Text Volume 3 The Road to Empire_Chapter 76 Inside King Qing's Mansion

Listening to Tian Ergeng's words, Yang He was shocked in his heart, and he was speechless for a while. As an ordinary bureaucrat who has been working in the six ministries of the capital, Yang He actually has little experience in dealing with practical affairs.

The reason why the cabinet recommended him to the post of governor of Shaanxi was that everyone felt that it was inevitable that a popular uprising would occur in Shaanxi after years of famine. After all, at that time, no one at the imperial court, or even local officials in Shaanxi, had the courage to pack tickets, and they could appease and provide relief to millions of victims in Shaanxi.

Yang He may indeed have little experience in dealing with practical affairs, but his personal conduct made the leaders of the Shaanxi rebels trust him at that time, and then the emperor got a batch of grain from King Fu, plus evacuated 2 or 300,000 disaster victims to Henan and Shanxi provinces, which finally allowed Shaanxi to spend two years of peace.

But it is clear that the climate in Shaanxi this year is better than the previous two years, but because of the greed of the clan and the squire, the people of Shaanxi have been forced to the edge of the cliff. As the soon-to-be-promoted governor of Shaanxi, he is also unpleasing in front of these clans and squires. When it came to land and water conservancy, the clan turned a blind eye to his demands, and the squires disobeyed him, which also made the local people disappointed in him, believing that relying on the imperial court might not solve their own survival problems.

When Yang He felt anxious, the plan sent by Tian Ergeng and Wu Jun not only made him feel that it was against the personal cognition he had cultivated since he was a child, but it also made him feel the urge to try and agree. After all, in these days, he had too much trouble communicating with those arrogant and rude clans, and the inferior gentry who didn't leave their hands.

In Yang He's view, these seemingly noble squires of the clan and the heirloom of poetry and books are not as reasonable as those uneducated and uneducated people. Those rebellious people will also weigh the difficulties of the imperial court, as long as everyone can tide over the difficulties together. On the contrary, these clans and inferior gentry obviously got the greatest benefits from the hands of the imperial court, but they were still not satisfied, and wanted to try to get more, completely ignoring the fact that the people could not survive, and there was a danger of beacons everywhere in Shaanxi.

It seems that in their opinion, when there is a civil uprising in Shaanxi, it will not be themselves who will suffer first, but the imperial court. Wanting to dig out a little profit from their mouths and use it to feed those who can't survive is like touching their lives. Rao is Yang He, who has always had a good temper, has lost his temper several times for no reason after returning to his residence these days.

Tian Ergeng and Wu Jun were ordered by the emperor to come to rectify the clan, and when they first heard it, Yang He was not shocked in his heart, but felt a burst of happiness. It was only after he calmed down that he was worried about this plan to rectify the sect. After all, the crime of plotting rebellion against the clan is against the ethics of the Gang Chang and his own moral concepts.

As Yang He was silent, the atmosphere in the room suddenly became a little dull. Tian Ergeng looked at Yang He, whose face was constantly changing, and also felt that the other party seemed to have little chance of agreeing. Although Yang He was single-handedly raised by the emperor and did not form a party with the side of the court, he is still a scholar after all, and it is probably a little unrealistic for him to cooperate with Jinyiwei to charge his relatives with rebellion.

Tian Ergeng pondered how they could bypass the governor of Shaanxi and mobilize the armies of Xi'an and Guyuan to capture the two relatives if Yang He finally rejected them. Without the cooperation of the local government, they had no choice but to narrow the scope of their attack, and they could not attack the two pro-feudal clans at the same time with the force of thunder.

When Tian Ergeng was thinking about it, Yang He sighed, and finally broke the silence and said: "For the peaceful life of the people of Shaanxi, although what you said is really ridiculous, this official will still cooperate with you.

However, before that, this official needs you to confess all your plans, and in addition, King Han and King Qin are Your Majesty's relatives after all, and please treat each other politely when you start, and you can't deal with it without authorization, so as not to make Your Majesty criticized by the world. ”

Wu Jun and Tian Ergeng glanced at each other, the two of them suddenly relaxed, and replied to Yang He with a smile: "What the adults said is right, and we will remember it here."

Is this the whole plan to act? Naturally, it started from King Qin. First of all, I would like to ask you to transfer to us the people on this list, these are all soldiers who have been violated by their relatives and their families. With them leading the way, we don't have to worry about leaks..."

When Wu Jun and Tian Ergeng were discussing with Yang He how to deal with the Qin and Han clans, Zhang Yixian was in the palace of King Qing in Weizhou, Ningxia, and was meeting with King Zhu Shuaizin.

Although it was a meeting, the atmosphere in the meeting place between the two was a little strange. The place where the two met was not on the Yin'an Hall of Qingwangfu, but in the Lijing Garden outside Qinghe Gate of Qingwangfu.

Lijing Garden is the first of the six famous gardens in Qingwangfu, not only with beautiful scenery and a vast area, but also with dozens of exquisite pavilions and pavilions. The place where Zhang Yixian and King Qing met was on the third floor of Wangchun Tower, near the big pond in Lijing Garden. This is the tallest building in the Regency Garden, and when you climb the building, you can see the entire scenery of the Regency Garden.

Although May in Ningxia is almost spring, the weather at night still makes people feel a little cold. However, Qing King Zhu Shuaizin, who was sitting at the same table with Zhang Yixian, felt even colder in his heart.

As the vassal king of the Ming Dynasty, he was able to tolerate Zhang Yixian eating with him at the same table, and he already felt that he had been greatly insulted, but Zhang Yixian's actions made him feel that he could no longer bear it.

"Gonggong Zhang, this king respects you as a messenger, so he has always tolerated you. But what do you want to do when you lead your troops into the king's palace and separate the king from the rest? If you don't give the king an explanation, the king will ask the emperor's nephew to give the king an explanation. ”

Zhang Yixian was unmoved by King Qing's shouting, he put down the wine glass in his hand, and replied slowly: "The prince doesn't have to worry, wait a while, and we will have the result." ”

King Qing's heart sank, and he suddenly asked uneasily, "What is the result?" What exactly do you want to do? ”

Before Zhang Yixian could answer, he heard a burst of footsteps going upstairs, and then a captain in brocade clothes appeared at the staircase, knelt down to Zhang Yixian and said: "Back to my father-in-law, my subordinates have already gained something, and four of the internal officials around King Qing are willing to give evidence, and King Qing intends to conspire against King Qin;

There are also more than a dozen officials in the royal palace honor and guard department who admit that King Qing let them occupy the fertile land and loot the people's wealth to prepare for the cost of raising troops;

In addition, Princess Qing and Prince Qing declared that they did not know about the conspiracy between King Qing and King Qin..."

"Whoa." Qingwang Zhu Shuaizin finally stood up angrily and overturned the table in front of him, and the dishes and fruits on the table suddenly fell to the ground.

His eyes were red and he pointed at Zhang Yixian and scolded angrily: "You want to frame this king, why?" Did Your Majesty make you do this? No, it won't, it must be you carrying Your Majesty behind your back... What do you want to do, dare to do such a rebellious thing? ”

Zhang Yixian took out a silk handkerchief, wiped the soup that had been splashed on his sleeve, and instructed the Jinyi lieutenant on the side: "Let those four internal officials write confessions and sign them, and the other stubborn ones will be killed." Write them a few blood letters, and say that they found out that King Qing wanted to rebel, but they were killed..."

Seeing Zhang Yixian framing himself in front of him without hesitation, although Zhu Shuaizin, the king of Qing, trembled with anger, he still didn't dare to pounce after all, and fought hard with this Qincha from the capital.

After the Jinyi lieutenant received the order, King Qing finally softened and said angrily to Zhang Yixian: "You are so unscrupulous to frame your relatives, do you really think that you can hide it from the people of the world?" Even in front of His Majesty, I want to seek justice. ”

Zhang Yixian got up and picked up the overturned table, and pulled off a window screen from the side to wipe the table clean, before saying to King Qing: "The prince should sit down and talk, the miscellaneous family traveled from the capital day and night, traveling thousands of miles to Weizhou, naturally not to frame the prince for rebellion." ”

King Qing stared at Zhang Yixian for a long time before he sat down again, for this kind of disaster that fell from the sky, it made him seem to have returned to the time when he was a child in the cellar to avoid a certain chaos, completely messed up his own inches, and could only be at the mercy of Zhang Yixian.

Zhang Yixian took out two things from his arms, one was a small porcelain **, and the other was a letter, and he said to King Qing: "This ** on the left is arsenic, and the letter on the right is for you to report to the court, King Qin and King Han are rebelling, and they are trying to incite you to join."

If the prince chooses to copy the letter on the right again and then hand it over to the miscellaneous family, then this rebellion case naturally has nothing to do with the prince. In addition, Ningxia is a bitter cold place, and His Majesty can't bear to have his relatives live a hard life in the frontier, so he plans to ask the prince to move to Sichuan, I don't know what the prince wants? ”

King Qing looked at the other party dumbfounded, and only after a long time did he say: "Just to let this king commit perjury, you dare to move the people like this, aren't you afraid that this king will retaliate against you afterwards?"

In addition, King Qin and King Han conspired against each other, isn't this a joke? Does Your Majesty think that the clan of the world would believe that two vassal kings who did not even have a guard could rebel? If Your Majesty does this, isn't he afraid that his reputation will be ruined and people's hearts will be lost? ”

Zhang Yixian looked at King Qing's righteous words for a long time, and then summoned a brocade guard guarding the staircase, and he reached out and pulled out the embroidered spring knife on the waist of this brocade guard. Sitting opposite him, King Qing subconsciously dodged backwards, and as a result, he fell to the ground. King Qing was holding on to the ground and wanted to get up, but he said angrily: "You, what do you want to do, this king is not unagreeable, why are you so anxious..."

Zhang Yixian held the knife and glanced at King Qing, who was still rolling on the ground, and then gently slapped the knife on the table in front of him and said, "Before the miscellaneous family left Beijing, His Majesty once privately instructed the miscellaneous family. If the prince doesn't want to choose these two paths, he might as well take this knife and cut down the miscellaneous family, and then follow the example of Emperor Chengzu, Fengtian Jing is difficult. His Majesty said that if the prince really had the pride of Emperor Chengzu, he would not mind being the son of Jianwen. ”

King Qing's face turned blue and white for a while, and he didn't dare to take over Zhang Yixian's topic. After half a ring, he silently reached out and took the letter from the table, avoiding the embroidered spring knife on the other side.

"There is no pen and ink that this king is used to, so please change places with my father-in-law..."King Qing said calmly. Zhang Yixian looked at the embroidered spring knife on the side, nodded and said, "Lord Wang, please..."