154. The Li family changed dramatically

There is a way to care about chaos, and I, who has always been calm and calm, began to sit still after hearing about the changes in Li Huamei's family. I think this unrest is mainly due to the faint guilt in my heart for her, and then the meaning of caring for my lover.

I don't know if that's right or not, but I can't lie to my heart, and I do—and the results are the same.

The whole plot is actually very simple, Ah Da and the sophomore fight, and as a result, Ah San and Ah Si next to him fell! After the death of the second uncle, while the reformers and conservatives in the Ming court were fiercely competing, many neutral officials were unfortunately shot!

The competition between politics and politics is capital and background, and the two factions that can wrestle their wrists are bound to be equal opponents, but the sword and gun have no eyes, and if one accidentally goes wrong, it will suffer the bystanders who are around or watching the excitement or fighting.

And neutral officials have a common characteristic, that is, they do not form gangs and do not form parties for personal gain. To put it more realistically, it lacks political background and resilience.

Li Zaixing was one of the neutral officials who fell this time. Because some time ago, he told a few truths in the early dynasty, offended the conservatives, and rejected the olive branch handed by the leading figures of the reformers, and lost the protection of the reformers.

As a result, in recent days, some people have continued to report Li Zaixing, saying that when he was serving as the chief soldier in the Weihai area and exterminating the Japanese invaders, he had been greedy for 20,000 taels of silver! It is said that there are both human and material evidence, and it is said that there are noses and eyes.

As soon as this matter was revealed, it caused a shock to the government and the public! Zhu Yijun ordered the Inspectorate to thoroughly investigate the matter. Li Zaixing admitted that he did use 20,000 taels of military salaries at that time, but it was not greedy for ink, but embezzlement.

As for why he embezzled it, Li Zaixing was also silent, and he seemed to have great hardships. Later, I was forced to have no choice, so I explained it out loud! And his words made many people unable to connect.

At that time, when the troubles of the Japanese invaders were frequent, Li Zaixing, who was the chief soldier at the time, repeatedly invited the imperial court to change the weapons and equipment of his subordinates - because he led his troops to fight against the Japanese invaders, because of the poor quality of the weapons, the swords of the two sides often touched, and his own swords were cut off by the Oriental swords of the Japanese invaders!

Li Zaixing reported for three months in a row, but the imperial court just replied that he should try his best to resist the enemy and prepare for military equipment.

However, Li Zaixing waited for more than a month, but this "self-consideration" was still nowhere to be seen, but the increasing casualties among his officers and men were vividly visible. So he began to come up with an idea - to purchase equipment by himself, just like Qi Jiguang!

His idea was quickly unanimously agreed by the officers and soldiers of the station, but the sellers of large quantities of weapons and equipment are very rare, and they are an absolute seller's market, so Li Zaixing had to buy a batch of sophisticated swords and weapons at nearly half of the market price!

So those who attacked Li Zaixing in the imperial court asked, why is the price of purchasing weapons so high? Did Li Zaixing himself enrich himself?

After Li Zaixing was silent for a long time, he said one sentence - the arms dealer was the uncle of the Empress Dowager Li and the brother of the father of the Empress Dowager Li who was in charge of logistics......

In fact, it is already clear that most of the troops at that time had suffered the losses of Empress Dowager Li's father, including Qi Jiguang. However, Qi Jiguang had a good relationship with his second uncle Zhang Juzheng, so he solved this problem through official channels, and also caused Empress Dowager Li's father to leave the court.

Li Zaixing's situation is actually the same as Qi Jiguang's, except that he does not have a strong backer, so he has to use "local methods" to treat his illness. Since it is a local method, it is definitely not covered by medical insurance, so it has become a procedural problem that is now criticized.

Moreover, because this incident implicated the scandal of Empress Dowager Li's family, it involved the royal system, and it was even more contradictory. At this time, the reformers once again extended an olive branch to Li Zaixing, of course, no one will provide a free lunch, right?

However, Li Zaixing insisted that he was right, rejected the kindness of the reformers, and chose to fight. As a result, it came and went, and some people took advantage of the topic to play again, and they made a lot of pickled things about Empress Dowager Li's father.

Suddenly, there was a lot of discussion between the government and the opposition, saying that Li Zaixing was wronged, and there were also those who said that Li Zaixing was guilty, and there was a sudden quarrel!

Until one day, when Hai Rui suddenly proposed that Li Zaixing was not guilty and that the crimes of Empress Dowager Li's father and uncle should be punished, the government and the opposition suddenly quieted down......

Empress Dowager Li, who had never spoken, suddenly spoke, saying that Li Zaixing had conspired with the traitorous party and slandered the royal family! Overnight, he ordered Li Zaixing to be imprisoned for review! Hai Rui argued with the reason, saying that Li Zaixing was not guilty, and it was Li who was guilty, but this time no one answered.

Under the operation of people with intentions to deliberately cater to the royal family and exclude dissidents, Li Zaixing's "crimes" were quickly confirmed, and a bunch of messy charges were fabricated! I have experienced all of this, and I can imagine how Li Zaixing felt when he was in the center of the storm.

After Li Zaixing was imprisoned, Mrs. Li asked for help in many ways in order to save her husband, but to no avail, and as a result, she was in a hurry and couldn't afford to get sick! In the middle of the month, I suddenly had a heart attack - that is, myocardial infarction, and died!

Li Huamei was angry and went to the noon gate to beat drums and voice grievances. As a result, he was ordered by Zhu Yijun to be confined to his home, crying all day long, not eating water and rice, and fainting several times......

Hearing this, I closed my eyes tightly, and I could feel the sadness and anger in Hua Mei's heart - from the lady of heaven who was high in the sky, her family was ruined overnight, and her lover was not around......

After a long time, I opened my eyes and asked, "When did this happen?"

Shimazu Yoshihisa said in a deep voice: "This is the first-hand news that I only got yesterday evening."

After speaking, he looked at me, and Fang continued: "Because I am concerned about you Qilan, I deliberately ordered someone to investigate the affairs of the Li family. Hundreds of officials have fallen in this turmoil, and the situation of the Li family is quite good! ”

I nodded and said, "Thank you, Brother Yoshihisa, for reporting the situation!" Qilan takes it to heart! It's just that this meeting may end at this time, I really don't want to enjoy it here, and I hope Brother Yoshihisa understands! ”

Shimazu Yoshihisa nodded and said, "Qilan is really temperamental, and he is young and vigorous, I understand." Presumably, Qilan will inevitably have to go back to the Ming Dynasty, so be careful! Speak up when you need help, don't be polite! ”

I thanked Shimazu Yoshihisa, and it was hypocritical to say anything else at this time.

So we had a simple farewell dinner together, and I was ready to leave!

Back on the ship, I discussed the matter with everyone, and everyone, including Kite, thought that I should go back, or at least take Huamei and his father out of danger! This is my duty as a fiancé!

But it is absolutely unwise to go back rashly like this, maybe people can't save them, but they put themselves in it. A complete solution had to be found.

After all, so many years of experience have taught me not to make decisions when emotions are high. So I ordered the fleet to go to Nagasaki to send it to the port and contact Arashi so that her fleet could assemble in Nagasaki. Then let Chen Kui's fleet stand by at the islands and reefs north of Naha.

At the same time, I asked Mo to send elite men to the Central Plains first to investigate the details of the Li family.

After two days of waiting for Arashi at the port of Nagasaki, I thought hard about the situation I was facing. I always feel that there is something strange about this, and there is a feeling that it is full of routines! It seems that a hand is stirring the matter.

Arashi arrived in Nagasaki, and within two days, Mo also returned to Nagasaki, he came back with first-hand information, but he left his subordinates to continue to investigate.

Mo once had an eye on the Guangbu of the Beijing Division, investigating intelligence, and was familiar with this way. He focused on three places - the Inspectorate, the Li family's house, and Zhang Siwei's residence.

Based on the information obtained, Mo's conclusion confirmed my guess - Li Zaixing's sudden downfall can't be said to have nothing to do with me at all!

In the wrestling between the reformists and the conservatives, the conservatives were afraid that the reformers would gain more power, so they sorted out the neutral officials who might be co-opted by the reformers, and the first thing was to draw a circle in the name of Li Zaixing!

The reason is very simple, because of my marriage with Li Huamei, the reformers have always regarded Li Zaixing as half of their own, while the conservatives have become more and more suspicious of him! This time, he happened to encounter an opportunity, so he killed Li Zaixing!

Now, Li Zaixing has been placed in prison and dismissed from his post for investigation! And Hua Mei's there, Mo found something unusual!

I frowned and asked, "What's the situation?"

Mo groaned for a moment and said in a deep voice: "Sir, it seems that someone is monitoring the Li family's compound, especially Miss Li's every move!"

I was very angry in my heart, but I suppressed the fire and said, "Do you know who it is?"

Mo nodded, and said for a while: "It's from the Murong family...... Although the reformers retained the position of Mr. under the argument of the reformers, the conservatives never stopped pursuing Mr. for a moment! Hope to secretly arrest Mr.! Because...... They are afraid that Mr. will come back one day! Scared of Mr. Thunder Means! ”

I gritted my teeth and said, "So the Murong family, under the influence of Murong Qin, regards the task of capturing me as a way to promotion!" Is that so? ”

Mo nodded, thought for a while, and said, "Now, Murong guy and Jinyiwei have laid a net around the Li family, just waiting for Mr. You to throw yourself into the net!"

I let out a long exhale, nodded, and said, "I know." Let me think about it. ”

Everyone was gone, and I was combing through the information I had gotten in my head.

This time, it seems that the enemy is prepared, and the target is me, who is far away! Their plan is to use the long red line of Huamei to firmly tie me, so that I have to know that there are tigers in the mountains and prefer to go to the tiger mountains! Finally throw yourself into the net!

Go, I'm going to go. But it's not just as simple as rescuing Hua Mei, I also have to recover some of the debts that others owe me! I'm a person who doesn't like other people's debts!

After thinking about it all night, I summoned all my henchmen and laid out a plan of action for the next step.

On Toei's side, led by No Regrets, Rakshen, Arashi, and Sukushi all stayed behind to help him, Shibata Katsuie's side, and Shimazu Yoshihisa's side had to be taken care of, and in addition, he had to step up his contact with Asai Lansho to prepare for the upcoming operation.

I took my people, and after leaving Nagasaki, I disguised myself as a caravan from Echizenya, sent the port from the Bohai Sea, and after making a detour to the west, I went north to Beijing!

In addition, I also arranged for Mo to go ahead and prepare some things for me...... Something you're sure to use next!

Stroking the light-swallowing sword in my hand, the killing intent in my heart is soaring! The tiger does not hurt people, but people are harmful to the tiger's heart! I'm going back this time to set off a bloody storm! Blood debt, after all, can only be repaid with blood!