Going down the river was much faster than going against the current, and Zuo Maodi left the military camp of the Duke of Qi and returned to Nanjing by boat on the same day.

After entering the city, he went straight into the palace and went to the cabinet, and asked Shi Kefa to retreat, and explained the details of the negotiations with Chen Yue.

"How dare you do this!" Shi Kefa was furious when he heard this, and then calmed down, now is far from the time to be angry.

"Yuan Fu, the Duke of Qi has the princess's secret edict in his hands, and the spearhead is directly aimed at Han Zanzhou and the cabinet, he once said that for the sake of the princess's safety, no one other than you and me will be allowed to know, this is the reason why I ask you to retreat." Zuo Maodi explained.

"Zhong Ji, do you think the princess's secret edict is true? Could it really be that our own people harmed the three princes and caused His Majesty to have a stroke? Shi Kefa asked.

"Yuan Fu, this thing is eighty percent true, although Qi Guogong has no conclusive evidence, do you think that if there is no evidence, how can she order someone to pass the edict to Chen Yue? And don't you think it's strange what has happened recently?

The three princes were killed, you must know that the person responsible for rescuing the three princes was the people from Dongchang, why was the three princes fine when they were in Shandong, but they were caught up and killed by Manchu when they were rescued in Huai'an Mansion and my Ming Dynasty?

We all know that the inner palace is responsible for serving His Majesty is the imperial horse eunuch Li Guofu, but Li Guofu was taken down inexplicably, and then Han Zanzhou reported the news of the murder of the third prince to His Majesty at this time, His Majesty was already seriously ill, and he learned that this bad news could not be sustained.

Then there is the battle for the prince, no matter from which aspect, the Tang King is not qualified to succeed to the throne, but he was elected as the prince, and even Yuan Fu you can't stop it.

So many things fully show that there is a mastermind behind all this, who controls all this, and it is Yuanfu that you have also become a pawn of others. ”

Zuo Maodi's analysis made Shi Kefa gasp, and his face suddenly turned extremely gray, if all this is true, it means that he is not competent at all!

"The prince was killed, Your Majesty had a stroke, but our cabinet was busy choosing the prince, no one asked about His Majesty's affairs, the princess must have a sense of fear, she asked Yuan Fu in the Qianqing Palace to allow the Duke of Qi to return to the court, but was rudely refused. Therefore, he could only write a secret edict to send it out and let Chen Yue return to Beijing. Zuo Maodi sighed.

"Among the people who supported the Tang Dynasty, the one who contributed the most was the second assistant Qian Qianyi, if this conspiracy was true, then he would definitely not be able to get out of it. King Lu inexplicably fell into the water and Xue was even more of a conspiracy, after King Lu's death, Wang Duo defected to support King Tang, and he was definitely not innocent! Shi Kefa calmed down, did not entangle Princess Kunxing's secret edict, began to analyze calmly, and then was shocked to find that the matter was surprisingly involving the eunuch Bingbi and the two elders of the cabinet!

"King Tang is just a Yuanzhi vassal king, he has just been released from Fengyang Prison by His Majesty, and it has not been a few months since he recovered his lordship, how can he have such great energy! Who is behind this? Shi Kefa couldn't help but ask.

Instigating a celebrant to write a eunuch cabinet, two cabinet elders and several important ministers of the six ministries and nine ministers to support him, with the connections of Tang Wang himself, it is absolutely impossible to do it!

When Xia Guan returned from the military camp of Qi Guogong, Liu Neng, the commander of Jin Yiwei, told Xia Guan a news, saying that Jin Yiwei had found Liu Kongzhao, the original sincerity of the uncle, in Nanjing, and Jin Yiwei had also seen with his own eyes that Liu Kongzhao had been on the Zheng family's painting boat on the Qinhuai River and had a secret meeting with Zheng Zhibao. However, Liu Kongzhao is cunning, and the Zheng family is now very powerful in Nanjing, with as many as 15,000 troops, and Jinyiwei does not dare to act rashly. ”

Zuo Maodi suddenly recalled that when he got off the ship after negotiating with Chen Yue, the commander of Jinyiwei told Liu Neng about something, he still felt a little inexplicable at the time, but now he thinks about it, it is definitely important.

"Liu Kongzhao, Zheng Zhibao!" Shi Kefa chewed these two names slowly, and suddenly his body was for a while, and he looked at Zuo Maodi with a shocked face, and Zuo Maodi had already come back to his senses, and looked at Shi Kefa in the same shock.

"If the mastermind behind the scenes is the Zheng family in Fujian, then all this makes sense. It is reported that the Zheng family was repeatedly suppressed by Qi Guogong, overseas trade was encroached, and Qi Guogong sent troops to occupy Dongfan Island overseas in Fujian.

Qi Guogong is strong in force, and he is deeply trusted by His Majesty, and he is not the opponent of Qi Guogong at all against the Zheng family, only by making Yin, harming His Majesty's father and son, and supporting the foundationless Tang King Jitong, so that he can overwhelm Qi Guogong in the court, so that he can recover the decline!

It is said that the Zheng family has made a lot of profits from the sea trade, with an annual income of tens of millions of taels of silver, and has hundreds of thousands of troops in control of the entire Fujian. Zuo Maodi carefully analyzed, and the matter was extremely close to the truth.

"Now there are two elders in the Zheng family's court, Han Zanzhou in the palace is in control of the palace, and more than half of the important ministers in the six departments and nine kings are supported, and there are tens of thousands of elite troops in the city. Once the Tang King enters the city and becomes a prisoner, who else can control it? However, they probably didn't calculate that Chen Yue would raise troops on the side of Qingjun, and the bamboo basket would be empty in the end! Shi Kefa sneered.

"They may not have counted the Duke of Qi, do you remember Yuanfu, some time ago, Zheng Sen and Hao Shaoqi, who were stationed in Hanyang to contain the Wuchang thief army, suddenly broke out into internal strife, which caused the thief army in Wuchang to go down the river and attack Jiujiang. If it weren't for Qi Guogong's sudden strength and rapid defeat of Zhang Xianzhong, he would definitely have fallen into the two-sided attack of the thief army, once the thief army cut off the Yangtze River, Qi Guogong could only be trapped in Jiujiang City. And they just took this opportunity to push the Tang King to the throne of the prison country, even if the Duke of Qi can defeat the Western Thief, he will definitely end up with a defeat, and the King of Tang is firmly seated in Nanjing, where does the Duke of Qi still have the capital to oppose? Zuo Maodi sneered.

At this point, everything is revealed. Shi Kefa sat calmly, but a wave of anger was burning in his heart. He is the head of the cabinet and the head of the civil ministers, but under his nose, there is such an earth-shattering conspiracy, and he, as the first assistant, is unaware of it!

Shame, shame! has been an official for so many years, this is the biggest humiliation Shi Kefa has felt!

Compared with Chen Yue, the domineering Duke of Qi, Shi Kefa hates those who secretly carry out conspirators, and he must get rid of the rebels who dare to kill the prince and harm the king!

"Now that this pavilion knows all this, all conspiracies will end here, and all the murderers behind the scenes will be punished as they deserve!" At this moment, Shi Kefa made up his mind.