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Chapter 55 Mixing Into the Inner Circle Has a Price

When the mission returned to Nanjing, the news of the assassination on Wangdong Road spread like wildfire, which immediately caused an uproar in the capital, and the reactions of the officials were different:

"Yan Ni is so unreasonable that he even wants to kill the envoy! It seems that even if we want to... I'm afraid... what are we talking about? Naturally, we will protect the Holy Majesty and him to the end!"

This was frightened by Zhu Di's ruthlessness.

"King Yan is really courageous, it is not comparable to today, look at that one, how can he do such a thing?"

It's antisocial.

"Hey, Taoist Wang was assassinated! Tsk, he didn't die..."

This is an unlucky guy in the sixth department who was sprayed by Wang Dong and ate gunpowder for three days.

Although the voice was noisy, the general trend of public opinion was still surprised by Zhu Di's dirty methods. The assassination had some negative impact on Zhu Di.

No one would think that this was done by other forces, because everyone really couldn't think of anyone else who would have the motivation to do this.

The little document was tied back to the capital, and immediately sent to the prison of the Ministry of Criminal Justice, where Jin Yiwei personally went to clean it up.

There is no way, Jianwen Chao Jinyiwei has no right to torture. Although some husbands are still there, they can only borrow space from the Ministry of Criminal Justice if they want to handle the case.

Wang Dong didn't inquire about the result, and he wouldn't be told if he inquired about it. It's just that the little clerk had a hard mouth and didn't reveal anything.

After staying in Cao Guogong's mansion for a whole morning, in the afternoon, Zhu Yunwen ordered him to enter the palace.

When seeing Zhu Yunwen, Wang Dong found that there was a middle-aged man beside him.

This middle-aged man was dressed as a civil servant, his appearance was clean, his three long beards were unkempt, his hair smelled of oil, and he was sloppy, but he didn't look wretched, but rather a bit of an outsider.

Wang Dong felt strange at first sight. This man looked more like a Taoist priest than him.

The middle-aged civil servant was also looking at Wang Dong with a half-smile, and Zhu Yunwen introduced, "This is Professor Cheng Ji from Hongzhou."

Only then did Wang Dong suddenly realize.

No wonder he looks like a Taoist priest.

Cheng Ji left very little space in the history of the Ming Dynasty. He only wrote that he had Taoism, and he also remembered an anecdote: when Zhu Yunwen ascended the throne, Cheng Ji suddenly wrote a letter stating that he watched the sky at night. mutiny.At that time, the Yazheng of the new dynasty, this old man suddenly ran out and said such an unlucky word, the court council thought that this man was crazy and was causing troubles.And Cheng Ji wrote again, asking Zhu Yunwen to arrest him first, and if his prediction was wrong, he would be killed sooner.

As a result, the Battle of Jingnan broke out soon after, and Cheng Ji was released.

Regarding Cheng Ji's record of predicting the battle of Jingnan, Wang Dong found it hard to believe that it was true.Cheng Ji could have guessed that the outbreak of the Jingnan War might still be possible, but it would be nonsense if it was directly accurate to a certain day of the month.

In addition to this incident, there are many legends about Cheng Ji in Jianghu. Wang Dong can only think that people in the Qing Dynasty could not find anything certain when compiling the history of Ming Dynasty, but this person is famous enough to not be included in the biographies. It was inappropriate to mention one thing, so I copied the widely circulated things into Cheng Ji's biography.

What impressed Wang Dong deeply about him is that in the records of Ming history, Cheng Ji disappeared after Li Jinglong opened the Jinchuan Gate and let the Yan army enter the city. There is a saying that he ran away with Zhu Yunwen.

That's right, the description of Zhu Yunwen's ending in the history of the Ming Dynasty is "the fire broke out in the palace, and the emperor didn't know where to end." It is obviously inclined that he ran away.

Zhu Di asked people to pick up two corpses from the fire, saying that they were Zhu Yunwen and his queen, and buried them hastily.But Zhu Di himself didn't believe it.

Zhu Yuanzhang believed in the power of religion during his lifetime, so he found a monk to counsel every prince on the border, including Zhu Yunwen. Zhu Di was assigned to Yao Guangxiao, and Zhu Yunwen's master monk was called Puqia.According to historical records, after Zhu Di entered Nanjing, he learned that Puqia might know Zhu Yunwen's whereabouts, so he imprisoned him for more than ten years, and did not release him until Yao Guangxiao begged Zhu Di to release Puqia before his death.Therefore, it is not some folklore that Zhu Di suspects that Zhu Yunwen is not dead and has been looking for him. He has actually done this in history.

Wang Dong also thought that Zhu Yunwen had run away. If so, he would have to leave with him if he wanted to know Zhu Yunwen's whereabouts.But the premise is that Zhu Yunwen trusts him enough and is willing to give him this opportunity.And Cheng Ji in front of him is obviously one of the people Zhu Yunwen absolutely trusts. Seeing him, Wang Dong felt that he might have a chance to join Zhu Yunwen's escape team, so he couldn't help being happy.

"Wang Aiqing, who do you think instigated your assassination?"

Just when Wang Dong was happy, he suddenly heard Zhu Yunwen's question, and Wang Dong subconsciously wanted to answer Zhu Di.

Of course he didn't believe that Zhu Di would do such a stupid thing, he had the upper hand now, so why bother to make such an out-of-the-box trick.

Moreover, Zhu Di did not take any extreme actions in the history of Princess Qingcheng's envoys, which shows that his assassination was caused by the butterfly effect brought by himself, and the assassin was obviously not sent by Zhu Di.

But it doesn't matter, now that the two sides are fighting like this, this shit pot must be given to Zhu Di.

Just as he was about to speak, suddenly:

[Mission Option [-]: Answer "Wei Chen thinks it was Zhu Di's work." ——Option Reward: Better Space-Time Storage Ring (Level [-])]

[Task option 1: Answer the real thought - option reward: memory +[-]]

Wang Dong was taken aback for a moment, and instantly realized Zhu Yunwen's thoughts.Zhu Yunwen is not stupid, he can also think that most of this matter is not Zhu Di's doing, the reason why he asks this is to try him.Although he was assassinated once and survived a catastrophe, Wang Dong knew that if he made a statement against his will at this time, then Zhu Yunwen would still think that he was not honest enough, then he might never be able to join Zhu Yunwen's team of close officials, so the system would Mark this option as a secondary task.

"I'm not sure." Wang Dong said hastily.

Zhu Yunwen frowned and asked, "Don't you think it's King Yan?"

"I don't think it's possible. King Yan was very courteous when crossing the river this time. He obviously wanted to deceive the world and create an image of gentleness and benevolence. It seems unnecessary to send people to kill people on the way."

Sure enough, upon hearing Wang Dong's answer, Zhu Yunwen smiled.

He said to Wang Dong: "In this case, I will investigate this case for you and be sure to find out the mastermind behind it."

Wang Dong was stunned for a moment, he had already indicated that his attitude was not good enough, and there was actually a second test.

At this time, the system sounds the task prompt again:

[Mission Option [-]: Get rid of Zhu Yunwen’s mission—Option Reward: Cheng Ji’s Arithmetic (Level [-])]

[Mission Option 1: Accept Zhu Yunwen’s mission and make him satisfied—Option Reward: Stamina +[-]]

There is actually a mission option, which shows that Zhu Yunwen really wants him to find out who is behind the scenes before accepting him into the inner circle.

Wang Dong hurriedly said: "I will do my best."

Zhu Yunwen nodded and smiled, obviously satisfied with his attitude, he continued: "I heard that the group of Taoist priests under you are also quite capable, and you are not easy to investigate the case as a Taoist secretary, how about it, I will give you another errand .”

Unexpectedly, Zhu Yunwen actually gave him back his identity, so Wang Dong could only kneel down and thank him.

Zhu Yunwen smiled and looked at Cheng Ji, "Cheng Aiqing, tell him."

"Yes," Cheng Ji bowed his hands to Zhu Yunwen, and turned to Wang Dongdao: "Your Majesty wants to set up a pro-military yamen for the emperor to carry out arrests, with a six-rank establishment, and open a small courtyard on Gennan Street, Donghuangcheng, as the office. The Taoist priests under Wang Youzheng's subordinates were first added to this yamen, and they were all given the right to arrest and investigate cases."

Awesome, the emperor is close to the army, although Wang Dong knows that Zhu Yunwen will be the emperor in less than a month, but it is still quite awe-inspiring to be able to go out with the sign of the emperor's pro-army, and Wang Dong can't help but really look forward to it.

Cheng Ji continued: "This yamen is under the personal control of your Majesty, just like the iron factory and elephant factory in Beijing. In order to serve the royal will, we also asked not to be too ostentatious, so we named it after the factory. Your Majesty said, This factory is located at the root of the Eastern Emperor City, so it should be called the Eastern Factory."

Cheng Ji cupped his hands and said with a smile: "Now it's time to call Wang Youzheng the owner of Dongchangchang."

Wang Dong's smile froze.

Tsk, this is too ugly.

(End of this chapter)