Chapter 34 Hu Weiyong
Hu Weiyong's heart skipped a beat. Ma Sanbao was testing him before, and he was indeed too extreme. After being trapped by Ma Sanbao, he had to re-examine the child in front of him. This child should not be underestimated than he imagined. Hu Weiyong, who has always been so sophisticated and cautious, almost fell in front of Ma Sanbao.
"I almost exposed the situation in front of this kid. This kid is very good at taking the opportunity to ask me! Be careful!" Hu Weiyong thought to himself, his eyes staring at Ma Sanbao, for fear of making a little mistake. Hu Weiyong never expected that a young child would have a trick in his scheming. He looked at Ma Sanbao's ill-intentioned smile and wanted to silence Ma Sanbao on the spot. Unfortunately, with Zhu Di on his side, he had no idea how to start.
"Prime Minister, I dare not assert whether what you said is true. Let's do this. Follow me to your Majesty and talk in front of your Majesty. If you can still talk to me as sure as I am, I will believe what you said, what?" Ma Sanbao raised his eyebrows and stared at Hu Weiyong for a long time.
"Yes, Prime Minister, you follow us to your Majesty. In fact, I still trust that the Prime Minister will not ignorant of the national law and do great deviant things. However, Wen and my brother didn't listen and insisted that I come to find the Prime Minister. Prime Minister, I still believe that you are innocent. Do you think you will not be wronged to you when you go with us?" Zhu Di spoke, and he and Ma Sanbao sang together. Although he was on the surface, he was in opposition to Ma Sanbao, but in fact he wanted to stimulate Hu Weiyong. This was the psychological tactics Ma Sanbao taught him on the road. When Ma Sanbao was still Zheng He in his previous life, he used this method to draw a lot of words from his rebellious subordinates. Now, they join forces to deal with Hu Weiyong, just waiting for Hu Weiyong to get into a trap.
"Nothing to tell! Ma Wenhe, you have a 19th rank official position, why should you take me away? Although I am not a 1st rank prime minister, I am still a 2nd rank official position. If you arrest me, will it seem a bit ineligible?" Hu Weiyong waved his sleeves and waved his hand to signal his servant to take Ma San out of his mansion.
The attendants were about to take action, outside Hu Weiyong's mansion, a strong and powerful voice sounded, "I think who dares to touch the person appointed by His Majesty? Hu Weiyong, he is not qualified, do I have it?" His voice interrupted the attendants who wanted to expel the guests. All the attendants stood aside. Even Hu Weiyong looked outside the mansion with some confusion, listening to the familiar voice, frowned, and thinking about who the owner of the voice was.
Outside the Prime Minister's Office, Ma Sanbao came to him for a long time. He saw Wei Ze, the Minister of Justice, whom he was familiar with. In the early Ming Dynasty, there were not only one minister of the Ministry of Justice, but six. These people were all second-rank official positions. Although Hu Weiyong was the prime minister, he has been demoted to the first level, which is no different from the second-rank official position. Hu Weiyong, who was previously above Wei Ze, can only serve as an equal position now.
When Hu Weiyong saw the Minister of Justice, he was inevitably afraid. With his current official position, the minister of Justice and His Majesty were naturally the Minister of Justice and His Majesty. He was not afraid of Ma Sanbao at first, but it was because although Ma Sanbao was the Censor of the Supervisor, he could not convict him. Now it is different. There is a Minister of Justice who is on par with him. If he thinks that the Minister of Justice is not qualified to bring him to the hall, then his head will say goodbye to his neck.
"Hu Weiyong, long time no see." Wei Ze was not polite to Hu Weiyong. Although he was an old acquaintance with Hu Weiyong, the relationship between the two did not seem to be particularly eased. Wei Ze spoke coldly to Hu Weiyong and didn't even look at Hu Weiyong directly. When he met Hu Weiyong before, he would cater to the Prime Minister. Now you, Hu Weiyong, have the same official position as me, why should I care about you?
"Brother Wei, I don't know what the wind is, blowing you?" Hu Weiyong laughed apologized. He looked down on Ma Sanbao's official position before, and Wei Ze's official position was as big as him. He looked down on Ma Sanbao, so he could not look down on Wei Ze. If Wei Ze was unhappy, perhaps when the emperor complained to himself, he would take off his clothes and take off his armor and go to prison and become a prison.
"Your Majesty's decree, please ask Brother Hu to come with me!" Wei Ze didn't even look at Hu Weiyong, and said coldly. Hu Weiyong then followed Wei Ze onto the carriage reluctantly.
The atmosphere on the carriage was extremely ice-cold, and no one was willing to speak. Ma Sanbao looked at Hu Weiyong in a mess and carefully observed Hu Weiyong's every move. He had a premonition that this prison robbery incident must be related to Hu Weiyong, and he might be able to follow the clues to find out the rebellious faction behind Hu Weiyong.
It would definitely be a great achievement to be able to dig out all the rebels behind Hu Weiyong. Perhaps Zhu Yuanzhang was happy and Ma Sanbao also had the opportunity to be granted a title. However, Ma Sanbao was not here. He still missed the life of driving a big ship. He wanted to grow up early and return to the field he was good at driving a big ship to play naval battles.
Seeing that the palace was close at hand, Hu Weiyong swallowed a mouthful of saliva, he endured the panic in his heart. At the moment, he obviously would not give him good results. He had to pretend to be calm and followed Ma Sanbao and others step by step onto the steps towards Zhu Yuanzhang's bedroom.
In the palace, Zhu Yuanzhang's bedroom was like his second office location. Seeing the Minister of Justice and the former left prime minister Hu Weiyong arrive together, Eunuch Ma hurriedly reported to Zhu Yuanzhang who was drinking tea with the right prime minister Wang Guangyang in the palace. In order to wait for Hu Weiyong, Zhu Yuanzhang had turned down many matters and handed over to the subordinate departments for handling, which shows Zhu Yuanzhang's importance to the Hu Weiyong case.
The door of the bedroom slowly opened. During the period when the door was open, Hu Weiyong felt his heartbeat faster. For the first time, he felt so afraid of His Majesty, he even wanted to escape, but there were a large number of officers and soldiers surrounding him, and Wei Ze, the Minister of Justice, staring at him, and he could not fly.
When Hu Weiyong walked out of the bedroom and saw the figure drinking tea with Zhu Yuanzhang inside, he looked at him for a long time. Although this person was dressed in sloppy, Hu Weiyong felt very familiar. He wondered why His Majesty would drink tea with the beggar. Soon, when the beggar he identified raised his head, his heart was shocked, and he almost imprinted you on his face alive.
Isn’t the person who shocked Hu Weiyong the right prime minister Wang Guangyang who once was on par with Hu Weiyong? In his opinion, Wang Guangyang should have been sent to Hainan by Zhu Yuanzhang after he designed it. Unexpectedly, he would see Wang Guangyang in Zhu Yuanzhang’s bedroom. For a moment, Hu Weiyong was extremely shocked and felt that his inner world was about to collapse. His biggest handle was in the hands of the right prime minister Wang Guangyang. Wang Guangyang also knew most of the details of his rebellion against the party. As long as Wang Guangyang was there, Hu Weiyong’s fate would definitely not be alive.
"Brother Hu, long time no see, don't be fine!" Wang Guangyang in the bedroom did not have the dying energy in prison at all, and he became much more energetic. Although he was hunched over and in ragged clothes, he had a bit of the style of a former prime minister. He stared at Hu Weiyong for a long time, and the turbid old eyes were mixed with all kinds of flavors. A feeling that Hu Weiyong could not explain clearly came to his heart.
Hu Weiyong opened his mouth and didn't know what to say. Zhu Yuanzhang, who was pouring tea, said, "You are the beloved ministers who come to the palace to avoid rituals. You don't have to kneel down. Just treat it as an ordinary friend to drink tea and chat. Let's talk casually, everyone, about Hu Weiyong."
"Brother Hu, don't be nervous, come on, sit down and talk about your future." Wang Guangyang spoke, and the vicissitudes of life were ringing in Hu Weiyong's ears like a death knives ringing in his ears. He looked nervous. He had known that he would have run away and ran away with his son. Seeing his son escape from prison, he was not far from death.
Hu Weiyong walked to Zhu Yuanzhang every step, and he was struggling to move forward. He stared at Zhu Yuanzhang nervously for a long time after all these days.
"Sit down, I, pour you a cup of tea for yourself, Wenhe, and talk about what you saw and heard today." Zhu Yuanzhang's tone was plain, but every word hit Hu Weiyong's heart very heavily. Hu Weiyong sweated coldly, and his hands holding the teacup were trembling. He had already heard Hu Peng's vigor after being in danger. He trembled and picked up the purple clay teacup handed by Zhu Yuanzhang and sipped it gently.
The tea rolled in his mouth, and he showed a difficult look as if he was swallowing lead, "Everyone, I have a question. I have some reason to call me here. Shouldn't I think about my mistakes at the Prime Minister's Mansion?"
"Hu Weiyong, are you pretending not to know? Just your expression in the Prime Minister's Mansion has betrayed you. You had already expected Hu Pengju to escape from prison, right?" Before anyone else could speak, Ma Sanbao's tender voice appeared in Hu Weiyong's ears. Hu Weiyong was shocked and the teacup in his hand almost fell to the ground.
"Wenhe, you misunderstood. I didn't hear Your Majesty announce Pengju's death. Naturally, I will refute you that Pengju is not dead. If you stand in my position, you will definitely be like me. You are not like a white-haired man who sends a black-haired man." Hu Weiyong spoke. He had been tentatively observing Zhu Yuanzhang's face. Zhu Yuanzhang drank tea very calmly, staring at Hu Weiyong with black eyes for a long time. The emperor's heart was as deep as a bottom. No matter how Hu Weiyong guessed, he could not guess Zhu Yuanzhang's thoughts.
After hearing Hu Weiyong's words, Zhu Yuanzhang nodded, "What the Prime Minister said is very true. If Di'er is imprisoned, I may have the same idea."
Hu Weiyong breathed a sigh of relief. Just when he thought he was at peace, Zhu Yuanzhang said, "Let the prison robbery aside first. Hu Weiyong, I ask you, are you loyal to the Ming Dynasty?" After that, Zhu Yuanzhang's face was leaning in front of Hu Weiyong, and carefully looked at Hu Weiyong, which made Hu Weiyong feel scared. He had always been cautious. At this moment, he stared at Wang Guangyang for a long time. Wang Guangyang's appearance broke all his thoughts. Cold sweat kept flowing along his forehead and back. He opened his mouth, but couldn't say a word.
Chapter completed!