Signed to Zhu Cihong, Prince of the Late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 214 Chapter 214, Zhang Shenyan entered the palace late at night, Fang Gongqian showed the dossier
Zhang Shenyan hurried all the way to the palace in the middle of the night.

"Hurry and report to His Highness the Crown Prince. Tell me, Zhang Shenyan, that I have something urgent to report!"

The guards took Zhang Shenyan's badge and hurried into the palace. Zhang Shenyan was waiting outside the palace gate, and he kept clapping his hands and pacing back and forth in the winter night.

The coachman couldn't help but said: "Master, go back to the car and take a rest, you can avoid the wind and snow."

Zhang Shenyan shook his head and said, "I don't have any thoughts at this time... Eh, whose carriage is that?"

Zhang Shenyan looked not far away in surprise. In the darkness, he could vaguely see a carriage waiting quietly, and the horse pulling the cart kept snorting.

Zhang Shenyan hesitated for a moment, and moved towards the carriage a few times, but finally stopped, turned around decisively and got into his own carriage.

After a while, the guard's voice came: "Zhang Shangshu, please come in, His Royal Highness is waiting for you."

In the Nanjing Imperial Palace on a winter night, Zhang Shenyan walked along with the guards holding torches, feeling uneasy.

He knew very well that if this matter was revealed, then not only Zhang Shenyan, but the entire Zhang family in Jiangnan would have a hard time in the future.

but……

"I, Zhang Shen, say that I am loyal to the emperor and serve the country. This is the most important thing!"

Zhang Shenyan thought about Zhu Cihong's brilliant achievements all the way, quietly cheering himself up.

As long as His Royal Highness the Crown Prince can succeed to the throne, as long as the future Daming can settle down, so what if there is only a little resentment from the Jiangnan family?

At that time, the Zhang family will naturally become rich and powerful in Beijing, laughing at these clowns in Jiangnan!

Unknowingly, the guards in front stopped: "Zhang Shangshu, please come in."

Zhang Shenyan looked at the study in front of him, where the lights were still on, and he seemed to hear someone talking.

Zhang Shenyan pushed open the door, and a gust of warm air rushed towards his face.

The next moment, Zhang Shenyan showed a shocked expression on his face: "Lu Shangshu, why are you here?"

In the study room besides Zhu Cihong, there is Lu Daqi, Minister of the Ministry of War of Nanjing.

Zhu Cilang looked at Zhang Shenyan, said with a chuckle, "Zhang Shangshu is here, sit down. By the way, if what I expected is right, you should all be talking about the same thing when you come here tonight, right?"

When Zhang Shenyan heard this, he was startled and suddenly realized.

Obviously, the purpose of Lu Daqi appearing here is exactly the same as that of Zhang Shenyan!

Thinking of this, Zhang Shenyan breathed a sigh of relief.

Even if Zhang Shen didn't say anything, Lu Daqi would have reported the matter.

Immediately, Zhang Shenyan felt a little annoyed.

It would be great if he was the first...

With very complicated emotions, Zhang Shenyan sat down beside Lu Daqi.

Zhu Cihong asked someone to bring Zhang Shenyan a bowl of hot soup. Zhang Shenyan was not polite, and drank it in one gulp. He immediately felt warm and uncomfortable all over his body, and all the original coldness dissipated in an instant.

Zhu Cilang said indifferently: "Zhang Shangshu, Lu Shangshu has already said a lot about the Duke of Wei's mansion. Is there anything else you can add?"

Zhang Shenyan also knew that this was the critical moment for him to be able to play a role (to take credit with Lu Daqi), so he was not in a hurry to speak, but calmed down, and then he said: "This is your Highness, according to my understanding..."

This secret conversation in the study lasted for more than an hour.

Zhang Shenyan was also unreserved, telling all the secrets about the Jiangnan officialdom and Wei Guogong's mansion.

Zhu Cihong let out a long breath, stretched his waist, and said with a smile: "It's getting late, the midnight is almost over, the two adults should stay overnight in the palace tonight."

Zhang Shenyan and Lu Daqi naturally declined again and again, but Zhu Cihong had already made up his mind, and the two could not hold back Zhu Cihong after all, so they could only agree.

Zhu Cihong stood up and said with a smile: "Okay, you two, before you rest, I will take you to meet someone."

After Zhu Cihong finished speaking, he opened the door and walked out. Zhang Shenyan and Lu Daqi looked at each other, and they both saw puzzled expressions on each other's faces, but they could only keep up.

The place Zhu Cihong took them to was not far away, it was in a nearby palace.

This palace seemed to be used as some kind of office. Even though it was midnight, it was still brightly lit and guarded by very strict soldiers.

Zhang Shenyan noticed very easily that the soldiers guarding this place were Zhu Cihong's prince's pro-army rather than the forbidden army guarding the Nanjing Imperial Palace, and he became more and more curious about the role of this place.

Walking into the main hall, Zhang Shenyan immediately saw a group of people busy, among whom Fang Gongqian's voice was the loudest.

"Hurry up, give number two a spa package, the kind that strengthens it! Is number one dead? Let him rest for a while if he doesn't die, don't use the barbecue package first, remember not to do it... Hey, Your Highness Why are you here?"

Zhu Cihong patted Fang Gongqian on the shoulder: "Thank you for your hard work, take out the things you have sorted out, and show them to the two ministers."

Fang Gonggan glanced at Zhang Shenyan and Lu Daqi, with obvious distrust in his eyes: "Your Highness, these two..."

Zhu Cihong coughed: "They are all our own people, so it doesn't matter if you look at them."

Only then did Fang Gongqian reluctantly take out some files and put them in front of Zhang Shenyan and Lu Daqi.

Seeing this, Zhang Shenyan and Lu Daqi naturally knew that the dossier was an urgent matter, so they each found a place to sit down and read.

As they read, their expressions slowly changed.

To put it bluntly, this dossier is just a confession.

It clearly stated on the confession that the various overt and covert activities of the Duke of Wei in the south of the Yangtze River over the years not only covered most of the matters that Zhang Shenyan and Lu Daqi had just explained to Zhu Cihuang, but what was even more frightening was that the dossier included There are many things in the book, even Zhang Shenyan and Lu Daqi don't know about it!

Zhang Shenyan gasped, raised his head to look at Lu Daqi, and met Lu Daqi's gaze.

The shocked faces of the two were clearly revealed in each other's eyes.

Zhang Shenyan couldn't help but said: "Unexpectedly, Your Highness..."

Lu Daqi coughed, and quickly interrupted Zhang Shenyan: "Your Highness is indeed wise and powerful, and has already detected the wolf ambitions of Wei Guogong and others in advance. Zhang Shangshu, you and I should assist Your Highness to eradicate these moths entrenched in the south of the Yangtze River together. , and make the world brighter!"

Zhang Shenyan's expression changed, and then he showed a very determined expression: "That's exactly what it should be!"

At this moment, the two ministers knew very well that even if there were no two informants about this matter, it would still be impossible to escape Zhu Cihong's eyes.

Zhang Shenyan looked up and looked around. Many of those busy people were eunuchs, which meant...they were all from the East Factory.

Dongchang.

Zhang Shenyan took a deep breath, recalling how majestic and terrifying Dongchang was in many history books and records of his ancestors.

He knew that the officials of Ming Dynasty were about to usher in a period of trembling!

(End of this chapter)