Zhu Di was standing at the gate of the abandoned palace at this time.

This is the palace that Prince Xuanyuan once broke into last night but returned with a feather.

In front of him, the two brothers in front of the palace, the two brothers of the double dragon dragon and the big dragon bowed down and stood in front of the palace gate.

They didn't bow down, but Zhu Di didn't care.

The two brothers in front of this palace, the double dragon dragon and the big dragon, are the most trusted close confidants of Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, and they have been guarding outside this hall for twenty years since the time of Taizu's reign.

The two brothers only bowed to Emperor Taizu in their lives, and never bowed to anyone else, so Zhu Di had long been accustomed to this and did not take it to heart.

He stretched out his hand and pushed open the door of the temple and strode into the temple.

The hall was empty, Mr. Dongguo, who blocked Xuanyuan Gongzi last night, was not here, Zhu Di didn't look surprised, it seemed that he still knew a lot about the whereabouts of this mysterious Mr. Dongguo.

He looked around the hall, and it was empty and empty, except for some broken tables and chairs piled up in the corners of the walls, covered with dust and cobwebs.

Since Jian Yi came back and reported the meeting with King Zhao in 1510, Zhu Di confirmed the conjecture in his heart, all the turmoil in the capital was really all the conspiracy of this Xuanyuan prince.

provoked the infighting between the crown prince and the kings, caused chaos in the capital, and even finally caused a mutiny to attack the palace, all of which was only for one goal, that is, the empty old palace in front of him that had been abandoned for twenty years.

But Xuanyuan Gongzi is so exhausted and wasted a lot of effort just for such an empty abandoned palace?

Zhu Di glanced around the empty hall and walked towards the side of the main hall.

The wall here is carved with a stone dragon that looms in the clouds, the age is a little old, the stone carving is a little mottled, but you can still vaguely see the exquisite carving of the year, the stone dragon is lifelike, vivid.

Zhu Di walked up to Shi Long, stretched out two fingers and pressed Shi Long's two protruding eyes at the same time, the eyeballs turned out to be moving, and they fell into it with one press.

With a heavy click, the wall carved with the stone dragon actually moved, revealing a secret door with a black hole.

Zhu Di turned around and walked into the secret door, which closed again with a click.

The empty hall returned to its previous calm, empty, even the two brothers in front of the hall at the door, the two brothers of the double dragon dragon and the dragon, were gone, as if no one had been here at all, and nothing had happened at all.

In the middle of the secret door is a downward passage, and the walls are neatly built with large polished stones, which seem to have been built with a lot of effort.

At intervals on both sides of the secret passage, there was a permanent lamp on the wall, and the bean-sized flames danced and emitted a dim light, illuminating the deep secret passage that led to nowhere.

Zhu Di walked slowly forward along the secret passage with his hands behind his back, of course he knew what secret was hidden at the end of this secret passage, that was the secret left by Emperor Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang back then, and it was also one of the biggest secrets in his heart now, that Xuanyuan Gongzi hollowed out his mind in the capital and stirred up the wind and rain, nothing more than for this secret.

In a short time, the secret passage came to an end, and in the dim light of the ever-bright lamps on the walls around it, it was a cage-like cell enclosed by an iron bar the thickness of an arm.

In the center of the cell was a desk with an oil lamp, and under the lamp was an old man with unkempt hair who was looking down at some of the papers on the desk.

The old man's beard was white, and he looked like he had been locked up here for a long time, and his unkempt hair and beard, which had not been trimmed for a long time, covered most of his face, and his whole body was skinny, and his clothes were all in tatters, hanging on his body like strips of cloth, and the whole building exuded a foul smell.

But the most surprising thing was that the old man's shoulders and strands were pierced with large iron rings, and the long iron chains attached to them were firmly nailed to the stone walls around the cell!

The slightest movement of the old man will touch the chain, and the chain will make a clanging sound.

Who is this old man?

How could he be imprisoned in this secret cell, pierced with iron hoops, and endured such cruel punishments?

Zhu Di looked at this old man, he didn't have a trace of surprise, maybe he had already been used to it.

He probably couldn't stand the pungent stench of the place, and covered his nose with one hand and walked to the front of the iron cage. There was a chair there, upholstered, and he sat down in front of the old man.

At this time, the old man raised his head, glanced at Zhu Di from the gap in the messy hair, and said angrily in a hoarse voice: "What kind of wind is blowing outside today, so that His Majesty the Emperor personally came here to visit me, an old and immortal old thing?"

Zhu Di smiled faintly and didn't care: "Mr. made fun of it." For several years since I ascended the throne, every two or three months, I have always taken time to visit him to see if he is okay. ”

The old man raised his head and snorted coldly: "Thanks to the emperor's trouble, the old bones are still fine, if the emperor really cares about the old decay, it is better to let the two long worms guarding the door have nothing to do and change the toilet here more frequently, lest this place always stinks and stains the emperor's nose." ”

Zhu Di smiled, in addition to himself, only the Shuanglong brothers in front of the palace who guard this place can come in every day to deliver some meals, and occasionally help the old man change the toilet or something.

No one else would come in, and no one would know about the existence of this place.

But the two brothers of the Long family did not have an edict, and they would never dare to say even half a word to the old man, so the old man usually couldn't find anyone to talk to, and it was rare for him to come by himself, and it was understandable for the old man to complain.

So he said to the old man apologetically, "I will definitely give them an explanation, and let the gentleman be wronged." ”

The old man rolled his strange eyes and said unceremoniously: "It's not you who have wronged me, it's your damn son Zhu Yuanzhang, who treacherously used despicable means to arrest me, abolish my martial arts, and lock me up in this broken place that doesn't see the light of day for more than 20 years." ”

Zhu Di asked a little strangely: "Since there is no light of day here, how do you know that more than twenty years have passed, sir?"

The old man snorted from his nose: "I count the days, a pot of wine and a fat chicken every month, this is not difficult to calculate." ”

Zhu Di nodded suddenly in understanding, it seems that although this old man has been claustrophobic here for twenty years, he is still sober-minded and has a keen reaction, and sure enough, as his father said back then, he is one of the most difficult people in the world to deal with.

Zhu Di smiled and said: "Mr. has indeed suffered, but there is no need to be overly angry, from now on, the rule of one pot of wine and one fat chicken per month will be changed to once every ten days." ”

The old man was obviously taken aback, looked at Zhu Di a little stunned, and said: "From your son Zhu Yuanzhang, to your nephew Zhu Yunwen, and then to you are already the third emperor to come here, you have not said a word until today." ”

He thought about it for a while, and suddenly there was a suspicious look in his eyes, and he said categorically: "But even if you try everything to please me, I still won't help your Zhu family translate that book." ”

Zhu Di smiled: "Of course I know this, in the past twenty years, all the coercion and temptation methods have been exhausted, if I can make Mr. succumb, I am afraid that I will succeed a long time ago, so why wait until today?"

The suspicion in the old man's eyes became even heavier, and he asked, "Then how can you be so good to me for no reason?"

Zhu Di said: "After a while, I'm afraid I will have to drive Mr. to travel far away, and the long journey will be bumpy all the way, and I will always need some physical strength, of course I want Mr. to take advantage of this time to take advantage of this time to take care of his body, after all, there are still many places that need Mr. in the future." ”

The old man was stunned: "Where are you going?"

Zhu Di said without concealment: "To be honest, I have already started to build a new palace in Beiping according to the imperial palace here in Nanjing, and in a year, it will become Beijing, and of course Mr. will go with him." ”

The old man was taken aback: "You want to move the capital?"

Zhu Di nodded: "It's not that I want it, but it's imperative." ”

The old man asked in surprise: "Jinling has unparalleled feng shui in the world, how many dynasties have chosen to set their capitals here, why do you want to go to great lengths and move the capital to Beiping at the expense of the people and money?"

He suddenly sank his face and said: "I have been to Beiping, although there is dragon gas in feng shui here, but it is definitely not the real dragon gas, the local rumor is that there are sea eyes in the river, and there are often evil Jiao as disasters, and this place will be the emperor's capital for a long time The world will be in chaos." ”

Zhu Di looked at the old man, he had long known that this person was well-versed in the past and the present, extremely knowledgeable, omniscient in astronomy and geography, yin and yang calculations, and omniscient, but now it seems that it is true.

He smiled at the old man and said, "As Mr. said, but Yao Guangxiao has already settled the feng shui in Beiping before, and he has also lowered the evil Jiao to repair the lock Jiao well and pacify the disaster. The design of the entire imperial city of Beijing was also made by him, and today's Beiping is far from what he saw when he saw it. ”

When the old man heard this, he lowered his head and was silent for a moment, and sighed: "Yao Guangxiao, when I first saw him twenty years ago, I knew that this person was a ghost, and he did have such skills. Whether it is true or not, I believe in this lock Jiaojing and Feng Shui. ”

He raised his head and asked Zhu Di again: "But why do you abandon your ancestral temple so much, and you must move the capital so resolutely?"

Zhu Di suddenly smiled and said to the old man: "Mr. must not have guessed that the person who really forced me to decide to move the capital was Ling Gongzi!"

The old man's whole body was shocked, showing that he was surprised: "What?

Zhu Di nodded and said, "That's right, it's your son, sir, the Xuanyuan son who is now famous in the rivers and lakes." ”

His face turned pale, his eyes looked directly into the old man's eyes without blinking, and said: "This son of yours not only forced me to make up my mind to move the capital to Beiping at any cost, but just last night, he had already broken into the outer hall, and he was almost about to save you!"

It turned out that the old man in front of Zhu Di turned out to be Xuanyuan's father!