After Wu Laoliu put down the sack on his back, he said to Zhu Yuanzhang with some embarrassment: "Your Majesty, because there are many people outside, little..."
Zhu Yuanzhang waved his hand nonchalantly and said in a deep voice: "It doesn't matter, we just need to keep this matter from being discovered, and you can do the rest!"
Wu Laoliu heard this and repeatedly assured: "Your Majesty, don't worry, the little one is using a special gun made by Jin Yiwei."
"And the younger one also had someone pretend to be Xu Yunzhen in the prison. As long as he is sent back before dawn, no one will find him."
Zhu Yuanzhang nodded and signaled Wu Laoliu to release Xu Yunzhen.
Upon seeing this, Wu Laoliu opened the sack and roughly squeezed the sleeping Xu Yunzhen.
Xu Yunzhen screamed, and then opened his eyes in a daze.
Just as he was about to stretch his body, he suddenly saw the murderous Zhu Yuanzhang, and he immediately collapsed to the ground in fear.
"Xu Yunzhen, do you know your guilt?"
Seeing Xu Yunzhen's panic, Zhu Yuanzhang immediately shouted loudly.
Xu Yunzhen was stunned for a moment, then he stood up tremblingly and saluted: "Your Majesty, I am really here to rescue you. Your Majesty, please be careful!"
Zhu Yuanzhang glanced at him coldly and shouted in a deep voice: "Xu Yunzhen, do you think you will die without any evidence after killing Gao Qiqian?"
"Have you forgotten..."
Zhu Yuanzhang said, then deliberately stopped and looked at Xu Yunzhen with a confident look.
Xu Yunzhen was slightly flustered, and then said: "Your Majesty, my loyalty can be judged by the sun and the moon. If your Majesty doesn't believe it, you can just ask your soldiers, and the matter will come to light."
Zhu Yuanzhang snorted coldly and said: "For the sake of your ancestor Wei Guogong Xu Da, I thought that as long as you were willing to plead guilty, your life could be spared!"
"Do you think that you are so stubborn and unruly that you want to force us to kill Wei Guogong's entire lineage?"
When Xu Yunzhen heard this, his body trembled slightly, and he forced himself to be calm and said: "I am loyal to your Majesty. If your Majesty wants to kill me, you don't need to do anything. You only need to give me three feet of white silk, and I will commit suicide in the sky prison immediately." .”
After he finished speaking, he bowed respectfully to Zhu Yuanzhang.
Although Xu Yunzhen had tried his best to control his body, the fear in his heart still made his kowtow ceremony somewhat nondescript.
Although Zhu Yuanzhang was panicked when he saw Xu Yunzhen, he was much calmer compared to the situation in Huangji Hall that day.
I think it was because Li Zushu sent someone to contact him these days that he made this change.
But Xu Yunzhen was in the heavenly prison, and although Li Zushu could send him messages through people, he was under the guard of the Jinyi Guards, and it was absolutely impossible for Li Zushu to rescue him. So why did Xu Yunzhen want to protect Li Zushu to the death.
Could it be that Xu Yunzhen believed that Zhu Yuanzhang would never dare to kill him, but where did he get the confidence?
Then he remembered that Gong Dingzi had played with fire several times, as if he was not afraid of being punished at all.
Where is the confidence of these people?
While Zhu Yuanzhang was deep in thought, Xu Yunzhen also looked at him secretly. Seeing that Zhu Yuanzhang's brows were furrowed and the murderous aura on his body was not as strong as before, he couldn't help but feel a little more courageous.
For a moment, Dongnuan Pavilion was eerily quiet.
As time went by, Xu Yunzhen's courage gradually weakened, and fear appeared on his face again.
"Wu Laoliu, since he is so stubborn and unruly, drag him out and bury him, and tell the public that he committed suicide out of fear of crime!"
Zhu Yuanzhang was silent for a while, then looked at Xu Yunzhen coldly.
When Wu Laoliu heard this, he immediately arrested Xu Yunzhen.
When Xu Yunzhen saw this, he backed away continuously and shouted in panic: "Your Majesty, you can't be so careless about human life. I have an iron book on alchemy in my house. You can't..."
Zhu Yuanzhang sneered and said: "Xu Yunzhen, I advise you to be more aware of current affairs. You must know that when we returned to Beijing, we brought back tens of thousands of elite soldiers. Those shrimp soldiers and crab generals of Li Zushu have long since fled."
"He is just a rat crossing the street now. He cannot save himself. Otherwise, how could we get you to Dongnuan Pavilion?"
"Now we give you one last chance, if
If you are still stubborn, don't blame us for being ruthless. "
After he finished speaking, he gave Wu Laoliu another wink.
When Wu Laoliu saw this, he immediately pretended to be ferocious and walked towards Xu Yunzhen viciously.
Seeing this, Xu Yunzhen's face changed drastically and he shouted repeatedly: "Impossible, you can't find our soldiers and horses..."
"Are you talking about the soldiers and horses lurking in Xianghe?"
Zhu Yuanzhang didn't wait for Xu Yunzhen to finish, and interrupted him with a relaxed expression.
When Xu Yunzhen heard this, his face turned pale, and he murmured to himself: "Impossible, how could you possibly know this?"
Seeing that Xu Yunzhen's fighting spirit had been defeated, Zhu Yuanzhang felt relieved.
In fact, Zhu Yuanzhang did not have high hopes for interrogating Xu Yunzhen before, because he felt that Xu Yunzhen was an abandoned son and would definitely not know any core secrets.
But just now, he suddenly thought that the reason why Xu Yunzhen and Gong Dingzi were so stubborn was probably because Li Zushu had promised them that he would rescue them if there was any danger, and that was why they were so desperate.
Thinking of this, he saw Li Zushu's plan clearly.
In fact, Li Zushu's trump card was not the transferred money at all, nor was it the wealthy households or Donglin Party members.
The reason why he laid out such a complicated game was to deliberately mislead Zhu Yuanzhang, so that when Zhu Yuanzhang thought he was sure of victory, he suddenly broke out and took control of the government in the name of Qingjun.
In fact, Zhu Yuanzhang should have noticed this a long time ago, because he was in constant trouble after returning to the capital. He instinctively thought that the other party was robbing food in preparation for stealing silver, but he ignored this information.
However, when he was thinking about Xu Yunzhen and Gong Dingzi's confidence just now, he immediately thought that Li Zushu had soldiers in his hands, and then he thought of the 10,000 stones of food that disappeared out of thin air.
You must know that based on the situation at the time, neither Li Zicheng nor Li Zushu had the ability to transport these 10,000 stones of grain.
If you want to deal with him, the best way is to sink the food into the water or burn it on fire.
But they did not do this. Instead, they spent a lot of time transporting grain.
Although they did a decent job, Zhu Yuanzhang simply did not believe that they could transport the grain away in less than one night.
So he was very sure that the food was still hidden near Xianghe River, and the purpose of doing so was naturally to provide food and wages for their lurking soldiers and horses.
Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to understand this, so he pretended to know everything and pointed it out, which immediately caused Xu Yunzhen to completely collapse.
"Xu Yunzhen, for the sake of your ancestors, we will give you one last chance. If you are still stubborn, we will have to skin you and fill it with grass!"
Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Xu Yunzhen, who was a little dull, and shouted with tenderness and murderous intent.
When Xu Yunzhen heard this, he kowtowed and said: "Your Majesty, I have recruited you, and I have recruited everything." Z.br>
Seeing this, Zhu Yuanzhang slowly leaned towards the old wooden chair, but still stared at Xu Yunzhen with burning eyes.
Xu Yunzhen's body trembled for a while, and then he told the story tremblingly.
