"Do you recognize me?"
"I've seen it from afar!"
The smell in the air is very complex, with the smell of coriander, lump soup, raw meat and blood all mixed together.
Zhu Yunxi wrinkled his nose slightly and sat behind the table.
He Guangyi and Guo Guanseng stood side by side, and Pu Wuyong stood behind Zhu Yunxi with his hands lowered, his eyes alert.
"Since you recognize me, tell the truth!" Zhu Yunxi said again, "How does the assassin know my whereabouts?"
"I beg to die quickly!"
Shao Lin said, raising her head with difficulty.
At this moment, death is a luxury wish for him, and it is also a kind of relief.
Zhu Yunxi didn't speak, just nodded.
"Someone in the palace sent me a message saying that the emperor left the palace and went to Cao Guogong's mansion. I informed the assassin... I am in charge of a battalion of patrol troops. When you went to Cao Guogong's mansion, I happened to be on duty. I can do whatever I want in the city.
Move around." Shao Lin said intermittently.
Zhu Yunxi's heart suddenly tightened, and his whole body muscles tensed instantly.
At this moment, He Guangyi and Guo Guangseng lowered their heads even lower, and Pu Wuyong's eyes showed a fierce light.
"How do you know when I returned to the palace from Duke Cao's mansion? How do you know which way I took back to the palace?" Zhu Yunxi asked again.
Shao Lin raised her head, her eyes were dull and lifeless, "When you leave the palace, the guards must take the most familiar road, which is the road they came from. I don't know when you will return to the palace...
I have been waiting since you entered Cao Guogong's mansion... until I was about to change defenses. I was afraid that the assassins would be discovered by the next patrol, so I asked them to prepare in advance. Unexpectedly, as soon as they were ready, you
coming!"
It was a bit of a match, because the first batch of officers and soldiers who came to rescue him were the patrol troops who had just changed defenses and were preparing to patrol the city.
"What a surprise!" He Guangyi and Guo Guangseng thought to themselves, "If the newly-replaced patrol arrives a little late, the consequences will be disastrous!"
At this time, He Guangyi suddenly noticed that the emperor was looking at him, so he quickly took two steps forward and said in a low voice, "We must agree with the leader of the thieves, Chen Tai!"
Zhu Yunxi continued to look at Shao Lin, "Did you give the assassin the gunpowder?"
"Yes!" Shao Lin nodded with blood pouring from the corner of her mouth, "I used to be in charge of an armory for a while, and I stole three big boxes like ants moving when no one was prepared!"
"Since you can steal gunpowder, you should also be able to steal firearms, such as palm thunders!" Zhu Yunxi said again.
"There are also palm thunders, and I gave them to them, but those assassins are all barbarians. They have never seen them before and don't know how to use them..."
"You're lying!" He Guangyi suddenly shouted, "They don't know how to use gunpowder, so how do they know how to set up a sophisticated mechanism in the secret passage and wait for the arresters to go in and blow it up?" He said with a sneer, "You
Are you stupid? Are you still helping others to cover up what happened? Do you think you can cover it up if you don’t tell the truth? Chen Tai and others have already done it!"
"I..." A trace of panic flashed in Shao Lin's eyes.
"You are not lying when you say that assassins are not good at using gunpowder. According to Chen Tai's confession, it is true that they dug the secret passage, but it was your method to set up a trap to detonate the gunpowder in the secret passage! It was you who looked so unfamiliar.
Did you do it?" He Guangyi shouted again, "Shao Lin, can you do this kind of thing alone? Where are your accomplices?"
Blasting has always been a skill that can only be possessed by professionals. But such skills are obviously not possessed by the wild people in the mountains and forests.
In other words, in the shocking case of assassinating the emperor, in addition to those who have been arrested, there are still people who are lurking and have not been caught.
"You didn't give them the palm thunder at all! It's not that you were worried that they wouldn't be able to use it, but that you were worried..." Guo Guanseng also said, "There are traces of it! The palm thunder is made of cast iron. After it is ignited, it is thrown and detonated.
It takes time. If you throw it too early, you will be kicked away; if you throw it too late, it will explode in your own hands."
"And there is another biggest hidden danger!" As he spoke, Guo Guanseng took a few steps forward and stared into Shao Lin's eyes. "When the palm thunder is used, it will sometimes explode in half. And every palm thunder in the Ming Dynasty
They all have numbers. Just follow the numbers on the cast iron and you can find out the year, month, day, and time when they were transferred to whom? Right? As far as I know, the court in Guizhou has never transferred Palm Thunder at all.
"
"The armory of the patrol army in the capital is counted every three days, and you won't have the chance to steal the palm mine." He Guangyi continued, "You said you stole the gunpowder? Hum, let me ask you how much gunpowder there is in three big boxes.
How many pounds?"
"Six hundred pounds!" Shao Lin responded in a panic.
"Yes, it's six hundred kilograms!" He Guangyi's face was full of ferociousness, "You said you stole six hundred kilograms of gunpowder like an ant moving, do you think I'm a fool? The armory of the patrol army is guarded every three days.
Change, if you steal two hundred kilograms a day, do you think everyone else is blind? And if you change the defense in three days, all the gunpowder and firearms will be counted on the spot, and the defense can only be changed after checking that everything is correct!"
"Moreover, you have misunderstood a concept!" He Guangyi's face turned ferocious when he thought of the brothers who were buried in the soil and suffocated to death. "Explosives and gunpowder are two different concepts!"
"I..." Shao Lin's lips trembled violently and she shouted, "I said it all, I did it, it was me..."
"Bah, bang, bang!" He Guangyi clapped softly, "I underestimate you. I've been waiting for you all night, but you can still be tough!"
As he spoke, the corners of his mouth suddenly raised, "You are Shao Rong's grandson... As far as I know, Shao Rong seems to be more than just your grandson!"
"you......"
"Your Majesty!" He Guangyi turned to salute Zhu Yunxi, "Yan Qian died of illness in the 26th year of Hongwu. The imperial court posthumously awarded him the title of Bijie City God and buried him grandly. In addition to the imperial court's rewards, there were also many gifts from the Yan family's former colleagues.
We received generous gifts, including a team of bronze lions and elegiac couplets for the tomb.
As he said that, He Guangyi turned around and looked at Shao Lin, "Adopted grandson? Aren't you the adopted grandson of the Yan family? Two adopted grandsons, you are here, where is that one?"
"You...you..." Shao Lin twitched and shouted as if she had seen a ghost, "How do you know?"
"I am a Jinyiwei!" He Guangyi patted his face, "I may not be able to guard against you treacherous ministers and traitors, but if I want to check you, it will only happen in an instant!" He said with a sneer, "I also know that you
There is another one in the Shao family, and one is incognito! I don’t know where they are right now, and I don’t need you to tell me, as long as you give me some time, I can find them out! Then trample them to death one by one!”
"Damn it...he said everything I said!"
Guo Guanseng looked at He Guangyi who was showing off his full expression in front of the emperor and thought to himself, "This is what I should say! I arrested the man and searched his home..."
At this moment, He Guangyi said loudly, "From the beginning to the end, your role is just a middleman. But you definitely know more than Chen Tai. Tell the emperor, who gave the gunpowder...?"
"That's it!"
Suddenly, Zhu Yunxi said, "I don't want to hear it!"
In fact, he already had some clues in his mind, because before meeting Shao Lin, he met Hu Guan first.
~
Everyone, including Shao Lin, was a little surprised.
"You want to cover up, but it's useless to ask. I don't have the patience to listen to your nonsense!" Zhu Yunxi stood up, his figure shaking a little, "You said you had waited for me for a long time and couldn't come out, so you asked the assassins to prepare. Then I ask you
,Have you ever seen the prince’s car?”
The reason why I ask this is because Liu Jin left half an hour before Zhu Yunxi!
"We didn't see the prince's whereabouts!" Shao Lin's voice was hoarse, "I thought he was with you!" As he said that, he suddenly smiled crazily, "When I learned that you and the prince left the palace together, I
I thought it would be great if I killed you all together!"
He did not lie this time. The assassins did not see Liu Jin's whereabouts. They all thought that the prince was with the emperor. There is only one possibility. The path Liu Jin took when he returned to the palace was not the same as the path Zhu Yunxi took when he returned to the palace.
road.
Someone temporarily changed the route!
"Long live the prince!" Pu Wuyong whispered, "I will go and arrest everyone who was around the prince at that time!"
"There are also assassins with the same party!" Guo Guancong frowned, "but the assassin around the prince, obviously did not informed the assassin!"
Just as Zhu Yunxi was about to speak, he suddenly felt dizzy in his head.
"I guess he still has some conscience and knows how to save his life!" After a long time, Zhu Yunxi said with a bitter smile, "But I'm afraid, he has a longer-term plan!"
With that said, Zhu Yunxi looked at Shao Lin, "I'll ask you one last question!"
"Why do you hate me so much? Is it just because of your grandfather?"
Shao Lin looked directly into the emperor's eyes. The dripping blood blurred his vision, and he looked at the emperor like a hazy shadow.
"Speak!" He Guangyi shouted.
"My father died in the fourteenth year of Hongwu. With his merits, he should not be just a posthumous general!" Shao Lin said slowly, "I am almost forty years old this year. With my merits over the years, I should not be just a posthumous general!"
He should never be just Captain Zhaoyong! We, the Shao family, will not live our lives as cautiously as we do now, for fear of being reminded of the past and being attacked with swords and axes!"
"Our Shao family is worthy of the Ming Dynasty. Can the Ming Dynasty be worthy of us?" Shao Lin cried silently and laughed silently. "Sometimes I wonder, if my grandfather was not unjustly killed, what would the founding fathers be? Chang Yu Chunxu
What’s the point of reaching them?”
As he spoke, he suddenly laughed like a madman, "Even if he is Emperor Taizu, what does it matter? At the beginning, he was just a soldier under my grandfather's tent! Your Zhu family's empire was stolen! Don't think that
I didn’t know that your empire was stolen!”
"The Huaixi Red Scarf Army was founded by my grandfather and Guo Zixing together, but your Zhu family was a bird occupying a dove's nest, and its methods were unjust..."
"This guy is crazy!" Guo Guanseng stepped forward quickly and covered Shao Lin's mouth.
"Get out of the way!" He Guangyi roared sinisterly, picked up a hammer and pointed it at Shao Lin's mouth.
Bang bang!
Teeth suddenly fell to the ground, covered in blood.
~
Zhu Yunxi didn't even look at Shao Lin, as if he was a clown who was not good enough to make people laugh.
"After dark, I want to return to the palace, and you only have one day during the day!" Zhu Yunxi said coldly.
"According to the order!"
Both Pu Wuyong and He Guangyi understood in their hearts that the emperor gave them one day not only to find out the whole story, but also to kill all the people involved.
Cut off the roots!
"It is said that the Duke of Wei, Xu Huizu, the Duke of Zheng, Chang Sheng, the Duke of Bao, Lan Chun, the Duke of Ying, Fu Youde, Cao State... Ru Yu, the Minister of War, came to see me!"
With that said, Zhu Yunxi walked away with a puff of his sleeves.
This chapter has been completed!