Beijing, Tianning Temple.
"Hahahahahaha, Buddha understands, the way of heaven is clear, man will conquer heaven!"
"The power of the people is infinite. The power of the people can shake mountains and seas. The damn monarchy system is an obstacle to the advancement of civilization!"
"Kill, kill, kill! Die, die, die!"
“Long live democracy!”
"Lord Buddha, I'm not crazy, not crazy. Lord Buddha, I just had an epiphany!"
"I don't take medicine, I don't eat, hahaha!"
It is unimaginable that the black-clothed prime minister who was extremely smart and unobtrusive in the past has now become a crazy fool, running barefoot in the reception hall and living like a madman.
The imperial doctors from Tai Hospital chased the patient, pushed him to the ground, and force-fed the medicine. Yao Guangxiao took the medicine but refused to drink it, and sprayed it all on the imperial doctor's face.
The imperial doctor helplessly said to the emperor: "Your Majesty, the young master has gone crazy and there is no way to save him."
Zhu Di looked at the crazy old monk, shook his head helplessly, and sighed: "I was the one who harmed him. If I didn't say those words to him, he wouldn't be crazy. That's all. You all go down."
"Well, Your Majesty, I have something to say, but I don't know whether I should say it or not."
"Don't talk about it, get out."
"okay."
In the empty reception hall, there was only a crazy old monk, a helpless emperor, and the gold-plated Buddha watching them.
Zhu Di said impatiently: "Old monk, you fucking young master is doing this with me, how can I still not know about you?"
"No one in the world is crazy, but you can't be crazy, because you are a lunatic. When you led me to rebel, I knew you were crazy. Don't just pretend to be stupid with me."
Sure enough, as soon as these words came out, Yao Guangxiao's movements stopped abruptly, and he turned to look at Zhu Di with fierce eyes.
His Majesty the Emperor felt very uncomfortable at the sight of this sick tiger: "What the hell are you looking at me for? What the hell, do you still want to kill me?"
Unexpectedly, Yao Guangxiao shook his head and said slowly: "Now is not the time to kill you. You can't die now. If you die, the country will be in chaos."
Zhu Di's hair stood up: "Old monk, do you really want to kill me?"
"You really deserve to die. You are a representative of the feudal monarchy and a stumbling block that blocks the progress of the world. If I don't kill you, the minds of the people in the world will never be able to break free from the imprisonment."
Yao Guangxiao said methodically, "But you really can't die now. You are still valuable to the world. People have adapted to the imperial system for thousands of years. If you want to abolish the imperial system at this time, it is not a good medicine, but a poison. The world will be out of control. The country will be shattered."
Zhu Di was so angry that he was shaking all over: "You are really crazy. You can say such rebellious words. You old bastard, you have done bad things all your life and now you are getting retribution. Why did your brain suddenly go bad?"
"It's not that I'm crazy, but that you have been imprisoned for too long. No one, including you, can see the future."
Yao Guangxiao said leisurely, "The imperial system is a backward system, and the Great Harmony of the World is a superior system. Survival of the fittest, the Great Harmony system is not perfect, and it also has many loopholes, but compared to the more backward imperial system, the Great Harmony system is obviously more superior. One-of-a-kind.”
He changed the topic and asked, "Who came up with the Datong system? Tell me, I want to worship him as my teacher!"
Zhu Di just thought that the old monk was crazy and didn't want to pay attention to him at all: "Go away, I wanted to ask you for advice, but I never thought that you were crazy. Forget it, you can retire in Tianning Temple from now on. The karma on your body.”
"No, you have to tell me who came up with this Datong system!"
Yao Guangxiao said firmly, "This will be a great cause that will benefit all people in the world. If you block it, you will be a sinner for the ages!"
"..."
Zhu Di became a little impatient, "This is the system proposed by the prince. He is in Yangzhou now. If you want to find him, you can go find him. But I guess you are an old man and you will die on the way to Yangzhou."
"Prince? It's really ridiculous that it's him. The person who proposed the system of equality for all is actually the heir to the imperial system. Ridiculous, so ridiculous, absolutely ridiculous!"
Yao Guangxiao looked up to the sky and laughed, "It can only be him. He is the most far-sighted and creative person I have ever met. His thinking is ahead of the world. If it is the universal unity he proposed, , that’s not surprising.”
"Prince, you are truly a man of God."
He walked out the door with his hands behind his back, and Zhu Di couldn't help but asked quickly: "Old monk, where are you going?"
Yao Guangxiao glanced back, his eyes indifferent: "Go to Yangzhou, find the prince... no, ask my teacher for advice on the truth."
Zhu Di raised his forehead and said: "It's broken. I'm afraid the old monk's hysteria is really hopeless."
…
The next morning, the sky was high and the clouds were clear.
The head of the Fan family slowly got up from the couch, changed his clothes and washed himself under the service of the maids. After putting on his clothes, he walked leisurely to the dining room and prepared to eat.
Ming people only eat two meals a day, one in the morning and one in the afternoon. This morning meal is called "big food". There are rich dishes on the dining room table, but the head of the Fan clan frowns slightly and gets angry.
"What does this mean? The boss and the second child are here!"
The ancients established table manners as ethical principles, family mottos and even laws to abide by. The distinction between superiority and inferiority is particularly serious. According to etiquette, younger generations can wait for their elders, but elders cannot wait for their younger generations.
Normally, after the Fan clan leader had finished tidying up his clothes, the family would have been waiting in the dining hall, but this morning, when he walked into the dining hall, he found that there was no one there.
"Old lady, the eldest young master was arrested by the government last night, and the second young master is now busy outside looking for people."
"What! Why didn't anyone tell me about this?"
Patriarch Fan was shocked. When he woke up, his son was gone?
What a deal!
"How dare people from the government arrest people from my Fan family?"
The head of the Fan family fell into deep thought, "Kang is already in jail. Now there is no leader in the government. The only ones who can speak are Yangzhou Tongzhi and Master. The people in the government office have been infiltrated by my Yangzhou Seventeenth Family. Empty airs. Although Yangzhou Tongzhi said that he was passing on the same pants to the man named Kang, he has no real power in his hands. Master, he and I are in the same boat now. If he stabs me in the back, it will not be good for him. "
"If I collapse, he will definitely not survive."
The head of the Fan clan frowned, "Could it be that... the prince is so desperate that he wants to defeat me, the Fan clan, and would rather offend the world's noble families than use such a brutal method to eradicate my Fan clan?"
"No, why did he want to fight me to the death? I was just a puppet pushed to the table. He should have been able to see that the people behind me were real aristocratic families, so why did he do this?"
The head of the Fan clan was puzzled. He was like an ant on a hot pot, panicking.
…
"Everyone in the hall, tell me your name!"
In the lobby, Zhu Gaojie was sitting on the Grand Master's chair. In front of him was a three-foot hair desk. On the table were the four treasures of the study, Yu Qian on the left, Mu Zhi on the right. On his head was a black-plated gold plaque with the words "Mirror Hanging High".
Zhu Gaojie was wearing a straight black gown with a gold spider-patterned belt around his waist. His long hair was tied up with a jade-gilt gold crown. His slender body was straight and straight. His richness and handsomeness revealed his innate nobility. , the pressure it brings makes others unable to hold their heads up, lowering them to dust.
The man who was pressed down by the government servant knelt on the ground and said, "Report to His Highness the Crown Prince, common man Fan Tingxin."
"Fan Tingxin, are you the eldest young master of the Fan family?"
"Exactly."
"What a great young master of the Fan family. You are a descendant of the Yangzhou clan. In the past, you were a descendant of Duke Fan Wenzheng. You were supposed to support the virtuous and praise the outstanding and eradicate the unruly. However, you have gone against the grain and committed many crimes. You oppressed the people, evaded taxes, and bribed officials. Seeking obscenity and causing trouble, I ask you, what is your crime?"
Zhu Gaojie's loud voice echoed in the lobby and could not be dispersed for a long time, which was frightening.
Fan Tingxin hurriedly kowtowed and said, "Prince Mingjian, this is all slander. Someone is slandering me. I am sworn in with evil!"
"defamation?"
Zhu Gaojie shook his head and said, "You will not give up until you see the Yellow River. But now, in front of me, you are still stubborn. Mu Zhi, present the evidence of your crime!"
Zhang Muzhi respectfully held a wooden box in front of him. After opening the box, there was a pile of paper inside. Zhu Gaojie picked up the paper and read in front of the court: "On the fourth day of the first lunar month of the ninth year of Yongle, I bribed the former magistrate of Yangzhou with three thousand taels of silver. Maliciously suppressing colleagues in this province and embezzling their industries..."
"On August 16th of the same year, he bribed the former Yangzhou magistrate with 4,000 taels of silver to seize 27 common people's houses and fields in Xicheng..."
"On February 2, the 10th year of Yongle, he ordered Fan's servant to kidnap a woman. Afterwards, he only paid forty taels of silver and settled the matter. Because the woman was poor, she did not dare to file a lawsuit, but she could not bear the humiliation and jumped into a well to commit suicide. Her family sued When I arrived at the government office, I didn’t know that you had already bribed the then-prefect of Yangzhou officials, put his family members in jail on false charges, and executed them to death..."
"June of the eleventh year of Yongle, twelfth lunar month of the eleventh year of Yongle, April of the twelfth year of Yongle..."
"There are so many crimes that heaven and earth cannot tolerate. Now that the evidence of the crime is complete, what else do you have to say?"
Fan Tingxin, who was in the hall, said loudly: "The Crown Prince is aware that someone is falsely accusing the common people, and the common people are the ones who have been wronged!"
"What a clear lesson. That guy will learn a thing or two today."
Zhu Gaojie pulled out an arrow from the barrel of arrows on the three-foot hair table, hit the opponent in the face, and scolded, "According to the laws of the Ming Dynasty, I will kill you immediately!"
Fan Tingxin was so frightened that he became incontinent on the spot, and his lower body sprang out uncontrollably. He kowtowed and said, "Prince, please forgive me. I am a common man with a professional background. He cannot be punished as a doctor. I am willing to lose money and avoid disaster!"
This is the Ming Dynasty's commiseration system. Scholar-officials with a professional background can, to a certain extent, lose money and avoid disasters, and use money to absolve themselves of their own guilt.
Zhu Gaojie shook his head: "The Ming Dynasty did not have this law."
Fan Tingxin was confused: "Impossible, this is a law established by Taizu."
"If you say no, then there is no."
Zhu Gaojie said calmly, "From now on, there will be no mercy for prisoners in the Ming Dynasty, and there will be no money-spending to avoid disasters. If you are alone, it is the law, and if you are alone, it is the law of the Ming Dynasty."
"Come here, drag this animal down and put it to death!"
…
After retreating from the hall, Zhu Gaojie turned around and walked into the back hall.
In the back hall, a white-clothed Confucian scholar had been waiting for him. He had been listening in the back hall and bowed with a smile on his face: "His Royal Highness, may you be blessed with peace and prosperity."
Zhu Gaojie glanced at him and said, "Where is the thing you want?"
The white-clothed Confucian scholar took out a sealed letter from his sleeves and presented it with respectful hands: "This is the evidence that the head of the Fan family and the master of Yangzhou Prefecture are selling Yangzhou Prefecture's grain in other provinces. This certificate is enough to prove it. The fire dragon burning down the warehouse was the fault of the head of the Fan clan."
Zhu Gaojie took the seal, glanced at it, and waved his hand: "Okay, it's none of your business, go away."
"Your Majesty, I will take my leave."
After the people left, Yu Qian happened to walk in and asked, "Sir, who was that person just now?"
Zhu Gaojie said casually: "He is the second son of the head of the Fan clan. I just judged Lingchi that the young master of the Fan clan, Fan Tingxin, is his eldest brother."
"ah?"
Yu Qian was stunned for a moment, "Why is he here, to wash away his brother's sins?"
"Washing away the six sins, he provided all the evidence of his brother's crime."
Zhu Gaojie raised the seal on his hand and said, "Look, he just gave me the evidence of his father's crime."
Yu Qian was confused: "In other words, he killed his own brother, and now he wants to kill his own father? What are you trying to do?"
"What are you trying to do? To get the upper hand, he will torture his brother to death first, and he will become the successor of the Fan family. Then he will torture his father to death, and he will ascend to the throne in advance. Look at how harmonious this family is."
Zhu Gaojie said casually, "Do you really regard the Fan family as an impregnable fortress? Gu Gu had previously asked his men to contact the second young master of the Fan family, and after a little flirtation, he took the bait. No matter how strong the fortress is, Unable to withstand the internal sabotage, this guy was very happy to betray his brother and father, and directly handed over the criminal evidence of their family. When I kill all the people in front of him in the Fan family, he will Take over the Fan family."
Yu Qian was shocked: "Sir, didn't you say before that we must use fair and upright means? Everyone in the world is focusing on us. Is the method you are using now... too despicable?"
"Despicable? You are so despicable!"
Zhu Gaojie smiled and said, "Hurry up to the gate of the government office and see if there is a watchdog. If there is, you can change your mind with that dog. The emotional intelligence of that dog's brain is higher than yours."
"They have even come up with the idea of burning the warehouse with a fire dragon. Is it useful for you to play fair with them? Do you really expect to find evidence of their crimes by watching the investigation? Do you believe it or not, if we really follow the regulations step by step During the investigation, as soon as some clues were found, they started killing people and setting fires to destroy the evidence. We investigated one person and they killed the other."
"I did say that the world is focused on us and we should be more prudent in our actions, but aren't we prudent enough? I didn't kill anyone directly this time. As long as we don't kill people directly, there is nothing else we can't do."
The naive Yu Qian touched his head: "So it can be like this."
"Stop talking nonsense, go and tell Muzhi that the Fan family should be very anxious and ask him to be on guard. Also, the young master is coming to Yangzhou today. You have people prepare for it, and I can go and greet him personally."
"Why did the Young Master suddenly come to Yangzhou?"
"Who knows what kind of confusing soup the old man poured into the old monk."
Zhu Gaojie had a headache when he thought of this. The old monk Yao Guangxiao wrote to him, saying that he wanted to discuss something with him... The world will be unified and the monarchy will be abolished?
Who taught this?
(End of chapter)
