In Kunning Palace, Zhu Ying was reviewing the memorial.
When he saw it was time for dinner, he casually asked Guo Zhong, who had been waiting beside him: "Grandpa has arrived at Qianqing Palace at this time. What are the arrangements for dinner?"
Having breakfast and dinner with grandpa every day has become a must for Zhu Ying.
If you don't go there, someone will come over.
The reason Zhu Ying asked today was because he felt a little strange. As usual, Liu He had already come over to urge him.
Hearing this, Guo Zhong was slightly flustered. He hesitated before replying, "His Majesty is currently handling affairs in the Huagai Palace. Not long ago, he sent a eunuch to order a meal for today and send it directly to His Highness."
This trace of panic was immediately noticed by Zhu Ying.
He turned to look at Guo Zhong, his eyes scrutinizing.
Under the eyes of His Highness Taisun, Guo Zhong subconsciously avoided it and lowered his head with a guilty conscience.
"Yue Qing didn't come here today either, but it seems relatively peaceful."
Zhu Ying said calmly.
Guo Zhong didn't dare to talk.
"Tell me, what exactly happened? You must know that it is very difficult to hide this from me. Is it possible that this palace can also ban me?"
Listening to His Royal Highness Taisun's calm tone, Guo Zhong knew that something was wrong. He was so frightened that he knelt on the ground and did not dare to speak.
"I will go to Grandpa now, and everything will come to an end naturally. But what should you, as my close confidant, do?"
Zhu Ying had already guessed that it was probably the old man's handiwork, but Guo Zhong's attitude made Zhu Ying feel uncomfortable.
He didn't want a close confidant like Guo Zhong to hide anything from him no matter what time or situation.
Guo Zhong knew in his heart that he was following His Highness Taisun. At this time, he could no longer hesitate. If he lost His Highness Taisun's trust because of this, it would be more than worth the loss.
So what if he is punished by His Majesty? It is obvious which one is more serious. With a bite of his teeth, Guo Zhong said directly: "Your Highness, someone outside the palace conspired to assassinate Your Highness today. The Jin Yiwei got the news in advance and caught him."
"His Majesty was so furious that he ordered the capital to be sealed off, mobilized a large army to enter the city, and searched the whole city."
"In order to prevent His Highness from worrying about this matter, I hereby order not to disturb His Highness."
Zhu Ying's original unhappiness suddenly disappeared.
Assassinate me?
That's right.
As soon as the assassination incident came out, a figure jumped out of Zhu Ying's mind.
What is Zhu Di doing? He won't kill him in Peiping, and he won't kill him in the capital. Now that I'm the grandson, if he wants to assassinate me, is it possible that he wants to kill me?
There is no doubt that the first thing Zhu Ying thought of was the King of Yan, Zhu Di.
Looking at the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Di was the only one who had such courage and thought.
And recently, Zhu Di has achieved this ability, commanding an army of more than 100,000 people. With Zhu Di's personal charm, Zhu Ying believes that he has gained many friends in the military.
Before that in Peiping, Zhu Ying knew that Zhu Di had an organization similar to Jinyiwei, which was dedicated to serving Zhu Di personally. If he wanted to take action, this organization would be the one to do it.
Thinking of this, Zhu Ying suddenly laughed.
Obviously, under the old man's royal guards, Zhu Di was still not qualified, and he was caught before he even made a move.
Zhu Ying stood up and thought about asking what was going on with this assassination.
The most important thing is, has the fourth uncle been arrested?
Seeing that His Highness Taisun was about to go to the Huagai Hall, Guo Zhong quickly winked at the eunuch farthest away. The young eunuch immediately understood and quietly withdrew from His Highness Taisun's sight, and then ran quickly.
Zhu Ying saw it and didn't care.
These are the eunuchs' way of survival.
In the Huagai Hall, the five ministers gathered together, as well as the governors of the Governor's Mansion, including Lan Yu, who was also here.
In the middle, Jiang Yu was reporting on everything Jin Yiwei had collected so far, and Zhu Yuanzhang listened with a gloomy face.
"In other words, among these people, not only are the ministers in the court, chambers of commerce from various places, and gangs from the capital's wharf, but also foreign ministers are involved."
Zhu Yuanzhang asked coldly.
Jiang Wei gritted his teeth and nodded heavily.
He really had no choice. The current case could only be dealt with in a serious way. If he told His Majesty, Gu Shuanggui who said this was just complaining.
Hehe, I'm afraid he will be the first to lose his head next, Jiang Wei.
At present, only this situation can meet His Majesty's ideas.
Zhu Yuanzhang's face was gloomy. He didn't look good today. Anyone could feel the coming storm.
The current situation is that the more in-depth the investigation is, the more people are involved.
At this time, a young eunuch came to the door. After Liu He responded, he walked to Zhu Yuanzhang and whispered in his ear: "Your Majesty, His Highness the Grand Sun is aware of it."
Zhu Yuanzhang nodded when he heard this.
From the very beginning, Zhu Yuanzhang never wanted to let his eldest son know about the assassination of his eldest son.
In other words, we should not let Da Sun know about it for the time being.
He knew Da Sun's character and didn't think much about involving too many people or killing too many people.
But Zhu Yuanzhang is different. Anyone who dares to touch his eldest grandson must die. Even if he talks about it, he cannot start from this.
Must kill, kill hard.
Only when enough people are killed will others be afraid. If they are afraid, they will not dare to have such evil thoughts.
In fact, Zhu Yuanzhang probably knew some key things in his mind. After all, Jiang Yu did not dare to lie in the dossier.
Zhu Yuanzhang only glanced at the file that was sent up and put it aside.
Some things don't require too much evidence or to investigate the depth of it. As long as this matter needs to be alerted, it is enough.
'Dasun is not suitable to be this executioner. We have already killed a lot of people in our hands. If there are more, that will be the case.'
Zhu Yuanzhang never thought of letting go of this case lightly.
Seeing that the grandson was about to come, Zhu Yuanzhang directly issued an order to Jiang Yu: "According to the information currently available, all those involved will be arrested and brought to justice. After interrogation, they will be executed immediately."
Everyone was shocked, and Jiang Wei even asked: "Your Majesty, the number of people involved in this case is about a few hundred. Please give me your instructions."
When Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, he frowned and said: "How could there be only a few hundred people plotting to assassinate the current grandson? There must be more people controlling it behind the scenes. If we continue to investigate, we will be implicated. No one can be spared."
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"Especially the Gu family. I asked them to come from Jiangnan. I'm afraid they don't have our best interests in mind. Among them, other family members are also secretly colluding and waiting for opportunities."
"This time, these people must be uprooted without leaving any future troubles!"
Jiang Wei immediately bowed and said: "I obey the order."
At this moment, his heart trembled, and the hearts of the civil and military officials present slowed down by half a beat.
Who could not know the implication of this?
Your Majesty thinks that a few hundred people are too few, and wants to expand the scope even further.
I'm afraid that without thousands of people, this case won't be able to be stopped.
Jiang Wei went out after receiving the order, and happened to meet Zhu Ying coming over.
"I have met His Highness Taisun."
Zhu Ying nodded slightly and glanced at Jiang Wei, but still didn't say anything.
In fact, now he seems to know what the old man is thinking.
After entering the door, the governors of various prefectures and ministers of various ministries were present. When they saw His Highness Taisun appearing, they hurriedly saluted.
"Everyone, please go out. Let's talk to Dasun alone."
Zhu Yuanzhang immediately drove them away, and soon only the grandfather and grandson were left in the room.
"Grandpa, my grandson heard that someone wants to assassinate me?"
Zhu Ying asked frankly. Of course, the object of his suspicion was King Zhu Di of Yan.
Zhu Yuanzhang said: "This time we made some mistakes. These people who want to assassinate us are mainly from the wealthy families who migrated from the Jiangnan area. They may be Dasun's chamber of commerce, and they have moved their interests."
"Let's gather together to carry out the assassination. Everyone has been arrested by Jin Yiwei and sent to prison for interrogation. I think we can almost find out the people behind."
Hearing this, Zhu Ying was a little surprised.
The person who plotted to assassinate him was not Zhu Di?
Instead, a group of businessmen?
It’s not that he looks down on businessmen, but Zhu Ying’s connections and control over the current business path are extremely high.
Once there is news of an assassination, you should be aware of it.
Furthermore, it is difficult for individual businessmen to have this strength.
Zhu Ying continued to ask: "Grandpa, how are you going to deal with the person who plotted the assassination?"
Zhu Yuanzhang snorted coldly and said: "What else can you do? If you dare to plot to assassinate the great grandson, you will certainly kill the nine tribes."
Zhu Ying's heart trembled.
To kill the nine tribes can be said to be to kill all the relatives of the person who committed the crime.
In today's Qing Dynasty where clan relations are strong, a village was almost immediately wiped out.
What is the concept of the Nine Clans? Anyone with a slight blood relationship must be implicated.
According to the current laws of the Ming Dynasty, there are four fathers, four mothers, three wives and two wives, totaling nine clans.
Counting from the father, all the relatives within four generations, the mother within three generations, and the wife within two generations are all involved.
To put it simply, the father-in-law’s family, including the mother-in-law’s natal family, are also involved.
You must know that in this society, the so-called married daughter is just water thrown out. In theory, there is no connection anymore.
But the nine tribes are here, and even the mother-in-law's natal family has to be killed.
Some of them were relatively distantly related, and perhaps even Gu Shuanggui didn't know them, but when they were arrested, they were all arrested based on their household registration and genealogy.
What is the concept of this? It is equivalent to a person working well in a place and not breaking any law or committing any crime. Suddenly one day someone comes and chops off his head.
The reason is that one of his clan brothers who can't be beaten committed a crime. Even if he doesn't know his name, he will inevitably die. Who can let him belong to the same nine clans!
"Grandpa, killing the Nine Tribes does not involve too many people. My grandson thinks that the three Yi Tribes are enough."
Zhu Ying hesitated and persuaded.
Relatively speaking, the Yi Tribe is a weakened version of the Zhu Jiu Tribe. It was used most frequently during the Three Kingdoms period of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
It refers to the three groups of father, son and grandson.
That means all my father's brothers, all my brothers and all my sons.
And there is no killing of women in the family. There is no harm to cousins, cousins, cousins and cousins.
However, under normal circumstances, female relatives were punished and sent to the Jiaofang Department for consecutive crimes.
Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head and said: "My grandson, sometimes if you want to make people scared, you must have enough people to fill the gap. We know you don't want to implicate too many people, and we also know that there are many unjust accusations."
"However, only in this way can we extinguish the thoughts of some people who are ready to move, and only in this way can we establish the dignity of our Lao Zhu family."
"We must make it clear to the people of this world that no one in our old Zhu family can touch us. Even if we have such an idea, the nine clans should be wiped out and the incense must be extinguished!"
Hearing this, Zhu Ying was silent for a moment and didn't say much.
Naturally, he would not ask about Zhu Di.
At this moment, the real turmoil began to come to the entire capital.
With an evil look on his face, Jiang Gu led dozens of Jinyiwei guards to the Jinyiwei Yamen.
"Boss, Your Majesty has peace wishes."
Song Zhong had been waiting for a long time, and when he saw him, he immediately came up and asked.
Jiang Wei replied briefly: "This arrest will be recorded as three thousand."
Song Zhong was shocked and said hesitantly: "Boss, Your Majesty's files have been handed over."
Jiang Wei took a deep look at Song Zhong and said: "Your Majesty has certainly read the files, but plotting to assassinate the grandson cannot be taken lightly."
"Let's arrest him. There are hundreds or even thousands of people in these chambers of commerce. If there are not enough people, we can arrest his friends all the way."
Song Zhong bowed and said, "I understand."
As a wealthy family from the south of the Yangtze River, Gu Shuanggui still had many friends even after he moved here.
It's a pity that these good friends have become victims of injustice one by one.
As the Jin Yiwei set off, the entire capital began to become chaotic.
The emergence of a major case stirred up a storm in the capital, which was extremely shocking. These royal guards were not easy to talk to.
Especially in the streets where the rich families in Jiangnan live, groups of guards in uniforms rushed past without any scruples.
But if there is any obstruction, just draw your sword and kill them directly. In most places, they will kill directly.
Three thousand people are too many, and it is difficult for Jinyiwei to hold them in prison. It is said that they will be executed at a later date after arrest. However, as far as the current situation is concerned, these people involved do not need to go through the three-division trial at all, and will be executed directly.
The decision is finalized.
Jinyiwei's reputation is very bad, and it has something to do with their behavior.
For example, if a passerby stopped to take a few glances, he would most likely be arrested directly or even killed on the spot.
The streets were quiet, it was just dusk, but all the shops and houses were closed.
According to the list, the Jin Yiwei kicked open a certain door, then went in and arrested them directly.
Jinyiwei is very efficient.
This case of assassinating the grandson started in the morning and was almost completed in the afternoon.
In ancient times, such speed was simply unimaginable, but it happened in the capital.
This is the real Jinyiwei. When he takes action with all his strength, no one can escape from the huge capital.
It took the whole night to catch and kill, because there were too many places involved, and after all, the whole of Nanjing was very big.
The ones taking action are basically the Jin Yiwei, and the other armies are just maintaining the curfew, so the manpower is not very sufficient.
When the next morning came, the streets of the capital were filled with the strong smell of blood.