The first year of Tianshun, May, Beijing.

Emperor Tianshun saw that the battle between Xu Youzhen, Shi Heng, and Cao Jixiang was intensifying, and he was very unscrupulous, and he was also angry in his heart, and he began to prepare to intervene.

At this time, Xu Youzhen, Shi Heng, and Cao Jixiang's henchmen not only quarreled and abused each other in the early dynasty, but also spread the struggle to daily government affairs.

As long as one party is responsible for handling the government affairs, the people of the other side will never assist, and even secretly make stumbling blocks, so that many government affairs are delayed, and even some major court affairs are interrupted!

After Liu Juntao heard the news, he also sighed, this is the routine of party struggle at the end of the Ming Dynasty, I never expected that it would start to make trouble during the Tianshun period at this time.

It is based on this situation that Emperor Tianshun attaches more importance to Liu Juntao's opinions, after all, in Liu Juntao's recital, the worries about the ministers in the court have been written in great detail, and now Shi Heng, Cao Jixiang, and Xu Youzhen are doing like this!

As a result, Emperor Tianshun successively mobilized the ministers of the court and the central government, firmly controlled the government in his hands, and began to openly intervene in some government affairs, especially the dismissal of some ministers who were busy fighting and abandoning government affairs.

It just so happened that at this time, the Tatar army that had been reorganized began to appear along the nine-sided line, and these Tatar iron cavalry armies numbered more than 10,000 horses and horses, and at least hundreds or thousands of iron cavalry, constantly plundering and attacking in various parts of the nine sides, causing constant smoke and alarms in all parts of the nine sides.

Although the soldiers and horses in various places can still resist the harassment of the Tatar iron cavalry, the people in various places have begun to be displaced, and many people have begun to flock to Datong Town, Xuanfu Town, Shanxi Town and other places, which makes the local government complain and panic.

Emperor Tianshun received the urgent documents sent from the towns on the nine sides, and he was also very anxious, and summoned the military department for several days, as well as some military ministers in the court.

During this period, Emperor Tianshun also heard some rumors, and many people inside and outside the palace were rumoring that if Lord Bingxian Yu was still there, the Tatar Ministry would never dare to be so rampant!

Hearing this, Emperor Tianshun was also silent, maybe it was reflection, maybe regret, and he didn't have any disposition with the palace people who rumored these statements in private.

After that, Emperor Tianshun became even more estranged from Xu Youzhen.

You must know that not long ago, Emperor Tianshun still favored Xu Youzhen, and often summoned Xu Youzhen into the palace, retreated from his entourage, and talked with him secretly.

After the eunuch Cao Jixiang inquired, he asked the little eunuch to eavesdrop~ listen to the conversation between the two, and then deliberately leaked what he heard to Emperor Tianshun.

Emperor Tianshun was very surprised when he heard this, and hurriedly asked Cao Jixiang how he learned about these conversations.

Cao Jixiang had already thought of his words, knowing that because of those rumors in the palace before, Emperor Tianshun had begun to alienate Xu Youzhen, so he added a fire at this time and said: "Your Majesty, the old slave heard about it from the cabinet minister Xu Youzhen. What did His Majesty say to him one day, there is nothing outside that he doesn't know, and Xu Gechen is proud because of this, saying that he is His Majesty's close minister! ”

When Emperor Tianshun heard this, he immediately believed it, and his heart was full of anger, so he completely alienated Xu Youzhen from then on.

From then on, Xu Youzhen was horrified to find that Emperor Tianshun not only frequently vetoed his various political opinions, but also no longer issued edicts to let him enter the palace!

So, Xu Youzhen began to increase the suppression of Shi Heng and Cao Jixiang, and secretly instructed Yushi Zhang Peng and others to impeach Shi Heng, but before this note was submitted, it was leaked to Shi Heng and Cao Jixiang by Wang Xuan in the matter.

After Shi Heng and Cao Jixiang learned of the situation, they entered the palace together and cried in front of Emperor Tianshun, claiming that Xu Youzhen and the cabinet ministers were behind the scenes, intending to kill the two of them.

After hearing this, Emperor Tianshun was furious, put Zhu Yushi in prison, and arrested Xu Youzhen on the charge of "trying to abuse authority and rejecting the old".

However, when Jinyiwei arrested Xu Youzhen, the sky suddenly changed, thunder and lightning were combined, hail was blowing, and the wind blew trees.

Emperor Tianshun thought that this was a warning from heaven, and suddenly woke up, realizing that he had suppressed Xu Youzhen too much, and Shi Heng and Cao Jixiang must have done something from it, so he temporarily released Xu Youzhen, demoted him to Guangdong to participate in politics, and left Beijing within a time limit.

In this regard, Shi Heng and Cao Jixiang still did not give up, and secretly handed in an anonymous book, reprimanded Emperor Tianshun, and then blamed Xu Youzhen, saying that Xu Youzhen instructed the doorman Ma Shiquan to do it because of resentment.

At this time, Emperor Tianshun was completely angry, and immediately sent Jinyi Wei out of Beijing and ordered Xu Youzhen, who had already set off, to be arrested.

At this time, Xu Youzhen had already gone south into the territory of Dezhou, but he didn't want to be caught up by Jinyiwei here, so he was arrested back to Beijing in despair and imprisoned with his disciple Ma Shiquan.

However, after the interrogation of the Beizhen Fusi, there was no evidence.

Soon, Emperor Tianshun was on fire at Chengtianmen, and it was rumored in the palace that the court had killed too heavily and caused the heavens to be angry, so he granted amnesty to the world.

Shi Heng was worried about Xu Youzhen's release, so he said to Emperor Tianshun: "When Xu Youzhen was knighted, he wrote his own edict, which included the sentence 'Zhang Yu succeeded', and he also chose Wugong County as a fiefdom. Dayu was once called the emperor by Chan, and Wugong County was once Cao Cao's fiefdom. He compares himself with Dayu and Cao Cao, and has hopes. ”

Under the instruction of Cao Jixiang, Liu Guangheng, the servant of the Criminal Department, wrote to Emperor Tianshun, believing that Xu Youzhen should be beheaded and abandoned in order to set an example.

However, Emperor Tianshun never made up his mind, but only demoted Xu Youzhen and drove him out of the capital, and ordered him to go south to Shandong and Nanzhili to inspect the Yellow River embankment.

At the end of June of the first year of Tianshun.

Xu Youzhen, who has gone through ups and downs several times, no longer has the previous bearing, and has become depressed at this time, and under the attention of the court, he went out of Beijing and went south with a disgraced face.

Shi Heng, Cao Jixiang and others couldn't help but celebrate and become more and more arrogant when they heard the news.

When Xu Youzhen had just left Beijing and had not yet arrived in Fucheng County, Liu Juntao had already learned the news through the Ministry of Intelligence.

After hearing that Shi Heng, Cao Jixiang and others were becoming more and more rampant, Liu Juntao couldn't help but sneer and said to Liu Zi'an: "Shi Heng and Cao Jixiang are still complacent, but they don't know that after Xu Youzhen falls, the end of the two of them is not far away!" ”

Liu Zi'an also said: "Then Shi Heng and Cao Jixiang also had great determination when they launched the change to seize the door, why are they so confused and even pedantic now?" ”

"That's because Shi Heng and Cao Jixiang's great determination in this life was used up on the night of the change of seizing the door!"

Speaking of which, Liu Juntao also recalled Xu Youzhen's fate in history.

In the original history, Xu Youzhen was repeatedly falsely accused by Shi Heng, Cao Jixiang and others, and was exiled to Golden Tooth (now Baoshan, Yunnan) by the angry Tianshun Emperor, and was cut to the people.

In the fourth year of Tianshun, Shi Heng was killed by Emperor Tianshun, and Xu Youzhen was allowed to return to his hometown to live idlely.

However, at this time, Xu Youzhen was looking forward to being reused by Emperor Tianshun, so he observed the celestial phenomena at home every day, and claimed that the star was located in Wu, often waving the iron whip and dancing, waiting for the arrival of good news with confidence.

But not long after, Xu Youzhen heard that Han Yong, the general of Wudi, had made meritorious contributions to the expedition to Liangguang, and Xu Youzhen threw away the iron whip in despair and sighed: "I didn't think that the celestial phenomena should be on this kid." "

Since then, Xu Youzhen has wandered among the mountains and rivers, and died of illness more than ten years later, which can be regarded as a good death.

It is precisely because of this that Liu Juntao is very dissatisfied in his heart, Xu Youzhen is the culprit who killed Yu Qian, that is Qin Hui in the world!

Such a traitor can still get a good death, it's just that God is blind!

Thinking of this, Liu Juntao couldn't help but snort coldly and said: "Now that Xu Youzhen has left the capital and is coming towards our Shandong, I don't know what the fate of this thief is!" ”