eldest son of Ming dynasty

Chapter 835 Who dares to stop me!

Zai Yan changed back into his blue satin embroidered with beasts, and stood in front of the governor's office. His tall figure and handsome face immediately distinguished him from the people next to him.

The situation in Sichuan has reached this level, and there is no need to delay it any longer.

Originally, he wanted to start from the magistrate and work his way up to arrest all these people, but after thinking about it carefully, he decided to capture the king first.

As for those little shrimps, there are people who can take care of them.

So he went straight to the governor's office.

But when he came back this time, he not only brought his own subordinates, but also Eunuch Gao, who was guarding the eunuch's mansion, was waiting for him. He had already received an urgent delivery from the ceremonial supervisor.

Prince Zaiyan of Yujun County went to Sichuan to handle affairs according to the emperor's secret order.

When a prince obeys the emperor's secret decree, it is equivalent to the emperor's personal arrival. Naturally, he, a member of the palace, would not dare to neglect it.

But Yao Yulin was very surprised. He walked from the house to the yard outside and looked at the soldiers with swords. His expression was very bad, "Prince Yujun, what do you mean?"

"No hurry, please wait a moment, Yao Zhongcheng."

Not long after Zai Yan said these words, there were indeed people outside the governor's office walking in hastily. A closer look revealed that they were Zai Yan's subordinate Leershan and a father-in-law. They brought ten people with them and tied up one. A mustachioed official wearing a blue robe with a round collar.

"Master Zhongcheng, Master Zhongcheng, help me!"

Zai Yan didn't turn around, but the corners of his mouth curled up when he heard the voice.

Yao Yulin tilted his head and looked around, his mind racing. He didn't understand why the people guarding the eunuch's mansion also got involved and arrested a first-level prefect without any warning.

"Eunuch Gao, these are all your people. I don't understand. What kind of drama are you doing today?"

Eunuch Gao, whose name is Gao Jie, is actually not very old, probably in his early thirties. Not only does he have no beard, he doesn't even have a few wrinkles.

"Zhongcheng, Prince Yu is here, and our family is following orders. As for the holiday between you and Prince Yu, our family really doesn't know."

In fact, there was no dispute between Zai Yan and Yao Yulin, but he had always had a gentle temper, so he did not correct the inaccuracies in Gao Feng's words.

Instead, he addressed the person opposite by calling him by his first name, "Yao Yulin, I am here with the emperor's secret order. What I want to investigate is your crime of deceiving the emperor and neglecting your superiors. Can you plead guilty?"

Yao Yulin's face turned cold and he swung his sleeves, "I'm sorry for my stupidity, but I can't understand what His Highness means by this. Please explain it more clearly."

"I knew you wanted to be tough."

"Miaozi forgive me!"

"The guilty minister, the guilty minister is here!"

"Let me ask you, where is the transcript of the Xia Yanshangshu official silver smuggling case?!"

Miao Zishu knelt down and cried in mourning, "Go back to Your Highness, I have already forwarded the memorial to you!"

"To whom?" Zai Yan continued to ask.

"The offender will naturally be forwarded to the Chief Envoy's Yamen."

Zai Yan turned his eyes slightly and looked at a short middle-aged man behind Yao Yulin.

Before he could speak, the man himself became anxious, "Nonsense! When did I receive your memorial?! I don't even know about the smuggling of official banknotes! Your Highness, Miao Zishu, this is a medical emergency. This I will bite you randomly at any time, please give me a warning, Your Highness!"

"I understand very well!" Zai Yan looked at everyone's eyes naturally. Although he was shy, he was born as a prince after all. Seeing that these people have innate psychological advantages, and after so many years, he has seen bigger scenes. "The official silver smuggling started under Yao Yulin, the governor of Sichuan. You were all involved and knew it well, so you intercepted Xia Yan's memorial. I have a list here."

He stretched out his right hand and Leershan handed the thing over.

"List?"

The officials behind Yao Yulin became slightly flustered.

Even Yao Yulin himself was just holding on, "The Second Highness wants to investigate the case, and the subordinate can assist. But the Second Highness cannot listen to a few words from a small Chengdu prefect and smuggle whatever official money we have." It's related. Even if you are a prince, you can't be so unreasonable in your actions, right? Moreover, Xiaguan is the governor of a province. If you want to kill Xiaguan, at least we have to explain it clearly in front of the emperor!"

"Yes, Your Highness, we really have nothing to do with this matter. All this is the fault of this Miao Shu! We don't even know what official silver smuggling is."

Zai Yan turned to look at Miao Zishu, whose pupils were a little blurry, and said softly: "You see, these people you usually respect, what kind of faces they have when they betray you."

Miao Zi forgives such a big man and has tears in his eyes.

Zai Yan has finally seen it. Now he finally knows that his father always discerns information among such shameless people. It is not easy to govern a country.

"Your Highness, this matter is completely a misunderstanding. You should either remove these people to avoid making a joke and making the emperor angry."

"You don't understand my father at all." Zai Yanshao's tone hardened, "My father doesn't care about these vain so-called court faces. What happened like this is your shame. Our surname is Zhu. What is there to be embarrassed about? Yao Yulin, let me tell you the truth. My father has long known that you were talking nonsense in the report and tried to hide it from your father!

You all know your father's temper. He always puts state affairs first. You are the dignified governor of Sichuan. There are only a few dozen frontier officials like you in the world. But this time, before I came over, my father granted me the right to kill first and report later! It can be seen that I hate you for your deception!

I entered the double stream this time, solved the frame-up case of Xia Yan, arrested your accomplices, and took the soldiers guarding the eunuch's house to the governor's Yamen to investigate the crime. Under the circumstances that the matter can no longer be concealed, you still have to resist! Do you really think I dare not kill you? ! "

Kill first and play later?

When these words came out, even Gao Feng was a little shocked.

The court official cannot kill him easily. Even if the emperor comes in person and wants to kill a second-grade governor, he must be fully convinced of his crime and kill him until everyone is convinced!

Yao Yulin naturally didn't believe it when he heard it, "His Second Highness said so. Is there an imperial edict from the emperor?"

"Asshole! I am the emperor's biological son. I have been granted the title of Prince Yu by imperial decree. How can I pretend to convey the decree?! Come on, get him!"

"Slow down! If His Highness wants to arrest a subordinate, he must give a clear reason!"

"Okay!" Zai Yan refused to give in. "Is the smuggling of official silver a reason? Is it a reason to frame loyal ministers like Xia Yan? Is it a reason to withhold ministers' memorials without authorization? Is it a reason to deceive the king's father with the memorial?! Which of these reasons is it? Isn’t it enough for me to chop off your head?! Gaojie, think about where your roots are and whose orders you want to obey!”

Gao Jie is actually more familiar with Yao Yulin. After all, they are in the same place, but he has nothing to do at this time. "Naturally, I will obey the orders of His Highness. Come and arrest Yao Yulin and others."

"Gaojie!" A civil servant like Yao Yulin was slippery, but the prince came to the door with soldiers and refused to let him explain, insisting that he was guilty. He really had no choice, so he became anxious, "Think clearly! I am He is the dignified governor of Sichuan. There is no conclusive evidence for anything His Highness said. You are following the emperor’s order, not the prince’s! Will you be able to get away with it if we make trouble with His Majesty in the future?!”

"This..." Gao Feng was confused by what he said and was in a dilemma.

Suddenly, the sound of a sword being unsheathed was heard in the yard. The sound was harsh and attracted everyone's attention.

The person who drew the sword was Zai Yan.

After all, he is a feudal official, unlike businessmen and prefects who can be fooled easily.

But Zai Yan was forced to act anxiously, and he also had an idea. He pulled out the sword and pointed it forward, "Everyone, please listen to me. I am the current emperor, the son of Emperor Zhengde. When I enter Sichuan, I will show my face. It was to supervise the handling of the fish scale atlas, but in fact it was a secret order to find out that Yao Yulin had deceived the emperor!

More than a month ago, Yao Yulin reported to his father that Xia Yan, the head of Shuangliu field, was corrupt, perverted the law, and oppressed the people. This was a complete fabrication! But Yao Yulin not only deceived the emperor, but also secretly smuggled Japanese official silver with a group of officials. The amount was huge. An official like you still wants to argue in front of the emperor and ask the emperor to make the decision for you? You can't even deceive me, how can you deceive my father? ! good! Yao Yulin, aren't you stubbornly resisting? I, Prince Yu, will come to arrest you personally! If I slander you in the slightest, I will receive my punishment from my father when I come before you! But that is not today. Today I am here to get you on the orders of my father. I wonder who among the people present dares to stop me? ! "

The subordinates led by Zai Yan naturally respected him completely. They had never seen Prince Yu with such courage as he did today.

All of a sudden, he already had the knife in his hand, ready to guard him at any time.

Yao Yulin was pinching his molars. He had never encountered such a serious moment. The prince of the current dynasty raised his sword and wanted to fight him for his life. This was a bloody misfortune that lasted eight lifetimes!

And all the officials around him also showed fear.

As for the soldiers in the governor's yamen...hehe, who would dare to use swords and guns with the prince after eating a bear's heart? !

"Prince Yujun! I am the governor of a province. You arrest people without orders, but do you still put the emperor in your eyes?"

Zai Yan sneered in his heart. He had already stepped forward step by step. He just didn't believe it. In this situation, who would have the guts to stop him.

"Come here! Come here! His Highness is stunned. Stop him quickly."

Yao Yulin stepped back and called on his confidants to start taking action. As an official as big as him, he still had a few guys he absolutely trusted.

Gaojie, who had been watching the show until now, saw that several people were hesitantly and confusedly pulling out knives. He immediately slapped his thighs and shouted angrily, "Yao Yulin! Your fucking brain has been eaten by a dog! You have to fight two people." What are you doing, Your Highness?! Come on, come on! Give them all to us, chop them all up with the swords out! Chop them into pieces, we don’t want to see a whole piece of meat!”

"Don't even move!"

Zai Yan yelled.

"Yao Yulin, you know the law and break the law, you have no king and no father, you cannot be loyal to the world, and you cannot benefit the people. If I don't arrest you personally today, I will be sorry for the name 'Zhu'! If you people want to punish People from the Nine Clans, come up and try!"

In front of Yao Yulin, there were indeed several people holding knives to block him.

But they also retreated while raising.

To say that the shining steel knife was not fake, Zai Yan made up his mind.

He is step by step,

Go faster and faster,

Gao Jie's face turned pale with fright. He grabbed a knife, rushed forward, and scolded Leershan and others, "It's about the life of the second prince. If I tell you not to move, you won't move! Are you stupid?" If you don’t move, our family will go up and fight!”

With that said, he opened his legs and ran forward, "Your Highness, the servant is here! You thieves, get out of our way!"

Zai Yan was now highly concentrated, and he couldn't care about what was going on behind him. He just rushed towards these people, and in the end he was only one step away from the knife, but he still didn't stop.

This is also a narrow encounter.

"Your Highness, please calm down!" Yao Yulin was completely panicked.

Zai Yan ignored him and continued to move forward.

One minute closer,

The knife in front of him finally fell, and the guard took half a step back, not even daring to look at him.

Zai Yan stepped forward and kicked him hard, "Why are you so stupid if I don't dare to chop you?!"

Then he glared around,

What followed was the sound of "bang, bang, bang", and the soldiers of the governor's Yamen threw their knives on the ground.

Immediately afterwards, Zai Yan thrust her sword into Yao Yulin's face, "You're not going to fight me too, are you?"

Even if Yao Yulin was full of courage, he wouldn't dare.

As a senior official, he naturally knew that although the emperor had no intention of establishing a heir apparent, the relationship between the emperor and the prince was still very close.

Like Zaiyan in front of me,

They were raised by the emperor himself. According to rumors, the emperor always took them with him whether they were reading, writing, riding horses or archery.

In the seventeenth year of Zhengde's reign, the emperor patrolled the nine borders of the north. Among the princes he brought with him, there was also the emperor's second son Zhu Zaicheng.

"Crazy, crazy, crazy..."

"The most terrifying thing is when an honest man goes crazy." Zai Yan finally put the sword on his shoulder, "Don't move. I said, I have the right to kill you first and then tell you. Even if I kill you, my father will be right."

Pfft!

Behind Yao Yulin, officials from Sichuan began to kneel down one after another, "Your Highness, please spare your life! Your Highness, please spare your life! We are not aware of Yao Yulin's deception, so please be aware of it!"

"Chengshan!" Zaiyan shouted.

"My subordinate is here."

"All of these people have been tied up by me, no one is missing!"

"Yes!"

"Runshan, Ershan,"

"My subordinate is here!"

"You each bring enough men and search your home. But remember, don't commit adultery, robbery, or hurt innocent people. This matter is a major matter of concern to my father. If any of you makes a mistake and cuts off your own head, I will I can’t ask for love.”

"Yes!"

"Your Highness, your servant is here too." Gao Feng ran over panting, "Your Highness, are you okay?"

Zai Yan threw the sword in her hand to him, "Catch it."

"Ouch!" Gao Feng was startled and almost died of fright, but luckily he managed to hold on.

"Eunuch Gao, let your people take control of this governor's office. All the people in the former governor's office will stay where they are without my order," Zai Yan turned around and said in a serious tone, "No one is allowed to leave without permission!"

"Yes, yes, this slave knows, let's do it now."

Soon after, someone came in from outside and reported, "Your Highness, there is a person named Xu Min outside who wants to see you."

"Let them in."

Xu Min acted under his orders, and things were not difficult.

After entering the governor's office, there were two people behind Xu Min, both middle-aged.

When they saw Zai Yu, they immediately bowed and said, "Your Majesty, Xu Weiming and Xia Yan, are here to see His Highness the Second Prince!"