For some reason, Liu Shenhong suddenly discovered that his prince seemed to be very disappointed in him.
So he quickly asked: "Your Majesty, what did I do wrong? If so, please feel free to punish me."
He answered with another long sigh: "Maybe I was really wrong this time. I'm afraid you are not suitable to be an official at all."
Regarding Zhu Han's doubt, Liu Shenhong had no intention of refuting it. Instead, he smiled bitterly and said: "Your Majesty, that's what you said."
"That's a fart!" Zhu Han became irritable without warning. He stood up suddenly and kicked Liu Shenhong far away.
This kick came out with hatred, and Liu Shenhong was caught off guard and fell to the ground.
"I see, you little bastard, you spend so much time with those officials every day that you forget that you are also an ordinary citizen."
"Those rebels from the White Lotus Sect are certainly hateful, but what is truly hateful are those conspirators who must have their own motives."
"Ordinary people, if they are not desperate, who would be willing to join such a brainless organization?"
"This is not their fault, but the court did not allow them to have enough food and clothing, forcing them to take desperate measures."
Liu Shenhong got up from the ground with difficulty, his face full of shame: "I'm sorry, Your Majesty, I let you down."
"Hmph!" Zhu Han snorted angrily: "Does it hurt?"
Liu Shenhong didn't dare to lie: "It hurts."
"I will remember the pain, remember it clearly."
"The king wants you to enter the official career, not just for you to get promoted and make a fortune."
"I hope you can remember your identity, know how to consider issues from the people's perspective, and be able to do something practical for the people in the future."
"This is the first time. If this happens again next time, I will skin you."
Liu Shenhong lowered his head, his heart filled with self-blame.
It's not that he really forgot about his origin, he was just thinking about his prince.
With so many rebels from the White Lotus Sect, it wouldn't be a problem if something happened.
Are they rebels, rebellion or something like that? Isn't that what they should be?
But if all these people from the White Lotus Sect were recruited by Zhu Han.
Isn’t it that the public opinion in the court that was originally unfavorable to His Royal Highness became even more aggressive?
Regardless of others, is Zhu Han recruiting these white people for medicine because he cares about ordinary people?
They would only think that Zhu Han had ulterior motives, and then they would work harder to pour dirty water on his sweating body.
Even Liu Shenhong was certain that even if these people knew Zhu Han's true purpose, they would never care about the truth of the matter.
Anyway, no matter what, those people will only try their best to blackmail Zhu Han, so Liu Shenhong hopes to deal with the issue of the White Lotus Sect more prudently.
Although some things cannot be avoided, there are always ways to reduce the trouble as much as possible, right?
Even if he was kicked hard by his own prince and taught a lesson.
It is true that Liu Shenhong has not been angry with his own prince for half a year. Instead of being angry, he actually feels warm in his heart.
No matter what the reputation among scholars is, my prince has never changed over the years.
Hidden beneath that cynical exterior is an extremely kind soul.
"Why are you still standing there? Why don't you hurry up and deal with the problem of teaching during the day?"
"Tell those useless trashes of Jinyiwei to guard Datong Mansion for me this time. No suspicious person can be allowed to leave Datong Mansion."
"If they can't even do this little thing well, I will send them all to Liaodong to herd sheep..."
Liu Shenhong took the order and left, and the people from Jinyiwei brought Xu Shiheng up again.
Zhu Han stared at him intently.
Xu Shiheng was so frightened by the sight that he looked at Zhu Han cautiously: "Did the prince's student do something wrong?"
Zhu Han didn't answer the question: "You really don't know where those people are hiding?"
Xu Shiheng smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Your Majesty, although the student is also a member of the White Lotus Sect, his status in the Baiyun Sect is not high. Those particularly confidential matters are not accessible to the student."
"Chen Xueying is the leader of the White Lotus Sect. Even the altar leader of Datong probably doesn't know his true hiding place, let alone a student who is not taken seriously."
"It's really cunning." Zhu Hanmei complained angrily: "I really didn't expect that the leader of the White Lotus Sect is actually Chen Youliang's son."
"Tell me, what else do you know about this leader?"
Knowing yourself and the enemy means you can fight a hundred battles without danger. In order to find out Chen Xueying, the leader of the White Lotus Sect, as soon as possible, Zhu Han did not want to let go of any useful information.
Xu Shiheng could only rack his brains and tell Zhu Han everything he knew.
It's a pity that he is just the incense master of a branch of the White Lotus Sect in Datong Mansion.
Zhu Han may not know as much about Chen Xueying.
After all, Chen Youliang was considered an important opponent of the Dai Ming Dynasty. Daming Dynasty had information about him and the people around him.
Although Chen Xueying is just a prince who is not taken seriously, within the Chen Youliang Group, he is extremely easy to be ignored.
But the daimyo would not ignore the information about him because of this.
Zhu Han actually had some impressions of Chen Xueying.
According to the intelligence at the time, this person did not show any particularly extraordinary talents.
On the contrary, because he was not taken seriously, his character was very timid.
In Chen Youliang's decisive battle with General Meng Yuan, he was killed by his own son on the spot.
This led to the complete collapse of Chen Youliang's group, and many of Chen Youliang's subordinates fled and hid in various places in the Ming Dynasty.
At the same time, Chen Youliang's son also completely disappeared.
Everyone originally thought that a prince like this must have died in the rebellion.
Unexpectedly, this guy survived by flying and took over the entire White Lotus Sect.
"Your Majesty, after Chen Xueying joined the White Lotus Sect, some of Chen Youliang's former generals and soldiers also joined our White Lotus Sect."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Originally, the leader of the White Lotus Sect was very happy, because the joining of these people greatly expanded the power of the White Lotus Sect."
"But as time went by, the leader found that he could no longer control the White Lotus Sect."
"So he came up with the idea of getting rid of Chen Xueying, but he didn't expect that Chen Xueying would take action before him."
"After the death of the original leader, Chen Xueying took complete control of the entire White Lotus Sect."
"In order to stabilize the branches of the White Lotus Sect in various places, Chen Xueying was not stingy with titles. He made almost every altar leader of the branch a duke."
"Even us incense masters, who were not taken seriously in the first place, have all been granted the title of various generals."
"Although these official positions only have one title, many people in the White Lotus Sect still have their hearts set on him."
"But Chen Xueying has killed the previous leader after all, and is expanding his power greatly."
"It is precisely because of this that several altar leaders who were loyal to the former leader were not loyal to Chen Xueying."
Zhu Han chuckled disdainfully when he heard this: "A mere rebel organization is still fighting among itself."
"Just like this, they still think they can go against the imperial court, which is simply ridiculous."
"This Chen Xueying is worthy of being the son of Chen Youliang. He has no idea what the general trend is."
"At this time, they actually still imagine that one day they can successfully rebel?"
"ridiculous!"
Xu Shiheng also quickly echoed: "The students have the same idea as the prince."
"Even Chen Xueying's father, Chen Youliang, could not resist the Ming Dynasty's heavenly army, and was driven north by the Ming Dynasty."
"Chen Xueying just led a group of defeated soldiers to try to overthrow the rule of the Ming Dynasty. It is simply a wishful thinking!"
Zhu Han really didn't like this Xu Shiheng, so after knowing the news he wanted to know, he stopped talking nonsense to him.
"Okay, stop flattering me. If you have the time, why not think about it carefully and see if you can think of any useful information for the court."
In the dungeon of the Datong government office, there was a man who was covered in bruises and could hardly see his original appearance, lying there weakly.
This man is quite old, and his hair and beard are all gray.
However, he was subjected to such cruel torture that even many prisoners around him showed unbearable expressions.
However, there are also some people who know the inside story and sneer at this.
Wow!
The sound of iron chains sounded, and the cell door was pushed open with a creak.
Dozens of royal guards walked into the dungeon surrounded by a young man.
Just looking at this person's dress, you can tell that this person is definitely either rich or noble.
If it were normal times, someone might have already rushed to the cell and started screaming for injustice.
But now, after the drought in Datong Mansion, even the officials may not be able to have enough to eat, let alone these prisoners who are not very popular in the first place.
In the past, I could still eat a little bit of rancid food every day.
Nowadays, I can only eat it once every two or three days.
No matter how fierce they are, the strong prisoners are already skinny and bones at this time.
Except for some who have just been imprisoned, most of the prisoners can hardly even raise their heads, let alone such a lucky thing as complaining.
Zhu Han went straight to the old man who was beaten and bruised all over.
"They are really from the Kong family. Don't you, the Kong family, claim to be the queen of sages? You want to stand up for the common people in the world."
"But now you Kong family are rebelling with the rebels. Do you know that no matter whether your rebellion succeeds or fails, how many innocent people will be implicated by you."
The old man was already exhaling too much and taking in too little air, and it seemed that he might die at any time.
After hearing Zhu Han's voice, he opened his eyes violently.
Then he climbed up from the ground and stared at Zhu Han with eyes like snow.
At this time, Old Man Kong still looked as if he was about to die.
If it weren't for the bloody wounds all over his body, he wouldn't look like someone who was seriously injured and could die at any time.
"Zhu Han!" Old Man Kong gritted his teeth and spat out these two words.
His face was full of ferocity, as if he wanted to bite Zhu Han alive.
"You evil thief, the reason why my Kong family is what it is today is all thanks to you, this evil thief."
"Don't be complacent. Don't think that if you succeed for a moment, you can bet on the world."
"Thousands of years later, our Confucian orthodoxy will surely flourish again, but you, the cruel traitor who killed four times, will do it again."
"You will definitely be despised by thousands of people in this world."
Seeing his upright and awe-inspiring look, Zhu Han felt very angry.
What's the saying? The highest level of deceiving others is to deceive yourself.
These descendants of the Kong family are obviously of this type.
After reading so many books, I really think of myself as a saint.
The Confucian family prides itself on being the leader of Confucianism every day, and regards farming, reading, and inheritance as its family.
But as long as you understand it in detail, you will know that it is impossible for a real farming and reading family to accumulate tens of thousands of acres of land and those huge houses.
Even if there really was so much land, the Kong family alone would never be able to cultivate it.
There are so many places that we can't panic, so we need to hire long-term workers to work for them.
The rent paid by the Kong family is not lower than that of the surrounding landlords, but is actually much higher.
This is farmland for Yan Shenggong's family. Being able to choose them has been a blessing they have cultivated for a hundred years, but they still want high rent?
Talking about money with the descendants of Kong Sheng?
This is clearly an insult to the contemporary Yan Shenggong, and insulting the contemporary Yan Shenggong is an insult to Confucius.
Do you dare to insult a scholar who doesn't want to live, just a poor farmer?
Zhu Han was not one of those traditional and pedantic scholars. Even the contemporary Yan Shenggong was easily defeated by him, let alone an ordinary Kong family member.
After learning that he was advising the White Lotus Sect, he wanted to take advantage of the drought in Datong to rebel.
Zhu Han had no intention of letting this guy get out of Datong alive.
Seeing that this guy was about to die and still dared to speak nonsense, Zhu Han narrowed his eyes with a smile.
"I don't know what will happen thousands of years later, but there is one thing I know very clearly."
"Your Kong family intends to unite with the rebels of the White Lotus Sect and start a rebellion."
"Old Man Kong, you don't need me to remind you about some things, right? What kind of crime is rebellion? It has always been like this throughout the ages."
"So, you should take a step in advance. Soon I will inform the emperor and send you all the remaining members of the Kong family so that you can all gather under the Nine Springs."
Hearing what Zhu Han said, Old Man Kong immediately panicked and roared in fright: "Asshole, what do you want to do? This is all my own business and has nothing to do with anyone else. If you want to kill me, just kill me."
people?!"
Zhu Han yelled: "Shut up!"
"My "Laws of the Ming Dynasty" clearly states that for treason and treachery, the conspirators will be punished without distinction, Ling Chi!"
"Grandfathers, fathers and sons, grandsons, brothers, and sons of uncles and brothers, regardless of the same or different household registration, all will be executed if they are sixteen or older!"
The murderous word "Zhan" came out of his mouth, and the face of Old Man Kong, who was still furious at first, instantly turned pale.
"No, no...this is something I did alone and has nothing to do with anyone else."