With money, Zhu Huai's mood is much better, but when he thinks of the incident at night, it seems that the prince will definitely sue himself in front of his father, and the punishment is certain, if he delays his plan to win the heir, it will not be worth the loss.

"Grandpa, but what should I do about this tonight? Zhu Hai will definitely play right and wrong in front of his father! ”

Tong Yangjia thought for a while and said: "Now the first step is to recover all the exam questions that have been sold, double their money back, and let those movers keep their mouths shut!" ”

"It's all easy to do, but what about Zhu Hai's side?"

"The prince's affairs will be handed over to the old man, and after you go back, let your subordinates spread rumors in the city, saying that Ma Mingyuan was deposed and was not angry, and wanted to support the prince to do Lingwu stories!"

Zhu Huai's knowledge is not bad, and when he heard Tong Yangjia say this, he was happy to say: "This plan is wonderful!" Does grandpa want to beat Ma Mingyuan's old goods together? ”

Tong Yangjia sighed and said, "Hey! That's so easy, the old man estimates that the prince is also confined, and Ma Mingyuan has nothing to do. However, King Chu, you also have to be mentally prepared, it is estimated that Your Majesty will punish you! ”

Zhu Huai couldn't escape when he heard it, not only did he frown.

Tong Yangjia was not only angry when he saw Zhu Huai's appearance, but also scolded: "King Chu, how does the old man usually teach you, if you want to be the prince, don't use these conspiracies and tricks, use the right way!" Only the righteous way can overwhelm people with power, have you forgotten? ”

Zhu Huai didn't dare to refute when he heard Tong Yangjia's reprimand, so he had to bow his head and admit his mistake. Tong Yangjia couldn't help it when he saw Zhu Huai like this, so he had to explain two sentences to let Zhu Huai go home.

The next day, Tong Yangjia called his protégé, Meng Zhangming, the imperial historian of the Imperial Inspectorate, and asked him to use the power of supervision to report the rumors in Beijing to the emperor, and then sat down and waited for the emperor's decree.

The emperor's decree came quickly, and on March 24, he rushed to Nanjing in an eight-hundred-mile hurry, but this time the decree did not go to the cabinet according to the rules, but went directly to the barracks of the 1st Division outside the city.

Half an hour after the Holy Decree entered the barracks, the First Division stationed in the Daxiao Field outside Nanjing immediately poured out of its nest and occupied all the gates in the capital in less than half an hour.

When the first division outside the city entered the city, the officials in the city trembled immediately, they didn't know what was going on and thought that this group of Qiu Ba had rebelled.

After learning that the city gate was occupied, Qian Yong led a regiment of soldiers into the city from the south gate and came to the imperial city of Hongwu Gate.

Hongwu Gate is the first gate of the imperial city, there are a thousand brocade guards guarding here, the Jinyi guards guarding the city see the first division outside the city entering the city, immediately close the Hongwu Gate as if facing the enemy, and prepare for battle.

Qian Yong rode to the Hongwu Gate and shouted, "Is that a thousand households on duty?" ”

The thousand households shouted in the city: "Admiral Qian! Don't you have your Majesty's decree to lead troops into the city and want to rebel? ”

Qian Yong sneered and shouted, "Open your eyes and see, what is at this time?" After Qian Yong finished speaking, he took out a bright yellow scroll.

The thousand households used a small basket to hang the holy decree on the city wall, opened it and saw that it was His Majesty's own handwriting, and ordered Qian Yong, the commander of the Beijing Division, to take over the palace guards, and the first division to take over the palace guards to guard the palace.

Seeing that the holy decree was undoubted, the thousand households did not dare to hesitate, and immediately opened the city gate and entered the city.

After Qian Yong entered the Hongwu Gate, he looked at the Qianhu who was kneeling on the ground and said, "You take your people with me!" After speaking, a group of soldiers brought by Qian Yong took over the defense of Hongwumen.

Qian Yong took these brocade guards to the Nanjing Garrison Mansion in the imperial city, and the brocade guards standing guard at the gate saw Qian Yong holding the holy decree in his hand, and quickly knelt down on their knees to meet the holy decree.

At this time, Zhu Hongyi, who was in the garrison mansion, had also received the news and hurried out to greet him.

After Zhu Hongyi saw the holy decree, he knelt down on his knees and said, "Minister! Jingshi guards Zhu Hongyi to welcome the holy decree! ”

Qian Yong opened the holy decree and said: "Carry it by heaven!" The emperor said! Zhu Hongyi, the king of Wuchang County, was in poor health and was specially ordered to go home to recuperate! All the guards in the palace and the three guards of the prince were handed over to Qian Yong, the commander of the Beijing Division! Chin this! ”

In ancient times, the imperial power was as great as the sky, and a holy decree from Zhu Hongyi, three thousand miles away, cut Zhu Hongyi's errand cleanly. After Zhu Hongyi heard the holy decree, he kowtowed and said, "Minister Zhu Hongyi has the decree!" ”

Although Qian Yong was a protégé of the Son of Heaven, the actual instructor of the teaching group was Zhu Hongyi, and now seeing Zhu Hongyi deposed, he was very unbearable.

Qian Yong put away the holy decree and stepped forward to help Zhu Hongyi: "Instructor, hurry up!" This is also His Majesty's care of the instructor, Qian Yong believes that the instructor will definitely be able to come back after recuperating his body! ”

Zhu Hongyi shook his head and didn't say anything, a few years ago, his two sons fell to the crown prince, and he foresaw today's results. Zhu Hongyi thought that he and Zhu Hongsan grew up together, were naughty and mischievous together when they were young, subdued the Wuchang underworld together when they grew up, and charged together after becoming an army, but now they have become like this, hey! None of this is as good as the word "suspicion".

Zhu Hongyi stood up and prepared to go out to go home, Qian Yong saw Zhu Hongyi's depressed figure and felt uncomfortable, Qian Yong stepped forward and asked, "Instructor, why don't I let someone send you home?" ”

Zhu Hongyi shook his head and said, "No need, now I'm an ominous person, don't implicate you, I'll just go back by myself!" ”

Seeing Zhu Hongyi going out alone, Qian Yong sighed in his heart. However, he still has something to do, and he still has to go to the East Palace to announce the decree.

Zhu Hai has been sitting on pins and needles every day for more than ten days, and when he heard the first division enter the city today, he knew that his father's holy decree had arrived.

Qian Yong took people to the East Palace, and immediately used the holy decree to take back the command of the three guards of the East Palace, and appointed the deputy commander of the first division as the garrison of the imperial city.

Zhu Hai knelt in front of Qian Yong and listened to his father's reprimand for his holy decree, on which Zhu Hongsan scolded Zhu Hai, and finally took Zhu Hai's errand of supervising the country, and let him study behind closed doors in the East Palace, without Qian Yong's order, he was not allowed to go out, and he was not allowed to see anyone!

Zhu Hai knew that he would be severely punished this time, but he didn't expect his father's punishment to be so severe, this was about to abolish his position as the crown prince, but Zhu Hai couldn't help it, he was a prince, as long as the emperor didn't die for a day, he would be a prince for the rest of his life, and his life was in the emperor's thoughts, let alone any freedom.

The news of the prince's punishment soon spread throughout the capital, and some people were happy and some were sad. Ma Jiyuan, the first assistant of the cabinet, is angry, Ma Jiyuan is a hardcore defender, and now the prince was framed by Tong Yangjia and almost lost the position of the prince, Ma Jiyuan naturally wants to stand up for the prince.

After hearing the news of the prince, Ma Jiyuan was ready to take action against Tong Yangjia, regardless of whether he was public or private, Tong Yangjia had to pay the price.

Ma Jiyuan found his cronie Fang Fengnian and asked, "Shutian, what do you think of the prince's punishment this time?" ”

Fang Fengnian is now a waiter in the Ministry of Rites, he looked at Ma Jiyuan and asked, "Yuanfu, this is obviously Tong Yangjia's means, in order to divert His Majesty's attention, he deliberately spread rumors about Lingwu stories among the Jingshi!" ”

"Humph! Tong Lao Pifu killed my second son back then, this account has not been settled with him, and now he wants to shake the position of the prince, the old man is ready to impeach Tong Yangjia, Shutian, what do you say? ”

"Yuanfu, as the head of the cabinet, you don't have to do this kind of thing personally, just leave it to the younger brother to handle!" Fang Fengnian was a royal history, and this kind of playing with written materials and playing with black hands is of course an expert.

Ma Jiyuan nodded when he heard Fang Fengnian's words, and then said: "Don't directly impeach Tong Yangjia, now that the frontline is urgent, Tong Yangjia is in charge of the logistics of the military department, it is estimated that Your Majesty will not move him, and the target will be shifted to Tong Yangjia's henchmen!" ”

"Motosuke, that's what you're talking about?" There are only a few henchmen of Tong Yangjia, but they are all feudal officials, and they all hold heavy power, and it is enough for Tong Yangjia to feel distressed when he goes there.

Ma Jiyuan took out a military report and handed it to Fang Fengnian: "Shutian, look at this, just a few days ago, Liu Sicheng, the governor of Huguang, sent an urgent report, the Manchu Qing Dynasty has taken action to sink twelve gunboats of our navy in Yueyang, this is the biggest defeat of our army since the founding of the army, Liu Sicheng has no naval support, and can only abandon Wuchang and retreat to Jiujiang. How about putting the responsibility for losing His Majesty's Longxing Land onto Tong Tuchang? ”

Fang Fengnian heard that the pores of his body were cold, but he didn't expect Ma Jiyuan to look like a Taoist gentleman and play with such ruthless methods. The mausoleums of the Emperor Taishang and the Empress Dowager are in Wuchang, which is a big crime to kill the head, which is enough for Tong Tuchang to suffer.

"I don't know what crime Yuan Fu impeached Tong Tuchang?"

"The peace talks in the north are not good, and they were deceived by the Manchus, resulting in the loss of the land of His Majesty's Longxing, and the emperor's mausoleum was placed in the hands of the Manchus, how about these?"

Fang Fengnian now knows why Ma Jiyuan came to him, he was the deputy envoy of the peace talks back then, and it is appropriate for him to impeach Tong Tuchang.

Fang Fengnian thought about it, anyway, Tong Tuchang and himself were not on good terms, and they had a fight back then, so it was better to take this opportunity to kill him.

"Don't worry, Lord Yuanfu, the lower officials know what to do!"

Fang Fengnian is worthy of being an old-stirring stick, this kind of ability to fish in troubled waters is first-class. Fang Fengnian first chatted with a few imperial historians of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and revealed to them a little about the peace talks in the north, and also said that now that Wuchang is lost, it is Tong Tuchang's responsibility at all, and it is he who was deceived in the peace talks, so that our army relaxed its vigilance and gave the Qing army on the other side of the river a chance.

Those royal histories have the right to hear and say things, and the people selected by Fang Fengnian are all people who hate Tong Yangjia, and immediately these guys patted their chests and promised to impeach Tong Tuchang.

With these imperial histories fanning the flames, coupled with the first assistant Ma Jiyuan pushing the boat down the river, the entire Beijing officialdom knew that the loss of Wuchang was the responsibility of Tong Tuchang, and for a time more than 20 officials wrote to the emperor to kill Tong Tuchang to avenge the death of the naval officers and soldiers on the Yangtze River.

Of course, Tong Yangjia is not without sources, he knows that Ma Jiyuan was shocked after targeting his nephew Tong Tuchang, and he knew that it was impossible to move himself, because the emperor still had to fight, and he also had to ensure logistics supply. But in the matter of Wuchang, someone must come out to carry the black pot, why did that damn Ma Jiyuan choose his nephew? Tong Yangjia had no choice but to write to the emperor, explaining that his nephew was completely wronged.

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