In the fourth year of the Apocalypse, the capital of the Ming Dynasty was Beijing. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The vegetation is revived, the new shoots are pulled, it is the spring season, and the warm spring breeze in early spring blows the frozen rivers outside the city, but it can't blow away the haze in the imperial capital. In the last year, three major events occurred in the imperial court, which were enough to shake the entire imperial city.

The first thing: Queen Zhang Yan because of low back pain, asked a palace maid who is good at pushing and kneading her shoulders to stroke her back, but unexpectedly, the queen in the womb was miscarried afterwards, and she was born a stillborn baby. As soon as this incident happened, the Son of Heaven was furious and ordered a thorough investigation of the matter, and with the intervention of Jinyiwei, he finally caught the escaped palace maid, who would have expected that the palace maid would commit suicide in prison and did not confess to any mastermind.

Since the clue was broken, the matter came to an abrupt end. However, everyone in the palace knew that this must have been done at the behest of the Holy Lady Hak, and only Tianqi was kept in the dark, or they didn't want to believe that Ke Yinyue would do such a thing. As soon as this incident happened, it was naturally a big blow to the queen's power, and from then on, everyone in the palace was even more afraid of the Hakka family like a snake and scorpion, and no one dared to speak.

The second thing: the Donglin party people, under the leadership of the Zuodu Yushi **Xing, launched the most fierce attack on the three parties of Qichu and Zhejiang, relying on the Guihai Jingcha, all the members of the three parties were driven away from the imperial court, and **Xing wrote the famous "On the Four Murders", comparing the leaders of the three parties, Qi Shijiao, Zhao Xingbang, Guan Yingzhen, and Wu Liangsi, to the four murderers of Hun Dun, Qi Qi, Zhu Qi, and gluttony in the Yu Shun period, and expelled these four people from the imperial court. Although the Donglin Party won an unprecedented victory, it also made the remnants of the three parties feel great fear, and they threw themselves into the inner court forces headed by Wei Zhongxian, so that the power of the "Eunuch Party" was consolidated.

In addition, the Donglin Party's move also completely angered the Emperor of the Apocalypse and pushed himself to the forefront. Tianqi came to power by relying on the Donglin Party, and he was still grateful to Donglin in his heart, but now the Donglin Party is the same as the other, and the non-our race must have different hearts, which makes him deeply shocked. He is the king of a country, and in his subconscious, he will never allow any courtiers to form a party and override the imperial power. Therefore, Tianqi gradually disliked the practices of the Donglin Party, and even more deeply hated Donglin's behavior of controlling the government.

The third thing: In order to balance the party forces in the DPRK and China, Tianqi has appointed Gu Bingqian and Wei Guangwei, who were recommended by Wei Zhongxian, as scholars of Dongge University to participate in cabinet affairs. In addition, the apocalypse ordered Wei Zhongxian to supervise the East Factory and take charge of the factory and health system. In this way, the cabinet originally controlled by the Donglin Party is no longer completely in charge of the Donglin Party, and Wei Zhongxian can better control the Donglin Party members by managing the factory guards. From this point of view, Tianqi has lost trust in the Donglin Party, and has begun to rely on other forces in the DPRK.

In addition, in the past few years, under the management of the Donglin Party, the whole world has not seen any improvement, not only the treasury is becoming more and more empty, but even the disasters and disasters in the Quartet have been repeated, which makes the Apocalypse very suspicious of Donglin's governance law, and has decided to abandon Donglin's governance program and change the current policy of governance.

At this time, the majority of the Donglin Party was still immersed in the great victory of the political enemy, and they were completely unaware of how turbulent and surging the undercurrent lurked under the wind and rain was, and only a few people headed by Ye Xianggao, the head of the cabinet, felt not optimistic about the situation in front of them, and their hearts were full of worries, and they were extremely resistant to the practices of the main battle faction in the Donglin Party.

At this moment, in the dark night, a carriage drove quickly along the bluestone road on the fourth floor of the south street of Jingshi West, heading towards Fusi, Beizhen.

The carriage did not stop at the gate of the North Town Fuji, but made a big circle and came not far from the back door. Suddenly, a man in a black cloak sped off the carriage and hurried towards the back door. The carriage drove forward, then turned a corner and stopped in the shadow of an alleyway.

"Hall Master!" A man with a rough face and a bearded face greeted him and whispered to the man in black.

The man in black nodded slightly, and said to the man, "Nantian, can things be arranged?" ”

The man said: "Tonight coincides with Zhang Yinglong on duty, and the relevant personnel have been transferred, so it should be safe for the hall master to meet with the military division." ”

"Good job, thank you." The man in black patted the man on the shoulder and entered the back door of the slightly open Beizhen Fusi.

The man followed behind him and said in a deep voice: "It is my duty to serve the hall master. "This man's name is Yan Nantian, he is a cadre of the East Hall of the Concern Hall, and he has already entered the Beizhen Fusi under the arrangement of Han Wanshui, the deputy of the East Hall, and served as a horseman in the Imperial Prison, secretly providing information in the Imperial Prison for the Caring Hall.

At this moment, the backyard of Beizhen Fusi was empty, and the relevant guards had been transferred in advance, and the two walked through the backyard and came to the entrance of the Imperial Prison. The man in black nodded slightly, and was led by Zhang Yinglong to the dark cell.

This man in black is naturally Sun Yueling.

It has been more than two months since he returned to Jingshi. On the same day, under the instruction of Zhu Xieyuan, the governor of Sichuan, he took 6,000 elite troops to aid the Guizhou army, assisted the governor of Guizhou, Wang Sanshan, to conquer An Bangyan, all the way to Dafang City, the nest of the thieves, and successfully captured Dafang on the occasion of the cold winter wax moon, not only captured alive the Tusi who had taken refuge in southern Sichuan, such as Hao Chongming and Hao Yin, but also captured Cai Jingui, Zhang Xiangji and other other other thieves and chiefs more than a dozen people, and achieved a major victory in counterinsurgency.

But that's when things took a big turn. Originally, Wang Sanshan and Sun Yueling meant to behead all these captured thief chieftains, in order to demonstrate the determination of the Ming court to quell the chaos, so as to deter An Bangyan and others who fled to Zhijin and urge them to return. The news spread, when Luxury Chongming, Luxury Yin and others were still in prison, Shuixi Xuan's consolation envoy An Wei and his mother Luxury Shehui were panicked, and hurriedly sent an envoy to Dafang, handed over a surrender table to Wang Sanshan, expressing his willingness to return to the Ming Dynasty, and even An Bangyan, who fled and weaved gold, was also frightened, and sent someone to contact Sun Yueling to bargain over the matter of returning to Shun.

Unexpectedly, at this time, Yang Shuzhong, the minister of military affairs of Guizhou, Yunnan, and Huguang, opposed this decision, believing that the main force of the thieves had been wiped out, and they could no longer afford to make waves, and it was ominous to kill prisoners.

This idea of his had a great conflict with Wang Sanshan, Sun Yueling and others, and the two sides argued with each other on this matter, and they did not agree with each other. (To be continued.) )