My Brother-in-law is the Prince

  Chapter 473 Kill without mercy

  As soon as Zhou Juren said this, the atmosphere in the hall suddenly dropped to freezing point.

  Actually, Zhou Juren is not ignorant that these words cannot be said.

  Threatening the court?

   How many catties are you!

   But for Zhou Juren, he is also desperate, because... anyway, it is a death, and it is better to fight hard than to die without a place to bury him.

   It's just that when this sentence was said, Zhou Juren actually knew that he had no way out.

   Some gentry behind him knelt down and trembled at this time, as if they realized that this was too serious.

   But at the same time, a little hope can't help but grow in my heart.

   They held their breath, waiting for His Majesty's reaction.

  Zhu Di did not respond immediately.

  He got up, paced a few steps, and said: "People will lose their hearts, and chaos is coming..."

  He pondered, and suddenly said: "Qiu Qing's family..."

  Among the officials, someone paced out.

  Now Qiu Fu is already a little old, but when he stepped out of the class, he was extraordinarily energetic. Although he was physically weak, he said plausibly: "The minister is here."

  Zhu Di said: "How many people and horses are there in the Beijing camp under the jurisdiction of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies?"

Qiu Fu said: "Return to Your Majesty, the five military battalions under the jurisdiction of the Dudufu of the Five Armies have a total of seventy-two guards, with a total of 350,000 soldiers. The three thousand battalions have 14,000 elite cavalry. Ye, left and right sentries, etc., have a total of 39,000 people."

  Zhu Di nodded.

   Turned to ask Yi Shiha again: "How many guards are there?"

  Yi Shiha hurriedly said: "The pro-army is under the jurisdiction of the guards of the pro-army, the twelve guards, totaling 130,000 people, and the four guards under the jurisdiction of the Yumajian, totaling 70,000."

  Zhu Di nodded in satisfaction, and then said: "How many are there in the model camp?"

  Zhang Anshi said: "Your Majesty, the model camp has the smallest number of people, only 18,000 people."

  Zhu Di said: "Less is less."

  While talking, he walked slowly in front of Zhou Juren, and said calmly, "Do you have many soldiers?"

  Zhou Juren couldn't answer for a while, he just felt the pressure rolling towards him like a mountain, and he was sweating profusely.

Zhu Di narrowed his eyes slightly, fixedly staring at Zhou Juren, and said, "I raise soldiers for thousands of days, and spend countless money and food, horse fodder, ordnance, and gunpowder every day. Isn't this moment waiting for you? If you want to rebel, then It’s just the opposite, it’s just for me to try the knife, I’ve killed people all my life, so I might as well add some more.”

   Speaking of this, Zhu Di's eyes flickered, like a sharp knife ready to go. The voice was strangely steady, and he said: "As for you and others, bullying the king and hoarding goods in the year of a catastrophe is a crime of death. Come... take all of them, and don't let anyone go. At noon tomorrow, Go to the outskirts of the city to execute and behead!"

  There are as many as two or three thousand people inside and outside here.

   It turned out that Zhou Juren dared to say such stupid words, in fact, he relied on his own number of people and power, thinking that it was not good enough, and the emperor should pay attention to the influence.

   Hearing the word beheading, he was shocked and almost fainted.

  Suddenly felt dark in front of his eyes.

   After a while, the guards rushed forward and held them down unceremoniously.

  This week, more than a dozen people were shocked, and each of them shouted in horror: "Spare me, spare me!"

  It's a pity that no one paid attention to them. All these embarrassed people were quickly detained and dragged out by a group of tigers and wolves.

  But at this time, Zhu Di said lightly: "Wait a minute."

  When Zhou Juren heard this, he raised it up in one breath, and there seemed to be another glimmer of hope in his heart.

  He thought to himself that maybe it was just the emperor who frightened him just now. At this time, the emperor regained his senses, and he might be given a lighter sentence, so he cried loudly: "Your Majesty...Your Majesty..."

Zhu Di frowned, but he said slowly: "You have done evil and oppressed the people. Over the years, I am afraid that your relatives will enjoy a lot of the profits you have made. Tomorrow, kill you first, and then the factory guards will naturally take you. But you’d better hope that your wives, children, and children can be slaughtered, and if you don’t accept it, and dare to rebel as you said, then I will have the death penalty waiting for you.”

  When Zhou Juren heard this, his heart was completely chilled. Thinking of the loss of my own life, and now... the whole family is affected, I feel chills in my heart, feeling unspeakably sad.

  He wanted to say something, but the guard behind him covered his mouth, and dragged him out again.

  Beyond the Meridian Gate.

  Two or three thousand people knelt here in crowds, each of them mourning or crying.

But at this moment, suddenly groups of men and horses rushed over, some were factory guards Fanzi and Ti Qi in fish suits, and some were guards under the command of the Imperial Horse Supervisor in armor. Suddenly, the gentry kneeling here felt that something was wrong when they saw this, and they became confused.

  At the moment, someone shouted: "Who are you, do you know who we are?"

   "Don't be presumptuous!"

   "This is the **** and Zhang thief's henchmen."

   Someone even shouted: "I am a scholar, I have fame!"

  Among the noisy voices, the voices of many people gathered together and became more and more chaotic.

  The eunuchs and generals who were in charge of dispatching here sweated a lot. They all felt that if these thousands of people really went crazy, there would be a big commotion.

   But soon, they breathed a sigh of relief.

  Because although there was a lot of scolding here, once the wolf-like captain rushed in to grab people, he didn't resist at all, but even though they were held down, these people were still chattering, or swearing, or dragging some words.

   Anyway, I didn't understand very well, and soon, everyone was taken down, without missing a single one.

   There was no blood spattering.

  Zhu Di returned to Wenlou.

   Soon, eunuchs came to report what happened at the Meridian Gate.

  Zhu Di only nodded lightly and said: "Understood."

  Your Majesty's mood today can be described as happy and angry, and Yi Shiha is by his side, serving him carefully.

   Fortunately, Zhang Anshi also came with him, which made Yishiha feel more relaxed.

  Zhu Di pondered for a moment, and said: "Decree to the personnel of the four provinces, let them take precautions, must not be careless, and must respond to civil uprisings at any time."

  Zhang Anshi calmly said: "Your Majesty, I have already ordered you to."

  Zhu Di nodded, but remembered something, so he said: "Besides, when can this railway be built?"

  Zhang Anshidao: "Now the roadbed has basically been formed, and now it is only necessary to lay sleepers and rails. As long as there is enough money, the major workshops will increase their horsepower to produce, and time is not a problem."

  To Zhang Anshi's surprise, Zhu Di said in a very grand manner: "Then don't cherish the money. Didn't you say you earned a lot of money this time? I want to connect the railway to Guanzhong, the sooner the better."

  Zhang Anshi was in a good mood, and hurriedly said: "Yes, I obey the order."

  Zhu Di's face softened a lot, but he spoke surprisingly authentically: "Zhang Qing is really a national scholar, hey... If you are my son, I will definitely teach you to inherit the great rule."

  Zhang Anshi's heart jumped suddenly, his face changed, and he waved his hands: "Don't dare, don't dare."

  Zhu Di smiled and said: "At the beginning, Cao Cao, when he met Sun Quan, expressed his emotion that having a child should be like Sun Zhongmou, but I was just impromptu."

Zhang Anshi secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and when he heard Zhu Di's words, he became more energetic: "Then Sun Zhongmou is a bird, no, your majesty, I shouldn't be disrespectful in front of your majesty, I just think that this Sun Quan, if he can't write well, he can't do it. , but they are the defenders, the sons of Cao Cao..."

  Zhu Di waved his hand and interrupted him: "I'm using allusions, don't be like those pedants who always raise arguments."

  Zhang Anshi opened his mouth, but he had no choice but to swallow the words he hadn't spoken, and said obediently: "Yes."

  Zhu Di pondered, thought for a while and said: "The two places of Henan and Guanzhong... Now that they have reached such a point, it is time to implement the New Deal."

   As he spoke, he lowered his head and started pacing.

   Taking advantage of the opportunity to implement the New Deal is obviously the best result for Zhu Di.

   But the problem is how to implement it, how to structure it, and who should be appointed to preside over it.

  Zhang Anshi remained silent.

  This kind of matter is very sensitive. For Zhang Anshi, he can't wait to implement the New Deal all over the world immediately. He has long been disgusted with Zhou Juren in these places.

   But Zhang Anshi also understands that the biggest problem with the new policies of the provinces is who will preside over them and who will implement them.

  The previous hundred officials were obviously not suitable, so Zhang Anshi is the only one who has this prestige and experience.

   This undoubtedly greatly increased Zhang Anshi's authority.

   But Zhang Anshi has already ruled Zhili, if adding a few more provinces, it would be hard to say, even if His Majesty is willing, I am afraid that Zhang Anshi will be worried that someone will use this to attack him.

  So Zhang Anshi simply pretended to be deaf and dumb.

   Right at this moment, a **** suddenly rushed over and said in panic, "Your Majesty..."

  Zhu Di raised his head, but saw that it was just an **** from the General Administration Department, and said indifferently: "What's the matter?"

"Your Majesty, Henan, Guanzhong, etc. are in a hurry to play..." The **** said: "After the Minister of the Ministry of War got the play, he prayed for an audience, said yes... said yes... Henan and Guanzhong... overnight, a large number of civil uprisings occurred, and all prefectures and counties appeared. A large number of villains are attacking the officers and soldiers...these thieves...suddenly rose up, and the momentum is not small, the military department is suspicious...the scale may not be in the hundreds of thousands."

  One hundred thousand is actually just a drop in the ocean for Guanzhong and Henan, which have a large population.

   But such a scale, for Yongle Dynasty, still cannot be underestimated.

  Even at this scale, it is still the number of Zhang Anshi after a large amount of relief.

After Zhu Di heard this, he sneered and said, "Unexpectedly, it really came... Soldiers come to block, water comes to cover, teach the Minister of the Ministry of War Jin Zhong not to come to see me, just a thief, teach him to dispatch troops and horses with the Governor's Office of the Five Armies, and immediately go to Henan, Putting down the rebellion in Guanzhong, all rebels will be killed without mercy!"

   Speaking of rebellion, no, speaking of Jing Nan, Zhu Di is simply the ancestor of the rebels.

   To put it bluntly, with that little trick, Zhu Di felt that these people were beyond their control.

   After getting the order, the **** hurried away again.

   But who knows, after a while, the **** left and returned again.

  The **** said: "Your Majesty, Jin Gong said... Said... This matter must be reported to His Majesty, please don't forget, His Royal Highness Prince and His Royal Highness, one is in Henan, and the other is in Guanzhong..."

  Zhu Di's complexion changed slightly.

  Zhang Anshi also immediately noticed the change in Zhu Di's expression, and was just about to say something.

But seeing Zhu Di, sitting on the throne leisurely, said lightly and calmly: "Isn't it great that they are here? The rebels are rampant, and the local soldiers and civilians must be intimidated. The presence of my children and grandchildren is enough to reassure the soldiers and the people Go and tell Jin Qing that he doesn't need to think about these matters, the duty of the Ministry of War is to dispatch troops and participate in counter-insurgency matters."

  The **** kowtowed, then quit again.

  Yi Shiha was at the side, already worried, he hesitated and said: "Your Majesty...this...this..."

  Zhu Di sat upright, with his hands on his knees, but his arms trembled slightly, but soon, he grabbed his knees with both hands, and he stopped.

  He said: "When I was ten years old, I followed the King of Zhongshan to stay in Beiping, trained soldiers, carried out farming, repaired city defenses, and consolidated border defenses. When I grow older, I will attack the desert. It's no big deal."

  Yi Shiha heard Zhu Di's words, but knew in his heart that no one in the world cared more about the safety of the prince and the emperor's grandson than His Majesty.

   After all, this is the prince. If it was in the Hongwu Dynasty, this would be Zhu Biao, the prince of the Hongwu Emperor.

   What is related is the issue of the continuation of the Great Ming Dynasty.

   Not to mention, the love between father and son and grandparents.

But when Zhu Di said this, he had no choice but to laugh dryly, and put on a calm attitude: "What your majesty said is that the crown prince and the emperor's grandson are the sons and grandsons of the dragon, and they are the blood of your majesty, so they must be as brave as your majesty. "

  Zhang Anshi frowned for a long time, and hurriedly said: "Your Majesty... Your Majesty... Your Majesty..."

  Zhu Di sighed and said: "The emperor's grandson has grown up a lot in recent years. In the past few years, he has asked Zhang Qing to teach him by example and example. I hope he can make progress and not insult the reputation of Tianhuang."

  Zhang Anshi opened his mouth, and finally had no choice but to nod.

  Zhu Di said: "Okay, you step back and go to see your sister. If your sister hears about this, women... always have to panic."

  Zhang Anshi had no choice but to say: "Yes, my minister...resign."

  By the time Zhang Anshi resigned, it was already getting late.

  During the dinner in the palace, Zhu Di reluctantly ate a few mouthfuls. In the middle of the night, Shiha urged him several times, but Zhu Di seemed preoccupied and refused to sleep.

  Until Yi Shiha said again: "The empress is in the palace, I'm afraid it will be difficult to sleep."

  After Zhu Di listened, he got up and went back to Ouchi.

  The empress's harem was indeed brightly lit. Empress Xu did not go to rest in the sleeping hall, but only taught people to light a lot of lanterns in the courtyard.

  The eunuchs and female officials stood there, motionless.

  But there was a childish voice, saying: "Qin Shi Mingyue Han Shiguan, the Long Marcher has not yet returned, but the Dragon City Flying General is here..."

  In the distance, the voice of the **** came: "I have seen Your Majesty."

  So this immature voice came to an abrupt end.

  Zhu Di walked around with his hands behind his back, paunchy.

  Looking sideways, the child standing here reciting poems is none other than Zhang Changsheng.

  As soon as Zhang Changsheng saw Zhu Di, he was so frightened that he dared not speak out.

  Empress Xu has stood up gracefully, and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, look at you, you always look like you don't get close to others, which scares the child."

  Zhu Di forced a smile and said: "He is a child of a bird, he is already eight or nine years old, this child is like his father, he is a rat, he is afraid of everything he sees."

  Empress Xu only smiled.

   Between the husband and wife, there is a connection between each other's minds. Empress Xu is also well aware of the matter of the prince and the emperor's grandson. Although she is extremely worried, she never reveals it in front of Zhu Di.

   And Zhu Di naturally knew what she was thinking, but tacitly kept silent.

  Only Zhang Changsheng, with his head drooped, his eyes slightly lowered, remained silent.

  Zhu Di was looking at Zhang Changsheng at this moment, beckoned to him and said, "Come, come to me."

  Zhang Changsheng's legs seemed to weigh a thousand catties, and he took a long time to get in front of Zhu Di.

  Zhu Di pinched his face, probably because the hand felt good, his face eased a lot, and then he smiled from the bottom of his heart.

  Zhu Di said gently: "How many poems can you recite?"

  Zhang Changsheng said politely: "I can recite it."

  Zhu Di said: "Is the growth so fast?"

  Empress Xu smiled and said, "This is a smart child."

  Zhang Changsheng's mother is the Xu family, and Empress Xu is Xu's aunt, so they are also blood relatives.

   Zhu Di suddenly said: "But I heard that you are very naughty outside the palace."

  Zhang Changsheng actually said honestly: "Yes."

  Zhu Di still put on an easy-going look, and said, "Why do you like to learn after entering the palace?"

  Zhang Changsheng said: "When I entered the palace, my father said that if I was disobedient, His Majesty would beat me to death. I was a little afraid of death..."

  Zhu Di couldn't help being amused, and couldn't help saying: "Zhang Qing was joking with you, I am your uncle, how could I kill you?"

  Zhang Changsheng bowed his head and remained silent.

  Zhu Di smiled, patted his head, and said: "What a well-behaved boy, why, he stopped talking again, is I so scary?"

  Zhang Changsheng looked up at Zhu Di slightly, and said, "I dare not say."

  Zhu Di said: "Say it, talk it..."

  Empress Xu looked at the timid expression on Zhang Changsheng's face, and hurriedly said, "Okay, Changsheng should go and rest soon."

  Zhu Di suddenly felt strange, but said: "I'm not busy, I'll listen to you... I won't be offended."

Zhang Changsheng hesitated for a while, and finally said as if he had made a big decision: "My father said that the most terrifying person in the world is the one who dares to eat dung, uncle...Your Majesty, have you really eaten it? Okay?" tasty?"

  Zhu Di: "..."

  Empress Xu pulled Zhang Changsheng away, winked at the eunuchs, and some eunuchs hugged Zhang Changsheng and left.

  Empress Xu caressed Zhu Di's back and said: "Your Majesty, the child speaks without restraint, the child doesn't understand anything, this silly child..."

  The blue veins on Zhu Di's forehead were exposed, and after grinding his teeth, he said after a long time: "Fuck you!"

  Empress Xu laughed dryly: "Your Majesty, it's getting late, you'd better go to bed early. Your Majesty is getting older, not when he was young and strong. You must pay attention to your dragon body."

  Zhu Di said: "Turn back and let that boy Changsheng come to me. I want to teach him by precept and example. Don't always learn from some people and teach him some crooked ways."

  Empress Xu said: "Yes, yes, that child is indeed too ignorant, that's why he is so confused."

  Zhu Di's face twitched, his mouth opened slightly, and he wanted to say something more, but he didn't know where to start.

  (end of this chapter)