After Xiao Yiran left, Tu Jie was as difficult to make a decision in the study. Whether to follow Hu Weiyong all the way, or enter the palace to inform, this makes Tu Jie uncomfortable. followed Hu Weiyong's rebellion and succeeded, and he was one of the biggest heroes, in case the matter was revealed, what was waiting for him would be an unrecoverable ending. Tell the whistle, as the voice just said, the saint is a suspicious master today, even if he doesn't kill himself afterwards, his official position will definitely not be guaranteed.

Whistleblowing, or rebellion? Rebellion, or whistleblowing? Tu Jie didn't close his eyes for a day and a night, and he didn't even take half a step out of the study, and even the butler Hu who came to the Prime Minister's Mansion to invite him over to the mansion, Tu Jie shirked because he was ill.

Until the late night of the 26th day of the lunar month, Tu Jie had not yet made up his mind. Tu Jie's abnormal appearance was seen by the people in the house, but no one was allowed to enter the study. Tu Jie's wife is the Li family, the daughter of the Li family. has lived with Tu Jie for most of his life, and he is still very clear about his husband's behavior. From the beginning of a petty official, because he has been settling with Hu Weiyong, the prime minister of the dynasty, he climbed to the position of Cheng in the imperial history step by step, and it can be said that every qiē of her husband was given by the prime minister. Recently, Li found that Tu Jie was often distracted, and almost **** had to go to the Prime Minister's Mansion to discuss matters, which would inevitably arouse Li's suspicions.

Especially when I came back last night, the expression on my face was obviously quite frightened, and then I changed into civilian clothes and hid in the study, and I didn't come out for a day and a night, and I didn't even refuse anyone to disturb me.

Li was really not at ease, knowing in his heart that Tu Jie loved his youngest son Tu Lin the most, and his youngest son Tu Lin was also very well-behaved, so he called Tu Lin to his side and said to him:

"Lin'er, your father doesn't know what trouble he has encountered, he has locked himself in the study for a day and a night, without eating or drinking, and no one will open the door. Your father usually loves Lin'er the most, Lin'er might as well try it. Mother prepares some food for you, and if your father opens the door, Lin'er doesn't ask anything, just urges him to eat. Did you write it down? ”

Tu Lin, who was only six years old, nodded and returned crisply:

"Mother, the child has written it down."

"Lin'er is so good."

Then he led Tu Lin to the kitchen, made two of his favorite dishes for Tu Jie, called a maid to carry them on a tray, and Tu Lin walked in front with a wine jug in his hand, and went straight to Tu Jie's study. When he came to the door of the study, Tu Lin didn't knock on the door, but just shouted crisply:

"Daddy, I'm Lin'er, Daddy hasn't eaten for a day and a night, Mother made two dishes for Lin'er to bring to Daddy."

After saying that, he stood outside the door and waited quietly. After a long time, the door of the study suddenly opened, and a hoarse voice came from inside:

"Lin'er, come in."

Tu Lin answered, and did not let the maid follow, but turned the tray himself, put the wine jug on the tray, held it to his chest with great effort, and staggered into the room. Because Tu Jie has no electric light, Tu Lin didn't say anything, groped his way forward, came to the desk and put down the tray, took a step back, and said to Tu Jie's vague figure in the dark:

"Daddy, eat it while it's hot, or the food will be cold."

Tu Jie stood there, although he couldn't see his youngest son's face clearly, but his heart suddenly softened. Secretly thought:

"Hu Weiyong's grasp of the incident is not much, for the sake of his family, for Lin'er, it is really not worth taking risks with him."

Tu Jie, who finally figured it out, sighed and shouted to the maid outside the door:

"Palm lamp, warm wine."

At this time, Hu Weiyong in the Prime Minister's Mansion was not much better than Tu Jie, and was disturbed by that voice twice in a row, Hu Weiyong really couldn't think of anyone in this world who had such ability, obviously the voice sounded in the room, but he couldn't see anyone anyway. If it was really the people around the cowherd baby, they obviously heard the conspiracy of the three of them last time, why haven't they seen any action from the imperial court so far? If it weren't for the person herding the cow baby, how would this person only speak out and not show up? Moreover, the words are full of warnings, and it is obvious that they are not on their side.

Thinking about Chen Ning and Tu Jie's expressions after hearing that voice at that time, Hu Weiyong felt a little bottomless in his heart. Chen Ning is still a character, and that Tu Jie is a timid and afraid master. can have today's position entirely because he needs someone to sit on the Yushitai to prevent some courtiers from impeaching him from falling into the hands of the cattle herder. Because Tu Jie was obedient, he was lifted step by step. If you really want Tu Jie to do something big, Hu Weiyong didn't even think about it.

"No, just in case, you have to act in advance."

Especially this morning, seeing that Tu Jie said that he was sick and did not go, when he returned to the mansion, Hu Weiyong immediately sent Hu Xin to the Tu Jie mansion, wanting to invite Tu Jie and Chen Ning, and the three of them totaled together, but I didn't expect that the housekeeper Hu Xin didn't even see Tu Jie's face, which couldn't help but make Hu Weiyong suspicious.

On the morning of the twenty-seventh day of the lunar month, after Hu Weiyong had planned all the qiē, he called the housekeeper Hu Xin and instructed:

"Give a post to officials above the fifth grade in Beijing, and say that my lord will take a concubine on the sixth day of the first month."

"Yes, sir."

Hu Xin nodded in agreement, but didn't turn around immediately, still standing in place as if he had something to say.

"Anything else?"

"Master, there are less than ten days left until the sixth day of the new year, where is the new house arranged?"

"It's in that house."

"Yes, sir."

After listening to this, Hu Xin turned around and left.

On the one hand, he ordered people to write invitations and send them to the mansions of various officials in Beijing, and on the other hand, he arranged for people to go to Xiao Yiran's residence to decorate the new house.

Xiao Yiran looked at the more than a dozen family members of the Prime Minister's Mansion who suddenly came, not only bringing new, red bedding and curtains, etc., but also replacing the furniture in the room with new ones one by one, but also preparing a wedding dress for himself. Xiao Yiran knew that this was Hu Weiyong's preparation to start in advance. I should have been shocked by myself.,And Tu Jie's table xiàn.。

Xiao Yiran didn't care how the Xiangfu family cleaned up, hid aside, and Xiaomei as if they were watching the excitement. Originally, the room was small, but after the family cleaned up, it was even fuller, and the aisles left in the room could not accommodate two people walking side by side.

During the whole process, no one took the initiative to talk to Xiao Yiran, and no one told Xiaomei what to do. The corners of Xiao Yiran's mouth kept showing a faint smile, but Xiaomei next to her was very nervous. After all the family members left, Xiao Mela pulled Xiao Yiran's sleeve and asked in a low voice:

"Isn't Miss afraid?"

"What's so scary?"

"Is Miss willing to marry Xiangye?"

"What do you say?"

Just as the Prime Minister's Mansion was in full swing preparing for the matter of taking concubines, on the morning of the twenty-eighth day of the lunar month, Tu Jie rushed to the emperor in front of the morning and went directly to the palace to ask to see the emperor. Zhu Yuanzhang, who was just about to prepare for the court, heard that it was Cheng Tujie in the imperial history who asked to see him, and he was stunned in his heart, that was Hu Weiyong's sworn friend, what would happen if he suddenly met him at this time?

"Biography."

In the imperial study led by Tu Jie in the chamberlain, Tu Jie fell to his knees with a pop, holding a book written overnight in both hands. Zhu Yuanzhang glanced at Tu Jie, who was kneeling on the ground, his body like sifting chaff, stretched out his hand to take the fold, looked through it and only glanced at it, and then stood up suddenly in shock.

After glancing at the stub on the floor again, he sat back in his chair and read the recital carefully from beginning to end. Then, he gently closed the fold and pondered quietly. After a long time, the waiter outside the door whispered:

"Long live the lord, the time has passed."

"Spread my will, and the dynasty will disperse this morning."

"Yes."

Waiting for the footsteps of the waiter to go away, Zhu Yuanzhang shouted outside the door:

"Who's out there?"

"Your Majesty, it's an old slave."

"Stand down, don't let anyone come within thirty feet of the imperial study, otherwise there will be no mercy."

After making sure that there was no one outside, Zhu Yuanzhang said lightly to Tu Jie:

"Get up and talk back."

"Long live thanks."

Tu Jie stood up tremblingly, his chin resting on his chest, waiting for the emperor to ask.

"Let's talk about it, when did it start, what preparations were made, and those people participated, you should know what the result is if you conceal it and don't report it."

In fact, Tu Jie's compromises have already been made clear, especially the list of the main generals of the guards in various places, Zhu Yuanzhang secretly counted it, and it turned out to be more than sixty percent of all the guards in the Ming Dynasty. Such a ratio shocked Zhu Yuanzhang into a cold sweat at that time. After Tu Jie recounted it again, Zhu Yuanzhang said again:

"Tell me what you think."

"Long live, the minister was confused for a while, and it was Hu Weiyong's coercion and temptation that made the minister step by step to where he is today."

"I'm afraid there is less coercion and more temptation, right?"

Tu Jie fell to his knees again, not saying anything, just kowtowing blindly.

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the kowtowing on the ground like pounding garlic, and at the same time gently tapped the bookcase with his right finger. After a cup of tea, Zhu Yuanzhang said to Tu Jie in disgust:

"Alright, step aside."

Immediately, Zhu Yuanzhang stood up, walked to the door of the imperial study, and beckoned to the attendant in the distance. When the chamberlain came closer, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered:

"Passing on the crown prince, the right prime minister Wei Guogong Xu Da, Liangguo Gong Lanyu."

"Yes."

Immediately, Zhu Yuanzhang issued several holy decrees, including sending the edict to Fengyang, the central capital, so that Zhu Li, Zhu Di, Zhu Hu, and Zhu Zhen, who stayed in Fengyang to observe the people's feelings, would go to the domain day and night from the day they received the holy decree, and at the same time pass the decree to the generals of the princes' fiefs.

Of course, this qiē was carried out in private, in order to avoid Hu Weiyong's ears and eyes. When Xu Da and Lan Yu arrived, Zhu Yuanzhang gave the two of them and the crown prince Zhu Biao to see them one by one. After reading it, Lan Yu and Xu Da turned their heads to look at Tu Jie, who was standing next to him, and asked:

"Lord Zhongcheng said that Hu Weiyong took a concubine on the sixteenth day of the first month, why did the invitation we received say that it was the sixth day of the first month?"