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After selecting the suspects, Li Hongyu wrote down the names and addresses of the three people and went to Qin Yue, handed her the note that recorded the information of the three people, and instructed in a deep voice.

Qin Yue has not been in vain in the capital for more than a year, she originally had a strong personality, so she was not willing to stay by Li Hongyu's side in obscurity, so she provoked the girder of the Li Mansion and became the "hostess" of the Li Mansion.

In fact, Rou'er is responsible for the daily operation of the Li Mansion, after all, Qin Yue is not the mistress of the Li Mansion, and Rou'er has a gentle personality, is thoughtful, and is familiar with the management of daily affairs, so she is the best person to be in charge of the affairs of the Li Mansion.

What Qin Yue did was to deal with the three sects and nine streams in the capital, and her biggest advantage compared with Rou'er, Zhao Xin and Zhu Wanting was that she had a ruthlessness that ordinary people did not have, and she would not drag her feet when dealing with the three sects and nine streams.

This point is very important, to put it bluntly, Qin Yue will do whatever it takes for the benefit of the Li Mansion at the critical moment, only in this way can the danger be turned into a disaster, and Zhao Xin, Rou'er and Zhu Wanting can't do this, their hearts are too kind.

Li Hongyu attaches great importance to the acquisition of intelligence, so with his help, Qin Yue has set up an intelligence network in the capital to collect the latest news of the officialdom and all walks of life in the capital, and this intelligence network will gradually be improved over time.

With Qin Yue to control the operation of intelligence, Li Hongyu is very relieved, with Qin Yue's intelligence, he should be able to calmly control this intelligence network, and dare to kill the enemy at the moment of danger to save Li Mansion from fire and water.

Therefore, this kind of crucial secret investigation Li Hongyu would naturally teach Qin Yue to do it, and Qin Yue would definitely go all out and send his best subordinates to find out the information of the three pro-military military attachés.

Although he had some doubts in his heart, Qin Yue was a smart person and did not ask Li Hongyu why he did this, he believed that Li Hongyu did not tell her his own reasons.

Li Hongyu didn't believe Qin Yue, but in order to avoid affecting her state of mind, the matter of the Holy Decree was just a guess on his part, he didn't want Qin Yue to spend too much energy on it at that time, after all, there were still many things in the future, and if Qin Yue was distracted, he would undoubtedly not be able to concentrate on things.

At noon on July 20, Hanlin Academy.

"Li Hanlin, the emperor has a decree to announce your entry into the palace." When the Hanlin people of the Hanlin Academy gathered in the dining hall to talk and laugh and have lunch, an attendant suddenly broke into the room in a hurry and said to Li Hongyu out of breath.

Li Hongyu, who was laughing with others, was slightly stunned when he heard this, and then realized that Emperor Wanli's condition was not good, otherwise how could he come to summon him in such a hurry?

Therefore, Li Hongyu immediately put down the dishes and chopsticks in his hand without the slightest slackness, briefly freshened up, and then left with the waiter.

With Li Hongyu's departure, the silent canteen exploded with a bang, and the Hanlin people talked about it one after another, everyone guessed that something had happened to Emperor Wanli, otherwise they would not have been so anxious to find Li Hongyu and Hanlin Scholar Wang Han.

Not only Li Hongyu, but also Wang Han was also passed into the palace together, as a bachelor of Hanlin, Wang Han has a transcendent position in the civil official group, representing the Ming scholarly class, so once Emperor Wanli's illness is not optimistic, he will definitely have to serve by his side.

When entering the Forbidden City, Li Hongyu noticed that the pro-soldiers on duty at the city gate were at least twice as many as before, and they were wearing armor one by one, with serious expressions, and a posture like a great enemy, which made the atmosphere at the scene extremely tense and depressing.

Outside the Qianqing Palace, there were 10 or 20 civil and military ministers waiting to be summoned, including the British minister Zhang Weixian, the first assistant of the cabinet Fang Congzhe, the official secretary Zhou Jiamo, etc., all of whom were important civil and military ministers in the court, and gathered in groups of three or five to whisper and talk about the physical condition of the Wanli Emperor.

Li Hongyu is a member of the Hanlin Academy, so he naturally followed Wang Han, Wang Han greeted everyone and walked to the cabinet chief assistant Fang Congzhe, so he followed behind quietly.

Speaking of which, the cabinet of the late Wanli Dynasty is probably the weakest of the Ming Dynasty after the Battle of Tumubao, and there is only one person in the entire cabinet, Fang Congzhe, who is both the first assistant of the cabinet and the only cabinet member.

While Wang Han and Fang Congzhe were talking in a low voice, Li Hongyu walked towards Zhou Jiamo, the secretary of the ministry, who was surrounded by several officials from the capital ministry, and had a very kind attitude towards Li Hongyu, who bowed down.

Zhou Jiamo is a native of Hanchuan, Huguang, a Jinshi in Longqing for five years, and he can be said to have profound qualifications in the court, and he is another important official in the court above the court from Huguang.

Unlike Yang Lian and Xiong Tingbi, two officialdom tycoons from Huguang, Zhou Jiamo belonged to the neutral faction officials in the court, and the officials around him were also neutral people, and they rarely got involved in the open and secret battles in the court, and won the trust of Emperor Wanli.

In this way, among the officials on the scene, only Li Hongyu belonged to the Chu Party, and the three major party leaders of the Chu Party, Hu Ke, were all given to the middle official Ying Zhen, the military department was given to Wu Liangsi, and the right Du Yushi Huang Yanshi was not able to appear here because of his low grade.

Compared with the Chu Party, the situation of the Qi Party was much better, although the two leaders of the Qi Party, Qi Shijiao and Zhou Yongchun, were unable to come, but Cui Jingrong, the secretary of the military department from the Qi Party, was on the scene.

Among these high-ranking officials who were summoned by the Wanli Emperor, the Zhejiang Party and the Donglin Party had the most officials, such as Congzhe, the head of the cabinet of the Zhejiang Party, and He Zongyan, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites of the Donglin Party, who were all first-class ministers in the Ming Dynasty.

It is not difficult to see that there was a strange phenomenon in the party struggle in the late Ming Dynasty, that is, the party leaders of each faction were usually not the people with the highest official positions among the factions, but mainly the officials from the two ranks, leading the officials of each faction to charge into battle.

In addition to worrying about the illness of Emperor Wanli, the civil and military officials outside the Qianqing Palace were also worried about one thing at this time, that is, whether the crown prince Zhu Changluo could successfully ascend the throne and inherit the unification.

With the character of Emperor Wanli, coupled with Concubine Zheng Guifei blowing the wind on the side, if Emperor Wanli issued an edict to abolish the crown prince Zhu Changluo and replace Zhu Changxun, the king of Fu, as the prince, then it would be a very tricky matter.

Although the crown prince was not at fault during his tenure as the prince, there is a good saying, there is no excuse for the crime that you want to add, as long as you have the heart, you can casually find out the ten major crimes of the prince's misconduct.

You must know that those officials in the court who study hard in the cold window rely on their mouths and pens to eat, and they say that the black is white, and the white is black, but they can be caught.

Li Hongyu is not worried that Emperor Wanli will change King Fu as the crown prince on a whim for a while, Emperor Wanli is not the kind of person who easily changes his mind, and it is also a matter of great importance to the stability of the Ming Dynasty.

"The emperor has a decree to announce that all the adults will enter the palace to see you!" While everyone was talking in a low voice, an attendant left the palace gate and shouted loudly.

Hearing this, the civil and military officials at the scene immediately quieted down, and methodically arranged into two teams according to their status in the officialdom, one civil and one military, with the leader of the civilian contingent being the head of the cabinet and the chief assistant Fang Congzhe, and the military attaché being led by the British Gongzhang Weixian.

Although Li Hongyu is from the top but his qualifications are shallow, so he can only honestly rank at the bottom of the civil official queue, in fact, it is already an accident that he can appear on this occasion, it is the grace given to him by Emperor Wanli, otherwise with his current official position, he is not qualified to go to the Qianqing Palace with Fang Congzhe and other officials to face the saint, and a fool can guess that there is a good chance that Emperor Wanli will explain the future.

Qianqing Palace, East Warm Pavilion.

Several imperial doctors from the Tai Hospital were discussing something in a low voice in the corridor outside the door with solemn expressions, shaking their heads from time to time, and the atmosphere seemed quite depressing.

In the pavilion, the haggard Wanli Emperor sat on the soft couch, and beside the bed stood the crown prince Zhu Changluo, the grandson Zhu Youxiao and Zheng Guifei, and the eyes of the three were red, as if they had cried.

"Knock on the emperor, long live the emperor, long live long live!" After entering the door, all the civil and military ministers knelt in front of the soft couch and bowed to Emperor Wanli.

"The Qing's family is flat." A hint of a smile appeared on Emperor Wanli's pale face, and he waved his hand upwards and shouted in a deep voice.

"Emperor Xie!" Hearing this, all the ministers got up one after another, bowed in line on the left and right, and stood there waiting for Emperor Wanli's instructions.

"Ladies and gentlemen, it has been forty-eight years since I ascended the throne, and looking back on the past, there are many regretful things that I regret later."

Emperor Wanli glanced around at the civil and military ministers in front of him, pondered for a while, and then said, "I know that I am not a holy king, so I don't want to show any merits after the great trip, and the merits and demerits will be judged by future generations. ”

"I know that the limit is approaching, and I can't return to the sky, so I announced that the Zhongqing family came here, and the Zhongqing family is the mainstay of my Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty will rely on the Zhongqing family to take care of it in the future, and assist the prince Zhongxing Daming."

As he spoke, Emperor Wanli turned his words and said in a deep voice to Zhu Changluo, the crown prince who was standing on the side, "Prince, salute the Zhongqing family, and you will rely on the Zhongqing family to assist you in the future." ”

"I've seen you." Hearing this, Zhu Changluo stepped forward and said to the ministers.

"The emperor's words are serious, and the ministers are afraid." Where did Fang Congzhe and the others dare to accept Zhu Changluo's worship, they knelt on the ground and replied.

"Get up." Seeing this, Emperor Wanli squeezed out a smile at the corner of his mouth, and raised his hand slightly.

"Thank you for your grace." Fang Congzhe and the others stood up at this time, standing there silently, everyone knew that Emperor Wanli was entrusting Gu and arranging the future affairs around him, and these civil and military ministers at the scene were the auxiliary ministers he selected for Zhu Changluo.

"The British Duke stayed." After Emperor Wanli explained to everyone, he glanced at Zhang Weixian, who was standing in front of the crowd, and said.

"Wait for the resignation!" The rest of the ministers knew that the Wanli Emperor had something to explain to the Wanli Emperor alone, so they bowed knowingly and retired, waiting in the corridor outside the Dongnuan Pavilion in case the Wanli Emperor summoned the others.

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