My God, I am the emperor, the lord of mankind.

Chapter 243 Chenghua Suspicion 4
Then through government funding, the scale of temples and Taoist temples in various places was controlled.

It can also achieve the role of adjusting talents and focusing on protecting key cities and political and economic centers.

It effectively alleviated the heavy military financial pressure of the Ming Dynasty in setting up garrison stations in various places.

The monks in the Ten Thousand Buddhas Temple in front of them should be killed, but the signature and inheritance of the Ten Thousand Buddhas Temple cannot be destroyed.

As for the problem of monks, there are countless wandering monks in the world who are homeless and wandering around the world just to beg for food.

As long as the imperial court agrees to open the Ten Thousand Buddhas Temple to monks from all over the world, there will be no need to worry about the lack of manpower to maintain the Ten Thousand Buddhas Temple.

At this time, the people everywhere took orders and dispersed. The Jin Yiwei who had just ran to Wang Zuo to deliver the message whispered a few words in his ear.

After hearing this, Wang Zuo looked serious, turned around and cupped his hands towards Zhu Houcong and said.

"Your Majesty, when Yu Dayou and others were exploring the Underground Palace of the Forest of Ten Thousand Buddhas, they discovered a chart that may show the location of the underwater dragon palace of the sharks. Your Majesty, please make a decision..."

"Where is he now——"

Once again, I heard about the legendary underwater Dragon Palace where those real shark nobles lived.

Zhu Houcong vaguely realized that he seemed to be approaching another piece of truth lost in history.

"While cleaning up the underground palace, Yu Dayou and Xu Youbang, the guards of the imperial army, were unfortunately seriously injured. They are now in a coma and have been transported to Jinling for recuperation——"

Looking at the sea map handed over by Wang Zuo in front of him, the ancient characters on it looked a little familiar to Zhu Houcong. They were probably the result of a popular science program in his previous life. Zhu Houcong reluctantly recognized that the words in front of him were those used by the ancestors of this land. , a text that is quite ancient today.

It only took two seconds for Zhu Houcong to make a decision.

Can’t understand——send——

He calmly put the chart back into Wang Zuo's hand and said.

"After returning to Jinling, I summoned the scholars from the Hanlin Academy who were proficient in three generations of writing to study the chart. If I found anything, I would immediately submit it to the inner court by the Zhenfu Division."

"Yes--"

Wang Zuo took the order and left a part of the Jinyi Guards and the Ming Army to clean up the mess in Wanfo Temple.

The rest of the troops followed Zhu Houcong back to Nanjing to prepare for the next move.

Along the way, Wang Zuo followed Zhu Houcong, but he hesitated to speak.

Zhu Houcong ordered the army to reorganize and summoned Wang Zuo to talk alone.

"What makes Aiqing so worried?"

This place is only a few miles away from Nanjing. Jin Yiwei took the hunting falcon and climbed to the trees next to the forest. He could even see the brightly lit Jinling City not far away.

Tonight the moon is bright, the stars are few, the autumn air is crisp, and the view is perfect.

"His Majesty--"

Wang Zuo looked around and saw that all the guards had been transferred away by Zhu Houcong.

He gritted his teeth, as if he had made a great determination.

He carefully took out a bamboo tube that had been resealed with beeswax from his arms. The bamboo tube in Wang Zuo's hand was yellow all over and looked old.

Wang Zuo handed the bamboo tube to Zhu Houcong.

He said with a faint uncontrollable tremor in his voice.

"This object was found by me on the body of the Jinyiwei commander Wan An who was killed when I led the Jinyiwei to search for the body of the Jinyiwei. No one else has seen the contents of the bamboo tube except me."

"..."

Zhu Houcong looked at Wang Zuo, who looked very unnatural in front of him, and realized that the information in the bamboo tube was probably not trivial.

During the nearly one year when Qiu Luan Luo An and others guarded the southwest, Wang Zuo followed him in the south and north, and he was well-informed and experienced hundreds of battles.

He had never seen such big storms before, but a small letter from more than 40 years ago could scare him like this.It is really--

When Zhu Houcong thought of this, he couldn't help but be curious about the content.

He opened the bamboo tube. The beeswax on the bamboo tube had obviously been sealed again by Wang Zuo just after he obtained the object, and some parts of it had not yet completed condensation.

Zhu Houcong unfolded the letter.

The four characters "Emperor Zhi Yue" were clearly displayed in front of his eyes.

Ugh!Xianzong's own handwriting!
Things get interesting -

The imperial edicts of the Ming Dynasty were divided into five categories: imperial edicts, regulations, imperial edicts, edicts, and edicts.

An imperial edict is an official document and requires the approval of the emperor, the inner court, the cabinet and the entire bureaucracy before it can be issued.

The contents are mostly state affairs and represent the collective will of the empire's ruling class.

The rules were drafted by the emperor himself, which had the same coercive power as an edict, but were private to a certain extent and did not require the consent of others such as the cabinet, which meant that the emperor gave the matter the highest priority.

Edicts, imperial edicts, and edicts are not formal documents. They are mostly used by the emperor to praise and reward an official with outstanding political achievements or a sage with high moral standards.

The four characters "Emperor Zhi Yue" and the slightly scrawled handwriting in front of him undoubtedly showed that the edict in front of him was written by Xianzong himself and was brought to Nanjing by the imperial guards in front of him.

What will be the content?

Zhu Houcong unfolded his words and continued to look down.

But the first sentence of the edict made Zhu Houcong feel a little uncomfortable.

"There have been many rumors in the palace recently that the Ji family is not a barbarian from Guangxi, but his father is from Nanjing and a serving military attache of the imperial court... Therefore, the Jinyi Guards were sent to command Wan'an, and the commander-in-chief Luo Wancheng went to Nanjing with an imperial edict to investigate the truth..."

Ji family, Zhu Houcong is no stranger to the biological mother of Zhu Youtang, Emperor Xiaozong of the Ming Dynasty.

According to legend, the Ji family was the daughter of a chieftain surnamed Ji in Guangxi. After the Ming army put down the rebellion of the chieftain of Datengxia, she was taken into the palace. Later, she was favored by Emperor Xianzong and gave birth to Emperor Xiaozong Zhu Youtang of the Ming Dynasty. After that, she secretly hid in the West Palace.

Although Zhu Houcong felt that Ming Xiaozong had been hidden in the palace for five years, the mastermind behind the scenes was just a female prisoner who was under [-] years old and whose family had no foundation in the Ming court. She was taken into the palace at the age of eleven or twelve - and then in In the past five years, all the officials, from the emperor to the empress dowager to the maids and eunuchs, did not even know about it... This kind of science fiction story is too advanced.

Let’s not talk about how you spent the past five years.

Just being able to give birth to the child quietly in the palace.

It was enough to make Zhu Houcong give a thumbs up to this brave and brave woman and praise her as a Guangxi superwoman!

Without the help of others, in the palace under heavy surveillance, I gave birth to the child by myself, hiding it from the eyes of all parties, without making a sound during the whole process. After the birth, I cut the umbilical cord myself, without taking any rest in order to hide from others. Get up and clean up the blood and various debris from yourself and the baby.

Then he hid the child calmly, making sure that the child would not make any noise to attract outsiders' attention.

He went out of the palace to complete the concubine's daily pilgrimage and court etiquette as if nothing had happened, and in the process covered up all the characteristics and smells after giving birth to avoid the suspicion of the concubines and eunuchs in the harem who were always highly nervous. The palace raised Xianzong’s only surviving son so far, the true eldest son of the Imperial Emperor——

And it was hidden for five years!

Just thinking about it makes my scalp numb, okay?

It's no wonder that Xianzong had doubts about Ji's identity. If Zhu Houcong had encountered such a situation, he would have asked the Jin Yiwei to throw the enchantress into the imperial prison at the speed of light and torture her carefully to find out how she gave birth to the prince, and then He was raised in the harem for five full years.

What forces are assisting behind this?

At the same time, the harem was immediately brutally cleansed, and all the maids and eunuchs who served in the West Palace but did not report any changes in the Ji family and the prince were all executed on the spot.

Everyone else was kicked out of the palace and placed under close surveillance for life.

Unfortunately, Xianzong did not do this.

Looking at Xianzong's autographed decree in front of him, it was obvious that this was not a double act between him and Ji to protect the good son they had finally given birth to.

(End of this chapter)