News of Emperor Jianwen?

After listening to Zhao Haichuan's words, Jiang Xinghuo's expression was very calm.

He just nodded: "Got it, let's go down first." ”

Jiang Xinghuo said that the clouds were light and light, but Zhao Haichuan, who had been following Jiang Xinghuo for several years, noticed a trace of unusual aura from the subtle expression on Jiang Xinghuo's face.

It's just that Jiang Xinghuo's expression changed so quickly that Zhao Haichuan couldn't help but suspect that he was wrong.

It wasn't until he walked out that Zhao Haichuan suddenly found that the sky, which was originally illuminated by the sun and looked golden, was a little gloomy at this time.

The gloomy atmosphere seems to cover the whole world, giving people a kind of oppressive breath.

Zhao Haichuan secretly scolded himself at this time for being really confused, how could such important news be said in front of Tang Yin? Even whispering in a low voice is a mistake of principle.

If I had told the national teacher about this matter alone, maybe there would have been no such thing as being kicked out later!

Thinking of the conversation with the national teacher in the house just now, Zhao Haichuan suddenly realized a question - if this matter is undoubted, will the national teacher take immediate action?

If he were a high-ranking official of any imperial court, he would probably not sit idly by and watch the existence of Emperor Jianwen, but the national teacher was talking secretly with the holy woman of the former White Lotus Sect at this time, and the ghost knew what he had talked about?

After being backstabbed by Cao Song in Changzhou Mansion that year, Zhao Haichuan unconsciously suffered from persecution paranoia, and at this time he involuntarily clenched the embroidered spring knife in his hand, and walked left and right, for fear that someone would jump out and kill him in the next second.

However, Zhao Haichuan was obviously overly worried, and he had Jiang Xinghuo so many times with black gloves, as long as he didn't make a big mistake, how could Jiang Xinghuo be willing to kill him?

But Zhao Haichuan's words just now, although Tang Yin deliberately stood up and avoided it, he inevitably heard a few words leaked out of the whisper.

The word "Jianwen" was like a bomb, which instantly startled her.

"You hear me."

Jiang Xinghuo looked at Tang Yin very firmly.

"Huh?"

Tang Yin pretended to be cute, but her charming face really didn't pretend.

Tang Yin was extremely nervous at the moment, she was really afraid that she would hear a secret that she shouldn't have heard, and Jiang Xinghuo would slaughter her.

At this time, her eyes had begun to be like an astute fox, unconsciously observing her surroundings.

Jiang Xinghuo didn't do anything, but picked up the empty cup with his hand and knocked it on the stone table one by one.

"Call Niu Zhen, there are some things that can only be done by people who don't exist in this world."

Soon, this former White Lotus Sect protector was called over.

Niu Zhen did not become the captain of the security team in the field, but took a very small number of people to maintain production safety in the shadows, as well as get rid of some people or forces that were in the way.

These remnants of the White Lotus Sect who surrendered were all removed from their household registers.

Jiang Xinghuo didn't expect that the idle chess Leng Zi of the year would play a role at this time, his face did not show much, but after a long silence, he ordered: "You take a few reliable people, come with me, and after you are done, send you away from the Ming Dynasty, Ryukyu, Japan, Korea, Annam, Champong, Luzon. You can go wherever you want, and don't come back in the future. ”

Subsequently, Jiang Xinghuo came out and said to Wang Bin and the others: "Pass the order, immediately prepare a ship, and go to sea from Shanghai to Ningbo City." ”

"Subordinates obey!"

The group quickly departed, and soon arrangements were made, and the car began to return to Shanghai County from the factory area, and then took a boat from the port to the north through the Yangtze River into the sea.

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The sea breeze is gentle and sparkling.

A big ship with the Jinyiwei logo broke the waves and headed for Ningbo Bosi Port.

The iron armor around the cockpit was shining and the cold light was pressing, and the guards did not dare to slack off for a moment, and in other positions on the ship, the brocade-clothed guards were dressed in flying fish suits, holding steel knives in their hands, and their eyes were as cold as frost, and they were also prepared.

Although many of them did not know exactly what the mission was this time, what they could understand was that the national teacher attached great importance to it, and even did not hesitate to change the scheduled itinerary.

In the cabin, the lights were bright, the atmosphere was solemn, and Jiang Xinghuo and several people sat around, with a solemn face.

At this time, outside the cabin, the footsteps of the armor soldiers were occasionally heard, neatly aligned, showing strict discipline, and the air was filled with the salty smell of sea water and the indescribable smell of rust, outlining a unique sea route sailing map.

"National teacher, it's coming soon."

Jiang Xinghuo nodded and stood up.

The night is getting darker and the stars are shining.

The sails fluttered in the moonlight, like Bai Lian flying, the lights of Ningbo City in the distance gradually came into view, and the hustle and bustle of the port gradually entered the eardrums.

Jiang Xinghuo's gaze looked calmly and intently ahead, his mind seemed to have left his own perspective, and the whole world was only left with the huge harbor in front of him, which was the location of Ningbo City.

In the Tang, Song and Yuan dynasties, it was once one of the most prosperous ports in the country, and it was also one of the earliest cities in China, and it was the largest trading center in Japan, famous for its strong commodity circulation and rich variety of goods.

It's a pity that due to the maritime ban policy, it has disappeared for more than 30 years.

Today's Ningbo Bosi has gradually recovered its former glory.

With the reopening of the city, a series of changes in the maritime ban policy also followed.

This includes not only the return and identification of the Ming people who have been exiled overseas, but also the question of what to do with the residents of coastal island towns who were originally moved from their homeland due to the sea relocation order.

In dealing with the latter issue, it is inevitable to investigate how many legal and illegal inhabitants of the coastal islands are still there.

It doesn't matter if you don't check, once you check, you will find out what happened.

Off the coast of Ningbo, next to Putuo Island in the Zhoushan Islands, there is a small island called Luojia Island, and there is only one abandoned Buddhist temple on the island.

And Jinyiwei here, but found some strange traces, it seems that someone lives in seclusion here, every few months, there will be a strong and alert man to come out to purchase materials in a low-key manner, each time is to purchase a lot of daily necessities, load a large ship back.

Considering that there are no traces of piracy in the coastal waters of Daming or even in the entire East China Sea, this kind of behavior is particularly suspicious after it is detected.

Jin Yiwei's secret pile pretended to be a hawker, and had a brief conversation with the person who purchased the supplies, and from their accents, it could be heard that they were not from Zhejiang, but from Nanjing, which was even more suspicious.

Therefore, while informing Jiang Xinghuo, Jin Yiwei and the sea forces of the City Ship Division pulled a net around the island from afar to ensure that the people on the island would not slip out.

And Jiang Xinghuo was a little puzzled by this.

Zhu Di sent Hu Yan to find Zhang Sanfeng as an excuse, just like the Jin people in the past searched the mountains and seas to find the whereabouts of Emperor Jianwen, but the actual situation is that Hu Yan has been in the territory of the Ming Dynasty for more than ten years, and he did not come back until the twenty-first year of Yongle.

At that time, Zhu Di's health was already very bad, and in this case, he got up in the middle of the night to meet Hu Yan and talked about the fast dawn, which is enough to show that Hu Yan has found or solved Emperor Jianwen at this time.

These are clearly recorded in the history books.

"Emperor Hui's collapse in the fire, or the words escaped, the old ministers and many followers, the emperor doubted, sent Hui to issue the imperial books, and visited the immortal Zhang sloppy, all over the world's prefectures, counties and towns, hidden Jianwen Emperor An in ...... Twenty-one years back to the court, Chi to the emperor in the Xuanfu, the emperor has gone to bed, heard the Hui to, hurriedly summoned in, Hui Xi to hear the right, leaking four drums is out. ”

- "The History of the Ming Dynasty: The Biography of Hu Hu".

It is said that in the end, Hu Yan found Emperor Jianwen in the Huguangbu Political Envoy Division, but now this highly suspicious clue has appeared on the island off Ningbo, which has to make Jiang Xinghuo suspicious.

Not long after, the sailboat slowly docked from the military-specific port, and a group of people on the shore were lining up to greet them.

"I've seen the national teacher!"

Led by a brocade-clothed guard, Qianhu saluted, with an extremely serious expression.

"Don't be polite, find a carriage."

Jiang Xinghuo turned over and dismounted, and said lightly.

"Yes!"

Then, he walked straight in the direction of the carriage that had been prepared next to him.

Soon, the brocade-clothed guard Qianhu followed him, came to the carriage, and lifted the curtain.

The two sides quickly got to the point, because this matter was very important, and this Qianhu did not delay time, and immediately began to explain the cause and effect in detail.

"How many people are there on the island?"

"There are seven or eight people observed by the high-powered telescope, as for whether there are more hidden in the mountains, it is not clear, according to the monk who moved to Ningbo to build a new temple on the island, there are arable land and vegetable fields on the island, if you cultivate carefully, it will not be a problem to feed a dozen people, but if there are more than 20 people, it will be difficult."

"In addition, they have investigated the materials they purchased before, generally every six months, each time they purchase in different places, rarely buy food, buy oil, salt, fruits, bacon, cloth, candles and some medicinal materials, which shows that they are not short of food, at most there are only about ten people, and there is a high probability that the scale of about ten people."

"How many ships are there? Is there a port? ”

"There are two ships on the island, there is no port, they are all collected at any time, and they are directly carried to the mountains to collect when they are not needed, and there are no secret passages or underground caves on the island."

Jiang Xinghuo nodded, and asked again, "Is it possible that he was mistakenly judged to be a pirate?" ”

"It's basically impossible, these people only took turns to go ashore two years ago, and the waters near the Zhoushan Islands are the key areas for the city's anti-smuggling ships to inspect, and there have been no public security or smuggling cases. In addition, the pirates who were held in the prison were also brought out for arraignment, and no one knew about them. ”

Obviously, this is the result of the careful judgment of the brocade guards.

Jiang Xinghuo shook his head when he heard this, then looked at this Qianhu again, and said: "If it can be successfully concluded this time, I will write you a credit in the credit book!" ”

"Thank you for your generous gift!"

Qianhu hurriedly said gratefully, his eyes flashing with excitement.

"Okay, without further ado, gather the fleet, and let's go."

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Fang Cai's conversation was all carried out in a carriage on the military port of Ningbo City, which was naturally extremely secretive, and the reorganized Jinyiwei was not worried about the infiltration of Jianwen's remnants.

This matter is highly confidential, and at the same time, in order to prevent the people on the island from having guard posts in the port and communicating and warning through some methods such as wolf smoke, Jiang Xinghuo did not arrange for the ships of the Navy Division to dispatch with great fanfare, but let the small and medium-sized anti-smuggling fast ships of the City Shipping Division, after carrying soldiers and various equipment, disperse in batches, and then meet again in Zhoushan Islands.

In this way, with the sea power of the city of Boji, which was originally pulling the net near the island of Loga, it would be foolproof.

After Jiang Xinghuo and the others made a little resupply, they quickly left the port by boat, and then sailed towards the Zhoushan Islands in the southeast.

In less than half a day, they arrived nearby, and to the surprise of many of Jiang Xinghuo's entourage, it was extremely deserted, and the huge island group seemed to be in a dead land.

"What's going on?"

"It's not surprising that the people of Zhoushan have long been moved to land."

The local Jinyiwei explained.

Soon, the fleet of wolves on the sea gradually closed, completely encircling the tiny island of Loga, and not even a fly could fly out.

Even the meticulous Jiang Xinghuo has prepared a hot air balloon on Putuo Island in the northwest, and once it is dawn, he can fly over to recondescend to investigate.

Soon, as the fleet approached the island, the ship's non-commissioned officers began to prepare for their journey, and they collaborated with each other to quickly prepare the ropes and rafts on board for wading for landing.

The rafts were lowered, and the soldiers, dressed in cowhide armor and iron helmets, stood tall, armed with spears and heavy bows, and their eyes were firm and sharp, as if they could penetrate all the darkness before the dawn.

The blades shimmered coldly in the moonlight that occasionally cast through the clouds, contrasting with the sparkling sea.

When the raft was trapped by the dense reef and forced to run aground, the soldiers jumped into waist-deep water, the water was bitterly cold, but the soldiers still gritted their teeth and fought forward, their steps were heavy, but their steps were firm and powerful, as if they were ready to die in this battle.

Every soldier clenched his weapon, alert to all movements around him, ready to meet the baptism of battle at any time.

Finally, after a difficult wade, the soldiers landed on the island, quickly assembled and formed formations, and began to advance in an organized manner.

Not long after landing on the island, the soldiers were met with fierce resistance from the sentinels, and enemy reinforcements came quickly, and a life-and-death struggle quickly ensued.

In the last moonlight before dawn, swords and swords intertwined, and arrows flew like raindrops.

The enemies on these islands, with their superb martial arts and skillful cooperation, launched a thrilling fight with the soldiers who landed on the island, even if they were at an absolute numerical disadvantage, they still did not show weakness, they took advantage of the terrain, set up many traps and ambushes, several archers who could be called "marksmen" hid in the shadows, constantly shooting deadly arrows, and several other enemies, constantly trying to disrupt the formation of the soldiers on the island through the prepared traps.

The soldiers lined up in a neat line, with the shield bearer in front, the spearman in the center, the sword and shield man in the wings, and the archers behind, slowly breaking through the layers of obstacles and attacking forward.

As the battle intensified and the two sides were at a stalemate, the soldiers gradually broke through the island's defenses by combining their numbers and formations, shooting the enemy and destroying the traps, gradually gaining the upper hand.

In this fierce battle, the island's enemies also showed their bravery and fearlessness, and they did not flinch in the face of a powerful enemy, defending the faith they defended with their own flesh and blood.

They are a tenacious and stubborn bunch.

At the cost of three lives, the soldiers finally crushed the island's last remaining resistance and forced the island's few remaining enemies into the temple.

At this time, in the temple, a young monk was meditating in front of the collapsed Buddha's golden body, quietly listening to the shouts of killing not far away.

"Your Majesty, let's go!"

The only remaining loyal guards came to call him anxiously.

The young monk smiled bitterly and said, "Where else can we go this time?" ”

"Your Majesty, you will be fine, the first emperor entrusted your safety to me, even if the Yan army broke the city back then, we all escaped, as long as we got on the boat, we will definitely be able to escape!"

"I don't want to run away."

The young monk sighed, stood up calmly, and walked out slowly.

The faithful guard followed closely behind, his lips quirming to say something, but he swallowed it back, and had to follow him outward, not daring to dissuade him, for he knew that this was the last stubbornness of His Majesty.

However, just as the master and servant reached the door, suddenly an arrow whistled towards the young monk's chest.

The faithful guard slammed down the young monk and blocked the mortal arrow for him, but he himself was pierced by the arrow, and after a moment of convulsion, he lost his breath.

The young monk looked at his subordinates lying on the ground a little sluggishly, and muttered to himself: "How many people have died for me, and how many killings have I done in my life!" ”

After speaking, he turned his head to look outside the Buddhist temple courtyard.

A figure was lying on the rubble, holding a crossbow, looking at him coldly.

When the figure saw that the young monk had noticed him, he immediately jumped down from the roof, abandoned the crossbow in his hand, and slashed at the young monk with a scimitar in hand.

This person is none other than Niu Zhen.

Niu Zhen didn't care who the person in front of him was, the national teacher said very clearly, as long as the person was killed, then let him and his brothers go overseas to gain freedom.

The national teacher has always counted when he speaks, and he has no history of killing people, so Niu Zhen is willing to believe it, and he is also willing to gamble his worthless life.

The young monk did not dodge or dodge, and reached out as if he wanted to grab the scimitar, but at this moment, the voice of Jiang Xinghuo came from behind Niu Zhen.

"Stop."

The ox really stopped in front of the young monk.

Jiang Xinghuo looked at the young monk in front of him and didn't speak, while the few dead soldiers of the White Lotus Sect in armor behind him quickly went to the Buddhist temple to search after controlling the young monk.

Including the local Jinyi Wei and Jiang Xinghuo's guards in Zhejiang, they all stayed outside the Buddhist temple.

It's not that he wants to rob them of their credit, but Jiang Xinghuo doesn't want these people to bear the charge of killing the king, sometimes, it seems that this is the road to heaven, but if Zhu Di has a bad mind, crushing these little people is like pinching ants, there is no need.

This kind of thing, just let the nameless dead man do it.

"Jianwen Emperor Zhu Yunwen?"

Jiang Xinghuo looked at the young monk and seemed to have questions, but he actually said firmly.

The young monk did not deny it, but nodded.

Zhu Yunwen, the grandson of Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang of Taizu Gao, the second son of Zhu Biao, the prince of Yiwen, was born in the Ming Hongwu ten years, after the early death of Zhu Xiongying, the eldest grandson of the emperor, the original Chang also died, and Zhu Yunwen's biological mother Lu was also able to be corrected, and Zhu Yunwen became the eldest grandson of the Ming Empire.

Zhu Yunwen in the Lu family's teaching, so that the face of filial piety shows, the prince Zhu Biao when he is sick to wait carefully, day and night, after Zhu Biao died of illness, Zhu Yunwen was emaciated due to excessive grief when he kept filial piety, Zhu Yuanzhang thought that he was "pure filial piety", and soon officially canonized him as the emperor's grandson, that is, the first heir to the throne of the Ming Dynasty.

In order to help the young Zhu Yunwen sit on the throne in the future and avoid the situation of "the lord and the country are suspicious", Zhu Yuanzhang raised the butcher's knife again in his later years, slaughtered the heroes in a big way, and arranged a full set of obedient teams for Zhu Yunwen.

Zhu Yuanzhang died in the thirty-first year of Hongwu, Zhu Yunwen became the emperor, granted amnesty to the world, changed the year name to Jianwen, reused the pair of Qitai and Huang Zicheng, implemented the new policy of Jianwen, pardoned criminals by lending money, exempted the people (gentry) from all taxes in arrears, allowed large-scale land annexation, and began to vigorously reduce the feudal domain, resulting in the self-immolation of the king of Xiang, and the deposed king of Qi, the king of Dai, and the king of Min.

And this also led to the Yan King Zhu Di in the name of "Qing Jun side" to raise troops, launched the battle of Jingyan, which lasted four years of bloody battles, Jianwen four years on June 13, the Yan army soldiers arrived at the Jinchuan Gate, the valley king Zhu Xi and Cao Guogong Li Jinglong opened the Jinchuan Gate to surrender, the Yan army entered Beijing, and with the city broken, a scuffle after a melee in the palace in Nanjing City fire, when the fire was extinguished after the ashes found several charred remains, can no longer be identified, according to the eunuch said that they are Zhu Yunwen and the eldest son Zhu Wenkui's body, become an unsolved case.

Jiang Xinghuo exhaled softly, he never thought that this historical unsolved case would be solved in his own hands.

He looked at the young monk in front of him, frowned slightly, and said, "Aren't you afraid of death?" If I hadn't stopped you, you'd have died. ”

"Someone who has already died once, what are you afraid of."

Few people dared to say this in front of Jiang Xinghuo, who had died seven or eight times.

However, Zhu Yunwen is not as stupid as Jiang Xinghuo imagined, the morning sun is gradually rising, and Zhu Yunwen's skin is well maintained under his eyes, but the whole person is frowning, just like a small fat house that has no quarrel with the world after being cut off from the Internet.

Jiang Xinghuo was silent for a long time, shook his head and said, "You should go back with me to see Your Majesty." ”

"See your majesty?"

Zhu Yunwen sneered, looked up at Jiang Xinghuo, and said slowly: "If I go back, it is impossible to get the opportunity to see him. You don't know how narrow-minded and ruthless my uncle is, he is afraid, he is afraid to see me, he is afraid that I will go to the imperial grandfather to sue him when I die. ”

"You know Your Majesty well."

"Of course."

Zhu Yunwen also said a witty remark: "Uncle Mo Ruo's nephew." ”

Jiang Xinghuo took a deep breath, suppressed all kinds of emotions in his heart, and nodded slowly: "I understand, so, it's time to send you on your way." ”

"I actually have a lot to say to you, if you don't mind, can you talk to me before you hit the road?"

Zhu Yunwen is very frank about the ending of death, but he is very interested in Jiang Xinghuo.

"Do you know who I am?"

"Of course, if I'm right."

Zhu Yunwen pointed to the folded stack of "Ming Pao" on the table in the Buddhist hall and said, "Master Guoshi, it is like thunder. ”

Later, Zhu Yunwen quipped: "Maybe if I could have asked you to be a national teacher, I wouldn't have ended up like this." ”

Jiang Xinghuo noticed that Zhu Yunwen never called himself "I", and at the same time, there were a lot of handwriting annotated in small block letters on the stack of "Ming Pao", which was obviously a serious interpretation.

Thinking about these newspapers, they should accompany Zhu Yunwen to pass a lot of time on this deserted island.

"Let's talk, since I have chosen to accept it, I am ready to die."

Zhu Yunwen said: "But I hope you can tell you something that I can't see in the newspaper or hear from other people's mouths." ”

Jiang Xinghuo shook his head and said, "Do you think I'll be so stupid?" No one can say what the consequences will be if they contact you. ”

Zhu Yunwen sighed and said, "Although I haven't come into contact with you, I still thought you were different from Qi Tai and Huang Zicheng. ”

"Agitation?"

"Not really."

Zhu Yunwen said very honestly: "None of them can compare with you." ”

"Let's go, let's take a look elsewhere."

As he spoke, under the care of several dead soldiers, Jiang Xinghuo walked forward.

Jiang Xinghuo came to the mountain behind this temple, and saw that many trees and flowers were planted here, the air was very fresh and pleasant, and the birds were singing and fragrant, but he had no interest in enjoying the scenery.

There are several dilapidated thatched huts in the back hills, which from the outside look like they were made of wooden planks and mud, with straw hanging from the eaves that look like abandoned garbage, and some firewood piled up in the corners.

But inside, it's quite clean and tidy.

If you want to come to Zhu Yunwen or his guards, they usually live here.

And there is a vegetable garden in the back, Jiang Xinghuo walked into the vegetable garden and took a closer look, and it was less than an acre of land, planting a green vegetable, and in addition, there was an old tree in the vegetable garden.

The tree was three or four feet high, with luxuriant foliage, and closed half of the sky tightly, leaving no light, but it looked badly devoid of life, as if it was about to die.

Jiang Xinghuo looked at the old tree and missed the crooked neck tree in the edict.

The old tree is an old locust tree, and now, this old locust tree can't resist the erosion of the years after all, and is about to wither.

"Alas"

Jiang Xinghuo couldn't help but sigh, walked under the old locust tree, squatted down, and looked at the old locust tree quietly.

The locust tree is shriveled and its bark is yellowish, but its roots, faintly visible emerald green buds, seem to be growing tenaciously.

Zhu Yunwen also seemed to accept this location, he squinted his eyes and enjoyed the shade of the locust tree, and waited for a few breaths before he opened his mouth and asked Jiang Xinghuo: "Do you hate me very much, and you hate my grandfather?" ”

(End of chapter)