At the end of August, Emperor Taichang, who insisted on a pathological administration, was finally bedridden after a court meeting, and his condition worsened without warning. Heavenly sound.' ⒉

After the imperial physician of Taichang Hospital conducted a consultation, he suspected that Emperor Taichang had accumulated fire poison in his body, and he needed to use Tongli medicine to vent fire poison for Emperor Taichang.

At that time, Empress Dowager Zheng visited Emperor Taichang in the Qianqing Palace, so she asked Cui Wensheng, a close eunuch beside her, to go to the imperial pharmacy to get "Tongli Medicine" for Emperor Taichang to take according to the prescription prescribed by the imperial doctor.

The so-called "tongli medicine" refers to rhubarb, which is specially used for diarrhea to remove the accumulated dirt in the hall.

The reason why Empress Dowager Zheng asked Cui Wensheng to go to get the medicine was because Cui Wensheng was in charge of the imperial pharmacy, and this kind of thing was naturally up to him.

After the turmoil between King Fu and Emperor Taichang was over, Empress Dowager Zheng thought that she felt a little remorseful for Emperor Taichang's previous mistakes, so she wanted to give Emperor Taichang some care as compensation.

This was originally a very normal thing, but to the surprise of Empress Dowager Zheng, Emperor Taichang ejaculated twenty or thirty times in one night after taking Tongli Medicine, and almost collapsed, and his physical condition was worse than before.

Originally, the culpability for this kind of thing should be the imperial doctor who diagnosed Emperor Taichang, but due to the previous grievances between Empress Dowager Zheng and Emperor Taichang, rumors of Empress Dowager Zheng's conspiracy to kill Emperor Taichang gradually appeared in Beijing.

With the help of well-intentioned people, this rumor spread quickly in the capital and became the talk of people on the streets and alleys of the capital, and many people believed it.

Li Hongyu is disdainful of this statement, this kind of rumor can be described as simple and rude, without the slightest technical content, not to mention anything else, it is calculated that Emperor Taichang will not be able to take the throne if he dies, and it will not be King Fu's turn, Zhu Youxiao, the prince, is not in vain.

The key is that now that there is no one in the capital to support King Fu, Empress Dowager Zheng is purely asking for trouble, not to mention getting into trouble at that time, and it will also implicate King Fu.

"Brother Yu, Princess Shouning is here today, as if she is worried about the Queen Mother and wants you to help me get an idea." That night, Li Hongyu came back from the Hanlin Academy, and Qin Yue greeted him and handed him a cup of tea and said.

"The emperor's business is the responsibility of the imperial doctor, what does the queen mother have to do?" Li Hongyu couldn't help but shake his head when he heard this, his brows furrowed slightly, he naturally knew the intention of Princess Shouning, and he was the only one who could help the queen mother at this time.

"Brother Yu, but outsiders don't think so, thinking that the Queen Mother wants to assassinate the emperor." Qin Yue smiled a little helplessly, the so-called human words are terrifying, if those rumors are allowed to spread, the situation of the Queen Mother will not be good.

"This matter can't hurt the Queen Mother, the prescription was written by the imperial doctor, Cui Wensheng just ran an errand, and the emperor also understood it in his heart."

Li Hongyu groaned for a while hearing this, and while tasting the fragrant tea brought by the maid, he frowned slightly and said, "What I'm worried about is how long the emperor's body can last." ”

"Brother Yu, the emperor is in the prime of the Spring and Autumn Period, is it ......" Qin Yue was taken aback when she heard this, she sensed that something was wrong with the situation from Li Hongyu's words.

"The emperor is in the prime of life, but he has been depressed for a long time, coupled with his indulgence in wine, his body has long been hollowed out, and this serious illness is like a landslide, I don't know if the emperor can survive."

Li Hongyu shook his head, lowered his voice and said to Qin Yue, with the current medical level of Daming, there is no way to treat Emperor Taichang's illness this time.

"The first emperor died and was still in the Guande Palace, could it be that the emperor ...... again" Qin Yue immediately covered her mouth with her hands when she heard this, her face was full of shock, she didn't think that Li Hongyu would joke about such an important matter.

"If this is the will of God, you and I are helpless." Li Hongyu naturally couldn't tell Qin Yue that Emperor Taichang was hopeless, so he sighed and said.

"Brother Yu, if the emperor has any accidents, then won't the crown prince succeed to the throne!" Qin Yue quickly realized another thing, and her eyes couldn't help but light up, so wouldn't Li Hongyu be added to the rank of knight again.

"It's cold in the heights."

Li Hongyu knew what Qin Yue meant when he heard this, and said after smiling bitterly:

"The emperor reuses the Donglin Party, and the prince also has a lot of good feelings about the Donglin Party, in recent days, Sun Shaozhan often enters the palace to teach the prince, and the prince and the Donglin Party are getting closer and closer."

The "Sun Shaozhan matter" in Li Hongyu's mouth refers to Ye Xianggao's disciple Sun Chengzong, who was born in Bangyan, is a close confidant of Emperor Taichang, and is also Zhu Youxiao's enlightenment teacher.

Emperor Taichang trusted Sun Chengzong very much, so he kept it by his side, and awarded him the position of lecturer of Zhan Shifu, although the official rank is not high, but he can be close to Emperor Taichang and Zhu Youxiao, and he is also the most trusted person of Zhu Youxiao, after Emperor Taichang ascended the throne, he was promoted to Zhan Shifu Shao Zhan Shi, and the position was more noble than Li Hongyu.

Although Zhu Youxiao respects and trusts Li Hongyu, his relationship with Sun Chengzong is deeper than Li Hongyu, after all, Sun Chengzong has been by his side since he was a child.

With the succession of Emperor Taichang, Sun Chengzong's contacts with Zhu Youxiao became closer than before, and he also introduced many people from the Donglin Party, and his theory of governing the country won Zhu Youxiao's heart.

Therefore, Li Hongyu had to worry that Zhu Youxiao, under the influence of Sun Chengzong and the Donglin Party officials, would rely on the Donglin Party to govern the country and attack the three parties of Qi, Chu and Zhejiang, and then give up the way of checks and balances that Emperor Wanli had always adhered to.

"Donglin Party? Brother Yu, are they going to deal with you? ”

Qin Yue's face changed when she heard this, but she knew that the Donglin Party was now in the limelight, which made the three parties of Qi, Chu and Zhejiang have to be people with their tails between their legs, and if Li Hongyu provoked them, they would have a lot of trouble.

"I have no conflict of interest with them, and with the trust of the emperor and the crown prince, they will not attack me." Li Hongyu waved his hand disappretently, and then said with a solemn expression, "If the balance of power in the court is broken, then the situation in the officialdom will unfold in a way that no one wants to see." ”

Li Hongyu is worried that the three parties of Qi, Chu and Zhejiang will not be able to survive the catastrophe in front of them, and there was Emperor Wanli in the past, so although the three parties of Qi, Chu and Zhejiang and the Donglin Party fought fiercely, they did not break their muscles and bones, and they would make a comeback after a period of dormancy.

And now Emperor Taichang and Zhu Youxiao are biased towards the Donglin Party, so once the Donglin Party attacks the three parties of Qi, Chu and Zhejiang this time, it is likely to cause a catastrophe to the three parties of Qi, Chu and Zhejiang, and the Donglin Party will definitely not give up the opportunity to destroy the three parties of Qi, Chu and Zhejiang.

Li Hongyu had to admit that he underestimated the complexity and tragedy of the party struggle in the officialdom, and the Donglin Party would definitely attack on a large scale this time.

However, there is a good saying, blessings and misfortunes depend on each other, otherwise when the power of the Donglin Party reaches a peak, it is the beginning of decay.

At the beginning of September, there was a major incident in Wenyuan Pavilion, in which Yang Lian and Zuo Guangdou, the deputy capital of the Imperial Palace, led a group of Donglin Party officials to forcibly break into Wenyuan Pavilion, asking the cabinet to arrest the rebels who murdered Emperor Taichang.

Because Li Hongyu was in the Hanlin Academy at the time, he suddenly received a letter from Princess Shouning, saying that the Donglin Party had come to Wenyuan Pavilion to make it difficult for the Empress Dowager Zheng, and asked him to find a way.

It turned out that the anti-party in the mouths of Yang Lian and others naturally referred to Cui Wensheng, a close confidant of the Empress Dowager Zheng, saying that Cui Wensheng knew that Emperor Taichang's body was empty and needed to be cleared, but he turned into a laxative like rhubarb and used laxatives like rhubarb to make Emperor Taichang almost die of diarrhea twenty or thirty times a night.

According to the informant, the cabinet assistant Fang Congzhe was squeezed by the Donglin Party officials led by Yang Lian and Zuo Guangdou, and it seems that he did not take him as a cabinet assistant in the slightest.

Li Hongyu suddenly flashed a helpless smile at the corner of his mouth when he heard this, three of the four current cabinet members are Donglin Party members, and four of the five cabinet members who waited for Ye Xianggao to come to the cabinet were Donglin Party members, and Fang Congzhe's cabinet auxiliary position was also to be given up.

Therefore, the cabinet is actually the world of the Donglin Party now, and Fang Congzhe has been vacated by three Donglin Party cabinet members, but he has an empty name.

After learning that Yang Lian and Zuo Guangdou led people to break into Wenyuan Pavilion, Li Hongyu didn't have time to think about it and hurriedly went into the palace to check, ready to wait and see what happened.

It's not easy to think of Wenyuan Pavilion, which is located in the Forbidden City, so you must first be able to pass through the palace ban of the Forbidden City.

Li Hongyu, as a scholar of Zuo Chunfang University, naturally has a waist card to enter and leave the palace, which is convenient for teaching the prince, and no one is allowed to enter without a waist card, a summons from the emperor or a summons from the cabinet.

Obviously, Yang Lian and Zuo Guangdou can't have a waist card to enter the palace, their office yamen is not in the Forbidden City, and Emperor Taichang is now seriously ill in bed, and he will not summon Yang Lian and Zuo Guangdou and others, their status is too low.

Therefore, in this way, there is only one possibility, that is, the cabinet summoned Yang Lian, Zuo Guangdou and others, and Fang Congzhe would not be stupid enough to make trouble for himself, so this must be something that the three Donglin party members of the cabinet did behind Fang Congzhe's back.

Otherwise, how could Yang Lian, Zuo Guangdou and other Donglin Party officials enter the Forbidden City?

Wenyuan Pavilion.

Wenyuan Pavilion is located in the Donghua Gate of the Forbidden City, behind the Wenhua Palace, it was originally a royal library loft, and later became the place where the cabinet ministers entered the direct office.

When Li Hongyu rushed to Wenyuan Pavilion, he saw a group of civil officials fanning the cabinet assistant Congzhe in front of the attic.

"You have not seen the Eucharist, how can you be sure that what you expect is correct?"

The two sides seemed to have been at a stalemate for a while, and Fang Congzhe asked the officials in front of him patiently while wiping the sweat from his forehead.

Li Hongyu keenly noticed that a window on the third floor of the attic behind Fang Congzhe was slightly hidden, as if there were three figures standing in the window, as if they were standing there paying attention to the situation below.

If Li Hongyu didn't guess wrong, the three people standing in the window to watch the excitement were He Zongyan, Han Yi and Liu Yixian, the three newly promoted cabinet members, the three of them were important ministers of the Donglin Party, if it wasn't for their secret help, how could Yang Lian and Zuo Guangdou and others come to Wenyuan Pavilion?

Li Hongyu's brows couldn't help frowning slightly, he didn't like this kind of trick, because this would undoubtedly break the rules of the court, where would the national law and family rules be placed?

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