Walking out of the palace, Gu Huai glanced back at the continuous lights, and the cold sweat on his back was sticky, which made him a little uncomfortable.

Zhu Di's attitude towards him, it is obvious that he has experienced a great fluctuation in the past two days, for strategists like Gu Huai and Daoyan, in the process of rebellion, they are the most important talents, but after the rebellion is successful, they have become the object to be guarded against.

Dao Yan, who is known as the "black-clothed prime minister" by history, obviously felt this, so after Zhu Di was likely to enter Jinling, he gave his final opinion with a letter, and then retreated bravely, declining all rewards, and bluntly saying that the great cause had been accomplished, and he wanted to return to the previous monk.

He thought that Gu Huai would understand, but Gu Huai followed Zhu Di all the way to Jinling City, but forgot about it.

In a sense, perhaps he is more of a threat than Dao Yan.

Think about what Gu Huai has done in the past four years... From the day he entered the Yanwang Mansion in Beiping, he has been running for this Jingjing, maybe Zhu Di himself has had doubts and retreats, but Gu Huai has not, he has always been determined to fight this Jingjing.

The appearance of the grenade changed the situation on the battlefield and helped the Yan army survive the most difficult stage, Daning borrowed troops almost single-handedly by Gu Huai, so that the Yan army had the qualifications to confront Li Jinglong's 500,000 army, and even in the interval of the war, Gu Huai also led the troops to the grassland to solve the border trouble.

The secret spy department has done countless things to steal intelligence and rebel against officials, and even Li Jinglong, after the defeat, willingly opened the gate of Jinling for the Yan army, attacked and burned grain and grass, and cut off its back road.

If Gu Huai is just a strategist, he can still lead troops; It's just a matter of leading troops to fight, and the happiness rooted in his heart for the overthrow of the dynasty is Zhu Di's most vigilant and vigilant.

So it is not difficult to understand Gu Huai's attitude that is close to cold reception after Zhu Di canonized the Duke of the Kingdom, but Zhu Di is Zhu Di after all, he is wary, but he has not done anything like a cunning rabbit to death and a lackey, if it is Liu Bang or Zhu Yuanzhang, when the new dynasty is established, it is the time when Gu Huai should die.

Thinking of this, Gu Huai couldn't help but ask himself, even if he had such two scholars around him who took it as their mission to overthrow the dynasty, he couldn't be sure if there would be similar things in the future.

And Gu Huai is now a prince of the country, with a high position and power, let Gu Huai lie dormant for a while, if he feels that he can sit on that throne one day...

But the previous conversation in the palace seemed to make Zhu Di see another possibility, because Gu Huai not only has a plan to subvert the country, but also seems to have the ability to handle government affairs as a handsome person who leads troops to fight.

He's still in the prime of life, and with him in his hands, the worst may not happen.

Gu Huai gradually understood, after discussing the matter of the cabinet and the Yongle ceremony, Zhu Di asked him to form a Shenji battalion and form a firearm-based army, maybe it was a reward, maybe a warning and temptation.

He withdrew his gaze, a little emotional and tired.

Nearest the king nearest the gallows...

……

Jinyiwei's Zhao Prison was as bloody as ever, the official boots stepped on the ground, and the thick green bricks seemed to be oozing blood, Gu Huai withdrew his gaze at those torture instruments that were still bloody, and turned to Ji Gang on the side:

"The remaining officials on the traitorous list are all here?"

"Grandpa Guo, please see, there are a total of twenty-three people, all of them," Ji Gang smiled cautiously, "In addition to Huang Zicheng and Qi Tai on the road, and Tie Xuan, who was not caught in Shandong, all the people His Majesty will kill have been arrested, and their families, because Zhao Prison can't be closed, most of them are locked up in the prison of the Criminal Department." ”

Gu Huai nodded, Ji Gang's attitude was mostly because he had discovered his abnormality before, but now it is impossible to attack Ji Gang.

He has become Zhu Di's eagle dog, and Gu Huai has missed the best time to send him on the road.

With some regrets, Gu Huai walked all the way in, the cells on both sides were overcrowded, and the frightened faces poked into the side of the cell, the wife cried, the children screamed, and some people scolded, and listened carefully, but it was their own coldness that was scolded, such as Huang Zicheng and Qi Tai's relatives who didn't have time to run, at this time, they didn't remember the excitement when they followed the chicken dog to heaven after they became His Majesty's cronies, and they only remembered the ten clans where Fang Xiaoru's head fell off in Dongshi, so all kinds of filthy words came out, and the scolding was extremely ugly.

Gu Huai frowned slightly, Ji Gang observed his words, and immediately turned to a few fans and gave them a look, and the fans lifted the whip and pumped it next to the cell: "Shut up!" ”

The scolding stopped abruptly, replaced by continuous screams, and further inside, unlike the crowded cells where the families of prisoners were held, there were mostly two people in one room and three people in one room, and as far as the eye could see, some people were still wearing official robes.

Hearing someone come in, they silently gathered on the edge of the cell, some people's eyes revealed hope and longing, some people clung to the fence and cursed, some people sat awe-inspiringly, as if they had seen through life and death, and some people wrote something on the wall, but when they looked at it, they were leaving no poems.

The various states of life are vividly reflected here.

Gu Huai stopped and raised his voice: "Your Majesty has a will, Fang Huangqi and the three of them, tampering with the ancestral system, and dividing the clan, are the culprits, and they should be responsible for the loss of the country in the past four years, the displacement of the people, and the casualties of the soldiers, and they must not be forgiven. ”

After a while, a frantic roar came out of the cells of the officials' families, some of the elders of the close relatives of the prisoners took out their pies and shouted hoarsely, and some of the wives and children and their parents cried and pleaded.

Many officials want to report Jianwen to death, but his family is definitely unwilling, most of the officials' relatives are like grasping a life-saving straw, the shout is deafening, His Majesty is gracious, giving a way to live, and even letting the dignified and dignified public come to persuade him, it is already considered benevolent and righteous, as long as he speaks at this time, won't he be able to live in peace?

Seeing this effect, Gu Huai was very satisfied, although it was not that there were no officials still complaining, but most of them were shaken, and now saving one is saving the next family, even if it has nothing to do with him, but it can be regarded as a good thing.

He turned around and left the cell, and did not persuade him more, but just told Ji Gang: "Let them make trouble, and after half an hour, they will be brought up one by one for trial!" ”

……

As Gu Huai expected, there are many scholars in this world who are not afraid of death, and they are willing to do it to martyr their country and follow their old masters, but when it comes to family members, many people can no longer make up their minds.

Of the twenty-three people on the list of traitors, only four remained in the end who resisted the abuse of their families and did not want to bow their heads, and the remaining nineteen people all bowed their heads and confessed their sins and joined the current new dynasty.

Saving nineteen people, in fact, saved nearly a thousand officials' relatives, Gu Huai was very satisfied, he suddenly felt that maybe he was thinking too badly about things sometimes.

Zhu Di's evaluation in history, in addition to being diligent in political affairs and being able to fight well, is that he likes to go on expeditions to Mongolia when he has nothing to do, which costs the people and money, and is cruel.

It can be seen from Fang Xiaoru's incident that Zhu Di is really not afraid of putting those who oppose him alive, and even sent many innocent people to the execution table, just to play the role of killing chickens and monkeys, but all this has changed now, at least the liquidation after Zhu Di ascended the throne really only fell on Fang Huangqi and the three of them.

The disposition of the nineteen people was all official reinstatement, so that the vacancies of the six Shangshu were immediately refilled, and the court of the Ming Dynasty once again operated in a tight manner, the issuance of government decrees and the pacification of the region were quickly implemented, and those who were the divisions of the Qin King returned to their original realms one after another, and those distant places who heard that the new emperor had ascended the throne also sent a recital, showing their submission to the new dynasty.

The usurpation became a succession, and the new emperor did not carry out drastic reforms in the world, and the officials kept their original positions and changed back to the old Hongwu system, which undoubtedly accelerated the speed of stability in the world a lot.

The time entered July, and people in Beiping finally received news from the south.