Ye Zhiqiu was sitting in the prison cell, concentrating on chess.

In front of him was a chessboard with black and white pieces scattered across it, and they were competing with each other with their left and right hands.

It's not because it's boring, he's always thought that if you don't use your brain for a while, you will become sluggish. So, be sure to exercise regularly.

And playing chess is undoubtedly one of the best ways to exercise your brain power.

But tonight, for some reason, he still couldn't concentrate.

After spending these days in the Imperial Prison, he has already figured out the rules in it.

But tonight it was a little quiet, too quiet, a little unusually quiet.

Ye Zhiqiu put down the chess pieces in his hand, stood up, and slowly walked to the iron fence, looking at the dark corridor outside.

At this time of day, there should be a team of patrolling brocade guards passing here, but today not only are there no patrols, but even the guards who usually stand in the corridor like clay sculptures and wood sculptures are gone.

Ye Zhiqiu felt a little strange, and just wanted to shout twice and call someone to ask, when he heard a slight sound of footsteps coming from the end of the dark corridor.

He held his breath vigilantly, listened carefully, and yes, it was a man in soft-soled shoes, slowly approaching.

The brocade guards are wearing hard-soled fast boots, and this person who wears elegant soft-soled shoes will never be the brocade guard.

Who is he, and who would come to this prison in the middle of the night?

Ye Zhiqiu's eyes widened, staring curiously and vigilantly at the end of the pitch-black corridor.

Then the dim lights on the walls on both sides of the corridor appeared, and gradually, he saw that it was a man shrouded in black.

He was wearing a very wide black cloak, covering his whole body, his face was hidden in the shadow of his hat, he couldn't see who it was at all, and the whole person was like a black shadow, slowly walking towards Ye Zhiqiu's cell.

Although he couldn't see his figure and movements, Ye Zhiqiu suddenly had a very familiar feeling, could it be that this person was ......?

No way! He quickly denied himself the answer. How could this person be here at this time?

Ye Zhiqiu shook his head, but the familiar feeling still lingered, could it really be him?

Soon, the man in the black cloak walked to the front of Ye Zhiqiu's cell, and through the iron fence, he pulled the hat on his head, and under the light, his facial features were exposed.

Ye Zhiqiu was like being struck by lightning, his whole body trembled, he fell to his knees with a puff, kowtowing like pounding garlic: "Emperor, up!"

This person turned out to be the current emperor, Zhu Di!

But the emperor, how could he come to this edict in the middle of the night?

Ye Zhiqiu didn't dare to think about it, he just lowered his head and lay on the ground, kowtowing constantly.

Zhu Di had no expression on his face, his eyes looked coldly at Ye Zhiqiu who was crawling on the ground, and said in a deep voice: "Get up." ”

Ye Zhiqiu immediately stood up, bowed his head, and stood sideways respectfully.

At this time, from the end of the dark corridor, two brocade guards wearing red official uniforms suddenly walked out, carrying a chair and walking quickly behind Zhu Di. Lowering their chairs, the two of them quickly retreated into the darkness as if they had never appeared at all.

Zhu Di sat down slowly on the chair, and looked at Ye Zhiqiu with his eyes for a moment: "Are you surprised to see me here?"

Ye Zhiqiu could only reply: "Yes." ”

Zhu Di's face sank: "But you designed to send yourself here, which really surprised me!"

He looked at Ye Zhiqiu, who was trembling all over his body because of the truth of being broken, and asked sharply, "Do you think I can't see your mind?"

Ye Zhiqiu was so frightened that he trembled, his whole body fell to his knees, and he muttered in his mouth: "The emperor is sage, the criminal minister ......"

Zhu Di said coldly: "When Sun Dianchen's case was discovered, Jingzhao Yin and Yang Wenchang didn't dare to investigate the case, so they pushed it to you for some reason. You see the strangeness in it, you know that the dispute between the prince is involved behind this case, and you don't want to investigate, for fear of getting caught on fire, but you were strictly ordered by me to solve the case within a time limit, and there is no way to push it, so you simply don't do anything, and when the deadline comes, you ask for guilt and go to prison, so you come here. ”

"You know that I will never kill you because of this, and you know how important Ye Feng is to me, so you sent someone to inform Ye Feng of this. When the father is in prison, the son must of course try his best to rescue him, and the best way is to use his strengths to find out about the case. ”

"You have calculated that no matter what the truth of this case is, I will never sacrifice Ye Feng in order to favor my son, sacrificing years of planning, so I led him into the game and put him in this dangerous suspicion. You even betrayed him in order to protect yourself, and you raised him, do you really not have half a father-son relationship with him?"

Zhu Di's tone changed, full of murderous aura: "You know the danger and act so recklessly, do you think I really don't dare to kill you?!"

Ye Zhiqiu was broken by the Tao, and he was covered in cold sweat when he heard it, trembling and prostrate on the ground and kowtowing continuously: "The sinner deserves to die, the sinner deserves to die......"

Only he really knew the grand plan in Zhu Di's heart, and only he understood how important Ye Feng was to Zhu Di's plan.

He had no doubt that he would never be the slightest softer to someone who threatened Ye Feng's safety and his plans for many years, even if it was his own son.

What's more, it's just him Ye Zhiqiu.

He's really starting to regret it now.

Zhu Di looked coldly at him kowtowing like garlic, blood was knocked out of his forehead, and he said after a while: "It's useless to kill you, don't fuck your mother there, get up." ”

After all, he can't really kill Ye Zhiqiu, he still has to continue to control Ye Feng and continue his future plans, it is still much more convenient to have such a loyal old dog.

Hearing the emperor scolding him with foul language, Ye Zhiqiu's heart suddenly felt relaxed. He knows this master too well, and when he scolds you, he still treats you as his own, at least for now.

He hurriedly got up, stood aside with his head down, and waited for the emperor to speak.

Zhu Di's tone softened a little and asked: "Yesterday, there was an excerpt in Dali Temple, and it was said that Ye Feng found out a lot of clues to prove that Sun Dianchen was not dead, and that the King of Han may have mastered Tiancewei and then planned to assassinate the prince. What do you think?"

Ye Zhiqiu lowered his head and groaned, he couldn't understand the emperor's thoughts, so he didn't dare to say anything for a while.

Zhu Di said angrily: "Damn, don't pretend to Lao Tzu, I know that although you are here, your subordinates outside have not stopped, so if you know something, say it quickly." ”

Ye Zhiqiu had no choice but to reply: "At present, it seems that this is indeed the case. However, Tie Shaoqing of Dali Temple has a lot of suspicious identity in this case, and what Feng'er said to him may not be the whole truth. The offender has reservations about this assertion. ”

Zhu Di blinked his eyes and said faintly: "You mean that someone is setting up suspicions and deliberately planting the King of Han in this case?"

Ye Zhiqiu didn't answer, and thought to himself, isn't this exactly what the emperor thinks?

Since the emperor didn't ask Tie Wuru about the suspicious things at all, it means that either he had been suspicious of Tie Wuru for a long time, or he had other eyes and ears around Ye Feng and already knew this.

Besides, if the emperor didn't have doubts about the inference that the real culprit behind the scenes was the King of Han, why did he go to a place like the Imperial Prison in the middle of the night to ask for the opinion of a criminal minister?

Zhu Di pondered for a while and said: "Now that the people in the court are panicking, the two factions of the prince and the king of Han are already tense and on the verge of breaking out, do you think Ye Feng can find out the truth as soon as possible?"

Ye Zhiqiu lowered his head: "Since Feng'er already has clues, I believe that there will be a breakthrough soon, Your Majesty just needs to wait for good news." ”

Zhu Di snorted coldly: "I know that there is more than one force around him who is secretly protecting him now, but if something happens to him, I will still want your head to fall to the ground!"

Ye Zhiqiu shrank his head in fright: "The sinner understands!"

Zhu Di looked at Ye Zhiqiu's reaction with some satisfaction, leaned forward, and lowered his voice: "In addition, I want you to arrange it secretly......"

The sound behind him became smaller and smaller, and Ye Zhiqiu bent his waist against the iron fence and listened, nodding his head incessantly.

The dim lights on the wall shook for a while, and the shadows of the elongated monarchs and ministers also shook for a while, revealing a somewhat strange atmosphere.

A moment later, Zhu Di was still shrouded in a black cloak and walked out of the gate of the Imperial Prison.

All the guards at the gate had already been dispatched, and only a man in a chamberlain was waiting for him.

Over the past year, it has been rumored that Zhu Di is going to set up an East Factory in order to check and balance Jinyiwei, and Wang Quan, the deputy director of the internal supervision in front of him, is the one who prepares for this.

It's not a rumor, it's true.

Dongchang, whose full name is "Dongji Factory", is composed of trustworthy and skilled internal supervisors, mainly responsible for supervising the words and deeds of hundreds of officials, especially Jinyiwei.

This was Zhu Di's original idea, mainly to avoid the dominance of Jinyiwei's family, after all, Jinyiwei's people were all selected from the army, unlike the internal supervisors.

Now that it has been prepared, it is just waiting for the emperor to issue an edict, but Zhu Di has been dragging it out without issuing an edict.

On the one hand, because Emperor Taizu once made a rule that it was strictly forbidden to reuse internal supervision, and now the establishment of such a department is afraid that it will be discussed by the court.

This is still secondary, mainly because Zhu Di still has some reservations about Wang Quan.

At the moment, it seems that this person is not only loyal, but also has good martial arts, has a very good way to do things, and is very easy to use. But what about later?

Zhu Di likes to observe people, he sees too much self-confidence in Wang Quan's eyes, too much self-confidence often turns into conceit, and all he needs is a loyal person.

Of course, Zhu Di understands that there are some things that are more useful not to do than to do. Anyway, now everyone already knows about the establishment of the East Factory, but there is no need to rush for a while.

Therefore, he has been dragging it out on the grounds that the time has not come, that is, he will not issue an edict on the establishment of the East Factory.

For someone like Wang Quan, giving him hope is often more effective than the result.

A carriage covered in black came to a stop in front of him, and Zhu Di whispered a few words to Wang Quan before bowing down and getting into the carriage.

Wang Quan bowed down to receive the order.

The carriage began to gallop away. Zhu Di, who was in the car, let out a long sigh of relief, because he knew that after a while, all the Jinyi guards in the Imperial Prison who had seen or heard that someone had entered and left the Imperial Prison tonight would disappear from this world.

He didn't leave the palace tonight.

No one has been in or out of prison tonight.