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Li Hongyu got out of the carriage parked in front of the courtyard gate, stretched his waist and walked into the mansion, he was in the Qianqing Palace today with Tuogu Fuchen to help Empress Li deal with the various yamen recitals sent by the celebrant supervisor, and he was really tired enough.

According to the unwritten rules of the imperial court, Empress Li naturally made decisions on behalf of Zhu Youxiao in the affairs of the court before he was in power, so Empress Li needed the assistance of experienced and trustworthy Tuo Gu auxiliary ministers so that she could make the right choice.

Li Hongyu belongs to a special list, although he has the least seniority and the shortest time to enter the official career among all the assistant ministers, but his ability to deal with military and political affairs is the most outstanding in the imperial court, and he often breaks the routine and has many unexpected ideas, which is deeply rooted in the Wanli Emperor.

Therefore, Li Hongyu was valued by Empress Li and was able to assist her in handling court affairs, which was a great honor and demonstrated Li Hongyu's important position in the imperial court.

"Brother Yu, according to the eyeliner planted in the capital, Wang An and Liu Yixiao met quietly this afternoon, and I don't know what they talked about." In the living room, Qin Yue poured Li Hongyu a cup of hot tea and whispered an important piece of news.

It turned out that Qin Yue, under the instruction of Li Hongyu, arranged people to keep an eye on several elders of the Donglin Party, including Liu Yixiao, which made the matter of Liu Yixiao and Wang An's quiet meeting not escape Qin Yue's spies.

"What should come always comes!" Li Hongyu couldn't help but shake his head when he heard this, and drank the hot tea in the cup in one gulp.

Although Li Hongyu does not know much about the history of the Ming Dynasty, he still knows some important historical events, including the famous three major cases in the late Ming Dynasty.

The so-called three major cases in the late Ming Dynasty refer to the general name of the Gong Attack Case, the Red Pill Case, and the Palace Removal Case that were born in the court at the end of the Ming Dynasty, marking the beginning of chaos and decline in the late Ming Dynasty.

The attack was born in the forty-third year of Wanli, and it was the Wanli Emperor's hesitant waiter on whether to change King Fu as the crown prince, and a big man named Zhang Cha actually broke into the Forbidden City from Donghua Gate with a wooden stick, broke through the defense of the pro-army until he came to the Qingning Palace where the prince lived.

Fortunately, the chamberlain of Qingning Palace closed the gate of Qingning Palace after getting the news, otherwise Zhang Cha would have broken into Qingning Palace, but after he could not enter, he hit the gate of Qingning Palace with a wooden stick.

Later, the pro-army who arrived after hearing the news rushed up to subdue Zhang Cha and relieve the siege of Qingning Palace.

The courtiers were divided about Zhang Cha's attack on the Qingning Palace, with the ministers who supported King Fu believing that Zhang Cha was crazy, while the ministers who supported the crown prince believed that it was a conspiracy to kill the prince.

After the interrogation of the 13th Division of the Criminal Department, it was found that Zhang Cha was a member of the White Lotus Sect in the Gyeonggi area, and his leaders were Ma Sandao and Li Shoucai, who colluded with the eunuchs Pang Bao and Liu Cheng in the palace of Zheng Guifei, and sent Zhang Cha into the palace to attack the imperial palace.

Because the crown prince and King Fu were involved, Emperor Wanli handled the case in a low-key way, the perpetrator Zhang Chali died, Ma Sandao and Li Shoucai guarded from afar, and the eunuchs Pang Bao and Liu Cheng were killed in the inner court, and the uproar caused by the attack case was temporarily calmed down.

In fact, Li Hongyu has always been curious, the Forbidden City is heavily guarded, and those pro-army guarding the Donghua Gate should be able to deal with a big man with a wooden stick even if they are not good, but Zhang Cha not only broke through the heavily guarded Donghua Gate but also came to the Qingning Palace unimpeded, which is really puzzling.

Moreover, Zhang Cha was just an idle man in the capital, even if he knew that Qingning Palace was located on the north side of the Donghua Gate, how could he accurately find the way to Qingning Palace from the many buildings and roads?

Of course, since five or six years have passed since this incident, and the person concerned has died and been exiled, it is impossible for Li Hongyu to know the truth of the case.

Judging from the results alone, the crown prince is the biggest winner of the attack case, because not long after the case was born, King Fu, who had been staying in the palace of the ten princes in the imperial city, was driven to the fief by a holy decree of the Wanli Emperor, thus ending the long-term dispute between the princes.

Li Hongyu has already experienced the red pill case, Emperor Taichang took the red pill offered by Li Kezhuo and died suddenly, and the next thing is the palace transfer case, and the red pill case and the palace transfer case are very close.

If the Red Pill case was caused by Emperor Taichang, then the protagonist of the palace transfer case is Empress Li, that is, Li Xuanzhi in history.

According to Li Hongyu's memory, it is recorded in historical materials that Li Xuanzhi was driven out of the Qianqing Palace by the courtiers of the Donglin Party before Zhu Youxiao ascended the throne, and there was no news of Li Xuanzhi after that.

Now that Zhu Youxiao is about to ascend the throne, then this private meeting between Wang An and Liu Yixiao must be related to the palace transfer case, in Li Hongyu's opinion, if there is no internal attendant to answer, then the people of the Donglin Party will not even be able to enter the Qianqing Gate, let alone move the palace.

Judging from the current situation, Wang An is the internal response of the Donglin Party in the Forbidden City, otherwise he would not have had a secret talk with Liu Yixie, and it is indeed recorded in the historical materials that Wang An stood on the side of the Donglin Party in the palace transfer case.

"Brother Yu, do you have something on your mind?" Qin Yue was attracted by Li Hongyu's sentence "What should come will always come", and couldn't help but ask suspiciously.

"Since Emperor Bintian of Daxing, the situation of Wang An and those people in Donglin has gradually become bad, and now that they are in contact in private, I am afraid that they will cause some trouble."

Li Hongyu naturally wouldn't tell Qin Yue that there would be a great change in the power field of the capital next, and after a while, he said helplessly, "I don't know when the capital will be at peace." ”

"Brother Yu, no matter how the situation in the capital changes, you are not only the prince's man, but also the new army outside the city, and no one dares to provoke you."

Qin Yue smiled when she heard this, and she didn't worry about Li Hongyu at all, now Li Hongyu has the ability to protect himself in the deceitful officialdom of the capital, and he will no longer be slaughtered.

"Hopefully things will go well." Li Hongyu also laughed, for him, the more chaotic the capital, the better, so that no one would pay attention to what he was doing in the Customs Department.

A day later, on the day of the execution of Li Kezhuo and other people involved in the Red Pill case, the mass graves outside the city were filled with many people who had come to watch the execution.

Originally, a prisoner like Li Kezhuo who committed the crime of killing the monarch should be executed at the entrance of the vegetable market, but because Emperor Taichang's coffin was still parked in the Guande Palace, in order to avoid colliding with Emperor Taichang, he had to go to the mass grave outside the city to kill people.

In this way, it invisibly gave Donglin Party and Wang An a chance, even if Li Hongyu got the news, he didn't have time to rush to the palace, and it was too late to wait until the raw rice was cooked and cooked.

The execution site was set up on a grass in front of the mass grave, and the Beijing army, which was responsible for maintaining order, fenced off the execution site to prevent the people from approaching.

The soldiers have set up a pergola for Li Hongyu and other court officials to rest, according to the rules, the execution is carried out at three o'clock in the afternoon, when the sun in the sky is the hottest, so Li Hongyu and others have to wait until noon after they come to the execution ground, so they naturally have to give these court officials a place to rest.

At three o'clock, the people who watched the excitement suddenly made a commotion, only to see Li Kezhuo and others crying and crying by the soldiers of Jinyiwei into the execution ground, Li Hongyu led a group of officials of the imperial court to follow behind, because the red pill case was a royal case, so all the ministries and yamen in the capital sent officials to watch the execution.

Don't look at Li Hongyu's shallow qualifications in the officialdom, but he is now a scholar of Zuo Chunfang University and a subordinate appointed by Emperor Taichang, so he is naturally at the forefront of all officials.

The person who walked side by side with Li Hongyu was Zhao Xin, Zhao Xin and Li Hongyu were in a similar situation, they were also junior but they were scholars of Youchunfang, which was enough to overwhelm the officials of the various ministries and yamen who came to watch the execution.

Actually, Zhao Xin didn't come here to watch the punishment today, Li Hongyu was enough to represent Zhan Shifu, but Li Hongyu was worried that the movement in the capital today was too big and involved Zhao Xin, so he thought about pulling her over to avoid any accidents.

Zhao Xin was a little surprised by Li Hongyu's move, so he asked Li Hongyu in private, and after learning about Li Hongyu's concerns, he was quite shocked by the conspiracy between the Donglin Party and Wang An: Could it be that they want to make it difficult for Empress Li today?

Although this is just a speculation by Li Hongyu, Li Hongyu's hunch is very accurate since Zhao Xin and Li Hongyu met, so Zhao Xin realized that something big would happen in the capital today, once the Donglin Party and Wang An successfully pulled the queen down, it would be a huge disaster for the three parties of Qi, Chu and Zhejiang.

There is no doubt that Zhu Youxiao is now young and cannot control the government even after he is in power, and at this time, he will definitely rely on the Donglin Party that supports meritorious service, and if the Donglin Party is friendly with Wang An, it will be equivalent to controlling the cabinet and the celebrant supervisor. Where is there still a way to live for the three parties of Qi, Chu and Zhejiang.

However, Li Hongyu and Zhao Xin can't intervene in the factional battle in the officialdom of the capital yet, so the best choice for the two is to wait and see what happens, and sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight.

"My lord, I have learned from my humble duties, and there is no doubt that I am indeed a criminal."

When Li Hongyu was greeting Zhao Xin and others in the pergola, a thousand households from the Fusi of Weibei Town, Jinyi, stepped forward and reported loudly after giving up his hand that the relevant personnel had verified the identities of the executioners one by one to avoid the phenomenon of transferring contracts.

Li Hongyu frowned slightly when he heard this, and looked up at Li Kezhuo who was kneeling in front of a gallows in front of him, and the crying Li family who was kneeling in the open space in front of the gallows, and secretly sighed helplessly: Li Kezhuo killed himself, but unfortunately dragged the whole family to accompany him to the funeral.

Towards noon, a group of executioners in red shirts and carrying large knives entered the arena and stood behind each of the decapitated prisoners, staring blankly ahead, waiting for the time of execution.

In Li Hongyu's view, the most painful thing for Li Kezhuo was not when he was hanged, but when he was executed, he had to watch his family members have their heads cut off and die in front of him one by one.

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