Wandering the Heavens

"Grandson, I am interested in this girl." Yu Xian emphasized again.

"Have you figured out her identity?" Zhu Di asked.

"I was taken away by the Crown Prince before I could be interrogated, but his father has been detained. I believe we can get the details out of him today." General Yu Xian said what he was going to say.

"Do you really believe that my eldest grandson has my imperial edict to try the traitor?" Zhu Di became excited again.

"Your Majesty, the Crown Prince does not have one," Yu Xian replied.

"Then why don't you just throw the person to him?" Zhu Di scolded angrily.

"Your Majesty, no matter how much trust I have in Your Majesty, I am still just a minister. I cannot question or even refute what the Crown Prince says, especially in front of the two princes and a group of Jinyiwei," Yu Xian explained.

"You handled it well. Unlike some people who not only wanted to see our family laugh, but also jumped up and down to fan the flames."

Zhu Zhanji committed such a serious offense, and as a grandfather, he had to clean up the mess for his grandson no matter how angry he was, but it was impossible to say that he had no grudges in his heart. And Yu Xian's explanation made him feel very relieved. No matter how much the family quarreled, it was a closed-door discussion, and outsiders should not interfere.

"Do you want to change your job?" Zhu Di stared at Yu Xian with shining eyes.

"Your Majesty, I have only been the commander for one day. You must let me have enough fun!" Yu Xian refused.

The finances are full of pitfalls now, and because of the special environment, it is difficult to make money. Unless you go to the West with Zheng He, but that is too far from the plot line, it is not easy to toss, or go to the grassland with Zhu Di to travel on public funds. But no matter which way you go, you can't avoid getting involved in the struggle between the Prince Party and the Han Wang Party. If you are not careful, you will be crushed to pieces. Although you can't die, what's the difference between not completing the mission and dying.

"Look at how useless you are! Go find out the details of that woman and report to me!" Zhu Di waved his hand in disdain.

"I'm leaving." Yu Xian bowed hurriedly and left the hall.

Chatting with the emperor is full of pitfalls...

Yu Xian was very dissatisfied with the environment of the imperial prison. Such sanitary conditions made it easy for an epidemic to occur, but it was unrealistic to think about renovating it now. Besides, he was just a temporary worker, and he didn't know where to work after handling the assassination case. In addition, with the relocation of the capital, it was impossible to renovate the prison. Anyway, he didn't live in it, so he had to make do with it!

"Manager Sun, my patience is limited, so you'd better tell me what you know. I know you don't care about your own life or death, but what will happen to your benefactor's daughter depends entirely on your confession. The first question is, who are you?"

Yu Xian felt tired when he saw Sun Yu, who was beaten all over. These bastards in the imperial prison executed him without waiting for him to come back, and they did it for the purpose of interrogation and simply to torture him.

"What do you want to do?" Sun Yu was still able to speak, but a little weak.

"You don't want to do anything. You should know that there is always a lot of malice towards women in this world. If you don't answer my questions, I can't guarantee what kind of malicious harm she will suffer. The first question is, who are you among them?" Yu Xian emphasized again.

"I... I said, we are the family members of the court officials who were killed when Zhu Di conquered Yingtian ten years ago. We escaped by chance and wandered around, living in hiding. Later, we were found by a man named Huangye and gathered together to train to work for him."

"Where is the training place?" Yu Xian asked.

"Last month we received an order from the Emperor that Zhu Di had returned victorious from the expedition to Aluta and asked us to assassinate him in Yingtian. So the people in our area burned down their stronghold and came to Yingtian. Yesterday and today, most of them were killed by you." Sun Yu was also giving up.

"Who is that emperor? What does he look like?" Yu Xian was thinking about finding something for Zhu Gaoxu to do.

"I don't know. Every time we met, he wore a large cloak and asked us to bow our heads and kneel. So let alone his appearance, we don't even know his height, weight or body shape."

Yu Xian stood up and looked at the man in front of him who had been beaten to a bloody pulp. His temperament did not seem like that of a former general at all.

"What is the true identity of your daughter?" Yu Xian leaned forward and asked in a low voice.

"I...I don't know!" Sun Yu avoided his eyes.

"Someone, go to the dilapidated temple outside the city and find some beggars to come in." Yu Xian shouted behind him.

"What are you going to do?" Sun Yu was furious.

"I'm not doing anything. I am a commander who has no desires, but those beggars may not be the same." Yu Xian sat down again with no concern.

"I...I said, she is the daughter of Jing Qing, the Imperial Censor during the reign of Jianwen!" Sun Yu shouted hurriedly.

"Wouldn't it have been better if you behaved yourself earlier? How did Jingqing's daughter end up in your hands?" Yu Xian continued to ask.

"On the day Zhu Di entered Beijing, he detained court officials and their families in the palace and then killed them all. Jing Qing handed her two daughters to me before the massacre, but the scene was too chaotic and one of them was lost," Sun Yu added.

"Why did the emperor directly order the massacre without saying a word or identifying the people?" Yu Xian asked.

"Zhu Di is cruel and kills people at will." Sun Yu said gritting his teeth.

In history, Jing Qing pretended to please Zhu Di and then waited for an opportunity to assassinate him. Perhaps he wanted to have a sense of ceremony at this moment, and he wore clothes that did not match his position and rank, which aroused Zhu Di's suspicion. When the Jinyiwei searched him for the tools used in the crime and asked him why he was so upset, he said that he was avenging his old master, leaving behind the villagers and family members who were implicated by him, and he was a man.

But in The Glory of the Ming Dynasty, Jing Qing has no backbone and the plot doesn't allow it. He wanted to escape at first and then ran into the palace. Then the Prince of Yan did nothing when he entered the palace and asked Fang Xiaoru to write the edict of enthronement. Fang Xiaoru didn't dare to be beaten and dragged away. Zhu Di was furious and killed all the court officials and their families. If there were no list of the Ministry of Personnel and the records of the Ministry of Public Security, he probably wouldn't even know who Jing Qing was.

"Before this commander came here, I went to the Hanlin Academy to check the records of that year. The Prince of Yan asked Fang Xiaoru to draft the edict of enthronement. Not only did Fang Xiaoru disobey the order, he also cursed loudly. This led to the bloody scene at the palace gate. It can be said that all those people were implicated by Fang Xiaoru. Instead of hating Fang Xiaoru for being ignorant of the current situation, you are thinking about how to dethrone the emperor, seeking death like a moth to a flame. May I ask, what do you people think?" Yu Xian joked.

Sun Yu had been fighting in the army for a long time, and his brain was not very good. In addition, he had been living under high pressure for ten years. How could his dull brain and poor eloquence possibly be a match for an old scoundrel like Yu Xian? So when faced with Yu Xian's sophistry, he actually thought it made sense for a moment, and then began to doubt himself.

After Yu Xian got the confession that Zhu Di wanted, he asked him to sign and seal it before taking him back to the cell. He then organized the confession, wrote the document, stamped it, and took it back to the palace to see Zhu Di.

"So fast!" Zhu Di was quite surprised when he saw the confession and documents in Little Nose's hands.

"I arrived too late. The jailers in the imperial prison tortured him severely. Fortunately, he was still conscious and could say something." Yu Xian was also helpless about this.

"I allow you to clean up the Jinyiwei prison. I will look at the documents and confessions later. Just tell me about them!" Zhu Di gestured to Xiao Bisi to put these things on the table. It must be the work of one of his sons to frame Sun Yu.

"I obey your order. According to Sun Yu, on the day the emperor entered the capital to quell the rebellion, he killed all the court officials and their families in the capital. Among them was the Imperial Censor Jing Qing. The female assassin was Jing Qing's daughter. Jing Qing had been kind to Sun Yu, so she entrusted her two daughters to him, and he and his wife died at the hands of the army fighting in the rebellion." Yu Xian stopped here.

"Jing Qing? When I was in Fengtian Jingnan, he wrote many memorials to the emperor to curse me. His death was well deserved." Zhu Di thought for a long time before he recalled such a person from his memory.

"But the scene was too chaotic at the time. The young girl was separated and didn't know whether she was dead or alive, and the eldest daughter was taken away by Sun Yu, who was the female assassin. Your Majesty, Sun Yu also said that originally these people did not dare to return to their hometown and were on the run, but someone gathered them together for training. I think there must be a shocking secret behind this." Yu Xian threw out a royal bomb.