The rebellion that occurred in Shenyang on the fifteenth day of the first month of the fifteenth year of Shenwu of the Ming Dynasty shook the entire Northeast officialdom, this was the first palace coup after Zhu Hongsan became emperor, and the main body of the coup was still Zhu Hongsan's most trusted general of the New Army, so Zhu Hongsan did not believe in the entire Northeast New Army.

In the next half month, Zhu Hongsan has been hiding in the camp of the Praetorian Guards, although he does not show up, but the Jinyi Guards rode everywhere, from the governor's yamen in Heilongjiang to the garrison guarding Shanhaiguan, all Zhao Guodong's cronies and descendants were arrested and locked up in the Shenyang prison for detailed interrogation.

With the gradual trial of the case, Zhu Hongsan found that it was his baby son Zhu Jiang standing behind Zhao Guodong. However, Zhu Hongsan was not surprised by this conclusion, Zhao Guodong was already a very popular minister, so why did he arrest the emperor for rebellion? Does he want to be emperor himself? The monarchy of the Ming Dynasty has developed to the extreme, not to mention that Zhao Guodong can't cover the sky with one hand in the army, even if he controls the army, this emperor can't be an emperor if he wants to.

And Zhu Hongsan had an accident, naturally only his sons were qualified to take over the throne, and the first one was the crown prince Zhu Hai, but Zhu Hai and Zhao Guodong have not been far away, so the biggest suspect is Zhu Jiang, the king of Qin, who was born in the second division.

Seeing the confession of Zhang Bao's cronies, Zhu Hongsan couldn't calm down for a long time, but he didn't expect the change of Xuanwumen to happen to him again. Thinking of this, Zhu Hongsan suddenly remembered that there was also Beijing, Zhu Jiang was only the second heir to the throne, and there was a crown prince Zhu Hai in front of him. Zhu Jiang colluded with Zhao Guodong to rebel here in Shenyang, and he must also take action in Beijing. Based on Zhu Hongsan's understanding of his son, Zhu Jiang, a kid who is not as good as Li Shimin, is not as good as Li Shimin, but he is ruthless and ruthless, as long as Zhu Jiang succeeds, Zhu Hai will definitely lose his life.

Thinking of this, Zhu Hongsan was very anxious, and asked Li Chengen beside him: "Old Li, what news does Jingshi have?" ”

In the past few days, Li Chengen has been serving carefully by Zhu Hongsan's side, after all, Dongchang has not received any news from the palace coup d'état, and Li Chengen is also afraid that the emperor will settle accounts and ask him to die.

Li Chengen heard the emperor ask about Beijing, and hurriedly bowed down and replied: "Back to the emperor, the messenger sent back to Beijing has already set off, and at the same time, the old slave has also sent people to check what is wrong there, and it is estimated that news will come in a few days!" ”

Zhu Hongsan thought about it, and it is not a way to wait here in Shenyang, Beijing is his own capital, if he really makes a mess of his sons, then he is a real faint monarch in history.

"No, you can't wait, Lao Li, you go to pass the order, leave the matter of Shenyang to Guo Huan, let him not let go of Zhao Guodong's henchmen, and of course don't wronged a good person, I will set off to return to Beijing today!"

The emperor's order was the holy decree, and the Praetorian Guards were ready as soon as they learned of the emperor's order, and on the eighteenth day of the first lunar month, three days after the coup, they set out from Shenyang to Shanhaiguan.

Before leaving Shenyang, in order to mix sand with the officialdom in the Northeast, Zhu Hongsan directly promoted Chen Mingxia, a military aircraft officer of the Military Aircraft Department, as the governor of Liaoning, which is the second person in the entire Northeast, second only to the Governor of the Northeast. Although there are three governors in the three northeastern provinces, the essence of the northeast is now in Liaoning, and there are more than one million Han people in the entire northeast, most of whom are in Liaoning, so this Liaoning governor is a high authority.

Chen Mingxia was overjoyed when he heard the emperor's arrangement, although he was powerful in the military aircraft department, it was basically over, and only by making actual achievements in the local area could he further enter the cabinet.

Zhu Hongsan's route to enter the customs was similar to that of Dolgon's entry into the customs, from Shenyang to the south through Guangning, that is, Jinzhou in later generations, through a series of dock forts along the coast of Bohai Bay into Shanhaiguan. In the Ming Dynasty, it was the forefront of the struggle against the Manchu Qing Dynasty in Liaodong, and hundreds of thousands of troops were stationed all year round. However, now that the Manchu Qing Dynasty has fallen, the entire northeast is Zhu Hongsan's territory, and even the Mongols have become Zhu Hongsan's vassals, so this former Ningjin defense line has no Ming troops stationed except for Jinzhou and Ningyuan.

However, as the choke point of the customs into the Shanhaiguan is still a large number of Ming troops stationed here, there was originally a division here to guard, but this Shenyang palace coup, Zhu Hongsan will be the entire northeast Zhao Guodong's cronies to catch the pass, Shanhaiguan here because of the second division, naturally also arrested, the current Shanhaiguan guard will have a deputy to replace.

Because Zhu Hongsan was worried about the situation in Beijing, he didn't stop here at Shanhaiguan at all, and passed through the city directly, and he didn't even see the generals of the local garrison.

After entering the customs, the first important town was Yongping Mansion, that is, Lulong, an important town in Hebei, which was the last line of defense in the east of Beijing, and it was also the station of the two divisions of the new army that followed Zhu Hongsan out of the customs, and their mission was also over. Zhu Hongsan walked from Shenyang for ten days in a row, and only when he arrived at Yongping Mansion could he be relieved.

Here in Yongping Mansion, Zhu Hongsan finally received the news from Beijing, or the official news, it was the prince who gave Zhu Hongsan an an excerpt, and here Zhu Hai explained in detail what happened in Beijing during the more than a year that Zhu Hongsan was out of the customs. The most important thing is to give a detailed account of what happened in Beijing half a month ago, that is, on the 15th day of the first lunar month.

In the year since Zhu Hongsan's departure, Beijing has just started business as usual, and the ministries have governed the country in an orderly manner under the leadership of the cabinet. The crown prince Zhu Hai didn't have much power in the first place, so he was at ease to be a rubber stamp.

However, on the thirteenth day of the first lunar month, that is, two days before the Shangyuan Festival, the prince received a secret report from Ding Changsheng, the chief soldier of the Yamen, the commander of the infantry, that Zhu Jiang, the king of Qin, wanted to launch a mutiny on the night of the Shangyuan Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month and imprison all the cabinet elders, so the prince decided to prepare to launch a step forward on the fourteenth day of the first lunar month, arrest the culprit Zhu Jiang, and at the same time search for Zhu Jiang's henchmen.

But people are not as good as heaven, when the prince was preparing, the news leaked, and Zhu Jiang learned that the prince was going to deal with him, so he launched a mutiny first.

Zhu Jiang gathered the infantry commander Ma Rufeng, the commander of the Yamen, the deputy general Jiang Pengju and others, as well as Jin Daoming, the son of Jin Shenghuan, the king of Nanchang County, and organized a total of more than 3,000 soldiers to attack the palace on the night of the 14th day of the first lunar month.

After the crown prince failed to capture Zhu Jiang, he immediately organized the palace guards to resist Zhu Jiang's attack, and at the same time got the help of Zhu Hongyi, the king of Wuchang County, and Li Chengdong, the king of Jianning County, in Beijing.

The prince's excerpt sprinkled five or six thousand words, detailing the dangerous situation at that time, and at the same time, the basin was detained on Zhu Jiang's head, and he said that he was a military wizard who commanded on the spot and did not move like a mountain. In the end, the prince wrote: "Erchen was panicked, I didn't expect Zhu Jiang to openly rebel as a courtier, this is simply disloyal and unfilial, and now Erchen has taken Zhu Jiang into custody and waited for his father to come back to make a decision!" ”

The prince said that Zhu Jiang was a disloyal and unfilial rebel, and he himself became a good son who shared his father's worries, but Zhu Hongsan was not a fool, and Zhu Hongsan saw something wrong in this excerpt.

The first point is the prince's military strength, there are a total of three county kings in Beijing, namely Zhu Hongsan's eldest brother Zhu Hongyi, the king of Wuchang County, Li Chengdong, the king of Jianning County, and Jin Shenghuan, the king of Nanchang County.

Jin Shenghuan's son Jin Daoming is Ma Rufeng's brother-in-law, and it makes sense for him to join the Zhujiang counter-revolutionary clique, but what about Li Chengdong? You must know that Li Chengdong was the culprit who killed Ma Xiaofang back then, why did he stand on the side of the prince this time?

And the most unrelieved thing for Zhu Hongsan is Zhu Hongyi, although Zhu Hongsan's eldest brother has not been in charge of specific affairs due to physical reasons in recent years, but the new army was founded by Zhu Hongsan and Zhu Hongyi back then, and most of the middle-level generals in the army were trained by Zhu Hongyi. In the past, Zhu Hongyi also knew that his identity was special, so he deliberately avoided it after the founding of the People's Republic of China, but he didn't expect to help the prince this time, so Zhu Hongsan felt that this Beijing incident was definitely not as simple as the prince said.

Another point is that such a big thing, why is there no news from Jinyiwei? If Shenyang is a border pass, Jinyiwei may be negligent, but Beijing is Jinyiwei's nest, and Jinyiwei has no news about such a big thing, could it be that Qian Lide also fell to Zhu Jiang?

Zhu Hongsan thought for a long time and felt that it was impossible, Qian Lide was in the same hands with other princes after hugging Zhu Huai's thigh, and it was impossible for Tong Yangjia to be cunning and cunning to let Qian Lide step on two boats.

In addition to these, there is also Ma Mingyuan, you must know that Ma Mingyuan is also in Beijing, but there is no news of Ma Mingyuan on the prince's excerpt, is Ma Mingyuan really far away from the government?

The prince's excerpt is full of suspicions, but one thing is certain, that is, there is no big mess in Beijing, although Zhu Jiang is choking enough, but there is nothing to do in the cabinet and the palace.

But Zhu Hongsan didn't want to end it like this, he had to check what was going on. Thinking of this, Zhu Hongsan said to Li Chengen: "Lao Li, the purpose!" Today is the 26th day of the first lunar month, and I went to Tongzhou on the fifth day of the second lunar month, and asked the prince, the cabinet, as well as Zhu Jiang and Zhu Huai, to go to Tongzhou to meet them! ”

Li Chengen heard the emperor say this and hurriedly bowed down to prepare, but before Zhu Hongsan finished speaking, Zhu Hongsan thought for a while and then said: "And Lao Li, you personally go back to Beijing to announce the decree, you go back to Mingli to announce the decree this time, but to find out what happened to the Jingshi this time, the most important thing is that I want to know why Jinyiwei didn't have any news coming, do you know?" ”

When Li Chengen heard the emperor say this, he quickly knelt down and promised: "Please rest assured, the old slave will definitely be able to do a good job for the emperor, and he will definitely make up for his mistakes!" ”

Zhu Hongsan nodded when he heard Li Chengen say this, waved his hand and let him out, Zhu Hongsan also had to analyze what happened in Beijing.