Compared with the civil officials who were in trouble over who was more qualified to inherit the throne and the prince of Fu, the nobles of the capital acted more rigorously in this matter, and did not express their respective attitudes at the beginning.

In fact, this silence of the Xungui group has invisibly indicated their choice, to be precise, the choice of the British prince Zhang Weixian, Zhang Weixian did not agree with the matter of King Fu, so he undoubtedly supported the crown prince.

Unfortunately, this unity of the Xungui clique did not last long, and the internal contradictions over whether to support the crown prince or the Fu Wang soon erupted.

Surprisingly, the first nobles to publicly support King Fu were not from the nobles of the Beijing military camp, but from the pro-army camp.

Immediately afterwards, some nobles belonging to the camp of the Beijing army also successively sent to Concubine Zheng Guifei to express their support for King Fu.

It is worth mentioning that the composition and command system of the Beijing army are somewhat complicated, which are different from those of the previous dynasties, and dozens of Jingwei in the capital are subordinate to the five military governors, namely the former military governor's office, the rear army governor's office, the left army governor's office, the right army governor's office and the middle army governor's office.

At the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty's guard army was under the jurisdiction of the Dadu Governor's Office, but Emperor Hongwu in order to check and balance the various factions in the army so that there could not be a dominant situation, so he later divided the Dadu Governor's Mansion into five, and became the Governor's Office of the Five Armies in later generations, and was in charge of the military power of the national guard army.

Dozens of Jingwei in the capital belong to the five military governors, and each of them governs a number of Beijing guards, so that the five military governors will be restrained and the security of the capital will be ensured to the greatest extent.

There are four positions held by nobles in the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, namely, the Left Governor, the Right Governor, the Governor Tongzhi and the Governor, all of which can be called "Governors", so that each Governor's Mansion has four nobles to serve.

The nobles of the capital held positions in the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, and like the civilian clique, there were different factions within them, and they were related to each other.

According to Li Hongyu's understanding, there are mainly three factions among the nobles of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, among which the most powerful faction is naturally the faction guarded by the British Duke Zhang Weixian, followed by the Duke of Yongguo Liu Wu, and finally the Marquis of Wuwei Zhang Guang.

Among the five military governors, the Houjun Governor's Mansion has the largest number of troops, with 20 Beijing guards under his command, accounting for half of the number of Beijing guards, and the British Duke Zhang Weixian is the left governor of the Houjun Governor's Office.

The nobles in the pro-army camp are mainly divided into two factions, led by Mu Chongfeng, the left governor of the pro-army capital and Zhao Deguang, the right governor.

Now Mu Chongfeng has been placed under house arrest by Concubine Zheng Guifei, and the nobles of his camp have also been threatened and suppressed accordingly, making the pro-army completely fall into the hands of Zhao Deguang.

And Zhao Deguang's defection to King Fu means that the imperial city is controlled by King Fu, and the crown prince Zhu Changluo and grandson Zhu Youxiao are already in danger and are controlled by King Fu, which shakes the entire officialdom in the capital.

With Zhao Deguang's attitude, the imperial city was in a state of semi-martial law, and under Zhao Deguang's order, the pro-army soldiers blocked the imperial city, only allowing officials and miscellaneous servants to enter and exit, and the rest were strictly forbidden to enter the imperial city, obviously to prevent the intervention of the Beijing army.

According to the custom, if there is no emperor's holy decree, the Beijing army cannot enter the imperial city, otherwise it will be punished as a rebellion.

But now is the critical period to seize the throne, who can control so much, as long as the people who support each other ascend the throne as the emperor, then there will be a dragon merit, this is an excellent time to soar.

Because there were courtiers who went to the Guande Hall to pay tribute to the Wanli Emperor, Li Hongyu, who was on duty in the Guande Palace, was able to learn the news of the capital, and he sighed when he heard that Zhao Deguang publicly supported Queen Fu, and then the Beijing army had to choose between the prince and the Fu King, and he had already smelled a faint smell of blood.

The funeral ministers who came to the Guande Hall to guard were rotated according to the time, but Li Hongyu had nothing to do after being placed under house arrest by Zheng Guifei, so he had been on duty in the Guande Palace, so that he would be loyal to the Wanli Emperor, and secondly, he could also learn the news from the outside from the courtiers who came to pay tribute.

There was one thing that made Li Hongyu feel a little uneasy, he hadn't seen Zhao Xin for a long time, and he heard Wang Han, a bachelor of Hanlin, say that Zhao Xin was a little unwell and asked for leave to go home to recuperate, which made his heart suddenly hang.

According to the agreement between Li Hongyu and Zhao Xin, Zhao Xin will find an opportunity to enter the palace to meet him, so that he can remotely command the affairs of the outside world.

Therefore, if it weren't for the last resort, Zhao Xin would definitely not take leave and go home, and there was only one reason why Zhao Xin could do this, that is, Qin Yue found important clues about the three pro-army military attachés who had returned home on leave, which made Zhao Xin have to go and solve it in person.

Li Hongyu knew that Zhao Xin's trip this time was full of dangers, and God knows if there were other forces that knew about Emperor Wanli's mobilization of the new army, and this matter was related to the future emperor of the Ming Dynasty, so it would be a life-and-death contest.

At this moment, Li Hongyu would never have thought that the enemy Zhao Xin faced was not from officialdom, but the folk White Lotus Sect, which was an opponent more dangerous than any enemy in officialdom.

A village in Gyeonggi.

"Zhao Gongzi, this is the mother of the senior deputy Qianhu." In a small forest outside the village, two big men in civilian clothes led an old woman with gray hair to Zhao Xin, who was standing in the shade of a big tree, and reported in a deep voice, surrounded by a dozen big men on guard.

"Old man, don't worry, I just want to know where the senior deputy Qianhu has gone." Zhao Xin, who frowned slightly and fell into deep thought, came back to his senses and said to the old woman with a smile.

"Who are you? The old body is a family member of the pro-army, so you are not afraid of being condemned by the pro-army protectorate? The old woman was the mother of the missing pro-army deputy Qianhu, and she pretended to ask Zhao Xin calmly when she heard this.

"Old man, we have no malicious intentions, Senior Deputy Qianhu has been gone for a few days, and you don't want anything to happen to him!" Zhao Xin saw that the old woman's emotions were a little excited, and she was full of hostility towards her, so she said with a smile.

"I don't know what you're talking about, he's from an official family, and there's nothing to worry about in his old body." The old woman's face changed when she heard this, and then she replied.

"You mean that Senior Deputy Qianhu has returned to Beijing!" Zhao Xin immediately understood what the old woman meant, and asked quietly, "In that case, why don't the people in the village know that he is gone?" ”

"It's not a big deal, there's no need to make a fuss all over the village." The old woman's eyes flashed with a look of panic when she heard this, and then she answered.

"Old man, we are from the capital, and the senior deputy Qianhu has not returned to Beijing, so we will come here." Looking for you, you know that the old woman is lying, so she groaned and said, "If we can't find the senior deputy Qianhu again, then we can only bring your whole family back to the capital for interrogation!" ”

"You...... Are you from an official family? The old woman was taken aback when she heard this, and looked at Zhao Xin in surprise and asked.

"Old man, now can you tell me where the senior deputy Qianhu has gone?" Zhao Xin didn't deny it, but at the same time, he didn't admit it, but asked with a serious expression.

He ...... He went to his father-in-law. The old woman saw that Zhao Xin didn't look like she was lying, so she hesitated for a moment and said.

"Why should this matter be kept secret?" Zhao Xin frowned when he heard this, and then his eyes flashed with a strange light, and he couldn't help but ask in a coquettish voice, "Could it be that something happened to the wife of the senior deputy Qianhu?" ”

The day after returning home, Deputy Qianhu and his wife went to the old man's house, stayed there for two days and then came back alone, while the wife took the children to live with the old man.

Due to Qin Yue's lack of manpower, and the fact that nothing unusual happened in the family of the old man of the senior subordinate thousand households, neither Qin Yue nor Zhao Xin expected that something would happen there.

"She was kidnapped, and my son went to rescue her, but I didn't let her go out because I was afraid that those people would kill her." The old woman bowed slightly when she heard this, and said with a concerned expression, "It's been a few days now, and I don't know how they live and die." ”

"Let's go, go to the father-in-law of the senior deputy Qianhe." Zhao Xin realized that the problem had become serious, and he didn't have time to think about it and commanded the strong men around him.

"Old man, don't tell anyone about today." Subsequently, Zhao Xin told the old woman in a deep voice that she didn't want this matter to be publicized.

The old woman nodded again and again when she heard this, and looked nervously at Zhao Xin to get into the carriage parked on the side and leave, secretly guessing Zhao Xin's identity in her heart, she felt that this extremely handsome young man had a faint official authority, but she didn't know which yamen belonged to in the capital, and she didn't know why she was so concerned about the affairs of the senior deputy Qianhu.

On the driving carriage, Zhao Xin frowned slightly and sat against the wall of the carriage, if Emperor Wanli chose Gao Deputy Qianhu, then Gao Deputy Qianhu would definitely be a person loyal to the imperial power, and would definitely not act without knowing the importance at such a critical moment.

In Zhao Xin's opinion, compared with the wife of the high deputy Qianhu, the high deputy Qianhu should pay more attention to the holy decree related to the ownership of the imperial power, so he will never risk saving his wife, which is what people call foolish loyalty, and would rather not want the life of his family to save the holy decree.

But now the high deputy Qianhu has disappeared silently, so it means that his kidnapped wife is related to the holy decree.

In other words, Deputy Chiho gave the decree to his wife for safekeeping, but her wife had an accident, which made him have to rush over to solve the trouble.

"Could it be that the people of the White Lotus Sect also know about the Holy Decree?" Soon, a terrible thought appeared in Zhao Xin's mind, and his face couldn't help but change.

Recently, the people of the White Lotus Sect have been active not only in the village where the high deputy thousand households live, but also in the town where the old man of the high vice thousand households lives, and it seems that they are going to the high vice thousand households, but I don't know why they are doing this, if it is related to the holy decree, then the situation will be terrible.

Originally, Zhao Xin didn't think that the people of the White Lotus Sect knew about the Holy Decree, because it was obviously impossible for Senior Vice Qianhu to say it, but now the situation was different, and it was very likely that Deputy High Qianhu's wife also knew about the Holy Decree, so there was a danger of leakage.

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