Wandering the Heavens

More than a hundred cavalrymen were walking on the streets of Beijing, and everyone started pointing and talking again. Did the Duke of Xuanwu appear in public again mean that something big had happened in the court again?

Yu Xian ignored all this and went straight into the Forbidden City to meet Zhu Qiyu.

"Your Majesty, I pay my respects to you!"

Zhu Qiyu looked at the old man in front of him with a complicated expression. He was wearing armor, had white hair and beard but few wrinkles on his face, and felt a little embarrassed.

"Xuanwu Bo has worked hard on the grasslands. Is he returning to the capital now because of Prince Yi's matter?"

"Yes, I hope that Prince Yi can obtain the emperor's permission and continue to live in the Xuanwu Marquis's Mansion." Yu Xian stated his purpose without hiding it.

"This... I agree!" Zhu Qiyu agreed after pondering for a moment.

Zhu Qiyu once went to the Xuanwu Earl's Mansion with Yu Qian to see Zhu Jianshen. Zhu Jianshen did not receive any teaching as a prince should. Instead, he had a lot of fun playing with a group of children of the same age. Zhu Qiyu was indeed relieved to leave him to Yu Xian.

As for his own child, the East Palace had already set up a team, and a group of officials and teachers had arranged his son's courses properly. Then, I don't know whether it was intentional or forgotten that Yu Xian, the prince's tutor, was still on the expedition. Anyway, he was excluded from Zhu Jianji's East Palace sequence.

However, out of respect for his title as the Prince's Grand Tutor, Zhu Qiyu still took Yu Xian to see Zhu Jianji. Such a small child was surrounded by five or six old men giving lectures, and seven or eight young eunuchs stood by to serve him, their saliva almost spraying on the child's forehead.

This reminded Yu Xian of some farms where animals were fixed on devices, and when it was time to eat, computer-controlled pliers would pry open the animals' mouths and then a funnel would be inserted into their throats to squeeze in a pool of well-proportioned feed.

Based on Yu Xian's limited knowledge and experience in physiognomy, this child is a person with little luck. He was not going to live long to begin with, let alone now that he has become the crown prince and is being tormented like this.

After the two of them exchanged some pleasantries, Yu Xian left the Forbidden City and returned to the Xuanwu Earl's Mansion.

Zhu Jianshen, who was already five years old, was reading and learning to read with a group of children. Everyone was in a good mood, but Wan Zhen'er was a little bit abnormal. When she saw Yu Xian, she hurriedly ran forward, knelt down and cried.

"Master, please make the decision for the prince!"

"Wan Zhen'er, remember, he is Prince of Yi now, not the Crown Prince. If you continue to talk nonsense, you will lose your head!" Yu Xian said as he took off his helmet.

Wan Zhen'er didn't expect Yu Xian to scold her like this, and she couldn't help feeling a little aggrieved.

"Your mission is to practice martial arts and learn the truth, otherwise you will only be a burden to Prince Yi. As for the change in his status, that is not your concern, understand!"

Serious illnesses require drastic measures, whether it's struggle or conspiracy, just set a goal and take advantage of every opportunity. The more you do, the bigger the mistakes will be!

"Zhen'er knows." Wan Zhen'er responded while wiping her tears.

After sending Wan Zhen'er away, Yu Xian changed his clothes and returned to the place where Zhu Jianshen and his playmates were studying.

"Who are you!"

Under the protection of the Xuanwu Marquis's Mansion, Zhu Jianshen was not affected by the deposed crown prince, and he was already a child at this time.

"Your Highness Prince Yi, I, the Duke of Xuanwu, pay my respects to His Highness Prince Yi."

"Master Yu? You're back!"

Uh, how fast did he change his expression? I was only two years old when I left Beijing, and I also called me with slurred words, but it's a bit ridiculous that he still remembers it after three years. Are you sure he is a five-year-old child?

I'm afraid she was forced to come here for vacation just like Chen Caiwei!

"Don't worry, he is Zhu Jianshen Benshen, absolutely genuine." The voice of No. 9527 came to his mind at the right time.

"I have been on the expedition to the grassland for nearly three years, and the soldiers are tired, so I am returning to the court to rest. How is your highness Prince Yi's academic performance recently?"

Zhu Jianshen rolled his eyes very skillfully: "Master Yu, you finally came back, why don't you talk about something happy?"

Yu Xian was speechless because of this naughty kid. If it was his family, he would have to eat bamboo shoots and fried meat, but this is someone else's family! Does your mother know that you are so precocious?

Fortunately, he had more than one traitor, Zhu Jianshen. The group of people in the court who were submitting impeachment memorials every day were happy, so he had already adjusted his mentality.

"Your Highness is right. I will look for something happy right now."

"Don't force it. I respect the elders and won't make things difficult for an old man like you." Zhu Jianshen rolled his eyes again.

Why is the child I raise so rebellious? It seems that I need to let him know that the world is dangerous.

But before he could implement it, Yu Qian came to the door in a hurry. He came in disguise that evening.

Although Yu Xian had said more than two years ago that the emperor could do whatever he wanted, the change of the crown prince really exceeded his expectations. However, Yu Xian was away at the time and he could only pretend that he knew nothing. He did not even get involved in the formation of the East Palace team, although he is now the Minister of Personnel.

"Xuanwu Bo, you are finally back."

"Is Tingyi anxious?" Yu Xian put down the book in his hand and asked calmly.

"You said at the beginning that no matter what the emperor does, we just have to pretend that we don't know, but...but now, not only does he treat his brother so harshly, he also wants to put him to death, and now even the crown prince has been deposed. He was not that kind of person at the beginning!" Yu Qian was so anxious that he blurted out these taboo words.

"Tingyi, don't be anxious. Do you know that from the tenth year of Yongle to today, I have done countless irrelevant things and many things that disobeyed the emperor? Why am I still alive and even have the power I have today?" Yu Xian began to expose his own shortcomings.

"I really don't know!" Yu Qian shook his head.

"Because I know the limits. When I was handling the assassination case for Emperor Taizong, there were two things. One was that the mastermind of the assassination was the Prince of Han, whose purpose was to attack the crown prince. The other was that the people who assassinated the emperor were all from Jianwen's old party. So Emperor Taizong wanted to remove the Prince of Han from the assassination case and find the leader of Jianwen's old party." Yu Xian told the inside story of that year.

"No wonder I found many descriptions in the case files of that year vague. It turned out that it was to cover up for the King of Han." Yu Qian suddenly realized.

"Yes, Taizong allowed the children to fight, but he could not put them to death, and the King of Han obviously went too far. There were two leaders of Jianwen's old party, Xu Bin and Nie Xing, who were both captured and secretly executed shortly after. After I interrogated Xu Bin and Nie Xing separately, I captured Jianwen who had been hiding for many years. Despite this, I still gave up my position as the commander of the Jinyiwei after capturing Jianwen." Yu Xian sighed.

"What! You found Jianwen, but doesn't the Veritable Records of Emperor Taizong record that he has been missing for a long time?" Yu Qian almost couldn't hold the cup in his hand.

"How else can we record it? This kind of thing cannot be made public, and you should never tell it out in the future. So you should know why the emperor treated the retired emperor like this!" Yu Xian reminded.

"I also want to know the final outcome of Jianwen." Yu Qian's eyes were full of curiosity.

"He died in the 15th year of Yongle's reign. He died of illness and was secretly buried in the Xiaoling Mausoleum. I went to handle it myself." Yu Xian said unhappily.

"Alas, I didn't expect it to end up like this. However, what does what you said have to do with Prince Yu Yi's future?" Yu Qian brought the subject back.

"What I want to say is that you participated in the dethronement and enthronement of an emperor. If the mausoleum collapses in the future, it would be fine if the crown prince ascends the throne today. But if the emperor emeritus has the momentum to rise again, once he succeeds, you, Yu Qian, will undoubtedly die!" Yu Xian pointed out Yu Qian's current crisis.

"I was considering the Ming Dynasty at that time." Yu Qian was frank.

"Everyone knows, including the retired emperor, but he always wants to vent his anger about being deposed! There is one thing I can't check, you go and check the matter of Prince Xiang, what's going on with him. Ever since Emperor Xuanzong passed away, there have been messages about him wanting to be the emperor. My large-scale arrests and imprisonment back then only calmed things down temporarily, but people are still talking about it today!" Yu Xian arranged a task for Yu Qian.

"Didn't they kill two nobles and five ministers back then? They were said to be the instigators. Why do you still have questions about this?" Yu Qian was puzzled.

"You are wrong. Back then, I traced the case back to Duke Yingguo Zhang Fu and the Three Yangs. The emperor was about to ascend the throne, and it was necessary to characterize the case to reassure the ministers and the people. So I forced them to hand over a few scapegoats. In fact, the case has not been solved to this day." Yu Xian still sounded a little frustrated.