Emperor Ming's grandson

Chapter 21: Future secret information called "The Sky Seal Case"!

The gentle sea breeze brought the saltiness of the sea water and the faint fishy smell of distant water plants. Seagulls chirped and flew proudly over Zhu Xiongying's head.

Zhu Xiongying couldn't handle this answer. He was a little messy in the wind.

The "answer" is gone?
Is this thing still available? !
Grandpa, did you travel through time and experience amnesia for yourself?
Zhu Xiongying's mind was a little confused at this time. He had too many questions to ask, but fortunately, neither party seemed to have anything particularly urgent about the appearance of the mysterious vortex, and they were not as shocked as they were at the beginning, so they could take it easy. Slowly exchange information with each other and study the laws of the mysterious whirlpool.

Therefore, Zhu Xiongying briefly sorted out the issues he wanted to communicate in order, and then confirmed it with his grandfather again.

"Are you sure that the answer is really gone?"

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Zhongshan.

After Zhu Yuanzhang heard Da Sun's inquiry, he thought about it carefully, then called Mao Xiang, the commander of the Jin Yiwei, and walked to the side and asked.

"What does our grandson mean? Why did you ask again, 'Are you sure the big case is really over?' Are you Jin Yiwei still secretly executing prisoners?"

Listening to Zhu Yuanzhang's questioning, Mao Xiang almost broke out in cold sweat.

His Royal Highness, Prince Yu, has so many magical powers, so naturally he will not target without aim. If someone asks such a specific question, it means that there must be a new wronged soul in the Hu Weiyong case!
"Your Majesty, I have repeatedly told the Zhenfu Department to stop major cases. Now there are definitely no more murders. However, among those in the prison, there may be some who died of illness, and there are still many things that have not been investigated clearly. , Hu Weiyong’s true remnants have not all been revealed, and we cannot let them all go.”

"What's the use of you? We need to find a way now, not only to find out, but also not to send anyone down to cause trouble to the great grandson!"

Facing the angry Zhu Yuanzhang, Mao Xiang really didn't dare to say anything, for fear that if he said something harsh, he would go down and become the intelligence chief for His Royal Highness Prince Yu.

But Jin Yiwei does have difficulties with Jin Yiwei. In order to completely eliminate the threat of prime minister power to imperial power, Zhu Yuanzhang raised the scale of Hu Weiyong's case to an unprecedented level. It was definitely impossible to raise the tone so high and arrest so many people. They were all let go immediately.

Moreover, it is not in line with the interests of the imperial power to let them all go. Some of these people have been wronged, and some are indeed Hu Weiyong's remnants. They must be strictly screened out.

Therefore, the best we can do is not to kill people, but we still have to continue to investigate the matters that should be investigated. The emperor is not saying that he will not allow the investigation to continue, but he just asked that the scale of the case should not be expanded, and that those who have been arrested but not killed should not be killed. .

Mao Xiang thought for a while and said in a hurry: "In this way, we can use the method of 'walls with ears' in the prison, and build an eavesdropping wall behind the only big tree that can enjoy the shade, so that someone who is dissatisfied can be caught quickly. Evidence, and then they should be exiled or exiled or exiled... They should be kept in prison with food and drink first, followed by eavesdropping and examination."

The so-called "walls have ears" refers to the fact that Jin Yiwei often builds walls close to the homes of the princes and ministers under surveillance. These special walls that can be eavesdropped are built using Jin Yiwei's unique know-how, and the sound is transmitted in one direction. Go to the secret room and be recorded.

In fact, the Jinyiwei of the Hongwu Dynasty monitored the princes and ministers to such an extent that they even had highly skilled painters who joined the Jinyiwei because of their excellent painting skills. Their main task was to paint the subjects of surveillance next door.

Once, the great scholar Song Lian was drinking at home. The next day, Zhu Yuanzhang asked him who he drank with. Song Lian answered honestly. Zhu Yuanzhang was very happy, because Song Lian's answer was exactly the same as the seating chart painted by Jin Yiwei.

And all of this was caused by Zhu Yuanzhang's distrust of the prime minister's power and even the entire civil servant group.

Therefore, the main problem Zhu Yuanzhang faces now is how to completely put the imperial power above the entire civil servant group, and never be threatened by the civil servant group, so that the power of the prime minister will never appear again.

Zhu Xiongying's mistake only prevented the scale of Hu Weiyong's case from expanding to that shocking level, but this did not change the core conflict between imperial power and prime minister power that Zhu Yuanzhang faced.

After confirming that the answer was really gone, Zhu Xiongying was a little helpless, but fortunately there were still many clues. Even if grandpa might have temporarily forgotten the answer due to time travel, he might remember it later, or he might be able to find it out, so Zhu Xiongying temporarily suppressed it and began to ask about his grandfather's current situation. After all, from the first opening of the mysterious vortex to now, Zhu Xiongying has never really understood what it was like after his grandfather traveled to the Ming Dynasty.

"Grandpa, what year are you on the other side? How are you doing?"

Listening to Da Sun's inquiry, Zhu Yuanzhang felt warm in his heart. Da Sun still cared about him, and he had already determined that time flowed differently between this end and that end, so he was not surprised by Da Sun's inquiry.

"Hongwu's fifteenth year was pretty good, but the Hu Weiyong case was a bit annoying."

When Zhu Xiongying heard this answer, he felt quite at ease. Since he was able to come into contact with the Hu Weiyong case, it meant that his grandfather must have become an official, because in the early Ming Dynasty, the status of businessmen was very low, and they were those who wanted to be involved in the Hu Weiyong case. Not worthy of it.”

Moreover, grandpa was not implicated in the Hu Weiyong case, so he was probably not a high-ranking official.

In this way, I can use the items and information here to help my grandfather.

After all, it would probably not be easy for my grandfather to work alone there, and he taught physics in a junior high school. Judging from the photo in the office, he should have been studying theoretical physics before.

Therefore, it should be quite normal for grandpa to know nothing about history. Therefore, he should remind grandpa of some key time points.

For example, among the four major Hongwu cases, the Hu Weiyong case was immediately followed by the blank seal case.

"Grandpa, it's good that you're fine, but since it's the fifteenth year of Hongwu, did your empty seal case happen?"

The reason why Zhu Xiongying asked this is because there are many opinions on the Internet about the specific time of the Kongyin case, mainly including the ninth year of Hongwu and the fifteenth year of Hongwu.

The ninth year of Hongwu is based on the comparison between "Ye Boju's Biography of Zheng Shili" and "Ming History Zheng Shili's Biography" in Volume 21 of Fang Xiaoru's "Xun Zhi Zhai Collection".

The theory of the fifteenth year of Hongwu is because "Ming History Criminal Law Chronicles" holds this theory, so it is recognized by most Ming history treatises.

Zhu Xiongying was not sure about this historical doubt, so he had to ask his grandfather first before reminding him.

"The empty seal case?"

Zhu Yuanzhang's face was very solemn.

He suddenly remembered that both Qiu Xuanqing and Dao Yan had told him that mysterious "future secret information" could be obtained from the yin and yang sea!

Could it be said that this "empty seal case" is something that is about to happen in the Ming Dynasty but has not happened yet?
Thinking of this, Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but think of it.

Well, if he knew what the empty seal case was about, he would probably be furious.

Zhu Yuanzhang asked after calming down.

"It hasn't happened yet. What exactly is this 'empty seal case'?"

(End of this chapter)