Qi Hongying's resignation did not cause much shock in the court, everyone was busy competing for interests, and one less competitor was a good thing. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

However, since he began to clean up the opposition forces, Li Hongfei simply made an appointment with Wang Guoxing, Wang Chengen and several other confidants of Zhu Youzhen, who were under house arrest.

"Brother Guoxing, I haven't seen you for a long time!" Li Hongfei said with a smile.

Indeed, since the end of the Western Expedition, the two have basically not seen each other.

Li Hongfei deliberately faded out of the line of sight of Jinyiwei in order to keep a low profile.

And Wang Guoxing also realized a trace of unusualness after the western expedition, so he gradually alienated Li Hongfei.

"Yes, I haven't seen you for a few years, and I can't imagine that Master Li has really come this far." Wang Guoxing sighed.

For Li Hongfei, Wang Guoxing really can't see through, the little clever splash at the beginning, in just a few years, he has become the first person in the Ming Dynasty, I have to say that creation makes people.

"You know I'm reluctant to take this step." Li Hongfei said.

His original idea was to gradually realize a constitutional monarchy, but unfortunately he underestimated Zhu Youzhen's desire for power, and if he did not launch a mutiny, this idea might never be just an idea.

But now it's okay, the province wastes time fighting wits and courage with the Donglin party, or it is hindered by the constraints of the "ancestral system", and constantly makes compromises.

Only absolute power can set the next "rules of the game".

"Since ancient times, the emperor has been so affectionate, if you want supreme power, you will naturally be jealous, and the saint is also forced to do so, and I hope that the adults can see the friendship of the past and treat the saint and the royal family." Wang Guoxing pleaded for Zhu Youzhen.

During this time, he was locked up with Wang Chengen, so he naturally knew the ins and outs of the matter, and his hatred for Li Hongfei had faded a lot, but Jinyiwei's mission of loyalty to the royal family would never change.

Wang Guoxing has no ability to help Zhu Youzhen take power, but he hopes that Li Hongfei can see the old friendship and not kill Zhu Youzhen.

"Didn't you say that the king will be defeated and the king will be defeated? If I fail in the mutiny, I wonder if Zhu Youzhen will let me go? Li Hongfei suddenly asked rhetorically.

For others, Li Hongfei may not be able to, and he is too lazy to discuss such a boring topic with them, but Wang Guoxing is also Zhu Youzhen's confidant, and he also knows Zhu Youzhen's temperament very well, so Li Hongfei suddenly wanted to discuss it with the other party.

"No, but I know you will." Wang Guoxing said without thinking.

Wang Guoxing knew that Zhu Youzhen would definitely not let go of Li Hongfei.

"Oh? He won't let me go, so why should I let him go? Li Hongfei said curiously.

Wang Guoxing: "Because you are not here for this supreme authority. ”

Indeed, if Li Hongfei was for the supreme right, he would not have taken the initiative to engage in a constitutional monarchy with separation of powers.

"I didn't expect you to know me best. Come and help me, you can continue to be in charge of the Jinyi Guard. Li Hongfei sent an invitation to Wang Guoxing.

The resources of Jinyiwei and Dongchang are what Li Hongfei wants the most, although he has his own intelligence system, but it only works for the people, if there was Jinyiwei or Dongchang to help, he would not have noticed it after Zhu Youzhen revealed his murderous intentions.

Special forces spy intelligence is indeed first-class, but the number of personnel is too small, and they can only detect specific or exposed targets.

What Li Hongfei needs is early warning and active attack, rather than passive defense.

"Nope." Wang Guoxing refused.

"Why?"

Li Hongfei couldn't understand why Wang Guoxing couldn't come over to help him since Wang Guoxing had such a high evaluation of himself, and now that Zhu Youzhen had fallen again.

"Because we are the emperor's personal guards, if there is no emperor, the Jinyi guard should not exist in the world."

Jin Yiwei's duty is to be loyal to the emperor, and this mode of thinking has been deeply rooted in the bone marrow, and no one can easily change it.

Although Zhu Youzhen is still nominally the Ming Emperor, the emperor who does not have military power is naturally unable to be in charge of Jinyiwei anymore.

"If I'm not mistaken, since the establishment of Jinyiwei, all the commanders have not ended well!" Li Hongfei pointed out.

There is no clear record of the first commander in history, but the first person with the title of Jinyiwei commander is Mao Xiang, Mao Xiang created a major case of implication after Hu Weiyong's death, and finally he was killed by Zhu Yuanzhang in order to calm the anger of the public.

The second is Jiang Xuan, the evidence of Lan Yu's rebellion in history is that he secretly told Zhu Yuanzhang, and Jiang Zhen was also given to Zhu Yuanzhang to die after the Lan Yu case, and there was no permanent one until the Jianwen era.

The third was Ji Gang when Ming Chengzu, in the thirteenth year of Yongle (1415), he put Xie Jin, the president of the "Yongle Grand Canon", in the snow and froze to death.

In the fourteenth year of Yongle (1416), he was killed for supporting the Han king's seizure of the throne.

When Yingzong of the Ming Dynasty, the commander of the Jinyi Guard was Liu Mian and Xu Gong, the "History of the Ming Dynasty" recorded that they were "all cautious", after Wang Zhen ascended the throne, he promoted his cronies Ma Shun to be the commander of the Jinyi Guard, and after Ming Yingzong was captured, he was killed alive in the court as the "remnant" of the Wang Party.

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Throughout the history of Jinyiwei, there is hardly a Jinyiwei commander who can get a good death, these people are either carrying the black pot for the emperor of the dynasty, or after the new emperor takes office, they are used to "kill chickens and make an example of monkeys", which is purely a thankless errand.

"This is the glory of the Jinyiwei." Wang Guoxing did not argue.

"Glory? I think it's the Jinyi Guard who knows too many dirty things about the royal family, so he has to die! Li Hongfei sneered.

Wang Guoxing was silent and did not refute it.

Jinyiwei is indeed a group of sad dead soldiers, they aim to eliminate meritorious heroes, fabricate crimes, and put the innocent to death as their mission, such dead soldiers, naturally have a large number of emperor's dirty evidence in their hands.

After they completed their mission, the emperor naturally wanted to purge these people who knew his secrets for the sake of his reputation.

"As long as you hand over Zhu Youzhen's secret to me, you will be free from now on." Li Hongfei made a condition.

"Kill me." Wang Guoxing was reluctant to betray Zhu Youzhen.

"I won't kill you, but you have to understand that if you want to completely solve the hidden danger, you must have enough chips, Zhu Youzhen is the biggest hidden danger, I will either master his weakness or let him die, how to choose, it's all in your thoughts." Li Hongfei threatened.

Before seeing Wang Guoxing, Li Hongfei really didn't know how to deal with Zhu Youzhen, after all, passive defense is far better than grasping the initiative.

As long as Zhu Youzhen shows Zhu Youzhen the dirty things he has done over the years, I believe that the other party will definitely not think about making small moves all the time.

For the royal family, the most important thing is reputation, and once the royal scandal spreads throughout the country, then the royal family is completely finished.

"Can you promise not to spread it?" Wang Guoxing's will was loosened.

His mission is to protect the safety of the royal family, if Li Hongfei really wants to kill them all, then these so-called secrets will have no meaning of existence.

"I need the cooperation of the Zhu family's royal family, not to completely destroy them." Li Hongfei said.

In the end, Wang Guoxing gave in, he understood that since Li Hongfei could think of this, even if he didn't say it, the other party would investigate it to the end, and even learn from Jinyiwei and make up charges for Zhu Youzhen.

The so-called secret of Zhu Youzhen is actually a series of secret investigations carried out by Zhu Youzhen on the ministers of the DPRK and China through Jinyiwei in recent years, including inducing them to commit crimes, and even directly framing them.

Of course, it is impossible for Wang Guoxing to record these things, everything only exists in his mind, if he wants to find evidence, he must go through the clues provided by Wang Guoxing, and then send someone to investigate slowly bit by bit.

And among these secrets, the most famous is the serial case between Mao Wenlong and Yuan Chonghuan.

At the beginning, the imperial court checked Mao Wenlong's soldiers and horses several times, and only checked it once in the first year of Chongzhen, and Emperor Tianqi and Chongzhen both had a will on the bright side, and they were lenient with Mao Wenlong's food and salary, because Dongjiang Town had a Tuntian army, which was to take in the exiles from Liaodong, so Dongjiang Town was not as good as an ordinary military town.

And when Yuan Chonghuan went out of the customs to supervise the division, he also asked Chongzhen to remove the governor, Mao Wenlong's official worship of the governor of Zuo, Dongjiang Town also involves the territory of North Korea, and it was created by Mao Wenlong with 200 family members, what does it matter if there are no civil officials?

In addition, according to the system of the Ming Dynasty at that time, even if anyone has a Shang Fang sword, but to kill more than three grades must also be reported to the imperial court, Mao Wenlong official worship Zuo Du Governor, the general soldier, give Shang Fang sword, not only in the three products or above, and the same is the Shang Fang sword of the festival general, not to mention killing, to control all need central coordination, and the festival will kill the festival will be something that the Ming Dynasty has never had for hundreds of years.

Chongzhen asked Yuan Chonghuan to take back Wang Zhichen and Man Gui's Shangfang swords when he went out of the customs, but he did not take back Mao Wenlong's, which is the matter of not letting Yuan Chonghuan intervene in Dongjiang Town.

But in the end, Yuan Chonghuan did not make any report, so he directly listed the so-called "twelve crimes", killed Mao Shuai on June 5 in Shuangdao in the second year of Chongzhen (1629), and took over Dongjiang Town with his cronies.

The reason for this, according to Wang Guoxing, was directly instructed by Zhu Youzhen, and the so-called "twelve crimes" of Mao Wenlong were also woven with the help of Jinyiwei.

Yuan Chonghuan killed Mao Wenlong on June 5, and then he was arrested and imprisoned in early December of the second year of Chongzhen (1629), only half a year later.

Yuan Chonghuan's charges were: plotting treachery and deceiving the king, treacherous and befriending the country, beheading the commander to fulfill the contract, stealing grain from the city, using the chieftain of the chieftain, Yang to introduce the criminals, recovering and dispersing the reinforcements, clearly planning to drive the long drive, and the horses are in effect, waiting and watching, hiding the envoys, insisting on entering the city, causing the temple to be shocked, the lives are ruined, and the gods and men are angry!

One of these crimes is to behead the commander in order to fulfill the covenant.

It can be said that if Yuan Chonghuan hadn't killed Mao Wenlong, Zhu Youzhen wanted to move him, and it was really not easy.

A military general at the border pass of the general town and a supervisor of the important place of Jiliao were killed one after another, which directly led to the Ming army facing the Manchu Qing Dynasty later and did not achieve any victory.

Li Hongfei never expected that the two major cases that almost subverted the Ming Dynasty (which has been subverted in history) were both from Zhu Youzhen.

Once this matter is exposed, the entire Ming Dynasty is estimated to be very disappointed in the royal family and Zhu Youzhen.

Of course, adding Zhu Youzhen's unsuccessful plan to deal with Li Hongfei will definitely allow Li Hongfei to stand on the moral high ground.

"Give me a list of the Jinyi guards who handled this back then and are still alive, and then you will be free." Li Hongfei said to Wang Guoxing.

In order to ensure that nothing goes wrong, Li Hongfei needs to find someone to control the people who knew about the year, and grasp this information, Li Hongfei believes that Zhu Youzhen will not dare to think crookedly in the future.

Wang Guoxing didn't want to gain any freedom at all, everything he did now was just to save Zhu Youzhen's life.

After explaining everything, Wang Guoxing asked Li Hongfei to let him see Zhu Youzhen for the last time.

And he also met with Zhu Youzhen, and after saying the quid pro quo with Li Hongfei, he hanged himself in front of Zhu Youzhen.

The last commander of the Ming Dynasty, the commander of the Jinyi Guard, also failed to get a good death...........

Wang Guoxing committed suicide, and the 50,000 forbidden troops under his command, including Jinyiwei, were all broken up and incorporated into the national defense force, and since then, Jinyiwei has been completely banned.

However, Wang Chengen's East Investigation Factory chose to be under Li Hongfei's command.

Eunuchs, most of them have no national integrity, all they need is to live.

Wang Chengen himself did not surprise Li Hongfei, he chose to resign from his position as a factory official and accompany Zhu Youzhen.

"Over the years, the saint has spent too much effort for the Ming Dynasty, and it's time to take a good rest. The old slave will persuade the saint more, and he will never let him pose any threat to the adults again. ”

This is Wang Chengen's promise to Li Hongfei, and it is also the main reason why Li Hongfei asked him to return to Zhu Youzhen.

Li Hongfei can't comment too much on Wang Chengen, but he believes that the other party is a person who understands and knows how to choose.

Dongchang and some of the Jinyi Guards, who swore allegiance to Li Hongfei, merged together to form the Internal Affairs Department of the Daming State Security Bureau, which was specifically responsible for collecting domestic intelligence, including eliminating enemy spies who had infiltrated the country, preventing domestic people from gathering people to rebel, and preventing people with ulterior motives from spreading rumors.

The intelligence agency originally in Li Hongfei's hands and set up by Situ Yan was reorganized into the Field Service Department of the Daming State Security Bureau, and its function was naturally aimed at foreign forces.

After all, Situ Yan was sent to the South Seas to facilitate the implantation of spies abroad.

Li Hongfei could not always focus on the country, his goal was to create a powerful Eastern empire in this Age of Discovery..........

The addition of the East Factory immediately gave Li Hongfei a big gift.

Because Dongchang's original duty was to monitor the officials of the DPRK and China (Jinyiwei mainly monitored the officials sent abroad), he had the evidence of most of the officials' crimes, corruption, favoritism, and so on.

At the same time, there is also evidence of the crimes of former cabinet minister Gao Hongtu, former minister Qian Qianyi and others, Li Hongfei sent people to hand over these things to Dali Siqing to investigate and deal with according to the law, and he must not be merciful in dealing with political enemies, and must use this to deter those who are lucky.

At the same time, in front of a group of ministers, he burned all the incriminating evidence of those incumbent officials.

Thanks to the successful solution of the big trouble of the East Factory, otherwise Zhu Youzhen would really be able to control most of the imperial court officials with the evidence of the East Factory.