Imperial Master of the Ming Dynasty

In the study room, the atmosphere was solemn.

The confidant eunuchs Wu Zhi and Liu Xin stood on the left and right, while the Valley King Zhu Su sat on the chair behind the table with a gloomy expression.

After a while, Zhang Cheng, who was also the confidant of King Gu in front of him, raised his hand to wipe his sweat. Finally, he couldn't bear it anymore and said with his hands raised: "Your Highness, now that the world has been decided and King Yan comes to Dabao, it is really difficult to shake it. I sincerely request Your Highness to submit a petition as soon as possible and hand over the remaining guards."

Hearing this, Zhu Su snorted coldly and shouted: "Return the guard, do you think the fourth brother can let Gu go? You have a good idea!"

"When Jingnan was in trouble, Gu was against the fourth brother and had already been on his list. Now the fourth brother has worked hard for several years and spent countless blood and sacrifices to achieve his current position. Do you think that the fourth brother can Brother, are you really not wary of us brothers and will we have another Jingnan battle?"

"Or are you not loyal to Gu?" Zhu Su lifted up his python robe and asked sadly.

Zhang Cheng was stunned and said quickly: "I have no intention of doing this, but Your Highness, it is really not suitable to raise an army now. There are only 700 guards in the mansion. Although they are all reliable soldiers brought by Xuanfu, the Yan army is in Nanjing." There are tens of thousands of people inside and outside the city, all of them are elites from hundreds of battles. I'm afraid that as soon as we start the army, we will be defeated, and then it will be unbearable to say, then."

Before Zhang Cheng finished speaking, suddenly, a chamberlain hurried into the study. The guards did not stop him. The chamberlain knelt on the ground and said hurriedly: "Your Majesty, Huang Wei wants to see you!"

Huang Wei?

Zhang Cheng, who was originally in charge of the three guards of the Valley King, thought for a while and then realized that Huang Wei was the deputy Qianhu who was originally the left guard. Now he was sent to the Jinyi Guard and was promoted to the Zhengqianhu, in charge of the imperial edict.

When he thought of this, Zhang Cheng suddenly felt something in his heart and secretly screamed that something was wrong.

Zhu Su frowned: "Why would Huang Wei come to look for an orphan at this hour? Xuan!"

The chamberlain took the order and retreated. Soon, he saw Huang Wei striding across the threshold, kneeling on one knee and saying, "I see you, Your Highness!"

"Huang Qianhu, get up quickly!"

Zhu Su actually got up from the chair and supported Huang Wei.

Huang Wei stood up, looking like an arrogant man, with a long face and square nose, a mouth full of stubble, and bulging muscles all over his body, full of explosive power.

"Thank you, Your Highness."

Huang Wei stood up, glanced at everyone's faces, and finally fell on Zhang Cheng.

Seeing Huang Wei in front of him, Zhang Cheng couldn't help but his eyelids twitched.

When Zhang Cheng served in the Xuanfu border army, he once encountered a warrior who was good at using two axes during his martial arts performance. When he confronted the enemy, the man was slashed with two axes without any real strength. Even if he was not really fighting, he was not very powerful. Heye actually put Zhang Cheng in danger, but in the end the guards used a large shield to block his axe.

This shows how amazing this warrior who is good at wielding double axes is!

And this warrior is Huang Wei.

Huang Wei bowed his hands towards Zhang Cheng: "Command."

Then, he turned to the two eunuchs on the side and saluted with his hands raised: "Two old princes."

Zhang Cheng also slightly cupped his hand as a return gift. He had a good impression of Huang Wei. After all, it is rare to see a warrior like this who is good at wielding two axes.

"Why did Huang Qianhu come so urgently today?" Valley King Zhu Su asked hurriedly.

Huang Wei did not hesitate and opened his mouth to say: "Your Highness is in great danger! Huang, remembering his past friendship, came here to inform you."

The face of Valley King Zhu Su suddenly changed unpredictably.

"Your Highness, does he know how King Yan treated Duke Cao?"

Hearing that Huang Wei said "King Yan" instead of "Your Majesty" or "His Majesty", King Gu felt a little more at ease.

"How do you know when you are sitting alone in a trapped house?"

"Your Highness." Huang Wei said earnestly, "Not only is Cao Guogong imprisoned in the imperial prison every day, he is also imprisoned secretly and is not known to outsiders at all!"

"Is that so?"

Hearing this, the commander Zhang Cheng couldn't help but lose his voice for a moment.

"It's not just that!"

Huang Wei said hurriedly: "King Yan comes to eavesdrop every day!"

"ah?"

Several people in the study looked at each other.

The majestic king of a country actually came to personally eavesdrop on the words of an important minister who was imprisoned in the imperial edict and ranked first among the officials.

I hope you don’t look like a human being!

"Tell me, how did you eavesdrop?" Wu Zhi, the old eunuch, looked like he had an idea and asked carefully.

"There is a tree in the imperial prison courtyard. It is not too thick, but it is indeed the only place to enjoy the cool breeze." Huang Wei is in charge of the imperial prison, so he naturally knows the secret room very well, "And the wall behind the tree has a saying. The reason for this is that the Jin Yiwei's method of dividing walls with ears was passed down secretly during the Hongwu period. The purpose of building this wall was to eavesdrop on whether prisoners were plotting riots. After all, under the tree, it seemed to be the safest place and the place where secrets were most likely to occur. "

Just hearing the four words "walls have ears", the old eunuchs who had experienced the Jinyiwei spy era of Hongwu Dynasty were so frightened that their legs trembled.

It's really scary.

In addition to eavesdropping through the walls, Zhu Yuanzhang even asked the Jin Yiwei to record the important actions of the monitored ministers in the form of drawings.

One time, Song Lian probably encountered something happy and invited some friends to have a feast and drink. On the same day, Song Ne encountered something disturbing. One of his expensive tea utensils was knocked down by some students from the Imperial College while playing. Broken.

The next day, Zhu Yuanzhang asked Song Lian with a smile, "Who was our guest yesterday?" What's the food? ', Song Lian answered truthfully. Zhu Yuanzhang was very happy after hearing this and said, 'Of course, you will not bully me', which scared Song Lian into a cold sweat. It is said that because Song Lian is incorruptible (the author of "Preface to Ma Sheng in Dongyang", he has been used to it since childhood) After only buying a small courtyard, Jin Yiwei bought the house next door to his bedroom, which was separated from his bedroom by a wall, using the method of having ears on the partition wall.

Song Ne was asked by Zhu Yuanzhang why he was angry yesterday, and Song Ne answered truthfully. Zhu Yuanzhang responded by asking the eunuch to give Song Ne a picture, which showed Song Jiu sitting in danger with an angry look. Zhu Yuanzhang secretly arranged for Jin Yiwei, who was good at sketching, to monitor Song Ne. The Jin Yiwei vividly drew Song Ne's angry forms and presented them to the emperor.

This Jinyiwei was Lin Liang, a famous painter of the Ming Dynasty. He was recruited by the Jinyiwei because he was good at painting flowers, birds and figures. A scholar was appointed as a military attache, and he was specially used to draw comic strips for Zhu Yuanzhang to monitor ministers.

Therefore, no one in the study was surprised to hear that there was a listening wall of this nature in the imperial prison.

"What exactly are you eavesdropping on?" Zhang Cheng couldn't help but ask.

"There is a secret room across the wall. In it, King Yan eavesdropped on the conversations between Cao Guogong, the second prince, and a scholar under the tree every day."

"Scholar?" Valley King Zhu Su asked with a frown.

"Yes." Huang Wei only mentioned, "A scholar from Jingting Mountain who is not a good scholar, named Jiang Xinghuo."

The king of the valley, Zhu Su, didn't care much. He asked again: "Does Huang Qianhu know what they are talking about?"

Huang Wei said helplessly: "Ji Gang never allowed me to enter the secret room. In the past few days, only King Yan, Master Daoyan, and Shangshu Xia Yuanji have entered. There are also two minor officials responsible for recording, but these two people live in daily life They were all watched alone by Ji Gang’s cronies.”

"I really don't know what they are talking about, but there is no doubt that according to various signs, King Yan is about to take action against Duke Cao." Huang Weyan said firmly, "And, in these few days!"

"Your Highness, when Duke Cao is removed by King Yan, will you still be able to live?"

Valley King Zhu Su took a deep breath, tried hard to suppress his anger, and asked in a deep voice: "Huang Qianhu, are everything you said true?"

Huang Wei nodded and said: "It's absolutely true, how could Huang dare to deceive His Highness? Besides, Huang risked his life to retaliate. This is decapitation. How can Your Highness doubt me?"

"I'm not doubting you." Valley King Zhu Su was upset, "We are really desperate!"

"Your Highness, why don't you give it a try?" Huang Wei urged.

Hearing this, Valley King Zhu Su became more and more frustrated: "There are only 700 guards in the palace, how can we fight hard?"

"Your Highness is wrong," said the old eunuch Wu Zhi, "In the past, the King of Yan rose up and seized Peiping to pacify the country. Didn't there only be 800 warriors in the palace?"

"It's not the same thing. This is Nanjing City, and there are Fourth Brother's troops both inside and outside."

The Valley King Zhu Su, who originally had some confidence when talking to the princess, now became less and less confident the more he spoke.

Huang Wei suddenly took a step forward and said.

"There's one thing it's not!"

Valley King Zhu Su's eyes lit up and he hurriedly came to ask.

"Where?"

"——Jail!"

Huang Wei said proudly: "King Yan comes to the imperial prison every day at noon to eavesdrop. There are not many guards around him, and the imperial guards in the imperial prison are mostly veterans from Xuanfu who were among the three guards of His Highness in the past. As long as His Highness is determined, they can I will definitely support His Highness.”

"When the time comes, His Highness will lead seven hundred guards to join forces with Huang to kill Yan Ni and Zhu Gaoxu. He falsely claims that he opened the Jinchuan Gate to release Emperor Jianwen and is now in the mansion to kill Yan Ni for Shen Dayi. When the time comes, those weaklings will All officials, why don’t you kneel down and offer you the emperor’s support?”

"This is what they did when the Yan army entered the city a few months ago." Zhu Su, the king of the valley, snorted coldly: "What a good minister in Jiangnan!"

As everyone knows, he himself seems to be among them.

However, after Huang Wei's plan, Valley King Zhu Su's uneasy heart finally became completely restless.

The king of the valley, Zhu Sufu, asked again: "Even if Yan Ni is killed, so many soldiers and horses inside and outside the city will eventually avenge Yan Ni. What will we do if we have few soldiers?"

At this moment, Princess Zhou came in a hurry.

Valley King Zhu Su quickly asked: "My beloved concubine, what do you say over there?"

Zhou was panting heavily and sat down with the help of two old eunuchs. After taking a deep breath, she spoke.

"My father said it to me personally. Cough cough cough!"

"My beloved concubine, you should tell me!" Valley King Zhu Su was so anxious that he almost jumped up.

"The Governor's Office of the Fifth Army has issued an order. Zhu Neng and other famous generals of the Yan Army will take their troops to the Susong Jiahu Mansion tomorrow to promote the entry of soldiers into the country and suppress the local area."

The Valley King Zhu Su was excited and ecstatic.

"In other words, in the future, Yan Nihui will go to the imperial edict every day to eavesdrop, and there will be no troops in Nanjing?"

When Princess Zhou heard "Yan Ni", she was immediately frightened. However, seeing several of her husband's confidants here, she also knew that as a royal concubine, she and the King of Valley would both prosper and suffer. This thief The boat can't get off.

"That's it. Your Highness, don't hesitate any longer!" Huang Weiyan said.

The old eunuch Wu Zhi suddenly asked: "Huang Qianhu is risking his head to do such a big thing?"

"A man is born in this world, and if he can't eat with nine cauldrons, how can he cook with nine cauldrons?"

Huang Wei spoke generously: "Zhu Neng, the generals and commanders of the three guards of the King of Yan, are now ranked among the princes and princes of the country, and they are extremely prosperous and wealthy. In the past, when the border troops performed martial arts, they were not defeated by Huang? Why are they? As the duke of the country, why can't Huang sacrifice his life to follow Long Bo? Do we have to watch him die from old age and death in prison?"

After hearing this, Zhu Su, the king of the valley, finally made up his mind.

"That's the truth." Valley King Zhu Su said harshly, "My fourth brother is sitting on this dragon chair, why can't I sit on it?"

"Rise up the troops tomorrow and raid the imperial prison!"