Now, the emperor who is far away in Beijing has shown his hole cards, and the two people he fears the most in Nanjing, the eunuch Wang Zhixin and the Nanzhen Fu envoy Luo Yangxing, have also caught up with him, which shows that the Duke of Wei is not among the emperor's purges. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Seeing this, a stone that had been hanging in the heart of Xu Hongji, the Duke of Wei, for several months finally fell to the ground.

At this time, after listening to the emperor's will brought by Luo Yangxing with Wang Zhixin, Xu Hongji pondered and said: "Dog Zi Wenjue has a lot of dealings with Huaiyuan Marquis Chang Yanling, so why don't you let him go and recruit Huaiyuan Marquis to the camp." The Marquis of Huaiyuan is the first Kaiping King, and he must be loyal to the Ming Dynasty and can be trusted. ”

Luo Yangxing raised his eyes and looked at Wang Zhixin, and when he saw Wang Zhixin nodding, he said: "Since the little grandfather of the Guogong Mansion has an old relationship with the Marquis of Huaiyuan, then ask the little grandfather to work hard and invite the Marquis of Huaiyuan to meet here." ”

Xu Wenjue, the eldest son of the Duke of Wei, although he is a typical gentleman, but when he encounters this kind of political struggle that is either you die or I die, and his father is still a big man who has shown trust in the imperial court, he is naturally one hundred and twenty points careful at this time.

After following the messenger to the Nanjing Jingying station, he soon saw his father and the other two bigwigs who were really talking in Nanjing City, and they also hurried over to meet him.

In front of the eunuchs guarding the town and the envoys of Nanzhen, no matter what kind of noble family the children of this Nanjing city are now, they have to bow their heads and bow their waists and speak carefully.

Luo Yangxing explained to him some precautions, replaced his attendants with the brocade guards of the Nanzhen Fusi Yamen, and then asked him to invite Huaiyuan Marquis Chang Yanling and others to come.

When it was dark and night, Huaiyuan Hou Chang Yanling, Boping Hou Guo Zhenming, Sincerity Bo Liu Kongzhao and Nanning Bo Mao Menglong finally arrived at the Nandu Jingying Station together.

Wang Zhixin and Luo Yangxing conveyed the will of the emperor and the court respectively, and several people were excited and excited.

What is exciting is that these nobles who are far away in the southern capital are not as trusted by the emperor as a super noble family like Wei Guogong, two hundred years have passed, and the merits of their ancestors will be cared about now, and they have no bottom in their hearts.

I was excited to be able to participate in such a confidential event of the imperial court, which showed that the current saint in the Forbidden City in Beijing recognized their loyalty and reliability.

In fact, among these four people, except for Guo Zhenming, the Marquis of Boping, who is now leading the Yangtze River Sailor and can be regarded as a high-ranking power, the other three have long been families standing on the sidelines.

For example, Chang Yanling, although he is the Marquis of Huaiyuan, he does not have much power in Nanjing.

Because, the title of Marquis Huaiyuan was neither awarded by Emperor Taizu nor Emperor Chengzu, but by Emperor Jiajing.

Chang Yanling's ancestor was Chang Yuchun, who was named King Kaiping after his death.

Chang Yuchun was thirty-nine years old when he died, and he had a total of three sons, the eldest Chang Mao became Zheng Guogong, and when Zheng Guogong Chang Mao died, he had no heirs, so Chang Yuchun's second son Chang was promoted to the title of Duke of Guo and was renamed the founding duke.

Later, Chang Sheng was affected by the Lanyu case and beheaded all over the house, and then Chang Yuchun's third son Chang Sen was still young and survived.

After Emperor Jianwen ascended the throne, he let Chang Sen inherit the title, because Zhu Di, the king of Yan at that time, and the Xu family were in-laws, so Emperor Jianwen had an opinion on the Xu family, so he was very kind to the Chang family.

Unfortunately, the good times were short-lived.

When Zhu Di raised troops and fought to the city of Nanjing, Chang Sen not only led the army to resist, but also died on the battlefield in the end.

This choice of the Chang family made Zhu Di, who became the emperor, very dissatisfied, and all the remaining people of the Chang family were sent to the border of Yunnan.

In this way, it will be hundreds of years.

When it came to Emperor Hongzhi, before Emperor Hongzhi died, he finally remembered Chang Yuchun's contribution to the old Zhu family, and thought that it was wrong to treat the heroes like this, so he sent people to Yunnan to find Chang Yuchun's descendants, and then rearranged them to Nanjing, and gave a Jinyi Wei hereditary commander of the position.

After another few decades, Emperor Jiajing also remembered Chang Yuchun's contributions, so he found Chang Yuchun's descendants who were already in Nanjing at that time and gave him the title of Marquis of Huaiyuan.

It has been passed down for seventy or eighty years and passed on to Chang Yanling's head.

Although the Marquis of Huaiyuan's mansion bears the shining aura of Chang Yuchun, it still belongs to the marginalized noble family in Nanjing.

Because when the title of Marquis Huaiyuan came out, whether it was Nanjing or Beijing, all the cakes of the military rank had already been distributed, and there was no power to give him except for some public fields corresponding to the marquis.

However, despite this, Chang Yanling, the last Huaiyuan Marquis in history, was loyal to the Ming Dynasty, after the fall of the southern capital, he first organized anti-Qing forces, cut his hair and became a monk after defeat, and lived in seclusion, neither surrendered to the thieves, nor surrendered to the Manchu Qing.

In the environment where the nobles of the Southern Capital are almost all cleared, it can really be said that they are out of the mud and not stained.

Similar to the situation of Huaiyuan Hou Chang Yanling, there is also sincerity Bo Liu Kongzhao.

Chengyi Bo is the knight of Liu Ji, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, and this Liu Kongzhao is the descendant of Liu Ji.

The title of Count of Sincerity, after the Battle of Jingjing, was also deprived because Liu Ji's grandson stood on the side of Emperor Jianwen, and it was also restored after hundreds of years in the Jiajing period.

These nobles who stood firmly on the side of Emperor Jianwen at the beginning, and at the last moment of the Ming Dynasty, they basically maintained relatively good political integrity.

In history, after the death of the last sincere uncle Liu Kongzhao in the Ming Dynasty, he scattered all his family wealth, recruited troops to resist the Qing Dynasty, and finally escaped into the sea by boat after the failure of the Qing Dynasty, and disappeared.

As for Nanning Bomao Menglong, he was also nowhere to be found after the death of the Ming Dynasty, and he was not on the list of those who followed Xincheng Bo Zhao Zhilong to open the door and surrender to the clear.

Now this Emperor Chongzhen, the reason why he chose so many from a bunch of noble families is naturally because he takes a fancy to their loyalty.

For people like them, it doesn't really matter how capable they are, but what matters most is how good they are politically.

As the saying goes, the time is poor, and the ban knows the loyal ministers!

Judging from the final outcome of these people, at least their performance after the death of the Ming Dynasty is more satisfactory to the current Emperor Chongzhen.

In the great changes at the end of the Ming Dynasty, these people belong to one of the very few nobles who have withstood the test of history!

Guo Zhenming, Chang Yanling, Liu Kongzhao, and Mao Menglong took advantage of the night to come to the Nanjing Jingying station, listened to the emperor's will conveyed to them by Wang Zhixin and Luo Yangxing, and immediately expressed their loyalty to the current emperor and his intention to die.

That night, several people stayed in the camp and planned to arrest several powerful dignitaries designated by the emperor for arrest.

In the early morning of the next day, around midnight, Fu Si Ti of Jinyi Weinan Town rode out in all directions, holding the holy decree, and took down Zhang Gongri, Marquis of Longping, Tang Guozuo, and Dongning Bojiao Mengxiong at home one by one, took them directly from the bed, and put them in the prison of Fusi of Jinyi Weinan Town.

At dawn, Xu Hongji, the Duke of Wei of Nanjing, the governor of Nanjing, sent people to summon the generals of Nanjing's Jingying to the Chinese army to discuss matters.

Because the Nanjing Military Department Shangshu, who was also in charge of the Beijing camp in the southern capital, was concurrently served by Zhang Heming, Zhang Heming was taken down because of the rebellion of Extravagant Chongming and An Bangyan, and now Zhu Xieyuan is concurrently serving as the secretary, and at this time, the only squire Wu Zhiwang escorted Chongzhen's military salary, grain, grass and ammunition for the second year to the Guiyang army, so for the summons of Wei Guogong, who had full power in the Beijing camp at this time, these people did not doubt him.

As a result, after everyone arrived, Xu Hongji, Wang Zhixin, and Luo Yangxing showed the emperor's will to the generals of Nanjing's Jingying, and together with Guo Zhenming, Marquis of Boping, Chang Yanling, Marquis of Huaiyuan, Liu Kongzhao and others, they took down the generals related to Zhao Zhilong and others on the spot, and then inserted their own pre-determined manpower into it, which can be regarded as leveling the Beijing camp in Nandu without blood.

Around noon, the news spread, and most of the people in Nanjing did not know what was going on, so the days were still the same, the streets and alleys were still prosperous, and the shops of all sizes were still open for business.

And those who understand the meaning are secretly applauding, these Nanjing nobles who have no king's law and bully the market can be regarded as liquidated.

After noon, Wang Zhixin, Luo Yangxing, and Xu Hongji, the Duke of Wei, led the emperor's newly appointed governors of the Nanjing Five Armies Governor's Mansion to the former dynasty of the Forbidden City in Nanjing, and met with Zhou Yanru, the newly appointed secretary of the Ministry of Rites in Nanjing, Su Maoxiang, the secretary of the household department and the head of the ministry, Xie Xuelong, the right capital of the Inspectorate, and Jia Jichun, the minister of the imperial court, to show the emperor's will and report the relevant situation.

These ministers, who had parachuted in from the south from the court of the Beijing Division, were relieved to learn that the nobles who controlled the Nanjing Jingying and the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies had been successfully taken.