Zhu Hongsan found that the sound was wrong, but the palace was not in this direction, Zhu Hongsan opened another window and looked at the palace in the distance, at this time it was already dark, the Forbidden City was five or six miles away from the south square, and it was completely impossible to see what was going on in the dark night.

Zhu Hongsan called Ding Wei and asked, "Ding Wei, listen to this sound, is it different from the sound of fireworks!" ”

Ding Wei used to be a Jinyi guard in Guangdong, had never participated in the war, and was not familiar with the army's eight-pounder gun. However, Ding Wei has many veterans under his command, a Jinyi Wei Qianhu is still a veteran who participated in the Nanchang Campaign, he listened sideways and said: "Your Majesty, the sound is a bit like the sound of cannons, but the distance is too far, coupled with the influence of firecrackers around, the subordinates are not sure!" ”

Zhu Hongsan and his Jinyi guards were suspicious here, and suddenly there was a burst of fire in the direction of the palace, followed by a loud noise, and then Zhu Hongsan saw clearly that it was an explosion at one of the palace gates.

The loud bang was loud, far louder than the sound of firecrackers in the South Market, and many pedestrians on the street stopped to look in the direction of the noise, not knowing what was happening.

Zhu Hongsan is different from ordinary citizens, Zhu Hongsan has experienced too many things in his life, and he knew that it was not good at the same time as the loud noise and the light of the fire, this was someone attacking the palace. Of course, the emperor lives in the palace, what does it mean to dare to attack the palace? Of course, it's a rebellion.

Zhu Hongsan brought a total of 60,000 horses on his northern tour, and it stands to reason that there is no problem with safety at all. But after entering Shenyang, Zhu Hongsan was a little negligent, he thought that Zhao Guodong was his descendant, and he was completely trustworthy, plus the Shenyang Palace was originally not very big, covering an area of only more than 60,000 square meters, which is one-sixth of the Forbidden City in Beijing.

There can be a large number of troops stationed in the imperial city of Beijing, but the Shenyang Forbidden City can only put down a thousand troops when it is full. Zhu Hongsan brought a lot of entourage this time, including eunuchs and palace maids in the harem, clerks in the military aircraft department, and three or four thousand people of all kinds. So at that time, Zhu Hongsan didn't think much about it, and put all the 60,000 Praetorian Guards who came with him in the barracks outside the city, and he only brought his family and 2,000 brocade guards into the palace.

Although Zhu Shengduo came out to see the world this time, he was a child after all, and when he saw someone attacking the palace, he hurriedly asked: "Grandfather Huang, someone is attacking the palace, who is so bold?" ”

Zhu Hongsan gritted his teeth and scolded: "Who is the fuck?" Who else is there besides Zhao Guodong? If it weren't for Lao Tzu, Zhao Goudan would have died outside Wuchang City back then, and now he dares to fight Lao Tzu's idea! ”

Zhao Guodong is the governor of the Northeast, and because the Northeast belongs to the border region, the governor is the military and the government, and he has great power in his hands. Now there is a major event that someone attacked the palace to assassinate the emperor, even if it was not Zhao Guodong's mastermind, he must be one of the accomplices.

Zhu Shengduo was shocked when he heard Zhu Hongsan say this, and hurriedly asked, "Grandfather Huang, if it is Zhao Guodong's mastermind, what should we do?" Now there are only fifty people around us, how can we deal with the army's muskets! ”

Zhu Hongsan saw Zhu Shengduo panicked and scolded: "What are you panicking about? Now they don't know that Lao Tzu is not in the palace, so let's sneak out of the city while this is happening. Han Sanqiang and they are on the other side of the Shen River, and they will be safe in the Praetorian Guard! ”

"But... But there are still four uncles in the palace, what should they do? "Zhu Hongsan and Zhu Shengduo came out alone, Zhu Yuan, Meng Guqing and others didn't know, that's why Zhu Shengduo asked.

"What do you know, little kid? If your wife is gone, you can marry, if your son is gone, you can live, and if Lao Tzu is going to die, everything will be gone! "Zhu Hongsan is simply a selfish goods, when he was in Guangzhou, Ma Xiaofang had a deep relationship with him, and Zhu Hai was the eldest son he pinned his hopes on, but after learning that Li Chengdong entered the city, he fled immediately, and all family love was left behind. Now Meng Guqing in the palace is just Zhu Hongsan's tool to vent his desires, and Zhu Yuan is not Zhu Hongsan's favorite son, Zhu Yuan has never hugged Zhu Hongsan once since he was born and grows up, so naturally he has no feelings.

Zhu Shengduo opened his mouth to say something, but Zhu Hongsan was now running for his life, where he could listen to what he said, Zhu Hongsan asked Ding Wei to escort him downstairs, and then met with the brocade guards around the tavern, ready to escape from Shenyang City.

Zhu Hongsan was about to run away in the South Market, and Zhao Guodong in front of the palace gate was overjoyed to see the palace gate being blown open, as long as Zhu Hongsan could be caught, everything was possible.

Zhu Hongsan's estimate was very accurate, the rebellion in Shenyang City was instigated by Zhao Guodong, but Zhao Guodong was not the mastermind.

After Zhu Hongsan entered Shenyang City, Zhao Guodong, as the largest official in Northeast China, naturally had to enter the palace every day to greet the emperor. On the fourteenth day of the first lunar month, Zhao Guodong asked An to come back as usual, and returned to the mansion to take off his official uniform, and his concubine Zheng was a little unhappy.

Zheng was originally a person from Nanzhili, or the daughter of a county commander in the former Ming Dynasty, but after the Manchu Qing Dynasty came, the army was in chaos, and Zheng's county commander Lao Tzu committed suicide and martyrdom, and Zheng was exiled to the local Qinglou.

After Zhao Guodong became the emperor of the three eastern provinces, some southern merchants ransomed the Zheng family from the Qinglou in Nanjing and sent it to Zhao Guodong in order to befriend Zhao Guodong. According to military regulations, military generals and military generals are not allowed to bring their families outside, although Zhao Guodong is a national prince, but he cannot disobey military orders, so Zhao Guodong's wife and children are all staying in Beijing.

Zhao Guodong was naturally happy to see a woman like Zheng in the Jiangnan water town, and naturally pampered her, and brought in through the back door that night and became a concubine.

Zheng saw Zhao Guodong come back, relying on Zhao Guodong's favor, and pouted: "Master, it's the New Year, isn't that emperor a New Year?" Why does the lord go to say hello every day? ”

Zhao Guodong knew that the army was full of secret agents, who knew if there were emperor's eyes and ears in his house, so he hurriedly stepped forward to plug Zheng's mouth and whispered: "My aunt, if you don't want to kill my lord, I will still die?" Besides, the emperor has a great kindness to me, if it wasn't for the emperor, I wouldn't be able to live until now, although I am tired now, but my life is more important than that? ”

Zheng is just coquettish, she doesn't care if Zhao Guodong is tired or not. As soon as Zheng was about to speak, he heard the housekeeper outside the door say: "Master, there is a person outside the door who asks to see him, saying that he is from Beijing!" ”

Zhao Guodong frowned, someone from Beijing? Is it your own home? Didn't your own family send someone a year ago?

"Beijing, who!" Zhao Guodong has just stripped off his clothes now, and is preparing to have another big battle with his concubine, and now he is very angry when he is disturbed.

The housekeeper outside the door said: "The person who came didn't say what it was called, just said that the second master in Beijing had news for the master!" ”

Zhao Guodong heard the housekeeper say this and scolded him and wouldn't pick the time, but he couldn't help it, he couldn't afford to offend this second master, so Zhao Guodong had to let Zheng dress himself.

Zheng was just teased, but now that the master is leaving, Zheng is naturally unhappy.

"Sir, aren't you the prince of the country? You are the biggest in the world except for the emperor, why are you afraid of this second master? ”

Zhao Guodong had no choice but to say: "This second master is not simple, my lord, the guys I eat are all in the hands of this second master!" Little beauty, you wait a while, the master will go back when he goes, and he will toss you for a while! ”

Zhao Guodong got dressed and came out and followed the housekeeper to the secret room to meet the messenger, and as soon as Zhao Guodong entered the room, he saw a middle-aged man sitting on a chair. When the man saw Zhao Guodong coming, he quickly got up and saluted: "Villain Liang Xing, meet the master of Taiwan!" ”

Zhao Guodong didn't recognize this person at first glance, he used to communicate with Jingzhong News was an acquaintance, how did he change people today?

"Are you from the Second Master's Mansion? Why hasn't the official seen you? ”

The middle-aged man didn't answer Zhao Guodong's question, reached into his arms and took out a letter, and then handed it to Zhao Guodong.

Zhao Guodong opened it and saw that it was the handwritten letter written by King Qin to him, and the notes on it were all correct, the real identity of this second master was Zhu Jiang, the second son of the emperor, King Qin, and only the identity of Zhu Jiang could make Zhao Guodong drop everything and rush to see this messenger.

Zhao Guodong looked at the imprint, and then looked at the letter again, the letter didn't say anything, just said that Zhao Guodong could completely believe in Liang Xing.

After reading the letter, Zhao Guodong believed Liang Xing's identity, and then asked, "What did the second master send you to do during the Chinese New Year?" ”

Liang Xing did not answer Zhao Guodong's question, but asked: "Lord Zhangtai, is it convenient to talk here?" ”

Seeing Liang Xing so careful, Zhao Guodong frowned and said, "Don't worry, this is a secret room, and outsiders can't hear what is in the house!" "In the Ming Dynasty, because of the rampant factory guards, the ministers of the court and the central government began to build a secret room to prevent eavesdropping at home during the Chenghua period, in order to avoid the eyes and ears of the Jinyi guard, Zhao Guodong, as a feudal official, naturally also built a secret room in his home.

Liang Xing was relieved when he heard Zhao Guodong say this, but he still lowered his voice and said: "Lord Taiwan, my master hopes that your lord will launch a mutiny on the fifteenth night of the first lunar month and detain Your Majesty!" ”

Zhao Guodong originally looked dignified, but when he heard Liang Xing say this, he was so frightened that he pulled it in his pants.

Zhao Guodong stepped forward and grabbed Liang Xing's collar and scolded: "Is King Qin crazy? What is this for? Catch the emperor? Doesn't he want to live? He doesn't want to live, but still wants to live? Lao Tzu's three sons are all in Beijing, do you let Lao Tzu die? ”

It is no wonder that Zhao Guodong is afraid that the current emperor is different from Li Yuan, who has become the emperor, Zhu Hongsan is completely an immediate emperor, and at the same time, this army was completely established by Zhu Hongsan, and generals at all levels are Zhu Hongsan's henchmen. In addition to these secret agents in the army who directly obeyed Zhu Hongsan's orders, Zhao Guodong dared to guarantee that as long as he leaked a trace of dissatisfaction with the emperor, he would be taken and escorted to the emperor immediately. Now King Qin wants to be the emperor and wants to go crazy, but Zhao Guodong must not follow him crazy, Zhao Guodong is ready to arrest Liang Xing and hand him over.

But Liang Xing was not in a hurry when he saw Zhao Guodong like this, but said slowly: "Lord Zhangtai, even if you don't agree here, King Qin's side will launch it tomorrow night, and then attack the East Palace and kill the prince and Ma Mingyuan!" Even if Lord Maker doesn't do it here, do you think the emperor can let you go? ”