Section 48 Glass, Guards, and Mysteries
The next day, because he was too tired yesterday and the assassination, Zhu Yunwen slept very deeply, so he got up late, and Liu Zhen and others didn't dare to call him. The Lu family also issued an order, everyone must not disturb the imperial grandson, to let the imperial grandson have a good rest, and ordered someone to pull Zhang Tie and other four guards out and beat thirty military sticks to set an example, the four of them were willing, the imperial grandson had such a big thing, it was not too much to behead them, and it was already lucky to beat them up.
After Zhu Yunwen got up, he felt comfortable sleeping, Liu Zhen and others hurriedly waited for him to freshen up, but when he was freshening up, Zhu Yunwen heard someone shouting in the yard, which seemed to be the voice of his younger brothers and sisters. asked Liu Zhen: "Is it Yunxi for them?" ”
Liu Zhen said with a strange face: "The crown princess is also here, and the other princes and county lords are here?" ”
"Huh?" Zhu Yunwen asked Liu Zhen to carry him out, and when he arrived in the courtyard, he found that the Lu family and his younger brothers and sisters were gathered together, chattering about something, and there were three people standing next to him, looking at a loss, it was Wang Quan, the head of the camp, and the other two craftsmen. Zhu Yunwen had a flash of inspiration and said, "Wang Suozheng, has the glass been made?" ”
Before Wang Quan could answer, the naughty little sister Zhu Yuwan ran over with a shiny thing: "Brother Taisun, are you talking about this?" It's so beautiful, people come early in the morning, and you don't get up until now, shame? As he spoke, he shaved his face and made a shy appearance.
Zhu Yunwen smiled and hugged his little sister over, took the things in his sister's hand, and took a look, this is a transparent cup, which feels not much different from what later generations have seen, but the transparency is still a little lacking, slightly green, and he can't help but be overjoyed: "Wang Suozheng, you really made it?" Lone just remembered this method, but I didn't expect it to work, and your speed is so fast. ”
Wang Quan ran over and saluted Zhu Yunwen and said: "Your Highness, after Your Highness said this method yesterday, I concentrated all the manpower when I went back from my humble duties, and used all the fifteen stoves to burn this glass, and I didn't rest at night, and in the middle of the night, finally there was a transparent liquid that His Highness said, and we used an iron pipe to blow it, but it was blown a lot, so we made three more beautiful ones, and brought them over to His Highness in the morning." As he spoke, his eyes turned to the Lu family under the tree.
Zhu Yunwen hurriedly came over to ask Lu Shi for peace, and Lu called Zhu Yunwen to his side, took out two cups and said, "Yunwen, is this what you asked them to do?" ”
"Yes, Yun Wei wants to give a gift to his sister's wedding."
"Isn't this thing very precious, so crystal clear, does it cost a lot of silver? When I asked the people in this camp just now, they didn't say anything, they just said that you asked them to do it. ”
Zhu Yunwen smiled: "It's easy, it's ....." Lu Shi planned his speech, and drove all the eunuchs and palace maids away seriously, and then listened to Yunwen.
After listening to Yun Wei's speech, Lu Shi thought for a while and said: "It doesn't sound difficult, the key is this method, but it must be kept strictly secret." He said to everyone: "This method is exclusive to the royal family, if anyone dares to leak it, the nine clans will be destroyed." ”
Wang Quan and the two craftsmen quickly knelt down, and the promise of the gambling swear would not be revealed.
Zhu Yunwen didn't say anything, and said to Zhu Yuling: "How about this thing for you to make a big wedding gift and use it to drink a glass of wine?" ”
Zhu Yuling said shyly: "Thank you, Brother Taisun, Yuling is very satisfied with this gift, or give it to me now." ”
Zhu Yunwen hurriedly stopped: "This won't work, my brother will give you a better one." He beckoned the people from the camp to come over, drew the shape of the goblet with a pen, and asked, "Can this be made?" ”
The three of them looked at it and said, "This should be fine, but it is estimated that it will be good tomorrow." ”
"No problem, make two cups tomorrow and send them to the Jiangdu County Lord's Mansion, as a gift from Lonely, you must make it look better." There is a heavy reward for Lonely, Liu Zhen and Wang Quan 200 taels of silver, and the other two 100 taels. ”
The three of them hurriedly kowtowed to thank him, and Hongwu Chao had to peel off his skin if he embezzled 60 taels, and 100 taels was already a huge amount of money.
Zhu Yuling looked at the three cups, a little reluctant: "Brother, can't these three give me one?" ”
Zhu Yunwen also had a little headache, there are so many people, it's not good to give it to anyone or not, thought about it for a while, and said to Wang Quan: "Wang Suozheng, in this way, you work hard today, in addition to making two goblets, make some of these cups, give four to the imperial grandfather, and two cups to each of the mother concubine and my younger brothers and sisters, no problem." ”
Wang Quan nodded again and again: "It's no problem, I'm not skilled at the beginning, and I'll be fine in the future." ”
"Okay, I've worked hard for you," said to the Lu family, "I plan to show these three to the imperial grandfather, so that the old man can also be happy." ”
"Okay, that's how it should be, go ahead." Lui said.
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Qianqing Palace.
Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the three transparent glass cups on the table, a little incredulous, picked it up with his hand, knocked it gently, looked into the cup, and put it down after a while, and said, "Yun Wei, is this the glass you said?" What is the camp made of? ”
"Yes, Yun Wei remembered that he read a book when he was a child, and there was this method in it, so he asked the people in the camp to try it, and they did it for one day and one night, and only made three."
"It's a good thing, does it cost too much?"
"Not much, it's simple, that's ......"
"You say, it's made of sand?" Zhu Yuanzhang pointed to the cup, a little incredulous.
"It's true, it's just that this has just been made, there will definitely be a problem, Yun Wei just wants to give his sister Jiangdu County Lord's wedding as a gift."
"How many people know about this recipe?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked.
"The people of the camp, I asked Wang Quan, the craftsmen Yu Deshui and Lu Fuyu to do this, but the people in the camp should know."
"That's okay, the craftsmen in the camp are all managed by the royal family, so there shouldn't be a problem."
Zhu Yuanzhang played with it for a while, put down the glass, let Zhu Yunwen sit down, and asked, "Yunwen, what are you going to do with this?" ”
Zhu Yunwen scratched his head and said, "Grandpa Huang, Yunwen thinks that this should be able to sell for a lot of money." ”
"Money, are you short of money?"
"Grandpa Huang, that's the case, Yun Wei plans to select backbones in martial arts, and train an army according to the methods of martial arts, which may cost a lot of money."
Zhu Yuanzhang was stunned: "You plan to use it to train the army?" ”
"Yes, Grandpa Huang, the martial arts training method is different from the regular army, if they return to the original guard, it will be out of place, so I think it is better to give them manpower, train from scratch, experiment with the effect, and then promote it if you can. This army is specially designed to receive new ideas in martial arts, which can be called an experimental army. ”
"Where are you going to set it up?"
"Yun Wei thinks it's better and more convenient to be near the martial arts."
Zhu Yuanzhang thought for a while, paced in the hall, and after a while: "Yes, it just so happens that you don't have a protector, so let's form a protector for you by the way." ”
"Grandpa Xie Huang." Zhu Yunwen fell to his knees. He did this from the bottom of his heart, because he knew that Zhu Yuanzhang attached great importance to military power, and it was not easy for him to allow himself to have an army near the capital.
In fact, Zhu Yuanzhang was also very hesitant, he found that Zhu Yunwen had changed a lot and had a lot of ideas, so he wanted to see how far he could go, anyway, with himself at the helm, any problems could be corrected in time.
"Yun Wei, you get up, the imperial grandfather is old, I don't know how many years he can live, the country will eventually be handed over to you, you have ideas, I am very happy, do what you think."
Zhu Yunwen hurriedly knelt down: "Grandpa Huang, you have always been in good health, Yunwen still wants you to study for a few more years, please take care of your dragon body." ”
"Well, you get up, by the way, what else do you think about martial arts?"
"Back to the emperor's grandfather, Yun Wei plans to go to the martial arts inspection in five days."
"Five days later? Very good, but the guards need to be strengthened, I have already handed it over to Song Zhong, to absolutely protect your safety, you can no longer go out with a few guards, remember to remember. ”
"In addition, Grandpa Huang, Yun Wei plans to take Ying Guogong and Song Guogong together."
Zhu Yuanzhang was silent.
"Are you sure you want to take them?"
"Well, they are veterans of the Ming Dynasty, I think they should have good suggestions and ideas for the construction of martial arts."
"I'll think about it."
The grandfather and grandson couldn't help but feel a little cold.
Zhu Yunwen thought for a moment and asked, "Grandpa Huang, has the assassination of Yunwen been found out?" ”
Zhu Yuanzhang waved his hand and said, "Song Zhong and Wu Bin know this matter best, I just ordered them to report this case to you." Alright, you go down. I'm tired. ”
Zhu Yunwen had no choice but to quit. After coming out, Zhu Yunwen was actually a little apprehensive, he clearly stated that he hoped to keep Feng Sheng and Fu Youde and escort himself in the future, but Zhu Yuanzhang's hesitation represented his murderous intention, and it was only his clear attitude that he decided to think about it. Zhu Yunwen really wanted to keep these two people, because judging from his conversations with Qu Neng and He Fu, they were both generals and could not reach the level of handsome talents, but Feng Sheng and Fu Youde were different, they had experienced a hundred battles and commanded an army of more than 100,000 people, there were too few such talents, and it was a pity to kill them. But he knew that he had to show that he could handle the two generals, or they would still die.
In the afternoon, Zhu Yunwen was reading a book in the courtyard, and Liu Zhenlai reported that Song Zhong, the commander of the Jinyi Guard, and Wu Bin, the imperial historian of the left capital of the Imperial Palace, asked to see him, and Zhu Yunwen hurriedly let them in. After the two men came in, they hurriedly saluted, and then sat down to report the case.
Judging from Song Zhong's report, it is not certain that it is Zhang Shicheng's remnant, for two reasons, although Wen Tian's last words said that he was Zhang Shicheng's person, but there is no evidence otherwise, when Yun Xiang was in Jinyiwei Prison, he was killed by the detention center, and the guard then committed suicide, indicating that Yunxiang is very likely to have something that has not been explained, and the other party's infiltration ability is very terrible, which also caused Zhu Yuanzhang to be angry, and he wanted to do an investigation and cleaning in Jinyiwei, and Song Zhong, the commander of Jinyiwei, would be demoted and transferred if he did not do well. In addition, Mo Xibao, the shopkeeper of "Yuelai Inn", has not been arrested, and Yunxiang's so-called "good friend" in Suzhou has disappeared. There is only one clue that it is Zhang Shicheng's remnants, but the others are dead and fleeing, and they can't get a confession at all, so from the current point of view, Jinyiwei can't be sure that Zhang Shicheng's remnants did it, but what is certain is that the other party has a large number of people and sophisticated means, and it is not an ordinary force, so it needs to be paid close attention.
Wu Bin's report was even more shocking, when Jinyiwei came to arrest the craftsmen, there were three craftsmen who had no one at home, five craftsmen actually resisted, and three were killed, and three craftsmen committed suicide when they heard that Jinyiwei came to the door. During the interrogation of the craftsmen, five confessed, and according to them, during the construction of the martial arts, they were approached by threatening their families to draw a map of the martial arts and provide specific data on the canteen and warehouse, and they did not know that others were threatened. In the end, Zhao Gezhuang was also involved in the Ministry of Works, and set up a line for the assassin organization, so that it was easier for them to control the craftsmen, this Zhao Gezhuang committed suicide when he heard that Wang Jun, the secretary of the Ministry of Works, was sent to prison, this Zhao Gezhuang was a student of Wang Jun, maybe he implicated the teacher and felt guilty, but as soon as Zhao Gezhuang died, many clues were broken. According to the artisan's description, the people of this group were dressed in black and had accents from Fujian, Shandong, and Liaodong, making it difficult to investigate.
Zhu Yunwen looked at the two of them: "That is, the assassination case against me, nothing has been found out, and it is a headless case?" ”
The two nodded.
Zhu Yun threw the file on the ground with a snap: "If this case is not investigated, how will I go out in the future?" Who else can Lone trust? The Assassins are so arrogant, one of you is a pro-army of Jinyi Guard, and the other is a supervisor of officials, but you didn't find these problems, so that Lone almost died. Say, what are you going to do? ”
The two knelt on the ground and kowtowed, asking for grace to solve the problem.
Zhu Yunwen had no choice but to say: "Do you have any ideas, and how are you going to investigate?" ”
Wu Bin said: "The Metropolitan Procuratorate can only do this, and the rest has to rely on Jinyiwei." ”
Song Zhong said: "The last general will definitely do his best to solve the case, first do an investigation in Jinyiwei, and then investigate the whereabouts of Mo Xibao, the last general believes that unless this Mo Xibao is dead, he will definitely be found." ”
"Okay, thank you for your hard work, you go down."
The next day, Zhu Yuanzhang passed the decree: the whole family of the rebel craftsman was executed, Zhao Gezhuang was exterminated, and Wang Junci died; All the officials of the martial arts will be demoted to one level and hired, and the people who are in the same team as Wen Tianzhi and Yunxiang will be beaten on the thirty boards, and if a similar situation occurs in the future, the people in the same team will be killed. Jin Yiwei made every effort to track down the captured assassins in order to catch them all.