After the orthodox emperor was reinstated, the days of being imprisoned in the South Palace in the past were vivid, and the resentment in his heart filled his chest.

As a result, the orthodox emperor began to reward Shi Heng, Xu Youzhen and other parties who helped him restore the throne.

Soon, the orthodox emperor issued an order to make the rewards for Shi Heng, Xu Youzhen and others clear to the world.

Jinan Fucheng, Shandong Town General Military Mansion.

"Your Majesty enshrined Xu Youzhen as a martial artist and a scholar (prime minister) of the Huagai Palace, in charge of Wenyuan Pavilion, and gave the title of Fengtian Yiwei to push the sincerity of Xuanli to guard the Wenchen, and the commander of the Jinyi Guard, and now the thirteen Yamen of the Imperial History are headed by Xu Youzhen."

"Your Majesty appointed Shi Heng, the governor of the right capital, as the loyal prince of the country, and took charge of more than 100,000 garrisons in Gyeonggi, so as to defend the security of the Jingshi."

"Your Majesty ordered the division to set up three battalions of the eunuch Cao Jixiang, the governor of the governor, and to assist in the military affairs of the Beijing battalion. After that, Cao Jixiang's heir, Cao Qin, was promoted to the governor of Tongzhi, and he was named Zhaowubo; Cao Jixiang's nephews Cao Xuan, Cao Duo, Cao? and so on, who were appointed as the hereditary commander of the Jinyi Guard, and the number of his subordinates who were able to become officials was hundreds or thousands. Officials in the DPRK and China also attached themselves to Cao Jixiang. ”

"Your Majesty named Wang Ji as the secretary of the military department, replaced the military constitution, managed the affairs of the military department, and added the rank of Fengtian Yiwei to promote the sincerity of Xuanli to keep the official Wenchen and Guanglu doctor, and named his eldest son Wang Xiang as the commander."

"The rest of Zhang Ji, Yang Shan and others are all at the fourth level in a row!"

After listening, Liu Juntao's face was very ugly, at this time, Shi Heng, Xu Youzhen and others could already be said to be in power, and Yu Qian was also deprived of the post of secretary of the military department and was confined at home, and the situation in the capital was already very corrupt.

After Lan Siqi, the minister of the Central Committee, read out the report of the imperial court, Hu Dexing, the deputy chief soldier who was seated, and the ministers of various ministries all had solemn faces.

At this time, Liu Zi'an also took out a piece of information and said, "Zong Zhen, everyone! The news that has just come back from the capital, that Shi Heng is now arrogant and domineering! ”

As he spoke, Liu Zi'an presented the information to Liu Juntao, and took out a few manuscripts and handed them to everyone for circulation.

Since the restoration of the orthodox emperor, Shi Heng has been the first to take credit, and he has been named the Duke of Zhongguo.

As a result, the orthodox emperor gave special favor to Shi Heng, and the orthodox emperor almost obeyed Shi Heng in all the big and small affairs.

At the same time, Shi Heng also took this opportunity to become Jinyi Wei officials among his younger brothers and nephews, with more than 50 people, and more than 1,000 people, relatives, and old people tampered with their names on the list of "Changing the Door" and obtained official positions!

These are also the fact that the Ministry of Intelligence is understaffed and cannot thoroughly verify the figures, and the actual figures are probably much higher than the number of people collected by the Ministry of Intelligence!

Contrary to the situation in which Shi Heng and his party entered the court and the central government in a big way, Shi Heng was very harsh on the ministers of the two capitals, and in less than a month, he was almost completely expelled by Shi Heng.

Shi Heng also accepted heavy personal bribes, citing the servant Sun Hong, Chen Ruyan, Xiao Xuan, Zhang Yonghan, Hao Huang, Long Wen, Zhu Quan, and Liu Bendao, a foreign servant, as the waiter, and there was a saying in the capital that "Zhu three thousand, eight hundred dragons".

Now Shi Heng is in flames, and those who want to be promoted in the court are competing to run under his door.

In addition, because nine people such as Chengzhang and Yushi Ganze had accused Shi Heng of their mistakes, Shi Heng deposed them without reporting to the orthodox emperor, and also detained Geng Jiuchou and Yue Zheng, and put Yang Yan and Zhang Peng on the side, and belittled Zhou Bin and Sheng. Wait.

"Since His Majesty was reinstated, Shi Heng has been in the palace every day to see His Majesty, and has repeatedly interfered in political affairs. If His Majesty did not comply with his request, he showed dissatisfaction in his voice. Even if he is not summoned, Shi Heng must take advantage of the matter to enter, and when he goes out, he will expand his power and make transactions with power, which can be described as extremely arrogant! ”

Liu Juntao was very angry, slammed the table, and said loudly: "This person is the thief of the world, I only hate that he was not killed in the capital!" ”

The crowd was also indignant.

Deputy Chief Soldier Hu Dexing said in a deep voice: "Now that Your Majesty has changed the Yuan Tianshun, and next year is the first year of Tianshun, I am afraid that this Shi Heng, Xu Youzhen and others will be even more rampant at that time, and when they are full-fledged, I am afraid that the court will become their hall of words!" ”

In fact, this is exactly what Liu Juntao was worried about, so Liu Juntao ordered the Intelligence Department to pay attention to collecting information from Shi Heng, Xu Youzhen and other parties, and mobilized special personnel to keep an eye on these traitors.

In the face of the current situation, Liu Juntao was even ready to let the Jianfeng Division of the Inspection Department dispatch and secretly kill Shi Heng, Xu Youzhen and others.

was just worried that the situation would get completely out of control, so Liu Juntao temporarily suppressed the matter.

"Now that Shi Heng, Xu Youzhen and others have taken control of the court, it seems that our life is going to be difficult!"

Liu Juntao said in a deep voice, and asked the shogunate departments to guard their positions, and at the same time asked the deputy commander-in-chief Hu Dexing to pay attention to the reaction of the armies to the restoration of the orthodox emperor.

After the meeting ended that day, Liu Juntao returned to the backyard and fell asleep for a long time, Guo Muying also sighed when she saw this, knowing that Liu Juntao was irritable, but she didn't know how to persuade her.

In the middle of the night, Liu Juntao wrote another letter, which was addressed to Xu Youzhen.

Early the next morning, Liu Juntao sent someone to send the handwritten letter.

More than ten days later, Xu Youzhen received a letter sent by Liu Juntao, only to see that in the letter, Liu Juntao advised Xu Youzhen to act cautiously and not to cause violent turmoil in the court, especially not to wantonly suppress the ministers of the court, not to cause death, and it is best to persuade Shi Heng more.

At the end of the handwritten letter, Liu Juntao wrote: "If the situation between the DPRK and China becomes out of control because of this move by the princes, this town will never stand idly by!" ”

This sentence is a naked threat, Liu Juntao understands in his heart that for Xu Youzhen and others, blind persuasion will not play a role, only a tough attitude and declaration will make Xu Youzhen and others have scruples!

But after Xu Youzhen read the letter, she was very angry in her heart, and she sneered at the content of the letter.

"It's just a martial artist, and he dares to talk about government politics!"

After that, Xu Youzhen mixed up with the civil official group, and it can be said that they became one.

Moreover, Xu Youzhen saw that all the town guards in various places could not go to their posts, so he proposed that the duties of the town guards sent to various places be transferred to the governors of various places, so that the governors would become the highest administrative and military governors of the provinces, so that the general soldiers of each town would be completely reduced to the subordinate military attaches of the governors.

In this regard, Chen Xun, the first assistant of the cabinet, was overjoyed, and led a group of civil officials under his command to fully cooperate, and the orthodox emperor who had just been restored also pushed the boat along the river and directly approved the report.

It didn't take long for Liu Juntao to receive the news, and he was resentful in his heart, and secretly vowed to kill Xu Youzhen sooner or later.

At the same time, Li Chengming, the governor of Shandong, also sent people to summon the civil and military officials of a province in Shandong at the governor's yamen two days later to make arrangements for military and political affairs in front of everyone.

The whole town of Shandong was furious when they heard the news, but in the face of the order of the imperial court, everyone was helpless.

Liu Juntao immediately came to deliver the letter to the governor yamen entourage said: "Go back and tell Li Xunfu that this town is under the control of the military department, even if the Shandong governor yamen is in charge of the military and political power of Shandong Province, it should be in charge of the guards and horses in various parts of Shandong, and it has nothing to do with my Shandong town!" ”

The entourage was a little annoyed when he heard this, and said: "Chief soldier Liu, the order of the imperial court is very clear, is it possible that General soldier Liu wants to disobey the order of the imperial court!" ”

"An order from the imperial court?"

Liu Juntao snorted coldly and said, "Hmph! The order of the imperial court does not say that the army in the military and government is the guards or the battalions! ”

The entourage was still arguing, so Liu Juntao scolded: "Someone! Call out the town! ”

The entourage was immediately beaten out by the guards of the General Soldier's Mansion.

A few days later, Li Chengming, the governor of Shandong, summoned the officials of all yamen in Shandong to gather, and Gu Yi, the political envoy of Shandong, Zhu Qiaozuo, the envoy of Shandong, and the prefects of each prefecture were all present, but no one from the top and bottom of Shandong town and the generals of the Tiance Army were present.

This made Li Chengming extremely annoyed, but in the face of Liu Juntao, who had more than 100,000 troops, Li Chengming did not dare to make a move, so he could only play the imperial court.

But at this time, Shi Heng, Xu Youzhen and others in the court were busy fighting for power and profit, and the orthodox emperor was also busy clearing the remnants of Emperor Jingtai.