It is now May, Wuchang is located in the dividing line between the north and the south, although it is already early summer, but the wind on the river is still very strong, the old eunuch surnamed Zhang who followed Zhu Youlang to the north said: "Your Highness, the wind on the river is strong, please enter the cabin!" ”

Zhu Youlang nodded when he heard what the old eunuch Zhang said, and walked into the cabin, where there were already four cold, six hot and ten dishes of side dishes, and a pot of rice wine on the side.

Zhu Youlang smiled when he saw this: "Zhang Lao bothered, he will cross the Yangtze River in a while, do you still need to drink?" ”

The old eunuch Zhang bowed down and said: "Your Highness doesn't know, now the dock of Hanyang Mansion opposite Wuchang is busy, it is estimated that we will not be able to get to the shore for two hours, and at the same time, the river is very windy, and drinking some wine will warm up your body!" ”

Zhu Youlang nodded after listening, sat down and began to eat and drink. The old eunuch Zhang said to the few little eunuchs in the house: "You guys go out, our family is here to serve the master!" ”

Watching the little eunuch go out, the old eunuch Zhang stretched out his hand and poured a glass of wine for Zhu Youlang, and Zhu Youlang drank it dry in one gulp, and it tasted good.

"Elder Zhang, what did you do in King Gui's Mansion before? Why doesn't this king remember you? ”

The old eunuch sighed and said: "The old slave was just a miscellaneous eunuch in King Gui's mansion back then, and the prince was a prince, so you can see the old slave there!" ”

Hearing the old eunuch say this, Zhu Youlang also sighed, he remembered that he was not treated by his father Zhu Changying back then, he was just a concubine back then, if it wasn't for the Fengyun Jihui who could inherit the throne, and finally became the emperor.

"Yes! Back then, you were the same as this king, you were all fallen people at the end of the world! That's right! How did you get to Nanjing? ”

The old eunuch smiled and said: "Your Highness, the old slave has a brother and two nephews in front of him, so the old slave went to Nanjing to join his nephew!" ”

Zhu Youlang is not right, didn't this old eunuch say that he would go to Guangdong when he came to announce the decree last month, and then follow Zhu Hongsan to Nanjing? Why did you now go to Nanjing to join your nephew?

"Elder Zhang, didn't you say you went to Guangdong last month? Why did you go to your nephew again? ”

At this time, the old eunuch walked to Zhu Youlang and sat down, then poured himself a glass of wine, drank it all and said: "The old slave deceived His Highness, but the old slave can't help it!" ”

Zhu Youlang heard that the old eunuch's words were wrong, and a sense of crisis rose up in his heart again, and he hurriedly asked, "Lie to this king?" What deceived the king? ”

The old eunuch smiled bitterly: "The old slave deceived His Highness into drinking, this wine is poisonous!" Your Highness, don't complain about the old slave, they threaten the old slave with the old slave's nephew, and the old slave can't help it! ”

Zhu Youlang began to have severe pain in his abdomen at this time, he knew that the big thing was not good, so he stepped forward and grabbed the old eunuch's wrist and asked, "Is it Zhu Hongsan?" Did he ask you to kill the king? ”

At this time, purple and black blood was already flowing from the corners of the old eunuch's mouth, and the old eunuch said: "Your Highness, sooner or later you will die, why do you care about this?" ”

Zhu Youlang knew that he would die, but there was still his son Zhu Cixuan on the ship! Zhu Youlang had a hard time, and several of his other sons died on the way to escape, and now there is only one son left, so can he not care now?

Zhu Youlang grabbed the old eunuch's hand and shouted: "You tell Zhu Hongsan that Zhu Cixuan is just a ten-year-old child, he doesn't know anything, and he wants to spare his life!" ”

The old eunuch said slowly: "No, it's late!" Your Majesty has a decree that no one will be left! The old eunuch tilted his head and lost his breath after speaking.

At this time, the cabin door was pushed open, and four masked people in black clothes came in, Zhu Youlang looked at it and quickly shouted: "Are you sent by Zhu Hongsan?" You and Zhu Hongsan said, I can die, please spare my son's life! Otherwise, I wouldn't let go of Zhu Hongsan's faint gentleman! ”

One of the black-clothed men looked at Zhu Youlang, and at this time, black blood flowed from the corner of Zhu Youlang's mouth, and he was about to die, and the man in black said: "His Royal Highness King Gui, it's too late to say anything now, His Royal Highness the Prince has returned to heaven at this time, and the Queen Mother will return to heaven together, King Gui should also leave early!" ”

Zhu Youlang didn't expect Zhu Hongsan to be so ruthless, and he didn't even let go of a ten-year-old child, Zhu Youlang was a little back to the light at this time, and shouted loudly: "Taizu, Taizu, you drowned King Xiaoming back then, and now you will be retributioned on your descendants!" After Zhu Youlang finished speaking, he glared and scolded: "You tell Zhu Hongsan, I... Even if I become a ghost, I won't let him go! Zhu Youlang was silent after speaking.

The man in black stepped forward and looked at it and said, "Okay." Zhu Youlang is dead, how are you preparing? “

The other three men in black said, "Don't worry, there is no living in the ship now!" The bottom of the ship has been opened, and in a quarter of an hour the ship will sink to the bottom of the river! “

The man in black at the head nodded and said, "Okay, you all know what the master means, only the dead can keep secrets!" “

The other three nodded, took out the poison pill that had been prepared from their arms and swallowed it, and after a while, they all died of black blood from their mouths. The person at the head nodded, swallowed the poison pill as well, and the four of them died together with Zhu Youlang, the last emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Youlang and his entourage of five boats, each ship separated by more than 500 meters, had reached the middle of the Yangtze River at this time, which was the place where the water flow was most turbulent.

The second boat pulled Zhu Youlang's wife Wang and a few nobles, as well as a hundred Jinyi guards, led by Jinyi Wei Qianhu who was very anxious when they saw the situation, this is Jiang Xin, if King Gui has any accidents, none of them will survive. At the same time, that Jinyi Wei Qianhu was secretly shocked in his heart, why didn't he receive the news that the emperor was going to kill King Gui? Could it be that the guys in the East Factory did it?

The Qianhu hurriedly raised the flag to ask what the situation was, but none of the people on the first ship came out, and the deck was empty, so the Qianhu hurriedly ordered the ship's owner to lean up, wanting to see what the situation was, no matter what else it was, at least to rescue Zhu Youlang.

But the first ship was artificially sunk, and before the latter ships could come up, it had completely sunk into the river. At this time, several boats in the rear team also came up, and the generals who escorted Zhu Youlang saw that something big had happened, and the emperor's holy decree was to escort King Gui to Beijing safely, and now what should I do if I am halfway down the river? At the same time, the general was mainly afraid that the mastermind behind this incident was the emperor himself, so he would have to bear this pot and kill the prince. You can't cut it all over the place!

The general had no choice but to return to Wuchang and quickly contact the governor Yamen to salvage the sunken ship.

Liu Siyun, the governor of Huguang, was also shocked when he heard the news, but his first thought was that the emperor wanted to kill Zhu Youlang, after all, the biggest beneficiary of Zhu Youlang's death was the emperor.

Although Liu Siyun suspected the emperor, but if a person died in his own jurisdiction, he would have to bear joint and several responsibility, so there was no way Liu Sicheng hurriedly sent the news to Beijing with a four-hundred-mile urgent paperwork, and he had to organize people to salvage the sunken ship and the corpse.

Zhu Hongsan received the news from the governor of Huguang 15 days later, and only then did he learn that Zhu Youlang's boat had sunk into the Yangtze River, and the person was estimated to be dead. The first thing Zhu Hongsan did when he saw the document was to recall when he ordered Zhu Youlang to be killed? But if you think about it, it doesn't happen, so who did it? Does anyone dare to falsely proclaim the Divine Decree?

Zhu Hongsan kicked over the desk and scolded: "Who is it?" Who dares to falsely spread my orders! Lao Li, you Dongchang sent a capable team to Wuchang to see how Zhu Youlang died! ”

Li Chengen saw Zhu Hongsan angry, and hurriedly went down to organize people to rush to Wuchang, in fact, Li Chengen also thought that Zhu Hongsan did it, after all, Zhu Hongsan often did this kind of thing, wasn't Zhu Yihai, the king of Lu, the king of Lu back then, killed by you Zhu Hongsan?

The emperor had an order, and Dongchang immediately sent capable personnel led by Luo Qifeng, who was in charge of Dongchang's execution, to Wuchang, but Beijing was thousands of miles away from Wuchang, and everything was cold when he arrived at the place.

However, Liu Siyun still made some preparations in the early stage, Liu Sicheng sent people to the downstream to salvage the body, Zhu Youlang's body was not fished up, but the body of the old eunuch and some other people was fished up. Although these corpses were soaked in water for two days, they were examined by Fengtianfu, and the cause of death could still be seen, the old eunuch was poisoned and died, and everyone else was stabbed to their throats.

At this time, the weather was very hot, and the corpse could not be put away for a long time, so Liu Siyun had no choice but to salt the body of the old eunuch, and the bodies of several other people were cremated.

When the Dongchang personnel arrived half a month later, they also found that the old eunuch had died of severe poison, but because the body was destroyed by salt and did not know what poison was used, the people of Dongchang had no choice but to report the matter to the emperor truthfully.

At this time, the whole of Beijing already knew about Zhu Youlang's murder in the Yangtze River, although all the officials did not say it on the surface, but in their hearts they all thought that Zhu Hongsan did it, the reason is very simple, Zhu Hongsan, you have a criminal record.

Zhu Hongsan saw that there were a lot of rumors in the DPRK, and the key was that he had no way to explain it, this kind of thing could only be described more and more black, and in the end, Zhu Hongsan could only let His Excellency give an order, and if there were any officials in Beijing to discuss this matter, he would be dismissed immediately and never hired, so the rumors would be taken down.

The rumors were suppressed, but how could the hatred in Zhu Hongsan's heart be eliminated? Zhu Hongsan originally thought that the intelligence agencies were under his absolute control, but Zhu Youlang's incident made Zhu Hongsan discover that there was a secret organization around him that did not belong to him, so did he have to do it? What if these people go to the palace one day and ask for Zhu Hongsan's life?

Zhu Hongsan decided to set up an intelligence agency and use this agency to investigate Dongchang and Jinyiwei, which was the notorious West Factory in the history of the Ming Dynasty. The eunuch of the Xichang Admiral is Li Chengen's nemesis, Han Qi, the chief eunuch of the palace. Zhu Hongsan's order to Han Qi was to investigate and deal with Jinyiwei and Dongchang, no matter who was involved, they would be dealt with strictly, even the prince was no exception.