Zhu Cihong said to Xu Sheng: "Let Ji Haoyan come to the Chu Palace, and take it, so that you don't have to go on a trip!" ”

"Yes!" After Xu Sheng received the order, he immediately sent someone to the governor's yamen to spread the word.

Although Ji Haoyan was vigilant in his heart, but when the crown prince summoned him, he also had to go to the courtesy, so he had to go to the Chu Palace's mansion with ten guards.

In the carrier hall, after seeing Ji Haoyan, Zhu Cihong didn't wait for him to speak, so he said loudly: "Take it!" ”

Ji Haoyan didn't understand what was going on, so he was tied up by several guards who rushed up to wipe their shoulders and put their arms together.

Ji Haoyan shouted loudly: "This official is a dignified governor of Yuanyuan, I am not guilty, why do you arrest me!" ”

Xu Sheng scolded: "In front of His Royal Highness the Prince, what are you making loud noise, don't you count whether you are guilty or not!" ”

Zhu Cihong summoned Fang Kongzhao, the governor of Huguang, and the envoy to the Chu Palace, where he tried the case of Ji Haoyan's rebellion.

After everyone arrived, the king of Chu and the prince also came to join in the fun and watch the play, but the two have not spoken since they came, but just sat silently on the side, saying that they were outsiders and melon-eating people.

Zhu Cihong put the governor of Huguang and the procurator in charge of the judiciary of Huguang Province in charge of the trial of the case, while he himself sat aside to observe.

In a side hall of the Chu Palace, Ji Haoyan was pressed up.

At the beginning of the trial, Ji Haoyan refused to admit it at first, and kept shouting: "This official is not guilty!" ”

When he saw the two commanders of Huang Zhouwei and Yue Zhouwei, his face changed suddenly, but he still declared that he was innocent, and he also chanted a song of Yu Qian's "Song of Lime" on the spot: "Thousands of hammers are knocked out of the deep mountains, the fire is burned if you are idle, you are not afraid of broken bones, you must leave your innocence in the world!" ”

"Whew! Do you deserve it? Commander Yue Zhouwei took a sip of him, took out the letter he had written to himself, and read it aloud in public.

The commander of Huang Zhouwei also told how Governor Ji instigated the guards to do things and block the crown prince.

Ji Haoyan was dumbfounded, and collapsed on top of the lobby all of a sudden, he no longer had the style of reciting poetry just now, he never thought that these two people would sell themselves, and they sold them so directly! What about the festival? What about trust? What about tacit understanding?

Seeing Ji Haoyan's cowardly appearance, the envoy slapped the shocked wood and said loudly: "Master Ji, let's say, who did you ask to place the underwater dragon king cannon in the river?" Who else are in your party? ”

The three Tianhuang nobles all watched with interest the adult to try the case on the spot, and the prince of Chu was even more curious and interested.

"It's Wuchang Zuowei who commands the Xiang Wheel!" Ji Haoyan confessed for a second, and begged in his mouth: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince spares his life!" ”

The messenger then asked, "What else?" ”

Ji Hao said: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince spares his life!" ”

According to the envoy, the envoy slapped it again and shouted, "What else? ”

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince spares his life!"

Regardless of the crackling sound of the shocking wood according to the inspector, Ji Haoyan just spared His Royal Highness the Prince's life one by one.

Zhu Cihong didn't bother to listen to his noise anymore, so he waved his hand directly and let people drag him away.

"Wait a minute!" Zhu Cihong suddenly stopped the two guards who were dragging Ji Haoyan.

Seeing this, Ji Haoyan felt that there was a play, and hurriedly kowtowed again: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince spares his life!" ”

The King of Chu and several officials of Huguang also looked at Zhu Cihong curiously, not knowing what he wanted to do, could it be that Fa Shan wanted to let go of this surnamed Ji? It doesn't look like it!

Zhu Cihong said leisurely: "Listening to the poem "Song of Lime" just now, this palace is suddenly curious, and wants to ask you, do you want to be killed by a thousand hammers, or do you want to be burned to death by fire?" ”

When Ji Haoyan heard this, his face was as white as the lime pressed pavement, which was miserable.

Zhu Cihong continued: "Pull it down and let him think about it, if he doesn't think about it, he will hit it with a thousand hammers first, and then burn it with fire, and see what is left in the end!" ”

Hu Guang bowed down and said, "Your Highness, look, this case is ....... Can the case be closed like this? ”

Zhu Cihong nodded and said: "Well, that's it, Ji Haoyan is also a governor anyway, let's deal with it like this, he won't destroy his nine clans, just the three clans!" ”

There was a chill in everyone's hearts for a while, is there a difference between these three clans and the nine clans? It's not like the whole family is going to be cut down up and down!

Although they thought so in their hearts, several lake members still said seriously: "Your Highness is wise." ”

I only heard Zhu Cihong say again: "Order Sun Yingyuan, let him transfer the second brigade of the royal family to wipe out the few guards contacted by Ji Haoyan, and if he encounters resistance, he will be killed!" That Wuchang Left Guard Commander, get close, go directly from the Yongwei Battalion, and destroy the Nine Clans! Remember to go at night and don't scare the people. ”

"Yes!" Xu Sheng responded.

Everyone in the hall was amazed, even the king of Chu and the prince felt a chill behind them, they were also noble, why are you so good?

Zhu Cihong's heart is very calm at this time, there is a Tianwu army, everything is under control, anyone who dares to make a move on him, no matter who he is, is just a clown in his eyes!

At the time of the curfew at night, Xu Sheng led the 500 guards of the Yongwei Battalion to set off, preparing to capture the other guard commanders.

Xu Sheng arrested the offending officials in the city, and Sun Yingyuan led the army to the guards who committed the crime to arrest people.

The people of Wuchang City were frightened, first they saw a large number of troops riding out of the city during the day, and then a group of officers and soldiers guarded the four gates of Wuchang City, beating gongs and drums to make everyone avoid, and heard that they were going to search for rebels in the city and curfew them in advance.

The next morning, when the people returned to the streets, they found that the streets were covered with some bloodstains, and some sergeants in iron armor were constantly patrolling the streets and alleys, which made people look frightened and did not know what had happened.

At noon on the same day, the teahouses and restaurants in Wuchang City began to discuss the events of last night and daytime, and all kinds of gossip flew all over the sky.

In the afternoon, notices were posted in the streets of Wuchang City, and Ji Haoyan, the remote governor, colluded with the Wuchang Left Guard to command Zhang Weizhi to plot against the assassination of the crown prince.

A few days later, Sun Yingyuan took the command of several guards and escorted him to Wuchang.

Zhu Cihong issued an order to let all the commanders of Huguang's guards go to the Chu Wang's Mansion within ten days, and let them decide for themselves whether they come or not.

Ten days later, almost all of the more than 20 commanders of Huguang's guard posts arrived, but a few of them did not come, either because they fell off their horses and were injured, or they were seriously ill and couldn't get up.

In the carrier hall, Zhu Cihong, who finished the name, didn't mind, he first took the commanders of the guards to watch the several guards who were beheaded on the spot for the crime of treason at the gate of the palace, and then returned to the carrier hall with everyone, and directly talked about the problem of the Huguang Guard.

Zhu Cihong bluntly said that a large number of officers of the guard station encroached on the land of military households, evaded taxes, and asked the commanders of the guards to give a charter on how to solve the problem, and whether to learn from the Fengyang Eight Guards and implement a new military cantonment.

The commanders of the guards knew what the crown prince was going to do before they came, and at this time, they saw that this killing star was cutting people with knives in front of the palace gate, and suddenly everyone's hearts were cold, and they felt that things were a little tricky, and it was not easy to fool.

At any time, there is never a shortage of people in the officialdom who know the current affairs, as soon as Zhu Cihong opened his mouth, several commanders such as Wuchangwei, Yuezhouwei, and Huangzhouwei immediately jumped out, raising their hands in favor of Huguang learning from Fengyang Mansion to implement military tun and redistribute the land of each guard.

Although more than a dozen southern guards such as Yongzhou Wei, Changsha Wei, Shizhou Wei, Chenzhou Wei, and Chang Dewei were reluctant, they could only pinch their noses and agree, let's go back first, and then see if there is an opportunity to get more land when redistributed.

After an hour of discussion and arrangement, the meeting ended successfully, and everyone had different expressions.

Soon after the commanders of the guards returned to their respective acropolises, they learned that the commanders of the guards who did not go to the palace of the king of Wuchang for a meeting that day were all raided by the Jinyi guards and beheaded, leaving not a single living mouth, and there were more than 30 charges of various crimes, all of which were fatal.

A few days later, the commanders of the guards in Huguang presented their respective land registers, expressing their willingness to support the redistribution of the land in the guards, which were completely different from those recorded in the yellow books of the government, and Zhu Cihong was very pleased to see them, and it seemed that the officials in Huguang were more familiar with each other than the officials in Nanzhili.