Chapter 270                                                             

That night, after dinner, a servant came to report that Jiang Chengzhi was visiting. He only smiled slightly at the third prince. Jiang Lang was a little strange. He did not expect Jiang Chengzhi to come so quickly.

After inviting him in, the three of them went to the pavilion in the courtyard. The weather is neither hot nor hot now, and the general's mansion is also very cautious. Even the pavilion is a good place to talk.

Four lanterns were lit around the pavilion, and the faint lights also illuminated the pavilion clearly. On the stone table in the pavilion were placed, there were a few plates of snacks and a few cups of tea, and the three of them sat around the table.

After sitting down, Jiang Chengzhi took out a book-like thing from his arms and handed it to the third prince, saying, "Prince, this is what you want!"

The third prince took it, slowly looked it through, and then said, "Is this what was found from Wang Zhen's home?"

Jiang Chengzhi nodded and said, "Yes, I found it in the secret room of Wang Zhen's home. I am the only one who knows about this book, and there is no one else!"

The third prince nodded softly, handed the book to Jiang Chengzhi and said, "Are you copying this book again?"

Jiang Chengzhi's face changed and he said anxiously: "Prince, don't you believe me? I can guarantee it with my life. No one else knows this book except me, and no one knows the contents of it!"

The third prince waved his hand and explained: "I didn't mean that! You found this book. Now I want to use this book to consolidate the status of Dacai in Dongchang, so I will hand it over to him later. As for how he handles it, it's up to him. However, the things in this book may be useful to you in the future, and I am also prepared for any trouble!"

Jiang Chengzhi did not accept the book, but said seriously: "Your Majesty, it's up to you, I have been the commander of the Jinyiwei. I am very grateful to you. Even if you want my life, I have no complaints, let alone this mere book! If the prince looks down on me, Jiang Chengzhi, please take back what happened just now."

The third prince was slightly stunned, with his hand back, and smiled and said, "So, I will take back what I said just now, and the king will accept this book. Despite the fact that there is still a problem, we plan to use one or two of them to conduct surgery. Then you have to check some evidence for me. The Dongchang could have investigated the case, and Dacai was also the factory of the Dongchang, so it can be handled naturally, and there is no need to hand it over to the Ministry of Justice for handling!"

After saying that, the third prince opened the book and said, "Let's take a look together!"

The meaning of the Third Prince doing this is also very obvious. Regardless of whether Jiang Chengzhi has read this book or knowing the contents of the book, he did this to make Jiang Chengzhi realize that he did not treat him as an outsider.

Jiang Lang took off a lantern at this time, opened up a few plates of snacks on the table, placed the lantern on the table so that he could see more clearly, and then put his head over.

The book is written on the surface of "Zizhi Tongjian". People who don't know think it is the book "Zizhi Tongjian" written by Sima Guang, but when they open it, they are all about the corruption and abuse of power by some ministers in the court, such as who gave him how much money he gave him, what purpose he achieved, and even how much he gave him was recorded. Of course, this also includes the generals of the East Factory.

As the third prince turned one by one, Jiang Lang became more and more frightened as he read it. He recorded the evidence of corruption and abuse of power in almost every few pages. In this way, the Ming Dynasty officials recorded in this book were nearly hundreds of large and small. Although some of them had been cleaned up with Wang Zhen's collapse, some still held important positions in the court. These people were too secretly disregarded, or they were the court's great kindness and did not care too much, so they escaped.

After turning dozens of pages, the third prince couldn't help but sigh, closed the book, and then gently placed it on the table, saying, "I didn't expect that since there are so many people in my Ming Dynasty officials who are willing to enjoy their own interests, on the surface, they all shouted loyalty to the emperor and patriotism! This made me so disappointed!"

Jiang Lang was also very shocked. He was also a little strange at first. According to historical records, after taking over the battle with Washu, the national strength of the Ming Dynasty began to decline. But now he saw with his own eyes that although this battle had caused a deep harm to the Ming Dynasty, it did not hurt the point where a country could begin to decline. Now it seems that the decline of this country was actually only secondary, but more of an internal factor. The so-called disaster caused Xiao Wall, the corruption and abuse of power and favoritism and fraud in the public directly affected the development of the country. But then, many of the countless dynasties in history were caused by internal chaos, and the entire dynasty was destroyed as soon as the foreign enemy came. This time, in terms of military strength, the Ming Dynasty was superior to Washu. In terms of advantages, Washu was a merit, and the Ming Dynasty was defending, and there were city walls to rely on, but it was still defeated so miserably. The main reason was that Wang Zhen did not understand military tactics and commanded blindly, which also counted the internal factors.

Jiang Chengzhi was glad at this time that he had read this book a long time ago, and there were no records about him. On the one hand, he might not be worthy of record, and on the other hand, he did not have any corruption or abuse of power at all. However, regardless of these reasons, just because there was no evidence of his own in the book, Jiang Chengzhi felt that his waist was straightened a little and said, "Prince, what should you do about it? Leave this book to the emperor and let him come forward?"

"no!"

The third prince denied Jiang Chengzhi's suggestion very firmly and said, "There are too many people involved in this book. Once it is handed over to the emperor, the entire court will be in chaos! It will be difficult to deal with it at that time!"

Jiang Chengzhi couldn't help but be stunned. He obviously didn't think of this problem, and then asked: "What does the prince mean?"

The third prince was silent for a while, picked up the book in his hand again, flipped through it, and handed it to Jiang Chengzhi, saying: "Follow the records in the book, check it out one by one for me to see how many people are still not cleaned up when they were cleaning up Wang Zhen's remnants. Then we are discussing countermeasures!"

Jiang Chengzhi nodded and took over the book.
Chapter completed!