King Lu forced the main officials and generals of Zhejiang officialdom to submit to him outside the temple of King Yue, and then sacrificed Yue Fei and raised troops to appease, but his appeasement was a little different from what many officials thought.

Everyone only thought that King Lu wanted to create a rebellion in the court, kill Wang Yan, and seize power, but the slogans he put forward to kill the rebels and the direction of Fengtianjing were completely different from what everyone thought.

Everyone thought that this rebellion referred to the king of Chu, but King Kelu was referring to the king of Tang, who wanted to quell the turmoil caused by the struggle for power between the king of Tang and the king of Chu, and would appear with a very positive image, not a rebellion.

At this time, everyone knew that things were more complicated than they thought, and King Tang was also involved, but it seemed to be calculated by King Lu.

Now that the officialdom of Zhejiang has succumbed, King Lu has nothing to hide at this time, so after the sacrifice, he gathered all the main officials and informed him of his plan.

The king of Tang raised troops and Wang Yan to compete for control of the imperial court, bringing chaos to the stable world, and the king of Lu will use the reason of pacifying the civil strife in Tang and Chu to raise troops and drive both of them out of power.

He attributed the cause of the civil strife to Wang Yan's drastic reforms, which made the world unstable, and the co-ruling emperor was young and the lord was suspicious.

The Tang Dynasty was a rebellion and must be suppressed, and the Nanjing court, which was under the banner of the Emperor Gongzhi, since it could not stabilize the world, it should also be destroyed and rebuilt.

The country depends on the long monarch, the emperor is young is the source of national turmoil, the prince Chongzhen is here, for the stability of the Ming Dynasty, the fifth prince Zhu Cihuan should inherit the unification.

The Zhejiang officials, who were originally a little reluctant, suddenly changed their mentality after learning about King Lu's plan, and even King Lu asked them to sign their names on a blank piece of paper, and everyone did not have much disgust.

If this matter is defeated, they will naturally be implicated, but if they win, it will be the evidence of their dragon exploits.

Zhejiang people's hearts must be certain, the secret letter of the Tang King urging the King of Lu to raise troops came again, from the beginning of July, the Tang King has successively urged the King of Lu to raise troops, and today this letter is already the third.

The letter stated that Jin Shenghuan had already taken action, and if King Lu's soldiers and horses could not quickly come to Nanjing, let the Nanjing court learn that Wang Yan had been killed, and understand that they had seized power in a coup d'état, the Nanjing court would inevitably mobilize soldiers and horses from Jiangbei, Huguang and other places to quell the rebellion.

If the elite of the Ming army from Jiangbei and Huguang rushed to Nanjing, and the cabinet wanted to support the little emperor to fight them, then the matter would not be able to be resolved in a short time and a half, and the Ming army guarding the border, once evacuated from the border, would inevitably benefit the north.

This point, the king of Tang and the king of Lu did not want to see, so after the sacrifice, the king of Lu immediately ascended the altar to the sky, published the article of Jing Nan, and led the army to Nanjing.

In the fourth year of the reign of the Ming Dynasty, on July 16, 1653, Zhu Yihai, the prince of Ming Li Zhenglu, secretly sneaked back to Zhejiang, contacted the old department, and raised troops in Hangzhou, claiming to sweep away the rebellion and Fengtian Jingjing.

On this day, King Lu built a high altar in the north of Hangzhou, paid tribute to Taizu and Emperor Chongzhen, and recited the inscription and said: "The descendants of Emperor Taizu alone, the closest relatives of the country, have been enthroned since the national disaster." Fighting alone in eastern Zhejiang, conquering the north of the river, turning the tide, and protecting half of the Ming Dynasty, but now he is young and can not be in charge, and the country is controlled by the ministers, and finally the country is in civil strife. Today, the Tang Dynasty and the Chu Domain are fighting for power, both of which are their own selfishness, which makes the world turbulent, puts the people in the midst of fire and water, and suffers from upside down. How can you bear to look at it? Today, the lonely army is not for personal gain, and it is a last resort to solve the people's upside down. The emperor and the queen of the earth, the ancestors are above, the sun and the moon can be learned! ”

After reading the text, King Lu immediately led 40,000 Zhejiang soldiers to Nanjing, while 20,000 sailors took the canal, avoided Chongming's East China Sea Division, went out of Zhenjiang, killed Nanjing, cut off Nanjing's connection with the locality, and quickly seized power.

In the city of Nanjing, in the cabinet, Chen Bangyan gathered several cabinet elders together, and the table was full of information found by Jinyiwei, and several cabinet ministers picked up the information and watched, one by one shocked.

"Su Ge Lao, Zhang Ge Lao!" Chen Bangyan sat down and said in a deep voice: "The situation is like this now, His Royal Highness the King of Chu needs the authorization of the cabinet and the council hall, if you can't bear it, see the hard work of the past few years, ruined in one fell swoop, just make a statement, if you don't support the King of Chu to quell the rebellion, then the cabinet can only split, and the three sides will have a big war!" ”

After the Ming army recovered Nanjing, according to the provisions of the compromise between the three kings, the cabinet was composed of three parties, Su Guansheng, Wan Yuanji, and Gu Yuanjing were the people on the side of the Tang king, Zhang Kentang was the person on the side of the king of Lu, and the remaining Chen Bangyan, Wang Fuzhi, and Yan Qiheng were the people of the Chu party.

Now that the imperial court has been running for four years in accordance with the rules formulated by Wang Yan and the civil official group, Su Guansheng and others should also have a stop.

The three elders of the Chu faction obviously knew in advance, the three of them sat on the side, waiting slowly, and the other four looked at the things on the table, but their faces were tangled, after all, they were born in Tanglu, and it was indeed a little difficult to make a decision to follow the central government or return to Tanglu for a while.

Tang and Lu wanted to act, Su Guansheng had a more or less hunch, he thought that it would be King Tang who would tell him, but he didn't want to know it from the cabinet.

"If we don't support the King of Chu, what will the King of Chu do?" Su Guansheng frowned, and said after half a sound.

Chen Bangyan and Wang Fuzhi glanced at each other, and the latter said in a deep voice: "Even if you don't support it, the King of Chu will mobilize people to quell the rebellion, but the previous rules have been broken." ”

If the opinions of the cabinet and the council cannot be unified, and Wang Yan has already explained to Chen Bangyan, then the Tanglu faction will be set aside and authorized by the Chu party alone.

With Wang Yan's influence, it is easy to break the current rules, but he doesn't want to do it, because once he destroys it, he will lose his credibility, and the next time he encounters something, he can continue to break the rules.

The reason why rules are rules is that everyone needs to follow them, and if someone is not within the rules, then there is no way to play.

What Wang Fuzhi expressed meant was that even without the authorization of the cabinet, Wang Yan would transfer troops to quell the rebellion, but in this way, the rules would be broken.

In the past few years, Wang Yan and the bureaucracy have been making the same effort, that is, to incorporate the monarchy, which was originally not in the rules, into the rules, but now that the road is only halfway through, there is such a problem, and it falls short, which really makes Su Guansheng and others feel a pity.

After listening to Wang Fuzhi's answer, Su Guansheng and Wan Yuan Ji were silent for a while, and after Gu Yuanjing's face on the side was cloudy for a while, he suddenly said: "You have been in office for four years, and only now is there today's Ming Dynasty, and the struggle between the vassal power and the imperial power for thousands of years has led to today's situation." No matter what you decide, I'm on the side of the court anyway. Without the permission of the imperial court, the king of Tang and the king of Lu mobilized troops and horses without authorization, and wanted to kill the minister, no matter what banner they played, it was a rebellion! ”

Tang Wang did not inform Gu Yuanjing of these things, they have obviously been excluded, and now the central court is good, and the ministers have the dignity of the courtiers, why should they return to the era of being scepted at will.

As soon as Gu Yuanjing expressed his position, Zhang Kentang also spoke: "I also support the King of Chu to quell the rebellion!" ”

Wang Yan and the cabinet are cooperative, not vassal, everyone governs the world together, and when the king of Tang and King Lu comes back, he will become a monarch and a minister again.

The two of them in a row both said that they were on the side of the center, Su Guansheng and Wan Yuanji glanced at each other, and could only nod.

The two of them were still very loyal to Emperor Gaozong and loyal to the Tang Dynasty, so they hesitated, but the co-ruling emperor was Gaozong's son-in-law, and Wang Yan had no rebellious moves, so after some weighing, they still decided to stand on the side of the central government.

Seeing this, Chen Bangyan was overjoyed, and immediately took out a cabinet order and stood up, "In that case, let's draw up votes!" ”

Hearing this, the seven pavilion elders all stood up, and at this moment, someone outside the hall suddenly reported, "Several pavilion elders, His Royal Highness King Tang has arrived at Wenyuan Pavilion!" ”

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