met free Chapter 948 How dare they use me as a weapon!
Chapter 948 How dare they use me as a weapon!
The secret letter was short, but the information it revealed made Zhu Biao, Li Shanchang, and others change color.
First, it's Fang Guozhen.
Logically speaking, whether Fang Guozhen was alive or not was not important at all, since Fang Guozhen had already surrendered and was only receiving a salary without taking office, which was equivalent to being under house arrest in Nanjing.
The problem is that some of Fang Guozhen's former subordinates do not believe that Fang Guozhen died of natural causes.
The reason given by these so-called "former subordinates of Fang Guozhen" is simple: Fang Guozhen was "tall and strong, and his family had been engaged in the salt trade by sea for generations. He was in excellent health, so how could he have died of illness at such a young age?"
Therefore, Fang Guozhen must have been killed by someone sent by Emperor Zhu. Moreover, the person who gave Emperor Zhu the idea was Liu Bowen, the Imperial Censor at the time. When Fang Guozhen rebelled, Liu Ji, who was then serving as the Grand Yuan Commander, once said, "Fang Guozhen is the ringleader of the rebellion, and he has repeatedly surrendered and rebelled. He cannot be forgiven." Therefore, Liu Ji and Fang Guozhen had an old feud. Liu Ji was afraid of Fang Guozhen's revenge and had long been thinking about how to kill Fang Guozhen.
The reason why Emperor Zhu agreed to kill Fang Guozhen was because he resented Fang Guozhen for being the "first to rebel against the Yuan Dynasty." Fang Guozhen rebelled multiple times after surrendering, and the Ming Dynasty was now launching a northern expedition against the Yuan Dynasty. Emperor Zhu was worried that Fang Guozhen and Wang Baobao were still colluding, so he made up his mind to kill Fang Guozhen.
In short, Fang Guozhen must have been killed by Emperor Zhu, and it must have been Liu Ji who gave Emperor Zhu the idea.
In order to eliminate any future troubles, Emperor Zhu and Liu Ji will surely extend their evil clutches to us, their "former subordinates of the Fangguo."
If we don't rebel now, when will we?
Secondly, a gentry family in Jiangnan was wiped out, and the perpetrator was a guard of the Eastern Palace.
When Yang Shaofeng saw this message, he was completely stunned.
The guards of the Eastern Palace?
Did they wipe out the entire family of a certain gentry?
Yang Shaofeng stared blankly at the secret letter in his hand, his face utterly absurd.
The core guards of the Eastern Palace number only a little over a thousand. About a hundred of them are from Ningyang County, and all of them are currently in Liaodong. The remaining nine hundred or so are from Fengyang, and they are all following Zhu Biao.
So, which of these thousand-plus people learned the art of creating clones?
Or has someone learned teleportation?
"Who came up with these results?"
Yang Shaofeng stared at Xia Yu with a bewildered expression and asked, "Commander Xia, can you tell me how the Eastern Palace guards managed to sneak back to Jiangnan undetected, wipe out the entire family, and then return to Liaodong?"
Zhu Biao couldn't help but curse, "Damn it, isn't this ruining my reputation?"
"The guards of the Eastern Palace have to report for duty every day. If there are any shortages, how could I not know?"
"Besides, even if the Crown Prince's guards did this, what Crown Prince's guards would be stupid enough to leave equipment at the scene?"
"Besides, although these leftover equipment look familiar, they were originally passed down from the Prince Consort's residence to the Eastern Palace."
Why don't they say it was my brother-in-law who did it?
Yang Shaofeng couldn't help but roll his eyes.
What do you mean by "it was done by this official"?
Although I dislike the gentry of Jiangnan, I only want to bring them to Liaodong for labor reform. I would never exterminate an entire family so easily.
What if you didn't manage your black sesame glutinous rice balls properly?
Yang Shaofeng and Zhu Biao rolled their eyes at each other, while Li Shanchang felt like he wanted to die.
The rebellion of some of Fang Guozhen's former subordinates is no longer considered a major case.
Even the fact that the unfortunate gentryman's entire family was wiped out is hardly a major case.
The real danger lies in the equipment left behind at the scene.
Yes, the triangular spikes, military boots, and colorful standard military uniforms all pointed to the Eastern Palace and the imperial guards of the Prince Consort's residence who were the first to be equipped with these things.
This family massacre was also a scheme to smear the Crown Prince, thereby pointing the finger at a certain hated prince consort.
The problem is, can these kinds of equipment be copied so easily?!
Can't these idiots use their brains to think properly? Is His Highness the Crown Prince someone to be smeared at will?
There's also that hateful prince consort. Although he's hated by everyone, even the civil and military officials in the court wish they could stab him in the back, the question is, when did Yang the Madman ever do such a sneaky and despicable thing?
Damn it, these idiots can't even throw mud properly!
Thinking of this, Li Shanchang couldn't help but feel a little fortunate.
Thank goodness, thank goodness I haven't gone astray yet.
If I were to start supporting these worthless bastards, I might even become a target of those in power!
Li Shanchang grew increasingly resentful as he thought about it, and immediately looked at Xia Yu and said, "The equipment left behind at the scene could not have appeared out of thin air. Commander Xia, you can have people investigate in that direction."
Xia Yu nodded, and Li Shanchang then turned his gaze to Zhu Biao: "Your Highness, these two matters..."
Zhu Biao smiled and waved his hand, "Both of these things happened in Jiangnan, so it's none of our business to worry about them."
Li Shanchang wondered, "Is this a problem that someone is worried about?"
They impersonated Fang Guozhen's former subordinates to rebel, copied the standard equipment of the Eastern Palace and the Prince Consort's Mansion, and then smeared you and Yang Dianfeng.
This is absolutely outrageous!
While internally ranting, Li Shanchang turned to Xia Yu and asked, "Commander Xia, do you have any files on the officials in your Embroidered Uniform Guard?"
Xia Yu was slightly taken aback and asked, "Does Prime Minister Li want to see the case file?"
Li Shanchang grinned maliciously and said, "I don't want to see!"
"I have a favor to ask of you—have someone investigate those vice ministers I brought to Liaodong."
"Investigate their land holdings in the capital, their land holdings in their hometown, and the land holdings of their relatives."
"I'd like to see which fool dares to use me as a weapon!"
Yang Shaofeng couldn't help but chuckle and whispered to Zhu Biao, "Look, he's getting anxious."
Zhu Biao rolled his eyes and looked at Yang Shaofeng, asking, "Brother-in-law, aren't you in a hurry?"
Yang Shaofeng chuckled, "Why should I be in a hurry?"
"The plot to murder Fang Guozhen was carried out by Hou Chengyi."
"I did not instigate the rebellion of Fang Guozhen's former subordinates."
"Even the massacre of the gentry was carried out by His Highness's Eastern Palace guards."
"Even if we were in a hurry, it wouldn't be my place to be in a hurry."
Zhu Biao couldn't help but snort coldly, "The equipment was sent from your residence to the Eastern Palace. These people have ulterior motives, and you're not even worried about it?"
Yang Shaofeng shook his head again in denial.
anxious?
I'm certainly not in a hurry.
The ones who should be anxious now are Li Shanchang and Liu Bowen.
Of course, the ones who should be most anxious are those idiots—they have seriously underestimated the extent to which that old man is so protective of his own!