Chapter 13: Stirring
"You, you, Ma Aiqing, what you said is true?"
"It's true, and Weichen is also strange. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info But if you think about it carefully, Sun Kewang has been uncourteous for a long time, and this kind of thing is definitely not impossible to do. ā
Hearing this, Yongli's complexion changed abruptly, and his complexion, which was originally flushed with excitement, faded instantly, and turned pale when he landed. Sun Kewang has been in charge for a long time, but at least he will inform him about major matters, even if it is just to inform him. But now even the canonization of the prince has made his own decisions, and he has not even gone through the minimum procedures, and his anger and fear have been mixed, and he has lost his joy at this good news.
However, after a blink of an eye, Yongli realized that this was a perfect opportunity. It's a pity that this kind of joy only stayed in his heart for a moment, and then disappeared without a trace.
Yongli is still under house arrest, and even if he wants to use Chen Wen to get rid of Sun Kewang, there is no way to talk about it. And there is another problem, according to Ma Jixiang's description and his knowledge, the area controlled by Chen Wen now, in terms of area and geographical location, is only inferior to Huguang, Huaibei and parts of eastern Henan, compared with Zhu Yuanzhang, who was about to become emperor after the annexation of Chen Youliang, Zhang Shicheng and Fang Guoan at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the gap between the two is not so unimaginable.
Chen Wen, Yongli has never seen it, and he has only heard of it over the years - from the righteous man who went south alone to join the king's division, the warrior who led the lone army to be the queen of the people's palace in times of crisis, to the famous Zhongxing generals who successively killed Chen Jin, Shi Tingzhu, Hong Chengchou and other Manchu famous ministers, and then to the current two famous kings and the recovery of Nanjing, the heroes who almost single-handedly turned the tide, even Guo Ziyi in the Tang Dynasty and Yue Fei in the Song Dynasty.
Regarding Chen Wen, there are never many good evaluations, and Yongli can also see that this is all due to Chen Wen's efforts, but there are also many bad evaluations. For example, the Cao Conglong Rebellion in the mouths of civil officials, and the inside story of Lu Jianguo's self-supervision of the country that made him even more taboo.
Assuming that Chen Wen is not a famous Zhongxing general who was blessed by Emperor Taizu Gao with the blessing of the spirit of heaven, but a careerist who is the same as Sun Kewang, then Sun Kewang will go, and he may not even be able to get Emperor Yi and King Xiaoming at that time!
Yongli's expression changed, all in the eyes of Ma Jixiang and Pang Tianshou. One was born in Jinyiwei, and the other was a eunuch, if the Son of Heaven's thinking could not control it, it would be a joke that they could achieve such a high position in just a few years.
The two glanced at each other, and before Yongli returned to normal, Ma Jixiang's deliberately suppressed voice sounded in Yongli's ears again.
"Your Majesty, Weichen thinks that Sun Kewang's intention to usurp the throne is obvious, and he should be led into the guard in the outer feudal town to solve this upside-down suffering. For example, today, although the court has been defeated by the king's master, it still has half of the world, with no less than hundreds of thousands of armor. Among the kings, the Yue Fan has made outstanding achievements and is the most powerful, and His Majesty should rely on Mount Tai. ā
Ma Jixiang talked eloquently, looking like all the forces in the world were under control. But when it came to this, Ma Jixiang changed his mind.
"However, which feudal town to lead into the guard, Weichen thinks that it is still the king of Xining. The king of Xining and Sun rebelled as righteous brothers, but in fact, they were already as powerful as fire and water, and their people were loyal, so they had to rest assured that they were more at ease than the Yue Domain. At that time, the king of Xining will receive Yunnan, Guizhou and Guangxi, and His Majesty will rule the king of Xining with the feudal towns of Guangdong, Fujian and Sichuan, and the king of Xining will rule the king of Yue. The ancestral system of the big and small systems has been restored, and the world is still the Ming Dynasty, and no one can take away the Jiangshan Sheji handed down by Emperor Gao from His Majesty! ā
After that, Ma Jixiang and Pang Tianshou fell to the ground with a crying voice, their heads banging on the floor, as if they were loyal.
Last year, he exposed to Sun Kewang the culprit of Wu Zhenyu and others who led Li Dingguo into the guard, but now he risked his life to painstakingly persuade Yongli to lead the town into the defense to resist Sun Kewang, and it was no one else, Li Dingguo. It sounds like the word absurd is full of periods, but as the Son of Heaven, Yongli doesn't have anything incomprehensible about it.
At the beginning, Ma Jixiang and Pang Tianshou fell to Sun Kewang, but they saw that Yongli was weak and wanted to climb a high branch. But now, Chen Wen has broken the balance of the world, Sun Kewang is from a rogue background, and he is still preparing to usurp the throne all these years, even his own brother and him are enemies, seeing that Sun Kewang's big tree is unstable, and his mind of eager to change his master can be said to be obvious.
But this master is not him, at least not all. Ma Jixiang and Pang Tianshou, as the eagle dogs of the Heavenly Family, have been following Sun Kewang to monitor the courtiers of the Yongli court and even the emperor in the past few years, and it is impossible for such disloyal people to be reused by Yongli. But now, now that they have decided to change their courts, and have come to offer him advice, they must have something to rely on.
Is it Chen Wen?
Is it Li Dingguo?
Or those feudal towns in Fujian, Guangdong, and Sichuan?
Yongli didn't know, but he knew that now Chen Wen had broken the balance of power, but he didn't rely on his strength to clear the other feudal towns. The civil war did not break out, everyone was in a delicate balance, and only by muddying the waters could they fish, and the person who instructed Ma Jixiang behind his back was the one who wanted to fish in troubled waters.
In an instant, Yongli's mind was turning over and over which one was the person behind Ma Jixiang, but after thinking about it, it didn't matter who it was. Sun Kewang's dominance has reached this point, and it is not impossible to kill the king. For him now, he also needs external forces to break this cage, and only in this way can the imperial power extend outward.
"Two Aiqing, please."
evoked Ma Jixiang and Pang Tianshou, but Yongli still hesitated for a moment, and then said to the two: "The two Aiqing are diligent in the king's affairs, loyal and commendable, and I am very comforted. As for this, the stakes are high, and I still need to think about it. ā
With that, Yongli turned around and left the room and headed for the harem, leaving only Ma Jixiang and Pang Tianshou here. However, after the two of them saluted, they did not say anything more. After leaving the palace, he came to Ma Jixiang's house, waved back left and right, and let his son-in-law Yang Zai guard the door, and the two exchanged in the study.
"Your Majesty still can't trust you and me."
"There's nothing abnormal about this, what Master Hou and our family have done in the past two years, it would be strange if Your Majesty could believe it."
Pang Tianshou pulled the throat of the male duck, and his speech was also yin and yang, but Ma Jixiang didn't care about it, but Pang Tianshou was still worried about Ma Jixiang's plan.
"Your Majesty is so, is this matter sure to be done?"
There is nothing in the world that must be done, but Ma Jixiang can't say that, so he has to reply to Pang Tianshou: "As long as the king of Xining moves, the water in this pool will be muddy." At that time, except for King Yue, no matter which side wins, we will have a chance to maintain our current position, and maybe we can go further. It's better than waiting for the army of the Yue Wangfu to recover from last year's bloody battle and march westward. ā
What Ma Jixiang pointed to, Pang Tianshou could not know. It's not that he has confidence in Chen Wen's loyalty, if the other forces enter the guard, none of them will be dominant, and they will not dare to touch them easily if they eat the strength of the civil officials of the two or three provinces and the hundreds of thousands of troops in Sun Kewang's hands. After all, over the years, Sun Kewang has never been less stumbling on Yongli and the courtiers in the open and in the dark. Affect the whole body, their safety is the safety of others, and no one will cause internal strife for the sake of the moment, and give other forces a truth.
But the Yue Wangfu is different, Chen Wen now occupies Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and the iron armor may be no less than 200,000, and there are many talents, and it can be said that there are talents to replace the civil officials and military generals in the southwest. Even if Chen Wen is not on good terms with the gentry of the southeast, no matter what time it is, the most important thing in the world is those who want to be officials, and there will be no fewer people who are willing to be loyal dogs to the Yue Palace. As long as the Son of Heaven falls into the hands of Chen Wen, their qualifications can be cut down, and they can just invite them to buy the hearts of the world, but it is more useful than keeping them.
"Our family understands this truth, but His Majesty is hesitant, where does the edict come from?"
This is the key to their adventure to meet Yongli, and it is not inferior to leaving a back road in front of Yongli. The problem did stump Ma Jixiang, but for him, it was not that difficult.
"Wait for a day or two tomorrow, if you can't find someone to steal a royal thing, the old man will take that thing to Guangdong. At that time, it was said that Sun Kewang's people were too tightly checked in this Anlong Mansion, and the edict was too conspicuous, and it was inconvenient to take it out. ā
Hearing this, Pang Tianshou stroked his palms and smiled. "This method is wonderful, then wait for a day or two, it is best to have an edict with clothes, otherwise it will be unstable after all."
Ma Jixiang and Pang Tianshou don't care whether Yongli is happy or not, this emperor is not stupid, but his weak temperament has long been figured out by them. Moreover, if Li Dingguo can be brought in, they will be the greatest heroes, even if the emperor hates them, he will not kill the "loyal ministers" who have "endured humiliation and burden" for many years, because this will only make other people feel cold, and feel that this emperor is a cold and thin king who does not change the evil and return to the right for others.
The two of them thought like this, and Yongli returned to the harem with a hundred claws. On the one hand, getting rid of Sun Kewang's control is something he has dreamed of for many years, but on the other hand, once he fails, Sun Kewang is a guy who dares to directly pull out the cabinet chief assistant and the big eunuch in the palace to execute him in front of the emperor, God knows if he will directly kill the king in a fit of anger.
"Queen Mother, the land of Fengyang's ancestors and the place of Nanjing Longxing have been recovered, and Hu has no luck for a hundred years, and the fortune of Jianyu will also be shattered. However, if today, the captives are not destroyed and there are many feudal towns, and many kings with different surnames have different aspirations, and there are even more Sun Rebellion who are expected to try to usurp the throne in vain. Erchen is incompetent, and Jiangshan Sheji is only afraid that it will not be owned by my Zhu clan in the future. ā
"I warned you at the beginning, your temperament is too weak, but you don't listen, you have to be this emperor, how can this position be so easy to do?"
Yongli fell down in front of the Queen Mother, and the mother and son lowered their voices and cried. Empress Dowager Ma is the concubine of Zhu Changying, the king of Gui, not the wife, but the position of the queen mother obtained by the mother and son because of Yongli's accession to the throne. Mother and son, blood is thicker than water, complaining, but she still comforts her son in her way.
After some time, the door was slowly pushed open, and a child of six or seven years old walked up. Seeing this, the mother and son hurriedly wiped away the tears from the corners of their eyes.
The child is the third son of Yongli, and he is also the eldest son of the eldest son and the second son who is scattered among the people today, and the sad prince Zhu Cixuan of later generations.
The child walked over and saluted the Empress Dowager Ma and Yongli in a proper manner, but after getting up, he looked at the mother and son, but his face was full of doubts.
"Grandmother, why are you and your father crying?"
The child's voice came, Yongli hurriedly wiped the tears on his face that he didn't have time to wipe away, and then said to the child: "Xuan'er, the emperor's grandmother and father have sand in their eyes, it's okay." ā
"Oh." When the child heard this, he immediately replied to Yongli: "Then Xuan'er will blow it to the emperor's grandmother and father, when Xuan'er has sand in her eyes, the queen mother will also blow Xuan'er without tears." ā
As soon as these words came out, the tears of the mother and son once again welled up in their eyes. The supreme position seems to have infinite scenery, but it is actually unbearable in high places. Moreover, in this last world, even if the momentum of the Tartars has shown signs of decline under the offensive of the Ming army, it is the credit of all feudal towns to have today's weather, especially Chen Wen of Jiangsu and Zhejiang.
In the case of Zhongxing, similar things have not happened before, and the Song Dynasty crossed to the south, and it was only through the efforts of various feudal towns that they had that half of the country. But with his temperament, Song Gao's long legs are full of learning, but he is too poor to control these courtiers. There's nothing about ability here.,It's just that the temperament is too weak.,Even if you have a thousand means, you can't use it.,That's all.ć
After calming down for a moment, he summoned the queen to take the prince out, and Yongli asked his mother in a low voice: "Queen Mother, it is imperative to lead the feudal town into the defense now, but the sons and daughters can't trust Ma Jixiang and Pang Tianshou, the two traitors who eat inside and out, but there is no one available in their hands, so what can I do?" ā
The prison of Mr. Eighteen was too great a blow to the Yongli Dynasty, and the courtiers and eunuchs that Yongli trusted were killed in batches, which could be said to be a devastating blow to him. Since then, and even today, Yongli's ears and eyes have been completely closed by Sun Kewang's cronies here, as well as Ma Jixiang and Pang Tianshou, so that Chen Wen made such a miracle last year, but Yongli was the emperor but knew nothing about it.
The remaining courtiers are not many in number, and they are not cronies. Besides, with the prison of Mr. Eighteen, who would dare to jump out and be an enemy of Sun Kewang, it is nothing more than messing around here. And Ma Jixiang and Pang Tianshou have the ability, but such a disloyal person, Yongli does not dare to use it. Not to mention anything else, God knows if this time is some kind of trick set up by Sun Kewang, waiting for him to drill it.
In this regard, Yongli was helpless, and his mother, Empress Dowager Ma, was not as wise and calm as Empress Meng of Yuanyou. The mother and son looked at each other without saying a word, only a thousand tears.
Three days later, Yongli still didn't say anything, and Ma Jixiang had to ask Pang Tianshou to send someone to steal a royal object in the palace as a token, so as to win Li Dingguo's trust. It's just that they don't know that at this moment, Li Dingguo has actually left Guangdong and is coming in the direction of Anlong Mansion.