In the early morning of the next day, the Queen Mother suddenly came to find Zhu Cihong.

"Queen Mother, why are you here?" Zhu Cihong said with a smile.

"The queen mother can't come to see you if she's fine? It's you, it's been so long since you ascended the throne, it seems that you've only been to see the queen mother once. The Queen Mother glared at Zhu Cihong dissatisfiedly.

The Queen Mother was actually less than thirty-one years old, when she was in Beijing, because she was worried about the life of Emperor Chongzhen all day long, and she fled for half a month after the city of Beijing was broken, she looked very haggard when she first arrived in Nanjing, but now she has been raised in Cining Palace for almost a month, and her haggard color is gone, and she looks like she has recovered her age of thirty, graceful and luxurious.

"The queen mother is angry, it is the son's unfilial piety, and she must often go to see the queen mother in the future." Zhu Cihong said with a smile. After two months of precipitation, Zhu Cihong called the queen mother more and more smoothly, and faintly regarded the queen mother as his biological mother.

"Why didn't I see Miss Dieyi, I don't know how her injuries were." The Queen Mother glanced left and right and said.

"I'm still in the inner hall, the injury is almost healed, if the queen mother wants to see her, the son will ask her to come out." Zhu Cihong said.

"Wait a minute, the queen mother has something to say to you." The Queen Mother said, put away her smile, and looked very solemn.

"Mother, please speak."

"Early this morning, Yang Wuhou's wife came to find the queen mother, and told the queen mother two rumors outside the palace, one is about the girl Dieyi, and the other is about Xu Yueying, the youngest daughter of the Duke of Wei, and said a lot, probably that the girl Dieyi was the righteous daughter of the thief Liu Zeqing, and she was a red face and trouble, and Xu Yueying was suspected of being the reincarnation of the queen of the founding horse, and she was the queen of heaven, and she could bring luck to the Ming Dynasty, hoping that the queen mother could persuade the emperor to obey the will of heaven and marry Xu Yueying as the queen for the sake of the Ming Dynasty."

"Do you believe it? This is to persuade the retainers? Zhu Cihong frowned and looked at the Queen Mother.

"Silly emperor, the queen mother is not a fool, how can you believe such a fallacy, not to say that there is no butterfly girl, the emperor of the mourning family may have died in Huangquan, just say what kind of providence, since your father ascended the throne, in the past seventeen years, the queen mother and your father do not know how many times to worship the heavens, praying for God to bless the Ming, in the end the capital is not occupied by thieves, but also forced your father to death, if there is really any providence, isn't it my Ming should die? Xu Yueying is the daughter of the Xu family of the Duke of Wei, who has lived in Nanjing for generations, and the Xu family controls the military power of the Beijing camp. There was sarcasm in the Queen Mother's eyes, and her heart was like a mirror.

"Originally, if they didn't rumor Dieyi as a demon girl, they were red-faced and ruined, and said so many bad things about Dieyi, the queen mother might still be fooled by them, but the queen mother believed in her own eyes, and the queen mother would not be wrong to see people, and the queen mother could see that Dieyi was a resolute girl, a rare good girl in the world, and was born in a scholarly family, with an elegant temperament all over her body, and saved the life of the emperor, just by virtue of this, the queen mother decided that she was the daughter-in-law of my Zhu family."

"The queen mother did agree to Mrs. Yang Wuhou to come and persuade the emperor, but not to persuade the emperor to make the daughter of the Xu family the queen, but to make the emperor vigilant, this matter is not simple, and a careless will have unpredictable consequences."

After listening to the Queen Mother's words, Zhu Cihong was stunned, looked at the Queen Mother blankly, and couldn't imagine that the Queen Mother could also see it thoroughly, no wonder it was said in history that many times if Emperor Chongzhen was willing to listen to Empress Zhou's advice, the fate of the Ming Dynasty was likely to be rewritten, this is not a little unreasonable, Empress Zhou's heart is like a mirror, and there is such a mother who is God's favor for him.

"The Queen Mother does not ask you to do anything, but you must not take it lightly, nor do you rush it." The Queen Mother said.

For so many years, the Queen Mother has already seen many things, she knows that this is a crisis, she has no ability to help her son resolve this crisis, all she can do is not interfere.

"Erchen understands, Erchen thanks the queen mother." Zhu Cihong bowed deeply to the Queen Mother.

After the Queen Mother finished talking to Zhu Cihong, she went in to talk to Yiyi, left some things for Yiyi, and went back to Cining Palace.

"Yang Wuhou?" After the Queen Mother left, Zhu Cihong muttered a thought in her mouth, and her eyes flashed fiercely.

Two days later, Xu Hongji listened to the report of his subordinates.

"Didn't the Queen Mother go to persuade the emperor? Why is there no movement at all? Xu Hongji frowned and said: "Could it be that the queen mother's persuasion did not work, and the emperor still insisted on going his own way?" ”

"If the emperor really insists on going his own way, only we can help the emperor make a decision." Xu Hongji said fiercely.

Xu Hongji couldn't have imagined that the Queen Mother didn't persuade Zhu Cihong at all, but her heart was like a mirror, she saw through a lot of them, and told Zhu Cihong to be vigilant, but Xu Hongji's misunderstanding also made Xu Hongji make a dangerous move.

On this day, Zhu Cihong was reviewing the recital in the imperial study.

Although the things on the recital are all some praises of merit and virtue, and inconsequential little things, which makes him angry, but as an emperor, reviewing the recital is the work he must do, in order to speed up, those little things that praise merit or trivial things are all thrown aside by Zhu Cihong, too lazy to waste time annotating.

"Grandma's, one by one, try to fool me." Zhu Cihong couldn't help but scold.

At this time, suddenly a little palace maid broke in under the leadership of Zhao Dequan, and both of them looked extremely flustered, as if something big had happened.

"Your Majesty, Miss Fang Cai was assassinated in the emperor's bedroom!"

"What!" Zhu Cihong stood up suddenly, threw away the unfinished piece in his hand, and ran in the direction of the dormitory without thinking about it.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, slow down, nothing happened to Miss Dieyi, it's just that Miss Huang Ying's hand is a little injured, and the assassin has been ambushed!" Zhao Dequan hurriedly chased after him, shouting.

"You didn't say it sooner!" Zhu Cihong glared at Zhao Dequan fiercely.

Back in the dormitory, there was chaos here, there was a twenty-year-old palace maid's body lying on the ground, it seemed that she had committed suicide by taking poison after an assassination failure, Zhu Cihong didn't care about this, and quickly found Yiyi.

"Yiyi, you're fine, are you hurt?" Zhu Cihong asked anxiously.

"Your Majesty, Yiyi is fine, if Sister Huang Ying hadn't found out in time and saved Yiyi, I'm afraid I wouldn't have been able to see the emperor." Yiyi's face turned pale and she was a little afraid.

"Your Majesty, look at Sister Huang Ying, her hands have a lot of blood." Yiyi said worriedly.

When Zhu Cihong heard this, he looked at Huang Ying lying on the bed, her right hand was dripping blood, Zhu Cihong's heart tightened, looking at Huang Ying's injury, he should have grabbed the blade of the dagger with his palm desperately, there was a deep scar on it, thinking that the assassin's dagger might almost pierce Yiyi's body, Zhu Cihong was afraid for a while.

Ordering the imperial doctor to stop Huang Ying's bleeding, Zhu Cihong walked out with an extremely angry expression.

This is his dormitory, and he is pretending to be a palace maid to assassinate Yiyi at this moment, if the target is changed to him, then he is also dangerous.

"Gao Hongtu, Xu Hongji! Whether I am you or not, you have touched my scales, you are looking for death! Zhu Cihong was awe-inspiring, he couldn't think of anyone else who would assassinate Yiyi besides Gao Hongtu and Xu Hongji.

Not only did he not tolerate the assassination of Yiyi, but the assassination happened in his dormitory, which made his heart chill and full of gloom, almost all of the palace royal forest troops were selected from the original Beijing camp, and most of the generals in it were Xu Hongji's people, this is too dangerous, since Xu Hongji dared to move such a mind, he must die!

Zhu Cihong could never tolerate his comfort being controlled by others.

"Hey, hey!" Zhu Cihong smiled, this incident may have given him an opportunity, and suddenly made him think of an idea that could eradicate Xu Hongji in one fell swoop. Once Xu Hongji was eliminated, the Donglin Party had nothing to fear.

"Zhao Dequan, you go and ask Ji Feng and Zhou Cao to come over to see me immediately."

"The slave obeys."

Although Ji Feng and Zhou Cao have been training the soldiers of the Yinglong Army these days, they have heard a little about what happened, plus Zhang Kuishan was suddenly summoned away a few days ago, and they have not shown up, they all realized that something seemed to have happened, and on the way, they heard Zhao Dequan say that there was an assassin in the emperor's bedroom just now, and he almost assassinated Miss Dieyi, which immediately surprised them and quickly accelerated their pace.

"The last general will wait to see the emperor, long live the emperor, long live long live." Ji Feng and Zhou Cao visited the road.

"Get up."

After Ji Feng and Zhou Cao got up, Zhu Cihong said in a deep voice: "Something has happened recently, I have reached the time when I need you, Gao Hongtu and the other Donglin Party and Xu Hongji actually united to rebel, and also sent assassins into my dormitory, what do you say I should do." ”

Ji Feng and Zhou Cao were introduced by Zhu Cihong as confidants, for them, Zhu Cihong didn't need to explain things clearly, as long as they understood their will.

"Of course they all deserve to die!" Ji Feng said coldly.

Zhou Cao was stunned and patted his chest and said: "Zhou Cao's life is all the emperor's, and the emperor will do whatever Zhou Cao wants." ”

"Okay, it's worthy of being my confidant, you know Xu Hongji." Zhu Cihong said.

Zhou Cao looked dazed, he was just an ordinary person before Huai'an, he was not very close to Nanjing City, and he didn't care about the affairs of Nanjing City, but if he said Wei Guogong, he might have heard of it, but he really didn't know who Xu Hongji was.

"But Wei Guogong, who has the military power of the Beijing camp?" Ji Feng once became a general in the Shandong Army, and he naturally knew many things.

"Yes, Xu Hongji, the Duke of Wei, controls the military power of the 60,000 army in Beijing, and most of the Imperial Forest Army in the palace is his people, more than 70,000 horses, it is not easy for me to destroy him, once I fail, you are likely to die, and I may also become a puppet, are you afraid." Zhu Cihong looked at Ji Feng and Zhou Cao.

Ji Feng and Zhou Cao glanced at each other, and at the same time arched their hands at Zhu Cihong and said, "The last general will not give up until he dies!" ”

"Good!" Zhu Cihong nodded with satisfaction.

The three of them discussed for a full hour and decided on the details, and Zhu Cihong asked Ji Feng and Zhou Cao to go down to prepare.

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