Ji Gang was of military origin. His father was a member of a small banner. He served under Emperor Gaozu when he proclaimed himself the King of Han.
Ji Gang was good-looking since he was a child, with a boyish face, red lips and white teeth, and was loved by his parents. He was always sick when he was young, and his parents were afraid that they could not support him, so they raised him as a girl according to local superstition. He had his ears pierced, wore earrings, and a gold necklace around his neck. He had almond eyes and rosy cheeks, and was the most beautiful girl on the street.
When playing house, Ji Gang always played the role of the bride, and ignorant little boys would often fight for him to be their "bride".
When the Ming Dynasty was founded, Ji Gang's father died in battle, and his mother followed him in grief.
Ji Gang, who was only 13 years old, took over his father's job and became a small soldier, holding a stable job and not starving to death. He was spoiled by his parents and neighbors since he was a child, which made him naive, not sweet and domineering.
But after joining the army, everything was different. To survive in the army, one had to rely on a strong background or ruthlessness, which was not suitable for a silly and innocent beautiful boy like Ji Gang.
Ji Gang's beauty successfully attracted the attention of several homosexual officers in the barracks. When he had just entered the barracks for training, these officers deliberately acted like good guys in front of him, helped him deal with several provocative soldiers, took care of him in everything, and then when distributing military salaries, they clamored for Ji Gang to buy them drinks.
This is a common routine. Ji Gang takes the initiative to invite them to drink. If something shameful happens at the banquet, Ji Gang can only endure it, because he was the one who took the initiative to invite the wine. So in the eyes of bystanders, what happened at the banquet was also tacitly accepted or actively invited by him, and others will only blame him as the victim.
Once it happens, it will become a lifelong stain and handle. These beasts will say a few words of sweet advice, saying that their brother will protect you in the future and you won’t have to worry about promotion and wealth. They use both soft and hard tactics to deceive the beautiful young boys into becoming their long-term toys.
Ji Gang was so stupid that he couldn't realize that this was a trap, and he used his newly-paid military pay to set up a banquet to entertain these "big brothers". He didn't know that he treated them as big brothers, but they only wanted to sleep with him.
At the banquet, several old soldiers found various reasons to get him drunk. Ji Gang didn't have much money, and seeing that a jar of wine was gone and he had to buy a new one, he was reluctant to spend the money for the wine, so he played a trick - pretending to be drunk.
If he falls drunk and unconscious, no one will force him to drink, and he can pay less for the drinks.
Ji Gang was drunk, and the old soldiers took off their hypocritical masks and showed their true nature as beasts. Ji Gang was not really drunk and could still resist. He had been weak and sickly since childhood, and his father had hired a master to teach him martial arts to strengthen his body.
Ji Gang beat four people alone. He bit off half of someone's ear, swung a wine jar to crack someone's head, and beat the remaining two people's faces into pig heads. Their faces were so swollen that even their mother couldn't recognize them.
There was a fight in the army, and Mao Xiang was on duty that night. Mao Xiang saw that four people were seriously injured. The "culprit" was a young boy who was as young as a boiled chicken and had not yet fully developed, but was still alive and kicking. If the Military Discipline Department had not tied him up with ropes, he would have had the strength to beat the four people to death.
Mao Xiang asked them why they were fighting. The four seriously injured accused Ji Gang of being drunk and beating people up, saying that he was the first to start the fight - this was not the first time they had done such a thing, and they were sure that Ji Gang was young, thin-skinned, and too embarrassed to speak up, and would definitely not tell the truth.
Of course Mao Xiang would not believe one-sided words and asked Ji Gang.
Ji Gang did not answer Mao Xiang's question, but stared at the four people fiercely and said, "You are unlucky that I didn't beat you to death today! You can die happily! When I let you go, you won't die so happily again! I will make sure you have a taste of being cut into pieces!"
Mao Xiang was really enlightened. In troubled times, only smart people can survive. Since he joined the army, he had never seen such a stupid idiot. He didn't fight for the chance to escape the crime, but just made harsh words. Of course, after a few years, he realized that Ji Gang was not just saying harsh words to show off his strength. This stupid boy really kept his promise of being cut into pieces.
Mao Xiang could smell the alcohol on Ji Gang from a distance. He was angry. They woke me up in the middle of the night. It would be better to let them fight to their heart's content than to seek justice for a group of drunkards who had no respect for military discipline. I could just send someone to collect their bodies the next day.
Mao Xiang wanted to take a good look at this once-in-a-century idiot, so he said, "Raise your head."
Ji Gang was still in shame and anger, and kept his head down. At this time, he was in a stress reaction and felt that the words "raise your head" were also a teasing and obscene.
He was immediately furious and yelled, "You are the same as them! You are no good! I won't lift you up, if you dare, chop me down!"
Mao Xiang thought to himself, I was wrong. This is not an idiot that appears once in a hundred years. This is clearly a huge idiot that appears once in a thousand years.
Mao Xiang ordered his men, "This man is still drunk, drag him out and let him sober up before coming back in."
Ji Gang was dragged out and two buckets of cold water were poured over his head. Even if he was really drunk, he would be sobered up by the cold water, let alone pretending to be drunk.
The cold water washed his bloody face. He was born handsome, and under the light, he looked even more beautiful, with red lips, white teeth, handsome eyebrows, bright eyes, fair skin, beautiful face and long legs. He was even more beautiful than a vase.
Mao Xiang was suddenly amazed and instantly guessed what had happened to Ji Gang. There were no women in the military camp. After a long time, even a sow would seem pretty, let alone a young boy like Ji Gang who was at an age where it was difficult to tell whether he was a boy or a girl.
Mao Xiang once again revised his opinion of Ji Gang: he is a fool once in a thousand years, and also a beautiful boy once in a thousand years.
Handsome boys usually have good luck. Ji Gang successfully touched Mao Xiang's sympathy and hastily closed the case as a drunken fight. Each of them was given 20 lashes of the stick and the five men were expelled from the army. After the matter was settled, Ji Gang was transferred to the Jinyiwei.
Ji Gang was good-looking, so Mao Xiang assigned him tasks such as carrying flags for Emperor Gaozu and other ceremonial tasks. The Jinyiwei was just the emperor's ceremonial guard at the beginning, without real power. Ji Gang made a living by his looks, which was a perfect fit for the position of a vase. With Mao Xiang's protection, no one dared to covet his beauty.
Ji Gang changed from a sparrow to a phoenix and became a close attendant to the emperor. He left the army and had the ability to protect himself. Mao Xiang was like a reborn parent to him and he was loyal to him.
Later, the Jinyiwei gradually gained real power and expanded into a secret service agency. Ji Gang also changed from a vase to Mao Xiang's confidant and was promoted to a small flag. When Hu Shanwei just entered the palace, Mao Xiang gave the task of driving Hu Shanwei out of the palace to his confidant Ji Gang.
The silly and naive Ji Gang put peach blossom powder in Hu Shanwei's wine, hoping that she would have diarrhea all night and miss the palace rules test tomorrow. As a result, Hu Shanwei used rice wine to entertain the new female officials, and things got out of hand...
Ji Gang was caught by Gongzhengsi Fan Gongzheng and tortured severely. Even though his ten fingernails were bitten, he still refused to betray Mao Xiang.
Ji Gang is Mao Xiang's loyal dog, a human-shaped husky with limited IQ and insufficient abilities, often getting into trouble, but he is silly, cute, and loyal to the end.
In order to remain loyal to Emperor Gaozu, Mao Xiang remained unmarried and childless throughout his life. Ji Gang and he were like father and son and had been together for many years. Their relationship was not just that of a superior and a subordinate, but also one of kinship - and kinship was something they could only dream of but could not attain. It was this faint light that made them feel that this life was not particularly sad.
Ji Gang is always slow to make sense and is always just a vase. Mao Xiang has never trained him to be smart and has always spoiled him. It is a kind of happiness for him to be able to remain stupid.
Mao Xiang dedicated his whole life to Emperor Gaozu, and was finally used as a sacrifice to quell public anger. Ji Gang saw it all from beginning to end. Mao Xiang would not kill for his own selfish desires. It was all the emperor's orders. He bore the infamy and hatred of the world for the emperor, but had no regrets.
Ji Gang understood that those memorials impeaching Mao Xiang that flew to the emperor's desk like snowflakes were merely accomplices in Mao Xiang's death. Without the emperor's suggestion, who would dare to impeach Mao Xiang
Therefore, the emperor was the main culprit for Mao Xiang's death.
But now, in order to intimidate his ministers and suppress the crown prince, Emperor Yongle allowed those ministers in the imperial prison to "die of illness."
If Emperor Yongle had not hinted, how could Ji Gang dare to withhold food from the prisoners, not hire doctors for them, and let them die
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As long as Emperor Yongle did not convict them, they would die of disease, not at the hands of Emperor Yongle.
In the end, who is responsible for their deaths
Of course it was Ji Gang, the commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guard.
Especially the death of Xie Jin caused a sensation in the court and the country. Both officials and the people called him a murderous devil, saying that he had deceived the emperor and caused these ministers to die unjustly in prison.
Ji Gang understood that the emperor still needed to use his hand to put pressure on the Eastern Palace. The Eastern Palace could either choose to burst out of silence and make a desperate attempt to force the emperor to abdicate - which would of course fail; or it could not bear the pressure and perish in silence. The Crown Prince of the Eastern Palace would request to abolish the throne on the grounds of poor health and difficulty walking, and the Crown Prince would naturally become the first heir.
When the mission is completed and the anger of the government and the public is about to explode, it is time to push him out to appease the public anger. By then, his fate will be exactly the same as Mao Xiang's.
Ji Gang firmly believed in this.
Ji Gang is not Mao Xiang. Mao Xiang wanted to sacrifice his life to fulfill the friendship between the monarch and his subjects in this life. Ji Gang wanted to resist. He was used to killing people with a borrowed knife. Who could be more suitable to deal with the Zhu family than the Zhu family
After Xie Jin's death, the King of Han was very happy. When his father was choosing the heir to the throne, he listened to the words of Xie Jin and made his eldest brother the crown prince. Now the crown prince is in crisis, and his biggest supporter Xie Jin has died. The King of Han wanted to set off firecrackers to celebrate.
Stay calm, stay calm. The King of Han could only feel happy in his heart and secretly held a banquet to entertain Ji Gang, the great contributor to Xie Jin's death, to thank him for getting rid of this great threat.
Ji Gang was the sword of Emperor Yongle, and Ji Gang regarded the King of Han as his sword to deal with the Ming Dynasty. He pretended to be friendly with the King of Han, and the two of them drank and celebrated together.
Ji Gang complained bitterly about Xie Jin's mistake, "… It was His Royal Highness the Prince of Han and the Emperor who entered the capital, but Xie Jin's words 'good holy grandson' made the Emperor decide to make the prince who had never been on the battlefield the crown prince. Alas, I feel sorry for His Royal Highness. Just because of his words, His Royal Highness denied the four years of hard work in the Jingnan Campaign."
The King of Han was so excited when he heard this that he felt like he had found a true friend. "What a pity! I have killed countless enemies and fought bravely, but I am still no match for a cripple."
"Why do you say that, Your Highness?" Ji Gang smiled, "Your Highness was indeed inferior to the Crown Prince in the Emperor's heart before, but now, Your Highness is in charge of the defense of the capital, and the Crown Prince's people are almost wiped out. Some are imprisoned in the imperial prison, some die, some suffer, or are banished from the capital. It can be seen that Your Highness's position in the Emperor's mind has surpassed that of the Crown Prince."
The King of Han was overjoyed, "Is that true?"
"What is our relationship? Can a humble minister deceive His Highness the King of Han? However—" Ji Gang changed the subject, "Although His Highness has now defeated the Crown Prince, he is still below someone. He is still one step away from His Highness's goal."
The King of Han's smile froze, "Who?"
Ji Gang: "The Crown Prince. As long as the Crown Prince is here, no matter if the Crown Prince is deposed or deposed himself, or abdicates, it will not be your turn. One planted the trees, and the next generation enjoys the shade. Your Highness has worked hard and endured for many years, and made so many calculations, but in the end, the Crown Prince reaped the fruits."
"It's him." The King of Han immediately relaxed. "I thought you were talking about—"
The King of Han paused and did not continue.
The King of Han thought Ji Gang was talking about his third brother, Zhu Gaosui, the Prince of Zhao. Of the three brothers, the Emperor admired the King of Han the most, but he liked the third brother the most. After all, the third brother was the most
Most parents like their younger son.
The King of Zhao divorced his first wife last year and married the daughter of Mu Sheng, the Duke of Qian. In the twelfth month of the lunar calendar, the Princess Mu gave birth to a son. The King of Zhao, who was already thirty years old, was so happy that he almost went crazy and sent someone to the capital to announce the good news.
Upon hearing this good news, Emperor Yongle smiled for a rare moment and gave generous gifts to the Prince of Zhao's Mansion and the Mansion of Mu, his relative-in-law, the Duke of Qian.
Prince Zhao has been stationed in Beijing, and the Ming Dynasty will move its capital to Beijing sooner or later. Prince Zhao has a deep foundation in Beijing, and Prince Han feels inferior to him.
The Prince of Zhao already had the emperor's favor, and now he had a powerful frontier minister, Mu Sheng, Duke of Qian, as his father-in-law. The Prince of Han could not help but feel wary of his third brother.
The King of Han did not take the Crown Prince Zhu Zhanji seriously and said, "If the skin is gone, where will the hair be attached? Zhu Zhanji was named the Crown Prince because he was the eldest son of the Eastern Palace. Now that the Eastern Palace is gone, the Crown Prince Palace will naturally be gone too. How old is he? His hair is not even fully grown. After all, the Eastern Palace Crown Prince has been regent twice and has strength and prestige. The Crown Prince Palace is just like playing house. What ability does he have to compete with me? If he knows what's good for him, he will ask to be abolished as the crown prince like his father did. If he doesn't know what's good for him... Haha, don't blame me for bullying my nephew and using tricks."
Just as the Yongle Emperor, who was still a vassal king at the time, did not understand why Emperor Gaozu made his eldest grandson Zhu Yunwen the crown prince, the current King of Han would not understand that the Yongle Emperor actually favored his eldest grandson Zhu Zhanji.
Seeing the King of Han's determination to win, Ji Gang sneered in his heart: Sitting on the mountain and watching tigers fight, there will be another good show to watch.
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