My Brother-in-law is the Prince - Chapter 391

Chapter 391 Wolf Hearted Dog Lung

Xu Qi and Liu Rong’s shock can be imagined.

They died without confessing, and suffered so much.

But who would have thought that the real master was easily captured by Jin Yiwei.

And now, this person has become a prisoner, so… everything is over.

Zhu Di didn’t need to ask about the person who was arrested. In fact, just by looking at the reactions of Xu Qi and Yang Rong, he knew that the ugly old man in front of him must be the real culprit behind the scenes.

His eyes were full of suspicion, and obviously he couldn’t imagine that the dying man in front of him could manipulate behind the scenes, and even almost put him, the emperor, to death.

Zhu Di’s eyes wandered, and he called out, “Who is it?”

Although the old man looked embarrassed, his face was still calm, and he sighed: “Hey, I never thought that today is here.”

He then smiled and said: “Although the general situation is gone, it can be seen that the time is also in luck. If I wait and don’t work hard, it is really my destiny.”

Zhu Di sneered and said: “Does a mere old Confucian dare to talk about the destiny?”

The old man was speechless.

Zhu Di said: “I’ll ask you again, who are you?”

The old man talked about him from left to right: “I just want to know, why was this old man captured?”

One can fail, but a man as lofty and conceited as the old man must wish to know why he was caught.

He said slowly: “Is it Xu Qi and Liu Rong?”

He glanced at Xu Qi and Liu Rong calmly.

The two of them gritted their teeth, just staring blankly without making a sound.

He only looked at the faces of the two of them, and he seemed to have noticed something, and said: “Could it be those friends?”

The so-called friends he mentioned were of course the county magistrate and the Confucian scholar who supported him.

But soon, he vetoed it again.

Because of these two people, when they saw Jin Yiwei approaching, they desperately resisted, and now they are both dead.

The old man had a suspicious look on his face, and he obviously couldn’t understand it.

Looking at Zhu Di at last, he said, “If Your Majesty wants to know the truth, please tell me. If not, Your Majesty will not get the real answer.”

Zhu Di became calm and relaxed at the moment, he smiled and looked at Zhang Anshi.

Zhang Anshidao: “If you want to grab you, you can easily grab it, and it doesn’t take much effort at all.”

The old man looked at Zhang Anshi: “This one is the famous Zhang Anshi?”

Zhang Anshi said: “You know me too?”

“Of course I know.” The old man didn’t show any indignation. He looked at Zhang Anshi and said, “It’s just that I never thought of being so young. He really looks like Deng Tong.”

Deng Tong was the favored minister of Emperor Wenwen of the Han Dynasty, and he was very favored by Emperor Wenwen of the Han Dynasty when he was young…

Of course, in the Confucian discourse system, this is a traitor.

Zhang Anshi just smiled: “Now you still want to talk fast?”

The old man shook his head and said: “It’s just words from the bottom of my heart. Since you said it was easy to catch me, I wish to know how easy it is.”

Zhang An Shidao: “You, a cunning fox like you, think you are smart, but in fact, you are arrogant.”

The old man did not speak, and looked patiently waiting for the next step.

Zhu Di looked at Zhang Anshi in amazement. If this old man was an old fox, then… Zhang Anshi could catch him so quickly.

Zhang Qing, isn’t he just a first-class little fox?

He also wanted to know how Zhang Anshi did it.

I saw Zhang Anshi continued: “It is the easiest to deal with arrogant people.”

Zhang Anshi paused, and continued: “I first ordered people to guard the ports and ferries everywhere, and then I ordered people to deploy defenses on the official roads everywhere. Do you really think I want to use this to catch you?”

The old man sighed, he seemed to have begun to realize something.

“But the truth is, I borrowed these to make it more difficult for you to escape.”

“Now that the officers and soldiers have blocked all the main roads, if you want to escape, it is impossible for you alone, so you must find another strange path. But if you want to find another strange path, it means that you need to use your relation.”

The old man smiled and said: “You mean, the more people the old man uses, the more flaws he will have?”

Zhang Anshi raised his chin slightly and said: “Of course! One thing, one or two people can do it tightly, but it involves seven or eight, or even ten or dozens of people. The more people involved, the more The bigger the flaw, the higher the probability that the news will spread.”

The old man frowned lightly and said: “But as far as I know, I only asked two people to leave this time.”

Zhang Anshi laughed, his eyes full of sarcasm and ridicule.

The old man looked at him puzzled and said, “What are you laughing at?”

Zhang Anshi smiled and said: “That’s why I said you are arrogant, and that’s why you were captured.”

The old man looked at him in bewilderment.

Zhang Anshi said: “Come here, let him come in.”

Zhang Anshi’s inexplicable sentence is even more suspicious.

But at this time, a person came in tremblingly, bowed his head and bowed: “See…see you…”

He obviously hadn’t seen the big scene, so he was extremely uncomfortable, and he couldn’t even speak fluently.

Everyone looked at this person.

Zhang Anshi said to the man gently: “Don’t be afraid, His Majesty will not blame you, just get up.”

Zhu Di also nodded.

This talent stood up cautiously.

Zhang Anshi pointed at this person, and said to the old man, “Do you know this person?”

The old man looked suspicious, but finally shook his head.

“Of course you don’t recognize it, but you definitely don’t know that the person responsible for your escape is this person!”

The old man’s face suddenly changed.

Zhang Anshi continued: “In the eyes of a scheming person like you, your plan is naturally seamless, and it can even be said to be perfect. But your problem is that you think that there are only a few people who know your plan well, but only a few people know your plan.” I didn’t expect that those people who really recruited for you are not human at all in your eyes.”

“The person in front of you is the servant of the Confucian scholar. The Confucian scholar really regarded you as a god. When he knew that you were going to flee, he naturally tried every means to meet him. He lives in seclusion in Meiling, and he is very familiar with it. With his assistance, It’s really getting twice the result with half the effort.”

Speaking of this, Zhang Anshi showed a mocking look on his face, looked at him and continued: “But have you ever thought about where your strength comes from? You don’t really think that your strength comes from yourself?”

The old man stared at Zhang Anshi intently. At this moment, he slowly began to understand something.

Zhang Anshi continued: “You think you can overturn the clouds and turn the rain, and you put all the tricks and successes on your own heads, and you are superior to others. But you just forgot that the real pawns for you are precisely the ones you usually treat as cattle and horses. The servant who drives it. So in your heart, there are only two people who are familiar with the plan, but in fact, there are dozens of people who actually arrange it.”

“Don’t you think that the Confucian scholar would do it himself when he received you, arranging the boat, preparing the wine and food, and even punting the boat for you? And personally guarding you?”

The old man opened his eyes slightly, and sighed: “One move, one move…”

Zhang Anshi looked at him contemptuously and said, “What a mistake! It’s just stupidity and arrogance. Why pretend to be a secret?”

“You regard these servants as people who have been driven by you since birth. You think that they are just cattle and horses, and they will naturally be loyal to you. Naturally, someone will complete it, and this is the root cause of your death today.”

The old man said: “If you are a slave and unfaithful, what can you say?”

Zhang Anshi couldn’t help laughing, because he felt that this person was shameless and amused, and said: “How much money did you give them? What kind of food do you let them eat on weekdays? What kind of treatment do you give them every day? I don’t know. Seeing that you are full of food on weekdays, delicious food, wives and concubines like a cloud, living in luxurious houses, wearing beautiful clothes, but eating leftovers, wearing sackcloth, and dreaming of wishful thinking, they gave you Do you sell your life?”

“If he refuses to give his life to someone like you, why are you being unfaithful as a slave? Speaking of which, what are you old dog? Being an official, high-ranking officials and rich salary, but you are only eating back like mad dogs, this kind of virtue is really worse than dogs!”

“It’s just a dog, full of food and drink, and still begging for mercy. And you old dog, like Xu Qi and others, are all unfamiliar dogs. It’s not your turn to be a slave and be unfaithful.” To reprimand the servants, the real ungrateful ones are precisely yourselves.”

The old man closed his eyes, showing a sad look.

Of course, Zhang Anshi’s heart-pounding words did not hit him in his grief. For people like the old man, they consider themselves superior and different from others, so naturally they will not compare themselves with lowly servants. Go by analogy.

They have their own moral standards and value system, how could they feel ashamed just because of Zhang Anshi’s insult?

What he grieved obviously was that he didn’t expect that he would end up like this because of his negligence, and was humiliated by a cruel official like Zhang Anshi who he despised.

After a while, the old man opened his eyes and said calmly: “But… the old man wants to ask, how did you find these servants?”

Zhang Anshi evoked a smug smile and said: “They came to the door by themselves.”

The old man is still puzzled.

Zhang Anshi continued: “It is actually very simple to solve this problem. Under normal circumstances, even if these servants are instructed by their patriarchs to sue, they will definitely not succeed easily. After all, they have no knowledge, and Being coerced by the head of the family, it is difficult to make up your mind. Therefore, if you want to solve this problem, you must spread the government’s orders as widely as possible overnight.”

The old man was slightly shocked, and couldn’t help but ask: “How did you do it overnight?”

Zhang Anshi spat out three words: “Send eggs.”

elder:”…”

Zhu Di: “…”

Zhang Anshi said: “This gift of eggs is a small favor on the surface, but in fact… it is very attractive to the common people. If you memorize the government’s notice, you can get eggs! Maybe in your eyes, this It’s just a joke. But for ordinary people, it’s the most important thing. Therefore, it only takes one night to spread it to everyone.”

This method of delivering eggs may be limited to a small-scale spread in later generations.

But in this era, it is almost a dimensionality reduction blow. After all, this is the first time in the world, and the upsurge it brings is beyond the imagination of those in high positions.

The enthusiasm for getting eggs will spread and spread crazily, and spread quickly to any corner of the entire Nanchang Prefecture.

Zhang Anshi continued: “Just this is enough for people to spread word of mouth, and the content of the notice is also very simple and catchy. It only states that…the wanted corrupt official is a member of the party. This person is a Confucian scholar, aged in forty As mentioned above, the key information such as hurrying, not daring to walk on the avenue, etc. is enough. In this way, it can be ensured that those servants who are trying to escape for you can detect the abnormality and report to the officials. ”

elder:”…”

The old man obviously didn’t expect it to be so simple.

Just when the old man was still having trouble accepting it, Zhang Anshi said again: “Do you know what the people in this world hate the most?”

“…”

“Corrupt officials, but you are an accomplice of corrupt officials! These servants have always been bullied by you. Some of them will be willing to report to officials.”

The old man sneered and said: “Heh… the old man has always been innocent, and the people he met, even if they are like Xu Qi, are mostly clean and self-confident, and they have no wind in their sleeves. You are just bewitching fools…”

Zhang Anshi smiled, but looked at the servant who had been standing by and said, “What’s your name?”

The man stammered and said: “Villain Wang Fu, no, Zhou Fu.”

Zhang Anshi said: “Is it Wang Fu or Zhou Fu?”

The humane said: “My surname is Zhou, but later I became a servant and changed the family master’s surname, so I took the surname Wang.”

Zhang Anshi then said: “He said that he and the officials above and below the chief envoy are all clean-sleeved, clean and self-confident, what do you think?”

“I don’t dare to talk nonsense, but…but…” Zhou Fu replied very carefully, but still said: “But the villain feels that if Emperor Gaozu is here, I am afraid that all these people will be killed. do.”

Zhang Anshi couldn’t help but laugh.

Zhu Di was sullen, he was a little surprised.

Actually, in Zhu Di’s view, Emperor Taizu Gao’s reputation among the people was not good.

Unexpectedly, it seems that in the eyes of some people, there is another side.

Zhang Anshi continued: “He said you were unfaithful as a slave, but there are?”

Zhou Fu was too scared to speak this week, but he also seemed to feel that he was a little sorry for his Patriarch.

Zhang Anshi did not continue to delve into these words, but instead asked: “Why do you want to report their whereabouts?”

“I…I…” Zhou Fu was trembling with fear, as if he was trying hard: “The villain only thinks…just thinks about these corrupt officials, teaching us that we can’t build a railway…”

Zhang Anshi laughed and said: “Whether this railway is completed or not, what has it to do with you?”

“The villain heard that the railway was built in Zhili, and life will be good after the railway is built.”

Zhang Anshi said: “Who did you listen to?”

“Little man…a fellow villager of the villain, he went to Zhili to work a few years ago… He said that he can eat three meals a day, and one meal of meat in three days.”

Zhang An Shi and Zhou Fu asked and answered, but the old man was furious, and he shouted: “Shameless.”

Zhang Anshi laughed loudly and said: “You heard that this person only cares about having three meals a day and one meal of meat every three days, so you think he is despicable and shameless, and he betrayed his patriarch just for this?”

The old man sighed sadly: “A villain is a villain. Since ancient times, virgins do not serve second husbands, and loyal ministers do not serve second masters. If they are bought by you with a lot of money, it will be fine. I never thought that such a villain would only serve you. This petty profit…”

He looked distressed.

Zhang Anshi smiled even colder: “If his patriarch, as you say, is really kind, generous, and benevolent in his heart, even if Zhou Fu can eat three meals a day and one meal of meat every three days, how can he eat it?” As for the envy of Zhili? So in the final analysis, the truly shameless person is precisely someone like you! You have rich clothes and fine food, but teach others to eat chaff and swallow vegetables. If the court collects such a small tax, you will scream, but Zhou Fu People like this are just looking forward to eating better, so you immediately scold him for being shameless.”

“A person like you can speak beautiful words better than anyone else, but in fact, you are just a mad dog who can only speak beautiful words and is full of morality. Now, you have reached this point, don’t worry, there will be more shameless things in the future waiting for you.”

The old man was furious, but he still wanted to say something, but Zhang Anshi said at this moment: “This traitor, why do you let him stand and talk?”

As soon as this remark came out, the escorting captain just woke up. Someone kicked the old man’s heel hard, and the old man knelt down in pain, and he let out a miserable cry.

Zhang Anshi turned a deaf ear to the screams, but clasped his hands at Zhu Di and said, “Your Majesty, I have fulfilled my mission, and I have already captured it within a time limit.”

Zhu Di stared at the old man with his hands behind his back and said, “I’ll ask you one last time, who are you?”

The old man howled, although he was only kicked by someone, he grinned his teeth as if in pain, and after a long time, he said, “My surname is Wu.”

Zhang Anshi continued to listen, but also wanted to know the origin of this person.

But after Zhu Di listened, he seemed to understand something all of a sudden.

He took a deep look at the old man and said, “Jiangyou Wu?”

The old man closed his eyes, showing a look of grief, and said, “Yes.”

Zhu Di said: “I never expected that the person who caused the rebellion would be someone like you.”

The old man said coldly: “The winner is a prince, and the loser is a thief! Up to now, I have nothing to say, but the old man has never insulted the lintel, and now he dies loyally, and the days are numbered.”

Zhu Di’s eyes showed a fierce light, and with anger, he sternly said: “Da Ming treats you well, I never imagined that he would be so heartless!”

The old man said: “If it is not thin, why did Taizu use torture to flog the world? If it is not thin, it is just to implement the New Deal, to teach the people of the world, to the point where life is worse than death?”

He raised his head slightly, looked at Zhu Di without fear, and said in a louder voice, “This world is not the world of your Zhu family. Your father is just a commoner in Huaiyou. It’s just called a widow!”

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(end of this chapter)