"Seongfu?" This was not the first time that Jin Hanming was surprised today, but this time it was still the most surprising for him. But when he calmed down, he realized that Jin Hanji's whimsical idea was very suitable. Kim Sungfu is the brother of Kim Sungkyun.
, they are not much different in age, and they grew up under the same education. Chengfu pretends to be Chengjun. Unless you are very familiar with Chengjun, it is impossible to tell them apart. There are indeed people who were sent to Korea as envoys in the Ming Dynasty.
I have met Kim Sung Kyun, but I only said a few words to him. I am not familiar with him and cannot tell him apart.
However, "What should we do about Chengfu?" Jin Hanming asked again: "As long as we, the Jin family, are watching closely, I don't know if Chengfu fell ill a few days ago. I don't know if you ordered Chengfu to pretend to be a test, but
His Highness actually sent someone to visit him, and it was difficult for Cheng Fu to leave Seoul. Where did you find someone to pretend to be Fu?"
"Pretend to be Fu? Just use Sung Kyun to pretend, why do you need to find someone else?"
"Sungkyun pretends to be Fu? How can this be done?"
"Why not?" Jin Hanji asked.
"Chengjun," Jin Hanming was about to tell his reason: Chengjun cannot disappear from the city. Even if he is bored in the house all day, he still has to socialize with friends, or greet the people sent by Zhu Fangyuan to check. How can he pretend to be all day long?
Cheng Fu? But before he could say anything, he reacted.
Although Sungkyun can't pretend to be Fu all day long, he doesn't need to pretend to be Fu all day long. He just needs to pretend when someone comes to visit. Since Sungkyun pretends to be seriously ill, he can pretend to be Fu when his friends come to visit.
When sleeping, his friends would never wake him up to talk, so he could hide away. Naturally, he could not always pretend to be asleep when people from the palace came to visit him. However, Cheng Fu was not a very valued person in the Jin family, so he naturally did not enter the palace to be a certain prince.
As for his qualification as a companion, no one in the palace is familiar with him, so it should not be discovered. Once the people who visit Chengfu leave, Chengjun can be himself and socialize with others.
"Has His Highness thought of this way of getting through? And is there someone in the mansion who has His Highness's eyes and ears that we haven't noticed yet?" Jin Hanming pondered for a while and then asked.
"Second brother, don't worry. All the ears and eyes His Highness planted in our mansion have been discovered. No one will slip through the net. Even if someone slips through the net, the servants who will know about it are all family members and have been servants in the mansion for at least three generations.
A person with a well-rounded family will never cheat and be bribed by His Highness."
Jin Hanji first answered Jin Hanming's last question, and then said: "As for whether His Highness would have thought of this way of getting through, it seems that he has not thought of it now; in the future, it will be useless if he does."
"Why?"
"Because Chengfu had left Seoul long ago and successfully crossed the Yalu River to the Ming Dynasty. Even if the Ming Dynasty's yamen continued to delay in doing things, Chengfu should have met the Ming Dynasty emperor. Now, the Ming Dynasty emperor is questioning His Highness's envoy, or investigating
The person responsible may have already arrived in North Korea."
"What, you, you've already killed me first and played later!" Jin Hanming stood up suddenly, pointed at Jin Hanji's head and shouted. If he hasn't understood it yet, he doesn't deserve to be here tonight. The meaning of Jin Hanji's words is clear.
It was he who had already sent Cheng Fu to leave Seoul and go to the Ming Dynasty. "Why didn't you discuss it with us before doing this? You did it in private! Don't you think of yourself as the eldest brother? Even the eldest brother of the clan did not tell us.
reason!"
"Hanji, you..." Others present also cursed Jin Hanji.
While they were criticizing, Jin Hanji didn't say a word, he just sat there with his head bowed. After all, everyone was old, and after scolding for a while, he didn't have the energy to scold again. Since the matter being discussed was confidential, there were no servants or maids around to serve him.
He could only hold on to the chair and slowly sit down again. When everyone sat down, Jin Hanji raised his head and said, "Didn't I discuss it with you? I felt something was wrong a few months ago and suspected that His Highness wanted to dethrone the Crown Prince and discuss it with you.
, but you are all hesitant and unwilling to make a decision, and the result of the discussion is to wait for His Highness's subsequent actions and stay put for the time being. From then on, I knew that when you were anxious and agreed to this strategy, nothing would be done. So I went with
Cheng Fu and others implemented this method after discussion. Now it seems that I thought well at the time. At that time, His Highness's inspections inside and outside Seoul were relatively lax, and Cheng Fu easily left the city; if the city gate inspections are so strict now,
It is another troublesome thing to send Cheng back to the city. Maybe the plan will be aborted at this step. No one can stop His Highness from deposing the crown prince, and our Jin family will be ruined."
"However, even if what you said makes sense, you can't put it into practice without telling us." Someone spoke again, but the voice became softer and softer. Jin Hanming and others did not say anything. First, because what Jin Hanji said was reasonable, of course.
The second point is even more important: it is not yet known whether his approach will be successful. If it is successful, then Jin Hanji will naturally be the hero of the family, and no one can question him; but if it is not successful, and even Zhu Fangyuan discovers it, then he will be regarded as
Throwing the scapegoat out, there is no need to say anything more at this time.
Jin Hanji also understood what Jin Hanming and others were thinking, but he didn't care, and said: "I heard that His Highness sent Zheng Yi as envoy to the Ming Dynasty a few days ago? Your Highness cannot suddenly depose the crown prince, and must report to the Ming Emperor in advance.
The crown prince is seriously ill. If the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty had already seen Cheng Fu, he would naturally send an imperial doctor to treat the crown prince's illness while also conducting an investigation. If the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty had not yet seen Cheng Fu, he would also send people to investigate the matter after seeing Cheng Fu.
True or false. Even if His Highness has dethroned the Crown Prince at that time, it doesn’t matter. The current emperor of the Ming Dynasty is a man who does not rub sand in his eyes."
"No matter what, people from the Ming Dynasty will definitely come to Seoul in a few days. At that time, I want to try to see if I can contact people from the Ming Dynasty. So, I think..."
"You don't have to say anything. No matter what you do, everyone in the family will cooperate." Before Jin Hanji could finish his words, he was interrupted by Jin Hanming.
Jin Hanji raised his head and glanced at him, then at the others, and understood what they meant. Their meaning was clearly: you are responsible for exposing Zhu Fangyuan's attempt to depose the crown prince to Ming Dynasty from beginning to end, and we will treat it as
I don’t know. If it succeeds, you are the hero of the family and we will not take the credit from you; if it fails, the responsibility will be yours alone.
Jin Hanji didn't say anything else, got up and left. Since they already pretended not to know, if there was anything else to discuss, they could just do it themselves. He didn't resent Jin Hanming and others, they also wanted to preserve the family. It's just that he was there
I said to myself in my heart: 'I will definitely succeed in this matter.'
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"My Majesty, Zhu Bangyuan, King of Korea, wishes you all the best, long live your Majesty!" In a palace inside Gyeongbokgung Palace, Zhu Fangyuan knelt down and said to the envoy from the Ming Dynasty.
The chief and deputy envoys of the Ming Dynasty stood calmly in front of Zhu Fangyuan, and after he knelt down, they said: "Holy greetings."
Zhu Fangyuan saluted again. After he finished the whole ceremony and stood up, the envoy of the Ming Dynasty saluted him and said: "I have met your highness." But Zhu Fangyuan immediately stopped them and said with a smile: "You are the envoys of the Kingdom of Heaven.
, how dare I accept your full courtesy?"
"Etiquette cannot be abolished." The Ming Dynasty chief envoy said again and wanted to salute again. But at this time, Zhu Fangyuan had already asked his servants to come forward to help them. The chief and deputy envoys could not salute, so they had no choice but to leave it at that.
"Master Chen, Master Yin, your Majesty sent you two as envoys to North Korea this time. What message do you have for me?" Zhu Fangyuan gave them seats again and asked after saying a few words.
"Your Highness doesn't need to call us lords. This is really embarrassing both of us. Your Highness can just call us according to our official positions." Chen Cheng, the envoy, said this first, and then said: "Your Majesty has no decree for Your Highness, but
Before your Majesty left, your Majesty summoned your Majesty to the palace and asked your Majesty to say to Your Highness: If there is another prince who cannot be cured by local doctors in Korea, he should send someone to the capital as soon as possible. Your Majesty will definitely send someone with the most outstanding medical skills.
If you come here to diagnose and treat the prince, you will never cause such a serious bad thing as the prince's current illness."
"Thank you, Your Majesty for your grace." Zhu Fangyuan said quickly.
"Your Highness, since all the doctors sent by His Majesty have arrived in the city, when will the Crown Prince be diagnosed and treated? You must know that treating a disease is like putting out a fire, and you must not delay it. Especially now that the Crown Prince has been sick in bed for several months, we cannot delay it. Your Highness, please come as soon as possible
Arrange for the imperial doctor to diagnose and treat the prince." At this time, the deputy envoy said.
The expression on Zhu Fangyuan's face froze. He wanted to say a few more words to Chen Cheng, but if he interrupted him like this, how could he continue? Zhu Fangyuan was a little angry, but what the deputy said was true, and he also
Unable to refute, he could only stand up immediately and say: "Master Yin is right, he should be treated immediately. Gu immediately sent someone to bring the imperial doctor to the palace on his behalf."
Then he said to the deputy envoy: "Thank you, Mr. Yin, for reminding me, otherwise it might be delayed for a while. If the prince can be cured as soon as possible, I can feel at ease."
"Your Highness is so complimentary," the deputy envoy responded.
Zhu Fangyuan turned around and ordered people to invite the imperial doctor of the Ming Dynasty. After completing the instructions, he said to the chief and deputy envoys: "I want to visit my deceased son in the palace. I will know how to treat him immediately after the imperial doctor of the Ming Dynasty diagnoses him. Since Your Majesty cares so much about the orphan son,
And I heard that Mr. Chen also knows some medical skills, why don't you go with the two angels?" After saying this, he added: "The two angels have also seen me. I am a small country in North Korea, and the palace is also small, not as good as the prince of Ming Dynasty.
We can always invite the imperial doctor to the prince's palace in two quarters of an hour, so we don't have to wait for long."
"Your Majesty attaches so much importance to this matter, of course we are going to visit the Crown Prince." After hearing Zhu Fangyuan's last words, Chen Cheng, who was tired from running for several days and wanted to go to the post house to rest, said hurriedly. Naturally, the deputy envoy would not have any objections.
The three of them did not ride horses, and a chamberlain led the way to Zhu's palace.
"Eleven years have passed since Deputy Chen Yuan went to North Korea as an envoy in the fifth year of Jianye. I heard that Deputy Chen Yuan has been to the West and the southern countries many times, and he has won the approval of His Majesty." As they walked, the three of them naturally said
As they started chatting, Zhu Fangyuan said to Chen Cheng.
"Your Highness is so complimentary." Chen Cheng felt a little proud, but he said it.
"How is this ridiculous praise? Vice President Chen Yuan has already become a fifth-rank official and is willing to take risks to serve as an envoy. It can be said that his hard work and merit are great, and His Majesty will never fail to see it. No, Vice President Chen Yuan has already done what is right.
Vice-President of Fanyuan, in a few years, no, just this year, maybe he will become a third-rank envoy." Zhu Fangyuan said with a smile.
"You don't have to think about being an envoy. Your Majesty has assigned His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to be in charge of the Academy. Although he only has the title of Vice-President, who can be the envoy with His Royal Highness here? Naturally, I can only be the Vice-President.
." Chen Cheng responded with a smile.
Hearing this, Zhu Fangyuan was startled, paused and then said: "Your Majesty ordered the prince to take charge of Fanyuan?"
"Indeed."
"Why did your Majesty do this?" Zhu Fangyuan asked in surprise.
Chen Cheng was about to answer when suddenly the deputy envoy who had been silent just now said: "Your Majesty naturally has your Majesty's intentions. How dare I make random guesses."
