My Brother-in-law is the Prince - Chapter 386

Chapter 386 Rebellious ministers and thieves are punished by everyone

The thief’s leg was almost cut into pieces by Zhu Di.

Flesh and blood flew everywhere.

Being hacked by someone is completely different from being cut by someone.

The thief fainted several times, and woke up several times with howls and pains.

After that, the whole person was already as angry as a gossamer.

He didn’t know what to say in his mouth.

But Zhu Di has no interest in this.

For these people, perhaps their secrets are their means of blackmail.

But when Zhu Di had no interest in their secrets, and just wanted to make fun of their flesh and blood, the so-called secrets they knew in their stomachs were actually worthless.

“Give…give me a good time.” The man said weakly.

Zhu Di held the **** knife, and looked at the wriggling person on the ground with a half-smile. The ground was full of minced meat and pools of blood.

Zhu Di looked at him indifferently for a while, and then said: “Come here, give him a good treatment. In a few days, I will peel his skin myself.”

After hearing this, the man’s eyes were full of despair, he tried to bite his tongue, but unfortunately he didn’t even have the strength to bite his tongue at this time.

The incomparable prestige at the beginning is completely gone now, and now he is like a poor bug, humbled into the mud.

Several people dragged this person out.

Zhu Di continued to hold the knife, and walked a few steps slowly.

The other thieves were prostrate on the ground one by one, their bodies shaking uncontrollably, but they didn’t dare to vent their breath.

Zhu Di didn’t say a word, except for the sound of his walking footsteps, there was a deathly silence in the air.

But this deathly silence is the most terrifying.

It seems that every moment of time passes, but it gives people a kind of suffering.

After a while, Zhu Di said calmly and slowly: “Who will answer?”

“The prefect of Jiujiang…”

The three thieves answered almost in unison.

This is a quick answer question.

Everyone seems to be afraid that they will be one step slower.

Zhu Di continued: “Where are the others?”

“killed.”

Another uniform strong answer.

Zhu Di continued: “You killed it?”

“yes!”

“Why?”

“Shut up!”

Zhang Anshi just stared blankly at the funny scene in front of him.

Zhu Di took another step, his feet were covered in blood, leaving a bloodstain with every step.

His face was as cold as an iceberg, and there was no joy or anger in his eyes.

“Who ordered?”

“People from Nanchang Prefecture…”

Zhu Di suddenly stopped, he stopped, and his sharp eyes like ice peaks suddenly fell on the three of them again.

The three of them shuddered involuntarily.

I just feel cold all over my body.

Obviously, he was not satisfied with this answer.

The three of them immediately kowtowed in extreme fear.

One of them seemed to be unable to bear the oppressive atmosphere any longer. He cried out suddenly and kowtowed: “Please forgive me, please forgive me. I have an eighty-year-old mother and a wife and children…”

“You still have your mother, wife and children?” Zhu Di looked at him, and softly uttered a sentence, with a faint smile on his lips, like a poppy in the dark.

The man looked pale: “…”

Zhu Di hooked his hands and turned towards Chen Daowen.

Chen Daowen hurriedly stepped forward and bowed his hands in salute.

Zhu Di said indifferently: “Take his parents, wife and children, don’t let one go, first ask the other thieves about the whereabouts of his parents, wife and children, no matter how much manpower and material resources are used, even if they are chased to the ends of the earth, they will be taken to me.” If you can’t take it down, don’t come to see me.”

Chen Daowen saluted and said, “Observe the order.”

After finishing speaking, he turned around and walked away quickly.

The water thief heard this and wailed mournfully.

He also understood that the other party didn’t play cards according to common sense at all. Instead of attracting any sympathy for his prayers, he ushered in… an even more miserable situation.

Entering the city tonight, first encountered the terrible gunshots, the people around him fell down like harvesting wheat, and they were captured when they were still in shock.

Immediately afterwards, he saw his brother who had joined the group being cut alive by Zhu Di. It was horrible. He was terrified to the extreme, even though he claimed to be a good man, who shared the money with a large scale, ate meat, drank in a big bowl, and died on weekdays. There are not a few people in his hands.

But now, all he has left is endless fear.

At this time, hearing Zhu Di’s words again made his already collapsed psychological defense even worse.

He hurriedly said: “I…I…”

Zhu Di ignored him and continued: “Who ordered you to wait?”

“It is an experience of the chief envoy.”

Zhu Di sneered and said: “A mere experience can make you wait?”

“He said he was following the orders of the chief envoy Xu Qi.”

“You are bandits, how can you trust this chief envoy?”

“Although we are gathered in Poyang Lake, if there is no one to take care of us, I am afraid that we will have died without a place to bury us.”

“Huh?” Zhu Di stared at the three bandits.

One of the thieves said: “Water bandits in Poyang Lake have always had rules. As long as they don’t raise the flag to rebel, they can survive, and the government will not suppress them. As usual, they have to give some gifts to the people in the government.”

Zhu Di’s face became more and more gloomy, and he said coldly, “Is that so?”

“yes.”

“So, Xu Qi colluded with you?”

A thief leader hurriedly said: “Sinners know something.”

“you say.”

“Keep us water bandits, it’s useful…”

Zhu Di raised his eyebrows: “What’s the use?”

“With the water bandits, every year, the chief minister and the capital commander can go up and ask the court to allocate money and food to eliminate water bandits. And the money and food allocated… I heard that there are not a few. In addition… near Poyang Lake States and counties, in the name of banditry, can also reduce or exempt a lot of taxes, because of this, the land in nearby states and counties is more valuable than other places…”

“Also… and… every now and then, you can still kill some people in the name of suppression, and then report it. This is another military exploit. So… it kills three birds with one stone. So in the hundreds of miles of Poyang Lake waters, no The obedient water thieves have been wiped out long ago, and the criminals… rely on the breath of the officials, they teach us to do this, and we have to do it, if we don’t do it, we will suffer a lot in the future.”

Zhu Di was speechless for a while after listening.

Support the bandits to respect themselves.

Such things have existed since ancient times, and it can even be said that they have already formed an industry.

Military officers who need to make meritorious deeds also know the truth of fishing at the bottom of the pond. If all the thieves are wiped out, what will they do next year?

The states and counties that need to ask for money and food also point to the water thieves to beg for money and food.

Even if it is a big family in the local area, as long as it is not the kind of robber who kills officials and loots the big family, it will naturally be happy with the existence of water thieves. Almost all of them enjoy it.

Zhu Di paused for a moment, and then asked: “How do you explain the experience to you?”

“They said that there are people in the city… hope that we will kill them after entering the city, and they also said that we can do it with peace of mind. Since we enter the city at night, since it is a surprise attack, and these people in the city are not very prepared, there will naturally be someone for us. Secretly opened the gates of the city to respond, and the inside and the outside cooperated. After the matter is completed, there will be benefits for our brothers.”

Zhu Di took a deep breath, narrowed his eyes, and said immediately, “Did he ever say who he was going to kill when he entered the city?”

“He only said that in Dehua County…”

Zhu Di sneered, and then said: “They have the ability to guess that we are in the Dehua County Government.”

Zhang Anshi was speechless. Speaking of it, these people are really smart, but they seem to be a little bit crooked.

Zhu Dixian was so resentful that he threw away the knife in his hand, but he waved his hand and said, “Take it down and interrogate it carefully. After an hour, report it.”

Zhu Di immediately took his seat, and the three thieves were pushed down.

Zhang Anshi looked at Zhu Di’s face as dark as ink, and said cautiously beside him: “Your Majesty… Your Majesty…”

Zhu Di said seriously: “Don’t say too much, I don’t want to talk now.”

Zhang Anshi said: “Then why don’t you rest for a while? It’s getting late.”

Zhu Di looked a little irritable, thought for a while and said: “I don’t have any shortage, I’d better read and read. What about your age, fetch it.”

To some extent, at this time, a collection of stories called “Spring and Autumn” is indeed a good medicine to soothe the soul.

It wasn’t until Jin Yiwei sent a report that Zhu Di put down his book and read the report carefully. Then, he raised his eyes coldly: “It seems…it’s the Chief Executive. How do you Look?”

As he spoke, Zhu Di handed the memorial to Zhang Anshi who was sitting beside him.

Zhang Anshi took the report, only read it for a while, but said: “Your Majesty, I think… not only the chief envoy Xu Qi…”

Zhu Di opened his eyes slightly, and glanced at Zhang Anshi with relief: “Continue talking.”

Zhang Anshi then said: “This matter involves not only water bandits. Water bandits can be instigated by the chief envoy, but don’t forget, your majesty, water bandits have passed through various water villages and guards along the way from Poyang Lake to here. Can it be unimpeded? Among them, I am afraid that the commander and envoy of the capital have already passed the gas.”

Zhu Di’s eyes grew colder.

I think back to the time when Emperor Taizu Gao, in order to prevent the local authority from being monopolized by one person.

Therefore, a system of three divisions was set up in an ingenious way. These three divisions are the so-called Chengxuan Zhengshi, the Commanding Division, and the Procuratorial Division.

The three divisions, one is in charge of administration, one is in charge of military affairs, and the other is in charge of criminal names. The heads of the three divisions are all of the same rank and do not belong to each other.

That is to say, even if Xu Qi, the Chief Political Envoy of the Announcement of the Political Envoy Division, could instruct the water bandits, it was impossible to mobilize the military guards under the command of the Commanding Envoy Division.

But the water bandits ran for more than two hundred miles, unimpeded along the way, between Jiujiang Mansion and Nanchang Mansion, there are important towns, thoroughfare places, and many soldiers and guards, how could they not notice it?

So Zhu Di said: “I also thought of this… Then do you mean that the chief envoy colluded with the chief envoy?”

Zhang Anshi shook his head and said, “Your Majesty, it would be fine if we colluded.”

“Huh?” Zhu Di narrowed his eyes, looking at Zhang Anshi with deep eyes.

Zhang Anshi said: “If there is collusion, it can only mean that the officials and officials guard each other, and the officials and officials guard each other, which is nothing. But don’t forget, your majesty, what they did was ransacking the family and exterminating the clan, a serious crime that would cost your head. This kind of thing… How dare ordinary people? If it is just an ordinary cover-up or collusion, don’t they trust each other? Such a matter of wealth and life wants to make the two cooperate so seamlessly. No way.”

Zhu Di nodded and said: “That’s what I thought of. When I was in trouble, I wanted to persuade King Ning to rebel with me. King Ning is my brother. Besides, he also has his share in cutting down the feudal clan. He hesitated and refused to cooperate easily. , if I hadn’t seized his military power and coerced him, I’m afraid he wouldn’t be willing to do so.”

“I, King Ning, and even my brothers share the same interests, but we still can’t work together and don’t trust each other. Let alone the chief envoy and the commander of the capital? So what’s your guess?”

Zhang Anshi hesitated for a moment, then said: “Unless… someone behind the scenes… instructed them.”

Zhu Di’s eyes fell on Zhang Anshi’s body suddenly, and the expression on his face became more and more cold: “Continue talking.”

Zhang Anshidao: “It is impossible to coordinate such a major event through cooperation. It is like the so-called coalition forces since ancient times, which are often easily defeated. Your Majesty, have you heard of the Eighteenth Route princes uniting to discuss Dong?”

Zhu Di said: “You just say what you say.”

Zhang Anshidao: “Because different interests are involved, there is no way to form a joint force. What’s more, the purpose of setting up the three divisions at the beginning of the imperial court was to let the three divisions check and balance each other. It was difficult to have any deep friendship, but now it seems… I feel that their tacit cooperation is really unimaginable.”

Paused, he continued: “But if there is a person behind them who can control them and make them willingly serve, then this matter…may be explained.”

Zhu Di frowned, and said in his mouth: “Who can control Jiangxi’s dignified chief minister and capital commander? These two are both high officials in the frontier, so how can they be willing to be driven by others?”

“This is something I didn’t want to understand.” Zhang Anshi said with a wry smile: “I’m afraid it’s a minister in the court who can do this. The commander bows his head and obeys his ears.”

Zhu Di lowered his head slightly and thought for a while, before he said, “Could it be because they are them that they have some reason to fall into this person’s hands?”

Zhang An Shidao: “There is such a possibility, but I think that the handle is useful, but after all, this matter is too big, so… At least it should be someone who both the commander and the chief envoy trust.”

“At the same time…trust…” Zhu Di murmured.

Zhang Anshi said: “Right now… obviously there is no clue, but I have already arranged it.”

Zhu Di suddenly raised his head, and took a deep look at Zhang Anshi: “What’s the arrangement?”

Zhang Anshi’s lips curled up into a smile, with a bit of cunning in this smile, and then said: “Nanchang Mansion…over there…the minister…has made arrangements!”

Zhu Di raised his eyebrows and looked at him suspiciously: “Really?”

Paused, then said: “Tell me, I will listen to you.”

Zhang Anshi looked mysterious, lowered his voice and whispered, and then began to show a thief.

Zhu Di listened carefully, first startled, then his solemn expression slowly melted away.

…

Nanchang Prefecture.

At this time, in the house of the chief envoy, Si Ya.

This is a quiet small hall.

There are more than a dozen people sitting upright like wooden stakes.

Everyone here wears a winged cap and a beast suit.

Among them, the most prominent one is Xu Qi, the chief envoy wearing a peacock mending suit.

Xu Qi didn’t say a word, and almost everyone sitting on both sides of him was ashen-faced.

Occasionally, except for a burst of coughing in the middle, almost no one has any interest in talking.

Everyone’s heart is like a mess.

Finally, someone hurried in from outside and said, “Mr. Xu.”

This call made everyone seem to wake up suddenly, only to see a group of people who were panicking, all showing signs of fear.

Even Xu Qi subconsciously trembled, looking like he was in shock.

It wasn’t until he realized that it was his friend who had come, that he calmed down a little bit, barely restraining his shaking legs.

Looked up, waited for this person to approach, and then said: “What… what’s the matter… Jiujiang Mansion… any news?”

The netizen glanced at Xu Qi in this scene, and then said: “There is no news yet…”

Someone in the hall began to whisper.

“It stands to reason that there should be some news by this time.”

“Will…”

Almost everyone showed signs of uneasiness.

Since last night, many people have been sitting here waiting for news.

These people are all terrified, with many thoughts in their hearts.

Xu Qi showed disappointment, he tried hard to suppress his disappointment, then looked at the scene and asked: “What’s the matter?”

Muyou said: “The imperial envoy Xingyuan… Liu Gong is making trouble again.”

Upon hearing this Mr. Liu, almost everyone showed disgust.

The original plan was that this Minister of Rites would be their firewall. This man…has a bad reputation and is greedy. It just so happens…that if something happens, all of it can be thrown on him. This is the most suitable shield they can think of.

But who would have thought… This guy jumped ship a long time ago, and now he has become a hot potato instead.

Although he is temporarily under house arrest, this guy is not safe at all, as if he is afraid that he has not drawn a clear line with them, and he has to toss about something in Xingyuan every now and then.

At this time, Xu Qi was not interested in caring about Liu Guan at all, and only disgusted: “What happened to him?”

“Grand Liu set fire in Xingyuan, saying that he wanted to commit suicide to repay the emperor’s kindness…”

“Then is he dead?”

This screen friend smiled bitterly and said: “I didn’t die. When the guards outside saw the fire, how could they dare to be negligent and hurried to put out the fire. He pointed at everyone and scolded everyone, saying that he was a traitor. …scold…”

Xu Qi endured his nausea and said patiently: “What did you scold?”

Mu You said: “It is said that he has fallen into a den of thieves. He wants to teach rebellious officials and thieves to die without a place to die. He also said… even if he dies, he will become a ghost, and his ghost will not disperse. The rebellious officials and thieves are all uneasy…”

Xu Qi slapped the copywriting with a bang.

These words seemed to have stabbed his heart and lungs, Xu Qi said viciously: “This old man…”

………

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