Chapter 215: His Majesty’s Great Joy

The temple was silent for a moment.

Everyone froze in place.

Only the eyes were scrambling.

Zhu thought he had heard wrong.

He looked at the eunuch and said, “Zhang Anshi’s corpse, it’s here?”

In fact, when he asked this sentence, Zhu Di felt that his words were full of holes.

Not to mention, it’s only been a day or two, this is not a fast horse galloping, it’s carrying a coffin, it can’t be this fast.

Even if it was that fast, before it came, there must have been someone to report it, much less transport the coffin to the Forbidden City.

Only to see this eunuch finally kneel down at this time, he kowtowed, panting and said, “No, no, no. Your Majesty, it is An Nan Hou …… An Nan Hou Zhang An Shi …… He, he is in good spirits …… came to the palace for an audience.”

That’s a vivid description. It’s impossible for a dead man to be in high spirits.

Xie Jin was a bit anxious.

No way!

Never!

Xie Jin stiffened and said, “In high spirits? You mean, Marquis Annan is still alive?”

He asked what everyone’s heart wanted to ask.

This eunuch said, “Yes, is still alive, will slave girl scared a big jump, thought swindle corpse it, and then close to see, is alive.”

Chu: “……”

Hundred Officials: “……”

Zhu Gao Su, King of Zhao: “……”

Among the crowd, only a man named Jin Zhong couldn’t help but shrink his neck.

In fact, he looked back on it afterward.

Why did Zhang Anshi come to visit him then?

Why did you leave after all that bullshit?

And right after that, Zhang Anshi went to Zhenjiang and then inexplicably died by fire.

When you think about it, crikey, this unconscionable dog.

People didn’t come to him for ideas at all.

It’s a bogeyman!

Jin Zhong is what kind of smart person …… He just saw this appearance in the hall, the more serious everyone discusses, the more His Majesty grieves, and the more Xie Jin and these people scream for Zhang Anshi, the more he feels embarrassed.

Dying.

Get in the motherfucker.

This is going to get people killed.

But when he thought about it, he couldn’t wash himself even if he jumped into the Yellow River.

Well …… Jin Zhong was wise enough to go around harassing his friends and relatives for a day or two.

These family members and friends were all old people from the Yan Wangfu in the beginning.

Also known as the Yasukuni Meritocracy.

Though he didn’t pick his words apart.

But at least …… various hints are there.

It means …… It’s the result of a group effort.

After all, …… this is not his idea alone, in fact, it is …… in order to combat the monkey minded Ji Gang, so that this is the next step.

As for those he pulled down, they are actually slowly beginning to have some doubts.

But skepticism is skepticism.

Zhang Anshi’s death was so real that there seemed to be no need to suspect others.

But at this moment, there were also people who finally began to look back, and then some people stared and began to search for Jin Zhong.

Jin Zhong felt as if there was a gust of cloudy wind chilling his neck.

He swallowed his spittle and could only smile bitterly, there is no way …… for the old man to be a victim!

Of course …… this time, Jin Zhong has not been able to take the anger of Zhang Anshi.

After all, it was to combat the rebellious ministers, and they were official business, so if you flipped out with him, it would look like your pattern was too low.

It’s just …… that …… this is still awkward.

Jinchung decided to play dead.

Love it or hate it.

After a long silence, Zhu Di said, “Zhang Anshi he is still alive?”

The eunuch smiled bitterly, “Alive, still alive …… a thousand times.”

King Zhao, Zhu Gao Suo, his face turned green, and for a moment, his face was embarrassed to the extreme.

Zhu Di subconsciously exclaimed, “Impossible, absolutely impossible, summon him in, I want to see it with my own eyes.”

Where did the eunuch dare to hesitate, he busied himself.

The hall fell into dead silence again.

More and more people are starting to come around too.

Zhang Anshi, that brute, how can he still be alive when everyone’s done the trick?

There were already people who hated to find a little guy, and if Zhang Anshi really appeared alive and well in front of them, they would have to press him to death again.

Zhu Di looked anxious at this point.

After the grief, his mind began to clear immensely.

As the saying goes, caring is messy, and now …… he is beginning to regain his senses.

A terrible idea, appeared in the bottom of Zhu Di s heart, and then …… he began to think freely, the more he thought about it …… Zhu Di felt …… that his mother… …It is still possible.

So Zhu Di was silent, with only one pair of eyes, gazing straight at the doorway of the great hall.

Finally, a familiar figure appeared.

Zhang Anshi came in, panting in his armor.

As soon as I met Zhang Anshi ……

Some people rejoice.

There are others whose hearts sink to the bottom.

Into the motherfucker, this beast he really didn’t die.

Zhang Anshi saluted, “I, Zhang Anshi, have met Your Majesty, long live the Emperor ……”

Chu: “……”

Zhu Xu descended from the hall, and then walked to the center of the hall.

Standing in front of Zhang Anshi, he looked earnestly for half a second, and then surrounded Zhang Anshi, circling around a few times.

Reach out to ……

Poke Zhang Anshi’s nose.

Nose still warm.

As soon as this guy looked at Zhu Di reaching out to poke him, he immediately subconsciously tried to hide, as if he only hated that his armor wasn’t worn thick enough.

Zhu Di finally reacted and cursed, “How the fuck are you alive again?”

Zhang Anshi looked at His Majesty’s glaring eyes and said stiffly, “Maybe the King of Hell won’t accept it.”

Zhu was furious.

Zhang Anshi immediately said, “Your Majesty …… I have something to report.”

Zhu glared at him and said, “Don’t worry about the right and the wrong.”

Zhang Anshi said, “It’s about Ji Gang plotting a rebellion.”

This statement was made.

Sure enough ……

Zhu Di’s eyes erupted with a cold color.

He looked at Zhang Anshi slyly, and all of a sudden, his body was filled with a murderous aura.

“There’s witnesses and evidence?”

Zhang Anshi came prepared, took out a bunch of confessions from his sleeve, and said, “The witnesses and material evidence are all there, the evidence of crime is very detailed, and the matter is very serious.”

Things are certainly serious.

This is the Commander of the Jinyiwei.

In these years, he has done so much dirty work for the emperor, knows so many secrets, and holds tens of thousands of Jin Yi Wei’s personal army, even the Han generals in the palace, who are all his subordinates.

How could Zhu not take such a thing seriously?

Of course, Zhu decided to give up on Ji Gang only because Ji Gang was starting to have his own ideas and was starting to become difficult to manage.

But …… what Zhu Di could not imagine was that Ji Gang dared to plot against him.

So when Zhang Anshi uttered the word plotting rebellion, the nature of the issue, however, changed.

Zhu Di had a sullen face and took the confession.

These confessions, which cannot be shown to others, are only flipped by Zhu Di.

It’s a case involving the pro-army, and there are so many secrets in it that it might even reach the royal family.

Zhu bowed his head ……

Seeing that Ji Gang actually used eunuchs to serve himself.

Even …… has a private stash of contraband in his home.

Collusion with bandits.

Destroy and break up the families of the good and wealthy.

He patiently thumbed through them, piece by piece.

There are also searches for incriminating evidence of people up and down the Jinyiwei, which are kept secret, so as to blackmail the privacy of the Jinyiwei and the minister.

The more Zhu looked, the more fire rose in his eyes.

No sin is too small here.

The Ji Gang in Zhu’s mind was already completely different.

Once upon a time, Ji Gang could be described as bowing down to him, humble as a maggot.

Ji Gang acted in such a humble manner that even Zhu Di thought that although this man had ambition, this ambition was far less than the fear of him.

So this person, he thought, would never dare to fool around under his nose.

But in the end, Zhu Di was still careless, he overestimated himself, this Ji Gang, more than just nonsense?

Even ……

When he saw a confession about the false transmission of the imperial decree, and got millions of pounds of government salt, Zhu Di people are numb.

Salt and iron monopoly.

The biggest source of tax in Daming, besides grain tax, is salt tax, therefore, all salt merchants, need salt quotations, otherwise they will be punished for selling illicit salt.

Every pound of this salt is silver.

However, …… Ji Gang casually took a Jinyiwei s driving sticker, and could forge that it was Zhu Di s oracle.

Moving salt to the saltworks, millions of pounds. What’s millions of pounds?

It’s all money. It’s real money!

What’s even scarier is that it’s actually more than that.

The scary part is that, so grandiose, there is a lot of process going on here.

For example, the middle level officials of the Jinyiwei who do the work, for example, the officials and cadets who are responsible for escorting the transportation, for example, the merchants who distribute the goods, and for example, the personnel of the salt farms, and …… the Ministry of the Household …… with so much salt, the salt farms must be reported to the Ministry of the Household.

As for the local officials to assist as well, the Salt Transportation Commissioner …… and the Minister of Prefecture …… these people …… can not see a little bit of strange?

But anyone with a little bit of brains would know that the emperor could not have directly issued an oracle for millions of hundreds of thousands of pounds of salt.

But on the contrary, from top to bottom, all the people inside and outside this Jin Yi Wei, one by one, are silent.

None of them played.

And no one questioned it.

What does that prove?

It proves that within the Jinyiwei, even half of the Ministry of the Household, as well as the local ministers of cloth and iron, salt and iron, and the local governors and prefectures, are all playing dumb.

Every single one of them is blind to it.

Terrible is more …… Ji Gang early expected, no one dares to talk more, no one questioned, and even not worried at all, someone dared to play the report. Visible this Ji Gang on their own confidence to what point.

And where does that confidence come from?

Why can you be so emboldened?

Does he think of himself as an emperor?

Zhu took a deep breath, he felt a little dizzy.

A confession, all in various unthinkable ways.

So much so that Zhu Di ventured a question, how did this Ji Gang …… dare to do so?

Raising his head, Zhu Di gazed at Zhang Anshi and said, “Are these …… thousand true?”

Zhang Anshi said: “Your Majesty, are his close confidants beloved confessions, on the top of the signatures and drawings, and not one, not two, these people …… actually have a lot of, are involved in the Ji Gang. That is to say …… they blew themselves up these, in fact, have been prepared to be implicated. Your Majesty, who will risk their own follow along with the risk of losing their head, to expose Ji Gang?”

After a pause, Zhang Anshi also said: “In addition, this confession, each other’s testimonies can be cross-corroborated, and …… time, place, the characters involved are very much, even if one or two people planted the evidence, but as long as the confession to catch other people involved in the matter, there are so many victims! …… is not …… these people will also be false “say the false transmission of the decree of the salt field case, involved in the handover of the people, at least hundreds of thousands of people, and that salt field must also have books, so …. . the minister feels that this can’t fool anyone.”

Zhu Di nodded his head, such a case is indeed clearly visible, this Ji Gang is really not even pretending.

At this time, Zhang Anshi is away from Zhu Di is very tight, he lowered his voice: “I also heard that he will sometimes call some of the officials and schools to go to his home banquet, in front of the guests, wearing a python robe that can only be worn by the Prince out of the crowd saw, no one dares to say a word of not, only to say that he is extraordinary Yingwu …… praise him! ……”

“Enough.” Zhu burst into a rage, his face blushing to the extreme, “Don’t say anymore.”

Zhang Anshi’s words were nothing less than a slap in Zhu Di’s face.

He thought that he harnessed Ji Gang, as if it were a child s play, who knows …… that he is more like being played by Ji Gang, this Ji Gang, simply take him as a fool as an emperor.

Zhu Di was furious and said viciously, “Where is Ji Gang?”

“Already taken down.” Zhang Anshi said, “I have ordered people to take good care of the custody, just worried that he died, he has …… too many things on him.”

Zhu said, “He just tied his hands?”

Zhang Anshi said, “He refused to tie his hands, but …… he also did not expect that the minister suddenly appeared, thanks to the …… Jinbeitang …… ”

Jin Zhong heard this in the hall, his face suddenly changed, his feet began to subconsciously, to hide behind his colleagues.

Although it has been predicted that Zhang Anshi this and the big lack of big virtue guy …… definitely want to implicate him Jin Zhong.

But I didn’t realize that this guy was talking about him with such a line and no shame at all.

Zhu Di did not continue to pursue the question, at this time, the civil and military officials here, Zhu Di only said: “Those officials and schools, control?”

“I have no control over them.” Zhang Anshi said, “These people are nothing more than fish in a jar.”

Zhu Di immediately understood that Zhang Anshi had harnessed these people.

He looked deeply at Zhang Anshi and took a deep breath before asking, “How did you raise the dead?”

Zhang Anshi smiled bitterly, “This …… is a long story.”

Zhu Di looked around and said with a straight face, “All the ministers retire.”

This statement was made ……

The faces of the people were all miserable.

King Zhao Zhu Gao Su, who was still looking sad just now, is even more sad now.

And Xie Jin isn’t much better.

His brain had begun to run at high speed, and at this point …… a possibility slowly surfaced in his mind.

But …… even if you think of this possibility, what’s the point?

So the ministers retired and went away.

That Yang Rong and Hu Guang, on their way out, glanced at Zhang Anshi with an odd look.

They are sometimes …… also kind of convinced of Zhang Anshi, this Zhang Anshi is also considered to be a model that can be particularly tossed, this kind of thing, and only thanks to him to do it.

As soon as Jin Zhong heard that he had retired, he was as if he had been pardoned, and immediately wanted to cover up in the crowd and escape.

Either way, this is a place of right and wrong, so it’s better to run first.

Who knows, at that moment a voice said, “Secretary Jin, stay a bit too.”

Kim Chung: “……”

He could only sigh in his heart, but unfortunately …… he gave people a lifetime of fortune telling, and it …… turned out that he didn t count himself.

Instead, at this time, Duke of Wei, Xu Huizu, was deliberately coming up and smiled at Zhang Anshi as he brushed past him.

Zhang Anshi smiled back.

He found that Xu Huizu s gaze at him was a doting expression that made him …… a little hairy in his heart.

The ministers retired.

Zhu Di then glared fiercely at Zhang Anshi: “Say it, you come to say it, honestly give me to say, I can still exempt you from the crime of deceiving the king.”

Zhang Anshi said, “Your Majesty …… this matter, it is a long story, I think ……… it is better for Jin Gong to say.”

Jin Zhong is going to jump up, and the meaning …… of this is clearly planted.

It’s as if he knows everything about this, and why does he know, isn’t it because he instigated it?

Zhu looked at Jin Zhong.

Jin Zhong had to awkwardly say, “Your Majesty …… there are some places that I know, and I don’t know much about this matter …… this matter …… Master Yao, and ……”

Zhu Di couldn’t help but be furious: “Well, it turns out that so many of you, all of you are ganging up to cheat me!”

Kim Chung: “……”

Zhang Anshi immediately said, “Your Majesty, in fact, this has nothing to do with Duke Jin or any of them, in fact, it was still my idea.”

At this time, Jin Zhong was not at all grateful to Zhang Anshi.

Because the meaning of these words is, Your Majesty don’t make it difficult for Jin Zhong and the others, I, Zhang Anshi, have taken this matter, and if I am guilty, it will all be on me, Zhang Anshi.

Unlike the cunningness of Jin Zhong and the others, Zhang Anshi’s honesty and generosity jumped out of Zhang Anshi’s simple face.

But as it happened, at this time, no matter how Jin Zhong explained or even argued, it was meaningless.

It will only give Zhu Di to create an …… impression that people Zhang Anshi at least has a mistake he still knows to recognize, Jin Zhong you this guy, but also dare to resist in front of me.

Jin Zhong had no choice but to say, “Your Majesty, this matter is difficult to summarize in a single sentence, I think it would be better to let Marquis Annan speak about the causes and consequences.”

Zhu Di sighed, then exasperated: “Say, hurry to say, and then do not say, I have a word in advance, the coffin, I am ready, you again here to talk about him, I will you together with pressed into the coffin.”

Zhang Anshi then said: “The thing …… comes from the minister began to thoroughly investigate the Ji Gang, but I quickly found that the Ji Gang is much more powerful than the minister imagined, this person mastered tens of thousands of Jin Yiwei, and this Jin Yiwei up and down, actually iron plate, and Ji Gang extremely cunning, he began to abet people, targeting the inner thousand households to do it! The inner thousand households …… were killed two people, injured dozens of people. I just realized …… that the big thing is not good.”

“However, Ji Gang is, after all, the Commander of the Jinyiwei, so without real evidence, how can he be convicted? I also noticed that Ji Gang’s minions, can be described as dead to him. I thought, Ji Gang, this person, so sinister, how can someone will be their own life, are tied to his body?”

“So I was helpless, I was still young after all, so I went to visit Duke Jin, and after discussing with Duke Jin, I realized that Ji Gang must have held the handles of these minions, so much so that these people, even though they knew that His Majesty intended to investigate Ji Gang, were still willing to walk the same path as Ji Gang for the sake of their own lives.”

“The scary thing is, their means, began to be more and more ruthless, and more and more crazy! So I, in the end, had to take the risk, if not this risky move, these minions continue to go crazy, I dare not imagine, what they will do.”

Zhang Anshi saw Zhu Di into deep thought, carefully after observing the words, only then continued: “After that, your majesty also knows, I in Zhenjiang fraudulent death, but messed up their footing. There are two benefits, on the one hand, it is to let those minions realize that things have been brought to the point of no return, even if their handle is not exposed, the minister suddenly died for no reason, they can not be blamed, the handle is exposed to die, do you want to follow Ji Gang, get a Shihou dead, and still want to live?”

Zhu nodded and said, “This is called putting death before life?”

Zhang Anshi hurriedly said, “Your Majesty is brilliant.”

“This its two ……” Zhang Anshi continued, “is the real purpose of my minister.”

“The real purpose?” Zhu Di frowned without, gazing at Zhang Anshi, “What purpose?”

Zhang Anshi said, “The first thing that can be done is to make people up and down the Jinyiwei jump against them, causing them to obediently stand up to Ji Gang and turn against him, leaving the Jinyiwei internally in tatters. Then this second thing is to completely interrupt Ji Gang’s rhythm.”

After a pause, Zhang Anshi continued, “Has Your Majesty ever thought that Ji Gang has committed such a heinous crime, is he not clear to himself that sooner or later, he will have to die without a burial place? This person is insidious and cunning, and has been in charge of the Brocade Guards for many years, I don’t know how many people’s secrets he holds, moreover, I don’t know how many people he secretly manipulates, moreover, I don’t know how many doorways he has.”

“When His Majesty ordered the minister to start investigating Ji Gang, he should have already had a premonition that sooner or later something was going to happen, and with his character, a cunning rabbit with three holes, he would definitely leave a back way for himself. So …… I expect that he has already begun to secretly collude with people, ready to abscond.”

Zhu heard this and nodded his head.

Other people might not be able to escape with their wings if they offended the emperor, but Ji Gang was no ordinary man.

Only to see Zhang Anshi continue, ”He has such a deep layout in the Brocade Guards, and his backroads, should have been laid out a long time ago as well. When he senses the danger, he will naturally slowly begin to carry out his plotting. But if the minister slowly check him, wait for him step by step to complete the final layout, may …… finally this person has long escaped, still not lose a life of wealth.”

“And the clue as to who is colluding with him on the outside will be lost. The man is too meticulous in his actions, and a meticulous man is bound to do everything right.”

“Then the benefit of my fraudulent death appeared, I fraudulent death, he immediately realized that there is not much time, because …… no matter whether he has no evidence of guilt, the next, your majesty will certainly be on him to lay a hard hand. Your Majesty …… at this time he is in a hurry, then his past layout, must also become hasty, and once hasty, there will be mistakes, with mistakes, will reveal the cloven foot. In fact …… minister in the process of fraudulent death, has long been letting people day and night stalking and everything related to him, just waiting for him to reveal this foot of the horse.”

Zhu came to a realization and couldn’t help but say, “What, is the horse’s foot showing?”

Zhang Anshi looked deeply at Zhu Di, said, “There are already clues, because it is too hasty, so we found a person, this person …… for the time being we did not hit the grass to scare the snake, but we can be sure that …… Ji Gang hid up a large number of secrets, as well as people who secretly collude with him, and even the wealth that he has coveted over the years, may be exposed.”

Zhu Di was greatly encouraged by what he heard.

It turns out that cutting out a Jijang actually involves so much more.

So it seems …… that this fraudulent death …… is simply a double whammy.

If Zhang Anshi is not dead, not to say may not be able to catch Ji Gang, maybe this guy really can retreat, and all the clues, it may be cut off.

Zhu Di looked at Zhang Anshi seriously and said heartily, “You, this kid, are also decisive.”

Zhang Anshi laughed, “This was learned from His Majesty.”

A look at Zhu Di happy, Zhang Anshi did not hesitate to say: “At that time I also hesitated, but once I thought that His Majesty is so generous to me, I have no external things, only a piece of red heart, can be seen in the sun and the moon, therefore, simply risk this heavenly risk, but also for His Majesty will be the discipline of all the things that have been pulled out, this is not to live up to the emperor’s grace.”

Kim Chung: “……”

Didn’t you say you were with me?

How come now, it seems to have nothing to do with the old man again?

Jinchung coughed desperately from the sidelines.

Zhang Anshi then added: “Of course, Jin Gong …… s contribution is not small.”

Zhu Di nodded, said: “Jin Qing family has always been loyal. Just …… you have this idea, but why, not like me to report, but harmed me these two days distracted.”

Zhang Anshi said: “is not the minister deceived the emperor, I’m not bold, how dare I do such a thing, just Jin Gong hinted at the minister, said Ji Gang this person, very cunning, and act small and cautious, especially at this time, is when he is the most sensitive, if he smells a hint of wrong taste, may be everything will be abandoned. His Majesty is not good at making conspiracies and tricks, the person is the most upright, once you know about this in advance, that Ji Gang observes the words and colors, may be able to break through the scheme of the ministers and so on, so Jin Gong implied that the minister, both is determined to serve His Majesty, for His Majesty to get rid of the evils, must let go of the work, His Majesty is a saintly emperor, knows that the use of people do not suspect, suspect people do not use, will be outside the king’s order not to be the reasoning to His Majesty’s leniency, will also never be concerned about this, so the ……鑷ｅ挰鐗欙紝鍙ソ骞蹭簡銆�”

Zhu looked at Jin Zhong.

Jin Zhong grinned, leered, and said, “Yes, I did not say it explicitly, but I implied something like that.”

Zhu Di could not help but say with emotion, “Hey …… you guys ah you guys ……”

Just, Zhu Di couldn’t help scolding again, “Zhang Anshi is young and can still be said to be unintelligent, you, Jin Qingjia, are not young and still so unruly, Zhang Qingjia, in the future, you don’t always listen to them fooling around, they are using you as a gun.”

Kim Chung: “……”

Zhang Anshi said, “If I can serve the Emperor’s favor, not to mention being a gunman, even if I am broken to pieces, I am also willing to do so.”

Jin Zhong said in a conspiratorial manner, “An Nan Hou …… No, Wu Ning Gong this, really teach people to admire.”

“What Wuning Gong?” Zhang Anshi was a bit confused.

He vaguely remembered that there was indeed a Duke of Wuning in Daming.

But isn’t that Xu Da?

If he marries the Xu family in the future, then what is the Duke of Wuning to him?

Zhu Di was speechless for a moment as he listened.

Jin Zhong, however, was happy, smiling and looking at Zhang Anshi said, “Zhang Anshi, you are not aware of it, your posthumous name, already have, is the word Wu Ning, congratulations, congratulations. From now on, my Daming has one more Wu Ning ……”

Zhang Anshi: “……”

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It’s so tiring. Everyone went to have fun during the holidays, and only Tiger wrote from early morning until dark.