As the saying goes, if you go outside, you must first settle inside, and after learning that there was a traitor who collaborated with the enemy at home, Yue Xiang knew that the situation was far more serious than it seemed.

When a strong enemy is pressing, in order to survive, the whole city must work together, but this is not the case. If you have this situation in your own family, you may not have it in other people's homes. For someone as adept at spies as Nurhachi, there may have been a lot of agents infiltrated in the city. Maybe someone has already been reversed.

Now we have to concentrate on dealing with external pressures, so we must quickly cut through the chaos and eliminate all internal restless factors at once. It's better to kill by mistake than to let go!

The sword in his hand was still dripping with the blood on Yue Qi's body, and the tip of the knife was pointed at Ma and Li, as long as the two of them moved slightly, they would immediately slash and kill them ruthlessly. Although the White Lotus Sect is quite mysterious in Chinese history, for Yue Xiang, a modern person, it is just a feudal superstition, and it can't scare him at all.

He knew that these people were actually ordinary people, but they could just deceive the ignorant peasants with some tricks. In terms of real skills and true martial arts, the two of them together are not his opponents, not to mention that there are more than a dozen people on standby outside.

Ma Sandao and Li Shou knew that their identities had been revealed, but they didn't know where they had exposed their flaws. The two of them think about it and feel that they have always been low-key people, and they usually have Yue Xiang's trust. Today, I don't know what's going on, and I actually broke my identity. It seems that he should have only known about it recently, but as far as they knew, Yue Xiang had been recuperating at home during this time, and he had not taken a step out of Qinghe City at all.

There should never be anyone in this city who knows their true identity, where did Yue Xiang know about it?

Intuitively, the two of them concluded that there must have been some changes in the recent period of time that they did not understand, and Yue Xiang had mastered something that they did not know. But how this unknown information involves their identities is incomprehensible. Unless Yue Xiang can predict the prophet, he will use immortal arts.

But even those of them who advocate immortal art on weekdays don't believe in this, how can they believe that Yue Xiang, an inconspicuous guy, really has an immortal fate.

There is only one possibility, that is, Yue Xiang's wife, the Chen family, that is, the descendants of the Jin family of the Baiyang Sect, have seen through their identities. Only she has the possibility. But why is Yue Xiang only having a seizure now? Again, this is a thing that doesn't make sense.

But now in the face of Yue Xiang's questioning, the two knew that there was no point in pretending any longer. Li Shoucai said: "Gongzi Yue really has good eyesight, and if the two of them continue to pretend like this, they will make Gongzi laugh shamefully." But I don't know something, I don't know where I showed a flaw and was seen by Childe. I also hope that the son will give me advice, so that I can know where I have fallen behind. ”

The two of them also changed their names towards Yue Xiang at this moment and admitted their identities.

Where is the flaw? A smug smile appeared on the corner of Yue Xiang's mouth. Perhaps it is very difficult for your name to be disseminated in this era of information blockage, and coupled with the deliberate secrecy of the government and the imperial court, it is not surprising that people in this era know nothing about the two of you. But in the history books of later generations, especially in the history of Yu Wenye, the names of the two of you are very famous.

Although Lao Tzu hasn't read much official history, he happens to like to dabble in some wild history essays and secret court histories, and he has long admired the two of you. Involved in the palace political conspiracy, openly sent someone to assassinate the crown prince of the Ming Dynasty, the two of you in the Ming generation are unique, but today you showed me the true face of Lushan.

"How did you get on the line with Concubine Zheng back then? openly sent someone to assassinate Prince Changluo, Zhang Cha was executed, how can the imperial court allow you to continue to live until now? ”

Yue Xiang's voice was not loud, but it was tantamount to a thunderbolt in the ears of the two of them. The faces of the two changed, Qi Qi took a step back, and there was something wrong with Yue Xiang's eyes. It's as if you're looking at a non-human monster.

Because what they just heard could never be circulated, and they even knew about such a border place outside the Guan. The inside story of this secret is very limited, and it stands to reason that Yue Xiang, a Liao native born and raised in Liaodong, cannot know it, and there is no reason to know it. But every word he said hit the nail on the head.

In fact, they don't know that the so-called "secret" that they think will be sealed forever in the darkness of history is actually the Donggong attack case, which was later studied by historians and is known as the first of the three major mysteries in the Ming Palace.

And Yue Xiang happened to have seen some secret stories about the "insider" of the court in the late Ming Dynasty (in fact, his original purpose was to find some court history to study), when he first heard the names of the two of them, he felt a little familiar, but he didn't think about it at the time. Later, when I thought about it, I broke out in a cold sweat, but I didn't expect that the two celebrities recorded in the history of the wild really existed, and they were by my side.

Although the social and political situation of the Ming Dynasty was relatively not as chaotic as that of the later dynasties. But a phenomenon that was triggered by the power struggle in the palace and lasted for decades directly led to the final collapse of the Ming Dynasty was born from this, that is, party struggle. In the previous Jiajing Dynasty, although Emperor Jiajing often hid in the harem to practice Dan and not come to the court, he was actually still manipulating everything in secret. The party struggle of the Wanli Dynasty has been out of control because of the emperor's real big sax.

And the origin of the party struggle came from the two sons of Emperor Wanli, Zhu Changluo and Zhu Changxun, and even the three major later cases revolved around these two people.

In the tenth year of Wanli, an impromptu uprising of the Wanli Emperor created his first son Zhu Changluo. But the woman was an ordinary palace maid surnamed Wang in the Empress Dowager's palace, and Emperor Wanli temporarily vented her **. But when it was cool enough, I remembered the seriousness of the matter.

According to the rules of the palace, the emperor should give an object to the other party as a certificate of luck. But Wanli was disciplined too harshly by his mother and the old man Zhang Juzheng since he was a child, and at that time, Zhang Juzheng had just died, and Yu Wei was still there. And his mother, Mrs. Li, has always been very strict with him. After Wanli waited for the fire to subside, he thought that the Wang family was the palace maid in his mother's palace, and it was a disgraceful thing to be fortunate in private, and he might have to punish and reprimand the old lady, so he didn't give the Wang family any tokens, and he slipped away by himself.

Who knew that after this moment, the Queen of the Palace clan was pregnant with a dragon species. But unexpectedly, Wanli flatly denied that he had ever privately blessed the Wang family. It's just that this denial has no effect, the emperor's daily life, including his sex life, has been recorded by a special person, and the matter of Wanli Linxing Wang's family has long been recorded in the "Inner Living Note". There was really no denying it, and the Myojin Sect blushed and acquiesced.

Wanli's luck with the palace maid was just a whim, and he didn't take it seriously, and as soon as the freshness passed, he didn't want to be responsible, so he had no feelings for the Wang family. Empress Dowager Li stood on the side of her palace maid, so after she became pregnant in October, Wang gave birth to Wanli's first son, Zhu Changluo.

But afterwards, although the palace people were made concubines, the emperor's eldest son, Zhu Changluo, was never made the crown prince.

In the first month of the fourteenth year of Wanli, Concubine Zheng, who favored the harem, gave birth to a son named Zhu Changxun. Concubine Zheng is smart and clever, Wanli has a deep affection with her, and has maintained it for life. After giving birth to Zhu Changxun, he immediately crowned the Zheng family as a concubine. When the news came out, it was like stabbing a hornet's nest, which immediately triggered a raging discussion among the scholars, thinking that the eldest son of the emperor was five years old, and his biological mother had not been sealed.

According to tradition, the succession to the throne adheres to the tradition of "having a descendant and having no heir", and the main family has no children, and can only be succeeded by the eldest son, regardless of the mother's status. The scholars of the Ming Dynasty paid the most attention to the etiquette, and the ministers had already regarded Zhu Changluo as the prince, and now they learned that the emperor intended to change the crown prince, and they were in an uproar and the crowd was excited.

They believed that ensuring that the eldest son of the emperor inherited the throne was to safeguard the laws of the ancestors and defend the foundation of the imperial court, and they must not give in. Especially the later Donglin people, upholding orthodoxy, quoting scriptures, righteous and strict words, and even scolding people without dirty words directly reprimanded the emperor for being too selfish.

Wanli was annoyed and angry, but he also felt that he was at a loss for reason, so he adopted the method of delaying, neither saying that he would stand nor not stand. Seeing this, the courtiers did not give up, always keeping an eye on the palace, chasing the wind and catching shadows, and the slightest wind and grass in the palace immediately slackened the controversy, which led to a decades-long dispute over the national capital.

At the beginning, Wanli was still young as the eldest son of the emperor, and if the queen did not come out a few years later, he would be canonized. The minister refuted the argument that Yingzong of this dynasty was canonized as a crown prince just four months old. Wanli ignored it, and was annoyed by the noise, so he took the method of degrading, punishing and even punishing the court staff to deal with the courtiers. This greatly improved the image of the later Donglin people and won people's respect.

The leaders of the Xuan Party, Shen Shixing and Wang Jiaping, were impeached and scolded by the government and the opposition (mainly the Donglin Party) because of their lack of resolute attitude, and finally stepped down in disgrace, and they were honored to be the first batch of people to capsize in the party struggle caused by the struggle for the country.

In the twenty-first year of Wanli, the Zhejiang Party came to power and sat in the village, and Wang Xijue succeeded him as the first assistant. He learned the lessons of his predecessor Xuandang and resisted the pressure to wage an indomitable struggle against the emperor. Wanli was forced by the pressure of the courtiers, played a trick to avoid the real curve to save the country, and named Chang Luo as the king to show his favor, but at the same time, he also named the third son of the emperor Chang Xun and another prince Chang Hao as kings, which is the famous three kings and sealed.

On the surface, this matter seems to be unbiased and unbiased, but its true intention is clearly revealed, which is to put the matter on hold again in order to delay the change. At that time, the queen had no children, and Wanli's idea was to fight a protracted war, drag the queen to death, and then straighten Concubine Zheng. In this way, Chang Xun will become the emperor's concubine, and there will be no obstacles to becoming the crown prince.

Wang Xijue failed to grasp the mystery, and felt that it was not easy for the emperor to make concessions, which could be regarded as a victory for the scholars and doctors, so he agreed. As a result, the end can be imagined, and he was scolded more violently by the Donglin Party, and Wang Xijue's official position was almost insecure. The following year, Wanli finally agreed to the emperor's eldest son to give a lecture in the cabinet, and Zhu Changluo was already thirteen years old at this time.

In the years that followed, the courtiers engaged in tireless debates about the establishment of a prince. There are countless officials who have been demoted in the reckless confrontation with the emperor, and Gu Xiancheng, the founder of the Donglin Party in the Ming Dynasty, is one of them.

In the twenty-second year of Wanli, Gu Xiancheng was relegated to his hometown. Ten years later, he and his younger brother organized the Donglin Academy in Wuxi, began to give political lectures, and gradually formed a political group that combined Jiangnan scholars, courtiers of the DPRK and China, and local powerful factions. This is the famous Donglin Party in later history.

Among the courtiers, who were active in the struggle for the country for more than ten years, and the group of people who scolded the most later became members of the Donglin Party. They have shown themselves aggressively, violently attacking the weakness and incompetence of the cabinets of the other parties in power on issues of national principles. This certainly improved their image, but it also completely offended other parties such as Xuan, Zhejiang, Qi, Chu, Kun and other parties, and laid the root of the great party scramble in the late Wanli period.

In the twenty-ninth year of Wanli, after two farces of the "Demon Book Case" and countless blows from open guns and arrows, Zheng Guifei has become a notorious woman who is scolded by the Manchu Dynasty and discussed by the world. Coupled with the pressure of the Queen Mother and the car battles of batch after batch of courtiers, Wanli, who was physically and mentally exhausted, finally couldn't stand it anymore, and announced that Zhu Changluo was canonized as the crown prince and Zhu Changxun as the blessed king.

However, at this time, the DPRK and China had formed two opposing camps with the Donglin Party and the Qin Party as one side, and the Xuan, Zhejiang, Qi, Chu, Kun and other parties as the alliance on the one side.

Last year, that is, in the 45th year of Wanli, after a long struggle, the power of the Donglin Party turned from prosperity to decline. It was swept out of the imperial court by the three parties of Xuan, Zhejiang, and Kunming. At this time, the turmoil in the palace had already recurred, and Concubine Zheng's forces formed an alliance with the Zhejiang Party in an attempt to pull the prince down again.

In fact, although Zhu Changluo was made the crown prince, his crown prince position has not been stable in the eyes of the minister. The first is that Zhu Changxun, who was established as the king of Fu, did not arrive in Luoyang in time to take up the domain, and the second is that there were rumors from the inner court that the emperor's eldest son was forced by Wanli to agree, and sooner or later the prince would be re-established, and there were even rumors that Zheng Guifei conspired to kill the prince.

Many ministers clamored for King Fu to take up the vassal immediately, but Wanli first ignored it, and then saw that he could not delay, and proposed that he must give King Fu 40,000 hectares of land to be able to become a vassal domain. The Donglin Party held the cabinet at that time and resolutely opposed it, believing that this was not in line with the ancestral system, and that it was easy to provoke a popular uprising. Under the advice of Ye Xianggao, in March of the forty-third year of Wanli, Wanli had to let King Fu become a vassal, and the granted land was cut in half. In the second month of King Fu's inauguration, the famous attack occurred.

In May of the 43rd year of Wanli, the eunuchs Pang Bao and Liu Cheng in the palace of Zheng Guifei secretly colluded with Ma Sandao and Li Shoucai, the leaders of the Red Seal Society of the White Lotus Sect in the Gyeonggi area, and sent the assassin Zhang Cha to break into the Donghua Gate of Ouchi with a wooden club, and beat them all the way to the Ciqing Palace, where the crown prince lived, with the intention of assassinating the prince, and was later captured by the inner eunuch in time.

The matter of Zhang Chazhen's attack on Tai** caused an uproar in the palace and the government and the opposition.

The Zhejiang Party believes that Zhang Cha is crazy; The Donglin Party believes that it is a conspiracy to frame the prince. In the forty-first year of Wanli, there was an incident in which Zheng Guifei's chamberlain colluded with a traitor to curse the crown prince, and it was inevitable that Zheng Guifei would be implicated in the attack case. Emperor Wanli tried his best to mediate the contradiction between the crown prince and Zheng Guifei, on the one hand, he angrily reprimanded Zheng Guifei, and on the other hand, he forced the crown prince to change his attitude, from "Zhang Cha must be the mastermind" to "This matter only ends in Zhang Cha".

In addition, Emperor Wanli summoned his ministers to express his nostalgia for the crown prince's protector, the Empress Dowager, to show his sincerity in appointing the crown prince. He explicitly ordered that in addition to punishing Zhang Cha and others, "innocent people should not be affected" in order to free Concubine Zheng. At the end of the case, Zhang Cha died, Ma Sandao and Li Shoucai were sent to defend from afar, and the eunuchs Pang Bao and Liu Cheng were killed in the inner court, and the turmoil caused by the attack case temporarily subsided.

For this matter, Yue Xiang was more interested in the role of the White Lotus Sect in it.

He really wanted to know how this underground sect, which was known for its stubborn life in history, was involved in this palace struggle, but it was a pity that the White Lotus Sect only showed a small face in a hurry and disappeared in this big drama, and several main people involved didn't know what their fate was, so they didn't expect to meet here today. It turned out that Ma and Li were actually sent to Qinghe City in Liaodong to come to the border.

Is it providence for me to meet them here? Yue Xiang thought so in his heart. Is this an accident, or is it a necessity?

Maybe my mission will get the first hint here......