In the palace, Zhu Gaoxu and Zhu Gaosui have just come out of it, they are here to thank him, because the three princes have reached the age of eighteen and can already take up the domain, and the two vassal kings are about to leave for the vassal country.

Ji Gang was standing outside the hall, and when he saw the two princes coming out, he hurriedly bowed down and saluted: "Minister Ji Gang, I have seen His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and His Royal Highness King Zhao!" ”

When the two princes saw him, they politely bowed their heads. Today's Ji Gang is far from being comparable to the past, although he is a person who is inclined to the eldest prince, this matter has been known by the people of the second prince's faction, but some things of the second prince's faction, Ji Gang also knows, but once some things are poked out, both sides are ugly, with this layer of taboo, the people on the second prince's side did not dare to kill him all, so he had to instruct Chen Ying to use the judicial and supervisory powers of the two to wrestle his wrists.

On the side of the crown prince Zhu Gaochi, the people who support the prince also know that he is his own person, and in the eyes of the emperor, he is also a right-hand man who supervises hundreds of officials and controls the government and the opposition, so Ji Gang can be said to be like a fish in water in the court, and his prestige is becoming stronger and stronger day by day.

Such an important person who can be seen at any time and specializes in reporting confidential information that cannot be made public, even the princes have to be polite to him. Others stab you with a knife, you can instruct your own people to go-for-tat, if Ji Gang enters your slander, you won't know at all, who is not afraid? In addition, the third prince Zhu Gaowei has just come of age, and he has the least hope in the battle for tomorrow, and he has little stake in either side, so he is very polite when he sees Ji Gang.

After the two princes walked away, Ji Gang walked towards the palace. Today in the "Spring Breeze Building", hundreds of civil and military officials took the wind and washed the dust for Yang Xu, the auxiliary prince, although he also knew, but he didn't go.

Of course, he and Xia Xun have no conflict of interest, at least not for now. At present, the two people still have the potential to help each other, they already have a friendship, and they are from the same family, and they are all heads and faces in their respective fields, with great influence. However, because of this, Ji Gang didn't want to go.

When he was with others, there were few people in the court who dared to argue with him about seniority, even if he had a higher position than him, he was polite and respectful when he saw him. But he is Xia Xun's old subordinate, and now his reputation and status are still inferior to others, as soon as he sees Fu Xun, he is naturally three points shorter. He usually saw the first assistant of the cabinet, Xie Jin, and dared to straighten his waist to speak, in front of Xia Xun, he dared to come up shyly, and insisted on sitting at the same table with the cabinet scholars and the six scholars? If he goes to a banquet, he has to find a corner place, squeeze together with those officials of three or four grades, turn around and hold a glass again, go to Xia Xun's table, and toast with his head and waist, isn't this a head shorter than people? Now, even in front of Xia Xun, he refuses to show his inferiority, let alone show his ugliness in front of so many officials?

Therefore, Ji Gang didn't go, he saw Xia Xun another day, and it was over when he found a reason to be busy with official business. In his opinion, Xia Xun's prestige and status are extremely high, and he is also very favored by the emperor, but the result is not a permanent position in the court, and there is no intersection between them in the future, so there is no need to go to him to be low.

In the palace, as soon as the two brothers Zhu Gaochi and Zhu Gaozhi went out, Zhu Di's face sank, and he snorted coldly: "Gao Xu is too disrespectful, he is so resentful, he doesn't come to see him because of his illness!" ”

The little eunuch who was in charge of going to the Han Palace's palace to deliver the edict hurriedly bowed down and said, "If you go back to the emperor, His Royal Highness the King of Han is indeed sick." ”

"Huh?"

Where is Zhu Di willing to believe it, he glared at him coldly and said, "What benefits did you receive from King Han to cover it up for him?" ”

The little eunuch was startled, quickly knelt down and shouted grievances, kowtowed: "Your Majesty, the slave and maid dare not lie, the slave and maid passed on the emperor's oral message, and was taken to the place where His Royal Highness the King of Han lived to deliver the decree. After hearing the will, His Royal Highness the King of Han was so empty that his head was covered with sweat, and the slaves and maids could see it with their own eyes and did not dare to lie. ”

This little eunuch did receive money from the Han Palace, but if he wanted to fabricate it out of thin air, he didn't dare, when he arrived at the Han Palace, he simply saw Zhu Gaoxu seriously ill in bed, but after listening to the holy decree, he sweated profusely, this is deliberately alarmist, taking people's money, always speaking for others, as long as this lie can't be pierced, it will be done.

Zhu Di was really a little moved when he heard it, but after thinking about it, it was still difficult for the fox to go, this son has always been strong, why did he get sick so coincidentally? Could it be that the loss of the opportunity to be the prince had such a big impact on him? Zhu Di did a lot of things in the past pretending to be sick and pretending to be crazy, but it was not so easy to be considerable, and immediately admonished: "You go to the Tai Hospital to spread the decree, so that the Tai Hospital is going to the Han Wang's Mansion in person to diagnose the Han King!" ”

"Slave obeys!"

The little eunuch went out in a hurry, and as soon as he went out, he ran into Ji Gang coming in, so he hurriedly turned sideways and stepped aside, and when Ji Gang entered the hall, he rushed out. The ministers next to him want to enter the palace, and the emperor has a decree to pass on the meeting, or wait for the decree to ask for a meeting, but Ji Gang is otherwise, he is the commander of the Jinyi Guard, responsible for the most confidential defense tasks, and the safety guards in the palace are also his responsibility, and the income and expenditure will be free

Zhu Di sat down and was about to review the recital, and when he saw Ji Gang coming in, he put down the recital in his hand again.

At the beginning of his succession, he was fiercely vetoed by Jianwen's former ministers, forcing him to adopt some cruel methods, thinking that "killing a hundred and setting an example of a hundred", the ministers finally bowed their heads to their ears, but after the conspiracy of Xu Huizu, Geng Bingwen, and Mei Yin, the former ministers of Jianwen, was revealed, it was inevitable that he would be on guard again. He could not abandon all of Jianwenchen's courtiers, and there were indeed many capable ministers among them.

But because of this, if they have ill intentions, the damage to the country and society will be even more serious. How many such people are there in the court? Zhu Di's suspicion was already serious, and the more he thought about it, the more uneasy he became, but this matter was absolutely unspeakable, so he asked Ji Gang to inquire and visit, especially with Xu Huizu, Geng Bingwen, Mei Yin, these ministers who had a good relationship and were secret, including the letters that were searched from the three people's mansions, and also sent someone to check the books word by word to find clues.

Over the past year or so, many people have been found out by Ji Gang one after another, most of them are indeed people from their faction, at least sympathetic to Emperor Jianwen, as for whether any of them have personal grievances with Ji Gang, he used the topic to explain, I don't know.

Ji Gang hurriedly saluted Zhu Di and said: "Wechen has seen Your Majesty, Wechen sent Yin Shenghui to investigate Jianwen's rebellion against the party in various places, and according to the clues found from Meiyin's mansion, he traced all the way to Beijing Mansion and found a person, and many suspicious points on this person are consistent......"

Zhu Di said again, and immediately waved his hand, and the palace maids in the palace quickly retreated.

Yin Shenghui has already come back, he was released, those ordinary Jinyi lieutenants are still locked up in prison, Zhuozhou Tong sentenced Zhao Zijin to say clearly: "Lord Yin, my small temple, can't fit your great god, you want to let you out, Cheng!" But these lieutenants, you have to let them stay here first, otherwise Imperial Envoy Xiao will also be unable to explain to the lower officials! You can eat three meals a day with peace of mind, change medicine with a doctor, and the lower officials will not be bad here, so you should let them stay here to recuperate? ”

Everyone has said so, how can Yin Shenghui not promise? So he was a horse and a single man, and he returned to Jinling alone.

As soon as Ji Gang heard Yin Shenghui's cry, he was already furious, and killing intent immediately appeared in his heart. But he is a scheming person, and it is meaningless not to vent his anger, and he does not announce Yin Shenghui's affairs to a few of his subordinates in the Zhuozhou prison who are locked up and does not save him, waiting for the most appropriate opportunity, when his fangs are about to eat on the neck of the opponent, he will only say it.

"Huh?" Brocade bar sketch finishing

Zhu Di couldn't help but be a little surprised when he heard this: "Lian treats him so seriously, and entrusts him with the post of secretary of the Ministry to take charge of Beijing's government affairs, he ......"

Ji Gang hung his hands with a faceless face, and said calmly: "When has Your Majesty treated Mei Yin lightly?" For Xu Huizu's kindness, no one can ......"

Zhu Di gritted his teeth, and put a fierce light in his ears: "Continue to investigate, the joint must be ironclad!" ”

"The emperor is relieved, the minister has already asked Yin Shenghui to continue the investigation."

Zhu Di nodded his head and said hatefully: "Lian is heart-to-heart to them, these wolf-hearted tools!" Once it is verified to be true, Lian will never spare them! ”

He hated it, glanced at Ji Gang again, and praised: "You did a good job, don't ......" Xie Jin and the others deliberately took leave this afternoon to go to pick up with Yang Xu to wash the dust, you are Yang Xu's old department, why didn't you go? ”

Ji Gang said respectfully: "As a minister, he should put state affairs first, and then ......."

Zhu Di listened to his first sentence, his expression was gloomy, and when he heard him have the following, he couldn't help but glance at him and said, "But what?" ”

Ji Gang said: "The emperor's discerning eyes, the candle world, naturally understand, today's name is to pick up the wind and wash the dust for the Fuguo Gong, but in fact, it is a celebration banquet for the ministers to support the emperor's eldest son and successfully become the prince, the minister is the person of the Jinyi Guard, only for the emperor to drive, the court has no reason to intervene, no merit is not allowed to drink, how to drink this cup of wine?" And again......"

He rubbed his hands and muttered with some embarrassment: "Besides, because of the emperor, the Chinese and Wu of the court are also polite to Ji Gang, but the auxiliary prince is the old boss of the minister, in front of him, Ji Gang does not dare to put on a shelf, when he gets there, he has to squeeze into the corner, and some small officials raise a glass together, and we raise a glass with some small officials, and we sit down, relying on the emperor's momentum, the minister is still a little majestic, this time it is really majestic, and there is no face......"

Zhu Di laughed when he heard it, he was also inviting merit and asking for merit, but like Ji Gang was so outspoken, he didn't hide anything in front of him, and it was comfortable to listen to, Zhu Di thought for a while, and said angrily: "Since Lian ascended the throne, you have worked hard and made many meritorious deeds for the mule, and you have not been rewarded by your friends."

However, if it is not for military merits, it cannot be knighted, and the highest commander can only be the third grade, and this position is inseparable......"

Zhu Yan took two steps, raised his eyebrows, and said: "That's it, Lian Special Purpose is to make you the second grade, so that you don't even have to be embarrassed to eat and drink, hahaah......"