My Brother-in-law is the Prince

  Chapter 469 Imperial Interrogation

   A moment later, someone was escorted.

   In fact, there are not many thieves who survived, but only a few dozen.

   After all, the people have been too ruthless.

  The thieves who attacked the private camp obviously didn't expect it. They thought it was a night attack, and even thought that the goal was a surefire... Who knows, they were shocked ten times or even dozens of times, holding various weapons and directly attacking them physically.

  Under this kind of chaos, it is more difficult than going to the sky to survive.

  After all...you can't stop so many people from physically outputting you.

   These dozens of people can be regarded as the ancestors who have accumulated virtue, and the ancestral graves are smoking.

   It's just that even they are not in a good situation. Most of them are dying.

  One of them was identified, and he was caught immediately. It was that Friday.

  Friday’s face was full of panic, and he wailed and begged: “Forgive me, spare my life!”

  The captain of Jinyiwei did not hesitate, and interrogated overnight.

   "His Royal Highness the Prince."

   returned to the camp.

Baihu held his sword and continued: "The news from the western suburbs of Kaifeng said that a group of thieves also attacked the camp there and were taken down. I think... there are people in every camp. Luckily, many civilians were drilled on weekdays, and they were of one mind, but even so, dozens of civilians were killed or killed at night, and these bandits came in a menacing manner, obviously they came prepared."

  Zhu Gaochi frowned and said, "Who ordered it?"

   "Interrogation is underway and results are apparently coming soon."

   Zhu Gaochi nodded.

  The hundred households said again: "However, Yingli and Jinyiwei mean... His Royal Highness may not stay here for a long time, and he should return to Beijing as soon as possible. I will **** His Highness back to Beijing after this."

  Zhu Gaochi is now stronger, his face is ruddy, and his whole body is full of energy. It is obvious that he is already in good health.

  At this moment, he stood up with his hands behind his back, walked a few steps, pondered for a moment and said: "It's just the situation in Kaifeng, I can't let it go."

   "Your Highness." The hundred households said, "Your Highness is the crown prince, and he has the world in mind. The affairs here are handled by someone."

  When these hundred households spoke, their tone was extremely respectful.

   Zhu Gaochi remembers that when he was in the model camp, many people were more afraid of him.

  Or after entering the camp, Zhu Gaochi's gentle temperament gradually made many captains realize that His Royal Highness is so honorable, yet he can be so humble and friendly.

  Or, Zhu Gaochi still abides by the rules in the camp, which is convincing.

  Zhu Gaochi's face at this time is not only gentle, but also has a bit of fortitude.

  After pondering for a while, he said: "It's fine for the thieves to make a sudden attack, and my palace is in power, but since I'm here, is there any reason to return to Beijing for refuge?"

  Baihu was stunned: "But..."

  The hundred households showed embarrassment, obviously worried about Zhu Gaochi's safety.

  Zhu Gaochi knew at this time that from now on, he was no longer the team officer of the model battalion, but His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of Daming. Therefore, Zhu Gaochi couldn't help heaving a sigh of relief, and he couldn't help but feel a little bit reluctant about the re-transition of his identity.

  When I was in the camp, the laws and regulations were strictly enforced, and most of the time, I had no distracting thoughts in my mind, and only needed to exercise my body.

  Not only did he not feel that it was suffering, but he felt an inexplicable sense of relief.

   After all, as the prince, he had too many things to think about. This kind of heavy pressure sometimes made him breathless.

  The most difficult thing in the world is to be a prince. You must be careful and walk on thin ice.

   What's more, his father, the emperor, was still a general who only thought about marching and deploying troops, but he left all the miscellaneous things on him.

  This has invisibly increased his pressure countless times, because the emperor's handling of world affairs and the prince's handling of world affairs are completely different concepts.

  The emperor can be willful and do whatever he wants, even if he encounters resistance, there is no serious problem.

   But the crown prince needs to be cautious, if he does not do well, he will be scolded bloody, but if he does too well, there may be villains who will slander him again.

  The emperor can promote his subordinates, but the prince needs to be more careful, so as not to be suspected that he is cultivating his own team.

  Even if his father didn't think so, but for Zhu Gaochi, he still needs to think about himself all the time, just in case.

  Although it was hard work in the model camp, but here, there are almost no such troubles. It is really an unprecedented relaxation to let your mind go.

   But now, it is clear that the situation can no longer allow him to continue to be an ordinary team officer.

  In the past, Zhu Gaochi was indecisive. He always had to look forward and backward in his actions, and he had to take one step and see three steps.

   But now, perhaps because of being in the model battalion, he has been contaminated with the simplicity and rudeness of the army.

  Or, after coming to Kaifeng, I witnessed many incredible sights.

Therefore, Zhu Gaochi made a decisive decision and said: "Immediately send letters to the Jinyi school lieutenants and clerks in the four provinces and prefectures to strictly guard against them, but if they are attacked, they can deal with them impromptu, and the palace grants them arbitrary power. In addition , Jin Yiwei immediately find out the real culprit, once the real culprit is found out, they will search the main culprit immediately, these thieves have run rampant to this point, no one should be let go."

As Zhu Gaochi said, he took another two steps, lowered his head and thought about it seriously, and then said: "The edict of my palace will be passed on again, and all magistrates and county magistrates in the four provinces will be temporarily exempted. Take their positions temporarily. From now on, the military law will be enforced. The local parents and officials have too much entanglement with the local local snakes. Now is an extraordinary time. Everything will be dealt with after the four provinces are stabilized."

   "Since it is a marching law, then... Jinyiwei and the model camp, in addition to immediately organizing guards and guarding them strictly to protect the people, there is also a need to interrogate all suspicious persons. The local inspection departments will be taken over by Jinyiwei..."

  Hearing this, Baihu hurriedly said, "I'm humble, so I'll order someone to deliver the order."

   Zhu Gaochi stayed up all night.

  He couldn't sleep.

   Fortunately, during these days, he was in such good health that he was able to endure it.

   Soon, news came from Jin Yiwei.

   A directory was handed over to Zhu Gaochi.

  Zhu Gaochi only looked down at the roster and said, "Is it true?"

   "There is no doubt about it." The captain said: "Your Highness, the Friday who was arrested was originally from the Zhou family, and he has been guarding the Zhou family's home. He was ordered by Zhou Juren..."

  The captain reported in detail.

Zhu Gaochi nodded and said: "Since that's the case, then what are you doing idle? Call out guards, and order a few Jinyiwei and school captains from the model camp to accompany you. They all come with this palace, and immediately search the Zhou family, Wang family, and Zhao family. , Don’t leak the news, teach people to run away.”

   "Here."

Zhu Gaochi seemed to think of something again at this time, and then said: "Once the thieves of the prefectures and counties fail to attack, they know that they have committed a serious crime and must flee. It is even possible that these desperadoes will gather together. It has become my confidant's trouble."

   "The news came out that the Model Camp immediately mobilized three hundred households from nearby counties and counties. Three hundred people were the backbone, and some guards were called in to prepare for counter-insurgency at any time."

  After giving some detailed instructions, Zhu Gaochi hurried out of the camp, led his men and horses, and quickly disappeared into the night.

  …

  At this time, Zhou Juren was obviously worried all the way, but still had great hope.

   I have to say that this is also thanks to the people's power confiscated by those Jinyiwei and Taiping Mansion.

   These people, who are full of food and drink, have actually rebuilt some official roads, laid many stone bridges for the convenience of the people, and even the muddy and difficult roads are now unimpeded.

  On the gravel-paved road, Zhou Juren immediately met many fellow travelers.

Some of these people set out early from Guanzhong, and some came from other prefectures in Henan. They encountered people along the way and reported their families. Although they were hundreds or even thousands of miles away from each other, there were quite a few of them. They were all known by Zhou Juren. figure.

  These... are all the seeds of scholars in the world, not to mention their knowledge and family background, but just their contacts, they are all connected to the sky.

   Among the relatives, there are countless officials in the court.

   Zhou Juren seemed to have taken a reassurance all of a sudden, with these people traveling together, and going to Nanjing City together, big things can be settled.

  So in the blink of an eye, they had arrived in Zhenjiang.

  After taking a ferry from Zhenjiang, you can go to Nanjing along the waterway.

  At this time, the city of Nanjing was already overcrowded. Almost all the inns in the city were full.

  People like Zhou Juren did not come here alone. They were accompanied by many bookboys, servants, and maids, as if they were moving house.

  People gathered more and more, and when they arrived in the capital, they were not in a hurry to sue, but went to visit relatives immediately.

  A family like theirs, who doesn't have a few relatives who are officials in the court?

   Zhou Juren also went to visit one of his cousins ​​at the moment.

  This gentleman worked as a Fengli Lang in Taichang Temple. When they met each other, they were not very embarrassed. When talking about the things in the village, this cousin also became angry, and angrily scolded Zhang Anshi for being shameless.

Then he gave Zhou Juren an idea: "Zhang Anshi is very powerful, relying on one person and two people can't sue him. The best way is for all the people in the world to file a complaint. Others, there are people in the court who take the opportunity to act. As a brother, I am only a mere Fengli Lang, with a humble position and a low position, so I really can't help much, but you and the other princes must report the tragedy in this village. Only then will there be hope of success and debt relief , and there is hope.”

  Zhou Juren took notes and went to meet some relatives and friends.

  He had been to the capital when he was taking the test, so he had no intention of visiting.

  Wait until the capital, people like Zhou Juren gathered more and more, and within a few days, rumors spread that it was the nineteenth day of the seventh month.

July 19th is said to be the birthday of Taisui Xingjun. Among all the gods, Taisui God has the greatest influence. He is known as the Son of Heaven in his middle age. If you choose to go to seek justice on this day, it is undoubtedly someone using this to imply that Zhang Anshi's bullying of them means committing a crime against Tai Sui, that is, breaking ground on Tai Sui's head.

  So when it came to the nineteenth day of the seventh month, countless people went to the Meridian Gate at the same place.

   In an instant, there were two thousand people.

  At the gate of the palace, a **** came out expressionlessly. He wanted to check the details, but many people took complaints and sent them to the eunuch.

  The eunuch's scalp was numb. Although he didn't understand the complaints, he felt that this matter was no small matter.

   Immediately enter the palace to report.

   Zhu Di probably knew the details of these people. In such a catastrophe in the four provinces, someone came to Beijing to make a statement, and Zhu Di encouraged him from the bottom of his heart.

   After all, this is also an important channel for the emperor to understand the people's sentiments.

   Therefore, he specially summoned all the officials, just to take this opportunity to have a discussion in front of the officials.

   It's just that the **** sent this thick stack of complaints to him.

  At first glance, Zhu Di was shocked at first, but he didn't show his expression, and then calmly said: "Distribute to all the officials, teach them to come and see, let's see...the suffering of the people all over the world."

  The **** bowed and said yes, and then distributed the complaint to all the officials in the palace.

   When Zhang Anshi had a share, Zhang Anshi looked down, and saw the harsh words of the grassroots weeping blood.

  Zhang Anshi didn't bother to read it, he couldn't see the tragedy in this kind of text.

  Hundreds of officials looked down at each other, their faces were all very strange, and each of them looked strange.

  Zhu Di was sitting still, with a tired look on his face. He is not in good health these days. After all, he is not young.

  Zhu Di said: "Call some people, I want to hear what they say."

  Yi Shiha listened, saluted and left.

   After a while, more than a dozen people were invited. The first one immediately fell to the ground and said: "The grass people have seen Your Majesty..."

  Zhu Di looked down at these common people, his expression changed slightly.

  These people behaved like a ceremonial ceremony, without any restraint or nervousness, and even spoke in official Mandarin, without too much accent.

  Looking at their appearance, it is obvious that they are well-off in basic necessities of life.

  Zhu Di felt slightly surprised, and then said: "If you have any grievances, please tell me."

  The crowd rushed to answer: "Your Majesty, the people of the grass...it's too miserable, this..."

  Zhu Di said angrily: "Speak one by one, vying to say what? Come..."

  He pointed to one of them casually, and said, "Come on."

   This person was Zhou Juren.

Zhou Juren had already prepared a draft along the way, and it can be said that he was well prepared. He said: "The grassroots are the people of Kaifeng. The catastrophe in Henan caused a great disaster, and the grassland suffered a lot. The rain, dew and rain, tried their best to help, but who would have expected... a group of people from the Taiping Mansion came later, these people... once they arrived in Kaifeng, they also claimed to help the people, not counting, and they forced people like the grassroots to buy food."

   "Buy grain?" Although Zhu Di also heard something reported by the East Factory.

  However, the manpower at the East Factory was all transferred by Jin Yiwei, and the information collected by the rest of these people was incomplete.

  Yi Shiha feels that a lot of news has not been confirmed, and he dare not report it at will.

  After all, if there is no report, it is lazy at most, but if the report is not true, it is broken.

  Furthermore, His Majesty is not in good health now, and Yi Shiha does not dare to report some things at will, for fear that His Majesty will be angry and ruin his health.

  Zhu Di stood up, frowned and walked a few steps, then fixedly looked at Zhou Juren and said, "Why do you want to buy food?"

  Zhou Juren hurriedly said: "This Taiping government sells the grain price of grassroots and others for one or two grains of silver and one stone..."

  After hearing this, Zhu Di's expression turned cold in an instant.

   One tael of silver and one stone grain, which is almost equivalent to being robbed by the same trade.

  You know, when the price of grain was relatively stable a few years ago, one tael of silver was worth seven or eight stones of grain.

   This is equivalent to a direct skyrocketing price seven or eight times.

"After that, even a stone of grain cost one, two, two, three silvers. The so-called people don't fight with the officials, how dare the small people refuse to obey, but later, they insisted on selling it, but the small people are already cash-strapped. Therefore, they forcefully taught the ordinary people to borrow money to buy grain, but the ordinary people had no choice but to borrow money and owe countless silver on credit to buy these grains..."

   As he spoke, Zhou Juren burst into tears.

  Actually, what he said is nine points true and one point false.

  He bought the food, and he really bought it at a high price.

   They also borrowed the loan, and now they have borrowed a fortune, which is also true.

  The only thing that is not true is that they originally bought it on their own initiative, but now they are forced to sell it by the Taiping government.

  Of course, regarding this point, Zhou Juren also has the confidence, after all... Behind the Taiping Mansion is Zhang Anshi, who is in power.

   And he is just a weak little man.

This week, Juren wiped his tears again, and said in a pitiful manner: "Little people, I really have nowhere to go. At first... I thought I was just giving up some of my family's wealth, so as not to cause trouble for Jin Yiwei. But now... I have been ruined and destroyed. , now...he is in debt, and the family property has been destroyed. If this continues, the family will be ruined. As a last resort, this is the only way to go to Beijing to sue, but I don't dare to blame the court. I just... hope that the grassroots will return the food at the original price, Teach the little people to barely have a foothold, and the rest... dare not expect extravagantly."

   "Your Majesty is a holy king..." Zhou Juren kowtowed: "I will definitely be able to make decisions for the grassroots."

  He didn't mention Zhang Anshi, and even Jin Yiwei didn't attack excessively.

   And his so-called begging was just a refund. Anyone who heard this request felt reasonable.

  After listening to Zhu Di, he chewed his words seriously, and couldn't help but feel a little moved.

Although he knew that Jin Yiwei went to give relief and seemed to be doing a good job, but since Jin Yiwei was established by Emperor Taizu Gao, it actually had a cruel side. It is conceivable that Jin Yiwei entered the people, and some people violated the rules and oppressed the people. .

  Zhu Di couldn't help but said: "Zhang Qing's family..."

  Zhang Anshi looked surprised. He thought that there would be heinous accusations next, and it must be these people who pointed the finger at him and wantonly attacked himself.

   But who would have thought that the opponent was thundering loudly and raining little, but it was precisely because of this that Zhang Anshi suddenly became vigilant, and only then did he know... these people are really chicken thieves.

  Zhang Anshi said: "The minister is here."

  Zhu Di said: "Is there such a thing? You go and check it out. After a thorough investigation, report it to me."

  Zhang An Shidao: "Your Majesty, there is no need to tell me. This is not an act of Jin Yiwei's arbitrariness. Everything is ordered by the minister."

  (end of this chapter)