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THE PRINCE OF HERBS

1389 AD, Ming Dynasty, China "Guardsmen! Take him to his exile in Yunnan, right now!" "Fu Huang!..." "Shut up! Oh... how can my own son stab me from behind... Not only other people I can't trust, and now I can't even trust my own son either!... It's far more painful..." *** "Tomorrow morning," Xie Wang said slowly. "Tomorrow morning... you will see dozens of dead bodies lying all over the streets in Yunnan." Xie Wang looked straight to Zhu Su, his eyes as sharp as a knife, "This is a war. The battle between me, Yuan Prince, and you Ming Prince. A battle to determine who is the most suitable to be the next ruler of Yunnan!" *** "Your Highness... Bad news, Your Highness!" Wu Qi was breathless as he answered, "All streets in Yunnan... are full of dead bodies..." Zhu Su stunned. It can't be, Witchcrafts of Xie Wang is the hell real?!? He just walked not any longer, yet he had found a dead body was lying face down on the street. The farther he walked, the more corpses he found. And finally, he arrived at the town square, where people had been crowded together. *** "I am Zhu Su, the fifth son of Hongwu Emperor, I promise to smash the Witchcrafts of Xie Wang, and get you all free from the outbreak!" Zhu Su sharpened his voice. "The promise from a leader is not a children's game. Bear it in mind!" A man in early forties, who seemed to be the leader of rebels, held his spear up, shouted, "Fine! We appreciate your determination, Ming Prince, so keep your promise! If you fail to keep it up, then I'll make sure that Ming honor, as well as yours, will be ruined!" *** A biographical novel of Prince Zhu Su, the fifth prince of the Hongwu Emperor who was the founder of Ming Dynasty, who devoted himself for medical science and humanity. But before he could fulfil his devotion, he was forced to go through royal disputes, conflicts, power struggles, punishments, rebellions, and even death threats. Could he overcome those problems and reached his noble dream? Find out in this novel. This is a work of biographical novel about a real historical figure. Some characters, plot premise, and certain sections of the story are based on historical events and figures, but there are some parts which are pure fiction. Some of names, characters, businesses, places, events, locales, and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner; any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental. This novel is an original work of myself, not a translated work. Last but not least; I hope you enjoy this story. And thank you very much for your appreciation and support! Have a nice day!

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ARRESTMENT AND TORTURE 2

"You!" Zhu Su pointed Suo Junhuan. "It is you who treat those patients, isn't it?!"

Suo Junhuan twitched in surprise as Zhu Su pointed him in sudden. "Yes..."

"How can you be so brave to use 6 cun needles for dangerous points? You have studied acupuncture, right? Is that allowed? What if you do harm to the patient and take their lives, just to look great in public?!"

"But, the patients I treat all get recovered!"

Suo Junhuan shouted very loudly. This time his nervous expression had totally disappeared, replaced by an expression full of fury - everybody watched him would be sure that Suo Junhuan was truly "The Murderer Physician." He was glaring furiously at Zhu Su.

Zhu Su glared back at him. "Alright... I believe that you are capable to heal people with uncommon and fantastic treatment... but the problem is, you do it on the podium in the city hall and hundreds, or even thousands of people watch you. I'm sure you can do it in a more private area and don't attract crowds. But this way, it seems that you are informing the public that all this time the mainstream medicine is useless, and the useful one is such radical and extreme style. What if the whole Ming follows your footstep?! That's why I say that you are doing public duping!"

"It's absurd! All I do is just to free people from the suffering of illness, why am I being blamed like that?"

"What if the physicians follow your action, but they instead do malpractice which is harmful to the patient's lives? If somebody dies, then is it because of you?"

"I don't get your point, really! I just want to help the sick people, but I am treated like this! Huh! Apparently, it is the government's nature to burden whoever does good for society!"

"Don't talk nonsense, Suo Junhuan!" Liu Ku snapped. "You treat your patients as if you're performing a drama, so show-off it's clear that you are organizing political campaign behind it. That's what we want to set right now, so don't distort His Highness' intentions with your nasty slander!"

"I know... this is all but your motive, Liu Ku. You envy me because you can't surpass me, so you provoke Zhou Wang to arrest us, you damned fool!"

Liu Ku was almost provoked to reply with harsh words, but his eyes met with Zhu Su, thus soon remembered his advice that "this is a state matter, a matter that concerns many people's lives." He took a deep breath, then said cynically, "It is you who bring up personal matters here. I am a government official, all I do are based on my responsibility to this country. After all, His Highness Zhou Wang is an open-minded person, even if I really intend to provoke him, but he who is open-minded will not be influenced by my provocations as you guess."

"You are a government official, you can talk whatever you want anyway, as commoners we are always on the wrong side while you will be on the right side no matter what happens!"

"I notice that you like to make self-victimization, you like to be oppressed by the government. Ridiculous. You are supposed to wish become the powerful one, but why are you likely to become the victims instead?"

Strangely, Liu Ku's question silenced them for a few moments. They seemed to be confused about how to give the best answer for that question. Liu Ku's question also tickled Zhu Su to ask, "That's true. Why do you hate the government so much? What are your real motives? And... actually who are you?"

Huan Shikang burst to laugh.

"Don't laugh! Answer His Highness' question properly!" Could not bear his tension anymore, Wu Qi hit Huan Shikang's shoulder with his spear. Made him soon grimaced in pain.

"Who we are, huh?..." Clutching his aching shoulder, Huan Shikang glared at Wu Qi, then now looked closely at Zhu Su. "If you want to know the answer, Zhou Wang, then find out the answer by yourself! But... I'm sure you won't be able to find it! Because you can't... Never!"

And once again, Huan Shikang laughed aloud.

Huan Shikang's causing-earache laughter immediately lit the anger that Zhu Su tried to master previously. His logic and common sense were immediately faded, instead, rage overpowered his whole mind. He said in a cold voice, "So, you think I won't be able to find it out?... Let me tell you, it's a very easy job for me to do. Even more, the information I need will come out of your own mouths, you will voluntarily tell me about it..."

He pulled his gaze towards Chen Xinyi. "Put them in prison, and interrogate them with the Method of Jinyiwei!"

The whole room looked shocked by this order. They had never witnessed Zhu Su did cruelty towards anyone, even towards the prisoners with very serious crimes. But this time, he instead ordered that all three of them being interrogated by the Method of Jinyiwei - there the interrogators would torture the suspects who were unwilling to plead guilty by using a lot of gruesome torture methods that made them finally were willing to confess, that was why Jinyiwei appeared like a terrible demon in the Ming era. Even Chen Xinyi looked doubted to do the order, he stared at Zhu Su with widened eyes as if he did not believe with what he heard.

"What are you waiting for? Do the order right now." Zhu Su's voice did sound cool and calm, but it was filled with anger and impatience. Chen Xinyi bowed respectfully, then he and his men dragged those captives.

"W... what?! What do you want to do with us?!" Realizing that something terrible was about to happen to them, Huan Shikang no longer looked arrogant and showed off.

"About that, you'll find it soon," Zhu Su replied shortly.

"You will torture us?!" De Ta was more or less able to guess what would happen.

Zhu Su did not heed him.

"No! No! Don't do that!" De Ta shouted uncontrollably. He started to wave his hands and feet. "Don't do that! Oh, Heaven... please spare my life! Don't torture me, please..."

"If you are unwilling to deal with torture, then answer His Highness' question," Wu Qi uttered.

De Ta was breathless. Cold sweat ran down his pale face. He looked so terrified. He bit his lips, then shouted. "Okay! I will tell you the truth! We are..."