activa-t Chapter 207 Giant Network
Chapter 207 Giant Network
"Yes, and quite a few."
The supervisory action that was originally done to "find excuses for Zhang's crimes" and the personnel changes in the Prince of Yan's Mansion that he checked before leaving, these detailed information gradually became a line in Xu Yihua's mind.
She believed that Zhang, Guo and the Crown Prince's party must have reached some kind of agreement.
Outsiders who were not in the know always spread the rumor that the reason why Prince of Yan Zhu Di was reluctant to appoint a crown prince was because he favored his second son more and wanted to depose the eldest son and appoint the second son as the crown prince.
But it's not.
Zhu Gaochi's identity as the "Prince of Yan" had long been secretly conferred by Zhu Di, and his emperor grandfather was waiting for his eighteenth birthday to issue the imperial edict.
For the sake of the old man's interest and for his father's surprise and test, the matter of the prince was kept a secret, not even the family members knew about it, let alone outsiders.
It is not a trend for nephews to inherit their uncles' wives and concubines nowadays. Zhang and Guo, who are trying to get the skin of a tiger, are only fighting for the positions of Princess Consort of Prince of Yan, Princess Dowager of Prince of Yan, and Crown Prince's Consort.
They thought that if Gao Xu was eliminated, Gao Chi would be able to get the position of crown prince with their "help".
Not only was he proud of his achievement, he also slandered Gao Chi's wife, Xiao Zhang, causing the furious Zhu Di to sentence her to death. This way, the concubine Guo was promoted to the second wife because of her excellent family background.
After all, when the Crown Prince Zhu Biao's original wife died, he did not marry another wife, but chose a concubine who had a son and made contributions to be promoted to the second wife. As a nephew and not yet a crown prince, how could Gao Chi marry another noble lady if he had a choice?
Guo had gained status, and it was well known that Xu Yihua had injured herself during childbirth, so she teamed up with Zhang to set up another scheme.
He took the power of managing the household from her on the pretext of being unwell and being the eldest daughter-in-law. When Zhu Di was on an expedition, he covered her with a handkerchief and told the public that she had died of illness.
At that time, the court would punish Zhu Di on the false charge of failing to lead the troops, and when searching his house, they would find some so-called documents of treason...
The Prince of Yan's Mansion could thus disappear in the Ming Dynasty.
Ha ha.
As for the Crown Prince, all he needs to do is use a little bit of interest as bait to hook and dangle them, and they will frantically flutter around like carps in a pond, little knowing that the other party's purpose is not to "help" them but to destroy the Prince of Yan's Mansion from the inside out.
The person who came up with this plan is an expert at fighting without bloodshed, which is really terrifying!
He never showed up from beginning to end, but just used other people to promise Zhang and Guo small profits, which was enough to turn them into mad dogs.
At first, Zhu Di just wanted to listen.
After all, he felt that it was a bit exaggerated to substitute the harem struggles of Prince Yan's Mansion into the struggles in the court.
What kind of trouble can those two concubines cause?
However, after listening to his wife's talk about the complications, the purpose of the schemer and his intention to take advantage of their shallow minds, Zhu Di felt that it made perfect sense.
Everything seemed so logical, and it sounded like a shady trick that could be thought up by those Jiangdong rats that Zhu Yunwen had hired.
It makes people so angry that they want to take a knife and shave off all their bones.
"I'll go check it out right away. If they are colluding with the enemy, with their abilities, they are just about to kill them. It's not too late."
Zhu Di's words, in other words,
Regardless of whether there is solid evidence or not, as long as they are investigated and involved in the death, these two people will be convicted directly.
And this is exactly what Zhang Zhiwei wanted.
As if taking these words as an order, Prince Yan's Mansion began to make arrangements in an orderly manner.
As the mastermind behind everything, the net Zhang Zhiwei laid this time was no small matter.
Since the taskers and the natives this time all had some brains or abilities, her intention was not to strangle them directly but to lure them out of their hole.
After going through so much trouble, Zhang Zhiwei just wanted to watch the fight between the dragon and the tiger and reap the benefits by analyzing the combat power and adjusting the tactics.
Especially the abilities of Guo Qing and Ma Qingye.
Taking advantage of the fact that Zhu Yunwen's staff boldly sent out an assassination team, they set up a temporary plan.
He calculated Zhu Gaoxu's intentions and used a little trick of a powerful cultivator to tear open the tent, snatched the miniature bomb hidden by Wei, and detonated the chess pieces in the Prince of Yan's Mansion and Nanjing City...
Then there were ancient firearms that could blow Zhu Gaoxu to death, there were bandits who insisted that she was the mastermind, there were her parents who were obsessed with killing the "living" Wei, and there was Ma Qingye who happened to arrive at the scene and saw the bizarre murder scene.
This is not enough.
The water at this time is just turbid in the dark pool.
Therefore, Wei's "relics" were still needed to make Zhu Yunwen's staff come down and confirm the speculation of the outside world that he was the culprit.
Only Zhu Yunwen was the culprit. As a smart man, Xu Yihua, who had been secretly planning to use the power of the Prince of Yan's Mansion to set a trap for the Zhang family, would discover the problem.
Problems are often interconnected.
Guo, who thought she could take advantage of Xu Yihua's absence to reshuffle the power in Prince Yan's Mansion and find some people who could be used by her to fight with her in the future, was dragged into the water inexplicably.
Xu Yihua must have noticed some minor changes in the palace, and would have made endless associations.
In this way, they became important in Zhu Di's heart.
And Ma Qing, who had sensed the crisis in Nanjing City, would definitely take action at this time.
Taking advantage of the short period of time when Zhang Zhiwei has not yet arrived in Peking.
As expected, Ma Qing was very wary of her profession as a 'puppet master'. Ever since she was 'exposed' in the palace, one could clearly feel that Ma Qing's scattered forces were flowing back into Nanjing City at an incredibly fast speed and lying dormant.
The most obvious thing is the transfer of officials some time ago.
It was also through Ma Qingye's mobilization of power that her two brothers were able to quietly and reasonably obtain a position.
Ma Qingye was the one who started the trouble. Even if he realized her family's intention, it was too late. Zhang's operations in the local area must have become established.
With the help of Ma Qingye, she could observe Guo Qing's methods. If she was lucky enough to escape the two consecutive attacks from her and Ma Qingye, then what would be waiting for her would be the social death of "Guo Qing" sentenced by Zhu Di.
Whether she resists or escapes, she will lose the protection of the Prince of Yan's Mansion.
The tasker who has lost her identity can only usurp the country under a false name, and all the taskers who want to hunt her down no longer need to be afraid of anything.
Guo Qing was like this. The even weaker Zhang Baiyu of the Zhang family, unable to steer his small boat steadily in this series of rough waves, had no choice but to be swallowed by the waves.
The Yan Wang party will be more determined to rebel, and the forces they win over will be more familiar with than the Jingnan Campaign in history.
The goal was not achieved, but Zhu Yunwen was disgraced. He would act more radically in the future, and Ma Qing, who had a demand for radical war, would not stop Zhu Yunwen's brutality.
Under the general trend of the times, the princes had to either die or surrender to the Prince of Yan. The Jingnan Campaign was no longer just a simple name of "clearing the court of corrupt officials".
Rather, "Jianwen's tyranny led to the rise of the Ming Dynasty, and Zhu Di became king. He rose up in rebellion, which was what the people expected."
This is the complete huge network involved in the death of Zhu Gaoxu.