Emperor Zhengde toured the south of the Yangtze River incognito, and captured Prince Ning Zhu Chenhao alive, who was plotting rebellion.
Under the planning and arrangement of this young emperor, Zhu Chenhao's more than 20 years of management were like a joke. He had no chance to exert his efforts and became a prisoner of his subordinates.
The process of capturing Prince Ning was relatively uneventful, but the next two major events caused an uproar.
The first thing was that after capturing Queen Ning, the Jinyi Guards found a large number of secret letters in Prince Ning's palace, proving that officials, gentry, Jianghu sects, and green forest villages from all over the south of the Yangtze River had colluded with her to participate in the rebellion.
Emperor Zhengde simply read through a few letters, and then Long Yan was furious. He strictly ordered the accompanying Duke Zhenguo, the mighty general, and the commander of the Jinyi Guards Zhu Shou to arrest and interrogate them one by one according to the signatures of the letters.
Following this decree, the wolf-like and tiger-like Guards and Tiqi scattered out in all directions, batches of state officials, country gentry and celebrities were locked up and their homes confiscated, and all the Jianghu sects and green forest villages were wiped out. The entire Jiangnan area was filled with people's heads rolling down and people wailing loudly.
The second thing is that some important officials in the court also colluded with King Ning. They bribed some city defense soldiers with the intention of breaking into the palace and kidnapping the Emperor and the Queen Mother, and then forced the Emperor to issue an edict to depose Emperor Zhengde on the grounds of "excessive pleasure". The throne of the emperor was changed to Zhu Chenhao, the king of Ning, who was known as the "virtuous king".
Fortunately, the eunuch Zhang Yong, who was in charge of the third battalion of the capital, saw through these evil plots against the party in time, and personally led his elite troops to the capital to turn the tide and quell the rebellion.
Although the rebellion subsided, the subsequent handling was a huge headache. Just because there are three cabinet ministers and more than a hundred officials from various ministries involved in this case, if they are all punished as treason and their families are confiscated, tens of thousands of people will be killed.
At a time when the government and the public were in panic, Emperor Zhengde rode a fast horse all the way back to the capital. After consulting the Supreme Emperor, he issued the decree that "the chief evildoers must be punished, and those who use threats to reduce crimes".
In this way, although hundreds of heads were inevitably cut off, it finally gave the accomplices and relatives a way out.
For a time, everyone in the government and the public, no matter how they viewed Emperor Zhengde before, had no choice but to praise him as a benevolent emperor.
This time, Prince Ning's rebellion case became the most powerful weapon for Emperor Zhengde to rectify the imperial court.
With the banner of thorough investigation of those who colluded with Prince Ning to open the way, many of the constraints in the past have completely disappeared, and it is true that what is said and done is followed.
While the situation in the court was changing, Hu Long was already planning to fulfill his ten-year agreement with Shen Lang.
When he captured King Ning at Hanshan Temple, Tang Yin finally broke through the "Death Sword" with the "Overlord Spear" improved by combining his own insights, and killed Li Ziran on the spot to wash away the shame of his late father's defeat.
When cleaning the battlefield afterwards, someone dug out Li Ziran's body and found a notebook that recorded the essence of his lifelong martial arts and swordsmanship.
Naturally, such valuable trophies must be handed over to Zhu Houzhao for disposal.
Zhu Houzhao had studied "Lianhua Baojian" and was proficient in various miscellaneous studies. When he was flipping through it, he found that the cover of the notebook seemed to have a sandwich. When he opened it, he found a thin piece of paper hidden inside, with a passage written on it and a sea chart drawn.
It turns out that Li Ziran has the same origin as the "Fairy Yunmeng" in the early years, but his mission to lurk in the Central Plains was to wait for an opportunity to instigate ambitious clans to commit rebellion. There was no need to worry about success or failure, just to confuse the Ming Dynasty.
I don’t know if they harbor hatred deep down in their hearts for the mysterious island that gave them abilities but also gave them the cruelest teenage life. Fairy Yunmeng at the time and Li Ziran later coincidentally used secret means to leave information about that island. Information.
As A Fei's good brother, Zhu Houzhao naturally knew what happened ten years ago when Shen Lang teamed up with more than ten martial arts heroes to go to sea to find the mysterious island. Now that I encountered relevant clues, I hurriedly notified Hu Long and A Fei.
Hu Long consciously cultivated his skills in the past ten years to the point where he could overlook the common people and stand proudly.
Although he was limited by this world and felt that he was within reach, he could not reach the threshold of the subtle realm above the innate. However, he was confident that with his various trump cards, he would not necessarily lose to a subtle master in a life-and-death fight. Grandmaster.
Therefore, he finally made up his mind to go out to sea to find the island and meet the mysterious old man Wu Ming for a while.
Hu Long originally only planned to take Ah Fei out to sea, but after Sun Xiaohong found out, he insisted on following him life or death.
Sun Xiaohong was going to leave, and Old Tianji, who had always regarded his granddaughter as his thorn in the side, naturally couldn't sit idly by and ignore it. He had no choice but to risk his life to accompany the gentleman and risk his life to accompany Master and Disciple Hu Huan.
Old Man Tianji travels around the world telling stories about ancient times, but this is just a hobby and not a living. In fact, he came from a maritime merchant family on the southeast coast, and after several generations of business, he had already accumulated wealth from the enemy's country.
With this relationship, it will be much easier for Hu Long and others to go to sea.
Old Man Tianji transferred a large ship, sufficient supplies and dozens of capable sailors from his home with just one word.
We are all wandering people, and we don’t have to choose a good time or auspicious day. We just wait for everything to be ready and set sail immediately.
Hu Long already had a copy of the sea chart left by Shen Lang from Fairy Yunmeng in his hand, and when he corroborated it with the chart left by Li Ziran, he avoided many detours.
In addition, Hu Long possesses the power of "seeing from the sky and hearing from the earth", so he can always detect hidden dangers and opportunities in time to avoid or avoid them along the way.
Therefore, this voyage was just a bit boring for everyone, but there was no real crisis.
After traveling like this for more than twenty days, Hu Long, who had stood on the bow of the ship to stretch his muscles early that morning, suddenly moved his ears slightly and shouted in a loud voice: "An island appears in front of us, it's time for us to go!"
Before he finished speaking, Old Man Tianji, A Fei and Sun Xiaohong had already flown out of the cabin one after another.
They stood on the bow of the boat and looked around, but there was nothing in front of them except the undulating water.
Seeing the three people looking at him in confusion, Hu Long said calmly: "The island is still some distance away from here, but it is right in front of our course, so we will naturally be able to see it."
The "distance" he mentioned was actually quite far. The full-sailed ship sailed for another half an hour before the three people who were looking up finally saw a small black spot where the sea and the sky meet.
As the ship sailed, the three of them gradually saw that it was indeed a huge island. However, the island had steep rocks, lush forests, and some seabirds resting leisurely on the beach. It didn't look like there were humans living on the island. appearance.
Seeing that the ship he was on was approaching the island, Hu Long said to the old man Tianji: "This ship is our retreat, but we must not abandon it. Otherwise, I will ask Mr. Sun to stay behind and take charge of the two little guys." How about checking out the island?”
Old Man Tianji pondered for a moment and then nodded in agreement, and then ordered the sailors to put down a small boat. Hu Long, A Fei, and Sun Xiaohong each took their weapons and concealed weapons and other personal belongings, got on the small boat and sailed towards the island.
