Jin Yiwei, who escorted King Chongyang back, couldn't stand it anymore: "Lord Shu, why don't we get down to business first?" ”

"Yes, yes, yes, you have to get down to business."

The King of Shu came back to his senses, took out a large silver ticket in his sleeve, and muttered, "Hey, I don't know where to put this silver ticket, or ...... You will take it for me first? ”

As he spoke, he forcibly stuffed the silver ticket into Jinyiwei's hand.

Jin Yiwei glanced at it and couldn't help but smack his tongue.

A full two thousand taels of silver, this is not a foolish treasure banknote, it is a real silver ticket, which can be exchanged for the same amount of silver in the corresponding silver number in Sichuan.

This Lord of Shu is really generous enough.

Jin Yiwei said: "Lord Wang, don't hide it, Beijing has already sent a letter to Jin Yiwei." ”

The King of Shu was in awe, and took out a silver ticket for Jinyiwei to collect for him first.

Jin Yiwei said: "What the one in the East Palace means is that since the King of the Valley has already subdued the law, then there is no need to delve into this matter, and it will end here." As for the 'little things' that happened in Chengdu before, that one thinks that the prince has the merit in asking the king of the valley this time, and the merits and demerits are offset, and the Jinyiwei in Chengdu will withdraw, as long as the prince no longer touches the relevant things, the Jinyiwei will not check again. ”

The King of Shu nodded and stuffed another silver ticket.

Jinyiwei immediately changed his words: "Please rest assured, you can come casually, the Jinyiwei in this area of Chengdu is under my control, as long as you don't make too much trouble, I will pretend not to see it, alas, alas, what are you doing, why do you come to a ...... again"

"Ahem, I'm actually blind and can't see anything."

"Lord, don't stuff it, don't stuff it, you can't fit it, uh...... Why don't I sing you a song? ”

……

After Jin Yiwei left the Shu Palace, he made a detour, but saw a man standing as immovable as a stone statue under a lush tree.

It was Zhang Muzhi.

He looked at the brocade guard and asked, "You go to see the King of Shu, what is his attitude?" ”

Jinyiwei took out all the silver tickets that the King of Shu had given him before, and respectfully handed them to Zhang Muzhi: "This is the king of Shu who gave him a humble position, it seems that he is also a little weak-hearted and wants to use silver to buy a humble position." ”

Zhang Muzhi did not take the silver ticket, but pushed it back into the hand of the brocade guard: "You can keep this silver for yourself, I will be the master for you, and it will be regarded as an additional amount of silver issued to you this year." ”

"Master Xie."

Jin Yiwei did not refuse, but honestly tucked into the cuffs.

He received the money from the King of Shu from the beginning, which was actually in Zhang Muzhi's budget, just to take this opportunity to observe the attitude of the King of Shu.

Jin Yiwei asked: "My lord, then do we still want to do something to Gao Zheng in Chengdu, this Gao Zheng has a lot to do with the Shu Palace, if we do it to Gao Zheng, then ......"

Zhang Muzhi's eyes were cold: "Kill." ”

……

After sending off the Jinyi Guard, the smile on the face of the King of Shu gradually converged.

King Chongyang, who had experienced a catastrophe of life and death, had obviously improved his IQ a lot, and he was more sensitive to observing words and expressions, he saw his father's solemn expression and asked: "Dad, is there anything wrong with this brocade guard, I was happy when he received the cash......

The King of Shu shook his head and sighed: "Your Uncle Gao, this time the king can't be saved." ”

King Chongyang was taken aback: "Dad, what do you mean, Uncle Gao and our palace are in-laws, his son Brother Gao married my eldest sister, since the court has no intention of doing anything to our Shu Palace, why do you want to attack Uncle Gao, is it possible...... The imperial court still has murderous intentions towards our palace?! ”

"Not really."

King Shu said, "I sold the King of Gu this time and expressed my position to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of the East Palace, and the King of Shu Mansion is firmly on the side of the court." This helped the Shu Wangfu to escape the catastrophe, and the imperial court should not pursue the previous Shu Wangfu's embezzlement of people's land and reselling public taxes, otherwise you won't be able to come back to Chengdu. ”

King Chongyang was puzzled: "In that case, why does my father still say that Uncle Gao is going to have an accident?" ”

"Silly son, your Uncle Gao can't escape this catastrophe, don't forget, the reason why Jinyiwei wanted to check the Shu Wangfu and the Guwang Mansion in the first place was because of reselling illegal salt."

The King of Shu said faintly, "This matter is widely implicated, the Shu Wangfu, the Guwang Mansion, and even the Gan Wangfu are involved, and now the Guwang family is dead, and the vassal king has to die decently on the bright side, this crime must not be the turn of the Gu Wang, then only the Guwang Mansion and the Gan Wangfu are left." ”

"And the water flowing in King Gan's Mansion in this matter is not deep, at least it has nothing to do with King Gan himself, at most, some people under his hands don't listen to the call to give him a pit. Then calculate it, and only our Shu Wangfu will be left. ”

"Since the imperial court has no intention of doing anything to our Shu Palace, you say, who will the imperial court do it?"

King Chongyang blinked: "So, Uncle Gao is a scapegoat, and he resisted all the charges in the case of reselling illicit salt?" ”

"He's not a scapegoat, he's one of the masterminds himself."

The King of Shu sighed, "At the beginning, I persuaded him to stop, but he didn't listen, thinking that the land of Sichuan was high and the emperor was far away, and the court couldn't find out here." As a result, now that the catastrophe is coming, we have to fly separately, he dies alone, let the court, let the prince turn this over, and that can be regarded as a well-deserved death. ”

"Daddy......"

King Chongyang was a little unbearable, "Is this too cruel?" ”

"Is it cruel, that's the reality."

The King of Shu turned around and waved his hand, "You go to your uncle's house and ask him to come to the palace to see me." ”

"Yes."

……

Gao Zheng hurriedly went to the palace to meet him, and after looking for a long time, he found the king of Shu at a dining table: "Lord, the third prince said that you are looking for me?" ”

"Lao Gao, I've been waiting for you for a long time."

The king of Shu held a bowl of shou and put it in front of Gao Zheng, "Don't worry, eat first." ”

"I've been busy for the past two days, how can I take care of eating, Lord Wang, let's talk about things first."

"There's no hurry."

“……”

Helpless, Gao Zheng could only eat first, and after looking at the two copying hands stuffed in his stomach, he was suddenly stunned, staring straight at the copying hands in the bowl.

Copying hands, some places are called flat food, in the final analysis, they are dumplings.

"Get on the car dumplings and get off the noodles", this sentence originated from a nobleman called "white crab" in the Yuan Dynasty, although there was no word dumplings at that time, but the specific meaning was similar.

Today, the king of Shu had to let him eat this bowl of copying hands, which was really a bit weird, and halfway through the meal, Gao Zheng realized what the problem was.

It looked like he was going to be sent away.

Gao Zheng put down his chopsticks and said in a deep voice: "After all, you still haven't settled things?" ”

The King of Shu shook his head: "This king did his best. ”

"That's fine."

Gao Zheng smiled bitterly, "I should have expected such a day a long time ago, but I didn't expect it to be so sudden." ”

The King of Shu said: "You have more or less taken some sins for the Shu Palace, you and I are in-laws, before leaving, do you have anything to say, I will try my best to help you." ”

Gao Zheng clenched his palms: "Can my son live, he is a guest of honor in the Zongren Mansion, a relative of the emperor, and your Zhu family is a family." ”

In his hopeful eyes, the King of Shu shook his head.

"I can't save it, you have to bear the charge of reselling illicit salt this time, you want to Yi San, your son can't escape, even if he marries the eldest girl of my family, it can't be, after all, Yi Sanzu wants to be made public. If your son survives, then you will die in vain. ”

The King of Shu changed his words and said, "Your son's name must be in the list of the three Yi clans in the imperial court, but if I come forward, I can save the nephew of your third brother's family, and it can be regarded as a continuation of the incense for your Gao family." ”

Gao Zheng lowered his head and was speechless for a long time.

He lifted his chopsticks and gobbled down what was left of the bowl until there was not a drop of soup left.

After eating, go on the road with peace of mind.

Gao Zheng raised his head and said with relief, "My nephew, please ask the prince to take care of it." ”

"Hmm."

The words fell, and the two of them walked out one by one with knives and brocade guards.

"Lord Shu, I was ordered to do something, and I disturbed you."

The King of Shu glanced at Gao Zheng and got up to leave.

The eagle dogs of the Jinyi Guard surrounded Gao Zheng, and he looked up at the sky, and after only one look, he closed his eyes.

Knife up.

The knife falls.

Blood splattered.

……

Zhu Gaoxian glanced at the cover of the file in his hand, which read, "In August of the fifteenth year of Yongle, the case of King Gu", starting from private salt, and ending with King Gu, and finally ending with Gao Zheng's head falling to the ground.

This case should actually be divided into two cases, the "Guwang Case" and the "Illicit Salt Case", but Zhu Gaoxian finally merged the two cases together.

The king of the valley rebelled, and the whole family of the king of the valley was killed, and the henchmen of the king of the valley were eradicated, and finally ended with the death of Zhang Cheng, in this case, all the guilty people involved in the case died.

Compared with the Guwang case, the case of illegal salt is much more lenient, and it will privately swallow people's land, embezzle public taxes, and resell illegal salt...... A series of people involved in the case were cleaned, but in the end, they still did not blame the King of Shu, but just killed a high government to set an example.

In these two cases, Zhu Gaoxian's methods may have been somewhat bloody and despicable, but none of the people he killed were innocent.

It doesn't matter how the process is, what matters is the result.

He put the file on the shelf, in order to prevent insects, the shelf in the secret room can only be made of wood and not bamboo, he glanced at it, this shelf is full of hundreds of similar volumes, from the Hongwu Dynasty to the Yongle Dynasty, the Jianwen Dynasty during the period can be ignored, all of them are these files that cannot be shown.

This secret room, built on the Yuquan Mountain in Beijing, only the emperor is qualified to step into, which hides too many secrets and darkness since the founding of the Ming Dynasty.

Two thousand elite guards patrolled day and night on the periphery, and anyone who approached was killed regardless of the reason, and the defense was as strict as the Yellow Book Library in Houhu in Nanjing.

Zhu Gaoxian became the Yongle Dynasty, the second person qualified to step into this secret room.

This also means that he will take over the blade of power from the hands of the emperor.

(End of chapter)