The giant ship slowly docked, and in the sound of the band playing triumphant music, a team of Han generals stepped down the stairs to get off the ship, and Zhu Di, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, also appeared in front of everyone.

The music stopped, and Zhu Di's majestic voice sounded: "All the secretaries are flat." ”

"Emperor Xie" The ministers got up, and when the emperor stepped down the stairs, Xu Jingchang, the Duke of Dingguo, knelt and offered three glasses of wine. Originally, this was supposed to be the prince's errand, but at the moment, the prince was absent, so he had to let him go first.

Glancing at his wife and nephew, Zhu Di forcibly suppressed his unhappiness, raised the wine glass and sacrificed to the ancestors of heaven and earth, and asked Xu Jingchang to take off his cloak for himself, which can be regarded as completing the ceremony of 'dismantling the battle robe...... This should also be done by the prince.

Immediately, the music was repeated, Zhu Di boarded Luanyu, and under the guidance of the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs, he walked slowly in the direction of the city gate.

On the street, the firecrackers crackled into a pot of porridge, the cheers and greetings of the people came and went, Zhu Di smiled lightly and beckoned to the subjects, but coldly asked Yang Pu, a subordinate official of the East Palace who was called to Luanyu: "Where is the prince?" ”

"Uh......" Yang Pu is about to regret his intestines...... In order to supervise the driving matters early this morning, he came to Longjiang Pass before the fifth watch, if he knew the result, he would definitely leave everything behind, and he couldn't let the prince be late, so he had to whisper: "His Royal Highness the prince has been delayed for some reason, it should be there soon, and the emperor will know as soon as he asks."

"Hmph." Zhu Di snorted and said, "Is this how you assisted the prince?" ”

"The minister is guilty" Yang Pu hurriedly kowtowed: "It's just that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has always been punctual, and it is a major event to welcome the emperor, there must be something wrong to make this happen." ”

"What's wrong?" Zhu Di said more and more: "I returned all the way from Hulan and suddenly lost temperature, and there was no situation for thousands of miles, he went from the East Palace to Longjiang Pass, but four or five miles away, but there was a situation" said hatefully: "I went to Mobei with an old body, born and died, isn't it all for him, this waste?" But he doesn't take me to heart at all, and he really doesn't deserve to be a son of man."

Hearing the emperor's anger, Yang Pu was sweating like a pulp, and he didn't know how to speak for the prince.

When he arrived at the palace, the chamberlain waited for Zhu Di to wash. At this time, the Jinyi Weidu commanded Ji Gang to hurriedly come in and reported in a low voice: "Your Majesty, I found out that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was hangover and did not wake up, so he delayed the ...... to meet him."

"Okay" Zhu Di was already full of anger, which added fuel to the fire, and he was even more angry: "You used to say that he didn't believe it, I didn't expect it to be the first night I came back, he could get drunk like mud, you can imagine what will happen in normal times" Zhu Di is really angry, he is so old that he is sleeping outside, starving, and he has to personally mention going into battle to cut people, but his prince is drunk and dreaming of death in the rear, this feeling of being deceived and fooled, so that the emperor, who has always been self-respecting, can not tolerate it:

"How can my country be passed on to such a wicked animal, and bring that wicked son to me" In the golden hall, the emperor's roar echoed: "And his shrimp soldiers and crab generals, all of them will be arrested by me"

This is to raise the prison, it's time for Jinyi Wei to show off his might, Ji Gang swallowed excitedly, and asked in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, who are you going to arrest?" ”

"Who should be investigated, who should be arrested, who should be tried, and how to be tried, you know in your heart." Zhu Di said with a face.

"Yes" Ji Gang responded, got up and strode out of the palace, outside the Golden Palace, his subordinates were already waiting there, obviously knowing that Lu Dao was going to arrest people today

His eyes swept over everyone coldly, and he said sharply: "The emperor has an order to arrest the subordinate officials of the East Palace, and there must be no less than the ministers who are left behind, and they must all be questioned."

Although the high-ranking officials in Jinyi knew that they were going to take people today, they didn't expect to put the civil officials who stayed in Beijing in a pot, and they all showed shocked expressions and said, "Do you want to take people now?" ”

"Wait." Ji Gang looked at him and said: "The emperor is going to hold a banquet and arrest all the people, and the emperor's face is not good-looking." Gather together your men and horses, and wait in their private houses, and when they return from the feast, you will take them

"Whoa!" All the high-ranking officials in brocade responded in unison, and hurriedly went down to make arrangements.

"You two come with me to the East Palace." Ji Gang glanced at his henchmen Zhuang Jing and Yuan Jiang, and said coldly.

In the study room in the East Palace, the imperial doctor tried his best to pour sobering wine soup for the prince, and used acupuncture and moxibustion for a long time, and finally woke up His Royal Highness the prince from his slumber......

"Wake up, finally wake up" Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, but their expressions remained solemn.

Zhu Gaochi slowly opened his eyes, and his intuition was full of double vision, and it took a long time to resist his god, and he hissed and asked, "What time is it?" ”

"It's three quarters of the hour......" the crown princess said in a low voice.

"What hour?" Zhu Gaochi's eyes widened.

"Three moments."

"Huh?" His Royal Highness the Crown Prince's huge body, Huo De bounced up from the bed, and said in a panic: "How did I sleep until now?" Go to Longjiang Pass"

"Father, you don't have to go." A familiar voice sounded, and Zhu Zhanji appeared in front of the prince: "Grandpa Huang has already entered the palace." ”

"What?" Zhu Gaochi couldn't believe it, but when he saw that his son who was by his father's side came back, he couldn't believe it. Deng Shi sat down suddenly, his fat face, which was originally flushed, turned pale, and beads of sweat covered his forehead, and he said in a trembling voice: "How can this be, how can this be?" As he spoke, he suddenly raised his head and looked at the people around him: "Why don't you wake me up?" ”

"Your Highness." Huang Huai, the waiter of the East Palace, sighed and said, "You have a hangover, you can't wake up." In the end, I still hired a doctor, and I didn't ...... until now."

"I have a hangover?" Zhu Gaochi said in disbelief: "How can it be ......" He rubbed his aching head vigorously and said, "I couldn't sleep last night, and I only drank a glass of Suhe wine?" How can you get a hangover? ”

"Could it be that there is a problem with the wine...... Zhu Zhanji said in a deep voice: "But now is not the time to pursue this" and paused: "Father, no matter what, things have happened." Let's still think about it. ”

"Taisun is right." Huang Huai said: "It is decided that the prince will violate etiquette this time, but this matter can be big or small, it depends on how the emperor views it." ”

"Grandpa Huang will definitely use the topic to play ......," Zhu Zhanji said coldly.

"Not bad." Zhu Gaochi said dejectedly: "My father has heard too many slanderous rumors, and he has long wanted to clean me up, and this time I just gave him a chance." He sighed and said, "For the lonely change of clothes, I want to enter the palace to ask for guilt."

The chamberlain hurriedly dressed His Royal Highness the Prince, Zhu Zhanji helped Zhu Gaochi to get up, and slowly walked out: "I'll go with my father." ”

"You've just come back, and you're still resting at home." Zhu Gaochi said.

"When the Father is in trouble, the Son suffers with him." Zhu Zhanji shook his head and said: "And the imperial grandfather is angry now, he may not be able to listen to his father, so it is better for me to explain it for my father." ”

"Yes." Zhu Gaochi nodded and said, "Then I will be wronged." ”

The father and son got into the carriage and drove towards the palace, but before they could go far, they were stopped head-on - Ji Gang, dressed in a big red python robe, led 200 brocade guards wearing flying fish suits and embroidered chūn knives on their waists, and surrounded the prince's chariot.

The guards of the East Palace were not afraid of the Jinyi guards, and scolded: "What kind of person, dare to stop the prince's car and get out of the way quickly."

"By order." Ji Gang didn't speak, it was Zhuang Jing who spoke, and he shouted violently: "Please invite His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to enter the palace to face the saint"

"His Royal Highness the Prince, please come with us," another henchman, Yuan Jiang, also said sharply.

The faces of the guards of the East Palace have changed greatly, this is to arrest the prince, if His Royal Highness the prince is taken down by the Jinyi guard on the street, then what face does he have to be this prince?

But near the left side of this palace, Jinyi Wei is on an errand by holy order, who dares to stop it? Blocking is rebellion, and that is to punish the nine clans

The guards were hesitating, and they heard a low shout: "Ji Gang, you don't fake the holy decree" Zhu Zhanji, who looked angry, got off the carriage and appeared in front of Ji Gang.

"Isn't this His Royal Highness the Taisun?" Ji Gang hugged his fists, and said with a smile: "The minister has the emperor with him, and he can't pay full courtesy, please Your Highness Haihan." After a pause, he said: "But His Highness said that the minister falsely passed on the holy decree, that is purely a frame, at the gate of this palace, I just ate the courage of the ambitious leopard, and I don't dare to pass a wrong word."

"Bring it." Zhu Zhanji stretched out his hand.

"What?" Ji Gang was stunned.

"Holy Decree" Zhu Zhanji popped out these two words from between his teeth.

"The emperor passed on an oracle, and His Royal Highness went with us to see the emperor, so he naturally knew that what he said was true." Ji Gang said.

"There is no basis for words." Zhu Zhanji said coldly: "Who knows if you intend to do bad to my father."

"Why did His Highness say this, how could the minister be unfavorable to the crown prince?" Ji Gang said helplessly.

"Anything is possible." Zhu Zhanji said in a deep voice: "If you don't retreat quickly, my father will go to face the saint to ask for an understanding."

"Let's protect His Royal Highness the Crown Prince." Ji Gang insisted. This was specially ordered by His Royal Highness the King of Han to make the prince lose face.

"Don't you understand Lone's words?" Zhu Zhanji didn't talk nonsense with him, and shouted: "Get out"

"Your Highness is angry, and the ministers can't be ......" Before Ji Gang could say a word, he heard a brush, and a long sword had already been pointed at his throat, and the cold chill made him unable to speak or move.

There is naturally no shortage of masters around Ji Gang, but the sword of the Flying Immortal outside the sky came too suddenly, and when everyone reacted, Ji Gang had already been restrained.

Swordsmanship is Wudang Mountain Sun Zhenren's trick, but it was Zhu Zhanji who made the sword, and he specially learned this trick from Xianyun, just to use it desperately at a critical moment.

"Your Highness, don't mess around." Zhuang Jing and others were in a hurry, but Zhu Zhanji was the grandson. Although in their opinion, this grandson was already a bright yellow flower, they still didn't dare to be disrespectful, and only dared to stop it loudly: "Our lord is the emperor's Qincha"

"It's just a dog of my Zhu family, when did it deceive the owner" Zhu Zhanji snorted coldly and said: "Everyone get away, otherwise I will cut off his dog's head" said with a tongue and thunder, and shouted: "Get out"