Ming Dynasty: Zhu Biao's younger brother, the most rebellious son in history

Chapter 38: Big and small come together, the Zhu family has no moral principles!
The young eunuch from Wenhua Hall came over and whispered something to Yuan Qi. After hearing it, Yuan Qi said he understood, then asked the young eunuch to leave, while he continued to stand aside in the hall.

Zhu Yuanzhang was keeping an eye on all directions and listening to all directions. While reviewing the memorials, he said without raising his head:

"What's wrong? What trouble have those little bastards caused again?"

Yuan Qi immediately said, "Your Majesty, His Royal Highness the Prince of Qin and His Royal Highness the Prince of Jin beat Councillor Kong who was going to give a lecture. Councillor Kong fainted from anger and is now being treated by the imperial physician."

After that, Yuan Qi said:

"Councilor Kong insulted the Second Prince in the academy, and the King of Qin and the King of Jin could not help but beat him."

"You little bastards, you only know how to stir up trouble! You learned these bad things from their big brother!"

While Zhu Yuanzhang was scolding Zhu Chong and Zhu Gang, he also scolded Zhu Kai, blaming him for being a bad example:
"Let someone beat them with a stick. Give each of them twenty strokes of the stick. Beat them hard!"

"According to the order."

Zhu Yuanzhang continued: "Also, last night, Kong Keren's business was sold to us, right?"

Yuan Qi was responsible for helping Zhu Yuanzhang acquire the businesses sold in Yingtian Prefecture. He knew everything about the shops sold. Even those who sold shops to Zhu Kai, Yuan Qi had records:
"Councilor Kong chose His Majesty in order to avoid being discovered by His Royal Highness the Second Prince. Hehe... If he knew that it was His Majesty who was collecting them, he probably wouldn't sell them even if they rotted in his hands."

"Ah."

Zhu Yuanzhang hummed, then said:

"Give the shop sold by Kong Keren to Hu Weiyong. Hu Weiyong knows what to do."

Handing it over to Hu Weiyong, the "number one lackey of the second prince", meant that Kong Keren's official career had come to an end. It also meant that Zhu Yuanzhang was somewhat dissatisfied with those who had fought with him to conquer the world.

"According to the order."

Yuan Qi thought to himself: Second Prince, you have solved another problem for His Majesty.

The civil and military officials in this court are indeed a bit arrogant.

……

Zhu Kai didn't know what happened in the court and Wenhua Hall. He had already discussed with Zhu Di about going out to play the next day.

The mount is, of course, the coolest mountain bike, the only one of its kind in the entire Ming Dynasty.

The entire body is made of aluminum alloy, the rims are two fingers wide, and it has six speeds!
Even in later times, this would be very eye-catching, not to mention that this happened in the Ming Dynasty, and riding it out would definitely be a unique experience.

Princes were not allowed to enter and leave the palace at will, but Zhu Kai was an exception. In the first year of Hongwu, Zhu Kai and Zhu Yuanzhang battled wits and courage for three months. Zhu Kai made the palace a chaotic place and at the cost of Zhu Yuanzhang breaking three shoes, five wooden sticks and a belt, finally Zhu Kai was free to leave the palace.

However, Zhu Yuanzhang allowed Zhu Kai to leave the palace, but he also had requirements.

When he leaves the palace, he must be accompanied by people from the Guard Department.

The Gongwei Division, now called the Imperial Guard Commandery, was in charge of the Yiluansi and claimed to be the emperor's guard of honor. However, it was actually an intelligence team personally managed by Zhu Yuanzhang. In the future, these two teams had a famous and infamous name: Jinyiwei!
Zhu Kai had no intention of exploring the existence of this team.

He was even reluctant to get close, because Zhu Kai knew very well that this was a hornet's nest and if he got close he would most likely get stung.

These are Zhu Yuanzhang's personal soldiers, and they are only responsible to Zhu Yuanzhang.

It is also the strongest intelligence force in Zhu Yuanzhang's hands. The current Grand Commander of the Imperial Guards is one of the 24 generals of Huaixi who followed Zhu Yuanzhang in his uprising, Guo Xing, Marquis of Gongchang, who is deeply trusted by Zhu Yuanzhang.

Now, together with his younger brother Guo Ying, they serve as Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes and ears monitoring the world.

Guo Xing was Zhu Yuanzhang's brother-in-law, and his sister was Zhu Yuanzhang's Concubine Ning.

In the third year of Hongwu, his eleventh brother Zhu Tan was born. Now he is just a little boy who cries at the slightest provocation.

Zhu Kai knew very well that his father did not trust the generals!

For example, the Twenty-Four Generals of Huaixi, many of them grew up with Zhu Yuanzhang and knew all about Zhu Yuanzhang’s dark history. They felt that since their childhood playmates had grown up to become emperors, there was no difference between them becoming emperors.

Except for important ministers like Xu Da, Guo Xing and Tang He who grew up naked and knew when to advance and retreat, Zhu Yuanzhang was already wary of other generals who did not know how to advance and retreat and who were still spreading the story that Zhu Yuanzhang had watched widows bathing when he was a child.

After all, not everyone can rise from a tenant farmer to the position of emperor.

Zhu Yuanzhang needed to beautify himself and make himself appear to have an extraordinary background... Isn't it that Confucianism used the fact that Zhu Yuanzhang was a descendant of Zhu Xi to beautify Zhu Yuanzhang?
In order to prevent the people from following his example and rebelling, which would cause chaos in the country, Zhu Yuanzhang did not allow anyone around him to talk about his past without restraint. This was for the sake of the continuation of the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, Guo Xing and Guo Ying were born to serve the Imperial Guards and Yiluansi under the command of Zhu Yuanzhang.

In addition, the Northern Yuan Dynasty was not yet stable, and a large number of intelligence personnel were needed to monitor the Ming Dynasty and the Mongols. Zhu Yuanzhang would never allow anyone to get involved in the team of the Imperial Guards, unless his successor after his death knew about it.

Zhu Kai had no idea how many people were in this team, and no one knew except Zhu Yuanzhang.

Including Zhu Biao!

He still believed that the Imperial Guard and the Yiluansi were the imperial guards protecting Zhu Yuanzhang.

Zhu Kai only knew the names of some Yiluansi strongmen in Yingtian Prefecture of Yiluansi. Zhu Yuanzhang let him know this because when Zhu Kai went out to play, Zhu Yuanzhang let him choose people from Yiluansi himself.

Among them, Mao Xiang and Jiang Li were the captains of the Yiluansi who followed Zhu Kai when he left the palace, each leading ten Yiluansi strongmen.

Zhu Kai was very surprised when he saw the names of these two people!

But he picked them two without hesitation!
In various TV dramas in later generations, the Jinyiwei has been completely villainized, as if they were the biggest evil force in the Ming Dynasty.

In fact, this is not the case. The main role of the Jinyiwei in the early stage was to spy on military intelligence.

There are many heroes who went deep into the Mongol hinterland to gather intelligence and never returned.

Mao Xiang and Jiang Li were the first and second commanders of the Embroidered Uniform Guard.

In history, Mao Xiang was the first commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guard. His origins were unknown. After he killed twenty-one marquises in the Hu Weiyong case, he was pushed out by Zhu Yuanzhang to take the blame.

Jiang Lin was the second commander-in-chief. His background was unknown. He accused Lan Yu of treason, implicated thirteen marquises and two uncles, and executed 15,000 members of his clan. He almost caught all the generals who had fought for the world, and then was pushed out by Zhu Yuanzhang to take the blame and killed.

The third commander of the Jinyiwei was named Song Zhong, whose origins were also unknown...

Just from these unknown origins, Zhu Kai could conclude that the strength of this Yiluansi was no less than that of the future Jinyiwei. Zhu Kai actually wanted to find Song Zhong, but he didn't find his name on the Yiluansi list given by Guo Xing, so he simply gave up.

Mao Xiang and Jiang Li were ambitious people. After they knew that the master they served was Zhu Kai, they became the second and third followers of the second prince after Hu Weiyong, commonly known as "running dogs."

(End of this chapter)