him."

"This is all the fault of the grassroots and has nothing to do with the grassroots brother!" Lu Gui said.

Two soldiers rushed forward and tied up Lu Gui's hands. Lu Gui roared: "Who are you? Dare you take me? Do you know who my brother is?"

"Whether you are innocent or not, the court will naturally find out." Empress Ma snorted coldly, "I know it in my heart, huh, you are still claiming to be relatives of the emperor! I tell you, the royal family does not have relatives like you!"

A guard walked up to Lu Gui, raised his hand and slapped him more than ten times in the face. Lu Gui's face quickly swelled up, and his mouth was full of blood. Empress Ma's eyes were like daggers: "Lu Gui, do you think I don't know about what you did? There are still a thousand people hidden in your village. Hmm, training as a private soldier, what? Do you want to rebel?"

"Palm!" Queen Ma waved her hand.

"Take it away!" Guo Ying waved.

Lu Gui still had some expectations in his heart, hoping that the prefect Li Ding could save him, but he was escorted to the lobby. When he looked up, he saw the prefect Li Ding kneeling in the lobby, and the person sitting in the prefect's seat was Queen Ma.

Lu Gui's expression changed dramatically!

"Everyone in their family deserves to die, no one is innocent."

……

It's over, it's over, if the Lu family influenced Lu Ben, and then influenced Concubine Lu in the East Palace, and the queen got angry, deposed Concubine Lu and put her in the cold palace, then the Lu family would be completely over.

"That's right! Heaven's way is reincarnation. The Lu family has been doing evil for so many years, and today it's over."

The entire Lu family, as well as officials from Shouzhou, were all kneeling in the hall. Empress Ma glanced at them coldly and ordered in a deep voice: "Guo Ying, after you complete the investigation, bring all the evidence and escort them to Beijing for interrogation by the court."

"The grassroots people...the grassroots people have been wronged." Lu Gui shouted.

"Everyone kneel down!" Guo Ying roared.

The people kneeling below were numb. Lu Gui quickly kowtowed and begged for mercy: "Queen, please forgive me. We don't know what mistakes we made? The Lu family made some mistakes, but it was Lu Shaoqian's fault alone..."

"It has nothing to do with it?" Empress Ma sneered, "If it weren't for Lu Ben, the Minister of Civil Affairs, how dare you be so lawless in Shouzhou? Haha, Li Ding, you are Lu Ben's disciple, right?"

Li Ding's face turned pale: "I failed the teacher. Everything here has nothing to do with the teacher."

Empress Ma's eyes were cold: "Send them all to Beijing. You can talk to the court."

……

Beijing, Wenhua Hall of the Imperial Palace.

Mao Xiang, the commander of the Jinyi Guards, was reporting to Zhu Yuanzhang: "Your Majesty, the affairs of the three marquises, Lu Zhongheng, Marquis of Ji'an, Tang Shengzong, Marquis of Yan'an, and Fei Ju, the Marquis of Pingliang, have been found out. Please give your Majesty's instructions."

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the fold in his hand, with fire in his eyes: "Humph, they are greedy, they are already hungry wolves that cannot be fed enough. The Ming Dynasty left them to work, and they will be finished sooner or later. Mao Xiang, arrest them all and imprison them in your custody "

"Yes!" Mao Xiang took the order and left.

Zhu Yuanzhang was still angry: "The imperial court supports them, and they are not satisfied with such a high salary. They occupy people's land and smuggle it!" Prince Zhu Biao came over with a bowl of tea and comforted: "Father, calm down! For these people "

Zhu Yuanzhang stood up suddenly with a stern expression: "Then we will accept their death-free iron coupons!"

At this time, Wang Jinghong, the chief eunuch, hurriedly came in and reported: "Your Majesty, the princes are kneeling outside the palace, trying to intercede for Lu Zhongheng, the Marquis of Ji'an, Tang Shengzong, the Marquis of Yan'an, and Fei Ju, the Marquis of Pingliang."

"Please?" Zhu Yuanzhang shouted angrily.

He stood up and strode out, with Zhu Biao following closely behind him. When he arrived outside the palace, he saw a group of princes kneeling. When they saw the emperor coming out, they all worshiped: "Your Majesty, please spare their lives."

Zhu Yuanzhang glanced over, sat down on the steps in front of them, and sighed softly:
"We know that Lu Zhongheng, the Marquis of Ji'an, Tang Shengzong, the Marquis of Yan'an, and Fei Ju, the Marquis of Pingliang, have made great contributions. We also know that they can do nothing but fight. Therefore, we have always advised them to obey the law. Eat their salaries and keep peace. If you can’t hold your own merits, you will take bribes and pervert the law.”

"We have said it in the morning and at night. We have been saying it for more than ten years, but you just don't listen! You all have donkey ears. Don't think that we don't know. They are not the only ones who break the law. Zhang San, you Is the money in your yard clean? Li Yong indulges his slaves and bullies the people. Even the county magistrate dares not take care of your slaves. "

"Before we passed, someone invented a word called "Arrogant Soldiers and Heroic Generals", and it was about you! After our award ceremony, someone invented another word, "Huaixi Honorable Men", and it was still about you!"

"These words can kill people, you know? Why? Because you have aroused public resentment and endangered the safety of the imperial court. This is unacceptable!"

After scolding him, he threw up his sleeves and walked away.

……

in the afternoon.

Korean Duke Li Shanchang, who had not been seen for a long time, was summoned to the palace to have dinner with Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang. The monarch and his ministers sat opposite each other, with the table full of delicacies. Zhu Yuanzhang smiled and asked, "How are you? How are your health and bones recently?"

"My body is aging day by day. I have pain in my waist and neck, and I can't sleep well at night." Li Shanchang bowed.

"We are the same. The tooth on the right side is loose and it still hurts when sleeping." Zhu Yuanzhang smiled, "It seems that we all have to work hard. We have to worry about everything, but we can't worry too much. There are some things that the juniors should let Let’s go and work, and we can also take a break. The former harvests the fields, right?”

"Your Majesty has the bones of a dragon and a tiger, and your holy body is in good health." Li Shanchang said with a smile.

"You are so good, you still know how to talk." Zhu Yuanzhang smiled, "By the way, how is our grandson?"

"Okay, he can run now." Li Shanchang's eyes were full of kindness, "Let the princess take him to greet you, the emperor."

"We still envy you for having fun with your grandchildren." Zhu Yuanzhang sighed, "It's not like us who have a lot of troubles every day. As the saying goes, let go when you have to, and be merciful when you have to, and we want to do that too. "

Li Shanchang listened with a smile on his face, but his heart was numb. He was wondering what the emperor meant? It is absolutely impossible for the emperor to invite someone to dinner for no reason and say these suggestive words.

At this time, Zhu Biao came in, holding a gold medal in his hand, walked up to Zhu Yuanzhang and said, "Father, this is from the Marquis of Ji'an. Please spare Lu Zhongheng's life."

"Prince, don't you understand etiquette too?" Zhu Yuanzhang shouted coldly, "Didn't you see that we are sharing a meal with South Korea?"

"I'm sorry." Zhu Biao bowed, put the gold medal on the table, and left.

Li Shanchang looked at the gold medal and recognized it at once. It was the death-free ticket given by the emperor to the duke at the ceremony. It suddenly dawned on him that he knew what the emperor was going to do.

"It's really annoying!" Zhu Yuanzhang snorted.

Li Shanchang stood up, knelt down and worshiped: "Your Majesty, please hand over the iron ticket to avoid death. This thing was originally an honor rewarded by the emperor, but now it seems that some princes are taking advantage of this to violate the law! I am senior I don’t want to keep this. If future generations use this to exploit and harm the people, wouldn’t I be harming them?”

Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes lit up, and he knew that Li Shanchang would understand his intentions. However, on the surface, he shook his head: "This is what we reward you. We must keep our word."

"I took the initiative to hand it over." Li Shanchang said sincerely, "Your Majesty, please take it back. I don't want to harm my descendants. I will take the initiative to hand it over at the court meeting tomorrow."

"In that case, we'll give it up." Zhu Yuanzhang raised his hand, "You're good at what you do. It's better that you see far ahead. You never give us any trouble. It would be nice if those old brothers were like you. "

"I will go and tell them. Because of my seniority, I can say a few words and they will still listen." Li Shanchang said.

He knew in his heart that the emperor wanted to take the lead, take the initiative to hand over the gold medal for immunity from death, and then use his status as the eldest brother of Huaixi to ask the princes to hand it over as well.

"Come on, be good at growing up, eat, eat more." Zhu Yuanzhang laughed, "Let my daughter come back with our grandson later, we miss them too."

"According to the order." Li Shanchang nodded.

The emperor slapped him and rewarded him with some dates. This means that the Li family and the emperor are one family. As long as the emperor is here, the Li family will have glory and wealth, but they must be obedient.

"Your Majesty, I miss Fengyang's mountains and Fengyang's water. Please take a while to return to Fengyang for retirement." Li Shanchang said.

"Okay!" Zhu Yuanzhang nodded, "We haven't been back for a long time. You go back first. Although Zhongdu has stopped, haven't some of the palaces been repaired? We will reward you with one."

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Li Shan bowed.

(End of this chapter)