Chapter 97: The Fall of the Donglin Party
Wei Zhongxian was sitting and drinking tea with a white-faced and long-bearded man in his forties in the hall of the East Factory at this time, and after listening carefully to Tian Ergeng and Xu Xianchun's report, Wei Zhongxian waved his hand expressionlessly: "Got it, you two go down." ”
After Tian Ergeng and Xu Xianchun saluted and retreated, Wei Zhongxian, who was ecstatic in his heart, laughed and said proudly: "Chengxiu, you have a great plan, I am afraid that the poor sour of the Donglin Party will be finished soon." ”
The white-faced and long-bearded man is Cui Chengxiu, the imperial history, and Wei Zhongxian's number one military advisor, who was reported by Gao Panlong of the imperial palace for corruption last year, and was dismissed by the imperial court awaiting disposal. So he defected to Wei Zhongxian, and Wei Zhongxian saw that he had a good mind and resourcefulness, and that he was a usable talent for the newly established eunuch party, so he took Cui Chengxiu in and reinstated his official position for him.
Since then, Cui Chengxiu has become a lackey of the eunuch party, Cui Chengxiu smiled faintly: "Factory Gong, even if it is the order of His Royal Highness King Xinwang, I am afraid that this matter will not be easy to do, Wang Wenyan is promoted by Ye Shoufu, and he is one of the two major think tanks of the Donglin Party, it is not so easy to move him." ”
Wei Zhongxian said with a smile: "I know, I originally wanted to live in peace with these pretentious guys, who knew that they were so ignorant, last time I found someone to impeach Wang Wenyan, who knew that he came out after two days in prison, even Zhao Nanxing, Zuo Guangdou, and Yang Lian personally came to visit and condole, Ye Xianggao even promoted him to the cabinet secretary who had not even been promoted, but I am afraid that this time it will be such a result." ”
Cui Chengxiu said curiously: "Then why does the factory man make this extra move to provoke them? ”
Wei Zhongxian said with a smile: "It's not good if you can bring Wang Wenyan down, the more people who protect Wang Wenyan, the more proud Wang Wenyan is, that's what I want to see, pull out the radish and bring out the mud, just to kill them all." ”
Cui Chengxiu was puzzled: "His Royal Highness King Xin has such great ability? ”
Wei Zhongxian nodded without hesitation, and then asked a little nervously: "This matter will not be seen by His Royal Highness King Xin, I know that we arranged it." ”
Cui Chengxiu was a little speechless, not understanding why Wei Zhongxian was so afraid of the fifteen-year-old hairy child, Cui Chengxiu hurriedly said: "Don't worry, I have practiced many times in my heart, and there is no problem, no one can see that this is not an accident." ”
Wei Zhongxian nodded reassuringly, relieved, it seems that this news bought with the position of a brocade guard is really worth the money.
Last night, Ye Hanqing went to Guangcai Hutong and asked his father Ye Changde and Liu Wei to prepare the carriage in advance, and told them their itinerary for tomorrow, and Jinyiwei, who was secretly surveilling, immediately reported Wei Zhongxian.
Wei Zhongxian secretly summoned Liu Wei and used the temptation of the hundred households of Jinyi Wei to exchange information for Liu Wei, Liu Wei hesitated, feeling that saying it did not have much impact on Ren Hongfei, no matter how arrogant Wei Zhongxian was, he did not dare to plot against His Royal Highness the King openly, this hundred households were like a big gold ingots picked up for nothing, so he informed Wei Zhongxian.
Wei Zhongxian, who learned that Ren Hongfei traveled to Miaofeng Mountain tomorrow morning, immediately recruited Cui Chengxiu, Cui Chengxiu thought for a while, and came up with this strategy of killing people with a knife, the Donglin Party is powerful, Wei Zhongxian alone still can't fight, and he must use Ren Hongfei's knife.
Han Wei, the son of Han Kuang, a university scholar, has been bought by Cui Chengxiu some time ago, Han Kuang is also called Han Yi, both a cabinet minister and a veteran of the Donglin Party, although he is an upright and upright person, but his son Han Wei is very scheming, and has already seen that the Donglin Party will not be able to fight Wei Zhongxian's eunuch party sooner or later, and after accepting the money, he just put forward a condition to let his family go in the future, Wei Zhongxian naturally agreed.
Wei Zhongxian and Cui Chengxiu summoned Han Wei overnight and secretly met with him, asking him to contact several important heirs of the Donglin Party to travel tomorrow morning. and gave him a lot of money, bought off several family members led by Wang Wenyan's son Wang Shuichang, and deliberately rammed Ren Hongfei's carriage, although Han Wei wondered who could ask Gonggong Wei to calculate so much, and directly let Jinyiwei catch it, but he didn't expect that His Royal Highness King Xin would be in the carriage, so he did as he could.
Han Wei always thought that Wei Zhongxian was trying to calculate the people in the carriage, but he didn't expect that it was actually a pit dug for them to dig for themselves, and they had to jump down by themselves.
As soon as the three of Ren Hongfei came out of the palace at dawn, the spy who had been waiting all night sent a signal, Han Wei immediately began to contact friends everywhere, due to the large number of people, after the transfer of six or seven mansions, Ren Hongfei's carriage had already reached the halfway point, and Wang Shuichang, who had collected the money, quickly whipped up until the foot of the mountain to catch up with Ren Hongfei, and immediately deliberately knocked Ren Hongfei's carriage off the path, causing disputes.
Seeing that Ren Hongfei and Ye Hanqing were not very old and riding alone in casual clothes, he didn't care, thinking that they were ordinary people, and several friends on his side were watching, so he started to tease and show off.
The appearance of Jinyiwei Wang Shuichang thought it was a coincidence, until Ye Hanqing's threatening words when he left, which made Wang Shuichang feel that he had lost face in front of his friends, and the daughter of Zhao Nanxing's family, the secretary of the ministry, was the beauty he was pursuing, and the angry Wang Shuichang had murderous intentions, so he used money to let Tian Ergeng assassinate Ren Hongfei and Ye Hanqing, but he didn't know that Ren Hongfei wanted to deal with the matter in a low-key manner, so he pushed himself to a dead end.
Ye Hanqing drove the carriage back to the mansion in Guangcai Hutong, Ren Hongfei helped Lan'er out of the carriage, half hugged and half carried to the bed in the east side room to rest, Ren Hongfei lifted Lan'er's clothes, only to see a large patch of redness, swelling and bruises on his chest, Ren Hongfei gently stroked it distressedly, and asked, "Sister Lan'er, does it still hurt?" ”
Lan'er couldn't help but snort along the way, and then hurriedly replied: "It doesn't hurt, Xiaofei, those people are very big, or this matter will be left alone, and the province will be in trouble." ”
Ren Hongfei sneered: "It's big, is it big with mine, now I want to settle it peacefully, but people don't want to, they have to take my life, hum." ”
Ren Hongfei said angrily: "Lao Tzu has always respected those old guys, but I didn't expect to raise such a bunch of bullying rebels, and not let their whole family fly and jump, I really thought that this prince was a soft persimmon." ”
Ren Hongfei pressed Lan'er on the bed to rest, and he walked to the main hall angrily to smoke.
Liu Wei and Ye Changde in the gatehouse saw the carriage that had not been out for a long time driving back, and knew that something had happened, so they hurriedly came out to ask Ye Hanqing.
Ye Hanqing also walked into the main hall and sat beside Ren Hongfei smoking a cigarette depressedly.
After a while, Ye Hanqing hesitated and said: "Hongfei, you said that today's incident was a coincidence or Wei Zhongxian deliberately arranged it, I found out that someone was following me last night, but I ignored it, Tian Ergeng and Xu Xianchun appeared in person this morning, I always feel like a conspiracy." ”
Ren Hongfei's anger still didn't subside, and he said coldly: "Whether it's a coincidence or a conspiracy, it doesn't matter, I hurt Lan'er like that, and I still want our lives, I can't swallow this breath, I want to see who killed whom." ”