my brother-in-law is the prince

Chapter 386

Chapter 386

The thief's leg was almost cut into pieces by Zhu Di.

Flesh and blood flew.

Being slashed by someone is completely different from being cut by a human being.

The thief passed out several times, and woke up several times with howls and pains.

After that, the whole person was already as angry as a gossamer.

He didn't know what to say in his mouth.

But Zhu Di has no interest in this.

For these people, perhaps their secrets are their means of blackmail.

But when Zhu Di didn't have any interest in their secrets and just wanted to make fun of their flesh and blood, the so-called secrets they knew in their stomachs were actually worthless.

"Give...give me a good time." The man said weakly.

Holding the bloody knife, Zhu Di looked at the wriggling person on the ground in front of him with a half-smile. The ground was full of minced meat and pools of blood.

Zhu Di looked at him indifferently for a while, and then said: "Come here, give him a good treatment. In a few days, I will peel his skin myself."

After hearing this, the man's eyes were full of despair. He tried to bite his tongue, but unfortunately he didn't even have the strength to bite his tongue.

The incomparable majesty at the beginning is completely gone now, and now he is like a poor worm, humbled into the mud.

Several people dragged this person out.

Zhu Di continued to hold the knife and walked slowly a few steps.

The other thieves were prostrate on the ground one by one, their bodies shaking uncontrollably, but they didn't dare to breathe.

Zhu Di didn't say a word, except for the sound of his walking footsteps, there was a deathly silence in the air.

But this deathly silence is the most terrifying.

It seems that every moment of time passes, but it gives people a kind of suffering.

After a while, Zhu Di calmly and slowly said: "Who will answer?"

"The prefect of Jiujiang..."

The three thieves answered almost in unison.

This is a rush question.

Everyone seems to be afraid that they will take a step slower.

Zhu Di continued, "Where are the others?"

"killed."

It was another uniform and strong answer.

Zhu Di continued: "You killed them?"

"Yes!"

"Why?"

"Quiet!"

Zhang Anshi just stared blankly at the funny scene in front of him.

Zhu Di took another step, his feet were covered in blood, leaving a bloodstain with every step he took.

His face was as cold as an iceberg, and there was no trace of joy or anger in his eyes.

"Who ordered?"

"People from Nanchang Mansion..."

Zhu Di paused suddenly, he stopped, and his sharp eyes like ice peaks suddenly fell on the three of them again.

The three of them shuddered involuntarily.

I just feel cold all over my body.

Obviously, he was not satisfied with this answer.

The three immediately kowtowed in fear.

One of them, as if he couldn't stand the oppressive atmosphere anymore, suddenly howled and kowtowed: "Please forgive me, please forgive me, I have an eighty-year-old mother, and I have a wife and children..."

"You still have your mother, wife and children?" Zhu Di looked at him, and softly uttered a sentence, with a faint smile on his lips, like a poppy in the dark.

The man looked pale: "..."

Zhu Di hooked his hands and turned towards Chen Daowen.

Chen Daowen hurriedly stepped forward, bowing his hands in salute.

Zhu Di said indifferently: "Take his parents, wife and children, don't let one go, first ask the other thieves about the whereabouts of his parents, wife and children, no matter how much manpower and material resources are used, even if they are chased to the ends of the earth, they will be taken to me." If you can't take it down, don't come to see me."

Chen Daowen saluted and said, "Observe the order."

After saying that, he turned around and walked away quickly.

When the water thief heard this, he howled sadly.

He also understood that the other party didn't play cards according to common sense at all. Instead of attracting any sympathy for his prayers, he ushered in... an even more miserable situation.

When I entered the city tonight, I first encountered that terrible gunshot, and the people around me fell down like harvesting wheat, and they were captured when they were still in shock.

Immediately afterwards, he saw his brother who had joined the group being cut alive by Zhu Di. It was horrible. He was terrified to the extreme, even though he claimed to be a good man, who shared the money with a large scale, ate meat, drank in a big bowl, and died on weekdays. There are not a few people in his hands.

But now, all he had left was endless fear.

But at this time, hearing Zhu Di's words again made his already collapsed psychological defense even worse.

He hurriedly said, "I...I..."

Zhu Di didn't pay any attention to him, and just continued: "Who ordered you to wait?"

"It's an experience of the chief envoy."

Zhu Di sneered and said, "With a mere experience, can you order me to wait?"

"He said he was following the orders of Chief Minister Xu Qi."

"You are bandits, how can you trust this chief envoy?"

"Although we are gathered in Poyang Lake, if there is no one to take care of us, I am afraid that we will have died without a place to bury us."

"Huh?" Zhu Di stared at the three bandit leaders.

One of the thieves said: "The water bandits in Poyang Lake have always had rules. As long as they don't raise the flag to rebel, they can survive, and the government doesn't suppress them. As usual, they have to give some gifts to the people in the government."

Zhu Di's face became more and more gloomy, and he said coldly, "Is that so?"

"Yes."

"So, is that Xu Qi colluding with you?"

A thief leader hurriedly said: "Sinners know something."

"You said."

"It's useful to keep us water bandits..."

Zhu Di raised his eyebrows: "What's the use?"

"With the water bandits, every year the chief envoy and the capital command envoy can go up and ask the court to allocate money and food to eliminate water bandits. And the money and food allocated... I heard that there are not a few. In addition... Poyang Lake The nearby states and counties can also reduce or exempt a lot of taxes in the name of banditry. Because of this, the land in the nearby states and counties is more valuable than other places..."

"Also... and... every now and then, you can still kill some people in the name of suppression, and then report it. This is another military exploit. In this way... you can kill three birds with one stone. So this one of the hundreds of miles of waters of Poyang Lake Among them, the disobedient water thieves have been wiped out long ago, and the criminals... rely on the breath of the officials, they teach us to do this, and we have to do it, if we don't do it, we will suffer a lot in the future."

After hearing this, Zhu Di was speechless for a moment.

Raising bandits is self-respecting.

Such things have existed since ancient times, and it can even be said that they have already formed an industry.

Military officers who need to make meritorious deeds also know the truth of fishing out the water. If all the thieves are wiped out, what will they do next year?

States and counties that need to beg for money and food also point to the water thieves to beg for money and food.

Even if it is a big family in the local area, as long as it is not the kind of robber who kills officials and loots the big family, it will naturally be happy with the existence of water thieves. Almost all of them enjoy it.

Zhu Di paused for a moment, and then asked: "How do you explain the experience to you?"

"They said that there are people in the city... hope that we will kill them after entering the city, and they also said that we can do it with peace of mind. Since we enter the city at night, since it is a surprise attack, and these people in the city are not very prepared, there will naturally be someone for me We secretly opened the gates of the city to meet them, and the inside and the outside cooperated. After the matter is completed, there will be benefits for our brothers."

Zhu Di took a deep breath, narrowed his eyes, and then said, "Did he ever say who he was going to kill when he entered the city?"

"He only said that in the county government of Dehua County..."

Zhu Di made a sneer, and said immediately, "They have the ability to guess that we are in the Dehua county government."

Zhang Anshi was speechless. Speaking of it, these people are really smart, but they seem to be a bit crooked.

Zhu Dixian was filled with resentment, he dropped the knife casually, but waved his hand and said, "Take it down for a closer interrogation, and report it after an hour."

Zhu Di immediately took his seat, and the three thieves were pushed down.

Zhang Anshi looked at Zhu Di's face as dark as ink, and said cautiously beside him: "Your Majesty... Your Majesty..."

Zhu Di said solemnly: "There is no need to say too much, I don't want to talk now."

Zhang Anshi said: "Then why don't you rest for a while? It's getting late."

Zhu Di looked a little irritated, thought for a while and said: "I don't have any shortage, I'd better read and read. What about your age, bring it."

To some extent, at this time, a collection of stories called "Spring and Autumn" is indeed a good medicine to soothe the soul.

It wasn't until Jin Yiwei sent a report that Zhu Di put down the book and read the report carefully. Then, he raised his eyes coldly: "It seems...it's the Chief Executive. You How do you see it?"

As he spoke, Zhu Di handed the memorial to Zhang Anshi who was sitting beside him.

Zhang Anshi took the report, only read it for a while, but said: "Your Majesty, I think... not only the chief envoy Xu Qi..."

Zhu Di opened his eyes slightly, and looked at Zhang Anshi with relief: "Continue talking."

Zhang Anshi then said: "This matter involves not only water bandits. Water bandits can be instigated by the chief envoy, but don't forget, your majesty, water bandits have passed through various water villages and guards along the way from Poyang Lake to here. Can it be unimpeded? Among them, I am afraid that the commander and envoy of the capital have already passed the gas."

Zhu Di's eyes grew colder.

Think back to the time when Emperor Taizu Gao, in order to prevent the local power from being monopolized by one person.

Therefore, a system of three divisions was set up in an ingenious way. These three divisions are the so-called Chengxuanzheng Division, the Commanding Division, and the Procuratorial Division.

Of these three divisions, one is in charge of administration, one is in charge of military affairs, and the other is in charge of criminal names. The heads of the three divisions are all of the same rank and do not belong to each other.

That is to say, even if Xu Qi, the Chief Political Envoy of the Announcement Political Envoy Division, could instruct the water bandits, it was impossible to mobilize the military guards under the command of the Commanding Envoy Division.

But the water bandits ran for more than 200 miles, and the route was unimpeded. Between Jiujiang Mansion and Nanchang Mansion, there are important towns, a thoroughfare, and many soldiers and guards. How could they not notice it?

So Zhu Di said: "I also thought of this... Then do you mean that the chief envoy colluded with the chief envoy?"

Zhang Anshi shook his head and said, "Your Majesty, it would be fine if we colluded."

"Huh?" Zhu Di narrowed his eyes, looking at Zhang Anshi with deep eyes.

Zhang Anshi said: "If there is collusion, it can only mean that the officials and officials guard each other, and the officials and officials guard each other, which is nothing. But don't forget, your majesty, what they did was ransacking the family and exterminating the clan, a serious crime that would cost your head. Such a thing... How dare ordinary people? If it is just an ordinary cover-up or collusion, don't they trust each other? Such a matter of wealth and life, it is necessary to make the two cooperate so seamlessly. It doesn't make sense."

Zhu Di nodded and said: "That's what I thought of. When I was in trouble, I wanted to persuade King Ning to rebel with me. King Ning is my brother. Besides, he also has his share in cutting down the feudal clan. He hesitated and refused to cooperate easily. , if I hadn't seized his military power and coerced him, I'm afraid he wouldn't be willing to do so."

"I, King Ning and even my brothers share the same interests, but we still can't work together and don't trust each other. What's more, it's the chief envoy and the chief envoy? Then what's your guess?"

Zhang Anshi hesitated for a moment, then said: "Unless...someone behind the scenes...instructs them."

Zhu Di's eyes fell on Zhang Anshi's body suddenly, and the expression on his face became more and more cold: "Continue talking."

Zhang Anshi said: "For such a major event, cooperation cannot be coordinated. It is like the so-called coalition forces since ancient times, which are often easily defeated. Your Majesty, have you heard of the Eighteenth Route princes uniting to discuss Dong?"

Zhu Di said, "You mean what you say."

Zhang Anshidao: "Because different interests are involved, there is no way to form a joint force. What's more, the purpose of setting up the three divisions at the beginning of the imperial court was to let the three divisions check and balance each other. It's hard to have any deep friendship, but now... I think it's unimaginable for them to cooperate so tacitly."

After a pause, he continued: "But if there is a person behind them who can control them and make them willingly serve, then this...maybe it can be explained."

Zhu Di frowned, and said in his mouth: "Who can control Jiangxi's majestic chief minister and capital commander? These two are both high-ranking officials in the frontier, so how can they be willing to be driven by others?"

"This is something I didn't want to understand." Zhang Anshi said with a wry smile: "I'm afraid it's a minister in the court who can do this. The commander bows his head and obeys his ears."

Zhu Di lowered his head slightly and thought for a while, before he said, "Could it be that they have some reason to fall into this person's hands because they are them?"

Zhang Anshi said: "There is such a possibility, but I think that the handle is certainly useful, but after all, this matter is too big, so... At least it should be someone who both the commander and the chief envoy trust."

"At the same time...trust..." Zhu Di murmured.

Zhang Anshi said: "Right now... obviously there is no clue, but I have already arranged it."

Zhu Di suddenly raised his head and took a deep look at Zhang Anshi: "What's the arrangement?"

There was a smile on Zhang Anshi's lips, and there was a bit of cunning in this smile, and he said immediately: "Nanchang Mansion... over there... the minister... has made arrangements!"

Zhu Di raised his eyebrows and looked at him suspiciously: "Really?"

After a pause, he said, "Let me listen to you."

Zhang Anshi looked mysterious, lowered his voice and whispered, and then began to reveal a thief-like look.

Zhu Di listened carefully, first startled, then his solemn expression slowly melted away.

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Nanchang Prefecture.

At this time, in the house of the chief envoy, Si Ya.

This is a quiet little hall.

But there are more than a dozen people sitting upright like wooden stakes.

Everyone here is wearing a winged cap and a beast suit.

The most prominent among them is Xu Qi, the chief envoy wearing a peacock mending suit.

Xu Qi didn't say a word, and almost everyone sitting on both sides of him was ashen-faced.

Occasionally, there was only a burst of coughing in between, and almost no one was interested in talking.

Everyone's heart is like a mess.

Finally, someone hurried in from outside and said, "Grand Xu."

This call made everyone seem to wake up suddenly, only to see a group of panic-stricken people showing expressions of fear.

Even Xu Qi's body trembled subconsciously, as if in shock.

It wasn't until he knew that it was his Muyou who came that he calmed down a little bit and barely restrained his shaking legs.

He raised his head, and waited for this person to approach, before saying: "What... what is it... Jiujiang Mansion... any news?"

The netizen glanced at Xu Qi, and then said: "There is no news yet..."

Someone in the hall started whispering.

"It is logical that there should be news by this time."

"Will it be..."

Almost everyone showed signs of uneasiness.

Since last night, many people have been sitting here waiting for news.

These people are all terrified, with many thoughts in their hearts.

Xu Qi showed a look of disappointment, he tried his best to suppress his disappointment, then looked at the scene and asked: "What's the matter?"

Muyou said: "The imperial envoy Xingyuan... Mr. Liu is making trouble again."

Upon hearing this Mr. Liu, almost everyone showed disgust.

The original plan was that this official from the Ministry of Rites would be their firewall. This man...has a bad reputation and is greedy. It just so happens...that if something happens, they can throw it all on him. This is the most suitable shield they can think of. .

But who would have thought... this guy jumped ship a long time ago, and now he has become a hot potato instead.

Although he is temporarily under house arrest, this guy is not at all safe, as if he is afraid that he has not drawn a clear line with them, and he will have to make trouble in Xingyuan every now and then.

At this moment, Xu Qi had no interest in caring about Liu Guan, and only said in disgust, "What's wrong with him?"

"Grand Liu set fire in Xingyuan, saying that he wanted to commit suicide to repay the emperor's kindness..."

"Then is he dead?"

This screen friend smiled bitterly and said: "I didn't die. When the guards outside saw the fire, how could they dare to be negligent and rushed to put out the fire. He pointed at everyone and scolded everyone, saying that he was a traitor. ……scold……"

Xu Qi endured his nausea and said patiently: "What did you scold?"

Muyou said: "It is said that he has fallen into a den of thieves. He wants to teach rebellious ministers and thieves to die without a place to die. He also said... Even if he dies, he will become a ghost and his ghost will linger , the rebellious ministers and thieves are all uneasy..."

Xu Qi slapped the copy with a bang.

These words seemed to have stabbed his heart and lungs, Xu Qi said viciously: "This old man..."

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