The chill of the blade stopped in midair.

"Poof."

The bearded man fell, and there were three men dressed as merchants standing behind him, Cheng Yuan turned around, and the three of them clasped their fists, bowed and saluted: "Boss!" ”

"Clean it up." Cheng Yuan pointed to the two soldiers on the ground and said lightly.

The three of them carried the two Ming who had fainted into the depths of the woods.

When Zhu Neng and Zhu Gaoxu arrived at the path, they saw Cheng Yuan leading the horse out, and quickly asked, "Is it okay sir?" ”

"Hurry up and get on your way." Cheng Yuan coughed twice and turned over on the horse, Zhu Gaoxu and Zhu Neng looked at the sky and followed behind.

Thinking of the Axe Gang, although there are not many people. are still very angry, and they usually don't treat them well in vain, which means that they always follow them behind them.

Zhu Gaoxu said with a smile: "On weekdays, if you dare to bully us, you will be arrested and cut directly, no nonsense." Leave them alone today. ”

Zhu Neng glanced sideways, and saw that Cheng Yuan's horse was always more than a dozen steps faster than himself, and he was also greedy for that horse, but he was just hungry, and he had no other ideas.

His instincts told him that the two who had robbed Cheng Yuanma must have been cleaned up. He likes Cheng Yuan's decisiveness, he is soft-hearted at the moment of life and death, and he is the one who dies.

The horse's hooves galloped, and Cheng Yuan was thinking about some details of history before the martyrdom.

Zhu Bai, the king of Xiang, was cut because Huguang's superintendent of the imperial history impeached Zhu Yunwen for forging treasure money in Jingzhou Mansion.

Zhu Bai's palace was built with a dragon pillar and copper tiles in an attempt to rebel.

When the imperial court heard about this, it just had a reason to cut Tibet, and those who were lurking in Jingzhou Mansion to spy on the King of Xiang also began to take action.

Zhu Bai, the king of Xiang, is not as good as those vassal kings in the border area, he belongs to the vassal kings of the mainland, and he does not have many soldiers and horses.

It is impossible to resist the imperial court, the officers and soldiers of the imperial court went to the gate of the Xiangwang Mansion, and Zhu Bai was helpless, saying that he was the dignified King of Hunan and the son of Emperor Taizu Gao.

will never be humiliated, and call all the people of the Xiang Palace, with their son who is only a few years old and the princess of Xiang, about the palace gate, to be burned alive in the fire.

King Xiang was the first vassal king to be killed in the first year of Jianwen, but Zhu Yunwen got the report and felt that he had ill intentions towards the court, so he set himself on fire in fear of crime, and gave Zhu Bai the nickname of 戾.

King Xiang has been knowledgeable since he was a child, smart and beautiful, and when he grows up, he studies hard, can write and martial arts, and is a typical child of other people's families.

Zhu Bai, the king of Xiang, has a very high attainment in calligraphy, and has the praise of "deep interpretation of the essence of the Jin people, and the degree of movement".

Even every time Zhu Yuanzhang had something to transcribe, he would send it to Jingzhou for King Xiang to transcribe and then send it back to Nanjing.

Cheng Yuan went through everything before and after, for fear of missing something he didn't understand.

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A few days later, the three people came to Jingzhou Mansion non-stop, and people came and went in the city, but the gate of Xiangwang's Mansion was deserted, and there were two teams of soldiers and horses guarding the door.

This made Cheng Yuan, who was confident, a little depressed, after all, it was still a step too late, and the soldiers and horses of the imperial court had already arrived.

"King Xiang, I've saved it."

"Wait."

When Zhu Gaoxu saw the soldiers and horses of the imperial court, he was immediately like a deflated ball, walking around a secluded alley irritablely, like an angry lion cub.

Zhu Neng looked at Cheng Yuan, and when he came out this time, King Yan personally told him that he would listen to Cheng Yuan for everything.

"Gao Xu."

"I'm here." When Zhu Gaoxu heard Cheng Yuan calling himself, he immediately ran over, and his eyes were very attentive: "Let me do it." ”

"You can't tear that layer of things on your face until you see King Xiang. I will go with General Zhu, the king of Xiang will not believe it, you are his nephew, you have to convince him when the time comes. ”

"What are we going to do now?" Zhu Neng looked at Cheng Yuan and asked.

"Now, let's find a place to rest and talk about it in the evening."

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Xiangwang Mansion, the main hall.

Seven or eight soldiers walked back and forth in the courtyard in front of the main hall.

Unlike the soldiers outside the door, these people were a little anxious, and they were not as relaxed as the other soldiers, but were anxiously vigilant outside the door.

In the hall, Zhu Bai, the king of Xiang, was talking with several Taoist priests, and he named himself Zixuzi.

The dragon pillar on the palace has been smashed down by the people of the imperial court and kept in a box as evidence of rebellion.

Zhang Shun took the Jinyi Guards to search for other places in the Xiangwang Mansion, they were reused by the imperial court, and they were promoted by the new emperor, and the enthusiastic desire to be loyal to Jianwen became active again.

On the surface, they are complaining bitterly, but from the King of Zhou, the King of Qi, to today's search for the Xiangwang Mansion, it is not a loss.

The looted silver antiques were valuable, and by the way, they took advantage of a few little girls, and then cut down the rebellion and secretly did their own things.

Jin Yiwei was instructed by Zhang Shun to go to various places to inspect the crimes of the vassal kings, and provided a famous division for the cutting of the fan, and they all rushed to Jingzhou Mansion overnight, wanting to make a meritorious contribution and be appreciated and promoted by the imperial court.

Zhang Shun came to Jingzhou this time and quickly smashed down the Panlong Pillar as the first big evidence of the King of Xiang.

Then I saw that Zhu Bai, the king of Xiang, placed a tripod at every door of the palace, and counted and found that there were nine tripods.

Nine is the number of the royal and the number of the Son of Heaven.

Zhang Shun immediately told his subordinates: "It's really tired of writing down the nine tripods and daring to use the number of the ninety-five." ”

But these crimes were not enough, not enough to arrest the king of Xiang.

Zhang Shun glanced at the closed Xiangwang Palace hatefully, hoping to continue to find evidence of the Xiangwang Palace.

He has been looking for evidence for the King of Xiang for almost half a year, and there are still more than ten days to go before the New Year, and it is really boring to stay in Jingzhou to collect evidence.

Originally, he didn't use it, but the others here in King Xiang couldn't find any clues, so he could only play by himself.

Find the evidence of the King of Xiang's crimes, so as to hurry home for the New Year.

Panlong Pillar, printed treasure money, used nine tripods, and other problems, Zhang Shun and Jinyiwei racked their brains.

The prefect of Jingzhou Mansion walked to Zhang Shun's side: "Commander Zhang, how are you collecting evidence?" ”

Zhang Shun turned sideways slightly, and said to Liu Run, the prefect of Jingzhou: "Look at this dragon stone used by King Xiang, this tripod is some small things, and it is not enough." ”

"Governor Liu, you have done a good job in Jingzhou about the King of Xiang, and when you return to the capital, this commander will recommend it to Your Majesty and let you go somewhere in Beijing."

When the new emperor ascended the throne, the positions of civil officials have long been changed a lot, and many of them have become Zhengyipin, and Liu Run, as the prefect of Jingzhou Mansion, is eager to be a Beijing official.

Liu Run, the prefect of Jingzhou, stood beside Zhang Shun and said in surprise: "Then thank you for the commander's help me say a few kind words, and I will do my best about the matter of King Xiang." ”

In order to collect Zhu Bai's evidence, Zhang Shun was already tired, and he was too lazy to run around.

simply gave Liu Run of Jingzhou Mansion a big cake and asked him to help him collect more evidence of King Xiang's crimes.

When the time comes, I will enter Beijing, and the credit will be over by myself. Zhang Shun had already jingled his wishful thinking.

"Then put a Jiuding, this is a big crime, what do you say, Governor Liu?" Zhang Shun squinted at him.

Liu Run looked at it, if the first emperor was still there, and the king of Xiang used Jiu and Panlongzhu, at most, he would be reprimanded by Zhu Yuanzhang for a few words, and he would not investigate his son's fault.

But now that he is an uncle and nephew, if the imperial court wants to govern him Zhu Bai, the king of Xiang, there is nothing wrong with it, and it is reasonable.

Liu Run didn't understand a little, and he gave full play to his ignorance to ask, "What is the attitude of the imperial court towards the King of Xiang?" ”

Zhang Shun thought about it and told him that it was actually fine, so he said: "King Yan and King Xiang have both led soldiers, and their relationship is very good, the court wants to get rid of King Yan, and they are afraid that King Xiang and King Zhou will resist, so they ......"

Liu Run had a bottom in his heart, "Then what should I do?" ”

"Let the King of Xiang take the initiative to confess, and force him to write it down in black and white, so that your officials will surround the Xiangwang Mansion and cut off the news of the three guards outside the city, and we will catch the turtle in an urn."

Liu Run nodded: "I, Liu Run, will do my best for the imperial court, and after I die, I will send the traitor King Xiang to the capital." ”