Zhu Hou looked at Liu Jin and Ma Yongcheng, who was on duty and was accompanying him: "Do you think you should be open to Liu Jian, Li Dongyang and others?" ”

Liu Jin naturally has no feelings for Liu Jian and others, after all, for him, he has already torn his face with Liu Jian and others, and they are already incompatible with each other, and when he thinks that he will see Li Dongyang's face in the court in the future, he is already very uncomfortable, where is he willing to easily forgive Liu Jian, Li Dongyang and others.

Therefore, Liu Jin stood up first and said: "Emperor, the ministers think that the grass must be eradicated, and Ma Gechen wants to be a Bodhisattva, but the Bodhisattva can't suppress the evil except for being offered up for good people to worship!" ”

Ma Yongcheng, the governor of Dongchang, also thought that Liu Jian and other civil officials wanted the lives of several of his eunuchs, if it wasn't for the emperor's death to save him, he was only afraid that he would already be in a different place, and he would have no reason to spare them easily, so he also echoed:

"As the emperor said, the death of the first emperor cannot be unclear, even if they are not guilty of killing the king, they have to create the crime of killing the king, otherwise it is not enough for the foreign courtiers to understand the consequences of disobeying the king!"

Zhu Houzhao agreed with Ma Yongcheng's remarks, the Ming Dynasty emperor was overboard too much because the civil officials forgot the consequences of the murder of the monarch, and took the emperor's good temper for granted, and only the Qing Dynasty knew how to get along with the emperor.

"Ma Yongcheng, you are reasonable, but Ma Wensheng and their face, we still have to give it, after all, they are also for our sake, there must still be evidence of killing the king, fortunately, I have already made you prepare, the person in charge is you Ma Yongcheng, you can tell me, what is the whereabouts of Zhang Yu and the others who were exiled due to the death of the first emperor?"

After Zhu Houzhao said, he raised his head and asked Ma Yongcheng.

Ma Yongcheng hurriedly replied: "The emperor asked the ministers to send people to keep an eye on them before, and they are still staring at them now, but they didn't take action to arrest them, what they are afraid of is to startle the snake, as long as the emperor gives your order, the ministers will send people to Shaanxi to arrest them back and interrogate them strictly!" ”

"If the first emperor dies unexpectedly, Zhang Yu is the most suspected direct murderer! These people will never be forgiven! Now we have to find a way to arrest them and interrogate them carefully, but we can't go openly, so as not to let Li Dongyang and others find out in advance and even do other things like jumping off the wall in a hurry, such as suicide or something."

Zhu Houzhao said and looked at Ma Yongcheng again: "You are now the commander of Dongchang, and you will investigate and handle major cases full-time in the future, what are your ideas?" ”

"It is indispensable to escort this important prisoner, and the minister suggested that it would be better to bring a group of officers and soldiers directly, and this army must be reliable, there must be no possibility of leaking the news, and there must be another reason, so as to avoid Li Dongyang and others secretly sending people to kill us and learn our purpose in advance," Ma Yongcheng said.

Zhu Houzhao nodded: "There is also a ready-made reason for sending a team of officers and soldiers to Shaanxi, Wang Shu is from Shaanxi, and now I am ready to reinstate him as the secretary of the ministry, I asked the celebrant to draw up a decree to send officers and soldiers to escort him into Beijing with the gift of the emperor, the question is which officer and soldier to send?" ”

"Emperor, the ministers thought that they could send the Absolute Voice Guard to Shaanxi to arrest Zhang Yu and others in the name of escorting the prince into Beijing, and the Absolute Voice Guard was composed of deaf and mute people, and the contact with the foreign ministers was minimal or even impossible, and they could not hear or speak, which was undoubtedly safer, so as not to leak the news, but the current commander of the Absolute Voice Guard made Yang Mao always low-key, and most people no longer knew how to communicate with him in sign language."

Liu Jin stood up and said at this time.

Zhu Houzhao also felt that he could, but he had to admit that he didn't know how to communicate with the deaf and mute, and the brocade-clothed pro-army established for Zhu Yuanzhang by the deaf strategist Lu Bufu and the deaf general Yang Zhongkai has been ignored by most people many times.

"Wang Shourenhui, who was arranged by the emperor to study in the leopard room, was originally the head of the Military Selection Department of the Ministry of War, and he specially studied it in order to review the situation of the Absolute Voice, and also had a good relationship with the current commander Yang Mao.

"Very good!"

Zhu Houzhao immediately stood up and instructed Liu Jin and the others: "The celebrant eunuch drafted the decree, and the eunuch of the ceremonial eunuch Bingbi became the chief envoy of Dongchang Ma Yong, and Wang Yangming was moved to the left to be the bachelor of the Hanlin Academy as the deputy envoy, and the brocade clothes and the army escorted the prince into Beijing, so as to show my compassion for the old ministers and the eagerness to rule the world!" ”

Ma Yongcheng hurriedly received the decree and thanked him, and at the same time went to the leopard room to find Wang Yangming with the decree prepared by the celebrant and the celebrant.

At the same time, Zhu Houzhao ordered someone to call Gu Dayong and instructed: "Now you are responsible for interrogating Wang Yue and other traitors, and the Jinyi Weibei Town Fusi will cooperate with you, remember, no matter what means and punishment you use, you must pry Wang Yue and the others open their mouths and force them to find out the secret about the sudden death of the first emperor, but you can't let people die, otherwise it will be too cheap for these traitors, understand?" ”

Gu Dayong didn't expect the emperor Zhu Houzhao to hand over the power to interrogate Wang Yue and others, and he was very excited for a while, he saw with his own eyes how Wang Yue coerced Emperor Zhengde to kill them that day, and naturally he couldn't wait to put Wang Yue and others to death, so he hurriedly agreed: "Don't worry, the emperor understands!" ”

Zhu Houzhao only smiled slightly after seeing Gu Dayong leave, and then thought about it again, thinking about how to ensure that he would definitely be able to fight for Emperor Hongzhi.

Now, while he sent Ma Yongcheng to Shaanxi to arrest the direct murderer of Emperor Hongzhi, he asked Gu Dayong to use torture in the capital to ask for incriminating evidence from Wang Yue and others, which can be regarded as double insurance, which can ensure that the evidence of Emperor Hongzhi's death is conclusive.

But Zhu Houzhao is still a little worried that even if he has the conclusive evidence that Emperor Hongzhi was killed, he may lose to the civil officials in public opinion, after all, the pen of the civil officials has always been powerful, especially good at reversing black and white, Zhu Houzhao feels that he has to create a fact that is convincing enough for people in this era to refute, and this fact is naturally the fact that Emperor Hongzhi was killed.

To control public opinion, it is natural to grasp the right to speak, and to use natural phenomena to create speech, the latter is undoubtedly more convincing in this era, especially the common people, so Zhu Houzhao feels that he can use public opinion to spread the remarks that the former emperor was killed by traitors in the capital at the right time.

Coincidentally, the next morning, Xu Jing came to Zhu Houzhao to report on the completion of the equity transfer and the establishment of the Royal Bank and the Tax Corps, and Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but ask first: "Has your brother-in-law Tang Bohu entered Beijing?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, the minister has already written a letter to him, it is estimated that it will take a few days to arrive in Beijing, the righteous brother of the minister has always had a lot of confidants in the fan, all the way north, from Suzhou, Yangzhou, Linqing, Baoding, Tianjin Wei, Tongzhou and even the capital have their love debts, he has to compensate for the lovesickness of these fans one by one!"

Xu Jing replied.

Zhu Houzhao felt speechless, thinking that grass powder is grass powder, why should he say it so elegantly, and couldn't help but say: "I have a lot of use for him, you hurriedly send someone to urge him, tell him that within five days, if I can't see him, I will find someone to castrate him!" ”

Xu Jing had to obey the order, but he couldn't help but slander, thinking that if he really castrated his brother-in-law, would he be able to return his 20,000 taels of silver?