Nanjing City, the East Palace Prince's Mansion.

Although today is Zhu Biao's birthday, even Zhu Yuanzhang personally moved to celebrate his birthday, but he was a little absent-minded.

The reason is that Zhu Gui, the acting king, did not come, but only sent a letter.

The letter only said some inconsequential things, and it seemed that he had forgotten Zhu Biao's birthday.

If it weren't for the fact that the two had a very happy conversation a few days ago, Zhu Biao would definitely believe it.

He originally hoped to have a long talk with Zhu Gui for a few days about some opinions about his family and country, but he didn't expect this wish to come to naught.

Moreover, as a vassal king, the other party cannot leave the fiefdom without special things.

In other words, it will be difficult for the two to see each other again in the future.

On this day, many vassal kings came to see Zhu Biao in person, and out of courtesy, he could only barely squeeze out a smile.

The birthday banquet lasted until late at night, which made Zhu Biao, who was already in a bad physical condition, even more tired.

But that night, Concubine Guo Hui actually sent a little eunuch to deliver a letter.

The familiar font on it made Zhu Biao suddenly a little strange.

When he read the letter in its entirety, he immediately stood up.

"This is the case."

Zhu Biao's face was very solemn.

It turned out that this was a letter left by Zhu Gui to Concubine Guo Huifei, which explained in detail the reason why Zhu Gui was willing to leave Nanjing at the risk of the emperor's blame was because Jinyiwei wanted to arrest him.

There were originally three letters of this letter, and for the sake of insurance, they were sent to the Imperial Palace, the East Palace, and the Xu Mansion respectively.

And Zhu Gui deliberately left three personal guards for this.

It's just that because of Jin Yiwei, the other two letters were intercepted, and the content was also changed.

Only the letter sent to the palace Guo Huifei was delivered when the soldiers were desperate.

Will the Jinyi Guard secretly arrest a prince?

Could this be the emperor's order?

But according to the emperor's performance today, Zhu Biao felt that there must be something unknown about it.

Because of the importance of the matter, Zhu Biao went to the emperor overnight.

Zhu Yuanzhang had already rested, but when he heard that it was the prince who gave advice, he picked up the lamp and sat up.

That is, Zhu Biao has this treatment, and I am afraid that if he is replaced by others, he will already lose his head.

"Prince, it's so late, why haven't you rested yet?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked with a sleepy feeling.

"Father, the son has an important matter that he wants to ask his father in person, if there is no answer to this question, the son will not be able to sleep."

Zhu Biao said with a serious face.

"Oh? What could make the prince so worried? Let's hear it. Zhu Yuanzhang asked with some surprise.

"Did my father send the Jinyi Guard to arrest the acting king?"

Zhu Biao stared at Zhu Yuanzhang and said.

"Nonsense, how could I do such a thing? Who told you that? I'm going to skin him,"

Zhu Yuanzhang immediately became angry when he heard it.

He didn't want to see Zhu Gui, but he had already sealed him out, and it was less than a year, even if he didn't do well in the fiefdom, it was not time to settle accounts.

This means that Zhu Biao can say this kind of thing in front of Zhu Yuanzhang without worrying about being punished, and another person would have been dragged out a long time ago.

Zhu Biao breathed a sigh of relief and said: "Sure enough, the father must strictly investigate this matter, today the acting king did not come to the East Palace to attend the birthday of his son, because he has already left Nanjing, the reason is that there are Jinyi guards who want to arrest him." ”

Zhu Biao said and handed over the letter from Concubine Guo Hui.

Zhu Yuanzhang looked surprised, he took the letter and squinted at it, and suddenly patted his thigh and said, "Come on, call me the command room of Concubine Guo Hui and Jinyiwei." ”

The chief eunuch guarding outside the door knew Zhu Yuanzhang's temper very well, and when he heard him angry, he immediately ran out in a hurry.

After a stick of incense, Concubine Guo Hui and the commander of Jinyiwei arrived.

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Concubine Guo Hui: "Concubine Hui, this letter was given to you by the acting king?" ”

Concubine Guo Hui's eyes were swollen like walnuts, and she nodded: "No, it was sent by the emperor's own soldiers, and he died after delivering the letter." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang became even more angry when he heard this, and he looked at the commander of the Jinyi Guard: "See for yourself what is written in this letter." ”

Jiang Xuan, the commander of the Jinyi Guard, read what was written on the letter under Zhu Yuanzhang's angry gaze, and then immediately knelt down and said: "The minister knows nothing about this matter, and I beg the emperor to forgive me." ”

"Who else but you can mobilize the Jinyi Guard? I have given you so much power that you dare to touch my son, I give you ten days, and if the results of the investigation are not found before my birthday, you can bring it up yourself. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang said angrily.

"The minister commands."

Jiang Xuan left Zhu Yuanzhang's bedroom on his stomach.

Only then did Zhu Yuanzhang get up and comfort Concubine Guo Hui and said, "There is such a thing, why didn't you come and tell me earlier?" ”

Concubine Guo Hui said: "The concubine knows that the emperor is not favored in front of the emperor, and this matter involves Jinyiwei, and the concubine does not dare to say it." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded, knowing that what Concubine Guo Hui said was the truth, if it weren't for Zhu Gui's life and death, she probably wouldn't have contacted the prince.

And Zhu Biao came over at this time and said: "Father, it seems a little inappropriate to hand over the investigation of Jinyiwei to Jiang Xuan, in fact, Erchen has long felt that Jinyiwei's power is too great, and Erchen can often see the excerpts of hundreds of officials impeaching Jinyiwei. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded and said: "What you said is indeed good, but compared to the checks and balances of Jinyiwei on hundreds of officials, the mistakes they made are nothing, this time, it should be Zhu Gui's kid who made a mistake first and was caught by Jinyiwei." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang exonerated Jinyiwei.

"But......" Zhu Biao wanted to say something, but was interrupted by Zhu Yuanzhang stretching out his hand.

"Let's take a look at Jiang Xuan's investigation first, I will make sure that this matter will not happen in the future."

After Zhu Yuanzhang finished speaking, he looked at Concubine Guo Hui and said, "Concubine Hui will rest in my bedroom tonight, prince, you have also been busy for a day, go back and rest early." ”

The emperor issued an eviction order, and Zhu Biao could only return to the East Palace.

However, this incident still kept him awake at night, so he wrote a few excerpts overnight, and then secretly sent someone to tie up the Xu Mansion, wanting to solve the danger that Zhu Gui might encounter.

The next day, Xu Fu met with the prince's messenger, and only then did he know the danger to Zhu Gui and Xu Miaoqing.

However, although Xu Guogong is quite related to the officialdom, he is beyond the reach of the whip and cannot take care of Datong Mansion.

And the other party is Jinyiwei, the existence of the color change that ordinary people talk about.

After thinking about it, Xu Guogong still decided to contact another powerful figure, that is, Zhu Di, the king of Yan.

Zhu Di's princess is the eldest daughter of Xu Guogong, and with this relationship, maybe Zhu Di, whose fief is closest to Datong Mansion, can do something.

So going around and around, Zhu Di finally knew what happened to Zhu Gui's early departure from Nanjing.

It's just that Zhu Di, who was decisive on the battlefield, was also in a dilemma at this time, and he was also very jealous of the power of Jinyiwei.