Night, Qianqing Palace.

Zhu Yunwen still set up a bed in Zhu Yuanzhang's dormitory as usual, the night was already very deep, but Yun Wei still couldn't sleep after tossing and turning, listening to Zhu Yuanzhang's slight snoring, he couldn't help but admire Zhu Yuanzhang, today's overall situation has been decided, Lan Yu will definitely die, Zhu Yuanzhang slept so soundly, but he knew that Zhu Yuanzhang slept later than himself last night. Zhu Yunwen smiled bitterly, this is the gap, the degree of control over the overall situation is unimaginable, but it is not because of this that he can't sleep. Lan Yu's case is about to set off a bloody storm, but he can't do anything about it, but what the imperial grandfather said is also right, Lan Yu has the ability to rebel, and he is also prepared to rebel, so it can be said that he is innocent of death, but if he kills all the people involved, he really can't bear it. I have read the testimony of many people, even under torture, I only confessed that I had heard a little about this matter, but I just knew that Lan Yu was going to do great things, and such a person would be killed, which seemed to be a bit too much; But from another point of view, not reporting the information at least means that the other party does not help each other, and is even optimistic about it, this may be the reason why the emperor's grandfather wants to kill them, isn't this how the Korean prince Li Shanchang died? Grandpa Huang's desire to establish a court that was completely obedient and had no selfishness towards the emperor was any more unrealistic than he wanted to build a society free of corrupt officials. From history to the present, no one can do it, even if they read with their own companions, they also have their own thoughts, maybe now they are hurting things, and the rabbit is sad that the fox is dead.

In addition, Zhu Yunwen remembered Zhan Wei, the secretary of the ministry, and he wanted to kill him for a long time. When his father Zhu Biao was the prince, Zhan Wei was against him everywhere, Zhan Wei was a cool official, and his usage was harsh, but he was good at figuring out the holy will, so he had no fear. My father is generous and very courageous, and if he dares to argue with the emperor's grandfather, he is much worse, and he doesn't dare to make the emperor's grandfather angry. When his father reviewed the chapters, he gave light sentences to some cases, but Zhan Wei disagreed, he was still the imperial history at that time, and as a result, he went to the imperial grandfather, and the imperial grandfather agreed with Zhan Wei's approach. The father was very angry and said to the imperial grandfather: "There is the king of Yao Shun above, and there are the ministers of Yao Shun below." But it caused the emperor's grandfather to be furious and said, "Let's wait until you become the emperor." "It put so much pressure on my father that he couldn't afford to get sick. Yun Wei still remembers his father and himself saying: "Zhan Wei harmed me and wanted to avenge me." From then on, I wanted to find an opportunity to get rid of him. But Zhan Wei is a secretary of the ministry, and there is no good reason for him, and he can't do anything about him. Zhan Wei also knew this, so when he recommended the emperor's grandson, Zhan Wei spoke out against it. Today, Lan Yu actually identified Zhan Wei's accomplice, and he took Zhan Wei down immediately, and he was also attached to his final testimony. The imperial grandfather didn't say anything when he saw it, so he decided to put them all to death. At the time, I felt very happy, but now I regret it a little when I think about it, Zhan Wei is going to be beheaded by the whole family, there may be hundreds of people, he avenged his father, but destroyed the entire family of the other party. He really felt the horror and majesty of the imperial power, and the imperial grandfather should know what he was thinking, but he didn't know it.

Of course, Zhu Yuanzhang knew the contradiction between Zhu Yunwen and Zhan Wei, although Zhan Wei was very much in line with his heart, but this person's reputation was too bad, and the courtiers were dissatisfied with him, so he just killed him. In his eyes, few courtiers are innocent, and they all have ways to kill. Since Yun Wei wants to kill, then kill it, it's not a big deal.

Generally speaking, Zhu Yuanzhang is more satisfied with his imperial grandson, Yun Wei is talented, kind-hearted, benevolent and generous, his wrists are becoming more and more proficient, and his ability is also good. But the only thing that made him feel dissatisfied was that he was too angry, and he always felt that the three emperors and five emperors of antiquity were perfect emperors, in fact, in his opinion, these were all made up by Confucius in order to promote his own Confucianism. The "Bamboo Book Chronicle" unearthed in the Western Jin Dynasty records a different look, such as "Xi Yao De declined, and was imprisoned by Shun." Shun imprisoned Yao in Pingyang and took the throne. Shun put Yao in Pingyang. Shun imprisoned Yao, reinstated Saidan Zhu, so that he would not see his father. "Ancient books have not been seen since Qin Shi Huang burned books and pit Confucianism. Fortunately, the Qin Dynasty was not long, otherwise Confucianism would have been lost in history if it was not done well, and most of the existing classics were recounted and retold by later generations. And Yun Wei is too soft-hearted, and he can't stand the Lan Yu case a little, but it's okay, let him experience the way of the emperor.

Zhu Yunwen tossed and turned until it was almost dawn, and then he fell asleep.

The next morning, there were already some fewer people in the court, and all the officials were trembling, and some even said goodbye to their families before going out. In the palace, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered Changfu to proclaim the decree, Lan Yu conspired against him, the evidence was conclusive, he should have been executed by Ling Chi, read his merits, and was sentenced to the punishment of stripping the head of the wolf, and the rest of the accomplices Jingchuan Hou Cao Zhen, Heqing Hou Zhang Yi, Puding Hou Chen Huan, Zhu Shou, Dongguan Bo He Rong, He Rong's younger brother Shang Bao Si Cheng He Hong, Governor Huang Ke, the Ministry of Shangshu Zhan Hui, the household servant Fu Youwen, commanded Zhuang Cheng and Sun Rang, and the government army avant-garde 100 households Li Cheng Ling Chi was executed, and the whole door was beheaded, and men and women under the age of ten migrated to Yazhou (Hainan), and they were executed at noon tomorrow. All civil and military officials had to go to the court outside the city to watch the ceremony. The ministers bowed their heads and said yes.

After retiring from the court, Zhu Yunwen took four companions to the Jinyi Wei Yamen, in and out of the yamen, people kept being locked and brought over, Yang Jing, the Shangshu of the Criminal Department in the lobby, presided over the trial, the Jinyi Wei commanded Jiang Zhen to jury, and the eunuch Changfu sat with him, most of the people were tried in the edict prison, and only passed the hall after getting the confession, even so, the hall was still busy. Yang Jing is fifty-five or six years old in Chinese New Year's Eve, very young, and currently serves as a guest of the crown prince, and Zhu Yunjiao has a good impression of him. However, Yang Jing is tired now, because there are too many people, and if he wants to object to the confession and wants a retrial, he is often rejected by Jiang Jing, and in the end he often has to follow Jiang Zheng's advice. Zhu Yunwen took the four companions to sit down in the side hall and observed the situation in the lobby. When the people in the hall brought it up, they often had blurred skin and flesh, looked sluggish, and did not say a word, and they did not resist when they confessed and drew a detention; Occasionally, there are a few people who say that they have been wronged, and Yang Jing will ask for a retrial, but it is not of much use, and many people finally admit their guilt under the big punishment, and even beat them to death in court. However, most of the dead people were military generals, and if it was a civil servant, Yang Jing would often argue with reason, but there were those who survived.

After watching it for a while, Zhu Yunwen sighed, called the four companions over and sat down, looked at them and said, "Do you have anything to say?" Geng Xuan and the others looked at each other, and they all arched their hands and said, "There is nothing to say about the humble position. Zhu Yunwen knew that they were scared and didn't dare to say it, but why shouldn't he be? After thinking about it, he said, "Geng Xuan, you look for Jiang Xuan and ask him to bring Lan Yu over, I have something to ask." Geng Xuan answered and went out.

After a long while, Lan Yu was brought, and the night passed, and General Lan looked even older, wearing shackles, kneeling on the ground, and not saying a word.

Zhu Yunwen was silent for a while: "General Lan, today the emperor decreed that you will be executed tomorrow, do you know?" ”

"The Admiral already knows."

"Do you have anything to say? Do you need me to convey this to the Emperor? ”

"Did the emperor send you?"

“...... No, I came by myself. ”

“...... The minister had nothing to say. ”

After being silent for a while, Zhu Yunwen sighed, waved his hand and said, "Take General Lan down, don't wait slowly, in addition, get some water and bathe General Lan." ”

When Lan Yu was brought to the door, he suddenly turned around: "Your Highness, you are very similar to the crown prince, the last general is gone, be careful of King Yan." ”

Zhu Yun froze for a moment, raised his hand and wanted to say something, but he didn't say anything after all, and his hand slowly put down.

The next day, at noon, the court outside the city.

Today, all the officials above the fifth grade in the capital are here, plus the people who are watching the excitement, it is really crowded. In the northeast corner of the Dharma field, there was a group of officials from the Ming Dynasty, and there were ordinary people in other directions.

Since the morning, Jin Yiwei has been arranging the law field, and Yang Jing, the secretary of the criminal department who supervised the beheading, and Jiang Xuan, the commander of the Jinyi guard, have beheaded a lot of people today, more than 1,000 people, including the families of the main and accomplices who conspired against the main criminals, as well as the family members and slaves of the whole family, all of whom were tied up and brought to the court.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, with the order of the prison officer, the names were read out, and then the executioner waved the ghost head knife and cut it down with a knife. At first, there were still the shouts of prisoners on the court, but slowly, everyone accepted their fate, and the voice of the roll caller echoed in the court, and the sound of the ghost's head cutting off the head, and the dull sound of the head rolling off the execution platform. Blood slowly flowed down from the execution platform, converging into a river on the court, slowly flowing. The onlookers were very excited, because the beheaded people were all high-ranking officials and nobles and evil servants who often fought with people, and beautiful and beautiful ladies and young ladies.......

As the emperor's grandson, Zhu Yunwen has a special position, he sits under the umbrella of Huang Luo, surrounded by the four companions and Xu Huizu and Chang Sheng, this position is very good, and he can see all the situations on the court at a glance. Although he had seen a more tragic scene on the battlefield in his dreams, today hundreds of people, old, young, young, male and female, were beheaded in front of him, some of them rebelled, but some of them were just slaves, but they were victimized by the pond fish. Zhu Yunwen felt that he was panicked in his heart, but everyone else was used to it, and it seemed that rebellion was this kind of end and deserved it.

Zhu Yunwen turned to the northeast corner, there was the place where Ling Chi and the skinning were located, the blue jade had been beheaded, and the skinning was almost over. Others are still being tortured. Ling Chi is a kind of torture, from the beginning of the Liao officially became a punishment, to the peak of the Ming Dynasty, the number of execution knives will be specified when the execution, if the executioner can not reach this number, there will be a punishment, and generally prescribed techniques, starting from the chest, cutting off the **, and then cutting the chest muscles; In the case of male prisoners, the genitals are then circumcised, and then it is the turn of the thighs, arms, abs, and buttocks. Finally, cut off the ears, nose, eyes, and lips. When the knife is removed, the assistant is responsible for reporting the number of knives, and the cut flesh is placed on the table and lined up for inspection, and finally the internal organs are dug up and killed. When a person dies, even his bones are chopped up. According to historical records, some of the tortured people had their bodies cut to the ground and there were only white bones left, their mouths and eyes were still moving, their internal organs were dug out, and the moans of pain did not stop. The cruelty can be imagined.

Zhu Yunwen looked at it for a while, and then vomited, how could people come up with such a cruel criminal law? The inertia of history is too terrible, and the things of the previous dynasty are often inherited by the later dynasties, such as the extermination of the nine clans, which began in the Qin Dynasty's "clan punishment", where one person broke the law and harmed the family; Shang Ying later invented the "Lianza", from the Zhu three tribes to the Zhu Qi clan, Yang Guang expanded to "destroy the nine tribes", think about it is also very speechless, the Han Dynasty except for the tyranny of Qin, but the "extermination" has remained. Ling Chi had already appeared in the Qin and Han dynasties, but it was a lynching and was not allowed by the state; The Liao first made it a punishment, but it was inherited by subsequent dynasties. Thinking about it, did the heroes of the Ming Dynasty learn from the Yuan Dynasty when they did many illegal things? The Mongols of the Yuan Dynasty treated the Han Chinese, and they only needed to pay a little funeral expenses for killing. Zhu Yunwen couldn't help but fall into deep thought, can he change this?

More than a thousand people were killed, and it took nearly an afternoon until it was getting dark, and everyone dispersed. Zhu Yunwen, accompanied by everyone, returned to Duanben Palace. Mother Lu Shi hasn't seen him much recently, and when she saw Yun Wei coming back, she specially asked the kitchen to make something delicious and bring it over. When Zhu Yunwen saw the stewed venison, he couldn't help but vomit. Lu Shi was shocked, suddenly remembered, and hurriedly asked people to take the meat out and make some white porridge. Zhu Yunwen vomited for a long time, drank a little white porridge, said goodbye to his mother, and went back to lie down.

In the evening, Zhu Yunwen did not go to the Qianqing Palace, and Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly felt a little unaccustomed, so he asked: "Changfu, where did Yunwen go?" ”

Changfu hurriedly replied: "Just now, the crown princess Lu Niangniang sent someone to send a letter over, saying that His Royal Highness came back from the court, couldn't eat, vomited, and went back to lie down. I can't get over today. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang said "oh": "Then let the imperial doctor go over and take a look, alas, this kid still lacks experience." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang was silent for a while, beckoned to Changfu and said, "Changfu, you have been following Yun Wei in the past few days, how do you feel?" ”

Changfu wanted to speak and stopped, and said: "Your Majesty, the ministers dare not comment on His Royal Highness Taisun. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang sighed: "Okay, Changfu, I'm going to rest." ”

......

Zhu Yunwen fell ill at night and had a high fever, Lu Shi hurriedly asked the doctor from the Tai Hospital to come to diagnose the patient, and the doctor diagnosed the pulse and prescribed some medicine to clear the brain and calm the nerves, saying that His Royal Highness had a fever caused by fright and excessive Yousi, and it would be good to rest for a few days.

After taking the medicine, the fever subsided the next day, but the body was still a little weak, and when the body was better, Zhu Yunwen went to the court as usual, accompanied Zhu Yuanzhang to the court, and dealt with the twists and turns, but he was silent.