Chapter 396: Small Punishment and Big Commandment
Following Zhao Xin's order, several big men who followed her immediately stepped forward and added up the middle-aged man from the ground, and the White Lotus Sect disciples who saw this situation stood up one after another, wanting to protect the middle-aged man. Nature's "『
There was an uproar, and the big men outside the door immediately rushed in, pulled out their waist knives and pointed at those White Lotus Sect disciples, causing a commotion among those disciples.
"You don't want them to bleed in vain, do you?" Zhao Xin glanced at the tense situation at the scene, and looked at the middle-aged man quietly.
"Everybody stand down." The middle-aged man hesitated for a moment and waved his hand to the White Lotus Sect disciples who were about to fight with Zhao Xin's entourage, and the excited emotions of those White Lotus Sect disciples immediately calmed down.
Seeing this, the corners of Zhao Xin's mouth suddenly showed a hint of a smile, it seemed that she had found the right person, and then walked out of the room, and the middle-aged man was escorted out by Zhao Xin's entourage under the concerned gaze of the White Lotus Sect disciples at the scene.
"It seems that your status in the White Lotus Cult is not low, and they are so deliberately trying to rescue you." After entering a guest room, Zhao Xin turned around, looked up and down at the middle-aged man who was escorted in, and said.
"White Lotus Cult?"
The middle-aged man sneered when he heard this, he knew that Zhao Xin had seen through his identity, so he said coldly, "Your Excellency is really careless, a sentence of the White Lotus Cult has covered up the cruelty and inhumanity of the official government. Heaven and earth are not benevolent to all things as dogs, the White Lotus Holy Sect was born according to the fortune of heaven, it is the right path in the world, Your Excellency does not know that the book of the sages of the people's suffering seems to have been read in vain. ”
"Heaven and earth are not benevolent to all things as dogs, Zhuang Sage means that heaven and earth are selfless and treat all things in the world equally, and it seems that the next book is not read in vain, at least it will not be like you to distort the literal meaning to confuse the public with evil words."
Zhao Xin glared at the middle-aged man coldly, and said with a cold expression, "This official is not interested in your White Lotus Cult, and he has his own magistrate to deal with it, but you dare to fight the idea of pro-army, this is asking for trouble!" ”
"What's wrong with the pro-army, it's not just a bunch of wastes who only know how to make a fortune and oppress the people!" The middle-aged man's face showed a look of disdain, and he didn't take the pro-army in his eyes at all.
"If it weren't for the fact that the official had promised the senior deputy Qianhu, then he would definitely have put to death you demagogic cult people." Zhao Xin was not in the mood to argue with the middle-aged man now, and looked at him with a frosty mask and said, "If they dare to hurt the wife of the senior deputy Qianhu, then you will wait to pay for your life." ”
"I wonder who betrayed me?"
The middle-aged man didn't feel like Zhao Xin was joking, but he wasn't worried that the people of the White Lotus Sect would hurt the wife of Senior Vice Qianhu, and after pondering for a while, he asked after a while, if it wasn't for someone betraying him, he believed that he wouldn't be exposed, so he wanted to know who this traitor was.
"It's you!" Zhao Xin's eyes lit up, and he replied to the middle-aged man expressionlessly, until now the middle-aged man had not understood how he was exposed.
"Me?" A puzzled look suddenly appeared on the middle-aged man's face, and he really hadn't reacted yet.
"I have to say, you acted very cautiously, and found someone to replace you as the leader of the White Lotus Cult, and when tonight's wine and food were served, those disciples who were deceived by you used that stand-in to see the horse."
Zhao Xin stared at the middle-aged man and said with a cold expression, "If you want to blame, you are too cautious, there is a way to be clever but you are mistaken by cleverness, you can't trust the government, so even if you are hungry, you will definitely refuse to eat these drinks and dishes, so as not to poison them in the wine and food, but secretly distribute them to those disciples who have been deceived by you." ”
"How do you know I didn't eat?" The middle-aged man was stunned when he heard this, could it be that someone was peeping outside the room? But when he was eating, he had people check it, and no one peeked inside.
"Look at your hands and mouth, there is not even a little oil star, it is incompatible with those people." Zhao Xin glanced at the middle-aged man and said coldly, "There is a way that is one foot high and one foot high, and those little tricks of yours are really difficult to get into the hall of elegance!" ”
"You...... Who are you? ”
The middle-aged man looked at his hands without less oil Xing'er, and then he realized that he had made a big mistake, and then looked at Zhao Xin with a surprised expression, those people in the official mansion are all wine bags and rice bags who only know how to eat, drink and have fun, and he has never met an official with such a powerful mind.
"You don't need to know who this official is, but the next time we meet again, I'm afraid it will be the day when this official takes your level!" Zhao Xin naturally wouldn't tell the middle-aged man her identity, and coldly warned that although she didn't want to take down the middle-aged man now, she should at least be afraid and dare not act unscrupulously in Gyeonggi anymore.
The middle-aged man's face suddenly became very ugly when he heard this, and his fists couldn't help but clench together, if other officials threatened him like this, he would scoff at him, but Zhao Xin in front of him was different, and he actually found him out with a little trick, which made him feel palpitations.
Because of this, the missionary actions of the White Lotus in the Gyeonggi region subsequently became more low-key and mysterious, invisibly inhibiting the spread of the White Lotus in the Gyeonggi area.
The next morning, the people of the White Lotus Sect rushed to the inn early with the wife of the senior deputy Qianhu, and exchanged hostages with the senior deputy Qianhu, in order to rescue the middle-aged man, the White Lotus Sect gave Chen Wendao 50,000 taels of silver, which made the senior deputy Qianhu really make a fortune.
Although the atmosphere at the scene seemed a little tense, the process of exchanging hostages was not alarming, Zhao Xin certainly felt a little nervous, but the people of the White Lotus Sect were even more nervous than her, and they left as soon as the hostage exchange was over, for fear of being ambushed by the government.
Zhao Xin also rushed to the town where the old man of the senior school lived for the first time, and the wife of the senior vice Qianhu hid the edict in the house of Mr. Private School in the town, she and Mr. Private School's wife are good sisters who grew up together since childhood, and the affairs of Mr. Private School's house are taken care of by his wife, so it is safe to hide there, and no one would have thought that Mr. Private School would have an edict at home.
The edict was placed in a blue long wooden box, and the high deputy Qianhu did not hand over the wooden box to Zhao Xin at the beginning, but went to a town on the outskirts of Beijing to meet a person, and then solemnly handed over the long wooden box to Zhao Xin, obviously Zhao Xin was more suitable than the high deputy Qianhu to go to Shanhaiguan to pass the decree.
After Zhao Xin opened the wooden box, he was slightly stunned, it turned out that there were two holy decrees in the wooden box, and according to the situation in the capital, the senior deputy Qianhu chose which holy decree to take to Shanhaiguan, and then burned the other one.
After checking the content of the holy decree, Zhao Xin was taken aback, this holy decree of the Wanli Emperor not only had to transfer a new army, but also related to the garrison of Shanhaiguan.
However, these two holy decrees are related to Li Hongyu, if Li Hongyu took refuge in King Fu, then Emperor Wanli ordered the Shanhaiguan garrison to lead the Shanhaiguan garrison into Beijing to protect the prince, leaving the new army to garrison Shanhaiguan, and find an opportunity to execute Li Hongyu after entering Beijing.
If Li Hongyu supports the crown prince, then let the new army enter Beijing to protect the prince and help the prince ascend the throne under the leadership of Li Hongyu.
Gao Deputy Qianhu naturally couldn't know the situation in the capital because he was outside the city, but Emperor Wanli expected this, and specially arranged people in the capital to investigate the movements in the officialdom, especially Li Hongyu's attitude.
This made the senior deputy Qianhu know about Li Hongyu and Zheng Guifei's house arrest, and there was no doubt that Li Hongyu supported the crown prince, so he gave Zhao Xin the edict of transferring the new army back to Beijing, and burned another edict in front of Zhao Xin.
Zhao Xin didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly hurried to Shanhaiguan with the holy decree, now there are only three days before the twenty-seventh day of the great mourning of Emperor Wanli, and there is not much time left for her.
After the mourning period of Emperor Wanli, King Fu will definitely be eager to ascend the throne as the emperor, once King Fu ascends the throne, then it is equivalent to a boat, then everything will be too late, and then if you start a military operation, it will be a rebellion, and a holy decree of King Fu will make it difficult for Li Hongyu to ride a tiger.
Zhao Xin was anxious, and Li Hongyu was even more anxious, he was not only worried about Zhao Xin's safety, but also had to find a way to deal with the aggressive King Fu.
Since Zhang Weixian and several important nobles who supported the prince were placed under house arrest by King Fu, the military power of the capital was in the hands of King Fu, and those nobles who originally held a neutral attitude saw the wind and turned to the helm under the banner of King Fu, and many nobles who originally supported the prince also turned to King Fu's camp.
At this time, it is a critical period to stand in line in the court, once a mistake is made, it will be irreparable, and it will be unlucky at that time, after all, there are very few nobles with deep qualifications like Zhang Weixian in the court, and they will definitely be settled by King Fu.
Among the nobles in the capital, the most high-spirited person is Zhang Guang, the Marquis of Wuwei, who can be said to be the first hero of King Fu's succession, and he is in charge of the power of the Beijing army, just like a noble leader.
In fact, what is more uneasy than Li Hongyu is the civil official group in the capital, and the high-level of the civil official group supports the prince, and now that the prince controls the military power in the capital, they are naturally flustered about this, in the final analysis, this kind of thing is a competition of force in the end, and the civil official group is undoubtedly at a disadvantage in this regard after losing the protection of the emperor.
But the civilian clique also has its own advantages, they control the political situation in the court, and the government affairs of the Ming Dynasty need them to govern, and it directly affects the local civil officials, so once they pick the blame, the Ming will be in chaos.
Therefore, Zheng Guifei and King Fu are also quite jealous of the civil official group, after all, even Emperor Wanli has no good way to deal with the civil official group, but to use mutual checks and balances to deal with them, let alone them.
And the most emotional in the civil official group are the officials of the Donglin Party, which is not only closely related to the future interests of the Donglin Party, but also related to the legitimacy of the Ming imperial power, so they naturally want to support the prince.
In addition, this is also related to the fact that the Donglin Party is in a period of suppression, losing many important positions in the capital, originally according to the law of the Wanli Emperor's period, the Donglin Party will rise in the next Jingcha, but if the dynasty changes, then they will lose the opportunity to turn over.
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