readx; At dusk that night, Zhu Youzhen received a flying pigeon from Jingyang. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoThis pigeon is the strongest pigeon in the flock, and it takes only six hours to fly 2,000 miles, almost without stopping, which is equivalent to a speed of 80 kilometers per hour, which is not much better than the trains and cars of the previous life.

Of course, the content of the biography is also secretive, the same small box containing a piece of ice, a Go piece and six small stars folded with paper. Even if a carrier pigeon falls into the hands of someone else, it may be considered a game and not taken seriously. But Zhu Youzhen quickly guessed that the chess pieces and ice cubes were homonyms for "raising troops", indicating that Qin Bing had already raised troops according to his instructions.

As for the six little stars, it probably means that you can arrive in Jingshi after six days and six nights. Zhu Youzhen couldn't figure out how Qin Bing could come so quickly, but if he came one day earlier, he would be able to take the initiative one day earlier, of course, he couldn't ask for it.

However, as Empress Zhang said, if you can't control the forces in the city, it is absolutely undesirable to rely on the Qin soldiers to attack alone. And if Zhang Weixian can really be won over, and then control the four guards in the palace and the soldiers and horses of the five cities, and then the Qin soldiers should be released into the city, then it will save great trouble, and even the soldiers can control the overall situation without blood.

So this night, Zhu Youzhen stayed awake all night, accompanied by the moans of several palace maids, he went through all the old movements, and picked out the details related to Zhang Weixian and the British public family.

This search is really rewarding, in a Ministry of Rites official recital for the lords and ministers to add money, Zhu Youzhen finally found the historical origin of the British duke.

It turned out that Zhang Weixian's ancestor was Zhang Yu, the general of Chengzu Zhu Di's "Jing Difficulty". After Zhang Yu was killed, his son Zhang Fu attacked the official and made great contributions to Zhu Di's accession to the throne. Later, Zhang Fu was ordered to conquer Annan four times, killing the rebels in Annan, and finally they were all exterminated by Zhang Fu. Since the whereabouts of the Chen family, the king of Annam, could not be found, the imperial court set up a Jiaozhi political secretary in his place, which belonged to the territory of China from the Qin and Han dynasties, and was finally officially recovered after more than 400 years after the division of the feudal towns at the end of the Tang Dynasty. Zhang Fu was also awarded the title of "British Duke" and was hereditary. It's a pity that the battle of Tumu Fort was burned, and Zhang Fu died in the battle at the age of seventy-five.

And the current British Duke Zhang Weixian is the seventh grandson of Zhang Fu. However, judging from the twists and turns that Zhu Youzhen can find, Zhang Weixian doesn't seem to like to participate in court politics, and there are only a handful of twists and turns for the emperor. In the past few years, the Eunuch Party and the Donglin Party attacked each other, and he has been silent; Later, the eunuch party gained power, and Zhang Weixian did not cling to it.

His most recent twist and turn was in the summer of the fifth year of the Apocalypse, when it was popular all over the country to build the ancestral hall for Wei Zhongxian, Shangshuyan ancestral hall was built specifically for sacrificing the ancestors, and it was very inappropriate to worship the living, which was equivalent to cursing Wei Zhongxian to die early, so he hoped to stop building the ancestral hall.

Although this piece was left by Wei Zhongxian without any suspense, Wei Zhongxian didn't dare to do anything to Zhang Weixian, which shows that Zhang Weixian's high status and prestige are still above the emperor's master Sun Chengzong. After reading this piece, Zhu Youzhen felt that Zhang Weixian seemed to defend Wei Zhongxian between the lines, but in fact he was sneering, and it seemed that he was definitely dissatisfied with the eunuchs.

The other three dukes mentioned in Empress Zhang's secret letter are Xu Yunzhen, the Duke of Dingguo, after the famous general Xu Da; Zhu Chunchen, the Duke of Chengguo, after Zhu Neng, a famous general; Mu Tianbo, the Duke of Qianguo, after pacifying Mu Ying, a famous general in Yunnan. Among them, Xu Yunzhen and Zhu Chunchen are both in Beijing, but they are far worse than Zhang Weixian in terms of integrity, and they are also submissive to Wei Zhongxian; Mu Tianbo is far away from Yunnan, and he is not in Beijing at all.

Seeing the name "Mu Tianbo", Zhu Youzhen remembered that Rui'er told him about the six major families of martial arts, and the first in this row was Yunnan Muwangfu, and the head of the family was Mu Tianbo, the Duke of Qianguo. This made it difficult for Zhu Youzhen, because Qianguo Gong was not in the Beijing Division, and the so-called "Chengzu Secret Decree Iron Card" would not be able to be gathered, even if Zhang Weixian was killed, he would not be able to control all the troops of the Beijing Division.

However, whenever there is a glimmer of hope, Zhu Youzhen has to try hard. That night, he had been thinking about how to test Zhang Weixian, and when he arrived at the next morning, he also paid special attention to it, and sure enough, he saw that among the ministers who signed up to enter the Qianqing Palace to meet Zhang Weixian, it turned out to be an old man with white hair, but his face was ruddy, his spirit was strong, and he looked like a person who practiced martial arts all year round.

In this early court, sure enough, several eunuch ministers repeatedly asked Empress Zhang to move the palace immediately. Zhu Youzhen was thinking about whether to follow Empress Zhang's words and bring out the matter of letting the Ke family move the palace, when he suddenly heard someone outside the hall shouting: "Lu Chengyuan, the director of the Ministry of Ministers, please ask Mrs. Fengsheng to move out of the palace!" ”

It turned out that the head of the six departments was only a six-rank official, and he was not qualified to go to the palace to face the king, so this person could only shout outside the hall. Huang Liji, the first assistant to the cabinet, said unhappily: "A small principal, and he is not a competent official, how dare he do too much? ”

Of course, Zhu Youzhen refused to miss this excellent opportunity to let others speak for him, and said with a slight smile: "I want to hear what this principal has to say." ”

The emperor spoke, but of course Huang Liji and the others were not easy to refuse, so they had to let Lu Chengyuan enter the hall. After Lu Chengyuan performed the ceremony of kneeling three times and bowing nine times, he said aloud: "Mrs. Fengsheng is the nurse of the first emperor, and she should have moved out of the palace after the first emperor's wedding. Not only was he loved by the first emperor, but he stayed in the palace for a few more years, and now that the first emperor has died, Mrs. Fengsheng should leave the palace immediately! ”

There was a commotion in the hall, and as Zhu Youzhen expected, the members of the eunuch party were very sensitive to this, and immediately launched a fierce counterattack. Zhou Yingqiu, the secretary of the ministry, was the first to jump out and said: "The nursing mother is also the mother." I ruled the world with filial piety, and the first emperor had just died, so he expelled his mother, what is the reason? ”

Lu Chengyuan immediately sneered at each other: "Who is the Holy Lady and the Queen Mother?" The Queen Mother still moved the palace, why not let Mrs. Fengsheng move out of the palace? ”

But although Lu Chengyuan was reasonable, he was helplessly outnumbered, Cui Chengxiu, the secretary of the military department, Tian Ji, the secretary of the criminal department, Wu Chunfu, the imperial history of the right capital, Li Kuilong, the imperial history of the left deputy capital, and Ni Wenhuan, the secretary of Taichang Temple, and other eunuch "five tigers" spoke out one after another, but none of them dared to help Lu Chengyuan speak.

Zhu Youzhen saw that the situation was unfavorable, so he had to use the word "drag" and said: "One is the queen mother, the other is a nursing mother, they are all the relatives of the first emperor, how can I consider it?" This matter will be discussed later. I'm a little tired today, let's disperse! ”

Just when Lu Chengyuan and the eunuch ministers were glaring angrily and retreating from the court, Zhu Youzhen pretended to remember something and shouted: "Ah, I forgot to discuss the queen's canonization ceremony with the British public." Now that the dynasty has been dispersed, the ministers have retreated, and the British duke has stayed! ”