Biluo's tomb, because Li Jinglong takes care of it every year, looks neat and tidy, and it is very quiet, but no matter how quiet it is, after all, it is just a place behind her, a living world, she can no longer take a look, her three children, she can no longer take care of it. Thinking of this, I still couldn't hold back my tears, put three sticks of incense in front of her grave, and stayed for a while before leaving.

Yuelong City rode out with me and waited for me not far away. When I came out, I saw tears on my face, so I comforted, "The deceased person, it's useless to be sad, besides, she is worth it, she entered the ancestral hall of the Li family, and the three children are also well raised, it is much better than her living in the Qinglou, right?" ”

I felt sad in my heart, and I didn't answer, but I rode my horse silently, and stayed in front of my father's grave, seeing that the weeds grew higher than the grave, and I couldn't even find where the grave bag was if I didn't look carefully, and then I thought of his voice and smile before his death, and my eyes were sour, Yuelongcheng borrowed a shovel from a nearby farmer's house, shoveled all the weeds on the grave and the side of the grave, and added some new soil to the grave, and the grave was finally decent. He didn't even dare to erect a serious tomb, but just used a wooden board to write his name and the year of birth and death, and now the wooden board has long since decayed, and the words on it have long been illegible.

Yue Longcheng sighed and said, "Let's re-establish a tomb for Uncle Tian another day." ”

"It's hard for me to get out of the palace." I choked up as I cried.

Yue Longcheng looked at me and said indifferently, "I'll come." ”

I felt more and more guilty in my heart, knelt on the ground and burned some paper money, and it took a long time to stand up, because after kneeling for a long time, I was dizzy for a while, and Yue Longcheng saw it and stretched out his hand to hold me, "Are you planning to enter the palace and never come out again?" ”

I looked at him confusedly, and Yue Longcheng smiled, "It's good to stay in the palace for a day." ”

On the way back to the city, Yue Longcheng told me that Zhu Di had already mentioned to him and asked him to be the commander of the Jinyi Guard, and I asked, "Have you agreed?" ”

Yue Longcheng smiled and shook his head, "We all came out of the Jinyi Health Department, what is it like inside, you and I know best, in the past, we have always looked up at the position of the commander, always thinking of reaching out, but what time is it now?" It's been more than four years, can't you still see through it? ”

"Did you refuse?" I looked at Yuelong City with some surprise.

"Hmm. Unofficial and light. Yue Longcheng nodded, "Let's talk in private, what is the difference between now and when Taizu founded the country?" ”

I looked at Yuelong City, and the experience over the years has indeed made him no longer as high-spirited as he was back then, and he has a dispensable attitude towards everything. Indeed, although the country is still in the hands of people surnamed Zhu, this power is not justifiably handed down by the previous generation of emperors, this is a fight.

The nature of Zhu Yuanzhang's fight against the Northern Yuan is the same.

In other words, next, like Zhu Yuanzhang, he will get rid of all the people who once stood in his way or those who he thought would stand in his way in the future. Fang Xiaoru is the first to brave the world's condemnation! As long as the killing ring is opened, it can no longer be stopped.

"Is Fang Xiaoru executed?" I closed my eyes and asked with a gasp.

Yue Long Cheng didn't reply for a long time, until I opened my eyes, still in a daze. I reached out and scratched in front of his eyes, "What's wrong?" ”

"He later made Ji Gang the commander-in-chief of Jinyiwei." Yue Longcheng breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Together with the servants of the Dali Temple, I am dealing with Fang Xiaoru's case. ”

"Jinyiwei intervened?!" I immediately asked.

Yue Longcheng nodded, "Fang Xiaoru is not dead yet." ”

"How's it going?"

"Don't you know Jinyiwei's methods?" Yue Long Cheng shrugged helplessly. He told me that after Ji Gang took over Fang Xiaoru, he turned Fang Xiaoru's family tree upside down, and found out a total of 873 blood relatives of the ten ethnic groups, all of whom were imprisoned and waiting to be beheaded, and there were no less than 1,000 men and women who had been exiled or confiscated into the workshop because of Fang Xiaoru's imprisonment.

I took two deep breaths, steadied myself, and smiled at Yue Long Cheng, "It's nothing, is it?" ”

Yue Longcheng shook his head and said with a smile, "Being a human being is nothing, the emperor is already merciful, when Taizu was in power, more than 30,000 people were implicated and executed in the Lanyu case and Hu Weiyong case alone." In his position, Fang Xiaoru is so provocative at this time, if the emperor does not control him well, there will be more people who will learn from Fang Xiaoru to say this in the future. ”

"Youyou, sometimes you can't stop it by killing."

Yue Longcheng looked at me and said to me helplessly, "You can just complain to me about these words, don't go to the emperor and say it, anyone can suspect him behind his back and accuse him, you can't." If one day even you have to blame his behavior, he will be in that position, it will be really difficult to support. ”

I glanced at Yue Long Cheng, and finally did not speak again, whipped the horse, and rode forward, and Yue Long Cheng followed. When I arrived in the city, when I passed by the Huamanlou, Yuelong City deliberately slowed down and said to me, "Aren't you going to go shopping?" ”

I also paused and looked towards the bank of the Qinhuai River, where the willows on both sides of the river were still in bloom, full of red and white oleanders. Yuezhi once stood in the attic of the flower-filled building, holding a cup of daughter red in one hand and tasting it slowly, and pointing to those oleanders with the other hand and telling me, "Although those flowers bloom beautifully, they are highly poisonous, and if they are unfortunately swallowed, they will die on the spot." Therefore, the young parents in the surrounding area never let their children go near the riverbank, one to avoid the river, and the other to avoid the poison. ”

Beneath the beautiful surface, sometimes what is hidden is filth, and those who stand on the outside will not see it. After four years of fear and harsh taxes, the people did not care who was the emperor, as long as the days were peaceful. No, the Qinhuai River is lively again.

After watching it for a long time, I turned back to Yue Longcheng and said, "Let's go, this place doesn't belong to me, and I don't belong here." ”

Yuelongcheng looked at me meaningfully, and rode in front of me, slowly swaying in front of me to lead the way. It didn't take long for me to feel more and more familiar with the road, and I couldn't help asking, "Isn't it not far ahead of the Jinyi Health Department?" ”

Yue Longcheng turned around and grinned, "It's hard for you to remember." ”

"Are you souring me?" I said unhappily, I had driven the horse in front of him, and rushed to the door of the Jinyi Health Department first, looking up at the familiar four big characters, my heart was full of emotion, and then I stretched out my head to look inside, but I felt that things were wrong.

"What people! Jinyi Health Department is a major place, can you casually probe in and see?! "A young man was wearing a very well-fitting flying fish suit, wearing a round-headed black gauze hat, one hand pointed at me angrily and scolded, but the other hand had reached for the embroidered spring knife on his waist, that look, that action, I was extremely familiar with. Like Yuelong City, like myself, like my father, and more like the brocade guards I know. They are defending the sacred duty in their hearts.

Seeing that I didn't speak, the man was a little angry, and had already pulled out his knife and rushed out, at this moment, Yue Longcheng caught up and took out a waist card at him, the man saw it, panicked, and quickly knelt down and kowtowed, "My lord, I don't know Taishan!" The villain is wrong! I also hope that the adult Haihan. ”

Before Yue Long Cheng had time to perfunctory with him, a terrible scream suddenly came from inside, I listened, frowned and asked, "What is the sound inside?" ”

The little brocade guard who was kneeling on the ground replied, "This is the family of the thief being executed. ”

I got off my horse and said angrily, "Why are you lying?!" The executions are all carried out at the entrance of the vegetable market, where is there any saying that the executions are carried out in the Jinyi Health Department? ”

Xiao Jinyiwei hurriedly kowtowed to me, "The villain didn't lie, this was ordered by the commander to kill one of his family members in front of the thief every day until the thief admitted his mistake." The thief was instructed to send the Lord from the Criminal Department to the Jinyi Health Department, and naturally his family members were going to be executed here. ”

I turned pale and asked angrily, "Is this an order from the commander to make your Excellency give it without authorization?!" ”

"The thief is a felony in the imperial court, and the emperor personally ordered his arrest, how dare the commander make such an order without authorization? He insulted the monarch above the court, which was a great rebellion, and he died without repentance, which was even more hateful. This is all the emperor's intention, and he must be forced to admit his mistake. ”

I looked back at Yue Long Cheng, there was no expression on his face, as if to tell me that he had already guessed such a result, I rode on my horse and rode quickly to the palace, Yue Long Cheng Xuan chased after him, and yelled at me, "Don't go crazy, if it was before, there was still room for maneuver, but now, he is the emperor, Jun has no jokes, what he said, even if he regrets it, there is no possibility of retracting his fate." ”

I slowed down, "You mean, I'm going to watch him do this, knowing it, and pretending not to know?" Fang Xiaoru is at fault, he has been punished, even the ten clans with him have been punished, and the ten clans did say that he was looking for himself, but in front of him, killing his relatives one by one, is this what an enlightened emperor should do? ”

"It doesn't matter if you are open-minded or not, if you can't sit still, what's the use of being open-minded?" Yue Long Cheng's words unloaded all my anger. Yes, if Zhu Di does not stand up at this time, how will he face those who want to oppose him in the future? <