It was supposed to be a normal noon.

The autumn breeze is cool, and the sun is still shining.

The old crooked neck tree under the wall of the Imperial Prison has long been forgotten by the new prisoners, and after the new crooked neck tree was planted in the old pit, it showed good growth under Zhu Gaoxu's persistent chemical fertilizer infusion.

Even if it's still in the same pit, at least the new thing is always better than the old one. Isn't it?

Jiang Xinghuo, who was only one student left, still diligently finished the class he should have attended.

Although he has returned to the original one-on-one mode, occasionally, Jiang Xinghuo still misses this student who can praise himself, after all, he only lectures to bearded people, and suddenly feels that something is missing.

The days went by day by day, and Jiang Xinghuo was still in a state of continuous eating and waiting to get out of prison and intermittently plan to do big things.

As for what "big things" he did, he hadn't fully figured it out.

Or rather, there is a lack of the necessary motivation.

Why do you want to do things when you lie down?

Holding a weed, Jiang Xinghuo remembered the cigarette, but he seemed to have forgotten the feeling of smoke, people's memory is always limited, and many things he began to forget gradually.

This also gave him an idea.

Why don't you keep a diary?

I'm not a serious person anyway.

As Jiang Xinghuo said before, many stubborn and unreasonable etiquette is actually not for others to see, but for oneself, so that you don't lose your original direction day after day.

Of course, as of now, everything is normal.

But the days of prison but not imprisonment, counting on your fingers, are really not many.

It's only been about two months?

Listening to the small talk of the jailers, the relevant departments of the imperial court, including the Jinyi Guard, the Criminal Department, and the Dali Temple, have accelerated the preparations for the release of prisoners next year under the emperor's inexplicable and severe urging many times.

It is said that on the first day of the first lunar month, all the prisoners will be released.

Efficiency has never been greater.

It can also be seen that in the past years, the efficiency of the amnesty prisoners who had to delay until March was mixed with the water that the fish boy had worked so hard to inject.

The imperial court yamen, the top does not urge to do things, the top urges to do a surprise, in the past year, it can be done in ten days, and it has been piled up for a full twenty years, and finally determined to attack the fortification in 100 days, which is too ordinary.

In fact, Jiang Xinghuo sometimes thinks that he is quite sorry for the same batch of prisoners.

At the beginning, he shouted "to die", and he yelled the fiercest.

As a result, the same people who were imprisoned are now all gag.

The most fierce one he called, but he didn't die.

Jiang Xinghuo was full of thoughts, and watched the beard go away, and then Jiang Xinghuo took the weeds in his mouth, patted his buttocks, and went back to take a nap by himself.

Zhu Gaoxu did not return to the prison area, he turned around and came to a duty room, the one he used to stay with Li Jinglong.

In the duty room, there was already a person waiting for him.

Zhu Gaosui, the third prince wearing a bullfighting suit and a golden gourd hammer hanging from his waist, was leaning on the couch and napping, obviously waiting for him for a long time.

Looking at his younger brother, Zhu Gaoxu asked a little impatiently: "Third brother, what did my father say?" Do you agree with me to lead troops to exterminate the Jurchens in the forests of the old mountains of Liaodong? ”

Hearing the sound, Zhu Gaosui, who was sitting on the couch, opened his narrow eyes, although they were still slit.

"Agreed."

As soon as Zhu Gaoxu was happy, Zhu Gaosui said with resentment: "Agree with a fart!" Father asked you to stay in prison honestly! ”

Zhu Gaoxu frowned: "Why?" ”

"Father said that you don't need to do anything to exterminate the Jurchens, because this matter has a big risk and little benefit, what kind of credit is it to exterminate the Jurchens? The tribe of tens of thousands of people is just difficult to hide in the mountains and forests in winter. ”

"When the ice and snow melt in the beginning of spring, so many generals who can conquer and fight will lead the troops to encircle and suppress them, and the Jurchens will be completely wiped out in a month's work. Maybe there are still some who hide in the deep streams of the old forest, and without the tribal system, they are no different from the wild people. ”

"And, if you are unfortunately killed, how much shock will there be in the army? Therefore, my father would not allow you to lead troops to the battle. ”

Zhu Gaoxu was immediately furious.

"Fart!"

"It's all fucking bullshit, when I was in trouble, Daoshan Volcano came over for the old man, and now tell me not to let me go to the battlefield?"

"What are generals doing when they don't go to the battlefield? Am I a person who is afraid of death? ”

"To put it bluntly, it is to let me extinguish the mind of competing for the prince, and An An will be a prince of peace, right?"

"Don't think!"

The furious Zhu Gaoxu grabbed a chair casually, slammed it on the ground, and fell to pieces.

"Do you have to listen to the truth?"

Seeing this, Zhu Gaosui also sneered: "Do you think I didn't persuade my father in private?" Tell you, you listened to your class in the edict prison, and I don't know how many people outside helped you move around, which one of Qi Guogong, Cheng Guogong, and Wang Yuma didn't run for you? ”

"What does Father mean?" Zhu Gaoxu walked around the duty room irritably.

"Originally, I intended to let you go, but in fact, because of the matter of the prince and the prince, the relationship between you and the eldest brother has long been stiff, and the group of civil officials who support the eldest brother are of course not worried about you making new contributions, so they have admonished one after another, and the father and emperor have been shaken." Zhu Gaosui said slowly.

"That's not enough."

Zhu Gaosui said simply: "Marquis Zhenyuan doesn't want to take you, I'm afraid that you will be reckless and misguided." ”

Zhu Gaoxu was silent for a moment, and then his face became very ugly. Gu Cheng has a better relationship with Zhu Gaochi, but he has a very poor relationship with him.

But according to Zhu Gaoxu's understanding of his father Zhu Di, these reasons are still not enough.

Zhu Gaoxu is well aware of his strengths and weaknesses.

Compared with his eldest brother Zhu Gaochi, his only huge advantage lies in his military exploits.

Zhu Gaochi was obese and lame, and he could not go to the battlefield.

And it is precisely because he made enough dazzling military exploits in the Battle of Jingyan that he was in a temporary lead in the battle for the establishment of the prince.

But this slight lead will soon be erased by the big brother over time.

Because Zhu Gaochu will not govern the country.

Peaceful world uses military generals, and peaceful world uses civil servants.

Talents who can get on the horse and cut people off the horse to appease the people are another matter.

What's more, if other generals don't fight, they can still lie on the merit book and eat for a lifetime.

If he, Zhu Gaoxu, doesn't fight and can't make new military achievements, then he can only be a prince of Taiping, and the validity period of "Taiping" is only when Zhu Di is alive.

Zhu Gaoxu is certainly not a person who likes to leave his fate at the mercy of others.

What's more, competing for the crown is fighting for the throne.

The opportunity is right in front of you, half a step away!

For whom, who doesn't want to be an emperor?

If you can be an emperor, why should you be a prince?

This kind of greatest interest in the world cannot be easily given up by anyone, and it can be dissuaded by saying a few words or two.

And his father Zhu Di obviously prefers him more and hopes that he will become the crown prince.

This feeling, Zhu Gaoxu is very sure.

Originally, Zhu Gaoxu had been in prison for several months, and according to his irritable temperament, he couldn't hold it back for a long time.

If it weren't for Mr. Jiang's really interesting story, he wouldn't have been able to stick to it.

And now that he learned that his father was going to make a move on the Jurchens, Zhu Gaoxu, who was very eager to make new contributions to increase his bargaining chips in the battle for the crown prince, could no longer hold back his eagerness.

- but my father did not allow it.

Zhu Gaoxu felt very aggrieved, but he couldn't do anything, because he was either the emperor or the emperor could make a decision in one word, and the opposition was invalid.

But Zhu Gaoxu still felt that something was wrong.

Gu Cheng's suggestion cannot be the decisive reason.

Why didn't my father let him out?

My father was an emperor who was an autocratic emperor, and he must have had his own considerations.

Zhu Gaoxu felt that he was not far from the truth of the matter.

Zhu Gaoxu suddenly rolled his eyes, recovered from his irritability, and said to the third brother.

"Then I'll continue to stay in prison."

Zhu Gaosui looked at the second brother with a little surprise, today's irritable state ended quite quickly.

"Okay." Zhu Gaosui nodded, and said: "You stay well, don't make trouble recently, I heard that my father has not been in a good mood recently, a bunch of bad things in the court, you can avoid the limelight by eating in prison in the edict." ”

Zhu Gaoxu stood in place and said, "Third child, thank you." ”

"Cheng, our brother won't talk about this." Zhu Gaosui stood up and said, "I'm leaving." ”

After he finished speaking, he walked out, and when he arrived at the door, he suddenly stopped, turned back to Zhu Gaoxu and said meaningfully: "Staying well is the greatest credit." ”

Zhu Gaoxu nodded and said, "Thank you for the reminder." ”

"Hmm." Zhu Gaosui turned around, pushed open the door and walked out, and closed the door of the duty room.

Zhu Gaoxu sat on the chair stunned, his mind was chaotic.

He had always believed that his father favored him, so he dared to risk the world to do something stupid that others seemed stupid like.

His original plan was to be angry and express his position, indicating that he would never give in to the position of prince.

As for the edict prison, after two months, it should be self-cultivation, who still stays in it.

As a result, things have now taken a turn - the emperor did not agree with him to go to war, and even sent the third child and told him so much.

Zhu Gaoxu is not stupid, of course he knows that some of the words were actually said to him by his father through the mouth of the third child.

Otherwise, give Zhu Gaosui ninety-nine dares, and he won't dare to say those taboo words.

Zhu Gaoxu had not suspected certain things before, even if Li Jinglong once confessed to him when he really couldn't hide it, he was sent by Zhu Di to follow the class.

Zhu Gaoxu only thought that his father saw that he was favored after he offered a plan to cut the feudal domain.

Therefore, Shun Teng touched the melon, and let Jinyiwei find out the existence of Jiang Xinghuo.

This may not be accurate, because when Zhu Gaoxu hired Jiang Xinghuo to give a lecture, he had already asked Ji Gang to check the file.

Therefore, Ji Gang has known about this for a long time.

As for his actions in the edict prison, as long as Ji Gang wants to know, he will definitely be able to know, in other words, his father also knows.

It was for this reason that Zhu Gaoxu was not surprised at all when Jiang Xinghuo was lost that day, and when he saw his father angrily questioning him.

Because of Jiang Xinghuo's existence, sooner or later his father will know.

But it's nothing, it's just that his mind of hiding Jiang Xinghuo has been punctured.

If his father didn't know, it meant that his father didn't care about his life in prison, which would make Zhu Gaoxu feel disappointed.

Zhu Gaoxu thought about it carefully, and the next thing was Li Jinglong's joining.

At first, he didn't know that Li Jinglong was arranged by his father to listen to Jiang Xinghuo's lecture and record the lecture.

This matter was known to him on the day of the pilgrimage.

Because the day before, he had written to his father three times about the Sado Gold Mine and the Iwami Silver Mine in Japan.

And the father only replied to him "I know", "read", and "read".

At that time, Zhu Gaoxu sensed that something was wrong.

When he went to court the next morning, Zhu Gaoxu completely woke up that Li Jinglong was an internal ghost.

But Zhu Gaoxu didn't have anything to do about it, this knowledge, his father wanted to know, could he stop it?

The father did not monopolize Jiang Xinghuo, but he was already considering that he might not be willing to tell the truth if he broke his identity, so he wanted to use his own relationship.

And as time went by, Zhu Gaoxu gradually got used to listening to lectures in prison, holding stone locks when he didn't listen to lectures, or reading books. Well, Zhu Gaoxu began to take the initiative to read books, although he couldn't understand it many times, but he would write it down, and then find Mr. Jiang, who was in the half-step talent realm, to answer.

Although sometimes Mr. Jiang, who knows everything in Zhu Gaoxu's eyes, actually knows little about the content of some specific ancient books, this does not prevent Jiang Xinghuo from flickering around and passing over.

How do you know I'm wrong?

The leisurely days passed day by day, and a trace of doubt always lingered in Zhu Gaoxu's heart.

That's not right!

Without Li Jinglong, how did my father know the content of the lecture?

It would be impossible to say that the father had completely lost interest in this.

Because Zhu Gaoxu also has his own news channels, he knows that some of the things that Jiang Xinghuo said after Li Jinglong left the edict prison have also begun to appear in the outside world.

The suspicion in Zhu Gaoxu's heart began to become more and more irrepressible.

Until today.

The third child told himself meaningfully, "Staying well is the greatest credit."

Why is it the greatest credit to stay well?

Is it because he doesn't look for trouble for his father?

No, I have been looking for a lot of things since I was a child, and I have never seen a time when I have been locked up for so long, and I won't let you go out if I want to.

Well, there is only one explanation!

- My father needs to stay in prison and listen to the lectures.

And it doesn't matter if you listen to the lecture or not, the important thing is that your father wants to listen.

So, it's still the same sentence, without Li Jinglong auditing the report, in an environment where only Jiang Xinghuo lectures and he listens to the lectures, how does the father know the content of the lecture?

Could it be that there are really ghosts hiding around them and eavesdropping?

Zhu Gaoxu thought for a while, picked up the paper and pen on the duty table, and wrote quickly.

Zhu Gaoxu's big characters are very ugly, but it doesn't matter, just recognize them.

After a while, he dried the paper and shook it, and then called a jailer and asked him to go to Ji Gang and send his notes to the emperor for his father's review.

The rest of the class is not in time.

Zhu Gaoxu stayed in the edict prison for seven or eight days, and almost every day he wrote new notes and sent them to his father, all of which were some specious and nonsensical things that he wrote based on his reading insights and Jiang Xinghuo's only words and interpretations.

Zhu Gaoxu knew very well that he was making garbage for his father.

He did this just to test a conjecture.

On this day, another day passed before the heavenly recital, and it reached him, and the content was disappointing.

"It's well written, you can continue."

Zhu Gaoxu stared at the note, his eyes flickering.

It was obviously a compliment, but Zhu Gaoxu's heart was full of indignation.

This is what he begged Jiang Xinghuo to talk about in advance.

In the past, when he played after Jiang Xinghuo's lecture, he was not satisfied with the garbage he played in the past few days, and the replies he received were basically "read", "read", "know", "I know".

When Zhu Di was in a bad mood, he would write a "~~" for him to perfunctory.

The completely different attitude allowed Zhu Gaoxu to find out the situation of his father's grasp of the news.

It is currently known.

The first case.

Regardless of whether Li Jinglong was present or not, his father knew all the content of the lecture, so there would be no surprise in the recital after his lecture, those that applied Jiang Xinghuo's point of view, and would only be perfunctory on a daily basis.

The second case.

The garbage made by himself is sparse, and his father sees through it at a glance, and it will only be perfunctory on a daily basis.

The third case.

And he deliberately pulled Jiang Xinghuo's questions in an uninhabited cell, and his father didn't grasp it at all, so he would encourage him to continue writing.

Then the question arises.

Li Jinglong was not present, and under the new crooked neck tree, there were only two people, him and Jiang Xinghuo.

Father, how did you know the content of the lecture?

"Haha!" Zhu Gaoxu couldn't help but laugh angrily.

And there are two subtle evidences, which have long aroused Zhu Gaoxu's suspicions.

One was on the night when King Gu rebelled, and on the night when his old edict Huang Wei launched a mutiny, two eyed officials found him and Li Jinglong.

Zhu Gaoxu was very sure that he did not know these two little officials, and he had never seen them in the edict.

Afterwards, when Zhu Gaoxu asked casually, the result was that no one knew.

At that time, Zhu Gaoxu just thought that the edict had been replaced, and the two officials were transferred to other places.

Now that I think about it, I think what happened that night is very strange.

Especially one of the small officials put the evidence of Huang Wei's rebellion in Jiang Xinghuo's cell.

And in Jiang Xinghuo's cell, a very good poem was inscribed at that time.

The other is that the number of times Ji Gang comes to offer his hospitality has decreased significantly.

Of course, Zhu Gaoxu knew that with the outbreak of the "Jiangnan Rebellion Case", now outside Nanjing, people have already been killed.

But it's still that sentence, if you want to make progress, is it important to do practical things, or is it important to lead?

Ji Gang is obviously not the kind of person who works hard.

Therefore, Zhu Gaoxu also felt that something was wrong.

When these clues come together.

An answer, just around the corner of the tongue.

- He was eavesdropped on by his father.

Thanks to the boss of "Wang Daozai", I wish the boss success in everything and success every year!

(End of chapter)