Tianqi was not surprised by someone guarding the palace gate, but just ordered the guards to take people to guard the palace gate, and then said: "King Xin, ask you a few words for my brother, what should you do now?" ”

Hearing Tianqi's question, everyone found that several princes were closing their eyes in the front row, and they couldn't help but admire the royal man's bearing.

Xinwang Zhu Youzhen was only fifteen years old, but he saw him and said unhurriedly: "Back to the emperor's words, this dynasty has always used literature to control the military, and the usual training, leading troops, and transferring troops are all different people, which determines that Cao Cao and Dong Zhuo cannot appear in this dynasty, and five hundred soldiers will not become a big deal. ”

Tianqi nodded and said, "It seems that King Xin likes to watch the Three Kingdoms, and even Cao Cao and Dong Zhuo are compared, but it can be seen from your words that you are still a little suspicious." ”

King Xin said: "There is no big mistake in being careful. ”

Tianqi said: "It makes sense, but it's useless for anyone to go here now, and the British Duke will only come in when he sees Wei Zhongxian." ”

Tianqi ignored everyone's surprised eyes and continued: "Since Wei Guangwei and Zhu Yanxi are in charge of the investigation, now you will take Wei Zhongxian to announce the British Gong in, and then send Wei Zhongxian to Dali Temple for temporary detention." ”

After a while, the British Duke Zhang Wei came in, and saw that his face was calm and his steps were steady, and he knelt down in front of the throne and saluted:

"Minister Zhang Weiying knocks on the emperor, long live my emperor, long live, long live!"

Apocalypse said with a pleasant face: "The British Duke has worked hard, please hurry up." ”

After Zhang Wei got up to thank him, Tianqi asked again: "Where are Wang Tiqian and Tian Ergeng?" ”

Zhang Weiying said: "They entered the palace with the ministers, and they are now waiting for the decree outside the palace. ”

The apocalypse said, "Announce the two of them to come in." ”

Tan Jing shouted in response: "Xuansi Rite Supervisor Seal Wang Tiqian and Jinyi Wei Zuodu Governor Tian Ergeng enter the hall!" ”

After the two of them entered the palace and finished saluting, Tianqi said lightly: "You two are in charge of the Jinyi Guard and the eunuch of the internal exercise, there is a major event involving rebellion in the palace, in order to avoid the situation being uncontrollable, I specially ordered the British Duke to transfer the two of you from the circle of right and wrong, you have been wronged." ”

The two even said that they were not wronged, Tian Ergeng silently stepped aside, and Wang Tiqian asked with a smile: "The slave received the emperor's order from the queen's mother in the morning, and immediately brought more than 2,000 eunuchs to the west of the city to meet with the British Gong, and now more than 2,000 eunuchs and more than 2,000 soldiers in the five military camps are still waiting there. ”

Apocalypse said, "You've done a good job, and now keep them all there." It is said that Qi Jiguang's troops were able to stand still for a long time in the heavy rain, but today there is no rain, I want to see how long these people who protect me can stand. ”

At this time, the ministers also understood from the beginning of the conversation, it turned out that Tianqi had already planned to cut off Wei Zhongxian and the Hakka clan, in order to precaution, Wang Tiqian, who was in charge of the eunuchs, and Tian Ergeng, who was in charge of the Jinyi Guard, were transferred first, and then the queen dealt with the Hakka clan and asked her to confess the crime, and finally the emperor locked up Wei Zhongxian, who was only left alone. It's just that what the emperor will do next and how many people will be implicated are issues that everyone is more concerned about. Especially Gu Bingqian, the first assistant of the cabinet, Cui Chengxiu, the imperial historian, and Zhou Yingqiu, the secretary of the criminal department, were even more flustered because they colluded with Wei Zhongxian in private, and the three of them looked at the apocalypse in anxiety, and beads of sweat flowed down their cheeks.

At this time, Wei Guangwei and Zhu Yanxi returned, and they said that Wei Zhongxian had been locked up in Dali Temple and guarded by a special person, asking the emperor when the interrogation would begin. Before the apocalypse could answer, Cui Jingrong, who had gone to arrest people, came back. Cui Shangshu was very happy today, and after saluting the apocalypse, he said:

"Emperor Qi, the Hakka brother Ke Guangxian and her son Hou Guoxing have been arrested by the ministers, do you need to raid the house next? There are also Wei Zhongxian's nephews Wei Liangqing and Wei Liangdong, who are afraid that he will destroy the evidence of the crime and take him into custody, so please ask the emperor to show him what to do next. ”

Tianqi said: "Wei Liangqing and Wei Liangdong are also arrested and together with Wei Zhongxian, Wei Zhongxian is old and needs to be taken care of." Between the words, there seemed to be residual affection for Wei Zhongxian.

After a pause, Tianqi looked at Wei Guangwei and Zhu Yanxi and said, "The interrogation of Wei Zhongxian can't be tried, isn't there still five hundred soldiers outside the palace?" I decided to let the British Duke work harder again, and go to the homes of Ke and Wei with Wang Tiqian to see if they can copy out some evidence, and now go to seal the door first, arrest people, and then slowly clean up. Tell the soldiers who raided the house that those who dare to embezzle stolen goods will be killed! ”

Zhang Weiying and Wang Tiqian bowed down and went out after receiving the order, and Tianqi turned around and asked Tan Jing: "Xu Xianchun tortured Wang Wenyan to death, what did he say if I asked him to write it?" ”

Tan Jing said: "The slave sent someone to inform him, but he didn't care, he said that the torture of Wang Wenyan was the intention of Wei Gonggong, and it was normal for someone to die in prison." ”

Hearing this, Tianqi felt that Xu Xianchun had a very good character, and said to Tian Ergeng: "Xu Xianchun is your subordinate, you go and tell him now that he doesn't care if he dies." You go, put him in prison and let him experience the taste first, and then settle accounts with him when he is empty. ”

Tian Ergeng said with trepidation: "The minister will do it." ”

In the past, Apocalypse was a silent young man who had no special hobbies other than carpentry, including women. Today's apocalypse is arresting people and raiding homes, and the ministers are secretly frightened and dare not say anything rashly. Seeing that the ministers were speechless, the apocalypse said to King Rui and King Hui:

"I heard that Uncle Wu Wang and Uncle Six Wang like to study Buddhism when they are fine? Is it true? ”

King Rui and King Hui heard the apocalypse talk about them, and hurriedly stepped forward to reply. King Rui said: "If you go back to the emperor, the minister's health is not very good, and the purpose of studying Buddhism is to meditate. ”

King Hui said: "The minister thinks that what the Buddhists say is to teach people to do good deeds to make people feel at ease, if it is not for the fear that he will not be able to stand the days without wine and meat and women, the minister wants to shave the Fa and practice." ”

When everyone heard King Hui say this, they all smiled. Tianqi said: "Uncle Liuwang is a man of temperament, and learning Buddhism is originally to cultivate the mind rather than learn those forms. ”

Everyone gossiped for a while, and then Zhang Weiying and Wang Tiqian came back, their faces both excited and heavy. After the two of them saw each other, Bi Tianqi asked:

"How's it going?"

Zhang Weiying said: "The ministers have locked up the families of the Ke family and Wei Zhongxian, but there are too many things, and the ministers are afraid that the night is long and the dream is too much, and they have already sent someone to count them, but I don't know where to put them after the counting?" ”

Tianqi said: "That's right, the war ahead needs money, first clean up the book and then carry it all to me into the palace, I have been poor for a long time." ”

Wang Tiqian said: "However, for the time being, no evidence of Wei Zhongxian's rebellion has been found. ”

Tianqi said: "Wei Zhongxian is greedy, but he is still loyal to me, I know. ”

Tianqi said again: "I summoned everyone today to say two things, who knows that they delayed, now let's talk about the first thing, King Xin is calm and can be a big responsibility, I decided to appoint King Xin as the prime minister of the king, tomorrow will be the director of the Wenhua Palace, King Rui, King Hui and King Gui are the three uncles of the assistant king to assist the director of the king of Xin. Do you have any objections? ”

When King Xin heard this, he hurriedly said: "The minister is young and shallow, I am afraid that it will be difficult to take on the big responsibility, and I hope the emperor will think twice." ”

Tianqi said: "It won't be slow, you have to rely on your own brother to fight the tiger, I am just your own brother, how busy things are, who will help me if you don't help me?" Besides, there are three uncles to assist, so you don't have to excuse yourself. ”

The king had no choice but to say, "So the minister is the order." ”

Seeing that King Xin agreed to the apocalypse, he turned to the other three princes and said: "I began to see people playing and urging the three uncles to become vassals, I mean that the three uncles should stay in Beijing, and helping King Xin is also helping me, I don't know what the three uncles mean?" ”

King Rui, King Hui and King Gui said in unison: "It is all up to the emperor to make the decision, and the ministers obey the order." ”

King Gui stepped forward and said: "The emperor asked his ministers to do things in the capital, so that the ministers don't have to travel thousands of miles to become a vassal, which is also a care for the ministers, and the ministers are very grateful." ”

When everyone saw the Apocalypse arranging this, they didn't speak or looked at the Cabinet Auxiliary Minister, because the Apocalypse's arrangement divided the power of the Cabinet. Gu Bingqian and Wei Guangwei of the cabinet had an ambiguous relationship with Wei Zhongxian, and they felt that they were difficult to protect, so it was not good to have many things, Zhu Yanxi saw that they did not speak or obstruct, and only asked: "The ministers have no objections, but may I ask the emperor, what is the specific affairs of this prime minister Wang in charge?" How should the Cabinet cooperate? ”