After Zhu Cihong dealt with today's twists and turns, he summoned Zhang Kuishan, the commander of the Jinyi Guard, and asked him if there were any changes in various places in Nanjing City during the two months of his personal expedition.

Zhang Kuishan soon came to the palace.

Today's Jinyi Guard has already been established into a department with almost more than six departments, and the matter of supervising hundreds of officials in the world for the emperor alone is almost the same as the officials, and it also has an intelligence network all over the world.

"Chen Jinyiwei commanded Zhang Kuishan to see the emperor, long live the emperor, long live the emperor!" Zhang Kuishan knelt down and said with a serious face.

"Aiqing is exempt!"

"I haven't seen each other for two months, and Aiqing is becoming more and more like a fan leader." Looking at Zhang Kuishan's costume as a commander of the brocade guard, Zhu Cihong laughed and said.

"Your Majesty, don't laugh at the ministers, compared to this leader, the ministers want to lead the troops to fight, when can the emperor pity the poor ministers." Zhang Kuishan had a bitter face, but he didn't lie at all, although the commander of the Jinyi Guard was majestic, almost all of what he did was to spy on intelligence, how could he go to the battlefield to kill the enemy to make people's blood boil.

"I'm afraid it won't work in the near future, you still honestly stay in this position for me and do a good job for me." Zhu Cihong shook his head.

Zhang Kuishan immediately cried with a sad face, but he also knew that as the old man who had been with the emperor for the longest time, the emperor could hand over the important position of Jinyi Guard commander to him, which in itself was a great trust in him, and he still had to continue to serve until the emperor found the next suitable heir.

"Alright, let's talk about whether any of the vassal kings made small moves when I set out on the expedition!" Zhu Cihong asked.

Speaking of business, Zhang Kuishan immediately became serious.

"Back to the emperor, the other vassal kings have not moved, only King Lu of Fengyang not only attracted a few officials from the court, but also bribed the imperial chef of a royal dining room and the two palace maids of the Empress Kunning Palace, I don't know what the intention is!" Zhang Kuishan told the most important information.

"Humph!" After Zhu Cihong heard this, he immediately snorted coldly, and said with a gloomy face: "What other intentions can there be, it is nothing more than to hope that I will be defeated and killed or captured by Zuo Liangyu when I am in Anqing, and the queen is pregnant with my child, although I don't know whether it is a man or a woman, but it is better to prevent trouble, if I am really dead or captured, the imperial chef and the two palace maids are afraid that they will obey King Lu's orders, and serve a bowl of poison to poison my queen and my blood in the queen's belly, and he will sit on my throne with a good name!" ”

Zhu Cihong's analysis is not far from ten, King Lu does have this plan, but King Lu is short-sighted, he doesn't want to think about it, if Zhu Cihong really loses the battle and is killed or captured by Zuo Liangyu, all the vassal kings are closest to him from Nanjing City, and the emperor has at least five more opportunities to fall on his head, he just needs to wait quietly.

However, the people's hearts are not enough to swallow the elephant, King Lu is too hasty, and he has no vision at all, no wonder he couldn't fight King Fu back then.

Originally, if King Lu had just attracted a few courtiers in the early court, Zhu Cihong would have turned a blind eye to it as if it had never happened, but he should never have paid attention to his queen and unborn child.

"Hehe, King Lu is looking for death! It seems that I can't do it without warning him. Zhu Cihong smiled, but his voice changed halfway through, and he didn't say what he wanted to do the most.

Originally, Zhu Cihong planned to kill King Lu directly, and it was best to charge him with rebellion, so that he could justifiably copy his home, but halfway through he immediately vetoed it, how to say that King Lu is also the king of the clan, and it is nothing to kill him alone, it would be bad if it caused a backlash from other vassal kings, Li Zicheng of Shaanxi was about to be defeated, when the Manchu Qing Dynasty did not know when it would go south, Zhu Cihong did not want to make a mess, so he could only let King Lu go first and spare his life.

"What does the emperor want to do?" Zhang Kuishan asked cautiously.

Zhu Cihong smiled: "Send the heads of the imperial chef and the two palace maids to the Luwang Mansion for me, and the officials in the court and the central government will see if there is any corruption, if there is, they will be exiled directly to my family, a lot of land in Lingnan needs people to open up wasteland, if there is no corruption, I don't mind letting them go once." ”

"Obey the order!" Zhang Kuishan's face turned pale and he responded.

"Tell King Lu that my Nenu has been short of silver recently, and ask him to lend me a million taels!" Zhu Cihong suddenly added another sentence, biting the borrowed word extremely hard, saying that it was borrowing, but in fact, there was any difference between it and directly robbing it.

With those bloody heads to deter, Zhu Cihong is not afraid that King Lu will dare not give it. As for whether King Lu can get one million taels of silver, Zhu Cihong is not worried at all, the vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty are the richest, and they are all so rich, you must know that Li Zicheng copied nearly 20 million taels of gold, silver and jewelry from King Fu of Luoyang, as well as more than 2.5 million mu of fertile land, if the value of these fertile fields is counted together, King Fu must have 30 or 40 million taels of silver. Although King Fu was given special care by Emperor Wanli's favor, King Lu and other vassal kings could not be as rich as King Fu, but there were still two or three million taels.

Although Zhu Cihong is not short of silver now, it is still necessary to prevent trouble before it happens, anyway, these vassal kings have a lot of silver, don't do it in vain, and it can be regarded as a profound lesson to King Lu.

"It's the emperor!" Zhang Kuishan retreated.

That night, two palace maids in Kunning Palace disappeared inexplicably, as did an imperial chef in the imperial dining room.

"Dadada"

The next night, three fast horses suddenly passed in front of the gate of Fengyang Luwangfu, sitting on horseback were three men wearing coarse cloth, these three people were expressionless, in the moment when the fast horse rushed through the vermilion gate of Luwangfu, three heads wrapped in black cloth were thrown in.

"What people!" The guards of the Luwang Mansion shouted, but by the time they chased them out, the fast horse had already turned a corner at an intersection and disappeared.

The leader of the guards guarding the door smelled a stream of blood, his face changed, and he ordered people to open the three black cloth packages that were thrown in, and immediately everyone was paralyzed by the three bloody human heads wrapped inside.

Soon, this situation was informed to King Lu.

"Lord Wang, something is wrong!" A staff member of King Lu's Mansion came to find King Lu in horror, and behind him, three guards held the three bloody heads with pale faces.

"What's wrong?" King Lu hurriedly asked.

"Back to the prince, the matter was revealed, and the heads of the three imperial chefs and palace maids who were bought by the prince didn't know who threw them into the courtyard." The staff said in a trembling voice.

King Lu also smelled a stream of blood at this time, and at the same time saw the three bloody heads behind this staff. King Lu was suddenly startled, the cold hairs on his whole body stood up, he staggered back a few steps, and hit the table behind him.

"Take it away!" King Lu's voice trembled, his eyes widened, and he was extremely frightened.

The staff member was shocked and frightened King Lu, and after the three guards took away their heads, King Lu gradually recovered a little.

"What's going on?" King Lu asked in horror.

"I'm afraid that the prince was instructed by the emperor, the emperor already knew the prince's actions, just now, there was news from Nanjing City, and several officials of the court and China who were attracted by the prince were exiled early in the morning." When the staff said this, they were also extremely frightened, the emperor had just returned less than two days before he moved, doesn't it mean that their every move is actually under the emperor's surveillance, which makes the staff not afraid.

King Lu was the same, when he heard that those officials in the court and the central government were all exiled, he was even more afraid, afraid that he would be next.

"Your Majesty, got it? What can I do about this, will the emperor not let go of this king. King Lu's voice trembled, and he was frightened by the three bloody human heads before he came back to his senses, and his heart was full of panic.

"The prince doesn't need to be afraid, if the emperor wants to cure the prince's crimes, I'm afraid he should have done it a long time ago, I think it's just a warning to the prince, and he doesn't intend to cure the prince's crimes, after all, the prince is also a clan vassal king with the emperor's bloodline." The staff comforted.

At this time, a guard hurriedly ran in with an arrow in his hand, and saw a small bamboo tube tied to the arrow.

"Lord Qiqi, someone just shot an arrow at the gate."

"Quick, open it and see what's it." King Lu shouted.

The staff quickly took the arrow, unscrewed the lid of the small bamboo tube, and sure enough, there was a note inside.

"Look, lord." The staff handed the note to King Lu.

I saw that the note read: "Recently, someone heard that the emperor was short of silver, and he was deeply disturbed, hoping to help the emperor solve problems, so he came to borrow 1 million taels of silver from His Royal Highness King Lu, and asked King Lu not to shirk, and to respect the brocade clothes!" ”

King Lu finished reading the words on the note, his hands trembled, isn't Jinyi Jinyiwei. There is no doubt that this is what Jinyiwei did, and Jinyiwei represents the current emperor.

"The deception is too much, one million taels of silver, really this king is a fat pig! If you want to slaughter, you will slaughter! When he was the emperor, he was short of silver, and he even opened his mouth to the king, and he had to be shameless" King Lu scolded, and when he was careless, he even scolded himself.

Although King Lu has a lot of silver, but when he competed for the throne with King Fu, he sprinkled a lot of silver, and this time it cost a lot to buy a few officials and palace maids and chefs, and now even all the current silver fields are only more than two million taels together, and they will go to nearly half of them at once, how can King Lu be willing.

"Lord Wang, please be careful! You have to think about the fate of the Wei Mansion and hundreds of Donglin Party back then, the emperor is murderous and cautious, and if he can spare the prince once, it is already a blessing, and the prince is still appointed. The staff persuaded him.

The staff said a word, so frightened that King Lu immediately shut up, remembering the case of the Duke of Wei and the Donglin Party, the emperor killed nearly a thousand people at once, and the blood flowed like a river, I heard that the whole Xingtai in the vegetable market in Nanjing City was stained red with blood, and the rain could not be washed away for a month.

In the end, King Lu still compromised, and three days later, in the name of sharing the emperor's worries, he sent one million taels of silver to the Internal Affairs Office, which was a full ten carts. The people didn't know why, but they praised him for the righteousness of King Lu, and he became loyal to the monarch and patriotic, and earned a lot of fame for King Lu.

King Lu's heart is dripping blood, compared to millions of taels of silver, that reputation is simply a fart, and after this incident, he doesn't dare to have that kind of thought, and what to do with reputation.

For King Lu to be so knowledgeable, Zhu Cihong was very satisfied.

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