It was the warm midday sun that gently sprinkled on the devastated docks, and two hours of thousands of laborers still failed to clean up the burned goods. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info The bodies of the three thousand Praetorian Guards have been carried away and buried, and Zhu Di still couldn't help but come to the dock to check with a stinky face.

Restricted by the light last night, he couldn't see every detail as clearly as now, Zhu Di stepped on a thick layer of black ash under his feet, behind him were more than a dozen eunuchs with cautious faces, and around him were nearly a hundred guards with wary expressions. When the emperor walked there, the guards immediately drove the laborers who were cleaning up around him to the other side to clean up.

Originally, the progress of the cleanup was slow, but now it is being carried out by Zhu Di and the guards, and it is infinitely slowed down. Zhu Di walked aimlessly through the ashes, the ashes under his feet, which were still goods that could bring him great wealth earlier yesterday, were now turned into ashes.

Only those fine silver ornaments were melted by the fire into pieces of silver, which could be used as silver when they were taken back and recast. But there are very few of these things, so few that Zhu Di can already ignore them directly. The fire set by Jianwen can be said to have hit Zhu Di hard.

Fortunately, in the morning, Zhu Di had already ordered someone to count the goods that had not been damaged, and if they were converted into silver, they would be worth about 400 million. lost more than half of it, which made Zhu Di very distressed, but there were still nearly half of the goods, and he still got some comfort.

But he forgot to include the casualties of the 3,000 Janissaries, and the nearly 100 warships that are still sinking to the bottom of the coast. The pension and the loss of the warship are also nearly 100 million taels of silver, so only one-third of the goods are really retained for Zhu Di.

Hou Xian finally rushed back at this moment, and his men scattered from all directions to find the Sect of Light who had assassinated the Praetorian Guards, just now Hou Xian had received news one after another, and no one found any suspicious person. It was as if these people had suddenly disappeared into thin air, which did not confuse Hou Xian.

I was also worried about not knowing how to explain to Zhu Di next, although I was worried that I would be cut off by Zhu Di's order later, but Hou Xian had to bite the bullet to tell Zhu Di the truth.

Hou Xian was apprehensive, cautiously leaned in front of Zhu Di, regardless of the black ash on the ground, his legs bent and fell to the ground, and said with a bitter look on his face: "Your Majesty, the slave should die!" Within a radius of 100 miles, three feet of ground had been dug into the ground, but unfortunately no trace of the Bright Sect members had been found. ”

At this moment, Hou Xian was very worried, Zhu Di vomited blood twice for the attack on the goods at the dock, and he had already received the news at the first time. When he came here just now, he had already seen that his face was wrong, and if he heard this bad news, he would most likely be furious, and then his own head would be ruined.

After a while, Hou Xian didn't wait for the imaginary angry scene, but there was no response, just when he was about to look up and peek at it in confusion, Zhu Di suddenly sighed lightly and said: "That's it, the thief has been planning for a long time, and he is naturally fully prepared, if you can easily find the clue, it will be strange." Let all your people come back and escort all the goods parked in the treasure shipyard to the Imperial City, and nothing can go wrong in this matter, otherwise take care of your dog's life. ”

The last sentence Zhu Di squeezed out from between his teeth, and the meaning was obvious, if Hou Xian could even make a mistake in escorting the goods, then Zhu Di really didn't have the role of leaving him. Dongchang was prepared to be used by him to deal with the Bright Sect from the beginning, but as Tang Ming had analyzed, its effect was not obvious. The facts also proved that Tang Ming was not wrong at all, the threat of Dongchang to the Guangming Sect was almost zero, maybe the power he delegated to Dongchang would be withdrawn at that time!

At this moment, Hou Xian didn't know that his fate had already decided his dark days in the future in the quiet Zhu Di's thoughts. As the head of a special organization, although Hou Xian is a latecomer, he is also deeply obsessed with the beauty of power like everyone else. During his tenure, he naturally inevitably offended many people, once the power held by Dongchang was taken back by Zhu Di, and once Hou Xian fell out of favor and was squeezed out by his former enemies, this was likely to bring him a disastrous blow.

Zhu Di didn't say that Hou Xian didn't know at the moment, he thought that this was Zhu Di's opportunity to atone for his sins, he was not only grateful to Zhu Di in his heart at the moment, but also secretly vowed to transport the goods back to the imperial city.

Accompanying the monarch is like accompanying the tiger, as a courtier, under the monarchy, personal glory is completely in the hands of Zhu Di's thoughts. He can make you ascend to the sky in one step, or he can make you fall from the clouds to the bottom of the valley in the blink of an eye, and death without a place to bury is considered light. And Tang Ming will become more and more alienated from the emperor's family, and the reason for this is mostly due to this.

Even Yao Guangxiao, who seems to be indifferent to fame and fortune, is actually thinking about retreating bravely in a hurry, and the old monk follows Zhu Di's side, this kind of thing must have been seen before. Therefore, he wisely chose to fade out of the sight of the emperor's family when he was at his most beautiful, although Zhu Di did not let him get his wish, but he has no problem to protect himself now.

At least, if the current Yao Guangxiao doesn't die, there will naturally be no problem in enjoying his old age. Yao Guangxiao has this courage, and the biggest reason is that he has no family, no offspring, one person eats enough, the whole family is not hungry, how to live and how to live is always to consider himself.

But Tang Ming can't be as chic as Yao Guangxiao, he has the care of his family, and he is still very young and has his own dreams. Therefore, it is almost impossible for him to choose to fade out like Yao Guangxiao, and Yao Guangxiao's reputation has laid a solid foundation in the entire imperial court. Now he does not stand on the right side and does not participate in the government politics, he will not pose a threat to anyone in the court, and everyone will naturally respect him, an old minister.

And once Tang Ming learns from Yao Guangxiao and fades out without any ability to protect himself, he will inevitably invite death. The simplest thing is that Jianwen will definitely not let him go, so he must have a choice to fade out, that is, why should he develop his own power overseas.

Fate is in the hands of others, Tang Ming can't accept such a system, but he can't change such a reality, so he can only integrate into this society by changing himself. If he doesn't want to send people to survive under the fence, then he must stand at the top of the pyramid and let others send them under his fence to listen to his command, so as to control the life and death of others. (To be continued.) )