In Yao Guangxiao's opinion, if Lan Yu can be used by Zhu Ying, then he can only be destroyed.
Lan Yu is an arrogant and domineering person.
There are many disrespectful remarks made in private.
In fact, Zhu Yuanzhang was aware of these remarks, but he was more indulgent in them when Zhu Biao was around.
After all, Lan Yu's sister is Chang Yuchun's wife, and Chang Yuchun's eldest daughter is Zhu Biao's princess.
From this level of relationship, they can be regarded as relatives of the emperor.
Therefore, Lan Yu was more unscrupulous in many things. He drank a few mouthfuls of horse urine, and even dared to talk back to His Majesty at a banquet.
Yao Guangxiao has been plotting for many years and planning for a long time.
It is no longer a matter of whether Zhu Di wants to be emperor or not. Even if Zhu Di doesn't want to, he will try every means to push Zhu Di away.
As for whether this process will cause turmoil in the Ming Empire, and how much damage it will cause.
What does it have to do with him.
If he learns this skill and doesn't put it to use, what's the point of his whole life?
After coming out of Prince Yan's residence, Yao Guangxiao looked around and started to move towards the next target.
He knew very well how powerful Jin Yiwei was, but he also knew Jin Yiwei's blind spots.
As His Majesty's eyes and ears, the Jin Yiwei's main surveillance targets are usually civil and military ministers and nobles from various families.
How many people are there in the entire capital?
But the perimeter of the outer city of Nanjing is only 60 kilometers, and the entire capital is about 230 square kilometers.
As for the current Ming Dynasty, as the most powerful country in the world, the current capital is the largest in area among the top ten famous cities in ancient times.
The scale, layout and design ideas of Nanjing City are unique among other ancient cities in the world.
There are mountains, lakes, rivers, dense settlements, and even farmland.
It is adjacent to the Yangtze River and connects the east and west. Across the river is Jiangpu City, which connects it to the north and south. It has land routes in all directions and water routes as far away as the ocean.
It took two people riding horses from opposite sides of the city to meet each other for a whole day.
As the capital of the Ming Dynasty, the current resident population has exceeded one million.
Jinyiwei recorded a total of 14 people from a thousand households. Even if we count a few more, there are still 15,000 people.
Some of the 15,000-strong Jinyi Guards also serve as Zhu Yuanzhang's personal guards, guarding the palace, or serve as an honor guard and travel with Zhu Yuanzhang.
At most 10,000 people are left to monitor a city with a million people.
Zhu Yuanzhang once revealed the whispers between some ministers and their husbands in the morning court, and even took out a portrait, which was a private scene of a certain minister.
The use of these means is more of a deterrent.
After all, unlike later generations of Skynet and surveillance, Jinyiwei's personnel and energy are limited.
Although their responsibilities are very broad and they have the power to punish the people, in fact, the Jin Yiwei rarely interacts with the people.
The reputation basically comes from rumors.
For example, during a chat in a teahouse, a certain minister of the third rank discussed His Majesty at home. What he said was recorded in detail, and then he was killed by His Majesty.
What is more interesting is that a certain minister married a concubine, but his ability was not good enough and he was laughed at by his majesty.
It is these rumors that make Jin Yiwei become extremely mysterious and terrifying.
Of course, this is what Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to see.
As Yao Guangxiao, who is obsessed with planning a big business, he peels off the surface to look at the core, and never touches the key surveillance objects of Jin Yiwei.
For example, Huang Zicheng, as the companion of the East Palace and the confidant of the grandson, the Jin Yiwei will not monitor him.
Many royal descendants also don't know how.
The person Yao Guangxiao is looking for today is Zhu Yuanzhang's grandnephew, Li Jinglong.
As a monk, Yao Guangxiao followed Zhu Di and was never on Jinyiwei's monitoring list, which gave him a lot of room to perform.
Li Jinglong inherited the title of Lord Cao Guogong, behaved gracefully, and was his nephew, so he won Zhu Yuanzhang's trust and respect.
Li Jinglong and Zhu Di were childhood friends. When Zhu Di was born in the military camp, he was very close to his cousin Li Wenzhong.
Li Jinglong is slightly younger than Zhu Di, and his relationship with Zhu Di has been extremely close since childhood.
Because Zhu Di had shown extremely high military talent since he was a child, Li Jinglong had a kind of admiration for Zhu Di since he was a child.
This kind of feeling is like the feeling of a bad student towards a top student, especially this top student is quite senior.
Although Li Jinglong can be said to be beating Zhu Di in terms of literature, since everyone grew up in a military camp, military merit and fighting ability are the focus of their recognition.
When Zhu Di was a child, he was not liked by Zhu Yuanzhang. When he was seven years old, he didn't even have his own name.
Even if he was fighting outside all year round, he wouldn't have had time to pick up a name casually. This shows that Zhu Di at that time had been directly ignored by Zhu Yuanzhang.
There are some little stories here that I won’t talk about.
When Zhu Di grew up, especially from the age of seven, his appearance became more and more similar to Zhu Yuanzhang.
Among his many sons, only Zhu Di looked most like Zhu Yuanzhang.
It was for this reason that Zhu Yuanzhang began to value Zhu Di.
After this contact, Zhu Yuanzhang discovered that his seven-year-old son actually knew how to fight.
From this point on, it was the turning point in Zhu Di's life.
Xu Da's eldest daughter, Xu Yihua, had been serving the Empress in the palace for a long time. Since then, after Zhu Yuanzhang communicated with Empress Ma, he intended to let the two have more contact.
It was not until later that he got married.
In terms of marriage, Zhu Di is happy. He and Xu Yihua are childhood sweethearts, and Xu Yihua has known for a long time that this is her future husband.
Queen Ma often helped to say good things about Zhu Di.
It was in this way that Zhu Di was able to marry the eldest daughter of Xu Da, a famous general of the generation, and even granted the imperial title to the former capital of the Yuan Dynasty. Now Beiping is a vassal territory.
Li Jinglong faced this uncle who grew up with him, and was crushed by his identity, background, and ability.
You can really beat Zhu Di in terms of appearance, but I can't stand the fact that Zhu Di looks like His Majesty.
Comparing appearance with the current emperor, no matter how handsome he is, he is still a younger brother.
It is precisely because of these many reasons that Li Jinglong admires Zhu Di's emotions very much.
This news was keenly felt by Yao Guangxiao.
After the remaining guards at Xiaoling came back to report the situation, Yao Guangxiao's thoughts turned to Li Jinglong.
Of course, the target in his mind is far more than just Li Jinglong.
What he needs to do now is to gain a greater chance of success for Zhu Di in the future.
Chunhe Hall, East Palace.
Huang Zicheng has been living in fear these past few days, unable to sleep at night and unable to taste food.
Ever since his confidant was imprisoned in the Jinyi Guard Prison, staying at home has been a torture for him.
We arrived at Chunhe Hall before dawn and went back after dark.
Only here did Huang Zicheng feel a little more at ease.
No matter how courageous Jin Yiwei is, there is no way he can be taken down by His Highness Taisun.
Huang Zicheng also told Zhu Yunwen about this matter.
But what could Zhu Yunwen do as a fifteen-year-old child?
Let him go and tell Grandpa Huang?
I'm afraid he doesn't have the guts yet.
Seeing Huang Zicheng anxiously walking back and forth in the hall, Zhu Yunwen could only console him: "Mr. Huang, don't worry too much. In my opinion, even the Jin Yiwei should give me some respect."
"Besides, there is no real evidence from Jinyiwei, but the testimony of a few servants is not trustworthy. Mr. Huang, you don't need to be so anxious."
Hearing this, Huang Zicheng said with a frown: "Your Highness, you don't know that those people in Jinyiwei can make crimes even if they are innocent."
"Now that I'm caught by them, they will definitely interrogate me severely and beat me to death. I guess they will take advantage of me one day and take me to prison."
Hearing this, Zhu Yunwen's face flashed with hesitation.
Zhu Yunwen was still very concerned about Huang Zicheng. After all, to a certain extent, Huang Zicheng was not only his teacher and confidant, but also his friend.
Over the past three days, seeing Huang Zicheng losing weight day by day, Zhu Yunwen felt a little guilty in his heart.
After all, it was his idea to arrange for people to investigate Grandpa Huang's whereabouts.
After hesitating in his heart, Zhu Yunwen gritted his teeth and said, "Mr. Huang, I think that although Jin Yiwei is controlled by Grandpa Huang, I should be given some face."
"I just went to the Jinyiwei Yamen today to see what tricks they were trying to play."
"If not, I will ask them to release him directly."
Zhu Yunwen has never been afraid of Jin Yiwei. To him, Jin Yiwei is his domestic servant.
Unlike the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the current Jinyiwei under the command of Zhu Yuanzhang have always been respectful to the royal descendants.
The biggest reason why Zhu Yunwen didn't go for the past three days and decided to go today is because he was worried that he would be involved.
When Huang Zicheng heard this, he was so excited that he bowed tremblingly:
"Thank you, Your Highness Taisun!"
Zhu Yunwen quickly helped Huang Zicheng up and said: "Sir, I understand clearly in my heart. Please don't worry too much, sir."
You treat me as a nobleman of the country, and I will repay you as a nobleman of the country.
At this moment, these words were echoing in Huang Zicheng's mind.
Even if he made up his mind, Zhu Yunwen was not ambiguous. With Huang Zicheng's current appearance, Zhu Yunwen had no intention of studying.
Immediately, he took Huang Zicheng and went straight to the Jinyiwei Yamen.
Half an hour later, in front of the Jinyiwei Yamen.
"His Royal Highness is here!"
The eunuch's voice rang in the Jinyiwei Yamen.
Of course everyone knew which emperor's grandson it was to have such a grand event, and Song Zhong, who was in charge of the Yamen, hurriedly came out to greet him.
"I, Jin Yiwei, the governor of the town, Song Zhong, have met His Royal Highness!"
"I have met His Royal Highness"
As Song Zhong paid his respects, many of the imperial guards bowed their heads and clasped their fists.
Zhu Yunwen glanced at Song Zhong and said, "Song Zhenfu, go in and talk."
"I obey, Your Highness please."
Song Zhong bowed and led the way. With his peripheral vision, he glanced at Huang Zicheng who was behind Zhu Yunwen, and he immediately understood why Zhu Yunwen came here.
After arriving at the Yamen lobby, Song Zhong invited Zhu Yunwen to take a seat. In any case, Zhu Yunwen was now the nominal grandson.
Even if he is not canonized, the emperor's grandson is not something that Jin Yiwei can easily resist.
"I wonder what your Highness's orders were when he came to the Jinyiwei Yamen." Song Zhong bowed and asked.
It was obviously Zhu Yunwen's first time to come to the Jinyiwei Yamen. Seeing that these Jinyiwei were so respectful to him, he felt relieved and said directly:
"I heard from Huang Hanlin that you Jin Yiwei arrested his servant and put him in prison?"
Song Zhong was stunned when he heard this and said: "This is absolutely impossible. How could we and the Jin Yiwei arrest Huang Hanlin's servants? There must be a misunderstanding about this matter."
Huang Zicheng heard this and couldn't help but interject: "It was three days ago in the afternoon when two of my servants went out. Not long after, news came that they had been arrested by the Jinyi Guards."
"Three days ago in the afternoon?" Song Zhong asked with doubts, "I wonder if Huang Hanlin committed something that led to our arrest."
After finishing speaking, he added: "Huang Hanlin must not misunderstand. It is true that I and other Jin Yiwei arrest too many prisoners every day. I really have no impression of such things."
Seeing what Song Zhong said, Huang Zicheng actually believed it and quickly reported the names of his two servants.
After hearing this, Song Zhong directly called the school captain and ordered: "Go check these two names immediately to see if two people were caught in the gang three days ago. Why? Report them immediately."
"I humble my duty and obey my orders."
After Song Zhong finished making arrangements, he smiled and said to Huang Zicheng: "Huang Hanlin, maybe I was negligent. There have been a lot of thefts in the imperial city these days."
"Originally, it was the work of the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division, but now we have to help."
Seeing Song Zhong's enthusiasm, Huang Zicheng gradually felt relieved.
Soon, a school captain came over and reported: "Sir, there are indeed two people with the same name as what you said, and they were arrested three days ago."
"What's the reason?" Song Zhong asked smoothly.
"It's not a big deal, it's just that a brother saw these two sneaking around on the street, and there were a lot of thefts these days, so he went directly to ask."
"Unexpectedly, the two of them were guilty of being thieves and wanted to escape, so they were arrested directly."
The captain told the details one by one.
Song Zhong nodded, turned to Huang Zicheng and said, "It seems to be a misunderstanding. I didn't expect these two people to be Mr. Huang's servants. I'm really sorry. I didn't expect my subordinates to be so rough in their work."
"I didn't ask any questions. Even Huang Hanlin's servants dared to arrest them. These little bastards seem to be in trouble."
"When I look back, I will definitely reprimand them severely."
Huang Zicheng heard this and explained somewhat sarcastically:
"Maybe they were scared when they saw Jin Yiwei, which caused such a misunderstanding. It would be nice if the matter is clarified."
At the same time, the stone in Huang Zicheng's heart finally fell to the ground, and he asked again: "I wonder when they will be released."
Song Zhong smiled and said: "Since it is a misunderstanding, it is natural to release it immediately. Huang Hanlin waits a moment. I will issue a document and release it immediately."
Seeing this, Zhu Yunwen frowned and said, "You must be more careful in your actions in the future. Such random arrests will ruin Jinyiwei's reputation."
"Your Highness' lesson is correct. I will strictly discipline you in the future and never commit such a thing again."
Zhu Yunwen nodded slightly, not wanting to wait any longer.
Huang Zicheng saw that the matter was settled and it was not convenient to meet with his servants. After getting Song Zhong's approval, he followed Zhu Yunwen back to the palace.
After Song Zhong arrived at the gate, he looked at the backs of Zhu Yunwen, Huang Zicheng, and many eunuchs and attendants leaving.
A hint of cunning flashed in his eyes
"Sister, do you think Grandpa Huang has forgotten us? It's been several days."
Zhu Yunxi asked Zhu Mingyue quietly in the Imperial Palace Academy.
Zhu Mingyue looked at the teacher in front of her and replied: "Grandpa Huang is busy with many things, so it is normal for him to forget. We just have to wait patiently, and one day he will remember."
Zhu Yunxi nodded and asked again: "Sister, what did you say about the eldest brother that the emperor mentioned?"
Zhu Mingyue frowned and said, "Grandpa Huang won't tell you, so don't ask any more questions."
"oh."
Not long after the two siblings talked, a eunuch came in and said:
"His Majesty has spoken and summoned the emperor's grandson Zhu Yunxi and Zhu Mingyue to see him."