Chapter 256: The Ending (8)

On the second day, Li Jinglong drove to Kaifeng with 20,000 forbidden troops,。?

"Prince, Prince, it's not good, Cao Guogong Li Jinglong has come to us with troops" In Kaifeng's Zhou Wangfu, a family member heard the news that Li Jinglong was coming to Kaifeng with his troops, and hurriedly reported to King Zhou. At this time, King Zhou was leisurely playing with the birds, and saw that the family Ding hurriedly came to tell himself, and the king of Zhou heard that it was Li Jinglong, so he said to the family: "Don't make a fuss, Cao Guogong is a friend of the king, and it is not necessarily a bad thing for him to bring troops" King Zhou told the family not to make the whole palace panic, and to do whatever it should be.

Li Jinglong came to Kaifeng smoothly with his soldiers, and King Zhou personally came out to greet Li Jinglong, and wanted to pull Li Jinglong into the house to drink and chat. Li Jinglong refused King Zhou's invitation and prepared to take King Zhou to Beijing.

"Lord Wang, I'm here to bring you back to the capital."

"Just go to the capital and tell me, why do you have to bring troops?"

"King Zhou! Do you not know your sin?"

"Me? What a sin I have?"

"You've been reported for conspiracy"

"This is unjustly dead, when did I have a conspiracy, didn't we still drink together a few days ago?"

"Don't talk nonsense, let's talk about what you want to say when you see the emperor" Li Jinglong immediately asked the soldiers to take King Zhou away, King Zhou's family wanted to step forward, but they were stopped by those soldiers, so they had to watch King Zhou being taken away, along with King Zhou's wife and children.

The day after Li Jinglong escorted King Zhou back to the capital, Zhu Yunwen immediately interrogated King Zhou in the court.

At this time, King Zhou, who was brought up, was very embarrassed, and knelt in front of Zhu Yunwen with his head dirty, but Zhu Yunwen did not sympathize with his uncle.

"King Zhou, you are now a prince, and you have endless blessings, but you still have to risk being killed to plot against you"

"Wronged, Your Majesty, I tease the birds at home on weekdays, and I have never had the idea of rebellion when I drink tea" King Zhou tried his best to defend himself, but how could Zhu Yunwen, who was eager to cut the domain, consider whether he was really wronged.

"Your second son personally told me the truth, how could I have wronged you"

"Don't worry, I won't kill you, you don't have to be a prince anymore, I will belittle you as a commoner, and you will be sent to Yunnan" Zhu Yunwen did not execute King Zhou, after all, he was his uncle, Zhu Yunwen was still a little unbearable. For the king of Zhou, this sudden change made him very defenseless, from today he will be demoted from a high prince to an ordinary person, and he will go to a wild place like Yunnan, which is a very big blow to the king of Zhou.

What happened to King Zhou is just the beginning, and I believe that it won't be long before Zhu Yunwen will solve the rest of the vassal kings in the same way. Sadly, however, the matter of the king of Zhou did not make the other kings wary, and they naively thought that the emperor was simply dealing with the treacherous crime of the king of Zhou, so that they did not make the process of cutting the feudal domain difficult for Zhu Yunwen in the future.

The news of King Zhou's demotion soon reached the ears of the rest of the vassal kings, of course, the other vassal kings didn't pay much attention to it, including Zhu Di, the king of Yan. But there was a strategist named Yao Guangxiao by King Yan's side, who was very sensitive to this matter, and he clearly saw Zhu Yunwen's intentions.

Just the day after learning that King Zhou had been demoted, Yao Guangxiao immediately found King Yan, who was drinking tea in the courtyard at this time.

"Lord Wang, my subordinates have something important to tell you"

"Say it"

However, Yao Guangxiao did not say it immediately, but glanced at the two guards behind King Yan, and King Yan saw that it was inconvenient for him to say these two guards here, so he beckoned them to go down.

One of these two guards was Xu Feng, and he obviously saw that Yao Guangxiao's search for Zhu Di must be a very important matter. So Xu Feng didn't really leave, but hid aside and decided to eavesdrop on the conversation between them.

"Lord Wang, do you remember what I said when I decided to follow you?" Yao Guangxiao saw that there was no one around, so he opened his mouth to ask King Yan.

"If it's so rebellious, of course this king remembers"

"I once said that if you want to give the prince, you must be a 'white hat'"

The so-called white hat, King Yan naturally knows what it means to add a white character to the prince's king character, and when Yao Guangxiao said these rebellious words to him, King Yan naturally didn't care, but just laughed. Now that Yao Guangxiao mentioned it again, Zhu Di had already guessed what he was going to say next.

So Zhu Di spoke first: "If you want to mention that kind of rebellious thing again, don't say it again, this king will not do that."

"Why, don't you want to be the emperor?" Yao Guangxiao asked excitedly.

"I am now a prince, with this huge palace, my own wife and son, and more than 100,000 people under my command, living a leisurely life, why do I have to take a huge risk to do this kind of power and usurpation."

"Lord, listen to me, even if you don't rebel, the current emperor will not let you go easily"

Zhu Di was puzzled when he heard Yao Guangxiao's words, and he asked Yao Guangxiao: "I am my prince, what does it matter to him, why should I not get along with me?"

Yao Guangxiao smiled, "Because your power threatens his position as emperor, the emperor will definitely find a way to deal with you, and King Zhou is an example."

"Hmph, King Zhou, he asked for himself, who let him plot to usurp the throne"

"If the emperor wants to deal with King Zhou, it is not certain whether King Zhou's crime of usurpation is true"

Yao Guangxiao's words seemed to touch Zhu Di's heart, and Zhu Di began to think carefully about this matter, but just from the matter of King Zhou, he can't decide anything, let alone say that the emperor deliberately framed him, all of this can't be sure, so it's better not to act rashly at the moment.

Zhu Di once again rejected Yao Guangxiao's proposal to rebel, this is not a trivial matter after all, it is better to be cautious.

And Xu Feng, who was hiding in the shadows, was very happy, the month he sneaked into the Yanwang Mansion finally made a little progress, this Zhu Di really had a tendency to rebel, which made Ye Zhiqiu very excited.

What Xu Feng has to do now is not to immediately pass the news to Jinyiwei, but to further lurk around Zhu Di and present some more conclusive evidence, and then he can feed back the information to Jinyiwei, and then the emperor will deal with it.

At this time, Zhu Di didn't notice that Jinyiwei's people had infiltrated around him.

Poor King Zhou rushed to the deserted Yunnan to be his commoner in a daze.

It has been several months since Jinyiwei was sent out to go undercover, and more and more information has been transmitted to Jinyiwei from all over the country, Liu Shangyun has to process this information in more detail and regularity every day, and then hand it over to Zhu Yunwen, relying on this series of procedures, Zhu Yunwen has mastered a large number of vassal kings, which will become the reason for cutting the domain.

Jin Yiwei also dealt with some important cronies of the feudal king through assassination operations to clear the obstacles, so Jin Yiwei is playing an extremely important role in this plan to cut the domain. (To be continued.) )8