Ming Dynasty: The Rampant Crown Prince

Zhu Cihong heard the words and took the booklet and put it in his arms, then looked at Jiang Ming, and said: "I might as well tell you, I am from the palace, and there will be things for you to do later, if you do it well, I will let your Jiang family soar and flourish, and glorify your ancestors, if it is not done well, it will be meaningless for me to buy the lives of your father and daughter, do you understand what I mean?"

"Understand, the little one understands, the adult is useful to the villain, even if he explains, the villain must do his best to do it!"

As soon as Jiang Ming heard that Zhu Cihong and the others were from the palace, his face changed color instantly, and he was shocked in his heart, the three people who bought his father and daughter were actually nobles in the palace.

"Just understand, what's your name?"

Zhu Cihong looked at the Jinyi guard who went to investigate the White Lotus Gang, this person was able to investigate the White Lotus Gang in just one afternoon, and he was indeed clever and capable.

"Lord Hui, his subordinate is called Yang Si, and he serves as the general flag in the yamen.

When the brocade guard heard this, his face was overjoyed, and if he could be asked by His Royal Highness the Prince, the road from then would be much easier than others.

"You find a place, take Jiang Ming to rest, and wait for my order, Jiang Ming, your two daughters will enter the palace with me.

Zhu Cihong said, Ben Su took the lead in walking towards the palace, paying equal attention to grace and power, giving Jiang Ming great benefits, of course, he also had to take his two daughters as hostages, of course, everything was fine if things were done well, but if he dared to have two hearts, he believed that Jiang Ming himself understood the consequences.

"Your Highness, you're back. When he

returned to the East Palace, it was already evening, Qiu Zhizhong stood at the door of the main hall, and when he saw the prince coming back, he immediately trotted forward and greeted him with a smile.

"You go to the Shang Shan Jian to get a set of kitchen utensils, find a room in the East Palace and make a small kitchen, and she will be responsible for the meals in the palace in the future.

Zhu Cihong pointed to Jiang Xuezhu behind him, then stepped into the main hall, sat down directly in front of the table, and took out the booklet presented by Yang Si and looked at it.

"You are actually His Royal Highness the Crown Prince today!" Jiang

Xuezhu hugged her three-year-old sister and looked at Zhu Cihong in front of her with a shocked expression, she didn't expect that the person who bought her was actually the current crown prince, how could this not shock her, and then after she was shocked, her face changed again, and she looked at Zhu Cihong indignantly.

She said: "I heard that now the prince is in charge of the country, brutal and unkind, indiscriminately killing loyal ministers, and bringing disaster to the country and the people, is it true

?" "Do you think those ministers are loyal ministers?"

Zhu Cihong raised his head and glanced at Jiang Xuezhu in surprise, thinking that those scholars had already put such a notoriety on him, and it spread so fast that even a little girl heard of his notoriety as a prince.

If the pen is really in their hands, they can write as much as they want, and give him the name of a tyrant, then it is not them who are at fault, but the emperor and the prince who are wrong.

These so-called readers who read sage books not only love money, power, and women, but also love fame, and want to let him, the prince, leave a reputation through the ages, and he will win a reputation through the ages, which is very good, but unfortunately he Zhu Cihong doesn't care about the so-called reputation at all.

"I don't know what traitors and loyal ministers are, I only know that now there are corpses all over my hometown, and my mother is starving to death, where is the court, where are you?"

Jiang Xuezhu questioned Zhu Cihong, tears in her eyes as she spoke, and she cried weakly, as if all her fears, grievances, and sadness during this time had been vented.

"Then in your opinion, is this palace going to save the country first, or is it disaster relief first?"

Zhu Cihong still looked at the information of the White Lotus Gang in his hand, and asked without looking back, but as soon as he finished asking, he felt that it was too much, in his eyes, this Jiang Xuezhu was always just a little girl.

This question, let alone this little girl, is difficult to answer even himself, this may depend on what position he is in, if he Zhu Cihong is just a prefect, then he will rescue the disaster first, because it is not his turn to save the country, and he has no power to save the country.

Jiang Xuezhu, who asked this, was stunned for a moment, and stopped crying, looking at her appearance, as if she was really thinking about how to answer this question.

"Disaster relief.

After a while, Jiang Xuezhu suddenly spoke.

"Presumptuous!"

At this moment, Qiu Zhizhong walked in from the outside, and when he heard that this little girl dared to talk to the prince like this, he was immediately furious.

"What kind of identity is His Royal Highness the Prince, and can you talk to this cheap maid, and dare to talk to His Royal Highness like this, I don't know the etiquette, come here, drag her down, and whip her ten lashes to set an example!"

Qiu Zhizhong came to Zhu Cihong, nodded and said: "The slave should die, so take this cheap maid down and discipline her strictly." "

No, this person was not brought in by this palace to be a palace maid.

Zhu Cihong looked at Jiang Xuezhu and said: "From your standpoint, you are actually right, the palace will first provide disaster relief, but from the standpoint of the palace, all the military salaries and rations will be taken to Shaanxi, Shanxi, and Sichuan for disaster relief, so what should the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty do to defend the country?"

And do you know that the palace did not instruct the imperial court to go to disaster relief?" Jiang

Xuezhu was asked by this series of questions, and her brain was instantly short-circuited, although she knew how to be knowledgeable since she was a child, but how could she know what to do about this kind of military affairs, many things were actually heard by the common people from the mouths of those readers, and the academies around the country were already full of all kinds of criticism of the imperial court and the prince of the prison country, and she also heard a lot, and she also felt that those scholars were right.

"This palace can teach you a very clear truth!" Zhu

Cihong suddenly drank: "The victims of Shaanxi are dead, this is still the land of the Ming Dynasty, but the soldiers are dead, this will no longer be the land of the Ming Dynasty, not only your hometown Shaanxi will die, but the whole world will die tens of millions of people at that time!" "

When I heard a little gossip that was deliberately spread, I thought I had heard the facts, do you know what is called a rumor? Do you know what is called assertiveness?"

"This palace is cruel and unkind, indiscriminately killing innocents? Hehe, it is precisely because this palace has not yet begun to be brutal and unkind, that the disaster relief food and disaster relief silver allocated by the imperial court to Shaanxi will be embezzled from top to bottom, which will lead to insufficient disaster relief food, and so many people will starve to death!"

"Which of those scholars is not a child of a superior family, who does not worry about eating and drinking, of course, he only sees what he wants to see, but has he taken out a penny to help the victims?"

Jiang Xuezhu was stunned in place, she had never read these words in the sage books, and no one had ever said them to her, but now that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince said it, she could still understand it, and she didn't take out the money to relieve the displaced victims before, and those scholars in the academy did not discuss how to save the country and save the people, but blindly accused the court and the prince of the country of being wrong.

"Could it be that the truths in the books are all wrong?"

Jiang Xuezhu's outlook on life seemed to be shocked, and he began to wonder if there was something wrong with those sage books.

"It's not the books that are wrong, it's the people, and those who read books hard are not for the sake of the world's major events, they talk about it, and it's just the desire in their hearts. "

Let's go down, and the small kitchen in the East Palace will be taken care of for her in the future.

Zhu Cihong waved his hand and said a little impatiently, this Jiang Xuezhu is just a little girl in the end, whether she can understand the truth or not, I'm afraid it's hard to say, but whether she can understand it or not, he has to say this, after all, this person still has to take it with him.

"Let's go, the kitchen utensils are all ready. Hearing

the prince's words, Qiu Zhizhong also felt aggrieved in his heart, the prince was busy and tired every day, but he was said so by outsiders, but at the same time, he also admired the prince even more, these truths are not understood by the so-called senior officials who read the books of sages, let alone those students.

"Yes.

Jiang Xuezhu lost control of her emotions in front of her, and after venting her tongue, she was immediately a little scared, but seeing that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince did not blame her, and felt that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was indeed not as cruel and unkind as rumored, and secretly compared these words, she actually felt that what His Royal Highness the Crown Prince said was indeed reasonable, although she did not fully understand it.

......

Late at night.

Starry night.

In the information submitted by Yang Si, it was written that the White Lotus Gang was ostensibly a gang, but in fact, it would recruit members, collect membership fees, and then let members pull people into the gang to get a certain amount of reward, so as to raise a lot of money.

Then, Jinyiwei also found out the most important point, that is, the White Lotus Gang often transports weapons and firearms out of the city and sells them in Shanxi.

"It's really amazing, it's really amazing!" Zhu

Cihong read the contents of this booklet again, and was really shocked again, although he had already guessed it, but when he really saw this, he still felt shocked, the emperor's relatives actually colluded with the war bureau, and then sold armaments and firearms through a gang

!Now it is basically conclusive evidence, but how this person should be killed is a question, among this group of imperial relatives, one is his grandfather, and the other is Tian Guifei's father.

Moreover, it is not okay to poke this thing out, this is a matter of the face of the royal family, the dignified grandfather of the country, actually took the lead in betraying the country, how does this make the people

of the world think? Also, this disposition is not light, and it is not good to deal with it ethically, he doesn't care, the main thing is what to do with the father?

Another point is that they are all the same crimes, and all the other princes are killed, and the prince and Tian Hongyu are kept, what do the hundred officials think, and what do the people of the entire Ming Dynasty think.

Zhu Cihong felt a big head when he thought of this.

"No, you have to think of a perfect solution, at least on the surface. Rubbing

his eyebrows, Zhu Cihong felt as if everyone was working against him, making him physically and mentally exhausted.

......

Jiading Bofu.

A group of people sat together with frowns on their brows, all dressed in brocade clothes, if there were ministers of the DPRK and the central government here, they would definitely be startled, and the people here were all nobles and princes.

"Today, the prince ordered the Criminal Department to fine the White Lotus Gang, that incident won't be found out by Shunteng, right?"

Wuqing Marquis Li Guorui said a little worriedly, to be honest, since the prince was in charge of the country, the people who have been killed are rolling, and they are all important ministers in the court, he has always been timid, and now he is living in fear every day.

"No, I heard that the White Lotus Gang collected protection money, and the prince knew about it, so he ordered the Criminal Department to punish it, it's not the same thing at all.

Xu Wenjue, Duke of Wei, took the tea steadily, looking unfazed.

"However, Zhu Chuncheng, the Duke of Chengguo, Xu Yunzhen, the Duke of Dingguo, and Xue Lian, the Marquis of Yangwu, were killed one after another, although it was not because of this incident, but I also felt very afraid.

Li Guorui sighed.

"Isn't it, according to the prince's method, among the civil and military officials, who can be innocent, sooner or later it will be our turn.

Linhuai Marquis Li Hongji also said worriedly.

"Also, all the eunuchs of the War Bureau were killed by the prince, saying that they were embezzling military funds and deducting the wages of craftsmen, but the prince would find out something else.

Tian Hongyu, the governor of Zuodu, was also very uneasy, and hurriedly said: "And the war bureau has been held by the prince, and the surname Bi is not in the oil and salt, and it seems that a financial road will be cut off in the future."

"Last time, we went to persuade His Majesty together with hundreds of officials to no avail, and wanted the queen to come out to preside over the overall situation, but the queen also refused, is there really no way to deal with the prince?"

Dingyuan Marquis Deng Wenming also spoke.

"In the final analysis, how could the crown prince get the support of the emperor and Jinyiwei, otherwise, where would there be so much!" Xu

Wenjue snorted coldly, and suddenly said: "And that Fan Jingwen, Ni Yuanlu, Sun Chengzong, now that the cabinet has all become the prince's people, there is no way to start if you want to go against the tune!" "

Master, the university scholar Qian Shisheng, the university scholar Zhang Zhifa and others are here."

At this moment, an old man came to Jiading Bo Zhoukui's side and whispered.

"Invite them in.

Zhou Kui suddenly smiled at everyone and said, "This is a plan, and it still needs them to come up with a scholar." "