Chapter 015: Peeling off the cocoon and turning it into a butterfly ()
If he could attach himself to Jin Yiwei, it would be a bright way out for Xia Xun.
But as soon as Mr. Feng opened his mouth, Xia Xun knew that he was lying. It didn't matter if he lied. What mattered was how big a secret the lie concealed. If the secret was not something he could bear, a man who was not allowed to know the details but had to
What will happen to those who participated in the secret? They will be silenced!
Before the Jinyiwei, the only comparable organization was the imperial prison during the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. At that time, there were twenty-six imperial prisons, where hundreds of county governors, Jiuqing and other high-ranking officials were detained, affecting more than 100,000 people.
Wei swaggered through the city, and everyone who saw it changed their expressions. However, the imperial edict and prison did not last throughout the Han Dynasty, and few people in later generations knew about it. This was not the case with the Jinyiwei. Even those who were not familiar with the history of the Ming Dynasty, who had not heard of them?
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Zhu Yuanzhang was a man of great wisdom. He knew very well why he used severe punishments, and also knew when to restrain severe punishments. He used the Jin Yiwei to control ambitious people such as the Prime Minister Hu Weiyong, corrupt officials such as the Prince Consort Ouyang Lun, and arrogant and arrogant people like the Prince Consort Ouyang Lun.
After the general Lan Yuzhe and even the powerful ministers and relatives who he considered to be a major threat to Zhu Ming's world were killed, he said: "In a troubled world, punishment must be severe. My descendants are in a peaceful world, so the punishment should be light." Jin Yiwei said this.
The first tiger was locked in a cage by him.
According to Feng Zongqi, the Jinyiwei were not reduced in power. It was only because the emperor was uneasy that he made them turn light into darkness. Is this Zhu Yuanzhang's style? Not to mention Zhu Yuanzhang's own way of going his own way and acting vigorously and resolutely. Any emperor would
When it comes to issues involving imperial power and rebellion, how could one use such weak means and send a few small fish and shrimps to secretly carry out reconnaissance, and even have to go to great lengths to win over a local gentry to get closer to the target? Such absurd nonsense is also impossible.
Only a truly illiterate country boy would believe it.
In later historical materials, from the 26th year of Hongwu when Zhu Yuanzhang deprived the Jin Yiwei of power until Emperor Yongle resurrected the Jin Yiwei, the records about the Jin Yiwei during this period are blank. If the Jin Yiwei really turned light into darkness, they still had great power.
He had great power and was still carrying out various activities secretly. Even if he acted secretly and no one knew about it at the time, there would be no trace of it in the archives of the Ming Dynasty that would be made public in later generations.
Therefore, Xia Xun concluded that Feng Jianxiao's story about their origins was not entirely true, and their activities in Qingzhou were not necessarily legal, let alone in compliance with the imperial edict.
Immediately afterwards, on the way to Unload Shipengzhai, Zhang Shisan lied to An Xiaxun and told him that the case did not involve King Qi. The reason why the emperor wanted to do it secretly was because King Tan Zhu Zi had rebelled against his uncle.
He was afraid of being implicated and punished. The emperor was worried that King Zhu Su of Qi would follow in the footsteps of his eighth brother, so he ordered Jin Yiwei to do it secretly.
As a result, Xia Xun also had deep doubts about their purpose. Because by coincidence, he happened to know that King Tan's self-immolation was definitely not because of his uncle's rebellion. Even if everyone in the world
The kings may not know the true cause of King Tan's death, and Zhu Yuanzhang will certainly not believe the lies he announced.
Regarding the death of King Zhu Zi of Zhang, according to the official statement, it was because his uncle Yu Hu was accused of being a party to the Prime Minister Hu Weiyong, so King Tan committed suicide in fear. There is another theory among the people, saying that Zhu Zi's mother is the current
The emperor's concubine was originally Chen Youliang's queen Dalan. After Dalan became pregnant, she became Zhu Yuanzhang's concubine. Zhu Zi was actually the posthumous son of Chen Youliang, the emperor of the Tianwan Empire. King Tan knew his true life experience, so he wanted to
When he rebelled, the emperor sent troops to arrest him. Unwilling to be defeated and humiliated, Zhu Zi burned himself to death.
The whole story is well-written, with Concubine Da secretly telling her son to avenge his father, Zhu Zi burning the palace with money, and how he cursed in the fire when the fire started.
, no one can remember how others knew these details?
Zhu Yuanzhang's concubine Dalan was indeed Chen Youliang's empress. As early as in the "Great Edict" formulated by Zhu Yuanzhang, he had personally admitted this to the people of the world. He said: "When the world was not yet peaceful, I conquered cities and territories, and joined forces with the heroes.
During the fourteen years of exile, I never took away a single woman in the army. Only after capturing Wuchang, Chen Youliang was angry and repeatedly launched troops to invade, so he took away his concubine and returned."
For this reason, this rumor is quite confusing. The common people do not know the specific ages of these princes and which princess they were born from. Many people believe it to be true. Even if they don’t believe it, they are happy to spread it. People are curious.
, the more absurd something is, the more vital it is, so the more unreliable rumors spread, the more evil they become.
In fact, Zhu Zi was born six or seven years after Chen Youliang's death. The birth time does not match up at all. What's more, he has a sibling brother above him. His brother, who is a sibling from the same mother, is now in Qingzhou.
If Chen Youliang, the king of Qi, Zhu Su, really had a posthumous son, it should be his brother, the king of Qi, not his king, Tan.
Precisely because there are two versions of the cause of death of King Tan, official history and unofficial history, historians of later generations have conducted research on it. The results of the research are surprising: the rumor that King Tan is Chen Youliang's posthumous son is certainly not true.
Letter, the official cause of death is also untenable!
Xia Xun is very interested in gossip and curious news. He happened to see this analysis article back then and remembered the main content of the scholar's research.
The scholar first listed his reasons in the article. According to the scholar, although Zhu Yuanzhang was ruthless, he was very protective and tolerant towards others, but towards his own son. This can be seen from the domineering kings in the early Ming Dynasty.
It's evident.
When King Tan's eldest brother-in-law was accused of being a member of Hu Weiyong's party, Hu Weiyong and the main officials involved had been dead for ten years. His eldest brother-in-law Yu Hu was just a minor official under the command of the Ningxia Guard at the time of the incident.
Years ago, when he was not related to King Tan, his official position was even smaller. Is such a small official qualified to participate in Hu Weiyong's rebellion? If he did, what major counterattack would there be?
The most important thing is that Zhu Yuanzhang's biological son would be frightened and commit suicide because his brother-in-law was a traitor to the party? Don't forget that Prime Minister Li Shanchang collapsed because of the Hu Weiyong case. Li Shanchang was listed as a felon in the Hu Party. Only four people in his family of more than 70 survived.
, these four people are Li Shanchang’s second son Li Qi, his wife and their two children.
The reason was that the daughter-in-law of the Li family was Zhu Yuanzhang's daughter, so Zhu Yuanzhang pardoned his uncle and his two grandsons. His uncle and his own father were felons who rebelled against the Party, so they could be exempted. His biological son, his elder brother-in-law, was a traitor to the Party.
What could Zhu Yuanzhang do to his own son? How could he frighten a prince into committing suicide in panic?
This reason is simply untenable. The scholar extensively collected a large number of Ming Dynasty official documents, local government records and other historical materials. As a result, he discovered a major fact, that is, King Tan self-immolated in Hongwu II.
It was the first day of April in the thirteenth year, and at that time his uncle Yu Hu had not yet been involved in the crime. In other words, when Tan King Zhu Zi committed suicide in fear because his uncle was a Hu Party member, his uncle was still doing well.
As a commander in Ningxia, no one has reported him yet.
This is strange. Before anything happened to my uncle-in-law, his brother-in-law Tan Wang happily committed suicide. Why is he so excited?
This biggest flaw was ignored by people at the time due to the communication conditions and news dissemination efficiency at the time. If the official does not inform you of specific information, you will not be able to grasp the specific situation. In this way, the official deliberately reported the two cases.
The specific time of the two cases was vague. As a result, most people at the time could not see the problem.
There are very few people who are qualified to have the information before and after King Tan's self-immolation. Among these very few people, there are even fewer people who are interested in synthesizing the information for analysis and seeing something fishy in it.
There are very few people left, and all of the few people left are officials serving in the central court. Who would be impatient to publicize these doubts to the outside world? Therefore, the official version of King Tan’s death was not only concealed
Countless people, including many officials and gentry, believed it to be true.
However, after consulting a large number of archives and official records, the scholar discovered this unquestionable contradiction. Of course, the scholar did not verify the real cause of death of King Tan Zhu Zi. He only stated the true facts of this suspicious case.
Neng has long been buried in the vast history, but his analysis from both emotional and rational aspects completely overturned the official answer announced by the Ming Dynasty. Xia Xun took the road of becoming a policeman, and his analysis of the problem was more rational, so
I firmly support this scholar’s research.
In fact, in the scholar's research article, he also mentioned the strange identity of the person who reported Yu Hu's rebellion, and the loopholes in the confession. However, this was no longer within the scope of curiosity, and Xia Xun did not take a closer look. Unfortunately, Zhang
Shi San was dying, and Xia Xun did not check the problems he discovered one by one. Otherwise, maybe he would uncover the eternal mystery from Zhang Shi San's mouth.
Because Zhang Shisan was one of the few people who knew the real cause of King Tan's death. He was Luo Qianshi's confidant and had personally heard Lord Luo mention this matter.
Yes, King Tan was indeed not afraid of committing suicide because his uncle was involved in Hu Weiyong's rebellion. The real reason for his suicide was to cause chaos in the palace.
King Tan Zhu Zi is gentle and elegant, handsome in appearance, good at all kinds of poems and songs, and rarely does anything domineering or disturbing the local area in the vassal country, so he has an excellent reputation. However, this person has one thing wrong with him, that is, he is romantic and lustful. As a man,
It's okay for the vassal king to like women. As long as he wants to, there are many beautiful women for him to take advantage of. The problem is that this romantic seed is so bold that he even dares to seduce women in the palace.
King Tan had formed a bad relationship with many court ladies before he became a feudal lord. He still missed them endlessly, so he often took advantage of the pilgrimage to return to the capital to hang out with them. Because the secret of the affair gradually leaked out.
The rumor was detected by the Jin Yiwei and reported to the emperor secretly. Theoretically, the palace ladies were all the emperor's intended concubines. Such a treasonous and unethical act was an unforgivable crime for Zhu Yuanzhang, who attached great importance to feudal etiquette and order. He was furious.
, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered the Jinyi Guards to secretly announce that Zhu Zi had returned to the capital.
Zhu Zi was well aware of the crimes he had committed. He knew that once he went to Beijing to testify against him, he would be unable to defend himself. Even if he did not die by then, he would be sent to Fengyang by his father and imprisoned behind the high walls of Fengyang for the rest of his life.
He had no choice but to die.
Jin Yiwei originally wanted to bring King Tan back to the capital and have him punished by the emperor, but who knew that he committed suicide before he could do it, and he died so spectacularly that the whole world knew that a prince had burned himself. This must be done.
Do you have a reason? And the scandal of the prince's adultery with the palace maid really could not be brought to the forefront. In desperation, Mr. Luo, who was in charge of the matter, racked his brains to connect Zhu Zi's death with the Hu Weiyong case.
In other words, Yu Hu, King Tan's uncle, was an unlucky man who was unjustly accused. His so-called participation in the rebellion was basically a victim of Jin Yiwei's attempt to make up for the loss of the royal family. It was not his suspected rebellion that scared his uncle to death.
King Tan, but his brother-in-law King Tan, so he became Hu Weiyong’s accomplice.
After the court arrested him, they immediately announced that he was a traitor to the party, and concocted witnesses and confessions, but did not disclose the time of his crime. They only said that his death scared King Tan to death, and Yu Hu's reputation was too small.
, the court said so, and everyone just believed it. No one studied whether the process and reasons for his being accused could withstand scrutiny, and no one verified that when King Tan committed suicide, Commander Yu who was far away in Ningxia
Has he been arrested? This matter has been settled. There are only a few people who know about it, and no one dares to express their doubts. Zhang Shisan never thought that a blind man in the countryside of Huzhou would know the truth of this case.
The origins of Feng Zongqi and the four others were not necessarily legal, and their purpose was far from fair. The fact that they forced Xia Xun to sign the murder confession was a huge failure. It was this incident that had already
This prompted Xia Xun to make up his mind: If he doesn't become his puppet, he will be killed.
According to their own statement, they are dignified imperial guards. They came to the capital for sainthood. What they investigated was a major rebellion case. For such a group of imperial envoys, if they want to control a person like Xia Xun, do they need to leave him with something? Use
The use of such destructive tactics only shows that their identity and behavior are shady, and it also shows that all their promises to Xia Xun are castles in the air.
This is clearly telling Xia Xun that no matter whether their plot succeeds or fails, Xia Xun has only one ending: to be like the Tingxiang girl who unfortunately knew that the real Yang Wenxuan was dead, and become the target of Jin Yiwei's silence
, these Jin Yiwei who regard human life as nothing but trivial matters are not the ones who run the charity, and they will keep his life.
Nothing is more superfluous than this.
As a result, Xia Xun's murderous counterattack plan began to be planned from then on. He knew that when a clerk who failed in his job finally found a remedy, he would not tell the truth to his superiors. This is human nature.
It's natural. Moreover, in their subsequent interactions, Zhang Shisan and the others also vaguely revealed the idea of coveting the Yang family's property. Since they had ulterior motives for the Yang family's property, they would not disclose Xia Xun's true identity.
Tell others.
Therefore, as long as Xia Xun kills these four people, he can survive from death, and he is very likely to truly replace Yang Wenxuan and obtain the most generous rewards.
If he wanted to kill four people, he couldn't make them doubt him before killing them all. In this way, he needed sufficient free space to move, so Xia Xun chose to take action as soon as his identity was recognized by the Yang family.
Get rid of Zhang Shisan, who is like a gangrene attached to the bones.
He is a gentry with an innocent family background, and he is a scholar with a good reputation. Everyone in the pavilion outside can prove that he has never left this room, he is taking a shower, and he has no murder weapon on him. Therefore, the government will never suspect it.
On his head. Feng Zongqi will not doubt him, because he has just arrived in Yang Mansion, and all the witnesses cannot be his accomplices. If Feng Zongqi is not too forgetful, he will still think of it not long ago.
The murder that happened in Yunhe Town..."
Zhang Shisan died. From the beginning to the end, he still didn't understand how Xia Xun saw through their conspiracy. Just like the girl listening to the fragrance, Thirteenth Lang was destined to be a confused ghost on the road to hell.
Xia Xun jumped up and began to calmly arrange the scene, clothes boxes, hangers, floor... Everything was arranged in the shortest time. He checked it again with his professional eyes and confirmed that there were no flaws. Xia Xun grabbed the clothes hanger and put it on the floor.
He held his hand, took a long breath, and shouted loudly with a voice slightly inferior to that of Miss Xiaodi: "Help! Help..."
At this time, Zhang Shisan could only breathe out but not in, his eyes were blurred, and he was not dead yet...
Xia Xun waved the clothes hanger like a panicked rabbit, jumping up and down fighting the invisible enemy in the air: "My adventure begins!"
There are many dangers and murderous plans at every step, but once he succeeds, he can become a man above others. This rich reward is worth the risk.
Now that the adventure has just begun, Xia Xun's excitement is no less than the first time he climbed into his girlfriend's bed...
