I saw an official die tragically in front of me.
Zhu Biao's head seemed to explode, and he fell backwards as soon as his vision went dark.
"Your Highness... Your Highness..."
The sudden change caused everyone in the hall to panic and shout.
A few people subconsciously wanted to help.
But there are people who are faster than them.
Several prince guards immediately surrounded Zhu Biao, and the remaining people all drew their weapons and pointed them at them.
Everyone present was shocked and stood still, not daring to move.
If you are killed at this time, your death will really be in vain.
A captain of the imperial guard team quickly checked and found that Zhu Biao had just passed out, and he breathed a sigh of relief.
"Go and call the doctor quickly."
Then he called someone to carry Zhu Biao to the bedroom at the back.
As for those invited to the banquet, they were all under guard.
Zhu Biao was accompanied by a team of imperial doctors, led by Wu Yuan, deputy envoy of Taiyuan Hospital.
He was shocked to learn that the prince had fainted, and quickly brought someone to treat him.
After some examination, it was determined that the coma was caused by anger.
Acupuncture was used to stimulate the acupoints and successfully revive Zhu Biao.
The prince woke up, and everyone's hearts fell to the ground.
Wu Yuan also prescribed a decoction to soothe the liver, regulate qi and calm the nerves, and advised:
"Your Highness, please be careful not to get angry recently. If you hurt your liver qi, it may leave the root of the disease."
Zhu Biao sighed and said, "I understand, please trouble Dr. Wu."
Wu Yuan hurriedly said: "Your Highness is trying to offend the lower official. This is what the lower official should do."
Then he packed up the medical kit and exited.
Zhu Biao was about to force himself to stand up, but his men gave up after some hard persuasion.
However, he still issued several orders in succession:
"That official... was buried with honors as a minister of rites and treated his family well."
"All the remaining members of King Qin's party were imprisoned and interrogated severely."
"Instruct the chief envoy Ji Jixuan to appease the people and make statistics on the people who have been killed by the King of Qin..."
Everyone outside also breathed a sigh of relief when they learned that the prince was awake.
Good guy, if something goes wrong in Chang'an, everyone will die.
Naturally, they did not dare to obey Zhu Biao's orders.
Action was launched immediately.
Just overnight, all the members of King Qin's party in Chang'an City were arrested.
When daybreak came, King Qin was captured by the prince and escorted to respond to the news from the sky. He flew all over Chang'an City as if he had wings.
And spread to the entire Shaanxi at the fastest speed.
The people who heard the news were overjoyed and ran to the streets one after another, shouting and venting their excitement.
Many people took out fireworks and set off on the street.
I don't know who started the conversation and shouted: "Long live His Royal Highness."
More and more people responded, and finally the whole city was shouting, 'Long live His Royal Highness'.
The sound of the mountain call clearly reached the temporary palace. Instead of being happy, Zhu Biao became even more ashamed.
It was me who had harmed the people of Shaanxi, so how could I have the face to accept their gratitude?
All I can do now is compensate them as much as possible.
In the next few days, the whole of Shaanxi was engaged in liquidation surrounding the Zhu Ping case.
And Zhu Biao was not idle either. His main energy was spent on dealing with the guards of the Prince of Qin's Palace and the Shaanxi border troops.
As long as there are no problems with the army, everything else will be easy to handle.
The only thing that comforted him was that although Zhu Ping was cruel, he was not really stupid.
He knew the importance of the army, so he did not slack off in military preparations.
On the contrary, both the King of Qin's guards and the Shaanxi frontier army can be said to have strong soldiers and horses.
The border army was an army belonging to the country, and Zhu Biao stabilized them with just a decree.
The guards of Prince Qin's Mansion are relatively more troublesome.
But the King of Qin was all captured, and all the relatives of the King of Qin were sent to Yingtian.
Zhu Biao took the lead and took control of the border troops.
The King of Qin's guards, who had lost their backbone, did not dare to resist and were disarmed.
Zhu Biao then screened them.
Those who committed the most serious crimes were punished according to law, and the rest were dispersed and organized into the border army.
Even so, it took almost twenty days to resolve the matter.
Zhu Biao then turned around to clean up Zhu Ping's evil deeds.
At first, the officials and people of Shaanxi were a little worried about whether Zhu Ping would come back.
He was the legitimate son, so anything was possible.
If he comes back, no one can afford his revenge in the future.
So when doing liquidation, we don’t dare to go too far.
Only when he saw Zhu Biao disbanding King Qin's guard with his own eyes did he feel completely relieved.
The Prince's Guard was the core force of the vassal king. They were all disbanded, which meant that there was no possibility of King Qin coming back.
With no worries anymore, Shaanxi officials began to work as hard as their lives.
More of his crimes were uncovered and more of his henchmen were captured.
Likewise, more victims have been counted.
Zhu Biao looked at the shocking evil deeds and felt his blood rising.
What follows is deeper guilt.
He could only relieve this guilt by numbing himself with work.
A few days later, someone came to report that a corpse pit was found in the Qin Palace, with hundreds of bones buried in it.
Zhu Biao ignored the obstruction and insisted on going to check it out in person.
Tingyu Pavilion is a poetic name.
But its function is very cruel. It was used by Zhu Xi and his second concubine Deng to torture and kill people.
There is a large garden in the backyard of Tingyu Pavilion, and now it has been completely opened.
You can smell a strong corpse stench from far away, which is disgusting.
Zhu Biao suppressed his nausea and hurried to the backyard, where he saw bones lying on the ground.
Some corpses have not completely decomposed, and the scars on the body can barely be seen.
Some had their hands and feet chopped off, some had their noses and eyes picked out, some had their ears cut off...
Looking up, not a single corpse was complete.
The bones were not much better either. Many of them had marks of axes, and some of the bones were broken by blunt instruments.
You can imagine how much torture and pain these people suffered before they died.
What is even more unbearable is that half of these bones are young children.
Seeing this scene, Zhu Biao was trembling with anger and kept repeating two words:
Beast...beast...
He felt as if all the blood in his body was rushing to his head, and large spots of light appeared in front of his eyes.
Then his vision went dark and he fainted again.
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On the other hand, when Zhu Xi woke up the next day, he knew that he had been tricked, but he scolded Zhu Biao.
Then he threatened the person escorting him: "Let me go quickly, or I will kill your whole family."
It's just that these are the prince's personal guards and they don't pay attention to him at all.
The group of people first headed east and arrived at the Yellow River.
Take a boat all the way down the Yellow River, then enter the Yangtze River through the Grand Canal, and arrive at Yingtian City.
After entering the city, he didn't delay at all and directly asked to see Zhu Yuanzhang.
When Zhu Yuanzhang learned that Zhu Biao had escorted Zhu Chong back to the capital, he was first shocked, and then sighed with a wry smile.
He knew better than anyone what exactly his second son had done.
Otherwise, he would not have been angry several times and would have recalled him to face severe punishment.
Zhu Biao persuaded him every time.
He said he was persuaded, but in fact he was just lucky.
After all, this is his own son, what if he repented?
It was due to this kind of luck that he, under Zhu Biao's persuasion, spared his son.
Looking at it now, it seems that Zhu Biao knew Zhu Ping's true evil deeds and couldn't help but explode.
but……
With the boss's temperament, he shouldn't be so ruthless. Could it be that the second boss did something else that I don't know about?
When he thought of this, Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't sit still.
He quickly asked someone to bring Zhu Biao's letter over. As for Zhu Cang, just kneel outside now.
When he saw the foot-thick crime, he couldn't help but be shocked.
Could it be that this bastard did something else that I don't know about?
He opened Zhu Biao's letter first. The content was not complicated.
The opening chapter is to plead guilty for taking the King of Qin to the capital without permission.
Then he started to talk about the reasons for doing this, basically describing Zhu Ping's evil deeds.
Zhu Yuanzhang was also in tears when he saw it, but Tu Fan was able to comfort him with great difficulty.
You actually arrested other people's pregnant women just to watch other people's death scenes?
He even built a palace to torture and kill people with his second concubine Deng?
Ignorant of human affairs and as stupid as an animal.
Also covered with a five-clawed dragon quilt, wore a five-clawed dragon robe, and also gave the second concubine Deng a queen's crown?
Being arrogant and rude is a very serious crime.
What really made Zhu Yuanzhang break his defense was not these, but the people of Shaanxi who regarded natural disasters and visions as heaven's punishment for King Qin's evil deeds.
As an emperor who started out as a rebel, he knew better than anyone how dangerous this was.
The previous abuses, killings, and transgressions only made Zhu Yuanzhang angry.
But this last one made him feel dangerous.
If it is not handled well, it can shake the Ming Dynasty.
Behind the letter was Zhu Biao's plan. He planned to stay in Shaanxi for a while to deal with Zhu Fang's aftermath.
At the same time, he requested the imperial court to pardon Shaanxi's taxes for one year.
And from this letter, Zhu Yuanzhang also saw something else.
Zhu Biao feels guilty.
If he hadn't tried to dissuade him several times at the beginning, King Qin would have been severely punished long ago, and the people of Shaanxi would have suffered a lot less.
Zhu Yuanzhang smiled bitterly in his heart, he was the emperor who was really to blame for this matter.
He immediately wrote a letter to Zhu Biao, comforting him that he didn't have to feel guilty and that his biggest responsibility was his father.
Then he praised him for handling it well and told him not to worry about the court and to take care of Shaanxi before coming back.
In the end, he agreed to his request and exempted Shaanxi from taxes for one year.
At the same time, another decree was issued, giving Prince Zhu Biao full authority to handle Shaanxi affairs.
All matters, big or small, can be decided by oneself without the need to consult the imperial court.
After dealing with all this, he started to look at Zhu Ping's crimes.
The more I watched, the angrier I became. I couldn’t bear it after only seeing half of it, and shouted angrily:
"Let King Qin come to see us."
Soon, Zhu Xi appeared in Qianqing Palace in a very embarrassed state.
As soon as they met, he fell to his knees on the ground and cried:
"Dad, you have to make the decision for your child, brother..."
Unexpectedly, what greeted him was the big white soles of a gangster.
The angry Zhu Yuanzhang even made a jumping motion while kicking.
Because the movement was too big and too hard, the sides of the robe fell apart.
Zhu Ming, who was unprepared, was kicked three meters away and fell heavily to the ground.
It took a long time to catch my breath.
Then he screamed like a killing pig: "Dad, what are you doing...do you want to kill me?"
Zhu Yuanzhang looked around and found a small horse next to him, which he used to bask in the sun.
He picked it up and smashed it towards Zhu Xiang's head and face:
"Beast, you are simply a living beast. I will beat you to death today..."
Zhu Xi also knew that what he had done was exposed, and crying could not save him.
Now he stopped shouting and gritted his teeth and remained silent.
The more he behaved like this, the angrier Zhu Yuanzhang became and the harder he beat him:
"Why didn't you shout? Do you know why you were beaten?"
"Why did we give birth to a living beast like you? I'll beat you to death today..."
In just a few blows, Zhu Xi suffered a bloody head injury.
Seeing that something big was about to happen, Sun Fu next to him quietly ordered a young eunuch to go to Kunning Palace to ask Queen Ma to come over.
He himself went up to stop him: "Your Majesty, you can't beat your Majesty anymore. If you continue to beat him, you will really hurt King Qin."
As we all know, spanking children can cause headaches.
This is what Zhu Yuanzhang is now. He gave Sun Fu a bench and shouted:
"Go away, we will kill anyone who dares to stop us."
Then he hit Zhu Xi again.
Sun Fu rolled on the ground a few times, then covered his arms and wailed softly.
He felt like his arm was at least broken.
However, I felt relieved in my heart, now no one could blame me.
My ears have been listening to what's going on outside.
When he heard the messy footsteps, he stood up and lay on Zhu Ping's body:
"Your Majesty, we can't fight anymore..."
Zhu Yuanzhang was furious: "You dog slave, you dare to stop us, I will beat you to death today."
Then there was a burst of smashing.
Sun Fu let out a miserable cry:
"Ah... Your Majesty, even if you beat the old slave to death, the old slave will not let you beat the King of Qin again."
The screams were not fake at all. Zhu Yuanzhang's blows were indeed very hard, and it felt like his bones were about to be broken with every blow.
I really don’t know how King Qin could hold back from shouting.
After a few blows, I heard Queen Ma's voice: "Zhu Chongba, what are you going to do?"
Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly stopped as if the stop button had been pressed.
Then he kicked Sun Fu bitterly: "Are you the queen who was informed by this bitch slave like you?"
Queen Ma's eyebrows stood up when she saw this: "If Sun Fu hadn't informed me, would you have wanted to beat Meng'er to death?"
"How can there be a father as vicious as you in this world?"
Seeing Zhu Ming's face covered with blood, she couldn't help but shed tears immediately.
He stepped forward and hugged him, crying: "My son, how could you be beaten like this..."
In front of his mother, Zhu Xi finally couldn't bear it anymore and cried bitterly:
"Mom, you must make the decision for your child."
Unexpectedly, Zhu Yuanzhang did not give in this time, but shouted:
"do not Cry."
After a few steps, he came to the desk, grabbed Zhu Ping's charges and threw them at Queen Ma's feet:
"Look what your good son has done."
Queen Ma was stunned for a moment, looked at her furious husband, and then at her evasive son, and realized something was wrong.
He picked up the crimes on the floor and flipped through them. Before he finished reading the book, his face was already as cold as ice:
"Did you do this?"
Zhu Xi hesitated and said: "This...this is what eldest brother slandered me...yes, it is..."
Queen Ma didn't wait for him to finish speaking, raised her hand and slapped him hard on the face:
"Beast, why don't you die outside?"
(End of chapter)
