In the palace, Zhu Gaoxu and Zhu Gaosui have just come out of it, they are here to thank him, because the three princes have reached the age of eighteen and can already take up the domain, and the two vassal kings are about to leave for the vassal country.
Ji Gang was standing outside the hall, and when he saw the two princes coming out, he hurriedly bowed down and saluted: "Minister Ji Gang, I have seen His Royal Highness the Prince, and I have seen His Royal Highness King Zhao."
When the two princes saw him, they both nodded politely.
Today's Ji Gang is far from being comparable to the past, although he is a person who is inclined to the eldest prince, this matter has been known by the people of the second prince's faction, but some things of the second prince's faction, Ji Gang also knows, but once some things are poked out, both sides are embarrassed, with this taboo, the people on the second prince's side did not dare to kill him, so he had to instruct Chen Ying to use the judicial and supervisory powers of the two to secretly break their wrists.
On the side of the crown prince Zhu Gaochi, the people who support the prince also know that he is his own person, and in the eyes of the emperor, he is also a right-hand man who supervises hundreds of officials and controls the government and the opposition, so Ji Gang can be said to be like a fish in water in the court, and his prestige and power are getting stronger.
Such an important person who can be seen at any time and specialize in reporting confidential information that cannot be disclosed, even the princes have to be polite to him.
Others stab you with a knife, you can instruct your own people to go-for-tat, if Ji Gang is into your slander, you won't know at all, who is not afraid of the third prince Zhu Gaosui has just come of age, and he has the least hope in the battle for succession, and he has little stake with both sides, so he is very polite when he sees Ji Gang.
After the two princes walked away, Ji Gang walked towards the palace.
Today, in the "Spring Breeze Building", hundreds of civil and military officials took the wind and washed the dust for Yang Xu, the auxiliary prince, of course he knew, but he didn't go.
Of course, he and Xia Xun have no conflict of interest, at least not for now.
At present, the two people still have the potential to help each other, they already have a friendship, and they are from the same family, and they are all heads and faces in their respective fields, with great influence.
However, because of this, Ji Gang didn't want to go.
When he was with others, there were not many people in the court who dared to discuss seniority with him, even if he had a higher position than him, he was polite and respectful when he saw him.
But he is Xia Xun's old subordinate, and now his prestige and status are still inferior to others, as soon as he sees Xia Xun, he is naturally three points shorter.
He usually saw the cabinet chief assistant Xie Jin, and he dared to straighten his waist to speak, in front of Xia Xun, he dared to come up shyly, and insisted on sitting at the same table with the cabinet scholars and the six scholars If he goes to the banquet, he has to find a corner place, squeeze together with those officials of the third or fourth grade, turn around and hold a glass together, go to Xia Xun's table, nod and toast, isn't this a head shorter than a person Now he is not willing to show his inferiority even in front of Xia Xun, not to mention showing his ugliness in front of so many officials Therefore, Ji Gang didn't go, but instead met Xia Xun, and found a reason to be busy with official business.
In his opinion, Xia Xun's prestige and status are extremely high, and he is also very favored by the emperor, but after all, he does not have a permanent position in the court, and there is no intersection between them in the future, so there is no need to go to him to be low.
In the palace, as soon as the two brothers Zhu Gaochi and Zhu Gaosui went out, Zhu Di's face sank, and he snorted coldly: "Gao Xu is too disagreeable, he is so resentful, and he doesn't come to see him because of his illness."
The little eunuch who was in charge of going to the Han Palace's palace to deliver the edict hurriedly bowed down and said, "If you go back to the emperor, His Royal Highness the King of Han is indeed sick." ” "Hmm" Where is Zhu Di willing to believe, glared at him coldly and said: "What benefits have you received from the King of Han, you have to cover it up for him like this" The little eunuch was startled, quickly knelt down and shouted grievances, kowtowed: "Your Majesty, the slave and maid dare not lie, the slave and maid passed on the emperor's oral message, and was taken to the place where His Royal Highness the King of Han lived to deliver the decree.
After hearing the will, His Royal Highness the King of Han was so empty that his head was covered with sweat, and the slaves and maids could see it with their own eyes and did not dare to lie. ” This little eunuch did receive money from the Han Palace, but if he wanted him to fabricate it out of thin air, he didn't dare, when he arrived at the Han Palace, he did see Zhu Gaoxu seriously ill in bed, but after listening to the holy decree, he sweated profusely, this is deliberately alarmist, taking people's money, always speaking for others, as long as this lie can't be pierced, it will be.
Zhu Di was really a little moved when he heard it, but after thinking about it, it was still difficult for the fox to go, this son has always been strong, how could he be sick so coincidentally, could he lose the opportunity to be the prince, the blow to him was so big Zhu Di himself did a lot of things when he pretended to be sick and pretended to be crazy, but it was not so easy, and immediately ordered: "You go to the Tai Hospital to pass the decree, and call the Tai Hospital to go to the Han Wang's Mansion in person to diagnose the Han Wang."
"The Slave Obeys" The little eunuch went out in a hurry, and as soon as he went out, he ran into Ji Gang coming in, so he hurriedly turned sideways and stepped aside, and when Ji Gang entered the hall, he rushed out.
The ministers next to him want to enter the palace, and the emperor has a decree to pass on the meeting, or wait for the decree to ask for a meeting, but Ji Gang is not, he is the commander of the Jinyi Guard, responsible for the most confidential security tasks, and the security guards in the palace are also his responsibility, and he can enter and exit freely.
Zhu Di sat down and was about to review the recital, and when he saw Ji Gang coming in, he put down the recital in his hand again.
At the beginning of his succession, he was fiercely opposed by Jianwen's former ministers, forcing him to adopt some cruel methods, thinking that "killing a hundred and setting an example of a hundred", the ministers finally bowed their heads to their ears, but after the conspiracy of Xu Huizu, Geng Bingwen, and Mei Yin, the former ministers of Jianwen, was exposed, he inevitably became vigilant again.
For Jianwenchen's many courtiers, he can't abandon them all, and there are indeed many capable ministers among them.
But because of this, if they have ill intentions, the damage to the country and society will be even more serious.
Such a person, how many Zhu Di are suspicious in the court, the more he thinks about it, the more uneasy he becomes, but this matter must not be said, so he asked Ji Gang to secretly investigate, especially with Xu Huizu, Geng Bingwen, Mei Yin, these ministers who have a good relationship and are secret, including the letters found in the three-person mansion, and also sent someone to check them word by word, in order to find clues.
Over the past year or so, many people have been picked out by Ji Gang one after another, most of them are indeed people from their faction, at least sympathetic to Emperor Jianwen, as for whether any of them have personal grievances with Ji Gang, and they were used by him to play, I don't know.
Ji Gang hurriedly saluted Zhu Di and said: "Wechen has seen Your Majesty, Wechen sent Yin Shenghui to investigate Jianwen's rebellion against the party, and according to the clues found from Meiyin's mansion, he traced it all the way to Yanjing Mansion and found a person, and many suspicious points on this person are consistent."
When Zhu Di heard this, he immediately waved his hand, and the palace maids in the palace quickly retreated.
Yin Shenghui has already come back, he was released, those ordinary Jinyi captains are still locked up in the prison, Zhuozhou Tong sentenced Zhao Zijin to say clearly: "Lord Yin, my small temple, can't fit your great god, you want the lower officials to let you out, Cheng Ke these captains, you have to let them stay here first, otherwise the imperial envoy Xiao is there, and the lower officials can't explain it either, don't worry, three meals a day, use medicine for medicine, the lower officials will not be bad here, you should let them stay here to recuperate."
Everyone said so, how could Yin Shenghui not agree, so he was a horse and a single gun, and he went back to Jinling alone.
As soon as Ji Gang heard Yin Shenghui's cry, he was already furious, and his heart suddenly flooded with murderous intent.
But he is a scheming person, and it is meaningless to not be able to vent his anger, he kept Yin Shenghui's matter a secret, and he did not save a few of his subordinates in the Zhuozhou prison, he was waiting for the most appropriate opportunity, when his fangs were about to eat on the opponent's neck, he would say it.
"雒佥" Zhu Di couldn't help but be a little surprised when he heard this: "I value him so much, and I entrusted him with the post of secretary of the Ministry of Administration, and he is in charge of Yanjing government affairs, he" Ji Gang was expressionless, hung his hands, and said calmly: "When has Your Majesty treated Mei Yin with kindness to Xu Huizu, and no one can match it."
Zhu Di gritted his teeth, and a fierce light appeared in his eyes: "Continue to investigate, I want ironclad evidence" "The emperor can rest assured, the minister has already asked Yin Shenghui to continue the investigation."
Zhu Di nodded, and said hatefully: "I put my heart into them, once these wolf-hearted things are verified to be true, I will never spare them."
He hated it, glanced at Ji Gang again, and praised: "You did a good job, well, Xie Jin and others deliberately took leave this afternoon to go to meet Yang Xu to wash the dust, you are Yang Xu's old department, why didn't you go?"
Ji Gang said respectfully: "As a minister, you should put state affairs first, and moreover" Zhu Di listened to his first sentence, his expression was pale, and when he heard that he still had the following, he couldn't help but glance at him and said, "But what?"
Ji Gang said: "The emperor's discerning eyes, the candle world, naturally understand, today it is called for the auxiliary prince to catch the wind and wash the dust, in fact, it is a celebration banquet for the ministers to support the emperor's eldest son and successfully become the prince, the minister is the person of Jinyiwei, only for the emperor to drive, the affairs of the court have no chance to participate, no merit is not punished, how to drink this cup of wine again" He rubbed his hands and muttered a little embarrassedly: "Besides, because of the emperor, the Chinese military of the dynasty is also courteous to Ji Gang, but the auxiliary state is the old boss of the minister, in front of him, Ji Gang does not dare to put up a fight, when he gets there, he has to squeeze to the corner, and together with some minor officials, people raise a glass and we raise a glass, people sit down and we sit down, with the emperor's momentum, the courtier is still a little majestic, this time it is really majestic, and there is no face" Zhu Di laughed when he heard it, he was also inviting merit and asking for merit, but like Ji Gang was so outspoken, he didn't hide anything in front of him, and it was comfortable to listen to, Zhu Di thought for a while, and said angrily: "Since I ascended the throne, you have worked hard and made many meritorious contributions to me, and you have not received any rewards.
However, you can't be knighted if you don't have military merits, and the highest commander can only be the third grade, and this position can't be separated from you."
Zhu Di paced two steps, raised his eyebrows, and said: "That's it, I will make you a good second grade, so that you won't even be embarrassed to eat and drink, hahaha" To be continued: