"I'll leave now...... Li Shenming got up and wanted to go, but when he arrived at the door, he suddenly patted his head and said, "My brain is not as good as day by day...... This time there is another important news for you. ”

"Brother Zunlu, please speak."

"There is a giant force that has passed through the inner wall and crossed the Taihang Mountains, and its whereabouts are still unknown. There are no guards on the route they passed, and there are no garrisons, and the border states and counties in various places have been under martial law, and now it seems that Lingqiu, Guangchang, and Ulzhou may all be attacked. ”

Sun Jingting was a little surprised, and he said, "Is there such a giant thief now?" ”

"It's not just that." After all, Li Shenming is much more well-informed, he lowered his voice and whispered: "After the collapse of the Liaodong Third Road, there are chaotic soldiers in various places who are coerced by bandits. Henan was a one, and the defeated soldiers did not dare to enter Tongguan again, nor did they dare to return to the army, so they had to fall into the grass. The combat power of the border army far exceeds that of ordinary thieves, Huozhou, Shaanxi County, Hanyin, Xixiang, there are thieves and officers and soldiers fighting in the report, beheading more or less, more than ten levels, less than six or seven levels, this shows that the officers and soldiers do not have a good way to take these border army giants, most of them fall into grass in the mountains, or turn into pieces, scattered into trouble, Lingqiu is the largest force, the important thing is that there are many Liaodong border troops under Yu Shiqian, who ran out together, his strength is strong, ambition is greatly increased, judgment from above, This group of thieves is likely to want to break through the state and county! ”

Zhang Han said: "Attacking the state and breaking the mansion, aren't they looking for death." ”

Zhang Han read the novel Li Zicheng, and remembered that Li Zicheng adopted a low-key development method after going to Luoshan, taking advantage of the characteristics of the Ming Dynasty's center's weak control over the local area, breaking the village everywhere and accumulating grain, accumulating and training people, and only after the strength swelled to a certain extent did he decisively break Luoyang, and the momentum suddenly rose sharply.

This Yu Shiqian, who may have only a few thousand subordinates, actually thought about attacking the prefecture and county.

"Since they have fallen to the grass, of course, what they want is to make the momentum bigger, if they can break the state and county, there will be many ambitious rebels to join them, and the power will snowball, and it is unknown when the disaster will come to the whole province of Shanxi."

Zhang Han nodded, sure enough, the way of thinking of the ancients can't be reasoned by modern people, think about the careerists who want to be emperors in a few hundred years, I'm afraid there are not a few people who are nervous these years, if Yu Shiqian can capture a certain state and county, there may really be many people who want to be "ministers of the dragon".

"Lingqiu ......" Zhang Han showed a solemn expression, Li Dayong They may not know yet, what they are worried about may soon become a reality.

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"Horseshoe gold, take it and show me ......" On the deep and wide bed, Emperor Wanli, who had a black face, gray hair scattered, and a fat body lying on the bed, was still struggling to see his burial objects.

In the deep palace, countless people and eunuchs are in a panic, the foreign dynasty does not know the news, everything is calm, since entering the forty-eighth year of Wanli, the body of the old emperor is not as good as a day, and after the summer, the body of the emperor of Wanli is not as good as a day.

The imperial doctor wants to heal with all his heart, but the imperial doctor of the Tai Hospital enshrined by the Ming Dynasty is really limited, and it is even far less than the folk Langzhong. The so-called tea soup of Guanglu Temple, the sword and gun of the Arsenal Division, and the prescription of the Tai Hospital are one of the jokes in the capital that have been widely circulated.

The average life expectancy of the Ming Emperor is really not high, in addition to Taizu and Taizong, Renzong died in middle age, Xuanzong only lived to be in his thirties, and Yingzong Xiaozong Wuzong did not live to be forty, Jiajing lived to the age of the sixtieth year, and his son was a short-lived ghost, and in the forty-eight years of Wanli Neng's reign, he had broken the record of the reign of all the previous emperors of the Ming Dynasty, and it could also be ranked on the top in history.

The golden horseshoe gold was presented to the dying emperor, and Wanli was pleased to see that there was a large amount of gold in his funeral goods, and the horseshoe gold was only a small part.

The eunuch on duty in the palace knelt down in front of Wanli's bed, carefully reporting the situation of the rest of the burial goods.

The two queens have long been placed in the underground palace, the coffin regulation is slightly smaller, and the coffin of Emperor Wanli is placed in the center, which is also the largest one.

Many delicate gold and silver objects, as well as horseshoe gold and jewelry, will be buried in the coffin.

The soldiers and horses have been stationed along the imperial road to the underground palace, after the Wanli dragon drove the guests, the underground palace was opened, the emperor's coffin was sent in, and then closed.

Wanli listened very carefully, drooling from the corners of his mouth, and he reluctantly said: "Be careful that the top door stone is not right......"

Wanli's underground palace or in his twenties or so began to build, the whole repair for decades, successive bachelors have served as the mausoleum official, the underground palace is a major project, there are tens of thousands of people in the scale of construction for a long time, to Wanli forty-eight years, this underground palace has been built for many years, the scale is incomparably grand, with the funeral goods are also very rich, Wanli himself also understands in his heart, since ancient times there is no immortal dynasty, as long as the Ming Dynasty is still there, his imperial tomb is nothing, if the Ming Dynasty falls, most of the imperial tombs of the past dynasties have been stolen and excavated, Before he died, the heavy stone door of the underground palace would not be closed, and after his death, the craftsmen would put down the top door stone in the stone gate, and the stone door weighing 10,000 catties was closed from the inside, and the external force would never open the door of the underground palace.

"The emperor can rest assured," the inner supervisor said thoughtfully: "The slave and maid are very concerned about this matter, and there will never be any accidents." ”

"Hmm......" Wanli glanced at the inner supervisor, and saw that the other party's face was full of loyalty, so he felt a little relieved.

The inner prison only felt sweat on his back, Wanli had been dying and healed, if he was a little slack at this time, and the emperor was healed again, his fate would be extremely miserable.

At this time, another inner eunuch quietly walked over, bowed his head and said, "Emperor, I have been ordered to summon the young master." ”

The so-called master is the prince of the dynasty, which is a unique title in the palace, in fact, the prince is already very old, and he is an out-and-out middle-aged man.

"The child knocks before his father."

The prince, dressed in a blue robe, approached and knelt down and kowtowed.

The crown prince Zhu Changluo is a middle-aged man with a yellow face, his beard is very thin, his face is very nervous, and it makes people feel very aggrieved, and it is a little difficult to kneel down and salute.

Because of long-term mental tension and depression, the prince's health has never been very good.

Still in the early years of Wanli, because of his love for Concubine Zheng Guifei, Wanli pushed King Fu, and was bent on abolishing the prince and establishing King Fu instead.

This kind of thing is very easy to do in the former Yuan Dynasty, and there is no lack of precedent in the Tang Dynasty, but since the Song Dynasty, it is very difficult to change the position, although Wanli is the emperor, he also has to be subject to the law of the ancestors.

For example, deducting the treatment of the prince, not going out of the pavilion to study, and engaging in "three kings and seals", that is, deliberately putting the princes such as Changluo and King Fu on an equal footing, so as not to elevate the status of the prince.

Later, several generations of auxiliary ministers and countless civil officials succeeded each other, taking the position of the prince to make a fuss and compete for power with the emperor, Wanli was finally defeated, causing him to be disheartened, and the emperor who once wanted to work hard has since shrunk in the harem, and has not been out of the palace for 20 years.

This is a well-known history, Zhu Changluo is not only mentally depressed, in the famous "Attack Case", the common people Zhang Cha inexplicably walked into the deep palace, only a few dozen steps away from Zhu Changluo, he attacked several eunuchs guarding the door, until he was taken down by everyone.

During the interrogation, Zhang Cha confessed that he was asked to beat a man wearing a yellow robe and a beard, and the officials who interrogated him looked at each other, causing an uproar, and many civil officials, including the Donglin Party, jumped on their feet and asked for a thorough investigation, which made Wanli extremely embarrassed, and later Wanli took Zhu Changluo, as well as the emperor's grandson Zhu Youxiao, and the three generations of grandparents staged a good show of happiness, and the crown prince came forward to suppress the matter, which was really over.

After 20 years of ups and downs, Zhu Changluo, the prince, can be described as truly walking on thin ice.

At this time, father and son were opposite, Wanli was angry, Zhu Changluo was also depressed, the two looked at each other, and they didn't know what to say for a while.

Wanli only felt that a thousand words were surging in his heart, and he had some words to tell the prince, so he didn't care about the embarrassment, and said to the prince: "I know that the Donglin Party has always been close to my son, but after you succeed to the throne, you can't trust your party alone, and you can't make one party dominant." This generation of scholars is good at making big statements, but they can't be trusted. ”

Zhu Changluo knelt on the ground, feeling a burst of fatigue on his body, recently Wanli's fate was in an instant, Zhu Changluo felt that the sword hanging over his head was removed, after his mood was relaxed, he was unhappy every night, and even had to change several people in one night, there were no beautiful women in his East Palace before, and recently many internal eunuchs deliberately sent some beautiful people to the East Palace in order to please the prince, and even Zheng Guifei also showed favor to the prince and sent eight beauties to the prince, all of which were first-class and stunning.

Zhu Changluo has been suppressed on this for too long, eight beauties, he is all broken and melons in one day, and he is in a very happy mood, but although he is in a good mood, his body is very bad, and he can't wait to go to bed to rest at this time, how can he have the strength to listen to the chatter of his dying father.

Besides, Zhu Changluo knew in his heart that if his position could be kept, the important thing was that the civil officials headed by the Donglin Party had always supported him, otherwise, the big position would be King Fu's, how could he still have his own father and son's share!

At the moment, he just replied unheartedly: "What my father said is that my sons must obey." ”

Wanli sighed, and continued: "Employing people should be judged by their deeds, don't listen to their words, their generation of civil officials, when it comes to military and political affairs, it seems that everything is incomprehensible, the head is the way, but the work is a mess." Therefore, the employment of people depends on his resume and whether he is excellent in doing things in the local area, and then he can pay for great things. The position of the center, it doesn't matter if you use the wrong person, and you must use experienced experience to seal the territory......"

Speaking of this, Wanli seemed to return to the light, sat up straight, and said in a tone: "I used the wrong Yang Ho before, and it was also because of the mistake of Fang Congzhe and others, Yang Ho has been closed for a long time, but it is useless, this person must be dealt with again!" ”