At noon, a tired and half-dead horse galloped into the Xuanwu Gate of the capital with a messenger on horseback, who was also exhausted and exhausted. This messenger went straight to the Ministry of Rites, but it was a messenger from Huguang Yi Domain, and the news he said made Xie Duo, the always calm Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites, almost unable to hold the cup in his hand.

In the history of good books, the assassination of Yiwang Youbin, who loves the people like a son, almost saved his life, but one of his two sons-in-law lost his life in order to protect his father, and a baby concubine was poisoned!

This is an extremely rare attack on the prince of the vassal since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Xie Duo naturally did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly drafted a fold to prepare to report to the top. When the news arrived in the cabinet, Li Dongyang, who is now the sole leader of the cabinet, was also shocked, and he had to immediately send someone to the palace to report the news, and then he thought about the reason for this matter. But although this is a shocking case, there are too many things to do, and he has to put this one aside for the time being. In the evening of this day, Zhu Houzhao finally ordered someone to pass down the imperial book, and he was very angry, and he directly ordered Tu Xun, the Shangshu of the Criminal Department, to be the Qincha, and mobilized elite arresters to go to Hubei to investigate the matter thoroughly.

However, before Tu Xun left Beijing, a series of bad news arrived in the capital. King Heng, King Yong, King Shou, King Ru, King Jing, King Xing, these kings of Emperor Chenghua of Xianzong were poisoned one after another, among them, there are also like King Yi's good life to save his life, but there are also bad life such as King Xing, the method is from the fire to the ground, crack the arrow, poison and assassination, etc., even if there are some discrepancies in time, but the veterans of the criminal department list these times one by one to take a look, look at each other, someone put forward an idea.

Why are these cases, although they are reported early or late because the magistrate is timely or untimely, why are they all half a month to a month after King Ning's rebellion?

It was not until the famous grandson of Yingzong, Chongwang Youyu, sent someone to send an urgent secret report of 800 miles, and the major yamen of the cabinet ministries and courtyards, which were originally filled with a tense atmosphere, suddenly realized. King Chong rarely disturbed the people, rarely went out of the palace, and one day found that the waiter who delivered food and drink behaved differently, so he took someone to strictly investigate. In the end, it was learned that he had been ordered to carry out the assassination. Immediately closed the palace, and secretly asked the prefect of Runing to ask for a big rope in the whole city, and finally got a suspicious person, confessed that he was the envoy of the Ning Domain, and confided that King Ning wanted to kill all the clans in the world, so that the bloodline and the current son was quite distant after he rebelled, he could justifiably ascend the throne.

Needless to say, this four words of righteousness and smoothness were undoubtedly learned from Zhu Di, the Yongle Emperor who ascended the throne after the Jingjing martyrdom! It's just a natural advantage compared to Zhu Di. King Ning's move is simply vicious and stupid!

Faced with such a news, everyone up and down suddenly realized the seriousness. Zhu Houzhao immediately selected a group of capable people to check and visit the princes of the feudal counties and the generals of the Zhenguo Fengguo, and also wrote to the local government to strictly investigate, even so, one after another obituaries of the clan still came one after another, filling the Ministry of Rites. If at first the ministers still thought that the rebellion of the Ning Domain was a joke, then now in the face of the facts provided by those who were successively seized by several pro-vassal county kings, more people are shuddering.

This Ning Wang Zhu Chenhao is simply crazy! The Ming Dynasty was founded to the present. From the prince of the vassal to the general, etc., is already quite a huge number. It's not that the ministers don't want to cut it, but no one thought of using such a drastic and terrible method. Moreover, the reward offered by the person who King Chong got was 5,000 guan for the prince, 2,000 for the king of the county, 1,000 for the general, etc., all of which were paid in advance, and after the deed was completed, they were all from the dragon heroes, so if everyone was killed, how much would King Ning have to pay?

"They're all dead, and they're going to cause me so much trouble!"

In the Qianqing Palace. Zhu Houzhao, whose face sank like the bottom of a pot, viciously smashed a stack of all kinds of newspapers on the imperial case in front of him, and then looked at Xu Xun with annoyance and asked, "Xu Xun, what do you say...... Seo Hoon! ”

Seo Hoon's attention was still on the heads of the hapless dead. If the butterfly flutters its wings, history will shift, and he himself has personally led several such changes, of course, there is confidence that the ungrateful and suspicious Emperor Jiajing in history can stand aside. Even so, he heard the news of the death of King Xing and his infant eldest son. He still had a feeling of disbelief. In other words, the Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi, who left a strong mark in history, left in obscurity?

Therefore, it wasn't until Zhu Houzhao raised his voice and shouted several times that he came back to his senses. Seeing the little emperor glaring at him in annoyance, he thought of the question he had just completely missed, so he could only salivate and say, "What did the emperor just say?" ”

"I'm talking to you, you're distracted!" Zhu Houzhao repeated his question angrily, and then said angrily, "Those things that attacked Liu Jin's original guards in the king of Funing have raised their heads again, these damn guys, they still don't like the current situation is not messy enough!" ”

Xu Xun naturally expressed sympathy for the innocent clan who suffered heavy casualties, but it was limited to sympathy, especially those who were known to be virtuous and measured. And for many clans who eat human brains and bully men and women, and set off firecrackers all over the city to celebrate after they die, he completely feels that he is to blame. But at this moment, what is more important is the issue of Liu Jin, which made Zhu Houzhao very unhappy.

Therefore, after thinking for a while, he said: "Your Majesty, the old Liu people are no longer there, those who call for accountability are more afraid of the emperor's announcement of the inspection officials, and now the book is just to disgust people, if the emperor finds it difficult, as long as the previous old Liu family is relieved, and the people are placed in Nanjing first." ”

"Huh?" Zhu Houzhao was originally a little hesitant, but when he heard that it was to settle Nanjing, he immediately understood, and immediately nodded and said, "It's okay, none of his brothers and nephews are capable, send them to Nanjing, and I will just send them a fortune when I go back." ”

"As for the fact that there are many casualties in the clan this time...... Forgive the ministers for their courage, the clan will inevitably be angry, coupled with Lao Liu's matter, if the emperor tries his best to protect it, he is afraid that he will have to be wronged. ”

"I'm wronged?" Zhu Houzhao experienced the rebellion of King Ning in Jiangxi, and whether he had any ambition or experience, he was no longer a little emperor who had never been to Tongzhou in the farthest distance in the capital, so after asking rhetorically, he asked thoughtfully, "You mean, even if Zhu Chenhao poked out the basket, I have to be responsible, this is to punish myself?" ”

Speaking of the three words of the edict of guilt, the little emperor couldn't help but grit his teeth a little. However, looking at Xu Xun's helpless expression, thinking of the countless dead people this time, he naturally knew that this was a last resort. Even so, he couldn't help it with a fire in his heart, and immediately sat down and said angrily: "Let's go south along the Cao River, I haven't heard that many clans have a good reputation, such as King Yi, who has a good reputation, but those who do nonsense on weekdays deserve to die, why should I be responsible!" ”

The little emperor complained, Xu Xun just listened quietly and didn't say anything more. The most important suggestion has already come out, and the next thing should be the matter of those ministers, even if he has another idea, it is okay to give people a few words behind his back, and he will be exempted from acting on his behalf. When he returned home on this day, he couldn't help but take a light breath thinking about the princes and county kings who were likely to sever the lineage of the Ming Dynasty this time.

Is...... A lot of people died!

At the Wenhua Palace meeting the next day, from Li Dongyang, the head of the cabinet, to the seven secretaries of the six ministries of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the squire and other important officials, they directly quarreled the sky, and finally argued with hunger until the afternoon Shenshi, which reluctantly reached an opinion that Zhu Houzhao could accept.

The emperor issued an edict, which was the most difficult thing to persuade before, but Zhu Houzhao agreed without hesitation. But the next one is the focus of the tug-of-war. If the titles of those princes and county kings are cut off from the direct lineage, then they will be selected from the side branches within three generations to succeed, instead of the former prince Xu Zi and his younger brother, and the county king's concubine cannot attack the lord, let alone the side branch, but after the death of the raider, he will be demoted to the rank of lord.

The two words of demotion were put forward by Chai Sheng, the servant of the ministry, although it was once opposed by most people with the old precedents, etc., but Zhu Houzhao agreed to it. As for the dead and wounded General Fengguo, General Zhenguo, etc., if there is no queen, they will be removed, and the injured will be appeased by the court twice as much as Lu in three years. In addition, a case investigation and visiting group headed by Tu Xun, the secretary of the Criminal Department, and Zhu En, a waiter of the Ministry of Rites, was dispatched to visit the princes and generals of each domain in depth to convey the emperor's cordial condolences, and the other was fully responsible for the matter of the raid.

And at the end of this series of measures, it is a strong stroke. Zhu Chenhao, the king of Ning, committed a heinous crime, killed his corpse, and exposed his body at the Nanjing Taipingdi Execution Ground for three days to set an example. His sons are still young, and they are all imprisoned in Fengyang. From the rebellious King Ruichang and King Yichun beheaded to show the public, their sons and heirs over the age of fifteen were all executed, and under the age of fifteen were imprisoned in Fengyang. After the Ning Wangfu was confiscated, a part of it was allocated to compensate the deaths of all parties. Ning Wangfu previously encroached on the official mansion and private land, etc., and ordered the right deputy of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, Yushi Linjun, to preside over the return. The rest of the royal mansions and fields were confiscated. All the bandits from the rebels will be beheaded, and they will be sent to the Qiongzhou Mansion under the age of fifteen.

Xu Xun, who learned the news, calculated the account with Shen Yue heartlessly: "At the beginning, the property of King Ning's Mansion was made by me personally, even if I didn't finish the inventory, I also knew a rough idea, and there were no more than 10,000 hectares of farmland looted by King Ning in the past dynasties, one million mu. And the property looted by all parties in the mansion is not less than two or three hundred thousand taels, not including those antiques that cannot be valued, etc., it can be said that such a vote will be eaten, whether it is the pension this time, the bandits in Jinan, even if it is Yang Yiqing's money to build a side wall and fight! Although it is not possible to copy one or two more of these, and it is not very kind, but since there is no one to inherit the heirs, those clans who have no heirs will sort out some of the excess in the fields of the palace and share part of the profits to those local law-abiding clans, and it is logical to recover the rest. ”

Shen Yue knew that Xu Xun was such an extremely good scorer, and she didn't bother to laugh at him at the moment, however, thinking of those exposing corpses, executing, beheading, and sending them away, even if she had never been a sympathetic character, she still couldn't help but ask: "If the emperor does something like this, will he be accused of being too heavy, and the baht will be compared?" ”

"In troubled times, we should use heavy codes. Over the years, bandits have been rampant, the two kings have rebelled, and the little prince in the north is eyeing him. The emperor's sin edict said that he would work hard to restore the prosperity of the world and peace, and if it was a prosperous world now, what would it do? The actual thing is more important than the name! ”