Zhu Yunwen believed that Zhu Zhanzhen wanted Kui's information not because he wanted to extract Kui, but because he wanted to use Kui's hidden stake in the Ming Dynasty to his advantage.
In their minds, Zhu Zhanzhen definitely wanted to fight for the throne. After all, who doesn't want the throne?
With Kui's hidden stake and being the commander of the Jinyi Guards, the information Zhu Zhanyi has will cover a wide range of areas, and there is a lot of secret information in it. He can use this secret information plus the hidden stakes on both sides to monitor and control
Many court officials turned to his side.
Zhu Yunwen was the emperor. Although the imperial guards were not reused at that time, there was a lot of secret information hidden in the imperial guards left over from the Zhu Yuanzhang era. Many of them could trip up a high-ranking minister at once. When necessary,
When I take it out and use it, the current Jinyiwei is even worse than before.
"Do you know how I trained these Qunkui spies?"
"I've seen many..."
"But we are different." Zhu Yunwen didn't seem to hear Zhu Zhanzhen's words, and said to himself: "Kui's spies are trained from a young age. Some of them are spies who went to the local area to train spies from a very young age.
.”
Zhu Yunwen glanced at Zhu Zhanzhen and said: "For example, the singer you raised outside before, Li Xianyu."
He didn't know that Zhu Zhanzhen already knew that Li Xianyu was a spy, and now he deliberately said it with a hint of pride and showoff.
Zhu Zhanzhen's eyes were angry, but his face was calmer. His acting skills have gradually improved in the past two years.
"Really? It's just a plaything, why bother so much?"
"She is one of my best spies. Although she has lost contact for a long time, she brought back the news I want most, your steam engine. Now Japan has the ability to independently manufacture steam engines."
Zhu Zhanzhen took over: "But it's useless. I have already cooperated with General Ashikaga Yoshinori, and Japan has a steam engine. Your efforts will count for nothing in the end."
Zhu Yunwen still didn't seem to take Zhu Zhanzhen's words to heart, and said to himself: "Did she tell you that she is a North Korean princess?"
"She is not a Korean princess. That was a story I thought up for her when I went to the Ming Dynasty. She is not a Jurchen princess. That is what we lied to her since she was a child. She is not a princess from Oara Tatar or any other place.
She is a Japanese geisha who gave birth to a girl who was pregnant by a benefactor. In Kui, I would come up with a set of rhetoric to teach her and set up a background for her, but they were all false, all false, not a single word
It’s true, I just want them to believe it.”
Zhu Zhanzhen's eyes narrowed slightly. He didn't understand why Zhu Yunwen said this, and it seemed that his state was not normal. He couldn't listen to what he said. He kept talking to himself. There seemed to be something wrong.
I don’t know if he is acting or if he really has some mental problems.
"Li Xianyu is just an ordinary spy. What I am most proud of is that I have a spy who works as a teacher in Ming Dynasty. He found a child, a local child, a child without a father, and told him a story, saying that he was mine.
The grandson of a certain minister who was executed by the Nine Tribes kept telling this story to him, and in the end the child believed it."
"My minister, I know his affairs in detail, and I also indoctrinated the child in detail. He worked so hard that he passed the imperial examination. The Ming Dynasty could not find anything. His background is very clean.
He is a noble son from a poor family, but he firmly believes that his ancestors were killed by Zhu Di, so he sent us back a lot of useful information, including many drawings of steam engines. Even without Li Xianyu's information, we still have
It’s almost going to be a steam engine.”
As soon as he said these words, Zhu Zhan's back felt a little chilly. Such methods really made him a little uneasy.
In the Ming Dynasty, the recruitment of talents was based on background checks. Those whose ancestors had criminals or who had committed crimes themselves were unlikely to be hired.
But according to Zhu Yunwen, the second generation of spies trained by his spies were completely brainwashed by PUA. You can't find anything out of these people by checking their backgrounds, because they themselves are innocent, but he believed them.
He was brainwashed by the story that Zhu Yunwen made up for him. Such spies are the most dangerous. Unless they reveal their flaws, it is really difficult to detect them.
"Who is it?" Zhu Zhanzhen lowered his voice. It was indeed very dangerous for such a person to be placed in the Ming Dynasty.
"Guess." Zhu Yunwen burst out laughing.
Because the laughter was too loud, Black Snake Girl outside the door opened the door. The moment she opened the door, the knife was already unsheathed.
But inside the room, Zhu Zhanzhen and Zhu Yunwen were sitting as if nothing had happened.
Ashikaga Yoshimochi, who was not far away when he heard the commotion, ran over with joy. He thought it was Zhu Zhanzhen who took action, but when he saw that Zhu Yunzhen was still alive, Ashikaga Yoshimochi was obviously a little disappointed.
Zhu Zhanzhen took this opportunity to exit the room first, took Ashikaga Yoshimichi alone and asked: "Ashikaga General, does your Emperor Gokomatsu have a little head..." Zhu Zhanzhen pointed to his head, meaning Zhu Yunwen's spirit
There's something wrong.
Ashikaga Yoshimachi did not hide anything: "When my father brought him back to Japan, he would occasionally become a little crazy. At first, my father suspected that he was faking, but later, as time went by, he felt that it should be true. Maybe it was a shock.
It was too big, and abnormal situations would occasionally occur. Later, the situation got better after following the Buddhist master Huasou Zongtan, and it was from that time that the Kui Organization was founded."
Ashikaga Yoshinori's words confirmed Zhu Zhanzhen's guess that there was something wrong with Zhu Yunzhen's head. There was no need for Ashikaga Yoshinori to lie to Zhu Zhanzhen about this matter. He just expected Zhu Zhanzhen to kill Zhu Yunzhen as soon as possible, but Zhu Zhanzhen just didn't want to.
kill.
But he's not easy to push, so he can't directly ask you why you haven't killed him yet, why you haven't done it yet.
He asked insinuatingly: "How was your chat?"
"We had a great time chatting."
Zhu Zhanzhen returned to the room and closed the door under the surprise of Ashikaga Yoshimochi. Ashikaga Yoshitoshi looked at Zhu Zhanzhen's back blankly. He felt that Zhu Zhanzhen didn't want to kill Zhu Yunwen, but why?
?
Ashikaga Yoshimochi couldn't understand.
Inside the room, Zhu Zhanzhen sat down calmly. After Zhu Yunwen stopped laughing and calmed down, Zhu Zhanzhen said, "Are you awake now?"
"Sober? What is sober? Life is a big dream. If you wake up, you will wake up, and if you dream, you will just dream. Why not?"
"How come Japan has learned to be literary and arrogant for decades?" Zhu Zhanzhen laughed.
Zhu Yunwen sobered up a lot, and then said: "I just lost my temper, I hope you can forgive me." He has been trying his best to maintain his demeanor and elegance. This is the dignity he cares about.
Zhu Zhanzhen knocked on the table and said, "Does Kui have hidden stakes in Japan?"
Zhu Yunwen raised his eyes and looked at Zhu Zhanzhen: "Why should I tell you."
"In exchange of interests, I will hide your existence from Da Ming, but you have to do one thing for me."
Hearing that Zhu Zhanzhen said that he would hide his existence, Zhu Yun laughed ferociously, and his expression became three parts ferocious and seven parts proud, like an insidious mouse hiding in the corner and laughing secretly.
"I know, I know, you want that position, right? It's what you want." Zhu Yunwen's eyes widened and he pointed at Zhu Zhanxing with his finger.
"Yes, who doesn't want it? That's the emperor. The whole world is the king's land, and the shore of the land is the king's ministers. You must want it."
Zhu Yunwen thought that Zhu Zhanzhen wanted to hide his existence and even wanted to cooperate, it must be for the throne. After all, he was so close to the throne, and most of the battles for thousands of years were for the supreme power. He thought that Zhu Zhanzhen
Same thing.
And Zhu Zhanzhen also hoped that he would think so.
Everyone basically thinks so. After all, Zhu Zhanzhen is too close to that position, and his strength is too strong.
If Zhu Di dies and Zhu Gaochi succeeds to the throne as expected, then the distance between Zhu Zhanyong and the position of the Ninth Five-Year Master is only the lives of Zhu Zhanji and Zhu Zhanyong.
Far? Not far.
Zhu Zhanzhen did not deny it at this time, but said: "Is it a deal?"
"make a deal!
"Zhu Yunwen said categorically.
He was naturally happy to watch Zhu Di's family fight within themselves, and he was used to using each other as bargaining chips.
"I will hide all your information, but at the same time, most of the people who know your existence will also have to be erased. How many people in the Kui organization know your existence?"
"There is only one person in the organization, Huasou Zongtan. Ashikaga Yoshimitsu is a tycoon. He really has great talents and strategies. He put down the chaos of the Northern and Southern Dynasties and controlled Japan. His son is far inferior to him. He is also very careful about my affairs, for fear of
The news was leaked to the Ming Dynasty and caused war, so Ashikaga Yoshinori only found out about me before Ashikaga Yoshimitsu's death." Zhu Yunwen had a high opinion of Ashikaga Yoshimitsu and an average evaluation of Ashikaga Yoshimitsu.
Huasou Zongtan, Ashikaga Yoshimochi, Emperor Miguang, Hino Kotaro, Danyang monk, these are the people currently known to know the identity of Zhu Yunzhen.
The smaller the number of people, the easier it is to handle.
"How is your relationship with your son?"
Zhu Yunwen's eyes were filled with confusion and viciousness: "What son?"
"Called Emperor Guangyi."
"He knows my identity. I am a useless Japanese who is cowardly, weak, hesitant, has no backbone, and cannot achieve great things. Even a general like Ashikaga Yoshinori, who is far inferior to his father, can turn this Japanese
The emperor is firmly in control."
Zhu Zhanzhen exhaled: "Emperor Shouguang Nian asked me to kill Ashikaga Yoshimachi."
"Haha, why should he?"
"He told me your news and wanted to use it as a condition and blackmail."
Zhu Yunwen sneered disdainfully: "Childish, idiot." He seemed to think of his past self again. His past self seemed to be like this, full of ambitions, but in front of his fourth uncle, maybe he also felt that he was childish and stupid.
My nephew.
Zhu Zhanzhen saw that Zhu Yunwen's mental state seemed to have changed again, his smile became blurred and his eyes blurred.
"I promised him." Zhu Zhanzhen's answer was beyond Zhu Yunwen's expectation.
"Stop lying to me. How could you agree to him? You can't look down on such a person."
"But, people like that are easy to control."
"Why are you telling me this? Aren't you afraid of being monitored by Ashikaga Yoshinori?"
"No, can there really be ninjas who can hide in the shadows?" Zhu Zhanyi laughed. During these days in Japan, Zhu Zhanyi has seen so-called ninjas. To put it bluntly, they are more or less trained killers.
.
There are many things like this for Jin Yiwei. He has read Jin Yiwei's information and knows under what circumstances the information can be monitored and under what circumstances it cannot.
"Did you really agree to the request of Emperor Chengguang?"
Zhu Zhanchen nodded.
"Then you are so close to Ashikaga Yoshimochi? Ashikaga Yoshimochi even brought you to see me."
"He doesn't know."
Zhu Zhanzhen's answer made it difficult for Zhu Yunwen to refute.
He agreed to proclaim Emperor Nianguang and kill Ashikaga Yoshitomichi, and agreed to Ashikaga Yoshitomichi to overthrow Emperor Nian. Now Zhu Zhanzhen also promised Zhu Yunzhen to conceal his existence and not kill him.
What exactly Zhu Zhanzhen wanted to do, Zhu Yunwen could not understand or figure out.
"Do you have any secret spies in Japan who are unknown to Emperor Guangtang and Ashikaga Yoshinori?" Zhu Zhanzhen continued the question just now.
Without any doubt, Zhu Yunwen nodded this time: "Yes, what do you want to do?"
"Help me kill Ashikaga Yoshimochi and Emperor Shimitsu."
Zhu Yunwen looked at Zhu Zhanzhen in disbelief: "It turns out that you don't want to cooperate with any of them, but you want them all to die. What a treacherous boy. He is worthy of being the grandson of his fourth uncle. He is insidious and insidious enough.
fierce."
"Both these two people know your existence and are the leaders of Japan. Only by killing them can we ensure safety. I don't intend to change the situation in Japan. I just need to control the new emperor and generals. And my Zhu Rihe
The consortium only gives me one year, and I will be able to guide the nobles in Japan to the consortium in a subtle way."
"Are you so confident?"
"This is not confidence that comes out of thin air. I have always done this in Nanyang. I am sure of it."
Zhu Yunwen smiled and said: "It is so difficult to kill Ashikaga Yoshimichi and proclaim the emperor the disgrace, but you just say a word and I have to do it for you? Don't forget that there is a deep hatred between us."
"The deep hatred is between you and my grandfather. As a junior, I neither participated in nor conquered it. It has been like this since I was born."
"You are the grandson of the fourth uncle, and the great hatred must be blamed on you." Zhu Yunwen said this at this time, and Zhu Zhanzhen understood that he was waiting for his conditions.
Zhu Zhanyi said meaningfully: "Cooperate with me and kill Emperor Miguang and Ashikaga Yoshitoshi. I, Zhu Zhanzhen, swear to heaven that I will bless you and protect you for the rest of your life."
"I'm all alone, what's the use of this life? I'm just a lost dog, a street rat. I have to hide, hide, and survive in a dark and smelly place. I have no hope in this life. I live and die.
What's the difference?" As he spoke, Zhu Yunwen spread his hands and said, "Why don't you kill me? I will die in the hands of my fourth uncle's grandson. My fate will also be attributed to my fourth uncle. I want to go down and talk to Grandpa Huang about my fate.
Good uncle."
For a man with such an appearance and state of mind, life and death had nothing to do with him. He had not resisted when Zhu Zhanzhen strangled him by the neck and wanted to kill him.
The young man's eyes were dark, and he took a deep breath and said: "I, Zhu Zhanzhen, swear to God that one day I will restore Zhu Yunwen to the clan, restore Zhu Biao as Emperor Xiaokang, with the temple name Xingzong, and Zhu Yunwen as Emperor Minhui, with the temple name Huizong.
"
Zhu Yunwen looked at Zhu Zhanzhen with wide eyes. Zhu Zhanzhen offered him an offer that he would never have thought of, but could never refuse. Zhu Zhanzhen brought Zhu Biao in too. If he didn't think about it for himself, wouldn't he think about it for his father?