Chapter 22: Closing the Net
After three days of secret collusion, all the people with evil intentions have found support, and even some of the top-ranked tributes have been co-opted.
In the court, because the emperor Zhu Yuanzhang did not express his position, and the crown prince Zhu Biao was even more closed, the officials and nobles began to become restless, and the people's hearts gradually fluctuated.
Just when everyone was speculating about the future direction, the soldiers who were originally just on duty on the street suddenly began to attack everywhere with a list, and all the students who participated in the temple examination were driven to a temporarily vacated inn, where each student was locked in a room, not allowed to enter or leave, let alone communicate, and the meals were also delivered by special people.
A eunuch stood in the lobby of the inn and said in his high-pitched voice: "In order to prevent you from being disturbed by additional factors, Your Majesty has ordered you to wait in the room for a while to calm down for a while before the palace examination......"
"This is house arrest in disguise, I'm going to get out!" Some students protested in the crack of the door.
"Qiang"
Before the student could finish speaking, a knife came in through the crack in the door.
"Don't be noisy!" The soldier outside the door bared his teeth and said, "Protest? Do you really think protest is a panacea? Your Majesty is merciful, if you leave me here, I will kill you immediately! ”
"You want to kill?" The student looked angrily at the soldier outside the door.
The soldier laughed, "What's wrong with killing you?" We didn't get an order not to kill you! ”
The student laughed angrily: "Okay...... Good...... When the palace test is over, the contemptible people will definitely play Your Majesty! ”
The soldier pursed his lips: "You pass the palace test first!" Some people may not live to the day of the temple test! ”
Hearing the soldier's words, the student was stunned for a moment, and asked eagerly, "What do you mean?" ”
This student, like Zhou Yushan, also obtained the qualification for the palace examination through protest.
"Ahem...... Let's go! The soldier obviously knew that he had talked a little too much, so he immediately pretended to cough and hurriedly beckoned the people around him to go elsewhere.
"Don't go, make it clear!" The student stretched out his hand, trying to grab the soldier's clothes and keep them, but the crack in the door was too small for only a few fingers to stick out.
Zhou Yushan's room was next to this student, and he saw and heard every move and conversation between this student and the soldier throughout the whole process.
"I won't survive the palace test...... Zhou Yushan thought about this sentence: Is there anything else that can't happen?
"What is it?" Zhou Yushan kept deducing various possibilities in his mind, but he knew too little information to have a definite answer.
Zhou Yushan, who couldn't find an answer, decided to ask for money to bribe the soldier and ask him to tell him why "someone wouldn't survive the palace test......
But the soldier seemed to have evaporated from the world, and did not appear until the evening.
……
"Have you heard? Yesterday a soldier was executed! Early the next morning, a conversation broke out in the hallway.
I didn't sleep well last night, and Zhou Yushan, who was just about to catch up on sleep in the morning, suddenly opened his eyes when he heard the words "the soldier was executed", he quietly walked to the door, put his ear on the door, and listened to the sound of talking outside.
The innkeeper said: "I saw it with my own eyes, it's the ten-captain who is on duty at our inn!" ”
The innkeeper Xiao Eryi asked: "Alas, this ten-master is really unlucky, and I don't know what happened?" By the way, I also heard that His Majesty said this morning that he had no intention of apolishing the crown prince, and that he would put everyone who spread this rumor to death! ”
Xiao Erjia: "Executed? Wouldn't that kill a lot of people again? ”
Xiao Eryi: "That's right, what kind of person is our majesty, even kill your own son!" I heard the second cousin of my cousin in the palace say that after the dispersal of the dynasty today, there was a prince who knelt there crying and shouting for mercy, but as a result, His Majesty was stunned and didn't see it, and asked the forbidden army to arrest this prince, saying that he would be beheaded tomorrow! ”
Xiao Erjia: "Kill the prince?" Which prince? ”
Xiao Eryi: "It's the prince who is the same as the prince's mother, it's really, a good prince is not right, but he wants to covet the position of the prince, it's really tired!" ”
Xiao Erjia: "That's right, if I were the prince, I would hide in the house every day to make people......"
Xiao Eryi: "Just you?" Next life......"
……
The conversation began to become improper, but Zhou Yushan had no intention of listening to it anymore, he felt that he had no strength in his body, and walked to the side of the bed in a gloomy manner, wanting to lie down, but fell directly to the ground.
The prince was arrested, and his past promises turned into floating clouds, and even his life was in danger.
"What to do? Escape? Zhou Yushan lay on the cold ground, looking at the simple room and the window facing the street.
"Boom"
The sound of a broken window came from next door.
But within a few breaths, a scream suddenly sounded outside the window.
"What's going on?" Someone asked on the street.
"This person broke the window and wanted to abscond in fear of crime, and the lowly duty happened to patrol here, and originally wanted to arrest him, but this person was stubborn, and the lowly duty chopped him to death!" Someone replied.
"Oh, give it to the Criminal Department!"
"Centurion, why is this man running? Didn't the prince say that as long as he turned himself in, he would not be blamed for the past, except that he could not take the exam, not only his own life was saved, but the whole clan would not be ......involved," someone said.
"Who knows, I guess it's a brain disease!" The centurion glanced at the closed windows and said, "Some people are probably still waiting for their master to save him, but they don't expect that their master will not be able to protect himself, alas...... It's better to turn yourself in and tell the truth, at least your life is your own. ”
"Turn yourself in?" Zhou Yushan's eyes lit up, and he sat up from the ground suddenly, the prince has been arrested, and his affairs will be exposed sooner or later, it is better to explain the matter earlier, the prince is merciful, and what he said will definitely count.
Zhou Yushan, who had made up his mind, hurriedly stood up, he came to the door and shouted: "Let me out, I have something to say!" ”
Zhou Yushan's words were quickly responded, and someone opened the room and took Zhou Yushan out.
……
In the gloomy room, Zhou Yushan sat tremblingly in the corner, and opposite him was a man who couldn't see clearly.
"You want to live?" The man played with the teacup and said nonchalantly.
"yes, I don't want to die!" Zhou Yushan said.
The man said: "Very good, then tell me everything you know, but not to me, but to the people of the whole capital!" ”
"This ......" Zhou Yushan hesitated a little.
"What? What are you hesitating about now? Your prince's backer has been arrested, and the man in Tsing Yi is also in prison, if you don't want to say it, it's okay, you can go back now, and then you won't say anything as simple, it is estimated that you will be asked to choose the death method of your nine clans, whether it is Ling Chi or skinning......" The man said.
"No...... I said......" Zhou Yushan hurriedly agreed.
"Very well, then without further ado, you go to Beixin Street now, tell everything you know out loud, and after that, someone will arrange for you to go to another place to live!" The man nodded with satisfaction, and at the same time beckoned two people to look at Zhou Yushan left and right, in case he changed his hexagram.
……
Just when Zhou Yushan went to Beixin Street, there was a student in every street in the entire Beijing Division who told how he was bribed and how he spread rumors that Zhu Yang was the prince's illegitimate son.
At the same time that the students told the truth, the soldiers and horses of the five cities, the Jinyi Guard, and some soldiers of the battalion stationed in Beijing attacked everywhere to arrest those thugs and thugs who took advantage of the chaos to rob, burn down shops, and even kill people.
Those who participated in the protests and their relatives were caught in big boats, and they will be relocated by Zhu Yang to contribute to the mining industry!