The British Duke took Zhao Xing and the others to sit down, Zhang Zhiji and his buttocks had just touched the chair, but the British Duke called the little fat man: "Call a team of family members to watch outside the hall, don't let people approach." ”

The little fat man agreed, and he had to arrange it.

Zhao Xing knew that what he wanted to say was big, and it was related to the affairs of the Heavenly Family in the court, so he should be so careful. So he whispered, "Last time, the assassins knew our location so quickly, without any fuss, this matter-"

The British Duke stretched out his hand, stopped Zhao Xing's words, and turned to the little fat man with a pale face: "In time, tell your ten brothers to get up, stand outside the lobby, and don't let anyone approach." ”

Wang Dazhuang and the other ten brothers have really become the henchmen of the little fat man, and such a vigilant arrangement is reasonable.

Wang Dazhuang is loyal to Zhang Zhiji because of the kindness of the prince. The prince didn't sleep, of course everyone didn't sleep, and he arrived as soon as he called. In the blink of an eye, ten men wearing the general armor of the forbidden army occupied the four corners of the hall, facing outward, solemnly guarded.

The butler extinguished the candles in other places, left the northeast corner alone against a lamp in the dead corner, and then went out through the back door, but did not go far, and walked around the hall with his hands behind his back, driving away those who wanted to approach.

Zhao Xing looked around, this was really a bit of a conspiracy, and he couldn't help but feel creepy.

Ignoring the others, the British Duke first drank a bowl of hot porridge, and then whispered to the three people on the table and his daughter sitting in the shadows: "Things are not as simple as we imagined. ”

One is not simple, it is enough to show that the matter is serious.

Seeing that Zhao Xing bowed his head and was silent, just playing with the empty wine glass in front of him, the British Duke asked directly: "What do you think?" ”

didn't say what Zhao Xing was looking forward to in the palace, but asked himself abruptly, Zhao Xing smiled calmly, and said according to his own train of thought: "I am presumptuous, at the beginning of the matter, I feel that things are not simple. ”

"Tell me." The British duke picked up another bowl of hot porridge and drank it slowly, without even raising his eyes.

Zhao Xing looked at Guogong's apparent calmness, and finally decided that because of his friendship with Zhang Zhi and the little fat man, it was necessary and obligatory to remind the British Duke of the things that he and Guo Guangsheng had inferred, and not to let him fall into the trap of someone with a heart to use him and Donglin to the death, and finally caused the scene of being forced to death by Donglin when Huang Taiji invaded Gyeonggi for the first time.

After sorting out his thoughts, Zhao Xing, who was cautious, said slowly: "At the beginning, the prince revealed to him the matter of the dismissal of Jinyiwei. ”

The British Gongyi frowned and said casually: "Don't be under the bottom, this is not outside." ”

Zhao Xing immediately changed his words: "At that time, with experience and intuition, the kid felt that the matter of dismantling Dongchang Jinyiwei was not very reliable. Although Donglin bullied the emperor young, the emperor was wise (in fact, he was not stupid), and he had also experienced with the first emperor, and he was not so easy to fool, so he said some of my views to the prince. ”

Zhao Xing said that Chongzhen's experience with the first emperor was not groundless.

In a book "The Governor of the Ming Dynasty", it is said that Tianqi is tired of the throne and has always had the idea of giving way to his younger brother, and Zhao Xing has always thought that the author has come to a very solid conclusion after research.

The two brothers, Tianqi and Chongzhen, lost their mothers since they were children, and grew up in the deep palace with their unlucky father. When I was a child, I felt the dark and insidious deception in the deep palace, and with the cowardly character of the Apocalypse, I was absolutely afraid of this kind of deception, so I practiced a carpenter's craft, which was just a means for him to relieve fear and anxiety, and it was also an escape.

But he was forcibly put on the throne by the British public, but he didn't feel the joy of the emperor's 95th Supreme, but he was used as a tool for party struggle by the aggressive Donglin party.

It is this background that the Apocalypse supported Wei Zhongxian, firstly, because he was tired of the government and found someone to replace him, and secondly, he also supported a force to offset Donglin's containment of his fingers.

And he does not fall into the feast every day, but every time he has to bring his younger brother Chongzhen, in principle, this is absolutely not in accordance with the rules.

The feast is a great Confucian minister in the world, who explains the art of imperial power to the emperor, and must not be allowed to be learned by outsiders, let alone a prince? You must know that the courtiers of the Ming Dynasty, especially Donglin, have always been strictly guarded against rebellion to the point of paranoia, how can such a thing happen?

But the apocalypse threatened to study at the scripture feast, and in the end, he made his younger brother an auditor.

At the same time, he resolutely used various excuses not to let his younger brother go, which is also very meaningful.

Since he has been educated in the art of imperial power and strategy, and in addition, he is not as weak as Tianqi, but has a strong personality, and he never respects Tianqi's last words to retain Wei Zhongxian and decisively defeat him, Chongzhen has a certain opinion of his own, and he is not willing to be easily swayed by Donglin.

Regarding Zhao Xing's statement, the British public continued to eat noncommittally, although it was still the same as chewing wax, but he was really hungry, and he still ate a lot quickly.

Hearing Zhao Xing pause, the British duke urged: "Say, say, keep talking, the old man listens." ”

Zhao Xing continued: "Since the prince told the prince of my inappropriate opinion, and the prince reported to the emperor, and at the same time, the emperor rarely went out of the palace to visit me, it means one thing, the emperor hesitated about the dismissal of the official's sworn enemy Jinyiwei, and instead had a new idea. That's why I wanted to hear what I'm an outsider thinks. Looking at the somewhat embarrassed British duke, Zhao Xing carefully praised Chongzhen: "Although our emperor is young, he still has the courage to listen to Zeming, and he can't accept it without principles no matter what anyone says." ”

In this way, it is to relieve the siege of the British public, and at the same time, it is also to remind the national prince not to be too self-righteous in front of the emperor.

Cui Yan, who was sitting in the corner, suddenly said: "According to your logic, the Donglin Party people are fully advocating the abolition of the Dongchang Jinyi Guard, and as soon as my father said this, it caused the emperor's private visit, which even revealed the truth of the natural and man-made disasters in Shanxi and Shaanxi, so that the Donglin dog jumped over the wall to kill people?" ”

Zhao Xing smiled and shook his head gently: "The eldest lady's opinion, but I dare not agree." ”

Saying this, the British Duke was stunned, so he put down his job, but turned his head and asked Guo Guangsheng: "What the old gentleman said about Shanxi, but is it true?" ”

Guo Guangsheng said bitterly: "What the old man said is not enough to be true. ”

The British Duke nodded lightly, and then turned to Zhao Xing: "If what the old gentleman said is true, and the emperor knows the real situation, then do you know how big the shock of Shanxi officialdom should be, and how many heads should fall to the ground?" In particular, the new governor of Shanxi, but the new emperor ascended the throne the year before last, and Donglin fully recommended their fellow party Geng Ruqi. That position is where half of the sky is supported, and it is also where half of the strength of Donglin is located. ”

The governor of Shanxi in the Ming Dynasty is the first of the three governors in the world, the full name is the governor of Yanmen and other passes and governors of Shanxi, and the nine guards of Qinzhou and Ninghua are the nine guards of Jining, Yanping, Qilan, Hedong, Lu'an, and Ningwu, and the four prefectures of Taiyuan, Pingyang, Lu'an, and Fenzhou of Shanxi Buzheng Division, Liao, Qin, and Ze, and the Taiyuan of Shanxi Prefecture, and nine castles such as Qinzhou and Ninghua.

The position is higher than the governor of Shandong, who does not have a political envoy, the governor of Sichuan, who governs Yunnan, Guichuan, and the area of Liaodong, and the governor of Denglai, who defends Beijing and Tianjin, can be said to hold half of the sky of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhao Xing smiled: "The kid also understood it this way at the beginning, in order to cover up the truth, he did not hesitate to hunt down and kill us and others to enter the national mansion, but things don't seem to be quite right." ”

After looking at Zhao Xing for a long time, the British Duke asked word by word: "What's wrong?" ”

Zhao Xing looked at Guo Guangsheng, because he had been repeatedly deliberating with Guo Guangsheng for several nights about this matter, at this time, Guo Guangsheng was the party concerned, and at the same time he was from Shaanxi, and it seemed more convincing for him to say it.

Guo Guangsheng understood what Zhao Xing meant, and said slowly: "Natural disasters and man-made disasters in Shanxi can be described as hell on earth, in fact, even if all the officials want to deceive their superiors and subordinates, they will not be completely covered up. ”

The British Duke sneered, and smiled silently.