Jin Yiwei commanded Ji Gang to walk in from Zuo Shun Gate, and saw Hu Guang and Yang Rong coming from the direction of Wenyuan Pavilion.

Hu Guang and Yang Rong naturally wanted to salute Ji Gang, because Ji Gang was the official position of the third grade, and they were just the editors of the sixth grade, although they were now selected by the emperor and joined the cabinet, and they were even close to their cronies, but in the face of Ji Gang, the head of the brocade guard, there was a deep fear. As for why you are afraid, and look at the past three months, there has been a day in the city in Lingchi, and every day in the city has been raiding homes and destroying doors, and looking up at the sky of Yingtian City, it is all a faint color of blood.

Ji Gang also seemed to feel their fear, smiled evilly, and when he passed by Hu Guang, he suddenly turned his head and asked, "Lord Hu Jing, the emperor just showed me a policy, and there is a sentence in it that I don't quite understand. ”

Hu Guang was drenched in cold sweat, but he did not show weakness: "Master Ji, the official name is Hu Guang, not Hu Jing." ”

"Oh," Ji Gang raised his eyebrows: "Did I remember wrong?"

"Your Excellency must have misremembered. Hu Guang said categorically: "The emperor has a golden mouth, and he calls his ministers to be famous, and the lower officials don't know where Hu Jing came from?"

Yang Rong also arched his hand slightly at this time, and said: "My lord, the minister's original name was Yang Zirong, and the emperor gave him the gift to change his name to Yang Rong, and now the genealogy and genealogy have all been renamed, the same as Lord Hu." ”

Ji Gang looked at them with slanted eyes.

Hu Guang was the first in the court examination in the second year of Jianwen, and Emperor Jianwen gave the name Hu Jing and awarded Hanlin to revise it. When he ascended the throne, Hu Guang immediately asked the emperor to change his name back, because he knew the meaning of his name too well.

Sure enough, Ji Gang said: "I heard that the two companions are both highly educated people, I don't know if I can solve the confusion of me, a rough person who has only read all the lives in the county school, I don't know what it means to 'kiss Lu Liang, people's hearts shake'?"

When Hu Guang heard this, his face turned even pale. This sentence is a sentence he wrote in the court examination in the second year of Jianwen, because the court examination topic at that time was how to prevent Yan, he wrote this sentence, which won the joy of Emperor Jianwen, personally promoted him to the first, and gave him the name Hu Jing.

Hu Jing, Hu Bujing - why is it difficult to be appeased, how can it be difficult to be appeased, this is Jianwen's sarcasm to King Yan, since Hu Guang now chooses to be attached, he knows that his name is taboo, as early as the first day of entering Wenyuan Pavilion, he asked Emperor Yongle to change his name back.

Hu Guang's writing is quite good, and he is very fluent on weekdays, but this time he was unable to speak in the face of Ji Gang's questioning, and he could barely stand up with sweat.

And Yang Rong, who was two years younger than him, was neither humble nor arrogant: "Back to my lord, the lower official served the emperor, and saw His Majesty read Lord Hu's policy three times, praising him for Chen Lin's talent, Lord Hu thanked him, and His Majesty said, you used to serve Jianwen, you were loyal to Jianwen; ”

Ji Gang looked at this young man, and he couldn't see provocation in his eyes, but he couldn't see weakness either.

He knew that in terms of tongue, he couldn't compete for such a talent from Jinshi, and now was not the time to give them a horse, because they were the time to use it - as early as two months ago, Emperor Yongle ordered the attendant to read Xie Jin, edit Huang Huai, read Hu Guang, revise Yang Rong, edit Yang Shiqi, review Jin Youzi and Hu Yan into the Zhiwen Yuan Pavilion, and prepare for the machine.

These people were personally promoted by the emperor, although they only had advisers and assistant ministers, and did not participate in decision-making, but they were busy with state affairs, and these people had a very important influence on the emperor's decision-making, and they served the emperor every day. Ji Gang himself wants to see the emperor, he has to go to the palace to see him, he wants to arrest people and raid his house, and he has to go to the sparse instrument, but these people live in Wenyuan Pavilion, and if they have anything to say, they can tell the emperor directly.

Ji Gang didn't want to be their enemies now, but he also wanted to let these people know how powerful he was, and this beating, seeing that both of them were pale, he was satisfied in his heart, and waved his hand to tell them to retreat.

Ji Gang came to see the emperor today, naturally he had something important to do, he climbed the Danqi and asked His Majesty to see him. Ma and his father-in-law beside the emperor immediately came out to greet him, which made Ji Gang very proud in his heart.

"Father-in-law," Ji Gang said with a pleasant face, "and ask my father-in-law to speak on his behalf." ”

Ma He led him into the side hall and said, "Lord Ji, Your Majesty will personally inquire about people in the front hall, and I will ask you to wait for a while." ”

Ji Gang didn't need to ask who Ma He and the emperor were interrogating, as the head of the Jinyi Guard, he knew it clearly, and suddenly smiled slightly, and said: "Why does Your Majesty bother to interrogate these people who are extremely evil and stubborn, such traitors in the left class, demagoguery, confusing the public, and the crime should be delayed, so as to warn the people with grievances in the world." ”

Ma He didn't speak, but ordered the waiter to bring him tea.

Ji Gang sat for a while, and suddenly saw the waiter leading a person in a hurry. He looked at it fixedly, and couldn't help but smile and said, "Lord Chen, are you also here to ask to see?"

The person who came was the imperial history Chen Ying, this person was originally the envoy of Beiping, when the king of Yan had not yet raised righteousness, he secretly communicated with him, Chen Ying was finally told by Tang Zong, degraded to Guangxi, and now the king of Yan ascended the throne, recalled him, and did the imperial history of the left capital.

If it is about Chen Ying's ability, Ji Gang is even ashamed of himself, as soon as he becomes the imperial history, he will ask the posthumous servant Huang Guan, Shaoqing Liao Sheng, Wang Shuying, Ji Shanzhou is repair, according to the inspection envoy Wang Liang, Zhixian Yan Bowei and other dead people, these people are all dead, Chen Ying still does not let go, let alone the living.

As for the living Jianwen loyal ministers, except for Huang Zicheng, Qi Tai, and Fang Xiaoru, these people were the people who were personally interrogated and arrested by the emperor, and the "Hu Yan Case" concocted by Chen Ying himself, in addition to beheading 217 people from the whole family, also implicated nearly 100 people, including Shangshu Tyrant Zhao of the Criminal Department, Hou Tai, Liu Rui of Dali Temple, Chen Jizhi in the matter, Huang Kui, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, Mao Dafang of the Right Capital, Guo Ren, Lu Zhen, Dong Yong, Gan Lin, Jujing, Ding Zhi, Song Zheng, Huang Xifan, Yao Shan, and other nearly 100 people, who were convicted together.

In these people's homes, all the men were killed, and the women were filled into the sect department, and the voices of injustice were endless, and the twelve imperial historians who participated in the trial of the case hid their faces and wept, not daring to look at them directly.

The outside world has already regarded Chen Ying and Ji Gang as jackals, tigers and leopards, but these two don't realize it at all, but talk happily with each other. Because Chen Ying handed over the list of Jianwen's widows he was convicted of, Ji Gang led the cavalry to ask for people according to the list, and the cooperation was seamless.

At this time, in the main hall, Emperor Yongle had all his hair, he tried 18 people in a row, and all 18 of them did not admit their guilt, and they all scolded and scolded him, scolding him as a "usurper thief".

He pointed to the man in front of the temple who had his teeth cut off, his hands and feet cut off, and even half of his neck and still scolded him, and asked the next person who brought him, "Do you want to learn from him?"

Lian Zining smiled and said: "He is a loyal minister and a filial son, why don't you learn?"

Emperor Yongle pointed at him and said: "You are a talent, when Li Jinglong was defeated, the Manchu Dynasty was civil and military, only you played to punish him, it can be seen that you have a long-term vision, if you are truly attached to me, I can naturally use you sincerely." ”

Lian Zining looked up to the sky and laughed: "Zi Ning has three hatreds, one hates not to admonish and cut down the domain as soon as possible; the second hates not to die and admonish Li Jinglong, and the third hates not to learn from the imperial history Lianying, and kill you, a usurper, outside the Jinchuan Gate on the spot!"

When King Yan entered the Jinchuan Gate, Yu Shi Lianying rushed out of the road and wanted to assassinate King Yan, but was killed by a knife.

Emperor Yongle adhered to the ancestral motto of "the prison must be executed in person", personally interrogated these prisoners, he was patient and rational at first, explaining to these people his original intention of raising the army, telling them that he was persecuted and tormented, but these people were scolding him when they opened and closed their mouths, and he gradually lost patience and reason.

"I'm not a usurper, I'm not a usurper!" Emperor Yongle roared with all his might: "My original intention was to emulate the Duke of Zhou to become the king, do you understand?"

Lian Zining had already had his tongue cut off by the guards because of his ugly scolding, and he was no longer able to debate verbally with the emperor. He was pressed to the ground, so he put his hand in his mouth, dipped it in a mouthful of blood, and wrote the words "Cheng Wang Anzai".

These four words smashed into the emperor's heart like a heavy stone, he shouted left and right, dragged people out of the inch, and Lian Zining, who was dragged out, spurted out a mouthful of blood, and wrote the word "usurpation" on the gold bricks in the hall one by one, and the words written in blood shone brightly in front of the emperor, reminding him how he stepped on blood and sat in this position now.

"Your Majesty," Wang Yan walked up with his head bowed and said, "There are thirty-seven more—"

"No trial!" Emperor Yongle glared at his scarlet eyes: "All of them are all inched! All the clans are punished!

At first, he still had these Jianwen relics to compose the good story of Tang Taizong and Wei Zheng - but the increasing blood on the Danqi told him that these people would never cooperate with him. Since he is an enemy rather than a friend, if he wants to sit on this throne, he must be ruthless to them, and he must not have the slightest compassion.

He will be like a tiger, like a poisonous snake, devouring and sucking every drop of their blood, until there is no trace of their existence in the land on which they live. 10