After taking the secret elixir made by Master Sun of Wudang Mountain and adjusting his breath for a while, Zhu Di felt better. After a while, he asked in a low voice: "Prince, didn't you submit a letter?"
"No." Li Yan replied softly: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has not delivered any memorials these days, nor has he come to the palace."
"No?" Zhu Di was surprised and asked: "How did he change his gender?" According to Zhu Di's understanding of the prince, no matter how excessive the King of Han did in the past, his eldest son would try his best to intercede for him and excuse him. This time
Zhu Di needed the prince to be a good person so that he could take advantage of the situation and punish the King of Han lightly, but unexpectedly, the prince fell silent...
"I don't know..." What else could Li Yan say.
"Hmph!" Zhu Di snorted displeasedly: "I think he is confident now, thinking that his position is now stable and he no longer needs to pretend to be brothers and sisters!"
"..." Li Yan lowered his head and did not dare to say a word.
The interrogation by the old eunuch Zhao Ying was very fast. In just two days, he reported back to Zhu Di that he had a confession. It was an eunuch who served the King of Han in his daily life and sewed the map of the Demon Town into the King of Han's pillow.
"Why would he do this?!" Zhu Di said coldly.
"Back to the emperor, he confessed that he was ordered by Ji Gang." Zhao Ying said softly.
"Ji Gang?!" Zhu Di chuckled with a stern look, gritted his teeth and said, "Bring him to see me!"
"Yes." The old eunuch ordered, and while he was drinking tea, Governor Ji appeared in the bedroom with his hands tied behind his back.
Zhu Di sat on the dragon chair and looked at his former most trusted spy leader with a serious look. Ji Gang also raised his head and looked at his former master with a half-smile.
"Still not kneeling down!" The four strong eunuchs who were escorting Ji Gang saw that he had no intention of kneeling down, so they scolded him from behind and at the same time pressed their hands on Ji Gang's shoulders.
However, Ji Gang refused to kneel down until the eunuchs kicked him hard on the back of his knees and then pushed him to the ground with both kicks and presses.
"Ji Gang, you ungrateful bitch," Zhu Di looked at Ji Gang who was pushed to the ground coldly, as if he were a dog waiting to be slaughtered: "touch your black and shiny heart and tell me,
How have I failed you over the years?!"
"Hmph!" Ji Gang spat, "Don't be so pretentious. Is there any leader of the Jinyiwei who died a good death in the Ming Dynasty? Besides, I killed so many people for you!"
"I am not a mean and ungrateful emperor," Zhu Di said with a cold face, "I will not kill a donkey to get rid of trouble."
"Then what's going on with Chen Ying?" Ji Gang sneered.
"Of course he..." Zhu Di groaned and said, "He is more than guilty."
"Hahaha, such a guilty one!" Ji Gang laughed loudly: "When it comes to being more than innocent, I have committed crimes ten times or a hundred times more than Chen Ying?! If you want to punish me, why don't you just do it at your fingertips?"
"This is your conjecture!" Zhu Di snorted disdainfully: "An emperor like me only needs to be fair and upright when dealing with anyone, and there is no need to beat around the bush!"
"Whatever you say." Ji Gang stopped arguing with Zhu Di and said, "A man dares to take action and has done everything. You just have to show off!"
"This is just like a human saying." Zhu Di said coldly: "I ask you, why did you collude with Zhu Yunwen?!"
"Haha..." Ji Gang said with a smile: "Isn't this obvious? Once you are killed by your son, I can raise the banner of Zhu Yunwen, overthrow your Yongle Dynasty, and restore Jianwen orthodoxy!"
"Wishful thinking!" Zhu Di said sarcastically: "I think you are just like a monkey, and you want to learn from Cao Mengde!"
"Whatever you say." Ji Gang said with a smile: "You can stand high today and force me to kneel down to you, but you are just a winner and a loser. If I win, we may have to change positions."
"Go and dream!" Zhu Di asked coldly: "I ask you, are you the one who instigated the King of Han's rebellion?!"
"How old is the King of Han? Do you need someone else to teach you what you want to do?" Ji Gang said disdainfully: "Your Majesty, your son is really like you..."
Zhu Di's face suddenly darkened.
When Zhao Ying saw this, he shouted: "Slap your mouth!"
Two eunuchs held down Ji Gang's arms, while the other two rounded their arms and gave him two hard slaps, which made Ji Gang's nose bleed.
"Don't think that I don't know!" Zhu Di slapped the armrest of the dragon chair, pointed at Ji Gang and shouted: "You asked someone to sew a map of the Demon Town into King Han's pillow, and let the demon possess King Han, so that he could do what he did.
What a treasonous thing!"
"Haha," Ji Gang, with disheveled hair and bleeding from his mouth and nose, said with a strange smile, "Does that thing really work? I think he has something wrong with him!"
"You..." One sentence touched on Zhu Di's weakness. He, a strong man who defied nature and changed his destiny, actually didn't believe what those gods and ghosts said in his heart. Otherwise, how dare he rebel?! But this time, he had to believe it. If he didn't believe it, he would
It’s over…
"So," Zhao Ying said quietly, "Do you admit that you were the one who instigated the demon town, His Highness the King of Han?!"
"As I said before, if a man dares to take action, so what." Ji Gang snorted and said, "If you are willing to use me as a scapegoat for the King of Han, please do as you wish."
"You evil beast!" Zhu Di was furious, pointed at Ji Gang and cursed: "Is this the God of Plague descending from the sky? He used witchcraft to lure my son into rebellion, causing all the people in our Ming Dynasty to be devastated!"
"You should understand that this is retribution." Ji Gang lowered his eyelids. His thoughts can be divided into two parts, separated by the moment when he was captured by Wang Xian. Before being captured, he wanted to kill the King of Han and wanted to escape overseas.
, free and easy. But after being captured by Wang Xian, he knew that he would definitely die, and his family would not be spared. What he thought about was how to add trouble to his enemies... Then he would take all the blame and let the King of Han go free. The future was uncertain.
When will Zhu Di be able to do it again? Not to mention King Zhao...
Therefore, Ji Gang made up his mind to take all the responsibility on himself. The so-called "Demon Town Map" was basically something he asked the King of Han to sew into the pillow, in order to get away with it later. The reason why he didn't admit it readily
, the King of Han rebelled all because of him, but because of Zhu Di's suspicious temperament. If he took over too much, he would not believe it.
In this way, he would only admit that he was the one who let people release the demon town map, which would make Zhu Di convinced...
"You should understand that this is retribution." Ji Gang said quietly, and all the hair on Zhu Di's body exploded!
"Crazy! You deserve death!" Zhu Di stood up, walked down the steps, glared at Ji Gang angrily and said, "Didn't you say that a rabbit will die if a dog is cooked? I will throw you into the oil pan and cook you!"
He said loudly: "Come here, set up the frying pan!"
"Your Majesty," Zhao Ying said secretly from the side: "Do you want to wash yourself before putting it in the pot?"
"That's fine." Zhu Di nodded.
When Ji Gang heard that he was going to be put in the frying pan, his expression did not change. When he heard that the old eunuch was going to clean himself up, he was so frightened that his face turned green. He glared at the old eunuch and said: "You surnamed Zhao, you will die a good death! Sooner or later.
One day, you won’t be able to run away either!”
"Our family doesn't know how to do that," Zhao Ying looked at Ji Gang and said expressionlessly, "because our family has no ambitions, only loyalty."
"Bah!" Ji Gang spat out a mouthful of thick phlegm, expressing serious disdain.
Zhu Di was indeed a vigorous and resolute emperor. During the meal, a large pot had been set up in the courtyard in front of the palace. Several eunuchs were carrying cans of vegetable oil and pouring it into the pot. Below, several other eunuchs began to light a fire to heat the pot.
The iron bed for Ji Gang's scrubbing was also prepared. Several eunuchs held down his hands and feet and prepared to tie Governor Ji to the bed.
Looking at Ji Gang coldly, Zhu Di asked in a low voice: "If you have anything else to explain, just say it quickly."
"No more." Ji Gang said, and the eunuchs lifted him up. Suddenly they heard him say again: "By the way! I really have something to tell you."
"What's the matter?" Zhu Di asked casually.
"As the saying goes, there must be a reason for everything. Wang Xian and Xu Miaojin are indeed having an adulterous affair." Ji Gang said this ground-breaking sentence in an understatement.
Sure enough, Zhu Di's face was filled with gloom, and he snorted with great displeasure: "Fart!"
"Don't believe it, I heard it with my own ears," Ji Gang smiled and told Zhu Di exactly what happened on Xugong Island that day.
Zhu Di's face became darker and darker, and finally he couldn't help shouting: "Cut out his tongue first!"
"Yes!" Several eunuchs immediately accepted the order, came over and grabbed Ji Gang's jaw. With a strong force, they removed his jaw and pulled out his tongue from his mouth. They raised the knife and dropped it, which was more than two inches long.
A piece of tongue fell to the ground neatly!
"Oh!" Ji Gang's mouth spurted blood, his eyes widened in pain, and his whole body convulsed.
But this was just the beginning. The eunuchs carried him to the iron bed and tied Ji Gang's limbs with iron rings. Then they picked up the knife, pulled his clothes apart in a few strokes, and pulled them to the ground.
With his mouth full of blood and his whole body ****, Governor Ji was tied to the iron bed with iron rings in a "big" shape!
The eunuchs brought boiling hot water and poured it all over Ji Gang without blinking an eye. In the rising steam, Governor Ji howled and twisted his body, and his whole body turned red.
"Let's start brushing!" A eunuch ordered, and three eunuchs took iron combs and started scraping Ji Gang's chest and legs respectively! When they felt that they couldn't scrape anymore, another bucket of scalding hot water was applied.
The water was poured down, and then the brushing continued with the steaming heat...
Every blow scraped up a layer of flesh, which was so painful that Ji Gang's eyes almost popped out. He wanted to cry out in pain, but his tongue was gone, and his throat was full of blood. He couldn't make a sound, but he sprayed out mouthfuls of blood mist!
Li Yan and the eunuchs around the emperor were too frightened to look at it, but Zhao Ying and his disciples watched it with gusto.
Zhu Di also watched intently. There was no trace of humanity in the emperor's eyes, they were full of the pleasure of revenge and uncontrollable anger!
At this time, a call came from outside. The prince, grandson, Duke Cheng, Marquis Anyuan, Hu Yan, Xia Yuanji, Jian Yi, Yang Shiqi and other ministers were summoned and were waiting for the summons outside the palace.