In just one day, under the leadership of the new Duke of Wei, Xu Chengzong, the Nanzhili government broke the local White Lotus Sect thieves and captured the White Lotus Sect's rebel Xu Ziyang alive into Beijing. This made the officials and people in Beijing rejoice for a while, and bluntly said that the Holy Son of Heaven really shone brightly, and chose a good candidate who has the ability to share the king's worries and protect the place.

When the early court heard the ministers pat themselves on the back with these words, the emperor was naturally happy on his face, and then announced that Xu Jizong, who had entered Beijing on behalf of his brother, came to the palace, praised them in a real way, and promised many benefits, so that the household department and the officials would be rewarded according to the rules.

Just when everyone felt that today's court meeting would be harmonious and harmonious, and the monarchs and ministers praised each other, the subsequent decrees issued by the Son of Heaven made the ministers stunned, and they faintly felt that things were far more complicated than what they saw in front of them.

In view of Wei Guogong's merits in this matter, the emperor naturally wanted to praise him, but because he was already a very popular minister, and there was a rule set by his ancestors that foreign surnames should not be crowned kings, so in the end he could only reward the Xu family with some gold, jewelry, jade and the like. But then, the emperor proposed that he heard that Xu Chengzong had his eldest son Xu Li, who was young and promising, and it happened that the prince of the East Palace was short of a companion, so he asked Xu Chengzong to send his son to Beijing.

For this arrangement, ordinary people seem to be the supreme favor of the Son of Heaven to the Xu family. After all, it is quite an honor to be able to accompany the prince to study as a courtier, and once he has a good relationship with the prince, it will be of great benefit to the Xu family after he succeeds to the throne in the future.

However, in the eyes of careful people, this matter has a deep meaning. If the heirs of ordinary officials have this opportunity, it will naturally be a great honor and future, but Xu Li, as the son of the Xu family, will inherit the title of Duke of Wei in the future, so this kind of friendship with the prince seems dispensable. On this basis, after thinking about it deeply, some people began to feel uneasy, which clearly meant that Xu Li was recruited into the capital as a hostage of the Xu family in front of the emperor. This is clearly not a favor to the Xu family, but a wariness of them.

In this way, things are too weird. Xu Chengzong had just made a lot of contributions to the imperial court, and even his henchmen were greatly damaged by the White Lotus Sect, and the emperor became suspicious of him.

Before the ministers could react, the next decree made people see that things were not simple - the Son of Heaven immediately ordered Zheng Tai, the right attendant of the military department, to go to Nanjing as a supervisor of the army, and cooperate with Wei Guogong to govern the local area and the Nanjing official army.

If only a few people can taste the meaning of the former will, the latter will make everyone wake up, and the Son of Heaven is really a little worried about the Xu family. But it's not right, the Xu family has always been loyal to the imperial court, and they have always kept to themselves in Nanjing, why did they suffer from the jealousy of the Son of Heaven?

And what surprised everyone even more was that in the face of these two arrangements of the emperor, Xu Jizong, as the spokesperson of the Xu family, did not object at all, but kowtowed again and again to thank him, as if this was what the Xu family wanted to see.

In this way, even some courtiers who were close to the Xu family could not stand up and speak for them. After all, even the main lord acquiesced in the emperor's arrangement, how could they, outsiders, open their mouths? However, many people already know in their hearts, but they are afraid that what happened in Nanjing this time is not simple, and it must have hidden some inside information that is extremely unfavorable to the Xu family. It's just that the Son of Heaven didn't have a seizure due to various reasons, so he could only use this kind of action of rewarding and punishing to guard against and beat the Xu family.

After understanding this, the atmosphere suddenly became a little weird, and the joy in everyone's hearts dissipated. Subsequently, the emperor issued several decrees, and immediately dismissed the current Jinyiwei in Nanjing from his position as an official, and sent Jinyiwei from Beijing to replace him.

As for the reason, it is simple, the White Lotus Sect in the Nanzhi area has made such a large scale that it almost caused a rebellion, but Jin Yiwei, who is a supervisory agency, actually knows nothing, and is really suspected of being a corpse.

If it is not easy for the ministers to intervene in the matter of the Xu family, then they can't control the personnel transfer of Jinyiwei. After all, this Jinyiwei, like Dongchang, is an institution around the Son of Heaven, and it is not in the sequence of the imperial court yamen at all, and the transfer of personnel in it is naturally only decided by the emperor alone.

It's not just that Nanjing's Jinyi Guards are not the ones that the ministers can put their beaks, but also the Zhenfu Division in Beijing, and it's not that they can say anything more in front of the Son of Heaven. Even if the emperor later added charges such as slackness to the current Jinyi Guard's commander, ordering him to temporarily close his door at home and think about it, everyone was silent.

This series of actions has made the courtiers quickly come back to their senses, and the emperor who looks happy on the surface is really a little annoyed this time. Obviously, the Xu family in Nanjing has done something wrong in recent matters, and even affected the Jinyiwei in the north and south of the two capitals.

So today's court meeting finally ended in a dull and strange atmosphere, and the ministers were full of suspicion, and after walking out of the palace gate, they began to discuss. Subsequently, many people turned their attention to Lu Jin, who came out of the palace gate together, because he participated in the whole process of Nanjing.

Faced with everyone's side-knocking inquiries, Lu Zhen just smiled: "It's really not good for us and other courtiers to speculate on the situation." Anyway, it's all over, so don't worry too deeply. As you can see, even the people of the Wei Mansion don't have any opinions on this. As the so-called thunder and rain are not Jun'en, since Your Majesty has made this decision, it is naturally for his reasons. ”

After saying these high-sounding words, he left his colleagues behind, got into the car and drove away, leaving only the others there to look at each other, and they did not come back to their senses for a long time.

And when they came back to their senses and wanted to secretly inquire about the inside story with Xu Jizong, this one had already quietly left while everyone was surrounding Lu Jin's inquiry. And this time he moved quite quickly, he didn't stay in the capital for any time, and after receiving the order, he directly led people to leave the capital quickly, and he didn't even explain to the officials who had friendships on weekdays.

So in the end, the officials could only bury the matter in their hearts with full of wonder, only to treat it as if nothing had happened.

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If the ministers are full of doubt, then Zhu Qiyu, the emperor, is full of depression.

Although he quickly dealt with the Xu family and the undutiful Jinyiwei this time, the unhappiness in his heart did not decrease too much, but he felt even more unhappy. Because in his opinion, the guilt of the Xu family in this matter is still secondary, but the biggest problem is in the palace.

If it weren't for Zhu Qizhen's sudden order to order King Qin, Xu Chengzong would not have been able to rebel because of the bewitchment of the White Lotus Sect thieves. And such a person who has always been full of threats to his throne, he can't do anything with him, which makes the emperor feel a little depressed.

Because this kind of thing is not really good to talk about, otherwise it will cause an uproar between the government and the opposition. If the ministers knew that the Emperor Taishang in Nangong still coveted the throne, maybe someone would make a big fuss about this, and even take out the matter of the crown prince again.

After all, in the past few years, everything was very stable, and the Emperor Taishang did not do anything out of the ordinary. But after the abolition of the crown prince, there was a filthy thing that the emperor colluded with the Duke of Wei to try to rebel, how could this still make the prince take the throne?

It is precisely because of this concern that Zhu Qiyu is not even good to attack Zhu Qizhen directly, after all, he still has the title of the emperor, and it is naturally difficult for him to be a younger brother.

But this breath was really uncomfortable in his heart, making him feel like he didn't know the taste of food and couldn't sleep. So on this day, he recruited the commander of the guards who had been guarding the gate of the South Palace, and asked the other party about the recent movements of the Emperor Taishang.

Naturally, this person would not have told Cao Jixiang that he had a long conversation with the people inside under the pretense of the emperor's dictation. Don't say that he doesn't know the truth of this matter, even if he does, he won't dare to play it truthfully, otherwise his head won't be saved.

So what he can say is some rather trivial things, what is the difficult life of the emperor and the Qian family, and there is even a lack of lights and candles in the palace...... When he heard him talk about Zhu Qizhen's difficult situation now, Zhu Qiyu felt a lot more comfortable, at least his life was much more difficult than his own.

Then, the other party mentioned again: "By the way, Your Majesty, can you ask someone to send some ice to Nangong." Now the weather is hot, and the south palace is really hot, and the emperor can only cool off under the big locust tree in the courtyard during the day......"

Before he finished speaking, the emperor's face sank: "Wow, I can only sleep for two or three hours every day in order to deal with large and small government affairs, and at the end of the day, I have to beware of you colluding with foreign courtiers to rebel." And you are comfortable, you only need to cool in the shade of the yard every day, is there such a comfortable thing in this world! ”

With anger in his heart, Zhu Qiyu couldn't care about anything else, and didn't care whether the matter would be discussed by the courtiers after it was spread, and was laughed at by the world, and immediately said with a straight face: "How do you do things?" Have you forgotten all the rules in the palace? How could the Emperor be exposed for a hundred days like ordinary people? Spread my will, go and cut down all the big trees in the South Palace that can enjoy the shade, and order them not to go out! ”

"Ah......h I thought that the emperor was going to send ice to the emperor to dispel the heat, but it turned out to be a worse situation.

"What? Still not reciprocated? This will take people to cut down all the trees in Nangong! The Emperor suddenly glared at him and ordered.

When the commander heard this, he struck a fierce spirit, and then he struck the leader's command, and hurried to do his errand.