People like Wu Jie may look like politicians, but in fact they have very low political awareness. At most they know how to flatter powerful people, and then they do things cautiously.
His re-understanding of Zhu Hao was a hindsight, but it was obviously too late.
Even if he really felt that Zhu Hao had harmed the Ming Dynasty, in order to save his own life, his family's life, and the lives of his colleagues, he had to truthfully write down a confession involving Yang Tinghe's use of his illness to threaten Wuzong to return to the capital, and
Presented to Zhu Hao.
Zhu Hao walked out of the prison holding the confession.
Luo An and Lu Song followed out.
Luo An said: "This person knows too many secrets and shouldn't keep them."
After Lu Song heard this, he was obviously a little surprised. Luo An used to be a diligent person, so why was he suddenly so murderous?
Zhu Hao put away the confession and handed it to Zhu Si that night. He said: "To all the forces, he is already an abandoned son. Even if he publicizes it to the outside world, no one will believe him. Besides, this time
After the case is over, he will be transferred directly to the garrison. If he dares to talk nonsense, it will not be too late to move him at that time."
Lu Song said: "It's better to use my humble position to threaten him so that he doesn't dare to talk nonsense."
Luo An sighed: "In fact, it stands to reason that no matter what he says, outsiders may not believe it, but I am afraid... that if such things are spread to the public and arouse Mr. Yang's suspicion, it will be very detrimental to Mr. Zhu."
"fine."
Zhu Hao waved his hand and said with a smile, "If you are afraid of wolves before and tigers behind when doing things in the court, why should you be an official? I haven't done anything to harm the country or the people, so what if Mr. Yang Ge believes it? Save his life, but don't let him follow.
When his family meets, he knows how to keep it secret as long as he wants his family to be safe."
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Zhu Hao really didn't need to kill Wu Jie.
Since he dares to reveal his identity in front of Wu Jie and declares that he is acting on behalf of Emperor Zhu Pi, he is not afraid of Wu Jie saying it. The key is that someone must believe his words.
Such as Zhu Hao's previous analysis of Zhu Si.
In the eyes of Yang Tinghe's faction, Wu Jie is already a traitor. No matter what he does, it will not help. On the contrary, he does not dare to let Yang Tinghe know that he is the one who reported the secret. As a result, his family will suffer, and Yang Tinghe may not believe it yet.
, why do you want to show off?
To take a step back, even if Wu Jie really passes the news to Yang Tinghe, it still depends on whether Yang Tinghe believes it or not.
Who would believe a traitor's words?
Or, are your words too unbelievable?
When Zhu Hao handed Wu Jie's confession to Zhu Si, Zhu Si read it with a sarcastic smile on his face: "No wonder my brother-in-law suddenly changed his temper and returned to the capital in a hurry. It turned out that he
His illness was delayed by the people from the Imperial Hospital, in order to coerce him to return to Beijing, but unexpectedly his life was delayed. Speaking of which, Mr. Yang Ge gave me such instructions, which can be regarded as indirectly helping me."
Zhu Hao said: "Everything is God's will."
Zhu Si put down the confession and looked very confident: "I also think this is all God's will. Zhu Hao, you are so good at calculating and calculating. You can calculate that I will be the emperor a few years in advance. You are a person who can spy on God's will. How can you do it?"
Let me calculate how many years I have to live?"
After becoming emperor, he immediately began to care about his life span.
Zhu Hao shook his head: "I can't count on this kind of providence."
Zhu Si stuck out his tongue: "I don't think you can't calculate it, but you don't want to tell me? Are you afraid that I will be burdened if I find out? Don't be afraid, just tell me, okay?"
"It really doesn't work."
Zhu Hao said with emotion, "God's will involves many changes in destiny, and many things in the day after tomorrow will also affect a person's destiny, and His Majesty is the Nine-Fifth Lord. The more so, the harder it is to predict."
Zhu Hao succeeded in bluffing, and it was quite effective.
Zhu Si seemed to believe it and nodded repeatedly: "Then if you know that I am in danger or who wants to threaten me, you must tell me early so that I can be prepared."
"Um."
Zhu Hao nodded in agreement.
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Zhu Hao did not instill any atheistic ideas into Zhu Si.
In these days, atheism itself is unreliable. Even the imperial court has a celestial eunuch to calculate the stars, celestial secrets, etc., and even use the changes in the stars or the appearance of meteors, comets and other astronomical abnormalities to indicate whether there is a disaster, even in a grand way.
It is recorded in the official history that the result of talking about atheism to the emperor is that the emperor will treat you as a fool.
Who dares to reuse such a person who is an enemy of God and thinks that he is more powerful than God?
The so-called Zi does not talk about strange powers and chaos, but only talks about monsters and monsters, and does not involve the fate of heaven and earth.
There is another very important reason why Zhu Hao didn't say it, because Zhu Hao knew that Zhu Si's trust in Taoism or these gods and goddesses would one day come in the future.
If he was dubbed the "Heavenly Master" and Zhu Si felt that he really had the ability in this area, then Zhu Hao would not be deceived by a group of alchemists with ulterior motives.
It is impossible for the monarch and his ministers to maintain a harmonious relationship forever.
When there were no political enemies in the dynasty, Zhu Hao was the political enemy of the emperor at that time. In history, wasn't the downfall of Yan Song and his son precisely because of a few words from the alchemist?
Only if you are good at this thing and can say something that makes the emperor trust you more than the alchemists, can the emperor not trust those charlatans.
With Zhu Hao's understanding of history, it is still very easy to explain some "secrets" at the right time. It is much more reliable than the prophecies of charlatans. By then, the emperor will know who is the real "outer world".
"Exalted person".
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At court the next day.
In the middle of the discussion, Zhu Si stated that he would treat Chen Jing, Zheng Hong, Wu Jie and other imperial doctors leniently.
Yang Tinghe did not expect this.
The Tai Hospital was investigated, seemingly because of his involvement in the incident. However, Yang Tinghe knew that Zhu Si was deliberately making a fuss and wanted to prevent anyone from conspiring to harm her. However, Zhu Si was now magnanimous and stated that he would not investigate several internal and external officials.
The death penalty of the colluded ministers actually gave them a chance to change their ways...
This is in sharp contrast to the severity of the cabinet's decision to convict him of death.
"Your Majesty, the admiral eunuch Chen Jing is closely related to the death of the late emperor. He should be severely investigated to set the record straight. Your Majesty, please think twice."
On such matters, people from the Ministry of Punishment and Dali Temple came out to express the need to strictly enforce the law.
It's not that they insist on putting the person who committed this crime to death, but they feel that the new emperor's lenient treatment of the imperial doctor who killed the previous emperor after he ascends the throne will cause questions about "whether the royal family was secretly instigating this matter."
Suspicion, even if it needs to be forgiven, it shouldn't be now.
Zhu Sidao: "If I had to kill so many imperial doctors just by relying on some baseless things, who would dare to enter the imperial hospital in the future? Who else would dare to diagnose me?"
In this way, Zhu Si stood on the moral high ground, which was difficult for the ministers present to accept.
"Okay, this is a pardon from me. Several prisoners will be discussed by the Ministry of Punishment as appropriate, and they will be distinguished by their crimes. If they are not too serious, they will be reduced to serving the people."
Zhu Sidao said, "After the Ministry of Punishment comes back, I will make a decision based on the circumstances. That's it."
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Yang Tinghe returned to the cabinet.
Before Jiang Mian came over to talk to Yang Tinghe, Fei Hong came over and said, "It is said that Zhongde is seriously ill. I'm afraid it happened in the past two days."
"oh?"
Yang Tinghe frowned.
Zhongde is Yuan Zonggao. Historically, Yuan Zonggao died on the seventh day of September in the sixteenth year of Zhengde, but now it is September 12th. In other words, Yuan Zonggao's life span was at least extended by a few days because of Zhu Hao's influence.
But because he died of illness, a chronic disease of old age, there was not much Zhu Hao could do.
Yuan Zonggao entered the court a few days ago and did not make any achievements. He did not shine when he was in the Xingwang Palace. But after he arrived at the court, he almost became invisible. Even as a cabinet bachelor, his presence was too low, even
Yang Tinghe felt that Yuan Zonggao died too quickly without doing anything.
"knew."
Jiang Mian answered for Yang Tinghe.
Even if Yuan Zonggao really died, it would be impossible for members of the cabinet to go to express condolences in person. For this kind of thing, the court would send mourning officials there, and the ministers must be loyal to their duties.
After Fei Hong left, Jiang Miancai said: "Your Majesty suddenly pardoned the people from Taiyuan Hospital. I don't know why?"
Yang Tinghe shook his head: "Perhaps as His Majesty said, he didn't want to cause too many troubles, so he just settled the matter."
Publicizing the issue of the cause of Emperor Zhengde's death is obviously not something that the new emperor who has gained advantage should respect. No matter how he died, now that the throne belongs to me, it is a gift from God. Send those people out of the court so that they can no longer harm
Just come to me.
"I always feel like something is wrong."
Jiang Mian suddenly said something.
Yang Tinghe can naturally feel it too.
Since the incident was deliberately provoked by Zhu Si, there should be a purpose. It should not be Zhu Si who took the initiative to excuse the people involved. If the final result was like this, then why did the emperor hold him accountable from the beginning?
Is it just to drive these imperial doctors out of the imperial hospital? Or to scare the monkeys so that other imperial doctors will not dare to make a fuss about the emperor's prescriptions?
Moreover, Zhu Si had always used court affairs to punish civil servants before, but it was obvious that the emperor's action this time was unusual. It was to give face to the civil servants and not to cause more killings.
The civil servants haven't even asked for mercy yet, and the matter is over like this?
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Yuan Zonggao was indeed terminally ill.
Tang Yin and Jiang Lun went to visit him one after another, and when they came back, they explained the situation to Zhu Hao. His death happened in the past few days.
Fortunately, in recent months, the main members of the Yuan family have arrived in the capital. Before Yuan Zonggao died, he could be reunited with his family. Even if he could sleep, his relatives would not be separated and he would die in a foreign land.
"On your deathbed, what can you do?" Tang Yin asked Zhu Hao after he came back.
Zhu Hao shook his head.
Zhu Hao was still grateful to Yuan Zonggao. After all, Yuan Zonggao had made great efforts in entering the palace.
But later, Yuan Zonggao repeatedly suppressed Zhu Hao and Tang Yin because of their alliance, and even formed an antagonism in the palace. Even if he is about to die now, and all the past should not be delved into, Zhu Hao still has no ability to save Yuan Zonggao's life.