Zhang Fu still remembered that the wind was very strong that day, and the fire quickly spread to several other halls, and in the end, it was far more than just Fengtian Hall that was destroyed by the fire.

Of course, the last person in the palace died that day was not only the Jianwen Emperor Zhu Yunwen's family of three, the concubines in the palace in order to avoid the humiliation of the chaotic soldiers, save their honor, or thank Emperor Jianwen for their kindness, hung the beam and swallowed gold, and committed suicide to follow Emperor Jianwen.

When the fire weakened, everyone began to fight the fire and finally extinguished the fire.

Zhang Fu commanded the guards to dig out three charred corpses that had been burned beyond recognition from the ruins of the Fengtian Temple, which were the Jianwen Emperor Zhu Yunwen and Empress Ma and the crown prince Zhu Wenkui.

However, at this time, a very dramatic scene appeared, and Zhu Di, the king of Yan, led many officials of all sizes to come at this time.

He looked as if he had just heard the news of the fire in the palace, and his expression was full of surprise.

When he looked at the three charred corpses that were dug up, he didn't shy away from it, he fell to the ground at once, stroked the charred corpses with his hands and wept bitterly, tears rained down, it was like crying out to the sky and grabbing the ground, and he couldn't help but die.

(According to the record of Volume 9 of the "Records of Taizong", after Zhu Di saw the charred corpse, "I cried and said: Sure enough, if you are stupid! I came to help the wings and not do good, and I didn't want to forgive and did not want to forgive!"

When the officials who followed King Yan saw this scene, they were all moved inexplicably, and even burst into tears, and they all deeply admired the love and righteousness of Zhu Di, King of Yan.

Only Zhang Fu, who was standing on the side, looked at the grief-stricken Yan King Zhu Di, recalling that in the Fengtian Hall before, under the red firelight, the evil aura that appeared on his face, the somewhat hideous expression, and couldn't help but feel a chill down his back straight into the bone marrow, and he shivered all over.

When the grief eased a little, Zhu Di stood up, and immediately ordered Zhongshu Province to write an article to tell the world that when the Emperor Jianwen of Heaven was broken in Nanjing, Zhu Yunwen felt ashamed and shameless to face King Yan and the subjects of the world, and because of the persecution of traitorous ministers, he died in the Fengtian Palace, and at the same time the martyrdom of the queen Ma and the crown prince Zhu Wenkui, the corpses were scorched and unrecognizable.

Then he ordered the remains of Emperor Jianwen to be buried according to the etiquette of the Son of Heaven, and all the ministers and people in Beijing were kept for three days to mourn.

In the end, the grief on Zhu Di's face was swept away, and with a vicious look in his eyes, he ordered the army to close the nine gates, block the whole city under martial law, and search for Qi Tai, Huang Zicheng and other traitors who had been hiding, and the inner servants on the side began to read out the list of rebels that had been drawn up, and there were as many as 50 people.

When Zhang Fu heard this, he couldn't help but sigh a little in his heart, these so-called loyal ministers and righteous men who had established the lord to cut down the feudal domain and resolutely advocated the extermination of King Yan were all talking about how loyal and patriotic they were, and they swore to fight the rebels of King Yan to the end.

When the army was defeated and the city was broken, and the Yan army came in, they all hid one by one and disappeared.

There was only one Fang Xiaoru left, with some corrupt Confucian students who had never seen what it was called death, and dared to stand in front of the imperial steps and scold King Yan, his ambition did not change, and his courage was commendable.

But in the end, they really begged for mercy, and I really don't know whether to pity them or admire them?

And those former pillars of the imperial court who were frightened to hide in their guts, did they think that their meaningless hiding could really escape this doomed ending?

Zhang Fu looked at the tall figure of Zhu Di, the king of Yan, who was standing in front of the ruins of Fengtian Temple, and sighed softly in his heart, there are eggs under the nest?

Within two days of this, the news of the death of Jianwen Emperor Zhu Yunwen spread all over the world with the proclamation, but the most interesting thing in the proclamation was the sentence "The corpse is charred and unrecognizable".

Then there were all kinds of speculations about the whereabouts of Emperor Jianwen, and the most prevalent was that Emperor Jianwen was not burned to death

The dead one was just a stand-in.

The real Emperor Jianwen, under the arrangement and cover of a group of confidants and loyal ministers, escaped from the city of Nanjing, hid in the people, and waited for the opportunity to make a comeback.

This statement has spread far and wide, not only many people believe it, but there are even people in the teahouse restaurant who are telling how Emperor Jianwen escaped the pursuit of Zhu Di, the king of Yan, after nine hundred and eighty-one difficulties, how he hid in the temple, recruited troops and horses, and secretly hoarded power, which is really more exciting.

These people have noses and eyes, and they are as careful as they are seeing with their own eyes.

And Zhang Fu, who had really experienced everything that happened that day, could only laugh when he heard such nonsense.

But he couldn't say it, and he didn't dare to divulge even half a word of everything he saw that day, because he knew that the fifty henchmen and guards who followed him and Yan Wang Zhu Di into the palace that day had all contracted a strange disease and died without coincidence.

But he didn't die, not only did he not die, after Zhu Di, the king of Yan, ascended the throne and became the emperor, he was named the marquis of Xincheng, ostensibly because he was grateful for his father Zhang Yu's heroic achievements in saving the king of Yan in the battle of Dongchang.

However, every time, when Zhang Fu recalled the cold gaze and the evil aura on the face of Zhu Di, who was red by the firelight in the dim Fengtian Hall that day, he couldn't help but feel chills all over his body and cold sweat.

However, what happened later really made Zhang Fu feel a little strange and confused.

First of all, after Zhu Di ascended the throne, he actually ordered the historian to erase the era name of Jianwen, and changed all the years of Jianwen to the Hongwu era name of Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang of Taizu.

This is undoubtedly a denial of the legitimacy of the throne of Emperor Jianwen Zhu Yunwen and a refusal to recognize the identity of this nephew as emperor.

This is completely contradictory to his previous action of burying Emperor Jianwen with the etiquette of the Son of Heaven, which arouses suspicion. If Emperor Jianwen is really dead, why are you so anxious to erase the traces he left in history, this is simply a cover-up.

As a result, the rumors that Emperor Jianwen was not dead were very popular for a while, and they all said that Zhu Di's move was clearly to prevent Emperor Jianwen from raising troops in the name of restoring the orthodoxy of the emperor's throne, after all, his throne was handed down by Emperor Taizu himself, and it was much more justifiable than Zhu Di's throne.

The strange thing is that although Zhu Di was very annoyed by this rumor on the surface and ordered a ban, it only stayed on the surface after all, and there were no practical measures.

You must know that at the beginning, just because Fang Xiaoru insulted him in court and swept his face, he destroyed the ten clans of Fang Xiaoru's family and killed 800 people.

However, it is a little strange that he has not heard of any prison sentences because of this rumor, which is even more humiliating for him.

What's even more strange is Zhu Di's next move, he sent many officials, such as Hu Hu and others, to secretly visit all parts of the country, saying that they were visiting the people, but no one knew what they were actually visiting.

He also did not hesitate to spend money on the people, almost emptied the treasury, and sent his confidant Three Treasures eunuch Zheng He to supervise the construction of giant warships and take the army to the sea to expand the territory.

So the new theory spread among the people, in fact, Emperor Jianwen did not hide inland, but escaped from the sea, far away from the overseas immortal mountain, Zheng He's fleet voyage was to find his whereabouts.

All this that Zhu Di did after he ascended the throne is clearly confirming the folk rumors: Emperor Jianwen is actually not dead!

If Zhang Fu hadn't seen everything that happened in the Fengtian Temple with his own eyes that day, and heard the poignant and crazy laughter of Emperor Jianwen before he died in the fire, maybe he would have chosen to believe these rumors.

But why did the wise and martial emperor Zhu Di do this? He seemed to be deliberately misleading the people of the world into thinking that Emperor Jianwen was still in the world.

Originally, Zhang Fu couldn't figure it out at all, but after all these years, as he got to know the emperor Zhu Di day by day,

He was gradually able to guess some of the emperor's thoughts.

Originally, he thought that the reason why Zhu Di wanted to make up a lie about Emperor Jianwen's shame was to save his own face and prevent the world from accusing him of killing his nephew with his own hands and seizing power and usurping the throne.

Now it seems that in Zhu Di's mind, these so-called faces and so-called reputations are not worth mentioning in the face of the stability of the emperor's throne.

He really wants everyone in the world to think that Emperor Jianwen is not dead, only in this way, those characters who are hidden in the secret, dissatisfied with Zhu Di and dissatisfied with the Ming Dynasty, will take the initiative to jump out and go all over the world to find the whereabouts of Emperor Jianwen.

They are more concerned about the life and death of Emperor Jianwen than Zhu Di, because as long as they can master the trump card of Emperor Jianwen, they can justifiably raise troops and rebel, respond to every call, and even overthrow Zhu Di's rule.

However, it was only when they couldn't wait to take the initiative to jump out one by one that Zhu Di was able to free up his hands and clean them all up one by one without much effort.

Over the years, the traitors who have been captured one by one, the rebel armies that have been exterminated one by one, and now all the vassal kings have been relocated to the fiefdom one by one, and the military power has been cut off, which is living ironclad evidence.

And those so-called Hu Hu and others who secretly visited the whereabouts of Emperor Jianwen all over the country are actually just spies who are secretly visiting the movements of these chaotic ministers and thieves, or what they want to secretly visit is actually a more secret in Zhu Di's heart.

Who can guess the emperor's thoughts?

Zhang Fu raised his head from the memory, looked at Jian Yi standing in front of him, and waited for his answer with a look of hope.

He never thought of himself as a smart man, and that marching and fighting might be his forte, and calculating people's hearts was never his forte.

But this Jian Yi is definitely a veritable smart person, even an old fox.

Can even a rough man like himself guess something, can he really hide it from this old fox?

Whatever he guessed, it wasn't what he told him.

Zhang Fu didn't speak, but just smiled meaningfully at Jian Yi.

Jian Yi waited patiently for a long time, but he didn't expect Zhang Fu to be tight-lipped, but he just waited for this inexplicable smile, and he didn't feel a little annoyed.

He said with some indignation: "Okay, well, you all have secrets, all of them are mysterious, and you can't tell them." But I'm not like you, I don't have a son left by Ye Feng's kid, and fortunately, my son is too old to be brothers with Ye Feng, otherwise I wouldn't have to be like you, who are sky-high and well-behaved, timid, and don't dare to say anything, dare not do anything!"

As soon as these words came out, not only Zhang Fu, but even Xia Yuanji's face on the side changed instantly, and he looked at Jian Yi in great surprise, and his expression was clearly saying, how can you be so bold, you can also say this?

Jian Yi smiled a little mysteriously and said: "There are only three of us here, I can get out of my mouth, into your ears, and then I don't recognize it, I am telling the truth, what is there to be afraid of?"

He was telling the truth.

As we all know, Xia Yuanji's son Xia Xuan, Zhang Fu's eldest son Zhang Wu (that is, the Zhang Fat Man who later changed his name to Zhang Idiot), and Xie Zhenliang, the eldest son of Xie Jin, the world's first genius who was deposed, the three of them have been friends with Ye Feng since childhood, and they are of the same age.

Everyone knows this, and there is nothing to avoid, but it is clear that there is not only this meaning in the words just now, but also a more far-reaching meaning.

Zhang Fu and Xia Yuanji glanced at each other in unison, staring at Jian Yi with a strange look, and a thought arose in their hearts: "Could it be that this old boy will know what is behind this?"

Zhang Fu carefully recalled Jianyi's words just now in his heart, and suddenly, he couldn't help laughing.