When Zhu Di's story was not finished, the person he wanted to impress the most, that is, the only listener of this story, Zhu Di's father, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and the wise and martial Emperor Hongwu, had already made a decision, and Mao Xiang had to make a little sacrifice to protect the emperor's reputation this time. So as soon as Zhu Di finished speaking, Zhu Yuanzhang asked with a smile: "You felt wronged, so you came to me to complain?" ”

Zhu Di smiled very subtly, and then said very embarrassed: "My son is here to admit his mistake and accept his guilt!" ”

Without waiting for Zhu Yuanzhang to react, Zhu Di hurriedly added: "Jinyiwei deceived people too much, and his son was really angry for a while, so he led people to smash Jinyiwei's yamen." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang, who was originally calm, immediately stood up when he heard this, and asked loudly: "What?" You dare to smash the Jinyi Guard's yamen, do you know what kind of crime this is? There is no monarch and father, and he despises the laws of the court, and if the official and the imperial history impeach you, I will not be able to protect you. ”

Zhu Di's face was embarrassed, and he was both aggrieved and pitiful, like a child who explained and begged for mercy in front of his parents after doing something wrong: "But Jinyiwei is too lawless, bullying me today, I am a vassal king, and I can still tell the truth." Thinking that they oppress the good and frame the loyal and good on weekdays, who doesn't say it to the people outside, today's Jinyiwei can cover the sky with one hand, and today they can frame so many important ministers and veterans through Hu Weiyong's case, and they can also frame other Zhongliang out of nothing in the future, this court has been made by Jinyiwei into a miasma, and the people of the government and the opposition are boiling. ”

The sentence of framing Zhongliang happened to Zhu Yuanzhang's heart, and Zhu Yuanzhang seemed to hear the meaning of mocking himself from this sentence. But as a person who has come over in the sea of corpses and blood, Zhu Yuanzhang knows that to look at the general direction, the main problems, and the main contradictions, he found other things in the details, what he values is the overall meaning of Zhu Di's words, if you chew the whole sentence carefully, the fourth child's words are clearly looking for reasons for me, the emperor, and the best way to explain to the government and the opposition. After hearing these words, Zhu Yuanzhang's heart was very comfortable, but he still refused to express it at all: "No matter what, I can't protect you, if I spare you this time, next time someone else will smash the yamen of Jinyiwei, or smash other yamen for other reasons, how to maintain the law of the imperial court, how to maintain the authority of the country, you are too bold." ”

Zhu Di listened carefully to his father's words, although Zhu Yuanzhang's words and sentences did not say that he could be accommodating, but his tone was not very tough, and there was no mention of such words as punishment in his words, it was obvious that his father did not want to investigate himself deeply, these words were nothing more than to scare himself, and the final result was that the thunder was heavy and the rain was small, thinking about this, Zhu Di raised his voice instead, and his speech became hard: "Since the law of the country is difficult to maintain, the son will go to the Yamen of Yousi tomorrow to ask for guilt on his own, and the father does not have to be embarrassed. The son does things alone, and asks his father to punish his son impartially. ”

Zhu Di's words made Zhu Yuanzhang angry, and said from the bottom of his heart that he really likes this son, who is smart, has a strong personality, and is decisive, although he sometimes seems a little irritable, but in all aspects, Zhu Yuanzhang feels that the fourth child is a little like himself back then. Even if he is in trouble now, he doesn't blindly beg for mercy, he dares to act, he is a man, well, this is my old Zhu's son, this is what my Zhu's son should look like.

Zhu Yuanzhang shouted: "Get out, go back to your palace, and reflect on me, I have been thinking about it behind closed doors in the past few days, it is really lawless." ”

Zhu Di withdrew from Zhu Yuanzhang's bedroom in this way, and retired unharmed. Zhu Di knew that he had barely passed this level.

Zhu Di passed this pass, but another person who came to the palace to complain was not so lucky, not long after Zhu Di came out of Zhu Yuanzhang's bedroom, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered to immediately arrest Mao Xiang, the commander of the Jinyi Guard. And the one who accepted this order was naturally the commander of the twelve guards who were in charge of the palace garrison tonight. When Feng Rival received this order, he couldn't tell how happy he was. First, he has been unpleasant to Mao Xiang for a long time, but he can't find a chance to attack Mao Xiang, but it happens that he is on duty today, and the opportunity for revenge has come. Second, Feng knew that Mao Xiang was waiting outside the south gate now, but he was busy patrolling, so he didn't see Mao Xiang outside the south gate. Of course, it was precisely because of Feng's opponent's official duty that Mao Xiang, who came to the palace gate first, did not have the opportunity to sue in the palace first, so that Zhu Di seized the opportunity, of course, he accidentally gave Yan Wang an assist, Feng's opponent did not know, otherwise with his character, doing good deeds without leaving a name will never happen.

For the emperor's orders, Feng's opponent has always been uncompromising in his execution, and at this moment he took out a resolute and resolute style, and immediately led people to the south gate.

Outside the south gate at this time, Mao Xiang, who had been waiting for a long time, didn't know whether to leave or stay, let's go, I have asked for an audience, and there will be a file inside, I haven't received a notice that the emperor's decree is missing, so it's obviously not right to go, but stay, when will it be? When will I see the emperor? Could it be that at this time, Zhu Di had already entered the palace from another door, and he had already met the emperor to sue first.

Cranky thinking can't solve the problem, let alone the weather, the temperature drops at night, there is some water vapor and cold, Mao Xiao feels a little cold, and he waits lonely outside the palace gate with his hands on his shoulders. Suddenly, the palace door opened, and a team of people came out of it, Mao Xiang's eyes lit up, could it be that the emperor announced that I was in? No, there is no need for so many people to come out.

Just before Mao Xiang could react, Feng's opponent gave an order, "take it", and the soldiers of the Shenwu Guard on both sides pounced violently, and pressed Mao Xiang to the ground without saying anything, Mao Xiang just shouted "I am Mao", and his mouth was stuffed with something I don't know.

Feng Opponent smiled and slowly approached, slowly squatted down, tilted his head to look at Mao Xiang, Mao Xiang's blocked mouth made a whining sound, Feng Opponent stretched out his hand and slapped Mao Xiang's face twice, "I sent Shengming to arrest you." I didn't expect it, you used to arrest people, but I didn't expect it to be today. ”

After Feng finished speaking, he stood up with a smile and added: "Don't worry, I won't embarrass you, after all, the emperor only explained that he wanted to arrest you, and now there is no holy decree to take your life." After speaking, he kicked Mao Xiang under his left ribs, which broke at least three ribs of Mao Xiang, and the painful Mao Xiang fainted on the spot.