Chapter 288: Chen Kan is dead
"I didn't expect that the White Lotus Sect would join forces with the Jianwen Yu Party."
Zhu Di's face was a little complicated, obviously it was a little unexpected for Jianwenyu to get together with the White Lotus Sect.
Chen Kan could even see a hint of jealousy in Zhu Di's eyes.
However, when he thought that his grandfather started like this, Chen Kan didn't feel strange.
The power of religion lies in demagoguery, and there are many examples in history of using religion to brainwash the masses and finally holding high the anti-flag.
The most typical is Zhang Jiao of Taiping Dao, who is known as breaking the luck of the Han Dynasty, and Zhu Yuanzhang, the grandfather of the Sun and the Moon who reopened the Great Song Dynasty.
The lessons of the past are in front of him, and Zhu Di can't help but be afraid.
The speculation in his heart came true, and Chen Kan asked thoughtfully: "Your Majesty, I don't know where the progress of Jinyiwei's tracking has been?" β
Zhu Di frowned and said: "They have basically found out a rough idea of the place where they settled around the Jingshi, but they are very cunning and never stay in one place for long. In addition, it is not possible to confirm who their leader is for the time being, and I was afraid of startling the snake, so I didn't let Ji Gang do anything to them. β
The progress of Jin Yiwei's investigation was strictly confidential, but the three people present were Zhu Di's most trusted people, so he didn't hide it.
"Your Majesty's approach is correct, they are in the dark, the court is in the light, if you startle the snake, and then you want to find out the people behind the scenes, I am afraid that it will be difficult."
Dao Yan took over the conversation and continued: "Pingsen has an immature idea, maybe he can catch them all. β
Zhu Di looked overjoyed: "Please also ask Master Yao to give advice." β
Dao Yan smiled slightly, and turned his head to look at Chen Kan: "Your Majesty, don't worry, why don't you let Chen Xiaoyou talk about his thoughts first, maybe it coincides with the poor monk's thoughts?" β
Chen Kan was stunned for a moment, and suddenly felt a little frightened at Shang Daoyan's eyes that saw through everything.
He was sure that Dao Yan had seen through his calculations.
Fang Xiaoru sat aside, stroking his beard with a thoughtful expression, he seemed to understand a little why Chen Kan asked him to invite Monk Daoyan in the middle of the night.
Zhu Di is not a stupid person, and immediately urged: "Chen boy, you called me in the middle of the night, it wasn't to chat with me, right?" β
Chen Kan settled his mind and didn't think about why Daoyan could see through his plan at a glance.
Then he stared at Zhu Di and said, "Your Majesty, the minister plans to cheat ...... death."
"Death?"
Zhu Di couldn't help but exclaim.
Chen Kan nodded: "Yes, cheat death, the news that the minister has come to his senses now is not only you, Master Daoyan and the teacher, but only the minister's housekeeper and Her Royal Highness the princess knows, and the minister's plan is ......"
As Chen Kan revealed the thoughts in his heart, Zhu Di's face suddenly became wonderful.
After a while, Zhu Di looked at Chen Kan like a monster, and the corners of his mouth twitched: "You kid is a scourge, do you know how many people will die like this?" β
Chen Kan's face remained unchanged: "Your Majesty's words are wrong, this is called killing to stop killing, if you can't clean up those maggots hidden in the shadows at one time, Da Ming will be eaten by them sooner or later." β
"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that this is a merit."
Zhu Di and Chen Kan turned their heads to look at Fang Xiaoru who said this sentence at the same time, and their faces showed surprise at the same time.
This is what a generation of Confucian filial piety can say?
Seeing the eyes of the two looking at him, Fang Xiaoru said unhurriedly: "Zi said, repay grievances with virtue, how can you repay virtue?" β
"Oh!"
Chen Kan and Zhu Di nodded at the same time, and a long tail note came out of their mouths.
And Fang Xiaoru, after saying two sentences, smiled silently.
Dao Yan looked approving, and he didn't know if he agreed with Chen Kan's plan, or Fang Xiaoru's sentence This is a merit.
Zhu Di suddenly showed a smile on his face: "It's okay, I have killed many people, and I don't care about killing some more." β
Zhu Di's fluttering words represent that a catastrophe that is about to shock the world is about to take shape.
Seeing that his plan was supported by the three of them, Chen Kan turned his head to look at Dao Yan and asked with a sincere face: "Master, the kid thinks that this plan is seamless, I don't know how the master can see the plan in the kid's heart?" β
Dao Yan clasped his hands together and said with a smile: "Chen Xiaoyou asked an old friend to call the poor monk into the city in the middle of the night, it wouldn't be so that the poor monk would come to do things for Chen Xiaoyou, right?" β
Chen Kan came to his senses.
It is said that the monk Yan is wise and close to the demon, and now it seems that this is no longer a problem of being wise and close to the demon.
Rather, it is a true prophet of the unknown.
Just from a message from Fang Xiaoru inviting him into the city, he can deduce that he has woken up and seen through all his calculations, how terrifying is this calculation ability?
It's just a demon.
Chen Kan has no doubt that if Dao Yan is placed in the future generations, he will definitely be a great mountain in the mathematical world.
Seeing the look of enlightenment on his face, Dao Yan clasped his hands together: "Good, good." β
Chen Kan raised his hands with difficulty and saluted back: "In this way, there will be Master Lao." β
"Clean up the portal, the poor monk is duty-bound."
After receiving Daoyan's promise, Chen Kan looked at Zhu Di's and Fang Xiaoru again: "Your Majesty, teacher, success or failure is here." β
Zhu Di's face was solemn: "I will never tolerate them making waves under my nose anymore." β
Fang Xiaoru nodded in greeting: "Take a good rest and recuperate, and leave everything to the teacher." β
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Early the next morning, a piece of news quickly spread throughout the Jingshi, and quickly spread around the Jingshi.
Jinghaihou has died!
As soon as this news came out, the entire Jingshi suddenly fell into a sigh.
Unexpectedly, it happened yesterday that the two sisters joined forces to fight for the younger sister's property, and today as the center of the family property competition storm, he passed away.
After learning the news, many people couldn't help but pull out the two princesses and curse a few words when they sighed for the young marquis.
And the hundred officials of the Beijing Division, after hearing the news, behaved differently.
Officials who had received Chen Kan's favor couldn't help but feel the injustice of God.
Why don't Ji Gang and Chen Ying die, but such a young man who puts the safety of hundreds of officials in his heart died young.
How unfair Heaven is.
And those who have an enmity with Chen Kan are clapping their hands and shouting in their hearts.
Among them, the one who is the happiest is Chen Ying, the imperial history of Zuodu.
It is said that he also drank a few glasses of rice wine to celebrate.
Longping Marquis Zhang Xin's expression was complicated, speaking of which, there was a grudge between him and Chen Kan, but after the two sides cooperated to do business and sell perfumes together, that little feud had long been forgotten by him.
Then there is Xu Jingchang, Marquis of Wuyang, after hearing the news of Chen Kan's death, he looked up to the sky and smiled: "Good and evil will be rewarded in the end." β
As for Ji Gang and Li Jinglong, they did not express any opinions.
Moreover, no one saw them in Jingshi.
Chen Kan is dead.
This news quickly spread to the entire Jiangnan region through Fang Xiaoru's protΓ©gΓ©.
The death of the imperial hero, the young marquis, touched the hearts of all parties.
Zhu Di ordered a three-day boycott of the dynasty, and ordered the monk to record the monk Daoyan master Yao Guangxiao to gather monks from all over the world to hold a grand water and land puja for Chen Kan to show his favor.
It can be described as extremely glorious.
After the dispersal of the dynasty, many skeptical officials came to the vicinity of the Jinghai Marquis Mansion to confirm whether Chen Kan's death was true or false.
But as soon as I walked to the edge of the Qinhuai River, I saw the spirit flag erected in front of the Hou Mansion, and the lanterns on the house were also changed to white.
The cry from the Hou Mansion could be heard from afar.
The officials had to accept the facts.
Chen Kan, the once arrogant young marquis.
It's really dead.
Although as early as when Chen Kan was carried back from outside the city, the imperial doctor asserted that Chen Kan had already attacked his heart with poison, and it was difficult to save the Daluo Immortal.
Even if he can save his life, it will be difficult to come back to his senses.
But when Chen Kan's death was confirmed, many officials still felt embarrassed.
From Chen Kan's appearance on the political stage until now, it has been less than a year and a half.
But it is this year's time, and what Chen Kan has done is not enough to describe it with the word dazzling.
Not only did he easily marry His Majesty's favorite little princess back to his home, but he also effortlessly took away a super marquis from His Majesty.
Such a dazzling life should have shone in the next few decades.
Who would have thought that the heavens would not follow people's wishes, and they would die at the hands of thieves in such a wretch.
Like a comet streaked across the sky, how can it not make people sigh.
At noon, Zhu Di rushed to the Hou Mansion as soon as possible.
Zhu Yuelan, who had already cried into tears, endured her grief and welcomed Zhu Di into the mansion.
Zhu Di's move suddenly made hundreds of officials feel sorry from the bottom of their hearts.
Unexpectedly, even if Chen Kan died, the emperor's favor would still not decrease.
If he were still alive, how favored would he be?
Followed by the Ministry of Officials, Shangshu Fang Xiaoru.
At this time, Fang Xiaoru seemed to be dozens of years old in an instant, his old face was full of grief, and his originally straight back was unconsciously hunched.
Everyone knows that Chen Kan is the only personal disciple of Fang Xiaoru, and he is the heir to the mantle he has high hopes for, and the child he raised from the age of hanging hair.
Now that the white-haired person is sending the black-haired person, how can it not be heart-wrenching.
As Zhu Di and Fang Xiaoru stepped into the Hou Mansion, more and more officials came to the Hou Mansion to mourn.
Most of them are officials who were once implicated by Jinyiwei and rescued from Jinyiwei by the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses.
Immediately afterwards, there were several of Chen Kan's henchmen, Shi Wen, Xu Yuan, Zhang Yong, Zheng Song, Yao Chi, and Chen An......
The people of the Hou Mansion withered, and Chen Kan and Her Royal Highness the Princess did not even have any heirs.
Fang Xiaoru had no choice but to call Fang Zhongxian and Fang Zhongyu brothers over to receive the officials who came to mourn.
In the end, a group of noble generals came, led by Zhang Xin, Marquis of Longping, who had a complicated expression, followed by Li Rang, Marquis of Guangping, and Yuan Rong, Marquis of Fuyang, who gloated.
Today is the first day of Chen Kan's death, and the date has not yet been decided.
It is said that Qin Tianjian is already in Haoshou and must find an auspicious day suitable for burial, as well as a feng shui treasure that can allow Chen Kan to be reincarnated into a rich and noble family when he comes.
Therefore, there are not many guests who rushed to the Hou Mansion today, most of them are some officials and nobles who have a good relationship with the Hou Mansion.
And the purpose of their coming was to take one last look at Chen Kan.
Like some officials or nobles with relatively high status, such as Ru Yu and Song Li, Zhu Neng and Qiu Fu and other national nobles, they basically have to come back to show their faces on the day of the water and land festival or the funeral.
In the large hall in the middle of the Hou Mansion, Chen Kan's coffin stopped in the middle.
Princess Changning, who was dressed in filial piety, had already fainted from crying several times.
Chen Kan's sister, Zheng Shi, also cried a lot.
The pungent smell of sandalwood and paper money in the auditorium made every guest who came to mourn couldn't help frowning slightly.
The coffin had not yet been sealed, and Chen Kan was lying in the coffin with a peaceful expression, covered by a layer of yellow sealing paper, revealing only a bloodless and skinny face.
This is to let the guests who came to mourn have a look at Chen Kan's last appearance.
After today, only when the coffin is buried, will the coffin be opened again for guests to see.
In the mourning hall converted into an auditorium, the crying became more and more miserable, so that every guest who came to mourn couldn't help but feel a little concerned.
"Brother Chen, Brother Chen, wow, little brother is late......"
Suddenly, a terrible cry came from outside the mourning hall.
A young man dressed in the costume of a national prison prisoner staggered into the mourning hall.
"Brother Chen, you still have ambitions that have not been rewarded, how can you die so easily?"
The person who came was Li Tong, Chen Kan was in a coma these days, and Li Tong had come to see Chen Kan more than once.
It's just that I didn't expect to come back this time, and it was goodbye.
Seeing Li Tong crying so sadly, Zheng handed him a wad of paper money: "Child, child, don't be too sad, Yuansheng will not have a good life......
"Brother Chen, Brother Xian is incompetent~"
Li Tong lay on the edge of Chen Kan's coffin and cried.
Its mournful voice can be called sad for those who hear it, and tears for those who see it.
After admiring Chen Kan's remains, Li Tong, who was crying loudly, was taken to the side hall to rest by the Hou Mansion's subordinates.
The officials of the Ministry of Rites who came to preside over the funeral looked at the sky, and after waiting for a while, they saw that no one had come to mourn.
Then he shouted at the top of his voice: "Seal the coffin!" β
As the coffin was closed, Chen Kan was completely cut off from the world.
The next day, half of the people who came to the Hou Mansion to mourn were reduced.
On the third day, except for the officials who had befriended the Hou Mansion, basically no one came to the Hou Mansion anymore.
On the fourth day, the entire Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions learned the news that the young marquis Chen Kan finally failed to survive and hiccups on the eighth day of October.
On the fifth day, Qin Tianjian found a feng shui treasure on the side of the Yangtze River, it is said that what is called Xuanwu into the water, Chen Kan's mausoleum is built here, not only can be reincarnated into a good family, but also can bless three generations of descendants.
However, it is a pity that Chen Kan has no heirs.
On the sixth day, as the news of the water and land puja spread, monks from all over the world gradually began to gather towards the Heavenly Realm Temple.
On the seventh day, the news of Chen Kan's death had spread throughout Jiangnan.
And the Jinghai Hou Mansion, which was plunged into a sea of grief, also welcomed a group of special guests on the seventh day.
They are the craftsmen of the Treasure Banknote Division.
Today, Bao Qian Si Xiu Mu, some of them are in Beijing, and when they returned home, they learned that the Hou Ye who made them live a good life failed to survive.
So he spontaneously gathered at the gate of the Hou Mansion, wanting to take one last look at the Hou Ye.